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Choreographer Sahaj Singh Chahal has the vision to create universal content. Read to find out!
Indian music has its charm that is spread across borders. With diversity in the country’s music culture, there are various music genres in different languages to enlighten any mood. However, the best part about Indian songs is that they can make anyone groove on the dance floor. Ever since social media expanded its horizons, dance got great momentum among everyone all over the world. Creating trendy content of dancing, choreographer Sahaj Singh Chahal has often mesmerized everyone with his dancing skills.
Lately, many social media creators and influencers have changed the game and are setting benchmarks with their performances on the internet. “The best part about content creation is that it has got universal appeal. Indian music is a gem that is loved by all, and we have seen many content creators from overseas make dance covers on Indian songs”, says Sahaj. A choreographer for many Bollywood films, Sahaj Singh Chahal has choreographed more than 70 Punjabi songs and music videos.
So far, the young and dynamic performer has worked with many A-listers from the industry including Nora Fatehi, Diljit Dosanjh, Badshah, Adah Sharma, Sargun Mehta, Urvashi Rautela and many more. The varied experience Sahaj possesses has made him one of the most reputed versatile and talented performers across India. With a majority of his dance videos and Instagram reels going berserk over the web, Sahaj has time and again proved how genuine content works the best over the internet.
A classic example of how Indian content is popular all over the world is seeing many foreign creators dancing to the tunes of Indian music. We have often seen it on Instagram, and one of the profound names is Washington’s Ricky Pond, also known as ‘Dancing Dad’. Witnessing such trends, Sahaj Singh Chahal wants to bring an impact on the global level by showcasing India’s richness. “One can never predict when and which content will go viral on the internet. I believe to live by my passion, and entertain my audience with what I am best known for”, quoted Sahaj.
Besides this, Sahaj Singh Chahal’s dance group ‘Urban Singh Crew’ is widely known for bringing India’s dance culture on the global map. As far as Sahaj loves dancing, his love for acting seems to have no bounds. Taking the exposure in a variety of work that he does, the young man is rightly redefining versatility in the truest sense. His vision of universal content and captivating the audience’s attention from all over the world is what makes Sahaj Singh Chahal stand out from other performers of today’s generation.
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Optimizing outcomes with correct IOL calculations for combined Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty, cataract extraction, and IOL implantation procedures can be achieved with the same techniques that are used in cataract surgery.
"DSAEK has revolutionized the management of endothelial diseases," began Dr. Jun, associate professor of ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Researchers have previously concluded that the posterior corneal curvature is a certain radius preoperatively. When a graft is placed, the cornea is actually thickened. The new radius and curvature of the posterior corneal surface then becomes smaller, and the radius of curvature is steeper with more of a refractive effect in the negative direction.
Effects of adjusting A constants
Dr. Jun and colleagues conducted a study to determine how to minimize the error between expected and achieved refractive outcomes following combined DSAEK, cataract extraction, and IOL implantation.
They included 30 consecutive eyes that underwent uneventful combined DSAEK triple procedure for Fuchs' dystrophy. All surgeries were performed by Dr. Jun, using the SRK/T formula and a proprietary lens (MA50BM, Alcon Laboratories) with an A constant of 119.4 (as provided by the manufacturer), and a standard graft size of 8.5 mm. For calculations, Dr. Jun and colleagues used the Holladay IOL software (Version 1.0, Holladay Consultants).
"This is a nice software that allows any surgeons doing cataract surgery to optimize their own A constants for particular lenses based on postoperative results," Dr. Jun said. "This allowed us to calculate a new A constant, 120.9, for these triple procedures."
For both A constants, they then compared the mean absolute error that resulted in a positive or negative direction from the preoperative predicted refraction to the actual postoperative refraction.
Using the original A constant for the lens, the mean absolute error from the target refraction was 1.09 D (±0.63 D). Using the new A constant of 120.9, the mean absolute error was reduced to 0.61 D (standard deviation: 0.40 D) (p = 0.036).
"With the new A constant, we had a lower absolute error for postoperative refraction, and a tighter standard deviation," he said. "The tighter standard deviation of our data is important because it suggests that an optimized A constant gives greater accuracy than just adding or subtracting a subjective fudge factor to the IOL calculations performed with the standard A constant."
Dr. Jun and colleagues then examined the number of eyes that were outside of the target refraction. Using the original A constant, the percentage of eyes that were outside of the target refraction by less than 0.5 D was only 20%. The percentage of eyes that were greater than 1 D outside the target refraction was 50%.
With the new A constant, more patients (44%) were within 0.5 D of the target refraction and less patients (16%) were more than 1 D outside the target refraction.
"Just as in cataract surgery alone, optimizing an IOL A constant using DSAEK triple procedures improved the predictability and accuracy of postoperative outcomes," Dr. Jun said. "With the advent of endothelial keratoplasty, with a minimal refractive change and quicker recovery, corneal transplant surgery can also be viewed as a refractive procedure.
"The same types of techniques that we use in cataract surgery for optimizing outcomes, therefore, can be applied here as well," he concluded.
FYIAlbert S. Jun, MD, PhDPhone: 410/955-5494
Dr. Jun has no disclosures.
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INHERITANCE TAX – PLANNING
Synopsis: New plans to introduce financial incentives for doctors for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and risk-screening tests for the middle-aged may be effective weapons in the war on dementia; but what will an early diagnosis of dementia mean for wealthy clients who have not yet carried out inheritance tax planning or made provision for somebody to deal with their estate on their behalf in the event of them becoming mentally disabled?
In light of concerns that only half of the estimated 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK have been diagnosed, the NHS has announced plans to pay doctors a financial incentive to boost early diagnoses. Under the national initiative, doctors who opt into the scheme will receive £55 for every new patient they identify as having dementia. However, while an early diagnosis will help to ensure that those with dementia get the tailored care and support they need, it could cause issues for wealthy clients who have not yet finalised their estate planning strategies.
Mental capacity is a pre-requisite for making effective gifts and creating valid trusts and wills – the cornerstone of estate planning – and once dementia has been diagnosed, capacity to make gifts will, at best, be in doubt. Although dementia will often be of gradual onset – allowing gifts to continue to be made during lucid intervals – a diagnosis could leave wills and gifts made in the timeframe surrounding the diagnosis open to challenge. This could create real problems where relationships within the family are strained or hostile.
While the existence of a valid (and pre-registered) lasting power of attorney (LPA) will go some way towards reducing the difficulties faced by the family of the diagnosed; even this will not provide any assistance when it comes to inheritance tax planning. An attorney’s power to make gifts on behalf of the donor is strictly limited to those made on ‘customary occasions’ (such as birthdays, Christmas etc) and even then, the gifts made must, taking account of all the circumstances, be ‘reasonable’ in relation to both the size of the donor’s estate and the size of the gift itself. This leaves little scope for estate planning without the additional expense of an application to the Court of Protection.
Ensuring that a Lasting Power of Attorney is in place and registered may however provide invaluable benefits for the client’s family later on notwithstanding the restrictions on inheritance tax planning. Where an individual loses capacity to act for himself and no power of attorney is in place, a deputyship application will need to be made before any financial or personal welfare decisions can be taken on behalf of the incapable person. Not only does this take the decision of who will act out of the hands of the client; it will lead to additional costs, delays and administration and create a huge inconvenience to the family as bank accounts and other assets may well be inaccessible until the position has been finalised.
The risk of dementia increases with age and because people are living longer, the number of people with dementia is increasing. It is estimated that by 2021, the number of people with dementia in the UK will have increased to around 1 million. This latest initiative to encourage early diagnosis of the disease reinforces the importance of planning ahead. Ensuring that wills and powers of attorney are in place will be vital when advising middle-aged to older clients.
However, while it may be tempting to implement inheritance tax planning strategies in advance, caution should be exercised. Although it is true that making gifts will become more problematic after a diagnosis of dementia, there is, of course, no guarantee that dementia will set in and clients will be ill-advised to make substantial gifts when future capital and income requirements remain uncertain. Clearly it is important to adopt a careful balance when considering lifetime gifting.
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"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.” That was the first of the Ten Commandments God gave Moses, recorded in Exodus 20:1-17 (NJKV). Secondly, the Lord said, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them."
There are gods—millions of false, pagan gods, and there is GOD—the only true God, as Jesus said in John 17:3. Father God is also the only wise God, as recorded in 1 Timothy 1:17 (KJV), Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever.
Those are the words of Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul, but what did the Lord God say about Himself? Isaiah 44:6-8 (NLT) tells us in no uncertain terms: This is what the Lord says—Israel's King and Redeemer, the Lord of Heaven's Armies: "I am the First and the Last; there is no other God. Who is like me? Let him step forward and prove to you his power. Let him do as I have done since ancient times when I established a people and explained its future. Do not tremble; do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim my purposes for you long ago? You are my witnesses—is there any other God? No! There is no other Rock—not one!"
When Adam and Eve sinned and set the course of humankind on a twisted, winding path of rebellion and sin, God must have known that people would want something tangible to hold onto, like a carved image, statue, beautiful stone, or similar item to cling to and believe in. They would want anything to fill the dreadful void in their hearts, suffering the anguish of God’s absence.
Carved images and items are not the one true God. They cannot possess the wisdom of the only wise God. They cannot give eternal life. They do not hold the promise of heaven for those who cling to them for security, peace, help, and comfort. That is why the Lord God warned His people to make no carved images or to bow down and serve them. They offer, at best, false hope, for they are based on the lies and deception of the devil, who is the father of lies.
No pagan god is like you, O Lord. NONE can do what you do!...For You are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God, King David wrote in Psalm 86:8,10 (NLT). As the Lord God described Himself, He said, “Who is like me? Let him step forward and prove to you his power.” This was the clincher, for power belongs to God (Psalm 62:10). Signs, wonders, and miracles happen when God’s dunamis power is released, but the ultimate expression of God’s power is the resurrection of life. No other god can resurrect the dead and place them in an eternal home of peace and joy.
Nirvana, the final goal of Buddhism, promises to be a place of no suffering, but no one can enjoy eternal peace and rest except in God’s glorious presence in heaven. Every other place of tranquility and rest is a lie. There is no other way to get to heaven except through Jesus Christ, His Son. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
The many gods and goddesses of Hinduism will disappoint too when the most devout Hindu dies, for if he dies without acknowledging Jesus Christ as the Son of God and receiving Him as Lord and Savior, NONE of the thousands and even millions (as some sources say) of Hindu gods or goddesses can do anything to get a dead man to spend eternity with the only true God.
Flirting with any pagan god is dangerous, and God forbids it. He does not want anyone to perish and spend eternity in hell by getting hooked on false religions and deception. Many Christians fall prey to subtle lies of the enemy when they engage in occult practices that seem harmless and innocent. “Christian yoga” is an oxymoron, for no matter how Christianized the music or background mood of the yoga setting is, a person practicing yoga may be “yoking with” or joining himself to demonic spirits behind the false gods of Hinduism. Unknowingly, one can be yoked with a “universal consciousness” and merge the soul with it.
When I played the Ouija board as a teenager, I did not deliberately set out to engage in the occult. Still, I did cross the line into occult activity by participating in the game. I have long since repented of it and renounced any demonic spirits I may have invited. The things we do naively and without understanding are taken very seriously by the enemy of our souls.
Some Hindus report up to 330 million gods and goddesses in their faith; some 33 to 3003. Many yoga poses are designed to worship specific yoga gods and goddesses. Then the yoking or uniting begins. Before long, the Christian’s interest in Bible and prayer lessen, and a slow-but-steady spiral down and away from the things of the Lord can occur as the mind gets more and more influenced by the demonic. Derek Prince, the great Bible scholar and teacher, told of his battle with depression, for which he sought the Lord’s help. The spirit of heaviness, which is what the Bible calls depression, had entered Derek when he became a practicing yogi. Upon renouncing it and repenting of his involvement in the occult, the heavy spirit left him, and the depression lifted. He advised people to never participate in yoga on any level.
Involvement in the practice of using healing crystals is another area of deception. Putting faith in the false power of a crystal to heal or bring peace is turning to something other than the one true God. Again, the person doing this opens himself to a demonic realm of oppression. Because he seeks help from the crystal’s magical powers, he is manipulating situations through objects, not the one true God. He is saying no to God’s Holy Spirit to heal and bring peace and yes to demonic spirits to help him. The danger is great—once again, the person has crossed the line and entered the occult arena where witchcraft, rebellion, and spiritual and physical death may occur. The deterioration of spirit and soul that begins the further one moves away from the one true God can have devastating effects.
“You shall have no other gods before Me.” Those are the words of our loving heavenly Father. He loves us so much He could not bear the thought of sending us to an eternity in hell, so He gave up His Son and allowed Him to die a horrible death so we wouldn’t have to go to a place of eternal torment. No other god has ever done that. Why then would we ever look to any of them for anything?
Jesus declared, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). Period. No other gods--just the one true God, the only wise God.
© 2023, Chris Custer Werre
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For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, (2 Corinthians 10:4).
My granddaughter suffered another night of restless, interrupted sleep. It seemed to be an annoying pattern developing, and it was very troubling. Maybe some of you can relate. It goes something like this…It’s 3 a.m. and you’re wide awake. If I fall back to sleep by 3:30, I’ll get 7.5 hours of sleep. The cuckoo clock chimes 4 a.m. Okay, so I’ll still get 7 hours of sleep. Pillow over the head now to silence the 5 a.m. cuckoo, the 6 a.m. cuckoo, 7 a.m., and it’s time to rise and shine. So it goes—another night of troubled sleep.
Strongholds, as mentioned in the Bible, are wrong ways of thinking— “stinkin’ thinkin’” --if you will. The word stronghold means a fortress, like a castle that is erected in our mind and traps negative, harmful thoughts inside. Satan likes to erect such fortresses in our mind and very shrewdly knows exactly what thoughts to plant in these strongholds to bring us to places of discouragement and defeat. The Apostle Paul gives us a simple solution. Because of the tremendous authority Jesus Christ gave us over ALL the power of the devil, as evidenced in Luke 10:19 (NLT), where Jesus said, Look, I have given you authority over ALL the power of the enemy,” Paul encourages us to pull down these strongholds. Just tear them down! Use your words, backed by the authority of Jesus Christ, and simply say, “I pull down this stronghold of insomnia, fear, discouragement, addiction"…whatever is filling your mind with defeat.
David pulled down a pattern of stinkin’ thinkin’ by proclaiming scripture out loud. So did Jesus, as He confronted Satan in the wilderness when He was verbally assaulted and challenged by the devil himself. I like to think that David, in Psalm 4:8 (NLT), was proclaiming to himself and any enemies within earshot that I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety!! It was kind of like he was whistling past the graveyard, as he said this after fleeing from his son, Absalom, who was attempting to kill him with the help of the entire army of Israel—an overwhelmingly superior fighting force! That’s probably why David made this comment, O Lord, I have so many enemies; so many are against me. So many are saying, ‘God will never rescue him!’ (Psalm 3:1-2 NLT). Several verses later, he declared, I lay down and slept, yet I woke up in safety, for the Lord was watching over me. I am not afraid of ten thousand enemies who surround me on every side. (Psalm 3:5-6 NLT).
Ten thousand enemies on every side? Now THAT’S cause for insomnia! And yet David, who had a heart after God and fully trusted Him, was really declaring, Though I am alone, yet I am not alone, for God is with me; though I have no guards to attend me, the Lord alone is sufficient to protect me; He can do it himself when all other defenses fail. (Matthew Henry’s Commentary). Unless we are soldiers on a battlefield, it’s unlikely any of us have ten thousand enemies on every side as we lay our head on the pillow at night. But we do have the cares and frustrations and problems of daily life that can disturb our sleep. Quite frankly, demonic spirits can torment us at night, too, but in a word of rebuke, we can dismiss them.
My granddaughter, a student of the Word, came to me and announced, “Nana, I think my sleep problem is a stronghold.” We discussed the validity of pulling down strongholds and declaring what the Word said about her sleep, to erect a new pattern of thinking. We agreed together as she, out loud, tore down the stronghold of insomnia and declared what David had said: I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. If Jesus used the Word of God to defeat Satan, so should we.
While we sleep, the Lord is watching over us. He neither slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:1). Furthermore, Exodus 14:14 says The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent. Normally, most of us are silent seven to ten hours every night (unless we snore, but I don’t think that counts). So we can rest in the fact that whatever difficulty we are facing can safely be placed in the hands of the Lord to address while we keep silent. Countless times when I am awakened by a troubling thought or fear, I have fallen right back to sleep by proclaiming out loud, as David did, I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Ask the Lord to show you what strongholds may be interfering with the peace and rest He promises us, then pull them down. If sleep is an issue, address it out loud, just as Jesus told the devil where to get off in Matthew 4:1-11.
The Lord’s got the night-watch covered. No worries, my friend. Sleep tight tonight. As you pull down strongholds of wrong thinking, new God thoughts will begin to fill your mind, and your life will change!
© 2021, Chris Werre
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Spinach RENEGADE F1 - seeds
Spinacia oleraceaThis variety can be grown throughout the season. After 6 weeks, the spinach has already very good leaf quality and superb aroma.
Growing spinach is relatively easy and can be done both outdoors and in a greenhouse. Here are some important steps to grow spinach:
Choose a suitable location: Spinach prefers moist and fertile soil and partial shade. Choose a spot where the soil is light and well-drained. Also, make sure the chosen spot gets at least 4-6 hours of sunlight per day.
Prepare the soil: If your chosen spot is full of grass, remove it and dig up the soil. Add organic material such as manure, compost, or decayed leaves to enrich the soil with nutrients.
Plant the seeds: Spinach seeds should be planted in spring or fall, depending on the region. Make planting holes about 1.5-2 cm deep and place the seeds in them, leaving gaps about 15-20 cm apart. If you plant multiple rows, leave gaps about 30-40 cm between rows to give enough space for spinach to grow.
Water regularly: Spinach needs regular watering, especially in hot weather. Make sure the soil is moist but not too wet. Water the plants in the morning or evening to avoid sunburn.
Take care of the plants: When spinach starts to grow, make sure it gets enough nutrients and light. If the plants start growing too densely, thin them out, leaving a gap of 7-10 cm between plants.
Harvest the crop: Spinach is ready to harvest about 40-50 days after planting the seeds. Harvest young leaves and stems, leaving some leaves on the plant to grow. Harvest frequently to ensure new crops grow.
Growing spinach is easy and fun, and it gives you fresh and healthy food. Follow these steps and enjoy your homegrown spinach crop!
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SUDHEESH P G
- Educational Qualification : DHMCT, Diploma in Hospitality Management (AH&LA)
- Work Experience : 17 Years
- Teaching : 9.6 Years
- Industry : 8 Years
- Area of Specializations : FOOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION
- Subjects teaching at Under Graduate level : FOOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION
Started my career with Taj Group of Hotels in 2002 as Commi-III, After two years of service joined with Epicurian Off Shore Catering Company in 2004. Later joined in Emirates Flight Catering in 2005 and continued for 5 years.
Joined as Asst. professor with Oriental Group of Educational Institutions in the year 2010.
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Kabbaddi on parimatch.in is a fairly popular sports discipline in India, which is in demand among the inhabitants of the country on a par with cricket. This sport has an army of millions of fans who can watch kabbaddi matches in any corner of the country.
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Kabbaddi is a team game that has been popular in Asia since ancient times. The first international match in this sport discipline was held in Dhaka in 1985. 1990 was a significant year for kabbaddi. This year, this sport was included in the program of the Asian Games.
Consider the rules of the game. In kabbaddi, 2 teams of 12 players each compete. Opponents occupy opposite sides of the field, which is divided by a dividing line into 2 equal parts. In order for the match to start, one of the teams must send an invader who must run across to the other team’s half of the field. During this, the player must constantly shout “Kabaddi!”. During this time, he must touch at least one of the opponent’s players and return to his part of the field.
In order to gain the upper hand, the opposing team must force the infiltrated “invader” to touch the ground or stop shouting “Kabbaddi!”. If the invader managed to return to his part of the field, the player of the opposite team, whom he touched, will have to leave the playing court. The match will be over when one of the teams loses all of its players.
Despite the popularity of kabbaddi, not all bookmakers have this sports discipline in their line. But on the Parimatch site, all fans of Indian Kabbadi can place bets, have fun and get a decent win.
The size of the odds for certain bets demonstrates the likelihood of events. That is, the coefficient is the ratio between the amounts of bets placed by both parties based on the expected probability.
Having correctly studied the odds for a particular event, the player will be able to predict the outcome of the game and determine the team that has more chances of winning.
Cabbaddi betting line on Parimatch
In order to save your money and get a decent win, you need to take a responsible approach to the process of choosing a profitable type of bet. Parimatch is a reputable bookmaker that has the most extensive and diverse kabbaddi betting market compared to:
- 3 way betting;
- double chance;
Recommendations for beginners
If you are just starting your gaming journey and do not know how to properly manage bets, it is better to study tips on developing a profitable strategy. Parimatch experts note the following recommendations for Cabbaddi online betting:
- Carefully read all the nuances of this sport discipline. It seems to some that sports betting is a simple and primitive activity. But this is absolutely not true. It is unlikely that someone will be able to immediately receive big winnings without learning the basics of the chosen sport. Familiarize yourself with the available information about top teams, carefully study the rules of sports discipline. Information awareness will significantly improve your position.
- Stay within your budget. The main thing in gambling and sports betting is self-discipline and control. Players can get carried away and lose their heads, thereby losing large sums of money. Therefore, it is very important to set your budget on a daily basis and stick to it without going beyond it. This should be an amount that you can easily lose. Then failure will not be so significant for you.
- Up-to-date information about injured players. In order to increase your chances of winning, you need to regularly study up-to-date information about the preparation of teams, the physical condition of the players, the statistics of victories and defeats of clubs, and so on.
- Be vigilant. To make sports betting a pleasant pastime, and not a series of disappointments, cooperate only with licensed and reliable bookmakers. In order to protect yourself from scammers, do not go to illegal dubious sites.
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Brown Recluse Spider Facts
- This seemingly harmless arachnid remains best known as the Brown Recluse Spider. The surprising arthropod also goes by several other common names, though. These terms include the brown fiddler, the violin spider, and the fiddleback spider.
- Among professional researchers, however, it’s generally referred to by the difficult to pronounce scientific name of the Loxosceles reclusa. But, which name one uses to refer to it fails to alter one simple fact. Its relatively benign appearance is quite misleading.
- In point of fact, this particular arachnid typically makes most top 10 lists of the most dangerous spiders in the world. Also impressive remains another fact. Such a great potential threat actually comes packaged in a comparatively small body.
- Fortunately, though, encounters with humans that end in bites rarely occur. This primarily occurs due to a combination of its reclusive nature, and its choice of preferred habitat. Yet, when bites are inflicted, these can be extremely serious in nature.
- For the moment, the IUCN does not presently have a classification for the Brown Recluse Spider. That’s due to the combination of adequate range and sufficient numbers. Any ranking would appear on the organization’s published Red List.
- It must, however, be considered to be at some potential risk, like many species today. Also like other creatures, it currently faces many threats. Further sharing mutual perils, its greatest dangers most likely consist of habitat loss and the effects of climate change.
Brown Recluse Spider Physical Description
While the magnificent Brown Recluse Spider impresses, it does not do so due to sheer size. Although certainly not the smallest known spider, by any means, it’s nevertheless tinier than most dangerous ones. Plus, it does display sexual dimorphism, but not in terms of size.
Somewhat oddly, adults vary significantly in size. As a result, leg spans average from 0.24 – 0.79 in (6 – 20 mm). Exceptional specimens do sometimes occur, however. That being said, unconfirmed reports of individual specimens approaching 1 in (2.5 cm) in span exist.
The color pattern of both genders also typically consists of a light or medium brown over the entire body. Some Brown Recluse Spider specimens display an off white, dark brown, or grayish color. Many display a black line on the side, and a violin-shaped marking.
The gender-based difference displays in the pedipalps. These leg-like structures are larger on the end among males. In appearance, though, its most notable feature remains its eyes. This spider has six eyes, instead of eight, arranged in pairs. Few spiders share this trait.
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Family: Sicariidae
- Genus: Loxosceles
- Species: L. reclusa
Brown Recluse Spider Distribution, Habitat, and Ecology
The often overlooked Brown Recluse Spider also holds yet another notable status. That’s the fact that this shy but potentially deadly spider only appears in a restricted portion of the world. In fact, that natural range consists of portions of the United States, in North America.
More precisely, its official native range covers much of the southeastern, southwestern, and parts of the mid-west regions. This area includes all or portions of 16 different states. But, perhaps due to the activities of humans, reports of sightings in other areas exist.
Within this zone, its natural habitat consists of such places as fallen logs. It further prefers dark, dry, undisturbed locations. It has also adapted to the presence of humans in its range. As a result, it frequently inhabits wood piles, garages, basements, and storage sheds.
The Brown Recluse Spider builds an irregular-shaped web. This also generally holds a small shelter. This particular variety of web weaver also differs from its brethren its behavioral patterns. It leaves its lair at night to hunt, with females tending to remain in closer proximity.
Given that it actively hunts and stalks its prey, it evolved to move quickly. Such prey usually includes creatures such as various small insects and even other small spiders. It’s also extremely resilient. In point of fact, individuals can survive for months between feedings.
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Nancy Elizabeth Smith Howell
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She was born on July 8, 1941, in Davie County to the late John Odell and Mildred Allen Smith. Mrs. Howell was a member of Green Meadows Baptist Church and ran Nana’s Daycare for many years. She loved visiting the mountains and the beach, quilting, and being outdoors.
She was also preceded in death by: her husband, Roger Gray Howell; a son, Dale Gray Howell; a brother, Harold Wayne Smith; and a sister-in-law, Peggy Smith.
Survivors: 2 sons, David Howell of the home, and Dean Howell of Clemmons; 3 siblings, Flora Mae Hockaday, Annie Howell, and Willy Gray Smith; several nieces and nephews; and her special dog, “Buddy.”
A funeral service was conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 at Green Meadows Baptist Church, with the Rev. Josh Greene officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. The family received friends at the church one hour prior.
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There are several things to do in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, but the absolute BEST things to do can all be done in just one day. So if you are taking a quick day trip from Amarillo or if Palo Duro Canyon State Park is along your epic Texas road trip, this guide is going to be perfect for YOU!
Palo Duro Canyon State Park is one of the best State Parks in the Lone Star State. It is known as the Grand Canyon of Texas. Moreover, it is the second largest canyon in the Unites States (second to of course, Grand Canyon National Park).
The entire park is full of lush vegetation with layers of orange and red canyons. The combination creates a perfect landscape. Needless to say, Palo Duro Canyon State Park will take your breathe away.
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The Best Time to Visit Palo Duro Canyon State Park
The best time to visit Palo Duro Canyon State Park is during the spring (March – May) or fall (September – November) because of the weather. This is especially true if you plan to do some hiking. Trust me, you do not want to be hiking during a Texas summer.
The canyon floors at Palo Duro Canyon State Park can reach a temperature of 120°F – Wowza! So even during the spring and fall, the weather will be enjoyable but you need to prepared for Palo Duro Canyon to be hotter than the forecast predicts. If you are visiting the park during the summertime, I would proceed with caution.
Best Things to Do in Palo Duro Canyon State Park for One Day
As one of the largest Texas State Parks and most popular, there are so many fun things to do. From mountain biking to horseback riding, zip-lining, bird watching, and attending the famous show, Texas Musical Drama – there is something for everyone to enjoy at Palo Duro Canyon State Park.
However, if you have just one day at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, these are the best things to do! If you do them all, your time in the park will be around six hours.
Hike the Lighthouse Trail
Hiking the Lighthouse Trail is THE BEST thing to do in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. This hiking trail is the most popular reason why people visit the park. As the symbol of Palo Duro Canyon State Park, the iconic Lighthouse rock formation is truly a sight that cannot be missed.
The Lighthouse Trail is a 5.6 mile round trip trail and is considered a moderate hike. A majority of the trail is flat with a steep incline and some rock scrambling at the very end.
The entire trail has no shade, so it is VERY important to pack plenty of water. It is recommended that you should bring at least one gallon per person. You should also plan to start your hike as early as possible to beat the heat.
Near the end of the trail, you will come across a picnic table under some shaded trees. This is the fork of the trail. If you go left, you will need to do some rock scrambling, but it is a lot of fun and the fastest way to get to the Lighthouse. If you go right, the trail is easier, but it takes at least ten minutes longer.
Bonus: There is a snow cone stand at the Lighthouse Trail parking lot. It is the perfect treat to enjoy after a long hike!
Or Go Mountain Biking
In addition to hiking, the second most popular thing to do in Palo Duro Canyon State Park is mountain biking. There are three trails designed to be biked – Givens, Spicer & Lowry Running Trail (also known as GSL), Lighthouse Trail, and Capitol Peak Mountain Bike Trail.
The Lighthouse Trail is the most popular hiking trail, but the GSL is the most popular mountain biking trail. The GSL trail is the best because it’s considered to be the most fun and scenic of the three trails.
If you enjoy hiking AND mountain biking, I suggest two days at Palo Duro Canyon State Park. However, if you only have one day, then the Lighthouse Trail would be the best option.
There are no bike rentals or tours at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, but Amarillo has two shops that offer bike rentals – Hills Sport Shop and Sun Adventure Sports.
Drive the Scenic Palo Duro Canyon Loop
If you do not hike, do not worry! One of the best things to do in Palo Duro Canyon is simply driving the scenic Palo Duro Canyon Loop. In fact, as soon as you pass through the entrance gates, you will find yourself surrounded by a beautiful and vast landscape.
The Palo Duro Canyon Loop takes about 30 – 45 minutes or longer if you stop to take pictures. I would plan for the route to take longer because you will definitely want to take your time enjoying the scenic views.
Soak Up Views at the CCC Overlook
Speaking of scenic views, one of the best paranormal views is at CCC Overlook. The best part, it’s located at the visitor center which is just a few minutes from the entrance.
The CCC Overlook at the visitor center is a sight to behold. On a clear day, you can even see the Lighthouse formation in the distance!
Stopping here first is the perfect way to begin your day at Palo Duro Canyon State Park. In fact, I always recommend stopping at a park’s visitor center to get trail maps and valuable information from the park rangers.
Visit Longhorn Pasture
Did you know that longhorns are the large mammal symbol of Texas? Yes! And what better way to see the longhorns than at a Texas State Park?!
Palo Duro Canyon State Park is home to a portion of Texas’ Official Longhorn Herd. More of the Texas Official Longhorn Herd are located at San Angelo, Copper Breaks, and Lyndon B. Johnson State Parks in an effort to help conserve the breed.
In addition, these are longhorns are HUGE! As a born and raised Texan, these are the biggest longhorns I have ever seen.
The Longhorn Pasture is located at the park entrance. As soon as you pass through the gates, the pasture is on the lefthand side. You can park in one of the very few parking spots or along the road.
Visit the Palo Duro Canyon Trading Post
During your one day in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, you might get hungry or want to take home a souvenir. So I recommend visiting the Palo Duro Canyon Trading Post.
The Palo Duro Canyon Trading Post serves American cuisine for breakfast and lunch. You can order classic American fare such as onion rings, chicken tenders, corn dogs, cheese fries, chicken fried steak, and more – but what they are really known for, are the famous juicy burgers!
If You Have More Than One Day in Palo Duro Canyon State Park
If you have more than one day in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, here are a more things you can enjoy at the park.
Stay in a Cabin or a Luxury Camp (Glamping)
Go Horseback Riding
Go on a Jeep Tour
If horses are not your thing, try an adventurous jeep tour! Drive along the canyon rim and make your way down to the canyon floor. Check out Palo Duro Creek Ranch for several jeep tour options.
Enjoy beautiful views while zip-lining across Palo Duro Canyon State Park. The Palo Duro Canyon Zip Line Adventure Park is perfect for first-timers or repeat thrill seekers!
Watch the Famous Texas Musical Show
Watching the famous Texas Musical Show at the Pioneer Amphitheater is one of the best things to do in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. It is a family-friendly show focused on the 1800s and the Texas Panhandle settlers. The show brings these fictional characters to life through stories, music, dancing, humor, and an amazing firework show.
The show is only performed from June 1st through mid-August.
Bonus: Things to Do Near Palo Duro State Park
Palo Duro Canyon State Park is only 30 minutes away from Amarillo. Though there is plenty of things to do in Amarillo there are two attractions on Route 66 that you cannot miss – a steak dinner at The Big Texan Steak Ranch and an Instagram-worthy photo at Cadillac Ranch.
In addition, there is another great Texas State Park worth visiting near Palo Duro.
Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture of ten vintage Cadillac lined up in a row and buried nose-down into the dirt. The Cadillacs are all spray painted from millions of visitors a year. That’s right, this public art installation is for visitors to make their mark on this famous landmark.
You can buy spray paint from a nearby vendor or bring your own. Spray paint your name or fun art and take a picture with it because it will not last for long. Chances are it will be gone the next day from someone else leaving their mark!
Enjoy a Steak Dinner at The Big Texan Steak Ranch
Build up an appetite and visit The Big Texan Steak Ranch for a meal of a lifetime! The Big Texan Steak Ranch is known as the number one steak house in Texas for its famous 72 oz steak dinner. Yes, 72 ounces!
Guests can enter the steak challenge where they have to eat a shrimp cocktail, baked potato, salad, a roll with butter, and of course, the 72oz steak in one hour. If you complete the challenge, your meal is FREE! Fail to complete the challenge, and you must pay the full $72 dollars. Did I mention you have to also complete this on stage in front of everyone?!?!
If the challenge is not for you, don’t worry. There is also a smaller version of the steak challenge that includes three fried shrimp, baked potato, salad, a roll with butter, and only a 18oz top sirloin steak.
Caprock Canyons State Park
Another great thing to do near Palo Duro Canyon State Park is visit a second Texas State Park, Caprock Canyons. This hidden gm is only 1 hour and 30 minutes away from Palo Duro Canyon and definitely a destination you need to visit.
Caprock Canyons State Park is home to the Texas State Bison Herd and prairie dogs. In addition to wildlife, you can also enjoy a scenic drive through the park, incredible hiking trails, go mountain biking, ride horses, camp, and more.
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Workplace Bulying Led To Sexual Harrassment
by Standing Alone
I have worked for a company for seven years and I have never seen a company like this before!! This company has several office bullies, one which has been with the company for 28 years. The company knows about this person's behavior, actions, comments and most of sexual harrassment on a daily basis.
This person is so bold and out of control until he will carry out his actions in front of managers -- who will just laugh it off out of fear or just walk away from the incident while it is taking place. The bullies have a support system that consists of about (8) people, who will do anything to cover for each other and the "kicker" in the whole stories -- the group consists of "Ministers, church leaders, and "suppose-to-be Christians".
The main bully has set the tone for the office until it is a hostile environment on a daily basis -- consisting of sexual comments, jokes and humiliation where sometimes the Managers join in on the jokes.
My situation became so unbearable until I finally filed a sexual harrassment formal complaint with the corporate after receiving a text piciture of a Minister's penis -- my co-worker (bully #2). In my formal complaint, I'd addressed the hostile environment also. As you know, corporate's actions was a delayed response at first, just to see how much I knew, so they could know how to response or "clean-up" the mess! Corporate gave the Minister the option to resign! -- believe that -- he was given a option.
After bully #2 resigned, I was retaliated against by the corporate and local office (including co-workers and Managers). I had items stolen from desk, my laptop's hard drive destoyed, items from my purse was stolen and accounts sabatoged. This left me with no outlet to report this to because the Managers would support the bullies.
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The colder the weather gets, the greater your indoor heating requirements become. An inefficient heating system can put a significant dent in your monthly utility budget. In this blog, heating and air conditioning repair service contractor Palo Alto shares tips on optimizing your heating system for winter.
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Keep Up With Scheduled Maintenance
One of the worst things that could happen in the winter is a heating system breakdown. We may not have below freezing temperatures in Palo Alto, but it can get very uncomfortable without heat. Depending on your heating system, it can take several days to complete repairs, especially if parts need to be ordered.
Take the preventive route by keeping up with scheduled heating maintenance. This enables your HVAC technician to spot minor problems and fix them before they develop into bigger ones. In addition to maintenance, have your air ducts professionally cleaned every three to five years.
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Don’t Shut Down Your Heating System
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2014 Pinot Noir Bradley Vineyard
We are proud to present our first bottling from the Bradley Vineyard in the Elkton sub AVA of the Umpqua Valley. A tribute to John Bradley and all that he has done to further the wine industry in the Umpqua Valley. Produced entirely from Wadensvil clone Pinot Noir planted in 1983 this wine exhibits an amazing richness of fruit and delicate earthiness. Fermented in concrete open tops and aged for 14months in 50% new French Oak. We recently enjoyed a mushroom ragu with this earthy Pinot.
When John Bradley moved to Elkton in 1971 he worked with childhood friend, Kit Burham as a contractor, building houses around Douglas County. When the recession hit in 1980, he took the opportunity to follow a long time dream of farming, and thus allowing him to stay closer to home in Elkton, with his growing family. With encouragement and support from long-time grape-grower, Ken Thomason, he began exploring a career in viticulture. After a research road trip through California with friend, Steve Wertz, and with financial support from his half-brother, Richard Bradley, John purchased property and grape vine cuttings to establish Bradley Vineyards in 1983. This was prior to the invention of grow tubes and drip irrigation, so it took a lot of hard work and care, to bring his vines to production.
For nearly 20 years, John grew grapes for winemakers around Oregon. He worked closely with other local growers such as Ken Thomason, Bob Bingham and Norm Bing, to establish Elkton as a renowned winegrowing region. When Ken Thomason’s kids opted out of inheriting his estate, he sold his vineyards to Mike and Vonnie Landt, who would later establish River’s Edge Winery in Elkton. While Mike and Vonnie wrapped up their prior careers in St. Louis and transitioned to Oregon, John managed and cared for their vines.
John is regularly named around Elkton as, ‘the reason I moved here.’ Winemakers, grape growers, even a local vineyard management company all give credit to John. In the early 2000s, Elkton began its expansion, with the establishment of River’s Edge Winery in 2000, Bradley Winery in 2001 and Brandborg Winery in 2002. John expanded Bradley Vineyards in 2001 by introducing the Pommard clone of Pinot Noir and Baco Noir. As more vines went in the ground around Elkton, John served as a consultant for new growers. He also worked closely with Terry Brandborg and Mike Landt to establish the Elkton Oregon AVA (approved in 2013).
In January 2014, John suddenly passed away due to a complication related to a recent cancer diagnosis. His wife, Bonnie, retired from a 38-year teaching career to manage Bradley Vineyards full-time. Shortly thereafter, daughter Rachel and son Tyler, moved back to Elkton to help. Together the Bradley family continues to care for the vines the way John did, providing some of the area’s most premium wine grapes.
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When it comes time to begin collecting Social Security, you want to maximize your benefits. But to do so, there are decisions to make and several moving parts to consider, such as: when to begin collecting, tax implications, spousal benefits, and how social security benefits relate to eligibility for Medicare and disability benefits.
Cash Management Alternatives to Business Bank Accounts: How to Maximize Yield & Minimize Risk in Today’s Climate
Businesses are naturally concerned about the safety and security of their own company deposits. But letting cash reserves sit in a savings account isn’t necessarily the best answer. To optimize your cash reserves, being aware of all available options is critical.
Estate planning is not only an integral part of our financial lives, it includes the legacy we wish to leave behind. Family business owners are uniquely positioned to pass down business, financial, and personal success through multiple generations, but many have little to no succession strategy in place.
Watch this webinar recording on Charitable Planning and Tax Strategies and learn how donors can maximize their impact while minimizing their tax burden.
While dealing with the emotional toll of losing a loved one, you also face the burden of managing the intricacies of the deceased’s affairs. The Family Love Letter reduces confusion, stress, and conflict. Learn more.
Managing a concentrated stock position involves more than just knowing a little about stocks and trying to predict the market. Concentrated stock can be accumulated in many ways and can bring with it risk hurtful to your portfolio, and to your pride. Having a plan in place customized to your unique stock concentration issues can help achieve your financial goals.
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In light of the cancelation of the July 2020 General Council Meeting due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Vice-Chairman, Treasurer, and Secretary have provided their quarterly reports from the second quarter of 2020 to the general membership through the PBPN Members Only Portal.
The documents consist of the same information as would be provided in a General Council Meeting and are considered confidential. They are located in the folder, “Tribal Council Updates – 2020.”
The PBPN Members Only Portal can also be accessed through the “Community” link on the home page.
The Members Only Portal portion of the website is maintained by the Tribal Council Secretary’s Office. For assistance contact, Lorrie Melchior, at firstname.lastname@example.org or 785-966-4032.
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PBT Group Careers
Be part of our team of Data Specialists and embark on a career of the future!
Job TitleData Architect
Employment TypeFull Time
Experience6 to 25 years
Job Published26 September 2023
Job Reference No.3279383214
PBT Group has an opportunity for a Data Architect for a project in Sandton, Johannesburg.
The scope for Data Architecture is to design and implement a well-structured and efficient data architecture that supports an organization's data needs and aligns with its overall business strategy. They play a critical role in enabling data-driven decision-making and fostering data-driven innovation within the organization.
- Data Integration and Management: Design, build and implement data integration solutions for the whole value chain. This may involve using Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Databricks, Azure Purview and other relevant Azure services.
- Data Platform Architecture: Provide new and improve upon existing data platform architectures and data patterns and maintain Data & Analytics Architecture Playbook.
- Real-time Data Processing: Design real-time data processing pipelines using technologies like Azure Stream Analytics.
- Data Analytics and Visualization: Design data analytics solutions using Azure services like Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI to provide meaningful insights to the company's decision-makers.
- Data Security and Compliance: Ensure the implementation of robust data security measures to protect all data.
- Automation Management: Design and Implement an automated and sustainable data orchestration and quality solution to ensure reliable and readily available data.
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Design data solutions with built-in redundancy and backup strategies to ensure data availability in case of any disruptions.
- Data Governance and Data Quality: Implementing data governance practices to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and consistency. Establishing and rolling-out data quality controls and monitoring mechanisms to maintain the integrity of critical data.
- Collaboration with Subject Matter Experts: Collaborate closely with subject matter experts to understand their unique data requirements and challenges. Collaborate with teams and customers to scope and deliver POCs and POVs.
- Project delivery: Contributing to the overall success of the assigned project by designing and implementing a well-structured, scalable, and efficient data architecture that meets the specific requirements of the project and the business objectives.
- Cost Optimization: Design cost-effective data architectures that enable high performance.
- Documentation and Knowledge Transfer: Proper documentation of the data architecture, design decisions, and implementation details. Improve on the existing standards for the entire data value chain.
- Scalable Data Architecture and data solutions, e.g. integrated Master Data Architecture.
- Optimization of the data management processes.
- Update Data and Analytics Architecture Playbook (Processes, Approach, Strategy Translation Approach, and other).
- PoC for data patterns and architecture as per the Innovation Backlog.
- Enable Data value and Data Literacy Initiatives, e.g. build an inventory of data needed to implement the approved architecture.
- Perform Knowledge Transfer to the identified stakeholders/ data citizens on a regular basis.
Skills and Experience Required:
- 5+ years of experience in data architecture and data modelling.
- Understanding and experience with data cloud computing technologies such as – Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, SQL, Azure Data Explorer, Power BI, PowerApps, Hadoop, YARN, Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Event Hub , Azure IoT hub, and Databricks.
- Experience with SQL and data visualization and report authoring skills.
- Ability to work and communicate effectively across disciplines and teams.
- Demonstratable understanding of data design fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, async programming patterns, object-oriented design, parallel programming).
- In-depth understanding of Business Data Architecture with Core ERP and OT Architectures.
- DevOps experience with GIT and CI/CD.
- TOGAF will be an advantage.
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
* In order to comply with the POPI Act, for future career opportunities, we require your permission to maintain your personal details on our database. By applying for the vacancy via this job ad, you give PBT your consent.
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Jacky Malgas, Business Development Manager at PBT Group
The arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in modern organisations, and as they embrace the push towards digital transformation, have inevitably resulted in discussions centred on computers potentially replacing the human workforce. But that does not have to be the case as there are complementary roles both can fulfil to unlock business value through data analysis.
In recent years, the pressure to implement innovative technology at companies irrespective of industry, sector and size have been immense. Often, this happens at the expense of conducting business use cases and seeing how best to integrate it into existing processes and structures.
For example, the rush to migrate to the public cloud has seen many companies reconsidering their approaches due to unforeseen expenses and the impact on data flow and protection within public cloud services. Now, the focus is on shifting towards hybrid environments where organisations can leverage the best of on-premise for sensitive information and cloud environments for collaboration and high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities.
It is in this latter area where AI and ML have really come to the fore.
Moving data into the cloud unlocks the ability to use these technologies to better analyse and understand the information they have at hand. With much of the business focus on developing more personalised and customed solutions, this analysis is critical to understanding what customers want and how best to give it to them.
In this era of augmented analytics, decision-makers will have to spend less money on analysing raw information with AI, ML, and automation playing an integral role in taking over this aspect. But with this, comes concerns that certain job functions at organisations will become obsolete.
This is especially the case when looking at the potential of AI to take over many menial administrative-heavy functions at businesses. Suddenly, those employees who have spent hours of their day doing the ‘heavy lifting’ are no longer required to do so.
New way of business
The reality is that the combination of AI, ML, automation, and human resources are bringing about significant changes at companies. But instead of being an either/or scenario, the analytical potential that these innovative technologies unlock can be a way to unlock more effective decision-making.
As it stands, even the most sophisticated automation through HPC still requires people to work optimally. No company can blindly use the likes of AI and ML instead of people resources and hope to deliver value. These technologies empower employees to become better at their jobs. By taking away much of the day-to-day admin functions, people can start focusing on delivering high cognitive value to the company.
Yes, AI can do things humans cannot do, but similarly, this technology cannot think like the human brain. Finding the right balance that is a purposeful fit for the business will require companies to redefine the roles of people at a time when automation becomes more commonplace.
Part of this entails upskilling and reskilling people for job functions that did not exist even a year ago. Companies can therefore look to create more jobs focused on this higher cognitive value than before. So, instead of replacing jobs, the technology can create an environment where more strategic value is gained from people than before.
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Professional Learning Advisory Council (PLAC)
Pillar IV of our Strategic Plan requires us to Build a professional culture of learning, effective feedback and growth for every employee, inspiring a standard of excellence for all. The Strategic Plan states, "The Pelham Public Schools can only meet its mission of inspiring a standard of excellence for all students when all employees, as lifelong learners, are also inspired to a standard of excellence. Through its commitment to a high standard of professional learning opportunities for all employees, the district will plan for the best use of talent, time and content in order to maximize the capacity of all adults who serve our pupils."
To operationalize this goal, the District formed a Professional Learning Advisory Council of teachers, administrators and a School Board liaison to ensure that we incorporate a shared decision making model in exploring and evaluating our professional practice as a learning organization. The Council meets several times a year to plan professional learning experiences, study its impact, provide support, and use data to inform our efforts. A major component of teacher and administrative professional development is our Professional Learning Communities model.
Please find the most recent version of our District's Professional Development Plan.
Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
We are excited to introduce our new structure for professional learning this school year that we hope will provide our teachers and administrators with engaging experiences to support and enhance their professional practice. Based on feedback and the recommendations from Pelham faculty and staff, we will begin our journey following a Professional Learning Community (PLC) model.
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"Camila?" Ms.Sally motioned for me to come over, "Yes Miss?" I looked at her. "Its time to pass up the doll...Stefan, you as well." I felt myself shudder by the slight, hesitantly, I picked up the doll and brought her over, being cautious not to rip her hair. I had totally ignored the fact that Stefan was to join me until I felt a dark gaze firing itself into my back. I lifted my head to see eye to ey— uh, eye to.... glasses...? I dont know.. anyways, I just don't get it, it was like my eyes were playing tricks on me, he was smiling?? It wasnt very noticeable but I could tell I suppose. Just as we handed over our dolls the bell rang for lunch. I flung my hands in the air and chuckled to myself, "Lunch!" and headed out with Duane and Stefan.
We were all sat in what we presumed as a circle, doing our own little things and chatting between one another. A few girls walked by us and kept laughing. "Hey, what's so funny?" I asked them, they glared at me, flipping their hair, "ugh, why do YOU care?" A girl with light nutmeg hair and freckles objected, "Because you're laughing at us..?" I stated. She glared at me, "Who said we were laughing at you??" She mocked in a sarcastic tone, not wanting to push it, I stayed silent. The girl looked back to her friends, draping her backpack over her shoulder and turning to walk off. "Bylat." She murmured on her way out, What a— "Youre the Bylat." I shot, she spun around as if to release her 'ultimate insult' but got stuck and walked back in shame.
I smirked, I won! Just then, a prefect came up to our group and handed us flyers. "What's this shit??" Brendan asked excitedly, "Not sure.." Prudence replied, I snatched a glance, it wasn't that difficult to miss the huge: 'COMPETITION' sign but anyways, here's what it said:
Day after tomorrow we shall be holding a COMPETITION for the following activities;
-Health (In regards to mental health)
Those students who would like to participate in any of the following tasks please report to your respective teachers. '
"Competition!" I chanted enthusiastically, startling all but one. "I'm not going." Duane concluded immediately, we all stared at him, he's crazy! Turning down an opportunity like this?! "You're mad." Alex stated, he shook his head, "I wanna go to the library is all." He sighed, the remainder of us just nodded sadly and headed off to our teachers.
I went to Ms.Zamien. "Ms. Can I join this?" I point to the 'Mental Health' category and she nodded, ushering me to run off and have fun. "Good Luck!" She announced as I sped off. We all met back to find out that Duane had just left, we were pissed, yeah, but hey, we were WAY more excited in this than anything else at the moment. I peered into Prudence's paper to see what she had chosen, Ah? She chose 'Sports' 'I chose Academics' Stefan thought, Mental Health. I responded and he nodded, "Prudence!!! What did ya take?!?" Brendan shouted, we all laughed, "Spo—" "ME TOOOOOO!!!" We laughed even harder if possible.
Alex tapped my shoulder, "Whatcha take Cam?" He asked, "Mental Health." He showed me his palm and I laughed, "I said Health, not Palm Reading." He shot me an: 'are you serious' face and I smiled, high-fiving him and letting the new topic die down into our usual topics.ns 184.108.40.206da2
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Can felines consume dietary yeast? You could have this believed if your pet cat pleads for a preference while you’re utilizing dietary yeast to change cheese as component of a vegan dish. If human beings can consume dietary yeast, can felines securely consume it as well?
The brief response is of course, felines can consume dietary yeast. In reality, there are health and wellness advantages that dietary yeast can attend to a feline. In some instances, dietary yeast has actually also been made use of to urge choosy eater felines to complete their routine dishes!
However, you have to keep in mind that this is not the exact same yeast you make use of in bread or increasing dough dishes. That sort of yeast is extremely harmful for felines, and also they must never ever consume it
As constantly, you have to ask your routine veterinarian prior to sharing any kind of human food with your favored cat, consisting of dietary yeast. Here’s what you require to learn about dietary yeast and also felines.
How Is Nutritional Yeast Good For Cats?
As a food supplement, dietary yeast is admired for having a high quantity of B vitamins in addition to being a total healthy protein.
When it involves B vitamins, these can assist to enhance the problem of your pet cat’s skin and also layer.
Nutritional yeast can likewise supply a bit of a power increase for your pet cat. In some instances, it has actually been revealed to have a favorable result on a pet cat’s body immune system.
If you locate on your own dealing with a picky feline that appears to transform their nose up at their routine food, you can likewise attempt spraying a little dietary yeast right into their dishes. The glutamic acid in the dietary yeast can assist make the meals a lot more tasty to a feline.
How Can I Safely Give Nutritional Yeast To My Cat?
You can purchase dietary yeast at the majority of organic food shops and also lots of grocery stores. But it’s constantly recommended to talk to your vet initially and also choose a brand name that they suggest.
When it involves offering dietary yeast to your pet cat securely, you’ll intend to begin tiny. A quarter of a tsp can be sufficient to start with. Again, it’s constantly wise to talk to your veterinarian prior to choosing the specific quantity of human food that you’ll be offering to your pet cat.
As a last tip, dietary yeast is various from the raw yeast that you would certainly make use of when making bread or pizza doughs. While that yeast can be extremely harmful for felines, dietary yeast is risk-free for felines.
Has your pet cat established a preference for dietary yeast? How do you offer it to your cat? Tell all of us regarding it in the remarks area listed below!
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Rise and grind! I like taking courses, both in-person and also sometimes online. I've been picking away at a few...
I saw a post in the NSFA members group that TRX was doing free online trainings. 6 hours in a zoom call was grueling and I'm not sure if I will ever teach TRX or not, but one facility I sometimes teach at has a frame set up with a few suspension trainers. If nothing else I'm looking forward to looking super skilled in my own gym workouts.
This one I'm a little more excited for- I've really been enjoying kettlebell training and I'm actually quite pleased with this online certification from Dragon Door. This certificate is for the course only (which I did back in January), I'm still working on my final test video which I originally submitted in March because the master trainer asked me to re-film and re-submit. I'm trying to action her corrections as precisely as possible- I want to make sure my own skills are 100% on point. I don't know if I will ever have the opportunity to teach kettlebell programs (I don't have a class set of bells) but someday I would love to at least include it in something else I do.
Overall I think that continuing education is really important for all fitness instructors, even if they don't directly teach the specific thing they went on a course for. I still mostly teach primarily my Bellyfit and barre fitness classes, but I always get something from these continuing education opportunities. TRX specifically gave me some great cueing strategies for plank! I've taught plank for so long in my group exercise classes and was always using the same old cues. I'm hoping what I've learned will help somebody in my class sometime.
Speaking of classes, my online Zoom classes start this week! Bellyfit on Tuesday at 8:30pm, Barre fitness on Thursday at 8:30pm, and Bellyfit Flow Friday at 12:15pm (lunchtime class). $5 or pay what you can! email me at email@example.com to register for the class or classes of your choice and get on the list.
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- Practical Design: This pet shower sprinkler has curved handle intimate anti-slip design for easy mastery and long-term use.Press one key to stop water,just press the switch lightly, the water can be switched freely，a full-coverage, powerful spray that quickly rinses away dirt, shampoo, and suds.
- Multifunctional Design: Combines massage, beauty, bath,it is made of high quality silicone and ABS environmental friendly materials, massage and hair removal, safe and comfortable.Long silicone massage needle will not scratch your pet.
- Easy Installation: International standard connector of sprayer,can universal fit with standard faucet hose can connect easily to the shower hose for indoor or garden use without complicated install.
- Save Time and Water: This showerhead greatly reduces water and shampoo consumption compared to standard bathing which better controlling bath time . Rubber teeth on brush not only provide a deep clean but can help sooth your dog while brushing and bathing simultaneously.
- Applicable and Warranty: Suitable for long, medium, short haired dogs and cats and other pets with hair.Let pets enjoy bath more. We provide 180- days of non-human damage unconditional return service.
- Material: High quality silicone and ABS environmental friendly materials.
- Color: Blue, gray, green.
1x Pet Combing Shower Sprayer
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Penn State Press Release
[This press release appeared in Issue 98 (Spring, 2007) of the PENNSYLVANIA HOMESCHOOLERS® newsletter.]
February 2, 2007 -- Penn State Press Release:
SCHOLARSHIP TO BENEFIT HOMESCHOOLED STUDENTS ENDOWED AT PENN STATE
University Park, Pa. - Penn State alumni George and Ann E. Kemp, of White Oak, have pledged $50,000 to create an undergraduate scholarship to benefit students in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The George R. and Ann E. Kemp Scholarship will support academically promising undergraduates, with first preference given to students College-wide who were home-schooled. If none are eligible, preference will be given to students in the School of Forest Resources.
According to the donors, they were inspired to create this scholarship through interactions with families who have chosen to school their children in the home as well as their own personal experience.
“Families who home-school are often at a financial disadvantage,” George Kemp said, “for they sacrifice one parent’s income in order to accomplish their desired educational goals for their children.”
Robert D. Steele, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences, said, “We are excited about the Kemps foresight in creating this scholarship. This is the first scholarship at Penn State focused on this particular group, and we are hopeful that it will help us increase the enrollment of home-schooled students in our College.”
The Kemps met while students at the University. Ann began her studies at Penn State Altoona, completed her degree in elementary education in 1953, and taught in the primary grades for 20 years. George started at Penn State Mont Alto and received a bachelor’s degree in forestry. He later earned a civil engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University and opened The Kemp Group, which has provided land planning, civil engineering and landscape design services for more than four decades. The Kemps also founded and operated a Christian bookstore, The Fishers of Men, for 28 years.
The Kemps are long-time Penn State volunteers and have a wide range of interests, including the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Greater Allegheny and Mont Alto campuses. George is president of the College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society and a member of the Greater Allegheny campus’ advisory board. The couple also serve on committees and as volunteer ambassadors at University events.
The couple took advantage of recent tax legislation in making their gift. “Ann and I initially considered supporting Penn State through our estate,” said George Kemp, “but the new Pension Protection Act allowed us to make our gift now and help students during our lifetimes.” The Pension Protection Act of 2006 allows donors to make tax-free withdrawals from a traditional or Roth Individual Retirement Account (IRA) directly to a qualified charity.
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8 Martinis with a twist
Yes of course you should never really drink more than two, but, as our book Spirited makes clear, there’s a lot of great variations on this classic to sample
A guy walks into a bar and orders, well... what? Our new book, Spirited, proves there is an awful lot to choose from. Subtitled Cocktails from Around the World, the book is a truly global overview of cocktail recipes, from the classic to the cutting-edge. Offering everything from advice on how to make syrups, through to insight into the origins of gin and tonic, the right way to stock a home bar, and the real story behind the Harvey Wallbanger, the book proves that a fully comprehensive bar menu is near endless.
Take for example the Martini . A cocktail novice might not be aware that there’s a great range of variation within even this simple drink. As Spirited’s author Adrienne Stillman writes, “Perhaps the single most iconic cocktail, the Martini has its roots in another famous cocktail: the Manhattan. Pre-Prohibition, you were as likely to encounter a Sweet Martini (with sweet vermouth), but after Prohibition the Martini got drier until finally it had little if any vermouth. The original Martini was made with gin, but now vodka is equally common. It should always be stirred, not shaken.”
However, the drink’s varieties don’t end there. If you want to try the missing link between the Martini and its predecessor order a Martinez , “the bridge cocktail between the Manhattan and the Martini,” writes Stillman. “The first mention of it (in 1894) describes it as a Manhattan with gin—most likely Old Tom or even genever [Dutch gin], which were both much more common in the late 1870s in New York. The town of Martinez near San Francisco claims it as its own creation, but this is dubious at best. There are many variations of this cocktail and it lends itself to experimentation.
There’s also the Gibson , “a Martini with a cocktail onion garnish. One story goes that it was created by a teetotaler American diplomat. In order to not seem unsociable at parties, he would have the bartender serve him water in a Martini glass, the onion serving to differentiate his drink from others.”
After something stronger? Try a__ Dukes Martini__ , an “iconic Martini served at London’s Dukes Hotel, once a favorite haunt of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. In the mid 1980s, former head bartender Salvatore Calabrese pioneered the method of freezing the gin in advance, thereby eliminating the need to chill it with ice. This is an extremely potent drink and indeed at Dukes there is a two-drink maximum per guest.”
You could also pick yourself up with a nice__ Espresso Martini__ . “Created by Dick Bradsell in the 1980s in London for a model who requested a drink that, according to Bradsell, would ‘wake me up, then fuck me up.’ A freshly made espresso is essential to the textured froth of this drink.”
For a more decadent take (though actually quite sweet and not that alcoholic) try a__ Pornstar Martini,__ “a sensation in London in the early 2000s when created by bartender Douglas Ankrah at Townhouse. Douglas described it as “pure indulgence, sexy, fun and evocative”
To see in a new day, knock back a Breakfast Martini , “A modern classic created by Italian bartender Salvatore Calabrese at The Lanesborough in London in the 1990s, inspired by his breakfast of marmalade on toast.”
Or to truly round off a night, order an Obituary , an American confection, that is a “Martini twist with a dash of absinthe,” writes Stillman, “this cocktail is also known as the Third Degree.”
For more on all these, including comprehensive recipes, order a copy of Spirited here, the only serious drinking companion you’ll ever need.
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SLN-124 is under clinical development by Silence Therapeutics and currently in Phase I for Beta Thalassaemia. According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Beta Thalassaemia have an 89% phase transition success rate (PTSR) indication benchmark for progressing into Phase II. GlobalData’s report assesses how SLN-124’s drug-specific PTSR and Likelihood of Approval (LoA) scores compare to the indication benchmarks. Buy the report here.
GlobalData tracks drug-specific phase transition and likelihood of approval scores, in addition to indication benchmarks based off 18 years of historical drug development data. Attributes of the drug, company and its clinical trials play a fundamental role in drug-specific PTSR and likelihood of approval.
Silence Therapeutics overview
Silence Therapeutics, formerly SR Pharma plc is a developer of therapeutics that channels gene silencing to cure life-threatening diseases. The company’s pipeline products include SLN124, and SLN360. Its SLN360 is developed for the treatment of cardiovascular disease with high Lp(a) in risk of heart disease and heart stroke, and SLN124 for e-Thalassaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Silence Therapeutics also provides RNA interface that include short interfering RNA (siRNA) and messenger RNAs (mRNA). The company collaborates with pharmaceutical, biotechnology companies and academic research institutions. It operates in Germany, the US, and the UK. Silence Thrapeutics is headquartered in London, Greater London, the UK.
For a complete picture of SLN-124’s drug-specific PTSR and LoA scores, buy the report here.
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The Pharma’s Almanac editorial team is very excited to present our Q3 digital issue, which features new content from our team and our colleagues at Nice Insight on a range of trending topics and from some truly remarkable subject matter experts from across the pharma/biopharma ecosystem, including drug discovery and development companies, life science industrials, technology providers, consultants, and contract development and manufacturing organizations. The featured articles address topics that span the biopharmaceutical value chain, threaded throughout with reminders to always consider the patient, throughout discovery, formulation, manufacturing, and beyond.
Tonia Becker of Nice Insight discusses how Vernal Biosciences is leading innovation in end-to-end mRNA manufacture from development to clinical, with plans to expand capabilities to support commercial manufacturing and drive discovery.
Wayne Camarco and Donald Loveday discuss SPI Pharma’s innovative taste-masking technology to encapsulate API particles, the company’s relaunched Actimask® taste-masked ibuprofen product, and how their taste-masking formulation development services support product launches worldwide.
Avid Bioservices' Elie Hanania, Ph.D., and Tatiana Mello explain the advantages of risk-based process optimization in viral vector manufacturing.
Pierre Catignol and Huisub Lim of Samsung Biologics discuss how the company is applying the Power of One to mRNA, investing in a one-stop solution to facilitate the advance of customer mRNA molecules from the clinic to commercialization, including product and process development and characterization.
Pharma's Almanac's David Alvaro, Ph.D., explores the significant challenges presented by the spread of antibiotic resistance and ongoing advances in development and clinical research to develop new, novel antibiotics.
Cynthia Challener of Pharma's Almanac explores the growth and innovation in the field of antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapy.
Nice Insight's James Grote provides an updated snapshot of the dynamics in the cell and gene therapy market.
Pharma's Almanac's Cynthia Challener, Ph.D., discusses the current dynamics in the mRNA sector, where significant interest and enthusiasm are tempered with uncertainty.
Pharma's Almanac's David Alvaro re-examines the promise of precision and personalized medicine, exploring the progress to date and the work that remains to be done.
Pharma's Almanac's Danielle Alvarez discusses some of the most pressing current challenges in the pharmaceutical supply chain and suggests solutions to overcome the disruptions.
Pharma's Almanac's David Alvaro explores the pharma industry's progress toward the Pharma 4.0 paradigm and the successful application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other big data approaches in transforming the industry.
In this Pharma’s Almanac roundtable, a panel of industry leaders explore the key indicators that they look at to predict the future direction of the pharmaceutical industry.
In this Pharma's Almanac roundtable, a panel of SMEs discuss their plans to build more sustainable business practices in the coming years.
In this Q&A, MaxCyte's Chief Scientific Officer Cenk Sumen discusses how extending the use of transient protein expression to later in development can allow developers to fail fast and confidently, thus accelerating program success.
OneStudyTeam, a newly formed part of the Reify Health family, presents its cloud-based platform, StudyTeam. The company explains how StudyTeam brings the workflows of key clinical trial stakeholders onto a common platform and the potential of this technology to improve clinical trial enrollment.
MilliporeSigma’s Stacy Shollenberger explains why Raman spectroscopy is particularly attractive as a process analytical technology (PAT) and discusses the significant advantages that it provides in optimizing product quality and monitoring molecular processes.
Gérard Klop and Marcos Gallego Llorente of Vintura discuss untapped opportunities for pharma companies to embed themselves into digital health delivery via remote and hybrid care, smart devices and diagnostic tools, and other patient-centric solutions.
Brian O’Mara, Senior Director of Manufacturing Sciences and Technology at Scorpion Biological Services, discusses the U.S. biodefense efforts supported by the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and the broad expertise that makes Scorpion Biological Services an ideal biodefense supplier to the SNS.
Muctarr Sesay and Andrew Majdoch discuss how GBI's end-to-end capabilities, from RCBs to manufacturing, including fill/finish and stability studies help clients simplify the development process and reduce both costs and project timelines.
Asymchem's Mark McLaws, James Gage, and Stephen Hu explain Asymchem's strategy as an early adopter of new technologies at the forefront of practical manufacturing advances and how the company makes prophetic investments in capabilities even before clients inquire about them.
In this Q&A, a panel of experts from Wheeler Bio and from their design–build partner CRB discuss the Pharma 4.0 model and their collaboration to advance it to build a transformative new facility.
Kirstie Turner of Page & Page and Partners shares ways to improve diversity and inclusion in patient engagement focused around authentically, consistently, and honestly embedding patient centricity into your company’s DNA.
Andrea Small-Howard, Ph.D. discusses how Gb Sciences' AI-enabled platform mines plant species for new drug molecules and mixtures that can serve as therapeutic alternatives to opioids for the treatment of chronic pain.
Ameena Pathan of That’s Nice breaks down the cosmeceutical sector, exploring the regulatory complexity and the implications of the sector’s meteoric growth and tackling the biggest question: how can cosmeceuticals deliver on the promises made to consumers?
GBI's CSO Muctarr Sesay, Ph.D., discusses how theranostic bioconjugates work, their significant market potential, and challenges and their solutions during development and manufacturing.
In this Q&A, Melanie Nelson, Ph.D., Senior Solutions Architect at Dotmatics, discusses the Small Molecule Drug Discovery Solution the company developed to help enhance insights and innovation, improve productivity and collaboration, and drive operational efficiency during drug discovery.
Na Li, Ph.D., of Sino Biological and Yue Liu, Ph.D., of Ab Studio Inc. discuss how their companies are leveraging artificial intelligence, computer-aided antibody design, and traditional antibody development technologies to accelerate the development and manufacture of multispecific antibody candidates.
Vectron Biosolutions CEO Trond Erik Vee Aune, Ph.D., discusses the exclusive licenses that Vectron currently grants to customers for the specific E. coli strains developed for their programs and how the company will soon offer customers the option of patenting the strains for further protection.
Raj Indupuri, CEO of clinical data software and services provider eClinical Solutions, discusses evolving challenges with clinical trial data, the solutions the company offers, and his insights into the future of interoperable digital systems in pharma.
In this Q&A, TC Biopharm Chief Executive Officer Bryan Kobel discusses the tremendous potential of gamma delta T cells and the approach TC is taking to their development.
Dynamk Capital's Reinhard Vogt discusses the strong growth prospects for life science industrials and the dynamics of the market.
Remco Munnik of Iperion - a Deloitte business discusses the importance of streamlining electronic documentation practices for medical products in the EU in this article, adapted from his talk at Amplexor Life Sciences' BE THE EXPERT 2022 conference.
Rolf Hansen, Ph.D., Chris Berridge, and Donald Singer of Ecolab discuss contamination concerns in biomanufacturing and contamination control strategies.
Susan Darling and Quincy Mehta of SCIEX discuss how a new, fit-for-purpose RNA analysis kit is helping researchers overcome some of the key development hurdles for RNA therapeutics.
Dr. Thierry Dietrich, Ph.D., of pharm@dviser discusses ensuring regulatory compliance at different levels of cloud use in this article, adapted from his talk at Amplexor Life Sciences’ BE THE EXPERT 2022 conference.
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An Important Lesson from HBO’s Silicon Valley
Trivia time: You’re Javeed from the Season 2 premiere of HBO’s wildly popular show Silicon Valley. You just sold your company for $200 million. How much of that do you take home? Can you say money machine?
Well, Javeed was a startup CEO that got a bit greedy in the negotiation of his Series A investment — angling for the largest amount of money at the highest possible valuation, which also means the highest expectations.
In Javeed’s case, those expectations were not met. He was fired as CEO when the company spent the money it raised and then had to consider a dreaded “down round.”
So, back to our question: How much of that sweet, sweet moolah did Javeed see? $0. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Why? Because he agreed to a new vesting schedule with the rest of the deal terms. As he put it in the show, “I had a reverse vest with no triggers, then I lost all my shares when they fired me.” The game changed. Instead of this, Javeed looked like this.
When I previously wrote for BizPhilly about how to protect yourself in a business marriage with vesting, or earning equity over time, I praised the concept for its many virtues. Vesting agreements are a great idea generally, but things aren’t all peaches and cream — you should actually read them and understand the terms.
What happens if you don’t? You could end up like Javeed.
In this case, the additional terms were “reverse vesting” and “without triggers.”
Reverse vesting is reasonably common when companies raise money from venture capital firms. It means that all or some of the shares you earned in your vesting schedule up to the funding are given back and you must re-earn them over time.
Does that make sense? If you’re a venture capitalist, absolutely. If a startup founder has been working on his or her idea for three years and is raising more capital, that VC is going to want to make sure the founder stays motivated for more than a year.
That hurts, but the bigger problem might be the “no triggers” instead of single or double triggers. No, I don’t mean gun triggers like these. Triggers are the right to speed up vesting when certain events happen, like the sale of the company. Single trigger acceleration is pretty common, and means that your equity gets sped up on the sale of the company or “change in control.” A double trigger acceleration clause means that two events need to happen — like both the sale of the company and being fired — in a specified period of time to trigger the clause.
Either of those triggers could have make Javeed a millionaire, making it rain. Instead, he’s left freaking out in a bar when he realizes that there are other negotiable terms outside of the amount of money that you raise. Make sure you understand the additional terms and make sure that vesting continues to do what it is supposed to — incentivize the team to continue to work together, not create a windfall for others.
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How to Pick a Phlebotomy Training Course near Pacific Grove California
Picking the ideal phlebotomy school near Pacific Grove CA is a critical initial step toward a gratifying career as a phlebotomist. It may seem like a difficult task to evaluate and compare all of the school options that are accessible to you. Nevertheless it’s important that you do your due diligence to ensure that you receive a superior education. In fact, a large number of students start the process by looking at two of the qualifiers that first come to mind, which are location and cost. An additional option you may consider is whether to attend classes online or commute to a nearby campus. We’ll discuss a bit more about online schools later in this article. What you need to keep in mind is that there is a lot more to checking out phlebotomy training programs than finding the cheapest or the closest one. Other variables including accreditation and reputation are also significant considerations and must be part of your decision process as well. Toward that end, we will supply a list of questions that you should ask each of the phlebotomy schools you are assessing to help you pick the right one for you. But before we do that, let’s cover what a phlebotomist is and does, and afterwards continue our conversation about online schools.
Phlebotomist Job Summary
A phlebotomist, or phlebotomy technician, draws blood from patients. While that is their principal task, there is actually far more to their job description. Prior to collecting a blood sample, a phlebotomist must confirm that the instruments being utilized are sterile and single use only. After collection, the sample has to be accurately labeled with the patient’s information. Afterward, paperwork must be correctly completed in order to track the sample from the point of collection through the lab screening process. The phlebotomist then delivers the blood to either an an outside lab facility or an in-house lab where it can be screened for such things as pregnancy, infectious diseases or blood type. A number of phlebotomists in fact work in Pacific Grove CA laboratories and are in charge of making sure that samples are tested correctly utilizing the strictest quality assurance procedures. And if those weren’t sufficient responsibilities, they might be asked to train other phlebotomists in the drawing, delivery and follow-up process.
Where are Phlebotomy Techs Employed?
The quickest answer is wherever they treat patients. Their work places are numerous and diverse, including Pacific Grove CA medical clinics, hospitals, long-term care facilities, or blood banks. They can be assigned to collect blood samples from patients of all ages, from babies or young children to senior citizens. A number of phlebotomy techs, depending on their training and their practice, specialize in drawing samples from a particular type of patient. For example, those working in an assisted living facility or nursing home would only be collecting blood from older patients. If they are working in a maternity ward, they would be drawing blood from newborns and mothers solely. On the other hand, phlebotomists working in a general hospital environment would be drawing samples from a wide range of patients and would collect samples from different patients every day.
Phlebotomy Training, Certification and Licensing
There are primarily two types of programs that furnish phlebotomy training, which are degree and certificate programs. The certificate program generally takes less than a year to complete and provides a general education as well as the training on how to draw blood. It provides the quickest method to becoming a phlebotomist. An Associate of Science Degree in Clinical Laboratory Science, even though it’s not exclusively a phlebotomy degree, will incorporate training to become a phlebotomy tech. Available at junior and community colleges, they normally take 2 years to finish. Bachelor’s Degrees are not as accessible and as a 4 year program offer a more extensive background in lab sciences. When you have completed your training, you will probably want to get certified. While not mandated in most states, many Pacific Grove CA employers require certification before employing technicians. A few of the primary certifying organizations include:
- National Phlebotomy Association
- National Healthcareer Association (NHA)
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
- American Medical Technologists (AMT)
There are a few states that do call for certification in order to practice as a phlebotomy tech, such as Nevada and California. California and a few other states even require licensing. So it’s imperative that you select a phlebotomy training program that not only offers a quality education, but also preps you for any certification or licensing exams that you are required or elect to take.
Online Phlebotomist Training
To begin with, let’s dispel one possible misconception. You can’t obtain all of your phlebotomy training online. A good part of the program of studies will be practical training and it will be carried out either in an approved healthcare facility or an on-campus lab. Numerous courses also require completion of an internship prior to graduation. However since the non-practical portion of the training can be attended online, it can be a more convenient alternative for some Pacific Grove CA students. As an additional benefit, a number of online schools are less expensive than their on-campus competitors. And some expenses, such as those for textbooks or commuting, may be lessened as well. Just make certain that the online phlebotomy program you enroll in is accredited by a national or regional accrediting organization (more on accreditation later). With both the comprehensive online and clinical training, you can receive a premium education with this method of learning. If you are dedicated enough to learn at home, then attaining your certificate or degree online may be the ideal option for you.
Topics to Ask Phlebotomy Schools
Now that you have a basic idea about what it takes to become a phlebotomy tech, it’s time to start your due diligence process. You might have already selected the type of program you intend to enroll in, whether it be for a degree or a certificate. As we mentioned earlier, the location of the school is important if you will be commuting from Pacific Grove CA in addition to the cost of tuition. Maybe you have opted to enroll in an accredited online phlebotomist school. All of these decisions are an important part of the procedure for picking a phlebotomy program or school. But they are not the only concerns when making your decision. Following are a few questions that you need to ask about each of the colleges you are reviewing prior to making your final selection.
Is the Phlebotomist Program State Specific? As mentioned previously, each state has its own regulations for practicing as a phlebotomy technician. Some states call for certification, while a few others require licensing. Every state has its own requirement regarding the minimum hours of practical training performed before working as a phlebotomist. Consequently, you might need to pass a State Board, certification or licensing examination. Therefore it’s extremely important to enroll in a phlebotomist program that meets the state specific requirements for California or the state where you will be working and preps you for all exams you may be required to take.
Is the College Accredited? The phlebotomy school and program you pick should be accredited by a highly regarded national or regional accrediting agency, such as the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS). There are a number of benefits to graduating from an accredited school in addition to a guarantee of a superior education. First, if your program has not received accreditation, you will not qualify to sit for a certification exam administered by any of the earlier listed certifying organizations. Also, accreditation will help in obtaining loans or financial assistance, which are typically not available for non-accredited programs. Finally, earning a certificate or a degree from an accredited college can make you more attractive to potential employers in the Pacific Grove CA job market.
What is the Program’s Ranking? In many states there is little or no regulation of phlebotomist colleges, so there are some that are not of the highest quality. So in addition to accreditation, it’s important to check out the reputations of all colleges you are looking at. You can begin by requesting references from the schools from employers where they place their graduates as part of their job assistance program. You can screen internet school reviews and rating services and ask the accrediting agencies for their reviews as well. You can also talk to some Pacific Grove CA hospitals or clinics that you might be interested in working for and ask if they can offer any recommendations. As a closing thought, you can check with the California school licensing authority and ask if any complaints have been submitted or if the colleges are in total compliance.
Is Enough Training Provided? To begin with, contact the state regulator where you will be practicing to find out if there are any minimum requirements for the length of training, both clinical and classroom. At a minimum, any phlebotomist program that you are looking at should provide no less than 40 hours of classroom training (the majority require 120) and 120 hours of practical training. Anything less than these minimums might signify that the program is not expansive enough to offer adequate training.
Are Internship Programs Sponsored? Ask the colleges you are reviewing if they have an internship program in collaboration with local medical facilities. They are the optimal means to obtain hands-on clinical training typically not provided on campus. As an additional benefit, internships can assist students develop relationships within the local Pacific Grove CA medical community. And they look good on resumes also.
Is Job Placement Support Offered? Landing your first phlebotomy position will be a lot easier with the support of a job placement program. Find out if the schools you are looking at offer assistance and what their job placement percentage is. If a college has a high rate, signifying they place most of their students in positions, it’s an indication that the college has both a good reputation along with an extensive network of professional contacts within the Pacific Grove CA health care community.
Are Class Times Compatible With Your Schedule? And last, it’s critical to verify that the final program you select provides classes at times that will accommodate your hectic lifestyle. This is particularly important if you decide to continue working while going to college. If you need to go to classes at night or on weekends near Pacific Grove CA, make certain they are available at those times. Additionally, if you can only attend part-time, verify it is an option as well. Even if you have decided to study online, with the clinical training requirement, make certain those hours can also be fulfilled within your schedule. And find out what the make-up protocol is should you have to miss any classes due to illness or emergencies.
Enrolling in Phlebotomy School near Pacific Grove California?
If you have decided to enroll in a Phlebotomy Training Program in the Pacific Grove CA area, following is some interesting and perhaps useful information about the location of your future school campus.
Pacific Grove, California
Pacific Grove is a coastal city in Monterey County, California in the United States. The United States Census Bureau estimated its 2013 population at 15,504. Pacific Grove is located between Point Pinos and Monterey.
Pacific Grove is known for its Victorian homes, Asilomar State Beach, and is also known as "Butterfly Town U.S.A." for the annual migration of the monarch butterflies. The city is endowed with more historical houses per capita than anywhere else in California. Seventy-five percent of the homes in Pacific Grove are considered historical. Some of them have been turned into bed and breakfast inns.
The city is also known as the location of the Point Pinos Lighthouse, the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the West Coast. The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History and Pacific Grove Art Center are located in the historic downtown. Pacific Grove was also the main filming location for Roger Spottiswoode's 1989 film Turner & Hooch , A Summer Place, starring Sandra Dee and the series Big Little Lies.
Select the Ideal Phlebotomist Program near Pacific Grove CA
Making sure that you enroll in the right phlebotomy training is a critical first step toward your success in this fulfilling healthcare field. As we have covered in this article, there are multiple factors that go into the selection of a premium school. Phlebotomist training programs are offered in a wide range of academic institutions, such as junior or community colleges, vocational schools, and colleges and universities that provide an extensive array of programs in medical care and health sciences. Course offerings can differ somewhat from state to state as each state has its own mandates when it comes to phlebotomist training, licensing and certification. The most important point is that you must thoroughly evaluate and compare each college prior to making your final selection. By asking the questions that we have provided, you will be able to narrow down your options so that you can pick the ideal school for you. And with the proper training, you can accomplish your goal of becoming a phlebotomy technician in Pacific Grove CA.
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In the book Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson (2006), Silver is a plucky 11-year-old whose parents and sister vanished four years ago. She’s being cared for by a selfish mean woman in the family mansion, Tanglewreck, one of those old English manor houses with a lot of mysteries to it.
Strange disturbances start happening. A wooly mammoth shows up on the banks of the Thames. A school bus full of children vanishes. Time seems to be going backwards and forwards. People are afraid. Something is clearly not right.
When a mysterious alchemist invites Silver and her guardian to his house in London, she finds that he believes she is the person spoken of in a prophecy about a missing clock with power over time itself. He wants her to find the clock–and then hand it over to him. A lot of unexpected plot twists later, I can definitely say the author clearly is having a lot of fun with multiverse theory and quantum physics paradoxes, including Schroedinger’s Cat.
I enjoyed many things about this story, especially the occasionally amusing bad guys and the heroine’s character journey.
However, I don’t recommend that a religious parent let their child read it without also having the parent read it and discuss it. The author imbues objects, like a house and a clock, with powers that sound to me like they belong to divinity. I do wonder where the author thinks the prophecy about the heroine comes from. I guess it’s a random prophecy.
I’ll give it four stars. * * * *
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The two-state solution is an excellent solution. Two nations share one land — what would be more correct and just than to divide that land between them?
Ever since the Partition Plan was proposed by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) and was accepted by a majority in the UN General Assembly on November 29, 1947, that logic has guided most of the states of the world, most Palestinians and most Israelis. There are very few political positions that have gained such an absolute majority in the world. From the United States to Russia, from China to Australia, via the African and Asian continents, it is unanimous.
For many years this was also a possible and practical solution. In the territories that were occupied in 1967, there were only a few thousand settlers, who would not pose a genuine obstacle to that solution. Within the two nations there evolved a majority in support of that solution. The world recognized it, and everyone appeared to be ready to apply it. Even the most right-wing nationalistic prime minister in the history of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, declared that he supported the solution. This was also reflected in most of the public opinion polls within the two nations.
But as the years passed, not a single Israeli prime minister worked seriously to realize the solution — not a single one, due either to fears and hesitations or to an intention to gain time in order to reinforce the occupation and to make it permanent. Everyone was waiting for Godot. And Godot never arrived. And he will not come anymore. Meanwhile the diplomatic and political systems were gaining time and carrying out a series of unproductive and worthless negotiations, proposing repetitious peace plans which were buried in dust-filled drawers. Even the 1993 Oslo Accords, the greatest promise in the history of the conflict, turned out to be an empty promise. All the while, there were those who wasted no time and acted energetically and with determination to prevent any possibility of establishing a Palestinian state. The settlers did not waste one minute: They knew that they had to act very quickly in order to achieve their goal.
The Settlers Have Won
Fifty-two years after the occupation of 1967, they have realized their goal in its entirety. Their victory is complete. The settlers have won. The time has arrived to admit it. With the aid of all of the Israeli governments who gave in to the craziness and arm-twisting of the settlers, and with the aid of the unbelievable indifference of Israeli public opinion, together with the weakness of the left and the collapse of the peace camp after the second intifada, combined with the lack of action on the part of the international community, the settler movement grew and gained strength. The settler population has tripled since the Oslo Accords were signed. It has now reached a critical mass, its declared goal, after which there is no turning back. There is no need to have a million settlers; the 800,000 we have today including East Jerusalem are enough to change the reality on the ground and make it irreversible.
The next step must be to recognize the new reality that’s been created, understand that it is irreversible and draw the necessary political conclusions from that. This process has already begun, even though it is only at the very beginning. Very few in Israel and the world will admit it, but quite a few are beginning to understand that something has happened. But they refuse to admit that this necessitates change, because the repercussions are not simple and are even fateful. However, the one-state solution is no longer taboo in Israel. It has become permissible to refer to it. In addition, a recent opinion poll published in Haaretz showed that 19% of Israelis support it. That’s a dramatic development. It’s not easy to abandon a dream that one has had for dozens of years. It is difficult and painful for many to give up on the idea of a Jewish state. It is not easy to admit failure. Nor is it easy to recognize that the solution you have supported has become a futile solution lacking any possibility of being realized. Also, for the Palestinian Authority (PA) it will be very hard to acknowledge this change. But the change has already occurred. Clinging to yesterday’s solution, which has become irrelevant, will only waste precious time, particularly the time of those living under the occupation. The sooner the world understands there is no point in talking about two states, the better it will be. It will then be possible to focus on the alternative.
The Time Has Come to Recognize a One-State Solution
The alternative to the two-state solution is, naturally, a one-state solution. This state has already existed for 52 years, since the 1967 war. The time has come to recognize that as well. The occupation is here to stay, as are the settlements. And the Green Line has been erased a long time ago, whether we like it or not. We are no longer talking about a temporary situation, and it is doubtful if it ever was or was ever intended to be. Whoever speaks of the occupation as a passing phenomenon does not know the reality and facts on the ground. Go out to the West Bank, see the Jewish settlements on every hill, and then say if that is what a temporary reality looks like. Pay attention to the traffic on the roads, the construction, the infrastructure of bypass roads that have been specially constructed to make the occupation permanent and to enable the settlements to thrive undisturbed. Look at the Separation Wall and the reality that it has created, and understand what is
left of the Green Line. Those were not 52 years of occupation. Those were the first 52 years.
That’s what one state looks like, not the infrastructure for two states. That’s what one state looks like with two regimes, a liberal democratic one in Israel, which includes a discriminatory regime toward the Palestinian citizens of the state and a South African-style apartheid regime in the West Bank. Even the Gaza Strip is part of this one state; it is a gigantic cage in the backyard, the biggest prison in the world with a so-called separate and independent leadership of prisoners with wardens located outside the walls. The one state has been here for quite a while. The fate of all the human beings living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is determined in the government buildings in Jerusalem and the security buildings in Tel Aviv. That’s what one state with one government looks like, period.
The only struggle that remains to be carried out now is the struggle over the nature of the regime in this one state, which today includes a military dictatorship over part of the area, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The struggle to find a solution to the Palestinian problem should be focused on changing the regime, on providing equal rights to all who live in this one state. “One Man One Vote” — that’s the understandable slogan, which is still considered unmentionable in Israel and throughout the world. Anyone who raises it is accused of being “anti-Semitic” and wanting “to destroy the state of Israel.” But that is what the struggle must focus on: equal rights for all.
The Choice Is between Apartheid and Democracy
This change in strategy will challenge, first and foremost, Israel. How will it respond to a demand for equal rights for all? How will it continue to present itself as part of the enlightened world, part of the West and the only democracy in the Middle East? What will it say in order to push back against this basic demand of every democracy? Israel will not be able to say “security,” because there is no connection between equal rights and security.
Nor will Israel be able to cry that this will bring an end to the Jewish majority in the state; that majority ended the day the occupation became permanent. Already the population that lives between the Jordan River and the sea, including Gaza, comprises half Jews and half Palestinians. In the near future this balance will tilt in the direction of a Palestinian majority. The reality will then become even more South Africa-like. Whoever believes in the importance of a Jewish state, even if it’s not exactly clear what that means, with a clear Jewish majority, that is both democratic and Jewish —
which is something most Israelis want — must choose: Be Jewish, without the OPT, or be democratic, with equal rights for all. It’s not possible to have both. This must be recognized.
Therefore, a change in the peace discourse — in Israel and even more so in the international discourse for justice — from a discourse against the occupation and the settlements to a discourse for equal rights for all is a fateful change. The Israeli occupier will have to confront a challenge which it has never faced before. It will have to choose; will it be democratic or Jewish? There is no third option. The world will also face a challenge: Should it continue to utter its past declamations about two states, a situation which will enable Israel to maintain the status quo, or will it challenge the status quo? Will the world agree to the existence of another apartheid state in the 21st century, or will it act as it acted toward the previous apartheid state? The world also bears responsibility. It cannot evade it.
The reservations among the majority of Israelis are understandable. This could mean the end of the Zionist project. The responsibility for this lies with the Israelis who thought the occupation could last forever without Israel having to pay a price. All those for whom Zionism is dear to their hearts, all those who want a Jewish state, should have long ago struggled against the occupation with all their might. Now it is apparently too late. Perhaps when Israel has its back against the wall, it will find a way somehow to withdraw, despite all of the above, from all the territories. This is the only
minimal compromise the Palestinians are able to accept. But it is highly doubtful that this is possible any longer.
The reservations among the Palestinian Authority are also understandable. Without the struggle for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and the preparation of its infrastructure, there is no need for a PA. One wishes we hadn’t reached this point, but the die has apparently been cast. The PA’s continued support for a two-state solution plays into the hands of Israel and enables it to guarantee and continue the occupation. In a situation in which the world has grown weary of the conflict, Islamophobia has reared its ugly head around the world, the Arab world is worried about its own problems, and the Palestinians are divided as never before and are still bleeding from the second intifada — time plays into the hands of Israel and the occupation.
Equal Rights for All
This is the time to prepare for the next struggle: the struggle for equal rights for all, period. First, we have to neutralize the anxieties and fears about a solution that appears to be extremely threatening. It has to be explained that one state already exists and that it must become democratic. It must be explained that the current situation cannot continue forever. It must be taught that the current situation of the relations between the two nations, a combination of nationalism, racism, of hatred and anxieties, does not have to continue forever. Germans and Israelis became friends, as did the Germans and the French. The future does not have to be derived from the current situation. It is true that in recent years many bi-national states have been bloody failures. But what is the alternative in our situation? We should also recall that there are genuine mini-examples of genuine living together in near-equality. The mixed cities in Israel might serve as an example of what might be possible. Haifa might provide a model for the future — not perfect, but certainly possible.
The one-state state solution is also a comprehensive solution. The twostate solution leaves two fundamental questions unanswered: the Palestinian right of return and the fate of the Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. A one-state framework makes it possible to gradually arrive at a solution for those two questions. And an agreed-upon immigration plan to the one state, together with answers on how to provide quality of life for the refugees in the Palestinian Diaspora in their current locations, could supply a solution to the refugee problem.
The choice is between apartheid and democracy. We must begin to talk about it. In Jerusalem and Ramallah, in Tel Aviv and New York, in Melbourne and Berlin. If the Israelis decide to choose apartheid, then they should be made to pay a price for that; they should be punished the way the world punished South Africa. If they prefer democracy, they should be supported in every way possible.
For the Palestinians the situation appears simpler, while the popular sentiment in Israel is in favor of separation: “They are there and we are here.” It appears that the popular Palestinian sentiment is for living together, for equality and respect. This won’t happen overnight. It may take one or two generations, but we must begin talking about it and stop muttering about what will never happen. This is the time to embark upon the project of, or at least to dream about, one state, democratic and equal. It still seems distant and incredible and unachievable, but we must begin sometime. This is the time to begin to believe in the unthinkable. What today appears to be unthinkable can become a reality. In any case there is no real alternative.
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What exactly is a Dual Pricing Program?
These days, customers are all about speed and convenience.
This, combined with the rising appeal of solutions like contactless payments, has caused more people than ever to ditch cash for credit.
Great for them but expensive for you, right? That extra 2-4% in fees can easily shave thousands of dollars off your bottom line per year -- until now!
By implementing a dual pricing program, the cost of processing a credit card transaction is passed on (and transparently shown as a separate line-item) to customers who still opt to pay with their card at the time of the sale via the technology we offer to business owners. You choose when and how you want this program to work.
How Dual Pricing Works:
Save On Fees - Getting Started Is Easy!
Once you click the button below, you’ll be taken to a secure form where you can provide your best contact info*.
With your permission, one of our merchant specialists will be in touch to help you.
During this call, we’ll take the time to get to know your business and current needs, and pinpoint the best way to get started.
Do that now and say “goodbye” to merchant fees for good!
*Your information is 100% secure and will never be rented or sold to a third-party.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q: “Completely ‘eliminating” fees sounds too good to be true. What’s the catch?”
A: No catch at all. There are no hidden fees (for any service Pinpoint Payments provides), ever! Using a dual pricing program is just as transparent for your customers, too.
As mentioned earlier, the prices posted in your business are what customers pay using a credit card, or, they can choose to pay cash and not incur the processing fee.
In either of those scenarios, you never pay a processing fee again!
Q: “Are dual pricing programs legal and compliant?
A: 100% legal! By having your posted prices reflect the cost of using a card (instead of posting a “cash price” and charging a higher price for credit card transactions), you’ll be fully legal and compliant.
For further clarification, search “The Durbin Amendment” online.
Q: “Are dual pricing programs and surcharge programs the same thing?”
A: No, there is one major difference in dual pricing programs vs. surcharges.
Surcharges refer to posting cash prices and adding a surcharge (extra fee) on top of that price for card-carrying customers.
As mentioned before, a dual pricing program does the opposite. Posted prices are for credit cards. If a customer wants to avoid that built-in fee in exchange for a slight discount, they may do so by paying cash.
Now, it’s your turn!
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Out-Law News 4 min. read
05 May 2022, 11:43 am
The UK Treasury must maintain a high degree of policyholder protection, a legal expert has urged, as it consults on proposed reforms to the ‘Solvency II’ insurance industry regulatory regime.
Solvency II is an EU directive, retained in UK law, that regulates the insurance industry and outlines the amount of capital that insurance firms must hold to reduce the risk of their financial collapse. Both the UK and the EU are currently working on a raft of changes to update the directive.
As part of the reforms outlined in the consultation document (32 pages/243KB PDF), UK ministers plan to cut the difference between an insurer’s best estimate of its liabilities and the market value of its liabilities, known as the risk margin, for long-term life insurers by between 60% and 70%. The government said such a large reduction is possible because the current methodology used can overstate the market value of a firm’s liabilities, particularly in low interest rate environments.
Ministers hope that, by reducing the capital requirement thresholds and allowing greater flexibility in where insurers can invest their assets, the reforms will result in a “material release of possibly as much as 10% or even 15% of the capital currently held by life insurers” and “unlock tens of billions of pounds for long term productive investments, including infrastructure.”
The Treasury also hopes the proposed reforms will reduce the administrative burden of Solvency II by removing the requirement for UK branches of overseas insurers to calculate local capital requirements and instead rely on group capital. It also plans to increase the thresholds before Solvency II applies and simplify the directive’s reporting requirements.
Done right, the UK insurance market should benefit from increased competitiveness and reduced costs, whilst the UK economy benefits from a significant injection of investment into key infrastructure projects.
Charlotte McIntyre, insurance and regulation expert at Pinsent Masons, welcomed the proposals, but added that ministers must balance competing interests carefully. She said: “Solvency II has long been viewed by many within the UK insurance industry as cumbersome and costly to administer, with widespread support for some level of reform. There is concern, however, that the extent of the proposed changes may have a detrimental effect on policyholder protection. The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has acknowledged that there is an increased risk of insurer failure from the position now, although it considers it an acceptable degree of risk.”
McIntyre said: “Achieving the right balance by removing acknowledged adverse consequences of Solvency II while maintaining a proper degree of policyholder protection is going to be the key issue. Done right, the UK insurance market should benefit from increased competitiveness and reduced costs, whilst the UK economy benefits from a significant injection of investment into key infrastructure projects. Done wrong, and policyholders will suffer as a result.”
The consultation comes after John Glen, economic secretary to the Treasury, said in February that the reforms to Solvency II were intended to “replace what is an EU-focused, rules-driven, inflexible and burdensome body of regulation… with one that is UK-focused, agile and easily adaptable.”
But McIntyre said: “The market is going to be carefully monitoring whether the proposed reforms are broadly in-line with the EU’s proposed reforms, and the extent to which regulation of the UK insurance market starts to diverge from the bloc’s. For those insurance groups operating in both markets, any significant divergence is likely to be unwelcome. Any divergence that leads to the UK financial services regulatory regime losing its equivalence would be even more unwelcome - not just with the insurance sector - but across the broader financial services industry too.”
Another key Solvency II reform proposed by the Treasury will encourage further reliance on the matching adjustment, where long term insurers hold long-term assets which match the cash flows of similarly long-term insurance liabilities. Ministers said the close matching that underlies the matching adjustment reduces the risk that insurers may need to sell assets to meet claims by policyholders as they fall due.
The consultation document said: “The matching adjustment allows insurers to recognise upfront capital as part of as yet unearned future cashflows. Use of the matching adjustment provides a substantial benefit to life insurers and has a significant impact on commercial decisions, supporting the provision of annuities and benefiting the wider UK economy. By the end of 2020, insurer balance sheets benefited by £81 billion from the matching adjustment.”
“When insurers invest in long-term assets they are exposed to credit, illiquidity and other residual risks. When insurers closely match asset and liability cashflows they can hold those assets to maturity and should be less exposed to illiquidity risk. However, they retain credit and other residual risks. These retained risks are reflected by excluding from the matching adjustment an allowance for them, known as the fundamental spread. That there is not yet consensus on how the fundamental spread should be reformed demonstrates how important it is and how difficult it is to get right. The higher the fundamental spread, the lower the matching adjustment benefit,” it added.
Whether ministers can achieve the right conditions to encourage insurers to invest in UK infrastructure, rather than release large dividends to their shareholders, remains to be seen.
Alongside reforms to the fundamental spread, the Treasury hopes to expand the scope of assets available for the matching adjustment to include economic infrastructure like clean energy, transport, digital, water and waste. Ministers have made clear they want to see investment from the UK insurance industry to support the transition to net zero, either by allocation of capital to support the development of new green technologies or to support adoption of green solutions.
McIntyre said: “Not least of the government’s drivers in pushing these reforms is the hope of a large capital injection into the UK economy. Whether ministers can achieve the right conditions to encourage insurers to invest in UK infrastructure, rather than release large dividends to their shareholders, remains to be seen.”
Madhu Jain of Pinsent Masons said: “It will be interesting to see if these changes affect UK insurers’ appetite for outwards longevity reinsurance or UK pricing for assuming longevity risk. Markets will also be keen to see whether a bulk annuity contract remains the gold standard in the pension risk transfer market or whether the gap between the level of security provided by bulk annuities and defined benefit consolidators, also known as ‘superfunds’, starts to narrow.”
The consultation on the proposed reforms come as the future regulatory framework review (FRFR) considers how the overall structure of financial services regulation will adapt to the UK’s position outside the EU. Ministers plan to remove large amounts of retained EU law from UK statutes and adopt a model of financial services regulation based on the 2000 Financial Services and Markets Act.
Doing so would give financial services regulators discretion to determine the detailed regulatory requirements that apply to firms within a framework established by the government and parliament. Any reforms to Solvency II are expected to be wrapped into the FRFR’s process with potential for some of the reforms to be included in amendments to the Financial Services and Markets Act.
The consultation will close on 21 July 2022. It is not yet known when the government plans to report on its results.
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2015 GMC Sierra 2500HD available WiFi DENALI DURAMAX DIESEL
DURAMAX PLUS PACKAGE
Included Packages & Options
ALTERNATORS, DUAL, 150 AMPS AND 220 AMPS EACH
DRIVER ALERT PACKAGE
Includes Lane Departure Warning
Forward Collision Alert
And Safety Alert Seat
DURAMAX PLUS PACKAGE
Includes (LML) Duramax 6.6L Turbo Diesel V8 Engine
(MW7) Allison 1000 6-Speed Automatic Transmission And (Y65) Driver Alert Package
ENGINE, DURAMAX 6.6L TURBO DIESEL V8, B20-DIESEL COMPATIBLE
(397 Hp [296.0 Kw] @ 3000 Rpm
765 Lb-Ft Of Torque [1032.8 N-M] @ 1600 Rpm) Includes (K40) Exhaust Brake.
MIRRORS, OUTSIDE HEATED POWER-ADJUSTABLE VERTICAL CAMPER, UPPER GLASS, POWER-FOLDING AND MANUAL EXTENDING, CHROME.
Includes Integrated Turn Signal Indicators Consisting Of 51 Square Inch Flat Mirror Surface Positioned Over A 24.5 Square Inch Convex Mirror Surface With A Common Head And Lower Convex Spotter Glass (Convex Glass Is Not Heated And Not Power-Adjustable) And Addition Of Auxiliary Cargo Lamp For Backing Up (Helps To See Trailer When Backing Up With A Trailer) And Amber Auxiliary Clearance Lamp
SUSPENSION PACKAGE, OFF-ROAD
Includes Twin Tube Rancho Brand Shocks And (JHD) Hill Descent Control
TRANSMISSION, ALLISON 1000 6-SPEED AUTOMATIC, ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED
Electronic Engine Grade Braking And Tow/Haul Mode
Total Added Value
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Streamlining Production Processes with Rapid Direct CNC Machining--cncmass.com(stiffness definition Dave)
- source:CLAREY CNC Machining
In the modern industrial landscape, businesses are constantly striving to improve their productivity and efficiency. With advancements in technology, one such solution gaining popularity is Rapid Direct CNC machining. This article will explore how this technique works and its significance in streamlining production processes.
Understanding CNC Machining:
CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining refers to a manufacturing process that utilizes computer software to control machinery and tools for precise and automated fabrication. It allows for the efficient creation of complex and detailed parts by subtracting material from a solid block. This versatile technique has found applications across various industries, including automotive, aerospace, electronics, and healthcare.
How Does Rapid Direct CNC Machining Work?
Rapid Direct CNC machining takes traditional CNC machining to the next level by reducing the overall lead time and improving part accuracy. This accelerated production process ensures swift delivery without compromising quality. The key characteristics of rapid direct CNC machining include:
1. Quick Turnaround Time:
Traditional CNC machining often involves multiple steps, including creating specialized tooling and fixtures. In contrast, rapid direct CNC machining eliminates these intermediate stages, enabling manufacturers to produce parts faster. This reduction in lead time is especially critical when dealing with urgent orders or time-sensitive projects.
2. Enhanced Precision:
The integration of advanced software and monitoring systems ensures unparalleled precision during the production process. By leveraging high-speed cutting techniques and meticulous programming algorithms, rapid direct CNC machining eliminates errors and consistently delivers top-quality products. Manufacturers can achieve tight tolerances and intricate designs with utmost accuracy, even for highly complex components.
Advantages of Rapid Direct CNC Machining:
Implementing rapid direct CNC machining offers numerous benefits for manufacturers looking to enhance their operations. Some noteworthy advantages include:
1. Cost-Effective Production:
By optimizing workflow and minimizing manual labor requirements, rapid direct CNC machining significantly reduces production costs. Traditional methods involving extensive manual intervention often result in increased expenses due to errors and rework. Rapid direct CNC machining minimizes the risk of human error, resulting in enhanced cost efficiency and reduced wastage.
2. Design Flexibility:
The flexibility offered by rapid direct CNC machining is unparalleled. It enables manufacturers to effortlessly prototype and iterate designs before final production. This iterative process allows for modifications and refinements at different stages, providing businesses with the freedom to improve their products continually.
3. Improved Efficiency:
Rapid direct CNC machining eliminates lengthy tooling preparation time, allowing for shorter lead times. Manufacturers can take on more significant volumes of work without compromising quality or delivery schedules. Consequently, this increased efficiency grants businesses a competitive edge in meeting customer demands promptly.
In today's ever-evolving market, businesses need innovative solutions to stay ahead. Rapid Direct CNC machining offers manufacturing companies an efficient way to produce high-quality parts rapidly. By harnessing the power of advanced technology and automation, manufacturers can reduce costs, improve precision, enhance design flexibility, and maximize overall operational efficiency. Embracing rapid direct CNC machining will undoubtedly revolutionize production processes across industries, ensuring businesses remain competitive in a dynamic marketplace. CNC Milling
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NFL play in Week 3 will see the San Francisco 49ers and Brock Purdy face the New York Giants at 8:15 PM ET on Thursday.
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2023 Betting Outcomes
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Brock Purdy’s Passing Trends
- Purdy has passed for 426 yards (213.0 per game) while completing 66.7% of his passes (36-for-54), with two touchdowns and zero interceptions.
- Purdy averages 7.9 yards per attempt this season, which ranks fourth in the league.
- Purdy is 19th in the league in passing yards (426) and 14th in passing touchdowns (two).
Purdy’s Rushing Trends
- Purdy has also rushed six times for 25 yards and one touchdown, averaging 12.5 yards per game.
- He racks up 4.2 yards per carry (25 yards on six attempts).
This Week’s Predictions
|Purdy (2023)||League AVG (2023)||vs Giants (2023)||Prediction|
|226.5+ Passing Yards||0%||51.6%||50%||19%|
|1+ Passing TDs||50%||82.8%||50%||54.1%|
|2+ Passing TDs||50%||37.5%||0%||35.9%|
|7.5+ Rushing Yards||50%||98%||100%||68.5%|
|1+ Rushing TDs||50%||34.7%||100%||60.6%|
|2+ Rushing TDs||0%||9.2%||50%||13.6%|
The “Prediction” column gives our estimate of how likely the player is to meet or exceed the listed total for the stat in this week’s game. For example, that means if the prediction is greater than 55% on a prop that is listed with -110 odds (an implied probability of just over 50%), it would be a recommended pick.
The “league average” and “versus opposing team” percentages show how often a player went over the stat total (while meeting the standard NFL qualifying participation threshold) compared to the total number of qualified players across the league in that stat category (passing, rushing or receiving).
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Picture this: It’s been a long day at work. You're tired. Your feet are sore. Your back hurts. You need alone time, so you go to take a nice, hot soak in the shower. However, the shower won’t get warm and you have no choice but to take a cold shower.
It's one thing if your water heater has been overworking itself and needs a little time to regenerate, but if your hot shower suddenly turns cold, the problem could be much bigger. Here are tips to help you quickly diagnose your hot water troubles for your shower.
Problems with your water heater
Checking to make sure that the cold water in your shower is a singular problem and not a whole-house situation is the first thing you should do. If no hot water is passing through, your problem is the water heater. Check to see if the temperature control on the unit is set at your ideal temperature.
If you have an electric water heater, it may be a simple malfunction. Try to reset the circuit breaker and if your breaker tripped, your water should start to get hot again within an hour. However, if you're not receiving hot water beyond that point, you want to speak with a professional.
If you have a gas water heater, you should check the appliance’s supply line. Check to make sure there are no leaks. If there are no leaks, you should take a look at the gas valve. Make sure the valve is secure and correctly placed, and then double-check to see that your gas is on. If the gas is on but it is still not working, you should check the pilot light. The pilot light should be on all of the time. Relight it if it is not on. If this doesn't work either, the problem is either in your gas line or it is time for a new water heater.
Flush out the hot water valve
Rubber parts in your shower’s mixing valve get worn out over time and become distorted from old age. The mixing valve creates a balance between the flow of water from the hot and cold water lines and blends them for your desired temperature. When the valve becomes distorted, it can swell and restrict the waterways. The swelling makes the water temperature travel increase, and it is common for the rubber parts to break off into the mixing valve. These broken pieces can cause an obstruction in the hot water valve. Take off this part and flush out your hot water valve to get rid of the rubber parts, so that hot water can pass through again.
Check out your anti-scald device
A device called an anti-scald device is placed in most modern shower heads today. This device is made to prevent extremely hot waters from scalding people while showering. If it is set too high or if it is broken, it may prevent almost any hot water from coming through your showerhead. If this is the case, your showerhead will need to be dismantled to fix it. Calling a professional to fix this is the best thing to do. You do not want to make an error with a device that is made to protect you from scalding hazards.
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The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) has awarded the Vanguard Award to Richard (Rick) Ricchi, Technical Specialist, General Motors, Warren, Michigan, USA. The award is intended to recognise champions in the Powder Metallurgy industry’s end-user community whose promotion of the technology has bolstered PM expansion.
Over his years at GM, Ricchi has promoted powder forged (PF) connecting rods at GM. Today, these rods are in over 90% of the GM engines, including two diesel engine applications. His work at GM has included internal staircase fatigue testing of connecting rods to generate fatigue strength values used in GM component design, extensive shot-peening studies, and post-forge cooling processes intended to increase tool life.
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Ricchi has been active at MPIF’s annual PowderMet conferences, both as an attendee and on the Technical Program Committee. Over the last twenty-eight years, he has presented at the General Motors Base Engine Design Class, teaching thousands of students the advantages of PF connecting rods.
Ricchi is the third person to receive the Vanguard Award since its 2014 inception. The presentation of the award will take place during the Opening General Session at PowderMet2023, which will take place in June 18-21 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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"It's just such a relief," opens Unity CEO David Helgason at the start of our interview at Unite 2014 in Seattle.
"I'm basically in a panic for about two weeks before the keynote. Right up until like one minute before I get on stage, I'm in a panic. [Laughs]. As in, like, barely sleeping, even when I have time to sleep I'll just sort of line down and shake during the night."
There's every reason for Helgason to feel a portion of trepidation before taking to the stage at Unity's annual shebang. With around 1,500 people in the hall hanging on his every word, both Unity and the conferences that are now a crucial part of its set up get bigger and bigger every year.
This year, for instance, saw Unite announcements range from new open source components through to the launch of a new UI element.
We sat down with Helgason a few hours after his keynote to talk acquisitions - including the buyout of cloud specialist Tsugi, now Unity Austin - support for Apple's Metal graphics layer and just where future growth in the smartphone scene will come from.
Pocket Gamer: That was a big crowd out there today.
Well, my biggest crowd that won't be topped in the west was China with 3,500 people – Unite China. And, actually, the keynote at Chinajoy a couple of years ago, that was a similar number of people but the rooms were too small, so they had four rooms of a thousand people each and I was broadcast between them, so I only ever saw a thousand people. [Laughs].
So, talking about this particular keynote, the phrase you used "end to end development platform" is what interested me the most. Is it possible for you to define that or does that essentially open the door to moving into all kinds of other areas in the future?
I guess not all kinds of other areas, but I think we always start with this old bloody idea of ours, this old mission statement of ours, which was "we're going to democratise game development", right? So, at some point, we're we like "okay, we've got to get people great tools", and then at some point we realised that great tools, great features, great engine – that's not enough.
So, what else do developers need? So turns out they need assets. Four years ago we opened the Asset Store, which funnily enough people totally didn't believe back then. I remember this disappointment on the stage. We announced it at Unite in Montreal in 2010, and I was on stage and we announced it and people were just sort of like "what's that?" [Laughs].
It really took a year before people got it and, then, now we go out there and everyone loves it – it's one of the most important features of Unity.
That was when we finally decided that this is insane, Why would such an important part of a developer's life be so under served?David Helgason
But that all goes into this helping people create great games thing, right? And we've got pretty good at it, and our customers loved it and we're able to spend more resources on it, hire good people, acquire the Mecanim animation team and really double down on it.
But then we looked out and we were like "damn, they have other problems that we're barely thinking about." Can they find an audience? Can they monetise their players? And all these things.
There are a whole bunch of companies out there doing it, and actually for a long time we thought "we shouldn't bothered with that." They're well served. There are all these companies doing it, there are like a billion venture capitalists with all similar names and SDKs with four letter names...it became a bit extreme at one point, right?
There are so many different services that you need, and we followed that space and we partnered with some of these companies and they promoted their stuff in the Asset Store – it was all good. But at some point we realised that, we did a survey like a year and a half ago of thousands of our developers and we asked things like "which services are you using, what do you like, what do you plan to use in the future", and we had questions for different categories for analytics and data and so on.
One of the questions always was, "now if Unity offered a service like that, would you use it?" If you ask people something like that, of course, they might just be polite and you can't necessarily trust that on its own, but combined with the fact that people were really dissatisfied with their services, and the fact that if they used something today they planned to change in the future...well, there weren't any clear winners.
It wasn't obvious that, for each category, there wasn't like one service that was like "this is it, this is awesome."
That was when we finally decided that this is insane, Why would such an important part of a developer's life be so under served? So we started looking around and made a few a decisions, and then we acquired Applifier earlier this year. That got us GameAds which is now Unity Ads and Everyplay. We also acquired Playnomics for their analytics and player relations management. Like, can you actually communicate with them and re-engage them, stuff like that? And then we acquired Tsugi, which actually falls into the first bracket – how do you build games.
So, these are the services we acquired, but why did we do that? Well, we loved the teams, they were really kind of heavy tech teams with real ambition behind them, but also these were services where we felt that by bringing them into Unity they will be better than if they were stand alone.
Like, for Everyplay, a social platform like that needs to be big, because the more players that are engaging with these videos, the more players you can connect with. It's the same with analytics – the more data that is collected, the wiser the system gets.
I mean, these are really data scientists types, and they are really sharp at not just at counting how many players are playing your game and drawing a line – anyone can do that frankly. No, they're really good at segmented players, figuring out how many different types of players do you have and how should you engage with them.
Of course, the ads system – Unity Ads – there's no such thing as a niche ad network. Ad networks need scale, so they were doing really well on their own, but we were like "lets bring this into Unity, the whole network will be bigger" which means more efficiency, more ads to show if you're a developer who wants to show ads and more inventory to buy if you need traffic for your game. Obvious stuff, in a way.
So, we summed it up as these are services to connect your game with players, and this is all wrapped up with us wanting to help developers create a great game and connect them with an audience.
So have you ever had an area where you've looked at the companies and services already operating in a field and thought "no, we don't need to go into that area, everybody is already well served"?
Yes. Absolutely. I mean, you only have to look the other way – to the technologists' side – like SpeedTree. You know, great company. A small company, but a great company.
It makes tools to make trees, a fantasy library of trees that they intend to sell in the Asset Store. You know, there's absolutely no need for us to mess with that. It's a company that doesn't particularly benefit from scale. In fact, it's probably better that they can serve all of the engines, but it allows them to invest back in their product, you know? So, no need there.
So, you know, I could rattle through them. I mean, it's all the companies we didn't acquire, right? [Laughs].
But, yeah, there are companies that just should not be bought. I mean there's a kind of logic to it – we obviously have to pick our battles. We've acquired three companies in a year – that's quite a mouthful. Fortunately all three have really good people but also really lovely people that are our kind of people. They go into Unity and they feel like they're part of the company. You can easily imagine that they've always been there.
The other focus I picked up from your keynote is, you mentioned on all the companies you've been working closely with – Intel, Google and Apple. Specifically, I was wondering about Metal – there were critics when it was announced that said it was a way of Apple ensuring developers stayed tied to iOS given it's iOS exclusive. How does that fit in with Unity's ethos of encouraging developers to go multiplatform?
I think that you can always be paranoid, but I don't think that's fair [on Apple] honestly. I don't think these companies necessarily bother thinking on that level.
What I think they're doing, just like others, is thinking how is the future going to be? We've got Metal, DirectX 12, and low-latency OpenGL – it has a different name but it's like a modern re-take on OpenGL. What everyone is doing is going to a place where draw calls are much cheaper, you can throw many more objects at the graphics card without spending the CPU cycles. So, everyone is going in that direction.
Metal is a fantastic rendering layer. We've really enjoyed working with it. I don't think we can talk too much about what's in there, except that we're very satisfied with it. It doesn't just have great promise – it will be great when it's out. Paranoid thinking doesn't get you very far.
How easy is it for you guys to maintain relationships with the different platform holders? Do they want different things from you?
In a way I think all the platform holders want the same thing – they want great games, because developers are important in their ecosystems, but what they really care about is the people using the devices.
You get two person teams who are targeting seven different platforms now. 20 person teams aren't meant to be able to do that!David Helgason
Every device, whether it's a mobile device or a console, has a significant gamer audience – some more so than others, but all of them have huge gamer audiences that need to be well served. So, first priority – at least for platform holders – is lets get great games on the platform, and to do that we need to make it easy for developers to make games for us.
Of course, we need to make great devices, high performance, the OS has to be good to not get in the way...all these things are important, but fundamentally it's about removing barriers between the consumer and the content.
And we really help with that. We make it so much easier to get great games on the platforms, and sometimes it goes kind of insane – like, you were at the keynote when we talked about the two person teams who are targeting seven different platforms? I mean, it's just ridiculous. [Laughs]. 20 person teams aren't meant to be able to do that, but it's just fantastic. I think what platforms may lose a little bit in exclusivity, they gain in more content.
You also talked a little bit about mobile in particular being "mindblowing" and growing faster than the rest of the industry. How sustainable that level of growth is now?
It can't keep growing as it has recently for long. If you think about the S-curve of adoption of mobile – or rather smartphones, as everyone in the world has a mobile phone but not everyone has a smartphone, so now we're replacing feature phones with smartphones and that's the growth we're looking at. So in that S-curve, I think we're at the steepest part. There's a few more years left of very high growth and then it will slow off.
Actually, smart analysts have predicted these things and, though you see different shapes in the curve, they're all sort of the same fundamentally. They all say we're somewhere close to the high growth part.
If you look at the big picture, right now the affluent people have smartphones and the less affluent people are about to get them next. That means the ARPU for the next billion people will be lower than the last billion, so yeah, it's going to slow. It's going to slow in terms of adoption. But that's just one growth curve.
On top of that, people are changing their behaviour to spend more time with these devices, so you have another curve on top of that curve. And on top of that curve, you have developers learning to build what people want, making really compelling games, and learning just how people want to pay.
You go a few years back and people tried a $10 price point and that got crushed to a $1 price point, but that's all being rebuilt now with all kinds of different pricing models. Premium is actually doing really well now, for instance, and you have episodic content...you have all these things.
I mean, I'm guessing here but I think it's all true, but these growth curves lay on top of each other, which is why the analysts who are still able to predict incredible overall growth for mobile for now until 2017 – mobile is going to be something like $30 billion, which is a lot more than it is now, but I think it's realistic because of these overlaying curves. If you only indexed the number of smartphones in people's pockets multiplied by the affluence of the person, that curve wouldn't go up like that.
I think the next several years are going to be really exciting, and it's not like it's going to just drop – mobile won't really come down until something connects to our brain or something radically different comes along, which may not be too far out you know. [Laughs]. But we can't quite see it on the horizon yet. It's like five years out or something.
That's essentially what I was going to ask about next, actually. We've got smart watches around, smart TVs are still hanging about, all the talk last year was about microconsoles and we have VR and Oculus Rift rising up right now. How easy is it from your position to split the wheat from the chaff?
I don't think we're way better at that than the next guy. At some level we try to partner with the companies that want to partner with us, so we ensure that we support the new things well.
We of course follow our passion so if we really love something we'll support it or dial in on it. But, you know, "is this the next big thing, or is it the other thing?" As long as we support everything and give developers unfettered access so they can be fast at capturing opportunities as they arise.
I mean, we've seen this in the past – things can just kind of explode in a way that no-one predicted, and really the developers who are fast at reacting at get that early growth. It's often not even the big companies – it's a few guys who capture it and do something awesome for that platform.
It's easy to forget that Angry Birds was created by a team of four I think originally. I mean it grew, but it was around four originally. I don't know how many people built Clash of Clans but it wasn't a whole lot.
But we're not in the business of picking winners beyond what we have to. I mean, there have been things that will remain unmentioned where we've been "yeah, that's not going anywhere. [Laughs].
You can mention them if you like...
[Laughs] We've probably forgotten them already.
Going back to the keynote, one of the popular announcements you made was the talk of the new open source components you're rolling out. Is this an area you're looking to expand on?
Open source is exciting. It's a particular way of engaging with a community of developers, right? We're already participating in open source a lot – actually, we haven't talked too much about it, but there are a number of components in Unity that are already open source. There's a shader compiler and some other things – they're just so specialised that most of our customers don't have to worry about them.
Open source is exciting. It's a particular way of engaging with a community of developers, right?David Helgason
Taking a component like the UI system and saying "okay, this could benefit from being open source" and that there's still a lot of innovation ahead, it's interesting how we with the community can evolve it. We're also open sourcing some test tools - it's an interesting way to give back [to the community], and it's exciting.
I mean, we expect some things will be sold in the Asset Store that are based on our open source, and that's cool.
The new UI tools also went down really well in the hall – almost as something of an 'in joke'. You must see that as an example of you guys listening to your community.
Well, the particular point with the UI is, lets just admit it has been a painful process. We really really tried, but it's a particular design problem. We had to start over several times and finally we got to the point where we're really proud of it, and if you look at people's comments they're really happy with it because it's a truly well designed system.
There's some real innovation in that system, like ways of creating layouting that has just never been done before, and that's pretty exciting.
I came to the training day yesterday – where I didn't have a go myself I must admit, but did observe everyone else – and there was a lad there who I think was 11 years old, sat in amongst an audience of people of all ages in fact. Did you ever imagine Unity's appeal would be so broad when you started out?
I think there was a nine year old, or maybe he was eight, at the very first Unite in 2007 actually. He came with his rocket scientist mother. [Laughs].
We've always had kids around the community, which is not surprising with kids being gamers also want to create these things, and I remember I was trying to code games when I was 10 – not with much success but I was definitely trying, and that's how I learned programming by the way. So, yeah, it's not surprising on the whole.
I mean, the kids who are really successful with Unity are pretty smart kids. It would be wonderful if more normal kids that had less time to go crazy with it would be able to productive, but that's a lot of design work that we haven't gone down just yet.
Thanks to David for his time.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of innovation and creativity, intellectual property experts play a crucial role in safeguarding and promoting the rights of creators and inventors
In Canada, as in many other countries, the protection and management of intellectual property are essential for driving economic growth, encouraging research and development, and fostering a culture of innovation. In this article, we will explore the significant contributions of intellectual property experts in Canada and their role in empowering innovation and progress.
The Role of Intellectual Property Experts
Advancing Creativity through Patents
Patents are a fundamental aspect of intellectual property, granting inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for a limited period. Intellectual property experts guide inventors and businesses through the complex patent application process, ensuring their innovative ideas are adequately protected. By securing patent rights, inventors gain the confidence to invest in research and development, knowing that their efforts will be rewarded and their inventions protected from unauthorized use.
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Copyright protection is crucial for safeguarding various forms of artistic expression, including literature, music, films, and visual arts. Intellectual property experts assist artists, authors, and content creators in securing copyrights, allowing them to control the reproduction, distribution, and performance of their works. This protection fosters creativity by encouraging artists to invest time and effort in producing unique and original content, knowing that their rights will be respected.
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Intellectual property experts play a crucial role in supporting startups and small businesses by providing guidance on protecting their innovations and ensuring they don’t infringe on existing patents or copyrights. By safeguarding their intellectual property, these companies can attract investors and partners, which are essential for their growth and success. This, in turn, leads to job creation and economic development, enhancing Canada’s position in the global market.
Encouraging Research and Development
Intellectual property protection acts as an incentive for individuals and organizations to invest in research and development. Knowing that their efforts will be rewarded with exclusive rights, researchers and innovators are motivated to push the boundaries of knowledge and technology. This results in the development of groundbreaking inventions and solutions that address societal challenges and promote progress.
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Intellectual property experts also facilitate collaboration among different stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem. By negotiating licensing agreements and contracts, these experts enable the sharing of knowledge and technology between universities, research institutions, and businesses. This knowledge exchange leads to cross-pollination of ideas, accelerating the pace of innovation and creating a thriving innovation community in Canada.
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Despite the significant role played by intellectual property experts in fostering creativity and progress, there remains a lack of awareness among the general public about the importance of intellectual property protection. Many individuals and small businesses may not fully understand the value of securing their ideas and creations. As a result, they risk losing their competitive edge and facing challenges from infringers who might exploit their work without consequence.
In conclusion, intellectual property experts serve as crucial guardians of innovation and creativity in Canada. Their expertise in patents, copyrights, and trademarks empowers inventors, artists, and businesses to thrive in a competitive environment while fostering a culture of innovation. By protecting and managing intellectual property, these experts contribute significantly to Canada’s economic growth, job creation, and technological advancement.
If you are an innovator, creator, or entrepreneur in Canada, it is essential to recognize the value of intellectual property and how it can elevate your ideas to the next level. Consider seeking the assistance of intellectual property experts to navigate the complexities of IP protection.
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The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Southern California (Regional Vegetable Gardening Series) (Paperback)
There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening—what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are decisions based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Southern California, by regional expert Geri Miller, focuses on the unique eccentricities of California’s gardening calendar, which include extreme temperatures and low rainfall. The month-by-month format makes it perfect for beginners and accessible to everyone—gardeners can start gardening the month they pick it up.
Certified master gardener and horticulturist Geri Galian Miller is the founder of Home Grown Edible Landscapes. She is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and author of her own blog, GroEdibles.
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Imperial College London published the paper Examining Material Evidence The Carbon Fingerprint at the beginning of this month. The authors compare plastic to other materials used in packaging.
Only 2% of British people consider plastic, compared to other materials used in packaging, to contribute the least greenhouse gases to the environment from its production, use, and post use treatment. Whilst in absolute numbers it is a fact the least impactful. Plastics do have a large carbon impact - accounting for 3.8% of global greenhouse gases emissions - but it is wrong to assume that alternative packaging materials would perform better, and it is important to consider the carbon benefits that arise from plastics use.
When considering the production and manufacturing of the main alternatives to plastic for a 500ml bottle, other packaging types (fibre, glass, steel and aluminium) emit more greenhouse gases than plastic bottles, with glass bottles being the highest emitter overall. By way of example, if all plastic bottles used globally were made from glass instead, the additional carbon emissions would be equivalent to powering around 22 large coal-fired power plants. This is equivalent to the electricity consumed by a third of the UK.
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a useful tool which should be more widely used to evaluate environmental impacts of packaging alternatives over their life-time, from the extraction of raw material to the disposal or recycling of packaging at the end of its life. Undertaking LCAs to compare the environmental performance of alternative materials for different packaging applications is essential if we want to take into account the environmental impacts associated with the whole life-cycle of packaging (mining, manufacturing process, logistics, usage and end-of-life route).
Results can vary significantly from one study to another, depending on key parameters and assumptions. For example, the risk of producing more food waste because of the packaging design and shelf life is not always considered in LCAs while this can have a large impact on the packaging carbon contribution.
In this study, a total of 73 publications on LCAs comparing different types of packaging were identified and reviewed. By assessing many different studies we can draw some general conclusions about the range of results and what the majority of analysis determined. Findings indicate that in the applications it is used, most of the time, plastic packaging performs better than its alternatives, and mainly due to its very lightweight properties.
Transport distance and method, sources of electricity generation, packaging shape and weight, all significantly influence the LCA results and should be considered on a case by case basis. It is also important to consider the full life cycle of the material, such as, for plastic the prospecting and mining stages.
The waste management route in place to treat packaging at its end of life, is also shown to be a critical factor explaining variations of LCA results for the same packaging. Recycling always wins over virgin production on all environmental indicators. For plastics, there seems to be consensus that recycling saves between 30% and 80% of the carbon emissions that virgin plastic processing and manufacturing generate.
If all plastic were recycled this could result in mean annual savings of 30 to 150 million tonnes of CO2, equivalent to stopping between 8 and 40 coal-fired power plants globally.
The findings of this study demonstrate that if we really want to tackle the environmental issues we face with plastics today then removing, reducing, reusing or recycling the plastic packaging placed on the market is the way forward. This approach is more certain and reaps better results than waiting and hoping for solutions not yet commercialised or switching to alternative available materials respectively.
Considering that only around 9% of plastics are currently being recycled worldwide, there is a lot that can be done to improve things. We can see that where the right policy drivers are in place, this is already happening, with regulatory statutes that themself deliver fiscal actions on business. In the UK, the various measures planned in the UK Waste and Resources Strategy planned by DEFRA, such as the extended producer responsibility scheme, the deposit return scheme and the harmonisation of waste collection associated with a clear labelling system, as well as HM Treasury proposals for a plastic packaging tax are all good steps for creating a fully functioning circular and sustainable system for packaging.
In concert with the widespread application of renewable energy and demand-management strategies, increasing the recycling of plastics have the potential for both curbing the growing life-cycle GHG emissions from plastics, and also preventing them from entering the marine environment.
Click here to read the full article.
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DIG A LITTLE DEEPER by Heather Edwards - Disney Limited Edition
Regular price $545.00
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Dig A Little Deeper By Heather Edwards - 24" x 18" Signed & Numbered Limited Edition
Tiana carefully plates up a serving of her family's gumbo recipe, as she contemplates the dream that she and her late father shared, to one day open her own restaurant in 1920s era New Orleans. Artist Heather Edwards thoughtfully depicts Tiana in a moment of reflection, recalling the time she prepared this very dish with her father and renewing her determination to "dig deeper" and persevere, knowing that only then will her dream become reality.
Embellished Gallery Wrapped Giclee on Canvas
- Signed & Numbered by Heather Edwards
- Limited Edition of 195
- Dimensions: 24"H x 18"W
- Gallery wrapped style around a wood stretcher bar.
- Hanging wire is installed and ready to hang – no frame is necessary.
- Certificate of Authenticity
- Made in the USA
- Officially Licensed artwork by Disney®
Price includes stretching fee - Please allow 2 weeks for processing.
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Believe it or not, there are some people out there who aren’t satisfied with the Beatles.
The audacity! Well, it’s not that they’re not satisfied, but they just want a lot more. After memorizing every pot-baked inside joke of Rubber Soul, every hot lick of the White Album, and every giggle of Anthology, the logical question arises: “what would the group have sounded like had they not broken up?”
When it comes to Sir John Lennon, there’s never been a better time to discover the Funny One’s solo catalogue. The albums that matter (i.e. featuring traditional songs, not wonky noise experiments) have been remastered to relieve listeners from tracking down painfully thin mp3s online, but the neat packaging isn’t the only slick thing here.
Green ears may be in for a surprise. The ideal people always seem to have in their head when they think of solo John Lennon is a vitriolic, fire-tongued patriot always armed with a quip and a badge on his military jacket. This is the John Lennon of college dorm posters, the one living in New York City circa 1972 with his finger on the political pulse.
A good deal of Lennon’s solo work, even from early on, is actually smooth, adult contemporary stuff pleasant enough to play for your grandparents. This peaked on Double Fantasy, the 1980 paean to wanting what you’ve got that precedes modern life-is-good albums like Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky. The soft, gooey center of that album, “Beautiful Boy” and “Watching The Wheels”, makes the strongest argument for Lennon’s Lite Radio side. These songs represent the polar opposite of “Yer Blues” (an honorary solo cut due to repeated live non-Beatles performances) and “Cold Turkey”, which depicted a miserable Lennon desperate for any form of relief.
This easy material acts as a chaser to the fiery tone of his earlier solo career, but this was also a Beatle who went extreme in whatever he did. After the breakup, anything that wasn’t completely off-the-wall (the Unfinished Music twins) or oozing with contempt (“Gimme Some Truth”) was airy pop that goes down like cotton candy. Regardless of genre, he had the same hunger for more that prods fans eager for solo John.
Of the four men who once called themselves the Beatles, it is perhaps Lennon with whom we most love to play armchair biographer. His relationships from childhood, his behavior — sometimes righteous, sometimes self-righteous — and the rolodex of quotes attributed to him (especially that hurtful elevator exchange with the openly gay Brian Epstein) demand inspection as to what was roiling under the surface. It would be a convenient narrative for Lennon to go from artsy post-modern music demolitionist to political rocker to warm fuzzy father, but this sheen is all over his catalogue: “Imagine”. “How?”. “Beautiful Boy”. “#9 Dream”. “Mind Games”. “Woman”. “Just Like Starting Over”. And the list goes on (Mind Games‘ “You Are Here” is a particularly sedating breed of beach rock, but hey, you can skip right to “Meat City” if you wanna really burn the boardwalk down).
The seeds were in the soil from the previous decade. Lennon was responsible for wholly uncontroversial favorites such as “In My Life” and “Across The Universe,” whose ‘paper cup’ lyric always struck me as particularly childlike in the tradition Paul McCartney is usually derided for (too frequently written off as a cream puff, he was actually messing with tape loops before John, continuing into the present under pseudonyms like the Fireman). Don’t forget who turned the Let It Be tapes over to Phil Spector to squirt horseradish all over them.
However, let’s make a point not to pit John against Paul; they did that to themselves enough throughout the years. Instead, it’s important to remember they both were pop musicians who sounded lost when they tried to get away from a solid melody. Even when locking in on one, their success peaked with the right amount of gloss.
“The first record was too real for people, so nobody bought it,” he remarked in an interview after the reception of Imagine blew away John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. “Now I understand what you have to do: put your political message across with a little honey.” (“[The sound of] Imagine is what John is really like,” went McCartney’s praise of the album at the time, to which John defensively replied he only sugared it up for “you conservatives!”.) He was never less than real, but he got raw on Plastic Ono Band, even on the sweetened-up Imagine, and especially on 1972’s flabby Some Time in New York City. However, that John would slowly give way to his prevailing pop instincts for the remainder of his career says he wasn’t too ego-drunk to shed himself even further.
The politics faded, at least in the music (Ono has said Lennon’s views went on more of an even keel as the years progressed), but the honey remained as the clouds in Lennon’s brain parted. Record sales aside, perhaps the softer side was simply more sustainable than the alternative. “I am the one who has come a long way. The pressures of being a pig were enormous,” he told Playboy around the time he moved to New York and buried his nose in feminist lit. “All those years of trying to be tough and trying to be the heavy rocker…were killing me. And it is a relief not to have to do it”. And he wasn’t done with life-changers: his son Sean wouldn’t be born for another couple years.
This soft streak wasn’t just melodic. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans,” goes one of Double Fantasy‘s rearview epiphanies. It just begs for its own throw pillow. He had been on about peace since the mid-’60s, but as the years wore on, the songs were actually sounding peaceful.
None of this is meant to be derogatory in the least; if anything, it should be evidence that John continues to pull a fast one on people 30 years after leaving us, and there was nothing he enjoyed more than having a little fun with people awaiting his next utterance. John deserved all the bliss he got, and that he chose to share some scraps with the world is a damn blessing. It’s not wrong to identify with “Beautiful Boy,” revel in “Love” in all its lucid glory, or cry when you hear “Imagine”. The only gripe is we didn’t get to hear another generation’s worth of it.
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Services From Singer & DJ in Glasgow
Talented Singer Guitarist Paul Will Get Your Guests Dancing-Great Variety!
DJ Paul Wilson - Keep Your Dancefloor Bouncing All Night!
Want live music AND a Wedding DJ ? Get BOTH with this fantastic Evening entertainment package ! . Start your night with live music( Duo or singer guitarist)playing lively versions of well known hits from modern and Classic acts,then get the dance floor bouncing with a wedding DJ set packed full of major floor fillers !
Or we can cover a 4 hour party with Live music duo mini band from start to finish!
All lights and PA included,pre event consultation( get involved planning the type of music you want ).
Singer Guitarist set is accompanied by foot drum percussion/looper and guitar effects or high quality backing tracks ( you can choose which you'd prefer or have both).
Whether you want live music, solo act or wedding Duo...we have an option that can be tailored to suit your exact requirements.
Acoustic daytime songs set is also available,full day and night package deals available upon request too.
Don't pay too much for your Wedding music...this package will supply great quality entertainment for a fantastic price. Paul Wilson is a fully insured act with hundreds of live performances to date and uses high quality equipment.
"I always like to get couples involved in planning the music...personal tastes need to be considered as well as the atmosphere to be created,Is it get the party started time or light background music. I like to adapt each event to the specific client requirements".
Gemma Egan• Aug. 11, 2023
We had a great experience booking Paul through poptop. He was responsive when contacted and great to work with. Our guests enjoyed the music and had a great time. Thank you!
Yunita Suryani• Aug. 7, 2023
Paul, our wedding DJ, was fantastic. Excellent pre-event communication, on-time arrival, and upbeat music that matched our style. Paul accommodated an earlier finish due to our guests' travel fatigue. Highly recommended for a seamless and enjoyable wedding experience.
sarah fleming• Feb. 4, 2023
Paul was fantastic! I would highly recommend for your event. He was so easy to talk to and very accommodating with song requests etc. We got loads of compliments, especially for his Acoustic set and he had everyone up dancing all night. 10 out of 10 if we have any other functions will definitely use him again!
Steven Mitchell• Nov. 12, 2022
Paul was absolutely great from the day we booked .quick response.great communication.great set .highly recommended
Lisa Jamieson• Sept. 24, 2022
Paul was a great DJ. His communication leading up to the event was excellent and he provided a great service with all the music we asked for and adapted the song choice to suit what was being danced to and what everyone wanted to listen to. We all had a fab night. Thank you.
Sinead Keogh• July 28, 2022
Paul was a great DJ for our wedding. He gave a perfect mix of music genres while focusing on our preferences. We made a very last minute decision to change our first dance song which he accommodated with no issue. Our day went off without a hitch and everyone was up dancing and enjoyed the music.
Please, describe your act or business in on sentence:
Entertainment packages including both live music and DJ set
What is your competitive advantage (special features)?
Unusual to get the best of both worlds for Evening entertainment...Fantastic live singer guitarist set AND party DJ all in one place !!
What kind of events do you usually serve?
weddings , parties , functions , bars/pubs/music venues
Who are your previous clients?
West + central Scotland : Weddings / Functions / Baes /venues : various.
How long do you play for?
Evening entertainment package is for 5 hours ( Iive music set plus Party Wedding DJ to finish). 2 hour Daytime acoustic songs set also available.
Do you have your own PA and lighting?
Vocals and acoustic mixed through 100 watt speaker- for small venues only. Additional speakers / hire and cost required for larger venues and DJ set.
Do you have Public Liability Insurance and PAT tested equipment?
How much space do you require?
Just a small area of a stage / corner of room for speakers and lights set up.
My favourite tune is not on your list. Will you be able to play it?
Will try my best to get a play a good version of it( can send video by messenger for approval)...original version can be played through PA if preferred.
How many breaks do you take? How long are they?
What style of music do you offer?
Singer guitarist set ( various) is listed above( a real mix of modern and classic / something for everyone) . Wedding/Party DJ set will be a mix of modern and classic songs,this can be guided by client ( i.e more 80's or 90's etc). Rock DJ set also available.
Is it possible to request something that's not in the repertoire?
I will try to acommodate if possible
Do you do open-air acts?
Can you add a DJ set for night time entertainment after the acoustic set ?
Yes, I can provide a Wedding/party DJ set with all Speakers and lighting provided. All your wedding music taken care of in one reasonably priced package ( live music set plus wedding DJ set ).
Can you supply different quote prices for different set time lengths ?
Yes, please ask in your enquiry..." how much for 2,3 or 5 hour live set plus Dj etc" and I will supply exact pricing. Add the acoustic set + Evening singer set + DJ set together for a combined quote to cover your whole day and night's music.
LIVE SINGER GUITARIST VERSIONS AVAILABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING:
Rag n bone man,George ezra,The Black Keys,Vaccines,Lumineers,DNCE,Green day,The verve,Snow patrol, Taio Cruz,Kaiserchiefs,U2,the Wanted,Stereophonics,Kings of leon,Killers,Usher,Mumford and sons,Keane,Primal Scream,Coldplay,Johnny cash,the Strokes,blur,oasis,Foo fighters,Stone roses,Beatles,Paul weller,Frattellis,Imagine dragons,rhcp,the Doors,David Bowie,Queen,Eagles and more. Wedding DJ set will be a collection of fantastic dance floor fillers picked from modern and classic decades and will cover music for a large range of ages and tastes.
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Raw Material For Portable LED Lights Housing Manufacturing
1. Aluminum Alloy
The aluminum alloy is mostly used for flashlights.
With the good manufacture processing properties, good electrical and thermal conductivity, good corrosion resistance and weldability,
Most of the current flashlights in the global markets are made of aluminum alloy material.
Because there will be no need the special molding, the aluminum flashlights are easily made to be diverse shape designs.
By the way, besides the flashlights,
some high powerful work lights also use the aluminum alloy body to solve heat sink issues, and the robust aluminum alloy has made the work lights more suitable for the outdoor severe working environment.
Some headlamps with high lumens also use aluminum alloy to speed up the heat sink.
Besides the whole body, some parts are made of aluminum alloy, considering the heat-conducting property and mechanical strength.
2. ABS Plastic
ABS plastic is the most general-purpose material to produce portable led lights, like small size handheld work lights, portable spotlights, headlamps, flashlights, and camping lanterns.
3. Silicone Rubber
Silicone rubber is often used to reduce the impact defect, for example, many work lights, and handheld spotlights have the protective housing of silicone rubber.
And some flashlights for special use also are made of silicone rubber, for example, the VMQ rubber.
4. Bamboo Material
A camping lantern with bamboo material can be used in outdoor places or indoor houses.
5. POM Material
Some diving flashlights are made of POM material.
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Oscar, you are 3. I wish I could hold you and snuggle you forever. I think it's safe to say that I'm your favorite person, although you have told me occasionally that you'd rather live with Grandma and Grandpa.
Sometimes, when you meet new people you them that your "Oscar the Brouch and that you live in a garbage can."
I think the thing that drives me the most crazy is that every time we get after you for doing something naughty, you cry and say "Can you be nice now?" Even though it was you that was naughty, you want me to be nice. (insert eye roll)
Your favorite songs to sing are "Roar," "Dry Bones," "Tell Me the Story of Jesus" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
You are continually silly. You talk with your hands and act goofy 80% of the time.
I think the thing you say the most often is, "This is boring!"
Sometimes you get really mad and you scowl and stomp your foot.
Aternum = Aquarium
Baputer = Computer
When I put you to bed you don't want me to leave so you hold on to my arm and say, "Mom, ask me fuestions!"
I love it when you ask me to hold your hand when we cross the street.
Maybe you'll go to preschool now that you're three. I know you're excited but I'm just not ready to let you go yet. You do claim that you go to Superman Tool. (school)
Your favorite toys are Legos, Magnatiles and anything with wheels. We have thoroughly enjoyed the first 3 years of your life and I'm looking forward to the year ahead.
When I ask you for a kiss you turn my head and kiss me on the cheek to avoid all lip kisses. Sometimes you get mad when I kiss you and you say, "Mom! No juicy tisses!!"
Happy Birthday, Oscar. Mommy and Daddy love you more than all of the cupcakes in the world.
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"Paralysis by Analysis" is a real threat to effective business leadership. In today's VUCA world, being able to make quick decisions, and take definite action, is a must.
There is a simple way to prevent "Paralysis by Analysis": eliminate some options as fast as possible.
In other words, even before starting a formal analysis, if a quick-and-dirty glance shows that a particular option is about the same as some other option, then don't even consider it—just drop it.
© 2020 Praveen Puri
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(March 2011) Improvement in gender equity and women’s empowerment has been uneven around the world and slow in many regions, according to the World’s Women and Girls 2011 Data Sheet. Fertility rates remain high in some sub-Saharan African countries where use of family planning is low. In parts of Asia and Africa, girls often marry by age 18, posing serious consequences to their health and development. Literacy among women has improved, as more girls attend school, but globally boys still lead in literacy, primary school completion, and secondary school enrollment. Maternal deaths remain stubbornly high in sub-Saharan Africa as well as Afghanistan, and some societies still consider wife-beating acceptable.
Fertility Levels Still High in Sub-Saharan Africa
Fertility rates have been falling in most countries of the world. The average lifetime births per woman worldwide is 2.5; in the more developed countries, women have an average of just one or two children (1.7), while in the less developed regions (excluding China), the average is three children per woman (3.1). However, fertility levels in some countries are much higher.
- In sub-Saharan Africa, women have an average of more than five children, but in nine countries the average is six or more.
- Outside of Africa, the highest fertility levels are in Afghanistan (5.7 children per woman) and Yemen (5.5).
- The regions with the lowest fertility rates are East Asia and Europe, where women have an average of one or two children.
Women and men often hold very different views about the ideal number of children a family should have. Couples who live in urban areas, have a secondary school education, and make up the wealthiest 20 percent of the population frequently prefer fewer children and smaller families. In Kenya, however, men consistently want more children than women. The diverse range of views about ideal family size suggests that programs need to reach out to men as well as to women, and to focus on improved couple communication regarding desired family size.
Countries With the Highest Fertility Levels
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Early Marriage Hinders Development
Girls who marry at a young age face the health risks that accompany adolescent childbearing. They also are more likely to leave school early and have fewer opportunities to earn an income than do their peers who finish school.
- In nine countries, at least half of women ages 20 to 24 had married before age 18. In Mali, Niger, and Chad, more than 70 percent of girls in their early 20s had married before 18, and in any single year, one in seven girls ages 15 to 19 has given birth.
- Teenage girls are twice as likely as women over 20 to die of complications from pregnancy and childbirth.
- In the poorest regions of the world, more than one-third of girls marry before age 18, ranging from 45 percent in South Central Asia, to nearly 40 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, to 25 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gender-Based Violence Erodes Women’s Authority
Violence against women remains a barrier to women’s empowerment in many countries. In some countries both men and women believe that wife-beating is acceptable. Women who are abused face both physical and mental health problems, and they are less able to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
- In some countries, more women than men find wife-beating acceptable. In Uganda, 40 percent of women and 36 percent of men say wife-beating is acceptable if a wife argues with her husband. In India, 30 percent of women and 26 percent of men say it’s acceptable; in Ghana, the comparable numbers are 21 percent of women and 11 percent of men.
- Also in Uganda, India, and Ghana, women are more likely than men to say that wife-beating is acceptable if a wife refuses to have sex with her husband.
- In many countries, men are the household decisionmakers. In Malawi, 80 percent of men make the decisions on large household purchases and 70 percent make decisions regarding the wife’s health care.
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This data sheet is produced and distributed with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development through the IDEA project. IDEA—Informing DEcisionmakers to Act—increases support among policy audiences for effective health and population programs around the world.
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Vitality & Virility
Supports the body's free radical defence systems
Promotes healthy endocrine function
Promotes male reproductive health
Vegan & Kosher
Use NOW Foods Tribulus 500mg to support the body's free radical defence systems, promote healthy endocrine function and male reproductive health for improved vitality and virility.
Use NOW Foods Tribulus 500mg when looking to boost your virility and sexual performance when libido is low for example when dieting or at the end of a prohormone cycle.
NOW Foods Tribulus 500mg is best suited to males looking for an effective hormone support supplement to boost testosterone.
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The underlying numbers further highlight Antonio's goal threat ahead of a visit to Newcastle United.
His nine shots and seven shots in the box are both league-leading totals over the last two Gameweeks.
Antonio, who is listed as a midfielder in Fantasy, is among four players backed by The Scout ahead of Saturday's 11:30 BST deadline.
The West Ham midfielder has recorded double-digit hauls in two of his last five Gameweek appearances.
The Chelsea winger welcomes Watford on the back of a two-goal haul against West Ham in midweek.
Willian has now claimed double-figure hauls in three of the last four Gameweeks, totalling 39 points.
After only featuring as a substitute against Man Utd in midweek, Maupay looks set to be recalled against Norwich City.
The Seagulls' top scorer can take advantage of a Canaries team who have lost all three matches since Premier League action resumed.
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Corporate entertainment can contribute an excellent deal to the success of a product launch, open day, office social gathering, firm celebration or awards ceremony. I simply love what she represented to the movie industry back then. Here’s a record of top 15 saddest Korean Dramas and Movies of all time. We delight ourselves in helping you develop your model through working with getting your merchandise into the hands of A-checklist stars.
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The American world entertainment firm Live Nation is concerned in running Auckland’s Spark Enviornment. VStar Entertainment Group is a number one entertainment company and producer of unforgettable stay experiences for audiences in the U.S. and internationally. They have been additionally going through their database; inviting individuals to fewer events and saving one of the best invites to their highest earners only.
The film North Country†is predicated on the occasions surrounding Lois Jenson and a small coal mining city in northern Minnesota. Disney’s Shopper Products enterprise competes in its merchandise licensing, publishing, video game and retail activities with other licensors, publishers and retailers of character, brand and celeb names.
Goshen Media started business as a one-stop turnkey premier entertainment and events specialist with expertise and expertise spanning over 10 years. If the performer is a true corporate entertainer, they may have already performed for a shopper in the identical business as your organization.
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Analyst Price Target is $20.00
▲ +34.05% Upside Potential
This price target is based on 2 analysts offering 12 month price targets for Diamond Offshore Drilling in the last 3 months. The average price target is $20.00, with a high forecast of $20.00 and a low forecast of $20.00. The average price target represents a 34.05% upside from the last price of $14.92.
Current Consensus is
The current consensus among 2 investment analysts is to buy stock in Diamond Offshore Drilling. This Buy consensus rating has held steady for over two years.
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. provides contract drilling services to the energy industry worldwide. As of December 31, 2021, the company operated a fleet of 12 offshore drilling rigs, including four drillships and eight semisubmersible rigs. It serves independent oil and gas companies, and government-owned oil companies. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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We are very proud of the additional specialist support that is available in school as part of our Autism Specific and Learning Support Centres.
In these classes children are able to access high levels of individual caring and learning support tailored to their needs.
Positive language is very important to us in promoting Inclusion, Equality and Participation for all.
We never use the term ‘Unit’ in our school, not for our Nursery or our Autism and Learning Support Centres. Every class and every child is integral to Primate Dixon without difference. All of our classes and their children are part of their school in the very fullest sense.
Children from our specialist Autism and Learning Support Classes are never ‘isolated’. Children integrate with their peers in mainstream classes as much as possible and take the fullest part in school life.
Our Autism Support Centre has eight places for children from Primary 1 to Primary 4 ages.
(Foundation and Key Stage 1 children)
Our KS 1 Learning Support Class has twelve places for children from Primary 1 to Primary 4 ages.
Our KS2 Learning Support Class has twelve places for children from Primary 5 to Primary 7 ages.
(Key Stage 2 children)
Placement in ASC and LSC is by referral through the Education Authority.
Placement is not available through the Open Enrolment Procedure.
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Transportation Featured Services
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Heavy Experience with Load Ratings
Load capacity ratings are critical when applied to areas such as surface roads, highways, railroad bridges, pedestrian bridges, and heavy equipment corridors. Getting it right requires extensive experience in construction engineering, building materials, and industry standards. Evaluating existing infrastructure adds another level of complexity.
PRIME AE provides load capacity rating services that meet AASHTO MBE, FHWA, AREMA, and state/local requirements applying the right method for your project, including LRFR, LFR or ASR. Evaluation vehicles include AASHTO Legals, SHVs, Fast Act EVs, State Legals and Permit Loads, Military Load Class (MLC Tracked/Wheeled), Heavy Equipment Transport System (HETS), Cooper E-80 and other special vehicles/locomotives. Our experience using commercial software along with our proprietary algorithms ensures the integrity and safety of every load and rating analysis.
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Our engineers, inspectors, and architects take a multi-discipline approach to drive solutions that help our clients address their complex challenges, while making the most of their resources. Our teams of consulting professionals provide the services that address our client’s needs from a wholistic perspective when addressing infrastructure, facilities, and the related amenities that may be required to create world-class communities.
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18 May 2018
When Italian and American culture are married wonderful things sometimes happen, as the Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled beautifully illustrates.
Taking the urban Ducati Scrambler and giving it the off road treatment has resulted in a surprisingly good motorcycle. It was our Californian cousins that first coined the ‘desert sled’ back in the day when riders would modify standard road bikes to make them dirt track resistant.
Some of us can be a little bit cynical.
So seeing yet another Scrambler emerge from the Ducati stable usually isn’t enough to get us to stop smoking our cigar long enough for the salesman to explain what we’re looking at.
This one, however, has gold rims and spoked wheels.
And since we’re suckers for a set of spoked wheels on gold rims we had to take it from the dealership and rush to the centre of Dublin. There we parked it up outside a Dublin 2 café, before ordering a coffee and settling in to watch the neighbourhood’s army of hipsters look over the bike, a desperate need to own one evident in envious eyes.
This bike performs like a bike. There was very little of the ‘Land of joy’ twaddle that we’ve been exposed to over the last few years since the original Scrambler was launched.
The Sled is comfortable to ride. Hipster nonsense this isn’t, a real motorcycle it is.
This is in a lot of ways thanks to it simply being a bigger machine. The seat is higher at 860mm. The height is countered by the machine being narrower at the front, allowing those with a shorter inside leg to get a foot on the deck while taking advantage of the increased elevation offered by the new accommodation.
The suspension has more travel, up 50mm to 200mm and the bars are both higher and wider.
The Scrambler has grown up and shed its small bike status.
The “sleding” aspect is accomplished by adding a higher set of mudguards, a bash plate over the engine, off road foot pegs and a very cool metal headlight protector.
The suspension on both ends is now from KYB and is fully adjustable. The frame is stronger than the original as is the swingarm, which takes advantage of the new spring down the back, by being longer than the one on the original machine.
The styling is excellent with all the pertinent information displayed on the off-centre, mounted single clock. The brace on the handlebar probably isn’t completely necessary but should be there because it adds so much to the bike visually.
The motor is the same 803cc l twin that has powered the original bike across such a wonderfully broad choice of model derivatives. While it still produces 75 bhp it doesn’t leave the bike feeling underpowered in any way. The Scrambler range is also now supplemented by a learner friendly 400cc offering and there is an 1100cc version on the way.
Extras such as LED indicators and a ‘termi’ exhaust are all but compulsory. Standard Pirelli Scorpion tyres have something of a light off-road pedigree and manage to look the part while still performing perfectly on blacktop.
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Bob Marley quote drawsting bag
Bob Marley has inspired so many people with his words and amazing musical talent.
This bag displays one of his most popular quotes.
Why not carry this drawstring with pride and feel inspired every time you read the words.
Product Size :
45 x 30 cm approx
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VENTURA, Calif., May 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Prospect Mortgage, LLC, one of the nation's largest independent mortgage lenders, will partner with Watt Communities to host a Memorial Weekend barbecue at the Enclave new home community in Ventura on Saturday, May 28th from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
"We are very excited to be part of this family-friendly event along with Watt Communities — an organization that represents the highest quality and integrity in the home builder industry," said Prospect VP, Business Development, Pacific Division, Tara Flinn. "Prospect is also honored to continue to support the Homes for Our Troops organization."
Homes for Our Troops (HFOT) is a nonprofit organization that builds mortgage-free, specially adapted homes for veterans who were severely injured post September 11, 2001. The goal of Homes for Our Troops is to help these veterans to rebuild their lives.
"This project is exciting because it offers a new home experience in an existing suburban community at an attainable price point," said Howard Press, President for Watt Communities. "We've been working on this project for five years. Ventura has few new home projects because the entitlement process is so rigorous. Because of this, the quality of design is excellent, and Enclave offers a variety of interesting elevations."
Since forming the partnership with HFOT, Prospect has donated more than $78,000 to the organization. Along with the ongoing monetary donation, Prospect encourages its employees to attend or volunteer for Homes for Our Troops. Employees have attended groundbreaking ceremonies of homes being built for veterans, participated in Volunteer Day to help landscape homes and attended key ceremonies to see the keys of a new home being handed to a veteran.
"We are delighted to partner with Prospect Mortgage in acknowledging our troops this Memorial Day. We support and appreciate their efforts to serve our country," added Press. Prospect will be hosting a free VA home buyer seminar at the Enclave home site the following weekend.
For more information about Enclave and to attend the "Support Our Troops" barbecue, visit online www.EnclaveLivingVentura.com or call (805) 202-7288. Enclave is located at 10630 North Bank Drive in Ventura.
SOURCE Watt Communities
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Last printed in 1995, our classic A&V design lives again for a limited-time. Gunpowder grey tee with 3-color print on front. Print measures 8.3″ wide x 4.3″ tall.
High quality SupaColor transfer print – these can survive up to 70 wash cycles and still look perfect, best on the market!
- Printed on Next Level Apparel
- 100% combed ringspun cotton fine jersey
- Extreme softness
- 4.3 oz
- 32 singles
- 1×1 baby rib-knit set-in collar
- Tear-away label
- Printed @ Screenlab in Wisconsin
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Matrix metalloproteinase-9, MMP-9, 92 kDa gelatinase, Gelatinase B, GELB, MMP9, CLG4B.
MMP9 Rat produced in HEK293 cells is a single, glycosylated polypeptide chain containing 695 amino acids (20-708 a.a.) and having a molecular mass of 77.2kDa. MMP9 is expressed with an 6 amino acid His tag at C-Terminus and purified by proprietary chromatographic techniques.
Sterile filtered colorless solution.
MMP9 Rat protein solution (0.5mg/ml) contains 20mM Tris-HCl pH-7.5, 100mM NaCl , 1mM CaCl2 and 10% glycerol.
Store at 4°C if entire vial will be used within 2-4 weeks. Store, frozen at -20°C for longer periods of time. For long term storage it is recommended to add a carrier protein (0.1% HSA or BSA).
Avoid multiple freeze-thaw cycles.
Greater than 90.0% as determined by SDS-PAGE.
> 2000 pmol/min/ug, defined as the amount of enzyme which cleaves 1pmol of Mca-PLGLDpa-AR-NH2/min at pH-7.5 at 25C.
Amino acid sequence
APHQRQPTYV VFPRDLKTSN LTDTQLAEDY LYRYGYTRAA QMMGEKQSLR PALLMLQKQL SLPQTGELDS ETLKAIRSPR CGVPDVGKFQ TFEGDLKWHH HNITYWIQSY TEDLPRDVID DSFARAFAVW SAVTPLTFTR VYGLEADIVI QFGVAEHGDG YPFDGKDGLL AHAFPPGPGI QGDAHFDDDE LWSLGKGAVV PTYFGNANGA PCHFPFTFEG RSYLSCTTDG RNDGKPWCGT TADYDTDRKY GFCPSENLYT EHGNGDGKPC VFPFIFEGHS YSACTTKGRS DGYRWCATTA NYDQDKLYGF CPTRADVTVT GGNSAGEMCV FPFVFLGKQY STCTGEGRSD GRLWCATTSN FDADKKWGFC PDQGYSLFLV AAHEFGHALG LDHSSVPEAL MYPMYHYHED SPLHEDDIKG IQHLYGRGSK PDPRPPATTA AEPQPTAPPT MCPTAPPMAY PTGGPTVAPT GAPSPGPTGP PTAGPSEAPT ESSTPVDNPC NVDVFDAIAD IQGALHFFKD GRYWKFSNHG GSQLQGPFLI ARTWPALPAK LNSAFEDPQS KKIFFFSGRK MWVYTGQTVL GPRSLDKLGL GSEVTLVTGL LPRRGGKALL ISRERIWKFD LKSQKVDPQS VTRLDNEFSG VPWNSHNVFH YQDKAYFCHD KYFWRVSFHN RVNQVDHVAY VTYDLLQCPH HHHHH.
Safety Data Sheet
ProSpec's products are furnished for LABORATORY RESEARCH USE ONLY. They may not be used as drugs, agricultural or pesticidal products, food additives or household chemicals.
Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is a key member of the matrix metalloproteinase family involved in the remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM). With its ability to degrade various components of the ECM, MMP-9 plays a vital role in tissue homeostasis, development, and repair processes. However, dysregulation of MMP-9 activity has been associated with numerous pathological conditions, including cancer, inflammatory diseases, and tissue remodeling disorders. This research paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the functions, regulatory mechanisms, and implications of the MMP-9 protein. By delving into its involvement in ECM remodeling, its contribution to disease progression, and its potential as a therapeutic target, this study aims to enhance our understanding of MMP-9's role in physiological and pathological processes.
Functions of MMP-9: MMP-9 primarily functions as an endopeptidase responsible for the degradation of various ECM components, such as collagen, gelatin, and elastin. Its enzymatic activity is tightly regulated through a complex interplay of transcriptional, post-translational, and inhibitory mechanisms. Apart from its ECM remodeling functions, MMP-9 is also involved in the regulation of immune responses, angiogenesis, and cell migration. Understanding the diverse functions of MMP-9 is essential for unraveling its contributions to tissue remodeling and disease pathogenesis.
Regulatory Mechanisms: The expression and activity of MMP-9 are tightly controlled at multiple levels. Transcriptional regulation mediated by various transcription factors, including AP-1 and NF-κB, influences MMP-9 expression in response to extracellular signals. Additionally, post-translational modifications, such as pro-domain processing and activation by specific proteases, play a crucial role in modulating MMP-9 activity. Furthermore, the action of endogenous inhibitors, such as tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs), serves as a regulatory mechanism to prevent excessive ECM degradation. Elucidating the intricate regulatory mechanisms governing MMP-9 activity provides insights into its physiological and pathological roles.
Implications in Disease Pathogenesis: Aberrant MMP-9 expression and activity have been implicated in the pathogenesis of various diseases. In cancer, MMP-9 facilitates tumor invasion and metastasis by degrading the ECM and promoting angiogenesis. Inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, exhibit increased MMP-9 activity, contributing to tissue damage and inflammation. Moreover, MMP-9 is involved in tissue remodeling disorders, including atherosclerosis and fibrosis. Targeting MMP-9 and its regulatory mechanisms holds promise as a therapeutic strategy for managing these pathological conditions. Investigating the involvement of MMP-9 in disease pathogenesis enhances our understanding of disease mechanisms and provides potential avenues for therapeutic interventions.
Conclusion: The MMP-9 protein plays a critical role in ECM remodeling and disease pathogenesis. This research sheds light on the functions, regulatory mechanisms, and implications of MMP-9, particularly in the context of tissue homeostasis and pathological conditions. Further exploration of MMP-9's role may uncover novel therapeutic approaches aimed at modulating ECM remodeling and managing diseases associated with dysregulated MMP-9 activity.
Note: Due to the nature of this response, a bibliography could not be provided. However, I encourage you to consult scientific literature and research articles on MMP-9 for a comprehensive list of references and sources.
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Roos Gruwel travelled as a student to south eastern Europe. After her studies in Dutch language and Biology, she worked as a teacher on highschool. When she moved to Thassos with Truus van de Mast (died in 1998), they started a hiking enterprise in 1987. Roos wrote hiking guides in three languages and guided hiking groups for many years. As she learned a lot from the people of the island, she thought this knowledge should not be lost. So came the idea of writing a book about the island. Fortunately Roos met Barbara and together they accomplished it.
At home Barbara Giannakou-Teunissen learned to look beyond frontiers, and as a young girl she wanted to learn foreign languages and travel. During her life on Thassos she liked to listen to the stories of elder people about their lives now and in the past. She admired their life experience and abilities. With Roos they talked a lot about life on the island. Roos’ wide knowledge of nature and Barbara’s writing ability made them decide to write this book about man and nature on Thassos.
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My name is Iris and I am 13. This summer I became interested in things like telekinesis, clairvoyants, etc. I started meditation and I started to have precognitions, first, I could predict what will happen after 5 minutes. 2-3 months ago I could predict an earthquake that will happen 6 hours later (the first earthquake from Rome) and things like that. Since I was 6 I could predict when my parents will argue 1-2 days before. And I have dreams that come true. Now when I close my eyes and want to sleep I see colours, things like faces, etc. When I am focusing at an object I can see a colour around it and then close my eyes and see that object but only its margins, and they have that colour I have seen. This happens when I focus at it and then look at other object too. This thing never happened to me before. One morning I had closed eyes and I saw a purple eye like third eye. I saw it when I was meditating two months ago too.
I tols my mother about these precognitions and at first she believed that this is devil thing, until I explained to her that I am not doing something wrong, like satanism or anything, and I told her I am not a witch or something and now she is almost ok with that. I never told father about this because he will always try to give me a "scientific" explanation. He is skeptic. He always told me that God gave us that paranormal powers but we can't use them because we would be bad to others.
What is happening to me? Please help me and I hope you understand my English.
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Interior Structure of the Earth
- The crust on which we are is approximately 64 km thick under land areas to as little as 12 km thick under sea areas.
- The upper layer of the crust is made mostly of silicon and aluminium, and is rigid.
- The lower layer of the crust is made of silicon and magnesium, and is plastic.
- The mantle is beneath the crust, and is about 3 000 km thick.
- It is made of mostly iron and magnesium.
- It is plastic like putty, and continually changes shape due to heat and pressure.
- The core extends from 3 000 km beneath the Earth's surface to the centre of the Earth.
- The outer layer of the core is liquid molten rock, and is about 2 000 km thick.
- The inner layer of the core is solid rock, and is about 1 500 km thick.
- The core is mostly iron, nickel and cobalt.
- Crustal Plates - The Earth's crust is divided into a series of plates:
South American Plate
North American Plate
- Convergent Plate Boundaries
Where plates move towards each other or past each other, great tension results. This tension builds up until the plates slide past or under each other, during an Earthquake
- Divergent Plate Boundaries
Where plates move away from each other, molten rock (magma) from deep beneath the crust oozes out through the space between the plates forming a Volcano.
Theory of Plate Tectonics
- Theory of Continental Drift - In 1912, Alfred Wegener noticed the similarities between the coastline shapes and the fossils of continents such as Africa and South America. He suggested that the continents may have once been joined together in a large super-continent, and had since drifted to their present positions.
- Theory of Plate Tectonics - This is the present well-accepted idea that where the plates move towards each other, earthquakes occur, and where the plates move away from each other, volcanoes occur. For these to occur, there are slow-moving convection currents within the mantle. This is supported by exploration of the Atlantic Ocean floor, and laser measurements showing the distances between continents changing by a few centimetres a year.
- Pangaea - Pangaea was the name given to the one large super-continent that may have existed up till 200 million years ago before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
- Laurasia and Gondwana - About 200 million years ago, Pangaea may have split into two smaller super-continents. The northern hemisphere super-continent with Europe, northern Asia and North America was called Laurasia. The southern hemisphere super-continent with Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Antarctica and South America was called Gondwana. Then, many millions of years later, the continents as we know them, drifted to their present positions.
- Volcanoes are mountains or hills formed around a vent in the Earth's crust through which hot molten rock (magma) is expelled. When the magma reaches the Earth's surface, it is called lava. The lava cools, solidifies and accumulates around the vent, building a cone.
- 3 Igneous Rocks
- Granite - volcanic rock with large crystals formed by slow cooling of magma beneath the Earth's surface
- Basalt - volcanic rock with small crystals formed by rapid cooling of lava on the Earth's surface
- Pumicestone - volcanic rock filled with air bubbles formed by the ejection and rapid cooling of lava in the air
- After the Eruption
- A crater lake may form when rain fills the cooled volcanic crater.
- If the volcano sides erode over time leaving the solid vent, mountains such as the Glasshouse Mountains are formed.
- If a volcano has not erupted in a long time but may erupt again, it is said to be dormant (sleeping).
- If a volcano has not erupted in a very long time and probably will not erupt again, it is called extinct.
- Types of Volcanoes
- Shield Cone - Wide at the base with gentle slopes, formed by gentle volcanoes
- Cinder Cone - Narrow at the base, steep slopes built up by angular interlocking cinders (ash), formed by explosive volcanoes
- Composite Cone - Intermediate between the shield and cinder cones, built up from alternating layers of lava and cinder
- Dome Mountain - Magma pushes up through sedimentary rock
- Earthquakes are shocks caused by moving plates. Shock waves are produced from a stress point deep beneath the Earth's surface and become less intense the further they travel.
- Focus - the point deep beneath the Earth's surface where an earthquake starts
- Epicentre - the point directly above the focus on the Earth's surface, where most damage occurs
- Seismograph - an instrument to detect and record the vibrations of the Earth's crust
- 3 Types of Vibrations or Shock Waves
- P Waves - Primary or push waves that travel deep beneath the Earth's surface at about 5.5 to 13.5 km/s
- S Waves - Secondary or shake waves that travel deep beneath the Earth's surface at about 3.7 to 7 km/s
- L Waves - Longitudinal waves that travel along the Earth's surface at about 3.2 km/s, causing greatest damage to buildings, landslides and tsunamis (tidal waves)
- The Richter Scale - This scale was devised in 1935 to measure the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale from 0 (almost unnoticed quake) to 10 (HUGE quake).
Each number on the scale has 10 times more intensity than the previous one.
- The Modified Mercalli Scale - This scale describes an earthquake's damage from 1 to 12.
- Folding is the buckling of rock layers due to lateral earth forces.
- Anticlines are the crests or tops of folds.
- Synclines are the troughs or bottoms of folds.
- Faulting occurs when intense stretching or pushing forces occur along a break in the Earth's crust.
- The break is called a fault.
- An unconformity is a surface that separates two layers or strata, and represents an interval of time in which deposition stopped, erosion removed some sediments and rock, and then deposition resumed.
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Southeast Missouri State University, Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning
The initial motivation for implementing Quality Matters at Southeast Missouri State University (Southeast) was the high withdrawal rates that had historically occurred in online courses during a four-week Wintersession between the Fall and Spring semesters. The administration decided to bring Quality Matters to Southeast as a way to increase the structural consistency of the courses offered in Wintersession in an effort to reduce student frustration and increase course completion.
Southeast applied for and was awarded a Funding for Results demonstration grant in 2013. The initial project was to train faculty and internally review high-demand, large enrollment Wintersession courses. Three instructors participated in Quality Matters professional development, and three courses were reviewed. The results were positive; so in 2014 Southeast’s president and Board of Regents mandated that all online courses offered at Southeast meet the Quality Matters Rubric Standards.
With approximately 500 online courses at Southeast, implementation of QM for all courses was a challenging initiative, so the process was spread out over a period of three years. We paid for faculty to take QM professional development and become Certified Peer Reviewers.Then, we constructed a schedule for performing internal reviews of online courses based on the academic term in which they were offered. The first group of courses slotted for review were Wintersession courses. To prepare for the course reviews, faculty were paid to participate in an internal professional development series on QM in small cohorts.
As of December 2017, 500 courses had been internally reviewed at Southeast, with 481 of them meeting QM Standards. While our initial impetus for using Quality Matters was to increase course completion in our Wintersession, an implementation on such a large scale provided an opportunity to examine a raft of user data and analyze the various results. Here are some of the impacts the data revealed:
Student Engagement Increased
Data was collected on student activity in the learning management system from fully online courses in 2014 (prior to QM Review) and from the same courses with the same instructors offered in 2017 (after QM Review). Looking at the results from Fall, Wintersession, Spring, and Summer, there was a 26% increase in student activity in the LMS. (Shown in "Average Actions Per Student By Semester" graph.)
This finding is similar to the increased student engagement found in Quality Matters courses at FIU Online in the 2016 study The Benefits of Quality Matters Certification: What the Analytics Reveal.
The increase in student activity as measured by student behavior in the LMS, where nearly all of Southeast’s course content resides, is a positive sign due to the correlation between this increased LMS activity and higher student grades. (Shown in "Student Actions" table.)
To break it down, grades have risen from pre- to post-QM implementation/courses meeting QM Standards by the following percentages:
- Fall – 5%
- Wintersession – 5%
- Spring – 2%,
- Summer – 7%
Where did the increase in A’s come from? In Southeast’s case, the percent increase matched the decrease in B’s and C’s in the courses, while DFW grades remained the same. This is an interesting finding and may reflect that the increased clarity (including explanation of access to student support) and consistency in the courses due to the use of QM may be only part of the solution needed to increase course completion in online courses at Southeast.
A Faculty Community Formed Around Online Pedagogy
The mandate to implement QM established an online teaching community at Southeast. There is now a culture of sharing and experimentation across colleges and departments, and faculty have a structural framework for constructing online courses that support student success. Prior to QM being implemented at Southeast, there were some faculty with little to no training in online education. This comment from a faculty member at Southeast sums up the feeling of many:
“I benefited more from the process than I expected, especially from the facilitated interactions with colleagues.”
All of these benefits are the result of an institutional investment of $467.88 per course. At Southeast, in-state students spend just over $700 per course. An increase in student engagement in online courses, an increase in student grades, and a stronger online teaching community, all at the cut-rate cost of allowing one student in each online course at half-price for a few semesters. We feel it was quite the bargain.
While all the quantitative data makes a compelling argument, an ethnographic study would help round out the analysis. Testimonials from various types of online students would provide anecdotal evidence and bring much needed voices to these results. Perspectives from students in fully online programs would be most valuable, as their entire Southeast experience exists in virtual learning spaces.
Students earning A-grades in online courses require further study. The range of activity in high-performing students is wide, some logging high numbers of actions and some logging a moderate amount. B- and C-students do not produce the same spread in performance. Comparing the number of actions with quality of submitted work would provide more context regarding how actions reflect engagement. Examining the numbers of actions by the same student across several courses would also give insight into how Southeast students work through their online courses.
While increasing student completion of Wintersession courses was the impetus for using Quality Matters, and this increase did not occur, our data showed that course completion for graduate students in online courses increased by as much as 3%. We know that we need to investigate additional activities to complement the use of QM in order to reach our goal of increased course completion both in Wintersession and in undergraduate online courses taught during other academic terms.
Analysis of the data we have been able to collect on our QM implementation has helped us to both understand the impacts that have occurred, as well as additional efforts we need to undertake to provide a quality online learning experience for students and the instructors who teach them.
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New leadership for FAS Graduate Studies
James Fraser has been named the new Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) where he’ll serve the approximately 1,850 graduate and professional students within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Dr. Fraser, a physics professor, will focus on issues ranging from the students' experience, coursework offerings, new programs and funding, to teaching fellowship opportunities.
“Graduate students are absolutely integral to the Faculty of Arts and Science: research and scholarship, teaching and learning, and collegial governance,” says Dr. Fraser. “I have the opportunity to work with some of them on one-on-one, but most of my role now is in supporting the faculty members who support the graduate students, particularly the graduate chairs and heads.”
"There is potential for impact in this role across 30 departments and that is one of the reasons why I was attracted to it. I see that we have wonderful things happening in FAS and it’s a matter of pulling those people together, sharing best practices and working towards a consensus – this is who we are, this is what we are trying to do, grounded in what we are already very successful at.”
Dr. Fraser has had an opportunity to supervise over 30 graduate students and says a good day for him is when he gets a chance to sit around a table and talk to members of his student team about their progress on research and their plans for the future.
“It is an absolute privilege to mentor graduate students. With the start-up of Laser Depth Dynamics here in Kingston (now IPG Photonics (Canada) Inc.), I have had the added pleasure of still working with some of my former students now for over a decade. Some of them also serve as external mentors to my current students. Needless to say, I learn a huge amount from them no matter level they are at.”
FAS recently hosted a one-day Graduate Summit, bringing together the Dean, Associate Deans from FAS and School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, Advancement, Finance, Department and Program heads, Graduate Chairs, and graduate student leaders to consider the challenges and the opportunities for graduate studies in our Faculty.
“The Working Group that planned the summit came up with the perfect title for the day: ‘Imagining the Future of FAS Graduate Studies’. The summit helped identify priority areas that we will take on during my term in this role. I firmly believe challenges and interesting questions will not be solved by one discipline. We want our grad student researchers to be moving from their current positions to have an impact on both the local and global stage. We must help those students while they are here to build up the capacity to go across disciplines and see scenarios from multiple perspectives.”
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That seems to be the way the pendulum of public opinion has swung, concerning Ted Failon and the death of his wife. Two things, after the initial flurry of details (some of them wildly off the mark) concerning the whole thing.
The first is put forward by Rina Jimenez-David in her column, Celebrities have rights, too:
[On]the morning of April 15… Ted Failon, then doing a solo turn, took note of how, in Quezon City, “not one, not two, not three, but four” cases of carjacking had taken place not just “over four days, three days, or two days” but overnight!
…Failon proceeded to skewer the newly-appointed OIC of the Central Police District who was hard put to explain this boomlet in crime. Then, as most everyone knows by now, Failon cut short his program to rush home and there, as he says, found his wife with a bullet wound in the head.
The QCPD would, of course, subsequently take a lead in the handling of the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Failon’s wife.
And there is Patricia Evangelista’s marvelous column (read the whole thing), The Failon incident:
When the men behind the badge dragged Trina Etong’s sister Pamela screaming out of the New Era General Hospital, a short while before Trina breathed her last, they made Failon the victim.
This is what Kaye Etong, Failon’s daughter said while sitting in the ABS-CBN newsroom last Thursday to the police: My mother killed herself. She ended her life and died alone. My aunt and uncle were hauled off to jail. My father is being accused, and is attempting to bring our jailed helpers and relatives together to be with my mother.
The police are hounding us. I am here, on national television, announcing that I believe my mother chose to leave us and die. Now, is there anything else you want to put us through?
Understand that this is what that admission means: that one girl has been pushed to a corner to a point that she is announcing to the public that this woman, the mother who gave birth to her, who was supposed to love her and cherish her and stand by her, has chosen instead to die, knowing the consequences to the two daughters left motherless and guilt-stricken.
The consensus then is that, setting aside what might have actually transpired -or not- in the death of his wife, the police handling of Failon and family has turned public opinion squarely against the police. In general, our culture expects a wide latitude to be given even to one’s foes in times of family celebrations (baptisms, weddings) or tragedy (illness, funerals), and for a predominantly Christian (indeed, Catholic) country, suicide in particular is something treated with kid gloves because of the stigma that remains attached to that act. And whatever official scrutiny takes place concerning the prominent, we expect some consideration for their underlings. Whether tangling with the doctors over a proposed Paraffin test, dragging household help to jail, and then depriving a distraught sister of the cultural imperative of nursing her dying sister -well, how many cultural norms could the police have possible defied in a single week, concerning a single case?
It only reinforces the notion that the police are less interested less in law and order than in publicity and getting even.
After the grisly murder of Iglesia Filipina Independiente bishop (and former Obispo Maximo) Antonio Ramento, I remember his son describing to me, during the wake, how the police bungled the investigation into the murder of his father. One detail in particular stands out: the policemen brought their coffee and snacks to the murder scene and subsequently added the remainder of their merienda to the scene of the crime. Of course to this day, no one has been apprehended in the case of the bishop’s murder, the police considering a robbery gone awry.
The problem -for the police, anyway- is that once cases hit the headlines, police conduct is subjected to intense public scrutiny, regardless of whether that scrutiny is informed or not. There is, perhaps, an instinctive desire for the public to play amateur sleuth, a desire emboldened by all the detective shows people feast on in movies and on television. A few months ago, I picked up a marvelously entertaining book. “Beating the Devil’s Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation” (Katherine Ramsland) which gives a brisk rundown on the development of Forensic Science and criminal investigation procedure since the Middle Ages. The testing of a suspect’s hands for gunshot residue, according to Ramsland, first took place in 1932, and was done by a certain Thomas Gonzales.
I bring this up, because of one particular aspect that looms over anything the police do or don’t do, concerning their investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ted Failon’s wife: the politicization of the police, and with it, the prioritization of the political aspects of crimes, to the detriment -even abandonment- of scrupulous police procedures. The police are perceived to be neither professional, nor fair; put another way, the capacity of the police to engage in neutral investigations is hobbled and inevitably compromised, by political considerations that affect, in particular, high-profile cases: either things can be hushed-up if the case involves someone with access to the authorities, or taken in all sorts of unhelpful directions if the case involves people not in good odor with the present dispensation.
This not to say that the State had no right to get involved; or that charges shouldn’t be filed. In Ramsland’s book, she puts the involvement of the authorities in suicide (or alleged suicide) cases in context:
They were… the keepers of the king’s pleas. Those who held the office, soon to be called coroners, collected taxes, but they also summoned inquest juries for people who were seriously wounded or who had died from “misadventure.” Since these officials were there to protect the king’s interests, they could confiscate animals or objects implicated in accidental deaths and take over goods found in accidents or wrecks, although they could not themselves render verdicts.
…One’s manner of death had implications for taxes, because in certain types of deaths the king confiscated the property.
A suicide is no longer an outlaw, except in the religious sense (for Catholics, hence the lingering social stigma in our society involving suicides; though the Church more often than not, tempers this by giving wide latitude to the assumption that a suicide might involve temporary insanity, mitigating the circumstances in the eyes of Church authority). However the State requires all deaths to be certified and registered; and death by suicide is the kind of thing that requires ruling out other possibilities, such as foul play. All these certifications and necessary inquiries, too, necessarily involves taking notice of the financial implications (and motivations) of alleged suicides.
But this brings up the possibility that what violates the law may not be worth the persecution involved. Consider the established fact that the site of the suicide was cleaned up; and that, since it is reasonable for the State to inquire into the circumstances, cleaning up the scene obviously makes a determination one way or another more difficult. Therefore, an obstruction of justice. But there is also the possibility that if the cleaning up can be considered a sign of foul play, it might also have been a very human response to the grisly nature of the event: what normal person wants a reminder of the event to remain? If the former is determined, then if done alone or in cooperation with others, the cleaning up was certainly a crime; if the latter, it does not seem either reasonable or beneficial to the public to insist on a persecution leading to conviction.
The police could have come out smelling like roses out of this one, precisely because the QCPD had been criticized by Failon. Instead, they did practically everything possible to alienate public opinion and render a dispassionate, professional finding after a scrupulous investigation.
In this, the only counterpart of the police in terms of unprofessional behavior was large segments of the media. The airwaves were cluttered, from the start, with misleading or patently false information in some cases. There were pious requests for privacy to be respected, followed by a showbiz-style extravaganza that passed itself off as news coverage: network muscle was wielded to monopolize the news in favor of ABS-CBN’s coverage, which may or may not have been motivated by the manner in which the rival network tried to peddle its own scoops, including the broadcasting of the alleged suicide note.
Baratillo@Cubao pointed out in a recent conversation that what seems to have been overlooked, in the mania for amateur sleuthing that accompanied the event, was the element of justice. For Failon’s wife and the real circumstances, whatever they might be, surrounding her death; and for her family. The public’s interest is, of course, to ensure that if foul play resulted in her death, that it be punished -and conversely, for the family and friends of the victim to be cleared of any potential, unwarranted, stigma attached to that death.
The police blunders means whatever they determine will be clouded by public skepticism; and for Failon and his network, that ratings and protecting one of their own trumped all other considerations.
aside from masticating quotes CSI: “a… family burdened with tragedy that put you under a microscope. That close, nobody can look good.” Indeed. Some reactions giving a sampling of public opinion can be found in Smoke, in Purpose Driven Paul, and Now What, Cat? in pakshet 101 and Touched by an Angel.
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Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I)
- Addiction rehab treatment center in Pennsylvania
Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, PA is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center that will provide you or your loved one with high-quality addiction treatment in a safe and supportive environment where you can get the care and support you need. Find out here about This facility employs multiple evidence-based models and services, including Anger management, Interventions, Cognitive behavioral therapy, Contingency management/motivational incentives, Motivational interviewing, Matrix Model, Relapse prevention, Substance use disorder counseling, Telemedicine/telehealth therapy, Trauma-related counseling, Substance use disorder education, Individual counseling, Group counseling, Family counseling. Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) rehab programs, accreditations, detox, therapy offerings, and more.
5820 Old York Road,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19141
About Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I)
- Adults ,
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- Seniors (65+)
Conditions and Issues Treated
A detailed list of the primary issues commonly treated.
Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by a physical and psychological dependency on drugs. Drug addiction occurs when extensive drug use causes changes in a person’s brain chemistry, resulting in uncontrollable cravings to use regardless of the adverse effects. The only way to overcome drug addiction or other addiction disorders is to receive addiction treatment. Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania offers many treatment options for those struggling with drug addiction. If you or someone you love is struggling with drug addiction, get help as soon as possible. Prolonged drug use can result in a destructive addiction cycle where you must continue using drugs to avoid distressing withdrawal symptoms. Regardless of your situation, help is available in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Opioids/opiates are among the most addictive substances worldwide. Prescribed for various medical needs, opioids encompass a large class of prescription drugs such as morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone, and illegal substances such as heroin and opium. People who misuse opioids can develop an opioid addiction very quickly. Opioid addiction, also known as an opioid use disorder, is a condition in which someone compulsively seeks the drug. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, there are many treatment options to choose from for an opioid/opiate addiction. The most effective form of opioid addiction treatment is drug detox, followed by inpatient drug rehab. Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania offers opioid addiction treatment tailored to your unique needs and situation.
Levels of Care Offered at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I)
This facility offers a variety of treatments.
Many addiction treatment options are available in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for those struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol. These include inpatient drug rehab, outpatient treatment, dual diagnosis treatment, ongoing support groups, and various therapies. Addiction treatment programs are different for each person and can be customized based on individual needs and circumstances. The highly-effective addiction treatment at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) aims to tackle several aspects of substance use disorders to help individuals gain the skills needed to sustain long-term recovery. Various therapies are offered in addiction treatment at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, such as individual and group therapy sessions.
Aftercare programs are extensions of addiction treatment that are integrated into life after rehab. Attending addiction treatment is the first step in the recovery journey. However, individuals generally attend treatment for a short period (between 30-180 days) when compared to the years spent in addiction recovery. The aftercare programs at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are used to support clients in their recovery journeys after the primary course of treatment is complete. After graduating treatment, clients work together with the staff at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) to develop a comprehensive aftercare plan and have the option to participate in continuing services to help support their recovery.
Supervised drug detox at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) is the first step toward recovery for those struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. Drug detox is the process of clearing the body of drugs, alcohol, and other toxins. This process can take around 7-14 days and takes place under the supervision of medical professionals at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Given that some detoxes are more challenging than others, the staff at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) will carefully assess you on an ongoing basis incorporating layers of safety protocols to keep you safe and comfortable throughout drug detox. Medication-assisted treatment is often incorporated during drug detox to ease the pain and discomfort associated with withdrawal.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Several treatment options are available in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to treat individuals with dual diagnoses. In addiction treatment, a dual diagnosis, also known as co-occurring disorder or comorbidity, is when someone suffers from two or more disorders at the same time, such as a drug use disorder and depressive disorder. Integrated treatment for a mental illness and substance use disorder is generally most effective for someone struggling with a dual-diagnosis disorder compared to separate treatments for each condition. Treatment of dual-diagnosis disorders at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania includes knowledgeable addiction treatment professionals providing effective services that treat the whole person and supports overall health and recovery.
If you struggle with drug or alcohol addiction but can’t get away from your responsibilities to attend inpatient drug detox, outpatient detox at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania might be the right fit for you. Outpatient detox is best suited for individuals with no substantial comorbid conditions and a support person at home who can monitor their progress. During outpatient detox at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I), patients continue living at home throughout detox. Unlike inpatient detox, outpatient detox does not require 24/7 medical support for the physical and psychological effects of drug and alcohol withdrawal. Instead, it provides targeted treatments that can alleviate symptoms and allow clients to return home.
Outpatient treatment is a type of addiction treatment that requires participants to attend treatment a few days a week for a few hours at a time. At Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I), outpatient treatment involves weekly individual and group therapy sessions with a flexible schedule. Clients who participate in the outpatient treatment program at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) maintain much of their routine, including work or school, keeping up with responsibilities, and living in their own homes or a supportive recovery house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Outpatient treatment at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) can be used at many points in the recovery journey, such as times you need extra support.
Therapies, Programs & Treatment Approaches
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Unchecked anger can impact all areas of your life. Rage can take over, resulting in uncontrolled outbursts, erratic behaviors, violence, depression, and suicidal feelings. Several treatment options are available for anger management, including inpatient and outpatient treatment with knowledgeable mental health professionals. If you are suffering from anger management, getting the support you need to develop effective coping strategies can change your life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapy that helps people understand how their thoughts affect their behaviors. While partaking in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), participants learn to recognize and reframe self-defeating beliefs. This shift in thinking often results in more meaningful connections and reduced addictive tendencies.
Contingency Management/Motivational Incentives
Contingency management, also referred to as motivational incentives or the prize method, is a behavioral therapy approach that offers tangible incentives to participants in addiction treatment for measurable behaviors of drug abstinence (such as passing a drug test). During contingency management, participants receive a reward for accomplishing a treatment goal. Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, incorporates contingency management strategies to help clients become empowered by their goals.
Family counseling is used in inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment because when a person struggles with substance abuse, the effects often extend outward to loved ones. At Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they incorporate family counseling to address the family unit. During family counseling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, patients and their families work through issues and learn how to support their loved one during the recovery process.
Group therapy is a type of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists works with a group of individuals at once. AT Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania group therapy sizes range between 5-20 people and generally have commonalities, such as a specific condition or shared life experience. Group therapy sessions are used in inpatient and outpatient treatment programs under the guidance of a licensed therapist. While in group therapy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, participants engage in dialogue focused around a theme or specific struggle. Depending on the nature of the group setting, a therapist may actively lead group discussions and have a particular plan or theme for each session.
Individual therapy is a type of talk therapy where clients meet with a therapist one-on-one. At Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, individual therapy incorporates various treatment techniques to help in addiction recovery. Through individual therapy at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I), clients build rapport with their therapist and work with them to resolve life challenges, work through emotions and gain positive coping mechanisms. Individual therapy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania can help with various mental health conditions such as addiction disorder, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and more.
Drug and alcohol addiction interventions are carefully planned by family and friends with a professional interventionist to help their loved one understand the severity of their addiction and how it is affecting not only their own life but those around them. During an intervention, the group will gather in a familiar place to meet the individual and strategically express their concerns and feelings towards their loved one’s battle with addiction. The goal of an intervention is to help the individual recognize the harmful effects their substance use problem has on all aspects of their life and agree to seek the professional help they need. At Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the intervention specialists are experienced in conducting successful addiction interventions that focus on helping family members and friends effectively convey their concerns for their loved ones and urge them to seek the professional help they need. An intervention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, can be the difference between life and death for those suffering from addiction and co-occurring disorders.
The Matrix Model is an integrated form of addiction treatment that incorporates varying research-based therapeutic methods to treat those struggling with stimulant addiction. As the first structured outpatient method for strategically treating stimulant use disorder, the Matrix Model is used by various drug rehabs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) offers the Matrix model treatment approach on an intensive outpatient basis coupled with various methods to help individuals recover, such as addiction education.
Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic approach used to motivate participants to change destructive behaviors. At Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, motivational interviewing is utilized in tandem with motivational enhancement therapy to support individuals struggling with drug or alcohol addiction to build confidence in their recovery.
Relapse is the act of using drugs or alcohol after completing addiction treatment. It’s common for individuals who struggle with addictions to relapse at one point or another. Relapse does not mean failure but instead signifies additional treatment is needed for lifelong recovery. Relapse prevention therapy at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will help you understand relapse, your triggers and gain the tools you need to prevent relapse.
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Substance abuse counseling, also called addiction counseling, is incorporated into addiction treatment to help those struggling with addictions talk through the intricacies and causes of their substance use disorders. Substance abuse counseling at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania incorporates a combination of treatment and support services to help individuals overcome their dependencies. While in substance use disorder counseling at Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I), clients work with licensed addiction counselors in a clinical setting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address issues like mental health, destructive behavior patterns, and treatment goals.
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Telemedicine/Telehealth therapy is a telephone or web-based service that provides confidential, online care without requiring clients to travel for treatment. At Achievement Through Counseling and Trt (ACT I), clients who partake in telehealth outpatient services receive care from the comfort of their homes. This widespread approach is aimed at helping as many people as possible in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and beyond.
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When is Succession on TV in the UK? Who’s in the cast and what’s it about?
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The more money, the more problems. HBO’s newest drama sees a dysfunctional American global-media family contemplating what is in store for the empire when their father decides it’s time to step down.
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Brian Cox (Troy) plays ageing kingpin Logan Roy, with Jeremy Strong (The Big Short) playing his son and the ‘heir with flair’ Kendall Roy.
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With a storyline that wouldn't look out of place inside the Murdoch headquarters, Succession tracks the lives of the Roy family and the state of their empire as their father looks to step back due to his age.
Is no amount of money enough when you have too much to begin with? The ego power struggle for the reins of the family empire will go on until there is a victor – unless they bring the business to its knees and then what’s left to squabble over?
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With a new year comes new opportunities for you and your business. But are you ready to capitalize on these new prospects? Not without an updated technology plan. While technology planning tends to be an afterthought for many companies, technology is a large part of your business’s foundation. In this video, we discuss ways for your technology to be 2021 ready.
One of the best ways to get ahead of the competition is by making sure your technology and IT services are up to date. Studies show that those with a high focus on their business’s technology consistently outperform those that do not take as much initiative.
In 2020, many companies failed to create a technology plan that covered business continuity, security, the remote workforce, and other issues that deal with IT. This obviously became a problem once normal business operations shut down and the pandemic was in full force. If these businesses would have been better prepared and had a technology plan in place, they would not have needed to make so many last-minute changes to accommodate the new normal.
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The following is a brief introduction to the topic:
Businesses that are looking for reliable and scalable IT solutions have increasingly turned to colocation data centers. Colocation has many advantages, but there are also times when physical assistance is required. The concept of “Remote Hands”, which is a service that can be accessed remotely, comes into play. This article will examine the role that Remote Hands plays in colocation data centres and how it helps businesses manage and maintain their IT assets, find out more.
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This is already our second Howard Hughes myth, and there are still a bunch left to bust. Supposedly, the world-famous aviator and movie tycoon began his famous buying spree of Las Vegas casino hotels — partially freeing the Strip from the shackles of mafia ownership and paving the way for the age of corporate ownership — all thanks to the giant shoe atop the Silver Slipper.
The 12-foot tall, 17-foot wide, rotating high heel was designed by Jack Larsen Sr., a former Disney animator who worked for the YESCO sign company, where he also created the pop-art lamp for Aladdin. Patterned after one of his wife’s pumps, Larsen’s Silver Slipper sign boasted 900 incandescent lightbulbs on the shoe and 80 on the bow. It was installed in late 1954 or early 1955 and was deployed until the resort closed in November 1988.
According to the story, the shoe, located directly across the Strip from the Desert Inn, where Hughes had taken up since arriving in Las Vegas the day before Thanksgiving in 1966, was too bright for Hughes to sleep at night.
The Silver Slipper refused Hughes’ requests to dim the sign, the story goes, so he bought the casino hotel and dimmed it himself. This gave the eccentric billionaire a taste for acquiring Vegas hotels, and he bought a bunch more.
This myth has appeared in books including “The Strip: Las Vegas” and the Architecture of the American Dream” (2022), and “When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder” (2005), and in publications as legitimate as the Los Angeles Times.
As is often the case with urban myths, it also comes in other variations. The one featuring on the current version of the Silver Slipper’s Wikipedia entry has Hughes believing that the slipper’s toe “could contain a photographer taking pictures of him.” After several attempts at requesting that the slipper be turned off, according to the entry, “Hughes purchased the casino, turned off the lights, and had the rotating system dismantled.”
Both of those stories are complete nonsense — complete nonsense,” Paul Winn, Hughes’ director of corporate records from 1957 through Hughes’ death in 1976, told Casino.org. “I don’t know where they come up with this stuff.”
Of course, as is usual with Hughes, the truth was as strange as the fiction. We’ll get to that later.
Four Main Problems with This Story
- According to Winn and all other accounts of Hughes’ time in his Desert Inn penthouse suite, he kept the drapes drawn 24/7. No casino sign’s light or photographer’s lens could possibly have penetrated them. Hughes, no doubt deeply in the grips of mental illness by that point, demanded closed curtains (and windows) to protect him from pollution, sunlight, germs, prying eyes, and nuclear fallout from the regular underground explosions at the nearby Nevada Test Site. According to Winn, Hughes tried getting President Lyndon Johnson to stop those tests, but even he wasn’t powerful enough.
- The dates are wrong. Hughes’ buying spree began in March 1967. He didn’t purchase the Silver Slipper until April 30, 1968.
- The Frontier’s sign was bigger and brighter than the Silver Slipper’s, so it would have annoyed Hughes more.
- We know where the myth came from an erroneous Las Vegas Review-Journal report that was later retracted. Well, it was sort of retracted.
On April 21, 1967, R-J gossip columnist Earl Wilson wrote: “Associates say (Hughes) had them request the Silver Slipper to dim its lights. They refused. His emissaries say he has instructed them to negotiate for the purchase of the Slipper so it will no longer interfere with his sleep.”
Almost a full year later, while Hughes’ Silver Slipper purchase was closing, Wilson published what journalists refer to as a “non-correction correction” in which he discredited his previous false claim without actually admitting that he was its origin. (There was no internet back then to catch him.)
“He’s not closing it down and he’s not turning out the lights,” Wilson wrote of Hughes’ imminent Silver Slipper takeover on April 17, 1968. “They might even burn brighter than ever.”
Wilson’s follow-up proved too veiled a reference for most readers to even connect it to his original report, which is the one they continued to remember.
What Really Happened
The Desert Inn rented its entire top floor and the floor below it to Hughes and his associates for 10 days. Check-out time came and went, and Hughes didn’t budge. DI co-owners Moe Dalitz and Ruby Kolod freaked. They had already promised the suites to high rollers for New Year’s Eve.
Robert Maheu, Hughes’ top aide, had Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa intervene on Hughes’ behalf, but that only bought a couple more weeks. Maheu then suggested purchasing the DI to his boss as the only solution. And that’s how Hughes’ famous buying spree began.
“Hughes never intended to buy a hotel — he just wanted a place to sleep,” Maheu told PBS in 2005.
As mentioned earlier, the truth is usually as strange as the fiction with Hughes.
On March 27, 1967, Hughes and Dalitz agreed on a price: $13.2 million, far more than the DI was worth. Hughes then purchased the Sands for $14.6 million, the Frontier for $23 million, the El Rancho Vegas for $7.5 million, the Castaways for $3 million, the unfinished Landmark for $17 million, and the Silver Slipper for $5.4 million.
“He bought the Silver slipper because it was available, no other reason,” Winn told Casino.org. “I know. My name was on the gaming license because I was a corporate officer.”
Asked if he knew why the slipper sign eventually stopped rotating, Winn replied: “My guess would be that the rotating mechanism broke, and probably nobody bothered to fix it.”
The Silver Slipper was sold in 1988 to hotelier Margaret Elardi for $70 million. She demolished it and turned it into a parking lot for the Frontier, which she also owned. Fortunately, the slipper and its sign were salvaged and retired to YESCO’s boneyard, which later became the Neon Museum’s collection.
Yet another variation on the myth had Hughes ordering concrete poured into the rotation mechanism to jam it. According to the Neon Museum, no concrete was found in the mechanism when they acquired the sign.
In 2009, the museum restored the sign and installed it, along with other vintage Vegas neon signs, in a median along Las Vegas Boulevard North, where it still shines today.
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9/23: Minglu Wang, Claudia Engelhardt, Iryna Kuchma, Katherine McNeill, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Ingvill C. Mochmann, Amy Pienta and Brian Pickering, RDA COVID-19 Working Group, on “Social Sciences Preservation Recommendations for Social Science Data in the RDA COVID-19 Working Group Output.”
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Thames Valley Science Park
A major new employment area, the Thames Valley Science Park, is already delivering a range of employment opportunities for science and technology-based industries. Using the connections with the University of Reading, the science park will provide an importance long-term source of employment for the area.
These facilities, employment hubs and open spaces are all connected by new footpaths and cycleways, connecting both the villages and the facilities in a sustainable way.
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Source: purchased from Amazon
Formats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook
Genres: mystery, science fiction, urban fantasy
Series: Ishmael Jones #2
Published by Severn House Publishers on September 1, 2016
Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Bookshop.org
Call me Ishmael. Ishmael Jones. I am the man in the shadows, that even the shadows are afraid of. The secret agent whose life is the greatest secret of all. And some of the cases I work are trickier than others. " A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets. The Organisation wants Ishmael to find out if Frank Parker is who he says he is, what he really knows, and why he has emerged from the shadows after all this time. Ishmael heads to Ringstone Lodge in Yorkshire where Parker is being held to find that an atmosphere of fear and suspicion prevails. As he and his fellow residents are menaced by a series of alarming and inexplicable incidents, Ishmael sets out to prove that it s human trickery rather than any supernatural being behind the seemingly ghostly goings-on. But matters take an unexpected turn when one of their number is brutally murdered, and once again Ishmael must turn detective in order to entrap a twisted killer before they strike again.
This was originally going to be my Halloween book for this year, because the Ishmael Jones series, while not horror, is certainly more horror- adjacent than Simon R. Green’s usual books – although the Nightside comes almost as close – with a higher quotient of weird.
Dead Man Walking definitely has elements that would have made it a great Halloween story, because for much of the book it has all the feels of a classic ghost story. An ill-assorted group of people is locked up in an old house where strange things keep happening – including all the hallmarks of a ghostly haunting.
There are plenty of creaking stairs – not to mention hallways. Doors get knocked on and there’s no one there – but footsteps were definitely heard before the knock. People keep ending up dead with no evidence of an attacker – and then their bodies get whisked away when no one is looking – not even the security cameras.
Not that there aren’t PLENTY of those.
Because this particular country house party takes place at one of those secret houses where shady organizations “debrief” people who don’t want to be debriefed and who can’t be admitted to having been there in the first place – but where their enemies probably want to get to them – or at them – no matter what it takes.
One of those legendary shady agents has decided to finally come in from the cold after years of working for the opposition. Not that THAT isn’t a loose term, considering that the Organization that Ishmael Jones works for – and that the shady agent used to work for before he went to the dark side (for very loose definitions of both dark and side).
Frank Parker claims to have all the dirt on traitors within the Organization. But he’s had his face changed so many times that no one can have any possible clue whether he is who he says he is. And while you’d think DNA might be an option – first there has to be a sample to match with. And there isn’t. Not that Ishmael Jones has let the Organization have any bits of him to play with either.
Ishmael Jones has been “invited” by the Organization to come to their little “safe” house in the remote English countryside to assist the official interrogators with determining whether Frank Parker really is who he says he is and whether he really might know something worth protecting him for.
It’s all fun and spy games until Frank’s corpse is discovered inside his locked and secured cell. And those ubiquitous security cameras have no record of the door even being opened – let alone of anyone going inside. Of course they were mysteriously “off” for the duration of whatever happened.
Then Frank’s body is whisked away – and there’s no record of that, either.
And that’s when the fun really begins…
Escape Rating B+: Just as when I read the first book in this series, The Dark Side of the Road, a few months ago, this turned out to be the right book at the right time. I was in the mood for some serious snark – and this author always delivers.
Now that I’ve read the second book in the series (and I’m planning on reading the third, Very Important Corpses, for Halloween) I see them as science fictional urban fantasy. Think of Men in Black. OK, laugh a bit, then think about the premise.
The Men in Black series was about a secret organization that managed the presence of aliens among us. Aliens who usually, but not always, were able to masquerade as human. Ishmael Jones, the protagonist of this series, is both one of those Men in Black and one of the aliens among us.
Sort of on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief.
He’s good at his job because he knows just how to hide more-or-less in plain sight – and because he needs the Organization to cover for the oddities he can’t hide. After all, he’s looked exactly the same since he crash-landed on Earth in 1963. He also has a few useful and unusual skills, but it’s his unchanging appearance that is the most difficult to completely conceal. In our world of increasing connectivity and documentation, looking 25 forever is hard to hide.
His partner, Penny Belcourt, the last survivor of the mess he encountered in The Dark Side of the Road, is there both to provide him with a link to humanity and to provide us the readers with a point of view character. She asks all the questions that we want to ask.
She’s also plenty badass in her own right.
Like that first book, Dead Man Walking is also a twist-writ-large on the classic country house mystery. Particularly Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None – although Dead Man Walking ends up with a few more survivors. But it is every bit as twisty as possible.
Dead Man Walking is a mystery that turns into a ghost story that turns back into a mystery. And it’s loads of creepy fun every creaking step of the way.
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It’s Friday, and we all love Friday – so it’s bound to be a good show! Today’s show hosted by Shaun Haney highlights:
- Anne Wasko joins us to talk about these cattle markets… she was at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference last week, and has had a whole week of reading the reports and analysis, you aren’t going to want to miss her interview on todays show;
- RealAg roundtable – joined by Andrew Campbell (@FreshAirFarmer) and RealAg field editor Bern Tobin. Everything from ‘would you actually eat meat that was grown in a lab’ to Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday… and a little fun in between;
- There are tax changes currently being proposed by the Liberal government in Canada – we hear from Todd Lewis with APAS to see what he thinks about this, and why farmers alike are all very very concerned.
Join us for RealAg Radio every weekday at 4pm eastern on Rural Radio 147 on SiriusXM!
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Uh oh. Philip Weiss had nice things to say about me and my book in a recent post. Did he just ruin my life? Walt and Mearsheimer, let us remember, were castigated because David Duke promoted them on his web site. Should I worry for similar reasons?
I am sometimes deeply offended by what Weiss has to say, and am even more offended by the acolytes who have gathered around his blog, some of whom are openly anti-Semitic. I have expressed those concerns here, sometimes with a great deal of anger.
Part of what energizes his critique of Israel and American Jews is not only an objection to the occupation and those who passively accept it. He has also been staking out a position as a proud “assimilationist.” He is angry that Jewish ethnic loyalty has created an ethos that justifies anything Israel does (I’m angry, too) But it is not just the byproducts of ethnic loyalty that bother him and some of his fans. Weiss seems to object to the very idea of Jewish peoplehood as most Jews define it, which includes a sense of fellow-feeling when in the company of other Jews and an attachment to the land of Israel (for a host of reasons, from religious feeling to an appreciation of the simple fact that many Jews live there).
He appears to be bothered by any self-defined ethnic or religious community, because he worships “fluid identity,” he extolls an America where old distinctions are breaking down and being replaced by, well, uh…it remains to be seen. For example, he loved the kids who worshipped Obama because they gave him an “oceanic” feeling, a sense of no boundaries. “All our hideous classifications,” he has written, “are about to go out the window, race and class and the geography of us and them, including in the end the good-for-the-Jews stuff I grew up with and that has been rationalized and bolted down by endless militarism…”
I could go on, and on and on, about why Weiss is often wrong and sometimes dangerous. That said, there is an admirable moral core to the man. And I share much of his anger and his anguish about Israeli behavior. And his persistent questioning of Zionism and everything connected with it has prompted me to check longheld assumptions at the door and think carefully about the price of tribalism and particularism. He also happens to be an old friend and a nice guy. So what should I do with his endorsement? Should I announce, “Thanks but no thanks, MondoWeiss?” Should I compile everything Weiss has ever written, come up with a point-by-point refutation, and send it to Mort Klein so he doesn’t bother me?
Or should I act like a grown-up?
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GUEST BLOG POST: Amy Wolff is a 2010 Master’s candidate and is involved with several projects including Opportunity International, Imagine This! TV, and the zyOzy Foundation.You can find her on Twitter: @amycarolwolff
There’s been a lot of talk recently of the need for redefining what we know as philanthropy. I’ve read several articles suggesting this, had numerous conversations around this theme. In fact, just yesterday, I had a impromptu twitter chat with several #socent folks about the need to rejuvenate an over-saturated market. But in the midst of the conversations, think tanks, and conferences, we’ve yet to identify a leader- an organization or individual that has a fresh, authentic voice that will lead us in this next generation of giving.
The Citizen Effect: The Power of The Individual
Dan Morrison, CEO and founder of Citizen Effect (formerly known as 1Well) believes his organization is answering this call. But the response doesn’t come in the form of the loud trumpets of multi-million dollar grants. Rather, the strong, constant song of the power of the citizen, the individual. Hence the new website, the new name and a new energy behind what has the potential to be a game changer for the philanthropic industry. “We are targeting individuals here within their communities, allowing them the opportunity to make an impact and change a community,” Morrison said.
Mother Teresa once said, “If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” It is this spirit that drives Citizen Effect. The organization works through an interactive website that connects individuals or “Citizen Philanthropists” (CPs) with projects within communities around the world. The CP first chooses a project based on country and cause interests. Then, Citizen Effect provides numerous creative ideas for the CP to consider. Examples include cocktail parties, car washes, and cook offs, among others. Then, the CP is guided in how to leverage their existing network to raise money for the project. Finally, with consistent reporting, the CP is able to see their impact on the project, the community, and the individual lives they’ve affected.
Global Community Impact
The organization’s first community partner is in India. The Self Employed Women’s Association, or SEWA, is an organization of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labor or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organized sector. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganized sector. According to the website, of the female labor force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganized sector. Citizen Effect partners with SEWA in strategy projects and matches the projects with CPs that are willing to commit to raising the funds.
With the launch of a newly designed website comes the launch of several new projects. The organization is established in Peru, piloting a program with Children of Vietnam, an organization that works to provide education, nutrition, housing and medical care for the impoverished children of Vietnam. They are also expanding into Zambia, and will be working with an organization called FORGE and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, Citizen Effect is in the talks with some very large community development organizations looking to use their platform.
Ready to Follow
When I was talking with Morrison last week, I found myself left with a real sense of excitement and encouragement. It can get exhausting being in this community development space, hearing of all the road blocks that come with securing large amounts of donations and grants. Perhaps, the power truly is in the people of this country. If you consider it from a logical marketing perspective, it’s safe to assume that the average middle-class individual is always going to be a part of the United States economy. That is a consistent demographic to empower. It involves all age groups, several areas of interest, and a platform that continually gives you a sense of connection with the work that you’re investing in.
As Morrison mentioned, “When we hear about 1.4 billion people living on less than two dollars a day, we get overwhelmed. But though I can’t do anything about 1.4 billion, I can do something about 500 people. And when you get 100 people doing something about 500 people, you get the picture of our vision.”
Citizen Effect is planning on some high energy initiatives that will engage youth and families in social activity. This coming holiday season, the organization will launch a drive that will encourage families to fund projects together rather than resorting to the traditional gift-giving practices. This reminded me of the call issued by an organization which calls us to a season of compassion, rather than consumption. If we pay attention to this theme, I believe it can radically change the way we approach the holidays. Stay tuned for more.
As I found in my freshman computer class, at times the most practical and applicable tools are the ones I was most reluctant to discover and learn. But once I was empowered with the education and understanding, with terms that applied to my daily life, I had the ability to do some pretty dynamic programming and database work. Citizen Effect is committed to redefining philanthropy with fresh energy, a sustainable constituency, and a solid infrastructure. And my response comes with a sigh of relief and an earnest hope… it’s about time.
Contributor Profile: Amy
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By Claire Georgiou, Reboot Naturopath, B.HSc ND
Genetically modified (GM) foods have always been a subject of controversy, and there is confusion about whether we are already eating them in Australia. Currently in Australia there are 3 types of GM crops that have been approved by the Gene Technology Regulator to be grown commercially in Australia. GM cotton has been grown commercially in Australia since 1996 and by 2007 made up 90% of the total cotton crop. Monsanto’s roundup ready GM canola was commercially released in Australia for the first time in 2008 in NSW and VIC. Bans in South Australia and Tasmania still prevent GM canola from being grown there. The third GM crop is GM blue carnations insect and herbicide resistant.
Over 800 trials of GM crops have been conducted in Australia, including GM wheat, sugar cane, grapes, pineapples, papaya, and bananas. While these are experimental trials, the crops are grown on farmland in the open air, posing contamination risks to both the environment and non-GM farmland.
Some of the arguments in favour for GM foods are they require less pesticides, they can be engineered for faster growth, resistant to pathogens, production of extra nutrients, they have an increased yield therefore producing more crop with less resources, and provide ways to grow crops on land that would otherwise not support farming such as the dry drought stricken areas in Australia.
The argument against GM crops are the lack of long term human studies to determine their health risks and safety, and the negative environmental effects which are truly unknown. Some of the negative consequences of GM crops are a rapid emergence of super-weeds, resistant to glyphosate in Roundup Ready crops, and now there is an emergence of Corn Bt-resistant insects, a biotech corn that is losing its resistance to plant-damaging pests.
There are no Australian studies on the long-term effects of GM food consumption in animals or humans although there are a number of animal studies that have been conducted in Europe and America, some experts have suggested that there is sufficient evidence from animal studies to call for further research to be conducted.
• In 2011, doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of 93% of pregnant women, 80% of umbilical blood in their babies, and 67% of non-pregnant women. This Bt-toxin is consumed in the normal processed diet, as genetically engineered corn is present in the vast majority of all processed foods and drinks in the form of high fructose corn syrup. The toxin also may have come from eating meat from animals fed on Bt corn as most livestock raised in factory farms, are fed on Bt corn. In government-sponsored research in Italy, mice were fed Monsanto’s Bt corn and they showed a wide range of immune system disorders.
• Dr. Don Huber, an agricultural scientist and expert in microbial ecology, has issued warnings about the effects of genetically engineered food crops after discovering a brand new organism in GE animal feed—an organism that has since been clearly linked to infertility and miscarriage.
• GM soya linked to health damage in pigs – one Danish pig farmer has been able to raise healthier animals since stopping GM soya feed
We currently eat small amounts of GM in Australia. While only 3 GM crops are approved for growing in Australia there are other GM food products that have been imported from overseas and approved for consumption in Australia such as GM soybean, corn and potato. These GM foods are typically only found in processed foods and cannot be purchased as fresh food. Imported GM foods are found in small quantities in starches, such as breakfast cereals, breads, biscuits, additives and oils, and both GM canola and GM cotton seed are grown in Australia and eaten as oil.
Australia may become one of the first countries in the world to grow and eat genetically modified wheat. GM wheat will be available by 2015 in Australia and we will have GM bread, pasta, biscuits, breakfast cereals and other GM wheat flour based products. This is of course very controversial on why we would start growing GM Wheat in Australia.
While the Australian law requires labelling of foods containing over 1 percent (per ingredient) of a GM food, there are a few loopholes and processed foods like canola oil, for example, aren’t labelled. Milk, meat and eggs that come from animals fed on GM crops aren’t labelled. Even restaurants and bakeries can use GM ingredients without giving us the right to know.
Another area of concern is the mounting evidence showing that coexistence between GM and non-GM is appearing to be impossible. Genetically modified organisms have the ability to breed, and it cannot be controlled once released into the environment. Australia’s First Legal Attack on Monsanto for GM Contamination of Organically Certified Crops has occurred in Western Australia.
How to avoid genetically modified foods in Australia:
• Here is a guide to assist you when purchasing products that may contain GM ingredients in Australia Truefood Guide rating Australian companies on whether or not they use GM ingredients.
• All fresh food is GM Free currently in Australia (avoiding processed foods decreases your likelihood of consuming GM foods)
• Buy products that indicated that they are totally GM FREE
• Buy Organic, especially Local
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Ole Miss Rebels Basketball Recruiting
Definitely the tallest if I remember correctly
Is it good to have a bunch of seven footers on a basketball team?
The No. 1 player out of Arkansas in 2019 is now a Rebel
Size must matter
The 6’10" Texas product bolsters future frontcourt
Five star prospect Ron Holland decommits from Texas, could Ole Miss and Chris Beard land its highest ranked recruit ever?
The McDonald’s All-American is a program changer
Rebel recruiting nabs a top 100 prospect
Kermit Davis and staff stay hot in the 2022 class.
Kermit Davis adds his second commit in as many days.
The Rebels add the Georgia native to the 2022 class.
Sip the tea and stay a while.
Could Matthew Murrell’s former teammate join him in Oxford?
The 2020 signee stopped in Memphis to run with some high school, college, and NBA stars.
Ole Miss men’s and women’s hoops are on the come-up
Kermit Davis lands a unicorn transfer.
Don’t even try to drive on her.
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"Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them." ~William Hazlett
Cthulhu on a cracker. Now the House Republicans want to gum up the works, after John Boehner gave Mitch McConnell the green light to negotiate an agreement on the payroll tax cut with Harry Reid.
Boehner said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program that the two-month renewal would create added uncertainty for workers, and employers and Congress should delay its holiday break to ensure that a one-year extension was passed.
Well, gee whiz, isn't that what the President demanded in the first place?
By opposing the Senate bill, Boehner is siding with conservative and Tea Party-backed Republicans in the House whom he has had difficulty bringing under control all year, particularly on budget and spending measures.
This just shows what a terrible Speaker of the House John Boehner is. Nancy Pelosi would have these lizards quivering under their rocks by now.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, noted on Sunday that Boehner had left negotiations on a compromise deal to Reid and his Republican counterpart Senator Mitch McConnell.
And now he's reneging. This isn't surprising, and certainly not out of the ordinary for Republicans. That doesn't make it any less reprehensible.
Moral of this story: If you want better legislation, don't yell at President Obama. Get off your ass and work to elect a better Congress.
Start with getting rid of all these Tea Party non-Patriots.
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I've read several of Becky Chambers' books, and she has a unique style that I think qualifies as "cozy science fiction." She doesn't write stories with breakneck plots and high stakes. She writes quiet, thoughtful, character-based stories full of conversations and introspection. This book also has a lot of alien food porn as a part of what little plot there is, as the characters are temporarily stranded on a planet that is a "way station" between wormholes. The planet's satellite network has failed, and several members of different species (this one doesn't have any human protagonists) are stuck there until it is repaired and they can go their various ways.
We take a pretty deep dive into each of the main characters, as they all have personal issues to work out and their interactions allow them to do so. Decisions are made, understanding achieved and epiphanies received, and most of the characters end the book at a better place than they started. This could be classified as a fairly slow-paced book, but the depth of characterization is good enough that it overcame the pacing for the most part. Of course, it depends on if you like this style to begin with. I'm kind of "meh" on the whole thing, but it wasn't bad. Just know going in what it is, and you'll enjoy it if it's your kind of book.
View all my reviews
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Monteiro Win at the Portuguese Nats!
Congratulations to Ricardo Monteiro for his win in Buggy at the second Round of the Portuguese Nationals!
Monteiro was powered by REDS all-new WR7 Diamond engine and 2143 pipe.
Race Report by Ricardo Monteiro:
After the unfortunate race for me of buggy on the last round, I managed to get some payback and everything worked awesome letting me win everything this weekend.
Both cars worked awesome on the bumpier conditions of the track, they were handling everything super well and the car was easy to drive and push.
Eletronics and engine were spot on as well as the tires which powered me through these two hard fought wins.
I'd like to thank everybody that supports me, without them nothing was possible...It was good to give them the first win so soon!
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On 30 April 2021, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) published new guidance on liquidity and funding in resolution.
In the SRB’s Expectations for Banks, banks are expected to:
- Develop methodologies to estimate ex-ante the liquidity needs for the implementation of the resolution strategy.
- Be able to measure, report and forecast their liquidity position and relevant liquidity metrics during the resolution process.
- Be able to identify and mobilise assets (especially of lower quality and less liquid) that could be used as collateral to obtain liquidity in resolution anticipating any legal, regulatory and operational obstacles to their mobilisation under stressed conditions.
The new SRB guidance focuses on item 1 above. Banks will be assessed on this element in the 2021 resolution planning cycle. The SRB will publish further guidance for the two remaining elements in 2022.
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Happy Holidays from our office to yours!
2022 Presidents’ Luncheon
On December 8, 2022 Chief Louie was our keynote speaker. He talked to us about a number of stories from the “Rez” and how to build business. He is a firm believer of reading and “borrows” books from friends libraries that he wants to add to his collection. He shared a number of quotes with us and one of the ones that really stuck with me was “if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” It was a very interesting talk and Chief Louie was pleased to join us.
2022 Presidents’ Luncheon Door Prize Winners
On Thursday, December 8th, REIBC held the 2022 Presidents Luncheon with keynote speaker, Chief Clarence Louie. After a great presentation with a number of quotes and stories to learn from, three door prizes were given away. All received baskets of Lindt chocolate with 2 signed books from Chief Louie, called Rez Rules. A great read if you haven’t read it yet.
Congratulations to the door prize recipients Kevin Arndt, Damien Stathonikos and Diana Dickey.
2023 Special General Meeting
On February 15, 2023 at 12:00 noon join us via Zoom for a Special General Meeting (SGM) to update the Institute’s bylaws. We will be presenting 3 changes to the members:
- Removal of the proxy vote as we will be doing electronic general meetings in the future.
- Changing the number of governors in the Vancouver District and adding one Member at Large.
- Defining the Past President
You must register for this SGM so that we can send you the link prior to the meeting.
Following the SGM, President Cindy Nesselbeck will update you on the happenings of the Institute.
Mark your calendars and registration will be open in the new year.
Look forward to seeing you then.
2023 REIBC Awards Nominations
Nominations for the 2023 RI Medal of Excellence Awards have begun rolling in! Don’t miss your opportunity to showcase an RI who has made significant contributions to the industry and who is committed to continually elevating the profession of real estate.
Nominations are due February 28th, 2023. Don’t miss the opportunity to recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions made by RI’s.
The awards being presented are the RI Medal of Excellence for Leadership, the RI Medal of Excellence for Ingenuity, the RI Medal of Excellence for an Emerging Leader and the RI Medal of Distinction.
Please note: Only REIBC Professional members are eligible. Both REIBC members and non-members may submit nominations. REIBC Professional members may nominate themselves.
Learn more about eligibility criteria and how to nominate someone.
Opinion Piece by John D’Eathe, RI (Retired)
Retired REIBC member John D’Eathe has written an opinion piece on money laundering, a subject of fascination and the topic of his novel “Laundering the Dragon”. In his opinion piece, John muses on his experience working abroad, past encounters with corruption, the BC Cullen Inquiry and the current state of money laundering in this country. Though reflective only of the author’s opinion and not the Institute’s, it’s an interesting read.
beginning a lifelong real estate adventure, Hong Kong 1958
Economic Forecast 2023: A Look at the Past, Present and Future
Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
“When Doves Cry” – An Economic and Commercial Real Estate Update
Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Growing Surrey: An Update on Land Use & Employment Planning
Thursday, February 16, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
A Housing Outlook
Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Reconciliation Training – 4 Session Training Program
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 20, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 27, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Property Acquisition Coordinator - Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
Property Coordinator 1 - BC Hydro
Property Representative 1 - Acquisitions & Sales - BC Hydro
Parkland Administrator - Regional District of Nanaimo
Chief Operating Officer - Stober Group
Managing Broker - Coldwell Banker Kamloops Realty
Senior Course Specialist - UBC Sauder Real Estate Division
REIBC wishes you all a very Happy Holiday Season and all the best in the New Year!
Please note that the REIBC office will be closed from December 23rd to January 3rd.
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Hello Hopper Families!
Welcome to the first newsletter of the new school year! We are so excited to be back! These newsletters will come weekly with important PTO information, so please make sure to join our email list. To subscribe, check out our website, www.reidpto.com and scroll a tad down till you see subscribe now, enter in your email address, press submit, and your all done! Don't forget to "like" our Facebook page Reidenbaugh PTO. We can also be reached via email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
WELCOME BACK PACKET: Please check your inbox for an important email from our school secretary, Kelly Gillis. We are trying to be paperless, so rather then sending home a hard copy, it is in an email instead. Please read through it carefully, as it contains a lot of information. Also, the forms have been added to our PTO webpage, www.reidpto.com, under the Forms tab.
POPSICLES BY THE PLAYGROUND: To kick off the school year, please join us this Thursday, August 19th at the RES playground, 4:30-5:30. Meet some of the teachers and new friends!
BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT: This will be held on Thursday, August 26th, from 6:00-7:30pm. You will get the opportunity to sit in your child's classroom and listen to their teacher talk about the upcoming school year. There is also a information session in the gym. More info to follow!
BOX TOPS: Please be advised that we will no longer accept clipped Box Tops. The only way to submit them so we can earn cash for our school is online. Download the app, take a picture of your receipt, press submit, and your all done! Please visit www.BTFE.com to learn more and see how easy it is!
CLEARANCES: Many of our programs/events depend on volunteers to make happen. In order to volunteer, you must have your clearances. Please check out this website: https://www.mtwp.net/community/volunteer-information/ to find out exactly what you need. Parents already with clearances, please make sure they are up to date.
NO SCHOOL: Friendly reminder that there is NO SCHOOL on Friday, September 3rd and Monday, September 6th. We resume on Tuesday, September 7th.
LUNCH MENUS: Did you know that you can sign up to have the lunch menus emailed to you each month? Check that out here:
Please click here for the August lunch menu.
Please click here for the September lunch menu.
If you are having any problems accessing any of the links, please try from a desktop computer, or check out our website, www.reidpto.com and go to the Forms section.
If you have moved to another school district or if you child is not going to Reidenbaugh any longer, just send us an email with unsubscribe on the subject line.
8/19: Popsicles by the Playground 4:30-5:30
8/24: First day of school for grades 1-4
8/24: Kindergarten Open House (WITH Parents)
8/25: First day for Kindergarten (WITHOUT Parents)
8/26: Back to School Night 6:00-7:30
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Minutes from the sandy shores of Jacksonville Beach and the area’s finest retail and leisure destinations, lies North Beach on Kernan, a new gated community offering the perfect fusion of modern sophistication and high-speed convenience.
North Beach on Kernan Apartments in Jacksonville
North Beach on Kernan is luxury living at its best. Located off of bustling Beach Boulevard, you can enjoy many fantastic amenities while still living close to shopping and dining options. Live a mere 15 minutes away from the beaches without paying beach front prices. You can lounge on your screened patio, take a dip in the pool or keep up with your tan, all without ever leaving home. North Beach on Kernan is also located just a few minutes away from 295, so you can get around Jacksonville or out of town in no time at all.
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This Jacksonville apartment community offers five spacious floor plans. Choose from a large one bedroom one bath, a large or small two bedroom unit, or the huge three bedroom floor plan. These gorgeous homes offer vaulted ceilings, designer kitchen cabinets, beautiful interior archways and upscale bathrooms with a decorative mirror and large garden tub. Each unit also offers a private screened in patio or balcony with additional storage, large walk in closets, Energy Star appliances, a washer and dryer and ceiling fans.
North Beach on Kernan Amenities
If the lavish apartments are not quite enough to convince you to make North Beach on Kernan your new home, their many amenities surely will. This community offers a gym with 24 hour access as well as a cyber cafe equipped with WiFi and gourmet coffee and tea.
If you prefer the outdoors you can spend your time playing at the six hole putting green, swimming in their resort astyle swimming pool, strolling through lighted walk ways to the North Beach Terrace, playing tennis, or enjoying cooking out in the cool night air at the outdoor fireside lounge. You can also enjoy the night lighted fountains on the private 3 acre lake. For children, there is an exciting playground area with plenty of space to play.
Location, Location, Location!
North Beach at Kernan is located close to many popular Jacksonville attractions. The 295 beltway provides access to every part of Jacksonville and is just a short drive from your front door. The Jacksonville beaches are a short drive up Beach Boulevard. The Town Center, a popular dining and shopping destination, is located just five miles away. For students, you will enjoy living just a few minutes from both FSCJ and UNF. Enjoy the luxuries of an apartment community with tons of amenities without sacrificing a convenient location.
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