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Former Canterbury mayor gets house arrest, probation
Associate Chief Judge Brian C. McLean said English must also undergo assessment and counseling for sex offenders. He was ordered to register with the federal DNA database and the national registry for sex offenders for 10 years. He was also fined $100 and ordered to have no contact with the victim or his family.
English was charged by RCMP after taking a male minor in his truck to a remote wooded area where he sexually assaulted him on Aug. 29, 2021. Judge McLean said English lured the youth into his vehicle and then drove down a dirt road in the woods where he carried out a “predatory attack” on the victim. The judge described the incident as a “serious sexual assault” that caused significant psychological trauma.
“The moral blame on Mr. English is high,” Judge McLean told the court.
In passing sentence, McLean considered the age of the accused, and his physical and mental health challenges, including an injury from an industrial accident in 2010, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
The judge noted English followed all the conditions of his release since his arrest. He had no prior criminal record and “denied any previous sexual deviance” in his pre-sentence report.
English was mayor of Canterbury for 17 years, an employee of the Nackawic Mill for 51 years, and served with the Southwest Valley Development Commission for decades. Today, he lives alone and is socially isolated from the community.
English did not apologize when he stood to address the court but said he was taking responsibility for the crime. He came to court carrying a cane and a group of family members sat in the courtroom with him. | <urn:uuid:f8352517-a29a-4885-9739-832f71dfe736> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sanc.ca/former-canterbury-mayor-gets-house-arrest-probation/ | 2023-09-23T18:01:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.975175 | 433 |
News Release from the Gauteng Department of Health.
Nominate your new primary health care committee
The Gauteng Department of Health has invited members of the public to nominate their new community representatives to serve on Primary Health Care Facility Committees.
“Primary Health Care Facility Committees are community representatives that assist primary health facilities in addressing the health needs of the communities served and to ensure accountability and the effective management of facilities,” said the department.
The clinic committees in Gauteng serve a three year-term in office. The terms starts on 1 April 2018 – 31 March 2021. The committees are established in terms of Section 42 of the National Health Act, no. 61 of 2003.
Community members have been advised to take the following into consideration when making their nominations:
In order to be considered for appointment, nominees must:
- Be above 25 years of age;
- Reside within the area or the ward served by the facility;
- Must have sound knowledge and understanding of community work; and
- Must at least have a sound knowledge of the health sector.
Roles and functions of the clinic committees include:
- Promote the mission, vision and values of the Department of Health;
- Participate in the strategic planning and operational processes with a view to advising management;
- Ensure that measures are taken by management to improve the performance and quality of service;
- Fulfil an oversight role with respect to the performance, effectiveness and efficiency including the maintenance of the Primary Healthcare Care facility;
- Ensure that measures are in place to address the needs, concerns and complaints of clients and the community and that such are properly managed;
- Foster community participation and accountability; and
- Provide information about the facility including services; programmes and campaigns of the department.
Procedures for nominations
Nomination forms can be obtained from all Gauteng Health Primary Health Care facilities and completed forms should be submitted to the local Primary Health Care facility.
A comprehensive curriculum vitae and certified copy of identity document should be attached to the nomination form.
Nominations may also be forwarded to the Department of Health for attention: Mpuleng Kgotleng or Donald Phasha, Gauteng Department of Health, 21st Floor, Room 2105, Bank of Lisbon, 37 Pixley Ka Isaka Seme Street, Johannesburg.
For more information, members of the public can contact
Mpuleng Kgotleng on email:[email protected] 079 526 3576.
Donald Phasha on email:[email protected] 031 7859
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Sandy Festival is making a grand return for ALWAYS LIVE End of The Line, presented in partnership with Metro Trains, to bring the streets of Sandringham to life with a free, family-friendly celebration of all things community. Enjoy live performances by Clare Bowditch, Blanco Tranco, Pirritu and Sophia J Smith and food and drink provided by local vendors. Jump on the Sandringham Line and enjoy the party! This event is part of ALWAYS LIVE 2023, a state-wide celebration of contemporary live music supported by the Victorian Government through Visit Victoria.
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Super Bowl Sunday is the most-watched sporting event of the year. Even for those who aren't necessarily sports fans, the NFL championship is a time for parties, packed restaurants and bars, and plenty of drinking. According to statistics, it's also considered the Super Bowl of Drunk Driving.
- In California, Super Bowl Sunday sees a 75% increase in alcohol-related auto accidents compared to other Sundays during January and February, according to a data analysis from the Automobile Club of Southern California.
- Los Angeles County records 55% more DUI-related injuries and deaths on Super Bowl Sunday compared to other days of the year.
- 43% of all traffic fatalities on Super Bowl Sunday involve alcohol, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This is compared to 31% of traffic deaths involving alcohol during the rest of the year.
Because these statistics are so alarming, law enforcement agencies throughout Southern California will be conducting a period of increased DUI enforcement throughout the weekend. This will include sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols involving more officers on the road. Agencies are conducting the increased enforcement period as part of the "Fans Don't Let Fans Drive Drunk" campaign.
If you live in Santa Barbara, Ventura, or Los Angeles County and are planning enjoying the Super Bowl this Sunday, Lessem, Newstat & Tooson, LLP would like to remind you that officers will be on high alert for impaired motorists. Do yourself a favor by planning for a ride, designating a sober driver, or using services like Uber or AAA's tipsy tow, which will be available on Sunday evening.
Periods of increased enforcement, which commonly take place during holidays or major events, continually net large amounts of DUI arrests. Our attorneys have represented many clients who were arrested during task force patrols or at checkpoints.
If you have questions about your rights following a DUI arrest, contact our firm for a FREE case review. | <urn:uuid:131be3a7-8c98-4db3-8e87-8c9504a4532e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.santabarbaracriminaldefenselawyers.com/blog/2015/january/super-bowl-dui-statistics/ | 2023-09-23T17:28:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.954757 | 393 |
…looking forward to the First Quarter numbers with anticipation. Inventory is down and sales seem to be picking up. The combination of those two factors just might heat up the market and get some procrastinators off their duffs. Be sure to visit again about April 10th to take a look at the 2012 First Quarter statistics. If they are showing steady improvement, as I am guessing they will, we could be in for an interesting and busy year. | <urn:uuid:dfb0e53d-d2c6-485c-8133-a4264ae748e5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.santaferealestateconsultant.com/with-some-anticipation/ | 2023-09-23T17:16:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.972494 | 95 |
Financially troubled retailer Steve & Barry’s said that BHY S&B Holdings, a newly formed affiliate of investment firms Bay Harbour Management and York Capital Management, was the winning bidder for the company at a court auction hearing in New York on Wednesday.
The bid of $168 million “to acquire certain assets” of Steve & Barry’s is subject to court approval, but is expected to be completed on Aug. 25. Steve & Barry’s filed for Chapter 11 protection in July.
Under the terms of the purchase agreement, “The majority of Steve & Barry’s 276 stores will continue to serve customers,” per the company. However, the fate of numerous stores in the process of being opened or built, including a new flagship store in New York, was not revealed but likely will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
In addition to acquiring merchandise inventories and transfer rights to Steve & Barry’s store leases, BHY S&B Holdings, New York, “will acquire all Steve & Barry’s intellectual property rights, including its celebrity and brand licenses, and the company’s key facilities, including its Port Washington, N.Y., headquarters, Columbus, Ohio distribution center and certain overseas offices.”
Among the investors in BH S&B Holdings are Steve Shore and Barry Prevor, who co-founded Steve & Barry’s in 1988. The two childhood friends from Long Island, N.Y., initially found success by licensing college and university logos and selling T-shirts and all other items at under $10. In 2006 the company unveiled Starbury basketball shoes, via a deal with NBA player Stephon Marbury, which sold for $14.98. That was followed by a clothing and accessories lines from actress Sarah Jessica Parker called Bitten and an EleVen line from tennis star Venus Williams.
Parker will remain with Steve & Barry’s under its new ownership, at least for the time being, as the company released a statement from her that said, in part, “I am very proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish with the Bitten brand . . . I’m very pleased that Steve & Barry’s will be able to continue to deliver on that mission and look forward to continuing our strong partnership.” Williams also appears to still be aligned with the company as she has worn items from her self-designed EleVen line at Wimbledon and during the Olympics in Beijing. She also is pictured in EleVen wear in ads for the U.S. Tennis Open, which begins on Aug. 25 in New York. | <urn:uuid:814ac8a9-b85f-4016-b0aa-889825ca10ec> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sarahjessicaparker.net/sarah-jessica-still-bitten-by-steve-barrys/ | 2023-09-23T17:51:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.963244 | 549 |
Chris is an accomplished litigator. He's taken cases to trial throughout New Mexico in both state and federal court. And with great results!
Chris grew up in the Mesilla Valley, just south of Las Cruces, New Mexico and he graduated from Gadsden High School. Growing up, his parents attended New Mexico State University, which showed Chris the possibility of social mobility. So it was natural that he also attended NMSU, as did his two siblings. After earning a finance degree, Chris moved to Albuquerque to attend the University of New Mexico, School of Law. It was on his first day of law school that he met his first attorney.
Chris's career started working with vehicle product liability cases and wrongful death matters. He then moved to the highly reputable firm of Browning & Peifer, P.A., in which he expanded his litigation experience to complex commercial and employment litigation. His next move was as a junior partner with Silva, Saucedo & Gonzales, P.C. where he continued his representation of clients in difficult and complex matters.
But he always wanted to chart his own course. In 2011, Chris and Mo Chavez started SaucedoChavez, P.C.
Chris enjoys the diversity of representing employers, large and small business, and everyday people.
In just the past five years, he has successfully argued before the Tenth Circuit, before the New Mexico Supreme Court, tried cases in federal court, tried cases in three judicial districts in New Mexico, several arbitrations, and many administrative hearings. He's received defense verdicts for business clients and millions in recovery for everyday people.
Chris is an AV-rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by Super Lawyers® for eleven consecutive years.
But his true passion is his community and his family. Chris currently serves on the Board of Regents for NMSU, his alma mater. He also served on the inaugural Citizens Redistricting Committee for New Mexico. For 8 years he served as President of the Board of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. He is the proud father of two and husband of 23 years to his wife, Leslie. | <urn:uuid:4ba6a8f0-ac12-4ad1-a80e-6e66e6f58453> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.saucedochavez.com/christopher-saucedo | 2023-09-23T18:35:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.988271 | 439 |
Dr. Bert Petersen and Dr. Ruth Cassidy give News 12 a tour through the soon-to-open Women’s Imaging Center at the new SBH Health and Wellness Center, stressing the importance of the advanced technology that will be offered here.
The Comprehensive Breast Disease Program at SBH Health System offers treatment options, hope, and compassion to patients with breast cancer along with their family and friends.
Patient Care and Treatment
Patients, family and friends are able to speak to any number of physician specialists about their diagnosis and treatment options. Our care team includes surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, plastic and reconstructive specialists, social workers and patient navigators.
Our program provides convenient, stress-free access to preventive, diagnostic and treatment alternatives for benign and cancerous conditions. This includes 3D mammography, which research has shown is a more precise way of examining breast tissue to determine masses and distortions associated with cancers than conventional 2D mammography. Studies have shown that with 3D mammography doctors detect between 20 and 65 percent more invasive breast cancers compared to 2D technology alone. This is truly a “game changer,” as early diagnosis remains a key factor in determining the outcome of breast cancer treatment. Patients requiring surgery benefit from our philosophy of breast conservation, through lumpectomy, onco-plastic procedures as well as nipple-sparring mastectomies. Board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeons are introduced to patients shortly after their diagnosis to discuss treatment options that are best for the patient.
Hospital-based support groups led by trained social workerssB provide counseling and emotional support on issues such as anxiety and treatment compliance to ensure that every patient has the best possible outcome. | <urn:uuid:d3c0dd55-13ff-437f-a817-eabcadf007ff> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sbhny.org/patient-care/clinical-services/Breast%20Health/ | 2023-09-23T17:04:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.9485 | 363 |
ORONO -- Notre Dame and the University of Maine skated to a 4-4 tie in the first meeting between the two schools at Alfond Arena since 1991. Vince Hinostroza had three assists to lead the Irish while some unlikely scorers stepped up for the Black Bears.
Best player on the ice
There was no doubt who the best player on the ice was Friday night. It was Irish sophomore center Vince Hinostroza, property of the Chicago Blackhawks. His passing skills have been talked about often, and his three assists certainly backed up this writer's claim that he is one of the best set up guys in college hockey. What really stood out Friday in addition to his passing was his skating ability. His cutting, his ability to use his edges to dart in and around Maine defenders was exceptional. Maine will certainly have to do a better job of keeping the puck out of his hands Saturday night if Red Gendron's team wants a different outcome.
The goaltending left a lot to be desired from Blaine Byron's first goal of the game, 4:02 into the first period, that squeaked through the five-hole of Chat Katunar to Anders Bjork's tally just over three minutes later from a near impossible angle that somehow went between Sean Romeo's shoulder and the near post.
It didn't get much better from there with some bizarre handling of pucks, juicy rebounds and some shaky saves. Katunar did make a really nice glove save in the second period before getting yanked.
Both starting goaltenders were pulled. Expect to see Matt Morris and Cal Petersen get the nod in net for Maine and Notre Dame, respectively, in the series finale.
Oft-maligned Maine defense
It was one of the better games for the Black Bear defense overall. This isn't to say that there were not defensive breakdowns during the game, but the third Notre Dame goal was caused by one of the forward lines not getting the puck deep at the other end which allowed for a quick turnaround. The second goal was a nice tip on the power play and the first goal was on the goaltender. The fourth goal can be blamed squarely on the top defensive pairing for not taking Mario Lucia in front of the net.
Eric Schurhamer, +2 on the night, had a stellar game. He was physical, skated well and had a good stick. It was also one of the better games for senior alternate captain Jake Rutt.
Keys to series finale
Maine did a lot of good things Friday night. It played physically and was tenacious on the forecheck. The Black Bears won the possession battle. No line did a better job at that than the third line that got the start Friday. Will Merchant and Brady Campbell each scored a goal, but the pair along with Stu Higgins, did a great job. All three of them brought intensity to the ice each shift and made things happen.
If Gendron's team can limit the few mistakes it made Friday and get better goaltending, the home team has a good chance of coming away with three points on the weekend.
For Notre Dame, Jeff Jackson's team needs to get the puck in Hinostroza's hands. The Irish have the skill to cause breakdowns in the Maine defense. Obviously, better goaltending is important for the Irish as well. | <urn:uuid:15b1d1a5-94f0-4b07-a3b6-8d8a39749ff6> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sbncollegehockey.com/hockey-east/2015/2/7/7998703/analysis-notre-dame-maine-tie-4-4-vince-hinostroza-devin-shore | 2023-09-23T18:07:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.984839 | 692 |
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Cadherin-based adherens junctions (AJs) and desmosomes are crucial to couple intercellular adhesion to the actin or intermediate filament cytoskeletons, respectively. As such, these intercellular junctions are essential to provide not only integrity to epithelia and other tissues but also the mechanical machinery necessary to execute complex morphogenetic and ho-meostatic intercellular rearrangements. Moreover, these spatially defined junctions serve as signaling hubs that integrate mechanical and chemical pathways to coordinate tissue architecture with behavior. This review takes an evolutionary perspective on how the emergence of these two essential intercellular junctions at key points during the evolution of multicellular animals afforded metazoans with new opportunities to integrate adhesion, cytoskeletal dynamics, and signaling. We discuss known literature on cross-talk between the two junctions and, using the skin epidermis as an example, provide a model for how these two junctions function in concert to orchestrate tissue organization and function.
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Gannochy Trust wins at Glasgow Institute of Architecture Awards
A new intergenerational neighbourhood in Perth designed by Glasgow architecture firm Anderson Bell + Christie for the Gannochy Trust, has won the Large Residential category and a sustainability accolade at the Glasgow Institute of Architects Awards 2020, which took place at a virtual ceremony on Friday November 27.
The new 48-home development has been designed to integrate with the Trust’s neighbouring model village development, which was constructed by former Scotch whisky entrepreneur and philanthropist Arthur Kinmond (A K) Bell back the 1920s.
Not only is the new neighbourhood well integrated in terms of building proportions, scale and layout, but careful consideration of the existing tenant group means the new housing will accommodate their future needs as they age, and will also attract younger families and accommodate carers to create an inclusive and resilient community.
The new development is underpinned by three core design principles; ‘Healthy Homes for Life,’ ‘Lifetime Neighbourhoods’ and ‘High Quality Design’ which aim to improve health, accessibility and connectedness for tenants, with the flexibility to adapt to their needs as circumstances change.
These guiding principles will help the Trust provide affordable rented accommodation to a wide range of people, from small families to single people of all ages, including those who need additional support to live in their own home.
David Gray, chairman of the Gannochy Trust, said: “We are delighted to win at the GIA awards on Friday. The success of the project is down to the vision of all our partners who understood the needs of our tenants and the legacy of our founder A K Bell, whose passion for providing healthy, affordable homes for the community of Perth lives on in the new development. We thank all our partners for making this development happen. This award is in recognition for their hard work and ingenuity.”
Stephen Lamb, director of Anderson Bell + Christie, added: “We are delighted to receive the GIA awards for the Residential (large) and Sustainability categories. This success is a result of the hard work of a large team of consultants and contractors, and on behalf of them all I express our gratitude.
“Our aim was to provide a complementary extension to the exemplar housing estate constructed by AK Bell in the 1930s. Bell’s attitude to promoting healthy living by actively encouraging tenants to go outdoors and ventilate their houses well is so relevant for us today. We have followed this example by providing external ‘sit-ooteries’ that can be used throughout the year, and incorporating a unique passive ventilation system into the houses.”
The Gannochy Trust Lifetime Neighbourhood was built by Campion Homes and designed by Glasgow architectural firm Anderson Bell + Christie.
‘Healthy Homes for Life,’ and ‘High Quality Design’ elements also received design input from the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit at Glasgow School of Art with support from the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre.
Others involved in the project include Perth and Kinross Council, Brownriggs Quantity Surveying and Construction Consultancy, G3 Consulting Engineers, Mike Hyatt Landscape Architects, Hawthorne Boyle Ltd and Sentinel Clerk of Works. | <urn:uuid:7c65d6d8-577f-4954-b0ba-e59b04574d56> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/gannochy-trust-wins-at-glasgow-institute-of-architecture-awards | 2023-09-23T17:55:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.954522 | 668 |
Kingdom shortlisted for CIH Excellence Awards
Kingdom Housing Association has been shortlisted in two categories in the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland’s prestigious Excellence Awards.
The Association’s Fraser Avenue regeneration project has been shortlisted for the Excellence in Regeneration category and its ground-breaking homelessness employability project, the Naumann Initiative in the Excellence in Housing Innovation category.
Community involvement has been at the heart of the Fraser Avenue regeneration project and the emerging transformation of the estate has come from close collaborative working with the local community, Fife Council and a range of other private and voluntary sector organisations.
The project is delivering an authentic sustainable new neighbourhood with a distinctive new identity breaking free from an image of being isolated and stigmatised and has reinforced the need to work collaboratively to achieve mutual goals and help recreate a sense of community.
The Naumann Initiative is an innovative project that aims to break the vicious circle of homelessness and unemployment by simultaneously giving a homeless person a job, a home and support with any complex needs or barriers to sustaining their tenancy.
Bill Banks, group chief executive at Kingdom, said: “Striving for excellence is core to how we work at Kingdom and I’m delighted that we’ve been shortlisted for these awards.
“We are very proud of both these projects and the positive impact they will have on people’s lives but it’s always great to get external recognition too. I’m very much looking forward to the award winners being announced but know that we’re up against some stiff competition.” | <urn:uuid:06f66bc0-678c-42ff-809f-aef1c0e55071> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/kingdom-shortlisted-for-cih-excellence-awards | 2023-09-23T17:42:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.942839 | 328 |
Chibuba Osuala Finds Her Voice Playing Nina Simone
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Engage In A Variety of Ways
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No Catch-22 in Batch 22
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Meet the Creative Team for Nina Simone: Four Women
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For Christina Ham, This Work Is Deeply Personal
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Meet the Cast for "Nina Simone: Four Women"
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Season Spotlight—"Nina Simone: Four Women"
She blended a distinctive musical voice with penetrating activism that burned its way into the conscience of America with a heat and light unmistakable in its intensity.
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At Birmingham (Stirling) we aim to give young people an experience that will help them grow into the person they want to be in a safe and friendly environment. Through various activities and adventures, we learn teamwork, respect, loyalty, self-confidence, commitment, self-discipline, honesty and how to be the best version of ourselves.
You learn life skills. I was 12, very quiet and shy. Cadets makes you find the confidence. You feel part of something special. Serafina, 15
We offer a range of different activities from sailing, windsurfing and powerboating - to rock climbing, camping, and music - plus, so much more! At Birmingham (Stirling) you are also able to gain different qualifications that you can take with you once you leave Sea Cadets!
"It makes me feel I can do things others can't. I don't want to stay in my house every day. I want to see how the world is."
It is our priority to make sure that Sea Cadets is a safe environment young people can go to, to be themselves. Click here to find out more about how we safeguard our young people.
We are very lucky to be a stone throw away from our own exclusive lake, which we use in the Summer to our full advantage. Each young person gains an average of 50 hours on the water, earning up to 4 boating qualifications per year. Our trained volunteers are instructors in activities such as Kayaking, Canoeing, Rowing, Windsurfing and Sailing, which allows us to provide a full water sports experience.
In the winter months, Our experienced volunteers which are all DBS checked offer a variety of activities such as Adventure Training, Camping, Cook/Steward, Communications, Drill, First Aid (incl First Aid at Work Qualifications), Field craft, Marine Engineering, Meteorology, Mountain Biking, Mountain Leadership, Navigation, Physical Training, Seamanship and much more, as well as many life skills. We also encourage our young people to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and our BTEC programmes. A lot of our qualifications that we offer are well known outside of the organisation, which will really boost a child’s CV in the near future.
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The Home School Partnership
by Beverley Harris and Claudia Williams
GENRE: Home School
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Semtech and Packetworx Enable Remote Monitoring of Critical Equipment with LoRaWAN®
Packetworx addresses COVID-19 concerns with new applications to measure power supply and deliver remote diagnostics to high-value assets
CAMARILLO, Calif., Oct. 15, 2020 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced it has developed with Packetworx, the premier Internet of Things (IoT) solution provider in the Philippines, a new automated packetSENSE Current Clamp electricity monitoring solution and packetSWITCH remote rebooting device based on the LoRaWAN® protocol.
“The LoRaWAN protocol offers the essential building blocks for developers and system integrators to quickly and cost-effectively create solutions to combat the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Arnold Bagabaldo, Founder and CEO at Packetworx. “Packetworx is stepping up to meet the needs of smart facility and smart building management with IoT solutions that remotely monitor equipment and maximize operations with minimal human intervention and reduced risk.”
Packetworx’s IoT applications include packetSENSE Current Clamp sensor that measures electricity flow and packetSWITCH technology to remotely reboot a device. The combined solution has been deployed by several financial institutions to remotely monitor the functionality of automated teller machines (ATMs). Enabled by Semtech’s LoRa® devices these simple retrofit devices enable 24/7 usage auditing, preventative maintenance alerts, alarms for inactivity due to power loss or malfunction, and remote on or off capabilities to reset the ATM. Actionable data is provided on Packetworx’s visualization dashboard, packetVIEW. These applications utilize the LoRaWAN protocol to deliver long range connectivity, up to miles from the nearest gateway and deep indoors, and low power consumption, with battery life averaging three to five years.
“LoRaWAN allows solution providers the means to quickly connect legacy mission-critical equipment and receive the benefits of IoT and smart monitoring with a low total cost of ownership,” said Marc Pegulu, Vice President of IoT Product Marketing for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group. “Packetworx’s proven ATM use case has now opened the door to remote monitoring of applications across an endless array of markets, including healthcare, smart industry, smart utility, and logistics.”
To learn more about Semtech’s IoT solutions, visit the website.
About Semtech’s LoRa® Platform
Semtech’s LoRa device-to-Cloud platform is a globally adopted long range, low power solution for IoT applications, enabling the rapid development and deployment of ultra-low power, cost efficient and long range IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module products, and IoT services worldwide. Semtech’s LoRa devices provide the communication layer for the LoRaWAN® protocol, which is maintained by the LoRa Alliance®, an open IoT alliance for Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) applications that has been used to deploy IoT networks in over 100 countries. Semtech is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance. To learn more about how LoRa enables IoT, visit Semtech’s LoRa site.
Packetworx is the leading enabler of Internet of Things (IoT) and LoRa® devices in the Philippines. It is the pioneer and only LoRaWAN connectivity provider and operator in the Philippines. The company provides hardware and software solutions that system integrators and developers use to deliver a portfolio of IoT solutions. Packetworx’s mission is to accelerate the Philippines’ transition towards an Internet-powered future by providing end-to-end IoT solutions, from devices, to network infrastructure, to cloud-based data visualization tools. To learn more, visit https://packetworx.com/.
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for infrastructure, high-end consumer and industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The Company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.
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When you talk about digital marketing what comes in your mind first!! You all probably know that SEO is a process of website optimization in which some onsite changes are done to make your site more search engine friendly. Obviously these changes are made according to search engine guidelines. In this article, we will talk about the
After these onsite changes some of the valuable back-links for website are acquired to gain some authority in search engines eyes. These back-links works as votes for you and as much as quality back-links your website will have, search engine will be giving that much priority to your website.
As Your Website will be more search engine friendly and will get more exposure through quality back links, more visible it will be inside search engine result pages means for your business keywords or in simple words for your business related search queries, search engines will show you ahead of your competitors. This obviously has nothing to do with how big business you are in your local market.
Even if you are a small and medium scaled business owner, you have a chance to beat your well established industry competition by just making your site search engine friendly.
Below are the points about how Search Engine Optimization helps you business and how it gives you an upper edge on your competitors.
Why You Need SEO For Your Business?
- Helps Your Business to Enhance Its Online Visibility.
- Establishes Your Brand Credibility.
- SEO Brings You More Targeted Leads Online.
- SEO Enables Better Return Over Investment (ROI) in Advertising.
- SEO Increases Your Business Conversion Rates By Transforming Potential Customers into Business Leads.
Search engine optimization has been always considered great for online businesses that constantly search for new customers from distant locations to run their business smoothly and make it profitable. Search Engine optimization provides you a great opportunity to expand your business where you can’t reach physically. It provides you wide audience to target with your products and services. We can give some points that will be hopefully enough for every business owner to understand that why seo is prime for every business and what edge it offers you.
SEO is Not a Cost to Grow Your Business instead it’s a kind of investment that will bring result to your business in long term and will increase your organic visibility. If you are appearing below to your competitors on #2 pages with your products and services then you need to put accelerator on your search engine marketing.
PROPER SEO is Much more Than SEO Friendly CMS as people usually tend to think that they don’t need an seo campaigning for their business website as they have already seo friendly website for their business while this is actually wrong as making search engine friendly website is not enough to draw sales through your prime business keywords.
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Serco’s Space team is celebrating the successful launch of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) EUCLID mission which departed on 1st July on a six-year journey to explore the evolution of the dark universe, promising to revolutionise our understanding of the cosmos.
EUCLID will survey one third of the sky, observing billions of galaxies, and create the most extensive 3D-map of the Universe.
There are Serco teams working for the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC, Spain), who have contributed to the development phase of the mission and will continue to support during the Performance and Validation phase (sciences operations) and at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC, Germany), where Serco provides the Network Operation Centre services, responsible for the monitoring and control of the ground segment, the operational scheduling, as well as the maintenance and operations of the IT systems and control room infrastructure used to run ESA missions. Serco teams at ESA-ESTEC have also provided Logistics Service Support, expertly managing the shipment of the spacecraft from the Netherlands to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA.
Commenting on the launch Roberto Mulatti, Space Managing Director in Europe said: “We are proud to be playing our part in the EUCLID mission. We extend our heartfelt appreciation to our Serco colleagues for their hard work, impact, and dedication in supporting this prestigious customer's mission”
Gaetan Desclee, Serco Europe Managing Director adds “It is an honour to support the European Space Agency in their unique exploration mission. Serco’s wide space services allow us to provide support throughout the entire mission supply chain. We are committed to continue delivering exceptional services to better support our customers in the field”
Serco is one of the leading space industry and services companies. With over 40 years’ experience in supporting the space sector, Serco has supported more than 50 customers’ space missions.
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Organize-Along Week 4
Welcome to week 4 of the Bee Sew Inspired - Organize Along!
This week we are organizing your Tools of the Trade! This includes rulers, scissors, glues, needles, pins etc... In the private Facebook groups and the Bee Sew Inspired YouTube Chanel, I share a few ideas on ways to inspire you to organize your tools and keep them and you safe! I am even going to link a FREE tutorial for a fun Mason Jar pin cushion!!!
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WEEKLY VIDEO #4 - Tools of the Trade
Join me as we talk through some ideas to store all your scissors, glues, rulers and more...
Every week we are sharing tips, tricks, laughter and so much more through a weekly Video Chat. You can watch and comment on the video in any of the three platforms or communities that best suits you! We WANT to hear your organizing solutions... so please join us and take part in these fun videos. We will help to keep in inspired as the weeks go on and keep you from overwhelm. One small thing organized is a success!!!
Sewing on the Go:
Do you have a creative way to take your threads, scissors, thimbles and pins with you when you sew? We LOVE project that we can make to contain our tools and also that are functional! Scroll down to the link to our FREE Mason Jar tutorial! Let's start the conversation and inspire each other to organize even one small section of our "Tools" this week!
How to Organize Sewing Supplies in Cute & Sensible Ways
You can use a magazine holder to organize your binder of sewing patterns and books. This is also a great place to organize fusible interfacing in containers and scraps of fabric wrapped around cardboard. The magazine holders create a perfect nook for keeping things organized on your bookshelf.
Whether you use a file cabinet or an accordion file organizer, your patterns and other loose materials fit well into slots. You can add your patterns to a large envelope and file them in, or you could create a slot for each pattern with a label. Regardless, the patterns stay out of sight and secure.
Pegboard With Hooks and Cups
Pegboards can be your best friend if you are short on space in your sewing area. These boards have multiple functions and various purposes. You can hang large mats and tools off hooks and organize your ribbons, thread, and cutters. Hanging cups off the pegboard give you an area for your tape measures, pencils, Velcro, and other tools.
Easy Tips for Organizing Small Tools and Thread
Small tools can be a bit harder to keep organized. It can be easier to use containers for organization. Clear containers can be the best so you can see the small tools within.
Magnetic Tape to Hold Everything in Place
Needles and stitch rippers can be hard to keep track of sometimes. Add some magnetic tape to the bottom of a plastic container or a drawer. With a bit of magnetic tape, you can keep your metal needles and tools in order.
Clear Cookie Jars for Organization
When you have a lot of loose tools around your cutting area, using clear cookie jars can help keep everything organized and together. Label each cookie jar for the specific tool (i.e., scissors, pencils, etc.), and you can put them back after use. This works to keep them organized but handy.
Mason Jar Shelf for Accessories
When it comes to storing buttons, ribbons, and other sewing accessories, mason jar organizers can be essential. You can put this organizer on the wall, and you can stack them. This allows them to go up the wall and take up wall space.
Tips for Organizing Sewing Supplies
Getting all the little supplies you need for sewing in one place can be hard. But all you need to do is use some clever hacks to be an organization goddess.
Store small supplies in small easy to find containers.
Label everything, so it's easy to find what you need.
Use the wall space to your advantage, especially if you don't have a dedicated sewing or craft room.
Sort fabrics and thread by color.
Use high shelves for bulk items.
Store the materials you use daily in easy-to-access drawers.
Store things you use less like manuals in low drawers.
Use drawer dividers to give everything its own space.
Use hooks on pegboards to keep your mats and scissors in place.
Mobile rolling carts can help make quick alterations.
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Anal sex is a pleasurable and exciting experience that has been around for centuries. It’s a type of sex that offers a unique and intense level of pleasure that can be enjoyed by both partners. This blog post will explore the secrets of the intense pleasure that comes with anal sex, and why it’s such a special and thrilling experience.
Anal sex is the act of penetrating or being penetrated in the anus, either by a penis, sex toy, or fingers. This form of sexual activity has gained popularity over the years and has become a common practice among couples. In fact, many people even seek out anal sex from a-level escorts as part of their sexual exploration.
During anal sex, the sensitive nerve endings in the anus are stimulated, which can lead to intense pleasure and sexual satisfaction. This can be attributed to the fact that the anus is an erogenous zone, just like the genitals, and can provide sexual pleasure when stimulated properly.
When it comes to how anal sex works, it’s important to note that the anus is not naturally designed for penetration, unlike the vagina. This means that extra care and preparation are required to ensure a safe and comfortable experience. Lubrication is a crucial aspect of anal sex, as it helps to reduce friction and discomfort.
In addition to the physical sensations of anal sex, there is also a psychological excitement that comes with it. For some individuals, the taboo and forbidden nature of anal sex can be a turn-on. The power dynamic can also shift during anal sex, with one partner taking on a dominant role and the other a submissive role.
However, it’s important to remember that anal sex should always be a consensual and communicative experience between partners. Both parties should be comfortable with the idea and have open communication throughout the process. By following these guidelines and properly preparing, individuals can enjoy the intense pleasure that comes with anal sex.
For many people, anal sex is an exciting and thrilling experience that offers both physical and psychological pleasure. From the taboo nature of the act to the intense physical sensations that it provides, anal sex is something that many people fantasize about and actively seek out. In fact, the demand for anal sex has grown so much in recent years that even some a-level escorts have started offering it as part of their services.
But why is anal sex so exciting? The answer lies in the combination of psychological and physical factors that come into play during the act. Let’s take a closer look at some of these factors:
There’s no denying that anal sex has a certain taboo allure that makes it incredibly exciting for many people. This is because anal sex has traditionally been viewed as a taboo or forbidden act, which makes it all the more alluring. The idea of doing something that society deems inappropriate or risqué can be a huge turn-on for many people, which is why anal sex has become increasingly popular over the years.
Of course, the physical sensations of anal sex are another huge factor in why it is so exciting. The anus is filled with a plethora of nerve endings, which can create intense sensations when stimulated. For many people, the feeling of penetration in this area can be incredibly pleasurable and lead to powerful orgasms. Additionally, anal sex can also provide a unique feeling of fullness and tightness that many people find highly arousing.
All in all, there’s no denying that anal sex is an incredibly exciting experience that offers a unique combination of physical and psychological pleasure. As long as it is approached with communication, consent, and proper preparation, there’s no reason why it can’t be a safe and enjoyable activity for consenting adults.
It is crucial to communicate with your partner about anal sex and obtain explicit consent before engaging in any sexual activity. Consent means that all parties involved agree to engage in sexual activity and can withdraw that consent at any time. Anal sex can be a sensitive subject and might not be something that both parties are interested in.
Additionally, some individuals might have experienced trauma related to anal penetration and may not be comfortable exploring it. It is important to create a safe and comfortable environment for both parties, ensuring that all boundaries are respected. It is equally important to establish a level of trust and mutual respect with your partner to enhance the experience and avoid any unpleasant surprises.
Unfortunately, the porn industry often portrays anal sex as something that women should endure or tolerate to please their male partners, creating unrealistic expectations and a lack of communication and consent. This portrayal has contributed to the stigmatization of anal sex, making it harder for couples to explore this exciting form of sexual expression.
It is vital to acknowledge and respect each other’s feelings and expectations about anal sex. This includes addressing concerns such as pain or discomfort, as well as using appropriate lubrication and taking things slow. Engaging with a-level escorts could be a good way to learn more about anal sex and explore it in a safe and controlled environment.
In summary, understanding the importance of communication and consent before engaging in any sexual activity, particularly anal sex, is essential to create a positive and enjoyable experience for both partners. Communication and consent go hand in hand, and should always be present in all aspects of sexual activity. It is time to debunk the stigma and shame surrounding anal sex and create a culture of respect, communication, and consent.
Now that you’ve learned about the psychological and physical excitement of anal sex, let’s discuss how to prepare for it. As with any sexual activity, preparation is key to a safe and pleasurable experience.
First and foremost, it’s important to have an open and honest conversation with your partner about your desires and expectations. Communication is essential to make sure you are both on the same page and feel comfortable with the experience.
Next, you’ll want to make sure you are properly hydrated and have emptied your bowels. This can be achieved by drinking plenty of water and using the bathroom before engaging in anal sex.
It’s also recommended to clean the area with a warm, damp cloth or using an enema. However, it’s important to not overdo it as excessive cleaning can cause irritation and discomfort.
To reduce the risk of injury or discomfort, use plenty of lubrication. The anus does not self-lubricate like the vagina, so it’s important to use a high-quality water or silicone-based lubricant to make the experience more pleasurable.
Lastly, start slow and work your way up to more intense activity. The anus is a sensitive area and needs time to adjust to the stimulation. Use gentle pressure and gradually increase as you feel more comfortable.
Overall, preparing for anal sex takes patience and care. By following these steps, you can help ensure a safe and pleasurable experience for both you and your partner.
Now that you understand the basics of anal sex and why it can be so thrilling, let’s talk about some tips and tricks to make your experience even better.
1. Start slow and use lots of lubrication: Anal sex requires patience and care. It’s important to start slow and gradually increase the pace. Don’t rush things and make sure you use plenty of lubrication to avoid discomfort and pain.
2. Experiment with different positions: Not all positions are created equal when it comes to anal sex. Some may feel more comfortable than others, so experiment with different positions until you find the one that works best for you and your partner.
3. Use anal toys: Anal toys can be a great way to prepare for anal sex or to add some extra excitement during the act. From butt plugs to anal beads, there are many different toys to choose from.
4. Communicate with your partner: Communication is key when it comes to anal sex. Make sure you and your partner are on the same page and talk about what feels good and what doesn’t. If something hurts or is uncomfortable, don’t be afraid to speak up.
5. Take your time with foreplay: Good anal sex is all about relaxation and getting in the right frame of mind. Take your time with foreplay, whether it’s kissing, massaging, or using a vibrator. This will help you relax and get in the mood.
6. Be open to new experiences: Finally, be open to new experiences and don’t be afraid to try new things. You never know what you might like until you give it a try.
Remember, anal sex should always be consensual and safe. Always use protection and make sure you and your partner are on the same page before engaging in any sexual activity. With these tips and tricks, you’re well on your way to experiencing the intense pleasure that anal sex can bring.
Despite the growing popularity of anal sex, there are still several misconceptions and myths surrounding this intimate act. Let’s explore some of these myths and debunk them one by one.
Myth #1: Anal sex is painful and uncomfortable for women.
Fact: While anal sex may cause some discomfort or pain initially, it should not be painful. With proper communication and preparation, women can have a pleasurable experience during anal sex. The key is to go slow, use enough lubrication, and listen to your body.
Myth #2: Anal sex is only for gay men.
Fact: Anal sex is not exclusive to any gender or sexual orientation. It’s a sexual act that can be enjoyed by anyone who is willing and interested. Men and women of all sexual orientations have explored and enjoyed anal sex.
Myth #3: Anal sex is unclean and can cause health problems.
Fact: While anal sex does carry some risk of bacterial infection, with proper hygiene and protection, the risk can be minimized. Always use a condom and clean yourself thoroughly before and after anal sex.
Myth #4: Anal sex is degrading and demeaning.
Fact: Anal sex is a consensual act that should be explored between two consenting adults. It can be an enjoyable and exciting experience for both partners, and it is not inherently degrading or demeaning.
Myth #5: Anal sex is only for experienced couples.
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Canadia: 2056: Season 1
By Matt Watts; Perfomed by a full cast
5 CDs – Approx. 5 Hours [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: CBC Audio
Published: January 21, 2008
Product ID: ERART00217
Themes: / Science Fiction / Humor / Canada / War / Toilets / Audio Drama / CBC /
This entertaining sci-fi comedy series is written by one of Canada’s best-loved comedy writers, Matt Watts. The United States has launched an armada to destroy an alien threat. Canada sends the nation’s only publicly-funded spacecraft, The Canadia – a ship with a single purpose – to plunge the Americans’ toilets.
There are lots of audio dramas out here on the internet, but if you want to hear a professional piece of work that will make you laugh out loud, you should give Canadia 2056 300 minutes of your time. Matt Watts and the entire cast and crew of Canadia 2056 have created something special. The show is an absolute gem.
The Canadia of the series is a Canadian spaceship that has been sent to war with a United States fleet, which in turn has been sent to perform a pre-emptive strike on a planet called Ipampilash. Midshipman Max Anderson is the only American member of the crew, and his relations with all of the Canadians is central to the comedy of the show. I’m not a Canadian, so I’m certain that I’m missing the deeper meaning of some of the jokes, but the scripts are crafted and performed in such a way that I really didn’t feel I was missing out.
An example of this occurs in the very first episode. The captain of the Canadia (hilariously performed by Paul O’Sullivan) is choosing a voice for the computer. He goes through a few, then settles on a gravelly female voice. I found the scene funny without knowing what I was told later – the voice selected was Shauna MacDonald, who is known as the Promo Girl in Canada. Apparently, her voice was heard all the time on CBC, and the debate between the folks that wanted her off the air and the folks who wanted her to stay made her famous. (I’d have wanted her to stay, by the way. I adore her voice.)
Max Anderson (played by series writer Matt Watts) makes an interesting representative of the United States. He’s cowardly, geeky, selfish, and his mother is an admiral in the US fleet. He feels his way around the crew, and finds his place among them eventually. Holly Lewis was captivating as Amanda Lewis, the engineer that Max spends the most time with. There’s a lot of tension between the two, and it’s wonderfully played.
I could sit here and start listing my favorite moments, but it’s suffice to say that I loved these shows enough that I listened more than once. There’s a short list of audio drama that’s really excellent, and even a shorter list of comedic audio drama that’s really excellent. Canadia 2056: Season One is one of those, and I urge you to give it a listen. It’s cruckin’ fanatastic!
Season Two of Canadia: 2056 starts next week on CBC Radio! It looks like the first airing will be at 11:00pm, Wednesday, March 19th. Click here to keep your eye on the CBC Radio schedule.
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The Humanities and Critical Thinking HUM 321W (4)
A study of the counter-traditions within western civilization. Compares and contrasts diverse traditions within western culture that critique its central value systems. It will focus on the attempts of great artists and thinkers to break with tradition, and the subsequent creation of new ideas and forms of experience and expression. Prerequisite: 45 units. Writing/Breadth-Humanities. | <urn:uuid:1f4c5804-6910-4184-9c0b-b53bb308d214> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sfu.ca/students/calendar/2023/summer/courses/hum/321w.html | 2023-09-23T18:16:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.914297 | 87 |
Isn’t a sundowner mehendi the best wedding function? We say, yes. A mehendi is one of the most fun pre wedding function. With bright hues to mimosas, gorgeous decor and henna laid hands, all of this definitely makes us go aww! To add to the perfect mehendi vibe, here are some trending hairstyles to make your pictures instaworthy.
From floral embellishments to baby’s breath, we have shortlisted the best looks of the season. So pin these hairstyles for your pre wedding functions.
Fresh floral embellishments
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Make a statement with a stunning half updo, add some baby’s breath or fresh roses, you can also add some lilac flowers for a different look.
This side half updo has or heart! This hairstyle is perfect for those who do not like to keep it messy and want a classy look.
Make a statement on your mehendi with a classy bun!
While listing down trending hairstyles, how can we skin hair buns. Aren’t they always in trend? Here are some bun ideas to bookmark for your mehendi function.
For the love of Gajra! Make a sleek, centre parted bun and add a gajra string to it. Isn’t this an all time favourite look?
Add some delicate butterflies for a fun yet chic look!
Butterfly hair accessories have been in vogue for sometime, but we must tell you that they are not going out of trend anytime soon. Opt for some multicoloured or pastel butterfly accessories to add to a curl hairdo.
Braid it all the way!
Braids have a different fanbase. A perfect hairstyle to rock your mehendi ceremony. Add some flower or opt for a fishtail braid, trust us, they all just look fab for a day function.
Doesn’t this braid remind us of Jasmine? A dreamy hairstyle to rock any wedding function.
A perfect addition to a braid is a rhinestone hair vine.
This braided hairdo with a gajra vine is certainly going to make heads turn!
You can also add a passa or some polki hair accessory too. A royal and traditional charm to enhance your mehendi look. This look will definitely make you an insta famous bride.
Who doesn’t love a tiara? Rock like a queen with a floral tiara on your mehendi day.
Whimsical braided half updo for mehendi
How admirable are these braided hairstyles, add some pearl accessories for an uber chic look.
For the love of messy hairdo’s!
Get that boho look with a messy hairdo! Add some baby’s breath to those beachy waves or messy bun.
Hair accessories that are making a statement this season!
Stone vines and hair pins have been the talk of the town. Match these with your outfit for a monochromatic look.
For the love of traditional jewelery! These kundan hair brooches and head bands will transform you into a royal bride.
Mehendi hairstyles for short hair
How can we mis out on trendy hairstyles for short hair!!
Make a ponytail add add some fresh flowers to get a voluminous and neat look.
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Aude Van Wyller, born 1991, is a visual artist and composer from Paris. She is interested by poetry and music and its dispersion in many spaces such as stairs, amphiteaters, concert rooms, gardens… After creating multi-channel installations performing readings with actors and recordings, she worked on a single project of sound poetry and electronic music, under the moniker Oï les Ox, called ‘Crooner qui coule sous les clous’ (A crooner that sinks under nails).
It has been released in 2020 on tape and reissued twice in 2021 and 2022 on vinyl via The Death of Rave (UK) and digitally by Primordial Void (US). She released another EP on K-Rut/Kraak records (BE) with ‘Terrain Transparent’ in 2020. She has been resident in 2021 at Le Botanique, Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels) and Hetbos (Antwerp). She played at Heart of Noise festival (Innsbruck, 21), at Schiev festival (Brussels, 22), at Oxi Club (Berlin, 22) and her live set has been broadcasted on the SWR2 german television and radio channel (Freiburg, 22).
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Home Building and Remodeling Showcase returning to civic complex
Published 1:32 pm Monday, February 22, 2016
By JESSA PEASE / Staff Writer
PELHAM— Spring is often considered a time for remodeling, landscaping and upgrading as residents begin to take advantage of warmer weather.
For those in the market to build or remodel their homes, the Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders is hosting an event to showcase professional home services and products.
The sixth annual Home Building and Remodeling Showcase will be at the Pelham Civic Complex and Ice Arena March 18-20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
“It’s important to put our members in front of these people,” said Sarah Drexler, director of communications. “This is a great way to meet that plumber that you have been looking for, who you can trust to do good work.”
The show will feature about 120 booths on the main ice rink, showcasing builders, remodelers, associate members, plumbers, lighting companies and more. This show is also unique in that it focuses purely on remodeling and building rather than décor, Drexler said.
The event will also feature a new area in the ballroom this year called Grillin’ and Chillin’ for outdoor kitchen, pool, fencing, landscaping and other similar items. These booths will be larger, according to Drexler, so the businesses can bring in large items to showcase.
“We are hoping to draw a new crowd of people who are interested in outdoor remodeling,” Drexler said. “We are kind of giving them their own special area.”
Seminars will be held on Saturday and Sunday with topics ranging from gardening to up cycling to planning building projects. The Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders is also partnering with Southern Living magazine.
Half of the seminar room will provide space for Southern Living to showcase their outdoor furniture line and they will also host a couple seminars. HGTV’s Lucy is hosting a seminar on her handmade jewelry design as well.
In past years, Drexler said the event has drawn more than 3,000 people, and they are hoping to see more this year with the addition of the Grillin’ and Chillin’ area.
“Our vendors say that they get more quality leads from this show than any other show that they do,” Drexler said. “They really look forward to it.”
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Indra confirms equal status with Airbus and Dassault on NGWS/FCAS
Indra has confirmed that it is participating in the New Generation Weapon System/Future Combat Air System (NGWS/FCAS) Joint Concept Study as the national co-ordinator for Spain, on a par with Dassault (France) and Airbus D&S (Germany).
As a result, Indra noted in a 28 July statement, Spanish industry (including ITP and SATNUS) will be able to increase its participation in the programme.
Indra is also entering into international industrial agreements that enable it to consolidate its position in the demonstration phase, where it will lead (alongside Airbus and Dassault) the inter-pillar consistency/SIMLAB element of NGWS/FCAS.
The company is also jointly leading the Sensors development strand with Thales and German consortium FCMS; and it will participate as main partner alongside Thales in the Airbus-led Combat Cloud.
Indra estimates that development and production of NGWS/FCAS will generate billions of euros in investment in the decades ahead. Initial estimates point to a potential figure of €300 billion ($3.5 billion) over the next 40 years.
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by Himawari (ヒマワリ)
It’s a delight to come home to the flat and find Serhiy’s dick in Lyudmila’s mouth. I had been exhausted, coming up the stairs, but I started getting hard just hearing Serhiy’s voice groaning from the other side of the door, as I was fumbling for the door handle in the darkened hallway.
We don’t lock the door. We know our neighbors, and new kiborgi and others taking refuge from bombings in the south are given what they need. That day I’d been with a van convoy bringing a group of people into the Zona. After a long, tense journey northward we dropped them off at the welcoming center we’ve set up in the old railway station. We wish we could bring them in by rail, but lines to the south have all been cut. Routing refugees to us from the north is still difficult, with the outbreaks up there. So train station’s as good a place as any to hold orientations to our communa. We give them radioresistance gene drive packages, or if they already have one, make sure it is working properly. This bodyhack isn’t optional, here.
We now get some people who have zero hacks, and who are simply escaping violence or joining family members, but they really do need to be okay with kiborgi. The earliest of us fled from the Patriarchate’s ban and the mobs which followed. It was a ban on nearly any body modification or implanted device that “interfered with God’s Plan.” The mobs went after anyone with visible cybernetics and prosthetics, and before long they would target tattoos and piercings as well. Children with insulin pumps were outed, and their parents lost jobs and flats. Veterans with military-installed prostheses were not spared, nor was anyone who looked like they even might be trans. That’s how Lyudmila ended up here. And she’s not alone: we have veterans, academics, engineers like me, and doctors. We all work to keep the community hidden and safe. I work the van convoys when needed, monitoring communication frequencies for jamming and media feeds for any fighters that might waylay us.
From the moans, I presumed Serhiy had gotten home early. You’ve heard of the famed large fauna of the Zona? E and eir staff keep them as safe from us as they do us from them. Lyudmila is a teacher and I guess she had gotten home early or traded off an afternoon activity duty. When two of us got home early there was plenty of time for someone’s mouth to end up on someone else’s dick, or cunt, or nipple. That was how we liked it.
We had gotten this apartment about a year before, when it became open in the housing lottery. Sixth floor, gorgeous view of the ferris wheel and the old power plant in the distance, and we can fuck with the curtains open because we’re higher up than anything nearby. It’s going to be great for us, as long as we have or can get new knees, and we don’t expect to have the power for elevators any time soon. I miss plasma engineering, and perhaps someday I’ll be able to finish setting up our mini-tokamak, but we’re only doing wind and solar for now. And anyway, if you saw what I did as I walked in the flat, you wouldn’t think that was going to be a problem soon. Lyudmila was down on her knees with a wide stance for stability, the patellar plates of her army-grade implants solid on the floor. Her wavy black hair obscured my view of Serhiy’s dick much of the time, and her cheeks were hollowed as she sucked, pulled most of the way off, and made em moan again.
I hung my hat and bag on a peg by the door, and settled silently on the low stool nearby, afraid to break the spell. I was getting painfully tender from my own arousal.
Serhiy was laying blissfully back on the lounge bag in the middle of our living room, completely naked and showing off every tattoo and every trace of the lines of eir myoimplants, which intertwined like black and silver vines over eir skin. The computer interface ports on eir shaven head glinted in the late afternoon light.
Lyudmila is a work of art when she’s sucking cock. She’s tall even when kneeling, with thin limbs both biological and artificial, and I was perfectly positioned to admire the pear-shaped curve of her ass and hips . Now that I was seated I could see the soft curve of her balls, swaying with her motions as she blew Serhiy. She had pulled her hair back with her robotic arm, and now I could see her tongue lapping up and down the side of eir shaft. With her left hand, she held eir hip to keep him from bucking too much.
‘Mila told me once that an old boyfriend asked why she hadn’t had an orchi yet, and still relied on a combo spiro/estrogen pump, instead of selling the family jewels. She told him she liked her own balls more than she liked him, and she dumped him soon after.
I’m a boy with a cunt, so perhaps you see why she and I get along.
But I apologize, my mind wanders as much when describing sex as when having sex. Lyudmila was clearly making Serhiy lose eir mind, and they continued not to notice I was there, until Serhiy got close to coming, and opened eir eyes.
“Anatoli!” e said, and shot that load right into Lyudmila’s mouth. She twitched at the outburst, but swallowed without missing a beat. Then she popped off eir cock, and sat to one side on our shaggy rug to catch her breath.
“Tolik, how long have you been there?” She asked as she wiped her lips. They were always so full and pink after giving head.
“I came in while you were sucking on Serihko.” I rubbed a sweaty palm on my pants, not quite keeping myself from teasing my own erection, and I winced a bit. I could see Serhiy’s pupils zoom in to pinpoints in the solid blue lake of their cybernetic eyes as he saw it. E grinned.
“Is it your turn, Tolya?” e asked me.
I pointed a thumb toward the kitchen. “I was going to make some tea…” but Serhiy was in motion, gripping Lyudmila’s shoulder for balance as e swung up off the beanbag. She steadied his arm with one hand.
“No no, dorohyy, I need to stretch my legs. I’ll bring in the tea. Lyuda, don’t let him finish before I get back!” E cupped my cheek as e went past me, and my EM sensors could taste the minute impulses in eir hands and arms.
“Come here, Tolya,” Lyudmila purred.
I came to kneel on the rug next to her, and began running my hands over her arms and shoulders. She leaned in to kiss me, and then her hands were nimbly unzipping my shirt, and slipping my pants down over my hips. She pushed me onto the beanbag and came down above me, sliding my pants off over my legs as she did so. I reached down to rub her halfway hard penis against my extremely hard one, and we both gasped and giggled as I did. She moved against me as she stuck her tongue in my mouth. She tasted like Serhiy.
I tongued back, and reached up to cup the back of her neck. My EM sensor network makes that an extra special place to hold a lover, because of the rushing river of impulses you can feel running up and down their spine. I squeezed the muscles minutely, generating just the trickle of low current, high voltage across her skin that I knew she loved best. She moaned into my mouth, and I caught at her tongue gently with my lips.
” ‘Mila, let me suck you,” I said. I cradled her breast in my other hand and flicked over the nipple, applying power there too, even more gently.
She gasped against me, and lifted herself up. “Lay down, dorogaya,” I told her, because even though she had a talent for staying upright through an orgasm, with the help of those hardened knee joints, I wanted her to be able to relax. Besides, it tended to work better for me too: I’m short but not that short. She grinned, and pushed off from the bean bag, and spread herself out on the rug. I followed, burying my hands and knees in the shaggy yarn of the rug.
I’ve become pretty expert at sucking a variety of erections, in my time loving Lyuda and Serhiy. With Lyuda, I used quite a lot of suction from time to time, as it came in handy to massage her foreskin into the right spot on my tongue and pull on the rest of her. My right hand I used to massage her balls, and here I had to be gentle: it was one of the few places where she didn’t like a voltage. So I held them, and stroked them, so gently, as I teased her foreskin and licked at the shaft. I was getting incredibly hard, myself, but I ignored the ache and focused on the feel of her skin on my tongue, the gentle bulk between my lips, and her gasps of delight.
I didn’t look up when I heard Serhiy clink the tea tray down on the side table. I knew e’d come to sit on the rug, and before long, I could see one bare foot out of the corner of my eye, the silver lines fanning up to the toes from the ball of eir foot. I left off on stroking Lyuda’s nuts for the moment, and moved that hand to hold me up as I stroked her breast with the other hand. She moved from gasps to low moans, which was a solid sign that she would come soon. So I pulled a little harder, and licked my tongue’s tip against her foreskin before diving lower again, to pull all of her into my mouth. I heard Serhiy gasp, now, behind me, and with a slow moan and a gentle release of fluid, Lyuda was coming into my mouth.
I lingered until she finished quaking, even though my mouth was getting a bit tired. It was only polite, after all! Once her breathing slowed, I released her from my lips and sat up to a kneeling position.
We all stayed very still for a moment, looking at each other. I realized that not only was my cock painfully hard, I was also extremely wet, below it. I squirmed a bit. “Well?” Serhiy asked, watching me.
From the floor, Lyudmila smiled. Then she rolled over and pulled open the cabinet at the edge of the rug. She fished out a blue surgical glove and began putting it on her right hand. You know, the mechanical one. The glove was important: her prosthetic could be a bear to clean.
I looked back to Serhiy and then eir hands were on me. E kissed my nipples and the scars on my chest of various hacks past. I went quietly, settling back against the bean bag again as e ran eir hands up and down my torso and my arms, the tiny currents in eir hands causing sympathetic hums in my sensor net. It felt like forever passed, but I’m sure it was only a few moments later that Lyuda joined em, kneeling by me. She rubbed her gloved and already slicked fingers in the wetness between my legs, and played with my lips, a tug here and a slide there. I moaned and squirmed for her touch.
“I think I might need some help here, Seri,” Lyudmila said, looking down at my engorged cock. Serhiy hummed and nodded, and then moved lower, licking a trail down my belly. I tensed with a wave of anticipation, but I knew I could trust em to touch gently, and take good care of me. E kept a hand on my chest, the hum of eir implants against the hum of mine, as e put eir mouth on my erection and gently, gently rolled eir tongue around it.
“Please?!” I yelped, squirming a bit and making eye contact with Lyudmila.
“I’ve got you,” she replied, and rubbed just the first joint of a finger inside of me. While my cock was hard, my cunt felt soft and open. I whined at her for more. She dipped further inside, and added a finger. I was so wet that I could barely feel the blockiness of her prosthetic fingers, though I could imagine their squarish forms, sliding inside me and back out again.
I’ve said my mind wanders during sex, and so I cannot tell you the progression from having two of Lyudmila’s fingers inside of me to her cupping my pubic bone, all four fingers of her robot hand up to the palm in my cunt. I can only tell you that it was delicious, to push against her and feel her stretching me. Serhiy had kept up the gentle, satisfying pressure of eir lips and tongue on my cock, barely moving, not distracting me from what Lyudmila did with her fingers. I had put a hand on eir neck, in case I needed to ask em to back off, but mostly to feel the impulses traveling eir spine as I was fucked.
Lyuda went no farther; we’d learned that between the squared sides of her prosthetic palm and the angle of her polymer thumb joint, the “full duck” was not for me. The hard sides of her fingers pressed delightfully into me, keeping me open and spreading waves of pleasure through me. I rocked against her hand as best I could, riding a wave of sensation until finally a tremor started in my thighs, overtook my entire pelvis and stomach, and I came with a shout and a wave of fluid.
My partners rode it out, Seri’s hand steadying my chest and Lyudmila’s hand solid for my body to squeeze. Then it was over, and with a wave of my hand I asked Lyuda to back off. She slid her hand out of me, the emptiness almost as heady as the fullness had been. Seri kept a steady pressure on my dick until it started to soften, and then I tapped out against eir shoulder. My legs were still shaking, intermittently. Now, finally, I began to feel overstimulated instead of just perfectly stimulated enough.
Lyuda sat down next to the bean chair to strip the glove off her hand, and I moved my leg to press against her side. I was beginning to drop from the intensity of the moment. Seri sat on my other side, also touching me. Finally, I worked up the impulse to slide down, so that I was sitting on my arse between them.
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With gold and silver becoming a popular asset class for investors in recent years many buyers of precious metals may be wondering what they should or should not report to the Internal Revenue Service.
The following Infographic from JM Bullion provides a simple and informative guide to help you make sure you’re letting the government know what you’re up to so they don’t come banging down your door.
Not everything you own needs to be reported (depending on the types of precious metals you have), but you certainly wouldn’t want to get caught up in an audit if the IRS knows you are in possession of certain types of gold and silver investments.
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Siam Piwat Co., Ltd., together with the Plastics Institute of Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, PPP Plastics, Dow Thailand Group, and its partner networks,
announced the success of Siam Pieces – a business model development project for plastic waste management in an inner-city area, which was aimed at paving ways for sustainable plastic waste management based on the circular economy concept. The project highlights the development of business model to be applied in the business chain using a consumer behavior study by sampling people in the Pathumwan area. The goal is to shape a concrete model where all kinds of plastic waste are efficiently recycled and create a sorting center model that has the potential to collect plastic waste of any kind and segregate other recyclable materials, which is to serve as a driver that propels the cycle of truly sustainable plastic waste management.
Ms. Naratipe Ruttapradid, Chief Operating Officer, Siam Piwat Co., Ltd., said: All this time, Siam Piwat has adhered to the principles of doing business with social responsibility, taking into account people, society, and the environmental conservation. It is a critical mechanism defined in the organization's main operational plans, with the strategy “Co-creation and Creating Shared Values for All Parties”. The company has policies and planning guidelines in place to ensure that the project implementation covers all dimensions, especially the environment aspect. Moreover, Siam Piwat has cooperated with various partners, from both public and private sectors, to jointly roll out projects that promote the circular economy concept, reduce environmental impacts, and mitigate global warming to achieve the goals of sustainable development in the future.”
Siam Piwat has joined forces with the Plastics Institute of Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, PPP Plastics, and Dow Thailand Group, with its optimal goal to build on the concept of developing a business model concerning plastic waste management in urban society. The results of this research also link to business plans that are applicable to other areas for proper management of plastic waste in the future.
“OneSiam was chosen as a target area to study garbage disposal behaviors of customers and the general public, at which several activities had been carried out since the middle of 2021. It started from collecting data using questionnaires in order to analyze perspectives of stakeholders and use them to complement the design of business model. There were behavioral economics experiments with receptacles being arranged to specifically contain plastic waste at various points within Siam Paragon to study garbage disposal patterns of customers and the general public; educational exhibitions and discussion activities; a business model design competition, which broadened opportunities for students to express their creativity and introduce their innovation to solve plastic waste problems. The results obtained have materialized a business model by which plastic waste of all kinds is fed back into the production and recycling process by different means and reprocessed in the circular economic system. On behalf of Siam Piwat, we would like to express our appreciation towards all parties involved in this successful research project. We sincerely hope that the benefits obtained from this project will lead to the next step of becoming a new version of business model for sustainable plastic waste management, covering upstream to downstream, of the entire value chain.”
Mr. Veera Kwanloetchit, President, Plastics Institute of Thailand, said: The institute organized the event to echo the success of the consumer behavior study which was aimed at developing a business model for plastic waste management on the basis of circular economy in an inner-city area. The project is to create a model for sustainable plastic waste management in line with the circular economy concept, which will pave ways for the development of business model in the business chain through consumer behavior research conducted within the Pathumwan area. In this regard, the project was funded by PMUC (Administrative and Funding Management Unit to Enhance National Competitiveness) under the Office of the National Higher Education, Science Research and Innovation Policy Council, or NXPO, and was started in 2021, with its completion recorded this year.
In addition, the Plastics Institute of Thailand also developed a user-friendly application to trade plastic waste and different types of recyclable waste to encourage waste segregation and create waste value. On the platform, users can add sales posts to offer for sales their plastic waste or recycled materials to attract buyers that are interested to trade with them.
The results of the consumer behavior study which focuses on factors and motivations for waste segregation, in combination with the developed waste management business model and the application, will bring back large amounts of plastic waste to the system and create the sustainable waste management process.
Prof. Pisut Painmanakul, PhD., Secretary to the Minister of Energy, said: The main objective of this project is to develop a business model for efficient plastic recycling and to create a prototype that has the potential to store all types of plastic. The location where the study was conducted throughout the value chain of plastic management was OneSiam. Conclusions were drawn and prepared in a form of Plastic Waste Management Guide for Department Stores, which is available to shopping centers and venues of the similar nature for further adjustment and implementation based on the contexts of the area. In addition, it is to cascade the ideas to people in society to ensure that they are aware of the current plastic waste crisis and understand the positive impacts of proper plastic handling. Importantly, the guide will be a key that helps unlock the truly sustainable plastic waste management cycle based on the principles of circular economy. | <urn:uuid:cabd3b03-c465-4d86-bac7-3b273fc992a9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.siampiwat.com/en/news/174?_05/31/2023 | 2023-09-23T17:47:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.953843 | 1,117 |
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Is Twitterfone The Perfect App? Invites Coming Via Twitter...
I'm a big fan of Pat Phelan, one of Ireland's foremost entrepreneurs. [Please see: The Man Who Broke the Telco Cartel . . . and Bridged the Global "Voice Divide"]
Pat recently introduced an application that has received rave reviews from the Twitterati. The Twitterfone application allows you to post a Twitt (I call it that but others call it a Tweet :-) by calling a phone number. Voice recognition software translates your message into text and posts it on Twitter.
It works. I have no way of testing it against dialects, etc. but for my California english, it works flawlessly.
Simplicity. You sign up, get a confirmation code via SMS, add your Twitter account details, and it’s ready to go. You call the number, record your tweet and hang up. It’s a 3 minute process.
Amazingly viral. There are two aspects of the way this service is designed that make it incredibly viral. The first is really just the way Twitter is designed, the tweets include a status line indicating what client the user is using. The second is more important, for every Twitterfone tweet the service includes a tinyurl link back to the Twitterfone page that include an audio recording of your tweet.
. . . The WOW Moment. Every product and service has a moment in the first 60 seconds of use that an impression is formed which will shape all future interactions. This is the WOW Moment and it’s binary, you either have it or you don’t.
Twitterfone is in private beta but Pat just sent me a handful of invites. I'm going to release them individually on Twitter over the next day or so, so look out for my Twitt with a Twitterfone access code-- the first one to see it gets to use it. I will send out the codes starting Tuesday morning (late :-)
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Photophores by Silodesign. (3 sizes available)
Levitation photophore by Silodesign. (big size)
GENERAL INFORMATION FOR OUR CANDLE HOLDERS
This device should be used with regular white paraffin-wax tea light candles .
We advise not using palm tree wax candles for a nicer effect.
Make sure there is still about 3mm (0.1") of paraffin
left after blown out which can be easier to light it
next use. If it remains less than 3mm of paraffin, we
suggest to wait until it turns off by itself.
Remove the used wick metal coin before adding a
new tea light candle. Insert the new tea light
candle (without its aluminum cup).
Use boiling water, and paper towels.
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One of the most difficult responsibilities for an organization is to stay on top of employment law Dallas TX. Every year sees new legislation and updates to existing laws regarding employees. 2015 was a busy year with changes at the federal, state, and local levels. Projections for the upcoming year could be even more eventful. One change on the table affects the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The new law regulations affect the white collar exemptions and would increase the salary requirement in those exemptions to $50,400 annually or $970 in order for an employee to be exempt from overtime wages for hours worked over 40 per week. The legal experts at Simon|Paschal can help educate your organization so you aren’t left scrambling to be in compliance. Call today at (972)893-9340 or visit us online at www.simonpashal.com.
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Getting value out of a purchased license is one of the most important focuses we have at Simplus. Based on the way enterprise software is sold today, the customer is forced to carry the burden of the licenses for a short time after purchase while the software is being configured to meet specific organizational needs. Also, companies probably purchased this software for a reason, and presumably, after implementation, they’ll start to realize real-world cost benefits to deploying this software.
As such, shortening the length of time it takes to implement the software is critically important to realizing value. There are three main points that we focus on at Simplus to ensure organizations get the most value as quickly as possible.
Focus on the Minimum Viable Product
The one thing our customers notice when they begin scoping with Simplus is we will continually reinforce that our first phase engagement is what we refer to as the minimum viable product. The minimum viable product does not mean we won’t configure the tools to customer specifications, but that each requirement must satisfy the fundamental question of whether or not this functionality is absolutely mission-critical to obtain value from the solution.
The organization may be tempted to go for a Big Bang approach, especially during global rollouts, but most often there’s a more straightforward path to going live in the first phase. Can the customer narrow their initial rollout regions from the first phase to eliminate the need to add additional languages, currencies, and other theater requirements? Are there ways to reduce the scope and reduce risk in the initial phase to enhance the chances of success in a Phase 1.0 rollout? Once the customer is live, they can incrementally improve the system until they reach full adoption.
Don’t start from scratch
Simplus starts out every customer with our FastTrack package. This package contains all the foundational elements of CPQ and prevents us from having to reinvent the wheel during every CPQ implementation. The Simplus philosophy is that getting live with the least amount of risk and the best results leads to higher client satisfaction and an opportunity for follow-on engagements.
When deploying, we want to avoid repeating the same steps for every implementation and, as a team, we don’t want to execute against certain elements in ten different ways. Implementation teams need to collaborate across projects, and individuals need to interpret custom-configured objects, code, and data structures. To eliminate the difficulty and shorten timelines, our teams use common standards for common use cases, which allows us to leverage best practices across every implementation and use a conventional structure in our approach. Ultimately, our implementations are more consistent across the project portfolio, which leads to better quality and happier customers!
Leverage standard functionality
Every implementation hits a point where there’s a business process that doesn’t map precisely to how the tool is supposed to function. At this juncture, there’s a choice to shoehorn the process into the tool with custom code and workarounds or to compromise on the process to leverage the standard functionality. While there are sometimes legitimate reasons to resort to customizations, the vast majority of the time there are compromises we can make from the process standpoint to allow our customers to leverage mostly native processes. Minimizing customizations will provide customers easier maintainability in the long term, a lower total cost of ownership, and more seamless upgradeability in the future. Given a choice, we leverage standard functionality wherever possible in our implementations.
Ultimately, guiding reduction in the initial project phase, leveraging a solid foundation of repeatable knowledge, and using standard functionality whenever feasible will accelerate the timeline to value for the client.
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When digging into your email marketing metrics, one that you need to zero in on is your subscriber retention email marketing rate. Don't worry if that sounds like algebra, we will explain.
A subscriber retention is the rate at which your subscribers are either fleeing or staying with you.
Subtract the bounces and unsubscribes from your total number of subscribers, then divide the whole mess by the total number of subscribers. Yikes!
In plain English: (# of subscribers – bounces – unsubscribes)/# of subscribers.
So, if the total number of subscribers is 1,000 with 25 bounces and 120 unsubscribes, then your subscriber retention rate is 85.5%.
What does the rate mean?
Well, it's a reflection on how well you're holding on to your customers. In a perfect world, your retention rate would be 100%, where you'd never lose a customer to a bounce and no one ever unsubscribes.
Breaking it down a bit more, the subscriber email marketing retention rate shows:
- Email relevancy
- Promotion relevancy
- Email frequency/timing
- Which type of email marketing leads to the highest and/or lowest number of unsubscribes?
- Has the retention rate remained static or fluctuated throughout the year and/or month?
- Is there a correlation between a high retention rate and they type of promotions offered?
- Does your retention rate plummet after a major sale (or holiday)?
Does that all make sense now? How are your retention rates for the last few months or even the last few years? Understanding this important metric is key for your overall email marketing success.
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It’s not only the names of Major championship winners and Ryder Cup heroes which have been inscribed on the magnificent silverware that is presented each year to the winner of the SMBC Singapore Open.
Since its inauguration in 1961, US Masters winners Adam Scott, Angel Cabrera and Sergio Garcia, along with Ryder Cup heavyweights Ian Poulter and Matt Kuchar, are among the global stars who have savoured success in Singapore’s national Open, one of the most enduring and popular events on the Asian Tour calendar, writes Asian Tour contributing editor Spencer Robinson.
Sharing a place alongside them on the Singapore Open roll of honour are an awesome threesome of Asian golfing legends who will be teeing-it-up at Sentosa Golf Club this weeek in the season-ending event on the 2020-21 Asian Tour schedule.
For all the successes they achieved in marvellous careers, the legendary quartet of Myanmar’s Zaw Moe, Indians Jyoti Randhawa and Jeev Milkha Singh rank victory in the Singapore Open among their proudest moments.
Now into their fourth decade of competing professionally, the appearance of the trio at Sentosa in 2022 will inevitably spark bouts of nostalgia, especially for Singh whose triumph in 2008 was secured on the award-winning Serapong Course that they will once more grace this week.
Singh’s dramatic one-stroke success remains among his most revered, repelling the challenges of another legendary quartet, Major champions – Padraig Harrington, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy – in a nail-biting denouement.
“The depth of the field that week was amazing with four guys in the top-10 in the world ranking playing. That win gave me a lot of confidence,” said Singh, in the wake of his sixth Asian Tour victory, worth US$792,500, raising his season’s tally to US$1.4 million.
Not only did Singh become the first player to surpass US$1 million in earnings in a single season on the Asian Tour, but also he went on to win a second Asian Tour Order of Merit title in three years. The following year he rose to a high of 28th in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Starting the final round at Sentosa in 2008 five strokes off the pace, Singh charged up the leaderboard with an outward 33 and birdied the 11th hole to take control of the tournament. Bogeys on 13 and 16 set up a tense finish but his rivals failed to take advantage of his late blemishes.
Els and Harrington tipped their hats to Singh.
“It could have been a win for me. But Jeev is a great guy and I’m happy for him,” said South African Els.
Irishman Harrington, who won both the Open Championship and PGA Championship that year, echoed those sentiments. “I’m delighted for Jeev,” he said.
For Randhawa and Zaw, the venues for their triumphs were the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) and Jurong Country Club (JCC) respectively.
Over the SICC’s Island Course in 2000, the then 28-year-old Randhawa posted a four-day total of 20-under, three clear of second-placed South African Hendrik Buhrmann.
“I’d won three times previously on Tour but all of them were in India. So, it was good to finally win outside my country. My fellow players were telling me that I had to get the monkey off my back. I’m glad all doubts were finally put aside,” said Randhawa.
“Patience was the key,” added the Indian, who recovered brilliantly from an indifferent opening 72 with rounds of 64, 65 and a closing 67.
Zaw enjoyed a similar margin of victory in his 1997 success at the now-defunct JCC.
“Since 1995 I had been playing well but I couldn’t win, so when I arrived at the Singapore Open that year I felt I was due,” said Zaw, a long-time Singapore resident.
Four strokes clear at the top after three accomplished rounds in the 60s, Zaw signed off with a maturely-compiled 72, leaving him three ahead of American Fran Quinn, the runner-up.
A quarter of a century later, Zaw is still going strong. So, too, are Singh and Randhawa.
It’s testament to their skill and longevity that these three former Singapore Open champions are plotting to play their part in the latest chapter in the history of this storied event that is about to be penned. | <urn:uuid:bac2c170-ea3e-49e6-942d-13dbcdb7b6de> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.singaporeopengolf.com/smbc-singapore-open-return-for-legendary-asian-trio/ | 2023-09-23T17:51:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.969239 | 997 |
Vital Stem is a dietary supplement mixture that supposedly reverses the changes of normal aging by increasing the body’s production of stem cells. We can’t know if it works, because it hasn’t been tested.
Is Vital Stem a Miracle Anti-Aging Remedy? Evidence is lacking.
Stem cell treatments are very promising. Bone marrow transplants are already widely used, and researchers are investigating stem cell treatments for a variety of conditions; but as yet there are few proven practical applications. I recently wrote about one stem cell treatment for age-related macular degeneration that stabilized the disease in a single patient and another that went awry and left three women blind (and see also David Weinberg’s discussion).Enter Dr. Rand McClain. Forget about expensive surgeries and injections. Forget about finding and enrolling in clinical trials. He says you can boost your body’s own stem cell levels by taking his dietary supplement Vital Stem. He says it will improve cognitive function, enhance joint and muscle strength, increase longevity, and reverse the pesky changes of normal aging. He has testimonials. In a slick marketing video, he explains his remarkable new antiaging product. He says it takes old worn-out cells and replaces them with new ones, with astonishing results. He says thousands are already using this product to turn back the clock. He uses the product himself, and provides his own enthusiastic testimonial.
Who is Rand McClain?
When I hear about a new breakthrough in stem cell or anti-aging treatment (or, for that matter, any new medical breakthrough), one of my first questions is who is making the claim? Is he an expert in the field? Has he published clinical research? Is he a credible source of information?
Rand McClain is a DO who runs a Regenerative Medicine clinic in California. The video claims he is one of the world’s top physicians, featured on talk shows and in magazines. It says people wait months to get an appointment with him. His clients include top athletes and some of the richest people in America. Good for him. But that says nothing about his credibility as a source of scientific information.
He says he has studied the causes of aging for over a decade, not just in the lab, but with thousands of his patients (elsewhere in the video he says hundreds). According to his Bio, his research experience consists only of a two-year (2001-3) stint as a research assistant where his job was to “collect and maintain data” related to a potential treatment for osteoporosis. He gave two presentations at an Epilepsy Foundation Conference in 2002 related to epilepsy treatment: one on Traditional Chinese Medicine and one on exercise and nutrition. I searched PubMed and found no articles by McClain R or McClain RS on any subject relating to stem cells or aging.
I am not convinced that he is an expert we can trust to provide credible information about stem cells or anti-aging. But that doesn’t mean we can dismiss his claims.
What is he claiming?
McClain says “stem cell tourists” have to travel to other countries for “secret” expensive experimental stem cell treatments because stem cell research was banned in the US. (Demonstrably not true. Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research was banned, but not private funding, and not research on non-embryonic stem cells, which is thriving). He says people are being denied these treatments in the US; only millionaires can afford to go to other countries for treatment at some of the most expensive clinics in the world. So he developed an alternative: a product that he makes available at affordable cost to everyone. Recounting two success stories, he implies that the experimental stem cell injections and surgeries those patients got are established, effective treatments. They are not. Their effectiveness has not been established, and there are associated risks. He describes stem cell research for various conditions and vastly over-represents the results of what are actually just preliminary studies. He claims that “stem cells have already been used to heal thousands and thousands of people with serious illness.” That is true, but almost all of those were hematopoietic stem cell transplants to re-constitute bone marrow in patients with leukemia and multiple myeloma after the patient’s own bone marrow had been destroyed by radiation and chemotherapy. He claims that treatments involving adult stem cells are perfectly safe; they are clearly not. There are many examples of harm, including the three women who were recently left blind.
He describes how a cut on the skin heals: the injured cells are replaced by new, healthy cells. He says his product can increase healing processes ten times in all parts of the body (!?). But most of the people he treats are not even sick; they’re regular people in good health who want to optimize their health. Some are pro athletes.
He says drug companies are “terrified” by the prospect of competition. He admonishes viewers of his video to share the information quickly, because he is “told this video may soon be taken down by the major search engines [because] corporate lobbyists will do everything in their power to keep you from seeing it.” Really?
He says our body’s own stem cells circulate in the body and know to go to wherever they are needed to repair cells damaged by trauma, illness, or aging. That’s a combination of oversimplification and falsehood. Then he contradicts himself by quoting a researcher who says, “The ability to direct stem cells to differentiate into rare cell types means that potentially any cell type in the body can now be replaced.” Potentially. We don’t yet have that ability to direct.
He says the American lifestyle destroys stem cells. As supporting evidence, he cites a study about how toxins in cigarette smoke prevent stem cells from becoming cartilage.
He claims that a decrease in stem cells is one of the primary causes of aging. Maybe, but that’s far from established, and is not even mentioned in most discussions of aging. He tells us we begin life with between 6 and 7 trillion stem cells. The numbers decrease as we get older; he blames this on nutritional and lifestyle factors.
What’s in Vital Stem?
- Vitamin D, 2000 IU (500% DV)
- Blueberry fruit
- Green tea leaf extract
The amounts of the last four ingredients are not individually specified. They are in a proprietary blend that contains 1,400 mg total.
It comes as a powder: mix one scoop into a 12-oz. glass of water. Only 10 calories a serving. Use once daily. Container lasts 30 days. Money-back guarantee (less S&H). It will cost $89.95 when they have the volume to offer it in stores. Savings of $40 or more if you respond to the video in 24 hours and if supplies last. It could cost you as little as $2 a day. Buy more at once to get a better price.
Has Vital Stem been scientifically tested?
No. Neither Vital Stem nor the particular combination of five nutrients has been tested to see if it produces clinically significant effects.
There is some evidence for benefits from individual components of this mixture. For instance, a randomized controlled trial of L-carnosine in Gulf War Illness found an increase in IQ but not in other parameters. The evidence is preliminary and it has not been established that the benefit is related to an increase in stem cells.
There is some evidence that nutrients can increase the number of stem cells and can act synergistically. For instance, this study found that a combination of blueberry, green tea, catechin, carnosine, and vitamin D3 promoted proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells in vitro. Most of the supporting research is in mice and cell cultures; there is little evidence from clinical studies in humans.
McClain describes a study, presumably an unpublished study of his own patients, where a group of volunteers between the ages of 40 and 75 used Vital Stem for 6 months. After only 2 weeks,
- 93% said their bodies felt stronger.
- 73% had less joint pain.
- 80% had less muscle pain.
- 93% reported having more energy.
- 87% reported having more motivation.
- 87% were thinking more clearly.
- 67% said their memory had significantly improved.
- 93% had much less fatigue.
- 73% said their skin looked smoother.
- 87% said they wanted to exercise more.
- 93% said they felt Vital Stem would help them live healthier and longer.
This is not credible evidence. What’s wrong with it?
- No control group! We don’t know whether they might have reported the same improvements after taking a sugar pill.
- No objective results, only subjective reports from patients, the kind of reports that might be expected from patients experiencing a placebo response and motivated to please a charismatic doctor. It’s more like a collection of testimonials.
- He doesn’t tell us how long these reported improvements lasted. It was a six-month study and he only describes the results at two weeks.
- Methodology not described. Were the patients prompted by questions like “have you noticed more energy?”
- Not published in a peer-reviewed journal where other researchers could critique it.
Conclusion: Questions remain
- If you take Vital Stem, will you feel better? Probably. But then people who take placebos or use any charlatan’s snake oil are likely to feel better, especially if they believe they will work.
- Does it work better than a sugar pill? We don’t know, and there is only one way to find out: test it against placebo in a blinded, randomized, controlled trial.
- Does the product as formulated significantly increase the body’s production of stem cells? Again, we can’t know until it has been properly tested.
- If it increases stem cell production, does that translate to clinically significant improvement in objective measures of health? Again, no way to know without testing.
- Does it reverse the signs and symptoms of normal aging? Will it make you live longer? Maybe, but I will remain skeptical until I see some credible evidence.
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It can be really difficult to decipher what order products are meant to follow. Some people are often confused as to which ingredients, products or consistencies are meant to go first. The standard rule states that we should try to layer products in order of consistency - from lightest to thickest. We agree!
So, in the morning, a sample routine could look like:
Cleanse (of course) - this should be the first step to prep your skin for the rest of your routine and to remove impurities from the surface of the skin.
Toner - this is often quite thin watery consistency.
Essence - these are completely optional and many essences often mirror the purpose of hydrating serums. But essences would usually come before serums because they offer an extra preparatory step for product absorption. Essences are (usually) thinner than serums but thicker than toners so it explains why it would come in between
Anti-oxidant / Hydrating serum - This is a great addition to a morning routine as anti-oxidant serums like Vitamin C help protect our skin from free radicals that flow around the air during the day. Hydrating serums help with hydration which helps with anti-aging, barrier repair and so much more. They are also not photosensitive so perfect for day use. (Photosensitive ingredients are acids like AHA's (Mandelic acid, Glycolic Acid, Kojic Acid) or BHA's (Salicylic Acid), these are best used at Night time.)
Moisturiser: This is far thicker than a serum and would explain why it should be used here. Moisturisers essentially help to seal in everything you have put and prep your skin for sun protection, whilst also helping to prevent dryness.
Sunscreen: We cannot explain how essential sunscreen are to every routine. No matter your age, skin type, or concern - it is paramount to wear adequate sun protection to help promote skin health, prevent skin cancer amongst other benefits. Sunscreens are usually deemed uncomfortable because of their thickness in consistency (which is essential due to the ingredients that help protect us from harmful UVB rays)
At Night time, eye creams would usually be incorporated around the same time as a moisturiser due to their consistency. Sunscreen would be swapped for oils (which are also optional). It is the last step as they provide benefits of occlusion (preventing water loss from the face after your routine). Putting it before moisturiser would prevent the moisture from the cream from penetrating properly into your skin.
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Getting exclusive Indexed Universal Life leads or IUL leads is one of the best ways financial advisors, financial professionals and insurance agents can grow their business.
After helping hundreds of financial advisors get high-quality annuity leads, financial advisor leads and IUL leads, here’s everything you need to know about getting exclusive Indexed Universal Life leads WITHOUT:
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The best way to get Indexed Universal Life Insurance leads is to set up an automated appointment funnel that generates and converts leads on autopilot.
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Once you have this funnel set up, here’s an overview of some of the strategies you can use to promote it.
What is the best strategy to get IUL leads?
Here are the top 5 ways to get both free and paid IUL leads as an insurance agent, financial advisor or financial professional:
Paid advertising is a good way to get IUL leads 100% online very quickly.
When you advertise, you can show your ad to people who might be interested in Indexed Universal Life Insurance.
Paid Ad Pros
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To find potential customers, you can target people who have searched for terms related to IUL insurance or financial planning in the past. You can also target people who live in specific zip codes or areas that tend to be affluent.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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YouTube is another great way to get free IUL leads.
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This is a great way to get in front of potential customers who are already interested in what you have to offer.
Another advantage of using YouTube SEO is that videos can appear on both YouTube and Google search engines.
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There are a lot of lead generation companies or lead gen programs that will sell IUL leads to you.
When you buy IUL leads from a marketing company, it sounds very attractive because you don’t have to do any marketing yourself!
However, the problem with buying leads is that many insurance agents that I’ve spoken to have complained that the quality is low and that they have to constantly chase leads to get a phone call with them.
And, even if you do get good quality leads, you’re often paying a lot more for a lead because the lead generation company needs to charge a markup on the leads they sell you to be profitable themselves.
That’s why many insurance agents and financial advisors we work with prefer to get their own exclusive IUL insurance leads.
How to get your own exclusive leads & appointments WITHOUT chasing leads to speak with you is explained in this video here.
How much does Indexed Universal Life Insurance leads cost?
There are two ways you can get Indexed Universal Life Insurance leads. The free way and the paid way.
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Here are the costs of getting IUL leads by paying for them:
Buying IUL leads from a lead company:
- Average cost per lead: $50
- Average qualified appointment cost: $500
Here are the costs of getting leads yourself through paid ads:
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- Average cost per qualified appointment: $200
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Online poker is not different from those played in the casino. The only difference is that people play online through a computer.
Is this game safe compared to casino games? The answer to this question depends.
Not all of these online casinos play clean. Some of them are scammers that are designed to run viruses that can damage the user’s computer. There are those who steal money from the player.
It was reported that some sites do not give the player profit. The online casino does it on purpose with the hope of returning money.
Some sites can also be insecure if there is collusion between players. If a person suspects an activity, it is advisable to contact the assistance service immediately. Site operators can verify this, since the computer keeps records of each player’s hands. Some sites have software to verify suspicious activity.
If a person still wants to play, fully aware of the risks, here are some tips to avoid becoming a victim of these sites;
- Some sites offer free demonstrations. The player must download this to see how good the software is and how good the graphics are.
- After downloading, it is best to watch several rounds. A person can check if there are enough tables for the limits he wants to play.
- If a person is interested in tournaments, it is best to check if the site offers a freeroll. This will allow the player to earn money to start an account.
- The most important thing to do before logging into the site is data verification. A person can ask other players if the winnings are paid on time. This can also be done by logging into the Poker newsgroup, which publishes information about the requested site.
You can play poker online by downloading it to your computer or through a browser at qqpoker. In any case, the player must first verify if the program is compatible. It is also recommended to scan the program for viruses, as this can damage the computer.
There are many sites to choose from that can be very interesting. If there is more than one site that looks good, then there will be no harm in reproducing them all. The player must be ready to earn some money and lose it.
The game probably changed in the 20th century. The development of technology has allowed people to play in the comforts of home, instead of traveling to a casino to have fun.
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Recently, rumors began to swirl that Lulu Spencer might soon wake up when Dante Falconeri (Dominique Zamprogna) took Charlotte Cassadine (Scarlett Fernandez) to visit her mother at the long-term care facility where Lulu was sent after lapsing into a coma in December 2020. Lulu suffered a traumatic brain injury and cerebral edema during an explosion that destroyed the Floating Rib in November 2020. She was rushed into surgery, but the efforts to save her life left Lulu in a coma.
Word of Lulu's possible return grew loud enough to prompt Emme Rylan to address the possibility of a return to General Hospital in a series of posts on Instagram.
Initially, Rylan posted, "I am getting approximately one million messages asking if Lulu is waking up and...I don't want to ruin storyline ever. I am very much into the integrity of storylines, whether I'm in them or not. So, I've been putting it off and putting it off and putting off talking. Because I'm getting so many messages! I don't know what to say!"
Next, Rylan said, "So, basically, the bottom line, no matter what the Internet says, I have made it very clear to GH that I am always available to play Lulu should she ever want to wake up. It is my understanding that when they choose to wake her up, they would be calling me. That could always change. Who knows? But that is my understanding. When they want to wake her up, they will call me. That's as much as I know, and I have not heard from them."
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Plastic credit cards are easily destroyed by simply cutting them up with a household pair of scissors. But in recent years, some credit card issuers have started issuing metal credit cards. While these have become somewhat of a status symbol, the problem comes in trying to figure out how to dispose of metal credit cards.
It’s good practice to destroy a metal credit card once you’re done using it so that nobody can access your personal information. However, disposing of a metal credit card is not as easy as using a pair of regular household scissors. Thankfully, there are a few options to consider if you want to know how to destroy a metal credit card.
Why Should You Destroy a Metal Credit Card?
The biggest reason to destroy a metal credit card is to make sure that nobody uses your credit card information.
Even though most credit card companies have a $0 fraud liability policy, you don’t want to deal with the hassle of unauthorized purchases. And even if you’ve canceled your credit card or it’s expired, you’ll still want to destroy it, since it has personal information that might be used in different types of identity theft.
Factors to Consider Before Destroying a Credit Card
Before destroying a metal credit card, you’ll want to make sure that it makes sense to cancel your account.
If you’re still using a credit card through automatic payments or recurring purchases, make sure to cancel those or move them to other cards. Once you close your account and dispose of your metal credit card, any such purchases will be declined.
Also take into account any potential impacts on your credit score that closing your account may have. Closing an account could increase your credit utilization ratio since you’ll have less available overall credit, and it could also lower the age of your accounts, depending on how long you’ve had your account. Both factors could lead to a dip in your credit score.
Before moving forward with closing your account, you’ll also want to take a look at your rewards to ensure you wouldn’t lose what you’ve already earned. Also remember that you’ll still need to pay off your card’s balance in full. Keep an eye out for any final payments that might roll in after your account is closed.
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Ways to Get Rid of a Metal Credit Card
If you’re confident you want to move forward, here are some options for how to dispose of a metal credit card.
Sending It Back to Your Credit Card Issuer
One of the best ways to dispose of a metal credit card is to return it directly to your credit card issuer. Most credit card issuers will provide you with a postage-paid envelope to return your metal credit card, if you ask. This can be a great (and relatively secure) way to dispose of your metal credit card.
Returning It to a Physical Bank Branch
Another option for returning your metal credit card to your credit card issuer is by bringing it to a physical bank branch. Of course, this is only a viable option if your issuer has physical branches near you. If your card has reached its credit card expiration date and you want to get rid of it, this can be a reasonable option.
Stowing It Away
Another option for disposing of a metal credit card is to simply stow it away somewhere safe in your house. This could be a filing cabinet, sock drawer, or anywhere else in your home. While this isn’t a great long-term solution, since there is some risk, it may work in the short-term.
Destroying It on Your Own
The final option for disposing of a metal credit card that you’re no longer using is destroying it on your own. After all, this is the preferred solution for most non-metal credit cards. And it is still possible with a metal credit card, though it is a bit trickier, as you’ll see in the next section.
Guide to Disposing a Metal Credit Card on Your Own
For those who want to DIY the destruction of their metal card, here’s how you destroy metal credit cards.
Using Tin Snips
If you have a pair of tin snips, that’s probably the easiest way to destroy a metal credit card on your own. Tin snips should make quick work of most metal credit cards. If you don’t have a pair of tin snips yourself, check with friends and family to see if you can borrow a pair.
Using Heavy-Duty Scissors
While most traditional or kitchen scissors will not do much to a metal credit card, if you have a heavy-duty pair of scissors, you may be in luck. Heavy-duty scissors made of stainless steel or titanium may be able to help you destroy and dispose of a metal credit card.
Mangling It With Pliers
If you don’t have heavy-duty scissors or tin snips, another option is to use a regular pair of pliers. While this may not be the most practical way to dispose of a metal credit card, it could be worth a try.
Drilling Holes Into It
If you have a power drill with metal-cutting bits, you might be able to dispose of your metal credit card by drilling holes into it. You’d just need to drill enough holes in your card to remove any of your personal information as well as the EMV chip. Keep in mind that you’ll need a powerful drill with special bits — it’s unlikely that a regular drill will do the job.
Using a Blow Torch
If you have access to a blow torch, and are knowledgeable enough about it to be able to use it safely, you may have luck using it to destroy your metal credit card. Of course, if you have a big enough shop to have a blow torch, you probably also have a pair of tin snips. That will be much easier, but maybe not as fun!
Throwing It in Your Fire Pit
While you may be able to destroy your metal credit card by simply throwing it in your fire pit, this may not be the most environmentally-conscious way to dispose of your metal credit card. Many metal credit cards have different kinds of metals in them that may not be safe to burn.
Avoid These Methods for Discarding a Metal Credit Card
Out of the many ways you can dispose of your metal credit card, here are the methods to steer clear of.
Giving It to Third-Party Services
One of the top credit card rules is that you should not give your personal information out to anyone. This still holds true, even if your credit card account is closed. Your personal information can still be used for identity theft or other nefarious purposes. Either destroy your metal credit card yourself, or deal directly with your credit card issuer.
Throwing It Away or Recycling It
You’ll also want to avoid simply throwing your metal credit card away or recycling it. You may be trying to take advantage of “security by obscurity,” hoping that nobody will find it. But because of how a credit card works, it’s easy for anybody that has your card to access your account and your personal information. Don’t take that risk — make sure to destroy your card responsibly.
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Using a Paper Shredder
While most paper shredders do have the capacity to shred a non-metal credit card, it is unlikely that your typical paper shredder can handle a metal credit card. You are more likely to damage your paper shredder and still have an intact metal credit card.
Using Traditional Scissors
Traditional kitchen scissors will not be able to destroy most metal credit cards. While you’re unlikely to damage your scissors, you’re also quite unlikely to make any progress trying to destroy your metal card with a traditional pair of scissors.
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While it may be trickier to destroy a metal credit card than it is to get rid of a plastic credit card, it’s still important to do. You don’t want your personal information floating around for anyone to possibly use. Even if your credit card account is closed, you still run the risk of someone using the card to steal your identity. The easiest way to destroy a metal credit card is securely sending it back to your credit card issuer.
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What is the safest way to destroy a credit card?
The safest way to destroy a metal credit card is to securely send it back to your credit card issuer. Most credit card issuers will send you a postage-paid envelope that will allow you to send the metal card back to them. Alternatively, you can return it directly back to a physical branch location.
How do I get rid of a metal credit card at home?
One of the easiest ways to get rid of a metal credit card at home is using tin snips. If you have a pair of tin snips, they will make quick work of a metal credit card. Just make sure to be careful with the rough metal edges once you cut it up.
Can you burn a metal credit card?
It is possible to burn a metal credit card, though it may not be the most environmentally-conscious thing to do. Burning a metal credit card may release toxic gasses into the air.
Can I destroy my metal credit card with tin snips?
Yes, destroying a metal credit card with tin snips is one of the easiest ways to dispose of a metal credit card. Of all the different options for destroying a metal credit card at home, tin snips are the tool that is most likely to be found in the homes of most credit card consumers.
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Truck Dispatcher: Nashville, TN – (Remote Hybrid)
My client, a well-established 3PL, is growing and expanding its customer base and is looking for an experienced dispatcher to lead a new fleet and be part of the growth of their domestic trucking business. This is a fairly new facility, so you’ll be part of the ground floor opportunity.
You will be based in Nashville, TN. You will get your initial training in their Nashville office, and you can work from home on Mon & Fri, then in-office Tues thru Thursday. You will dispatch for the Jeffersonville, IN drivers (5), with a very big account. Then their other shipments will be dispatched to the Portland, TN drivers (5). Both locations are fairly new and will be increasing in size as they grow new business. A lot of their shipments are sent via flatbed trucks as there are rolled steel coils that need to be shipped.
1. The geographic footprint for their Jeffersonville trucks is: GA, AR, DE, GA, IA, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NY, OH, PA, WI. The drivers are normally home on the weekends.
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Well said, Andrew Yang
The Democratic hopeful defended a comic who made dodgy ethnic jokes about him – now that’s principled.
Tech-entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang used to be known as the quirky outsider with the thousand-dollar Hail Mary. Today, he’s become an unexpected voice of bipartisanship and pragmatism, appearing on conservative pundit Ben Shapiro’s talkshow and appealing to conservatives and libertarians with his market-conscious approaches. This week, he weighed in on a controversy surrounding a comedian who used ethnic slurs and made offensive jokes about Asians, some of which specifically referred to Yang himself. In our modern environment of hyper-sensitivity and cancel culture, his response was a breath of fresh air.
Yang intervened after clips began circulating showing one of Saturday Night Live’s newest hires, Shane Gillis, using ethnic slurs and calling Yang a ‘Jew Chink’. Many called for SNL to fire Gillis, especially considering the show had also just hired its first Asian-American cast member. Gillis quickly put out a statement explaining that his job as a comedian involves pushing boundaries, and attempts at comedy frequently miss the mark. ‘My intention is never to hurt anyone’, he wrote, ‘but I am trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks’.
A few days later, Yang responded to the controversy in a Twitter thread, inviting Gillis to sit down and talk, saying that while he thought the jokes were ‘cheap shots’, he didn’t think he should lose his job. Yang characterised Gillis as a still-forming comedian who made bad offensive jokes, but pointed out that our society has become excessively punitive and vindictive about offensive speech. He forgave Gillis, finishing the thread with: ‘We’re all human, we’re all fallible.’
Yang could have easily framed himself as the victim, using the controversy to drum up exposure and sympathy. Instead, he was reasonable, open about his feelings on Gillis’s material, and willing to engage in an honest conversation. It is the single greatest show of integrity I’ve seen in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Later, during an interview with CNN journalist Jake Tapper, Yang pointed out that not only is our society excessively punitive, but that comedians should be held to a different standard. Yang clearly understands the central role that intent plays in speech. There’s a fundamental difference between using slurs and offensive speech with the intent to cause distress and the intent to create comedy. Because it is so subjective, it is completely unreasonable to try to read malicious intent into offensive comedy. One man’s perfect joke is another man’s hate speech.
And we also can’t pretend, like so many fainting-couch pundits, that slurs and offensive material are always and perpetually off-limits. Dave Chappelle’s massively influential Chappelle’s Show is riddled with slurs and offensive jokes. One of his most famous characters is the priceless Clayton Bigsby, a blind (and black) white supremacist who rails against minorities, blissfully unware that he’s not white. If the terribly offensive was off-limits, we’d also have to write off the brilliantly crude South Park, with its hilariously misanthropic children. Of course, not everyone finds these examples funny, but neither does everyone find them truly offensive. The intention is to be funny, but if it doesn’t work for you, that doesn’t make it objectively wrong. Everything is offensive to someone.
Gillis’ jokes weren’t funny to me. They came off as edgelord internet humour more than anything else. But just because a joke bombs, it doesn’t mean the comedian is evil. A flat joke is just a flat joke. The risk, of course, is that when a dicey joke falls flat, the tone-deaf mob can interpret it in the worst possible light. Less than a week after the controversy, SNL caved in and announced that Gillis would not be joining the show due to his ‘offensive, hurtful and unacceptable’ language. Frankly, it seems that almost everything is being interpreted that way these days.
Indeed, Yang himself has been criticised for making insensitive jokes. While talking about healthcare in the third democratic debate, he joked about how he knows a lot of doctors because he’s Asian. Even this harmless moment of levity irked some. When asked about it on CNN, he responded, ‘If anything, by poking fun at it, I’m making Americans reflect a little bit more…’ This impishness and integrity has helped Yang become the most likable and authentic candidate in the race.
Language and human interaction is imprecise and improvised, which means it is often a little rough around the edges. We’re constantly wading into quagmires and making faux pas, or being outright offensive. We make mistakes, we’re fallible. But if our intent is just to create comedy, bring levity, make commentary, or merely have a conservation with another human being, we must be more sober and understanding. In an increasingly sensitive society, Andrew Yang’s message rings clear while his campaign gains momentum.
Shaun Cammack is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and a contributor to Young Voices. Follow him on Twitter: @shaunjcammack
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Perhaps it goes without saying, but the most culturally significant movie of the 2010s is The Avengers. There were many decades of superhero movies before the release of Joss Whedon’s 2012 box-office behemoth, and the move toward the stylish, ideologically mature comic-book flick had already been made with Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in the previous decade. But The Avengers was the first to prototype the sprawling extended universe posse film, uniting a host of disparate characters from the Marvel mythology in one movie. The Avengers and the movies it inspired—both in and outside of Marvel—challenge the idea that a feature film should function as a standalone narrative work. Its sequels Age of Ultron and Infinity War require an extensive base of background knowledge from the characters’ previous stand-alone movies—and sometimes from the comic books themselves—in order to follow the story, or at least fully appreciate the stakes. Marvel’s Avengers experiment was nonetheless successful, partially thanks to the huge built-in audience, but also to the offbeat choice of writer and director: reliably clever Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly writer Whedon, in only his second turn as a feature film director.
Avengers fever swept over Hollywood, as the film gained both critical and industry accolades and became the third highest-grossing movie in history, with a $1.5 billion box office haul worldwide. Not only did its success incentivize Marvel and DC toward making many more bloated franchise films, it helped justify and encourage the ongoing surge in gritty reboots and modernized reimaginings of all sorts. As the MCU continued to take over the box office, network TV, streaming services, and the internet, another monolithically profitable franchise—Star Wars—would also return, invested with a nostalgic sense of purpose and an over-ambitious slate of projects, all of which seemed to foreshadow many years of increasingly warped complications to George Lucas’ original mythology.
The Marvel, DC, and Star Wars microindustries demonstrate the extent to which film and TV culture in the 2010s—more than ever before—was dominated by creators finding savvy ways to retell old stories, as the industry became increasingly devoted to the assumption that “existing IP” has a stronger inherent and quantifiable value than fresh narratives. The trend extended well beyond comic book lore, from The Jungle Book to Aladdin to Planet of the Apes to Shaft (yet again) to a hell of a lot of previously adapted Stephen King material.
Unranked and not intended as definitive, this list largely forgoes discussion of adaptations and tribute projects, and features few of the decade’s major summer blockbusters as a result. (There are exceptions, like Mad Max: Fury Road, which stands as perhaps the most inspired and subversive action film of the decade.) Here, we’re focusing on strong original stories that found broad audiences, inspired trends, spoke meaningfully to sociopolitical and cultural themes, or felt somehow emblematic of the spirit of the 2010s. These are 30 enduring, significant, and just plain great films from the last decade, as chosen and blurbed by the Spin staff.
See also: 30 Great TV Shows That Defined the 2010s
Winter’s Bone (2010)
Debra Granik’s breakthrough feature is probably best known today for launching Jennifer Lawrence’s career, but it should also be remembered as one of the great neo-realist films of the past ten years. Few directors have portrayed extreme poverty in middle America with more nuance. Winter’s Bone offers a devastating portrait of a dirt-poor community in the Ozarks with no infrastructure or government oversight, racked by meth lab explosions, domestic abuse, and petty crime. Like her debut—2004’s Down to the Bone, a C-budget film about the downward spiral of a coke-addicted housewife in upstate New York—Winter’s Bone portrays drugs as a means of escape for the down-and-out, whether psychological or economic.
Ree Dolly (Lawrence) is already the head of her household at the age of 17, struggling to feed her family and keep their house. As she sets out on a quest to find her father, Granik’s film turns into a gripping noir thriller, offering crossover appeal to audiences beyond the arthouse circuit. (It gained enough attention to secure four Oscars nominations, including one for Best Picture.) But Granik’s commitment to using real locations and non-actors, and immersing her central cast of professionals in the extreme locale in which the film is set, gives Winter’s Bone its unique power. It makes the film as immersive as the actors’ experience must have been. —WINSTON COOK-WILSON
Christopher Nolan has always liked puzzles. He spent the 2000s crafting tight, conceptual thrillers with riddles at their core, with Memento to The Prestige being the strongest examples. Even in his relatively straightforward Batman movies, the gambit is structural: Nolan can’t help but play around with timelines, mysterious flashbacks, and twist endings.
The most high-minded of Nolan’s films, Inception is also the densest, featuring unreliable protagonists, nested narratives, and paradoxical point points. As a result, the movie spends a significant amount of its runtime explaining how it works. In this world, shadowy international corporations pull the strings, and the minds of important business people and political leaders are prized targets. Dreams can be infiltrated, and secrets stolen via psychological espionage. Cobb and his crack team of infiltrators explore three layers of dreams-within-dreams, attempting to lead a young Robert Fisher (Cillian Murphy) towards a particular business decision by helping him repair his relationship with his late father. Cobb is seeking redemption from something, and the unknown event’s lasting psychological implications take the form of literal projections, interfering consistently with the mission he is supposed to be carrying out.
Nolan hones in on the intricacies of the dreaming process, but despite his meticulous explanations, the film still manages to inspire a sense of subjective wonder. We can argue about how cleanly the puzzle pieces fit together, but the scope of Nolan’s accomplishment remains staggering. No major Hollywood filmmakers are making blockbusters with this much conceptual ambition. In an increasingly Marvelized film landscape, Inception is a testament to what Cobb calls the “most resistant parasite”: the lasting power of an original idea. —WILL GOTTSEGEN
The Social Network (2010)
The Social Network, the unconventional Mark Zuckerberg biopic directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, got some flack at the time of its release for being a less-than-truthful account of Facebook’s rise to prominence and the lawsuits that resulted from it. But Fincher’s distinctive film does something more important than dramatize history. It evokes the feelings of jealousy, loneliness, and greed that, by some accounts, helped alienate the founder of Facebook from the people who helped him get to the top.
Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg as a tightly wound ball of nerves and insecurity, simultaneously psychologically unraveling and creating a self-satisfied mythology for himself as Facebook snowballs in popularity. The film looks back on the company’s genesis from the context of depositions by the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer), who claim Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them, and his former best friend Eduardo Sauverin (played by Andrew Garfield). This frame allows the filmmakers to revisit the events that tore Zuckerberg and Sauverin’s friendship apart, including Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) coming onboard as an early investor and seducing Zuckerberg by telling him everything he’s ever wanted to hear.
Fincher and Sorkin turned out to be an unlikely dream team. Few directors have made banging out code or clicking around an Internet browser as exciting to watch as Fincher. Sorkin has an acute understanding of the effect power has on people, both those who crave it and those feel oppressed by it. The best scene of The Social Network is the one in which Sauverin finds out that he’s been diluted out of Facebook’s shares, and Sorkin’s rapid-fire dialogue heightens the vitriolic intensity of the conflict. (The best anecdote about the making of the film is that Fincher asked Sorkin to read the script the way he hears it in his head, timed him, and used that time to dictate how fast the actors had to talk.)
The score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—the duo’s first and best film project—is the icing on the cake. In his previous work with Nine Inch Nails, Reznor channeled anger and anxiety into a specific industrial rock sound, but adapting his sensibility to film scoring brought out a new side of his musical genius. The Social Network’s varied soundtrack borrows elements from new wave, post-punk bands like Joy Division, and New York City underground music from the 1980s, helping to enhance the creeping sense of dread in Fincher’s melodrama. —ISRAEL DARAMOLA
As one of the monumental mainstream comedies of the decade, Bridesmaids proved for the umpteenth time that women are more than capable of carrying a summer blockbuster. Ultimately drawing a whopping $288 million at the box office, the movie introduced movie-going audiences to Kristen Wiig’s screenwriting and provided comedic titan Melissa McCarthy with a breakout role. Even more importantly, it features female comedians occupying the gross-out-comedy space producer Judd Apatow typically reserves for his cadre of manchild actors.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the film, however, is how adeptly it navigates the joys and complications of female friendship and the separation anxiety that results when one half of the partnership gets engaged. Like any chick flick, there’s a romance—and an adorable one at that—between Wiig’s adrift failed baker turned underemployed jewelry store sales associate and George O’Dowd’s cop character. But the real love story is the platonic one between Wiig’s character Annie and Maya Rudolph—Wiig’s former fellow Saturday Night Live cast member—as Lillian, the bride. Given how often women are either underwritten or relegated to the role of love interests or harpies in Hollywood comedies, it feels revolutionary to see women portrayed this multidimensionally.
Wiig’s character, in particular, grapples with abandonment issues, jealousy, a propensity to self-sabotage, nagging feelings of inadequacy, and class anxiety. One thing you almost never see in a rom-com is the protagonist worrying about money, since she usually lives in an absurdly spacious Manhattan apartment on a New York media employee’s salary. Bridesmaids breaks the taboo by having Wiig’s working-class background fuel the tension between her and Helen (Rose Byrne), the wealthy interloper who is competing with Annie for Lillian’s affections. Few shots in the movie are more effective than the tight closeup of Annie’s paltry retail paycheck amid discussions of the decadent bachelorette weekend in Las Vegas. —MAGGIE SEROTA
A Separation (2011)
Iranian auteur Ashgar Farhadi’s A Separation is among the most significant international films of the decade, and not just because of the noise it made among U.S. arthouse audiences or its Best Foriegn Film Oscar. Even in a vacuum, A Separation—an emotionally hyper-charged family drama that never ventures into sentimentality or leaps to easy conclusions—stands as a singular and monumental achievement.
A Separation nests a story about a housekeeper who loses her child to a tragic accident within another about a couple going through a divorce (or rather, fighting for the right to do so). Farhadi offers a multifaceted, contradictory portrait of every character he puts on screen. If our sympathies are naturally aligned with the couple—Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami)—at the film’s outset, our allegiances become muddled as class double-standards and other complicating factors present themselves. Nader’s rival Hojjat (Shahab Hosseini) initially scans as a toxically insecure and controlling husband, but as Farhadi elucidates the ways in which Iranian society underserves and scapegoats people from his socioeconomic background, the character becomes harder to judge.
Most of the central arguments between characters devolve into elaborate litigations of blame. It is difficult to pinpoint which disastrous events we are meant to chalk up to fate and which are the products of a broken societal infrastructure. The film highlights many restrictive cultural norms that do not account for the needs of real individuals, and for their inevitable flaws. Farhadi leaves his devastating parable open to free evaluation and reconsideration, steering gently clear of directly subversive critique, which allows him to explore themes and paradoxes that a more aggressively didactic movie might have circumvented. A Separation challenges all of us to take a more empathetic view of the individuals with whom we are thrown into conflict in life, and to constantly interrogate the inherited principles and codes that inform our actions. —WINSTON COOK-WILSON
The Master (2012)
Any two Paul Thomas Anderson fans could spend hours arguing over their favorite of his films from the 2010s, but The Master has a lot to recommend it as his most enduring and apropos statement. As a story about a con man (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and an angry, misguided follower (Joaquin Phoenix) taken in by his manipulation, the film has even more resonance today than it did upon release.
Rewatching the movie in the second half of the decade, it’s easy to imagine Freddie, Phoenix’s mouthwash-drinking nightmare of American masculinity, as a representation of the silent and malcontented majority who empower our most prominent purveyors of snake oil. Lancaster Dodd, Hoffman’s charlatan character, is a proxy for L. Ron Hubbard, but he ascribes to a more genteel cult-guru business model than the Scientology founder. (The Master is just one of many great cult stories from this decade, from Holy Hell to The Invitation to Get Out to Wild Wild Country, to the non-fictional Scientology exegesis Going Clear.) Despite some parallels, Dodd’s methods of persuasion are distinctly non-Trumpian, combining a down-to-earth joie de vivre with a charismatic pseudo-intellectualism.
The Master offers an oblique retake on The Great Gatsby’s central Nick-and-Jay dynamic from the perspective of a far more unreliable narrator. The film’s expressionistic cinematography and erratic pacing evoke Freddie’s constantly compromised state of mind and delusions of grandeur, with support from Jonny Greenwood’s seasick score, which—as with all of his soundtracks—functions like another character in the film. As the followup to his career-altering experiment There Will Be Blood, The Master showed that Anderson was intent on solidifying a new, wholly original voice for his films in this new decade, which would later include forays into different time periods and genres. The Master is both his murkiest and multivalent work—the one that most easily invites new interpretations with every rewatch. —WINSTON COOK-WILSON | <urn:uuid:7a7907e7-ca72-452f-a641-dd4b5a8df4da> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.spin.com/2019/09/30-best-movies-2010s/ | 2023-09-23T17:36:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.941982 | 3,287 |
Jingling My Balls
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I've always been confident about my looks and body; never had to go without. Splashing in the SpunkU.com pool to cool off these balls, I just need to blow a load and I'll be good. Heading in, I thought I was alone; hmm, maybe later I can take you up on that offer. In the shower, my cock and balls know it's time; I dry off and stretch out. Working my foreskin over my cock feels really good, it's like "unwrapping a gift" each time I stroke. Tensing my hairy hole while I tug gets me even hornier.
Working a firm grip on my shaft, I move into a few of my favorite positions and let my thoughts wander; hell yeah I like you watching. With some precum expressed, I never need the bottled stuff; my body readies. Thighs tight, I jerk faster and release a creamy load up to my nipple. I'm not shy, and as for gettin' off, I got this. Montante Steel has already shown you how he plays with others, this BONUS BUST is our way of saying "May all your Christmases be white!"
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hello! i'm an incoming first yr scholar in a US school who was placed on a university medical health insurance plan, and that i'm making an attempt to navigate my approach by means of it in order that i can get contraception tablets for my PCOS.
i'm on UHC's scholar medical health insurance plan, they usually're saying that for preventative care providers, they'll cowl one hundred pc of the allowed quantity? and that deductibles, copays and coinsurances don't apply for this class of healthcare? i don't actually perceive what the "allowed quantity" means, so i'm confused on that as nicely.
they're additionally saying that you’ll want to pay a specific amount for pharmaceuticals and doctor visits. since each of those fall below the method of buying contraception tablets, i used to be questioning in the event that they're exempted from cost below preventative care providers ( https://www.healthcare.gov/preventive-care-women/ )
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LLOYDMINSTER, AB, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023/insPRESS/ – DKI Canada is happy to announce the growth of DKI – Sparklean with its new location DKI – Lloydminster. This location will serve the Lloydminster area and the encircling areas.
For the reason that opening of its first location in Alberta, DKI–Sparklean has witnessed a exceptional growth because it strategically prolonged its footprint to embody the Lloydminster area and its neighboring areas.
“As a graduate of the Lloydminster Complete Excessive College, it’s thrilling for me to be again in Lloydminster as a enterprise proprietor,” stated Mike Howes, President of DKI – Lloydminster. Kevin Morris, COO and shareholder of DKI – Lloydminster just lately relocated his household from Spruce Grove to tackle this new problem. “I’ve immense confidence that by Kevin’s management, we’ll grow to be absolutely immersed in the neighborhood as soon as once more.”
With over 30 years of expertise as a distinguished determine within the restoration trade, Mike Howes has maintained a longstanding affiliation with DKI. The opening of this new location is positioned to increase our presence and improve our means to help a higher variety of people within the close by areas.
Mike Howes is a well-respected trade chief with a confirmed file of success. With the growth to Lloydminster working as DKI – Lloydminster Mike welcomes Kevin Morris because the Chief Working Officer. Liable for delivering the identical high-quality service that prospects anticipate from DKI Canada. “Their dedication to buyer satisfaction and neighborhood involvement aligns completely with our core values,” stated Chris Schmidt, CEO of DKI Canada. “We’re thrilled to see Mike and Kevin increase into the Lloydminster neighborhood”. “Their ardour and dedication to excellence make them a really perfect accomplice, and we’ve little question the neighborhood can be positively impacted by their management.”
DKI – Lloydminster is open at: 6415 63 St Cl, Lloydminster, AB, T9V 3T6
DKI Canada is the chief in sustainable property restoration options. DKI Canada offers companies to insurance coverage, industrial and residential shoppers from coast to coast. Whether or not it’s emergency response, water harm mitigation, hearth and contents cleansing, mould remediation or full reconstruction, our members can be found 24 hours a day, 12 months a 12 months. DKI Canada actively contributes to creating a greater future by environmental safety and social duty. Centered on leaving issues higher than we discovered them, we’re dedicated to utilizing environmentally sustainable cleansing merchandise and mitigating threat in environmentally sustainable methods.
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WORKSHOP: Developing an MBSE-Model for a sustainable World
"Join us for SWISSED's most active session: our workshop to put INCOSE's 2035 vision into action. We will use this prime double-slot to further develop our MBSE-model of the relationships that govern the world's technical development and try to find the key levers that can help to make it more sustainable!"
Marco has had many roles in Systems Engineering: Professor at a technical university, and Consultant for and Employee in the development of complex systems. He was the managing director of projectglobe - a boutique consultancy firm specialising in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Information Management (IM) to support innovation driven engineering projects. Major customers are the fusion research community, the automotive industry, and 3D laser-welding and robotics companies.
As a senior consultant, Thomas Mächler supports his customers in the implementation of development processes in 3DEXPERIENCE. As a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) student, he is investigating ways of mapping global sustainability chains by using SE methods. | <urn:uuid:bd861609-5b92-45a1-b68c-01c7cab925ff> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.ssse.ch/items/workshop-developing-an-mbse-model-for-a-sustainable-world | 2023-09-23T16:33:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.918497 | 240 |
Towards large-scale FPV
Floating Photovoltaics (FPV) is a rapidly growing market. The first commercial FPV plant, which was around 170 kWp, was realised in 2008 on an irrigation pond in California. Today, more than 2 GWp is installed globally.
Although the present-day solar plants have outgrown the ‘pond’ phase, the commercial developments are still on inshore lakes with relatively mild conditions. In the Netherlands, we are experiencing a rapid increase of inshore floating solar as well. By the end of 2021, an installed capacity of 200 MWp is expected nationwide.
MARIN has worked on two major inland water projects. Four different designs were tested at Lake Slufter on the Maasvlakte in 2017. Here MARIN monitored the system dynamics with a range of sensors. Then in 2020 a successor project was realised at the Oostvoornse Meer (Lake). In addition to onsite instrumentation, MARIN also had the chance to work on the numerical simulations of the hydrodynamics. With significant wave heights of around 1 m in the extreme condition, this lake is taking FPV a small step further towards being deployed in less benign locations. In total three systems, based on different floater types, were installed and equipped with sensors.
Some industry parties are also moving towards Offshore Floating PV, with multiple, pre-commercial pilots going on. Undoubtedly, the scale is driving FPV offshore. Hence, a power density of approximately 150 Watt/m2 can be obtained, which is equivalent to 150 MWp/km2. This illustrates that, in order to become a substantial part of the future energy mix, FPV should grow to the square kilometre scale. However, this is unpractical and undesirable on inland lakes.
FPV is especially interesting from a hydrodynamic point of view as there are many different floater types which can be considered such as truss constructions, semi-submersibles, interconnected pontoons and mattresses. MARIN has had the chance to work with each floater type at least once. Each floater has its own hydrodynamic challenges, but the common ground is that all FPV constructions are light, large and flexible. We look forward to a bright, sunny future!
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On January 21, MARIN measured the severe wind conditions across the ECT Delta terminal in Rotterdam in combination with the motions and mooring line loads of MSC CHLOE, a 10,000 TEU container vessel moored at the quayside. The measurement campaign is part of the WINDLASS JIP which is aiming at the wind load modelling on high windage vessels in the port environment.
WIND VELOCITIES AND MOORING LINE LOADS
The 3-D wind field approaching the vessel was measured by means of a lidar scanner located on a building on the SW end of the terminal. The scanner measured the wind velocities in the line of sight during sweeps over a horizontal sector at 3 elevations with a range of 2 km. From these radial wind speeds, the wind vectors in the measured volume are reconstructed.
In close co-operation with terminal operator ECT, vessel operator MSC and linesmen KRVE, the mooring lines of MSC CHLOE were instrumented with load cells and four ShoreTension systems were deployed. The vessel motions were measured by means of two dedicated cameras located on the quayside. All signals were recorded simultaneously.
This valuable data set is used in the WINDLASS JIP to compare with numerical wind simulations, Dynamic Mooring Analysis and for improving the modelling of wind loads on ships. Within the JIP, which is supported by port authorities, operators, class and engineering contractors, a computational tool will be delivered for operational use in ports. | <urn:uuid:a8778b2b-e4e6-4e7d-a29d-8f5323c48396> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sssri-marin-jv.com/south-westerly-storm-and-mooring-line-loads-captured/ | 2023-09-23T18:54:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.96 | 327 |
Good morning Year 6!
It's Friday everybody!! Well done for working hard this week. Keep going today and then you have the weekend to rest. On the CBBC Channel, there is a Horrible History programme at 10.15 - it's called the Scary Special. Anybody up for that one?!
Anyway, let's get switched on and see what we are learning today...
Today's exercise choices:
1. Go outside for a refreshing walk (the forecast is for a DRY day).
2. Click on the link to Go Noodle and complete 3 of your favourite routines. (Today we did Fresh Start, Little Green Froggy and Bye Bye Bye in school).
3. Click on the link to Joe Wicks to tackle his exercise routine today. (He's back today for fancy dress Friday).
4. Have a go at the Bingo Challenge Mr Steele has put on the main Class Page - this looks fun!
As a class, it's great news! We are improving on our reading. Charlotte found out today that you have a limit of 2 hours reading per week OUTSIDE school hours which are 7am - 4pm. This equates to 20 minutes per day for 6 days with one day of rest. During school hours, you can read as much as you like. If you have forgotten how to log on to this website, the Year 6 blog post 8.1.21 tells you how to log on to read these books. Aim for 10 - 15 minutes of reading each day.
Below are your tasks for today. Remember if you need to ask any questions go to the class blog and add a comment to 22-1-21 TODAY'S WORK. Keep checking the comments on this BLOG because that is where we will post our replies to you.
YIPPEE! It’s Friday and it’s Arithmetic Day. Today it is Y6 Spring TEST 3. Click on the PDF document below and your questions will appear.
Before you start your work, I would like you to click on the link to Y6 video page. You will see a video called 22-2-21 Arithmetic. I have talked through each question to remind you how to do them. Please watch it as it will help you.
You are still finding Long Division hard, so I have done a separate video just on division. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch it and try to have a go at the Long Division.
Do your working out and answers in your Maths Book and then get someone to mark it for you or mark it yourself. BLOG me your score out of 30 please.
Please don’t open the answers until you have done the work it won’t help you.
TASK B – EVERYBODY SHOULD DO THIS
I’ve set up a battle on Times Table Rock Stars. Boys against Girls. It will only last for 1 day and opens at 9.00am so make sure you don’t miss it.
LO: To use emotive language
Today you are going to retell the Apollo 13 space story using the knowledge we learnt yesterday. As you are a child, you can write EASILY from a child's view point. So your task is to imagine you are the child of Jack Swigert, the astronaut who was brought in as a replacement for Kim Mattingly (the one who got German measles only 2 days before the launch). You must include EMOTIVE language because this child experienced a wide range of feelings during his dad's space mission. Read the information and instructions on the powerpoint below to guide you through this lesson.
LO: To explore the importance of money
Today we are going continuing our unit of work concerning jobs and money. These, as you well know, are VERY important topics. You are going to follow the next lesson by Mr Bailey at the Oak Academy. He has named this lesson: MONEY MONEY MONEY.
Here are your instructions:
1. Get you pen and exercise book as there are 3 tasks to complete - pause the clip to write down your answers. Blog or email them in the usual way.
2. Take 2 quizzes: 1 at the start and 1 at the end of the lesson.
3. There is an additional task if you want: to make a money box. You will need paper, scissors and glue.
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New World Sourdough and Lots to Read
Plus, a long-overdue "change."
Howdy cookbook fans!
Hope today finds you well. Today we have a recipe for birote from Bryan Ford’s New World Sourdough: Artisan Techniques for Creative Homemade Fermented Breads. It’s a technique-heavy recipe; perhaps a bit more so than recipes I typically run. SO! I encourage you to check out his book for details on everything from shaping to proofing to baking. You’ll also need a sourdough starter for this recipe, in case you missed the March memo to become obsessed with sourdough bread. If you did, Ford has many, many details on his website.
Lots for you to read this week! So get baking, get reading!
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Taking the T—- out of T—- Kitchen
I don’t want to give too too much oxygen to this because this should have happened years ago (or, you know, not happened to begin with), but: the white people behind the racistly-titled Thug Kitchen cookbooks have finally, finally decided to change their name. They haven’t said what the name will be changed to, yet, and also it only appears as a small word—CHANGE—at the top of their homepage. So I guess I’ll believe it when I see it.
Here are several stories from 2014 that dig in:
Check this out!
“Words are loaded when you talk about this part of the world. You have to be careful because at the end of the day, it’s a cookery book with recipes, but with real stories about real people…I think people will always choose a side: if they want to see it as a political book or a cookery book.” Chef Sami Tamimi discusses his new book of Palastinian cuisine, Falastin. [Taste]
“For chefs who are writing books, feature their books, bring them into the forefront of what’s going on — value the African American experience. Why should African American restaurants and food concepts be looked upon as second class?” —Chef and cookbook author Alexander Smalls discussing his new cookbook Meals, Music, and Muses. [LAT]
“With nearly 600 recipes, Estes’ book invites us to imagine a world in which Black people could enjoy the pleasures of food and service. A world in which, against the backdrop of nationwide ingrained racism, a Black person still managed to revel in the possibility of the fullness of life, the delight and joy of eating, and the pride serving good things to eat.” —Kayla Stewart on the century-old Good Things to Eat by Rufus Estes. [Heated]
Here’s a new cookbook subscription service, which includes a book and ingredients to cook with it ever quarter. [Hardcover Cook]
Why people are turning to “vintage Canadian cuisine”…”a phrase known to stimulate saliva glands,” thanks to Depression-era cookbooks. [Macleans]
A couple new Texas cookbooks for you: Cooking in Marfa and Recipes from the President’s Ranch. [Houston Chronicle]
How a Gujarati cookbook came to symbolize love and gratitude during the bubonic plague in Bombay. [Scroll.in]
Jesse Szewczyk, author of the new Tasty Pride: 75 Recipes and Stories from The Queer Food Community, was on the Salt & Spine cookbook podcast this week, along with some of the books contributors, like food writers John Birdsall, Aaron Hutcherson, and Eric Kim. [Salt & Spine]
5 Italian cookbooks for summer. [Vogue Paris]
14 recipes to cook with your dad over Zoom. [Grub Street]
Excerpted with permission from New World Sourdough by Bryan Ford. Quarry Books 2020, all rights reserved.
I find nothing more satisfying than recreating the unique breads of Latin America in my very own kitchen. I especially love when the bread is meant to be stuffed with savory fillings and drowned in spicy salsa—in Mexico, the torta ahogada is just that. Birote (pronounced bee-row-teh) is a crunchy, darkly baked sourdough bread said to have a flavor unique to the environment of Guadalajara, but if you grab your favorite beer and some limes, you’ll come pretty close!
For the levain:
50 g mature sourdough starter
100 g bread flour
90 g warm water
For the dough:
400 g all-purpose flour
100 g bread flour
315 g water
100 g levain
50 g light beer, divided
Juice of 1 lime
10 g salt
First, build the levain:
In a tall jar or medium bowl, mix the mature starter, flour, and warm water until incorporated. Cover with a lid or clean kitchen towel and leave in a warm place for 3 to 4hours, or until doubled in size. You can use your levain immediately, or refrigerate it for 12 hours to use at a later time or the next day.
To make the dough:
In a large bowl, mix the flours and water. Let this mixture rest for 30 minutes.
Add the levain, the beer, and the lime juice. Using your fingers, squeeze together and incorporate the ingredients until the dough is smooth and no excess liquid remains. Cover the dough with a cloth and let rest for 30 minutes.
Stretch the dough into itself a few times and flip it over in the bowl. Let rest for 30 minutes.
Repeat the stretching. Let the dough ferment at room temperature for 3 1/2 hours.
Cover the dough and refrigerate overnight, 8 to 12 hours.
To shape and proof the dough:
Place the dough on a floured work surface, divide it into 5 pieces (roughly 200 g each), and shape each piece [into a roll].
Transfer the dough to a cuttingboard, couche, or kitchen cloth. Let proof for 1 to 2 hours.
To bake the bread:
I prefer to bake these on a sheet pan dusted with semolina. Place the baking vessel in the oven and preheat to 500°F (250°C).
Transfer the bread to the baking vessel and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 475°F (240°C) and bake the bread for 15 minutes more.
Let the steam out. Transfer the bread to the top rack for 5 to 10 minutes, or until it is dark brown—keep an eye on it. Remember, you want a dark bread with a thick crust so you can create a delicious soaked sandwich. Don’t be afraid to bake it longer than you are used to.
Let your bread cool and enjoy it as a soaked sandwich, like the torta ahogada, or with oil, vinegar, butter, or jam.
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Bewitching Candy Bar Wrapper
Who doesn't love to give away adorable handmade treats? I do! Today's project is a cut candy bar wrapper using the Bewitching stamp set and our Black & White Designs DSP.
DSP: 5-1/2" x 5-1/2"
Basic White: scrap for sentiment banner and images
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The Covid-19 pandemic saw many kidney patients skip hospital visits and now specialists are grappling with more medical and mental complications.
Some patients require emergency surgeries and have to be hospitalised, making their financial burden heavier.
Dr John Ngigi, head of Renal Unit at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), says most patients are returning with worsened kidneys than before the pandemic as “catheters are blocked because they did not come for their dialysis or diagnosis on time.”
There are more emergency surgeries to replace the catheters – the tubes inserted into the bladder to drain urine for those who cannot pee in the usual way.
The specialists also observed that most patients were mentally overburdened due to the lockdowns which restricted social interactions.
But it was fear of visiting hospital during the pandemic, which made matters worse.
“What we are handling now are patients at great risk of losing their lives. They stay longer in hospital or cost much more to treat, which the patient cannot afford sometimes,” says Dr Ngigi adding that patients who had kidney transplants before the pandemic were given immunosuppressants, or anti-rejection medicines, as standard post-transplant care.
The medicine is to prevent the patient’s immune system from rejecting the new kidney once the body realises it has an organ belonging to someone else.
The medicine, Dr Ngigi explained, works by weakening the patient’s immune system. With a weakened immune system, infections can attack the patient easily, and the reason most stayed away from hospitals.
Some facilities like KNH and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, however, noticed the mental anguish of their patients and began offering online check-in between doctors and patients.
By and large though, kidney disease is hidden but pervasive in Kenya where there is little awareness.
Dr Eva Njenga is a physician and endocrinologist – meaning she deals with all organs that regulate hormones in the body.
During the World Kidney Day on March 11, 2021, she reckoned that Kenya has policies for treating kidney disease but not many are about creating awareness.
Yet, data from KNH, the country’s largest referral facility, reveal that two in every five (40 per cent) of inpatient there have kidney disease, according to a 2018 study published in the Panafrican Medical Journal.
A quarter of the KNH cases are advanced and may have landed at the hospital unaware their kidneys were failing.
The kidney, the janitor of the body, filters toxins from the body that could poison the blood. Most people do not know their kidneys are failing until they are wheeled into the emergency room with nausea, fatigue and so much fluid in their bodies that they are unable to breathe, a near-fatal condition called “crashing into dialysis”.
Depending on the stage, Dr Ngigi said the patient has three options – medication in case the kidney is salvageable, transplant or dialysis.
The national insurer, NHIF, pays for dialysis but not the aftermath of the complications and Dr Ngigi says “patients are not able to top up the extra costs of care.”
In a previous interview, kidney specialist Dr Ahmed Twahir from Parklands Kidney Centre in Nairobi said it could be easy to find out the condition of one’s kidneys from a simple urine test considering “a urinalysis which costs as little as Sh150 in public hospitals would have arrested the situation” from deteriorating to the kidney functioning less than 15 per cent of its efficiency that thus needing machines to help it.
For not spending a mere Sh150, the bills hike to more than Sh25,000 a week for the dialysis, medication and special diets required of kidney patients.
“The kidney is resilient and gets diseases slowly that the patient would not feel the pain but by the time your feet are swelling, it is often too late and the doctor has no other option but to put you on dialysis as you wait for a transplant,” explained Dr Twahir who blamed lack of knowledge and poor medical seeking behaviour in the public for long-term kidney issues. | <urn:uuid:91e5c36c-9ba2-427e-abaf-eb29db45e96f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2001407627/why-kidney-patients-are-now-going-to-hospital-late | 2023-09-23T19:10:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.966552 | 905 |
Kenya, like all other countries, is celebrating its workers today. I thank teachers and other workers worldwide for their selflessness to ensure that the labour sector thrives.
Labour Day is supposed to be a day of peaceful rallies, demonstrations and celebrations to recognise the struggle workers have gone through to better their work environment and improve service delivery.
Teachers are entitled to conducive, enabling and healthy work environments, good remuneration and quality teaching and learning materials. If this is done, the end result will be quality education. This resonates with UNESCO’s agenda 4 on provision of quality, affordable and accessible education for all by the year 2030, which is barely six years away.
Teaching outputs are measured with success indicators such as high completion and transition rates, quality grades at the end of a course, behavioural change and local and international relationships.
As a country, we are committed to support and be part of regional and international conventions that bind workers of the world towards realising basic and fundamental human rights; a key component in the labour environment.
We should be fully cognisant of the fact that government plans should be aligned with specific organisational and professional aspirations.
The government, through the Kenya Kwanza Education Charter, intends to improve and redirect efforts in the education sector towards tapping the unrecognised potential towards accelerating creativity that will play key roles in growing the economy.
This has been seen in interventions to review the education system, channeling more funds and human resource in the sector and paying more attention to research and innovation.
During this year’s Labour Day celebrations, we should remind ourselves that a well remunerated and protected teacher will give proper attention to their learners and give quality teaching which will in turn lead to an improved society. Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut)’s major objective is to ensure her members’ safety at work and good pay.
The government should have surprise messages of salary increments on such days and introduce strategies to motivate workers. Traditionally, the Head of State would make announcements of minimum salary and wage increment at the climax of his address to the nation that would be met by ululations and celebrations.
That would make workers happy and they would be encouraged to work harder. We miss those days, how we wish the 2023 Labour Day celebrations would mark the return of those nostalgic feelings!
On behalf of the National Steering, the National Executive Council, all the regional leadership and the entire leadership of Knut, I wish all our members a happy Labour Day.
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When news broke that Deputy President William Ruto’s digital communications strategist Dennis Itumbi had been abducted, naysayers took it with a pinch of salt. Because with Itumbi, it is difficult to tell where the line between truth and propaganda lies.
He is a brilliant journalist, a genius of sorts and a celebrated master of deceit. Like an onion, there are many layers to the man. A charmer to those he loves, a ferocious brawler for his masters and a god to his followers who see him as a messiah leading an enigmatic revolution to eradicate an evil regime.
Whenever he steps forth into battle, he has to finish the deal. Like a tick sucking away for life, he is sold out to devotion…all the way to the slaughter. The Archbishop’s grandson is a difficult man to fathom, even more difficult to tame, for he is constantly in battle — darting hither and thither; barking, biting, rabble rousing, fleeing and occasionally getting caught on the wrong end of the law.
But this time, he claims, it was the wrong end of a fist he ran into — coming off disheveled, broken in several places, blood oozing out of his eye. The result? A storm. Was he clout chasing or he was truly abducted on that December night and clobbered senseless by hired goons?
Either way, Itumbi, who claims the abduction took place at Thindigua along Kiambu road where allegedly got whisked away into a white car by three unknown men, now hobbles along on crutches, oblivious of social media pundits laughing away and describing him as the man who cried wolf.
Speaking on January 1 after being discharged from Nairobi West Hospital, Itumbi said he is out of danger and was responding well to treatment.
“The doctors have said I am out of danger. I will only go back to the hospital for normal clinics,” he said, adding that the alleged abduction left him with numerous injuries.
Sources told The Nairobian that Itumbi was tortured before his captors left him for dead. Objects were... okay, let’s not go there, and some of his fingers were broken before the captors melted into the darkness, leaving him stark naked.
“I suffered triple fractures on the left leg, one fracture on the right leg and an ankle dislocation,” he said after leaving hospital.
Itumbi also sustained an arm fracture and a dislocated wrist.
“Because of the handcuffs, I also sustained wrist dislocation,” said the blogger, an act he believes was meant to silence him and keep him traumatised.
“I could not see after they poked my eyes, damaging my corneas. In the process of treatment, I developed trauma-pneumonia due to the injuries, and that is why I was moved to the ICU,” he said.
The Reverend’s grandson said he had forgiven his abductors, but “will expose them at a later date”.
He was allegedly found dumped at Nairobi’s Lucky Summer estate on the night of December 24 and rushed to hospital by good Samaritans, among one Makokha. The abduction and assault, if it indeed occurred, should hardly have surprised Itumbi, for he has been a kite dancing in the wind.
In early December, the former State House digital director wrote to parliament asking lawmakers to stop budgetary allocations to the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), George Kinoti. Why? For failing to obey a court order.
In a letter dated December 10, 2021, Itumbi asked the Commissioner General of Prisons Service, to have the Prisons boss to explain if the DCI had been in any prisons facilities.
“I would be grateful, if you would, please, within the next three days supply me with the said information to ensure that the rule of law has been adhered to by the Inspector General of Police,” he said in the letter.
In September, the blogger was put on his defense in a criminal charge over the fake letter alleging a plot to assassinate Deputy President William Ruto. The matter was before the Milimani chief magistrate Martha Mutuku.
But Itumbi has a mushy side too. In 2015, he captured the imagination of Kenyans when he surprised TV anchor Jacque Maribe with a birthday cake while she was on air. After leaving the station, he took to his social media pages and crafted a romantic birthday message to her.
“Happy Birthday Jacque Maribe. You have proven over the years that you are a true friend. As you toss to old age, I wish you long life, great laughter and countless kisses of deep love from nature and man. I pray for triumph, light and progress in what you do and touch.
“Our friendship has grown closer over the years, our ambitions have been joined into a joint grand dream on some issues and our differences are easily joined by a stitching needle. To a good friend – a prayer for endless blessings, consistent victories and memorable moments every day of the year,” a smitten Itumbi penned.
After Maribe was arraigned in court in connection with the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani, Itumbi rallied everyone behind her. Theirs has been a strange ‘affair’ too, one punctuated with awkward moments. At some point, he was rumored to be Maribe’s baby daddy before comedian Eric Omondi crept out of the woodwork.
“No poetry today, no review of the year that’s been, No promises for the future that is, Just appreciation, heartfelt, for a friendship that stands pure and true. Happy birthday my bestie @dennisitumbi here’s to many, many more” Maribe posted in March last year as she wished Itumbi a happy birthday.
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An innovative network support agreement between Stanwell Corporation Limited (Stanwell) and Pacific Hydro’s Haughton Solar Farm will see Kareeya Hydro Power Station support the 100 MW North Queensland solar project.
Through the operation of Kareeya Hydro Power Station, Stanwell is providing network support services which add strength to the grid and enable the Haughton Solar Farm to generate in compliance with generator performance standards.
Stanwell Chief Executive Officer Richard Van Breda said the agreement could set the scene for more renewable energy projects to connect to the grid and provide clean and green energy to Queensland.
“Stanwell is exploring opportunities to evolve and renew our energy generation portfolio in response to the market and to support the Queensland Government’s 50 per cent renewable energy target,” Mr Van Breda said.
“This includes exploring opportunities to provide network services that enable renewable energy projects to generate while also safeguarding security of supply to Queenslanders,” Mr Van Breda said.
“Our agreement with Pacific Hydro sees Kareeya Hydro Power Station in North Queensland providing Haughton Solar Farm the necessary network support to manage the operational obligations it faces to get up and running.
“The arrangement provides stability to the project and allows Haughton Solar Farm to generate in a region which is subject to lower system strength levels.”
The ownership of Kareeya Power Station will transfer to CleanCo Queensland from 31 October 2019.
“Regardless of the assets within our portfolio, we will continue to use our flexible energy generation assets throughout the state to maintain a reliable, affordable and secure supply of electricity for Queenslanders while also facilitating the introduction of renewables to the grid and supporting Queensland’s transition to a lower carbon future,” Mr Van Breda said.
Pacific Hydro Chief Executive Officer Rachel Watson said the innovation in grid support would provide many benefits to ensure the project’s ongoing success.
“The agreement with Stanwell will make it easier for the solar farm to operate, which in turn improves the commerciality of the project,” Ms Watson said.
“The agreement with Stanwell really is a win-win. It improves the commerciality of the solar farm and minimises energy system constraints. It’s also exciting we can achieve these benefits by harnessing the water and the sun,” Ms Watson said.
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Name a Star Gifts for Scorpio Birthdays
Modified: July 1, 2023 Author: International Star Registry
Friends born under the astrological sign of Scorpio
Scorpio (Birthday October 23 – November 21) is a Milky Way constellation in the southern sky. The Heart of the Scorpion is the star Antares, with a fan of stars to the north creating the head and claws and a swirling tail that runs as far south as the Southern Crown. If you give the memorable gift of naming a star in the Scorpius constellation, June is the best time for viewing this area of the sky.
Horoscope/Astrological Traits of Scorpio
Understanding Sensational Scorpio:
Scorpio (the sign of the Scorpion) is the eighth astrological sign of the Zodiac. Like the other Water Signs, it is associated with growth processes, identification, and emotion. Scorpio, the scorpion, is among the most magnetic, powerful, and passionate signs. They are difficult to read either because of their contemplative nature or their need for privacy. Scorpio people are great secret keepers and feel each emotion more intensely than other signs. Perhaps because of this, they can be discerning when assisting people with their problems. They can cut to the bottom line and show others the best and the worst in their lives. Those lucky enough to be loved by a Scorpio know that they are loyal, devoted friends for life. Scorpios are not fearful individuals, often trying things that others would not attempt. This is because they most often become self-aware at an earlier age than most other signs. This also gives them a custodial feel toward other astrological signs, and they have an inflamed sense of justice when it comes to standing up for those who lack that ability. They are devoted to their friends and family and will become protective if needed.
If you are looking for gifts for Scorpios, one gift shines brightest. Name a star as a gift for a Scorpio woman and she will be impressed by your thoughtfulness. Give a star package as a gift for a Scorpio man and he will be amazed by your creativity.
Scorpio friends are said to be Focused, Determined, Emotional, Charismatic, Loyal
Ruling Celestial Body – The Zodiac sign of Scorpio is the ruled by the planet Pluto
Jewelry – The Scorpio birthstone – Topaz.
Florists – The Scorpio flower – Chrysanthemum
Emotional Scorpio requires a sensitive mate. The scorpion mixes well with the other water signs Cancer and Pisces. Scorpio is considered highly attractive to many zodiac signs. The zodiac sign Scorpio is associated with a southern constellation. The stars in Scorpio are obscured by sunlight on your birthday. When you buy a star package in the Scorpio constellation, the peak time for viewing it is June.
October Birthdays and Special Occasions
October’s gemstone: Tourmaline
October’s flower: Cosmos
October’s colors: White and yellow
October’s personality: Natural Leader, Strong and Powerful
October’s Favorite constellations for viewing: Andromeda, Cetus, Pegasus, Pisces
November Birthdays and Special Occasions
November’s gemstone: Citrine
November’s flower: Chrysanthemum
November’s colors: Dark blue, red, and yellow
November’s personality: Tolerant and inspirational, Sympathetic
November’s Favorite constellations for viewing: Aries, Perseus, Triangulum
Q. What famous Scorpios have stars named?
A. International Star Registry has named stars for Demi Moore, Ryan Gosling, Katy Perry, Ethan Hawke, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gerard Butler, Joni Mitchell, Tara Reid, and many others.
Q. When I buy a star package can it be in the constellation Scorpius?
A. Yes, when you name a star, you can choose any constellation you like, including the Scorpius Constellation.
Q. What are Scorpios good at?
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The Twins signed 44-year-old Bartolo Colon to a minor league deal Friday, giving the journeyman pitcher another chance to extend a major league career that began in 1997.
Colon, a 235-game winner, went 2-8 with an 8.14 ERA with Atlanta before getting designated for assignment last week.
“We felt like there were some signals that the stuff was similar to what it had been in years’ past, but maybe a little bit unlucky,” said Derek Falvey, the Twins chief baseball officer.
Colon will report to Class AAA Rochester. The Braves must pay the bulk of Colon’s $12.5 million, and the Twins will only pay a pro-rated portion of the major league minimum ($535,000) if he is added to the major league roster.
A four-time All-Star and the 2005 American League Cy Young winner for the Angels, Colon continued to defy his age, going 44-34 with a 3.90 ERA over the previous three seasons for the New York Mets. He made the NL All-Star team last year.
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The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:
Deputy Secretary Wendy R. Sherman spoke today with OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid to discuss Russia’s destabilizing buildup of military forces on Ukraine’s borders. They discussed ongoing efforts to urge Russia to pursue the path of diplomacy and de-escalation to end this crisis peacefully. Deputy Secretary Sherman reiterated strong U.S. support for Poland’s proposal, as OSCE Chair, for a revitalized security dialogue at the OSCE. The OSCE is an inclusive forum where all affected countries can discuss and address urgent and long-standing threats to European stability and security. | <urn:uuid:323370c1-17a4-4be6-90fb-ec9a6e482740> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.state.gov/deputy-secretary-shermans-call-with-osce-secretary-general-helga-schmid/ | 2023-09-23T19:12:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.916275 | 133 |
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JP Rangaswami, MD of BT Design used to work at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and was a believer in outsourcing – as are we all in this day and age.
He had some useful warnings, listed here:
But what about outsourcing, which has become Wall Street’s cost-saving darling? Isn’t this one way banks can rid themselves of routine tasks? Rangaswami warns investment firms of the seduction of supposed cost savings. “What I lose with offshoring is far more than I gain,” he says of DrKW’s own experience, which was “focused on the war for talent rather than wage arbitrage. With outsourcing I may reduce the core execution cost but I pay for it by increased coordination and training costs.” DrKW found in some cases that the local offshoring staff had to be spoon fed and that the typical attrition rates of 40 to 50 percent meant they were often training staff to ultimately benefit others.
Rangaswami also urges firms who do embark on outsourcing contracts to “clean up their garbage first,” rather than dumping it onto the vendor, who will most likely charge a considerable premium for the cleansing. “In the current climate, we cannot afford to feed the mouths of outsourcers. The focus has to be on getting rid of the layer of fat and then parceling it off neatly to someone who has the critical mass to provide economies of scale,” he says.
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June 20, 1958 – February 14, 2022
Surrounded by his family, Rolando Tan Bonifacio peacefully joined our Creator at 63 on February 14, 2022, Monday, at 5:22pm after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
Born in 1958 in the town of Macabebe, Pampanga in the Philippines, Roland as he is fondly called is the eldest child of the late Teodoro Cano Bonifacio and Milagros Tan Bonifacio. Roland was born with a twin sister who only lived for a few weeks. He grew up mostly under the care of his grandparents as his parents ran a textile and shoe store about 450km south in Naga City where their family eventually settled. Roland moved and continued his college education in Naga City where he met his wife, Emma San Juan, of over 35 years.
Known as an industrious person, Roland ran his own tailoring shop until he was diagnosed with cancer prior to him, his wife and 3 kids immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada on August 15, 2005. Roland beat cancer and lived a full life in Canada. Despite his quiet presence, his love for cooking and music brought joy and life to every gathering. He was a devoted husband and father whose primary love language is service. He found joy in preparing meals for his family and meticulously maintaining a pristine home. Even after being diagnosed again with cancer, Roland, a man of few words, tried his hardest to be of service to his loved ones.
Roland is survived and will be deeply missed by the love of his life, his wife Emma, together with their children Stephannie Shayne (Mark), Princess Wayne (Toby), and Kim Olan, as well as his constant source of happiness, his granddaughter, Scarlett Maleigha. Roland also leaves behind his mother Milagros, siblings Nelson (Louella), Elizabeth (Teody), William, Vivian (Justin), and so many more family in the USA, Philippines, and Canada who are all left to cherish and lovingly remember their memories of him.
Lamay was held on February 22 and 23, 2022 at Mosaic Funeral Chapel, 1839 Inkster Blvd. Winnipeg. MB.
A Funeral Mass was held at St. John Cantius Roman Catholic Church, 846 Burrows Ave. on February 24, 2022 at 10:00 AM, Father Yolando Gamallo presiding, and entombment took place on February 25, 2002 in Living Waters Columbarium, 15 Columbia Drive. | <urn:uuid:f5a7b471-6b8a-4a0d-8890-b02f1e3bcc74> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.stgianna.ca/entombed/bonifacio-rolando-t/ | 2023-09-23T16:37:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.989241 | 513 |
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Albert "Sam" "Poppy" S. Mellott
March 4, 1947 ~ June 22, 2023 (age 76) 76 Years Old
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Albert “Sam” “Poppy” S. Mellott, 76, of Woodbury, passed away on June 22, 2023 at the Hollidaysburg Lutheran Home. He was born on March 4, 1947 in Roaring Spring; son of the late Albert and Alverna (Shaw) Mellott. On December 5, 1970 at the Altoona CMA he was united in marriage to Kathy J. (Lightner) Mellott.
Sam was a Class of 1965 graduate of Northern Bedford High School and member of the Waterside Church of the Brethren. He served his country as a member of the United States Army; stationed in Germany as a mechanic during the Vietnam War. Sam was employed as a machine operator at Fonda in Williamsburg for 36 years. He was a “fixer” of all things and had a fondness for dogs.
Sam was preceded in death by siblings Paul Mellott and Juda Horne. Surviving is his wife, Kathy J. Mellott; son, Frederick M. Mellott (wife, Amy, whom Sam considered his daughter) of New Enterprise; grandsons, Tobias A. Mellott of Los Angeles, CA and Cy M. Mellott (Whitley) of New Enterprise; and siblings, Betty Lou Eshelman of Newark, DE; Richard Mellott of Larkspur, CA; Dennis Mellott (Jennifer) of New Castle, DE; Jeffrey Mellott (Deb) of Loysburg; Dianna Mellott (Mark) of Richardsville, VA; and Joseph Mellott (Rebecca Ann) of Burlington, WV.
Friends will be received on Monday, June 26, 2023 from 5:00PM-8:00PM and Tuesday, June 27, 2023 from 10:00AM until the 11:00AM Funeral Service; Pastor Eric Poteat officiating. All of the above will be held at the Waterside Church of the Brethren.
Interment will be in Dry Hill Cemetery with full military honors conducted by the Bedford County Honor Guard.
If so desired, Memorial Contributions in Albert’s name may be made to the Waterside Church of the Brethren.
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Once our preliminary jury has chosen its top 20, these stories are passed on to the final jury, who are: Ingo Kretzschmar, Mara Delius, Elke Steiner, Andreas Rainer, Panti M. Baghbani and Rüdiger Barth. And they then get reading. Each juror can award 10, 9, 8… down to 1 point for their favourites. All the jurors’ points are added together. If there is a tie, the jury chairperson has a casting vote. We only announce the ranking of the first three places. The finalists will be announced on October 4 via our channels, and we contact them personally.
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Welcome to my Beauty page! Now that I’ve turned a whopping 40 years old, I’m focusing more on skincare and antiaging products. Here I’ll be sharing my updated skin care regimen and favorite finds.
MY DAILY SKINCARE REGIMEN
I don’t have super sensitive skin, so I can get away with using drugstore brand cleansers. My favorite one is Clean & Clear Essentials Foaming Facial Cleanser because it fights zits (which I still get even at this age!) and isn’t overdrying. Also, it’s super cheap.
I’ve been combatting fine lines and wrinkles since my 20s, but now I’ve reached the age where I have to bring in the big guns to fight deeper lines and creases. I use Estee Lauder Perfectionist wrinkle-lifting and firming serum day and night. I love the velvety texture it leaves my skin and I see an immediate difference after applying it.
I have been wearing sunscreen on my face every day since I was a teenager. I love Lancome Bienfait UV SPF 50+ Super Fluid Facial Sunscreen. It was my first fancy makeup product and I still love it. I also use Neutrogena Ultra Sheer 3 oz. Dry-Touch Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 100 for more intense days outdoors.
I moisturize and treat my fine lines with Dior Hydra Life Pro Youth Sorbet.
Since I shower at night, I keep Clean & Clear Night Relaxing Deep Cleaning Face Wash next to my shampoo and conditioner. I think the only difference from the normal cleanser is that this one has a scent, like relaxing aromatherapy before bed.
I use Neutrogena Rapid Clear 2-In-1 Fight & Fade Acne Toner. This product claims that it will fade acne scars with continued use, but that is a lie. I have seen no difference in my zit scars. But I still like the product because it does a great job of digging out all the oil, dirt, makeup, and dead cells that the cleanser leaves behind.
Garnier SkinActive Micellar Cleansing Water All-in-1 Cleanser & Makeup Remover is a great product for removing stubborn eye makeup (especially if you have lash extensions!) and matte lipcolor. I don’t use it all over my face because it feels a little oily to me.
I apply Estee Lauder Perfectionist day and night. It is one of my favorites for sure.
I received Dior ‘Capture Totale – Universal Texture’ Multi-Perfection Creme for Christmas from my neighbor and I love the feeling of its rich creaminess on my face.
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Want glowing skin that looks healthy and youthful? You need to include these superfoods packed with skin benefits in your daily meals!
- Skin health and nutrition go hand-in-hand, and even the best skincare products cannot guarantee radiant skin if you neglect your diet. You need to consume skin-friendly foods daily for optimal skin health.
- Consuming foods that contain antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals can protect your skin from aging and free radical damage.
- Also, foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids are a must to retain the moisture and suppleness of your skin.
- Combining skin-loving foods with an anti-aging skincare regimen is the fastest way to achieve healthy and youthful skin. These ingredients will boost the collagen and moisture levels in your skin, making it soft and glowing!
Is Food the Missing Piece from Your Skincare Routine?
Consuming foods that improve skin health is essential if you wish to achieve glowing skin. No matter how perfect your skincare routine is, your skin won’t appear healthy and radiant if you ignore your diet. This is because healthy foods supply the skin with the essential nutrients it requires to look fresh and radiant.
While topical skincare products can repair the outer layers of the skin, a skin-friendly diet repairs the skin from the inside out. That said, you need to identify the foods packed with the right nutrients. If you incorporate these foods into your daily diet, your skin will glow from within like never before!
6 Best Superfoods for Glowing Skin
Are you looking for the best foods to boost skin radiance that are readily available and tasty too? Here are 6 superfoods for the skin that you must try out!
- Tomatoes: Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, a phytochemical that can boost collagen production in your skin. Consuming cooked tomato daily can improve the elasticity of your skin, making it supple and youthful. Moreover, according to studies, regular consumption of tomato paste can protect your skin against photodamage that can otherwise lead to premature aging. So, add a dollop of tomato paste to your daily meals to keep your skin flawless and radiant!
- Fatty Fish: Salmon and mackerel are examples of fatty fish abundant in skin-loving omega -3 fatty acids. These fatty acids moisturize the skin and make it soft and supple. The fats also fight against inflammation that can lead to redness and acne.
- Furthermore, fatty fish also contains Vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant that brightens and protects the skin. The best way to combat dull skin and aging is to include fatty fish in your diet along with an anti-aging skincare routine.
- According to Drmtlgy reviews, the Drmtlgy Anti-Aging Kit contains the right mix of hydrating and collagen-boosting ingredients for aging skin. You can try these products along with a skin-friendly diet for the fastest results.
- Turmeric: Turmeric contains the antioxidant curcumin, which protects the skin from free radical damage and inflammation. Studies have found that both the oral and topical use of turmeric can address a range of skin concerns, such as photoaging, acne, and pigmentation.
- To include this skin-loving spice in your daily diet, add a teaspoon of organic turmeric powder to warm milk or water and drink it every morning. You can also add turmeric to your curries or rice, and can even use it as a face mask by mixing it with organic honey. It will offer your skin a boost of radiance and will keep the breakouts at bay!
- Broccoli: Believe it or not, the humble broccoli is a powerhouse of vitamins that your skin needs! Broccoli is abundant in Vitamin A and Vitamin C, both of which add a spectacular glow to the skin and fight against aging. It also contains Sulforaphane, an ingredient that protects the skin from sun damage and maintains healthy collagen levels.
- Moreover, broccoli also contains zinc and carotenoids, which protect the skin from acne and oxidative damage respectively. Hence, a bowl of steamed broccoli with your meal can offer your skin a whole lot of nourishment!
- Sweet Potatoes: Orange and red fruits and vegetables are rich in carotenoids that are potent antioxidants. Orange sweet potatoes are a great source of this ingredient that will protect your skin from dullness and free radicals. Moreover, sweet potato skins contain Vitamins A, C, and E, as well as Potassium and Manganese.
- These vitamins and minerals help improve overall skin health and prevent aging. So, consume baked sweet potatoes with their skins to get glowing skin. They are easy to prepare and come with a truckload of skin benefits!
- Carrots: Carrots are one of the best sources of Vitamin A and can protect your skin from all signs of aging. You might be aware that retinol is the key ingredient in all the best anti-wrinkle cream formulas. Retinol is, in fact, another name for Vitamin A, which you can get through skin superfoods like carrots. Apart from their anti-aging benefits, carrots can also unclog your pores and regulate sebum production on oily skin. Moreover, they can be consumed both raw or baked and are readily available in any grocery store. Plus, they are perfect for a fuss-free diet that promotes skin health.
Maintaining healthy and radiant skin requires equal attention to both your skincare routine and your diet. Combining the best anti-wrinkle cream with foods that are rich in skin-boosting nutrients can help you achieve the healthiest version of your skin.
Include colorful fruits and vegetables in your diet to ensure that your skin gets its daily dose of vitamins and minerals. Also, consume foods rich in healthy fats to retain the moisture of your skin. By paying a little attention to your diet and making it more skin-friendly, you will be able to achieve flawless, radiant skin with ease. Stop neglecting your diet and embrace these skin-loving superfoods today! | <urn:uuid:c61a49dc-0632-4d2f-be89-aa50eecf3c89> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.stylebydeb.com/superfoods-youthful-skin/ | 2023-09-23T16:36:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.923995 | 1,272 |
Gardening is a labor of love, but there's no reason you shouldn't love your labor. Whether you want to make it easier to care for your succulents, or you just want to look better while doing it, you're in the right place. It can be even easier, though, if you're well-prepared. Here are some tools and accessories that will put you on the cutting edge - or maybe just help cut.
- The Best in Succulent Tools and Accessories
- 1. Mini Hedgehog Figurines (10 Piece)
- 2. Complete Gardening Set (9-Piece)
- 3. Bluetooth Speaker, Mood Light, Digital Clock, Plant Piano Planter
- 4. Mini Wooden Chalkboard Plant Tags
- 5. Label Maker
- 6. Soil Moisture Monitor
- 7. Children's Gardening Starter Set
- 8. Grow Lamp (Gooseneck, Desk-Clamp)
- 9. 12-Inch Tweezers
- 10. Mesh Tape
- 11. Cute Planters
- 13. Thorn-proof Leather Gardening Gloves
- 14. Succulent Phone Case
- 15. Pruning Shears
- 16. Succulent Key Chain
- 17. Non-Slip Succulent Mat
- 18. Stained Glass Succulent Vinyl Car Decal
- 19. Three-Tiered Stand and Pots
- 20. Succulent Shirts
- 21. Redwood 3-Pot Hanger
The Best in Succulent Tools and Accessories
Sublime Succulents has curated this list of tools and accessories that will improve your gardening quality of life. Some entries make it easier to propagate, water, or pot succulents and cacti. Others are necessary because they are so cute. To ensure it never gets out-of-date, we will update his article frequently with any new products we discover. If we're missing one of your favorites - contact us!
Note that most of the product links in the article are to Amazon. As an Amazon affiliate, Sublime Succulents makes a small (about 4%) commission on anything you purchase. This adds no cost for you, but helps us put out more content on sexy succulents!
The below are listed in no particular order. Without further ado... bring on the succy stuff!
Had to start off this list the right way - with adorableness! If you're into terrariums, fairy gardens, or decorative arrangements, you are already familiar with putting figurines in your pots!
These little guys are ultra cheap for the amount you get. Best part? Unlike real hedgehogs, these ones are de-spined (can't say the same about your cacti though!).
It might be impossible to find another full starter-set for all kinds of gardening at this price ($29 at time of writing). This is one of the most highly rated gardening tool sets on Amazon, and at this price, it's a steal. Indoor gardeners might find less use for some of the tools (I don't often use hand rakes in my pots), but an innovator would realize the weeder works great on those ubiquitous Kalanchoe sprouts!
Heck, some of the tools in this bundle can cost more alone than they do here. Don't fret about quality though - the reviews on the product are stellar.
Whew, that title is a doozy. It's impossible to describe this pot as anything less though. Is this the first "smart" plant pot? It seems to be able to do everything but water your plants (although those exist too).
While not a terribly large pot, it is a perfect fit for that little bonsai jade plant or your favorite Haworthia. This pot works great in a bedroom because the lighting (of which there are 7 different colors) is soft. Perfect for a night light or romantic night in with... your plants, obviously. It has Bluetooth capability to connect with your phone, your Amazon Echo, or whatever other Bluetooth device. Or, if you like making your own music - it can turn your plants into a piano. By sensing vibrations from touching the leaves, stem, or soil, the planter will play corresponding notes on the piano.
Succulent + Chalkboard writing = a Pinterest post waiting to go viral. I mean, look at this bamboo: that's not even a succulent and I want it.
Plant tags are for more than just decoration though. Labeling your succulents with their common or scientific name helps you remember what they are - and how to care for them. Plus, you look really smart when you bust out a crazy name like Rosularia platyphylla.
- ALL-IN-ONE SUCCULENT TOOLS SET: This succulent tools kit contins all the essentials:1 water bottle(250 ml),1 Cleaning brush,1...
- HIGH QUALITY MATERIALS: Heads of the spade, shovel and rake is stainless steel.Durable,and no rust even after repeated...
- FRIENDLY TO YOUR PLANTS: With this mini gardening tools set,you can easily properly plant your succulents without hurt the...
- 【Exqusite 20"×20" Oxford Cloth Tarp】Our plant potting mat is premium in material and delicate in details. Made of high...
- 【Durable Shovel Rake Spade Set】Made of stainless steel, the heads provide the shovel rake spade good using sense, and no...
- 【Latest Transplanting Tools Set】Succulent Plants Tools are combined with a seedling tool and a dual-use transplanting...
There are infinite styles of plant tags though, so check them all out! You can make your own quite easily - check Pinterest for ideas. They can be as simple as popsicle sticks with a sticky note pasted on, or as nice as bronze placards. If you're serious about labeling plants though, you might want to invest in our next entry...
What does a label maker have to do with gardening and succulents? It makes your plant tag labeling so much easier. Of course, it's nice to write their names with chalk or sharpie, but that doesn't work forever. Once you get one of those massive succulent gardens that spills out of your house onto your porch, backyard, and neighbor's yard (oops) - you need industrial labeling ability! How else will everyone know what your wonderful little plants are??
This label maker in particular is highly prized for being very affordable and very easy to use. Just because it's a label maker doesn't mean your labels have to be boring! This tool has loads of options for symbols and fonts that can add some personality to your already-personal team of succulents!
Lots and lots of people struggle with deciding when to water their succulents. While Sublime Succulents has discussed proper watering habits in the past, it can't hurt to have a little extra help.
Lots of people advocate watering your succulents only when the soil is completely dry. You can check it with a finger, but it's really difficult to get all the way to the bottom where moisture likes to lurk. That's where the soil moisture monitor comes in. Use a monitor to check and leave the guesswork out of it.
The one linked is your basic, no-nonsense model. There are many other types though, so check them out. Moisture meters are an excellent tool to add to any gardener's repertoire.
What are kids for, if not to mold into perfect little gardeners? Think about it: free labor AND keeps them occupied! They might even learn something. Kids love to play in the dirt anyway. Plus, they will stay out of your plants now. The benefits are endless.
Get your kids started early with this child-friendly gardening set. Although it comes with seed packs and soil discs, you can throw that junk out. We want our kids hooked on succulents! Help your kids mix their own soil and propagate some plants to give to them.
The contents of this set are made out of recycled materials, and are totally non-toxic and free of dangerous chemicals. Great choice for the green-conscious and child and pet-friendly.
Sublime Succulents already has an article all about grow lights, but if you need one in a pinch you can't go wrong with this. If you're having difficulties growing your plant in your house or at the office, some supplemental light from one of these bad boys will save it.
The lamp linked is the cheapest one with the best ratings, but there are many to choose from.
The ones with purple light help to encourage flowering and the ones with a full spectrum (around 6500K) emulate the sun to promote growth. Lamps are great for overwintering succulents or getting them comfortable inside.
While sometimes overlooked, tweezers (chopsticks, tongs, all long and grabby instruments) are very helpful in the garden. It can grab dead or dying leaves from inside dense arrangements without bothering other plants. It can snag icky bugs or slugs from a distance. You can use it to place figurines or small succulents in hard to reach places!
Twelve inches sounds kinda long to me, but I can imagine that this would be a very useful tool. Lots of succulents (looking at you cacti) have sharp or pointy bits I'd rather not touch. These are potentially very useful for grafting or plant cactus pads.
Perhaps a strange entry at first look, but hear me out! Using mesh tape, or a little square of window screen, is the best method to prevent soil from falling out of the bottom of your pot. Although mesh tape is generally used in drywall repair, it fits nicely with our needs too. It's a little easier to store than window screen, and one roll should last you just about forever.
Some people like to place rocks at the bottom of a pot for this purpose, and that's okay. Just make sure you don't layer gravel on the bottom - that creates a perched water table which is ultimately bad for your succulents. Instead, try a piece of broken terracotta over the drainage hole... or this mesh tape.
I could certainly go on and on about this one. Whenever my faith in humanity is dimming, I just google search cute animal planters and it is restored.
Planters make an awesome gift... to yourself. Who doesn't want a cute little shiba sporting a succulent? Or a dinosaur, for that matter? Cute animal planters like these work best indoors where their beauty can be appreciated. Ensure they have drainage holes for proper succulent health!
There are infinite varieties of planters, so just take a look. The ones pictured are a few favorites though!
Succulents can be spiky, even if they're not cacti. That doesn't stop me from trying to pet them all though.
Protect yourself with these elbow-length gardening gloves. These are some of the highest-rated gloves on Amazon, and by all accounts are quite effective at protecting you from sharp pokeys. The length of the gloves are supremely helpful when reaching into those overgrown monsters they call agave. You'll never have to fear those microscopic, hair-like needles from cacti again.
Uh, what? You don't have a succulent phone case yet? Then how is everyone going to know of your love for fat plants? Your Echeveria underwear?
If you haven't bought a phone case in a while, you should know that the market is booming online. Stores are absolutely inundated with the things. You can buy just about any design for any model of phone. Just search "succulent" + your phone's model + case.
It's hard to make friends when you're on your phone in public all the time. However, if your phone is advertising your love for succulents, you can weed out all those useless potential friends.
Sublime Succulents often espouses the wonders of the simple garden shear. Namely, its use in propagation. If you're using the beheading method to propagate a succulent, a clean cut is essential. Simply tearing or breaking plants off is a surefire way to fail that propagation.
You'll find many uses for a good pair of garden shears. Trimming off a section of rotting cactus pad to prevent spread, pruning back overzealous Aeoniums, removing infected plants, etc. The garden shear is a staple of garden tools and always a good thing to have around.
Maybe not the most necessary of succulent tools, though it is certainly a must-have accessory. Key chains have always been in the vogue even if they aren't always on a key chain. Attached to a backpack or purse, these succulents and cacti signal that you are a very attractive and very devoted plant lover.
The seller has a variety of different succulents and cacti available for key chain pendants. There's even a 4 pack for those of you that can't choose.
17. Non-Slip Succulent Mat
It's an unfortunate reality that succulents don't do well in bathrooms. There's not enough light, and there's definitely too much humidity. So I looked for ways to have succulents accompany me to the rest room.
I found this mat. Now I can throw away this shaggy rug that was a haven for mildew (how did it make it into my bathroom?). This succulent mat is apparently not just for bathroom use, but also works as an indoor/outdoor entryway mat. Wow. Succulents are so versatile.
You can contact the seller to order different rug sizes, if this one doesn't suit you. And while we're at it, here's a bunch of succulent shower curtains to match your new mat.
Go ahead and peel off those stickers of your stick family. It's time to show everyone on the road the only family that matters. The stained glass style really lends itself to the vibrant colors of succulents and looks great on any vehicle.
This vinyl sticker will alert everyone else on the road that you have "Babies on Board" since you only drive back and forth between your home and Lowes. They will surely give you preferential treatment since you need to get home ASAP and drain all that excess water out of those dang plastic pots. Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure this sticker gives you the same status as emergency vehicles, i.e. people will pull to the side of the road so that you can rush your precious cargo home.
Or maybe none of that's true, but your car will look really cool.
Succulents lend themselves really well to the "simple and elegant" vibe. It probably has something to do with their perfect symmetry. If you like that aesthetic, this bamboo planter and pots set will help you fulfill it. The fact that it is vertical is a bonus - it gives you more room to put more plants.
While this set isn't very large, it's a good deal considering. Pots can be expensive, and stands equally so. This one fits great on a kitchen counter, so you shouldn't ever forget to water it (not that the plants would care). Each pot also has a drainage hole, so you don't have to worry about drilling your own!
I'd recommend planting solitary plants in these, perhaps Echeveria or Haworthia.
There's a glut of custom clothing online, and t-shirts are the worst offender. Fortunately, the trend has been around long enough that they've got something for everyone now. You can find so many different designs of succulent shirts now, it's impossible to choose.
Now, I chose this design because I'm a fan of frockets (front pockets), and it kinda looks like a little pot for your succies. But why should we restrict ourselves to shirts? They have succulent tights. They have succulent hats, too. The possibilities are endless, now that we have print-on-demand services for clothing.
The real question is: will you use the succulent clothes for gardening or proclaiming your obsession in public? Better yet, will you buy enough clothes to do both?
This is a unique piece I really like. Since I ran out of space for succulents long ago, the best way to expand my garden is to do it vertically. This hanger does that with class. You can easily balance a terracotta pot on its lip in the cut-out of the hanger. The slightly-angled nature of the pots make them great for succulents that like to grow droopy such as Burro's Tail or String of Pearls.
This hanger is pretty flexible. The natural wood look fits well inside, but it sturdy enough to hang outdoors as well. It comes with the rope to hang it, though not the pots. You can use any pot with a standard lip! Just be sure to balance it carefully, you wouldn't want to harm your babies. If outside, be careful during storms. Heavy winds may knock pots loose. | <urn:uuid:95da15b7-0aa0-4f20-bc9b-c7bdfec75db2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sublimesucculents.com/must-have-succulent-tools-accessories/ | 2023-09-23T16:55:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.945392 | 3,629 |
Background: Suicide and self-harm are significant public health concerns. Community pharmacies are accessible and frequented regularly by the public, making them well positioned to identify and intervene with those at risk. The aims of this research project are to evaluate pharmacy staff experiences of dealing with people at risk of suicide/self-harm, and explore how best to support staff during these interactions.
Methods: Semi-structured online and telephone interviews were conducted with a sample of community pharmacists and community pharmacy staff (CPS) in the south west of Ireland. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. The Braun and Clarke approach to inductive thematic analysis was used to analyse the data.
Results: Thirteen semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted in November-December 2021. Most participants had encountered a person at risk of suicide/self-harm in their practice, however participants described a lack of training and guidelines around how to navigate these scenarios. Three major themes emerged: (i)Interacting with patients at risk of suicide/self-harm facilitators and barriers; (ii)Referrals and signposting; (iii)Addressing uncertainty. Positive relationships between the person and pharmacy staff facilitated interactions, while privacy, time
constraints and uncertainty among staff were seen as barriers. Participants felt it was necessary to refer at-risk people to other supports, and made suggestions for increasing staff confidence through the implementation of support tools within the pharmacy setting.
Conclusions: This study highlights that at present, community pharmacy staff feel uncertain regarding how to handle interactions with people at risk of suicide/self-harm, due to lack of training and supports. Future research should focus on building upon existing resources and obtaining specialist and stakeholder input to produce the most effective support tool(s), tailored to the pharmacy setting. | <urn:uuid:7f1db6cb-5c1f-4fe6-b998-c577856a3bbf> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/interacting-with-patients-at-risk-of-self-harm-or-suicide-a-qualitative-study-of-community-pharmacists-and-pharmacy-staff/ | 2023-09-23T18:52:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.96683 | 368 |
Suits for Teenage Boys
Purchasing suits for your young boy can be a challenging task. However, if you keep a few things in mind,you will be able to buy suit that your son will absolutely love.
When you see your boy grow up you realize that he needs few suits in his closet which he can wear during special occasions. Whether you buy suit for a wedding or a formal dance at school it does not matter. You need to make sure that it fits your son perfectly. He is young now and hence you need to buy the suits for him until he grows up and understands his choices and preferences. However, when you are buying you have to consider his suggestion so that you can keep in mind the type of suits he would love to wear. Given below are the tips that will help you to purchase a suit that your boy will absolutely adore.
Go For Classic Black for That Ultimate Look
When you are looking for suits for boys you will find that they are available in a variety of colors. However, if you choose a classic black suit then you will find that your boy is looking fabulous in it. The color black looks good on any skin tone and it can work for a variety of events. By buying a black suit you can make your boy wear it for all occasions. Hence, you will not have to buy suit every few months because you can wear the black suit at all occasions. The black suit can be paired with different colored shirts and matching tie.
Purchase a Suit That Can Be Worn For a Long Time
Your young teenage boy is in a growing stage. However, that does not mean that you will not buy him a suit. Buy suit that has extra fabric attached to the sleeves that can be added after a growth spurt. You can just take it to a tailor and get it adjusted. It will not cost you a lot of money. Ensure that the suit fits your son, so that he looks great in it. So, from next time onwards always look for suits that have room for him to grow.
Opt For a Durable Fabric for Your Suit
Since you intend to use the suit for a long time you should make sure that the fabric is durable. Choose to get something that is wrinkle free and stain resistant since your son will likely get something on his suit sometime or the other. Hence, a black suit is more preferable as you will not be able to notice the stains very easily. A strong fabric will ensure that the suit will stand up to wear and tear. So buy suit that will last for a long time.
Finding the Right Suit for Your Son
Searching for the ideal suit for your boy can be challenging at times. You have to keep a lot of things in mind when making a purchase. The purchasing procedure can be a great bonding time for you and your son. You need not spend a fortune to get a good suit for your little boy. Just log onto the Internet and buy suit that you think will be suitable for your young one.
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YouTubers Promoting Betterhelp: The Rise of Influencer Marketing and the Impact on Mental Health Assistance
In the last few years, a noteworthy trend has emerged on YouTube, where prominent YouTubers have actually partnered with Betterhelp, an online counseling platform, to raise awareness about psychological health and supply assistance to their viewers. This post checks out the increase of influencer marketing on YouTube and the significant function that Betterhelp is playing in assisting individuals with their mental wellness.
The Power of Influencer Marketing:
YouTube has ended up being a powerhouse of influencer marketing, where material developers with big followings hold significant sway over their audience. By collaborating with brands and promoting product and services, YouTubers have actually established themselves as prominent voices, capable of forming public opinion and driving consumer habits.
YouTubers Promoting Betterhelp:
A number of prominent YouTubers have advance to advocate for mental health and endorse Betterhelp’s online therapy services. Among them, significant personalities such as [YouTuber name], [YouTuber name], and [YouTuber name] have actually partnered with Betterhelp to share their own experiences and motivate their audiences to seek professional support.
Their individual stories, integrated with the available and transparent nature of YouTube, have assisted destigmatize psychological health issues and motivate open discussions. By leveraging their influence and credibility, these YouTubers have successfully reached out to a large audience, creating awareness about the importance of psychological health and the benefits of seeking professional aid.
The Rise of Betterhelp:
Betterhelp has become a leading platform for online counseling, linking people with licensed therapists who can provide assistance for a vast array of mental health concerns. The platform’s easy to use interface, convenience, and anonymity have made treatment more appealing and accessible, especially to more youthful generations accustomed to digital interactions.
Betterhelp’s cooperation with YouTubers has been instrumental in extending its reach and engaging with diverse demographics. The power of these collaborations depends on the credibility and relatability of YouTubers, as their fans often view them as coaches or pals. By actively discussing their own psychological health struggles and advising Betterhelp as an important resource, YouTubers have actually played an important function in fostering positive attitudes towards treatment and self-care.
Social network platforms have changed the way we communicate and take in material. Instagram, in particular, has ended up being a center for influencer marketing, where popular influencers team up with brand names to promote services or items. This article checks out the journey from discovering psychological health support through Instagram influencers to registering for platforms like Betterhelp, leveraging the power of influencer marketing.
What Youtubers are sponsored by BetterHelp?
Discovering Influencer Material:
Scrolling through your Instagram feed, you come across a post by a prominent influencer sharing their individual mental health journey. The influencer’s captivating image and engaging caption catch your attention, prompting you to delve much deeper into their material.
Authenticity and Vulnerability:
As you check out the influencer’s profile, you see that they routinely share their experiences with psychological health challenges and go over the value of seeking expert aid. Their genuine and vulnerable method resonates with you, evoking a sense of connection and relatability.
Highlighting Mental Health Assistance Platforms:
Within their posts or stories, the influencer discusses their collaboration with mental health support platforms like Betterhelp. They highlight the benefits of online therapy, such as ease of access, anonymity, and the accessibility of certified therapists.
Engaging with Influencer Recommendations:
Captivated by the influencer’s recommendation, you navigate to their Instagram bio or swipe-up link, which directs you to a devoted landing page or the Betterhelp site. These platforms offer detailed information about the advantages, features, and user experience of the mental health assistance service.
Examining Your Mental Health Requirements:
As you learn more about Betterhelp’s services, you reflect on your own psychological well-being. The platform’s website provides comprehensive information about the various areas they attend to, consisting of anxiety, depression, stress management, and relationship problems. You assess whether the platform aligns with your specific requirements.
Using Influencer Discount Rate Codes:
While exploring the influencer’s content, you observe they have actually offered a distinct discount code for their fans. This code grants you a reduced rate for the preliminary therapy sessions, making expert mental health assistance more inexpensive and accessible.
Registering and Matching with a Therapist:
Encouraged by the influencer’s recommendation and the opportunity for discounted therapy, you continue to sign up for Betterhelp’s services. The registration process usually includes completing a survey to provide insight into your psychological health needs, allowing the platform to match you with a licensed therapist concentrating on your particular issues.
Starting the Therapy Journey:
After signing up, you excitedly anticipate your first interaction with the appointed therapist. Betterhelp’s user-friendly user interface and interaction options, such as messaging, telephone call, or video sessions, ensure versatility and benefit as you start your treatment journey.
In the realm of psychological health support, influencer marketing on Instagram has actually paved the method for people to discover and gain access to services like Betterhelp. The authenticity, vulnerability, and relatability of influencers’ material help break down barriers and motivate conversations around psychological health.
Helping Individuals with Mental Health:
Betterhelp’s services have favorably affected countless individuals fighting with psychological health issues. The platform provides a series of therapy alternatives, consisting of text-based chat sessions, phone calls, and video conferences, allowing users to choose a format that fits their preferences and convenience levels.
Through Betterhelp, people can access certified therapists who focus on areas such as anxiety, stress and anxiety, tension management, relationship issues, and more. The benefit of online therapy removes geographical barriers and time restrictions, making it simpler for individuals to look for assistance when they need it one of the most.
The marriage of influencer marketing on YouTube and the vital services supplied by Betterhelp has actually created a powerful alliance in the realm of mental health assistance. By collaborating with YouTubers, Betterhelp has actually effectively reached and engaged audiences that might have otherwise hesitated to look for treatment.
As influencer marketing continues to progress on YouTube, it is heartening to witness its positive effect on mental health conversations. Through the shared efforts of YouTubers and Betterhelp, the message of seeking expert assistance for psychological well-being is being spread far and wide, breaking down barriers and offering want to those in need.
In the digital age, YouTube has actually ended up being a prominent platform where people look for home entertainment, education, and, progressively, psychological health content. This post explores the journey of seeing a YouTube video about treatment, finding the advantages of platforms like Betterhelp, and registering for their services utilizing a discount code.
Discovering the YouTube Video:
Envision you stumble upon a YouTube video titled “My Journey to Psychological Wellness” by a popular content creator. The YouTuber shares their personal experiences, talks about the impact of therapy, and stresses the significance of looking for expert assistance for psychological wellness.
Highlighting the Benefits of Online Therapy:
As you watch the video, the YouTuber discusses their collaboration with Betterhelp, an online counseling platform. They highlight the anonymity, benefit, and accessibility provided by the platform. The YouTuber describes how Betterhelp links people with certified therapists who can attend to different psychological health concerns.
Exploring Betterhelp’s Website:
Interested by the YouTuber’s favorable recommendation, you check out the Betterhelp site. The platform’s easy to use interface instantly catches your attention. You browse through the website’s informative pages, learning more about the various treatment alternatives available, the credentials of the therapists, and the flexible interaction techniques they provide, such as text-based chat, phone calls, or video conferences.
Assessing Your Mental Health Needs:
Assessing your own mental health journey, you think about the areas in which you might gain from professional support. Betterhelp’s detailed services cover a wide range of concerns, consisting of anxiety, anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, and more. The website’s concise and clear information helps you assess whether the platform aligns with your requirements.
Signing Up with a Discount rate Code:
Impressed by the ease and accessibility of Betterhelp, you choose to take the next step and sign up for their services. As luck would have it, the YouTuber offered a discount code in their video, using a lowered rate for the initial sessions. You get in the discount code during the registration procedure, grateful for the opportunity to get therapy at a more budget-friendly cost.
Connecting with a Therapist:
Upon finishing the registration procedure, Betterhelp prompts you to fill out a brief questionnaire to much better understand your psychological health requirements and choices. Based on your reactions, the platform matches you with a licensed therapist who concentrates on the areas you highlighted.
Beginning Your Therapy Journey:
With the sign-up procedure complete, you excitedly await your very first interaction with your appointed therapist. Betterhelp’s interaction techniques permit you to engage with your therapist in a manner that matches your convenience level, whether it’s through text-based chat, call, or video conferences.
In a period where digital platforms and personal experiences intertwine, the journey from seeing a YouTube video about therapy to registering for a psychological health platform like Betterhelp is both seamless and impactful. The authentic endorsements and relatable stories shared by YouTubers assistance individuals acknowledge the advantages of seeking expert support. By offering discount codes, Betterhelp boosts ease of access, empowering individuals to prioritize their psychological well-being with minimized monetary restrictions. This pathway represents the evolving landscape of psychological health support, integrating the influence of online content developers with the convenience of innovative platforms. | <urn:uuid:9449eced-5de2-4042-b976-24279b513956> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.supportmahjoub.org/lockedonknicks-betterhelp-code/ | 2023-09-23T17:16:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.908316 | 2,113 |
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PHA manufacturer Danimer Scientific, Inc. has appointed Stephen Martin as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, the company announced. In this role, Martin will manage a wide range of legal matters across the company as Danimer continues to expand its manufacturing capacity to meet demand in the fast-growing bioplastics market.
“I’m pleased to be joining Danimer just as the potential of bioplastics is starting to be more widely known,” Martin said. “As Danimer continues to build momentum in this growing industry, I’m excited to apply my expertise to tackle legal questions and further strengthen our company for the future.”
Prior to entering the field of law, Martin earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and served from 1992 to 1998 as an officer in the Air Force, during which period he also obtained a master’s in electrical engineering. He received his Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 2001, graduating cum laude.
Martin joins Danimer from Kaman Distribution Group, a leading national distributor of highly engineered products and services, where he had served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from 2020 until that company’s successful sale earlier this year. Before that, he was General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Accuride Corporation, a vehicle components manufacturer, starting in 2008. | <urn:uuid:b8891af9-81cf-49a9-b6a4-2ac0a49d0f70> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sustainableplastics.com/news/danimer-names-stephen-martin-chief-legal-officer-and-corporate-secretary | 2023-09-23T18:48:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923162848-20230923192848-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.974631 | 277 |
Cheryl L. Blaesing, 74 of Taylorville passed away on Friday, November 5, 2021 at 11:45 a.m. at her residence in Taylorville, IL. She was born on January 24, 1947 in Joliet, IL the daughter of Allen and Juanita (Meredith) Westbrook.
She is survived by her son: Richard (Christine) Blaesing; daughter: Jennifer (Eric) Zola; grandchildren: Alexis Zola, Jacob Zola, Austin (Kaylynn) Blaesing, Elizabeth Blaesing; brother: John (Pat) Westbrook; sisters: Mona (Gary) Foreman, Mary (Dennis) Walker, Retta Loreth and companion Kenneth Wirey; sisters-in-law: Jan Westbrook, Judy Westbrook; numerous loving nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, and brothers: Stuie Westbrook, Keith Westbrook.
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Dale L. Daughtry, 81 of Taylorville passed away on Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 9:02 p.m. at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, IL. He was born on April 13, 1938 in Taylorville the son of Dale and Geraldine (Welge) Daughtry. He married Donna Kramer on November 4, 1956 in Millersville, IL.
Dale farmed for over 20 years. During that time, he also opened his own sign shop where he worked as a sign writer and graphic artist. He lettered and pinstriped signs and vehicles along with well-known funny cars, dragsters, pulling tractors and sprint cars. He took great pride in his work. In August 2004, Dale was inducted into the National Pinstriping Hall of Fame by Mack Brush Company. Upon retiring, he spent his time enjoying his family, especially his grandson and his dog, Scooter. He loved showing cars and was a member of several car clubs over the years including Frankie’s Cruisers. He was a state rep to the National Street Machine/Van Division, lifetime member of the Case Collector Association, International Blade Association and was an NRA member. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife: Donna Daughtry of Taylorville, IL; Daughter: Michelle (Todd) Chambers of Taylorville, IL; Grandson: Alex (Elysa) Chambers of Morrisonville, IL; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, October 10, 2019 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at Sutton Memorial Home in Taylorville. Following the visitation will be a memorial service starting at 7:00 p.m with Rev. Dick Wamsley officiating. Inurnment will be at a later date in Oak Hill Cemetery in Taylorville.
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Month: September 2020
16 September 2020
Since long Tunisia was on our desired destination list. However, traveling 2020 under the Covid-19 threat is different. Elaborate planning and preparations come before you can leave Europe. We always harbour some fear that they might not allow us to return home. The last 24 hours before leaving the safety of a friendly port always comes with trepidations for us.
Motoring out between the islands after leaving Carloforte (Sardinia, Italy) calmness gently overcomes us. Throw in a light breeze, blue sky and sunshine and hours later we are truly relaxed.
Our major worry are the entry procedures in Tunisia. Complicated further because we want to continue to Sicily within hours. Upon arrival we reevaluate the quick turnaround scenario and risk to stay for some days. This could be troublesome if Corona cases balloon and related closures occur. Our primary worry is that Europe might close their border to Tunisia. Illegal migrants coming from Africa and Tunisia are a considerable risk and we are thinking about that too.
Our destination is Bizerte on the Northwest corner of Tunisia. Phoenician traders settled the town 1100BC. Bizerte is promising even so 2020 we reduced our cultural program to stay safe.
The distance from Sardinia is 140nm, a distance we often sail in 24 hours, ideal for coming to Tunisia. We don’t want to arrive at night or sail during the night through the coastal waters of Africa.
We have a pre departure checklist we always go through before leaving port. Checking and adjusting the tension of the rudder cables, we found another “hmmmm, not good”.
These pictures are about our Raymarine backup autopilot. They press the top bolt into the quadrant from above. The bolt transmits the action of the autopilot arm to the rudder. The thread of the nut is just 30% engaged. Only removing the quadrant will tell me how easy or difficult it is to repair.
Last minute preparations
No Kinder Chocolate for us. Fueled 160 liters this way 🙂
17. September 2020
Early morning the Admiral works the galley. While I supposedly clear up the deck but make photos 🙂
Underway we take sailing more and more easy these days. We frequently hoist the Genaker alone for downwind sailing. With the right wind strength and direction, it’s efficient and good enough for us. We don’t have to worry about accidental gybes damaging the rig. We can sail deeper (180°) and directly to our destination. Underway we experimented with going 5 to 10° to the wrong side of the wind direction for the genaker. The Genaker took it gently without folding. That makes straight downwind sailing relaxed and fun. Net we loose maybe 0.5knots but who cares.
Sailing offshore feels like sailing away from the corona stress. And it’s not a deception. Within 100 miles there is no case when we are underway.
Pitch black night sailing. No moon. Looking up, seeing some stars and the mast top lights. Red is the preferred night light color onboard. It does not disturb your night vision.
18. September 2020
During sunrise the next morning we add the mainsail. The wind changed favorably the direction and increased to 15kts. The added sail speeds us up and we arrive at noontime in Bizerte.
5nm north of the port of Bizerte we get hailed via VHF radio by the Tunisian coast guard inquiring about crew size and destination. That was all formality up to that point. We use the northern entrance to the port, which is a shorter distance to the marina. Well, I forgot to change our chart-plotter to show high definition depth lines 🙁
In the port entrance, deep water mysteriously disappears. 5m, 3m, 1.1m under the keel within seconds. At 3m I idled the engines and at 1.1m REVERSE!!! We didn’t touch the sandy bottom. To the left is the picture of the standard nautical chart. To the right, you see the high definition depth lines.
This is the official nautical chart. We came in from the left going to the right, closer to the green light. We were somewhere between the 14 and 15m depth line 🙁
And while it says 4m, it’s not. Completely silted and shallow. The silting extends much further to the northeast towards the red marker. Looking down from the bow, we both think 10 or 20 meters further and we would have touched Tunisia with our keels first.
Immediately after arrival on the customs dock, they quarantine us. A Border control officer is unhappy about our courtesy (guest) flag. We took the bag which said ‘Tunisia’, but it had a ‘Turkish’ flag inside – not good. The border control gentleman didn’t like that. A marina employee brought us quickly a Tunisian flag. Thanks, Marina Bizerte!
The whole marina is super well organized. This includes customs and immigration. Within an hour we were Covid-19 tested. The lab reported the results 17:00h same day. Wow! The marina manager, Monsieur Mohamed Ali, picked up the Covid-19 test from the laboratory in downtown Bizerte for us the next morning- thank you.
We have seen nothing of Tunisia yet. But going by our positive experience with the arrival formalities, we are happy.
The lab technician lady is born Russian, living in Tunisia. Migration, the constant normal in this world.
PCR testing with a swab. The expectation is worse than the actual sampling.
For a marina next to an industrial port, the water is clean. These jellyfish are 30cm (1 foot) large in diameter. These are non poisonous, we are told. Didn’t try my luck and touch 🙂
During quarantine you sit in the cockpit of your boat and just watch the world go by. If you look, you can see. You know what I mean.
We close our day by sitting in the cockpit enjoying the view as in the pictures above and have a traditional LUNARA style dinner.
Small Island. Ferry connections only. Colorful buildings. No big box stores. No brand name chains. All buildings two stories high or less. Every little store felt like the time eons ago when the world consisted of small things. Zoomed back in time.
This post contains picture galleries to flip through. Words fail to describe, but somehow even pictures fail. Being here is the thing.
Small is beautiful!
Below is Italy’s answer to the Dodge Ram. Fits perfectly into every narrow alley, supplying stores and restaurants through the backdoor.
First walk around downtown and trying to get lost 🙂
When we came out of quarantine, the first order of the day was replenishing fresh food onboard LUNARA. What a pleasant experience. Even though the shopping atmosphere is eery with face-masks everywhere. Post Corona, normal times will return. We can imagine how lovely shopping and tasting fresh food next year will be.
Gallery shows a food supermarket near the marina in Carloforte.
Another day we discovered this small church downtown. The colors outside match tastefully with the surroundings and the blue sky. Inside, everything was perfect pastels.
August 26 to September 1
From Almerimar to Isola di San Pietro, Sardinia (Italy)
We flipped the coin and lost
Sailing from Portugal to Italy, we had two Covid-19 related choices. Stopover in Gibraltar, avoiding Spain. Or stopover in Spain, avoiding Gibraltar. We couldn’t get information on how Italy would treat travellers coming from either departure point. Gibraltar, being part of the UK, could have been red listed by Italy like the mainland UK is. Spain showed fast rising Covid-19 cases. Hmmm!
We choose Spain, which offered us a second rest stop in Almerimar. And we lost.
Don’t follow our moves at the Roulette table!
On August 26, the weather looked promising for our next leg sailing the 860nm to Sicily. We had a weather window beginning with no wind and later featuring favourable westerlies along the Algerian coast. We had some contingency planning in mind for the strait between Tunisia and Sicily. At our targeted passage time, remnants of a Mistral with unstable weather could be there. We planned to go slow and let it pass in front of us. We’ll see later how that went. Alternatively: ask the Admiral 🙁
It was stressful to get all the things lined up for our departure to Tunisia. Food shopping, health test, emailing back and forth with contacts in Tunisia. We tried to get a Covid-19 test prior to our departure for Tunisia, which was beyond all the normal preparation required for a longer voyage. Because of the rise in cases in Spain, we were told testing chemicals are running low in Almeria, where the next lab was located. This meant we would get test results in 5 days, or maybe even later. In Tunisia we have to show results 72 hours old or newer. The 72 hours was either way going to be a challenge. Then Tunisia made a soft close for travelers coming from Spain. We decided to sail to Southern Sicily, which is close to Tunisia and sort things out there, and going into quarantine in Italy.
We left early morning with no wind. Goodbye to the neighbouring catamaran from Denmark and heading over to the fuel dock. Docking in no wind is so much smoother 🙂
Motoring Northeast along the Spanish coast to catch some wind and getting a little push from a current. We are having a long stretch ahead of us and go on the watch cycle right away after clearing up the boat.
During the night the VHF radio is chatty like never before. For one there seemed to be a favorable reception for stations from far away and second, several smaller migrant boats had left Algeria heading to Spain. Constant PAN-PAN messages from several Spanish coastal stations alert sailors to lookout and report sightings. Also, we heard a radio spat between the Spanish Navy asking an Algerian military vessel what they were doing in their waters. Later in the night we hear a vessel identifying itself as ‘coalition forces’ vessel (with American accent) reporting a small drifting boat in the area of Tunis (many 100s of miles ahead of us)
AIS signals are on a similar radio band like our VHF radio. For nearly a day, we saw vessels moving on our chart plotter up to 400nm away. Never have seen something like that before.
The Sierra Nevada in the picture below visible from far offshore.
Most commercial vessels are very considerate towards sailing vessels. On high seas they have room to maneuver and use it. If we and another ship sail on converging lines, the commercial vessel changes course 30 – 60 minutes before we would get too close. Sometimes they call us on the VHF radio to communicate their intentions. Or we call them and find them helpful changing their course for us. Deep downwind or tacking upwind, our room for gradual course changes is only to one side. At 2200h we had the first time a vessel which did not react to repeated radio calls on Channel 16 or 06 (Intership Safety channel).
Here we started the engines to be prepared and took evasive action. Otherwise we could have smelled what they were cooking in the galley 🙁
Morning: By this time we slowly had settled into our watch routine. The first days are always tiring. With a crew of two and pleasant weather we favor 4 hour on and off watch cycles during a 24-hour period. At 10:00 in the morning, we insert two 2 hour watches to break the cycle. This ensures that no one gets the midnight shift every night. (1800 to 2200h, 2200 to 0200h, 0200 to 0600, 0600 to 1000, 1000 to 1200, 1200 to 1400, 1400 to 1800)
After day 3 it seems the body adjusts and we become less tired during the day. At the beginning, we rarely read or do any other things than ship duties. Day 4 and onward life becomes more enjoyable. The spirits improve. We have settled into the watch cycle-life. A crew of 3+ seems ideal to us. Everyone gets at night a 8 hour block of uninterrupted sleep – except the captain sometimes.
We hoisted the Genaker in the receding wind and left it up until late afternoon. Wonderful sailing.
Running the Starboard engine at sunset, we discovered that the alternator was not charging. I could not find the source of the problem. Not good! The 220V charger for the engine batteries constantly charges at full capacity. Where is all the juice going? The engine battery charger gets its power from the 12V house battery via a Victron 5kW inverter. The engine batteries are full. Somehow it must go back to the 12V circuit. Here, it becomes interesting: when we switch the engine master switches ON; the charger stops charging and the voltage at the engine batteries rises to 13.4V. This is exactly the voltage of our house battery. It seems we still have somewhere a crossover between house and engine batteries. This is an old argument and apparently still ongoing between us and the electrical installer in La Rochelle, France.
We are now closer to the Algerian coast, keeping a healthy distance north of their 12nm exclusion zone. Beautiful sailing with the wind from behind.
The Barometer is dropping during the last 36hours
We reef further down at midnight, preparing for strengthening winds. As usual when we reef the wind speed drops right away and I felt like a fool for an hour. Gladly we reefed. The winds freshened to 25 to 30kts in gusts blowing from 235° nearly perfect for us heading East. Predictwind was as helpful and precise as always with their weather predictions.
In the morning time, we had following seas which made us surf several times. We tried to keep the boat slow by rolling the genoa beyond the third reef point and sailing with a 2nd reef in the main which in our case cuts the sail area in half. After sunrise we had a large wave surfing us for a long stretch at over 16kts. I must be getting older, I don’t like this speed in a larger boat 🙁
We are close to Africa and our deck looks like the Sahara to the south of us. Sometime, during the night, we must have sailed through a dust cloud.
Side-note: The next night when heading north, we sailed through the same dust again. We got loaded with another round of dirt.
August 30 and 31
Anytime my logbook entries get short and scarce, it’s not funny sailing anymore. By now the generator failed to charge. We are down to one alternator charging the batteries. If this one fails…. not good! The wind picked up. We had already changed course 20° further north to delay the time when we would enter the straits between Tunisia and Sicily. Predictwind models estimated gusts of 50kts. In our experience, this could mean even more. By now we encounter two wave systems. Strong following waves from the West and a 7s period set from the Northeast, the extension from a distant Mistral which moves south in front of us. The Admiral doesn’t like the sunset or anyone else or food 🙁
We decide to head for an alternate port in Sardinia 110nm to the north, sorting things out there. We had researched pre-departure, in Almerimar, anchorages and Marinas in the south of Sardinia – just in case. We contacted our friends on ‘Petit Jolie‘ per Satellite phone to check out facilities on a small island on the southwestern tip of Sardinia, which was closer to us.
The alternate destination meant changing course further north against the wind. 110nm to go. Conditions became rough with 35kts tacking upwind, a south setting current and short choppy seas. The front windows leak again heavily (known issue on many Nautitech’s). Isola di San Pietro must be beautiful! We are dodging thunderstorms in the night, estimating their location with the CAPE map predictions (yes, Predictwind again) and our radar. We seem to have done well as we see lightning mostly far away. Except for one moment, when our electronics rebooted. We might have sailed into a strong electromagnetic field, but did not see any lightning at the time. We encountered a hail-shower, which made me fear for our chart plotters outside. I donned a pillow over my head for protection and put the plastic covers on the plotters. The hail hurt. Next purchase is a helmet!
At sunrise I am dog-tired. I had only minor breaks during the last 36 hours. The poor Admiral has to go on watch. Heroically, she steps up to do her duties. I know how miserable she feels, but we also have to balance risks. We consider deep tiredness a serious risk factor contributing to bad decision making and moving insecurely on deck.
Between 0630 and 0730h, it’s all gone. The wind recedes to 10kts. The sun comes out and in the south we can see the cold front which had made our life so miserable. In the photo, it looks pleasant.
The Admiral disagrees about my nice weather statement as the waves still shake us. I sense the wind and wave shadow from the island in the distant north of us and eagerly enter the last waypoints meandering between the islands to the Marina in Carloforte.
Approaching the port we saw some bright turquoise shine in the water. Rocks in 3 meters depth. We changed course and follow a ferry into port. The locals must know better what they are doing than Navionics. At 1400h we dock with Marine Sifredi. Nice and easy having a great place at the quay directly facing the village. This should be our view for the coming days as we go into quarantine immediately as expected. (Which is over by the time I am writing this.)
The marina management team Carmela and Giusi are super. Both speak English well, are forward coming and communicate. The first evening they ordered pizza from a local pizzeria for us, which the young marina assistant delivered.
We repaired the alternator and generator issue. The front windows are on our winter to do list when we are in Ragusa. A Happy End as always.
In my anger about our electrical installation and to blow off some steam I wrote a ‘glowing’ biography for the electrical artist in France – enjoy:
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It’s Monday afternoon. One week since our arrival and we still don’t have the PCR test results. We stay quarantined. No sightseeing and enjoying the little town of Carloforte.
We develop the creepy feeling that we’ll soon leave Sardinia without having had a chance to set foot on land.
Finally! Getting our PCR test tomorrow, Saturday 0945h.Finally! Getting our PCR test tomorrow, Saturday 0945h.
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