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Dr Ian Harley, Anaesthetist at the Austin Hospital, discusses anaesthetic management & intraoperative echocardiography assessment during aortic valve replacement & repair. Presentation delivered at the SHDA Aorta & Aortic Valve Symposium 2015.
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Structural Heart Disease Australia is an incorporated association focused on education in valvular and structural cardiac diseases. It was started by group of echocardiographers, anaesthetists, clinical and interventional cardiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons to provide a useful learning resource for medical professionals.
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Yesterday I read Oto-sensei’s story on the front of the school home page. She talked about a memory she had when teaching while parents were watching. Because of her story, and because parents are coming to watch tomorrow, I also had a memory come to mind.
I was teaching high school grade three listening many years ago. It was fall, so we were using the computer room to practice listening for the center listening test. I was worried about the parents coming to watch, because the students would each have their own computer and there was not much to see.
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I just had coffee with a single, female colleague that I had not seen in several months. After catching up on job stuff, she began to talk about a budding relationship that she is in. For the most part, it sounded very promising, but then she began to share some concerns. The biggest was that she was raised in a very expressive family, where the words “I love you” were said and heard often. He was raised in a far more reserved family where feelings were not openly shared. She finds she spends a lot of emotional energy trying to get him to “open up” and becoming frustrated when he does not.
It occurred to me that I see this in a lot of marriages. Much frustration is encountered when spouses don’t act as expected. Over time, this frustration can turn to anger and ultimately to bitterness.
In my opinion, many (most?) look at this from the wrong perspective. Our egocentric natures put us in a position where we try to transform those closest to us into exact reflections of ourselves. Sort of a “I do it this way. You do it that way… Please change and start doing it my way” mentality. God never intended for us to marry ourselves. When He created Eve, He did so to complete Adam, not to duplicate him. We need to see our spouses as the one person in life that is able to complete us. Completion is all about filling in the gaps that we have which will naturally conflict with the way we think.
I know from my days in building cross-functional teams in my corporate career that the best teams were highly diverse in their makeup. Those teams would outperform homogeneous teams every time in terms of performance and deliverables. Granted, there was more conflict, especially in the early phases, but once these teams learned to harness the breadth of perspectives offered, there would become unstoppable.
Marriages are no different. Shocking marriages accept and embrace the differences brought by both spouses and play to their respective strengths. Effort is not put on conforming, but to developing. This can and should be a life-long process for a couple. Let me give you an example.
Tara and I have been married forty years. I am a morning person, she is not. Early on in our marriage we got a set of Odie and Garfield (cartoon characters) Christmas ornaments for our tree. We jokingly said that these represented us in our relationship, especially as it pertained to mornings. When Tara and I have coffee in the morning (my most energetic time of day), I love to plan and talk and solve the world’s problems. She typically sips her coffee and slowly nods her head in response. Recently, she told me of some article that she’d read about non-morning people and introverts and how they hate being overwhelmed with too much stimulus prior to fully waking up.
The following morning I got my coffee and sat quietly across from her. After a few moments she looked up and asked me “What’s wrong with you?” “Nothing”, I replied, “I was just waiting to speak until I was spoken to”. I went on to explain that I was trying to be sensitive to the article she’d told me about and not drive her crazy in the morning. I loved her response. “I don’t need you to change, just don’t expect me to be like you.”
You see, while she may not be a morning person, she loves the fact that I am. Her only resentment stems from when I try to make her more of one (a reflection of me).
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The pilot of a jet that made an emergency landing on Highway 407 in Markham on Wednesday morning says he had no other choice than to land on the busy highway.
Before 11 a.m., the plane landed in the eastbound lanes of the highway near the Woodbine Avenue off ramp.
A photo that went viral on social media showed a single-engine propeller plane on the road with police cars parked behind it.
According to OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt of CP24, the plane took off successfully but immediately ran into troubles.
“They experienced at some engine sputtering. They looked back at the airfield to see if they could make it back to Buttonville,” he said.
He said the plane had just completed regular maintenance prior to the flight.
The pilot told the OPP he departed Buttonville Airport and reached an altitude of 2,000 feet when the engine on the plane began to sputter.
“Once we turned towards Buttonville, we knew we couldn’t make the field, it was a really tough decision,” the pilot, who police identified as Ibrahim, said. “At that point we had to turn right for the highway.”
He said he and his co-pilot tried to restart the plane’s engine, but assumed it was not coming back.
He said putting down on the highway was his only viable option.
“It was either this or the buildings. I was happy this worked out.”
Highway 407 ETR says three lanes of the highway were blocked for a period of time due to emergency crew response.
Public aviation records identify the plane as a Piper PA-28 registered to Caribbean Flying Club in Toronto.
The OPP is conducting an investigation into the incident.
Schmidt said the plane did not sustain any damage and both occupants emerged unharmed.
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The White House did not acknowledge Canada’s own wish list for President Joe Biden’s meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, focusing instead Tuesday on areas of “shared vision” and “mutual concern.”
The U.S. organization’s “guide” for upgraded co-activity between the two nations spreads out needs for Biden’s first two-sided meeting as president – a course that avoids expected potholes.
“The guide is a diagram for our entire of-government relationship, in light of our common qualities and obligation to work in organization on territories of shared concern,” the White House said.It spreads out six need zones, including engaging the pandemic, modifying the economy “on the two sides of the line,” and a “undeniable level environment ecclesiastical” meeting to adjust endeavors to arrive at net-zero emanations by 2050.
It likewise specifies social variety and incorporation, extended co-procedure on mainland guard and a modernized NORAD, and reestablishing an aggregate obligation to worldwide establishments like NATO and the World Trade Organization.
The part on “Working Back Better” – a manner of expression from Biden’s official mission that is additionally mainstream with the Trudeau government – honors Liberal political decision way of talking too, encouraging a dream “that reinforces the working class and sets out more open doors for persevering individuals to go along with it.”
Some of Canada’s express needs, including admittance to COVID-19 antibodies, liberating Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig from China or tying down an exception to Buy American, are obviously missing.
So too is any notice of Keystone XL, the hit or miss, cross-line pipeline extension Biden dropped with the stroke of his official pen on his first day in office.
Specialists need Ottawa to push the U.S. difficult to absolve Canada from Buy American, Biden’s set-up of protectionist measures to guarantee foundation spending focuses on American organizations.
No prompt changes to that system are not too far off, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
“He marked a leader request; we’re obviously assessing acquirement parts of that, however no progressions foreseen.”
Trudeau is regardless expected to request less limitations on U.S. immunization sends out, since Canada has been just barely gotten by creation issues in Europe, and for more assistance in bringing Spavor and Kovrig home.
They were confined in a clear demonstration of reprisal after Canada captured Huawei chief Meng Wanzhou in December 2018 on U.S. charges of abusing sanctions on Iran.
On the two Michaels, Psaki would just say, “The head administrator will raise whatever he might want to raise, as is valid for any reciprocal gathering.”
The White House additionally says the two intend to revive the North American Leaders’ Summit – a three-dimensional gathering of Canada, the U.S. also, Mexico, all the more ordinarily known as the “Three Amigos” highest point, which hasn’t been gathered since 2016.
Eric Miller, a Canada-U. S. master and leader of the D.C.- based Rideau Potomac Strategy Group, said the synchronicity between the two chiefs is the reason Trudeau needs to hold onto the occasion.
“As far as I might be concerned, this is actually the second for Canada to go on offense,” Miller said.
The Biden organization and the Trudeau government have adjusted interests on environmental change, a multilateral international strategy and on another way to deal with China, he said.
What’s more, Biden, a blunt victor of associations, should be mindful so as not to cross paths with coordinated work bunches with enormous participations on inverse sides of the line.
“On the off chance that I were Canada, I’d pitch unequivocally for a Buy American understanding – I mean, the most exceedingly awful they can say is no,” Miller said.
Regular laborers in Canada “are basically precisely equivalent to their U.S. partners. For what reason would you say you will hit them with limitations when it resembles hitting your cousin?”
Maryscott Greenwood, the CEO of the Canadian American Business Council, said the Prime Minister’s Office would do well to envision Donald Trump is as yet in the White House.
“Canada left on an extremely, forward-inclining, dissident plan about connecting with the U.S., inside and outside of D.C.” when Trump was in office, she said.
“It will be essential to have that degree of desperation and that degree of exertion, and not simply expect to be that everything’s acceptable now that Biden’s here.”
That was clarified when Keystone XL was speedily dropped a month ago, said Bill Reilly, who drove the Environmental Protection Agency from 1989 to 1993 under previous president George Bush.
Canada is “liable to be raising issues that oppose a portion of the ecological desires that invigorate the Biden organization,” Reilly told a board conversation Monday facilitated by the American Council for Capital Formation.
“I don’t think some about these issues will loan themselves to simple goal.”
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Did you know that in the EPL, some teams like Leicester and Tottenham tend to be undervalued by the public, causing bookmakers to adjust their odds in the bettors’ favour?
For instance, in the 2021-22 season, the average home odds offered for Leicester were 2.45, despite their true odds being around 1.9.
Similarly, the average bookmaker odds for Tottenham playing at home were 1.93, while their expected odds were around 1.46.
This presents an opportunity for EPL betting, as astute bettors can capitalize on the disparity between public opinion and the actual expected outcomes.
The insights shared here are but a glimpse into the HDAFU Tables’ depth. Dive beyond these examples to uncover more layers, strategies, and nuances. Every league hides untapped potential. With Soccerwidow’s HDAFU Tables, you’re prepared to discover, strategize, and profit. Venture forth and redefine your betting narrative.
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” irregular dark lines 2.0, popular beni ourain tribe design, size 300 x 200cm
Another one of our beautiful Berber rugs, made from pure wool. This rug is cut a bit shorter which makes it a bit less fluffy but still as wonderfully soft and comfy. The tassels are made from cotton.
With its irregular lines, this carpet is a bit more of a modern take on the typical Berber rug but still versatile enough to go with every kind of interior.
Due to the handmade nature of our rugs, the shape and pattern is always a bit imperfect. The carpets are sometimes slightly larger on one side. This is characteristic of authentic Moroccan carpets and adds to their originality and charm.
Colour: black design on ecru background
NB: All the in-situ pictures in our shop are all of our own rugs in their homes.
Material: 95% wool, 5% cotton
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1960's Tiffany Blue Shantung Silk Beaded Evening Gown / ML
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Elegant 1960'sJackie Kennedy era "Tiffany" blue silk shantung evening gown with a lavishly beaded bodice. I believe this gown was made in Hong Kong. Fully lined in a silky rayon, with original zipper up the back. In excellent condition, freshly cleaned and ready to wear.
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Bust: up to 41"
Waist: up to 32"
Hips: open to 52"
Fits like 10-12
Label: none remaining,
Material: shantung silk, beading
Condition: Excellent, freshly dry cleaned and ready to wear. Minor signs of wear typical of age.
All of our pieces are thoroughly inspected and repaired by our in house professional seamstress prior to shipping to ensure your garment is in ready to wear condition upon arrival.
*Please compare measurements to a garment you currently own to ensure proper fit! Please note: most of our pieces are clipped to fit our dress forms (bust: 34" waist: 23")
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The sun hung way up in a yellow sky, glaring off the skeletal remains of metal playground equipment where the last cracked flakes of paint, once vibrant green, blue, red, now sun bleached to staunch pastels, left more bare steel than paint. The A-frame of an old swing set stood empty where the chains and leather-strap seats had been pilfered years earlier, and the woman and the man beyond the missing swings, sat side-by-side on a concrete bench. Her skin had taken to the color of oatmeal and glistened with hot sickly sweat. Her black hair came down in ragged, damp tendrils around her small shoulders. The man, pressing the back of a hand to her head, spoke in a hush.
“Oye, are you still there? Hey. Can you hear me?”
“I hear you fine.”
“Bueno. Ok, look. You are gonna be ok. Ok? Take some water.”
He passed her the plastic water bottle.
“Take these too. Stay strong. You can do it.”
He rattled penicillin capsules out from an orange canister.
“Almost done,” she nodded.
She drank the water, grimacing at the swallow and spilling driplets down her chin. The park stood in the inner triangle of an odd three-way urban block that offered no crosswalks. Across the diagonal street there was a chain-linked blacktop where shirtless boys played fútbol, their sunbaked skin dark and ashy. Their shouts came high and squealing and young, and she watched them chase the tatters of an old black and white leather thing around the court.
“Your boy is safe. You need to worry about yourself now. Once you are there, the guerro doctor is going to take care of you good. He gonna get that thing out of you and clean you up right. The right medicine too.”
“He is having the time of his life right now. Playing video games. Eating good.”
“Claro. Right now he’s safe. And tomorrow?”
“You want to help your son, take care of yourself. He needs his mom.”
She could feel the thing there in her abdomen, bulging, painful. She wanted to scratch where the stitches sealed it in but knew better. A church bell sang the hour. A church somewhere far off in the heart of the city where people moved busy and impatient from work to home to school to market to cantina.
“They will pass you through. No problem. You will see.”
“No problem. No problem for who? Me?”
“You are not from here, Valley Girl. Anyone can see that. Your parents, maybe. But your culture is plain to the eye. They will pass you through. You have your passport? Driver’s license?”
“Nothing’ll be the same now.”
“Ok. You are ready. Time to go, Valley Girl. Time to get fixed up by the guerro doctor. Get that thing out you.”
She stood unsteady. Her head swam with the fever that raged through her every vein. Whether it was infection or the thing inside her leaking deadly that made her blood curdle, she didn’t know. She wanted to vomit. He wiped the sweat off of her face and fitted a wide-brim sun hat on her head. A boy scored a goal and the blacktop erupted with screams half gloating, half protesting, all happy.
“Toma,” the man held a hand under her nose, white powder on the fleshy triangle where the thumb meets the hand. “Just a little bit. To get you to the other side. They are already waiting.”
She sniffed compliantly, resigned. In seconds the ice sickle was stabbing through her brain, and her focus went clear. The nausea gone. She took her first step, wavering slightly.
“Walk right,” he said. “Do not raise suspicion.”
“Tell my son I love him.”
“You will tell him yourself.”
“Tell him, please.”
“Ok, Valley Girl. I will tell him. The doctor is waiting,” he shooed her with the back of a hand.
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Right down Youree Drive is one of Shreveport’s best kept secrets, The Cajun Asian Restaurant! The restaurant is a fusion of both Cajun and Asian cuisine that makes for a unique and delicious dining experience.
They are located inside the Relay Station on LA Highway 1. The interior decor is an eclectic mix of styles featuring an alligator with a rice hat, and strong wooden accents.
After sitting down I was greeted with a friendly face of one of the waitresses. Despite the sign on the front door asking for grace due to a staff shortage, I would have never known. She was extremely amiable, knowledgeable, and went above and beyond in regards to service!
I started with an appetizer called a Jambalaya Egg Roll. With a fusion of flavors, similar to the restaurant’s name, I surmised it would be a great choice to start. I was not let down. The soft jambalaya rice inside was full of flavor and the gratifying crunch of the egg roll wrap gave them the perfect texture! The signature sauce you’re given to dip them in just adds the “icing on the cake!”
For my main entree I ordered the chicken lo mein and added beef. The house-made sauce used to cook the noodles is absolutely divine and the portions are massive! I left with a full stomach and enough food for a meal the next day!
I can’t wait to go back and try something new! They also serve pho bowls, banh mi, cajun bowls, poboys, fried rice plates, fried protein plates, and more.
The Cajun Asian Restaurant is located at 10281 LA-1 in Shreveport. You can order by calling (318) 797-1373 or by visiting them online by clicking here.
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Sian Chay Charity Concert
Good evening ladies and gentleman, I think I am standing between you and the exciting concert. So i make it very brief. First of all, I felt a lot of energy in the air today. Do you know how the Singapore style Chinese music Xin Yao came to be? It started in the 80s, there was a series of students who love music from Hwa Chong start playing music together then overtime it became Xin Yao movement.
Although we just saw two songs today, I sensed so much energy. And all our students here today, I hope that beyond the concert today you can come together and create a new style of Singapore music. So congratulation for the concert. I also would like to congratulate you for choosing this very important course which is helping our senior citizens. This is a very important challenge that Singapore is facing.
Not many of you know this but today five Singapore working adults are working to support one Singaporean aged above 65, five to one. By 2030, this number will be two to one. This would have profile implication to our society. Of course the government, we are doing what we can in the last seven years, we pretty much double our health care spending. If I am not wrong the largest increase in healthcare spending in any developed country. But the government can not do it by itself and that’s why we have groups like Sian Chay who step out and do so together with the rest of the society.
The last point I would like to share before going on to the concert is this, in the last ten years I think Singapore has succeeded in building a very compassionate society. Our social spending because of the support of the people have increased by three times. As I was saying our healthcare spending increased by a lot. And we can look today you see so much good work been done by fellow Singaporeans to help out Singaporeans.
Now this is not the given, this is what the current generation of Singaporeans, whether it’s the established business people like Dr Toh and all the Sian Chay leaders. This is something which your generation have to decide whether it is important to continue. If we think today we have some of the four leading schools in Singapore coming together to make this concert happened. And many of you are seating as audience.
In twenty years, many of you will be school principals, leading business people, government leaders, politicians, philanthropist. Many of you would basically be the leaders of Singapore. So you have to decide whether you still believe in the compassionate society that we have built today.
And I hope that as you lead your fellow peers to make this happen, you will take this time to go to the ground, to spend time in places like Sian Chay to see what are the problems of the ground and then if you are convinced of that, persuade your peers to make sure to keep this tradition for the compassionate society alive and well for Singapore.
Now Singapore is a place which you believe in the fair and justice society and everybody believe to work hard. But when you see vulnerable people out there, nobody hopes to be unlucky, nobody hopes to be in need, sometimes in life things just happened. And that’s why it’s important for us to have this compassionate society and that’s why I hope you, the next generation of leaders can rise up the occasion not just think but feel that we must take care of the vulnerable among us. And with that I would like to congratulate everybody for the hard work and I look forward to the exciting concert. Thank You. | <urn:uuid:230b8eb4-e6ff-42f9-8170-84e83d00b162> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://sianchay.org.sg/en/sian-chay-charity-concert-2/ | 2023-09-23T16:35:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.972116 | 734 |
This Gator Cases GRW3027509 floor rack features a 27U by 23″ deep rack. Made from cold-rolled steel, it features adjustable rails, black powder-coated finish and a hardened glass door. Rack U numbers are printed on the rails faces.
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18-gauge removable steel panels on top, bottom,and sides
Side panels with a spring latch
Perforated top steel panel
Front rack rails that are depth adjustable
11-gauge front rack rails
Compliant with ANSI/EIA RS-310-D, DIN41491;Part1, IEC297-2, DIN41491;Part7, GB/T3047 .2-92
5/8″ knock designed to be utilized with VHF/UHF antenna
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Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on teaching our children what gratitude is and how we can learn to be more thankful. This packet of 15 different fun activities and games will help you do just that! You’ll get coloring pages (one with a Bible verse and one without), color your own bookmarks, a thankful tree activity, blank gratitude journal pages, a paper chain printable, a candy gratitude game, a dice game printable, and more!
I hope that your child enjoys these activities and games and that you find it useful in helping them practice gratitude. If you want even more ideas on how to teach kids about being thankful, see this post with 13 ways to practice gratitude all year long. And if you’re looking for fun books to read with your child this autumn, see this list of the 17 best fall books.
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Poker is a card game in which players make bets by placing chips into the pot. The player with the best five-card hand wins the pot. There are many different ways to play poker, but the rules of the game are largely the same no matter what variation is being played.
To start a hand the dealer shuffles the cards and deals them out to each player, starting with the player on their left. Then each player places a bet, either an ante or a blind bet. These bets are added to the main pot of chips and form the first betting round.
Each player then looks at their cards and decides whether to keep them or fold them. They can also draw replacement cards to improve their hand if they think it is good enough. This is called a “river bet” or a “backdoor flush.”
After the flop, everyone gets a new set of cards to look at. Then another betting round takes place. During this time the player can raise or call bets. The dealer then puts a third card on the board that anyone can use, which is known as the turn. After this a final betting round occurs and the players who still have their hands show them to determine who won the pot.
When betting, a player can say “call” to make a bet equal to the previous player’s bet or “raise” to add more money to the bet. They can also “drop” (fold) their hand if they do not have enough chips to match the current bet or raise it.
The first step to becoming a good poker player is to understand the game’s terminology and jargon. This will help you understand what other players are saying and how to read them. There are also some basic strategies that can be used to improve your chances of winning.
In addition to learning the terms and strategy of poker, it’s important to manage your bankroll. You should only gamble with money that you’re comfortable losing. This will protect you from getting too emotional if you lose a hand or have a bad run. You should also track your losses and wins to get an idea of how much you’re winning or losing overall.
When starting out, it’s best to play in low stakes games. This way you can preserve your bankroll and practice until you’re strong enough to move up. You should also find a community of poker players who can help you improve your game by talking through hands and giving you honest feedback on your play. This is a great way to improve your skills quickly and avoid losing a lot of money. You can also find a community on online forums, where thousands of people are trying to learn the game. They can help you find a mentor who can guide you through the early stages of your poker career. | <urn:uuid:fe268760-c498-4b2e-9947-24e68f8da074> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://simplydeclare.com/the-basics-of-poker-3/ | 2023-09-23T16:43:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.975628 | 584 |
Nothing drives supplement sales like fat burners. Not testosterone boosters. Not muscle gainers. Nothing. Take a pill and burn fat? Sounds amazing. However, it’s getting worse. As the average person becomes more and more obese, the sales for these pills just get higher. The marketing hype just gets louder and the claims made just get crazier. If you want to waste your money on fat burners, stop reading. If you want the truth, keep reading.
We’re going to get a bit vicious here, but we should take a moment and clearly state: “Not all fat burners are based on lies.” Admittedly, a lot are but there is a lot of motivation in finding pills that could stop or even reverse obesity and there are promising results.
The problem is that a lot of the promising results are based on rats; there is currently no human proof that some of these supplements work (or don’t) yet, due to them being too new on the scene. Historically, we’ve found solutions that work in rats that did not translate to humans (most famous example: leptin itself). Instead of looking at each supplement one by one, we thought we’d change it up a bit. The most popular fat burners can be broken into three major categories.
Things that we know work, things that we know don’t work, and things that don’t have enough evidence to really make a call. These are the good, the bad, and the (potentially) ugly.
We’re about as surprised as you are to see something recommended by Dr. Oz up here. Except unlike Dr. Oz, we need to add some conditions. 5-HTP is effective in reducing hunger (it makes you feel full) [1-3] without inherent fat burning properties. It’s only been proven to work in obese people. It requires high oral doses (300-500mg), and it is only recommended for short-term usage. Lastly, if you are on antidepressants or antipsychotic drugs, do not take them.
5-HTP summed up: Could help you decrease appetite. Don’t abuse it.
Green tea extract:
Green tea extract (particularly the catechins) are unreliable as a fat burner, and this is because their main mechanism of action varies depending on your ethnicity (genetics!) If taking green tea extract with a fat burner causes nausea (and it isn’t just due to the bitterness of old tea), then it’s likely working. Otherwise, it’s very healthy and can suppress your hunger (and some people find it tasty).
Green Tea Extract Summed Up: Helps if you have the right genetics for it. Very healthy.
An interesting one, as it provides a double-whammy – it increases your adrenaline levels, which is fat-burning, and it also makes other fat burners more effective (as commonly seen in the EC) stack. The downsides? It’s only potent when you are “new” to caffeine and have no tolerance to it.
Caffeine Summed Up: Effective fat-burning aid, but only works if you have no tolerance.
Raspberry Ketones: Welcome to marketing hype. There are currently no human studies that looked at RK by itself. There is one study in which RK helped with hair growth, and another in which RK was an ingredient in a fat burner with a dozen other compounds. Even the science of RK doesn’t make sense, as the dosage would be so high that you would essentially need to be injecting it.
Raspberry Ketones Summed Up: Pure marketing hype.
Conjugated Linoleic Acid:
Also known as CLA, it’s the definition of unreliable. CLA has a ton of studies, [5-8] and a few show it could possibly burn fat. At the same time, there is a lone study that showed it could cause fat gain! CLA seems to affect people in completely different ways, and thus it would be a bad idea to generalize it as a fat burner. CLA does work amazing in rats and mice (at least until they get fatty liver and die), but neither of those two conditions seem to translate to humans.
CLA Summed Up: Could lose fat, could gain fat. Nothing reliable at all.
Another Dr. Oz recommendation. Garcinia Cambogia is a small fruit that is traditionally added to meals for culinary purposes, and has a large content of citric acids. One in particular, hydroxycitric acid (the molecule that Hydroxycut is named after) is known to potently inhibit fat synthesis in vitro (basically petri-dish cells) and drastically reduces appetite in research animals. It would be wonderful if it worked in humans, but it just doesn’t do anything. The reason for this variance is not known, but its inefficacy in humans has been repeatedly shown. [9-10]
Garcinia Cambogia Summed Up: Works in animal studies. Fails in human studies.
The (potentially) “Ugly”
Green Coffee Extract: Yup, another Dr. Oz recommendation. Green coffee extract (GCE) is an extract that is highly concentrated for a molecule known as chlorogenic acid. Chlorogenic acid actually appears to be promising for reducing blood pressure and improving cardiovascular health, but is marketed for preventing carbohydrate uptake from food. While it appears it could do so, all of the research out there is not only confounded, but mostly funded by the companies that would make large profits. [11-12]
Green Coffee Extract Summed Up: Whatever possible benefits GCE may have, it’s mostly marketing hype right now.
Shorthand for 7-ketoDHEA, a non-hormonal derivative of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). It appears to cause thermogenesis in vitro and may preserve the hormonal profile during a period of fat loss, but studies currently are either highly confounded with a bunch of nutrients or they are funded by companies with 7-keto products (these trials do show some pretty nice benefits though). [13-14] Due to the lack of independent evidence, 7-keto is currently in limbo but cannot yet be called effective or ineffective in human interventions.
7-keto Summed Up: Could work. No good proof in humans.
White kidney bean extract:
White kidney bean extract (brand name Phase 2) is an extract that is recommended for preventing the absorption of carbohydrates. It was one of the first compounds known to do this, and was marketed as it was thought to prevent the effects of carbs on the body by preventing them from being absorbed. Since its debut many decades ago, it has failed to have consistent and reliable weight loss effects and even when it does they are conditional on carbohydrate consumption, but there have been reports of weight loss. If anything, this supplement can be used as a reference by which to compare newer carb blockers (like salacia reticulata, morus alba, or arcabose).
White Kidney Bean Extract Summed Up: It blocks carbs. But not very reliably.
Fucoxanthin is a questionable and new carotenoid (similar to vitamin A in structure), and looks to be a very healthy molecule. Similar to how astaxanthin is the red pigment carotenoid, fucoxanthin is the brown pigment carotenoid found in seaweed (and the fact that it is in seaweed, an antioxidant, and a fat burner means that it will sell well; the fact it came from Japan seems to add to this). Preliminary evidence in obese menopausal women has noted a 5.5kg fat loss over 16 weeks, and since fucoxanthin has a plausible mechanism to cause fat loss (uncoupling in fat cells) it deserves further research to uncover its role in lean persons. Also, really expensive (as you need to take it consistently for it to become effective).
Fucoxanthin Summed Up: Definitely healthy. Definitely expensive. Questionably effective.
Summing It All Up
At the end of the day, being lean and ripped is a function of your nutrition and exercise, not some magic pill that you can take to skip the hard work.
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Harissa, North Africa’s most recognized hot sauce, is usually brick red from the dried red chiles that get pulverized along with spices and oil into a rich and complex paste. Spices include caraway, coriander, cumin, and occasionally rose petals. This variation is bright green thanks to the fresh coriander (cilantro) and green chiles and gets a creamy boost from sour cream for balance.
½ cup bulgur wheat
1 tomato, diced
1 Persian cucumber, diced
½ cup chopped parsley
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for brushing
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 cup tightly packed cilantro leaves and stems
½ to 1 serrano chile, depending on heat preference, stemmed and seeded
1 garlic clove, smashed
½ teaspoon caraway seeds
½ teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 portion king (or coho salmon) (10 to 12 ounces), cut into 2 pieces, pin bones removed Available in our Premium Seafood Subscription
2 naan breads
Make the Tabbouleh
In a medium bowl, cover the bulgur with 1 cup boiling water. Cover and let sit until the water is absorbed, about 20 minutes. Stir in the tomato, cucumber, parsley, lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons of the oil and season with salt and pepper.
Make the Harissa
In a blender or food processor, purée the cilantro, serrano chile, garlic, caraway, cumin, and ¼ cup of the oil until smooth. Add the sour cream and pulse to combine. Transfer to a bowl and season with salt and pepper.
Grill the Salmon and Naan
Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium-high heat and oil the grates. Pat the salmon dry with paper towels, rub all over with oil, and season with salt and pepper. Brush the naan with oil.
Add the salmon to the grill, skin-side up and cook, turning once until lightly charred and the skin is crisp, 8 to 10 minutes depending on thickness of the fillet. Avoid turning the fish until it easily releases from the grates and is lightly charred. Add the naan to the grill and cook, turning occasionally, until lightly charred, 2 to 3 minutes.
Spoon some of the harissa over the fish and serve the tabbouleh and naan alongside. Enjoy!
Pair it Up
Grapes like Assyrtiko in Greek white wines are bright and crisp and have a refreshing minerality, perfect for pairing with the Mediterranean flavors of this dish.
Spice It Up (or Down)
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Change It Up
This sauce is great on fish, but you’ll find many other delicious ways to enjoy it — chicken, lamb burgers, grilled crusty bread, fried halloumi cheese, or even a super deluxe BLT.
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The Mystical Connection between Sleep and Monsoon
July 18, 2023 | Written by SleepyCat Team
Ah, the monsoon season! A time of rain-drenched streets, cozy blankets, and the occasional leaky umbrella. But did you know that there’s more to the monsoon than meets the eye? In this whimsical journey, we dive into the mystical relationship between sleep and the monsoon, discovering the secrets hidden beneath raindrops and exploring how SleepyCat can enhance your slumber during this enchanting time. So, grab your umbrella, and let’s embark on this delightful adventure together!
The Rain’s Serenade: Nature’s Sleep Sound Machine
As raindrops patter against the windowpane, they create a symphony of soothing sounds that lull us into a state of tranquilly. The rain, thunder, and gusty winds create a symphony of sounds during the monsoon season. While some people find these sounds soothing and sleep-inducing, others may struggle to fall asleep or stay asleep due to the increased ambient noise. The intensity of the rain can vary, affecting individuals differently. Yet, the rhythmic melody of rainfall serves as nature’s very own sleep sound machine, calming our restless minds and coaxing us into a peaceful slumber.
Humidity and Temperature:
The monsoon brings increased humidity levels, which can make the air feel heavy and muggy. High humidity can lead to discomfort, restlessness, and difficulty in regulating body temperature during sleep. It may be necessary to adjust bedding materials, such as opting for moisture-wicking fabrics or using fans or air conditioning, to maintain a comfortable sleep temperature.
With the monsoon rains come an unwelcome guest—mosquitoes. These tiny pests can disrupt sleep with their incessant buzzing and itchy bites. It is important to take preventive measures such as using mosquito nets, applying repellents, or even considering mosquito-repellent bedding to ensure uninterrupted sleep.
Sleep Environment Challenges:
The monsoon season often brings dampness and moisture into our living spaces. Leaky roofs or windows can lead to a humid and damp bedroom, potentially causing discomfort and disrupting sleep. Regularly checking for leaks, using dehumidifiers, and ensuring proper ventilation can help maintain a dry and sleep-friendly environment.
The monsoon season has a certain moodiness to it, with its grey skies and occasional gloomy weather. This change in atmospheric conditions can affect our emotional well-being and, in turn, influence our sleep patterns. Some individuals may experience changes in mood or feelings of low energy, which can impact the quality of sleep. Engaging in activities that boost mood, such as exercise, spending time with loved ones, or pursuing hobbies, can contribute to a more positive sleep experience.
The Monsoon Slumber: Embracing the SleepyCat Magic
As the monsoon weaves its enchanting spell, it’s the perfect time to embrace SleepyCat magic and elevate your sleep experience. SleepyCat understands this ethereal connection between rain and slumber. With their range of sleep products designed to cradle your body in perfect alignment, you can float away on the dance of raindrops to the land of deep and restful sleep. Whether it’s the innovative technology infused in SleepyCat’s mattresses online for optimal support, the cloud-like comfort of their pillows and duvets, or the luxurious feel of their bedding accessories, SleepyCat has everything you need to make your monsoon slumber truly extraordinary.
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Remember, the monsoon season is fleeting, so seize the moment and dive into the world of SleepCat today. Happy sleeping, rain-loving dreamers!
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Have you ever been sitting in front of the television with a snack, and before you know it, the entire snack is gone and you don’t even remember eating it? You might still feel that tinge of hunger, so you get up, grab another snack and sit back down in front of the television to repeat the same thing. This isn’t uncommon. Most people experience this form of “mindless” eating, where you become unaware of what and how much you’re eating. This type of eating can be quite detrimental to your weight loss efforts, but the good news is that you can learn to manage this type of behavior by practicing mindful eating.
Strategies for Eating Mindfully
Mindful eating is the art of being completely aware of not only what you’re eating, but why and how you’re eating it.
- What you eat: Particularly if you’re on a meal replacement plan, such as Optifast weight loss program, you learn to be cognizant of what you’re eating at every meal, and the reason for eating it. You’re eating food for nutrition, so you’re choosing foods according.
- Why you eat: Are you physically hungry, or do you only think you’re hungry because you’re bored or stressed? Mindful eating suggests that you only eat when you’re hungry, and learn to know when you would normally succumb to emotional eating.
- How you eat: Many people eat quickly, especially if they’re eating mindlessly. Slow down. Try to take at least twenty minutes to finish a meal. As well, rid yourself of distractions during meal time. This includes television, computers and books. They’ll still be there when you’ve finished your meal.
Benefits of Mindful Eating
Mindful eating can positively affect your weight loss in many ways, including:
- Allowing you to realize when you’re full sooner.
- Improved digestion from slowed down eating.
- Makes meals more pleasurable since you get a chance to enjoy each and every bite.
- Allows you to be satisfied with less food. Since you’ll likely feel full earlier in the meal, you’re less likely to overeat.
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Are you looking for the best multivitamin for men? Fun Fact: The global average lifespan for men is 70, which is two years shorter than women’s. It’s important for men to get all the macro and micro-nutrients they need daily. This can help to maintain good health. It can sometimes be tough to pick the best multivitamin with so many on the market. The key is to know which one is right for your particular situation. For example, are you active, senior, or vegetarian? These are some of the many factors to take up when picking the best multivitamin for your needs.
A big question is whether or not you should take a multivitamin from the get-go. Well, there are various factors to consider. On one hand, food is always a better source of nutrients than dietary supplements. So as the name suggests they should add to your daily diet instead of replacing it.
If you just want to boost your intake of certain vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants then this is a good option. On the other hand, there’s often less of a need if you’re getting a healthy and well-balanced diet. In that case, you’ll likely be getting all the required nutrients from your food.
Do Men Need Multivitamins?
This is a loaded question. One factor to consider is that men and women have different nutritional needs. For example, men require more of certain nutrients and less of others. Regardless of whether you get it from food or supplements, you’ll need enough of each nutrient.
That said, you should always have a foundation of healthy food. This is because supplements shouldn’t replace real food. It’s one thing if you’re adding to your intake of certain nutrients you’re getting from food. However, real food should always be the starting point
The problem is sometimes it can be tough to get all the nutrients you need. This can be based on different factors. Sometimes a person’s body has problems processing a certain nutrient. So, in that case, you’ll have to consume more to make sure you’re getting enough of certain nutrients.
Whether you get the nutrients from food or supplements it’s critical to make sure you’re getting enough of them. It might be tough to get certain vitamins/minerals for different factors. They include a particular diet program you’re on and others. However, whether you get the extra nutrients from food or supplements make sure you reach your daily goals.
Vitamins are critical for good general health. They’re needed for various functions in the human body. This ranges from helping different systems to function correctly and make energy. These are all important functions for the body to work properly.
Meanwhile, if you don’t get enough vitamins every day this can have a negative effect on your health. In some situations, it can even result in serious diseases.
The different vitamins/minerals in multivitamins can provide different health benefits. They include:
- VITAMIN A: Eye, skin, and immune system health
- VITAMIN Bs: Red blood cells and energy metabolism
- VITAMIN C: Collagen production and immune system
- VITAMIN E: Prevent cell damage
Best Multivitamin for Men
1. Gummy Vitamins by SmartyPants
This product is gluten-free. So it’s a good option if you don’t consume grains like wheat and barley. There are certain reasons why people go gluten-free. It’s required by some diets like Keto and Paleo. Meanwhile, other people have wheat allergies or diseases like celiac diseases. In all these situations you’ll want to avoid gluten products.
There are several nutrients provided by this multivitamin. They include Vitamins B6/12, D3, and others. These are all important vitamins for different body functions. It’s critical to make sure you’re getting enough of them for good health.
The product also contains omega-3 fish oil. This provides DHA/EPA fatty acids. These are healthy fats that can provide many health benefits including healthy skin/hair, heart health, and brain function.
2. Men’s Multivitamin by OneADay
This dietary supplement is loaded with different vitamins including Abs/C/E/E. Each of these vitamins is needed for various body functions. They help to maintain good men’s health.
You also get various minerals like Calcium. This particular one is critical for healthy bones/teeth and other functions. If you don’t consume enough calcium it can affect your risk of tooth decay and bone fractures.
The supplement is formulated for different body functions. They include blood pressure, heart health, muscle function, good digestion, and physical energy. These are all critical functions.
3. Men’s One Multivitamin by Rainbow Light
This product has received high marks on Amazon with an average of 4/5 stars from 4200+ reviews. This is a daily multivitamin that provides important vitamins/minerals/antioxidants than men need daily.
The supplement is designed to meet the nutritional needs of men. That includes functions like energy and the immune system. It’s especially critical if you have an active lifestyle, for example.
In terms of digestion, this product is gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegetarian. So it won’t be a problem if you don’t consume grains, milk, or meat.
Key Factors When Picking Men’s Multivitamins
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New & experienced farmers may rent a 1-acre plot (or less) to cultivate. Farmers participate in educational trainings covering topics from business practices to regenerative agriculture. Photo copyright 2021 Will Widmer, courtesy of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Grow for sustenance, for fun, or for your own learning in a family plot, which are open for use by the public. Rules apply, and plots are assigned to families/groups at the beginning of the growing season.
The Rio Grande Farm Park welcomes aspiring growers to join commercial or community plots and participate in regenerative agriculture workshops. During summer months, people may purchase fresh produce from RGFP farmers at an on-site Farm Stand, Alamosa Farmers Market, or Valley Roots Food Hub. In addition to cultivation, RGFP encourages play and reflection in the nature play area and robust Rio Grande trail system. Committed volunteers keep the Farm Park thriving, so join us for volunteer work days the last Saturday of every month. Visit us! We are located in Alamosa on HWY 17 just north of HWY 160, or a short walk from Cole Park across the river bridge.
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Open from dawn until dusk, the Nature Play Area is a fun, interactive playground complete with a zipline, slide, climbing structure, and Little Free Library. Photo by Christi Bode Skeie.
Previous RGFP workshops have included topics of pollination, paper-making with beets, liquid fungal compost, and more. If you have a particular interest in leading a workshop, please reach out to us. Photo by Ally Jean Arnold.
The RGFP is a proud partner of SLV Gen Wild, a coalition that aims to get youth outside. Photo by Christi Bode Skeie.
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The RGFP partners with the Boys & Girls Club to get youth involved in farming from seed to sale. Photo by Christi Bode Skeie.
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How to Clean a Tank After Ich Killed All Your Fish?
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Whether you’ve heard of Ich before or not, now’s the time for a more in-depth dive into the subject. Ich is a fairly common parasite that most fish will face at some point. Despite being relatively easy to combat and eliminate, Ich has quite a high mortality rate.
This may seem paradoxical, but there is an explanation for that. The answer is that many people fail to recognize and treat the condition in time.
This allows the parasite to spread fast and infect other fish before you even realize it’s there.
If conditions allow it, Ich will kill your entire fish population fast. The only thing left now is resetting your tank. So, let’s get into that.
Cleaning Your Tank After Ich Killed All Fish
It’s not that common for an Ich infestation to completely depopulate the tank, but it can happen. This parasite can spread fast and infect even the largest aquariums in a matter of days.
It only takes up to 3-4 days for the parasite to complete its life cycle, provided environmental temperatures are higher than 75 F, which they usually are. Especially with tropical fish that are in need of warmer waters.
This pathogen is also quite aggressive as it undergoes 4 distinct developmental phases: theront (infectious stage), trophont (feeding stage), protomont (drop-off stage), and tomont (reproductive stage).
Some people skip the protomont stage and only mention the other 3. That’s because this stage is the shortest since the protomont will turn into a tomont as soon as it latches onto a hard surface.
The trophont stage is where all the damage occurs, as the parasite consumes the flesh of its hosts, leading to massive damage and death.
It only takes approximately 3-4 days for death to occur, during which multiple or even all your fish can die.
So, after that’s done, despite all your efforts to prevent it, what should you do to reset the tank?
Consider the following:
Use Time to Your Advantage
You already know by now that Ich is a parasitic agent. So, by definition, it requires a host to survive.
The parasite itself will die off if there are no other fish to infect, which only leads to an inevitable conclusion – Ich will eventually die on its own.
You only need to keep the tank running and let Mother Nature follow its course. The parasite is incredibly resilient, though, and it may take several weeks to a month for the pathogen to disappear completely. This isn’t a problem if time is on your side, but it is if it isn’t.
If you can’t afford the waiting game, consider one of the remaining tactics.
There’s a variety of Ich-killing products on the market that you can use. These are designed to attack the parasite in its most vulnerable form – a protomont.
This is when the parasite exits the fish and looks for a hard surface to begin its metamorphosis into a theront. The theront will then swim freely into the water column in search of a viable host.
If the medication doesn’t succeed in killing the protomont in time, it will undoubtedly kill the theront.
You may need to follow a specific cleaning routine, depending on the medication you’re using. It should take a couple of days or slightly more to obtain the ideal effects.
Bleach is extremely effective at eradicating tomonts (the parasite’s reproduction/incubation phase) before it releases the active theronts.
There are 2 ways of approaching the bleach solution:
Treat the entire tank – A generalized infection results in hundreds or thousands of tomonts spreading everywhere in the tank. This means that the entire tank requires thorough cleaning to remove the pathogens and sterilize the whole environment.
Treat tank components individually – You can use a bleach solution to clean every tank component like live plants, rocks, driftwood, tank equipment, and everything that goes into the water.
A bleach solution of 1:10 concentration should eliminate all tomonts and other forms of Ich everywhere in the tank within 3 hours.
We’re not talking about boiling water, but temperatures high enough to disrupt the parasite’s cycle.
It’s not that the higher temperatures will kill the Ich parasite completely. Instead, it will accelerate its developmental process significantly, boosting its metabolism and lowering its lifespan.
Most people recommend temperatures around 85-86 F for several hours to eradicate the pathogen, but I recommend higher values.
Aim for 90-94 F, especially since there are no fish in the tank to worry about. Maintain the temperature for several hours, and the tank should be completely sterilized.
You can use the same method when treating your life fish as well. In normal conditions, trophonts (the feeding stage) incubate for around 7 days inside the host at temperatures of 75 F.
Increasing the temperature to 85 F may shorten the incubation period to only 3 days. At 95 F, the parasite may die in less than a day or even several hours.
Naturally, your fish are unlikely to withstand such high water temperatures, which is why this procedure is more fitting in fishless tanks.
How Long Can Ich Survive Without Fish?
Ich is an incredibly resilient pathogen that can survive for quite some time in the absence of a host. That being said, the parasite’s lifespan depends on its developmental phase.
We’re only interested in 2 stages: theronts and tomonts. The former is the infectious pathogens that swim into the water in search of a host.
Tomonts are essentially the cysts attached to the tank walls that incubate tomites which grow into theronts.
We don’t discuss trophonts since these only form once the parasite has reached inside the host’s body. We will also skip protomonts, as these are the link between trophonts and tomonts.
So, trophonts turn into protomonts, which swim and attach to the tank’s walls to turn into tomonts.
So, we’re only left with:
- Theronts – These represent the parasite’s most vulnerable phase. Theronts will only last up to 24 hours without a live host. This is the main reason why all forms of Ich treatment target theronts specifically.
- Tomonts – This represents Ich’s most resilient form. Tomonts are cysts that encapsulate hundreds of tomites which will eventually grow into theronts. Tomonts can survive around 30 days without a host. Some reports even suggest more than 60 or 70 days.
Therefore, it’s safe to say that Ich can still be present in the tank even up to 60 days following your fish’s departure.
Needless to say, treatment is necessary to eliminate the parasite completely from the environment.
Can Ich Survive in Filter?
Even so, you should clean the filter along with sterilizing the entire tank for good measure.
Don’t Forget to Cycle the Tank Again
Using bleach and Ich-killing medication in your tank will most definitely result in complete bacterial eradication. So, your tank requires recycling to restore the habitat’s nitrifying and denitrifying bacterial colonies.
The cycling process can last several weeks and should be started from 0, careful not to skip any phases along the way.
Tips for Preventing Ich from Getting Into Your Tank
Fortunately, there are quite a few prevention tactics to employ that are designed to prevent an Ich outbreak.
- Quarantine – You should quarantine everything you plan on adding to your tank. This includes fish and plants since these are the most likely to carry the pathogen into the tank. I recommend a quarantine period of 2 weeks for the fish. This is enough to make sure that the fish are healthy and free of any bacteria, fungal infections, and parasites like Ich. When it comes to plants, you can simply sterilize them before adding them to the tank. You can use vinegar or a bleach solution in this sense since these will eliminate all dangerous pathogens and any potential hitchhiking microorganisms.
- Prevent fish stress – In other words, keep water quality high, prevent overfeeding, and avoid overstocking the tank, among other things. Fish stress is often responsible for triggering an Ich outbreak due to lowering the fish’s immune system. This makes the fish more sensitive to the pathogen, and that’s where all the problems start.
- Source your fish wisely – Only get your fish from reputable sources. This minimizes the chances of getting weak or infected fish that may already carry the parasite. You can achieve this by informing yourself on trustworthy sources available in your area or online.
This being said, there’s always a risk of an Ich outbreak, despite all your efforts to prevent it. When that happens, it’s your awareness that will make all the difference.
Always monitor your fish to detect early signs of infection, as this will significantly increase the treatment’s effectiveness.
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|Service Types||home automation services|
|Backup Battery||lithium-ion batteries|
Synergy Home website reviewThe website has a crisp, contemporary appearance, and the white and blue color combination conveys tranquility and dependability. The website's primary goal in terms of content is to advertise Synergy house's products, which include solar panels, roofing services, and energy-efficient house upgrades. It's simple to discover what you're searching for since the information is properly arranged with distinct headers and subheadings. Additionally, the website offers helpful content for prospective customers, including FAQs, information on Synergy Home financing alternatives, and client endorsements. A blog part on the website offers advice and information on home remodeling and energy conservation. The website seems to be functional and is well built. The Synergy Home website looks to be well-designed, educational, and user-friendly overall.
Synergy Home price policy
|Packages||from $5,000 to $50,000|
|Payment options||credit cards, debit cards, and PayPal|
|Payment discounts||discounts for customers who pay by cash or check|
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Synergy Home Social media
|This is Synergy Home's official Facebook page. Synergy Home produces fine furniture and other products for the home that are intended to evoke a sense of coziness and simplicity. New information regarding goods, sales, promotions, events, and other topics is added to the website on a regular basis. With more than 2,000 likes and more than 2,000 follows, he has a sizable following. The postings on the website are made with an eye on visual appeal. There are several lovely, excellent photos of the furniture and decorations. Numerous entries also include client testimonies and images of clients enjoying their Synergy Home furnishings, demonstrating their satisfaction with their purchases. In order to obtain input, the website also engages people by publishing surveys and posing queries. They also reply to comments promptly, demonstrating their interest in conversing with clients and respect for their viewpoints. The page is generally in excellent shape and offers visitors relevant, fascinating information about their goods and services.|
|YouTube Channel||22 Subscribers|
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Synergy Home Pros & Cons
- energy efficient home automation system
- reducing energy costs through energy management
- manage from anywhere with your mobile device
- the system can be expensive to buy and install.
- troubleshooting can be difficult
- the system may not be compatible with older devices and services
Synergy Home Final ConclusionsThe organization is dedicated to giving its clients green, energy-efficient houses. The business provides a broad variety of services, such as bespoke home building, house remodeling, and energy efficiency enhancements. It is laudable that Synergy Home places a strong emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency since doing so not only allows clients to save their electricity costs but also lowers their carbon impact. The firm assures that its houses are long-lasting, cozy, and healthy to live in by using cutting-edge building methods and premium materials. Overall, Synergy Home's efforts to improve the housing industry's sustainable growth seem to be a positive move. The firm helps to protect natural resources and lower greenhouse gas emissions by constructing environmentally friendly, energy-efficient houses.
Synergy Home locations
|Main Address||801 Winchester Rd. # 200 Lexington, KY 40505|
|Phone Number||(859) 209-6225|
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Two Yale SOM students have been named Kerry Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year.
MBA for Executives student Tunde Fakiyesi ’23 and MBA student Lily Engbith ’24 are among 19 students from across Yale University participating in the program, which is part of the Kerry Initiative, founded by John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate change and the 68th U.S. secretary of state.
Kerry Fellows collaborate with U.S. policy makers on leading-edge research and high-profile publications for a global audience, touching on issues from the global environment to democracy and technology.
“The Kerry Fellows Class of 2023 is an ensemble of accomplished and brilliant minds,” Fakiyesi said. “I hope to learn how low- and medium-income countries could balance the need to cut carbon emissions without jeopardizing economic growth and industrialization. I also hope to study how civil societies could drive multi-sectoral engagement and close the gaping division that threatens democratic institutions.”
Engbith said that she hopes to leverage her Yale experiences to evaluate the implementation of economic development programs that support democratic principles.
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‘Gratitude in so many ways is so dramatically missing in the world today. Without gratitude nothing is enough.’ A film on the nature of gratitude and a love of life.
‘Gratitude in so many ways is so dramatically missing in the world today. Without gratitude nothing is enough. Look what you have.‘ A film on the nature of gratitude and the appreciation of simple things, set around an experience from the Spanish Civil War.
Each of us stand seemingly alone, as we cry out for evidence that we belong. And as we cry out silently through the actions of our every day, we step further from our own sight. Further from the experience of our one same heartbeat. But in the flicker of a single moment …
This is a film about the depths of a journey through cancer. Maybe everything we need in life is right in front of us, yet we choose not to see it. Maybe life shakes us until we wake up to what we really are. And maybe if we don’t take notice, the shaking gets stronger and stronger.
This is a film in which anguish and love live side by side. It deserves your full and undivided attention. If simply for the immense courage it took David to sit unflinchingly in front of the camera. And for the additional courage it took to watch it back, breathe it in, admit it and allow it to be shared freely.
Carlos Enrique Araujo has experienced perhaps the greatest of all tragedies. Yet he chooses to see the world, and those in it, through a quite unexpected lens. Perhaps it points us to the whereabouts of true wealth.
What you will see here, in this astonishing 89 seconds, is a normally reserved man speak from his very depths with no filter to the world. As his wife of many years sat just 12 feet away. Filmed in front of a ‘Soul Biographies Live’ Audience.
This footage is revealing of what is under all Soul Biographies Inner View. Most probably a must for all drawn to the nature of these films. There is a field. This field is the very atmosphere in which I film. It elicits something different in nature. In Dallas, I sat in this field. This time, in front of the camera. And this is what happened.
It occurred to me that ‘between us’ exists the most extraordinary possibility of a meditative experience. I’ve decided to release a collection of accidental short portraits made during Inner View, in the hope that their experience might find you. Humans as Meditation.
‘… there’s so much love in my heart that it scares people to the point where it scares me sometimes.’ This is beautiful. Watch this gently. Watch this attentively. Watch this with yourself in mind. And know this. Wherever I go. Wherever I look. I find people like Anita. I find people like you. | <urn:uuid:bf4e2d72-3a90-4daa-8d5f-23e433293b3f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://soulbiographies.com/library_categories/beauty/page/2/?et_blog | 2023-09-23T17:21:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.956997 | 609 |
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Fresh-faced Humour release their latest single ‘alive and well’ and announce their debut EP.
Showcasing their knack for crafting spooky post-punk, the track is taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Pure Misery’, which is due to be released on the 25th of November.
The opening verse of ‘alive and well’ sounds as if the band got Iain Sterling pissed, told him he’d lost his job, and recorded his reaction. It’s a lyrical perspective which has frontman Andres Christodoulidis pushing phrases of abandon over the barlines; flexing the metre with disregard for the rhythm section’s confident brittleness. When the chorus shatters and Humour begin to step in line, they illuminate – in street lamp orange – their capacity to sound simultaneously untidy, and unyielding.
The Glaswegian group say that ‘alive and well’ aims to “sound like somebody feeling sorry for themselves” […] with underlying tones of wanting to “get away from a place and feeling, but sensing that you won’t ever manage to.”
We’ll never know what Humour are trying to get away from, but with songs like this, they’ve got nothing to feel sorry about.
‘pure misery’ is out on 25.11.22 via So Young Records. Pre order the EP on 12″ Fuchsia vinyl here.
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The Coronavirus that is spreading around the world is already in the United States and it will be coming to North Georgia. Chinese medicine can help.
COVID-19, its official name, is a type of virus called a Coronavirus. There are many types of virus and each can attack the body in different ways. COVID-19 is a respiratory virus that was first seen in humans in Wuhan, China. It has since been diagnosed in countries across the globe and is expanding. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization officially labeled it a pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is recommending that we take precautions as they are confident that it will spread across the country. It is not a question of “if,” but “when.”
COVID-19 has caused deaths. However, in America, the likelihood of death from this virus is fairly low. According to the CDC, the two populations at risk are the elderly/immunocompromised and healthcare workers.COVID-19 causes a fever, cough and difficulty breathing. The symptoms may occur anywhere from two to 14 days after exposure. Many people who are exposed to the virus may not even show symptoms. Others will experience a nasty chest cold.
Currently, there is no specific Western treatment or vaccine. The treatment is “supportive and symptomatic.”
Chinese medicine can help the chances of either preventing or treating COVID-19. Because Chinese medicine (TCM) sees colds and infections differently than Western, it treats them with a different level of success. Remember, COVID-19 is a type of viral infection, like the flu, herpes or even the common cold. Many of my clients know that I can “kick” a cold within two days, and many others understand that one of the benefits of acupuncture on a regular basis is the strengthened immune system that they enjoy. Anyone who has been treated for a cold with TCM can attest to this.
Although you should avoid crowds if you feel you have any sort of infection, having acupuncture before you get sick or in the very early phase can significantly decrease the chances of a cold worsening. The other thing that I am strongly recommending to my clients is that they begin taking an Echinacea complex immediately to boost their immune system. Here at the Spa we carry Xenoforce, which is an excellent choice. Come in today before you get sick and allow Chinese medicine to strengthen you and reduce your chances of getting ill. | <urn:uuid:6c12e2ad-522e-409c-b9fb-bd92d66ff6f9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://spaongreenstreet.com/stay-healthy-chinese-medicine/ | 2023-09-23T16:46:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.968083 | 516 |
Intel has already released solid-state drives powered by the new 3D XPoint memory technology it pioneered with Micron Technology. But what got people excited was the potential to use the same technology as a computer’s main memory—potentially kicking aside DRAM and replacing it with something that doesn’t lose its data if the computer loses power.
Because 3D XPoint is nonvolatile, like flash memory, it should allow nearly instant recovery from power losses and software glitches. In addition, “this kind of memory is cheaper and denser than DRAM,” says Yan Solihin, professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. “So people are predicting—including myself—that eventually DRAM will gradually be replaced by this memory.”
But XPoint isn’t perfect. It’s more expensive in terms of both energy and the time it takes data to be written to it than DRAM, Solihin points out. Last week at the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, in Los Angeles, his team came up with a way to cut down on the amount of writing needed, thus speeding up the memory.
Today, storing data that’s in a computer’s main memory, making it “persistent,” means converting it into a series of bytes for transport to a solid-state drive or hard disk drive, where it’s stored as a file. But if the memory itself is nonvolatile, just like the drive, there’s much less need for that time-consuming process.
Even so, you still need a process that prevents records from getting corrupted in the case of a crash. For example, you could be updating a mailing address. That would involve copying the original data from memory to the processor’s cache—SRAM memory that’s superfast because it’s integrated onto the processor chip. When the job is finished, the various fields have to be sent from the cache and stored in the nonvolatile memory. But what if, say, a crash occurred after all the address fields except the city field had made it to the nonvolatile memory? That would leave you with a record containing bad data when the program starts up again.
The state-of-the-art method of preventing such a situation is called eager persistency, explains Solihin, a Fellow of the IEEE. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of overhead, adding about 9 percent to transaction times. That overhead includes a lot of writing to nonvolatile memory, about 21 percent more, when things are going well and nothing has crashed. Extra writing is a problem for nonvolatile memories generally, because they have a finite lifetime that’s measured in writes.
The NC State method, called lazy persistency, turns eager persistency’s method on its head. During normal operation, it requires very little, but when stuff goes wrong, it needs a bit more work to set things right. Crashes are rare, says Solihin, “so we want to make the common case really fast.”
To understand how it works, you have to know a bit about how the cache ordinarily does its job. Solihin uses the analogy of a tool belt and a truck. If you’re a contractor on a job, you bring all your tools in the truck (main memory), but just what you’ll need right away on your belt (the cache). Then as you complete different jobs and need different tools, you go out to the truck and swap the least used tool on your belt for the next thing you need in the truck. The cache keeps the most recently used data and moves, or evicts, the least recently used data to main memory.
In addition to this “natural eviction,” eager persistency adds artificial eviction at a high rate to guard against losing data during a crash. Rather than use eager persistency’s high-overhead scheme, lazy persistency just lets this existing cache system work, counting on the fact that the data in the cache will eventually be evicted to the nonvolatile XPoint memory. The difference is that lazy persistency also stores a number called a checksum, a small bit of data that can be used to determine if a larger portion of data has changed. When things do go wrong, the processor calculates checksums for data it still has and compares it to the checksum for the same data in the nonvolatile memory. If they don’t match up, the processor knows it has to go back and redo its work.
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General Electric has developed a way to convert natural gas using a combination of fuel cell and an engine, an approach it hopes will finally result in broad adoption of stationary fuel cells.
The industrial giant's research arm on Tuesday disclosed details on its solid-oxide fuel cell research efforts and said it has started a pilot line at a factory in upstate New York to manufacture the generators. As first reported here last year, GE has achieved relatively high efficiency by coupling two generators and hopes to bring down costs by using cheaper materials.
Instead of using expensive platinum or other rare metals as catalysts, GE's fuel cell uses stainless steel, the company says. It generates electricity by flowing fuel through stacks of ceramic plates where a chemical reaction between the fuel and oxygen from incoming air occurs between a positive and negative electrode at high temperatures.
The core technical innovation lies in the ceramic plates, GE materials scientist Kristen Brosnan said in a statement. The anode and zirconium-oxide electrolyte layers are deposited using a thermal spray technology now used to protect parts inside GE jet engines. The cathode is a printable ceramic material GE developed. "Our materials are easy to apply, can handle large temperature swings and last a long time," says Brosnan.
GE engineers have also taken advantage of another generator in its product portfolio—its Jenbacher gas engine—to squeeze more electricity from the available fuel. The natural gas-to-electricity conversion produces exhaust gases, which contain a mixture of hydrogen and carbon. This synthetic gas, or syngas, is fed into the engine to produce additional power. Combined, GE estimates it can turn 65 percent of the usable energy from natural gas into electricity. Bloom Energy, which also makes a solid-oxide fuel cell, says its fuel cells are about 60 percent efficient. Using the waste heat from this process, GE thinks it can get to 95 percent energy efficiency.
In the U.S., there has been a surge in interest in distributed power generation and microgrids in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and other storms, which knocked out power for long periods of time. Fuel cells, which compete with micro-turbines and engines for distributed power, are considered reliable for baseload power generation but tend to be more expensive per kilowatt.
Improving the efficiency of power conversion is one way to make fuel cells more cost competitive with other sources of distributed power generation. The low cost of natural gas in the U.S, thanks to a drilling boom, is also making distributed generation more competitive compared to grid power.
Stationary fuel cells are already being used in places, such as wastewater treatment plants or commercial buildings that want a reliable source of power. eBay and Apple have both installed multi-megawatt fuel cells from Bloom Energy at their cutting-edge data centers. Some utilities, too, are experimenting with using distributed fuel cells to generate power locally rather than from central power plants.
For its part, GE is bullish on natural gas for distributed energy. Its research organization is developing a number of products, such as liquid and compressed natural gas fueling stations for vehicles and on-site power generation. Its fuel cells, which can generate between one megawatt and ten megawatts, could be used to power remote industrial sites, such as mining operations or drilling, and locations that lack the electric grid but have access to local natural gas sources.
At a commercial level, though, fuel-cell companies have tended to struggle financially. Earlier this week, for instance, fuel-cell maker ClearEdge Power, which had declared bankruptcy earlier this year, was bought by a South Korean conglomerate after failing to attract enough customers.
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THE ENGINEER’S PLACEMy favorite electrical engineer is Vannevar Bush and whenever I grapple with a gnarly problem involving EEs, I turn to him for guidance.
Over the course of his protean life (1890-1974) as an electrical engineer and applied mathematician, Bush produced valuable insights into all matters technological. The world’s leading computer architect in the 1930s and a pioneer in cryptographic hardware in the 1940s, Bush served as President Franklin Roosevelt’s science adviser during World War II—and found time to organize the Manhattan Project and to author a visionary article (in 1945 for) on the future of personal information devices and social networks. In the article “As We May Think,” published in July 1945 The Atlantic Monthly, he is credited with anticipating the personal computer and the Internet.
I spent much of the 1990s studying Bush’s life and times for a biography of him. This year I began re-reading many of his seminal essays, letters and private papers for a volume of his neglected writings. In the process, I came across a fascinating address he gave to the American Engineering Council on the vexing question of how best to think about the place of electrical engineers in the world. Bush had an answer.
Speaking in January 1939, on the eve of World War II, when Americans were trying to decide whether to mobilize for a global war, he presented a distinctive (and still relevant) way of thinking about what kind of profession is electrical engineering, and the nature of the obligations that EEs owe society.
The son of a Protestant minister of some renown in his native Massachusetts, Bush surmised that the engineer—and other emerging professions in an egalitarian country such as scientist, doctor, lawyer and teacher—had their roots in spirituality and the ancient search for meaning in a confusing world.
Photo-Illustration: Edmon de Haro
“We can start far back” before recorded history, Bush began. “In every primitive tribe there was some sort of medicine man. He was a man apart, the adviser of the clan rather than its titular leader. He spoke, in his field, with authority, and this rested upon a special knowledge which he was supposed to possess. The medicine man was the progenitor of the professional man of today” and, in particular, “The descent of the engineer from the medicine man has been highly involved.”
Bush went on to trace “a central thread” running from the shaman to early priests in organized religions to the contemporary engineer. Spiritual leaders, like engineers today, lived by “a strict code of conduct.” They “trained neophytes, subjected them to a long period of apprenticeship, initiated them into the mysteries, and inculcated in them pride in the cult, and rigid discipline in its formulas.” As engineers do now, initiation into the field required surmounting “intellectual hurdles” and learning “a special language.” Moreover, then as now, the shaman “sat as adviser in councils of the mighty. But more essential than all of these, he ministered to the people.”
The concept of ministry is central to responsible, ethical engineering, Bush insisted. “Ministry carries with it the ideas of dignity and authority,” he explained. “It connotes no weakness and offers no apology. The word has been carried into diplomatic usage; and in the derived form of administer into law and business. There is no fog of subservience surrounding the concept. The physician who ministers to his client takes charge by right of superior specialized knowledge of a highly personal aspect of the affairs of the individual. The attorney assumes professional responsibility for guiding the legal acts of his client and speaks with the whole authority of the statutes as a background. It is in this higher sense that we trace the thread of ministry to the people.”
And no less should be demanded of the engineer writ large. “The great mission of the engineer,” Bush insisted, “lies in intelligent, aggressive, devoted ministration to the people.”
The ideal of “ministering to the people” isn’t the animating principle behind required courses in university EE programs nor does it translate easily into a code of conduct for individual engineers. Bush’s model for the social role of the engineer is frankly revelatory and even revolutionary. His model is aspirational, situation-dependent, protean—and well-suited for times in which the stuff humans build destabilize traditional ways of life and undermine longstanding values.
The revolutionary road of course co-exists and co-evolves with what we might call, following the historian of science Thomas Kuhn, “normal” engineering.
“Normal” engineers maximize stability, and honor traditions through respect for “path dependence,” a term which refers to those forces that keep things the same, or minimize change. Normal engineering emphasizes individual conduct and celebrates personal choices that are fair and responsible and reflect the integrity of effective technical practices. The concept of normal engineering fits well within the overall framework of the engineer who fixes things. Energetic and excellent maintenance, pragmatic sustainability, judicious redundancy and novel feedback loops that correct or reduce errors: all of these traits typify “normal” engineering and are hallmarks of responsible practice.
The perception of “engineers being able to fix things has contributed to the confusion” between the radical and conservative aspects of engineering, explains historian Henry Petroski in his valuable book, The Essential Engineer. Petroski identifies a basic cleavage between engineers with “a talent for devising ingenious devices and systems and the locomotive-driving kind, who take their name from the engines they operate and tend.”
Petroski adds: “While denim-clad train-driving engineers are expected to focus on the long and narrow right-of-way before them, [ingenious] engineers are expected to have well-developed peripheral vision and so see also to the sides of the right-of-way and even to project conditions well beyond the horizon.”
Where a particular engineer fits on the continuum between revelatory and normal requires study and depends on specific circumstances. Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
Yet even visionaries spend much time on “normal” projects of narrow scope. In the life of a single successful engineer, the impulse toward revolution, and the tug of tradition and stasis, struggle to achieve balance.
While there is an essential tension between the two modes of engineering mentality, a search for common ground is necessary and desirable, I think. One way to discover, or rather more aptly, to build bridges between the two modes is to advance a common project—a project that appeals to both sides of the electrical engineer’s personality and honors the importance of innovation while respecting the value of tradition.. My choice: the need to reinvent electricity.
After all, the unifier among electrical engineers, who span such diverse fields as computing, power generation and transportation, is the centrality of electricity to the stuff they build, maintain, refine and advance. Given the importance—some might even say urgency—of reducing or even eliminating the carbon footprint of electrical generation, perhaps EEs should choose to make reducing the carbon footprint of electricity a collective professional goal?
Pursuit of the goal would engage both sides of the EE, the conventional side and the rebel side of the engineer. Carbon-free electricity—through a combination of renewables, nuclear, better batteries and other innovations on the horizon—would bring concrete benefits to the peoples of the world while at the same time elevating the image of EEs among the pantheon of professions and within the corridors of power. | <urn:uuid:bc41975f-8557-49e0-af06-eaa38dd488c9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://spectrum.ieee.org/what-engineers-and-shamans-have-in-common | 2023-09-23T17:43:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.957278 | 1,657 |
Using his own desire for immortality as the main driving force, Peeters set out to find out if there is life after death.
As a starting point he focused on the 'voice without a body', a phenomenon ghostly by definition. In a quest for the alleged connection between this 'disembodied' voice, death and afterlife, he explored both past and future. Disguised as a spiritualist he infiltrated the end of the 19th century to mingle there with prominent scientists and revisit the fantasies and mysteries that surrounded popular inventions of the time. Simultaneously, he catapulted himself to the end of the 21st century to see what developments in voice technology will be used to resurrect the dead, and what hard- or software can help spirits and ghosts gain access to a body again.
Navigating between history and science-fiction, and between skepticism and faith, Peeters lead an expedition through the grim and moist tunnels that connect science with magic and technology with horror. He returned to the present at regular intervals to report back the findings of his quest. In 2017 he presented the lecture 'How to Invoke Apparitions' and the installation 'Apparition of an Afterlife' in Netwerk Aalst and at Impakt Festival in Utrecht (NL). He also hosted two public talks with three eerie guests at La Bellone in Brussels. In the beginning of 2018 he showed the lecture-performance 'Apparitions Schizophoniques' at Vivat in Armentières (F), performed the radio-play 'Apparitionals' in Théâtre de Poche Hédé (Rennes, F) and at Nona (Mechelen, B) in collaboration with Radio Klara. At Buda (Kortrijk, B) he showed a short dance-piece 'Muted Appartionals' and a ghostly reading called 'Spectrophilia' with Andros Zins-Browne and Stina Nyberg. He also presented some drawings and artefacts during the exhibition 'Traces of Apparitions' at STUK in Leuven (B) and showed the performance 'Forgotten Futures' during the Playground Festival. In 2019 he made 'Apparitions (the show)' and presents 'Spectrophilia' in Stockholm (SE). In 2020, for their Paranoia TV platform, steirisher herbst festival (Graz, AT) commissioned 'The Dr. Delusion Show' - a TV-series in 3 episodes. | <urn:uuid:a8da9cf0-fa3a-408b-be31-d66b90012461> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://spinspin.be/diederik-peeters/apparitions-2017-2019/ | 2023-09-23T18:00:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.940162 | 520 |
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I am a daughter of Mother Earth and a teacher of feminine spiritual mysteries. Every breath arises from The Heart of the Mother, and I breathe her love into life. She is the mother of all creation who leads us with her partner, Father Sun, to wholeness. When we return to her embrace, we discover our spirit family that ranges from earth to the stars and never feel abandoned again. This is what she has taught me in my 72 years as a child, mother, grandmother, and lover.
Mystics do not have answers; they have experiences.
My passion and spiritual directive are to enliven, inspire, and empower those who desire to be whole. When we heal the split between body and spirit we are able to carry the deepest spiritual transmission, which is to radiate joy, balance, and strength daily. I have been gifted, through spiritual transmission, with the ability to activate awareness of the loving universe, subtle energy perception, and healing and empowerment. As a committed student for over 50 years in the Sufi, Andean, and Taoist traditions, I am entrusted with transmitting the universal teachings of love, harmony, and beauty. I continue to honor and welcome the living teachings of the ancient ones and hope to open doors to a wondrous multi-dimensional human experience.
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Finally, I wish to honor the beloved masters of this lifetime who showed patience, love, and great wisdom, as they guided this unruly wild child of the sixties into a mature spiritual lineage holder. They are the inspirational masters Sufi Sherdil Amin, (Sufi) Master Tianyou Hao, (Taoist), and Juan Nunez del Prado, (Andean) and The Heart of the Mother (forever and beyond), Thank you.
Sarah Weiss Credentials
Founder of SpiritHeal Institute and The Inner Light Ministry
Leader of Healing Activities for The Fraternity of Light
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Case-Western Reserve University
Kent State University
The College of Wooster
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In this article, we will discuss MELO IMAI.
Melo Imai was born on 26 October 1987 in Suminoe-ku, Osaka. She is a Japanese TV celebrity and half-pipe snowboarder her first name is Narita.
Imai’s dad is snowboarding coach Takashi Narita, and she owns two brothers: retired snowboarder Dome Narita and trampoliner Grim Narita.
She quit snowboarding after the 2006 Winter Olympics and evolved as a television broadcaster, then a nude model emerging in many gravure DVDs.
In 2017 she maintained a short profession as an adult film actress and in 2018 declared a comeback to snowboarding.
The exact year she succeeded the All-Japan Snowboarding Championships.
|Date of birth||October 26, 1987|
|Place of birth||Tokyo, Japan|
TV personality, half-pipe snowboarder
From the years of 7, Imai’s dad, snowboarding coach Takashi Narita, coached her and her brother Dome in snowboarding.
They got coached up to 18 hours a day, and when they completed high school, he had them do without post-secondary education to aim at snowboarding.
She has said that she is jealous of others her age for being capable of leading normal lives, and at one point tried to kill her life by cutting her wrists.
Early Snowboarding Career
She expert in the half-pipe. She took part in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, but arrived last after hardly injuring herself. Upon her come back to Japan, she sorrows public shame, with commenters shouting at her as “a waste of tax money” and “a national shame”.
She later commented, “For numerous athletes, the Olympics are the height of their career, but for me, it was a hell.” She suffered from depression and quit the sport.
After quitting the sport, she sustained herself over the years by laboring in bars and soon evolved as a hostess and then an escort, performing three days at a sex parlor.
She shifted to emerging in television shows as a parent and as a nude model in adult content publications.
Between 2014 and 2016 she was seen in over a dozen nude gravure DVDs, a genre of softcore pornography, all of the content being made by the company Kingdom.
In 2017 she got her hardcore adult video début in Snow Drop and Snow Out. Both movies were cast by Muteki, an AV company looking to make adult films for first time of gravure models and minor stars.
Upon being questioned why she didn’t keep a longer career in AV, she said that she was more curious about a comeback to snowboarding and “didn’t like to exaggerate it in AV”.
Return to Snowboarding
She came back to snowboarding in 2017 and succeeded in gold at the All-Japan Snowboarding Championships in 2018.
She has a son and daughter, whom she has grown as a single mother.
She has said that she is not guilty of her past in adult content, as she did it freely out of the necessity for money, and believes herself to have been a good mother who did everything to give a good life to her children.
MELO IMAI Age
Melo Imai was born on 26 October 1987 in Suminoe-ku, Osaka. She is 35 years old.
MELO IMAI Records
Here are the records made by her as follows:
|2004 All-Japan Ski Championship Tournament Snowboard Competition||March 20, 2004||1st|
|FIS Snowboarding World Cup event||January 22, 2005||2nd|
MELO IMAI Achievements
Here is the list of achievements she got in her career as follows:
|Won the All-Japan Ski Championship Tournament Snowboard Competition||2004|
|Won an FIS Snowboarding World Cup event||2005|
|Represented Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics||2006|
|Won the halfpipe at the 35th All-Japan Snowboarding Championships||2017|
|Appeared on several Japanese TV shows||2010-present|
|Appeared in several magazines and commercials||2010-present|
a. How old is Melo Imai?
She was born on October 26, 1987. She is 35 years old.
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Professor: California Decision May Force NCAA to Amend Rules on Income
Patrick Rishe is director of the sports business program at Olin Business School at Washington University, recently offered some insights on California governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to sign a bill that will allow California athletes to earn money from the use of their names, images and likenesses.
The California passage of this bill will eventually generate a domino effect that will ultimately lead to the NCAA allowing student-athletes to receive compensation for their name, image, and likeness, according to Professor Rishe. He added:
“The California legislation is the first of many states who are either currently pursuing or planning to pursue similar legislation in those states.
“That states are acting someone in concert on this matter shows the degree of universal disapproval of the NCAA’s rules as it pertains to disallowing student-athletes to capitalize on their own marketability.
“The hope would be that if other states pass similar legislation in the next year, this will ultimately cause the NCAA to simply amend their rules in a manner that allows all student-athletes the ability to cash in on their NIL, and thus, essentially negating the need for individual states to have to pursue such legislation.
“There are parallels here with the current phenomenon of states considering whether to allow sports gambling. One-by-one, slowly but surely, many states are pursuing this. In this way, this domino effect with respect to the passage of sports gambling laws may become similar to the domino effect of states approving laws allowing student-athletes to cash in on their NIL.
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By Paul Alper
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes
On the Fritz – Unknown. Attested from 1902, originally meaning “in a bad way” or “in bad condition”, malfunctioning of an appliance. Perhaps from German name Fritz, or by onomatopoeia (here, imitating the sound of electric sparks jumping).
In statistics, Bayesianism plays an important role. According to Wikipedia, Thomas Bayes was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes’ theorem. Bayes never published what would become his most famous accomplishment; his notes were edited and published after his death.
Bayes’ theorem is the way of combining what one currently believes with the new data in order to come up with an updated belief. In fact, this is how things like machine learning and weather forecasting are done successfully. Eventually, enough new data can override/supplement initial beliefs. Keynes was thus a Bayesian, albeit a couple of hundred years after Bayes.
Giving up a previous position is never easy – people are not machines – and note that the Keynesian quotation is, in fact, apocryphal. To illustrate further how resistant to updating humans are, consider Karen King, a distinguished Harvard professor, as discussed in Ariel Sabar’s book, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife.
Karen King would seem to me to be a classic case of someone, who despite (because of?) being very accomplished, just cannot accept that her idée fixe – Mary Magdalen was both wife and lead disciple of Jesus – could be wrong. In passing, I should note that my long-standing personal idée fixe is that academics in general suffer the same affliction. She is also typical in that when evidence arises that counters her convictions, she actively attempts to dismiss its importance. For details regarding her (mis)weighing of the data, see Mark Oppenheim’s review of Sabar’s book in the New York Times.
The other main character in the book is the con man, Walter Fritz, who may indeed for all I know, be an expert on Bayesianism. He seems to be knowledgeable in Egyptology, papyrology, sex video productions and, for good measure, he was the head of the Stasi museum in Berlin. More importantly, he knew how to exploit the weakness of his mark. He delivered to King precisely what she wanted to be true. Sabar expends a great deal of shoe-leather journalism to find the gaps in Fritz’s storyline and King’s willingness to be a believer. Almost right to the end, she never was onto Fritz or heard the electric sparks jumping.
But apparently this failure to hear the sparks jumping also afflicts the half of the US who believe deeply, truly and incorrectly that the 2020 election was rigged by The Deep State, an entity so shadowy that finding no evidence of its existence is further proof of its existence. Currently, because of the mob raid on the United States Capitol, Republican legislators are in a Bayesian quandary as to if, when and how to leave the Trump ship. The new data really aren’t all that different from the old data but after a while, as they say, enough is enough, especially when fascist-type behavior is captured on video immediately after deep-south Georgia elected two Democrats to the United States Senate. I am tempted to repeat my favorite quotation from a TV program of my youth:
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time—and them’s pretty good odds.”
Paul Alper is an emeritus professor at the University of St. Thomas, having retired in 1998. For several decades, he regularly contributed Notes from North America to Higher Education Review. He is almost the exact age of Woody Allen and the Dalai Lama and thus, was fortunate to be too young for some wars and too old for other ones. In the 1990s, he was awarded a Nike sneaker endorsement which resulted in his paper, Imposing Views, Imposing Shoes: A Statistician as a Sole Model; it can be found at The American Statistician, August 1995, Vol 49, No. 3, pages 317 to 319. | <urn:uuid:90190363-ea64-44a7-a428-232be5b28a98> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://srheblog.com/2021/01/15/bayes-keynes-king-and-fritz-fake-news-and-academics-with-fixed-ideas/ | 2023-09-23T18:46:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.966845 | 934 |
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Issuing a statement Friday Forum has questioned the delay in investigations and taking legal action on prominent cases like murder of the young rugby player Thajudeen, the murder and the disappearance of several journalists and some politicians, criminal abuse of power to amass enormous wealth with no credible source of income or legal transfer of property to account for them, and corrupt and irresponsible conduct of persons holding public office.
It further says that “upholding the rule of law, and taking action against those who have violated the law was a principal undertaking given to the citizens when the President and many in the present Government sought our votes and were elected to public office. Let them not betray the trust placed in their commitment to good governance and Yahapalanaya. The President and Prime Minister in particular, have an important responsibility for leadership in this regard. Problems in governance do not justify inaction, fault finding and retracting promises made to the people to give leadership in good governance.”
Full text of the statement follows:
In November 2016, Friday Forum issued a statement (Ruler’s Laws and the Rule of Law) deploring the growing denial of the rule of law in the decade ending in 2014. Friday Forum requested the Government to speedily work on many fronts to restore the supremacy of the law in relations between Government and persons, and among persons themselves, including legal entities.
Where is justice for Thajudeen?
Developments since then impel Friday Forum now to deplore the failures of the present Government to uphold the rule of law by bringing before courts persons alleged to have broken the law. Initial steps taken by the Government in this direction with regard to some allegations held out hope that the processes for seeking justice would gather some momentum.
These inquiries include those relating to the murder of the young rugby player Thajudeen, the murder and the disappearance of several journalists and some politicians, criminal abuse of power to amass enormous wealth with no credible source of income or legal transfer of property to account for them, and corrupt and irresponsible conduct of persons holding public office.
We fail to understand why, where there is ample evidence that politicians had committed offences for which other citizens are routinely prosecuted, remanded, denied bail and/or permission to leave the country, are treated by the law entirely differently. The President’s recent public statements on the appointment of a High Court Judge has created further confusion in the public mind on the functioning of the legal system. Is it acceptable to disregard obligations under the Constitution in regard to appointments to the judiciary and then seek to make others accountable for interference in the process?
Why the justice system is so ineffective?
This country prides itself in the possession of a system and institutions that can bring perpetrators of grave crimes to justice. We as citizens rightfully expect that investigations would be conducted and judicial proceedings completed without inordinate delay. Close to 24 months is not too short a period in which to have taken measures to drive some vigour and dynamism into these procedures and re-establish the supremacy of the law in our society. The Government has an obligation to explain why the justice system is so ineffective.
Friday Forum also observes with deep concern the serious deterioration in standards of conduct of holders of public office. Despite the recent Report of the Committee on Public Enterprises providing detailed information on the bonds scam and the even more recent incident of the Head of Police, in a telephone call overheard by many over a microphone, reportedly assuring his Minister that a relative of his would not be arrested, those accused of these violations have yet to be held accountable.
State accounting procedure requires that all Government revenue from whatever source be credited to the Consolidated Fund. We note that blatant violation of this procedure when the sale proceeds of billions of rupees from the disposal of the State-owned land occupied by the military in Colombo Fort to foreign companies was credited to an account controlled by selected members of the armed services and Defence Ministry. To date there have been no prosecutions of those responsible. No action has been taken by the Government in respect of these violations.
Non-release of the Welikada prison massacre report
The public is also aware of the horrendous tragedy that took place in November 2012 in Welikada prison, where 27 inmates of the prison were killed. The Government, as custodians of these prisoners, was responsible for their personal security within the prison. Several Committees of Inquiry have reported on what are alleged to have been acts of violence against prisoners but none of these reports have been made available to the public, vitiating the entire purpose of spending substantial amounts of tax payer’s money on the inquiries.
There was renewed hope of a search for justice when this Government, after assuming office, appointed another Committee of Inquiry which duly submitted its report. The Government to date, has neither made this report available to the public, nor taken any visible steps to refer these reports to the relevant authorities, so that action is taken against those alleged to be responsible for these deaths. This inaction brings indelible shame on any civilised society.
The Friday Forum raised the issue of the right of the public to access this report. We even received a copy of a letter from the Prime Minister’s office addressed to the Minister of Justice, requesting a copy of the report to be issued to us. Meanwhile newspapers publish what they say are contents of this important report. To date the report has not been released as a public document. Friday Forum requests the Government to officially publish the report, without delay, making it accessible to the public. Persons alleged to be implicated in this horrendous episode, must be referred to the authorities for prosecution of any acts of violence.
Upholding the rule of law, and taking action against those who have violated the law was a principal undertaking given to the citizens when the President and many in the present Government sought our votes and were elected to public office. Let them not betray the trust placed in their commitment to good governance and Yahapalanaya. The President and Prime Minister in particular, have an important responsibility for leadership in this regard. Problems in governance do not justify inaction, fault finding and retracting promises made to the people to give leadership in good governance.
Dr. G. Usvatte-aratchi, Dr. A.C. Visvalingam, Prof. Arjuna Aluwihare, Professor Savitri Goonesekere, Bishop Duleep de Chickera, Rev. Dr. Jayasiri Peiris, S.C.C. Elankovan, Prof. Camena Guneratne, Dr. Upatissa Pethiyagoda, Shanthi Dias, Faiz-ur Rahman, Ahilan Kadirgamar, Professor Gananath Obeyesekere, Prashan de Visser, Chandra Jayaratne
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Sri Lanka’s new project looking to establish gaming in the coming weeks Forces! Sri Lanka's Economic Commission will regulate gaming activities and licence procedures in light of a $1.4bn project by the state-owned Chinese engineering firm Local media in Sri Lanka reported that a Chinese-controlled special economic zone, to be established in Colombo Port City will soon have a regulation that will cover gaming. This draft law will be presented in parliament soon. The development of “Sri Lanka’s new Dubai” was launched in 2014 by Sri-Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Chinese President Xi Jinping. It is designed to be a smaller Singapore. It is the largest single foreign direct investment in Sri Lankan history – a $1.4bn (£1.1bn) project by the state-owned Chinese engineering firm China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). The city will be administered by Colombo Port City Economic Commission, with a board appointed by the President of Sri Lanka and a Director General. The Special Zone is expected to bring a variety of investments including offshore banking to boost economic activity. The Economic Commission will also “regulate gaming activities within the Area of Authority of the Colombo Port City and where required to make regulations for the management of such activities.” The commission will also determine “the attributes of gaming locations within the Area of Authority of the Colombo Port City, and specify the manner in which gaming activities are to be carried on or be operated, and the procedure for obtaining a licence and the licence fees, royalties to be paid and any other related matter, as may be necessary.” The Economic Commission will have authority to grant exemptions or incentives under The Betting and Gaming Levy Act No 40 of 1988 and Casino Business (Regulation) Act Nov 17 of 2010. There are currently five casinos operating in Sri Lanka, four of which are located in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. However, monks and other activists opposed the setting up two new casinos linked to foreign operators a few years ago. Sri Lanka previously raised its annual casino license fees from 200 million to 400 million rupees, as well as adding a turnover tax of 15% and an entrance fee for locals, in the year 2019.
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The Industries’ Leading Localization Provider, GTH Translation & Indispensable iGaming, Land-based Gaming, and Deep Tech Event Organizer, SiGMA Join Forces! GTH translation has today announced a media partnership with SiGMA, which will see these two companies working together to create and boost iGaming awareness through events and multi-content channels. [21st, July, 2020] - GTH Translation, the industries leading localization provider who has been providing localization and content services for companies in the iGaming industry for over a decade, and SiGMA, the leading provider of iGaming events and news, have today announced a joint media partnership. The media partnership will see the two firms working together to enhance the awareness of various gaming verticals, and this will see GTH and SiGMA producing a range of content to drive this awareness forward. “We’re delighted and excited to have agreed a media partnership with SiGMA”, said Ildiko Gyimesi, the Director of Business Operations at GTH translation. “We’ve been working with SiGMA over the past 4 months and in that time we’ve come a long way, especially towards the enhancement of the iGaming industry as a whole. At GTH, we already serve a vast array of clients providing online gaming localization & content services so given this opportunity to align ourselves with one of the biggest players in this space, we couldn’t refuse. SiGMA are huge and their events and content are the cornerstone of the iGaming industry. As part of our agreement, GTH Translation will be providing a range of content that’s based around the iGaming space, and we will be working closely with potential speakers, regulators and influencers within the LatAm iGaming Market. We will also be promoting the SiGMA LatAm Summit, as well as promoting press releases produced by SiGMA.” “We were very happy and excited when presented with the media partnership with GTH Translation”, said Sophie Crouzet, SiGMA’s Group COO. “They have been a strong supporter of the iGaming industry and of SiGMA as a whole too. As part of our media partnership with GTH, we will be publishing GTH’s unique content articles on our SiGMA News section. We’ll also be providing GTH with 3 media passes to our events in Malta and they will have access to conferences and workshops at our SiGMA Group events. We’re also in the process of arranging exclusive ad-hoc interviews with them, which will be on a mutually chosen topic. Another big plus will be the co-creation of marketing content, which is going to be supported and endorsed by both parties." Watch this space, as both GTH Translation and SiGMA will be producing a range of content which focuses on the iGaming, Land-based gaming and Deep Tech industry.For reviews, news and interviews within the iGaming space, both GTH and SiGMA have you covered! SiGMA will be hosting the Focus Latam Virtual Summit on 22nd to 24th September 2020. Go ahead and reserve your place at this eagerly awaited event here - https://www.sigma.com.mt/en/events/latam Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin
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Religiousness and Spiritual Support among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations with End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life
PURPOSE: Religion and spirituality play a role in coping with illness for many cancer patients. This study examined religiousness and spiritual support in advanced cancer patients of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds and associations with quality of life (QOL), treatmentpreferences, and advance care planning. METHODS: The Coping With Cancer study is a federally funded, multi-institutional investigation examining factors associated with advanced cancer patient and caregiver well-being. Patients with an advanced cancer diagnosis and failure of first-line chemotherapy were interviewed at baseline regarding religiousness, spiritual support, QOL, treatment preferences, and advance care planning. RESULTS: Most (88%) of the study population (N = 230) considered religion to be at least somewhat important. Nearly half (47%) reported that their spiritual needs were minimally or not at all supported by a religious community, and 72% reported that their spiritual needs were supported minimally or not at all by the medical system. Spiritual support by religious communities or the medical system was significantly associated with patient QOL (P = .0003). Religiousness was significantly associated with wanting all measures to extend life (odds ratio, 1.96; 95% CI, 1.08 to 3.57). CONCLUSION: Many advanced cancer patients’ spiritual needs are not supported by religious communities or the medical system, and spiritual support is associated with better QOL. Religious individuals more frequently want aggressive measures to extend life. | <urn:uuid:d527b111-8672-4414-acac-1cd9d45046b4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://staging.transformchaplaincy.org/2017/10/25/religiousness-and-spiritual-support-among-advanced-cancer-patients-and-associations-with-end-of-life-treatment-preferences-and-quality-of-life/ | 2023-09-23T18:03:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.957574 | 321 |
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- The population in remote Queensland declined in 2019 by 0.6% while the overall population of Queensland climbed by 1.7%
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we live and work, and football is no exception. With the increasing application of AI technologies, football clubs are leveraging data analytics, computer vision, and machine learning to gain a competitive edge in player recruitment, match analysis, and performance optimization. This article explores the potential of AI in football and its implications for the future of the sport.
AI in Player Recruitment
Football clubs are using AI-based data analytics to identify potential players and assess their performance objectively. The analysis of player data based on a range of metrics, including height, weight, speed, and agility, can help clubs understand a player’s strengths and weaknesses and their suitability for specific positions. AI-based scouting software allows clubs to draw insights from data and accelerate the recruitment process. For example, FC Midtjylland, a Danish football club, has been using a data-driven recruitment approach to great success and has launched a company called “Signality” that aims to provide clubs with better analytics.
AI in Match Analysis
Football has always been a game of strategy, and AI-powered match analysis is helping managers develop more effective game plans. AI-based computer vision systems can capture and analyze vast amounts of data on players and tactics in real-time and provide insights that humans could not detect. This includes ball movement, player position, and running speed, which can help coaches identify tactical weaknesses and strengths, and fine-tune their game plans. Moreover, AI-generated data can aid referees in decision-making, such as offside calls, by providing quick and accurate information.
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AI technologies are enabling football teams to optimize player performance and reduce the risk of injuries. By using sensors mounted on the players, coaches and trainers can monitor physiological data, such as heart rate, oxygen levels, and muscle stress, and use this data to develop personalized training and conditioning programs. This data can also provide early warning of potential physical ailments, such as fatigue or overexertion, allowing teams to take preventive measures quickly. GPS tracking systems may also be used as teams interact on the soccer pitch. Looking to delve further into the topic? Visit ahead, external material we’ve put together for you.
The future of AI in football is bright, and its impact is already being felt. From player recruitment to game analysis to performance optimization, AI technologies are revolutionizing the way football is played, coached, and managed. As AI continues to evolve, we can expect to see even more advanced applications, including prediction of injuries, and translating of player interviews in real time. The most innovative and technologically advanced football clubs will be the ones who take full advantage of the benefits of AI.
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Despite not having played football since the middle of September, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is still taking hits.
The latest came not from an opposing defensive lineman, but from Jay Glazer of Fox Sports, who had some harsh criticism of Roethlisberger’s physical fitness Tuesday in The Athletic. Glazer’s comments were in response to a mailbag question asking if the Steelers will be improved in 2020, even if Roethlisberger were to be just 85% of the player he was prior to his injury.
“First of all, let’s not put the words fitness and Ben Roethlisberger together, they are allergic to each other,” Glazer said. “There is no fitness in Ben Roethlisberger. His idea of a great off-season workout program is doing one yoga session, playing golf, and drinking some beer.”
Glazer isn’t the first media member to take a shot at Roethlisberger’s physique, and he likely won’t be the last. Former NFL quarterback and radio host Sean Salisbury had similar criticisms of Roethlisberger on his podcast back in 2017, saying he needed to “make the commitment to getting in shape.”
Roethlisberger responded to those remarks by leading the NFL with 5,129 passing yards the following season. He also led the league in completions and attempts. The truth is, Roethlisberger’s level of fitness has never been a problem when it comes to his performance on the field.
Still, the 16-year veteran has been adamant about the quality of his health and conditioning for a while now. Heading into his productive 2018 campaign, Roethlisberger told Ed Bouchette, then of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that he was in the best shape of his career heading into training camp. A little over a month ago, Roethlisberger expressed to Ron Cook of the Post-Gazette that he feels even better now heading into year 17.
“I’ve heard people say I’m fat, and that just blows my mind,” Roethlisberger said. “I’m lighter and in better shape than I was in either of the past two years. … I haven’t stopped working out. I normally don’t work out in the offseason, but I’ve been doing everything five days a week with my trainer. Cardio twice a week. Legs twice a week. Upper body twice a week.”
That all sounds much more strenuous than once-a-week yoga and golf outings. To be fair, Glazer did admit Roethlisberger has had success doing it his way, whichever way that is.
“What Mike Tomlin and Roethlisberger have done there has been incredible,” Glazer conceded.
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San Cassiano is the last village in Alta Badia, and Camping Sass Dlacia is our home from home that always welcomes us with open arms. It is nestled in a forest and is the ideal place to take on the most famous passes in the area such as the Pordoi, Giau, Fedaia, and Gardena.
*If you are in the area, these are the rides we usually always like to do – Sella Ronda / Fedaia-Gardena / Furcia-Tre Cime.
We always choose the quietest time to enjoy the Dolomites with little traffic. The gathering always takes place in the first week of June, when summer is just around the corner and you can usually find cool, clear days with some peaks still snow covered.
This year the group was nice and large, with friends from Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the United States.
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SantaJobs 2010: once again…
Paris, November 20th 2010, for immediate release
As Apple rules have somewhat relaxed recently, I’ve decided to submit my visutainment SantaJobs for iPhone & iPad.
One year after the refusal, I think this time it might be accepted by Apple, as political caricatures has now being accepted on AppStore.
I’ve submitted a revamped version, with plenty of sounds and music. And in addition, facebook support for social gaming.
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The EAR 834P Phono Preamplifier
|The EAR 834P Phono Preamplifier|
2 December 2002
Moving magnet and moving coil tube phono preamplifier
12 AX7 (ECC 83) tubes
MC amplification by transformer
Dimensions: 5″ W × 4″ H × 9″ D
Price: $995 (Black).
Price: $1295 (Chrome).
1087 E. Ridgewood Street
Long Beach, CA
Telephone: 001 562 422 4747
Fax: 001 562 6577
One of the major pitfalls of journalism is that because of its pre-occupation with the news of the day, it tends to lose perspective and context. Mainstream audio journalism is prey to the same foible, with Component of the Month Syndrome highly dominant. Probably the most glaring example is Stereophile’s List of Recommended Components, where an older piece on the list is bumped simply because of the time elapsed since it was reviewed.
Tim de Paravicini’s designs have the reputation of withstanding the tests of time. While the EAR 834P has been available for a few years now, it bears listening to with News of the Day freshness and currency. It’s one of those “Yes!” products – where you know immediately that something right and good is happening.
The 834P is a classic rectangular black box roughly the size of a carton of English International size cigarettes, featuring only an on/off switch on its stately front panel. The back includes two sets of RCA jacks along with a push-button to select either moving magnet or moving coil and a detachable AC cord. The EAR rests on 4 soft feet. A tube design utilizing 12AX7 tubes, the EAR uses transformers for the additional gain necessary to preamplify moving coil cartridges. A “Signature” version is available that will cosmetically match EAR’s preamplifiers and amplifiers; the circuitry of the 834P is also available within a full-featured preamp, the 864.
Although I own 2 sets of tube electronics (3 pieces of which are vintage items) in addition to my various solid state components, I don’t attribute musical excellence purely to a type of amplifying device: it’s what you do with tubes or transistors that matters. I’ve experienced intense musical pleasure from both tubes and solid state, so have no particular axe to grind. In particular, I don’t find the old stereotypes – soft and mellow tubes versus harsh and bright solid state – to be dogmatically applicable to any well-designed component. Excellent tube designs do, however, tend to produce very believable timbres with acoustic instruments and excel in painting tonal colors, particularly important in classical music where a live reference is available for comparison.
The Garrott Brothers Optim FGS moving magnet cartridge has become my reference for affordable musical communication. Since Garrott uses tube phono amplification in their listening/development tests, I first ran the EAR 834P in an all-tube system. The musical results of this set-up were truly engrossing and riveting: dynamics, drive, rhythm and musical phrasing/accents were simply exemplary. The EAR was exceptional in getting the heart of music right. I immediately stopped listening to my staple reference critical-listening LPs, and began randomly listening to various LPs purely for the musical pleasure: the entire Procol Harum catalogue, then The Band’s, then the Buffalo Springfield/Neil Young/Steve Stills nexus, the Doors, and finishing with Jim Hendrix. The EAR proved superb at recreating the drive, emotional intensity, and the literally electrical intensity of this music. Jimi Hendrix understood perhaps more clearly than anyone that music is a physical power and the EAR superbly reproduced that tangible electric cosmic power that Hendrix so intensely unleashed.
A listening journey through 50’s/60’s small combo jazz proved equally compelling: noteworthy was the EAR’s ability to fully articulate the bass parts of these recordings, many of which (on later re-issues anyway) seem to present the bass player as a weird sort of background phantom. Not only was the bass present as a full participating member of the music, but bass sonorities were rich and full-bodied, with taut and excellent transient control and drive. I was moved deeply by the musical expressiveness of solo instruments – horns and piano – the emotion behind the notes being clearly revealed. Be it the ‘dry martini’ sonority of Paul Desmond, the studied cool of Miles Davis, the gentle ‘rain on the windows’ of Bill Evans’ piano or the cosmic destroyer aspects of Pharoah Sanders/John Coltrane in their more exorcistic moments, I was getting the heart and emotion of the music.
Tim de Paravicini is perhaps best known for the tube electronics he designed for Chesky’s re-issues of the classic RCA Shaded Dog LPs and listening to a batch of these proved an exercise in natural timbres and a total immersion into the music. Smaller scale music, particularly string quartets, was presented with the same intimacy and communication that was so engrossing with jazz. The pure unalloyed joy of Mozart’s early Divertimenti was reproduced with breathtaking exuberance, the EAR easily passing one of my prime requisites for any component.
Results with my other MusicMaster moving magnet cartridge, the Rega Exact, were similarly compelling and musical enriching and I was having one of those pleasant reviewing experiences where you know immediately that the component is excellent: the question then becomes just how excellent it ultimately is.
I did not play around with varying AC cords, or indulge in tube tweaking, but of necessity with an outboard phono stage, choosing an interconnect was required. I didn’t find this an anguish-inducing experience – the Clearaudio Sixstream, van den Hul The First, and Origin Live Reference all proved deeply satisfying – leading me to believe that the EAR is not particularly fussy and high-strung about interconnect choice. I auditioned the EAR without isolation devices at first and the following comments all refer to the 834P played ‘neat.’
Sonically the EAR was without electronic edge or glare, with a non-analytic cast to the proceedings. It tended to focus on the entirety of the music rather than breaking each recording down to its component parts. I find this ability more musically satisfying than components that neglect the forest for the trees. Transient control was very good, with good tracking of the decay of notes. Soundstaging and stereoscopy were believable and non-intrusive, though short of hallucinogenic intensity. Ultimate detail and transparency is short of the very best, but considering the EAR’s price and its other sterling musical virtues, acceptable. I never found myself squinting with my ears or baffled by any aspect of the musical proceedings. I found noise to be a non-issue also.
Listening to the EAR in my solid-state system was slightly less intense, as parts of its abilities were lost in the transition to transistor amplification. This is normal for tube electronics: their full flowering normally requires all-tube systems to hear to the fullest. Context plays a role too. Though I was unable to audition the 834 in the context of a full EAR system, I’m deeply aware that most of front-rank designer’s products (and Tim di Paravicini is certainly one) need to be heard within their complete systems to produce the designer’s full intent.
The moving coil section of the EAR uses transformers to produce the additional gain necessary for their lower output and Tim de Paravicini has a reputation as a master of moving coil transformer design. Running the Audio Technica AT OC9ML, Garrott re-tipped Blue Point Special, and Talisman Boron revealed less stirring performance, due to the fact that these 4 cartridges are not as successful music makers as the 2 moving magnets I used. My Goldring Eroica LX, also re-tipped by Garrott, however, flowered with the EAR, as did the Ortofon Jubilee. The EAR faithfully revealed the sonic signature of these cartridges, and revealed as much of its own considerable abilities in the process, without forcing its personality on them. My suspicion, which I was not able to verify to any degree of certainty, was that moving magnet performance of the 834P was perhaps stronger than that of moving coil. This was due to the overwhelmingly stunning dynamic performance of the moving magnet Garrott Optim FGS, a cartridge whose dynamic and musical coherency is unmatched by any moving coil cartridge I’ve heard, except for Garrott’s $6000 P89. Those who run moving magnets exclusively, a minority among audiophiles who seem generally wed to the moving coil, can opt for the moving magnet-only 834P, available by special order for $795.
The EAR clearly revealed the differences in tonearms and turntables. The more traditionally ‘audiophile’ Clearaudio Champion Level 2/ Clearaudio Unify Unipivot arm/ Sigma Wood moving coil cartridge front end was stunning in neutrality, resolution, and 3-D stereo effects. Also highly evident, though, was this set-up’s intellect-oriented presentation. My Linn LP12s, Origin Live Standard Kit, AR/Merrill and antique Connoisseur BD2a turntables were more in keeping with the EAR’s rhythmic and dynamic aplomb, musical lines flowing with the kind of ease and believability that one more normally associates with live musical expression.
In standard trim and set-up, the EAR 834P rates high musical marks indeed. The use of effective isolation proved transmogrifying – dispelling any quibbles about lack of hallucinogenic imaging and completely nullifying my suspicion that moving magnet performance was superior to the EAR’s transformer derived MC amplification. My experience with the state-of-the-art in isolation products over the years has led me to the conclusion that a component played ‘neat’ shows only a fraction of its true capacities compared to what it can produce when removed from the contaminating effects of spurious vibration. The small size of the EAR precluded optimum usage with some of the devices I had available. The new Stillpoints, (at $279 for a set of 3, a joint effort from Paul Wakeen, ex-Aurios and Larry Jacoby and Deb Folz, both ex-Wadia) vaulted the already excellent performance of the 834P into an altogether different realm. Stunning and mind-blowing are probably the mildest of adjectives to be used in describing the 834P when placed on the Stillpoints: the sonic improvements in image placement and soundstage transparency, the superior resolution of low level information, the extension of bandwidth and flow of dynamic gradations were matched by an equally exalted improvement in the already heady and deeply moving communicative powers of the 834P. Lyric intelligibility, as just one example, went from the very good to one of the very best when the EAR was placed on the Stillpoints. The EAR’s performance with moving coil was improved to the point where my mild suspicions as to its ultimate capacities were vanquished.
The highest of recommendations for the EAR 834P then, especially when mounted on the Stillpoints. Old news is good news indeed.
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Three from Creek: Creek CD50 MK2 CD Player, Creek A50iR Integrated Amplifier and Creek OBH 15 Phono Preamplifier
|Three from Creek: Creek CD50 MK2 CD Player, Creek A50iR Integrated Amplifier and Creek OBH 15 Phono Preamplifier|
Three New Affordable Products that get the Music Right
A very disquieting fact emerged during my 25 years in the US audio trade: most passionate music lovers simply cannot afford what have become known as High End products. The situation has gotten steadily worse since the 1980’s, when the concept of the High End became established. Unfortunately, the term no longer reliably refers to the highest of performance, but simply to the highest of price. Is there any reason to assume that those who can easily afford High End gear – say lawyers, surgeons, stock market bandits, CEO’s and drug dealers – have any kind of musical sensitivity that would lead to appreciation of ultra-fidelity, ultra-expensive components?
Even more unfortunately, most non-audiophiles (particularly women) understand High End sound as loud, piercing and obnoxious and that it will make their LPs and CD’s sound worse. This attitude is the complete reverse of the customer mindset when I began working in audio in 1972; everyone then wanted their music to sound better and was willing to pursue high performance products to do so. The current monopolization of the market by Super Store chains has dumbed-down available products to the point where illusory discounts and jive rule, and music is altogether absent. What’s a music lover to do?
The UK has, by contrast, a firmly established tradition of indigenous companies offering extremely musical products at prices that any willing music lover can afford. So strong is that tradition that the big sleazy multinational firms are forced to offer UK-dedicated products that are actually designed around producing music in order to have half a chance in the UK market. One of the central forces in establishing that music-first tradition is Creek Audio, eponymously named and still run by Mike Creek. The company has a strong reputation of offering musically moving products at real-world prices. Creek now also owns Epos loudspeakers, with which it has long been partnered. My experience with them dates back four product generations; the 3 new Creek products reviewed here strike me as the company’s best yet. Music lovers can rejoice.
The A50i integrated amplifier continues Creek’s tradition of exemplary musical performance at non-insane prices. Integrated amps have always been the nucleus of UK audio systems and there are numerous reasons for their dominance. One is simple value, coupled with a high Non-Screw-Up-ability Factor. One saves the price and hassle of choosing an interconnect, and also the possibility of mismatching the preamp to the power amp when using items from different manufacturers. The only trade-off is the need to use longer speaker cables in some installations.
The preamp section of the A50i is passive, higher gain in the 60 watt per channel amplifier making up the difference. Like many of the best UK integrated amps, design is modular. The A50i offers 4 line level inputs (one of which can be configured for phono preamplification) plus a tape monitor. Modules for moving magnet phono and moving coiling phono cost $80 and $100 respectively; Special Edition (SE) versions of these two modules are a $50 premium each. An active preamp gain stage can be added for $80. The A50iR adds remote control for an additional $200. My review sample was the A50iR without any of the internal phono modules installed in my review sample, as I was also reviewing the Creek OBH15 outboard phono preamp. Appearance and features of all 3 products is austere and low-key in the traditional UK way. Also following that purist tradition is the A50i’s lack of tone controls, a balance knob, or a mono switch.
The OBH 15 includes the OBH 2 outboard power supply and allows for both moving magnet and moving coil playback. Analogue enthusiasts can run both types of cartridges simultaneously as there are two set of phono inputs: a push button on the rear switches operation. (Make sure you turn the volume off when making the switch.) Phono performance of the OBH 15 is roughly equivalent to the SE phono modules, altered slightly by the dedicated power supply.
I ran 6 turntables (thus my not including one of Music Hall’s turntables in this review) with 8 different cartridges and 5 sets of loudspeakers with this combination. Common to all was a sonically seamless and musically coherent performance that immediately shifted attention to the quality of the music being performed rather than on the components doing the reproduction. Tonal quality was equally coherent, with no part of the frequency spectrum being spotlighted or slighted. Bandwidth was wide with no sense of frequency truncation at either frequency extreme. Drive, dynamic contrast/shading, rhythm, and phrasing were top drawer, leading to deep musical involvement with all types of music: no need to restrict one’s listening to the amplification’s limitations. The polyrhythmic boogie of Little Feat was handled as adroitly as Schubert’s Quintet in C; Mozart danced as well as James Brown; solo instruments shone as clearly as full orchestras. While Creek’s generational predecessors to the A50iR struck me as slightly bright (4040/4140 series) or a bit too polite (4330), the A50iR hit the Goldilockian ideal of being “Just right.”
Resolution is very high, leading to convincing sonic portraits in believable acoustic landscapes. The amp continues the Creek tradition of being able to drive varying and difficult speaker loads with aplomb. The speakers I used included 4-ohm loads (Infinity Qb), the capacitive load of electrostatics (Sound Lab Dynastats), the reticent and low sensitivity Spendor 2040, and various revealing tweeters that can spotlight amplifier flaws. A natural match was the Epos M15.2; not very surprising really, considering that Creek owns Epos and that US importer Music Hall distributes both. The A50iR was unruffled by any of these combinations, maintaining its drive and confidence while still delivering the music.
The OBH 15 phono preamp was of the same sonic and musical fabric as the A50iR and, as a $450 outboard phono section that offers both MM and MC inputs and permits running two turntables, is a supreme bargain. Both inputs were excellent musically and sonically; my only purist quibble being to make sure that one’s MC cartridge works optimally into the OBH 15’s MC cartridge load of 1000 ohms, as it is not adjustable.
The CD50 Mk2 CD player was as much an over-achiever as the amp and phono section: so much so that I gave it my Most Wanted Component of 2004 award. Other than CD’s historical inability to reproduce the tonality of acoustic instruments identifiably, its homogenization of subtle dynamic shifts, its turgid and a-rhythmic way with pulse, tempo, phrasing and rhythm, its a-musical somnolence and anti-musical artificiality, its eyeball-warping print size, and its “1984”-ish insistence that a 2-cent plastic case is in fact a ‘jewel box,’ I’ve been a big fan of the Perfect Sound Forever format. Things change. The CD50 Mk 2 is the first reasonably priced CD player that I actually want to own. More importantly it’s the first reasonably priced CD player I actually want to listen to music on. It produces music in the way that previously was the sole provenance of LP. I had despaired of CD ever being this musically convincing and exciting.
Convincing it is, both musically and sonically. The CD 50 Mk2 tracks volume changes unusually well, leading to fine articulation of dynamic contrast within a music line or rhythm. Beginnings and ends of notes were very well done, ending a long-standing CD flaw. Musical devices are well portrayed, leading to superb dynamic articulation, phrasing, and tension and release. Rhythm and drive are particularly strong, an area where CD has never convinced me before. To be applauded is the CD50 Mk 2’s refusal to dumb-down the signal to render it listenable; this is a genuinely high-resolution CD player, a phrase I’d long believed an oxymoron. Whether it achieves this through successful incorporation of new chip technology, intelligent power supply design, or by bolting a fairy to the player’s innards to spread enchanting fairy dust on the signal is immaterial to me. It works. It makes music, exciting music.
Experimenting with various state-of-the-art isolation devices under the three Creek products yielded no major musical improvement, leading to the conclusion that Creek’s designs are well thought out on the mechanical and vibratory level also
Three thumbs-up for these three excellent new Creek products. Although not chain store cheap, their high musical performance makes them bargains, especially in comparison to their many musically turgid High End (i.e. high-priced) competitors. Any serious music lover could buy these and never look back.
CD50 Mk 2 Single-play CD player – Price: $1495.
A50iR – 60 watt/channel integrated amplifier. Price; $995, ($795 without remote control).
OBH 15 – MM/MC Phono preamplifier with outboard OBH 2 power supply.Price: $450.
Manufacturer: Creek Audio Ltd
12 Avebury Court
Tel: +44 (0)1442 260 146
Fax: +44 (0)1442 243766
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MSc in Sustainable Development & Corporate Social
MSc in Human and Social Sciences – Media, Information and Communication
Manuela is a social, resettlement and communications specialist with an International Master’s Degree in Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility.
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21 January 2019
Public Lecture by Prof. Li Changshuan:
Translation: A process of discovering and re-presenting the truth
Professor Li Changshuan, Professor and Executive Dean of the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation at Beijing Foreign Studies University, visited the School of Translation and delivered a public lecture to students.
Professor Li is a seasoned practitioner in the field of translation, particularly in legal translation and interpretation. Professor Li believes that translation is not simply a conversion of words, but a process involving comprehension, expression and adaptation. Translators should be able to apply critical thinking to identify issues and work on the target text adaptively, in order to reveal the meaning of the original text. Illustrated with examples, Professor Li elaborated various methods of discovering problems and their solutions in the translation process.
Professor Li also toured around the learning facilities of the School of Translation and was impressed by the purpose-built Fung Yiu King Hall and the advanced interpreting facilities at the Translation and Interpretation Laboratory.
Professor Li uses concrete examples to examine the translation process.
Professor Li (the fourth from left in the front row) with professors and students
Professor Li In the interpreter’s booth at Fung Yiu King Hall.
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What up fam, just stopping through to update you on the new release “Still Living”. After listening to the tracks recorded last month, the team decided to do a few more to separate it from my previous release. We worked on new songs and added some features to make sure it would sound more balanced. I am shooting for a December 3rd release date and more information will be coming in the next few weeks. Now that the project is officially recorded, expect to see updates more often. As for today, I’m releasing the song “Show Out” produced by Ace. This is one of the songs that was initially recorded for the project that didn’t make the cut. Listen enjoy and share! Also, a writer will start helping update the site soon, so not every post will be as personal. Thank you for your continued support. | <urn:uuid:8170e798-24dd-47e4-b0df-8605703f7df8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://stillroyal1203mg.com/2016/08/30/june-dakid-show-out/ | 2023-09-23T17:19:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.975542 | 177 |
Do you find that family outings are not visually captured as well as you’d like them to be? If you’re an amateur photographer, or you like a selfie or two with your kids, taking a good family photo is a fine art. After all, people have dedicated their entire lives to the endeavor of the perfect photograph. And while you don’t need to be Robert Capa, are there any fundamentals you can take on board to ensure that you don’t, at the very least, have your thumb over the lens?
Get The Focus Locked
Either you need to have the steadiest of arms, or you can go for the simpler option and get a tripod. You might consider this to be a bit bulky, but when you’re looking at capturing the perfect family photo, what have all the great portraits got in common? The camera has focus, and the subjects are still. So, making sure that the focus on the camera is locked, either by using the back button focus or manual focus, it will take a lot of the guesswork out of it.
Getting Action Shots
It all depends on the subject, but it’s much easier when you’ve got kids that are more than willing to mess around for the camera. You can get an abundance of action shots, but don’t feel that you’ve got to be static in these situations. In fact, if you’re looking to get various types of family photos, not just the still portraits, you may want to go a bit left-field and get a drone. On myrctopia.com there is a list of the best selfie drones, which adds another angle to your experience. And, if you want to get those really fantastic aerial shots of you and the family running on a massive beach, a drone is the best way to do it.
Get The Light Right
One of the most difficult tasks for any photographer is to get the light right because we can’t control it. And if you can’t drag piles of lighting equipment around with you, the simplest approach is to choose the right time to take these photos. Lighting is such an expansive topic, but the golden rule when getting a family portrait is that you get light into the subject’s eyes.
Undertake Your Own Education
Who are your favorite photographers? Do you admire anyone at all? For any budding photographer, getting into the work of one specific artist, whether it’s Pulitzer prize winner Kevin Carter or Vivian Maier, finding the right people to inspire your work and to go beyond the usual family portraits means you can create some amazing photographs that remain true to the subject. Your own education can begin right now, and sites like creativelive.com show some of the most common photography terms, so this can get you started.
We can all take a photograph, but the greatest photographs take the subject and show them in an honest and human light. When taking pictures of your family, you may know them inside out, but you can always benefit from learning how to get the camera to reveal their inner self.
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Author Meredith Farkas presents numerous success stories and interviews to highlight the usefulness and impact of each technology. Novices will find ample descriptions and advice on using social software tools, while veteran users will discover new applications and approaches. To help readers keep up, the author’s companion Web site includes links to the resources covered in the book, emerging social software tools, and news and opinion from library blogs and other current sources.
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TANGLED: ROOTS GROW
In May 2023, I traveled along the Silk Road in Uzbekistan. The journey between caravanserais, ancient walled cities and bustling village markets lead to myriad ikat and suzani textile studio visits to see hand-made fabrics being created using age-old techniques. Immersed in the rich and varied cultures of Central Asia, this link connecting east to west, deepened and enhanced my understanding of geometric and nature-inspired motifs, specific color relationships and how fabrics were designed, made and used in this area.
These experiences offered the opportunity to step into new territory, encouraging me to combine my own shaped-resist dyed textiles with vintage and contemporary Uzbekistan suzanis and ikats. For this exhibition, I created a series of coats and interior wall panels that cross cultural barriers combining a variety of materials using layering, quilting and applique methods.
Each coat and wall panel is hand-embroidered with one of my Words of Hope: Love Joy Peace Courage Happiness Empathy Compassion. These messages encourage the wearers and viewers to be conscious of their own actions and communication skills, and to be aware of dismissive waste in our fragile world.
TANGLED: ROOTS GROW is an exhibition in conjunction with September 2023 New York Textile Month VIII
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Fighting games aren’t exactly known for having the best stories. Sure there are people out there who can talk about the lore and arcade mode endings of their favorite characters for ages, but when one of these games gets a story mode very rarely do people praise it. In fact, most of the time these story modes end up being the butt of many jokes.
The reason for this is very simple. For a majority of the genre’s lifetime fighting game story modes just didn’t exist. Back in the day games weren’t expected to have a lot of content you can enjoy on your own, they were expected to eat your quarters! The closest you would get to a story back in these days is a box of text as a reward for beating the arcade ladder.
However, with the birth of home video game consoles and the realization that a majority of people who played fighting games meet up with friends maybe once a year, game devs began to put in content that a single player could enjoy on their own and this of course included story modes. Thus began a multi decade long trial and error process in the game industry where various studios tried out different methods of telling stories in fighting games. Some were successful while others crashed and burned.
Fighting game story modes tend to be one of three styles. The first we’ll talk about and by far the worst type are boring nonsense that was occasionally broken up by fights like Tekken 7’s infamous story mode where a majority of it was spent listening to an unimportant news reporter explain the plot to you. While Tekken 7 isn’t the only example of this omnipotent narrator format it is one of the worst considering the game’s budget and legacy.
The reason this is bad should be obvious. The player isn’t actually engaging with the story. They’re just being told that it’s going on by someone who may as well not even exist. This method has more or less died off over the years because of the second storytelling method we’ll discuss.
This second method is primarily used by Japanese games or games made by smaller dev teams: Just make the story mode a VN. This was popularized by Arcsys as they were able to have huge visual novel story modes in games like Blazblue and Persona 4 Arena. While this is a decent way to get the story you want across and can engage the audience it does have one major flaw: the actual gameplay.
Sometimes the story mode writers of these games get so focused on telling their story that they forget the genre they’re writing for. While Arcsys popularized this VN format they also became worse and worse at it as their games went on. Blazblue story modes can go on for upwards of fifteen hours and can contain only six fights for the first ten of those hours. While I respect Arcsys’ writing team for trying to get their vision across, this has resulted in a sin worse than being boring: People not caring about it.
How many people do you know who have played through the story mode of every Blazblue game? I imagine it’s very little. Even fans of Blazblue tended to give up on the story mode by the time the final game rolled around. They’ll still enjoy the game and characters because at the end of the day the story is only a small part of it, but what went wrong?
While a VN story mode can be good if you handle it right, you need a very careful balance of story and gameplay otherwise you risk typical fighting game players not being invested because they rarely get to play or a farce of a story where characters fight each other every two minutes for contrived reasons. It’s a very high risk, high reward way of doing a story mode.
The third method is one that’s only available to companies with a bit more budget under their belts, so let me get this out of the way first. I am not saying that games that don’t use this third method for their stories are bad, they just have a larger hurdle to jump over. I enjoy plenty of games that use method 2 for their stories and think it’s the optimal method for telling your story if you’re a small or mid-sized studio. I just really want to sing this third method’s praises.
Said third method being the cinematic fighting game story style popularized by Netherrealm Studios with their hit game Mortal Kombat 9. This story mode was presented via cutscenes that wouldn’t look out of place in a normal video game and were used to tell an actual TV drama style narrative where fights would happen frequently but (for the most part) felt natural. I prefer calling this TV drama style as opposed to movie style as ten hour movies don’t exist and Netherrealm tends to separate things into separate ongoing plot threads that feel more in line with a drama than a movie.
Probably the greatest asset of this game’s storytelling style was how it gave you the opportunity to play as nearly every character, usually switching you to someone else after a few fights. Not only does this keep the player engaged by having plenty of fights but it also gives them the chance to try out a wide range of characters to see who they prefer.
I might actively dislike the writing of Netherrealm games but from a game design perspective they have perfected the concept of a fighting game story mode and that needs to be admired. Because of this several other studios have tried to imitate them. Some with less than pleasing results…
The 2010s were a dark decade for Capcom fighting games. I don’t want to rag on it too hard as one of my goals for this site is to never write a hate article, but man did their first few attempts at story modes suck. Street Fighter 5’s story mode is infamously complete nonsense while Marvel vs Capcom Infinite’s has a constant aura where it feels like the writers actively disliked the Capcom side of the roster. It was a dark time indeed.
On a more positive note, I’m sure you all saw this article’s title. Let’s get into the main course and talk about a game that I feel does the cinematic style of fighting game story the absolute best: Dead or Alive 5!
Just like other games that attempt to do this style of story, Dead or Alive 5 has you switching characters every few fights as the story progresses. However unlike a lot of other fighting game stories that use this style DoA5 decides to bide its time during the first act. Similar to a lot of games that use the VN method the first third of the story feels like a series of completely disconnected events as characters just live their lives while the fifth annual Dead or Alive tournament looms in the distance.
I genuinely enjoy this first act of the story. Fighting games rarely give you reasons to care about characters beyond their design and maybe their arcade mode ending. Having a slow act to bring you into the world is just what a story needs to draw the player in. Plus, who doesn’t love seeing Zack desperately begging people to join the tournament and being beat up in the process?
The second and shortest act of the game is the Dead or Alive tournament itself. While a majority of fighting games center around the idea of a tournament very rarely is one actually featured in a fighting game story mode. Netherrealm was wise enough to include a tournament in Mortal Kombat 9’s story mode but that was the last time they did as the franchise was too concerned with the end of the world moving forward. Heck, Tekken is a franchise like Dead or Alive where the name of the series is also the tournament’s name but they didn’t even bother having a tournament in 7’s story.
Actually seeing a tournament happen in Dead or Alive 5’s story is glorious and I love that even though there isn’t a lot of dialogue during this part of the game it still feels engaging because almost every character you fight during this part is someone who you played as earlier while they were signing up or preparing for that tournament!
It’s also nice to see the game throw a complete curveball at the player by not having any of the franchise’s poster characters win but rather a more obscure character who while they’d been in a few games hadn’t really gotten the spotlight yet. This short and sweet act is a real fun time.
Then we’ve got the third act, the actual ongoing plot of the franchise. All the stuff here is what you would expect a typical fighting game story to focus on and shove every single character into, but Dead or Alive 5 shows some restraint by making sure this big finale is only filled with the characters it actually affects emotionally.
Remember when I compared Netherrealm’s style of storytelling to television dramas? Well Dead or Alive 5 leans into that really hard at the beginning of this act as it begins with what I can only describe as a previously on segment that recaps you on what has happened in the game so far. If I didn’t know better I’d assume this was a teaser trailer for the story that they slipped into the actual game.
I love Dead or Alive 5’s story mode, it made me actively interested in a universe that the previous games rarely made me care about and I’ll constantly praise it as the best way to do a fighting game story mode. I’m genuinely sad that it rarely gets brought up when people talk about fighting game story modes that are actually good.
Sadly it teams like even Team Ninja didn’t realize how good of a job they did as Dead or Alive 6 abandoned this story structure in favor of an individual character story select that was filled with nonsense cutscenes that make Street Fighter 5 look like high art in order to tell a story that actively killed my interest in this franchise’s universe.
I said I wanted to stay positive right? Oops. Dead or Alive 6 isn’t a completely bad game but its story mode could never live up to the hype of DoA5’s.
Let me know what you think though, are there any flaws in Dead or Alive 5’s story structure that I’m just blind to because of my love for the game? Are there any fighting game stories that you feel are completely underrated by the general gaming public?
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Hey HEY HEY! Honestly, not much to see here.
I was going through all these different art sites recently looking for some inspiration. Saw some typography stuff and wanted to decompress after kicking my ass on Gopher Guts and How to Make a Homemade Mummy. I doodled this on some notebook paper. Then I fooled around with the colors for awhile. You can see that below from my Instagram page:
I honestly didn’t think anything of this. Very minimalist. Kinda dumb. The only thing worth noting was that the “H” and the “Y” are the same, just flipped upside down and reflected.
Anyway, somehow this got featured on Redbubble, so I’m super thankful for that. I just think it’s so weird how some things I spend countless hours on get grazed over and this little stress relief exercise gets eaten up. Not complaining by any means. Again, super thankful! Super honored to be on the front page. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love the guys at Redbubble. They’re super good to me.
Then I started thinking, “hey, maybe I’m going at this wrong.” I’m thinking I may start doing more design oriented things like this. Really hammer home the color palettes, composition, etc. After all, I am a graphic designer over an illustrator, I guess. Or that’s what my diploma tells me.
After I saw how well it was doing on Redbubble, I decided to also upload it to Society6. To my surprise, again, it started accumulating promotions quickly. I guess the whole “keep it simple, stupid” mentality works. I’m going to be doing more things in this style between illustrations. Things that might be more gender neutral. It was a relaxing little experiment and I’m happy with how it was received. | <urn:uuid:000e9474-48f7-4636-a38f-204f0a7e610f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://strangethingsart.com/hey-hey-hey-somethin-new/ | 2023-09-23T17:12:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.954596 | 417 |
Marbella International University Centre
Located in the heart of the Spanish port city of Marbella, MIUC is committed to the development of new generations of leaders in Business, Politics and Advertising.
We offer Bologna accredited BA and MA programmes with a strong focus on global aspects of knowledge, skills and competences tailored for the modern age. All our degree programmes are taught in English, to ensure the students’ future success in the increasingly competitive international job market.
Our programmes are taught by successful academics and industry professionals who divide their time between vigorous research and innovative business practice. A modern, tech-savvy approach in class is complemented by specialised workshops run by senior business leaders and influential political actors. We also offer advanced business training for mid and senior level managers to boost your performance as a leader and give you the drive, ambition, and knowledge to succeed in business today.
Why choose MIUC?
Our partnership with UWL (University of West London) and MGIMO Universities will offer you the opportunity to achieve a dual degree and will grant you top job opportunities.
Our classes are characterized by the reduced number of students (10: 1 – student: professor ratio) which guarantees a great deal of care and attention.
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Me to Dan, “Do you find the hairy chest in the background distracting?”
Dan, “…hahaha um, I wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t said anything but it’s a little weird, yes.”
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Their label does feel very Aussie with its quirkiness and shapes that showcase a fit body. I’ve never been to Australia but I have this vision of energetic Aussies, who all know how to surf and spend every waking hour out in the sunshine moving around. That active lifestyle is reflected in colorful, embellished, or vintage styles of Aussie labels, especially sass & bide. Those things seem to go hand and hand. Plus, there’s a very hairy man in that picture above, not wearing a shirt and wearing very very tight pants that are definitely comical. It’s weird! It’s quirky! And I like it. Just like I like all the black and white choices I’ve picked below. Polka dots, sheer, embellishments, and sexy silhouettes. | <urn:uuid:e5bb9910-451d-454c-a02d-cb38f17ff4fc> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://styleandcheek.com/2014/02/28/fancy-friday-black-white-sass-bide/ | 2023-09-23T18:15:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.964664 | 383 |
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler
– Henry David
All “Illustrated Wisdoms” in this 2023 Paths to Joy were created by splattering viscous Dylusions shimmer spray on 11×14, 98 pound, Canson mixed media paper, then spritzing with water to see how the colors would run and gather.
When dry, the above quote was evoked by drawing stars with fixed shapes and energy fields the bottom. Thin strands spiral away from these stars, eventually becoming the golden dots floating free
My understanding of this Illustrated Wisdom will change as the art reveals itself in new ways.
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There was a story I heard once about a Mexican fisherman. He spends every day working hard on the water, searching for the big catch, and living on the ocean. One day, a CEO of a company comes to Mexico and goes fishing with the local man. He talks about how many hours he has had to work and things he has sacrificed to get where he is today, all so he can retire one day and move to Mexico and fish.
In an old book of inspirations called The Treasure Chest., page 117 contained “The Twelve Rules of Happiness.” In 2020, Succeed and Soar explored them as “Paths to Joy.” Three years later, they’re revisited, enriched.
What is joy? Theopedia says that it’s,
1] A state of mind and an orientation of the heart.
2] It is a settled state of contentment, confidence and hope.
3] It is something or someone that provides a source of happiness.
– Papa Ramadas
Simplicity is not the opposite of wealth. It is the door to the riches you already own.
– Alan Cohen
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
— Sir Isaac Newton
As Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” How?
The Huffington Post’s “15 Ways to Live a Simple, Happy Life,” include,
- Do what you love
- Don’t let stress rob you of your birthright to be happy
- Walk in nature
- Here are more
E. F. Schumacher said, “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” There, Minimal Ray says simpler lives can be happier because there are fewer complications. Deeper connections to others can be built by:
- Reflecting on what matters to you most
- Avoiding comparisons
- Working for a life, not for a living
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Write me. How are you building your Path to Joy by simplifying things?
This charming, 7-minute video shows how one woman cultivated a feeling of abundance while living simply.
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Sweet tables are a wonderful way to give your wedding guests a little bit of everything! With most of our sweet tables, the wedding cake is the main centerpiece. The wedding cake is then surrounded by accompanying sweets which gives your guests an interactive experience. The best part, is that you can color coordinate your sweet table or even bring a specific theme into it!
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Earrings that make your eyes sparkle
Earrings are some of the finest pieces of jewelry that are placed close to the face and are always eye-catching. They emphasize the unique color shades of the eyes and add a natural elegance to the face. Like trends in the fashion world, trends for jewelry and earrings also change. At the moment, striking, eye-catching earrings such as tassel earrings and the popular hoop earrings, which are seen in the street scene in all sizes, are big hits. Here at SUI AVA, you can join the trend and find just the earrings that suit your personal style in our large selection. We offer earrings in all sizes and colors, so you can always find a pair of nice earrings to spice up today's outfit. Whether you are into studs, hoops, or tassel earrings, we have something for you.
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Pumpkinpalooza is your chance to check out all of our fall faves at The Market! Decorative pumpkins will be in and so will fall draft beer, locally-made pumpkin sweets and more. After you shop, stick around for live music, face painting and a pumpkin ice cream sundae bar.
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OrthodonticsThis is a dental specialty that treats irregularities in the teeth and jaws with the use of braces, retainers, and other appliances. Our orthodontist, Dr. Jack Allen, has over 30 years of experience in orthodontics and is recognized as one of 5280’s Top Dentists in 2018. At Summit Family Orthodontics, we offer braces, Invisalign® and other oral appliances for both children and adults to provide you with the smile you’ve always dreamed of.
EndodonticsThis branch of dentistry focuses on diseases and injuries of the soft tissue inside a tooth. We can usually resolve these issues with root canal therapy, which is done by Dr. Howard Tran. Our services offered include root canal therapy in the molar, bicuspid, and anterior, apicoectomy, and pulpectomy.
PeriodonticsThis branch of dentistry concentrates on diseases that affect the supporting structures of the teeth, specifically the gums. Services offered include: wisdom tooth extraction, gum grafts for recession, crown lengthening, implant repairs and removals, bone grafts, sinus lifts, and peri-implant disease management. Dr. Chad Riggs has over 15 years of experience in periodontics.
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Rappers hit back at Dunamis track
LOCAL rappers have hit back at South African Music Awards winner, Dunamis, after the latter dropped a single titled RAW in which he lampoons other rappers who “should just learn from a true King”.
“I’m the genesis of rap, one who teaches summer to be hot.
“I’m no Free State farmer so I aint got any beef but I see a lot of Beavers in the streets. When I drop, suicide numbers gotta increase…”, were some of the punchlines from the track which upset the late rapper Beaver’s friends and fans.
Beaver committed suicide three years ago.
wIt was no secret that there was no love lost between him and Dunamis.
Dunamis’ release did not bode well with Beaver’s friends who queried why the rapper spoke ill of the dead.
Beavers’ friend and fellow rapper Protagon recently retaliated with the single Retire.
“So you claim to be the reason Beaver chose to go, and just because Beaver died you think you can raise your brainless head and talk “rubbish” about him, nigger step back, Protagon is still here and Beaver was done with you when he left,” blustered Protagon in the track.
“You celebrate the death of ma boy like you are not gonna die. If that is how you make money you better retire. Duna let go of the past that case is closed! You owe this industry an apology.”
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“Now is not the time to play politics simply because an election is looming in a few weeks,” Sen. Susan Collins said as she cast a vote to filibuster the defense authorization bill that contained a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, a measure that she supported.
I saw this line last week as I watched the usually somnolent and despairing Inside Washington hosted by Gordon Peterson on PBS. Peterson immediately echoed my own thoughts upon hearing Collins’ predictable pronouncement. And I paraphrase, “Right before an election seems like the best time to play politics to me.”
This is sort of the no s— statement of past thirty years, where all pundits and politicians bemoan politics as they practice it. It’s also an acknowledgment that Sen. Collins’ statement itself is a political play. All politics is political and all politicians practice politics. Everyone should know this by now and stop complaining about politicians being political.
That being said, I come to the Republicans on the House Ethics Committee playing politics right before an election. Committee Republicans are demanding that Chair Zoe Lofgren hold ethics trials for embattled congressmen Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters. This public call is a serious break in committee decorum and represents an attempt to politicize the ethics trials even more than they already have been.
The Democrats, of course, postponed the trials for political reasons too. Do you think that the Democrats want to go into the toughest election they’ve faced in sixteen years with two prominent members facing trials and verdicts? Hell no! So they postpone the trials, which makes the Republicans try to make some noise off of it.
Politicians playing politics. Get used to it.
Now I’m not going to condemn the political maneuvering here, but I will point out the obvious. A congressional ethics process that relies on self-regulation will ultimately reach undesirable conclusions that increase cynicism in the public and reduce trust in our elected officials. The process will also, invariably, become mucked up by politics as these are politicians judging other politicians, sometimes of the opposing party.
The Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent body that members of both parties are unhappy with, is already working to increase the accountability of the ethics process. Instead of bemoaning accountability and a stable ethics process, lawmakers should embrace it by maintaining and expanding the Office of Congressional Ethics.
My colleague Lisa Rosenberg wrote about the need to double the office’s budget next year, “As Congress struggles to redeem its reputation in the eyes of the public, it should be loathe to return to the days when representatives were solely responsible for policing their own. Both parties should demonstrate their commitment to transparency and accountability by giving the OCE the power and the budget to continue the good work it has begun.”
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Your garbage disposal and dishwasher get a lot of use! This can cause wear and tear that leads to plumbing issues. But, it doesn’t always mean they need replacing. Sometimes a simple dishwasher repair will get them working properly again.
What Causes Dishwasher Plumbing Issues?
Clogged dishwasher drain
If you are noticing a fair amount of water at the bottom of your whirlpool or bosch dishwasher or it is leaking onto the floor, you may have a clogged drain.
Clogged inlet screen
If your dishwasher is filling slowly, it could be because your inlet screen is clogged. This can restrict the flow of water into the dishwasher requiring some repair. But don’t fret, there are a few things you can do to troubleshoot dishwasher repair yourself.
DIY Dishwasher Repair:
For a clogged dishwasher drain repair, try running your garbage disposal to clear the drain. The plumbing between the two is connected. Also, check the bottom of the dishwasher for any small cups, lids, etc. that may have escaped the dishwasher racks and are now blocking the drain.
For an inlet screen is a screen in the supply line of your dishwasher. Unless you are extremely handy, you will want to call a plumber for this repair as it could entail having to pull out your dishwasher to complete this repair.
What Causes Garbage Disposal Plumbing Issues?
Not all food items can go down the garbage disposal. Eggshells, potato and carrot peelings, fruit pits, and bones (i.e. chicken bones) are all food items that should not go down the disposal.
There are multiple parts to your garbage disposal. If you notice it dripping under your sink, you may have a loose connection/fitting.
A garbage disposal that has been incorrectly installed may leak or drain into the dishwasher.
DIY Garbage Disposal Repair:
Often, garbage disposal clogs can be DIY projects. Make sure your disposal is OFF first, then you can reach in to clear any clogs. It is best to use tongs as opposed to your hand, if possible. You can also try a plunger.
Loose fittings are usually an easy fix with a wrench. However, incorrect installations will most likely need to be corrected by a professional plumber.
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Get to know rapper Shane Eagle’s hip-hop and style journey ahead of Castle Lite Unlocks
Words: Nhlanhla Masemola | Photography: Supplied
Hip-hop has come a long way from its marginal and subversive roots and no longer is it reserved for the select few. Today, it’s a massive cultural torrent over the local and international music industry and you’d be pressed to find someone who hasn’t been nudged by its influence, one way or another. One only has to look at Castle Lite Unlocks event to see this.
Already an event marked on most social calendars, Castle Lite Unlocks has become more than a concert and is now a space for hip-hop enthusiasts, tastemakers, sneaker connoisseurs and all manner of admirers. This year, the event runs over two action-packed days (17 and 18 June). The two-day experience features rappers A-Reece, Rouge and Slikour on a discussion panel called the Cold Table Convos, as well as US radio personality Sway Calloway hosting a live cypher. Expect performances by Moozlie, Riky Rick, Nasty C, Shane Eagle and international headliners Meek Mill and Post Malone.
Ahead of the two-day event, we sat down with Shane Eagle to pick his brain on hip-hop culture, identity and the symbiotic relationship between fashion and hip-hop.
When did you first identify with hip-hop?
The first time was probably when I was eight or nine. The influence was from my older siblings. I had sisters who were into rap, R&B and soul. We all liked the same things and seeing how they identified with it made it all feel natural. My mom listened to Tupac and my sisters listened to Jill Scott and Erykah Badu. All those elements contributed to me understanding what hip hip-hop is about – family.
What about hip-hop culture appealed to you?
The realness. That’s the one thing that stood out for me. Earlier rap artists weren’t afraid to say how they felt. It wasn’t about how much money you made, what car you drove or where you lived. It was about “I’m going through some real things as a human and. I want to talk about it.” I preferred it when rap took a stance.
Music aside, where else do you feel hip-hop culture comes through in your life?
It’s not just something you plug into your earphones and then suddenly you’re hip-hop. It’s a way of life. It’s a way of being. And it’s not just hip-hop on its own, but creativity as a whole. It’s in everything.
How do you feel hip-hop culture has evolved in South Africa?
It’s still in its beginning, infant stage – evolving means finding a new identity. It has a long way to go to figure out who and what it wants to sound like. Hip-hop roots don’t really come from here, hip-hop came from the US. But more artists are not afraid to be themselves. The fact that we’re getting it now shows it’s evolving.
What are some of the biggest lessons hip-hop culture has taught you?
Remain on your grind. That’s the way of hip-hop. You have to find a way to do better. Hip-hop showed me how to hustle. That comes off as informal, but even billionaires use that word. It’s not just about selling stuff in the ghetto. You can hustle as a billionaire businessman on a yacht.
How do you feel hip-hop and fashion go hand-in-hand?
It’s not just with hip-hop – fashion and creativity go hand-in-hand. Fashion is a reflection of how I am feeling that day. I might not feel hip-hop on a Sunday, I might want to channel creativity with a polo neck, jeans and sneakers. That’s not “hip-hop”, that’s just how I feel on the day. This is just another form of creative expression. Some days I want to make music, some days I want to dress well. It’s not bound to hip-hop, it’s bound to a sense of fashion.
What’s a quintessential hip-hop “look”?
In a real or cliché way? *laughs* Someone can wear the most “hip-hop” look, but doesn’t look hip-hop at all. It lives in how you do things, not just in what you’re wearing. But if I had to choose, it would be classic Chuck Taylors, the one sneaker that has never gone out of fashion. It shows it’s real.
What would you tell younger fans who feel an affiliation to hip-hop culture?
Be yourself. It’s simple. When you’re yourself, that’s you being different and unique enough. It’s good enough.
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During summers in India, people love to drink coconut water to cool and energise their bodies and beat the heat of summer. It also refreshes the body during stressed-out time. Moreover, it consists of many vital and healthy nutrients our body needs.
It is not the meal of the coconut fruit. Instead, it is just the juice that is inside a coconut. There are several benefits of coconut water during pregnancy which you will see in this article. Does drinking coconut water during pregnancy help speed up labor and morning sickness?
Nutritional value in coconut water
A cup of coconut water, i.e. 240 ml, contains
▪ 46 calories,
▪ 9 grams of carbs
▪ 3 grams of fibre
▪ 2 grams of protein.
Apart from this, drinking coconut water provides 10% vitamin C, 15% magnesium, 17% manganese, 17% potassium, 11% sodium and 6% calcium for the daily requirement.
Benefits of coconut water during pregnancy
There are numerous benefits of drinking coconut water due to its various nutrients, but let’s focus on its benefits when it is drunk by a pregnant woman.
Coconut water is almost 93 % pure water. It can be considered an option during pregnancy because it hydrates the body and provides electrolytes, said Alyssa Pike. If you feel parched, this coconut milk is not a bad option to hydrate your body during pregnancy. But the hydrating power of coconut water can’t be compared to water ( H20) because the water is gold for hydrating the body, and also it is less expensive than coconut water.
▪ Coconut water helps in morning sickness.
When nausea and vomiting catch your body and keep you down, coconut water’s electrolytes can help you stabilise your body. Women suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum (1) often require an added amount of electrolytes to cope with the losses due to excessive vomiting. Coconut water contains numerous valuable electrolytes like magnesium, potassium and sodium.
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▪ Contains fewer calories
Coconut water has low calories and contains some amount of the nutrients recommended by doctors for pregnant women, like dietary fibres and healthy omega-fatty acids. All these nutrients help a pregnant woman to keep her weight in check.
▪ Improves in Digestion
Coconut water improves the digestion process of the body. It maintains and regulates the body's ph level, helps constipation, and improves the digestive system, detoxifying the body and improving its metabolism. Coconut water prevents pregnant women from heartburn during pregnancy.
▪ Boost the immune system
Because of the presence of various essential vitamins, minerals and antioxidants helps increase the body's immunity and protects both mother and baby from any disease. The lauric acid produces a disease-fighting acid called ‘monolaurin,’ which helps prevent illnesses like flu and HIV, among others.
▪ Helps in Blood Pressure
Pregnant women who are facing high blood pressure during pregnancy may make a smart choice by taking a small amount of coconut water because of the potassium present in it. Potassium helps in regulating the blood flow and blood pressure of the body. But coconut water should not be drunk as a substitute for medicines for blood pressure. You should also consult your doctor for the best treatment available for blood pressure during pregnancy.
Read more: Eating Walnut in Pregnancy: Safety, Benefits & Risks
Does coconut water help in labor during pregnancy?
Earlier, if you had seen the board of pregnancy messages, then you would have noticed the lines on it written, coconut water helps in aiding or inducing labor though there is no scientific proof of it yet available right now. Studies also did not link the coconut water aiding labor.
When to drink coconut water during pregnancy?
Often pregnant women complain of morning sickness and fatigue more in the first trimester of pregnancy, so consuming coconut water during this time is most beneficial. The foetus's brain is developing in this trimester itself, so it needs the most nutrients during this time. Both mother and baby get essential nutrients from coconut water.
How much coconut water should you drink during pregnancy?
During pregnancy, much care must be taken about minor details. Although drinking coconut water is beneficial, there can also be disadvantages to drinking coconut water during pregnancy. To avoid this, you should first know how much coconut water should be drunk during pregnancy. Drinking a glass of coconut water daily during pregnancy is safe, but if you consume an excessive amount every day, you can do harm instead of benefit.
A pregnant woman gets all the essential nutrients by drinking coconut water daily. Apart from this, only green coconut water should be drunk during pregnancy because brown coconut can cause constipation in pregnancy. Moreover, if a pregnant woman does not like the taste of coconut water, she should not consume it. Although drinking coconut water during pregnancy is beneficial, consume it in limited quantities. Excess consumption of any food item is not considered appropriate.
Warnings about coconut water during pregnancy
Like food and drinks, there is also a proper and happy medium for drinking coconut water. Some brands add artificial sweeteners, which results in weight gain. Therefore, you should drink coconut water with zero added sugar. If you are drinking coconut water to stay hydrated during pregnancy, go for water because it has 0 calories, carbs, or sugars.
Key Takeaways of Coconut Water During Pregnancy
Coconut water is an excellent source of various essential nutrients required for the body. Though there is no scientific proof of it helping in labor, you can consume it as a refreshing, hydrating, and safe beverage during pregnancy.
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Johnny Depp still owns an entire village in the Provence region of France.
The 59-year-old star has owned the village for more than two decades, despite having it on the market since 2015.
Johnny Depp made this extravagant purchase in 2001, back when he was dating fellow actress and French native Vanessa Paradis.
It’s unclear how much money the actor had to fork out to buy the abandoned village, but we do know he spent more than $10 million bringing the place back to life.
He had all the houses in the village rebuilt and refurbished, and the roads repaved.
He even added a super cute French-style restaurant / cafe called ‘Chez Marceline’.
The actor first listed the village back in 2015 for $27 million and then again the following year.
Fast-forward to two years ago, 2021, and the village hit the market again, this time for $63 million, and then again last year for $55 million.
The village is located around 27 km (17 miles) from the glamorous French Riviera city of St Tropez.
It’s made up of six guest houses, one of which was the original village church, along with a main house.
It also has a town square, a skate park, a gym, a wine cave, and two swimming pools.
Johnny Depp’s French village is surrounded by 300-year-old oaks, olive groves and vineyards.
It’s expensive, but spectacular.
Johnny Depp recently made headlines due to a controversial and highly-publicized defamation lawsuit involving his ex-wife Amber Heard.
The jury ruled in Depp’s favor and awarded the actor $10 million in compensatory damages.
Depp also recently signed a $20 million deal with Dior, the biggest men’s fragrance contract ever. | <urn:uuid:c86b83a6-6187-4d4d-8f09-c2e094a2ae26> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://supercarblondie.com/johnny-depps-french-village/ | 2023-09-23T17:27:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.981029 | 395 |
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