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After a soft launch at the beginning of this year, Pine officially launched in Ontario today, with plans to expand to the rest of the country within the year. Pine has sparked the interest of a group of notable investors from Canada and Silicon Valley, including backers of Blend, which started off in online mortgages and has since expanded to broader loans and payments.
Bolt, Facing Challenges, Cuts Costs and Lowers Growth Target (THE INFORMATION)
As startup markets sour, Bolt is trying to become a symbol of the new, leaner environment: After laying off around 250 employees last week, Bolt told employees on Wednesday that it plans to continue cutting costs to stem monthly losses that have more than tripled since summer 2021. And, in a sign that reality is finally piercing the Silicon Valley bubble, Bolt is now aiming this year to bring in customers that generate $8 billion of transactions, down from $20 billion.
The move, which has been anticipated for some time, ensures Wealthsimple users will be able to access the startups’ core services, from stock and crypto trading to spending, through a single interface.
Gemini lays off 10% of workforce as the ‘crypto revolution’ enters its ‘contraction phase’ (TECHCRUNCH)
All employees will be provided a separation package and healthcare benefits. The company closed its physical offices, the co-founders wrote, “so that these conversations will be held remotely to protect the privacy of each impacted individual. Our highest priority throughout will be to treat everyone affected with compassion and respect.”
With Canadian tech IPOs on pause, private markets face a higher bar.
Yep. Billions—and a lot of it goes unused.
It wasn’t that long ago that the “pandemic effect” helped drive a record-breaking IPO boom among Canadian technology companies. Fast forward a year, however, and the landscape has completely changed with private market growth capital once again the financing pathway of choice for tech firms.
Manzil looks to expand Halal financial services platform with $2.44 million CAD, acquisition of Muslim Will (BETAKIT)
Since its official launch in 2020, Manzil has seen an appetite for its offerings in the Canadian market. “The demand is there, the product-market fit is there,” said Sawwaf. “It’s really just all about now scaling the platform.”
Nathaniel Chastain, a former employee of OpenSea, is accused of using confidential information about which NFTs were going to be featured on OpenSea’s homepage to secretly buy the digital assets and then sell them for 2x to 5x the original price, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The pace of the pivots can feel almost frenetic. One Ottawa-based entrepreneur, worried the world was passing him by, surprised his employees on a company Zoom call by saying he was pivoting the entire company into Web3. “I said, ‘Guys, this is the future and this is where everything is going,’” he said. “‘If we miss this boat, I don’t think we can ever get back on.’” (The company, which had been a print-on-demand platform, now helps creators build 3D NFTs to sell to fans in the metaverse.)
“Every time I left the company, I joined the next one in an earlier and a more senior role, and less cash comp and more stock,” said Damir Hot. “And then eventually there was nowhere to go but start from ground zero, and so I found an amazing co-founder and then off we went.”
“Adapting quickly and acting now will help us to successfully navigate this macro environment and emerge even stronger, enabling further healthy growth and innovation,” Chief People Officer L.J. Brock wrote in a company memo, shared publicly to Coinbase’s blog. Brock added that the hiring freeze will persist as long as the macroeconomic downturn continues, and that the freeze will also apply to backfills.
Lendified expressed doubts about moving forward as a company after posting first quarter loss (BETAKIT)
“If the company is unable to obtain additional funding and attain profitable levels of operation, the company may be unable to continue to realize on its assets and to discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business,” Lendified warned in its filing.
Klarna just launched a physical card for users as BNPL players push to bring their services offline (INSIDER)
Swedish buy now, pay later fintech Klarna is expanding its offerings in the US even further with a new physical card that will allow customers to use the BNPL service almost anywhere they shop, Insider can exclusively report.
Big Whale Labs, a startup building a social protocol to facilitate pseudonymity through zero knowledge and crypto, exclusively told The Block that it has raised $3.8 million in a Seed round. The round was led by M13 and Road, with participation from Slow Ventures, C2, Goodwater, Panache, NFR, and angel investors Balaji Srinivasan (ex-CTO of Coinbase) and Roman (founder of Tornado Cash), along with others.
Parvis raises $2.6 million seed round for blockchain-enabled real estate investment management platform (BETAKIT)
Parvis works with property developers across North America to bring curated residential real estate projects to their digital platform. Parvis positions itself as different from real estate investment trusts (REITs), by claiming that its platform will enable investors to choose specific properties, instead of investing in a blind pool of real estate offerings.
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Ottawa-based SaaS startup Rockport Networks has raised $61.9 million CAD ($48 million USD) from a funding round led by Northern Private Capital, with contributions from other existing investors.
The new capital was announced with Rockport’s appointment of Marc Sultzbaugh as its new co-CEO.
Founded in 2012, Rockport has developed a switchless networking model aimed to provide a faster, more efficient, and cleaner approach to data centre connectivity. Its systems are able to support high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Rockport’s technology is currently being used by Frontera, a supercomputer located at University of Texas’ Advanced Computing Centre (TACC). The supercomputer runs its production workloads on Rockport’s switchless network, which includes quantum computing, pandemic-related life sciences research, as well as rapid responses to emergencies such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods.
Backed with fresh financing, Rockport intends to expand its sales and marketing efforts.
A spokesperson for the company told BetaKit that Rockport has received just under $100 million in total funding to date.
Rockport’s past funding has included a $12 million investment from the federal government in 2019 through the Strategic Innovation Fund to support the company’s $49.9 million Networking at the Edge (NATE) project, intended to reduce the amount of energy used by data centres and improve energy efficiency.
The company has received a number of government financing deals over the years to support its projects, including a $4 million from Sustainable Development Technology Canada and a loan from FedDev Ontario totalling nearly $3 million to support the commercialization of its autonomous networking solution.
Sultzbaugh has been a board member at Rockport since December 2020. Joining Rockport CEO and co-founder Doug Carwadine, Sultzbaugh will be responsible for all aspects of Rockport’s growth, including technology and product management, marketing, sales, manufacturing and customer relationships.
“The switching network in today’s data centers is fundamentally broken,” Sultzbaugh said. “Customers can no longer efficiently and cost-effectively process today’s demanding workloads on yesterday’s architectures.”
“We’re applying new thinking to the systemic issues of network congestion and performance that plague advanced computing workloads so that customers can expect more predictable network performance and much greater utilization of their compute and storage resources,” he added.
Prior to joining Rockport, Sultzbaugh spent 20 years at Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions based in Sunnyvale, California. He started as a sales director at the company in 2001, and departed as the senior vice president and marketing in 2020.
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Welp, another Democrat has entered the 2020 race. Has anyone let the Dems know that while this seems v similar to the Hunger Games, the presidential race is actually a little different and they don’t all need to keep volunteering as tribute? Could help keep these numbers down. Anyway, former Vice President Joe Biden has officially announced he’s running. Much like your period, we all knew this was going to happen at some point, we just weren’t sure exactly when. Now it’s time to take a closer look at what Uncle Joe is all about. Let’s dive in, shall we?
Who is He?
You probs know Joe Biden as the former VP of the United States, longtime Senator from Delaware, and BFF to Barack Obama. You may have also seen him on an episode of Parks and Recreations where he played himself. Good stuff. But who is he really? Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (lol) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is a fun Office reference if nothing else. He served as Senator of Delaware, and was the sixth youngest U.S. Senator ever to be elected. Biden graduated from University of Delaware (go Blue Hens!), where he earned a degree in history and political science. He’s a man of the people of Delaware.
What are the Pros?
Biden has what a lot of candidates are accused of lacking: experience. He’s served as a Senator and as Vice President, meaning at one point he was essentially like the backup actor on Broadway who takes the lead role if the star of the show has uncontrollable diarrhea and has to drop out. Wow, a perfect simile. Anyway, a lot of older Dems like Biden, so he already has a supportive base that is known to actually vote. Biden was also pro gay marriage before it was a thing, which we love. You may recall that he ran through the White House wearing a gay pride flag as a cape after gay marriage laws were passed, which we also love. Biden’s whole brand is that he’s a friendly guy who loves everyone and is in touch with his emotions. That’s nice. Also, when the Affordable Care Act was being signed he leaned over to Obama and said, “this is a big f*cking deal” on a hot mic which is like, a full mood if I’ve ever heard one.
What are the Cons?
Biden was in the news recently after a woman came forward with her story about a time when he violated her personal space . He responded with a lil’ apology video, in which he stated that he now understood that times have changed and it’s no longer considered chill to smell women’s hair at a professional function. Weird way to pronounce the words, “I’m sorry,” but sure. Biden was also chair of the committee during the time when Anita Hill came forward with her allegations against Clarence Thomas. And we all know how that turned out (not good).
HE WAS THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE https://t.co/RtC4cKLWk8
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Biden is also one of the more Centrist candidates, which is becoming less and less popular among young voters. As part of an older generation himself, he represents an older version of the Democratic party – one that is seeing its decline as new, more progressive members of the party such as AOC rise in popularity. In relation to this, Biden has a history of writing, passing and supporting legislation that helped fuel the war on drugs, which has famously led to mass incarceration based on racial bias. This explains why it took every fiber in my being not to write “wow, narc alert!!!” after typing out his full name (Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.).
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CENTERVILLE, Ohio – (September 28, 2016) – Bethany Village and Graceworks Lutheran Services will host a candidate forum on Wednesday, October 12 on the campus of Bethany Village in Centerville, Ohio. The forum will begin at 3 p.m. and will be moderated the League of Women Voters – Greater Dayton Area.
Candidates confirmed for the forum include incumbent Peggy Lehner (R) and Albert Griggs (D), running for state senate from the sixth congressional district. Incumbent Montgomery County Commissioners Judy Dodge (D) and Debbie Lieberman (D) will attend as well challengers Gary Leitzell (R) and Bob Matthews (R). State representative from Ohio congressional district 41 Jim Butler (R) and challenger James Calhoun (D) have also committed to attend and answer questions.
The candidate forum is a great chance for you to ask questions of the politicians and learn more about their platforms before Election Day on November 8.
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Cards for Evan and Ariat
Thank you so much for reaching out about having a card made! What a fun project!
Evan, it was so nice to meet you and I am so excited we get to work together. As my BIG thanks to you for linking me up with Ariat, I am creating these cards with you. As my thanks, we will be nixing the licensing fee ($1500) and the design fee ($100 / hour - approx 3 hours) and just charging for the cost.
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Remember to use the code for shipping I gave you! As shipping and handling will be assessed later and separately.
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I am an unpublished poet who is serving a life sentence in a California State Prison at Avenal. I currently have 450 poems that I want to share with other people.
Let me begin by saying that I do not write prison poetry, about doing time or the like, but instead I write about the mysteries far beyond that type of expression. I create my poems from the arena of my mind. A quick glimpse into the madness from out of the shadows in the Labyrinth of verse. From the boundaries of my past and the realities of my present, all in the Magick of RHYME.
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Welcome to the Beware of Monsters Podcast, where we discuss, ruminate, debate, and ogle all things monsters, including literature, comic books, movies, and video games. Join us for celebrity interviews, the latest in monster news and gossip, and all things Jeremy Robinson. The first season of the podcast, hosted by Christopher Ouellette has come to an end, but you can listen to all 49 episodes below, or on iTunes.
What does the future hold for the Beware of Monsters podcast?
I’m not sure yet, but a format change is definite, and more likely to be a quarterly group discussion featuring people I’m working with at that time. If you have thoughts, ideas, or vague notions, feel free to let me know at jrobinsonauthor(at)gmail.com.
Season 1 guests include (but are not limited to):
Larry Blamire, Kane Gilmour, Jonathan Maberry, Shahin Solimon, Abel Ferrara, Matt Frank, Jeremy Robinson, Jason Krawczyk, Jabbar Raisani, Jeff Zornow, Professor Elemental, Tori Paquette, Kent Holloway, Sean Ellis, Doug TenNapel, Frankie B. Washington, Stan Tremblay, and Phil Kim.
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On the post-Halloween episode, the Geeks talk about the death of SMS and the death of the iPhone 5.
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The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
15 David built houses for himself in the City of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for it. 2 Then David said, “No one may carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to minister before Him forever.” 3 And David gathered all Israel together at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it. 4 Then David assembled the children of Aaron and the Levites: 5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and one hundred and twenty of his [a]brethren; 6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and two hundred and twenty of his brethren; 7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and one hundred and thirty of his brethren; 8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and two hundred of his brethren; 9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and eighty of his brethren; 10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and one hundred and twelve of his brethren.
11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites: for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. 12 He said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites; [b]sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it. 13 For because you did not do it the first time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not consult Him [c]about the proper order.”
14 So the priests and the Levites [d]sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. 15 And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders, by its poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.
16 Then David spoke to the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers accompanied by instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, by raising the voice with resounding joy. 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of their brethren, the sons of Merari, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 18 and with them their brethren of the second rank: Zechariah, [e]Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers; 19 the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound the cymbals of bronze; 20 Zechariah, [f]Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with strings according to Alamoth; 21 Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, to direct with harps on the Sheminith; 22 Chenaniah, leader of the Levites, was instructor in charge of the music, because he was skillful; 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark; 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah, doorkeepers for the ark.
25 So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-Edom with joy. 26 And so it was, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bulls and seven rams. 27 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the music master with the singers. David also wore a linen ephod. 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps.
29 And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the City of David, that Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David whirling and playing music; and she despised him in her heart. | <urn:uuid:515ec000-5cee-4a51-85dc-c60ff486e912> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://bible.crossmap.com/passage?search=1Chr%2015&version=NKJV | 2023-09-23T17:58:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.958642 | 1,066 |
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Historically, floods and their control have never been a big issue in the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin, as it is today. Floods became a major issue after the British occupied India. When they examined the Ganga basin, they believed that if it could be made “flood-free”, they could levy a tax in return for such protection.
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For this purpose, a Joint Project Office -Saptakosi and Sunkosi Investigations (JPO-SKSKI) has already been set up in August, 2004 at Biratnagar (Nepal), for conducting detailed field investigations, in order to prepare Detailed Project Report(s) of Sapta Kosi High Dam Multipurpose Project and Sun Kosi Storage-cum-Diversion Scheme in Nepal, jointly.
In addition, JPO-SKSKI has also been entrusted the task of carrying out the Feasibility Level Study of Kamala Multipurpose (Dam) Project and the Preliminary Study of Bagmati Dam Project in Nepal.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Water Resources, Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav in response to a question by Moinul Hassan in the Rajya Sabha.
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Ana Maria Markovic is just one of the sexiest younger women’s sporting events players
Their own lovely face and you can rather build sample stop brand new eyes of everyone. Markovic is actually an effective Croatian baseball athlete who performs into the Croatia Federal Group and you can Grasshopper Pub.
On account of their unique sexiest muscles, she is one of the feminine footballers most adopted on Instagram. ple out-of just how women are smart and you will beautiful, and she serves as a job model getting young girls.
7. Selina Wagner
Selina Wagner is among the cutest women sports members. Wagner try an excellent German female footballer which takes on with the South carolina Sand since the an effective midfielder. Along with her cutest face expression and you can lovely concept, she retains handle regarding the minds off their particular fans.
Along with her quick throwing and you may technical results, she has composed their unique term about recreations business. Last year, their particular enthusiast following the are grown up when she provided a photograph example having Playboy mag to promote the fresh tournaments.
8. Nayeli Rangel
Nayeli Rangel is amongst the prettiest female basketball members in the country. Rangel is a north american country football pro exactly who takes on midfield to own Mexico Federal Sports Party and you may Tigres UANL.
She’s claimed the new hearts of its admirers by the proving the most useful performances & with her rather human body. Their own innocent look and you can lovely presents hold the fan’s attention towards her.
nine. Adriana Leon
Adriana Leon is included to the range of most well known women baseball professionals because of their sexiest and more than stunning system. An individual observes their unique lovely muscles, the guy wants to time their own. Admirers who see their particular pleasant asya ameri̇kali kadinlar vs asya sight so that they can not ignore him or her.
Adriana is an excellent Canadian ladies’ footballer produced into dos October 1992 in the Mississ, Manchester Joined, and you can Portland Thorns. Before to tackle sports, he was looking contour skating and freeze hockey.
ten. Jordyn Huitema
Jordyn Huitema try a Canadian footballer exactly who plays for the Canadian Federal People and you will OL Rule once the an onward. She actually is an early on top-notch women sports member who obtained its first goal at sixteen.
In the arena, their fans are entertained because of the enjoying their show along with her sexiest body, along with her fantastic appearances. She inserted Chilliwack FC when she is five and you may been to play activities. Now she’s one of several sexiest women sports players inside the the country.
eleven. Jonelle Filigno
Jonelle Filigno is just one of the earth’s most breathtaking feminine sports members. The woman is a beneficial Canadian female footballer who takes on with the Sky Blue Fc plus the Canada National Activities people. In the 2012 Olympics, she won a bronze medal.
Jonelle been playing basketball in the number of years dated inside northern Mississauga. Admirers remove within her like once they consider their unique beautiful human anatomy.
twelve. Alexia Putellas
Putellas claimed their particular fans’ hearts together with her breathtaking body and an excellent activities. She is the best feminine footballers who were very implemented on the Instagram.
The woman is recognized as one of the primary female footballers away from in history and finest female member global now.
thirteen. Quarterly report Leroux
Questionnaire Leroux is the sexiest top-notch football pro which performs having Angel Area FC since a forward. Leroux together with claimed a gold medal regarding Olympics.
Their particular sexiest body and charming face can make you crazy for the her love. In the fifteen agr, she started their unique job of the to tackle to possess Whitecaps. Leroux comes in 13th place in our very own list of sexiest female footballers around the world.
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Some of the most serious sexual gamble happens in the fresh head
Slavery occurs when that lover restrains others. You might join your partner having fun with stuff you have up to, such as for example a gear, otherwise get specialization kink items like handcuffs otherwise locks accessories-turned-arm links. To engage in restraint gamble safely, expose limits and you can a secure word, high light concur and you will interaction at each action, and commence slow.
ten. Psychological Play
Renye identifies mental power gamble – a form of Sadomasochism – just like the “attention handle.” Mental enjoy pertains to applying a good sexual strength change: Humiliation gamble, such as for example, you will cover a great submissive spouse getting off to the becoming called brands. Consensual risks are a good example of psychological gamble; one of these try a domme alerting a masculine submissive gorgeousbrides.net anvГ¤nda denna lГ¤nk with a beneficial ft fetish you to definitely he’s going to must eat their unique ft when the he does not belong line and you can do just as she says.
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Voyeurism – or getting sexual satisfaction from seeing individuals that is actually nude otherwise which have sex – is much more popular than just you’d thought. Without a doubt, as with all most other fetish, take part in voyeurism consensually, such as for instance from the a good sex cluster in which a couple has given you permission to watch; watching individuals as opposed to its permission has never been acceptable. The fresh flip edge of voyeurism are exhibitionism, and therefore reaching sexual fulfillment by allowing others to look at you. This is the sexual excitement of revealing. If you would like locate down within good sex team, publicly spaces, if not at home with the new drapes open, you might be an exhibitionist.
You really have heard the definition of “cuck” thrown around given that an enthusiastic alt-best slur. It is sad given that cuckolding is a common kink that you can now take pleasure in. Traditionally, speaking from inside the gendered terms and conditions, cuckolding occurs when a spouse watches as the his spouse (this new hotwife) has actually sex which have someone else (the bull). The partner, aka the new cuck, gets to view, however, he or she is emasculated and not permitted to participate. It’s often a variety of erotic embarrassment. The female kind of an effective cuck is known as an effective cuckquean. But not, every genders can take advantage of as the cuck, the hotwife, in addition to bull.
thirteen. Erotic Embarrassment
Erotic embarrassment lets you reclaim pity through getting from with it. “Humiliation play is actually a good consensual power exchange which is an extremely regular fetish. It can help anyone fix components of the new worry about that will was basically bullied because children. There’s a sense of mastery more something possess prior to now started non-consensual,” states Renye.
Spectrophilia identifies which have a thing having ghosts because possibly human beings commonly worth every penny. They constantly involves the fantasy away from a soul, but possibly some body faith they actually has sex having you to in the nights otherwise as they bed. Typically, an effective succubus makes reference to a lady sex ghost, and you will a keen incubus was a masculine ghost who may have sex having people as they bed.
fifteen. Prominence and you may Submitting
Dominance and you may submitting relate to an effective consensual erotic power replace ranging from a few (or even more) anyone. Though it may sound terrifying, because of consent and you will security precautions kinkster do, a beneficial D/S world will be secure than a vanilla extract link-upwards. “Any time that people try talking about strength control, this is the easiest version of sex you to definitely lovers may have given that there can be a whole lot telecommunications, believe, and susceptability incorporated into these kinds of transfers and you may sexual knowledge,” states sex counselor and you may author of Reclaiming Satisfaction: A great Sex Self-confident Book getting Moving Earlier Sexual Shock and Living a keen Lives Dr. Holly Richmond.
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Many of the researchers and doctors who write the rules on prescribing drugs have financial connections to the manufacturers, according to an investigation by the leading journal Nature. More than one-third of authors declared that they had financial links to drug companies and more than 70% of clinical panels are affected. In one case, every member of a panel writing the guidelines for a treatment for anaemia for HIV patients had been paid by the drug’s manufacturer. “The practice stinks,” says Drummond Rennie, deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Although such links have been strongly criticised, the bodies which produce the guidelines counter that there simply aren’t enough experts without potential conflicts of interest. The American Diabetes Association estimates that three-quarters of the members eligible to write clinical guidelines have conflicts of interest.
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Estimated Age and Net Worth 2023 of Sarah Ziolkowska; Wiki | Ex-Husband
Sarah Ziolkowska is a Librarian and Reading Specialist at Park Century School. She rose to the limelight after getting married to Nathan Fielder. Her ex-husband Nathan is a famous director, writer, and comedian in the entertainment industry. And he is known for a comedy Central shown named Nathan For You.
Early Life of Sarah Ziolkowska
Sarah Ziolkowska’s full name is Sarah Joy McKenna. Sarah was born on 12th May 1983 in Vancouver, Canada. She is 43 years old, as of 2023. By birth, her sun sign is Taurus and celebrates her birthday on the 12th of May every year. She is the daughter of Eric and Deb. She holds Canadian nationality and belongs to a white ethnic background. Sarah follows Christianity as a religion.
Education of Sarah Ziolkowska
Sarah attended the University of Toronto in 2002. In the year 2007, she graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Psychology. She later attended Dalhousie University and got her Master of Library & Information Science degree in 2009.
Sarah Ziolkowska and Nathan Fielder’s Divorce
Sarah met Nathan Fielder in the year 2007. Soon they fell in love and started dating. They tied the knot very soon. Everything was going very well between the couple. But after his career was raised they started having problems in their marriage. Sarah felt Nathan has changed after being famous and does not treat her the way he used to. They were not meant to be and they decided to separate.
Finally, on 16 April 2015, Sarah and Nathan divorced each other at Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angles. After their divorce, Nathan’s life was messed and he was not able to focus. In the AV club, he said,
“I went through a divorce last year, and I didn’t know how to talk about it at first because it was so shocking. Shocking, isn’t the right word, but it’s a heavy emotional thing. And even though it wasn’t an extreme situation, it was very, what’s the word, John, where two people are cool with everything? Amicable?”
Sarah Ziolkowska’s Net Worth
Sarah is a librarian by profession. According to the source, an average salary of an American librarian is around $58,089 per year. On the other hand, her ex-husband Nathan has an estimated net worth of around $4 million as of 2023.
He earned that sum from his carer as a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, and entrepreneur
Sarah Ziolkowska’s Height
Ziolkowska stands at a good height of 5 feet 6 inches. She has a body weight of 51 kg. Sarah has a pair of beautiful light brown eyes and golden brown hair color.
Professional Career of Sarah Ziolkowska
- Sarah is working as a Librarian and Reading Specialist at Park Century School.
- She has been working there for more than seven years.
- Ziolkowska is working as a youth librarian at Halifax North Memorial Public Library.
- At the time of her University, she even worked as an assistant teacher at Dalhousie University.
- She also did her Internship at a Library at W.K Kellogg Health Sciences Library.
- Sarah’s ex-husband Nathan is one of the popular names in the entertainment industry as a comedian, director, and writer.
- He is famous for movies such as Morris, Way Up There, The Way, The Night Before, Kelly 5-9, and many more.
FAQs of Sarah Ziolkowska
What is the nationality of Sarah Ziolkowska?
Sarah holds Canadian citizenship as a nationality.
What is the height of Sarah Ziolkowska?
Sarah stands at the height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
What is Sarah Ziolkowska famous for?
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Theo asked Meggie to marry him last night.
Meg and I had spent the morning preparing all sorts of cold salads to serve for dinner. Her grandparents and Sara were coming as well as Christie and the kids. We decided on a menu of caprese salad with pesto, jumbo shrimp and mango salad, coleslaw with fresh pineapple and dried cranberries in a horseradish dressing, steamed green beans, grilled chicken, baguette and homemade vanilla bean ice cream for dessert. Mom topped every thing off with a carrot bread and raspberry cobbler.
After dinner everyone found a comfortable spot to relax. A few of us were still sitting around the kitchen table as Meg and Theo came back in from outside. She had tears running down her face but was smiling. Theo was simply smiling. “We’re engaged”
The joy on both of their faces was breathtaking. They were glowing as they made their way from person to person sharing laughter, tears of happiness and much hugging and kissing.
Having the honour of being part of their special moment was magical. Theo will never understand the gift he gave to my family last night unless of course he is lucky enough to have his own daughter fall in love with such a wonderfully thoughtful young man.
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2 tablespoons fresh mint, chopped
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On May 12, the entire crypto market capital arrived at its cheapest near the coast 10 several weeks and also the metric is constantly on the test the $1.23 trillion support level. However, the next 7 days were reasonably calm while Bitcoin (BTC) acquired 3.4% and Ether (ETH) added a modest 1.5%. Presently, the mixture crypto cap is $1.31 trillion.
Ripples from Terra’s (LUNA) collapse still impact crypto markets, particularly the decentralized finance industry. Furthermore, the current loss of traditional markets has brought to a loss of revenue of $7.6 trillion in market cap in the Nasdaq Stock Market Index, that is greater compared to us dot-com bubble and also the March 2020 sell-offs.
On May 17, U.S. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed their intention to suppress inflation by raising rates of interest but he cautioned the Fed’s tightening movement could change up the unemployment rate.
The bearish sentiment spilled to crypto markets and also the “Fear and Avarice Index,” an information-driven sentiment gauge, hit 8/100 on May 17. This is actually the metric’s cheapest value since March 28, 2020, two days following the generalized crash that sent oil futures to negative levels and introduced Bitcoin (BTC) below $4,000.
Here are the winners and losers in the past 7 days. As the two leading cryptocurrencies presented modest gains, a number of mid-capital altcoins rallied 15% or greater.
Monero (XMR) rallied 22% as investors anticipated the “tail emission” to become implemented at block 2,641,623 or sometime around June 4. The city made the decision to incorporate a .6 XMR minimum reward in each and every block, so miners aren’t 100% dependent on transaction charges.
Cosmos (ATOM) acquired 16.5%, a movement that appears part of a wider retracement that began on May 12 when ATOM fell to the eleven-month low near $8. It’s important to note that it is parent chain, Cosmos Hub, observed massive capital outflows from the liquidity pools, based on reporting from Cointelegraph.
Klaytn (KLAY), a blockchain-supported by South Korean internet giant Kakao, announced on May 16 it provides infrastructure, and initial nodes, and develop early use cases for that Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), supplying an entry in to the Chinese market
The Tether premium shows slight discomfort
The OKX Tether (USDT) premium is a great gauge of China-based retail trader crypto demand. Its dimensions are the main difference between China-based peer-to-peer (P2P) trades and also the U . s . States dollar.
Excessive buying demand has a tendency to pressure the indicator above fair value at 100% and through bearish markets, Tether’s market offers are flooded and results in a 4% or greater discount.
The Tether premium peaked at 5.4% on May 12, its greatest level in additional than six several weeks, however the movement might have been associated with the Terra ecosystem’s massive outflows, that have been mainly the USD Terra (UST) stablecoin.
More lately, the indicator demonstrated a modest degeneration because it presently holds single.8% discount. The possible lack of retail demand isn’t especially concerning since the total cryptocurrency market capital lost 34% previously month.
Altcoin futures reflect disinterest in leverage
Perpetual contracts, also referred to as inverse swaps, come with an embedded rate that’s usually billed every eight hrs. Exchanges make use of this fee to prevent exchange risk imbalances.
An optimistic funding rate signifies that longs (buyers) require more leverage. However, the alternative situation takes place when shorts (sellers) require additional leverage, resulting in the funding rate to show negative.
Perpetual contracts are reflecting mixed sentiment as Bitcoin and Ethereum hold a rather positive (bullish) funding rate, but altcoins signal the alternative. For instance, Solana’s (SOL) negative .35% weekly rate equals 1.5% monthly, which isn’t an issue for many derivatives traders.
Thinking about that derivatives indicators are showing little improvement, there’s too little trust from investors because the total crypto market capital battles to help keep the $1.23 trillion support. Until this sentiment improves, the chances of the adverse cost movement remain high.
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The public has gotten a look at what a new hotel and event center in downtown Racine could look like, although how to pay for the facility is still unknown.
Brookfield-based Hammes Company, the owner’s representative, and project architect, Denver-based Sink Combs Dethlefs, shared architectural designs and renderings of the project during a joint Redevelopment Authority and Common Council Committee of the Whole meeting on Tuesday.
The project includes building a 208,000-square-foot building that would include a three-story, 3,500-seat event center and seven-story, 150-room adjoining hotel located at 322 Lake Ave.
In February, after the city learned the Milwaukee Bucks would not locate its D-League team in Racine, Mayor John Dickert said he would still move forward with plans for the hotel and event center.
The city has been pursuing the $40 million project since August, and officials believe the event center could be used for a variety of events already held in Racine and attract other trade shows, concerts and sporting events to the city.
“The event center and hotel will give all residents in the Racine community a downtown destination to attend concerts, sporting events, conventions and world-class entertainment,” said Amy Connolly, City Development Director for the City of Racine. “This development will have a lasting, positive economic impact that will produce a ripple effect of growth in all areas of our city.”
The city has owned the site since 2014, purchasing it from WE Energies for future development. Officials have said the site was chosen due to its downtown location and proximity to Lake Michigan.
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Brainstorming is partly art, partly skill.
It’s not a cut-and-dried process which will give you results every time you do it. You must learn to do it well.
That is possible only through practice. If you brainstorm once a month, it’s like going to the gym once a month. Your (mental) muscles won’t develop.
So how do you brainstorm more often? I think the best advice Richard Hamming gave was to always keep a few important problems at the back of your mind. He said:
Great scientists have thought through, in a careful way, a number of important problems in their field, and they keep an eye on wondering how to attack them.
Maintain a list of important problems and sub-problems you need to solve. Brainstorm on them as often as you can.
Does not generate wild ideas
Atari was a pioneer in the video game market in the 70’s and 80’s. I once came across their old archives. Among them were notes from a brainstorming session. Those notes blew my mind.
In that meeting, a fun question was asked to the participants, something akin to “If you had unlimited resources, what would you build?”
The answers were truly creative. One of the participants answered, “A machine which would let us to talk to the trees.”
This says a lot about the culture at Atari. People were comfortable sharing crazy ideas.
Do you people often shoot down other’s ideas during your brainstorming discussion? If yes, then your team members might be filtering out bold ideas. They might fear being judged for being ‘unreasonable’.
Whatever be the reason – you must discover and fix it. Every radical innovation first comes up as a wild idea. Without wild ideas, you can only do incremental innovation.
No synergy in ideas
Nothing kills a brainstorming session quicker than participants sticking to, and trying to prove the merit of their own ideas. It is a sign that the participants are more concerned with their own contributions than coming up with a truly better solution.
This problem is relatively easy to fix. Appoint a facilitator. The facilitator can ask the participants to direct everyone’s attention towards particular solutions one by one, “Okay, let’s everyone now think about how idea #3 can be improved.”
Same old ideas
Teams are often asked to brainstorm on the same problem repeatedly.
This is normal because problems don’t just immediately disappear whenever a first series of solutions are implemented. What’s needed are new ideas.
It often happens, however, that teams keep on circling around the same old solutions. They keep coming up with minor variations of old ideas. This is clearly a problem. Linus Pauling has said:
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.
To avoid such repetition, it is best to keep a record of the ideas generated in past brainstorming sessions, and show them visibly (e.g., on a whiteboard) at the beginning of the session. Now the team is likely to think beyond.
If your team still cannot come up with new ideas, it might be because you have formulated the problem too narrowly – the classical case of slow elevator story. You can overcome this hurdle by rephrasing the problem
Another help would be to boost your team’s creativity. How can you do that?
When we are exposed to a lot of ideas, our brains get better to seeing new possibilities and coming up with new ideas. You can begin doing this right away by getting your team to join our mailing list. We keep sharing how other companies are solving their problems in innovative ways, from which your team can draw inspiration.
Managers often do the grave mistake of orchestrating a brainstorming session like a regular meeting. For example, they might go across the table, giving each participant two minutes to share their thoughts.
This hampers ideation.
Instead of absorbing and building upon other’s ideas, participants just wait for their turns. When others are sharing their ideas, they are usually focused on what to say when their turn comes up.
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What’s your favorite color combination when customizing fantasy characters?
We can all agree that fantasy characters universally represent a few things — one of which is relief from the restrictions of reality. Where I require bleach and dye to turn my hair an eye-searing shade of pink, the Gnomes of Gnomeregan can do it with a click of a button, because pink (or lavender, or mint) hair colors are canon for them. Just as a Nightborne’s tattoos have an ethereal shimmer or a Troll can sport a gravity-defying mohawk the shade of a grape. They’re natural for World of Warcraft’s universe.
I thought I was already neurotically spending a lot of time tuning my character’s look and feel with multicolored hair, jewelry, and of course transmogs. Then Blizzard had to go and add Dracthyr and their decillions of appearance combinations. This is not hyperbole by the way — we started doing the math on combinations and hit millions from the first page of the Dracthyr customizer, not even including their Visage customizations!
I have plans for all shades of purple available on the customization screen. My first character might even duplicate the one I just created on the alpha — shared in the header for your enjoyment. Are purple dragons canon in World of Warcraft? Not exactly. Is that going to stop me from creating my amazingly amethyst alt? Heck no. Because it’s my fantasy character, I will craft them as I wish.
And there’s an Evoker for you too — whether you’re thinking about a ghoulishly goth theme or spectacularly sunny, the customizations exist. In case you missed it, our own Anna Bell put in the time (and probably earned a repetitive stress injury for herself) to generate 100 randomized appearances for you, our dear Watchers. Check out the truly stunning combinations in the YouTube Video below.
Now take to the comments, Watchers! Will we gleefully gasp, or be blazingly blinded? What delightful color combinations are you planning out for Dragonflight?
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Latex Exam Disposable Gloves are FDA approved for medical use
Natural rubber latex gloves commonly referred to as latex gloves were first invented in 1889 by William Stewart Halsted, the first chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in order to prevent the medical staff from developing dermatitis from medical chemicals. Since then, latex gloves have become synonymous with use in the medical industry. Many medical professions rely on the dependable features and benefits of latex exam disposable gloves, such as AMMEX GlovePlus Latex Exam. These gloves are FDA approved for medical use and provide excellent barrier protection from bloodborne pathogens and other environmental contaminants. Medical grade disposable gloves will have the label “Exam” or “Medical Grade” clearly marked on the packaging which means they are FDA approved for medical use. Latex Exam Gloves are available in powdered and powder free options, providing protection and performance for many applications in medical and dental, child-care and senior-care, veterinary medicine and more.
Latex naturally offers chemical resistance
Natural rubber latex is derived from the sap of the rubber tree and manufactured into a comprehensive barrier protection, known as latex disposable gloves. Latex naturally offers the benefit of chemical resistance against most acids, bases, chlorine, iodine and formaldehyde. However, heavy-duty latex glove options such as AMMEX GlovePlus HD Latex offers twice the thickness of standard latex disposable gloves and features an extended cuff that provides enhanced protection against bloodborne pathogens and other environmental contaminants. Latex gloves provide ideal benefits, for many industries, however for some, allergic reactions can result from exposure to latex or natural allergies. A latex allergy is a reaction to the proteins found in natural rubber latex. If you have a latex allergy, your body mistakes latex for a harmful substance. When latex allergies are of concern, nitrile or vinyl gloves are a suitable alternative, since these gloves are latex-free.
Latex gloves feature better puncture resistance than vinyl gloves.
Latex disposable gloves balance price with performance, so they are a popular choice in many industrial applications such as the food service industry. Food service grade disposable gloves are FDA approved for food service and are made with USDA approved materials. The USDA has established guidelines that govern the materials, manufacturing, and distribution of goods used in foodservice. Vinyl, nitrile and latex gloves are all suitable for use in the food industry, if they are FDA approved for food service and if the features of the glove match the application, for example –
AMMEX Gloveworks Heavy Duty Latex disposable gloves are ideal for food service applications because they are :
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I bought my 3-day pass for New York Anime Festival today. I went last year, and enjoyed it, though I didn’t really buy much or spend that much time at the con. I think I just went in for a couple of hours on Saturday. This year, I bought a three-day pass, and I plan on taking Friday off from work, so I should be able to spend more time at the con. I’m still so far behind in watching my accumulation of anime DVDs, and reading my accumulation of manga paperbacks, that I probably won’t buy much again this year. But, I’m hoping to just hang out, relax, and avoid thinking about work for the weekend. How’s that for a plan? | <urn:uuid:e2d44e16-82ba-47bf-88a7-92f02724c906> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.andrewhuey.com/2009/08/nyaf/ | 2023-09-23T17:11:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.983374 | 159 |
Close your eyes and picture a warm breeze, a beautiful sunset, and a summer evening. Now imagine you’re having a delightful meal with the people you love the most. Sounds amazing, right? We agree!
Feeling a bit lost about how to plan an outdoor dinner befitting your summer dreams? Have no fear; Ashley has all the al fresco dining ideas to help you design an enjoyable and relaxing summer evening with the people in your life.
The best part? You can implement these ideas anytime! Just set the scene–and the table–for outdoor dining any time of the day or evening. Plan a delicious brunch to enjoy with your best friend. Set the table for a fun picnic lunch with the kids. Plan an al fresco dinner party for your work friends. Or prepare a cozy outdoor meal for you and your partner to enjoy under the stars.
What is Al Fresco Dining?
Just like it sounds, al fresco dining means you’re eating outside in the fresh air. It’s more than just a meal, though. This setting turns an outdoor meal into an entire experience.
Plus, it’s versatile! You can make an al fresco meal into a very simple outdoor patio dining experience. You can also break out all the bells and whistles to create an elegant al fresco extravaganza that’s memorable and unique.
First, know that an al fresco meal begins with the foundation. Before planning the menu, it helps to prepare the guest list and make sure you have comfortable seating for everyone at your outside dining table.
When choosing new furniture for outdoor dining, things to consider include the size of your outdoor space, the number of people joining you for dinner, and whether you prefer to host small, intimate gatherings or bigger events. If you prefer to keep it small and intimate, seating for four or five might offer the level of comfort you want to provide your dinner guests. If throwing bigger events is in your plans, more seating and room to spread out may be just what the doctor ordered. For bigger gatherings, go for the biggest outdoor table and chairs in your budget.
How to Set Up an Outdoor Dining Area
You have a lot of options when choosing from our selection of outdoor dining sets. That’s great news because it makes it easy for you to find one that matches both the size of your outdoor space and the theme of your home.
- Measure first: Take some measurements of your available space and check the dimensions of the outdoor dining furniture you’re considering. Make sure there’s room for guests to walk without bumping into the table or chairs.
- Choose a firm foundation: Furniture that wobbles can lead to spilled drinks or food. Preventing wobbles begins with a firm foundation.
- Plan walkways: Choose where you want guests to walk (and help them stay out of your flowerbeds) by using lighting and decorative items like planters to establish walkways through your garden area.
- Leave room for extras: Leave space to put a cooler or mini-fridge within easy reach of your outdoor dining sets. This way, you don’t have to leave the party every time someone wants a fresh drink.
- Make your own shade: If your outdoor dining area is going to be displayed in a sunny part of your yard, an outdoor dining set with an umbrella can provide needed shade.
Coordinated Outdoor Dining Sets
Good conversation over a delicious meal served on beautiful dinnerware. Laughing with friends while sipping sweet beverages in sparkling drinkware. Turn your outdoor dining table setting into a scene perfect for creating memories with coordinated outdoor dining furniture. Then, add decorative items like a centerpiece or candle to add a touch of ambiance.
Working with a snug backyard area? Choose an outdoor dining table and chairs that fold or stack to save space. You get to enjoy the beauty and style of a matching outdoor dining set without giving up important patio space you’ll need when not you’re not entertaining.
Outdoor Dining Tables
Create your best outdoor dining experience by filling the area with pieces that coordinate with the theme of your home. Outdoor tables are available in modern, traditional, and contemporary styles, so it’s a snap to find one that coordinates with your decorating goals. Plus, outdoor furniture is crafted from a variety of durable and beautiful materials. So go ahead and pick the type that complements the other fixtures and decor in your outdoor space. Examples of the materials used to craft outdoor furniture include:
You can create your dream outdoor oasis by customizing the setting, the outdoor furniture, and the decor. Add candles, a faux plant, or a fruit-filled basket as a table centerpiece to energize the space.
Comfortable Outdoor Dining Chairs
Set the mood by adding pieces that make everyone feel comfortable when visiting your home for an al fresco dinner. Details like soft music from an outdoor speaker, twinkling fairy lights, and eye-catching outdoor sculptures add a peaceful feeling to the space. Stunning floral outdoor rugs will add a touch of warmth and texture to the space.
You can also celebrate summer’s casual pace with a more relaxed outdoor dining experience. Choose outdoor dining chairs with comfortable cushions for sitting around a toasty fire pit. When you want to serve a more traditional meal, you can rearrange the chairs to provide more seating at the table.
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In this blog, we will show you the steps to Installing Application on Windows EC2 Instance using AWS SSM.
- We created a windows 2012 R2 EC2 instance for this SSM demo.
CREATING IAM ROLE FOR AWS SSM
- Go to the services page and search for the IAM service.
- Click on Roles option and create a new role.
- Select the EC2 Service and click Next.
- Search for AmazonEC2RoleforSSM and select it. Then click Next.
- In the review page, provide the role name and description and click on create the role.
- The role created successfully.
ASSIGNING THE ROLES TO EC2 INSTANCES
- Go to the services page and access the EC2 service.
- Right-click on EC2 instance and go to instance settings and click on Attach/Replace IAM role.
- Select the newly created role from the drop-down list and click the Apply button.
- Go to AWS services and search for systems manager.
” Note: By default, it will take upto 5 minutes to display your machine in Systems Manager.
- Click on Managed Instances under Instances & Nodes. You will able to see your EC2 machine on the list.
- To install third-party applications, click on the Run command.
- Under the command document, search for AWS-InstallApplication and select it.
- Make sure that you have selected the Install option under the command parameters section.
- We need to specify the Source MSI file path under the source section. For demo purposes, we uploaded rdman.msi in the S3 bucket.
- We provide the S3 bucket object URL in the source field.
- Select the instance from the Target section.
- Review all the selected options and click on the Run button.
- It will take a few seconds to complete this operation.
VERIFY APPLICATION ON WINDOWS EC2 INSTANCE USING AWS SSM
- Login into the EC2 instance and open the installed program list. You will able to see the installed application on the list.
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Cheap web hosting can be a great option for individuals and small businesses looking to create a website without breaking the bank. In this article, we will explore some of the top options for cheap web hosting and the benefits and limitations of each.
First, let’s define what we mean by “cheap” web hosting. In general, cheap web hosting refers to hosting plans that cost less than $5 per month. These plans typically offer basic features such as support for a single website, limited storage and bandwidth, and no or minimal support for additional features like e-commerce or email.
So, what are some options for cheap web hosting? One option is shared hosting, which is the most affordable hosting. Shared hosting means that your website is hosted on the same server as other websites, which allows the hosting provider to offer lower prices. While shared hosting can be a good option for small websites with low traffic, it may not be suitable for larger or more resource-intensive websites.
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This is the third of four posts about the most important skills for a language learner: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Each week, we'll focus on a different skill to understand how it works, the best way to learn it, and how you can practice it! This week our focus is on writing.
Writing is a skill that connects us with friends, family, and even strangers across long distances—and we can revisit written messages in letters, newspapers, and group texts long after they were first written. Humans have evolved all kinds of written communication systems since our days of painting shapes and animals (probably owls) on cave walls, and today writing is especially important because of digital communication.
For many learners, writing in a new language is a chance to express yourself and engage with a new language community while still being able to think through and edit exactly what you want to say. Writing is great for strengthening the language in your memory, and there are lots of meaningful ways to practice writing in your everyday life, whether through pen and paper or on your favorite screen. In writing, you can also draft a sentence and then...
revise it....ummm, we mean, go back, cross out, and edit until you're satisfied with the result. Now that reads better, doesn’t it?
No matter if you are writing a text message to your sister or contributing to an online fandom, we want to make sure you're ready to express yourself in writing! In this post we dive into how we teach writing at Duolingo, what the science says about how writing works, and the best ways for learners to practice it.
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Because writing is such a good way to get practice pulling words out from your memory, our lessons start building writing skills right away! As you've already seen, all the language skills are closely tied together, so becoming comfortable with writing also means connecting with other skills. In your Duolingo lessons, tapping on a written word triggers a sound recording, so you can listen to what words sound like to build connections between sounds and writing.
We scaffold, or carefully structure, how we teach writing so that you start with simpler words and phrases and word banks until you're ready for longer writing on your own. Even the exercises where you tap on words in a word bank are training your writing muscles for the real deal! Here are some of the places you can get writing practice on Duolingo:
- Writing, from one perspective, is about connecting written squiggles (whether letters, syllables, characters, or something else) with sounds and meanings. More and more of our courses now include special exercises to build these connections to prepare you for writing. See more in our reading post!
- Writing also means composing phrases and sentences, too! At the earliest levels, we help you learn to write in the language by focusing on single words and by providing a word bank to get you used to organizing sentences in the language. As you advance to higher levels, you'll see fewer word bank exercises and more open-ended exercises, where you do more of the writing yourself!
- Of course, some learners like a challenge. Did you know that exercises in higher levels let you turn off the word bank and instead use your keyboard to type in the language? Check to see if there is a blue icon at the bottom near the "Check" button. This is a great way to get in the habit of writing as soon as you feel ready. If typing in the language with your thumbs is too tricky, try it from a full-sized keyboard on your computer by doing lessons on the Duolingo website. And if you’re not quite ready yet – don’t worry, we got you: just keep using those word banks!
- For certain languages that use non-Roman scripts, we provide lessons focused on the letters or characters and their sounds and meaning. These lessons are available for Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Hindi, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, and Korean.
Let's talk strategy: How does writing work?
Unlike reading and listening, writing is a productive skill, because you are producing the language...which can feel like a lot of pressure! Writing is a great way to get comfortable with producing the language, because it allows your brain to think more slowly and carefully about the sentences and words that you want to use. (Of course, in exciting text conversations you might want to be able to write as fast as you think!) This piecing together of words, phrases, and endings is what we described as bottom-up processing in our reading post. To write, you retrieve the words that match your intended meaning, and the more time you have to retrieve words, the easier it can feel.
Of course, sometimes retrieval is tricky, even in languages you've spoken your whole life. Have you ever felt like a word was on the tip of your tongue? You wanted to say a specific word but you just couldn’t think of it, and instead you could only remember words that sounded similar! Language research shows that when you’re retrieving words in your new language, your mental muscles have to really flex to get you producing the words you want: you have to avoid picking similar words in the new language, and you even have to keep words from your other languages from bubbling to the surface. So for example, if you're trying to write the Spanish word carta 'letter,' your brain has to hold back related Spanish words (like página 'page' and escribir 'write' and even cara 'face' because they start the same), and you have to work to keep in check all the non-Spanish words you know (like paper in English and lettre in French). Even people who are super highly proficient in multiple languages need just more milliseconds to recall words that have lots of related words. In fact, someone who knows Spanish and English has to do extra cognitive work to retrieve carta 'letter' from memory since there are some especially distracting English words, like card and cart, in the mix. But your brain is made for this kind of linguistic balancing act! Luckily, we don’t have to rush in writing, so whether you’re smidgen slower or not, your message will be what matters.
Some parts of writing are the same no matter the language (you're always doing retrieving!), but there are also a lot of differences to learn about writing for different languages and cultures. While some cultures write from left to right (like English and Spanish), others write from right to left (like Arabic and Hebrew). That means that if you’re reading an Arabic book you’ll need to start from what English speakers think of as the back! In our blog post about reading, we learned a bit about languages that use characters in writing, and these languages can do some pretty clever things with their characters. Like in Japanese, the characters themselves sometimes look like what they mean: the Japanese character 木 ki means 'tree,' 林 hayashi means 'woods,' and 森 mori means 'forest'!
Learning off the field
To really knock it out of the park, find ways to incorporate writing practice in your everyday routine!
- For fast and easy practice, try writing your shopping list in the language you are learning.
- On your phone or computer, install a keyboard in the language, so that you can more easily text, search, and Tweet in the language.
- Make a friend at a Duolingo Event or in our Forum and become text penpals!
- Find Facebook groups, subreddits, Twitter communities, and other groups that use the language, and spend some of your social media time writing quick responses in the language. Soon you might be writing even longer messages!
- Check out this guide of writing goals for more ideas at different levels!
For rookie learners, focus on writing what you do know. It can be tempting to want to write out everything in your own language first, but it's even better practice to think up what you want to say using only what you know. You can start your writing by relying on the exact words and sentences you learn in the course, and then build up to writing on your own, reusing familiar words and grammar. That means that if you don't know past tense yet, just worry about writing everything you can in present tense! Another good strategy for beginners is to practice useful "chunks" of language; "I am going to" and "I would like" are two chunks that you can use to write all kinds of sentences ("I am going to the park today. I am going to walk. I am going to bring a snack and I am going to eat it."). You can tailor this to yourself by thinking of the specific words and phrases that you use the most in your own language, and learn to write them in the new language!
For more veteran learners, try using writing to engage with the community who uses the language you're learning. This could be through forums or websites, by finding digital penpals, connecting with people in your own community who use the language, or even by writing the old fashioned way -- pen and paper -- to people around the world! You can also use writing for more personal practice by starting a language diary where you write a little bit each day--maybe a paragraph or more as you get more comfortable! To practice specific topics, try switching up when you write your entry each day: to practice writing in the future tense, write in the morning about your plans for the day, or use entries at the end of the day to practice the past (“Hey diary, today something really cool happened…”). And remember to treat your diary like a close friend: don’t worry about making mistakes, anything you tell your diary will be a secret!
Taking your learning to the big leagues
Successful communication always relies on combining your language skills! Now that you know more about how we're helping you become a skilled writer in the language, check back next week to learn about the fourth key language skill: speaking!
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At Duolingo, we believe that practice does indeed make progress, and we’re always looking for creative ways to help learners review material and build on those skills as they progress along their learning journey! That’s why we’re so excited to launch the new and improved Practice Hub, a tab for reviewing previous material in a variety of engaging ways. This feature remains a Super exclusive, and we're looking forward to sharing this update with our dedicated subscribers!
Super Learners can find the Practice Hub tab by clicking on the barbell image at the bottom of your home screen (on iOS only for now, but coming soon to Android and web!) At the top of the hub, Super learners get targeted review sessions that rotate daily, and below, a place to review Mistakes and Stories on-demand, whenever you want! You’ll earn different XP depending on your practice activity.
When we designed the Practice Hub, we wanted it to focus on relevant, recent material. All of the practice content in the Practice Hub is based on your recent personal activity in regular Duolingo lessons. We’ve also provided opportunities to focus just on speaking and listening, which are two skills that learners often tell us they want to improve. We’re so excited for learners to start exploring this dedicated practice space, but we know you might have a few more questions! Read on for everything you need to know about navigating your new Practice Hub:
How often does the Practice Hub refresh or add new material to review?
Every day, the practice module at the top of your Practice Hub will refresh and offer a new, targeted practice session.
On any given day, you might see:
🎯 Target Practice, where you’ll focus on reviewing a specific topic, like Travel
🗣 Perfect Pronunciation, featuring 10 speaking exercises
👂 Listen-Up, featuring 10 listening exercises
⏮ Unit Rewind, highlighting a set of exercises from a recent unit
There will also be a section called "Your collections"—this is a library of personalized content for practicing on-demand at any time. It includes mistakes review and re-reading Stories, and as of August 2023, this section also includes Words. This is where we automatically save all of the vocabulary you've learned and prompt you to review sets of words at a given time with a quick practice session.
Is the Practice Hub the only way to review material on Duolingo?
Not at all! Practice is actually built into your new learning path—we use spaced repetition to ensure that you’re reviewing concepts regularly by placing specific practice levels along the path. You can also redo a previous gilded lesson or Story on the path directly. But think of Practice Hub as a tool for guiding you on what to focus on based on your activity in the app. The Practice Hub is the place where Duolingo will tell you what to review and when.
Can the Practice Hub help you advance towards Monthly Challenge goals?
Yes! Lessons in the Practice Hub are, well, lessons. A Listen Up module will help you complete a Daily Quest around listening practice, XP earned will help you hit your daily XP goal, and so on.
Can I review Stories in the Practice Hub?
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Thanks to everyone who decided to come back to read Part 2 of this article. If you haven’t had a chance to read part 1, I suggest you read that first. Here’s the link: “What the insurance industry can learn from the leadership of Ted Lasso.”
Ted Lasso is a show about an American college football coach who’s hired to lead a professional soccer (or what the rest of the world calls football) team in London. This “fish out of water” story shows that, in insurance or any other industry, you don’t have to be an expert in a particular field to be an effective leader.
As a refresher, the main lessons from the show that we discussed in Part 1 were:
- Be yourself
- Catch people doing things well
- Be kind
- Be open to new ideas
- In coaching, one size does not fit all
- Focus on lessons for life, not for just sports
- Ask rather than tell
Here are several coaching lessons from episodes 4–6 that apply to the insurance industry and to leadership in general, so be sure to watch those episodes before reading this.
Ted chooses to be vulnerable from day one. What we don’t know is whether his vulnerability is a personality trait or a learned behavior. Regardless, it always comes across as authentic. Ted is willing to share personal anecdotes that others might try to take advantage of or make fun of, and he isn’t concerned about what others may do with the information he shares. Like many other great leaders in the insurance business and elsewhere, Ted understands that one of the boldest things a leader can choose is to be vulnerable. With his vulnerability, Ted allows others to truly see him and creates an environment of psychological safety wherein they realize they can let down their guard around him as well.
To borrow a quote from Brene Brown, “To love is to be vulnerable, to give someone your heart and say, ‘I know this could hurt so bad, but I’m willing to do it; I’m willing to be vulnerable and love you.'” As the show progresses, Ted’s willingness to be vulnerable endears him to the team and everyone around him. He not only empathizes with people but invites them to empathize with him. This interpersonal emotional regulation creates a higher level of working relationship. In many ways, that vulnerability pivots so many of his initial doubters to become his advocates and biggest fans. It helps everyone on the team be themselves and become closer to one another.
See different perspectives
Great coaches and business leaders can step out of their own experiences and see the world through other peoples’ eyes. The best leaders and coaches can get others to do the same. In episode 4, Ted attempts to “Parent Trap” Roy and Jamie and get them to find some mutual respect and common ground.
Ted is executing some ninja-level interpersonal relationship moves. Ted asks Roy what he was like when he was Jamie’s age. Of course, Roy remembers that he was a lot like Jamie: “a primadonna.” He’s doing what researchers describe as “dual-perspective shifting.” Ted not only can empathically understand Roy’s situation but also maintains his own perspective and intentions while guiding Roy to reflect on a younger version of himself. He accomplishes this all while predicting the outcome of this maneuver on Jamie. More simply put, he has a great ability to put himself in other people’s shoes and gain empathy for who they are and what they are going through.
Create a common language and culture
The best teams, in the office and on the field, have developed a shared and common history and speak in their own “shorthand.” By shorthand, I mean they have adopted words or phrases that have meaning within the organization. For example, early on, Ted placed a banner in the locker room with one word on it, “Believe.” “Believe” is used throughout the series and becomes part of the team’s identity. Among countless other examples of words and phrases that the team adopts, everyone on the team knows what it means to “be a goldfish by the end of the season.” The team continues to develop its own unique culture and habits.
In episode 6, the team gets a bit of a club history lesson. To expel some “ghosts of the past,” Ted asks the team to offer something personally meaningful as a sign of respect to those who previously have made sacrifices. Each team member was asked to bring something of value to them to the ceremony and to burn it in a fire. By honoring the past together, the team creates a stronger bond, a sense of belonging to something bigger than themselves. It’s an “ego stripping” process that breaks down the barriers to forming the essential connections necessary for high performance. The best teams honor their past and do their best to 1) Live up to that legacy, and 2) Leave the jersey in a better place than when they got there.
If you have ever been part of a great team or insurance organization, you can very easily think of words, phrases, and shared events that are seared into your brain forever. Even after you’ve left that team or organization, any time you see someone that was part of the same team, even if they were there at a different time, you immediately share a sense of camaraderie and know the same “lingo.” There is a sense of pride that you can consider yourself a member of that “family.”
Pay close attention
Ted is constantly scanning the room and paying close attention to everyone and everything going on, but he has the capacity to readily shift to a narrow focus, such as when he picked up on what type of person Rupert Mannion, former owner of AFC Richmond, really is, even though so many others are enamored with him. Ted may have been the only one who realized that Rupert was responsible for Robbie Williams’ cancellation at the auction (episode 4).
In episode 5, Jamie was having a great game. The fans were cheering and almost everyone was excited, but Ted realized that Jamie’s teammates were not celebrating his goals. Ted paid attention long enough to realize that he had to bench Jamie. It was the right thing to do for the team. Paying close attention, both broad at times, and narrow at others, helps you pick up on nuances that others may miss.
One other thing to add about paying attention: Ted always remains positive and focused on the good (again, ninja-level emotional regulation). We know by now that Ted has some legitimate pain in his marriage. Despite this, Ted is able to maintain focus on his core values and continue to remain kind, optimistic, and positive. When Nate begins to celebrate the fact that Jamie has been benched, both Ted and Coach Beard proclaim one of their steadfast rules: “no schadenfreude!” For those that are not familiar with the term, “schadenfreude” is essentially finding pleasure in the pain of others. Ted’s “no schadenfreude” rule says a lot about the kind of person he is.
Most people want to do the right things and expect others to do the right things too. But sometimes people can struggle with that, and it is easy to cheer against someone who hasn’t been playing nicely. We often love to see people get their comeuppance. Ted realizes that change is hard, and everyone has their own battles to fight. Because of this, life’s lessons can be painful for people to endure. Ted makes it clear that while he wants to have people learn from life’s lessons, he (and we) should always want to be empathetic and help them through tough times. His “no schadenfreude” rule is a great rule for every team and leader to abide by.
Practice makes perfect
When Jamie claims he can’t practice because he’s hurt, pretty much everyone on the team realizes that Jamie is faking his injury simply because he has been benched. When Ted is concerned about the fact that Jamie can’t practice, Jamie says, “Relax Ted, it’s just practice.”
In American sports, there was a story from a number of years ago where a famous basketball player couldn’t believe that his coach was making such a big deal about practice. Similar to Jamie saying “Relax Ted, it’s just practice,” that player kept saying, “We’re talking about practice.” This player didn’t realize the importance of practice, just like Jamie.
When Jamie says “Relax Ted, it’s just practice,” this is the first time we see Ted get visibly upset. Ted takes the phrase “We’re talking about practice” and turns it on its head. His intonation makes all the difference. The mastery of this move is the dissonance created by what he is saying and what he is communicating. His non-verbal energy (posture, tone of voice) creates a message that cannot be ignored.
“We’re talking about practice. The only place we get to play together, we’re talking about practice. The only time we’ve got control over. The rest of the time, it’s us 11 against those 11.”
You see what Ted understands, and what Jamie clearly doesn’t, is that the absolute best competitors in sports and in life take practice as seriously as when playing in the game or performing in their job. They realize that practice is where you hone your skills and prepare for as many potential scenarios as you could possibly foresee. There are numerous stories of how the best players of all time are relentless during practice. Many are said to be “First in, last out” of practice or at work. They realize that practicing makes game time that much easier.
There are countless stories about some of the greatest competitors of all time like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Tom Brady bringing everything they have to practice to make sure the team is fully prepared come game time. Whatever you do, put in the practice and walk through potential scenarios and outcomes. The more work and practice you put in, the better each team member will be. According to Harvard Business Review, “if-then planners” are about 300% more likely than others to reach their goals. In other words, practice makes perfect.
The lessons I’ve covered here resonate throughout this series and align with a deeper theme of developing empathy and understanding for your teammates. Great teams, in the office and on the field, are built where all the members realize they are fortunate to be working to create something greater than themselves. And, by working together and leveraging the varying skills and experiences of everyone in the room, what they form can truly be greater than the sum of its parts. ]
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Last weekend would have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday, one of Britain's most prolific writers to date. In celebration, we’re looking at some of the top adaptations of his most famous and respected works, Sherlock Holmes.
Flame Tree Fiction
Bodies in the Library is available to buy now, and consists of a healthy mix of classic authors and new tales of atmospheric mansions, mysterious deaths and suspicious characters! Among all the intrigue you’ll find amateur detectives, experienced PIs, ghosts, straight-up horror and even a dash of science fiction. The anthology’s modern authors shed light on the inspirations behind their tales in last week’s blog; this week they offer reading recommendations and insight into their own writing processes:
In Part I of this Q&A, which can be found here, authors from the Detective Thrillers anthology shed light on the inspiration behind their stories in the book. Now, they tell us about their own favourites from the genre, as well as the methods they use to bring their fiction to the page. Alongside the contemporary authors, this new collection features works by classic authors such as John Buchan, Mignon G. Eberhart and Arthur Conan Doyle. From Father Brown and the inimitable Sherlock Holmes all the way to hardboiled PIs like Race Williams and Violet McDade, there’s no end of fascinating leading figures to follow in these breathless tales of intrigue and adventure!
Published alongside our latest anthology A Dying Planet, Detective Thrillers similarly offers an exciting mix of new and classic short stories. Rife with enigmatic detectives, dark alley chases, and secret operations, this collection promises an edge-of-your-seat journey from a host of modern authors to greats such as Arthur Conan Doyle and writers from the Black Mask magazine era. See below for a taste of its contents, as contemporary authors tell us the stories behind their contributions to the book…
We’re very excited to announce the author lists for two new anthologies in our Gothic Fantasy series: Footsteps in the Dark, and Bodies in the Library. Combining contemporary takes on the theme with a range of compelling tales from classic authors, these books are due for publication in June 2020. Yet again, our call for submissions was met with a great response, so we have been kept very busy forming a final selection of excellent stories that best suit these intriguing themes: many thanks to all who submitted and congratulations to the below!
Featuring new authors alongside classic works by Margery Allingham, Arthur Conan Doyle, Carroll John Daly, Anthony Berkeley and more, our recently released collection Detective Mysteries is a treat for crime fiction lovers. Last week, the modern authors from the book introduced their stories by discussing the inspiration behind their tale. Now, they recommend stories and authors whose influence they’ve felt in their own work, and cast light on how they approach the task of writing: | <urn:uuid:8829d81c-ac96-4d36-8646-c2ce3b249d2a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/topic/detective-fiction | 2023-09-23T16:58:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.937987 | 604 |
Let’s invent some scandal on the Queen,
Or show some pictures quite obscene
A mistake that’s made by some physician,
Or the secret loves of a politician.
We the papers defend our right,
To tell the truth , not be polite.
Don’t worry if they try to sue,
It’s paid through front page revenue.
Every week we stir the mud,
Of sex and death , of gore and blood,
Happy endings where things go well,
Dear Reader ,these stories will never sell.
And should you plebs examine us ,
And stir the media and make a fuss,
Don’t leave the courts all wrapped in glory,
Else we will damn you with a nasty story.
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If you’re looking to create a vibrant freshwater aquarium, fish can be an important part of the experience. There are many different types of fish that can inhabit a freshwater tank, and choosing the right ones for your setup is essential in creating a healthy ecosystem.
As a beginner aquarist, it’s important to consider the size and type of fish you want to add to your tank, as well as their compatibility.
Selecting Fish for Your Aquarium
Guppies are a perennial favorite with many fish enthusiasts because they’re easy to care for and come in a variety of colors. They tend to be shy, but once they feel comfortable, they’re fun to watch swimming around the tank.
Neon tetras are also a must-have for any freshwater aquarium because of their vibrant colors and approachability. They’re also schooling fish, so you’ll want to get a few of them to create a stunning visual display in the tank.
African cichlids are another colorful choice for a freshwater tank. The neon colors they display are unreal and they’re very active fish. However, these fish can be aggressive if they’re not well socialized and they need a large aquarium with plenty of cover. They also require a lot of filtration because they consume food at a rate that’s hard to keep up with.
It’s important to research the best freshwater fish to consider purchasing before adding them to an aquarium, especially if you are a beginner. This will help you figure out the right size fish tank for you and what other things you’ll need to buy, like a heater, thermometer, plants, and test strips.
Introducing Your Fish to the Aquarium Environment
If you’re starting out with a new freshwater aquarium, it’s important to think about how your fish will be introduced into their home. This will make the fish feel less stressed and increase their chances of adjusting to their new environment.
Generally, it’s best to keep new fish in their own tanks for at least an hour before mixing species to let them settle in and minimize shock. This will allow them to become acclimated and reduce the risk of territorial fighting between different fish species.
It’s also a good idea to put in some rocks and wood to give the aquarium a more natural appearance. These items can help reduce stress in fish and may even be a source of shelter for some species. Rock and wood can create a habitat for beneficial nitrifying bacteria that will eradicate ammonia and nitrites in the water.
When selecting rock and wood for the aquarium, make sure it comes from a responsible supplier that uses sustainable resources.
You should also avoid rocks that may introduce heavy metals into the water like rust or pyrite (fool’s gold). These contaminants can be deadly to your fish and can cause health problems if they come into contact with them.
Establishing a Healthy Ecosystem
A healthy ecosystem is the basis for all aquarium success. This includes the substrate (or soil) that plants anchor to, a functioning water cycle, and the bacteria and microorganisms that form a natural food chain.
If you’re looking for a fish to create this base in your aquarium, look no further than the beautiful Pictus Catfish. These fast swimmers have long whiskers that they use to comb the bottom of the tank for scraps of food. This makes them a great contrast to a large Managuense Cichlid, which tends to stay put and watch for prey.
Other options for a base-feeding fish include the colorful Clown Loach and the peaceful community barbs. Both of these fish are low-maintenance and would be a great choice for any aquarium. The latter is a bit cheaper than the clown loach and has a very interesting color pattern that looks gorgeous in schools.
The Killifish is another excellent choice for a base-feeding fish. This species is very beautiful with its combination of red spots and a bright blue body.
You’ll love watching their flowing fins as they move around the aquarium. Just be sure to add some sort of filtration system to the tank to prevent any debris from entering the water.
Consulting with Veterinarians for Optimal Aquarium Care
Caring for your freshwater aquarium and its inhabitants involves understanding their needs, behaviors, and optimal living conditions. One of the best resources for such information is a veterinarian specializing in fish health.
Veterinarians can offer expert advice on choosing breeds, providing the appropriate feed, and ensuring your fish receive necessary treatments and medicine.
Selecting Freshwater Fish Breeds
When it comes to choosing fish breeds for your aquarium, a veterinarian can provide invaluable insights based on your tank setup and the existing species you already own.
While many fish enthusiasts may recommend certain breeds based on color and behavior, a veterinarian can help assess their compatibility, size, temperament, and potential impact on the existing ecosystem.
Fish Feeding Guidelines
The right diet is crucial to maintain the health and longevity of your fish. Aquatic veterinarians understand the specific nutritional requirements of different species and can suggest suitable feeds, including commercially prepared foods, live or frozen food, and even specific plants.
They can also provide guidance on feeding frequency and quantity to avoid overfeeding, which can lead to obesity and tank contamination.
Essential Medications and Treatments
Just like any other pets, fish are susceptible to diseases and require proper medical care. A fish-friendly veterinarian can help diagnose and treat common fish diseases such as Ich (white spot disease), Fin Rot, and Swim Bladder Disease.
They can recommend over-the-counter treatments, prescribe medication, and provide advice on preventive care to ensure your fish maintain optimal health. Additionally, they can guide you on maintaining proper water quality, a crucial factor in preventing many fish diseases.
A partnership with a veterinarian can be an invaluable resource in maintaining a thriving, healthy freshwater aquarium.
Their expertise can guide you in choosing the right fish breeds, providing appropriate feed, and dealing with any health problems that might come up. Therefore, building a relationship with a vet experienced in fish care is a wise step in your journey as a successful aquarist.
Compatible Tank Mates and Stocking Ratios
The stocking ratio of fish in a tank can play a big part in the happiness of your aquarium. Most fish dislike being crowded and become stressed or aggressive when they are overcrowded. A general guideline is to have one inch of fish per gallon of aquarium capacity. However, it’s important to provide even more space for territorial fish.
Guppies, zebra loaches, neon tetras and black skirt tetras are popular beginner fish that are easy to care for. They also make good community fish as they get along well with other fish species in the same size range.
If you are looking to add some color to your tank, cherry barbs are an excellent choice. These peaceful community fish are fun to watch as they dart around the tank in search of bits of food. They are best kept in schools of four or more fish with two females for every male to reduce aggression.
Another great tank mate for platies is the Black Molly. These hermaphrodites are peaceful and enjoy similar water temperatures to platies. They also serve as an excellent tank cleaner, scrubbing algae off the glass and gravel.
Feeding Requirements for Different Species
Many fish species can be quite demanding. They may require a certain temperature, water hardness and pH, and a specific tank size. Those that are more finicky can be difficult for new aquarists to master.
Nevertheless, there are some hardy, affordable, and remarkably beautiful fish species that are perfect for novices to care for.
Some fish that make a superb choice for beginning freshwater aquarists include White Cloud Minnows, Cherry Barbs, Guppies, and Neon Tetras. These are all relatively easy to care for, and can live happily in a starter aquarium.
The Platy or Variant Platypus (Xiphophorus variatus) is another great option for beginners. These 3-inch livebearers are very hardy and can handle a wide range of water conditions, including higher pH levels and harder water. They are also voracious eaters and will consume most omnivore community tank food.
The Kuhli Loach (Saturnia reticulate) is an elegant fish native to Asia with a long body and dramatic stripes. This fish is a good choice for beginning aquarists because it doesn’t need a large tank and gets along well with other tank mates. It eats most vegetables, algae and other plant matter that sinks to the bottom of the tank.
Maintaining Healthy Water Quality for Your Fish
One of the most important factors in determining fish health is water quality. A reliable aquarium water test kit is the best way to monitor and keep your freshwater aquarium healthy.
Some pet stores even offer them for free or at a low cost. It is recommended to use a test kit regularly when starting a new aquarium and after every tank cleaning.
Guppies, cherry barbs, and neon tetras are excellent beginner fish that thrive in community tanks. They are small, colorful, and surprisingly peaceful fish that add an attractive and natural look to your tank. They do well with a variety of foods and tank mates and are easy to find at local pet stores.
The kuhli loach is another beautiful addition to any freshwater aquarium. This eel-like fish is very popular and for good reason.
Their long bodies and dramatic stripes make them stand out in a tank. The kuhli loach is not fussy about food and will happily eat most types of flake and pellet fish food. They also enjoy worms, daphnia, brine shrimp, and mosquito larvae.
The flowerhorn cichlid is a stunning showpiece that will bring an eye-catching splash of color to any aquarium. They can be aggressive when introduced to a new tank, so they should always be kept alone or with fish that are of similar size to prevent territorial fighting.
The Benefits of Adding Live Plants to Your Aquarium
Adding live plants to your aquarium is a great way to make it more natural and visually appealing. They help remove excess nutrients from the water and act as a unique filtration system for the tank. They also offer a hiding spot for fish, which can reduce stress levels.
Before adding plants to your aquarium, it’s crucial to determine if your fish, like goldfish and cichlids, are compatible with them. Some fish have a tendency to nibble on or uproot aquatic plants. Therefore, researching compatibility beforehand is essential to ensure the plants’ well-being in your aquarium.
Ramshorn snails are another popular addition to freshwater tanks. These sexy little crustaceans are easy to take care of and have a peaceful temperament that suits beginners. They’re also a great source of live food for other fish species in the aquarium.
You’ll also want to consider adding some algae eaters to your aquarium. Algae are a natural part of any freshwater aquarium, but too much can be detrimental. This is because they compete for light and nutrients with the plants, resulting in stunted growth or even death. Adding an algae eater like a dwarf otocinclus can help keep the amount of algae in your aquarium to a healthy level.
Novice aquarists can have fun and success setting up a vibrant freshwater aquarium. There are several great fish options to choose from that will provide a visually stunning aquarium while also being easy to care for. With the right amount of research and planning, you can create an amazing underwater world that everyone can enjoy. | <urn:uuid:beaebc20-aca5-49dc-a712-20832a568b21> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.greatvet.com/top-fish-for-novice-aquarists/ | 2023-09-23T17:05:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.939504 | 2,439 |
HostBill in 2022 – yearly summary
As we have just celebrated 13 years in business we now take a look back at the previous year to check our accomplishments and what we worked on during the year. A lot of new HostBill functionalities, integrations, bug fixes and changes – delve into our summary of 2022! The numbers might surprise you!
2022 in numbers
In 2022 we managed to deliver even more releases than the previous year – 62 in total, which means our Customers received new HostBill version more often than once a week! Our Developers Team has been kept extremely busy fixing 1112 bugs this year and working on 441 new features introduced in 2022. We also made 54 changes and launched 23 modules!
Among the 23 new modules we released 6 provisioning integrations, including 3 SSL modules (Certum SSL, SSL2BUY, Globe SSL), Pax8 License Provisioning module, VirtFusion VPS Hosting and KeyHelp Shared Hosting integrations.
We also launched 7 plugins: new two factor authentication module: Email 2FA, SMSAPI.bg SMS notification module, captcha alternative: Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA app, Estonian XML E-invoice plugin, Matomo eCommerce tracking module, Freshsales CRM integration and IPMI Local module – an addition to Colocation Manager.
6 new payment gateways join our list, which now makes total of 118 payment gateways both global and local integrated with HostBill! New additions include PostFinance Checkout, Revolut Checkout, Stripe Intents ACH, QuickPay with Tokenization, Rapyd and Paddle.
A number of domain registrar modules also increased, as we added 3 new domain integrations: HRD.pl, Dynadot and Domeny.tv. Additionally, we released a Domain Reseller module, which enables to generate HostBill and WHMCS modules to resell your domains!
As there’s over 400 new functionalities added to HostBill this year, we would like to mention just a handful of them. One of the biggest changes in Client Management is multi account support, with Clients, Client Contacts and Guest profiles. A Guest feature allows to add to your Contacts a person whose email address is already registered either as a Client or a Contact of another client!.
This year we introduced a new discount type: flavor coupon. When it comes to the promo codes, we also added the ability to generate promo codes in batches and to set the discount per product component.
In Products we added Forms support for Sub-products and low stock alerts for products with stock control enabled. Cancellation requests for products & services can be submitted in bulk and we also added a package change prompt. The field logic in Form has been improved.
As we released a couple of new security modules, we also updated the Duo.com module and launched a new interface for multi-factor authentication with a number of new functionalities such as enforcing 2fa for staff and clients and more.
In domain management there is a new domain renewal window feature (a number of days before expiration that marks the start date of the domain renewal window for orders submitted manually). Domain suggestions are now available in “Domain R16” and “Domain 2019” order pages and there are now two new registrars that can be used as availability engine: IIS.nu and IIS.se. There is also a new client function which allows to update the EPP code.
We constantly improve and develop new billing functionalities, and just to name a few of them there are new options to queue Pro-rata charges, set initial invoice number, decide how to invoice late fee and more. New PDF document – account statement – lists all transactions and invoices linked to the account. There is also a new possibility to turn on client debt notification upon new order.
HostBill now supports multiple credit card and payment method storage and provides the ability to set default payment gateway per client or client group for existing services.
There’s a number of new client functions (including related emails and related invoices, you can now also enable auto-charge by the client) and new admin permissions (for example view and edit products & addons settings). Staff can now single sign on to Apps: Plesk, cPanel and DirectAdmin.
It’s also worth to mention new billable support fields, app connection availability, new file access log, smart search update, multiple mail senders and OAuth 2.0 support.
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Trading data for convenience and other inclinations of today’s airline passenger
"We know, because we asked" - IATA
For the past half a decade, IATA (for whom IBS is a strategic partner) has been exploring what's on the mind of airline passengers around the world, in a bid to find out what they love, what they hate and what they want in the future. Yours truly did his bit this year, spending a quarter of an hour answering questions and even speculating a little bit – you can do so too at www.iata.org/paxsurvey until next month. But my main objective today is not promoting the survey; instead it is to use their results to quickly examine how passengers are at present, including any short term evolutions that have come into play.
Please note, these conclusions and predictions are the author's own and not on behalf of IATA. A link is provided at the foot of the blog post to the relevant page on the IATA website.
Information is wealth; so let's trade with it!
Passengers are going digital in their thinking and action, as is the average citizen of the world. Clearly, this is in part a result of passengers recognizing, as well as demanding, that technology be used to make life easier on many fronts. This is most evident in the fact that passengers are demanding instantaneous delivery of information, although there is significant variance over the channels they prefer. In 2012, a good 66% of survey respondents wanted proactive notifications about their flight (in case of delays, etc.) to be delivered over text messages. In 2016 this number dropped to 53% with the rest being open to smartphone apps or email being the medium used.
It is also interesting that around 85% passengers are willing to share data (passport details and other identifiers) about themselves if that will mean increased convenience and faster processes. This trend remains approximately the same from 2012 to 2016, and predictably will go up in 2017 if one can discount the impact of recent information security issues the world witnessed.
Are my bags safe?
In the 2012 survey, around 81% of respondents indicated that they would love to track their bags in realtime throughout their journey, but this has dropped to 61% in 2016. Although there isn't a significant level of dissatisfaction with baggage handling as such, many passengers would love to see lower fees on this account. This could also be a hint to the reason why passengers seem to be ready to let go of such a close (yet virtual) grip on their bags while in-flight!
Can't wait, won't wait
All that effort towards streamlining processes and investing in technology must ultimately point us towards one goal - a faster and more convenient journey from the airport gate to inside the aircraft. Consistently over the years, passengers have been expressing their interest in shortening the queues at security check, as well as reducing the intrusive procedures such as pat downs and removal of shoes and belts. No more than five to ten minutes in the queue, say the passengers every year. And automating the whole process would be a terrific bonus!
Summarize and predict what's in store for 2017
Overall, there is a good amount of rationality in what global air passengers have been demanding. Based on this year's events, one can easily assume the core theme on everyone's minds is how airline companies handle passenger services. It is predictable that the conclusions even in the 2017 edition (which are expected this quarter) can be summarized into three points:
1. Less disruptions, more predictability
2. Better awareness and information
3. Ease and convenience – from booking to landing
Even at the recently concluded IATA AGM it was discussed that the industry needs to reclaim its customer focus, while maintaining a data centric approach. This is remarkably aligned with what the passengers are demanding – surely a greatly positive sign for what's to come in the future.
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An amazing company trip to Korea – Innity Rocks Seoul
After a year of long, hard work, we were super excited that Innity decided to bring us to KOREA for the annual company trip this January.
“Everyone worked so hard day in and day out for the company, and we are very grateful for that. We’re delighted to be able to reward them with a great vacation. It’s our pleasure that we could bring 190 employees from all our regional offices to Korea,” said Innity CEO, Mr Phang.
From 13th January to 16th January this year, the entire workforce set off for a relaxing break in Seoul. We visited a few places in Seoul and took part in various cultural activities such as making our own bibimbap (a famous food in Korea) and touring the Gyeongbokgung palace while wearing our hanboks!
Of course, where there are Innitians, you know a crazy party isn’t too far away! Many of us also tried soju for the first time during that trip ;)
We also had some amazing team building activities during our tour at Seoul Tower and Hongdae Street where it facilitated a strong bond between the team members. All of us were divided into teams which were made up of an assortment of staff from countries such as Thailand, Singapore, Philippine, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and of course Malaysia. It was a fantastic time for us to get to know each other better.
On our last night in Seoul, we had our annual dinner to celebrate the successful year that passed and to welcome the promising year ahead. Every year, all of us will eagerly look forward to this event because of the amazing lucky draw prizes! And this year didn’t disappoint – all thanks to our amazing partners and publishers for sponsoring the prizes. This year, we also held our very first ‘Innity Got Talent’ session for Innitians to showcase their hidden skills. We were all thoroughly entertained and blown away by the many talents that evening!
We can’t wait til the crazy next trip! Until then, here’s to another great year of innovation and growth for Innity! #LifeinInnity | <urn:uuid:b13a6968-79eb-4787-bd5f-41d257c270fd> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.innity.com/2017/02/an-amazing-company-trip-to-korea-innity-rocks-seoul/ | 2023-09-23T17:57:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.973324 | 466 |
To win, digital sales reps need the right mix of talent and personality.
So you’ve decided to hire your first digital sales rep. You posted the job. Resumes are flooding in. And it’s time to start the interview process. There’s just one problem: you’re not sure what to look for when interviewing candidates.
You might be asking yourself:
- What makes a person successful in digital sales?
- What skill set do they need?
- What characteristics should I look for?
Digital sales require a unique skill set.
Digital sales reps must possess a well-rounded set of skills and use technology to identify opportunities, sell at scale, move leads through the sales funnel and educate prospects.
Some of the most important characteristics include the following:
Strong communication skills. The best digital sales reps are good communicators. They must converse with leads, prospects, and customers across multiple channels to hit their goals and quotas, including email, phone, virtual meetings and live chat conversations.
Attention to detail. Digital sales require detail-oriented skill sets. Whether crafting a persuasive message or keeping data accurate, reps must constantly keep a close eye on the essential information.
Some examples include:
- Data entry, analysis and hygiene. Digital sales reps must constantly analyze lead data, review history, research organizations, understand growth potential, enter call notes and keep their data up-to-date and accurate (usually in a CRM or digital selling platform).
- Proactive messaging. Digital sales reps leverage customer data, research and insights to proactively reach out to prospects that can benefit from the products they sell. These can include in-app messaging and live chat conversations through websites and digital storefronts — and cold email exchanges. These tactics require them to pay close attention to details, personalize the copy and ensure there are no mistakes. First impressions matter!
Selling at scale. Because digital sales reps work remotely through online channels, they don’t spend time on the road. This means they use that extra time for prospecting or following up with new leads, managing more accounts and connecting with customers at a higher rate than a field sales rep. Digital sales reps must practice the art of selling at scale — which requires the right technology, processes and time management to remain efficient and successful.
Active listening. Digital sales reps must follow up or reach out to new prospects and determine whether they are a good match for your products before setting meetings. Discovery requires asking the right questions, adjusting the approach on the fly and listening closely during calls to understand prospect pain points and challenges.
Product expertise. Digital sales reps must be ready to answer initial questions about your products anytime during a call, live chat conversation or email exchange. If they come off unaware or can’t provide the correct information, the prospect will be less inclined to move forward with further sales conversations.
Tech-savvy. Because digital sales reps sell remotely, they rely on technology to be successful. Activities include: importing target lists, analyzing lead data, making cold calls, emailing leads/prospects, and booking meetings. These activities require using tools like CRMs, prospecting platforms, virtual meeting solutions, etc. Make sure they are comfortable using technology and learning new software and workflows as your digital sales organization grows.
Focus on these traits to land great sales talent.
Ultimately, every company will have unique requirements for its salespeople. But if you focus on screening for these traits in the interview process, you’ll quickly be able to identify strong candidates and weed out the rest.
Remember that most candidates won’t possess all these skills from the outset. Some will need to be honed through on-the-job training after they start. So it’s crucial to hire someone curious, willing to learn and ambitious enough to take on the challenge ahead. | <urn:uuid:d2b5d84e-6677-406c-b004-c311cbcab05c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.knowde.com/7-traits-to-look-for-in-a-digital-sales-rep/ | 2023-09-23T18:39:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.919681 | 798 |
Athens based graffiti artist POISON can’t hide his excitement when it comes to paint raw walls using FLAME PAINT!
“This time one word came to my mind while sketching “rawlicious”! I used viola pastel & light with some menthol and turquoise light for the fill. A perfect combination with Viola dark for the lines and piglet pink for the background. Added a character of Jose Carioca, a colorful comic character that fits perfect with the colours I used.” (POISON GFR)
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A trading bot can assist you trade more proficiently and earn more money. However , there are some important factors that you should look for ahead of selecting a trading bot. You mustn’t rely entirely around the trading algorithm and its reliability. You should also consider the quality of the technique as well as the quality of data available. A bot’s efficiency will depend on how much it can get, as well as just how skilled the developers are. It should also be able to adapt to varied market circumstances.
A trading android must be made on a stable mathematical version. If the android is certainly not based on an excellent mathematical unit, then it will certainly fail to job and you will suffer a loss of your money. A very good bot can analyze famous trends to determine inefficiencies available in the market and foresee once these inefficiencies will recur. A good automatic robot will also be allowed to detect industry inefficiencies and make predictions. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2021/07/01/bitcoin-price-volatility-reached-a-14-month-high-in-june/ It should be able to produce accurate decisions based on the outcomes of previous trading.
Before choosing a trading bot, make sure very low good standing among its communicative board and has a higher level of technological skill. It should currently have managed $100 million or maybe more in transactions and really should be clear in its dealings with investors. The trading bot’s performance will need to mirror the results it has achieved during its testing. A trading robot need to adhere to stringent trading guidelines and be clear. A good robot should have a good track record. There are lots of factors that you ought to consider when selecting a trading bot.
The trading bot’s overall performance should meet the prospects set by speculator. It should likewise follow rigorous guidelines in order to avoid making poor trading decisions. The effects should https://www.a-ware-project.eu/de/crypto-superstar-erfahrungen/ be based upon real trading conditions, certainly not speculations. Dealers should be aware of all of these things and have realistic targets. When choosing a trading bot, ensure you are well-versed in all aspects. The robot can make the best decisions for you.
When choosing a trading android, you should select one with a good status and an increased payment rate. This should be able to manage numerous fluctuations in price. An accurate robot should also have the ability to handle fluctuating data. It should be able to manage the chance of a control and the rewards from that. A trustworthy trading bot must also be transparent about the trading procedure. In fact , you must read the wearer’s guide properly to avoid virtually any mistakes.
A reliable trading bot ought to possess transparent and up-to-date facts. An individual interface for the trading robot should be safe and sound. You should avoid a bot it does not provide appropriate information. An example of this would be BTC/USDT. Moreover, the bot probably should not include deceiving material. The trading bot should be able to make the correct decisions for the user. By considering the effectiveness of the trading robot, you should see be it worth purchasing it. | <urn:uuid:1f34acab-edba-471b-9239-67af4512f766> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.moonrummy.com/how-to-select-the-very-best-bitcoin-vehicle-trading-robot/ | 2023-09-23T17:01:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.942073 | 676 |
For my first post in February 2010 (my does this year rocket past - even faster than last year!!) I thought I'd share another image from our trip in December 2009 to the Western Cape province of South Africa.
This area plays host to some of the best scenery, best wine estates and best restaurants in the country.
This 3-exposure HDR was shot from the wine-tasting lawn on the Seidelberg Wine Estate near the town of Paarl. The view looks over the Simonsberg mountain and the Franschhoek valley to the far left.
I hope that, if this serene scene finds you behind your desk wishing you were somewhere on the road to a beautiful place, that you will feel as if you could be on this lawn, tasting the fine wine, looking out over this lovely valley.
(remember to click on the photo for a better viewing size)
If you stumble across this post - please drop a comment telling me where you are now, and what you are doing! This way we can all share a moment in time.
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Good dental health isn’t just important for you, but for your dog, too. From brushing, to dealing with yucky bacteria, to feeding, we’ve got some simple natural tips to help you keep your best friends teeth in good shape!Â
Why Good Dental Health is Important
Taking care of your dog’s dental health isn’t just a cosmetic issue – your dog doesn’t care if she has a bleach-white smile and she’s certainly not self-conscious about her breath. Good dental health is key to good overall health. Without proper care, teeth can become weakened, gums can become inflamed, teeth can fall out and infection in the mouth can spread throughout the body, leading to an array of health problems. If you want your dog to live a long, healthy life, you’re going to have to take care of his or her teeth.
How to Identify a Problem
I’ve dealt with some pretty serious doggy dental problems firsthand. I have two dogs, Maddie, my miniature schnauzer, and Daphne, my yorkipoo. Daphne has been pretty low maintenance, but Maddie – that’s a different story! She’s got some ferocious-looking teeth in that tiny mouth of hers. I was always amazed how so many teeth could fit in that little space. And therein lies one of her problems. Small dogs often have crowded teeth and food debris gets trapped. Her second problem: She’s not a very good patient. If she were a child, she probably wouldn’t get to pick a prize from the treasure chest at the dentist.
Even if your dog puts up a fight when it comes to dental care, it’s important to regularly check their mouth for signs of a problem. Look for:
- Bad breath – This is how I knew something was up with Maddie. She quickly earned the nickname “Stinky” as bacteria multiplied. But once I got her to the vet and resolved the problem, the bad breath went away! (To get some relief in the meantime, check out this post on natural ways to freshen your dog’s breath.)
- Plaque and tartar build-up – No one expects their dog to have sparkling white teeth like a celebrity, but they shouldn’t be coated with yellow to brown plaque and tartar. Food particles combine with bacteria to form plaque along the gumline and if it’s not removed, it hardens into tartar and adheres to teeth, becoming very difficult to remove. This can then affect the health of the gums.
- Loss of appetite – If your dog isn’t eating like normal, it could be because of pain from a dental issue. If your dog is experiencing pain, you may also notice some changes in their mood, like increased irritability. My little monster lost a lot of her grumpiness when we got her teeth cleaned up.
- Red or inflamed gums – Irritated looking gums are likely painful and may bleed. They can begin to recede and even lead to the loss of teeth.
- Loose or missing teeth – Sure, accidents can happen and your dog could lose or chip a tooth from chewing something they shouldn’t or getting into some kind of scrap, but if teeth are wobbly (and they’ve already lost their puppy teeth, of course), this is a good sign that the gums are in poor health and there’s tooth decay happening.
How to Handle a Serious Case
If your dog has several of the above signs of dental distress, your first step should probably be to see a vet. If they have major tartar built up like my Maddie did, it’s best to have a professional cleaning done by a vet. With appropriate tools and anesthesia, they’ll have far more success removing the tartar than you would.
If periodontal disease has set in (this happens when tartar builds up under the gums, creating pockets where bacteria can grow and causing teeth to begin to loosen), some teeth may have to be removed. This was the situation with my dog’s incisors – the little front teeth in between the big fang-like canines. Crowded together and hidden behind her hairy lip, her teeth became loose as food particles stuck between tight spaces and bacteria grew. It may seem scary to have teeth removed, but your dog will likely feel much better afterward, and, unless the situation is extremely severe and many important premolars and molars are removed, they should still be able to eat just fine. Maddie hasn’t missed those tiny front teeth at all. She was so much happier after those germ-catchers were gone.
Your vet may also prescribe a round of antibiotics to get the bacteria under control. Due to the severity of my dog’s condition, I agreed to this action. However, if your dog’s situation is not quite so dire, you may be able to handle the bacteria with naturally antibacterial herbs and some immune system boosting, which I’ll discuss in further detail in a moment.
How to Maintain Good Dental Health
Once the situation was under control, I re-examined my dogs’ dental hygiene routine. I wanted to make sure I didn’t have a repeat of the same problem, and I wanted to do it in a way that was natural, healthy and affordable. After research and trial and error, I developed a regimen that works well for me and my pups. Hopefully you find it useful, too!
1. Brushing with Coconut Oil
I always brushed my dogs’ teeth, but after Maddie’s fiasco, I knew something had to change. I scrutinized the ingredients in the toothpaste I’d gotten in the pet store and had used on them for years. About the only ingredient I recognized was “poultry flavor,” and let’s face it, who really knows the ingredients in that ingredient? What was helping to break down plaque? What was killing bacteria? I was dumbfounded. It seemed all I had been doing was putting a meaty-flavored goo on my dogs’ teeth to try to trick them into thinking having their teeth brushed was a real treat.
So I switched. Not to anything else on the pet store shelf, but to coconut oil. Yup, that magical, tropical oil. It’s naturally antibacterial, can help support the immune system, and my dogs love the taste. I like Dr. Bronner’s Fair Trade Organic Coconut Oil. It’s unrefined to keep as many of the healthy properties intact as possible.
Natural health advocates swear by coconut oil, but many professionals in the medical and science fields say there’s no proven benefits. As for me, I say it’s worth using. Maddie has far less stinky breath and I’ve been able to scrape large chunks of tartar off Daphne’s teeth as well as my sister’s dog, Ruby. That’s all the proof I need. Plus, it’s certainly not going to do any harm unlike some of the strange substances in big-name pet products.
Check out more ways to use coconut oil for dogs by clicking here.
For extra help against tough tartar, try fragaria vesca. This herbal tincture is made from woodland strawberries and may help soften plaque, making it easier to remove. It may even keep it from reforming. I haven’t tried it personally yet, but I’m definitely going to.
Need a toothbrush? Try this 3-in-1 head from PetzLife.
2. Killing Bacteria with Grapefruit Seed Extract
Given Maddie’s track record of yucky, stinky teeth, I like to take an extra step to keep bacteria under control. After brushing, I use a tincture of grapefruit seed extract. I dilute a few drops of it in water (about a drop per ounce of water) and apply it to her gumline with a cotton swab or gauze, making sure to pay special attention to those blank spaces where teeth were pulled. Grapefruit seed extract is naturally antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory. And with a little bit going such a long way, it’s very affordable. I use an extract from Solaray.
Other antibacterial herbal extracts you could try include goldenseal and colloidal silver. And if you’re concerned about inflamed gums, try echinacea, calendula or feverfew. We also carry a unique herbal product created just for pets called Healthy Gums.
For easy help in between dental care days, you can also use PetzLife Oral Care Gel. It’s got grapefruit seed extract along with other natural and antibacterial oils. It’s super easy to rub on their teeth and would be great as part of their bedtime routine.
3. Fortifying their Diet with Cinnamon and Healthy Treats
Kibble is a convenient way to make sure your dog’s basic nutritional needs are met, but it has a few shortcomings. Before Maddie had her front teeth pulled, crumbs from gross, decaying kibble were constantly getting caught between them. And let me tell you, flossing a dog’s teeth is nearly impossible! Residue is also left on the surface of the teeth, and when bacteria combines with this, plaque forms.
To help break down any bits of dog food left in my pets’ mouths, I add cinnamon to their bowls. Full of antioxidants and naturally antibacterial, it goes to work against the leftovers in between teeth. It’s been known to ward off tooth decay and fight bad breath (yay to less dog breath!). I just sprinkle about a teaspoon onto a full bowl of food and let them go at it. To my surprise, they don’t mind the taste at all – even Maddie who’s notoriously picky. She always sniffs and licks anything she’s offered to decide if it’s something she actually wants to eat.
Update: As an alternative to cinnamon, I recently discovered a great product from Pet Naturals of Vermont that we sell here, Oral Health for Dogs. It has a combination of zeolites, cranberry, yucca and probiotics to help control tartar. It’s in a powder formula and you just sprinkle it on your dog’s food. I’ve been using it for a few months now and I’ve been very happy with the results. It’s been doing good things for doggy breath and I was thrilled with how easy it made it to scrape some of the tartar off my dogs’ teeth. I highly recommend it!
You can also help out your dog’s dental health with some natural treats. Produce rich in vitamin C is important for a strong immune system to fight off oral bacteria. Try raw apples and carrots. They’re crunchy and fibrous to help gently scrape away plaque. You can also give your dog a little yogurt. The probiotics are also great against bacteria.
Bones are full of teeth-supporting nutrients and can also help scrape teeth clean. Just be careful. Don’t give your dogs cooked bones as they can splinter, and always keep a close eye on them as they gnaw away. Maddie gave me quite a fright when she started panicking because a bone got wedged between her teeth.
For something more convenient, try these natural Complete Treats Dental Chews. They’re wheat-free and full of teeth-cleaning and breath-freshening ingredients like grapefruit seed extract, thyme, neem, peppermint and decaffeinated green tea extract. The Breath Bars from Pets Naturals of Vermont are a good option for tackling doggy breath, too.
Hopefully my bumpy road of learning about doggy dental health has given you some information you can use for your own pets. If you’ve got your own tried and true tips, I’d love to hear them! Post them in the comments section below.
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Powering up your paddleboard with Bote’s Rob McAbeeAngler Tips . Products
These days, paddleboards are much more than just recreational toys. Outfitted correctly, they can be transformed into outstanding fishing platforms. Rob McAbee, creative director at BOTE paddleboards, brings his BOTE board to life with the use of the Power-Pole Micro Driver in the waters off Amelia Island, Florida.
“The appeal of fishing from a paddleboard is all about simplicity,” McAbee says. “I match the Power-Pole Micro Driver on my BOTE board, which eliminates any bulky anchors and ropes and extra weight to carry on the board. It’s a total simplification of the anchoring system.”
McAbee shares three distinct ways he employs the Micro Spike Driver to fish on his board.
“First off, when the flood tides have redfish up on the flats feeding on fiddler crabs, I make my approach, paddling up slowly not to spook the fish,” McAbee notes. “Then I put the pole down super silently to make sight casts to the waving tails. They don’t hear a thing.”
When fish are up on large, expansive flats, McAbee shifts to another tactic.
“Some days, the flats are a football field long, but I don’t want to spook anything by gliding over it,” McAbee says. “I’ll paddle to the edge of the flat, put the pole down to stick it in one spot, then proceed to get off the board and wade the flat, confident my board is anchored in one place when I walk back to it.”
Redfish will push up a creek on a flooding tide, and points of confluence during outgoing tides are a third opportunity to use the Micro Driver.
“On the outgoing water, reds are going to spill out over oyster bars off a point,” McAbee says. “I’ll plant the pole down on the point and wait for the falling tide to cast as they move out through the channel along the point. The Micro Driver fastens me securely in any current.”
Though Micro Driver fishing applications are aplenty, many non-fishing-related uses can be realized on a paddleboard, also.
“We paddle around the freshwater springs, floating down and staking the pole down to hang out,” McAbee says. “It creates a floating island. We don’t need to drag the board up on land — simply put the pole down, and we have a platform we can hang around.”
Anyone who has had to deal with dirty decks from anchors bringing up bay mud will also appreciate the Micro Driver.
“The Micro Driver system is pleasant, as there is no sticky mud getting all over the board. It’s so much cleaner,” McAbee notes. “And there’s no metal anchor to crack the deck or scratch the paint off the board.”
Clean, silent, lightweight and effective — up your fishing game and power up your paddleboard with the Power-Pole Micro Driver system.
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South Korea joins the league, NanoAvionics sells first operational cubesat, and SpaceRyde launches rocket testing facility in Canada
Precious Payload Weekly Smallsat News: June 20 – 26
We gather all the essential small satellite news—from exciting smallsat deals to lists of newly launched payloads.
This news is worth including in the weekly newsletter: deal of the smallsat year! 🇺🇸NanoAvionics has sold its 6U satellite D2 / Atlacom-1 equipped with a 1U hyperspectral imager and ongoing mission operations services. Check out the full story.
🇺🇸Firefly will launch 🇺🇸NASA’s tech demo of Starling, a satellite swarm of four 6U spacecraft, later this year from the 🇺🇸Vandenberg, California. All four swarm spacecraft will receive directives as a single entity. This swarm demo can enable easier operations, communications, and data collection from multiple locations compared to traditional constellations.
$250,000 fund from 🇺🇸Velo3D enables 🇺🇸Plasmos to test their first rocket engine and looks forward to collaboration by printing 95 % of Plasmos’ chemical-electric engine. [Source]
🇺🇸Epsilon3 gets a $15M investment from 🇺🇸Lux Capital to grow its web platform tailor-made for spacecraft manufacturing and operations. [Source]
🇺🇸NASA granted 🇺🇸Spire Global a $6 million, 12-month contract renewal to continue taking part in the organization’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. [Source]
🇺🇸Orbion Space Technology gets contracted for an undisclosed amount by 🇺🇸General Atomics to supply its Aurora propulsion system for USSF’s demonstration weather smallsat. [Source]
🇫🇷Leanspace raises $6.34M to enable the digital transformation of space organizations using space-specific cloud services. [Source]
🇰🇷The Nuri rocket by 🇰🇷KARI successfully put satellites into LEO for the first time. It carried PVSAT, a 162.5 kg Performance Verification Satellite with five cubesat deployers with payloads—a 6U STEP Cube Lab-II by Chosun University, 3U SNUGLITE-II by Seoul National University, a 3U MIMAN by Yonsei University, a 3U RANDEV by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and a Nuri Test Payload. [Source]
🇮🇹D-Orbit will launch its ION Satellite Carrier to SSO aboard Spectrum launch vehicle by 🇩🇪Isar Aerospace in 2023. [Source]
🇨🇳A Kuaizhou-1A rocket carrying the Tianxing-1 satellite was launched on 22nd June from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. [Source]
🇮🇹Tyvak International and partners have successfully completed the critical design review of ESA’s first, deep-space smallsat to orbit an asteroid, Milani, which is scheduled for launch in 2024. [Source]
🇺🇸Spaceport America, a landing site located in southern New Mexico, would be hosting the Dream Chaser vehicle by 🇺🇸Sierra Space. Among other runways for the spaceplane are 🇬🇧Spaceport Cornwall, 🇺🇸Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, and several other airports and landing sites in the US and 🇯🇵Japan. [Source]
🇬🇧Surrey Satellite Technology delivered THEOS-2, a 100 kg EO smallsat for 🇹🇭Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency to be launched in 2023. [Source]
🇨🇦SpaceRyde presents Canada’s first rocket testing facility, including manufacturing and R&D in Ontario. [Source]
🇨🇦Telesat has submitted an application for a UK license for 198 Lightspeed LEO satellites that will be launched in 2025. [Source]
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You can collect user feedback in a variety of ways. Users can give feedback with or without your involvement.
Users can give feedback to you through interviews, usability tests, polls, and surveys. Each of these methods is designed to provide feedback to you directly from users.
Users may take action on their own to give feedback without your involvement. These types of feedback come through social media postings, webchats, and communities.
Interviews are a common feedback method used by B2B companies.
Face-to-face and live meetings will help both sides better understand one another. However, it is imperative to know how to direct the user during interviews. You need to master switching topics without overwhelming the audience.
In addition, ensure that you connect with the user because you may be a key reason for them to use your product.
Surveys are among the most popular ways to gather feedback.
Design and clarity are important aspects when designing a survey. In short surveys, users typically take 30 seconds or 1 minute to complete, so it is essential to explain the topic clearly.
Make the first question in the survey simple to answer, so the user can start and continue the survey.
A usability test is usually done when a new product is launched, or a big update is made. The main purpose of usability testing is to validate the idea.
Usability testing involves seeing what your users are doing on the site, whether they are confused, and whether they can accomplish your goal.
In usability tests, you should chase the reason behind user behavior.
This process involves not only collecting but also prioritizing and implementing feedback. A continuous feedback loop is essential to delivering a great customer experience.
Managing Feedback Loop
Collecting feedback is the easiest part. If you don't hold tight to the job from the get-go, you won't be able to use this feedback effectively.
It's no secret feedback comes in many different forms, and even if you have someone dedicated to tracking all the feedback, you'll need a tool to save time.
Identify the objectives
Using feedback, you should first determine your objectives. By doing so, you can quickly eliminate feedback that does not fit.
After defining the objectives, you need to obtain feedback through different channels.
Channels can be:
- User Portal
- Feedback Widgets
- In-App Product Feedback
- Social Media
- Support Tickets
- Internal Teams
You need to distribute every piece of feedback you receive to your teams depending on the topic. It is a continuous process.
Therefore, it will become tiring and pointless after a while. You cannot do everything by yourself without a tool.
Categorizing User Feedback
Categorizing feedback is one of the most critical parts of the feedback management process. In the future, the effort you put into this part will pay off. Every team categorizes feedback differently.
Some of the categorizing styles:
Categorizing by Type (Bugs, Feature Requests, Ideas, etc.)
Categorizing by User Type (Inactive Users, New Users, Long-Term users, etc.)
Categorizing by Team (Product Team, Customer Success Team, Marketing Team, etc.)
Using a tool in there will make things easier.
Prioritizing User Feedback
Since companies have limited time to implement feedback, prioritizing feedback is crucial.
More of this topic ⇒ Prioritizing Feedback
Implementing User Feedback
It falls outside of the process of gathering feedback. After gathering feedback, you need to turn it into priorities. At that point, task management comes into play.
How to Keep Users in the Loop
It may take months for user feedback to be implemented. So if you don't inform the user of the process, does the user wait for you?
It is necessary to let the user know how the feedback they have provided is progressing. This is called keeping the user in the loop.
Responding to the user after giving feedback should be our first step. This response should state that you received feedback and evaluated it. It is also appropriate to thank the user.
The last thing anybody wants to do is give feedback to someone who isn't responding. Moreover, by responding, we encourage future feedback from the user.
It's not enough to simply thank the user. As soon as we decide what action to take with regard to feedback, we must continue the information process.
It is important to explain why feedback is not implemented. It is important to thank the user for showing interest.
As soon as a change in feedback status occurs, the user must be informed. This process, therefore, needs to be fully automated. Also, using a public roadmap can make your job easier in this part.
Companies that keep the user in the loop are the ones with the highest user satisfaction.
Producter is a product management tool designed to become customer-driven.
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Like most employers today, banking and other financial organizations are struggling with intense talent competition and a lack of qualified candidates. Automation, mobile technology and big data analytics are being deployed as financial services industry recruiting trends quickly move to digital to engage customers and drive greater efficiency and profitability. (Insurance is headed that way too, but not as fast.) Last year, 75% of Americans banked using mobile apps. As more administrative tasks become automated, financial services recruiters will be working to fill higher value, more strategic roles.
Additionally, because financial institutions must deal with global regulatory standards for privacy and data ownership in addition to domestic regulations to prevent risky behavior, financial services recruiters need highly talented candidates to fill financial and regulatory analyst, compliance officer, and forensic researcher positions. A significant shift to a Millennial customer demographic means greater emphasis on diversity recruiting, bilingual candidates, and a race to keep up with hiring demands for positions like virtual bank teller, digital product manager and customer experience designer.
High Demand for Loan Officers, Bank Tellers, and Customer Experience Job Candidates
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for loan officers is expected to grow by eight percent between 2014 and 2024. This growth is about as fast as the average for all American industries, and should contribute an additional 24,500 jobs. Despite the rise of online and mobile banking, many customers still want to speak with loan officers in person, especially when making significant financial decisions.
All of these factors add up to significant challenges for recruiters trying to fill high-volume positions like loan officers, bank tellers, customer experience professionals, and an new influx of requisitions for highly skilled tech candidates in the financial sector.
High-Volume Recruiting Strategies for Financial Services Positions
As recruiting evolves, we are becoming more of a high-touch, high engagement and relationship driven function that operates more and more every day like a marketing department, focused on touches, responsiveness, and providing resources for our target audience of qualified candidates. It’s imperative for recruiters to focus on targeted strategies to build a large talent pool, as well as nurturing and other hiring funnel activities that give us access to a high number of candidates with experience in financial technology and compliance. Here are just a few areas to focus on when adapting your current recruiting strategy to more efficiently reach a broader audience:
Think like a marketer
Recruiting and talent acquisition leaders can benefit from having a marketing mindset. From creating personas (see the next item) to segmentation, recruiters can take a page from marketing’s playbook to build a healthy talent pipeline. One of the top engagement strategies is to create a channel for communicating with top candidates who weren’t initially selected for hire, particularly considering that many candidates in the financial sector may be working and completing educational requirements at the same time segment out a short list of your top candidates that came close to being hired and set up a content marketing strategy that has more personalized rejection response. You have candidate contact information and this is an excellent opportunity to keep your company relevant to quality candidates and will give you a pool of candidates to reach out to for future hiring needs, something that is highly valuable in high volume recruiting.
Good marketers create customer personas, and in recruiting, it can be extremely helpful to map out personas and your candidate journey. Create candidate personas based on typical attributes of the applicants and various points in your hiring funnel. For example, in banking, your job applicant persona is likely Millennial or Gen Z for entry-level positions, in college or just out of college, willing to work part-time, and so on. This isn’t meant to exclude candidates, but to allow you to map out the candidate types you want, specifically focused on engaging communities including those that are protected and diverse.
Once you’ve closed a position, segment the rest of the promising candidates into a campaign that sends a nurture email once or twice per quarter. Keep the emails simple. Remind people who you and your company are, ask them how they’re doing, and make it easy for them to check out your careers page and connect with your company on social media if they want more info. Learn more about candidate nurturing best practices.
Think beyond LinkedIn when creating content for candidates. Because many of your former candidates were likely to have taken positions when they didn’t get hired at your company, they have become “passive candidates,” meaning that they’re less likely to spend time on LinkedIn. Use your other channels, like Instagram and Facebook, to engage candidates with content about what it’s like to work for your company, let them know when you have open positions, and encourage them to share with and refer friends.
Consider creating a LinkedIn or Facebook group to keep up with your former employees if they performed well and left under positive circumstances. After all, they already know your company culture, and you know them. Turning rehires into a source of employees is easy as well. Make sure that they’re treated with respect when they exit, and that you do a great job with communication as they go. Include them on your passive candidate marketing strategy and add them to that email segment. The networking effect is an invaluable low-cost tactic to help elevate your employer brand and keep your hiring funnel well-stocked.
Use paid advertising or targeting
Talroo, in particular, has recruitment marketing tools to help elevate visibility for your job posting and hyper-target qualified candidates. The technology exists and it won’t break your recruiting budget, so using data-driven talent attraction solutions allows you to optimize a paid campaign in real-time, amplifying what’s working and turning off what doesn’t.
Building Candidate Funnels with Recruitment Marketing in Finance and Banking Industries
These marketing-based tools can help raise your profile within talent communities and build strategies that are measurable and scalable. As your company is growing and hiring at a high-volume, candidate nurturing is one area of your hiring funnel that must be active and consistently updated. Recruitment marketing is crucial for high-volume hiring in our current talent marketplace, and since we’re not seeing a downshift in this candidate-driven financial services jobs market, it’s also something that can help you plan for what your company might look like five or 10 years from now. | <urn:uuid:35b4faad-7b3f-43ab-8771-136d6c66bc2e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.talroo.com/high-volume-recruiting-strategies-for-the-financial-services-industry/ | 2023-09-23T17:58:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.9474 | 1,319 |
In this ongoing summary we give a first introduction to the theano library, its basic functionality and usage in th field neural networks.
The need for such a library is based on easily handling tensorial objects, like multi-array input data and weights in neural networks.
Of particular interest are symbolic operations that can perform differentiation as need for the backpropagation algorithm in order to update the models according to the seen training data.
A core functionality of libraries nowadays is to make use of GPUs in order to efficiently distribute the huge amount of computing operations.
symbolic operations, numpy, python
The theano library is an open source project lead by a machine learning group associated with a university.
It nicely integrates the NumPy library widely used in the scientific community and makes use of the computational power of GPUs.
Among its basic features are algebraic operations on vectors, matrices and multi-dimensional arrays.
These objects have to be defined abstractly in advance together with the operations in which they appear.
Theano now allows to pass these objects and the computational steps to a function that is first compiled and can be later called on instances of the abstract objects.
An extremely useful type of objects are so-called shared variables.
Once defined this can be used among multiple functions and updated accordingly.
This allows for an easy way to implement an updating mechanism for the weights of a neural network.
A major advantage of the theano library is its use of symbolic operations for differentiation.
In particular the theano.grad allows to differentiate previous defined functions with respect to any kind of parameters.
Especially in neural networks where the optimization of the weights is handled by the backpropagation algorithm calculating gradients through layers according to the chain rule is of great importance.
Finally, the scan function allows to take care of loops.
The advantage of this function over the standard Python looping is its memory allocation.
Further, the outputs at each time-step can be nicely gathered into new objects which is necessary for building recurrent layers.
The theano library is very useful to build up neural networks from ground up.
For quick implementations of standard neural networks one might want to rely on neural network libraries like keras which are build on top of theano.
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Today, November 11th, we observe a historic day with deep significance, Veterans Day. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’, Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, explains the meaning of this day as “…A celebration to honor America's veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.” We are proud to honor all our veterans and thankful for our internal Veteran Employee Team (VET) that works hard all year long to support the communities where we live and work. UGI Energy Services is proud to honor the bravery and patriotism of our veteran community. We thank them for their dedication and service to our country. As a company, we strive to honor and support our veteran community in a variety of ways. We are proud to share the activities that our VET team has engaged in over the past year. | <urn:uuid:4dcae58a-283f-4eb8-b9d3-34fb6bf1a25c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blog.ugies.com/tag/2022 | 2023-09-23T16:41:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.950971 | 180 |
So you’ve landed an internship—great! But what can you do to make this a valuable, learning experience? Here are a couple of tips to consider:
1) Ask questions.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions, especially when you are confused about a task you were given or if you are merely curious about the culture of the organization. Asking questions will enhance your experience at an internship and will allow you to learn more about the company. Not only that, but maintaining a curious mind will also allow your supervisor to realize your interest and potential within the business beyond your internship program.
2) Connect with your coworkers and boss.
Have conversations with the people you work with—it’s a great way to learn more about the company you are interning at and also a great opportunity for you to network and make connections! Ask them about their college experience, career path, hobbies, job search process, tips and advice they may have for you—anything you deem being worthwhile and beneficial to your own, personal growth and career path. Along with that, share your own passions, experiences, and dreams with them. Let them get a glimpse of who you are as an individual and form those relationships.
3) Get excited and have fun!
Get excited, be motivated, and stay hungry for more knowledge and assignments! Also make sure to have fun while you’re at it!
With all these in mind, remember to make the most out of your internship experience!
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A paper published in IEEE Software on how the practitioners viewed the role and importance of refactoring, and how and when they refactored. The study was based on the interviews of 12 seasoned software architects and developers at nine Finnish companies.
The respondents considered refactoring to be valuable but had difficulty explaining and justifying it to management and customers and did not use measurements to quantify the need for or impact of refactoring. Refactoring often occurred in conjunction with the development of new features because it seemed to require a clear business need.
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‘Growing and Belonging’ Equity-focused Training Requirements (2023)
As part of your continuing education for 2023 (and beyond), all OSU Master Gardeners (including the 2020 and 2022 cohort) are required to complete at least 1 designated course from the following ‘Growing and Belonging’ options for 2023:
This requirement aligns with our commitment to create a welcoming and inclusive program.
OSU Extension Service strives to provide educational services to all Oregonians. We acknowledge that there are numerous underrepresented Oregonians that have not been equitably served by the Master Gardener program.
The mission, vision, and guiding values of the statewide Master Gardener program provide a compass to address this inequity in public service.
We’ve been working hard to address equity issues under our purview in the metro area Master Gardener program (Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties).
OSU Master Gardener Program Equity-focused Mission, Vision, and Guiding Values
Mission: Cultivating resilient and healthy communities throughout Oregon through sustainable horticulture education and gardening projects that are rooted in science and that are supported by OSU Extension volunteers.
Vision: We provide accessible and equitable education programs that nurture life-long learners and volunteers who can expand the reach and impact of science-based sustainable gardening practices to benefit all Oregonians.
Guiding Values: We are connected to Oregon State University, and use both science and local knowledge to inform our community engagement, educational outreach, and horticultural expertise. We strive to make the resources of Oregon State University accessible to all and inspire and encourage lifelong curiosity and learning through continued scientific exploration and discovery.
Implementation of Equity Focus (Metro Area Master Gardener Program)
Initiated a quarterly advisory group focused on racial equity issues in the metro area MG program in 2021.
Improved application process for the metro area MG program including registration forms/process to make it more welcoming for underrepresented people.
Reduced the fee for the metro area MG training (from $495 to sliding scale $200 to $300).
Provided equity-focused content in the 2022 Master Gardener training (Inclusive Excellence for OSU Volunteers).
Convened an on-going affinity group for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) folks in the metro area MG program. The goal is to build community among BIPOC metro area MG program participants.
In 2019 and 2020, four diversity, equity and inclusion trainings were offered to all 750+ metro area Master Gardener volunteers.
Looking Forward, You Can Help
We acknowledge that we have significant work to do for the metro area Master Gardener program to bring forth our equity-focused mission and vision.
Please join us in creating a welcoming educational and volunteer program:
Take the time to welcome new 2020, 2022, 2023 Master Gardener trainees at events. Let them know you’re glad their part of our program.
When representing the Master Gardener program, treat other volunteers and the public with dignity and respect.
Make efforts to apply an equity focus toward volunteer-led activities including demonstration gardens, plant sales, MG association activities, and more. Reach out to the MG program office for support.
Attend an advanced DEI training for BIPOC allies in the MG program (optional, offered in 2023).
What are your ideas to improve the MG program’s capacity to welcome and serve all Oregonians?
We look forward to working with you, the metro area Master Gardener community, to meet the garden/landscape information needs of all Oregonians.
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë
‘Tis the Season for Master Gardener Annual Reporting
Autumn marks the season for annual reporting of volunteer service and continuing education hours for metro area OSU Master Gardeners. All current, certified, metro area Master Gardener volunteers received an email from Marcia McIntyre in September with a survey link to report their hours.
Note: for 2022 the 20-hour volunteer service requirement was waived. 10-hours of designated continuing education hours are required for Perennial Master Gardeners in 2022.
2020 and 2022 cohort members have an additional year to complete their Master Gardener training requirement of 40 hours of volunteer service but please take the time to respond to the survey.
A big shout out of thanks to all who have submitted your hours by answering the survey and uploading your log sheets. We love seeing where you are serving in the community.
For those who have yet to respond to the survey, please respond, so that you will be kept on the active, certified Master Gardener role. We have extended the deadline to October 31, 2022
In addition to this survey, we sent, via email, the annual Conditions of Volunteer Service document and a Standards of Youth Safety document. To make the process quick and easy, the documents were sent via DocuSign, from OSU Extension office specialist Catalina Santamaria.
Please answer the survey and return your signed Conditions of Volunteer Service form no later than Sunday, October 31, 2022.
Time remains to fulfill continuing education requirement
Annually 10-hours of designated continuing education hours are required for Perennial Master Gardeners to maintain certified status. For 2022, we have extended the deadline for fulfilling and reporting the required 10-hours of continuing education until October 31, 2022.
There is a great variety of designated continuing education opportunities to enrich and support you in your role as a garden educator. Opportunities include webinar recordings that can be accessed from the comfort of your home! So put your favorite streaming service aside and start binge watching some great designated, garden education presentations.
The following opportunities can be counted as ‘Continuing Garden Education’ hours for Perennial Master Gardeners and can serve as educational enrichment for 2020/2022 cohort trainees.
OSU Master Gardener Growing Oregon Gardens: Level Up Series –education for the experienced gardener led by OSU horticulture experts from across the state. Perennial MGs earn 1-hour continuing education credit. Great educational enrichment for 2020/2022 training cohorts.
Designated Master Gardener Association Speaker/Lecture Series/10-Minute U – Perennial MGs earn one hour recertification credit for each designated ‘continuing education’ Speaker/Lecture Series/10-Minute U Noon-time Chats, whether in-person, webinar or recording of a past webinar.
Look for continuing education designation of two asterisks **, indicating if a Speaker/Lecture Series recording counts as continuing education.
MG Study Group – Time spent participating in the Study Group sessions earn continuing education credit for Perennial MGs, and educational enrichment for 2020/2022 cohort trainees. Develop your skills identifying and understanding plant diseases, insects, spiders and more. The group meets twice a month via Zoom. All metro area Master Gardeners welcome. If interested in attending email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Read! OSU Extension Service publications. – Perennial MGs earn continuing education credit reading an OSU Extension publication on home gardening topics and submitting a brief report about what you learned to Marcia McIntyre.
Fall Recertification Returns!
Our annual ‘Fall Recertification’ returns this November when we will host 4 webinars highlighting information to support you in your role as an OSU Master Gardener educator. Each webinar will count towards continuing education for 2023.
An invitation to register for the ‘Fall Recertification’ webinars of your choice will be sent out later in October.
Save the dates.
Wednesday, November 2, 6:30pm Solve Pest Problems with Weston Miller, metro area OSU Master Gardener Program manager
Thursday, November 3, 6:30pm Introduction to Food Sovereignty with Cecile Evans, 2020 Master Gardener cohort
Wednesday, November 9, 6:30pm Emerald Ash Borer: ID the Pest, Signs, and Symptoms with Alex Gorman, OSU Extension Service, Forestry & Natural Resources
Thursday, November 10, 6:30pm Native Plants for Gardens and Pollinators with Dr. Gail Langellotto, Oregon Master Gardener Program Manager
Master Gardener Trivia
Open to Master Gardeners throughout Oregon this fall and winter, join us once a month for an evening of multiple-choice trivia, all online. With 50 questions per session, learn about timely gardening topics, have fun, and earn valuable prizes.
Each session is good for one-hour Continuing Education Credit in the Master Gardener program.
How it works
Register below for each night you plan to play. Then the night of the event, join via Zoom, and play along via the trivia app “Slido” on your phone or computer. Instructions will be sent upon registration.
There are prizes
Valuable prizes each session!
1st place: $100 gift certificate*
2nd place: $50 gift certificate*
3rd place $25 gift certificate
*Gift certificates to mail-order garden companies in the PNW such as Territorial Seed Company, Conifer Kingdom, Heirloom Roses, Noname Nursery, etc. Winners will receive gift certificates approximately one week after each event.
The whole schedule (separate registration for each):
Metro-area Master Gardeners Recognized for Their Service
Each year the three metro area county associations nominate and designate members for special recognition, through an Oregon Master Gardener Association (OMGA) nomination.
We enthusiastically congratulate and extend our sincere gratitude to the following individuals who are being recognized for their extensive contributions as an OSU Master Gardener volunteer!
Sherry Sheng – OSU Behind the Scenes Master Gardener of the Year!
We are excited to share that Sherry Sheng has been recognized as the 2022 OSU Behind-the-Scenes Master Gardener of the Year! Sherry’s deep commitment to providing quality education to all those interested in gardening is evident in her thousands of hours of volunteer service (logging over 7,500 hours the past 17 years). Sherry has led the Clackamas County Master Gardener Association’s, highly successful, 10-Minute University Program for 12 years. With the onset of the pandemic, Sherry realized a deep public need and led the launch of a noontime chat webinar series that engaged over 7,000 viewers from around the world. Sherry is a generous supporter and champion of the OSU Master Gardener Program. We are extremely grateful to Sherry for her many years of generous leadership and service! We extend hearty congratulations to Sherry for this well-deserved recognition!
Clackamas County Master Gardener Association
Clackamas County Master Gardener of the Year
If you know about the Clackamas County Master Gardener Association’s (CCMGA) events and community education opportunities, it is most likely due to the dedicated efforts of Sharon Andrews. Sharon became a Master Gardener in 2009 and since then she has communicated gardening knowledge and information throughout the Clackamas chapter, the local community and across the country. Her skills in social media, print media, web development and event promotion have helped elevate the CCMGA, including the iconic Spring Garden Fair. She also serves as an OSU Master Gardener educator at the Pioneer Gardens at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center.
Multnomah County Master Gardener Association
Multonomah County Master Gardener of the Year
Dennis Brown is a dedicated Master Gardener who clearly understands the mission and values of the Master Gardener program by educating and inspiring both Master Gardeners and the public. Dennis has initiated innovative partnerships with community organizations developing garden curriculum for under-served communities. Most recently Dennis has been working with individuals experiencing houselessness at the Bybee Lake Hope Center. Dennis makes dozens of gardening presentations annually to community groups and libraries including city of Portland Fix-it Fair, and both the metro area OSU Master Gardener program, and the statewide Growing Oregon Gardeners webinar series.
Multnomah County Behind the Scenes
The challenges and the constraints of the pandemic did not deter Cheryl Brock, who created, developed and implemented a successful educational outreach with the Garden Grow Kit project. The project provided garlic and/or seeds to gardeners and included research-based information and resources to support their success. The project was funded with a Garden Education Grant from the MCMGA. Garden kits were distributed to community gardens with the goal of reaching diverse and under-served community members. In her four years as a Master Gardener, Cheryl is keenly focused on educating others with solid garden guidance.
Washington County Master Gardener Association
Washington County Master Gardener of the Year
Pat Simmons views change as an opportunity, not a roadblock. Through her leadership, a new model for education and fundraising successfully developed and launched for the Washington County Master Gardener Association (WCMGA). Gardenfest! was not only financially successful and well attended, but also engaged 75% of the WCMGA membership. Pat has secured grants and donations, established online sales platforms and assisted in rewriting chapter bylaws and strategic planning. In addition, she established the plant propagation team and served on the board and as OMGA alternative representative.
Washington County Behind the ScenesMaster Gardener of the Year
During Shirley Wolcott’s five years as an OSU Master Gardener, she has served on the WCMGA board, established a monthly recognition program and welcome program for volunteers, and helped survey new members for their skills and interests. She has helped research questions asked by the public to be used as a teaching aid for members. She leads the plant propagation committee and taught Seed to Supper for two years.
As an OSU Master Gardener volunteer do you receive questions about damp or soggy landscaped areas? Do you have inquiries about resources for how to convert a lawn space with native plantings?
The Stormwater Stars program focus is to help provide tools and build confidence for people to work on their own landscape spaces to improve watershed health, enhance habitat and reduce the need for harmful lawn and garden chemicals. The basic practices we work with include lawn replacement, depaving, amending soil, porous pathways, contained planters and planting native plants. We host hands on installation workshops in the Fall and Spring to demonstrate these practices on private residential properties, at businesses, or community spaces. We also provide free site visits to homeowners and property representatives to help provide guidance for landscape improvements for watershed health.
Sign up for our Workshops:
Sign-ups for our free workshops happen through the website. At the workshops we spend a little time introducing what we will be doing that day, and the bulk of the time is spent with our gloves on making the improvements to the site. Every workshop is different and throughout the season we do our best to provide opportunities to learn a variety of different landscaping practices on different size projects.
Sign-ups for our Fall Workshops have begun on our website:
Currently we have one workshop scheduled on November 13 from 1:00 pm – 3 pm in the Crestwood neighborhood of SW Portland. We will be reviewing how to remove grass and working to replace it with a beautiful landscape using Willamette Valley Native Plants.
What about hosting?
We are still looking for Fall Workshop locations as well as locations for the Spring and beyond.
Our workshops are open to everyone however workshops are located within the West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District service area. The program was started in 2014 and initially focused on locations in SW Portland. We have since expanded the area that we serve and are actively looking to hold more workshops in NW Multnomah County.
For those interested in hosting a workshop, we will come look at spaces in their yard that might be a good fit and what practices could be demonstrated. Our workshop areas are typically about 600 square feet in area, but can vary depending on what the site needs. Workshop projects must be visible to the public, typically in front or side yards. Together we will decide if your space would be a good location to bring in volunteers where we can create and learn together. If your site is selected for a workshop we will work together to make a plan. Each site varies in terms of what is needed, and we provide assistance with design, plant selection, compost and native plants.
Interested in learning more?
Please contact the Stormwater Programs Specialist Rachel Dvorsky with questions or to set up a site visit at email@example.com. You can also find more information about our program, practices, as well as past projects on our website at www.stormwaterstars.org
We look forward to seeing you at a future workshop!
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Here we are at the end of January 2022 and we’re still facing many challenges that began in early 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us are wondering—how can we best prepare for the ongoing unpredictable reality? What challenges are likely to be the most acute and significant in 2022?
The future is difficult to predict, but there are a few trends that can give us a hint of what’s coming. In this post, I break down the key trends I believe will most likely continue to pose challenges in the upcoming year, and suggest some strategies for overcoming them.
Supply chain disruption and difficulty sourcing components
Sourcing components for electronics manufacturing will continue to be a significant challenge in 2022. There is a global electronics component shortage across the board, in everything from basic capacitors to advanced microprocessors. Whereas strategic sourcing for long-lead items was typically needed only for very rare components that were unusually difficult to source, it has now basically become the norm. Today, every component in the BOM must be sourced strategically.
Over the past year or more, we’ve seen that manufacturers often can’t source components for a full order all at once. To prevent machines from sitting idle and to accommodate partial batches, manufacturers will need to do more changeovers than ever. This is accelerating the high-mix trend—even manufacturers who didn’t plan to transfer to high-mix, low volume production will be forced to do so in 2022.
Frequent changeovers are only part of the solution. OEMs understand that manufacturers also need alternatives when the components they normally use can’t be sourced on time. In the past, most BOMs didn’t include component alternatives at all, and if they did, it was only one or two alternatives for common items or for items that were hard to source. Now OEMs are increasingly creating five or six engineering changeovers (ECOs) from different suppliers for every component, including high-end components like microprocessors and memory. That way, if a manufacturer can’t find a specific component, they can use another, similar one that is more easily sourced.
However, even if the components are similar, they aren’t identical. Each component alternative is basically a new product introduction (NPI), and the stencil and the testing all need to be changed, which is challenging and can create quality issues.
New solutions are needed, like the one provided by Supplyframe, a company that Siemens acquired last year, and whose technology is now being streamlined into Valor solutions like Valor NPI, PCBflow and Process Preparation. Supplyframe technology enables OEMs to make sourcing-aware decisions in the design stage, according to the expected availability and pricing of each component in each location.
Making the right decisions in the design stage prevents problems and surprises in manufacturing and lets manufacturers plan processes according to accurate predictions of lead times in the future. It enables OEMs to take more responsibility for sourcing and become more proactive and agile in responding to both sourcing issues and target market shifts.
Global travel limitations
Managing NPI processes and manufacturer audits in international locations will also continue to be a challenge in 2022. The multiple COVID-19 waves have made it clear that we still can’t assume that it will always be possible to get on a plane and fly to another country to perform audits or to monitor and control processes.
One alternative is to transition to local, or even in-house manufacturing. The Israeli solar panel company SolarEdge went that route. It built an NPI center that was originally supposed to be for small scale experimentation, with mass production occurring elsewhere. However, due to the limits on travel the company transitioned the center to high-volume manufacturing, “insourcing” production to make it easier to supervise and control.
If in-house production isn’t possible, another option is to implement digital twin technology, which doesn’t require a physical presence in order to manage manufacturing processes. Siemens is making this possible with automation equipment and software that can create a digital twin of the bill of process and the manufacturing process itself. With those type of virtual tools, as well as local representatives who can help manufacturers implement them, travel will no longer be critical.
Increased demand in the automotive industry
Many people stopped using public transportation during the pandemic, preferring the contagion-free safety of a private car. This has created an unprecedented demand for cars and for electronic components in the automotive industry and the supply can’t meet the demand. There is an ongoing shortage of things like electronic control units (ECUs), car computers, navigation systems, and multi-media systems, with a backlog of months.
If the electronics component shortage is slowing down production in cars with regular combustion engines, the problem is even more severe in electronic vehicles (EVs) that contain up to ten times more electronic components. The demand for electronic vehicles is only expected to increase in 2022.
For example, the EU is accelerating its environmental regulations, and in 2023 all EU interstate delivery trucks will have to be EVs. There will need to be a huge increase in production of commercial EVs this year to ensure that deliveries can take place next year. Tier-1 manufacturers will need to speed up production and implement more automation and optimization in factories, which will further exacerbate the component shortage.
And let’s not forget the roll-on effect of increased demand from the automotive industry: all the extra vehicles with all those extra electrical components will add significant strain in the electronics supply chain, reducing availability of components for consumer electronics.
Siemens solutions are addressing the challenges of 2022
Siemens’ Valor NPI, PCBflow and Process Preparation and other solutions address many of the challenges facing the electronics industry in 2022, and we’re working to make them even more valuable in the face of the new industry realities. Our goals for 2022 include delivering new and improved solutions that are reliable, out-of-the-box, and easy-to-implement, with low cost of ownership. | <urn:uuid:64b66686-ce1a-41d9-a054-aedecd3e6aa6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/valor/2022/01/24/electronics-manufacturing-industry-trends-in-2022/ | 2023-09-23T18:56:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.941034 | 1,259 |
Finding apps is very easy. There are dozens published every day. What’s a lot harder is finding good, new apps. Almost inevitably, we gravitate to the top charts. And how can new apps get into the charts, if no-one’s ever heard of them?
So a little bit of team effort is required, or the ability to grab hold of an expert on the sort of apps you want and get their opinion.
This better process for surfacing good quality apps off the back of trusted recommendations is what Nokia’s new App Highlight Social Beta is all about.
There’s a lot going on in this innovative app, with no fewer than five main screens.
The first is the ‘Featured’ screen. Here you can browse through lists created by other people to take you to the best of every micro-category you can think of, from golfing apps to ‘mobile pet games’ (honest). Thankfully, there’s a search to get you through the dozens of lists that have already been created. You can also ‘thank’ (i.e. vote for) the list and its creator from this screen.
The second is the ‘Apps feed’ screen. You get to follow individuals and teams in App Highlights Social Beta, similar to Twitter, and this screen is where all the recommendations from the people you follow appear.
It’s also handy that you can zoom in to look at the details and screenshots of apps you’re interested in without leaving App Highlight Social Beta – only when you commit to downloading something are you switched to the Windows Phone Store. You can also ‘relist’ apps from this level. You might want to create a personal list of ‘apps to look into’, for example, while you’re browsing App Highlights Social Beta, then download them en-masse later.
You can add your own lists, too, of course, which you do from the ‘My Profile’ screen. The ‘Spotlight’ screen shows off some of the top new finds in the Store. And lastly, the ‘Leaderboards’ screen shows you the most-thanked lists, users and the top apps, based on the number of times they are listed across the board.
App Highlight Social Beta was launched in Beta Labs earlier this week and is available for download via its project page. It is a beta app, so it might not always work as expected, and might change significantly over the course of its future development. Do leave your feedback for the developers on the page.
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I know med is a cutting-edge electronic health records system built on enterprise-grade technologies. The programmed attempts to increase clinical practices’ productivity and profitability. In 1998, this clinician-focused software was released. It’s essentially a single database application that keeps all client data in a single location, making the database more accessible. It is specifically developed to assist practitioners in efficiently and effectively managing huge workloads. Instead of merely streamlining administrative and financial responsibilities, streamline clinical workflow in the long term. It also comes with a collection of tools for customizing patient-engagement elements.
The Amazing I know med helps medical practitioners save lives thanks to technology improvements. This dependable solution transforms paper-based services into computerized ones. Its main objective is to put medical professionals on the right track to success. The EHR system has some magical features under its sleeve that are geared at giving practices a competitive advantage over their peers. Furthermore, it ensures that therapeutic procedures are not hampered or disrupted, hence increasing overall efficacy. I’m familiar with med. EMR provides e-prescriptions, prescription refills, invoice production, payment monitoring, a patient portal, regulatory compliance, and claims administration among its features. I know med also includes a real-time dashboard, smart navigation, lab connection, e-orders, and health-maintenance tracking.
I Know Med Features:
The software has outclassed EHR, practice management, and revenue cycle modules, among other features. These three qualities are at the heart of all of their advantages. I know med EHR reviews suggest that it has a simple learning curve, which adds to its usefulness. The outstanding advantages of this powerful healthcare solution are listed below.
- Payments are processed more quickly: I know med EHR software’s most striking feature is its payment processing service. The vendor’s RCM service automates the whole billing cycle, making bill processing a breeze. It generates invoices, populates information from patient profiles, checks for mistakes, and uploads bills to portals. Patients may view and pay their invoices online. It has new billing functions that lessen the likelihood of a mistake. It keeps track of all payments and ensures that they are received on schedule. All of this encourages greater reimbursement rates and enhances practice financial health. Payments are processed faster with automated services, and employee effort is reduced significantly.
- Clinical Efficiency: Without clinical efficiency and efficacy, nothing else matters. Running a medical practice without a seamless, integrated, and efficient workflow that benefits both the healthcare professional and the patient is pointless. It is critical to ensure that the workers and care providers are on the same page in order to achieve this. It is the only method to improve clinical efficiency while fostering a happy hospital environment.
Further I Know Med Features and their details:
- Documentation in a reliable time: The importance of documentation in healthcare institutions cannot be overstated. By listening to patients and scribbling down crucial facts at the same time, practitioners frequently miss important nuances. This had negative consequences, but I know med was able to put a stop to it. It includes tools for fast documentation. It not only allows you to create documents but also helps you organize them. The program has built-in templates for writing progress notes and treatment plans, allowing caregivers to save valuable time. The automatic text feature speeds up and simplifies the note-taking process. All words are appropriately transcribed into text. Then, by updating patient profiles, it fits them into the document where they belong.
- Patient Experience that is Beneficial: The software focuses on enhancing the quality of service offered to patients in order to increase patient happiness. I’m aware that medical EHR aids in the improvement of care management services, hence reducing the care gap. It is very useful in the patient examination room. It provides automated summaries to clinicians, allowing them to create successful treatment programs. This software portal provides patients with user-friendly features. They can make appointments, contact doctors, examine lab tests, and access their medical data. Patients’ faith in medical practices grows as a result of this high level of exposure and transparency. All of this encourages customers to open up to their doctors, resulting in a positive patient experience.
You can also check out Acumen EHR for all your medical needs.
Is I know med EHR the right software for you?
Because of the comments we got from health experts all around the country, we are certain that the I know med EMR software is a solid healthcare solution. However, it is not our judgment to determine whether it is the best solution for you. We outlined the benefits of this EHR system so that you may make your own decision. The program has been expertly built to assist practices in realizing their maximum potential. If you’re interested in learning more about this solution, contact the vendor to set up a demo.
It’s possible that after reading this post on I Know Medical EHR, you’ll have a lot of questions. To make an informed judgment regarding this incredible solution, you’ll need answers to those questions. If you are not in a rush, we recommend contacting the seller and submitting all of your questions to the FAQ area. Otherwise, you may go straight to the software’s reviews. There’s a good possibility you’ll obtain answers to all of your questions. Compare the provider to your desired needs when you’ve gathered all of the necessary information. This comparison will show you whether the program will be able to grow with you or not. | <urn:uuid:2702a039-9652-4176-90aa-ea67728c5863> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://blogtrib.com/benefits-of-using-i-know-med-software/ | 2023-09-23T18:16:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.937477 | 1,143 |
According to Francis Bacon’s Theory of Ideology and Culture, ‘Knowledge is power’, as it had an evolutionary impression in the socio-economic and historical standpoints of humankind. It enabled humans to procure and preserve knowledge, take over the ones deprived of it and to manipulate the social and cultural institutions for personal gains. This analogy can be inferred to the caste discrimination in the field of education which is still prevalent in India.
Caste hegemony in the accessibility of education can be traced back to the Vedic times, where Brahmanical patriarchy exercised its ideological power through discriminatory treatises like Manusmriti. It compartmentalized society into four varnas based on Rig Veda – the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas and the Shudras. The fifth group was considered so low to be mentioned in the classification, which constituted the Dalits or the untouchables who had suffered inhumanely treatment throughout the ages. Brahmins were considered as the custodians of Vedas, who were mostly priests and scholars and they used this ideological tool to reign over other varnas. The stratified caste-society gave education only to the Brahmins and Kshatriyas following the Gurukula system. As a consequence, the Shudras, Dalits and women were constrained from education and hence a profession of their choice. Some legendary figures from our epics, who lived through the caste discrimination were Shambuka and Eklavya.
In the 20th Century, the nationalist movement was also allied with the anti-casteist protests against untouchability and lack of representation in the political and educational domains. The efforts of Dr B.R Ambedkar, Jyotibha Phule and other Dalit activists were instrumental in bringing reservation in the educational institutions of India. Ambedkar spearheaded Dalit activism and he believed that education had the potency for the empowerment of Dalits by further enabling them to political involvement and informed petitioning. Many of Ambedkar’s followers embraced Buddhism as a form of emancipation from the deep-rooted casteism and injustices propagated by the sacred manuscripts. The advent of Western education by the missionaries also helped in the social upliftment of Dalits, who were denied education by the tyrannical caste system.
But the question is whether the execution of caste reservation and legislation of constitutional articles were effective enough to curb the caste segregation from the regressive mind-set of Indian society. Unfortunately, the answer is ‘no’, the discrimination only changed its form and is still predominant in many institutions.
Cases like suicides of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi shed light upon this institutional casteism. The Forum Against Oppression of Women, Forum for Medical Ethics Society, Medico Friend Circle and the Peoples’ Union of Civil Liberties, Maharashtra conducted a study entitled, ‘The Steady Drumbeat of Institutional Casteism’ which echoed the casteist practices normalised in the higher education scenario of the country. It varied from overt and couched forms of abuse, which included casteist insults and stereotypical biases, physical seclusion practiced within the students and by the faculty members, as well as emotional injury inflicted by undervaluing of their worth. Victims were often treated as outcasts and they felt out of place in the premier institutions, regardless of their persistent labours to fit in.
Some students and faculty members from the upper-caste exerted the belief of conventional intellectual superiority by favouritism inside the student circle, and further by demeaning and discrediting the accomplishments of the students from the oppressed class as ‘meritless’. An earlier report prepared by a committee of the Union Government to investigate allegations of harassment of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi found that 85% of Dalit students had faced discriminatory practices against them from internal examiners. The students had to face discrimination right from their admission process, to social interactions in the hostel and classes, which eventually made its way to professional spheres as well. These discriminatory practices were often veiled under the premise of ‘harmless ragging’ and the victims who shared their traumatic experiences were often branded as unreasonable and ‘ones obsessed with their caste identity’. This trivialisation of casteism and lack of proper implementation of constitutional rights led to double-marginalization, which often resulted in college dropouts and suicides. Students from the weaker sections had already struggled a lot to get admitted to these educational institutions, but the lack of inclusiveness and empathy pushed them to be disillusioned with life.
“My birth is my fatal accident. I can never recover from my childhood loneliness. The unappreciated child from my past” – Excerpt from Rohit Vemula’s suicide note. Rohit was a Dalit PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad and was subjected to institutional caste-based discrimination which culminated in his suicide.The ‘fatal accident’ was a reference to his caste identity, which led to a lifetime of disgrace and unequal treatment. His death triggered protests across the nation and he became a symbol of Dalit resistance and hope. His mother Radhika Vemula is continuing his legacy by stiving to eradicate caste discrimination from educational institutions.
One possible solution to this predicament is by providing more representation to the oppressed classes. According to the data by the Ministry of Education in Lok Sabha (2019), only 170 members out of the total 6,043 faculty members from the 23 IITs belonged to the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe community. Their representation was less than 3% of the total faculty members. Vipin Veetil, a former Assistant Professor at IIT Madras had exposed the embedded caste hierarchy and Brahmanical favouritism practiced in the IITs, citing the discrimination he had faced from the senior faculty members.
The Government must strengthen and expand reservations for the underprivileged community, by forming a Dalit grievance cell in every educational institution and implementing lawful concepts of transformational justice and functional equality. Another solution is by including Dalit studies in the school curriculum which may serve as an antidote to spreading awareness against the inherent caste thoughts. Edification of the parents can also play a pivotal role since children imbibe most of these irrational and segregatory thoughts from their family. Inter-caste and inter-faith marriages must be encouraged and normalised through proper execution, operation and regulation of constitutional rights.
This article concentrated on the power politics of education and the caste hierarchy, bringing out how it was instrumental in distinguishing the society into ‘the privileged’ and ‘the underprivileged’. The caste discrimination can be traced back to the Vedic age, but the concernment is that it is still practiced and normalised in many educational institutions in India. This social issue needs to be addressed with utmost urgency and appeals for quick actions and proper implementation of Dalit rights
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THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.
Q. How did you feel in your first match back? What do you think happened in the third set?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: I’d like to congratulate my opponent for fighting and showing great, great spirit on the court.
For me it felt like first match I ever played on the tour. Very weird. I mean, I just completely lost rhythm, everything. Just struggled also a little bit with the health the last couple of weeks.
But yeah, it was just — I was grateful to be out on the court after surgery that quickly. But at the same time, just didn’t feel good at all (smiling).
Q. You never had these kind of injuries and long time away from the court. It has to be scary or different. Have you tried to talk to other athletes who went through that?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah, yeah. I talked a little bit, you know, Viktor Troicki also has been through injuries and suspension from ITF that took him out for 18 months. You know, I have been through his process, and I understand — you know, I understand what he has been through mentally.
You know, it takes time, I guess. It’s the first time for me to kind of face these kind of circumstances.
Q. Can you talk about the surgery in Switzerland? Looked like it was the hand, but we know you have an elbow problem. What was it about?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, I did my statement. I don’t know if you have read it or not. So maybe you can look back and read the statement. I have explained everything there.
Q. You said your opponent was showing a fighting spirit on the court today.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah.
Q. Could you talk about what makes him tough to play against.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, exactly that. I mean, he’s known around the tour for being a great fighter and just trying to get every ball back. Look, I don’t want to take anything away from his win. You know, it’s well-deserved.
Q. You have been here practicing for a while. Was the way you played today comparable to…
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, you know, practice sessions are different obviously from official match. Mentally mostly, obviously.
Yeah, I mean, I haven’t been playing that well on the practice, as well. It is what it is. You know, I’m just happy that I managed to recover that quickly after surgery and just get out on the court.
Q. Do you mind elaborating a bit on how you felt on the court? You’re saying it felt like your first match.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah.
Q. In what way? Mentally or…
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah, everything. I mean, nerves were there. I mean, I made so many unforced errors that it was just, you know, one of those days where you’re not able to find the rhythm from the baseline, especially from the backhand side. That has always been a rock-solid shot for me throughout my career.
You know, just some inexplicable, uncharacteristic errors. But that’s, I guess, it’s all part of those particular circumstances that I’m in at the moment.
Q. Is it fear of hurting yourself, or is it pain?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: I mean, it’s not really. But, you know, obviously having only played a couple of matches in nine months, you know, you’re still, in a way, battling inside of your mind, you know, whether you’re fit or not.
And even though you don’t have pain, you’re still thinking about it, because it’s been something that I have been feeling and dragging for over two years. So, yeah.
Q. Did you set yourself any expectations or did you just want to go out there and see what level you’re at?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: I just wanted to go out and see. I mean, I had no expectations.
I was not even supposed to be here because of the surgery that was only five, six weeks ago. But I recovered very quickly, and I got myself ready. That’s it. I mean, I played like everyone else.
Q. All week through the practice you were hitting the Kleenex box quite a bit, wiping your nose. I don’t know if you had a bit of a cold. Is that really bad timing in terms of you needing all your energy and everything to come back and play some tennis?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, it’s life, you know. God always challenges you when you expect it least. He always throws everything possible at you.
You know, I have been — I have experienced many times similar situations, so I know that there is always something good in it. You just need to try to set your mind at that frequency.
So obviously right now, I mean, I’m sitting here and talking after a lost match. It’s not something that I as an athlete want but, at the same time, there is a reason everything happens in life.
Q. Sounds like you were pushing quite a bit to come back at this tournament. Do you feel like you should have delayed it a bit longer?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: I mean, I don’t want to look back. I mean, I have played a tournament, and that’s all.
Q. The issues have been happening from before Wimbledon, et cetera, and going back and forth. Even though you have had the surgery and all that, are you concerned about the rest of this year and how it’s going to place you and how you’re feeling physically and mentally about the whole situation?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, I’m definitely going to think about everything. You know, obviously I miss tennis. In one way, I miss competing. I miss being out there. It’s a big part of my life.
But at the same time, you know, I just have to, you know, talk with the team and create the best possible strategy moving forward.
Q. If I could switch the topic from a tennis match to something else. You sent out an incredible picture of yourself reflecting on the edge of the Grand Canyon. What was that experience like for you?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, I mean, when it comes to energy, it was one of the most powerful places that I have ever physically been in my life. The serenity of the place and connection with nature is quite outstanding. It was a wonderful experience.
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Rodolfo Peraza’s “Pilgram” is a dynamic analysis of 35 recently opened public WiFi access points in Cuba. As he travels through Cuba to visit these sites, Peraza will produce a multifaceted visual documentation of the transformation brought about by increased Internet access. A specially developed open-source PHP scraper app extracts information from web traffic, tweets, and comments at the new Wi-Fi points; this module produces a hierarchy of terms, takes into account the relevance of specific words, and renders the information into sunburst forms that update as the scraper aggregates new information. The project aims to pay close attention to the ways in which Cuban lives are affected by access to connective technology. Local residents at the different sites will be interviewed about their use of the WiFi points, yielding an added register of information which Peraza will present alongside the scraper charts. As its name — an unlikely amalgam of “pill,” “pilgrim,” and “Instagram” — suggests, the project explores the purported positive and palliative effect of increased digital connectivity, the complicated role of the documentarian, and the specificity of the medium through which Peraza circulates his research findings (BOFFO’s Instagram account, @boffo_ny). The diverse references folded into this title suggest a deeply complicated relation between Cuban society and the Internet; Peraza’s project seeks to document this relation in all of its rich complexity, rather than portraying a simplified technological narrative.
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Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
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Genre: Young adult
Rating: 3 out of 5
When Uncle Ben’s Dublin business fails, it’s clear to Gloria and Raymond that something is wrong. He just isn’t his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben’s back and he won’t be OK until it’s gone, they decide they’re going to get rid of it. Gathering all their courage the children set out on a midnight quest to hunt down the Black Dog and chase it away. But they aren’t the only kids on the mission. Loads of other children are searching for it too, because the Black Dog is hounding lots of Dublin’s adults. Together – and with the help of magical animals, birds and rodents – the children manage to corner the Black Dog …but will they have the courage and cleverness to destroy the frightening creature?
I received this book from Netgalley to give an honest review.
I saw this book on Netgalley and was quite excited about it. However, my first impressions weren’t that good. The first chapter is a couple of dogs having a conversation about the human who lived in the house between their homes. It was a bit odd. I read the first chapter, and seriously considered stopping the book. I decided the following day to try the book again and I did actually enjoy it.
The story follows Gloria and Raymond after their Uncle Ben has had to move in with them as money is an issue for him. They overhear their parents mumbling and realise that the Black Dog of Depression has settled on Uncle Ben’s back. They know immediately what they must do – they must fight the Black Dog. They set off in the night, ready to face the Dog.
I was surprised how entertaining this book was. Like I said, the first chapter put me off but once I read some more, I was hooked. Could they do it? How would they do it? I quite liked the children, but they were not my favourite characters. My favourite was Ernie – a child who has become a vampire because his parents told him he needs to get a job. Most of what he said had me chuckling. I also liked the meerkats and the seagulls. They were very entertaining.
I did enjoy this book. I found myself scooped up into the adventure with the children of Dublin. I did get quite wrapped up in the story and felt like I was running the streets with the children. This was a good book. One thing I did really like about this book is the effect words can have. There was a lot of emphasis on how a positive word can change situations. I know this isn’t a Christian book, but it did remind me of this verse in Proverbs:
A soft answer turns away wrath,
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This is a children’s book, but that didn’t put me off. As an adult, I enjoyed this book. I even recommended this book to my Mum for her students at secondary school.
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Here If You Need Me: A True Story is a very compelling and engaging memoir by Kate Braestrup. It is the story of Kate’s journey to becoming a Unitarian-Universalist minister and working with game wardens (not prison wardens – game wardens) in Maine.
I do not agree with her religious conclusions at all. I don’t agree with her concept of death and what happens afterwards. However, I think she writes beautifully in a completely captivating manner! Even though I don’t agree with her theology, I LOVED the way she told her story. I am not as gifted with words so I’m not sure how to describe it except to say she is an artist when it comes to the English language. I love that she uses big words and beautiful imagry that she doesn’t simultaneously define and dumb down for her readers. She draws her readers in and expects a great deal from them. I LOVE that! I can’t stand it when authors write something that would otherwise be brilliant but then take an extra paragraph to explain how they were just brilliant. Braestrup doesn’t do that. She writes as she thinks and just lets you follow along, expecting you’ll eventually catch up to her. It is supremely fascinating and satisfying.
Her calling as a chaplain on the game warden team provides her the content she needed for this book. She details several search and rescue missions that she was involved with and how she interacted with the various family members about the issue of death. She paints death scenes in a manner that forces the reader to look at lifeless bodies in an emotionless and yet spiritual way. Again, she’s a gifted writer and even though I disagreed with her conclusions, I enjoyed the journey very much.
In order to really get this book, I think you have to be thinking deep. In fact, I’d say that if you aren’t wanting to think deep you should absolutely not pick up this book. There are a lot of subject matters to grapple with – namely death. That’s no small issue. Put on your thinking cap when you pick up this book!
There is some small amount of foul language in this book and her approach to the death of her husband is interesting. She grieves his death deeply (as any normal person would!) and you ache when she does. However, she appreciates what she sees to be a realistic approach to death which could take some people aback. For instance, she wanted to prepare her husband’s body after he died (i.e., clean and clothe it) and attended his cremation. For her, that helped her to grieve and begin the healing process. I don’t think many people would do that. I’ll say it again – she’s just a fascinating person all around and I appreciated reading her perspective on things. Here If You Need Me was certainly not what I was expecting and not the type of book I’d pick up with any regularly. But on a whim – it was interesting.
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Swimming: With Lists of Books Published in English, German, French and Other European Languages and Critical Remarks on the Theory and Practice of Swimming and Resuscitation, Biography, History, Bibliography, Including Upwards of One Hundred Illustrations
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Стр. 109 - The face and hands, and parts of the body not protected by the dress, were fleshless. The tall slight figure, the jacket, the volume of Sophocles in one pocket, and Keats's poems in the other, doubled back, as if the reader, in the act of reading, had hastily thrust it away, were all too familiar to me to leave a doubt on my mind that this mutilated corpse was any other than Shelley's. | <urn:uuid:ddb12394-0dd5-42ac-a5d6-ce422caaf6f0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://books.google.com.qa/books?id=7Q0LAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:STANFORD36105002500119&hl=ru&output=html_text&lr= | 2023-09-23T17:30:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.89283 | 889 |
Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans : a Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction, 1891-1920
Louisiana State University Press, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 217 pages
Sallie Rhett Roman, daughter of the South Carolina senator Robert Barnwell Rhett, and daughter-in-law of the Louisiana governor Andre Bienvenu Roman, little suspected while she was being groomed as a plantation mistress that fate would lead her to become a single mother of ten donning a newspaper career for survival. An accomplished editorialist and fiction writer for the New Orleans Times-Democrat during the two decades surrounding 1900, Roman never signed her full name to her work and was assumed by readers to be a man. Overshadowed through time by her famous male kin, she now emerges into the light of her own deserved recognition in Fortune and Misery, Nancy Dixon's introduction to Roman that combines a full-length biographical portrait, nine of her more significant pieces of fiction, and a complete bibliography of her works. | <urn:uuid:51421da0-3fd0-44aa-9568-b5764c0a6e38> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://books.google.com/books/about/Fortune_and_Misery.html?id=6JNtQgAACAAJ&hl=en | 2023-09-23T19:17:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.955086 | 220 |
Last week the Canadian Department of Public Safety issued its annual terrorist threat report. You can read the whole thing here but I would like to comment on some of it in the paragraphs to follow. The paper is unclassified and is intended to inform Canadians in a general way what the threat level is and what the government plans to do about it. It is by definition vague since the government cannot share classified information openly although the Dutch government for one allows its intelligence services to write in much more detail than ours does (a practice Canada should really consider emulating). Nevertheless, it is a useful document and is a welcome message on a topic that is usually not spoken of enough by those that know, leaving the field open to anyone who wants to fill the vacuum, including some who know next to nothing.
So what does the 2016 report tell us? It reminds us that the “principal” terrorist threat comes from groups like Al Qaeda and Islamic State and those inspired by these terrorist organisations. No surprise there. It goes on to talk about “extremist travelers”, also known as foreign fighters, a scourge that will challenge us for years to come (shameful self promotion: my second book, Western Foreign Fighters – the threat to homeland and international security, will appear in January from Rowman and Littlefield). Next comes a throwaway paragraph about Hizballah, a terrorist entity that is always mentioned but does not, at least in my opinion, really pose a threat to this country. The report also provides a useful explanation of how the government sets the threat level, gives a short international overview and talks about what Canada is doing about terrorism, ranging from arrests and prosecutions to helping other countries deal with their terrorism threat through a programme called Counter Terrorism Capacity Building.
Tucked in the report is a small section which I found very interesting. Entitled “Participation of women in terrorist-related activities”, this snippet noted that approximately 20 % of extremist travelers from Canada of late are women. This is a very new development not only in Canada and one that is getting increasing attention by scholars and practitioners, including some Canadian ones.
Women have always been part of terrorist movements but the numbers flocking to IS are unprecedented. Women were once thought to be too “soft” or “maternal” to be terrorists. That is not true and in fact was never true. Some of the early anarchist terrorists of the late 19th century for instance were women. For now however the sheer volume of female involvement is going to force us to come up with novel approaches to treat those that return to Canada as there are bound to be issues affecting women that may not be so important when it comes to men.
Luckily this new trend is being examined, as I noted, by some really smart people. The ones I am familiar with include Dr. Laura Huey of the University of Western Ontario (which happens to be my alma mater), friend and former colleague Jessica Marin Davis who is publishing a book on women terrorists (Women in modern terrorism: from wars of liberation to global jihad – Rowman and Littlefield is putting that one out as well), ex-pat Canadian Mia Bloom, currently at Georgia State University, and Erin Saltman at the UK’s Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). I am sure that there are others but you would be wise to seek out the works of these women to start.
It will be fascinating to watch as the role women play in terrorist groups shifts in the years to come. There is also a movement to have women, especially mothers, play a more important role in counter terrorism (early intervention and counter radicalisation).
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Lower back issues are a common ailment in current society, with causes too many to count, including how much time we drive, sit at a desk, or even from physical activity. While much attention is given to back pain attributed to injury, strain, or unnatural movement (often rereferred to as mechanical back pain) one surprisingly prevalent source is inflammation associated with diseases like arthritis. Unlike mechanically-based aches, inflammatory back pain does not improve with rest or has the potential to reduce over time.
If you are wondering if CBD is good our lower back pain and inflammation, the answer is yes. CBD both dulls pain and serves as an anti-inflammatory, serving dual purposes. Even individuals suffering from mechanical back pain may benefit from CBD, though do not regard it as an alternative to other doctor-prescribed treatments, like physical therapy or surgery.
To say that CBD-infused products are selling like hotcakes is an understatement, with more than half of all users buying it to address pain. Below, we’ll dive deeper into what you should expect from CBD, the preferred application for alleviating your back, and specific products worth trying.
How CBD Works to Help Back Pain and Inflammation
What is CBD?
CBD is short for cannabidiol, which is a chemical compound found naturally in the cannabis plant. In a nutshell, CBD interacts with the body’s endocannabinoid system, helping regulate many physiological functions such as pain, sleep, and mood.
What CBD isn’t? Don’t confuse CBD for THC—it won’t produce any psychoactive effects that create a “high.” For this reason, CBD is even safe to administer to children and teens to address lower back pain.
How Does CBD Dull Lower Back Pain Pain?
Whether your low back pain is acute or chronic, it likely interferes with your daily life. Taking CBD for back pain can help dull the agony. Due to its natural anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties, CBD interacts with the endocannabinoid system activating the receptors in your central and peripheral nervous systems, which causes a reduction in pain.
CBD also tackles inflammation, one of the primary culprits behind lower back pain. To understand how, it’s important to recognize that inflammation is rooted in the endocannabinoid system which instructs various immune responses. In turn, CBD gently curbs signals to produce molecules that promote inflammation.
What CBD Can and Can’t Do for Lower Back Pain
CBD won’t fix the source of your lower back pain (especially if it’s mechanical), but it can lessen inflammation and sensitivity. So, by this, I mean that although CBD oil can provide relief for your lower back symptoms, it is not going to solve the issue that are causing your pain. It is still a good idea to investigate where the source of your discomfort is coming from in the first place so you can make any necessary lifestyle changes or pursue a treatment plan.
Topical vs. Sublingual CBD - Which is Better for Lower Back Pain?
Two of the main methods for using CBD to help back pain are sublingual and topical use. Sublingual CBD refers to placing a few drops of CBD oil under your tongue and holding it there for several seconds. This allows the ingredients to be rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream through the mucus membranes in the mouth. Although sublingual CBD is helpful for back pain and inflammation, it focuses on the whole body while more immediate relief may be found with topical use.
Topical CBD products can be applied directly to your lower back to be absorbed by the skin, helping relieve pain and reduce inflammation. Topical products include creams, sprays, rollers, and bath bombs, among other options. Another reason why topical CBD is good for lower back pain is that such products often include numbing agents and other ingredients that combat inflammation, resulting in solutions that provide both a near-immediate impact and longer-lasting benefits.
Products With CBD That Can Sooth Lower Back Pain & Inflammation
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All of our pain products feature full-spectrum CBD, which contains beneficial terpenes and other compounds that further reinforce the CBD’s capabilities. As a result, tull-spectrum CBD is considered the most potent and effective type of CBD, especially for pain use.
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Make sure to verify that the CBD products you are purchasing come from USDA-certified organic hemp, as is the case for Botanika Life products. Free of chemicals, heavy metals, and pesticides, using organically grown CBD products assures that you are using safe and effective methods for treating your lower back pain.
The Pain-Relieving Trifecta - Lidocaine, Menthol & CBD
If you are looking for cooling pain relief that kicks in quicker than CBD does, look for ingredients like lidocaine and menthol. Menthol is a chemical found in peppermint and mint plants that causes a cooling sensation, resulting in the nerves on your skin feeling less sensitive to pain. Plus, bonus, menthol is also considered to be an anti-inflammatory. Lidocaine prevents pain by blocking the signals at the nerve endings, providing pain relief in the area directly on and surrounding the application.
CBD Pain Relief Options From Botanika Life
There are multiple application options for delivering relief for your lower back. We craft CBD rollers with powerful lidocaine and menthol, muscle rubs, and pain creams to fit a variety of preferences and lifestyle needs.
A bonus to using CBD pain relief for your lower back symptoms is adding cold therapy with a Cryo Massage Roller, which decreases inflammation and lactic acid buildup, as well as assists in muscle recovery.
FAQ About Using CBD for Back Pain & Inflammation
Are there side effects to using tropical pain relief?
Rest assured; CBD is as safe as it gets. There are very seldom side effects, but if you are one of the few people who experience any, try lowering your dosage or applied amount. As is true for any pain product, there is a very small risk of side effects (like drowsiness and dry mouth), but these are extremely rare and there have been no severe side effects reported in connection to topical CBD. To learn more about minimizing the likelihood of such reactions, read Do CBD Creams Have Side Effects?
Can I mix CBD with other pain medications?
The jury is still out on whether it is safe to take CBD with other pain medications such as Tylenol or Advil. There are no studies indicating that it is harmful, so it is a personal choice, but always ere on the side of caution in terms of the amount of each you use. It is important to talk to your doctor about whether CBD is safe to take with any existing prescription medications.
How much CBD should I apply for lower back pain and inflammation?
Good-quality CBD products will always include specific dosage instructions along with a verified third-party ingredient list on the packaging. Follow the instructions when using CBD products, and if you need to work your way up in dosage or occurrence, make sure to do it slowly, and only as needed.
Is it safe to use CBD after surgery?
This is a tricky question. Some say to avoid taking CBD for a few days before and after surgery due to its anticoagulant effect, which could cause excess bleeding and dangerous results. Recent studies indicate the opposite - that CBD can effectively relieve post-operation pain and is a completely safe alternative for post-surgery relief. Working with your doctor on a treatment plan you are both comfortable with is the best course of action in this situation.
Can I add CBD with Massage Creams?
Adding CBD to massage creams is an excellent way to experience full-body relaxation and relief. When topical CBD is applied to the skin, the CBD is absorbed into the bloodstream, assisted by massaging which promotes circulation. With 1500mg of full-spectrum CBD, Botanika Life’s Elite Elixir is the perfect CBD product to mix with massage cream for lower back relief.
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This marvelous nutcracker soldier makes for a wonderful Christmas decoration. Harold stands approximately 5 ft. tall making him the perfect piece to place alongside a doorway or fireplace. He's safe to display both indoors and outdoors, allowing him to be used for a photo-op anywhere you please. He's a high quality piece, made completely of iron, and has two other brothers in different colors and styles that look great all together!
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One Star Reviews: National Parks
These days people feel the need to rate everything online, and not even National Parks are safe. We hear from some unsatisfied customers who feel there’s plenty of room for improvement with some of America’s most beautiful places.
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Cambodia League Two is finally back this weekend and the longest wait ever recorded wait for a season is over. TV rights were announced yesterday and with every game being shown on TV it means we’re back to where we were three years ago but this time with less teams. If the 8 teams in the league, 3 are reserve teams and of course there is National Academy all of whom cannot get promoted. Life FC, Angkor City, Police & Siem Reap FC will fight it out for the promotion spot.
The opening game will be a massive one seeing 2 of the promotion hopefuls going head to head when Life FC face Angkor City. Police have the most experience and are title favorites of the 4 wanting promotion. They take on Tiffy Army.
Siem Reap FC will host the National Academy who are unfortunate to have to return back next week to play ACFC. Two away trips in the opening two weeks to Siem Reap means they pulled the short straw for sure.
ISI (B) take on Vishaka (B) on Monday night with both teams wanting to get off to a good start.
It’ll be hard to predict who will play and what kind of line up they will have for both of these teams, their senior teams will take priority so it’s anyone’s guess as to how serious they will take each game.
Top Tips… ..
Title favorites: Vishaka
Title Challengers: Tiffy Army, Police
Promotion Favorites: Police
The Dark Horse: Life FC
Ones To Watch: Angkor City FC
Top Scorer: Bruno Wellynton ACFC
This article is adapted from BPVE, (https://bpve.com/) reported and edited from the great team – Cambodia Sports Review. (https://www.cambodiasportsreview.com/)
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Bible Belt Slasher: The Holy Terror Tis the Season...For Death!
SYNOPSIS: An escaped religious fanatic Jason Fry, goes on a killing spree after those he believes to be sinners. Dr. Landers, his former shrink is the only one who can stop him. Fry's got a list and he's checking it twice for those naughty not nice!
YEAR PRODUCED: 2013 DVD RELEASE DATE: Dec 30 2014 VOD RELEASE DATE: Dec 2 2014 RUNTIME: 103 GENRE: Horror >> Slasher, RATING: NR DIRECTOR: Bradley Creanzo WRITER(s): Bradley Creanzo PRODUCER(s): Bradley Creanzo MAIN CAST: Bradley Creanzo, Taylor Raftree, Larry Baumer, Stella DiFabio, Greg Huneke OTHER/SUPPORTING CAST: Keri Korner, Dan Del Ben, Derek Rafanello, Andy Salmon, Travis Raftree, Genoveva Rossi, Missy Heather Byron, Siddharth Gupta COMPOSER/ORIGINAL MUSIC: Bradley Creanzo OTHER NOTABLE CONSTRIBUTORS: Rich Catino (Special Effects, Make-Up), Derek Rafanello (Assistant Director and Cinematographer)
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Mayor David Owens
2023 Acceptance Speech
I would like to thank my colleagues, James, Tom, Anna, and Brendan for this honor and for their support and trust in my ability to represent this Governing Body. I know I can count on them to provide council as we move through 2023.
2023 will present us with opportunities and certainly some challenges. Some known and some yet to be revealed. As in the past, we will not overreach but govern with a light touch. I have a great deal of trust in the residents of Branchburg to be responsible and look out for their fellow residents, friends, and neighbors as they have done with each passing weather event and during the Pandemic. Our philosophy as your governing body has and will continue in a manner that is transparent, consistent, thoughtful, confident yet humble and fiscally responsible. We govern as a team and will continue to transition each year with focus and consistency.
I will touch on some current priorities that we will continue to work on as we move through this new year.
- On Taxes: Responsible stewardship of our tax revenues is a keystone. I can not over stress the impact and importance of the decisions made through our budget process. We have a diverse tax base which along with strong leadership allows us to weather challenging times and to continue to support and invest in critical services. To that end, we will work to strengthen this tax base with an increased business outreach program. This will connect our independent businesses and large public corporations in Branchburg to further encourage them to grow and collaborate in ways that will benefit them, the town, and its residents. Additionally, this will provide us with insight into common challenges these businesses face as they attempt to grow and prosper and how we can assist. Many businesses currently have expansions under way or in consideration, that will benefit Branchburg in the short and long term.
- On Education: We are in exciting discussions with Raritan Valley Community College and Somerset County on ways to partner to encourage future enrollment and expansion of their educational offerings. Including discussing how to collaborate with some of our large public corporations to form mutually beneficial skills specific programs. Strong public township schools combined with our Somerville High School, all focused on high quality education and preparing our students for transition to the next level, is a result of a dedicated Branchburg Board of Education and engaged, involved parents. The Township Committee will continue to align and foster our goals of educational excellence and safety.
- On Open Space: This is paramount to the culture and character of Branchburg. We will continue to target parcels of Open Space to round out our portfolio. The parcels will be a combination of passive and active. These may be designated but not limited to activities like hiking, team sports activities, or simply as a buffer between developments. We will also continue to invest in our current parks and open space to provide the best-in-class outdoor experiences. We will look to partner with the County as well, when and where we are in alignment, as with river access and connectivity.
- On Health and Public Safety: We will continue to address the needs and requests of our all-volunteer Fire Department and Emergency Medical Service providers with the necessary equipment and resources. We are all proud of the dedication and high standards to which they provide service and ensure the safety of our community.
- On the Branchburg Police Department: As stated many times by the members of this Township Committee, we believe this department is one of the best in the state! Through leadership and recognized national accreditation, their foundation and culture is strong! We are excited to begin the interview process for a new police chief, with Phase 1 beginning this Saturday. This individual will be promoted from our ranks and sworn in this year. We expect that these steps will create additional opportunities in the Branchburg Police Department moving forward.
- On Residential and Commercial development: Developments can have a positive influence on our continued growth as a community, however, it can also present threats to our quality of life as with unfettered warehousing or overdevelopment in residential areas. When these proposed developments are not in the best interests of our community and residents, we will engage and resist when necessary. We have and will continue to take a balanced approach to development with an eye on enhancing amenities that continue to attract new families.
- I would also like to acknowledge the dedication of our township associates in Finance, the Department of Public Works, Zoning, Parks and Recreation, and all of our administrative staff, led by Greg Bonin, as well as our volunteers on our Boards and Committees, many who are here tonight to be sworn in.
- These days, when many shy away from public debate or discussion, we encourage it. Respectful, thoughtful dialogue or questions, promotes understanding and is a foundation of responsible government. Please remember that these boards are comprised of your friends and neighbors and are dedicated to defending and improving Branchburg.
We are accessible and are available for your questions or comments by simply attending a meeting, Coffee with the Mayor, or by reaching out to us via email. In closing, I would like to thank my wife Kelly, daughters Farrell and Avery, my Mom, and all my friends who are in attendance tonight. I would also like to acknowledge the continued support of the residents of Branchburg for their trust in this governing body in carrying out the business of our community. | <urn:uuid:390fb0f6-8b03-444f-adfe-6ef7259949e5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://branchburg.nj.us/government/mayor/index.php | 2023-09-23T17:19:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.968395 | 1,097 |
Fifa World Cup 2022, final thoughts and marketing observations: Saturday Solologues
FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar had its fair share of drama, on and off the field. And it gave marketing its first glimpse of anti-sponsors.
Was dairy giant Amul’s sponsorship of the Portugal team a case of an anti-sponsorship, particularly in the backdrop of the team’s superstar Cristiano Ronaldo having publicly removed Coca-Cola bottles from a press conference podium at the UEFA Euro championship, less than two years back? Or did the response to edtech company Byju’s roping in Argentinian football icon Lionel Messi qualify as a case of attracting anti-sponsor outrage of a different kind? Rest assured, we are referring to neither of the above two examples.
Beer brand BrewDog caught global attention for its billboard campaign that proclaimed that it was the “proud anti-sponsor of the F* World Cup” or another hoarding by the brand that said, “the beautiful shame”. Airline brand Virgin cocked a snook at Qatar by flying in the English team in an aircraft that was painted in pride colours as an open support to the LGBTQ+ community (homosexuality is considered a crime in Qatar).
In an era of activist brands taking centrestage, anti-sponsorship may be the new ambush marketing that scored a goal by dribbling past FIFA’s stringent marketing guidelines. But the rise of anti-sponsors is also backed by public sentiment and data.
A survey of 2000 consumers by the IPA and Opinium regarding consumers’ views towards the Qatar World Cup revealed that more than half of consumers and two-thirds of young adults have more respect for brands who address issues around the FIFA World Cup being hosted in Qatar, than those who stay silent.
According to the survey, 49 per cent of all adults stated that they would respect brands more for speaking out around the Qatar World Cup, rising to 63 per cent of respondents in the age group of 18-34. This figure was slightly higher among men (52 per cent) than women (47 per cent) across all ages.
Damian Lord head of insight at the IPA feels that while managing activity during the Qatar World Cup is a significant problem, it’s also a potential opportunity for brands to solve, both in terms of whether to comment on human rights issues and how to manage the disruption to the festive period (with Christmas around the corner).
Dheeraj Sinha, chief executive officer, Leo Burnett, South Asia and chairman BBH India feels that at any given point of time, brands with a challenger mindset will try to take the mickey out of the establishment. “Virgin used to be that brand. BrewDog is that brand now. Burger King has guerrilla marketing in its DNA. It is about staying true to the DNA of the brand and then looking out for the opportunity in the environment,” he says.
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Ha Tunnel Plus VPN Airtel Free Browsing Cheat | Updated December 2021
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Is finding the time to work out daily a difficult task?
Time is cited as one of the primary reasons that people are unable to exercise when asked what their limiting factors are.
And this is true.
Today's world favors productivity and a reduction in the amount of time we have available to do hobbies, or even just R&R.
But not to worry. What if we told you that there are SO MANY simple ways for you to get more exercise done daily?
And relax- most of them don't require you to find additional time out of your schedule.
Excited to make your move to more fitness? Then let's go!
Get a Dog - They Need To Be Walked Every Day, Giving You a Reason To Get Out of The House And Do Some Exercise
A dog is the perfect way to get yourself out of the house and get some exercise. They need to be walked every day, and this provides a great opportunity for you to get some fresh air and move your body. Walking is a low-impact form of exercise that is easy on your joints, and it also has a calming effect on your mind.
In addition, dogs are great companions, and they can provide much-needed emotional support. So if you're looking for a reason to get out of the house and do some exercise, adopting a dog is the perfect solution.
Join a Local Sports Team - It's a Great Way To Be More Active
How about playing the sport instead of just watching it on TV? One thing's for sure, you'll still be in the know.
Joining a local sports team is a great way to be more active. Not only will you get to enjoy the benefits of exercise, but you'll also get to meet new people and spend time outdoors. And if you're looking for an activity that's a little more intense than your average game of tag, there are plenty of options to choose from.
Basketball, soccer, hockey - the list goes on. So whether you're looking to get in shape or just have some fun, joining a local sports team is a great way to go.
Park Your Car Further Away From Your Destination Than Usual
Walking is one of the best forms of exercise, and it's something that most people can do without any special equipment or training. Unfortunately, our modern lifestyles often make it difficult to find time for a leisurely stroll.
One way to fit walking into your day is to simply park your car further away from your destination than usual. For example, if you normally park in the front row at the supermarket, try parking in the back instead.
Or, if you work in a large office building, park further away from the entrances. Making a small change like this can add up to big health benefits over time. Walking just a little bit further each day can help to improve your cardiovascular health, strengthen your bones and muscles, and boost your mood. So next time you're thinking about hopping in the car for a short trip, consider putting on your walking shoes instead.
Get A Standing Desk To Use At Work
Standing burns more calories than you would if sitting at a desk every day. A recent study found that employees who used standing desks burned on average 50 more calories per hour than those who sat. That may not sound like much, but it adds up over the course of a workday, and it can have a significant impact on your health over time. In addition to burning more calories, standing also helps to improve your posture and reduce your risk of developing back problems.
Not only that, but your productivity will increase as well. There's just something about standing that boosts creativity and makes it easier to focus on the task at hand. So add a standing desk to your list of easy ways to be more active every day.
Get Off The Bus or Train One Stop Early and Walk The Rest of The Way
We have a saying that you've probably heard before "One Brick At a Time". Not all of us drive to work, but hopping off one stop early might not seem to make that much of a difference. But the little steps you take end up stacking and becoming big accomplishments.
Walking that extra stop might help you burn an extra 50 calories or so, which over the course of a month is around 1500 calories and close to a half-pound contribution to weight loss.
Take The Stairs Instead of The Elevator Whenever Possible
Do you know what the recommended amount of exercise by the CDC is? 150 minutes per week, at a minimum. Sadly, many people don't come anywhere near this total.
A quick and easy way to increase your activity level is to take the stairs instead of the elevator whenever possible. This simple change can help you burn an extra 100 calories or more each day, which can add up to significant weight loss over time, especially when stacking several small activities.
So next time you're headed to the office or running errands, forget the elevator and take the stairs instead. If you dread taking the stairs because you get winded after a flight, there's no better way to increase your aerobic capacity than doing the very same thing that gets you out of breath in the first place.
Walking up stairs is a great way to get your heart rate up and improve your cardiovascular health- just what you need to fire up those calories.
Start A Garden
Gardening is a great way to get some exercise while spending time outdoors. It's also an excellent way to relax and de-stress. And if you grow your own fruits and vegetables, you'll have the added benefit of eating healthy, non-GMO food.
Gardening can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. You can start a small herb garden on your windowsill, or you can plant a large vegetable garden in your backyard. No matter what size garden you choose, you'll get the benefits of fresh air, vitamin D, and a little bit of physical activity. So get your green thumb ready and start planning your garden today.
Play Outdoor Games With The Kids
You should take every opportunity you get to play with your kids now, as they won't be kids forever. The time will come when you wish you had more time to do so.
Plus, physical play can help you get in shape while bonding with the kids.
Hiking, biking, playing tag, or even just throwing a frisbee or ball around are all great ways to get some exercise while spending quality time. And the best part is that they'll have so much fun they won't even realize they're getting a workout.
So get out there, play, and make memories.
Take a Walk After Dinner
In our dystopian world, dinner is often the largest meal of the day, whereas it's supposed to be the smallest.
What do you typically do after dinner? Probably catch up on some TV or hit the sack.
Those poor calories? They have nothing to do, so unsurprisingly, they are shuttled away into fat storage.
Taking a brief walk after dinner can help you put those extra calories to work and prevent weight gain. Even a short 15-minute walk can help you torch an extra 100 calories. So instead of vegging out on the couch, take a stroll around the block and let your food digest properly.
Your metabolism is like a fire- the more you move, the more it burns. So get up and get moving, even if it's just for a little while.
Do Some Yardwork On Weekends
Depending on where you live, or if you own your home, regular and required maintenance is a chore that must be done.
What about if you look at it as a reward and less like a painstaking task that harbors resentment?
Raking those leaves, mowing the lawn, washing and cleaning the car all count as moderate-to-vigorous activities that can help improve your health.
And while it's not the most fun way to spend your weekend, it's certainly better than sitting on the couch all day.
Plus, you can always break up the yardwork with some additional activities, like playing catch with your kids or taking the dog for a walk. Just make sure you're getting your heart rate up a bit to get the most benefit.
Go Window Shopping On Your Lunch Break
It's a weird catch-22. After having your lunch, your energy level plummets and you just want to sleep. The mid-afternoon blues have hit. The worst thing you can do for yourself at this time is to take a nap.
You will likely wake up feeling even more groggy and will have ruined your sleeping schedule for the night.
A better option is to go for a walk or do some light window shopping. This will help you shake off some of that post-lunch slump and improve your afternoon productivity. Plus, you might even find a few new things to buy.
Walking aimlessly might not motivate you, so hit a nearby shopping mall or department store and walk for at least 15-30 minutes.
Invest In A Fitness Tracker With a Pedometer
These days, a fitness tracker isn't so much of a luxury, but more of an essential tool for accurately tracking and helping you log your fitness progress.
Wearable devices have become increasingly popular and for good reason- they work. People who use a pedometer are more likely to increase their physical activity levels and overall, improve their health.
The pedometer function alone is worth its weight in gold- seeing your step goal clearly in front of you is just what you need to help you achieve it.
Ride To Work Or For Fun
Riding a bike to work is not just good exercise, but its stress-busting abilities are unrivaled.
You get to avoid traffic, save money on gas, and burn some major calories in the process. And if you don't live close enough to bike to work, consider riding on the weekends for fun.
Biking is a low-impact activity that is easy on your joints, yet still provides a great workout. And it's not just your legs that benefit from biking- your core and upper body muscles have to work hard to keep you balanced as well.
So get out there and start pedaling- it will pay dividends along the way.
Commit To A Dedicated Workout Daily
If you want to achieve your long-term fitness and health goals, you need to be consistent with your exercise routine. That means setting aside time each and virtually every day to get in a good workout.
Of course, there will be days when you can't make it to the gym or go for a run. But that doesn't mean you should give up on your fitness goals entirely. There are plenty of other ways to get in a workout, even if it's just for 10-15 minutes.
So whether you go for a walk, do some bodyweight exercises, or take the stairs instead of the elevator, make sure you're doing something active each and every day.
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If you feel like you're not getting the recommended minimum amount of exercise from your scheduled program, adding the little bits and bites can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Walking for just 15 days a day, 5 days a week will yield 75 minutes, which is 50% of what you need.
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When it comes to the hardest working accolade, no organ besides the heart would win that prize. The brain absolutely does its part, but the heart just keeps beating day in and day out, without rest.
Naturally, over time the heart and cardiovascular system may accumulate a deficit or two, especially after the age of 50. Around this time, it becomes very important to start paying extra attention to the heart and circulatory system, as disease and disorders relating to them remain the number one cause of death in the developed world.
Relax, as it's not too late. You can take control of your cardiovascular health now and enjoy life to the fullest.
Before we delve into what you can do, a quick refresher about what CAN happen if you don't take good care of your ticker is a necessity.
Common Cardiovascular Diseases That May Occur
Having high cholesterol is a very serious problem, one that many people do not seem to appreciate. If you have ever had your cholesterol level checked, chances are the doctor who did so told you to eat better and exercise more. As simple as this task sounds, too many people cannot seem to get it right.
It turns out there's a lot more than diet and exercise at play in determining whether you are able to get your cholesterol under control. Genetic factors are more of an indicator than anything else, so if your parents have high cholesterol, chances are you will too.
While it's easy to be apathetic about cholesterol levels and the risks they pose for cardiovascular disease, it is always better safe than sorry. If you have not had your cholesterol checked recently, do not hesitate to set up a check-up.
Hypocholesteremia (another name for high cholesterol) can increase your risk of coronary heart disease and stroke significantly.
What's more, as you get older, high cholesterol can be a sign of an underlying hormonal disorder, which also makes it all the more important to have your levels checked regularly.
In some cases, medication may be needed, but changing your lifestyle is usually enough to significantly decrease your cardiac risk and keep your ticker happy.
Clogged Arteries (Atherosclerosis)
Your heart works so hard every day, pumping blood throughout your entire body. In order to do its job properly, the cardiovascular system needs healthy blood vessels in good working condition. If they become clogged or occluded with plaque, this can be a problem that continues to get worse over time.
This blockage, known as an atherosclerotic plaque, is caused by bad lifestyle choices, such as smoking or a poor diet. The thicker this plaque gets, the harder it is for your heart to pump blood through your body. This can cause everything from pain in your legs when you walk up stairs to chest pains and even sudden death .
If you think that plaques are caused by fatty foods , you have it all wrong. Plaque is actually made up of cholesterol , calcium, and even white blood cells which promote aggregation.
It's also important to remember that plaques are not strictly harmless. They can rupture, leading to blood clots which can cause a stroke or heart attack if they get lodged somewhere in your body where the blood supply is not sufficient.
Prevention is everything, in this case, so please remember to eat your vegetables and try to avoid smoking. If you have kids, make sure they grow up with a healthy lifestyle as well.
Heart failure tends to occur when the heart is unable to meet the pumping demands placed on it. This may happen due to a problem with the heart itself, or it could be caused by other cardiovascular problems which cause strain on the heart.
Heart failure has many causes, including coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart defects, irregular heartbeats, high blood pressure, and even cancer.
Instead of taking prescription medications as most people do, many experts recommend a plant-based diet and exercise instead. Studies have shown that this regimen can reduce cardiac norepinephrine levels by up to 50 percent.
Of course, the best way to prevent heart failure is to maintain your cardiovascular health through a proper diet and regular physical activity.
Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)
A heart attack occurs when someone's blood supply is cut off to the heart. this can be caused by acute inflammatory events in the coronary artery which are commonly associated with insulin resistance and obesity.
If you have frequent bouts of pain when walking or climbing stairs, basically any kind of physical exertion, it's important to see a doctor for immediate medical attention.
You should also pay close attention to any kind of chest pain which has no obvious cause and lasts more than a few minutes, such as when you take a deep breath or cough.
Heart attacks can occur in people who appear completely healthy with no risk factors, so the only way to be sure is to get yourself checked out every year with a full physical.
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
Hypertensive people are more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrest, or even coronary artery disease. It's pretty hard to ignore the link.
If your blood pressure is high at rest, you can develop substantial damage to your cardiovascular system within just three months.
There are many causes of hypertension, including smoking, stress, obesity, lack of exercise, and even diabetes. All these factors can greatly increase a person's risk for certain conditions which in turn cause hypertension.
Many people have been able to drastically reduce their blood pressure with natural interventions along the dietary and lifestyle spectrum, including getting sufficient daily exercise.
Try as best as possible to control yours, as there's a reason it's called the silent killer.
Interventions To Support Heart Health
Reduce Consumption of Saturated Fat and Cholesterol
Instead, try to replace saturated fats with healthier monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, such as omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fats are often found in cold-water fish such as sardines, mackerel, and tuna. The reason for this is that omega-6 fats can inhibit the metabolism of other fat types, while omega-3s promote it.
The best way to get higher levels of unsaturated fats in your diet is by consuming a lot of grass-fed or farmed animals and fish over grain-fed animals.
Reduce intake of Excess Sodium
Reduce or (ideally) eliminate processed foods like canned soups, breakfast cereals, condiments, cured meats, and pre-made pasta sauce. All these contain very high levels of sodium which can contribute to hypertension.
Instead, try to prepare your meals fresh at home using fresh whole ingredients instead of relying on packaged food (which tends to contain high levels of sodium).
You can also use natural alternatives to salt, such as garlic or onion powder, ginger, fresh or dehydrated basil, cilantro, and parsley.
Limit Processed Carbohydrates/ Simple Sugars
These have been shown to raise triglyceride levels, lower HDL cholesterol and increase blood pressure. Plus, they increase insulin release from the pancreas which has a direct knock-on effect on cholesterol levels in the blood.
Instead, eat plenty of fruit and vegetables with a low glycemic index, such as apples, sweet potatoes, and carrots. Grains should be consumed in their whole form (i.e., brown rice instead of white rice).
Increase Consumption of Antioxidant-Rich Foods
Antioxidants can help to prevent the oxidation of LDL cholesterol, which is an important step in the development of atherosclerosis. These foods should be eaten regularly, including vegetables like kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and other leafy greens. Citrus fruits are also very high in antioxidants.
They are also very beneficial for overall health as they can reduce oxidative damage to cells, slow down aging and fight cellular mutations.
Even if it's just a short walk after dinner, regular exercise is essential to promoting heart health.
Exercise can help to reduce levels of triglycerides and increase HDL cholesterol. It also reduces stress which in turn has a positive impact on various body systems, including the cardiovascular system.
Many forms of them can be effective, including walking briskly, jogging, biking, swimming, or even hiking. Anything that increases your heart rate for thirty minutes at least three to four times a week is great!
Yoga has also been shown to help reduce blood pressure and other measures of cardiovascular health.
If you're new to exercise, start at a comfortable intensity and increase this as you start to feel capable of more and your fitness improves.
It is also important that you not exclude weight-bearing or resistance exercise, as these are essential for keeping bones strong and maintaining muscle mass, which helps to keep your metabolism high (and can contribute to weight control).
Practice Relaxation Techniques Regularly
Stress has the capability to raise blood pressure, which can counter-act all the positive effects of physical exercise.
You may find that certain relaxation techniques like yoga, meditation, or simple breathing exercises are helpful for reducing stress levels and improving overall cardiovascular health.
Stress and the hormone cortisol are MAJOR contributors to heart disease, and if something as simple as meditating a few minutes daily can help to decrease this burden, it is definitely time well-spent.
Get Adequate Sleep
Getting enough sleep is absolutely vital for good health. Even minor deficiencies have been linked with an increased risk of hypertension. If you want your heart to remain healthy, make sure you get at least seven hours of sleep every night, as well as napping when necessary.
During sleep, heart rate decreases, offering the muscles of your heart some much-needed downtime. Plus, levels of stimulatory hormones and catecholamines are at their lowest during sleep, preventing their negative effects on your heart health.
CoQ-10 is a nutrient that is a critical component of the mitochondria in every cell. It has been shown to lower blood lipids and improve heart function.
It is believed to help energize cardiac cells and help prevent damage to the heart, which is particularly important as we age.
As supplements containing CoQ 10 have been shown to be very effective at improving heart health, your should definitely consider supplementing if you are over 50!
A dose of 200-300mg/day is typically recommended.
Fish Oils/ Omega-3 Fats
Eating oily fish like sardines or salmon at least once a week has been shown to keep cholesterol levels healthy and reduce the risk of cardiac disease. This can be supplemented by taking a fish oil supplement daily.
If you would prefer to get your Omega-3 fats from a vegan source, flaxseed oil or even chia seeds (which you can add to smoothies and salads) is a great alternative.
Garlic is also very beneficial for lowering cholesterol levels. It works by inhibiting the formation of cholesterol in the body and also by breaking down existing cholesterol. It can also help lower blood pressure, so it's a great choice for your heart health supplement regimen.
Arginine is an amino acid that acts as a precursor to nitric oxide (NO), which helps keep blood vessels healthy by enabling the vascular smooth muscle cells to produce NO and encourage vasodilation.
This is important since it keeps blood pressure down and ensures adequate blood flow for all tissues, especially the heart and brain.
Research has shown that it can be helpful for patients with acute myocardial infarction, and also for those who have had surgery such as coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac transplantation, or heart-valve surgery.
While arginine supplements are not recommended if you have a history of angioedema, it is generally safe for other patients.
The recommended dosage is 2500-3000mg/day for cardiac patients and 3000-6000mg/ day if you're healthy.
Niacin is related to the B family of vitamins, but it has a number of helpful benefits for the heart.
Niacin is used in combination with other medications to lower LDL cholesterol, triglyceride levels and raise HDL levels. It helps improve endothelial dysfunction, which makes it very useful for preventing atherosclerosis and reducing plaque formation within blood vessels.
It can also help reduce C-reactive protein, which is a marker for inflammation.
The recommended dosage is 500mg 2-3 times/day. Niacin can be supplemented as nicotinic acid or in the more expensive niacinamide form.
One important note about Niacin supplements- if you feel itchy, or have a tingling sensation after drinking it, you are not allergic. This is a phenomenon known as flushing that results from the blood vessels closest to the skin being dilated.
This effect disappears after a week or two of continuously taking the supplement.
Heart health is something you need to take very seriously, starting right now. All of the strategies mentioned above are inexpensive and work to directly benefit your heart.
As you age, it becomes more important than ever to put in place preventative measures that ensure your heart stays healthy for as long as possible.
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Maybe you work at IBM, Dell, or Apple. Perhaps you’re an up-and-coming professional at Ascension Seton Medical Center or the leader of tomorrow’s next startup success. No matter who you are, living at the Bridge at Cameron grants you a quick commute to Austin’s commercial heart and the ultimate in convenient amenities.
Here, you’ll discover a range of in-demand luxuries tailored to those who love the easy life, no matter how hard they work when they’re on the job. Every one-, two-, or three-bedroom living space includes mixed hardwood flooring and plush carpeting, spacious walk-in closets, and a modern kitchen design made for low-maintenance simplicity. In other words, living at the Bridge at Cameron is the ideal complement to your fast-paced, career-driven lifestyle.
Unlike many apartments, the floor plans here won’t leave you feeling lost in some shuffle. Although they all have abundant amenities, each represents a uniquely arranged, meticulously planned example of high-functioning architecture.
We firmly believe that hard workers ought to be able to enjoy every moment of their time at home. We’ve baked that same philosophy into the core of everything we do at the Bridge at Cameron, including by offering a range of rents to suit your means, regardless of where you are in your career.
The perks don’t stop when you leave your apartment either. Whether you’re in search of like-minded companionship or simply eager to revel in your hard-earned solitude after a long day, we’ve made it effortless to live your best life.
Relax and enjoy the sunset out on the community room balcony. Stay fit and destress in the modern fitness center, or cool off from the heat in the swimming pool – you’ve earned it. Take your pet for a walk down peaceful Little Walnut Creek before exploring the lush Nature Preserve and Greenbelt. Or take part in one of our monthly resident events to transform your neighbors into lifelong friends.
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For all out-of-network and self-pay clients we will provide you with a Good Faith Estimate that notifies you of the fee for each type of service you have with your therapist. Your therapist’s fee is posted on their biography in the About Us page and is also explained in the consent form you sign prior to starting therapy at Bright Path. The frequency of sessions will depend on the therapy goals you identify for yourself or the level of crisis that you are in. For instance, clients with whom safety is a concern, therapy sessions may be needed twice a week.
Although we cannot tell you how long you will need therapy there is research that identifies optimal therapeutic change. Acute difficulties usually require fewer therapy sessions than chronic conditions. Challenging family dynamics may also contribute to a longer course of therapy for children. We do not prescribe medications however whether or not a person is on medications may also impact the needed frequency or duration of therapy sessions.
Clients who come consistently to weekly therapy for a period of 4 to 6 months typically show better outcomes in a shorter period of time than clients who have less frequent, sporadic or inconsistent sessions. If you are having a financial hardship that is impacting your ability to continue or attend your therapy regularly, talk to your therapist about your options. | <urn:uuid:b0bf53c7-2dfd-40f4-b63e-00c1279c650d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://brightpathcc.com/about/fees-insurance/ | 2023-09-23T17:56:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.948186 | 261 |
That's a Wrap!
As they say all good things must come to an end... 11 shows, 10 Summer Camps and 1 Boot Camp later... That is a wrap for BYMT's Summer Season 2021!
A huge THANK YOU and WELL DONE to all the talented performers, creatives, technical team, pastoral staff and our amazing BYMT team that works so hard behind the scenes.
We have been absolutely blown away by the talent of our young people, and are so proud of you all!
We hope to see you all again for our 2022 Season! Auditions are already on sale!! Join us this October - book here! | <urn:uuid:31929ad0-fcb1-42ee-b832-5b9a98e15028> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://britishyouthmusictheatre.org/news/news/thats-wrap | 2023-09-23T17:37:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.938949 | 132 |
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Profile Ltd. Jr. Architect (Interior Works) new job circular 2018! A new job circular for Diploma in architecture students. who want to need a good job, it is for them. In this post, we added a new job circular. If you interested in it. Just read this full post for knowing more.
Profile Ltd. is a nongovernment company in Bangladesh. But this is most popular in Bangladesh. Recently published a new job circular for Diploma in architecture students. So that, we added full details of this job. By reading this post, you also know about all kinds of information. So just keep read it.
Profile Ltd. Jr. Architect Job Circular 2018:
- Publish Date: March 29, 2018
- Application Date Line: April 13, 2018
- Job Description: Please See in Advertisement
- Educational Requirements: See In Advertisement
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- Experience Requirements: 03-07 Year(s)
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Bubolz Nature Preserve announced Richard Louv will speak at it’s Grand Opening Celebration and Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 22, 2018.
Richard Louv is a journalist and author of nine books, including Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age, and most recently Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life: 500 Ways to Enrich Your Family’s Health & Happiness. His books have been translated into 13 languages and published in 17 countries, and helped launch an international movement to connect children and their families to nature. Louv is being sponsored by a grant from the Bright Idea Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. More information on Louv can be found at http://richardlouv.com/
The Earth Day Festival is a family fun and educational event featuring over 50 hands-on activities, entertainment and a special appearance by PBS Kids Character Nature Cat. Richard Louv will speak at 2pm on “What is Nature Deficit Disorder and how can the Fox Cities tackle this problem”. The event runs from 10am – 3pm and is free to the public.
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The elm zigzag sawfly (Aproceros leucopoda), an exotic insect pest, has been found this summer in Allegany County and is spreading rapidly through New York State.
The elm zigzag sawfly is an insect that eats only elm leaves and can cause severe defoliation (leaf loss) that threatens tree health.
It was first detected in August 2022 in St. Lawrence County in the northern part of New York State. This summer it has been found in Allegany, Ontario, Madison, Ulster, Schenectady, Albany, Saratoga, Warren and Clinton counties, with new counties being confirmed weekly, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
The elm zigzag sawfly (EZS) can most easily be identified by its unique zigzag feeding pattern. Learn more about EZS and how to identify it.
What can you do to help?
Keep an eye out and report sightings to iMap Invasives. Because this pest is being detected in new counties weekly, reports are incredibly valuable right now to help the DEC understand the full range of this pest.
How is EZS impacting our forests?
As a newly introduced species, the impact of EZS on our forests is not yet clear. Most reported defoliation has been minor, with only 2–5 percent of leaves showing damage. However, one resident in Niskayuna in Schenectady County reported several Siberian elms in their yard that were severely defoliated. Potentially, urban forests could endure the worst of EZS damage, as various elm cultivars are widely planted in ornamental landscapes. Open-grown elms with large canopies provide abundant foliage to support multiple generations of EZS within a growing season.
What is DEC doing about elm zigzag sawfly?
The DEC has partnered with the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry to conduct research on the phenology, damage severity, and associated insect community of EZS. This research will help the DEC better understand how EZS interacts with our environment and what, if any, natural controls might be present. The DEC also participates with a working group of practitioners and researchers from all states with EZS present in order to stay up to date on current research and best management practices.
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Removing a wall is one of the most significant changes you can make to the layout of your home. It can completely transform a space and make it look much larger and more open. However, before you remove any wall, you must first determine whether it is load bearing or not. If it is, building a header is vital to ensuring that this new space doesn’t suffer from structural issues down the road. In this post, we’ll walk through all of the steps necessary to build a header for your load-bearing wall so that you can avoid future headaches and enjoy your newfound space.
Step 1: Determine if it is necessary to building a header.
In order to determine if it is necessary to build a header, you’ll need to know the length of your load bearing wall. A load bearing wall is a wall that supports an unsupported span of more than 8 feet (2.4 m). If your load bearing wall is less than 8 feet long, then it does not need a header. However, if your load bearing wall spans over 8 feet or more, you will need to build one in order for your structure to remain stable.
There are two types of headers: drywall and metal studs. Drywalls can be made out of plywood or OSB (oriented strand board) while metal studs must be made with 2×4 lumber and have nails running through them vertically so they can support their own weight as well as whatever else will be placed on top of them
Step 2: Determine the Load Bearing Capacity of the Header
- Find out the load bearing capacity of your header. To find this out, you’ll need to measure the joist and calculate its area.
- Calculate the size of your joist from its area and length.
- Determine whether or not the load carrying capacity of a single piece of lumber will be enough to support both ends of a floor joist that’s being used as a header.
Step 3: Determine the Size of Luan Plywood and Length of the Header
- Determine the size of the header based on the load bearing capacity of the wall. For example, if a wall is rated to carry 2,000 pounds and you intend to use it as a header, then you must make sure that the length and thickness of your luan plywood will be able to support at least 2,000 pounds or more.
- Determine the length of your header based on how long you want your header to be. You want it long enough so that it would support any load from one end to another without sagging or bending too much.
Step 4: Cut the plywood and install headers over joists.
Using a circular saw, cut the plywood to size. Then, measure and mark a centerpoint on top of each joist. This will be where your header ends meet up with the wall studs to transfer load from one side of the wall to another.
Next, screw plywood over each joist in order for them to be properly aligned with one another when you’re framing out your load bearing wall. If there are any holes or gaps between boards (which is likely), patch them up using wood filler or caulking compound before installing drywall panels on top of them (more on this later).
Step 5: Frame the wall as usual.
You’ve framed the wall as usual, following the rules of good construction. Now it’s time to frame your header.
- Use the header as a reference for framing and drywall.
- Use the header as a reference for electrical installation and plumbing pipes, including vents and vent hoods (if you have them).
Step 6: Install drywall as usual.
Once you’ve built your header, it’s time to install it.
- Install drywall on the header and on either side of the opening.
- Install drywall on the wall behind your header.
- Install drywall on the ceiling above your header (if necessary).
- Install drywall around any windows or doors that may be in your room—the same way you would normally do so for a load-bearing wall.
Building a header for a load-bearing wall is not too difficult so long as you have some basic carpentry experience.
If you have some basic carpentry experience, building a header for a load-bearing wall is not too difficult. Before you start, however, it’s important that you have an understanding of why headers are necessary and how they’re constructed.
First things first: if your house is built on a foundation that has been poured directly into the ground (called footing), then chances are good that your walls will be holding up their own weight all by themselves. If this is the case, then there won’t be any need for headers. However, if your house is built on piers or posts with footings poured above them instead of below them (called crawlspace construction), then there’s a good chance that many of your walls will require additional support from headers or beams to help bear the weight of everything above them as well as from any furniture or appliances placed within rooms on top of those walls. These kinds can usually be identified by looking at where staircases lead off from within each level–if there are stairs leading back down into ground floor bedrooms and bathrooms (or basement areas) then chances are good that these spaces need support. If after examining these areas closely nothing seems amiss yet still feel uncertain about whether they could benefit from having supports installed before continuing; consult with an architect who specializes in residential design before proceeding further with any project involving these types of structural changes.
It’s also important when determining whether or not adding extra support would be helpful because sometimes there may actually already exist horizontal supports between two opposing corners which aren’t visible unless one were standing at eye level height above ground level looking toward corner points where partitions meet (for example). In such cases adding another type
By understanding the basics of how to build a header for a load-bearing wall, you can safely and efficiently take on this project. It’s important to know what size header should be used for your particular job, and where it should go. However, once you have that information figured out, the process isn’t too complicated. Simply cut some plywood the right size and attach it over the joists with screws or nails before framing out your new wall from there. | <urn:uuid:224ff9a9-e34b-4a56-b6e2-533a252a83b9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://builderlens.com/how-to-build-a-header-for-a-load-bearing-wall/ | 2023-09-23T17:02:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.930351 | 1,345 |
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