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A global renewable energy company approached Fibex requiring safe access to onsite service and welfare buildings.
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Presenteeism: Reflections for health profession placement-based work integrated learning
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the precariousness of learning and teaching activities for the health-related professions. Moving from placement-based work integrated learning (WIL) activities to online blended delivery meant that some students have had altered opportunities to undertake usual placement activities. Further, the need to ensure that health profession students and graduates understand and respect the challenges of practicing within rural and remote health facilities, where staff often work across multiple facilities, has posed a need to address the relatively little understood phenomenon of ‘presenteeism’ (Melick, 2020). Presenteeism, a behaviour in which employees, including students, attend practice, or campus learning activities, while unwell, poses risk to employees and others with whom they may have close contact. Presenteeism was identified as a significant contributor to the nosocomial spread of COVID-19 within the healthcare facilities of the North-West region of Tasmania, early in the pandemic (Tasmanian Government, 2020). Much of the disease transmission was attributed to the movement of staff within, and between healthcare environments. While the practice of presenteeism is frequently observed within the healthcare sector, the consequences of this behaviour during a pandemic can, and did, have dire consequences for staff, recipients of care, students, and the local community.
To enable comprehension of the contributing factors to the spread of COVID-19 in the North-West region, the Hadden Matrix (Runyan, 2015) was applied, and can be used to reflect on, and prepare future learning and teaching requirements for health profession students in the ‘new normal’ of healthcare service delivery.
Publication titleTeaching Matters 2021
Department/SchoolSchool of Nursing
Event titleTeaching Matters 2021
Date of Event (Start Date)2021-11-29
Date of Event (End Date)2021-12-01
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I did not like the end of Succession. I think it was a bad finale. I’ll tell you why.
Succession is a show that doesn’t have very many stakes. The Roys are incredibly wealthy. Maybe one of the richest families in the world. Which is one of the interesting tensions in the show. We as viewers want to identify with Kendall, Shiv, and Roman because they’re the main characters. But we also dislike them because they’re bad people. And actually impossible (for most of us) to relate to. So we’re torn between enjoying their strife but feeling basic sympathy and empathy for our central protagonists. And, to some degree, we take on their perspective. That vicarious sense of power and entitlement becomes, for an hour on Sundays, ours. That’s very cool.
Except when we come back to the drama that occurs on the show, what even is it? Season 1, it’s avoiding a loan crisis. Season 2 it’s the government. Season 3 it’s a vote. Season 4 it’s the sale. Over and over, the broader stakes and conflict that make up Succession revolve around losing the company. We’re supposed to take this seriously because the characters take this seriously. Yet on a deeper level, is it even possible to care? These are rich and powerful people. If they lose Waystar, they have everything else. They can retire and waste millions of dollars every year and never have it be an issue. So the worst case scenario for Kendall, Shiv, and Roman is the dream scenario for 99.99% of the rest of the population.
That’s the foundation that Succession rests on. It’s not inherently bad or impossible to make work. But that puts extra extra extra pressure on the subplots to have stakes. And we got that in season 1. When Kendall is in that car crash and the waiter drowns, that’s heavy. That’s serious. He was about to oust his dad and take over the company. He was that close. And now he’s potentially going to be looked at for murder. That power he suddenly had over his dad? Gone. It was such a brilliant, terrible, consequential moment that castrated Kendall’s character, leaving us with the question of would he or will he ever be able to reclaim a sense of individuality away from his father?
Which is what season 2 got into. Kendall starts as Logan’s lapdog, does his dirty work, then, eventually, strikes back. Just when we think Kendall’s going to go to jail to protect his dad, he makes his move. He turns on Logan. On TV. To the world. Now that’s consequential. Now the son who wanted Waystar Royco is going to be the one to bring the company tumbling down. Right?
Nope. Season 3 neuters everything. Kendall’s ascending star? Freefalls. The government investigation into Logan and Waystar? Evaporates. The stakes go away. Instead, for the third time, we have some vague, ethereal corporate threat to the Roys claim to the company. And we have a lot of meetings and seemingly important moments that don’t amount to much of anything. The payoff to all of this? Tom betrays Shiv. Shocking! But, was it? Shiv had cheated on Tom. Was mean to him, all the time. For him to side with Logan instead of a suddenly united Kendall, Shiv, and Roman? Yeah. It’s obvious. It makes sense. But, also, what are the stakes? It changes nothing. Tom was already part of the company and family and gaining Logan’s trust. He and Shiv already had a disastrous marriage that was on the brink of failing. He had no relationship at all with his brothers-in-law. Him suddenly “betraying” them isn’t consequential. Nothing changes. Compare the state of the characters in the very first episode of season 1 to the end of season 3 and what’s different? Nothing. The kids still have a strained relationship with their father, with one another, and with the people closest to them. They all still want power and don’t have it.
For three seasons, nothing meaningful happened. Well, Greg got to glow up. Better clothes. Nicer haircut. That’s cool, that’s nice. But, is it enough? For those Greg-heads out there, sure. For everyone else? We deserve better.
And, look, I think the first two seasons are amazing, amazing TV. Like some of the finest of the 21st century. Season 3 is, where I’d argue, Succession began chasing its own tail. Scared to have anything happen that would meaningfully shift the story. It’s Days of Our Lives but with HBO’s talent and budget.
Then Season 4 happened. And I was thrilled. Logan dies in episode 3. Perfect. That’s meaningful. That is the stuff that gives a story charge and opportunity. The show could no longer keep going back to that same well of “Will the kids be with Logan or against him?” and have them flip flop over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Because every other time it seemed like someone had crossed a line and nothing would ever be the same—things went right back to how they had been. You can’t do that when Logan’s gone.
So Season 4 brought me right back to considering if Succession is the best show of the last 10 years. It has to be in contention, right? Whether you think it is or not, the popularity and high points are what they are. It’s corporate Shakespeare with all-star performances and a unique perspective on modern America. It’s hit the zeitgeist in a way very few shows have or do. At the very least, it’s era-defining.
But the finale was, for me, a failure. The worst part of the show has been the siblings constantly racing each other for the crown. They’re united. They’re not. Roman and Kendall against Shiv. Shiv and Kendall against Roman. Roman and Shiv against Kendall. All of them together against whoever. So for the, what, fifth time this season, we have the siblings take sides against each other only to unite because Mattsson was going to screw over Shiv. Cool. Why is this any different than Season 1? Or Season 2? Or Season 3? Because Logan’s gone? That didn’t stop Shiv from secretly siding with Mattsson before. For the millionth time—no stakes. Greg betrays Tom. What are the consequences? Nothing that we see, just some vague dialogue from Tom that leaves Greg uncertain if he’s screwed forever or temporarily in the doghouse. Shiv betrays Kendall? What are the consequences? Nothing that we see. Nothing happens. Even when they lose the company. Nothing happens.
Roman ends up at a bar. The implication is he’s just going to be the rich drunk jerk that he was when the show started. But what was the alternative? A rich working jerk? Roman had gained in capacity and dependability in the world of Waystar but that wasn’t changing him for better or worse. He was who he was, just with some power. Having the company, not having the company, being CEO, not being CEO—does any of it matter for him in the long run? For the public? Did he lose but society gained? Not really. ATN is going to keep being ATN. Mattsson will happily work with Mencken or whoever. Roman succeeding or failing doesn’t change anything.
Kendall ends up wandering a park near the water. The implication being he’s despondent and will probably never recover his sense of gusto and will always be chasing his father’s shadow. Maybe he’ll run a company but it won’t be Waystar. As he tells Shiv, this is it for him. If he doesn’t have Waystar, he doesn’t have anything. So it’s a kind of spiritual death. It’s unlikely he suddenly becomes a great father or good person. He’ll forever have this itch he can’t scratch. But that’s where we were in Season 1 when Logan said it wouldn’t be him. And Season 2. And Season 3. To have it happen again in Season 4 is just more of the same. It’s just definitive this time.
And Shiv. Shiv has the most going on. She’s the one who reached out to Tom about getting back together. She’s also the one who had transgressed the most in the relationship and hadn’t done a good job of making it up to him. When she finds out he’ll be CEO if the deal goes through, there’s a crossroads for her. That’s a stake. Either she has her brothers at the cost of Tom. Or she has Tom at the cost of her brothers. Her decision is a result of Kendall’s growing smugness and her inability to stomach it and the desire to be back with Tom. That last moment with Shiv and Tom in the car is cool. It’s low-angle. Giving Tom and Shiv this sense of stature. And Tom puts his hand out, and there’s such a vibe of mafia Don. But also forgiveness. In a weird way, Shiv reshaped Tom into a distant, sharp, powerful man that kind of resents her. Someone in the image of her father. The caring, dopey, overly sentimental Tom from previous seasons has been burned away but the fires he’s walked through to get to this point.
Tom definitely has the greatest arc in the entire show. And is, in some ways, someone audiences can root for a bit more sincerely since he had humble beginnings, isn’t from this world, and is doing his best to be part of it. He always had a penchant for cruelty but wouldn’t let it show outside of how he treated Greg. For him to, over the four seasons, lean into that and be rewarded for it, is phenomenal (in a narrative sense, not a human one; in terms of humanity, it’s sad).. It’s thought provoking. Thematic. Dynamic. It’s the best thing Succession does. Tom’s arc and exploring Logan’s psyche from the slanted perspective of the rest of the characters. We do get a tremendous sense of Logan and the highs and lows of the man. The complicating factors. As well as the insight into why he wouldn’t give his kids control. “I love you, but you are not serious people.” The subtlety with which the show handles all of that is fantastic.
I’m not saying Succession didn’t have tremendous moments of amazing plot and theme. The penultimate episode with the funeral speeches is incredible. Truly incredible. There are so many startling and fascinating and powerful scenes across the series. And the performances are awesome, generational. This isn’t me saying Succession is a bad show. It’s not. It’s dumb to argue that it is. But I think the whole of it is less than the sum of its parts. That instead of going for something immense and literary, we got a lot of throat clearing and melodrama that never went anywhere.
At the end of the show, is anything different for anyone? There’s the idea that the clown siblings swung the election for a horrible person who could send America down a dark path. Except that’s not certain. We’re left with the possibility that Mencken still doesn’t win. And Logan had been leaning Mencken himself. So it’s not like Mencken had no chance but the kids, in their brief tenure, caused irreparable damage to the country. So we’re not taking away from this that the whims of the wealthy have a profound impact on everyone else. You could make the case that they corrupt Tom and take someone from humble beginnings and turn him into this cold, corporate person. But Tom was already seeking that out. So as a commentary on the haves vs the have nots, Tom isn’t necessarily representative of the have nots. There isn’t some great contrast in him winning vs Kendall. There are subtleties, sure. But it’s not a meaningful throughline.
The biggest thematic argument would be how Succession explores the impact of parents on their children. And how the inability of the siblings to support one another and be happy for one another is a direct result of Logan’s fickle affection and the jealousy he engendered by being so hot and cold and promising everything to each of them in turn then denying it. Because of this shared trauma, there’s no way for them to ever unite. No matter the circumstances. The resentment is too much. You could then begin to extrapolate that, turn it into symbolism for America, for modern society. But I’m not sure if the show earned or even wanted to go for that kind of grander metaphor.
I guess that’s ultimately where I land with Succession. I wanted it to say something. I don’t think it did. And that’s okay. Not every show has to say something. It can just tell a story that’s interesting. When that’s the case, I’m not looking at what’s said but rather the quality of the storytelling. And I think the story didn’t amount to much. Some great individual pieces and parts. But I’m left going: That’s it? That’s all you’ve got? Especially when I compare it to (in no particular order) Barry, Better Call Saul, The Marvelous Mrs.Maisel, The Wire, The Sopranos, Veep, The Leftovers, The Good Place, The White Lotus, Boardwalk Empire, Ozark, Mindhunter, Mare of Easttown, Sharp Objects. These shows balance narrative and theme and drive their stories to a final, climactic point.
And it’s not like those shows are perfect. I would say at its best, Succession is as good or better than some on that list. But when I look at the larger storytelling and thematics, Succession ends up in a tier below. It repeats itself too many times. I mean, seriously, even in this episode, the siblings went from divided to united to divided. That’s three shifts in a single episode. After they’ve already flip flopped a dozen times before this. But that many times in a single episode? It goes from meaningful and climactic to absolutely empty and almost sarcastic.
Was it fascinating to be in this world? Yes. Am I satisfied with the story? Enough to still say the show is good. But having the conclusion come down to something so repetitious and kind of obvious with no real payoff is disappointing. It’s like all the creative fireworks exploded in the previous episodes. And instead of the grand finale that lights up the night, we’re left with the smoke in the air and empty shells on the grass and the acrid scent of sulfur and the dark and dull sky and a crowded walk to the parking lot and traffic on the way home.
I’ll answer questions in the comments. We can even (politely) debate because I know some of you feel quite the opposite to me. Would love to hear why! Thanks for reading!
Do I think the kids should have won? Did I want a happy ending?
No and no. I didn’t have a particular ending in mind. I just didn’t want it to be the siblings agree then disagree for the millionth time. And if it was that, I’d want something a bit more consequential. Roman calling out Kendall’s kids is transgressive but is it any more climactic/dramatic than other transgressive things the siblings have said or done to one another? Kendall briefly getting physical with Roman is dramatic but momentary. And Shiv turning on Kendall is, yeah, what a scorpion does.
I think good finales take us to a place the story couldn’t go prior to the finale. Choices are made, things happen that can’t be undone. I didn’t get that feeling of the climactic that I got at the end of Season 1 and Season 2 or even at other moments through Season 4. This felt more transitory. It implies things for the characters. But it’s so open-ended that anything could happen. Like I can easily imagine a Season 5 where Tom becomes overwhelmed after a (secretly) Mencken-backed ATN competitor emerges. Waystar begins to slip. Suddenly there’s a conversation about bringing back Roman and Kendall. I’m not saying that’s what I want. Just that you can easily imagine scenarios that invalidate the initial consequence of Shiv’s decision. Especially given how the show had done that exact thing with other seemingly important tipping point moments that ended up being far less impactful than they initially seemed.
Did I miss the point of the Succession?
Being unsatisfied with the specifics of how things played out is very different than not understanding the larger thematics or purpose of the show. The two can go hand in hand. That’s certainly true. But just because you don’t like the way something was done doesn’t mean you don’t get what it’s doing. And vice versa.
There are a lot of nice aspects to the finale. Like the dichotomy between the Shiv, Roman, and Kendall under their mother’s roof vs. their father’s. In the kitchen, we see them at their most purely childish and innocent and loving, even if they’re still kind of horrible (that poor cheese). In the conference room, we see them at their most twisted and ruined by the influence of their parents. Their jealousy, their fear, their mistrust and sensitivity to betrayal, and inability to support one another. This ties back to the larger thematic exploration of generational influence and the way parents shape children but also the way in which these “Logan Roys” of the world shape society. The same flaws that Logan engendered in his kids he also gave to America.
And there’s the Shakespearean-ness to the fact that Logan always maintained the company. No matter the threat. He always found a way. The first major crisis under the kids? They lose it. With the tragedy being they actually won. Except for Shiv ultimately deciding she couldn’t stand to see Kendall. His egotistical bearing during the vote helped drive Shiv to change her mind. For decades, Logan boxed out his family and people he loved and succeeded because he didn’t rely on any of them. The kids never learned that lesson. They kept going back to family and family kept betraying them.
Which gets at Succession‘s larger commentary about the wealthy and capitalism and modern America. Through the Roy family and their universe, we see how dehumanizing that world is. How callous. It’s right there in the series premier when Roman taunts the family during the softball game and teases them with an opportunity to win money. There’s a disconnect from their actions and the way in which it impacts the rest of the world. Which comes to life with the Mencken election.
That’s not everything but it’s some of the highlights of what Succession is doing. These are some of the reasons I think so highly of the show. But the payoff we get is just a bit uninteresting to me. Like the initial exploration and potential of what Succession would do with these themes was a lot more exciting than what it ended up doing in the finale. Go back one episode to the funeral, and that had the power and energy of a finale to me. Honestly, I probably would like the funeral episode as the finale more than what we actually got. It would leave a lot unanswered but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. With that said, the Tom arc was great. That’s the silver lining of the finale.
Did I identify with Roman, Shiv, and Kendall?
Quite a few people on Twitter thought that I was saying audiences should identify with the siblings and because of that we’re rooting for them. Just wanted to clarify that’s not what I intended. My point was that storytelling inherently asks us to put ourselves in the shoes of its characters, to think about what they’re experience and how they’re feeling and put that in context of our own lives and feelings. It’s the reason storytelling is such an important part of society. It’s how we expand our theory of mind and capacity to relate to others. When you watch Avatar and see Jake Sully come to appreciate the beauty of the forest, it asks us to think about the beauty of the forest. Stories like American History X and Succession rift on this technique by putting us with pretty abhorrent people. We’re disgusted by aspects of who they are, how they think, and what they do. That disgust wars with our inherent urge to identity through story.
That’s not me saying I want to identify with the kids because of who they are. That I see myself in them. Or anything like that. It’s just pointing out that by putting the siblings as the main characters the show is playing on our natural inclination to identify. I probably should have framed the initial statement as “We naturally want to identify with a story’s main character. In the case of Succession, that’s difficult because…”
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Queenie, a precocious 7 year-old, brims with confidence and swagger. She fearlessly scours the subways and streets of New York City searching for ways to make a dollar. From basketball charity schemes to peddling roses, Queenie is relentless and unstoppable. As we follow a day in her life, we ultimately wonder what Queenie’s true intentions are and why this little girl is working so hard on a school day.
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Available on VOD Platforms June 4th
Directors: John Mitchell, Jeremy Kipp Walker
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
When discussing independent comedies, many times there’s buzz words that get thrown around like “quirky” and “charming.” Often when films intentionally try to achieve this, it proves detrimental and the end result is a forced sentimentality that is never truly earned. Fortunately, when looking at The History of Future Folk, this is not the case. It’s a charming, quirky, light comedy that is accessible and simply a joy to watch.
Future Folk are a real life bluegrass duo that hails from New York by way of a far off planet called Hondo. This film provides a reenactment of how they ended up on Earth and subsequently saved it from total annihilation. The film stars Nils d’Aulaire and Jay Klaitz as Bill and Kevin, aliens sent here to destroy our planet in order to save their own. However, after discovering music, they instead form a bluegrass band. How’s that for quirky?
The film, and the band, could most readily be compared to another comedy musical duo, Flight of the Concords, however everything Future Folk does feels like it’s their own style and creation. From their goofy lyrics, to their even more goofy space suits, it’s simply too hard not to love these guys.
Creating a musical comedy can be a fairly risky endeavor, with a lot of opportunities to have everything fall apart. It’s necessary to not only keep the laughs flowing, but also inject good music at an even and relevant pace. The History of Future Folk excels on both accounts with great music that comes in at the right time coupled with hilarious dialogue.
It’s a film that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but at the same time it knows when to rein it in. Though most of it is ridiculous in a good way, there are several sweeter moments that show genuine human hondonian emotion without feeling sappy and heavy handed.
The short runtime and lighthearted feel makes the film accessible to a much wider audience than just indie movie lovers, though there’s still a lot of meat here for the more rabid cinephiles to sink their teeth into. It’s also light on swearing and violence, which feels refreshing, considering most decent comedies hitting theaters these days are R-rated.
The History of Future Folk combines great music with great comedy. It’s a well-crafted science fiction tale that will leave you with a smile on your face and a song about farming space worms stuck in your head for weeks. Tapping into those buzz words again, it’s simply the most charming film I’ve seen this year.
~Be sure to check out our interview with Future Folk Here.
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Antoni Matuszny, who came from the Beskid village of Laliki, was interested in photography since he was a child. As he recalls, he wanted to save the life of his family and the countryside in the 1970s from oblivion. At the age of thirteen, he bought the first camera, and when he was 24 – the camera of the Soviet Quarz 5.
A film made in Cięcina between 1980 and 1982.
A mosaic of genre scenes documenting the first two years of life of Paulina, daughter of Antoni and Elżbieta. The young parents, with the help of the midwife, Mrs Widz, and the grandparents, Elżbieta and Franciszek Wojciuch, bathe and swaddle little Paulina. The family spends time at home and outdoors. The girl takes her first steps, walks with her mother and plays with other children.
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This model Excel skin care enables the user to build out financial forecasts of such an endeavor with fully dynamic assumptions about revenue/expenses and initial investment + ramping. We included unique and dynamic features in the skin care Excel 5 year projection template as compared to all the other revenue inputs that have built for the other financial model template excel Excel skin cares.
We included a project valuation, startup costs, investment or loan amount required, sensitivity that auto-adjusts a defined base of daily sales per serving type, a range of visuals to provide cash flow analysis template over time along with debt service, and cash requirements.
SKIN CARE INCOME STATEMENT REPORTS
All in One Place
Our five year financial projection template is fully modular. The financial core is separated into excel financial statement template, operating costs, hiring plan, cap table startup, pre seed valuation, and reporting. Based on these inputs, it is able to generate easily-editable growth forecasts and revenue projections based on your needs.
Depending on your specific business type, the three statement model template structure allows you to put additional details or use financial forecasting methods more suited for your business. All formulas in our financial model business plan are completely open and unlocked, allowing you to make edits and changes to it.
A dashboard containing all-important financial indicators is a key component of any financial plan template excel. Our dashboard contains important information from your company's three types of financial statements and financial forecasts. Here, users can navigate through the numbers and enter specific time periods they are interested in analyzing.
Based on the key performance indicators in the dashboard, further forecasting and analysis are performed. In doing so, users can make strategic decisions for the betterment of the company.
Company Financial Report
One of the features of this excel financial model is an already designed financial summary that integrates all the financial information from all the other spreadsheets, including the primary excel financial report: pro forma balance, forecast income statement, and cash flow model excel.
This financial summary is already formatted and ready to be included in your pitch deck.
Sources And Uses Of Funds Statement Template
The excel financial model template's sources and uses of cash statement page displays how the corporation handles its finances. It displays the key financial sources available to the firm. It also displays how much money the firm spends. For start-ups, the S&U statement is crucial.
Break Even Point In Dollars
The break even point analysis refers to the point where your total sales contribution equals your total period fixed costs, generating a zero profit and loss situation. This technique is primarily based on marginal costing, which by nature exhibits different cost behaviors at various levels of output activity. Here, the break even point in sales dollars further helps you by providing details on profit margins generated at various sales levels.
The Top revenue tab in the bottom up financial model shows off the financial information regarding each of your offerings. In particular, with the help of this financial plan startup, you can obtain an annual breakdown of your revenue streams, including the revenue depth and revenue bridge.
Business Top Expense Categories
The excel financial model template provides you access to our top expense report, which can summarize your company's expenses. It summarizes four expense categories determined based on expense amount. The remaining expenses are classified as 'other'. The expense report allows users to easily track expenses and look into historical trends to see where expenses are increasing or decreasing. It is necessary to analyze the top expense categories in detail and work on driving optimization in these areas.
It is also very important for both start-ups and growing companies to monitor, plan, and manage expenses in order to drive profitability.
SKIN CARE PRO FORMA EXPENSES
Our skin care financial projection excel is an important financial tool that helps define forecasted and actual expenditures. Additionally, it checks financial resource sufficiency to cover these costs.
With a well-developed cost budget, similar to what you get with our skin care three statement financial model, you can easily highlight high-priority areas and see where you can save money. As an integral part of a professional business plan, you can easily communicate these insights to your investors and lenders.
Capital Expenditure Plan
What the capital expenditure plan shows is the sum total of all the financial amounts which the skin care has expended to develop, improve, safeguard and even insure its property, plant and equipment, and fixed assets. Ultimately, it is an investment in the company's operative competitiveness. Our report summarizes and explains the CAPEX investment, how it translates to efficiency, and which different assets respond or improve based on the level of CAPEX budget investment. Please note, though, that this does not include salaries and general, administrative, and operating costs. Depending on the industry and business, capital expenditures can vary significantly; ergo, it is important to keep this in mind when examining different business models and reports.
Debt Repayment Schedule
Our business plan forecast template has a built-in loan amortization schedule which includes principal and interest calculation. The loan amortization schedule template allows users to calculate your company's payment amount. It includes principal, interest rate, time length of the loan, and the payments' frequency.
SKIN CARE STARTUP BUDGET METRICS
Net present value (NPV). Present value (PV) is a financial metric of the financial projection template that reflects discounted cash flows and addresses the type of questions like 'What is the value today of a $1 to be received several years from now?'. The sum of such present values for a multi-period cash inflow stream is called Net present value or NPV.
Statement Of Cash Flows
A cash flow projection is essential. This is a great format of cash flow model excel that allows you to allocate finances, including paying workers' salaries and controlling other expenses.
A benchmarking study as the element of the startup financial model template xls is usually used to evaluate a business's performance by focusing on one or more particular indicators and comparing them with similar indicators of other companies in the industry.
In respect of the financial benchmarking, these indicators could be profit margins, cost margins, cost per unit, productivity margins, or others. Later the company's performance indicators should be compared to that of other companies within the same industry.
Benchmarking is a useful strategic management tool, which is essential for start-ups. Companies can evaluate any economic, business, or financial metric or process and compare them to the processes of 'best practice' companies within the same field or industry.
Profit And Loss Projection Template
There is no easy way to say it, one of the most critical but difficult aspects of running a business is accounting - in particular, deriving and constructing the pro forma profit and loss statement, as it is a rather complex task. This is where we come in. We have made a template of the projected profit and loss statement template which is ready to use, and that makes constructing the statement and even projecting further revenues easy and straightforward
Projected Balance Sheet For Startup Business
The business forecast template provides a complete financial overview of the company's given financial position at a point in time because the pro forma balance sheet template excel is linked with the excel template cash flow statement and projected profit and loss template, so a functioning model has all three statements flowing through and balanced.
SKIN CARE STARTUP BUDGET VALUATION
Seed Stage Valuation
This skin care business financial model template provides a template for valuation analysis using Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology. When this valuation is generated, the template will also calculate and help users analyze additional financial metrics, such as residual value, replacement costs, market comparables, recent transaction comparables, etc.
Cap Table Startup
In the p&l template excel, cap table, or 'cap table', lists a company's securities that include common stock, preferred stock, options, warrants, etc. It also shows who owns those securities. Business owners should keep this information organized and up-to-date to make wise decisions regarding fundraising, employee options, and acquisition offers.
SKIN CARE PRO FORMA INCOME STATEMENT TEMPLATE EXCEL KEY FEATURES
Prove You Can Pay Back the Loan You Requested
When you apply for a business loan, bankers will study your cash flow chart excel in an attempt to answer this question: Can this business pay back the loan? Requesting a loan without showing your cash flow proforma for paying it back is a common way to land in the rejection pile. It is exceptionally accurate if your current cash flow won't cover all of your monthly operating expenses — plus your loan payment. Don't fall into this kind of situation. Use cash flow statement excel template to strengthen your case by showing the banker exactly how you plan to use the loan and when you will start repaying the debt. This type of forecasting helps you create a road map that can impress a lender with the confidence they need to approve your loan.
Build your plan and pitch for funding
Impress bankers and investors with a proven, strategic skin care business revenue model template that impresses every time.
Get a robust, powerful financial model which is fully expandable
This well-tested, robust and powerful skin care three statement financial model is your solid foundation to plan skin care business model. Advanced users are free to expand and tailor all sheets as desired, to handle specific requirements or to get into greater detail.
Consistent formatting and building out tabs that have a clear purpose will help you when you need to come back to your model to test a new hypothesis
Convince investors and lenders
Enhance your pitches and impress potential financiers with a startup financial model template excel delivering the right information and expected financial and operational metrics. Facilitate your negotiations with investors for successful funding. Raise money more quickly and refocus on your core business.
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The best wireless headphones can take your listening experience to a whole new level. Here are the highest-rated wireless headphones that will let you hear every note.
Due to the growing usage of handheld devices, the headphones market is expected to reach over $15 billion by 2025, according to Grand View Research, Inc. Right now, there is a high demand for affordable products with advanced features such as wireless technology and noise-cancellation.
Although wireless headphones are not for everyone, the convenience of not having a cable that tangles and breaks is glaring. And as the curtain falls on the headphone jacks, there’s no sense resisting the world of wireless music. We made this guide for those who are ready to take the leap.
Some years ago, devout audiophiles downright rejected wireless headphones; after all, connections are unreliable and Bluetooth codecs have quality issues. But thanks to aptX, LDAC, and other codec supports, you can now enjoy a new generation of wireless tech without your high-res music being downgraded to AM radio quality.
Are you still on the fence if wireless headphones are right for you? We round up the advantages and disadvantages of ditching the wires.
Wireless headphones are extremely convenient.
One of the main advantages of wireless cans over their wired cousins is that they give users the freedom to do almost anything. With wired headphones, you are always tethered to your device. Latest Bluetooth headphones now allow considerable distance between your headphones and smartphones before the signal becomes degraded
The latest models have better sound quality.
The wireless technology has come a long way since Apple’s unceremonious removal of headphone jacks in their iPhone 7. Two years ago, we would have forbidden you in going down the wireless rabbit hole. Until recently wired headphones were simply unmatched in terms of sound quality. But then Sony introduced LDAC, the high-end solution to Bluetooth’s long-standing sound quality issues. Then came aptX and aptX HD—our ticket to “near lossless” audio experience. There has never been a better time to fall down the rabbit hole.
They connect to just about anything.
Despite the low-speed transmission and short range, Bluetooth technology can be found on almost all devices that offer wireless communication. This means you can pair Bluetooth headphones to almost any phone, tablet, and other handheld devices–even to your laptop and Bluetooth-enabled TV.
Wireless headphones rely on battery power.
Fans of wireless technology have accepted the fact that wireless audio will always be inferior to its wired counterpart, but having another battery to charge is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. There are people who would rather be strangled by their headphone cables than go through the hassle of tracking their headphones’ battery level.
Connectivity issues persist in some models.
After 25 years since its inception, Bluetooth (the connection that the majority of wireless headphones use) is still invariably unreliable. Your music skips, connection disconnects randomly, the device fails to pair—it seems like a lot of things can go wrong with a wireless connection. But, although the technology is flawed, the market giants continue to offer a workaround so you won’t miss the headphone jacks on your phones, like Apple’s W1 chip pairing and Android’s Fast Pair feature.
Once you experience the convenience of hands-free technology, it would be difficult to go back to “how things were.” As you make the transition, you will definitely appreciate the freedom to move around without the tangled mess around your neck.
But, how you plan to use your headphones should dictate the type of device you need. Are they strictly for home use? Do you plan to use them to get through the banality of your daily commute? For instance, bulky wireless headphones may not be good for frequent travels. And if you are a father of four, you need a pair of cans with kid-proof durability.
Design and Comfort
Before you ponder on the list of nifty features you want to splurge on, you need to identify your preferred headphone type first. While comfort is a matter of personal preference, some headphone styles could bring discomfort in an otherwise fun experience.
Headphones come in all shapes and sizes, and they are basically categorized based on four distinct designs. You can find high-end models in each category.
On-ear headphones – also known as supra-aural headphones, these babies have smaller ear cups but the pads are pressed directly on your ears rather than around them. They strike a balance between blocking outside noise and letting some sound in. They are ideal for office and home use if you can stand the pressure on your ears.
Popular models: Sony Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphones, Bose Wireless 35, Sennheiser Momentum II, AKG Y50BT
Over-ear headphones – the large cups of circumaural headphones are big enough to cover your ears and stay put via light pressure on your head. They sound fantastic and provide good noise isolation, hence they are the preferred cans of musicians, sound engineers, club DJ, and music producers.
Popular models: Beats Solo3, Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 On-Ear Wireless, Plantronics BackBeat Sense, Skullcandy Grind Wireless
In-ear headphones – they are more popularly known as earbuds, but the proper name for this form is in-ear monitors. True wireless earbuds are on a rage these days. For their size, they provide excellent sound quality and offers privacy through passive noise isolation.
Popular models: Jabra Elite Sport True Wireless Earbuds, Sony WF-SP700N Noise-Cancelling Earbuds, Apple Airpods
Bone conduction headphones – this new breed of wireless headphones is the opposite of noise-canceling headphones. They are designed to push music to your inner ear through the bones of your skull instead of your eardrums. If you are after sound quality, save your money and don’t fall for the hype. But If you want to hear your surroundings while using your cans or you have a type of conductive hearing loss, then grab one of these and let us know what you think.
Popular models: Aftershockz Trekz Titanium
It’s hard to discuss sound quality without delving into Bluetooth codecs first. Let’s just say they play a major role in determining the sound output of your headphones. Codecs are small data packets of compressed audio. The type of compression used determines the sound quality of the codec.
SBC – a simple and fast codec supported by all devices
AAC – supported by iOS and macOS, one of the most widely supported audio on the internet
LDAC – transmits high-resolution audio content at three times the speed of SBC, according to Sony
aptX – provides “near lossless” audio quality, according to Qualcomm
Why are they important? Simply put, your headphones and your device must support the same codec in order to hear the promised sound quality. You will most likely see aptX when you search for Bluetooth codecs, but there are other widely used codecs such as AAC and SBC.
The aptX promises “CD-like” quality or better audio quality than standard Bluetooth. Its beefed-up version, the aptX HD or aptX Lossless can provide “better-than-CD” sound quality, according to Qualcomm.
In a nutshell, your aptX HD headphones will not work on smartphones and tablets that don’t support the codec (we are looking at you, Apple iPhones and iPads).
The best pair of wireless headphones don’t come cheap. So why invest in something with mediocre battery life, right? A pair that offers 30 hours of battery life on a single charge is more than ideal. Some of the models in this range include Sony WH-1000XM3 Noise Cancelling Headphones and Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, but you’ll spend upwards of $300.
Q: What is the usual range of wireless headphones?
A: Most wireless headphones have a range of 33 feet or 10 meters. Some models have an operating range of up to 300+ feet like the Plantronics Backbeat Pro and Jabra Evolve 65.
Q: How long does the battery last on wireless earphones?
A: Bluetooth headphones can last an average of 20 hours. Most wireless earbuds have a battery life of 6 to 8 hours.
Q: Can I use my wireless headphones while charging?
A: Most headphones do not allow that, either you need to turn off the headphones before charging or it shuts off on its own. If you just bought a new headset, you need to charge it for at least 30 minutes (may be different for other models) before using it for the first time.
Q: Do wireless headsets only use Bluetooth?
A: Some models use other wireless signals such as infrared (IR) and radiofrequency (RF). IR is often used in vehicles with video screens. RF headphones are popular as home theatre headphones because they don’t have latency issues like most Bluetooth headsets.
Q: How can I change the Bluetooth codec on my phone?
Some android phones will allow you to choose from a list of supported codecs to improve the audio quality of your Bluetooth headphones. You can do it by activating the Developer options on your smartphone before pairing your headphones. Go to Settings > About Phone and tap the build number of your phone 7 times. Pair your headphones and go to the Developer options under Settings, tap Bluetooth audio codec and select one of the codecs from the list. Make sure your headphones support the codec that you wish to use.
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Chapter 6 of Soul-Help Papers
“…as thy day, so shall thy strength be.”
— Deuteronomy 33:25 —
from anxious fretting, forethought and worry!
Just one day at a time.”2
“As thy day, so shall thy strength be.” Not as my day or the day of someone else. Not as yesterday. Not as tomorrow. Each day for itself. Each individual for himself. Life is not a repetition, nor a return to its past self. Life is a continuity, and yet ever new—coming out of the past, and yet always going on into a future unlike that which has been. Life’s “now-ness” is a perpetual characteristic which forever keeps it from being tired of itself.
We get tired of people who lack freshness and constantly repeat what they have told us before, and have no new line of conversation or idea. While there is a great comfort in being able to hold the past in mind, it would soon grow weary on our hands had the present no new thought in it. While we want Jesus always to be the same in His great official relations, and be the same true Friend, at the same time we expect Him to be ever fresh and new, continually opening and leading us into fresh pastures and beside quiet waters.
You have noticed that the Bible never grows old. Even the passages addressed to youth are somehow endowed with a hidden meaning which is held in reserve for old age. Its passages never wear out. They brighten and shine with new resplendence from continuous reading. The hungry heart finds fresh pasture in the most commonplace chapter. The good places, so to speak, gleam with new light as they are approached from the new angle of each day.
Then there is something comforting in the thought that my journey each day is over an untraveled road, and each day the Guide says to me, “You have not gone this way before.”3 This is not yesterday, not last week, nor last year, much less forty years ago. There are mountains to see today, never before within the range of vision. There are fair landscapes drawn by the Artist of the universe for your eyes to see. There are songs which will ring from the very music of the spheres, which are only for your ears. The blue of the sky, the song of the birds, the penciling of the fair flowers along your path are for this day only. Along with all these will come trains of new thoughts. Orisons4 of praise will arise for that which has never been yours before. All this, and yet the beginning is only begun to be told. Then why should this be a sad, weary, gloomy day? How full of comfort Jesus has crowded each day, if we will only look at it! How He would make every day our best if we only knew how to take it!
But more. There is a great relief in the thought that I only have to live one day at a time. No yesterdays to go back into. No bridges of tomorrow’s crossing to come into today’s journey. I just have to live one day at a time. That is all. Whether or not I need something tomorrow should not trouble me. Whether I shall hold out tomorrow is not the perplexity, but rather whether I am holding out today. What Christ shall be or do tomorrow need not perplex me, but rather what He is and is doing today. Why should I trouble as to what the coming years shall find Him doing, since He is just now what He always will be, and is now doing just what He always will do, so far as His relations to all who are His. Today He wants me to regard Him as “all and in all.”5 A thousand millenniums hence there will be no change in this respect. Having Christ today, and living with and for Him today, is enough. What need I more? Why have anxious forethoughts as to what He will want of me tomorrow? All He wants of me is to live for Him today. It is only one day at a time. Heaven is on earth when Christ is enthroned within. In heaven, in eternity, He is yesterday and forever the same.6
What pains He has taken to secure us from anxious fretting, forethought and worry! Just one day at a time. Reduced to a finer division, we live moment by moment. Tomorrow cares for itself. We seize the comfort of the day. We take its sunshine to enjoy what the sun shines on. We take the season for what it has in hand. We accept present conditions and begin not to look for something different, but for Jesus just where we are. When we are looking for Him, He loves to have us find Him, since He is always looking for the soul who is looking for Him. As with Zaccheus, He will always find the tree into which we have climbed to look for Him.7
A further thought is that today shapes tomorrow. That is, what I build today is the foundation for tomorrow. In a well-defined sense, thoughts are things. That is, sentient beings think and therefore act. Action is the result of forethinking. This means that my thinking today is to bear fruit tomorrow in action.
Action makes other acts necessary. If one lie is told, it has power, someway, to require a second lie to keep it company. The murderer is compelled to do that which will, if possible, cover his crime. So not in the field of thought alone, but in action as well, does the Divine voice whisper concerning all our tomorrows, “As thy day.”
A missionary went to a foreign land. His work made it necessary for him to translate his Bible. One act of his life in a good direction required a second act to carry out his first. The Bible in the hands of the people created the need for schools. So the work enlarged. The act of one day whispered, “As thy day.” Today is thus always forecasting tomorrows.
A thought further: It is always “As Thy Day,” and not so much “as to yesterdays.” People in these days do not care so much about our past. They want to live for the present. Nor do they care so much about what we tell them we expect to be. They want the “now” people. They say the “has beens” may have done well enough for the last year, but for the present we want those who can bring things to pass. Nor do they care so much about the “shall-be’s.” The watchword of the times is, “As Thy Day.”
- The text itself is public domain. The original book, Soul-Help Papers, was transcribed by Jim Kerwin, biographer of Isaiah Reid, and co-edited and emended with Denise Kerwin. Annotations and emendations are copyright © 2008 by Jim Kerwin along with his other contributions to the online, print, and e-book versions of Isaiah Reid's Soul-Help Papers. ↩
- Title image created using an image by Eberhard Grossgasteiger on https://unsplash.com/@eberhardgross. ↩
- The reference seems to be a paraphrase of part of Joshua 3:4 — “…ye have not passed this way heretofore.” ↩
- Orison: even as far back as Webster's 1828 dictionary, this word meant a prayer of supplication; but Reid seems to use the word in a slightly different way. ↩
- The reference is to 1 Corinthians 15:28. ↩
- Hebrews 13:8 ↩
- See the story in Luke 19:1-10. ↩
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Glass Fusing is like putting together a puzzle of your own creation using small pieces of colorful glass, to create beautiful designs. After you create your design, we fire it in our kiln so it melts down into a beautiful finished piece of art.
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Take a selfish on July 23rd from 6-8pm and join us for our Schitt’s Creek Paint Night! Come alone or sign up with friends for this fun night of creativity! We’ll have trivia (no lock and key games, sorry!) raffle prizes, and highly encourage all Moira costumes. Even if you’re trying very hard not to connect with people right now, you will want to sign up! Don’t be a little B and make me ask thrice, register today!
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(For a 100% refund, cancellations must be made at least 48 hours in advance. Cancellations made within 48 hours of event will be given store credit. If you do not attend the event and do not give notice, no refund or store credit will be issued.)
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Vicki, Me, Angela, and Sarah
Dana, Me, Katie, and Linda
Me, Angela, and Sarah
Angela and yours truly
Vickie and Moi
and a little picture below of the goodie I gave everyone!
Next we had dessert at Steel City Pops (yummyx2)
Angela, Sarah, and Katie
and below: Linda, Vickie, Dana, and Me
And then it was time for our field trip to Hobby Lobby! Because of Teaching Maddeness, I was lured into obsession with this chair…which I bought, even though the sweet boy that I harassed would boy let me use my coupon! I think my friends enjoyed the scene I made! lol
She is adorable and so sweet, and did I mention I love everything she does in her classroom?? I have a bit of a blog crush on her, for real…
She is the mother to the cutest baby in the world and everything she does in her classroom is something I always want to make time to do…her centers are SO STINKIN’ GOOD!
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Angela is my girl, she is funny and tech savvy like no one else! She is a great teacher and her morning work is TDF!
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She is so young and sweet! She is having a 500 follower giveaway for a Target gift card…so you need to get over to her blog and enter..now!
All these talented ladies are worth following!
And before I go,
don’t forget there is a KinderLand Sale going on right now…20% off everything in my TPT shop!!
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Seth Rollins is one of the most decorated superstars in WWE. Rollins has been a fan favorite and has always improved himself with his new gimmicks. He made his debut on the main roster with The Shield in 2012 and has been a big name since then. John Cena once confronted Seth Rollins backstage during his initial days and imparted some knowledge.
The Visionary had less knowledge about various aspects when he debuted on the main roster. Seth Rollins was once encountered by John Cena, who advised him not to use ice packs during their initial days. After one of his matches, Seth sat backstage, icing up his neck, and caught the attention of The Cenation Leader.
John Cena asked Seth Rollins about the number of matches he had wrestled on the main roster. Rollins, who was a rookie back then, stated that he had only wrestled three matches. The 16-time World Champion advised him not to use ice packs often after the matches. The Cenation Leader stated that it was unnecessary for the body.
John Cena continued that Rollins hadn’t put his body through so much pain to start using ice packs at this moment. A similar kind of thing happened with Summer Rae and Randy Orton when The Viper spotted Rae icing her foot during the first match of her career. Such scenarios imply that the superstars have developed a list of things that they follow backstage for their good health.
Seth Rollins defended his World Heavyweight Title for the first time
Seth Rollins became the inaugural World Heavyweight Champion upon defeating AJ Styles at Night of Champions. Before winning the title, Seth stated in several interviews that he would be the defending champion. Moreover, he said that he will give title opportunities to everyone who steps up before him. Rollins has assured to be a fighting champion.
Damian Priest and Seth Rollins faced off against each other in the main event this week on Raw. The Judgment Day member lacked the support of his faction as he was all by himself. Priest gave a tough fight to the champion but failed to emerge victorious. As a result, Rollins successfully defended his title on the show.
Following the match, The Visionary and Finn Balor faced off in the ring, and Monday Night Raw went off-air. As a result, there have been speculations that Seth Rollins could face Balor at Money in the Bank in London. Rollins and Balor are two of the top stars in WWE. Therefore, this is a match that many fans have been waiting to witness again.
Parth is a content writer for the WWE division at FirstSportz. The world of pro wrestling caught his attention in 2016 and has loved the sport since then going into its depth knowing it thoroughly. Pop-cultural elements raise his interest so often that even his academics include the study of mass media. Apart from wrestling, Parth enjoys cricket and loves watching movies/series of every possible genre.
FirstSportz is the First Stop for all sports fanatics. Starting in 2019, we initially covered Olympic Sports, but in 2021 we added every other sport which you might be looking for, like NFL, Golf, MLB, WWE Cricket, Football, Tennis, Esports, NBA, MMA and more.
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Sciosophy is written for four people performing on two pianos. I wanted a homogeneity of sound, no use of other timbre for contrast or allure.
There are four different themes. Each one centred on a bass line. I will call them A, B, C, D. The music proceeds by juxtaposing these themes. I wanted to create tension and resolution by a. the way these they are juxtaposed, b. the internal development of each theme and c. the effect that a theme’s internal development has on its neighbouring themes and the resulting imposition of these effects. I wanted to create a map of the piece. A way to collate and navigate the material. The tricky part was finding the right map for the right material. I don’t expect a listener to identify this map at all but I do believe it aids the flow of tension and resolution throughout the piece.
Each theme has its own character, working within the same constant pulse. Theme A is of paramount importance at the opening. It hammers home its message. It is percussive and no-nonsense and has 6 beats in a bar. As the music proceeds it is superseded by Theme C as the most currently important material in the centre of the piece. Theme C is more flowing and lyrical. It is built on a cliched harmonic sequence and has 4 beats in a bar. Theme B is more transitional. It is always just around the corner. It has 7 pulses in a bar and a forward momentum towards something else. Theme D doesn’t enter until halfway through the piece. By this time the juxtapositions and development are affecting the other themes. When Theme D arrives it has already incorporated some of these elements from its outset. It is percussive, rhythmic and transitional. It also has 7 pulses in a bar.
The internal development of each theme is simple and audible.
In Theme A events are added to each repeating unit. The addition of events and occasional change of figure is plotted within Theme A’s overall duration. For example, the first outing for Theme A has an overall duration of 10 bars. In one piano part this is split in a descending mathematical sequence of 4 bars, 3 bars, 2 bars and 1 bar. Each of these units incorporates a new percussive attack. In another piano the 10 bars are split in half, a new figure starts and the grouping of pulses changes from two in a beat to three.
In Theme B, with its 7 pulses per bar, I group these initially as 2 + 2 + 2 + 1. At successive repetitions of this phrase the shorter group – 1 – moves back through the bar. So, it is grouped as 2 + 2 + 1 + 2, then as 2 + 1 + 2 + 2, then 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 before arriving back where it started. For me this has an internal logic. I can hear the process, it’s quite simple, but from its start is embedded with implication for the next change. Therefore there is a semi-circular structure which telegraphs when the process will be over.
In Theme C there are different groupings going on over that somewhat square harmonic movement with 4 beats (8 pulses) in a bar. One piano part has repeating units containing 5 pulses, another has units containing 12 pulses. This variation in length creates flow and a phasing between parts until the ultimate synchronised meeting point which they are all heading towards.
Theme D has no internal development.
The map of the piece emphasises themes by the amount of time given to them. So at the outset Theme A is heard over 10 bars. Its next appearance lasts for 6 bars, then 3 and then 1 bar. Theme C has the opposite durational path. I want to create tension and resolution in this piece by managing expectations, using systems to set up implication and prediction but then diverge from that flow.
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It’s known as the shark tooth capital of the world, Venice, Florida has some of the most incredible beaches! Because of its location and the fossil layer out along the shores of this coast, there are historical shark teeth in abundance. You will find some of the most pretty and unique shells and sea treasures as well. Here are a few of the amazing shells and treasures we found while enjoying the beach recently.
The polk- a- dot shell might be from the coral crab family species. It is very light, and so colorful.
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The Barbell Bench Press has always been a big challenge in the gym. Every guy from the first time in the gym is trying to increase their bench press to get ahead of the other guys. First is 135, Then you have the 2 plates at 225, and lastly, if you are top notch 3 plates with an amazing bench press of 315. But what's the average gym goer putting up?
Average Bench Press
It's said the average male could bench 135 pounds. The average male lifter in the gym is said to be able to press 215 pounds. So just under the 2 plate goal, most men have in the gym. So let's talk about how we can increase these numbers. Disclaimer This won't get you the girl of your dreams but it sure will get the attention of the other guys.
#1 Force Reps on Bench press
The force rep is performed with a partner. Not only a partner but a good spotter. You do not want to do this with a bad spotter. You will be loading the bar with more weight than your current PR maybe 20-40 pounds extra. Then you the bencher will un-rack the weight and control it on the way. Then your lifting partner will assist you on the press. This method is made to get your body used to handle more weight. Then after doing this for a few consecutive weeks your old PR should feel pretty good.
#2 Dumbbell Press
Dumbbell Press is a common exercise in the gym. However, most people don't realize that it's building your stabilizer muscles. Stabilizer muscles are all the little muscles and fibers that help the primary movers perform optimally. So building them strong in the shoulders and chest will maximize your bench press for sure.
#3 The Other Bench Press
Don't get stuck just on a flat bench. We need to build the whole chest strong. The incline press and decline press are great for increasing your flat bench. Building a strong upper chest is great for shoulder stability and overall pressing power both forward and above the head. Using the decline press will allow you to start training with heavier weights as well as build a bigger stronger chest.
Just Stuck In The Gym?
Here in Melbourne, Florida we have both a supplement store and a private training studio specializing in online and in-person personal training. If you are really looking to break through a plateau feel free to reach out to one of our coaches and ask for some advice on training or diet. The link will be below to contact a coach. We hope you enjoyed the read and it helped increase your bench press.
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FL to CT Day 23
Portsmouth, VA to Smithfield, VA
Later departure this morning at 0800 as we were only traveling to Smithfield, VA. We have some great friends Judy and Wayne McPhail that live there on the Pagan River and we have not seen them for a few years. We had planned to stop and see them this trip north.
Looking at the weather forecast for the next few days it appears like we may be visiting for 2-3 days... Chesapeake Bay forecast for 5-7 seas... not a very nice ride at all... so we'll wait out the weather here with awesome friends! There neighbor has been very gracious to allow us to dock at his dock... :)
e arrived to Smithfield at approximately 1130 and docked at N36°59.610', W076°37.431'. We traveled today for 3.5 hours covering 22.5 nautical miles averaging 6.4 knots.
Posted at 10:47 AM by:Jay
FL to CT Day 22
Coinjock, NC to Portsmouth, VA
Departed this morning at later than normal.. had a little computer work come in that needed to be done before we left so departure time was 0820.
Today is a terrible day for bridges... the opening schedules just won't allow us to make them... pass through one bridge and there is no way we can make the next bridges opening time at our 7 knot pace.
First Bridge was the North Landing Bridge... takes about 3-4 hours to get there from Coinjock. It opens on the hour and half hour... but the bridge after it the Centerville Turnpike Bridge only opens on the hour... they are just over 5 miles apart... we have to run at over 8 knots to make it within the half hour... so we have to go through the North Landing on the hour opening and then take an hour to the 5 miles to the Centerville Bridge... that's at about 4 knots.
Anyway, had it all planned out and then as we get closer I start hearing the Centerville Bridge opening at times other than top of the hour... come to find out that their restricted opening schedule is only during the week days... weekends are on demand... YEAH! So, once we made the North Landing we continued on at normal speed and the Centerville bridge opened on demand as we approached... very nice!
After this we still had the Great Bridge Bridge that does only open on the hour and we were totally out of whack timing wise for this so we continued on and pulled into the dock just before the bridge and tied up for 40 minutes to wait on the 1400 opening. Susan Took Beecha for a walk and it was a nice break in the middle of the day.
After the bridge we immediately go into the Great Bridge Lock... there was only us and one small 28 foot boat locking through... drop 1.5 feet and we were out heading to the next bridge that we also only opens on the hour... Steel Bridge... it's less than 3 miles away... so we creep at a snails pace taking 45 minutes to travel 2.4 miles... just above idle... and still
have to wait at the steel bridge for 10 minutes. There is a new high rise bridge under construction so this soon will be a thing of the past.
From here it free sailing... the Gilmerton Bridge is new and now has a 35 foot clearance and we do not need to open it... next stop Portsmouth. Well, almost... last 2 miles from our destination for the night is the Belt Line R&R Bridge... rarely closed... but today we watched it close in front of us as we approached... waited only 5-10 minutes...watched the train cross the bridge and we back underway.
We arrived the free dock a the end of High St, Portsmouth, VA... a popular place for cruisers to stop before heading up the Chesapeake Bay. There were three other trawlers and two sailboats already moored here. We pulled into our normal spot along the high wall... most boats do not like it due to it's height above the water... but it is perfect for our side gate... same level... :)
We were secure at 1600 at approximate locations N36°50.130', W076°17.777'. We traveled today for 7.7 hours covering 41.8 nautical miles averaging 5.4 knots.
FL to CT Day 21
Alligator River, NC to Coinjock, NC
Last night was very interesting evening... when we anchored winds were already whipping up with the approaching cold front... about 2030 the winds increased significantly... going to the pilothouse and checking the wind speed I saw 33 knots and gusts to over 40 knots... it was pitch black outside except with each lightning strike... oh yeah... there was lightning and with each flash I could see the clouds of the approaching front billowing down all the way to the water... looked as if there was a wall approaching... we saw on the weather earlier that there was a tornado warning in effect until midnight... sure did not like seeing the clouds hanging so low... anyway, the wind continued until the wall of clouds was on top of us... literally hanging maybe 100 feet above the water... rain and hail... lightning... it was a little dicey for about 30 minutes and
then wind subsided to 20 knots and the lightning was moving away from us... only the rain remained.... by 2200 it was pretty much over... the anchor had held so we did not end up in the swamp land behind us... LOL.
We went to bed and hoped to see the sun in the morning... 0600 alarm went off and the winds were calm and you could hear the birds outside... I took a photo of the sun rising up over the swamp. It was a beautiful morning... although it was COLD!
I was off in the dinghy with Beecha to the Gum Neck Landing for her morning walk... this trip was much nicer than the one from the previous evening when we arrived... glass smooth water... the canal going back to the boat ram was very pretty... cypress trees lining each side and old cypress stumps protruding above the surface on each side... there were signs warning of submerged hazards and to use caution. It was very beautiful.
We had one bridge to deal with today... the Alligator River Bridge at the mouth of the Alligator River at the Albemarle Sound... as we approached there was sailboat hailing the bridge for an opening... we were still 15 minutes away... thought for sure we were going to miss the opening... we were still 78 minutes out when the bridge swung open allowing the sailboat to pass... I hailed and asked if he would hold the opening... surprisingly he agreed and held it open for us... this rarely happens... very nice!
Albemarle Sound can be a bear with high winds... winds were still up 15-20 knots out of the NNW... reports from boats out on the sound already were mixed from less than 2 feet to 4 footers... different people's perspectives I guess... anyway, we headed out and saw typically 2 foot waves and towards the end of the crossing some swells that were maybe 4 foot... did not expect them... must of been some residual from the cold front passing...
We soon were in the North River heading to our destination for the evening... Coinjock Marina. We arrived and were securely docked by 1530. Our location for the night N36°20.920', W075°56.941
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I’m favouring the indigo corduroy version of the Blouson El Americano, the latest triumph from Man Of The World Christophe Loiron’s label Mister Freedom.
Taking a cue from the jackets worn by the Chinaco horsemen of the Mexican War Of Independence, the Blouson El Americano is also available in duck canvas and stripe covert.
Read about the adventures of El Americano here.
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We’ve got some half priced cracked ice
And miles and miles of carpet tiles
TVs, deep freeze and David Bowie LPs
Pool games, gold chains, what’s-a-names
And at a push,
Some Trevor Francis tracksuits
From a mush in Shepherd’s Bush…
– Only Fools And Horses, 1981
It’s 1988, and we’re heading up and down the Uxbridge Road in London’s Shepherd’s Bush with photographer Peter Marshall, taking in Holland Park Roundabout not far from the Westway – the one with the cookie-cut sheep crossing the arch above the entrance to the underpass – and mooching around the Empire, where the BBC recorded shows like Crackerjack (“Crackerjack!”), The Old Grey Whistle Test and the Eurovision Song Contest.
Long before the gigantic Westfield Shopping Centre landed in W12 in 2008 and house prices rocketed from three times to eight times a mortgage hunter’s annual salary, Shepherd’s Bush was alive with BBC workers from the nearby Television Centre (now partially redeveloped as flats), people crossing the busy roads around Shepherd’s Bush Green green via a bridge designed to look like an intercity train (demolished in 1990) and fans and players of Queens Park Rangers football club, where the aforementioned Trevor Francis was the team’s player-manager.
Located on the Devil’s Highway, an old Roman road from London to Silchester, “Sheppard’s Bush Green” was first recorded as a place name in 1635.
The Devil’s Highway ran along what is now the south side of Shepherd’s Bush Green and most of Goldhawk Road, continuing in a straight line to what is now Brentford.
A later road to Oxford, known as the North Highway (and now Uxbridge Road), forked from the Devil’s Highway at the eastern apex of Shepherd’s Bush Green.
Shepherd’s Bush was part of the Bishop of London’s land from 1691 – the boundary with Kensington was Counter’s Creek, shown on John Rocque’s 1757 map of Middlesex.
Apart from a few isolated buildings, the area was almost entirely rural until the 1860s, when the rapid expansion of London and the railways saw the start of a building frenzy that brought a massive increase in population.
– Richard Gregory, who has written a really good history of the area.
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National Coalition for the Homeless2201 P. St. NW ❜ Washington, DC 20037Phone: (202) 462-4822 ❜ Fax: (202) 462-4823Email: [email protected] |Website: http://www.nationalhomeless.org Who is Homeless?NCH Fact Sheet #3Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, August 2007This fact sheet reviews definitions of homelessness and describes the demographiccharacteristics of persons who experience homelessness. A list of resources for further study isalso provided.DEFINITIONSAccording to the Stewart B. McKinney Act, 42 U.S.C. § 11301, et seq. (1994), a person isconsidered homeless who \"lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence; and... has aprimary night time residency that is: (A) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelterdesigned to provide temporary living accommodations... (B) an institution that provides atemporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or (C) a public or privateplace not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for humanbeings.\" The term “homeless individual” does not include any individual imprisoned orotherwise detained pursuant to an Act of Congress or a state law.\" 42 U.S.C. § 11302(c)The education subtitle of the McKinney-Vento Act includes a more comprehensive definition ofhomelessness. This statute states that the term ‘homeless child and youth’ (A) means individualswho lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence... and (B) includes: (i) children andyouth who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and includes children andyouth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, ora similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to lack ofalternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; areabandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement; (ii) children and youth who have aprimary nighttime residence that is a private or public place not designed for or ordinarily usedas a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings... (iii) children and youth who are livingin cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, orsimilar settings, and (iv) migratory children...who qualify as homeless for the purposes of thissubtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).McKinney-Vento Act sec. 725(2); 42 U.S.C. 11435(2).Other federal agencies, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),interpret the McKinney-Vento definition to include only those persons who are on the streets orin shelters and persons who face imminent eviction (within a week) from a private dwelling orinstitution and who have no subsequent residence or resources to obtain housing. Thisinterpretation of homelessness serves large, urban communities where tens of thousands ofpeople are literally homeless. However, it may prove problematic for those persons who are
homeless in areas of the country, such as rural areas, where there are few shelters. Peopleexperiencing homelessness in these areas are less likely to live on the street or in a shelter, andmore likely to live with relatives in overcrowded or substandard housing (U.S. Department ofAgriculture, 1996).DEMOGRAPHICSTwo trends are largely responsible for the rise in homelessness over the past 20-25 years: agrowing shortage of affordable rental housing and a simultaneous increase in poverty. Personsliving in poverty are most at risk of becoming homeless, and demographic groups who are morelikely to experience poverty are also more likely to experience homelessness. Recentdemographic statistics are summarized below.AGEIn 2003, children under the age of 18 accounted for 39% of the homeless population; 42% ofthese children were under the age of five (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty,2004). This same study found that unaccompanied minors comprised 5% of the urban homelesspopulation. However, in other cities and especially in rural areas, the numbers of childrenexperiencing homelessness are much higher. According to the National Law Center onHomelessness and Poverty, in 2004, 25% of homeless were ages 25 to 34; the same study foundpercentages of homeless persons aged 55 to 64 at 6%.GENDERMost studies show that single homeless adults are more likely to be male than female. In 2005, asurvey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that single men comprised 51% of the homelesspopulation and single women comprised 17% (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2005).FAMILIESThe number of homeless families with children has increased significantly over the past decade.Families with children are among the fastest growing segments of the homeless population. In its2005 survey of 25 American cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that families withchildren comprised 33% of the homeless population, a definite increase from previous years(U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2005). These proportions are likely to be higher in rural areas.Research indicates that families, single mothers, and children make up the largest group ofpeople who are homeless in rural areas (Vissing, 1996).As the number of families experiencing homelessness rises and the number of affordable housingunits shrinks, families are subject to much longer stays in the shelter system. For instance, in themid-1990s in New York, families stayed in a shelter an average of five months before moving onto permanent housing. Today, the average stay is seven months, and some surveys say theaverage is closer to a year (U. S. Conference of Mayors, 2005 and Santos, 2002). For moreinformation, see our fact sheet on Homeless Families with Children.
ETHNICITYIn its 2004 survey of 27 cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayor found that the homeless populationwas 49% African-American, 35% Caucasian, 13% Hispanic, 2% Native American, and 1%Asian (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2001). Like the total U.S. population, the ethnic makeup ofhomeless populations varies according to geographic location. For example, people experiencinghomelessness in rural areas are much more likely to be white; homelessness among NativeAmericans and migrant workers is also largely a rural phenomenon (U.S. Department ofAgriculture, 1996).VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCEBattered women who live in poverty are often forced to choose between abusive relationshipsand homelessness. In a study of 777 homeless parents (the majority of whom were mothers) inten U.S. cities, 22% said they had left their last place of residence because of domestic violence(Homes for the Homeless, 1998). A 2003 survey of 100 homeless mothers in 10 locations aroundthe country found that 25% of the women had been physically abused in the last year (AmericanCivil Liberties Union, 2004). In addition, 50% of the 24 cities surveyed by the U.S. Conferenceof Mayors identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness (U.S. Conference ofMayors, 2005). Studying the entire country, though, reveals that the problem is even moreserious. Nationally, approximately half of all women and children experiencing homelessness arefleeing domestic violence (Zorza, 1991; National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 2001).For more information, see our fact sheet on Domestic Violence and Homelessness.VETERANSResearch indicates that 40% of homeless men have served in the armed forces, as compared to34% of the general adult male population (Rosenheck et al., 1996). In 2005, the U.S. Conferenceof Mayors' survey of 24 American cities found that 11% of the homeless population wereveterans – however, this does not take gender into account (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2005).The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans estimates that on any given night, 271,000veterans are homeless (National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, 1994). For more information,see our fact sheet on Homeless Veterans.PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESSApproximately 16% of the single adult homeless population suffers from some form of severeand persistent mental illness (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2005). According to the Federal TaskForce on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, only 5-7% of homeless persons with mentalillness require institutionalization; most can live in the community with the appropriatesupportive housing options (Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness,1992). For more information, see our fact sheet on Mental Illness and Homelessness.PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION DISORDERSSurveys of homeless populations conducted during the 1980s found consistently high rates ofaddiction, particularly among single men; however, recent research has called the results of thosestudies into question (Koegel et al., 1996). Briefly put, the studies that produced high prevalencerates greatly over represented long-term shelter users and single men, and used lifetime ratherthan current measures of addiction. While there is no generally accepted \"magic number\" withrespect to the prevalence of addiction disorders among homeless adults, the U.S. Conference of
Mayors’ number in 2005 was 30%, and the frequently cited figure of about 65% is probably atleast double the real rate for current addiction disorders among all single adults who arehomeless in a year. For more information, see our fact sheet on Addiction Disorders andHomelessness.EMPLOYMENTDeclining wages have put housing out of reach for many workers: in every state, more than theminimum wage is required to afford a one- or two-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent.1(National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2001). In fact, in the median state a minimum-wageworker would have to work 89 hours each week to afford a two-bedroom apartment at 30% ofhis or her income, which is the federal definition of affordable housing (National Low IncomeHousing Coalition 2001). Thus, inadequate income leaves many people homeless. The U.S.Conference of Mayors' 2005 survey of 24 American cities found that 13% of the urban homelesspopulation were employed (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2005), though recent surveys by theU.S. Conference of Mayors have reported as high as 25%. In a number of cities not surveyed bythe U.S. Conference of Mayors - as well as in many states - the percentage is even higher(National Coalition for the Homeless, 1997). For more information, see our factsheets onEmployment and Homelessness and Why Are People Homeless?.IMPLICATIONSAs this fact sheet makes clear, people who become homeless do not fit one general description.However, people experiencing homelessness do have certain shared basic needs, includingaffordable housing, adequate incomes, and health care. Some homeless people may needadditional services such as mental health or drug treatment in order to remain securely housed.All of these needs must be met to prevent and to end homelessness.FOOTNOTES1. FMRs are the monthly amounts \"needed to rent privately owned, decent, safe, and sanitaryrental housing of a modest (nonluxury) nature with suitable amenities.\" Federal Register. HUDdetermines FMRs for localities in all 50 states.SOURCESAmerican Civil Liberties Union, Women’s Rights Project. “Domestic Violence and Homelessness”, 2004. Available at www.aclu.org.Burt, Martha and Barbara Cohen. America's Homeless: Numbers, Characteristics, and Programs that Serve Them, 1989. Available for $9.75 from The Urban Institute, Publications Orders, 2100 M St. NW, Washington, DC 20037; 202/833-7200.Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness. Outcasts on Main Street: A Report of the Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, 1992. Available, free, from the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, 262 Delaware Ave., Delmar, NY, 12054-1123; 800/444-7415.Homes for the Homeless. Ten Cities 1997-1998: A Snapshot of Family Homelessness Across America. Available from Homes for the Homeless & the Institute for Children and Poverty, 36 Cooper Square, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003; 212/529-5252.
Institute of Medicine. Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs, 1988. Available (paperback) for $28.95 from National Academy Press, Box 285, 2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20055; 1/800-624-6242.Koegel, Paul et al. \"The Causes of Homelessness,\" in Homelessness in America, 1996, Oryx Press. Available for $43.50 from the National Coalition for the Homeless, 1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; 202/737-6444.National Coalition for the Homeless. Homelessness in America: Unabated and Increasing, 1997. Available for $6.25 from the National Coalition for the Homeless, 1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; 202/737-6444.National Low Income Housing Coalition. Out of Reach: Rental Housing at What Cost?, 1998. Available from the National Low Income Housing Coalition at 1012 14th Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20005; 202/662-1530.Rosenheck, Robert et al. \"Homeless Veterans,\" in Homelessness in America, Oryx Press, 1996. Available for $43.50 from the National Coalition for the Homeless, 1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; 202/737-6444.Santos, Fernanda and Robet Ingrassia. “Family surge at shelters.” New York Daily News, August 18th, 2002. Available at www.nationalhomeless.org/housing/familiesarticle.html.U.S. Conference of Mayors. A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 1998. Available for $15.00 from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 1620 Eye St., NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC, 20006-4005, 202/293-7330.U.S. Conference of Mayors. A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 2004. Available at www.usmayors.org.U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Economic and Community Development. Rural Homelessness: Focusing on the Needs of the Rural Homeless, 1996. Available, free, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, Rural Economic and Community Development, 14th St. and Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-1533; 202/690- 1533.Urban Institute, The. A New Look at Homelessness in America. February 01, 2000. Available from the Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, N.W. / Washington, DC 20037 or on the website at www.urban.org.Vissing, Yvonne. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small Town America, 1996. Available for $16.95 (paperback) from The University Press of Kentucky, 663 S. Limestone St., Lexington, KY 40508-4008; 800/839-6855.Zorza, J. “Woman Battering: A Major Cause of Homelessness,” Clearinghouse Review, 25(4) (1991). Qtd. In National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “The Importance of Financial Literacy,” Oct. 2001.
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1 Camille Smith Professional Portfolio 2020
2 Table of Contents Resume……………………………………................ Page 3 Transcript…………………………………................ Page 5 Nursing Philosophy…………………………………. Page 9 Reference Request Letter…………………………… Page 11 Certificate (CEU’s)…………………………………. Page 12 Current valid CPR card……………………………... Page 13 Three Nursing Paperwork Samples: Exemplary Nursing Leadership ……………………. Page 14 Love Lives Here……………………………………. Page 19 Community Case Study Assessment………………... Page 25 References…………………………………………... Page 31
3 Camille Smith 5 The Serpentine, New Rochelle, NY 10801 [email protected] 914.563.8424 Work Experience: Edu Tek Ltd., Mamaroneck, NY Receptionist June 2014-August 2019 ● Worked under the CEO, President, and VP of Operations ● Handled purchase orders of customers and enter them in QuickBooks ● Inputted customer contracts into the company database ● Assisted with corporate expos and company luncheons ● Entered company projects on spread sheets using Excel Webster Hall Entertainment Corp., New York, NY Administrative Assistant September 2013-June 2014 ● Directly reported to VP of Finance and VP of Marketing ● Handled and provided documentation for charge backs of receipts ● Organized and filed confidential employee documents ● Sorted out petty cash forms from musical performers and temp workers ● Created and totaled Microsoft Excel spread sheets for monthly finances ● Scheduled appointments for outside meetings Hugo Dunhill Media, New Rochelle, NY Account Executive July 2012- July 2013 ● Sold addresses and phone numbers to clients nationwide who wanted to promote their business ● Identified potential clients, obtained leads, and initiated sales through Sales Force and cold calling ● Ran and provided database counts for clients who needed mailing lists on a daily basis ● Cultivated and grew relationships with CEOs and CFOs to build a loyal client base Addison Street Spa, Larchmont, NY Receptionist August 2011- July 2012
4 ● Scheduled appointments for estheticians and massage therapists ● Answered high volume telephone calls and greeted clients ● Networked and advertised through Facebook for different sale promotions ● Used interpersonal skills to communicate with clients and employees Skills: Exceptional interpersonal, organizational and conflict resolutions skills Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, and QuickBooks ● Experienced with marketing through social media platforms ● ● Education: Mercy College, Bronx, NY Accelerated B.S. in Nursing, September 2019-Present CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY B.A. in Psychology, September 2009- ● December 2011 ● SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY Transferred Credits, September 2006- May 2009 ●
Transcript Data 5 R STUDENT INFORMATION Name : Camille Smith Curriculum Information Current Program Bachelor of Science Program: Nursing College: College of Arts and Sciences Major and Department: Nursing, Nursing ***Transcript type:U Unofficial is NOT Official *** DEGREE AWARDED Sought: Bachelor of Science Degree Date: Curriculum Information Primary Degree Nursing Program: College of Arts and Sciences College: Nursing Major: TRANSFER CREDIT ACCEPTED BY INSTITUTION -Top- Spring Westchester CC 2017: Subject Course Title Grade Credit Quality Points Hours BIOL 131 Hum Anatomy &Physio TB 3.000 0.00 II Lecture BIOL 131A Hum Anatomy & Physio TB 1.000 0.00 II Lab Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Hours Hours Hours Hours Points
Current Term: 4.000 4.000 4.000 0.000 0.00 0.000 6 R Unofficial Transcript R R Fall Westchester CC 2018: Subject Course Title Grade Credit Quality Points Hours BIOL 265 Microbiology TB 3.000 0.00 CHEM 160 General Chemistry I TB+ 3.000 0.00 Lecture Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Hours Hours Hours Hours Points Current Term: 6.000 6.000 6.000 0.000 0.00 0.000 Unofficial Transcript Spring Westchester CC 2019: Subject Course Title Grade Credit Quality Points Hours PSYN 233 Developmental TA 3.000 0.00 Psychology Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Hours Hours Hours Hours Points Current Term: 3.000 3.000 3.000 0.000 0.00 0.000 Unofficial Transcript Fall Lehman Coll of CUNY 2011: Subject Course Title Grade Credit Quality Points Hours NURS 199 General Transfer TP 51.000 0.00 Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Hours Hours Hours Hours Points Current Term: 51.000 51.000 51.000 0.000 0.00 0.000 Unofficial Transcript
7 INSTITUTION CREDIT -Top- Term: Fall 2019 Semester Academic Standing: Good Standing Subject Course Campus Level Title Grade Credit Quality R Hours Points NURS 198 Bronx UG Hlth Assessment & Promotion A- 2.000 7.34 NURS 198A Bronx UG Hlth Asses & Promotion Lab P 1.000 0.00 NURS 200 Bronx UG Fundamentals of Nurse Lecture B+ 3.000 9.99 NURS 200A Bronx UG Fundamentals of Nurse Lab P 2.000 0.00 NURS 200S Bronx UG Burke Rehab P 1.000 0.00 NURS 220 Bronx UG Pharmacology Nurses Lecture B- 2.000 5.34 NURS 220A Bronx UG Pharmmacology Nurses Lab P 1.000 0.00 Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Hours Hours Hours Hours Points Current Term: 12.000 12.000 12.000 7.000 22.67 3.239 Cumulative: 12.000 12.000 12.000 7.000 22.67 3.239 Unofficial Transcript Term: Spring 2020 Semester Academic Standing: Good Standing Subject Course Campus Level Title Grade Credit Quality R Hours Points NURS 225 Bronx UG Pediatrics & Parent Child Nurs A- 3.000 11.01 NURS 225A Bronx UG Pediatric & Parent Child Nurs P 1.000 0.00 NURS 225S Bronx UG Northwell Cohen's Child - PEDS P 2.000 0.00 NURS 361 Distance UG Contmp Topics Prof Nursing A 3.000 12.00 Learning NURS 367 Bronx UG Path/Clinic Reasoning Nursing A 3.000 12.00 Current Term: Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Cumulative: Hours Hours Hours Hours Points 12.000 12.000 12.000 9.000 35.01 3.890 24.000 24.000 24.000 16.000 57.68 3.605 Unofficial Transcript Term: Summer 2020 Semester Academic Standing: Good Standing
8 Subject Course Campus Level Title Grade Credit Quality R Hours Points NURS 250 Bronx UG Psychiatric & Mntl Health Nurs A- 2.500 9.18 NURS 250S Bronx UG Psychiatric&Mntl Hlth Nurs Sim P 1.500 0.00 NURS 251 Bronx UG Advocacy for Population Health A 4.000 16.00 NURS 251S Bronx UG Adv for Population Health SIM P 2.000 0.00 Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Hours Hours Hours Hours Points Current Term: 10.000 10.000 10.000 6.500 25.18 3.873 Cumulative: 34.000 34.000 34.000 22.500 82.86 3.682 Unofficial Transcript TRANSCRIPT TOTALS (UNDERGRADUATE) -Top- Total Institution: Attempt Passed Earned GPA Quality GPA Total Transfer: Hours Hours Hours Hours Points Overall: 34.000 34.000 34.000 22.500 82.86 3.682 64.000 64.000 64.000 0.000 0.00 0.000 98.000 98.000 98.000 22.500 82.86 3.682 Unofficial Transcript Credit Hours COURSES IN PROGRESS -Top- 3.000 1.000 Term: Fall 2020 Semester 2.000 Subject Course Campus Level Title NURS 240 Bronx UG Med Surgical Nursing I Lecture 3.000 NURS 240A Bronx UG Med Surgical Nursing I Lab NURS 240S Distance UG Montefiore-Nyack Hosp 4 Doc 3.000 Learning NURS 365 Distance UG Intro to Health Policy Learning NURS 366 Distance UG Leadership & Management Learning Unofficial Transcript
9 Nursing Philosophy What drives me to be a nurse are my own personal values. These values are honesty, loyalty, kindness, and respect. My parents brought me up on these values, and I hold myself and the people I befriend to higher standard due to these values. To have honesty as a value means to find truthfulness in myself and in others. It means to be transparent and to sacrifice the task of pleasing others just for face value. To have loyalty as a value I expect people to be faithful to me as I am to them. Kindness is a value I have been taught since elementary school with the saying “treats others as you would like to be treated”. Kindness sets the tone of a relationship whether its, friendship, professional, or intimate. To have respect means to accept someone’s morals and values that are different from yours even if you do not agree with them. Some professional values that I feel are important in nursing are accountability, compassion, empathy, openness to learn, and patient advocacy. I believe these values are what makes a person a good nurse to your coworkers and to your patients. A nurse must take responsibility or be accountable for their own actions. If something were to go wrong with the patient, the nurse is held responsible. A nurse must also have compassion and empathy in the nursing field. With compassion, it shows that you are sympathetic towards the patient, concern for their wellbeing and want to do your best to alleviate that patient’s pain. Empathy allows the nurse to identify with the patient and understand what they feel. Showcasing these values allows the patient to open up to nurse and establish a relationship. Having an openness to learn as a value is important because it gives a nurse the ability to learn new tasks and gain new ideas in the field. Everybody who joins the nursing field has different sets of skills and it is important to learn from one another. I believe patient advocacy is also significant in the nursing field. It is
10 important for a nurse to advocate for their patient if the patient is not able to speak up for themselves. If a patient is afraid of a certain surgery or does not understand a certain procedure, the nurse must tell doctor for them. My goal is to make a difference in the lives of others as a registered nurse by instilling my personal and professional values into my work ethic and to provide care for all who need it regardless of race, religion, gender, or personal beliefs. I hope to share my values with my coworkers and patients and that it improves patient care and the dynamic of the workplace. I hope my values help to create stronger relationships and communication within my community and that people share those values in their own home
11 Camille Smith 5 The Serpentine Dr. New Rochelle, NY 10801 [email protected] October 23, 2020 Matthew Orifici Chief Executive Officer Edu Tek Ltd. 178 East Boston Post Rd Mamaroneck, NY 10543 Dear Mr. Orifici, Hope all is well. I am in the process of an application for White Plains Hospital and part of the application requires a letter of recommendation from my most current employer who can elaborate on my work habits and skills. Since I provided administrative support for you over the past four years, I thought you would be the best person to validate my abilities as a professional. I would greatly appreciate it if you could write a letter of recommendation for me that can help emphasize the positive work habits I’ve shown since working at Edu Tek. The deadline for submitting the letter is December 1st, 2020. If this deadline is too soon and you are unable to provide a letter by that time, please let me know as soon as possible. Additionally, if there is any information I can provide that will help you write the letter in more detail, I would be happy to submit it to you. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Camille Smith
12 OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION CAMILLE Y SMITH NY Student License Passed the Post-Test and Earned this Certificate for COVID-19: The Impact of a Pandemic on Mental Health Providing Mental Health Interventions for Patients and Healthcare Workers 1.5 Contact Hours WRITTEN BY Judith Swan, MSN, BSN, ADN Ann Johnson, R.N. DATE Chief Executive Officer Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc. October 21, 2020 Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. CE Broker Approval Number 50-2174. Florida nursing licensees must retain this certificate for at least 4 years. Do not forward to Florida Board of Nursing. WILD IRIS MEDICAL EDUCATION, INC. - PO BOX 257 - COMPTCHE, CA 95427 (707-937-0518) https://wildirismedicaleducation.com | [email protected] © Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
14 Exemplary Nursing Leadership: Florence Nightingale Camille Smith Nursing Program, Mercy College NURS 366: Nurse Leadership Professor Kara Connelly September 25, 2020
15 Florence Nightingale's leadership and knowledge on infection control, addressed the importance of environmental sanitation, ventilation, and health literacy, remains highly relevant in people’s lives today. It is the reason why hand hygiene is an important part in preventing many viruses. As a leader, Nightingale demonstrated courage in her ability to take great risks in order to create change, wisdom in her ability to communicate needed reforms, and her dedication to the ethical treatment of women and children by providing improved healthcare and education (Selanders & Crane, 2019). Florence Nightingale was known for her work and clinical knowledge during her time at the Crimean war. During the Crimean war, she traveled there with 40 other nurses that she had to train by herself. Nightingale recognized and surveyed the lack of medical supplies, overcrowding, and unsanitary conditions at the military hospital. The nurses brought supplies, nutritional food, cleanliness, and sanitation to the military hospital, and provided individual care and support to each soldier (Alexander, 2019). Although the supplies were minimal Nightingale led the nurses to use new practices and procedures based on her teachings, observations, and data she collected. The nurses observed under which conditions the soldiers had survived and attempted to replicate and spread best practices throughout the hospital. For example, the nurses found that the soldiers with clean bandages, proper hydration, and exposure to clean air had better outcomes than those who didn't. As a result of her interventions, the morbidity and mortality rate of the soldiers improved (Reinking, 2020) During Nightingale’s stay, she collected more data and to conduct nursing research. She believed that using evidence from data would enable health care providers to achieve better care in a more efficient, economical manner. After returning home to England after the war, Nightingale submitted her research to the Royal commission and showed that thousands of
16 soldiers were dying because of communicable and infectious diseases, not actual war injuries. She understood that diseases could be transferred among sick patients and sought to eliminate the mechanism in how the disease were communicated (Aravind & Chung, 2010). In addition to that, she recognized that the hospital buildings were deteriorating with contaminated water supplies and a malfunctioning drainage system. After Nightingale addressed the conditions of the hospitals to the Royal commission, they sent the sanitary commission unclogged the drains and removed debris from the water pipes. They also installed windows and air vents which greatly improved the air circulation and cleaned the floors and windows with lime (Aravind & Chung, 2010). This greatly improved the rate of recovery of hospital patients. The accomplishments of Nightingale and her nurses during the Crimean War were transformational and strongly impacting the value of evidence-informed nursing practices and redefining the image of modern nursing well into the 20th century (Reinking, 2020). Nightingale’s data demonstrated the value of quality nursing care with survival rates increased from 50% to almost 80% under the care of her and the nurses. Their attention to rigorous infection prevention, hygiene and cleanliness, nutrition and compassionate care were integral interventions that revolutionized nursing care practices and improved clinical outcomes (Reinking, 2020). Florence Nightingale collected vast amounts of data that she analyzed and used to set new directions for care delivery practice and healthcare environments. She was able to identify patient’s needs and direct interventions by the basis of her observations and clinical judgement (Whitehead, 2020). Nightingale believed that the most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them to observe, how to observe, what symptoms indicate improvement, which are of importance, and which are evidence of neglect. She also believed
17 that if a nurse cannot get into the habit of observation, then that person is not fit to be a nurse (Karimi & Masoudi Alavi, 2015). Florence Nightingale’s leadership during the Crimean war and her beliefs about nursing standards, practice, advocacy, and training are reflected in the nursing practice today.
18 References Alexander, K. L. (2019). Florence Nightingale. National Women’s History Museum. http://www.womenshistory.org/education-reasources/biographies/florence-nightingale Aravind, M., & Chung, K. C. (2010). Evidence-Based Medicine and Hospital Reform: Tracing Origins Back to Florence Nightingale. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 125(1), 403- 409. http://doi.org/10.1097/prs.0b013e3181c2bb89 Karimi, H., & Masoudi Alavi, N. (2015). Florence Nightingale: The Mother of Nursing. Nursing and Midwifery Studies, 4(2). http://doi.org/10.17795/nmsjournal29475 Reinking, C. (2020). Nurses transforming systems of care. Nursing Management (Springhouse), 51(5), 32-37. http://doi.org/10.1097/01.numa.0000659408.49349.59 Selanders, L., & Crane, P. (2019). The Voice of Florence Nightingale on Advocacy. Nursingworld.Org. http://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJ IN/TableofContents/Vol-17-2012/No1-Jan-2012/Florence-Nightingale-on- Advocacy.html Whitehead, P. (2020). Florence Nightingale. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 34(5), 191- 193.https://doi.org/10.1097/nur.0000000000000548
19 Love Lives Here Camille Smith Accelerated Nursing Program, Mercy College NURS 361: Contemporary Topics in Professional Nursing Sister Mary Hartnett April 14, 2020
20 In the book Love Lives Here by Amanda Jette Knox, Amanda, who is a wife and a mother, is presented with the challenge and reality when both her husband and son come out as transgender. She recounts the time her eleven-year-old son wrote an email to her and her husband, coming out as a transgender girl. While helping her child transition, her husband comes out as a transgender woman a year later. Throughout her story you learn about the life and family she came from and how she was severely bullied in high school and never meeting her biological father. You also read about the family she made; her three sons Aerik, Jackson, and “Gutsy” (known as Alexis once he transitions), and her spouse Zoe. Amanda discusses how she first struggled with the change of her child and spouse, but quickly became an advocate for the both of them and even renewing her voices with her spouse (Jette Knox, 2019). She also reveals the abuse her and family went through when outsiders could not accept the fact that two of her family members are transgender. In the book she talks about the discrimination the transgender community faces, but also shows how to be kind and respect others no matter where they come from and how to advocate or help people you care about. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how to assist the transgender community and other communities that also feel marginalized or discriminated against when caring for them in a healthcare or professional setting (Jette Knox, 2019). Values and morals are gained from personal experiences and are instilled in a person from their authority figures which influences patient care in the future. Morals provide standards of behavior that guide the actions of an individual or social group and are established rules of conduct to be used in situations where a decision about right or wrong must be made (Black, 2020). Values are attitudes, ideals, or beliefs that an individual or group holds and uses to guide behavior (Black, 2020). Nurses must think carefully about their personal values and morals.
21 Depending on where they stand on certain situations will help them make careful decisions about their work environment and the types of patient they would like to work with (Black, 2020). For example, if a nurse does not agree with abortions or is transphobic, she should seek employment someplace else or decide that nursing is not for her. Other nurses may instill non-judgmental values and morals and effect patient care in a positive way. There many issues in the healthcare setting that relate to respect, acceptance, cultural competence and non-judgmental attitudes among healthcare providers. Respect is a primary ethical responsibility for healthcare providers. An issue with respect in the health field is that healthcare providers may operate unknowingly in a paternalistic way that makes them seem like they think they are better than the patient and are better equipped to make decisions about the patient’s own health (Black, 2020). This action takes away the patients right to make their own decisions. An issue with acceptance is that some healthcare providers allow their prejudices to get in the way which makes acceptance of others difficult. This also leads to judgmental attitudes that make patients like transgender people feel like they are being discriminated against because healthcare providers show that they do not approve or agree with their choice to change genders. The issues with culture competence take part when a patient is in a life-threatening situation but does not accept or want a blood transfusion because of their culture or religion, like Jehovah witnesses (Black, 2020). All these issues are what the transgender patients face with healthcare providers. Many are faced with ethical dilemmas that healthcare providers have with them because they think either the patient is too young to know that they want gender affirming surgery, they pass judgment when male patient wants to transition into a woman, or they simply lack the knowledge to care for the transgender patient, leaving them to not tend the healthcare they need (Gerritse et al., 2018).
22 Although there are some insurances that do cover gender reassignment surgeries, there are still many that do not and with many transgender people being in poverty, Medicaid is the only type of insurance available. Only eighteen states include gender reassignment or gender affirming surgeries in their Medicaid (Tentindo, 2019). Twelve states excluded coverage completely and twenty of them do not expressively address the coverage at all (Tentindo, 2019). The twelve states that expressively exclude surgeries and gender affirming care are Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming. They all consider surgical or hormonal treatment of gender dysphoria as cosmetic procedures (Tentindo, 2019). This shows that many do not think gender dysphoria is medical disorder which leaves many transgender people confused and depressed. There are many barriers transgender people still face in today’s society. One barrier transgender people face is the lack of access to healthcare due to the lack of health care providers who are knowledgeable about the transgender community and their medical needs. Other barriers include discrimination, socioeconomic status, and lack of cultural competence (Safer et al., 2016). Some examples of these barriers are lack of income and insurance (as discussed before), lack of housing and mental health, and inappropriate medical records and forms (Safer et al., 2016). With these barriers in the healthcare setting, many patients heavily rely on nurses to be their advocate. They are the link between the patient and the healthcare system. Some believe that nurses need to go beyond patient care and address systematic issues of care and administrative institutes. (Davoodvand et al.,2016). In the novel, Love Lives Here by Amanda Jette Knox, I believe the author is trying to convey what transgender go through emotionally and their struggles with acceptance from other people and with themselves. She is also trying to show how to be loving and supportive and how
23 that can go a long way when you know someone in the trans community. What I have learned from this book is that everybody is human and to treat everyone with kindness, because how you treat someone is a reflection of yourself. As a nurse, I would apply this paper in my practice and personal life by being a better advocate for the trans community and other communities that ever felt discriminated against. I would apply this paper to myself as a reminder to be more self-aware towards my family, coworkers, and patients. This will also allow me to remain more current on issues different communities face today.
24 References Beth Perry Black. (2020). Professional nursing: Concepts & challenges (9th ed.). Elsevier/Saunders. Davoodvand, S., Abbaszadeh, A., & Ahmadi, F. (2016). Patient advocacy from the clinical nurses’ viewpoint: a qualitative study. Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 9, 5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4958925/ Gerritse, K., Hartman, L., Antonides, M. F., Wensing-Kruger, A., de Vries, A.L.C., & Molewijk, B. C. (2018). Moral Challenges in Transgender Care: A Thematic Analysis Based on a Focus Ethnography. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47(8), 2319-2333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1287-3 Jette Knox, A. (2019). Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family. Canada: Penguin Random House. ISBN: 978-0-7352-3517-5 Safer, J. D., Coleman, E., Feldman, J., Garofalo, R., Hembree, W., Radix, A., & Sevelius, J. (2016). Barriers to healthcare for transgender individuals. Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Obesity, 23(2), 168-171. http://doi.org/10.1097/med.0000000000000227 Tentindo, W. (2019). Christy Mallory Medicaid coverage for gender affirming care. Heep://thewilliamsin.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/Medicaid-Gender-Care-Oct- 2019
25 Community Case Study Assessment Camille Smith Mercy College Community Health NURS251 Professor Peter Shute July 23, 2020
26 New Rochelle, NY is the city in which I have lived for most of my life. New Rochelle is a city in Westchester county. The city has a roughly triangular shape, approximately 10 miles from north to south and 1.5 miles from east to west at its widest point. It has sixteen census tracts. New Rochelle’s natural environment includes a fourteen-mile shoreline on Long Island Sound, hundreds of acres of parkland and woods, and several lakes and streams. The City’s density varies substantially from open space, to single and multi-family neighborhoods, to an urbanized downtown, where the majority of New Rochelle’s commercial activity is centered (New Rochelle, NY | Official Website, n.d.). The average one-way commute in New Rochelle takes 32.5 minutes. That's longer than the US average of 26.4 minutes. About 50.7% of people in New Rochelle travel by driving their own car alone, 10.0% carpool with others, 3.8% work from home, and 24.3% take mass transit. New Rochelle’s population is 78,557 and with the population density of 7,445.6 per square mile. The average household income is $95,024 with a poverty rate of 10.7%. According to the most recent studies the demographics are white 58.6%, black or African American 20.1%, Asian 5.1%, Hispanic or Latino 28.6%, and other races 3.7% (U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: New Rochelle City, New York, n.d.). The department of social services and Westchester Community Opportunity Program (Westcop) provides New Rochelle and Westchester County residents in need of help. This includes child support, food, housing and medical services, and job placement. They also provide protecting and preventive services for vulnerable children and adults, and support services for Veterans and their families (Westchester County Department of Health, n.d.). New Rochelle also has a Chamber of Commerce Organization that host networking events, provides educational services, and advocacy to local businesses. There about five community centers in New
27 Rochelle. An example of their services is one called, The United Community Center of Westchester, that provides an array of supportive services for housing, immigration, food pantry referral, translation, and support accessing social benefits and health insurance. They also hold workshops on topics such as family finance, domestic violence, and art. Saint Gabriel, a church located in the south end of New Rochelle, hosts Spanish language mass services and also provides a robust array of services like food pantries and soup kitchens run by church tenants (Rochelle & York, 2011). Many of the people who work for the fire and police department grew up in New Rochelle, they have established a trustful and friendly relationship with the people in the community. The New Rochelle Fire Department is a full-service fire department. In addition to responding to fires, the fire fighters are trained and equipped to handle medical emergencies, rescues of all types and hazardous materials. They also provide many safety services, such as code enforcement, permits and fire prevention education. New Rochelle Police Department provides a professional community services designed to protect life and property and maintain order while assuring fair and equal treatment to all members of the community. During times of stress or change the community rely on the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, and the Mayor of New Rochelle, Noah Bramson. Both have brought a sense of ease and organization in the community. When the pandemic first hit New Rochelle, Cuomo and Bramson worked together to ensure that New Rochelle would receive the proper aid and resources while a part of the community was under quarantine (New Rochelle, NY | Official Website, n.d.). There is one hospital such as, Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, six nursing homes, six rehabilitation centers, two urgent care facilities and a variety of visiting Home Care facilities and services. There are also four mental health programs centers. There are 490 physicians in New
28 Rochelle. Most people have insurance with it being 83%, while 17% do not and pay out of pocket. Of those people who have health insurance, 60% have private and 30% have public coverage. About 0.429% are covered by the military or VA (Viola, PhD, n.d.). New Rochelle’s vital statistics consist of 964 births per year, 588 deaths, and of those deaths, the three leading causes of death were diseases of the Circulatory System (36.6%), Neoplasms (26.7%), and Diseases of the Respiratory System (9.6%) (Astorino, 2011.). One of the strengths of this community is its diversity. You are more likely to find people who speak different languages or have different backgrounds that can relate to other people with different backgrounds. New Rochelle is also known as the “small big city”; as big as city is, it is still a close-knit community where everybody knows each-other and everyone is involved or gives back to the community. There are always business opportunities as many women and minorities own their own businesses (women- 2,868; minority- 3,245) (U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: New Rochelle City, New York, n.d.). Another strength is that that there are several community centers, giving people from all walks of life easier access to specialized care and affordable resources if needed. Some risks found in New Rochelle are since most people have private insurances, getting government assistance might be more difficult to obtain. Some people do not have insurance because they either do not speak English or are not informed well enough about health coverage they might need, so they’re embarrassed to ask for assistance or see if there can be any other options, they may be able to qualify for. Another risk of New Rochelle is the lack of free clinics to cater to lower income households and the uninsured. Although there a few that are outside or surround New Rochelle, there is not one that is within the community making it hard for people to travel to if they cannot afford transportation. Also, most urgent cares close early at night,
29 forcing those with low to no income to seek treatment at a place they cannot afford or not treatment at all. An intervention I would suggest is to hire multilingual people to volunteer and help translate for those who do not speak English and to advocate to for those who do not understand how health insurance works. I would also keep community centers open for longer hours and hire volunteer nurses and/or doctors to work inside the community center to make part of it into a community health center to help those in need of medical services. I would also extend the hours at urgent care facilities. I would provide free transportation for those who cannot afford transportation of any kind to any health facility to make sure they get the proper treatment they need and deserve. New Rochelle is an ever changing and progressing city and I have no doubt that someday these changes will come to fruition.
30 References Astorino, R. (n.d.). Annual Data Book Vital Statistics Report Westchester County Department of Health. Retrieved July 22, 2020, from https://health.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/databook_vitalstats2011.pdf New Rochelle, NY | Official Website. (n.d.). Www.Newrochelleny.Com. Retrieved July 22, 2020, from https://www.newrochelleny.com/ Rochelle, N., & York, N. (2011). The West End Needs Assessment. https://www.newrochelleny.com/DocumentCenter/View/1038/NR-final-report_8-11- 11_final_low-res-west-end-as?bidId= U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: New Rochelle city, New York. (n.d.). Www.Census.Gov. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/newrochellecitynewyork Viola, PhD, D. (n.d.). A Statewide Initiative to Improve the Delivery of Healthcare. Westchester Medical Center, Center for Regional Healthcare Innovation. http://www.crhi- ny.org/media/file/New%20Rochelle-10801-Westchester-County-NY-Community-Profiles- DSRIP-Community-Needs-Assessment-CRHI.pdf
31 References Dr. Angela Casella Assistant Chair of Biology Department Westchester Community College 75 Grassland Rd. Valhalla, NY 10595 (914)606-6187 Relationship: Professor Mr. Scott Putorti Adjunct Professor of Mathematics Westchester Community College 75 Grassland Rd. Valhalla, NY 10595 (914)606-6600 Relationship: Professor Mr. Matthew Orifici Chief Executive Officer Edu Tek Ltd. 178 East Boston Post Rd. Mamaroneck, NY 10543 (914)686-7777 Relationship: Employer
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Fontvieille sits in the Alpilles Natural Regional Park between Arles and Les Baux-de-Provence in the department of Bouches-du-Rhone. It is a pleasant town with a historic centre and calming countryside view.
The streets of this little town are very accessible. You can wander and explore on foot. You will find yourself fascinated by the skills of the Roman that were beyond their time and quaint little cafes unlike anywhere else.
Fontvieille inspired writer Alphonse Daudet to write his best work, “Letters from my mill”. Holding such literature and historical wealth, it is a must visit to Fontvieille to recharge your batteries.
Tourist attractions at Fontvieille
Saint Pierre Es Liens
This bronze statue is dedicated to the French Revolution. It is evidence of the struggles for influence between the Republic and the Church.
Castle of Tarascon
Fontvieille, since Roman times, had a large population of carriers, workers and limestone miners. The caste is built with stone sourced locally.
Fontvielle, literally meaning “Old Fountain”, still accommodates the fountain from the Middles Ages. 2km from the centre of the village, it is of considerable size.
Tour de l’Abbe.’
A few steps from the Old Fountain, this colossal defensive structure was built by Pierre de Canillac.
Aqueduct of Barbegal
The south of the townhomes the ruins of the Roman aqueduct, the aqueduct of Barbegal. The double aqueduct was capable of supplying water on one part and feed a watermill from the other. The water rushing down the slopes powered the blade mills located on the hill.
Party, food and fun
Savour the Provencal delicacies and yummy wine at the tasting events and the restaurants. Consume or pack up the outstanding local produce for home. Fontvieille boasts of the most delicious olive oil from this extensive olive tree plantations and honey. The olive tree plantations span over 20 hectares and a worth a trip.
Book a trip to Fontvieille if you fancy staying in the lap of nature. The beautiful scenery and colours of the town have made it a highly popular destination. The outdoor French markets bustle with life. Exceptional wines is being prepared in this region for over 2000 years. It will take you just one gulp to recognize the superb quality of the produce here.
By the end of the trip, you shall admire the photos you take with the beautiful landscapes in the background. The calm and laid back surroundings will stimulate you to live in the moment and relax under the blue skies. Ensure that you have a look at the event schedule of Fontvieille so that you know what events you like better and plan your holiday suitably.
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Searching for ways for getting slimmer and stumbling upon pro ana diets plan? Quite a hot topic these days, right? You might find hundreds of ways to carry out fad diets online. But today, we shall go through their hazards so you may know in advance what you will face in the long run!
What is Ana diet?
Pro Ana or pro-mia diets are usually fad diets. This means diets that promise quicker results in a shorter time span. Basically in an ana diet, fat is used to burn the fat.
They are magical but temporary and may cause extreme after-effects in the long run. Often times no scientific proof supports them.
There are various pro ana diet methods which include, the 5 bites diet, the ABC diet, the Lunabelle diet, the Rainbow diet, The baby food diet, The ana Atkins diet, The vegan model diet, and The Russian gymnast diet. Basically, all of these diet plans are restricted to much lower calories, certain food types, and a certain period of days. Indeed, they are extreme diet plans.
Ana diet in relation to ‘Body dissatisfaction leads to extreme weightloss’:
The media has a great deal of power to influence young women by showing them pictures of models who are unusually thin and appear to be the ideal. Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating can begin when the majority of adolescents inevitably fail to achieve the extremely thin image they desire. New research in the field of pediatrics and adolescence shows that children as young as five are already concerned about their bodies and want to lose weight. The dramatic rise in the number of Internet websites devoted to disordered eating. Hence they only contribute to this obsessive interest in body weight. There are various diets that feed the idea of quicker weight loss such as the keto diet. But they should be for motivation in the start, the actual weight loss journey should follow the nutritious diet plans.
Tragically, large numbers of the Sites are “supportive of ana” (pro-anorexia) and “favorable to mia” (pro-bulimia); These websites encourage at-risk youth to begin starving or purging in large quantities. Nurses are aware that any one of these scenarios could result in death or serious illness.
Ana diet bounces back!
Yes, you have heard it alright. Ana diets, as soon they promise results, are not consistent at all. Hence fad diets like an ana diet will be difficult to be persistent at eventually, as it is much more rigid and carry so many restrictions. Moreover, the immediate weight loss will bounce back, worse it will multiply once you will leave the diet. This is because the major weight loss occurs due to ‘water loss’ and your body will automatically try to ‘correct water’, hence weight gain.
According to recent research:
Those trying to lose weight are willing to try any extreme diets. Unfortunately, none of these seem to work in the long run. This is shown by the rapid rise and fall of such extreme diets in the society. One of the reasons why people give up these diets is the sheer boredom of following an artificial type of diet or their craving to get back to their normal diet habits. (Joshi, S., & Mohan, V. (2018). Pros & cons of some popular extreme weight-loss diets. The Indian Journal of Medical Research, 148(5), 642-647. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1793_18)
Symptoms of malnutrition:
Rapid weight loss can also cause constipation, a lack of energy and nutrients, and tiredness, all of which can be caused by eating fewer calories. As they are low-carb diets, they can cause a decrease in appetite.
Ana diet (Atkins) and health issues:
Heart disease, colon cancer, bad breath, and sleep disorders are all linked to high-fat, high-protein diets like the Ana Atkins diet, according to research. The Atkins diet raises serum cholesterol levels. Therefore, increasing the risk of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease by more than 50% when followed for an extended period of time. A very low-carbohydrate short-term diet can cause constipation, bad breath, headaches, hair loss, and an increase in menstrual bleeding, among other side effects.
Higher consumption of protein, more than the recommended servings burden the kidneys due to excessive nitrogen load. Meanwhile, ana diets may also decrease calcium absorption which further leads to kidney stones, bone loss, and osteoporosis.
Low protein/low-fat diets and health issues:
Ana diet plans who follow the low protein/low-fat diet regimes may lead to hazardous health issues. Ana diets may increase the risk of consuming insufficient amounts of high-quality protein and minerals like calcium and zinc. Adolescent anemia and other dietary deficiencies, such as iron deficiency, can cause a decline in growth. Additionally, amenorrhea or irregular menstruation has been linked to establishing unbalanced dietary habits.
Psychological effects of Ana diet:
Studies on adults have indicated that constant dieting is linked to a variety of symptoms, including weariness, heightened emotional response, distractibility, and fixation with food. Chronic dieters also frequently overeat or undereat. They may have low self-esteem and struggle with depression and various eating disorders. It is well-recognized that these impacts have complicated repercussions on children and teens’ social and psychological development. This is especially true for children and teenagers.
No clinical trials support Ana diet:
Ana diet, which promises rapid weight loss, is typically dangerous and transient. Since there is no scientific data to support the safety of ana diets, weighing their benefits against their negatives is challenging but vital Additionally, the majority of these diets place an excessive emphasis on a single food category and are regarded as harmful and nutritionally unbalanced. Furthermore, No additional scientific proof accompanies these proposed statements.
The majority of these ana diets restrict the variety of foods. Hence, they do not guarantee a balanced diet & strenuously lack several vitamins & minerals essential for good health. Despite their claims of quick weight loss, they have a number of disadvantages, including increased health risks, regain of weight, and poor sustainability. There are many different types of ana diets available today, but no medical evidence challenges to support their safety. They have been connected to a wide range of psychological diseases, including depression and eating disorders. Ana diet also possesses physiological effects like osteoporosis, renal dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease.
In order to follow any ana diet, you must consult a registered dietitian or a medical nutritionist to choose the right type of diet for you to boost your motivation, and help you in achieving your fitness goals.
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Source: The Verge
Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Here are some of this week’s top headlines.
Following the ousting of Bon Appetit’s former editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport, a series of tweets posted by Tammie Teclemariam led to Peter Meehan’s resignation as the LA Times Food Editor on Wednesday. The series of tweets alleged a pattern of verbal abuse and workplace harassment, both at his time at LA Times and as editorial director of Lucky Peach.
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A series of tweets from earlier this week alleged a history of yelling, aggressive behavior and other issues.
Uber’s offer is valued at $2.6b. The name of the special purpose acquisition company couldn’t be immediately identified. A SPAC is a shell company that acquires private companies for the purpose of transitioning them to publicly traded entities. Today, Fox News reported that Postmates plans to file an IPO next week.
The fast casual chain has partnered with Shopify to help farmers in its supply chain sell meat, dairy and grain products directly to consumers online.
Specialty foods, which now make up a fifth of all retail sales, saw growth nearly tripling that of the entire food sector. Refrigerated plant-based meat alternatives saw the biggest growth of any category, up 70% in unit growth and 112% in dollar growth.
The lawsuit could test the limits of the Defense Production Act. It could also be thrown out.
The deadline for the loan program is here, while many restaurants are still struggling to make ends meet.
Check out our list of resources to learn about systemic racism in the food and agriculture industries. We also highlight Black food and farm businesses and organizations to support.
Here’s how cities and states have re-closed as COVID-19 cases spike.
Beyond Burgers will be sold on Freshippo, Alibaba’s supermarket chain. China’s “free from meat” market, including plant-based meat substitutes, is expected to be worth $12b by 2023.
The Series F round total is expected to be around $500 million, including an initial $200 million announced in January. Return backers include Flagship Pioneering and Alaska Permanent Fund, while Riverstone Holdings is a new investor.
Funding will be used to expand the startup’s tech platform and ready its pipeline of crop protection solutions for field testing and regulatory trials. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation led the round.
Kitu Life has raised $25m led by Skyview Capital.
A new study warns that the strain of H1N1, common on China’s pig farms since 2016, should be “urgently” controlled to avoid another pandemic.
Our plant-based history and future needs to think beyond burgers. Our lack of acknowledgment of our roots in food is killing all of us, and killing black people faster.
Companies are paring down their brand rosters to cope with the pandemic. Amy’s Kitchen once sold 228 products – now it’s down to 71.
Since Emancipation, Black farmers have had to fight for a share of this country’s fertile ground, due to a history of racist policies and land theft. But modern sustainable agriculture owes much to Black agriculturalists.
Now that BIPOC food-industry members have uncovered the problems, what does change look like, in a pro-transparency, post-Columbusing landscape?
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Our prediction for this Belgium Pro League match:
The Belgian Jupiler League round 2 brings an interesting clash between Cercle Brugge and Charleroi at the Jan Breydel Stadium. Cercle Brugge, despite a season-opening defeat to Antwerp, will be determined to bounce back with a strong display on their home turf. There are no fresh injury worries in the home team. On the other hand, Charleroi come into this fixture after a draw against Leuven and will look to build on that result.
However, they face a tough challenge as Cercle Brugge has been known to produce fine displays at home. With the home advantage on their side and the desire to claim three points, the Groen en Zwart are expected to deliver an impressive performance. Our prediction leans towards a home win for Cercle Brugge as they seek to get their season back on track and secure a positive result in this exciting Jupiler League encounter. Nikola Stulic is banned for the visiting side.
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Custom Tailored Fit Van Mats to fit Ford Transit Connect Crew Cab MK2 LWB 201
When despatching an order we ensure every order is wrapped and packed securely, to ensure it arrives safely and securely. High-quality car parts and accessories at less than high street prices. Choose from 5 different grades of premium carpet material, such as Standard, Velour, Luxury, Executive and Prestige Ford Transit Connect Crew Cab MK2 LWB auto mats, all custom made to the greatest standards of quality and toughness. You can even pick from an impressive array of colour trims for that extra touch of style and personality for your vehicle's interior. Our carpet van mats feature a non-slip granulated backing to guarantee stability underfoot and aid eliminate motion inside the footwell. The driver's mat also features a heel pad for increased durability and comfort, and is included on luxury, velour and standard grades of carpet. These tailored auto mats are also available in hard wearing heavy-duty rubber for simple cleanup. Everything is made to order with our state-of-the-art CNC cutting machines and applications so you can be certain your floor mats are made just for you to your chosen specifications.
Tailored and manufactured to order. Anti-slip backing to decrease mat motion. Reinforced heel pad on driver's mat for durability (Standard, Velour and Luxury grades only). Option of trim colours and patterns.
Any necessary clips or fittings fitted to fit onto your vans existing floor studs. Full set of 4 mats. Made and delivered from in the United Kingdom. Please see main gallery picture to confirm the pattern and clip placement (where relevant) for your model of Ford Transit Connect Crew Cab MK2 LWB vehicle. Please feel free to get in contact if you have any questions or queries.
Our fitted van mats are not genuine Ford Transit Connect Crew Cab MK2 LWB floor mats but will be a perfect fit for your Ford Transit Connect Crew Cab MK2 LWB. Mats are often despatched earlier than this. Bebleys Ltd T/A Vehicle Mats UK.
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Forrest Williams are delighted to announce being shortlisted in the Modern Law Awards 2015 in the Team of the Year category.
Katie Forrest says, “This is a particularly special nomination for us, as we truly do believe we have an amazing team. Every single day, I am amazed and incredibly proud of the work the team do here, and it is the dedication and high standards of each individual team member that allow our firm to achieve such great result for our clients.
“In any typical week, I see how emotionally invested our team are in every single case, and how each person goes above and beyond every single day. We often have a full office early in the morning or into the evening because nobody is watching the clock, team members frequently end up in the office on days off or are answering work eMails around the clock without ever being asked to. And then, when one of the team is having a bad day due to illness or personal circumstances, everyone rallies around that person – making them drinks and generally supporting them.
“We truly have a unique work environment, and that is thanks to every single member of our team.”
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Italian Earrings Natural Stone Blue,18KT YELLOW GOLD OVER STERLING SILVER
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EARRINGS W/SHELL CAMEO,18KT YELLOW GOLD OVER STERLING SILVER
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Brown & Brown
Discovering the Journey of home
A modern twist on an old classic
Set within the incredible landscape of Strathdon, The Lonach Hotel is being developed on the site of the old Colquhonnie House Hotel. When finished, it will provide the area and those visiting with a modern take on traditional Scottish hospitality.
The first stage of the project was the launch of The Steading bar in June 2019, which not only provides a glimpse of what's to come with the full development but also provides the locals with an authentic, family pub that can become a crucial hub for this rural community.
We took influence from the surrounding area and material to create a custom typeface based on an old classic - ‘Big Caslon’. This built the foundation of the Lonach identity, which we then adapted to create the logo for The Steading.
"Every member of the FortyTwo team understood what our aims were and their passion and enthusiasm equalled ours. Converting old historical buildings without losing the heritage is not easy but the team at FortyTwo delivered a compelling brand identity and story that was a nod to the old and a welcome to the new."
Lynne Lino — Owner, Lonach Hotel & The Steading Bar
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Discussion in 'Cancun Forum' started by Fletch, Feb 27, 2007.
even at 1:00 in the morning some things dont change hahaha
GO TO SLEEP FLETCH
fletch - u still gonna be around and ok the 8th?
drop off a beer for him when you leave!! Poor guy! Im going to make a sign that says............ fletch, wish you were here! And have us all take a pic at the oasis!! And a drink!! In memory of you fletch aka the Hoff!
andrew ill be around and most likely ready to go....like i said i just gotta remember not to take my meds that day/night haha
oh, we'll have some meds for you.
sounds like a plan!
that we will
I am trying to find a cardboard cutout of the Hoff.
If i can find a place cheap enough, I'll have one made of Fletch.
then we can take him everywhere.
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- Moderators are volunteers who do this to support the site and the community. We are obviously passionate about what we do because most of the time it’s a thankless job. We all have lives and we also enjoy doing our own artwork.
- Moderating would be a trivial job if everyone read and followed the rules and uploaded perfect artwork. Unfortunately this is not the case as we are all human and even us mods (well me at least) still make oversights from time to time. We don’t moderate our own images and we have to wait just like everyone else.
- Mass denials are the worst. We get a lot of people who really want to support the site and upload a ton of images with the best intentions but never took the time to really grasp the rules and get all of their images denied, then get discouraged. The point here is we have to write an explanation for every denied image which can take a huge amount of time, and it’s not fun to tell someone who obviously put in a lot of effort that their work isn’t good enough. Nobody wins here and it takes time away from moderating images that should be approved.
- Not all mods moderate every image type. Most of the mods here are specialists who moderate the types of images they work on themselves which makes it easier to spot the common mistakes for those types and to keep a consistency among those types.
- It just takes a lot more time to moderate every single image than most people realize. We are always looking for good people to help out with this, so if you think you have the chops to give us a hand, please speak up. It would be wonderful to have a zero pending at the end of each day.
Sometimes you might see other images in your pending category get approved while yours wasn’t. There can be a few reasons for this.
- You submitted it before and a mod asked you to make some changes. Most of the time other mods will bypass these so the original mod can asses the changes.
- You have a lot of images that need work and the mod doesn’t have the time to write denial explanations for all of them at the time, but doesn’t want to prevent the acceptable art from getting through in the limited time they have. If you think this might be the case, we implore you to reassess your art and look for your own mistakes and save us the time of having to write a bunch of denials. You can delete your own submissions from the dashboard, fix them and resubmit.
The video on that page will show you how we actually check the work.
I hope this makes things a bit clearer for everyone.
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Hi, hope you can help with this situation where a game is appearing in my wishlist and my collection and I'm still getting alerted about it.
I joined gg last week and I had 'Devil May Cry 5' in my Steam wishlist. I synced it to gg.
I got an alert from gg, I bought the game and it showed up in my gg collection, so far so good.
The item was of course removed from my Steam wishlist but not from the gg wishlist.
The item does not go away no matter how many times I sync. Although I can remove it manually I am wondering if this is going to be a recurring thing?
Do items from the gg wishlist have to be manually removed after I buy a game?
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thank you for making the choice to return to ReachOut even if it has been a while, we will always be here for you if you need to talk or get something off your chest 💙
although i'm sorry to hear that you've been going through tough times recently. it sounds like you have a lot on your plate at the moment with your mood, uni, coming out (which, congratulations by the way 🌈!!), losing friendships and your diagnosis of male pattern hair loss. it's completely understandable that you're not full of energy at the moment and seeking comfort. and you deserve kudos for being able to acknowledge that and come seek out comfort here, it shows that you know what you need in order to feel even a bit better.
what's going on with uni at the moment? if you'd like to rant about it or get it off your chest, i'd be happy to listen 😄
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How did the position at Ligentia come about? In 2014 Ligentia invested into its air division; this brought a 30,000sqft HM Customs approved ETSF warehouse at Heathrow and a formidable team with expertise in delivering rapid and cost effective solutions. Shortly after the re-launch of this business channel Ligentia approached me and presented the opportunity of being part of the air division which, of course, was appealing. For me, taking this role at Ligentia was about taking the next step in my career within a business that continues to grow and has adopted a new and exciting way of working in the freight industry. Being part of the senior team at Ligentia, helping to build a successful division and leading this part of the business has been and continues to be exciting and challenging for me. What is your strongest service offering within the group? Of course we excel in every service area – it’s essential to be able to provide a full end-to-end supply chain solution. Our independent, solutions led approach enables us to support the requirements of a broad range of operations facing a multitude of challenges. From the delivery of full, end-to-end solutions to a specialist support service to tackle particular market requirements we offer a diverse and progressive range of logistics services to many leading companies with operations across the globe. In particular we are proud of our ability to build long-lasting relationships with all of our customers, focusing on understanding their business and delivering a service that makes a real difference through driving down costs and improving efficiencies – creating real value! Our truly customer-centric approach allows us to build long-term partnerships and focus on our culture of being our customers’, ‘Trusted Partner’. What do you think you offer as a company that sets you apart from your competitors? This is something that I talk about regularly with my customers. The way we approach business is largely around creating tailored solutions specifically aligned to our customer’s requirements. Yes, freight is our core business but when we meet a potential new customer that’s the last topic we discuss! We really listen to our customers so that we understand how their business works and what their expectations are for the future. This means we can make suggestions and continuously build development plans to improve their supply chain operations. Our proven Supply Chain Review delivered by our Solutions Team, is an extensive process carried out for many of our larger customers who look for on-going improvements to their current operations which can offer a meaningful competitive edge. Furthermore our independence allows us to build solutions which are unbiased and our relationship with our business partners throughout the world, who operate as an extension of Ligentia, ensure we can quickly and effectively deliver new and innovative initiatives. How do the staff impact this and what does it mean for your company culture? As a business we strive to recruit, train and promote the best in the industry. Our staff are happy which means that our customers are happy. We have a highly professional, committed workforce across the whole business who care about the customer and take pride in the job they do. Our flat management structure allows us to make quick decisions and invest time and money in developing solutions and relationships with our customers. Our core values are respect, loyalty, teamwork, honesty and being customer-focused which embody our culture of trust and partnership. How do you measure customer satisfaction? We recently conducted our annual customer survey which helps to identify what our strengths are and where we might be able to improve our customer’s experience. 86% of respondents rated their experience as good or excellent and 96% would recommend us to a colleague which I think speaks volumes! Tell us about your SCM system. Our proprietary SCM system, Ligentix, is market leading. The system enables our customers to measure all aspects of the supply chain from product concept to final end customer delivery. As a cloud-based platform and in-house developed we are very agile when it comes to identifying areas of improvement and acting quickly to deliver further value for our customers. Ligentix works through exception management principles and gives customers a holistic view of what’s important to them, for example; orders, mode, shipments, value, products, lead times and landed cost. The system is viewed through customisable dashboards and reports. The types of users vary from customer to customer but in general the system is used by imports, warehouse planners, finance, buyers, merchandisers and suppliers. What is your biggest achievement? In my mid-twenties I decided I wanted to return to education but I didn’t want to stop doing the job I enjoyed. I attended college in the evenings, twice a week, and studied after work every night to complete a Business and Finance A-Level in a year. My commitment to the logistics industry and strong work ethic over the past two decades has ensured I have progressed to a position I can be proud of. I never stop, and my ambition will continue to drive me forward in further developing my role within Ligentia. How do you get the best out of your team? There are a number of ways we go about this with the underlying theme being recognition, support and personal development. We have a new recognition programme which helps to celebrate employee accomplishments and dedication. Alongside this we continue to develop our talent management programme where we provide training and mentoring to support new talent in the company. Lastly we often receive praise from customers which is circulated to both the individual and the team to thank them for their work. I believe it is important to remember that motivation doesn’t necessarily come from monetary rewards; acknowledgement and thanks is one of the biggest motivators. What’s the most important thing you are working on right now and how are you making it happen? We are just finalising a 4PL solution which covers a wide variety of areas including air, ocean, rail, road and warehousing. We have re-engineered their complete supply chain by reviewing their European network, routes to market (ocean to rail), speed to market, costs etc. We carried out a detailed analysis of their current operation and produced a three year project plan tailored to their needs. This will be announced in the coming weeks and we are all very excited. What is it about Airfreight that you find yourself particularly drawn to? I’ve been in the industry for many years and worked in most areas of the business. I find air the most exciting part of freight, I love the complexity of it as there are so many variables. It takes a creative thinker to look at ways of reducing costs for the customer, creating new routes to market and maximising revenue by having the right cargo mix which differs from origin to origin. As air is such a large expense to the customer, being innovative and finding ways to reduce costs is a large part of being successful. I enjoy the fast pace and the fact that air produces immediate revenue. How does it compare to other modes of freight and services when thinking about the customer journey? Generally the stock is either urgent or high value. Delivering on time and intact is paramount as a late delivery can cost the customer hundreds or thousands of pounds, whether it be a factory line stop, or to meet a new launch date. The customer needs the cargo as soon as possible so regular updates and a high level of communication is required. Most of the cargo we receive needs to be sorted either by PO, style or order and palletised or presented in DC ready format. As we handle most of the cargo through our ETSF customs-controlled facility at Heathrow we are able to easily provide these value-add services as part of the air service. You are working on some defence and mining projects at the moment, can you tell me more about that? My expertise lays in Mining and Defence. This is a rapid growth and focus area for Ligentia which incorporates all our core services. We have a wealth of experience in these sectors in the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. For me personally it’s interesting and exciting as we are faced with challenges such as pioneering new routes to market and handling time-critical freight to complicated destinations. Leveraging our expertise in these markets is part of our success which complements our core retail business. Can you give us an example of one of your defence customers? Ligentia are currently handling a defence contract where we move product to the UK MOD, Special Forces, Police forces and Armies throughout Europe, the Middle East and the UK. The cargo is manufactured in the USA and China and we are responsible for door-to-door movements. We handle the complex customs process and paperwork that is required for delivery as these products are high-value and have tight deadlines. Failure to meet a deadline creates a non-conformance, which has to be avoided at all costs. What about mining? With regards to mining, Ligentia handle a project for a well-known mining company into West Africa. We consolidate cargo in the USA and Europe and move the cargo by air and ocean DDP to the mining site. We have experienced operations staff handling the paperwork and customs formalities at origin and in-country. One of our tasks is to reduce the time taken for customs clearance at destination as this is where the delays generally occur, and ensure unnecessary duties are not incurred for products which are exempt from taxes. The cargo can be time and cost-critical as the mining could be suspended waiting for a new drill piece. With your expansion you are going to be looking for some new talent to join you, what’s your favourite part about working for Ligentia? It’s a place where one can make a difference and due to our size we can easily identify and develop individuals. We are a dynamic, growing business with stacks of opportunities for anyone who has the ambition to progress.
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White is always a timeless color that brightens up the look of your home. A large white entertainment center can do that trick for you, especially if you have a dark-colored wall. As the focal point of the room, a white wall unit or a freestanding one serves as the perfect background for your home décor and large television. From glossy modern pieces to rustic distressed ones, here are our designer’s top picks of chic white entertainment centers.
20 Recommendations and 158 Ideas
Farmhouse Entertainment Center with Fireplace Insert
Perfect For: Creating a cozy and inviting living space
What We Like: Customizable LED fireplace with a country chic aesthetic
This farmhouse entertainment center features a wispy white finish over replicated oak wood grain for a delightful, rustic feel. With clean-lined, classic styling and barn door inspiration, this piece brings country charm to any home. The LED fireplace insert operates with or without heat, includes a six-level temperature setting, remote control, and overheating control for extra safety. Customize the flame bed with optional faux glass crystals and natural stones to truly make it your own.
Pair this entertainment center with plush, neutral-toned furniture, cozy throws, and decorative accent pieces that embrace the farmhouse style for a warm and welcoming living space.
TV Stand for 70 Inch TV with 5 Shelf Bookcases
Laurel Foundry Modern Farmhouse®
Perfect For: Casual homes with cottage and modern farmhouse style
What We Like: Ample storage and adjustable shelves
This TV stand and bookcase set features a 60W x 16D x 24H TV stand that can accommodate a 70-inch flat-screen television and/or 80 lbs. The left and right storage cabinets each have an adjustable shelf, while the open center compartment includes wire management cutouts for electronics. The two matching bookcases come with three adjustable shelves and two fixed shelves each, providing flexible organization options. With a post-leg design and unique X-pattern accents, this set adds a touch of casual charm to your living space.
Style it with coastal-inspired decor elements like wicker baskets, patterned rugs, and soft neutral colors to create a cozy and inviting atmosphere.
Floating Entertainment Center with Spacious Storage
Perfect For: Modern living rooms and cozy bedrooms
What We Like: Ample storage options and built-in TV mount
Upgrade your movie nights with this floating entertainment center, featuring clean lines and generous storage for a sleek, clutter-free look. Made from engineered wood, it offers five exterior shelves for displaying decorative items or books, and one cabinet for hidden storage. The integrated TV mount and cable management cutout make installation a breeze, while the wall-mounted design elevates your home theater experience. Remember to enlist a friend's help for assembly and installation.
Choose neutral-colored decorations for the shelves to complement the entertainment center, and consider adding LED strip lights for a personalized touch and enhanced movie ambiance.
3-Piece Entertainment Center with Bookcases
Perfect For: Organizing and displaying media in a stylish living room
What We Like: Versatile storage options and classic design
This 3-piece entertainment center includes a sideboard and two bookcases, providing ample space for your TV, gaming consoles, DVDs, and more. Crafted from solid and engineered wood in a neutral finish, it complements a variety of decor styles. The set comes with traditional corner bracket feet, distinctive paneling, and sleek metal hardware for a timeless look. Wall anchors ensure stability and safety, while the bracket accommodates flat-screens up to 65".
Opt for the distressed gray or white finish with matching metal hardware to enhance the modern farmhouse vibe. Add traditional decor accents to create a cohesive living space.
Entertainment Center with Architectural Details
Add a dash of elegance to your interior with this European-inspired white entertainment center. It has manufactured and solid wood construction with a weathered paint finish. Equipped with glass-door cabinets for storage and a cost management system for the central panel.
Perfect for transitional and farmhouse interiors. The shelf above can be turned into a gallery of vintage books paired with plants and other charming accessories. At almost 8’ in height, this entertainment center will absolutely look divine in interiors with high ceilings. This is a huge piece that requires assembly for the upper part, so keep your tools handy!
Rustic Entertainment Console with Storage
Perfect For: Maximizing storage and enhancing rustic living spaces
What We Like: Hand-crafted design and barn-door style hardware
The Aberdeen Entertainment Console is hand-crafted with planked top, sides, and door, offering both visual appeal and practicality. With its central console designed for TV placement, sliding barn-door style doors, and side piers featuring ample shelving, this unit provides generous storage options. The multi-step, distressed hand finish adds a rustic touch, making it a stunning addition to your living space. Holes in the back ensure seamless wire management.
Pair the Aberdeen Entertainment Console with a rustic or farmhouse-themed living area, and decorate the shelves with books, potted plants, and art to create a warm and inviting atmosphere.
Floating Entertainment Center with Storage
Perfect For: Home entertaining enthusiasts
What We Like: No wall mounting, ample storage, and modern design
This TV stand with storage sports a contemporary, free-standing design, perfect for a floating entertainment center look without the need to drill into walls. It includes a high back for TV mounting, three media shelves, two ribbed sliding doors with a center tempered glass shelf, and two large compartments for extra storage. Designed for living rooms and bedrooms, it comfortably accommodates up to a 50-inch TV. Adding to its attractiveness, it features a side panel with three décor shelves and metal details.
To complete the look, place LED strip lights behind the floating TV and match it with a comfortable sofa, soft rug, and stylish wall art for a cozy movie night spot.
Wall-Mount Modern Entertainment Center
Perfect For: Maximizing living room storage and enhancing entertainment experience
What We Like: Unique and flexible design with LED strip lights
Upgrade your living space with this versatile wall-mount modern entertainment center, designed to accommodate TVs up to 75". Featuring four concealed storage cabinets and two shelves, it offers ample space for all your essentials. Two of the cabinets come with 16-color LED strip lights, giving your entertainment setup a stylish touch. Available in two finishes, this high-gloss, waterproof unit allows flexible furniture placement by combining six individual parts. Environmentally friendly and boasting a load-bearing capacity of 66 lbs for each cabinet and 6.6 lbs for each shelf, this floating storage system declutters your room.
Install the unit using the included easy-to-use wall mounting hardware; however, consider using a power drill (not included) for a smoother process. Pair it with minimalist-themed furniture for a cohesive look.
Farmhouse Entertainment Center
Luxuriously classic - the perfect description for this large white entertainment center. It's the perfect focal piece for your living room. Solid wood construction with adjustable shelves and felt-lined drawers. Side shelves and the central panel are provided with cord management slots.
3-Piece Entertainment Center Set
The Twillery Co.®
Perfect For: Organizing and displaying your media devices and TV
What We Like: Modern farmhouse design with ample storage
This 3-piece entertainment center set offers a stylish and versatile solution for organizing your media, including a sideboard and two storage cabinets. Crafted from solid and engineered wood, the neutral finish easily complements various decor styles. Featuring traditional corner bracket feet, distinctive paneling, and sleek metal hardware, this set adds a classic touch to any living room. Six cabinets and four drawers provide plenty of storage for DVDs, games, consoles, and more, while the central surface accommodates flat-screens up to 65". Wall anchors ensure extra safety and stability.
Arrange the modular pieces to fit your space, and pair them with traditional decor to enhance the modern farmhouse design. Add decorative accents like tabletop lamps or framed photos for a personalized touch.
Mid-Century Modern TV Stand
Perfect For: Enhancing your living room or entertainment area
What We Like: Sleek splayed legs and cable management
Bring a touch of mid-century modern charm to your space with this clean-lined TV stand, designed to accommodate flat screens up to 50". Made from a blend of solid and engineered wood, it boasts a solid finish and stylish splayed legs for an elegant touch. The two side doors feature ring handles and chic horizontal line indents, opening to reveal storage for books, DVDs, and blankets. The open shelves are perfect for your cable box or game console, while smart cable management ensures a tidy setup.
Pair this TV stand with retro-inspired decor, like a vintage rug or colorful seating, to emphasize the mid-century modern vibe and create an eye-catching entertainment area.
Industrial Chic Bookcase with Wheels
Perfect For: Organizing and displaying books and decor in a stylish way
What We Like: The combination of rustic wood shelves and black metal frame
This Industrial Chic Bookcase features a durable black metal frame that supports four spacious rustic wood shelves, providing ample space to display your favorite books, plants, and decorative pieces. The unique design boasts a combination of urban and farmhouse styles, making it a versatile option for different room settings. The four wheels at the base add a touch of practicality, allowing for the easy relocation of this bookcase when needed.
Consider anchoring the bookcase to the wall using L-shaped brackets for added stability, especially if you have young children or pets.
Modern White Wall Entertainment Unit
Refresh your living room with this white wall unit entertainment center. Engineered of solid wood and MDF, it fits TVs up to 70". Upper shelving provides a platform to present your collections and a lower shelf for your consoles. Two drawers offer discreet storage.
Sleek TV Cabinet with Open Compartments
Perfect For: Enhancing your living room aesthetic
What We Like: Trendy design and practical storage options
Transform your entertainment area with this sleek TV cabinet, featuring a trendy design that is both stylish and functional. The strong board construction ensures sturdiness, durability, and a long service life. The cabinet is designed with 2 open compartments, providing ample space for your media devices. Additionally, the side shelves offer further storage and display options for your favorite items. Keep in mind that this product should be used with the wall attachment device provided for safety purposes.
Pair this TV cabinet with modern, minimalist decor elements and consider using decorative storage bins or baskets to keep the open compartments looking neat and organized.
Modern Electric Fireplace Wall Unit Entertainment Center
Perfect For: Cozy and contemporary living spaces
What We Like: Customizable flame colors and seamless remote control
Upgrade your living room with this modern electric fireplace wall unit entertainment center, featuring an 18" wide electric fireplace insert that comes with a remote control, on/off control, and customizable settings. Choose from 3 changeable flame colors, temperature control, timer setting, and dimmer to create the perfect ambiance. This entertainment center serves as a stunning focal point, blending warmth and style, making it a great addition to any family room or cozy gathering space.
Pair this electric fireplace wall unit with a sleek flat-screen TV and comfortable seating arrangements to create an inviting and stylish entertainment area for your guests and family members.
Weathered White Entertainment Center
This white entertainment center with bookshelves features beautiful details such as salvaged wood shelves that exude an aged and distressed look. Multi-functional space provides ample storage for all your components and books in addition to displaying your favorite collectibles on the glass doors.
With eight tiers of shelving space and wide upper shelving, this is a great option for showcasing your book and vintage décor collection. We recommend creating separate vignettes per level. Stack books horizontally on one shelf paired with a vase or artwork. Style the next one with vertical book placements paired with quirky bookends. This will lend a curated and unique vibe to your arrangements.
Timeless Entertainment Unit with CNC Relief
East Urban Home
Perfect For: Elevating the atmosphere of any living space
What We Like: Versatile design that complements contemporary and classic interiors
This timeless entertainment unit, featuring 0.16" CNC relief, is an exceptional addition to your living area, catering to both contemporary and classic tastes. The unit's elegant design will instantly enhance the ambiance of your space, while the plastic legs provide functionality and support. Designed to display and store your entertainment essentials, this unit is a versatile piece that seamlessly blends in with various interior styles.
Adorn the entertainment unit with decorative elements like candles, vases, or picture frames to make it a personalized focal point in your living space. Remember to arrange your items thoughtfully to create visual balance.
Timeless Design TV Unit
East Urban Home
Perfect For: Enhancing both contemporary and classic living spaces
What We Like: Its versatile and timeless design
This unique TV unit is designed to elevate the atmosphere of your living space, seamlessly blending into both contemporary and classic lifestyles. With a focus on style and function, this TV unit showcases timeless elegance, ensuring it complements a wide variety of interior aesthetics. Its robust construction offers durability, while the minimalist design allows for easy incorporation into any room, making it an essential piece for your entertainment center.
Pair this timeless TV unit with a mix of modern and classic decor pieces to create a visually appealing and cohesive living area that reflects your personal style.
Long Floating Entertainment Wall Unit
Create the modern statement feature wall with these white extra-large entertainment wall units. Featuring four pieces, each item is made of manufactured wood in a glossy finish. Upper and lower cabinets offer ample storage while two floating shelves provide a sleek contrast.
With different parts to assemble and in substantial dimensions, you can expect to spend a few hours installing this set. It’s also recommended to do this with a couple of people for easier completion. The polished look of this wall unit will look great in ultra-modern and modern interiors. Its size will perfectly fit walls with a length of more than 11’.
Modern Wall Mounted Entertainment Center
This large entertainment center wall unit is the perfect option for saving precious floor space. It features three drawers and three shelves, along with overhead LEDs to highlight your collection. The set includes a bracket that can be used to mount a TV of up to 70''.
The glossy finish of this piece exudes a sophisticated, urban feel. We recommend installing it on a textured or a matte wall, such as that of concrete or one with a brick material. The combination of the glossy and textured finishes will lend your interior a bespoke or designer feel. For a modern look, we suggest pairing this piece with a moody or brightly-painted wall.
Being a perfect proposition for all shabby chic lovers, this white panelled entertainment center creates a charming space for your TV and media devices. Features a considerable storage space, divided between 4 bottom doors and surrounding shelves.
White home entertainment centre with very spacious 6 doors and 3 drawers. It has an extra space for TV setting. It has hardwood solids and maple veneer. Its transitional design adds striking accent to every living-room.
If you have a large living room and you love to watch TV, then, this entertainment center will be perfect for you. Made of white-finished wood, the unit includes 2 two-door cabinets with shelves, 4 storage drawers, 12 open shelves, and 1 large open space for mounting your flat screen TV.
Adding a bit of the traditional charm and warmth to the space, this white wall unit constitutes a perfect entertainment center for all, who like classic or rustic interiors. The centre is traditionally reserved for a fireplace and a TV set.
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If you want to create a cosy, yet elegant, traditional appeal in your living room, consider this off-white wooden entertainment cabinet. Its central space is reserved for a TV set, while the surrounding cabinets and chest of drawers offer wide storage possibilities.
Entertainment Centers and Wall Units
The wall unit fot the living room painted in the delicate cream color. This kind of entertainment centre provides enough space for the TV with the additional devices, but also bric-à-brac and some books.
As they said - beauty lies in simplicity and this wall unit is a proof, that this sentence is true. It is made of blanched wood and has shelves intended to storage books, closets to frippery and place intended to your TV set.
The white wall units of the entertainment center make the entire design gain in lightness, space, and functionality. Numerous cabinets, shelves, and drawers contain many trinkets, and in combination with a comfortable sofa and ottoman will create an exceptionally beautiful angle at home.
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Are you searching for a modern and simple entertainment center to your home? We suggest you to choose this product, which has got the white finish, solid construction and shiny effect. A lot of shelves are excellent for CDs and DVDs collection or books.
An aesthetic media centre of wooden materials in white. A low TV stand with 3 drawers and open niches, an open front shelving unit and a tower with a glazed door cabinet and drawers have low angular legs. A wall shelf has 3 cubbies under a top.
White is a graceful color that gives the interior subtlety, style and class so this beautiful unit and entertainment center creates a unique interior. Lots and lots of storage space and beautiful glass cabinets form a single whole.
I want walls full of shelves. apparently I love storage. (Plus I like the style touches here)
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Creating a very modern-looking, smooth living room set, this entertainment centre distinguishes itself with the floating rows of drawers, being mounted very close to the floor and being a great spot for DVD's. And a magnificent, wooden, lighted framing for the TV.
Built in entertainment storage unit painted in Cloud White. Houses a 60" TV. Walls are Pavillion Grey by Farrow and Ball
Furniture,Custom Bedroom Built In Wall Units In White For Book Storage Also Media Center Shelf As Well As Ceiling False Lamps In Modern Master Bedroom Decors,Outstanding Built In Wall Units For Awesome Room Point Of Interest
Why not actually choose the wall unit that will work in your interior perfectly and is simply cut out to fit it like a dream? This piece offers the black painted background that beautifully contrasts with the white shade of the overall unit.
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Digital Rights Management (DRM) and anti-piracy measures are essential in protecting the intellectual property of businesses. However, implementing these measures can be particularly challenging for small businesses due to the cost and complexity of the technology involved. In this article, we will discuss the challenges that small businesses face when implementing DRM and anti-piracy measures, and suggest ways to overcome these obstacles.
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Ten Lithium Battery Myths and Answers: How can I get the longest life from lithium batteries? After you spend lots of money on lithium batteries you want them to last. It would be a shame if you killed them early.
I have been an early fan but not an early adopter of lithium iron phosphate batteries for RVs and have multiple friends credit me as at least part of the reason they spent lots of money on a lithium battery set up for their RV. Most of these friends purchased their lithium batteries before I did. I just found out another friend purchased lithium batteries for his RV this week.
We do not get compensation from any company to promote their batteries. These truths are provided only to help our friends use their batteries in the most effective way.
These battery secrets are not well known
So, this post is to make sure my friends are informed about how to treat their lithium batteries and the best way to achieve the longest life from their investment. So, this post is to address Ten Lithium Battery Myths and Answers.
I started writing about my next battery set up a full year before getting going with lithium. Part of the reason was that I was determined to have real-life experience not just rely on other people’s experiences to make my decisions. So even after knowing plenty of reasons to get lithium, I hesitated and made do with my lead-acid batteries, if for no other reason is that I could make them work – well enough. Other people who know me well, say it is all based on me being really, really cheap.
So even before spending what still seems to be a king’s ransom on a new battery set up, I already knew from studying the subject, that lithium likes to be treated differently than lead-acid.
Here are Ten Lithium Battery Myths and Answers that I needed to answer to re-align in my brain.
- To know the state of charge, the only thing I need to know is the voltage.
- Always fully recharge batteries.
- Charge batteries slowly over a long period of time.
- Never fully discharge batteries.
- Never discharge batteries quickly.
- Recharge the batteries with a high voltage/amperage and taper off as the battery gets closer to full.
- Keep charging full batteries with a small trickle or float charge to maintain their health.
- Once the batteries are fully recharged I should remove them from the charger.
- Always fully charge a battery before you put it in storage.
- Avoid heat, avoid cold.
I have already covered many Ten Lithium Battery Myths and Answers in my previous posts in the following articles, so some of this is a re-hash of old details. Here are some of the posts regarding the subject starting from oldest to newest.
Starting with Lead Acid Batteries
Then introducing lithium batteries
- Lithium/Lead Acid Final Analysis
- Which First, Solar or Lithium
- Bash Solar Data Collection
- Bash Solar Test Data Analysis / Observations
- Hybrid Mongrel Battery
- Massive Electrical Bucket
Important note: I currently charge my lithium batteries using only the inverter/converter. In the future, I will be able to charge my batteries using either the inverter/converter or solar or even both at the same time.
Ten Lithium Battery Myths and Answers
Myth #1: To know the state of charge, the only thing I need to know is the voltage.
Lead = No / Lithium = No
It is a complete falsehood, for RV owners that they can read the battery voltage, and determine the state of charge for a battery. Battery voltage is related to the state of charge but doesn’t tell you nearly anything. First, if you are charging the battery then you are reading the charging voltage, not the battery voltage. Secondly, if you turn off the charger and then immediately read the voltage, then you are reading a voltage called a surface charge, not the true battery voltage. The only way to read the true voltage is to wait after recharging and after a small discharge then read the true voltage.
For lithium batteries, the problem is even worse. Here are the lithium state of charge numbers:
- 13 volts = 30%
- 13.1 volts = 40%
- 13.2 volts = 70%
- 13.3 volts = 90%
- 13.4 volts = 99%
These voltages versus state-of-charge were obtained from a post by a Battle Born Batteries employee on their website and are not “official” documents.
Remember, you can only use the above numbers if you are not charging or discharging.
Volts mean nothing (almost nothing)
As you can see the difference between almost fully discharged (30%) and almost fully charged (90%) is 3/10 of one volt. The range between 40 and 70% is completely unknown. So you need a better method. The only way to truly know the state of discharge from a lithium battery is to measure discharge in terms of the amperage used.
Here is the Victron 712 that I use to determine the state of charge.
The Victron BMV-712 records current as it enters and exits the battery and keeps track of battery state of charge based on amp-hours used not voltage.
The Victron BMV-712 showed me my discharge and recharge events over the last week (and all last year) as represented on this graph. Here is the same graph, based on volts. All readings were taken while charging or discharging. All numbers greater than 13.3 volts were taken while I was charging and are artificially high. Voltages taken while discharging are artificially low. All voltages taken during large discharge rates were lower than voltages taken with minor discharge rates.
The purpose of the voltage graph is to show that you cannot determine the lithium battery state of charge by looking at the voltage.
When looking at the screenshot (the Victron BMV-712 links this data to my phone) in the next picture, you can completely disregard the voltage, because the screenshot was taken while I was charging, the voltage does not relate to the state of charge.
Published voltages versus state-of-charge numbers are wrong
The above Battle Born voltage versus state-of-charge numbers may be wrong. I have allowed my battery bank to drift slowly lower from a full charge at last created by charging at 14.4 volts. The monitor read 100% until last night. Here is the voltage versus state-of-charge taken today from my Victron BVM-712.
If the numbers from the Battle Born website were correct, then I should be at 90% state of charge at 13.3 volts. This would mean that I had consumed nearly 100 amp hours from my battery bank — not just 15.6 amp-hours. Testing of this style, drawing only 8 watts could take forever so don’t expect too many more of this real-life voltage versus state-of-charge readings. I think that the 8-watt draw comes from running the LED status lights on my inverter. I took another reading at 99% state of charge this time after consuming 30 amps and volts this reading was 13.29 (the draw was still 8 watts)
Making sure you don’t fall for this myth, I have an entire article dedicated to this myth. Battery Monitor
Myth #2: Always fully recharge batteries.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = No
Lithium batteries do not need to be fully recharged after every discharge. Holding lithium at full charge reduces the life span. Holding lithium at a full charge when the battery is hot reduces the life of the battery dramatically. The best practice is to fully charge when you need it and then allow for gradual discharge down to a lower charge as you use it. If you cycle the battery between 25 and 75% (13 to 13.2 volts) state of charge the lithium battery may outlive you. I don’t ever expect to replace my lithium batteries.
In order to cycle between 25 and 75% effectively, you need a big enough battery so that it doesn’t have to be full to provide enough energy for you to use it in the middle of the charge range.
The way I plan to use my lithium batteries is to increase the charge voltage to 14.4 volts for a couple of days before leaving a campground with shore power and going to a campsite without shore power. This will bring the battery up to a full charge. Thus when I depart a campground with full hookups I will start with a full battery and then as I camp allow the lithium state of charge to float up and down associated with the available energy. For right now, this means letting the state of charge drop for a couple of days before I recharge them using the generator.
Control for full battery charge by limiting voltage
After I install the solar panels I will allow the available sunlight to recharge the batteries as it is available up to full, as it is available, thus never having to run the generator. When off-grid my solar will be programmed to deliver 14.4 volts.
Then after going to a campground with shore power I will drop the charge voltage to about 13.3 volts which should produce a charge level of less than 90% of a full charge.
A reduction of about 10%, in terms of capacity, results in nearly double the lifespan of a lithium battery.
To effectively reduce voltage and increase life you are going to need this device in your system. Battery Monitor
Myth #3: Charge batteries slowly over a long period of time.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = gradual is better
At this point, I need to introduce what is called C-rating. The C-rating applies to both charging and discharging. One “C” means from zero to full in one hour. For discharge one “C” means from full to zero in one hour. Thus if you have a one hundred amp hour battery bank, then a one “C” charge would be 100 amps per hour.
A slow charge rate would be less than 0.5C per hour. Lithium life expectancy increases with charge rates of less than 0.8C. The slower the charge or discharge rate, the longer the life of a lithium battery. The way to control the rate of charge is to limit the amperage of the charge source.
In terms of C-rating, my charge C-rating was 0.135 and my discharge C-rating was 0.0148 last week. In terms of charge and discharge rates, my batteries should live longer than I do.
Control the speed of recharge by limiting the amperage (if needed)
For me, one 0.8C means that I could recharge my 900+ amp hours of lithium at up to 720 amps per hour and still extend the life of the batteries. My maximum potential charge rate, after I put solar on my RV is 225 amps per hour (0.25C). Given this, I will be well below the long-life charge rate.
The way to control the level of charge is to limit the charge voltage. For me, this means that when I am using my lithium batteries when off-grid I will be charging at 14.4 volts to get a full charge. When I have shore power I will be charging at 13.3 volts or perhaps even lower to limit the charge to about 70%.
A higher charge rate will result in a shorter life span for the battery but may be necessary given some circumstances. The theory says that I could recharge my batteries at 900 amps per hour… I don’t know how I could ever create such a charge rate so this isn’t even an option. The reason high charge rates are bad for the battery is that the cells do not have time to dissipate extra heat during the recharge.
If you are going to charge slowly, you are going to need a battery monitor to monitor your progress. Battery Monitor
Myth #4: Never discharge batteries quickly.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = No (to a point)
For lithium battery discharge this means to discharge at a rate of equal to its full capacity — over the period of one hour. Thus a one hundred amp hour battery would be fully discharged in one hour. Lithium batteries are willing to discharge fast, but fast discharges also create internal heat in the battery and prolonged high discharge rates should be avoided. The theory says that I could discharge my 900+ amp hours all in one hour. However, I could never achieve such a discharge rate. My fuse is rated at 300 amps instantaneous draw thus this is the maximum I could ever achieve. Plus I don’t have anything that could draw anywhere near 300 amps through the fuse.
For lead-acid batteries, this really isn’t a question because of what is called the Peukerts’ law which I described in my post of Lithium Lead-Acid Final Analysis. Simply stated Peukert’s law states that “If the rate of discharge increases, then the available capacity of the battery decreases.” Peukert’s law kills the ability of lead-acid batteries ability to sustain high rate discharge.
So since quick discharge only applies to lithium what is the best way to discharge a lithium battery; the answer is slowly as possible, assuming it meets your needs. If your system design requires a large sustained load, you need more batteries. For me, this isn’t a problem because the battery’s total capacity is large and my total use is limited to the output of my inverter. My inverter is small compared to my battery size.
Myth #5: Never fully discharge batteries.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = No (to a point)
The safe discharge level for a lead-acid battery is about 50%. The safe discharge level of a lithium battery is equal to the design of the BMS. (Battery Management System) The BMS is built into a lithium battery which limits such things as discharge level, and many other things. The result is that the BMS will stop discharge before damage to the cells occurs and thus you can use all the energy in the battery until the BMS puts a stop to the discharge.
However, the depth of discharge does affect the life span. What good is it to buy a battery and then never use it? So here is a basic table to understand discharge related to life in a lithium battery.
|Depth of Discharge||Cycle Life|
Cycling the battery between 10 and 90 percent charge is a formula for long life. Cycling the battery between 25 and 75 percent charge is a formula for extremely long life.
If you made your own lithium battery without a BMS you will need to limit your discharge to a safe level otherwise you can kill your lithium battery by over-discharge. Your BMS is the computer inside your battery. You also need a battery monitor to tell the over all charge of the system, here again is a link to that article. Battery Monitor
Myth #6: Recharge the batteries with a high voltage/amperage and taper off as the battery gets closer to full.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = No
This is a 100% true statement for lead-acid batteries and not a factor for lithium batteries.
My chargers are programmed to maintain a constant voltage (at 14.4 volts) until the end of the charge cycle. My charger also provides constant voltage and current for the entire charge cycle. The only time I adjust this is when I switch to shore power for a couple of weeks, then I will drop the charge voltage to 13.3 volts or perhaps even lower, to prevent holding the battery at a 100% charge for long periods. See also the myth about heat and cold below.
Myth #7: Keep charging full batteries with a small trickle or float charge to maintain their health.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = No
Lead-acid batteries leak and lose charge over time. Always maintain the charge level of a lead-acid battery at 100% which is optimum for the long life of the battery.
For lithium batteries staying at 100% charge can be bad, again refer to the discussion on heat and cold below. Lithium batteries also don’t leak and are happiest when allowed to float between 25 and 75% state of charge.
Myth #8: Once the batteries are fully recharged remove them from the charger.
Lead = No / Lithium = Maybe
For lead-acid batteries, you want to leave them connected to get the trickle charge.
For lithium batteries, it depends on how smart your charger is. A new word I have learned in the last month is “rebulk” which isn’t a real word but rather describes when the charger kicks in to recharge the battery. My rebulk number is going to be 13 volts or perhaps even lower when we are on “shore power” and 13.3 volts when off-grid.
It is starting to sound like I’m going to be adjusting my charging numbers frequently but I put notes on my calendar and will only have to adjust them three times this summer. I don’t think it will be too big a burden. How do you know if the battery is fully charged? Again the answer is Battery Monitor.
Myth #9: Always fully charge a battery before you put it in storage.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = No
For lead-acid batteries store the battery at full and always trickle charge the battery when in storage at least every couple of weeks. Lead-acid batteries will lose charge unless topped off when in storage.
For lithium do not store a full battery, instead, discharge it to about 50 – 70% and then store it. Lithium batteries do not lose charge when in storage. When a lithium battery is full for a long period of time it degrades the performance of the battery. Millions of people with laptop computers that are plugged in all the time (including me) know this to be true.
#10 (not a myth): Avoid heat, avoid cold.
Lead = Yes / Lithium = Yes
Heat kills batteries, all batteries. If you want to kill your car battery, let it sit outside in Phoenix, in the direct sunlight, gets really hot. Then after it is nice and hot, put a high-amperage recharger on it. Car batteries in Phoenix have a low life span.
Same for lithium. If you want to charge a battery – cold is better than hot, way, way better than hot.
Lithium batteries hate being held at a high charge level especially when they are really hot. Try to keep your batteries cool. For RVers, to me this means, trying to find moderate temperatures using your wheels and go someplace other than where it is not so hot.
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|77’ F/25’C||2% drop in life expectancy||10% drop in life expectancy|
|104’F/ 40’C||8% drop in life expectancy||18% drop in life expectancy|
If you need to store your lithium batteries and expect them to be uncomfortably hot (uncomfortable for you) then store them at a low state of charge (not empty). If you don’t have a choice with regard to temperature, then keep your lithium batteries at a low state of charge when it is very hot.
Pertaining to cold, all batteries don’t like real cold temperatures (neither do I). Lithium batteries have a BMS and are unwilling to charge when the temperature is too cold. Warm them slightly and then they will accept a charge. Charging gradually creates heat inside the battery and as it gets warmer then the BMS will allow higher charge rates.
For lithium batteries, if it is too hot or too cold for you, then it is too hot or cold for your battery.
Ten Lithium Battery Myths and Answers — summary:
- Voltage readings cannot identify the state of charge.
- Do not always fully recharge lithium batteries.
- Slow recharging is better than fast recharging. I am unable to recharge my batteries so fast as to damage them.
- Batteries BMS protects from over-discharge, yet deep discharge causes stress that is good to avoid.
- I am unable to discharge my batteries quickly enough to damage them.
- There is no reason to change the voltage or amperage as I recharge my lithium batteries.
- It is better to allow my batteries to discharge than it is to keep them fully charged.
- Batteries automatically are removed from my charger after the charge is complete.
- Do not store a full lithium battery. Do not ever store an empty lead or lithium battery. Store a lithium battery at about 50 – 70% charge.
- High temperatures (more than 122′ F /50 C) kill all batteries. Do not charge a lithium battery to full in high heat. Do not ever hold a lithium battery at full during high heat. Avoid charging when cold, but the BMS will not allow recharging when a lithium battery is too cold.
Summary of best management for lithium batteries
- Keep your batteries at moderate temperatures.
- Do not store fully charged batteries. Store batteries in a cool place.
- Avoid deep cycling.
- Avoid rapid discharge and recharge.
Quick Numbers Summary
- Charge at 14.4 volts for full capacity.
- If full capacity is not needed charge at 13.3 volts or maybe even less to increase the life span.
- Start recharge at 13.3 to keep the battery near full. Start recharge at 13 volts to allow for deeper discharge, especially during storage.
I will update any number in the blog, on the fly, if I learn that something needs to be changed to give you the best information. All of the above is according to the best information available.
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News on the former first couple of California just keeps coming – *the latest being that Schwarzenegger fathered a “love child” with one of his housekeepers more than a decade ago. Though many aspects of this couple’s relationship have been discussed in great detail recently, no one is talking about the ways in which their relationship was successful. Divorce or no divorce, talk about being goal-oriented!
First, let’s dispel any notion that Maria Shriver did not know about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “love child” until recently. This woman is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of several books – the type of woman who is curious, intuitive, and capable of putting two and two together. And we are to believe that she didn’t know her husband had a child with a member of her household staff? Not likely.
I am not suggesting that she was happy about it, or that the situation was ever OK with her. I have no way of knowing how she felt about it. But she was not upset enough to leave her husband while he had a bright political career ahead of him, which means that she, too, was getting something out of his political success. That prestige and power was clearly more valuable to her than leaving the man to whom she no longer wanted to be married (assuming the rumors we are hearing about their unhappy marriage are true). The bottom line: This marriage served both of their goals, or it wouldn’t have lasted this long. Therefore, it was successful by their definition – even if not by yours or mine.
Let’s face it. You were played … like a flute. In last week’s blog, “Arnold and Maria: Does Their Split Really Concern You?,” I wrote that we want political couples to appear happy and stable – especially a beloved actor and a member of one of the most glamorous political families in U.S. history. Well, you wanted it, and you got it. They gave us nothing. Yes, there were rumors, but none of us had anything substantial to go on. The first couple kept the facts quiet as long as they needed us to buy their story. Now, he is no longer governor of California, and it seems unlikely that Congress will change the law prohibiting foreign-born citizens from running for president – at least in the near future. There is no longer any need for them to prioritize politics over marital bliss, so they’re calling it quits.
To most of us, the unraveling of this marriage and all its skeletons seem to suggest that their relationship was not a successful one. I disagree. If a goal of their marriage was to have a powerful political career – something that their combined names, reputations and likeability helped them accomplish – they were successful. While they may not have turned out to be the All-American couple they led us to believe they were, they certainly understand the “American Dream.” They set a goal and they reached it.
To many, the idea of getting (or staying) married for political reasons may seem disingenuous or disrespectful of the sanctity of marriage. But no two marriages are the same – and neither are the reasons we get into them. Some people get married because of love, some because of friendship, and others because they want a family. People stay in unhappy marriages because of children, religious beliefs, family pressure and even politics. The list of motivations goes on and on, but at the end of the day, everyone has their reasons, and they are all legitimate in that they serve our individual purposes. Otherwise, we would leave.
Arnold and Maria had their reasons to get married, had their reasons to stay in that marriage for 25 years, and have their reasons to change it in whatever way they decide now … just like everyone else.
Understanding that success is in the eye of the beholder, especially when it comes to relationships, is yet another way to be a more Powerful Person in a Partnership.
*This blog was written before allegations of Schwarzenegger fathering other children outside of his marriage being made public.
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While I’ll certainly have much more to say on the finalized version of Volcker in the days ahead, for now just take a moment to wrap your mind around this:
From the NYT’s DealBook: “Compliance will be daunting, but hopefully the waiting will have been the hardest part,†said Lisa M. Ledbetter, who said she was one of about 200 lawyers at Jones Day who will review the rule on Tuesday on behalf of the firm’s Wall Street clients. “The devil is in the details.â€
Somehow, I’m guessing this is one instance in which Ms. Ledbetter and her fellow 200 lawyers (AT ONE FIRM…) aren’t actually all that heartbroken about either “the devil” or those pesky “details.”
According to Bloomberg News: “The Volcker rule may create about 2.3 million hours of paperwork, pushing the total amount of compliance time for Dodd-Frank legislation to about 59 million hours, according to government estimates compiled by Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum. That could cost banks at least $5.9 billion, said Batkins, whose organization advocates reducing the size of the government.”
I ALWAYS SUSPECTED SANTA WAS A LAWYER . . .
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Free online listen to The Body Counter (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries #2) audiobook by Anne Frasier and narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith , in series: Detective Jude Fontaine. Are you a Anne Frasier fan ? if yes you will love The Body Counter (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries #2) audiobook. Now lets try to play the audio and leave a comment about this book.
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Admire it in-person at the Ayala Museum
Juan’s painting returned after 132 years after its last appearance in Paris. It takes center stage at the exhibition titled “Splendor: Juan Luna, Painter as Hero.”
The Leon Gallery exhibition is open until December 30, 2023. It showcases the exceptional talent of Juan Luna through his known works.
Juan experienced his artistic peak from 1884 to 1889. He won a gold medal at the 1884 Exposición Nacional del Bellas Artes in Madrid for his renowned painting, “Spoliarium,” currently housed at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Manila. Five years later, Juan earned a bronze medal for “Hymen, oh Hyménée!” at the Exposition Universelle of 1889.
Jaime Ponce de Leon, the founder, and director of Leon Gallery, nurtured a dream to locate the piece, leading him on a decade-long search across Europe. In 2014, Jaime fulfilled his aspiration by acquiring Juan’s painting.
After waiting in a storeroom, the artwork found its new home in 2022 through a long-term loan to the Ayala Museum.
The “Splendor: Juan Luna, Painter as Hero” exhibit is designed by scenographer Gino Gonzales. It also includes a catalog featuring insightful essays by renowned historian Ambeth R. Ocampo, acclaimed film director Martin Arnaldo, and other esteemed curators.
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Everglades Leather Fob
The best defense is a good offense, and this lil’ sweetie came to play. Our in-house master leathersmith figured out how to build this incredible lil’ gator head to keep your keys safe, built from 100% natural tanned emerald leather. Treated with vegetable tannins to give it a gorgeous finish, this fob is sturdy, durable, and guaranteed to get patina on its patina. Consider it your new guard gator.
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Most parents are less than thrilled with the thought of checking their child for head lice. But when you suspect your child has lice, check you must. Whether you notice symptoms or get the infamous school letter, you want to check for lice as soon as possible.
Head lice spread rapidly. The earlier you spot a case, the easier it is to treat. If you do confirm an infestation on your child, you’ll need to check the whole family. It’s important to confirm an infestation before undergoing any treatment. The following tips will help you check for lice at home. You can also visit our Jacksonville, Savannah, or Orlando head lice treatment centers for a thorough, professional check.
Note if your child has any signs or symptoms of head lice.
- Itching of the scalp, especially on the neck or behind the ears
- Tickling feeling on the scalp
- Feeling that something is moving in his or her hair
- Sores on the head from scratching
- Trouble sleeping due to itching (head lice are more active in the dark)
What you need to check for lice.
- Bright lighting or a flashlight
- Lice comb (you can purchase one at a head lice treatment center)
- Magnifying glass
- Plastic bowl
How to check for head lice on dry hair.
- Start checking your child’s scalp by parting the hair in multiple places. Look especially closely at the nape of the neck and behind the ears.
- Check for any movement in the hair, especially when shining a light on it.
- Look for lice and their nits (eggs). Lice are the size of sesame seeds and white to grayish in color. Nits are tiny and hard to spot. They are white or beige in color and feel like a grain of sand.
- Nits can be hard to distinguish from dandruff. The biggest difference is that dandruff will easily brush off. Nits are glued to the hair shaft and harder to remove. A head lice treatment center like Fresh Heads can confirm if what you’re seeing is live nits or just dandruff.
How to check for head lice on wet hair.
- Some people find it easier to identify lice at home on wet hair.
- Wet your child’s hair.
- Apply a liberal amount of conditioner.
- Use a lice comb to go through your child’s hair in sections, from roots to ends.
- Look for nits to be caught in the comb’s teeth. You can also tap the comb into a plastic bowl to try to spot them.
If you’ve found an active case of lice, it’s time to check the whole family. Anyone who has any signs of head lice in the house will need to be treated. If you are still not sure after checking at home, visit a head lice treatment center for a professional check.
With locations in Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Orlando, and Savannah, Fresh Heads Lice Treatment Centers offer thorough head checks for the entire family. And if treatment is required, the fee will be waived. Fresh Heads offers several options, including the AirAllé treatment. AirAllé is FDA-cleared to safely and effectively treat lice—without any chemicals. Call Fresh Heads at (407) 326-0560 to schedule your child’s head lice to check or lice treatment.
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Oil rig occupations have grown in popularity among individuals seeking an interesting and well-paying career. However, there are numerous risks involved with this type of labor, including hazardous working conditions, the probability of an accident, and the chance of bodily injury.
The unpredictability of offshore drilling necessitates that personnel be prepared for any eventuality and be watchful. Moreover, the environmental impact of this type of activity has prompted many to question its viability.
Despite the dangerous situation, oil rig jobs provide an exceptional opportunity to work in a demanding and fulfilling setting. In this article, we will discuss some of the ways in which working on an oil rig can be dangerous, as well as why it is essential to take safety precautions when employed in this field.
Occupational Risks With Offshore Oil Rigs
Presence of Fire and Explosions
The combination of combustible materials, flammable gasses, and toxic chemicals can make it difficult to extinguish a fire on offshore oil rigs. In the event of a fire, the tight quarters of the rig can also make evacuation difficult.
Fire prevention is a crucial aspect of offshore oil rig safety, and oil firms must guarantee that their rigs are outfitted with the appropriate fire safety equipment and that their staff are taught the necessary safety protocols.
Explosions are an additional major risk on offshore oil rigs. The mix of combustible materials, flammable gasses, and hazardous substances increases the likelihood of an explosion and makes it difficult to contain one.
In the case of an explosion, the close quarters of the rig can make it impossible to evacuate. Explosion prevention is a crucial aspect of offshore oil rig safety, and oil companies must outfit their rigs with the right explosion safety equipment and teach their staff the proper safety protocols.
Oil spills can have devastating and long-lasting repercussions on the ecosystem and marine life. Failures of equipment or a natural calamity, such as a storm or earthquake, might cause a spill. They may also result from human error or neglect.
In addition to the possibility of a massive oil leak, offshore oil rig activities can provide additional dangers, such as fire, explosions, and the release of hazardous materials. Additionally, workers may be exposed to extreme temperatures and hazardous working conditions, including high-pressure gas lines, electrical cables, and toxic chemicals. It is essential for workers to be aware of potential dangers and take all actions necessary to protect their safety.
Operation in Severe Environments
Extreme situations can be fascinating and enjoyable to work in, but they can also be quite hazardous. Offshore oil rigs are one of the most harsh settings in which people can operate. These rigs are frequently situated in places prone to storms, high waves, and sea-level fluctuations, all of which can cause hazardous working circumstances.
Storms and large waves can cause the rigs to move, which can throw equipment and employees off balance or even off the rig. Moreover, fluctuations in sea level might lead to flooding of the rings, resulting in potentially hazardous water levels if safety precautions are not followed.
Isolation is one of the most difficult parts of working on offshore oil rigs, as workers are frequently separated from their families by hundreds of kilometers. This isolation can result in loneliness, sadness, and even mental health difficulties.
Working in such a risky and isolating setting can also induce excessive anxiety and stress, resulting in additional mental health difficulties. In addition, the long hours and frequently arduous nature of the labor can contribute to a general sense of tiredness and burnout, resulting in a general loss of mental health.
All of these psychological effects can have severe effects on workers, resulting in lower productivity and morale, as well as potentially hazardous situations.
Workplace Dangers on Offshore Oil Rigs
Working on an offshore oil rig can be a perilous and hazardous occupation. Working on an oil rig is associated with a variety of health concerns. Injuries, chemical exposure, and occupational diseases are the most prevalent health hazards.
As a result of the hazardous and constrained working conditions, offshore oil rig employees frequently sustain injuries. Workers on oil rigs may sustain physical injuries from falls, slips, and burns, and may be exposed to harsh chemicals and other hazards.
Chemical exposure is another hazard linked with working on offshore oil rigs. Workers on oil rigs may be exposed to harmful chemicals and substances, such as petroleum products and sulfur compounds, which can cause respiratory, skin, and eye issues.
Finally, occupational infections pose a significant threat to the health of oil rig employees. Due to exposure to harmful chemicals and materials, these ailments may include hearing loss, persistent fatigue, and respiratory illnesses. Workers must be aware of the potential health dangers involved with offshore oil rig employment.
How Do Offshore Oil Rig Safety Protocols Fail?
Falls, slips, trips, equipment failures, and fires account for the majority of mishaps on offshore oil rigs. These mishaps may result in injuries, fatalities, and substantial monetary losses. Accidents still occur despite the extensive safety standards in place, with many of them being preventable.
Accidents continue to occur on offshore oil rigs primarily due to human error. Despite the operators’ best efforts, there are times when workers make mistakes or fail to adhere to safety procedures. This can result in severe accidents and, in extreme circumstances, death.
While safety protocols are essential, they are not always up-to-date, which is another issue. If the safety processes on the rig are not constantly updated, they may not be successful in preventing mishaps as regulations and requirements evolve. This is especially true in the case of equipment failures, for which the safety rules may not provide adequate protection.
Accidents still occur on offshore oil rigs despite the numerous safety precautions in place. Human mistakes, obsolete safety protocols, and insufficient maintenance are all possible causes of these tragedies. To limit the risk of accidents, rig operators must ensure that the safety measures are routinely updated and the equipment is well-maintained.
Jobs on offshore oil rigs can be challenging and dangerous, but with the right safety rules and regulations, the chance of injury or worse can be minimized significantly. It is essential for personnel to comprehend the applicable safety standards and take all steps necessary to protect their own and others’ safety. With the proper precautions in place, offshore oil rig workers can enjoy a productive and secure job.
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How to treat swollen legs by the heat? Tiredness, swelling and even pain are some of the most common symptoms of a very common complaint in the warmer months. The prevention, as in any chapter of health, is essential. Let’s see then look so deeply, what are most effective remedies to prevent swelling of legs and in case of suffering, to mitigate the inconvenience and enjoy the summer in a relaxed manner. Remember it is also important to take care of diet and exercise on a regular basis, for example something as simple as walking.
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The nutrition plays an essential role in improving the welfare of our body. Hence the importance of choosing the right foods and, in the case of swollen legs, does not forget to include in the diet foods that promote the elimination of fluids (draining and diuretic foods). Similarly, the foods rich in salt must diminish, such as packaged products, excessively spicy, canned foods, fatty meats and cheeses.
On the other hand, are foods that can be helpful, especially to revive the blood circulation and promote the body purification. In particular, it is beneficial to eat berries, such as strawberries, blueberries and currants and kiwis and citrus, which are rich in flavonoids with anti-inflammatory effects.
What are the natural remedies to combat swelling of legs? An effective remedy is the infusion of hazelnut leaves, to be taken twice a day, especially during periods when the symptoms are more frequent and when the swelling is accompanied by tingling sensation.
Another ally is the green tea; we can prepare some tea leaves in boiling water. We can take it as an infusion or soak cotton gauze and apply it in the legs. Green tea has numerous benefits for health. A drink that we can take to counteract the swelling of the legs is a mixture of molasses and anise seeds. We can take between two and three times a day.
If the situation does not improve, while it persists, we must consult the doctor since it may be necessary to resort to the use of special medicines, which should always be used under medical supervision. These specific drugs help improve blood circulation. On the other hand, there is cream to reduce the feeling of heat that occurs mostly around the twins.
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Complex brain disorders are highly heritable and largely polygenic. They arise from a complex combination of risk genes, found in non-coding regions and located near regulatory elements. A recent review in Nature discusses the use of computational genetics to model genetic risk in a cell-type and patient-specific manner.
Neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders are highly heritable and often arise from a complex polygenic risk architecture. The majority of disease-associated gene loci exist in non-coding regions of the genome. Candidate risk loci within these non-coding regions are often regulatory elements, such as enhancers and promoters. These can influence the transcription of specific genes.
However, despite being known drivers of disease-related symptoms, the functional characterisation of regulatory elements remains largely incomplete. Computational genetics strategies can be used to conduct large-scale validation and unbiased identification of disease-associated risk loci in a cell-type-specific and genotype-dependent manner.
Advances in Computational Genetics
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can be used as a unique platform to model cell-type-specific risk for psychiatric disorders. When applied to these models, genomic approaches can uncover the biological relevance of genetic variants and predict their phenotypic influence.
For example, large-scale genome wide association studies (GWAS) take advantage of linkage disequilibrium (the non-random coinheritance of genetic variants) to identify thousands of genetically-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) involved in psychiatric disorders. This data then requires further computational prioritisation and the functional validation of SNPs en masse.
Progress in single-cell RNA sequencing technologies has allowed the mapping of genetic risk loci to specific brain cell types. Such analyses have uncovered that genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis is enriched in genes expressed by microglia. Alternatively, genetic risk for Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorder was found to be shared mainly between interneurons and pyramidal neurons. This cell-type-specific genetic risk indicates a key biological role of these cell types in the aetiology of these disorders, which can aid diagnoses and identification of novel therapeutic targets.
Computational Genetics: Parallel Screening Techniques
This used of human-derived cell populations provides a rich and heterogenous background for genetic screens. It also provides the unique ability to model susceptibility for psychiatric disorders in a donor-dependent and cell-type-specific manner.
The CRISPR-Cas9 toolbox can be used to induce point mutations to activate or repress transcription at specific sites in the genome. This allows the manipulation of gene expression without completely knocking a gene in or out, better reproducing the influence that a disease-associated SNP may have on transcription. CRISPR editing can link GWAS-associated variants to genes and to phenotypes. However, this is only possible for a small number of top predicted SNPs.
In comparison, giant parallel reporter assays can be used to rapidly detect random nucleotide variation within regulatory regions. This technology can also identify and characterise shifts in transcriptional activity associated with these variations, which may indicate disease causation. Similar high-throughput assays called MPRAs enable the en masse screening of millions of nucleotide variants within thousands of sequences. The findings of these assays can then be validated using CRISPR-Cas9 guided allelic replacement.
Challenges of Validating Non-Coding Regions
Whilst there have been rapid developments in computational methods used to predict genetic contributions to disease, it remains difficult to link loci, SNP variants and gene expression to phenotypic variability. Non-coding regions are difficult to screen as they give rise to an exhaustive number of potential variants. Also, single-nucleotide mutations often do not produce a detectable phenotype.
Additionally, regulatory elements can affect gene expression in different ways, depending on the individual’s genetic makeup. Thus, candidate genes must be validated in an appropriate genetic context.
Limitations of Computational Genetics
Unfortunately, one major caveat of MPRA data is that they fail to reproduce the structural context of endogenous location. The 3D structure of chromatin, transcription-associated domains and other regulatory sites can all impact the activity of regulatory elements. However, by combining MPRA data with other datasets, such as HI-C (a chromatin conformation capture technique) data, or RNA-seq data, we can attempt to identify regulatory elements in their endogenous context.
A further limitation is that most MPRAs contain DNA fragments between 145 and 170 base pairs in length. This range may not encompass the boundaries of all regulatory elements. However, recent methodical improvements have been made to address this constraint.
The sheer number of regulatory regions which exist in the genome hinders the functional characterisation and validation of all predicted enhancer-gene connections. However, recent successful application of massively parallel techniques, such as CRISPR-based screens and MPRAs has expanded the realm of possibility for mapping and predicting the human ‘regulome’.
These massively parallel sequencing techniques have already been applied in cancer cell lines, neural cells and neural stem cells. Their application to hiPSC-based neuronal models could in future provide a cell-type specific catalogue of the human regulatory architecture which underlies psychiatric disorders.
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This grass green personalised sash comes printed with your own text. Made from 4″ wide green ribbon it could be perfect for Irish themed events and parties.
Each sash is handmade into a loop and supplied ready to wear.
Design your own green sash exactly how you want it. Just enter your text, choose your print colour & font style.
You can even add clip-art images like stars, hearts or balloons from our list of stock images. If you would like to see how your sash could look before ordering why not launch our “Sash Creator”. See your personalised green sash come to life on screen in real time in just a few clicks.
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No matter how punctual or competent your technicians are, don’t assume your best-laid customer service plans are actually delivering great service. Flavio Martins, a customer service “fanatic” and blogger at Win the Customer!, spoke to us recently about a common mistake field service companies make: assuming their customer service is great — without asking their customers. Martins also offers smart insights about the role of emotional connections in great customer service, and why rotating field techs through other company support roles can improve service.
In what ways do service managers think they’re getting it right but really aren’t?
One area where there’s quite a bit of a breakdown is that it’s easy, especially nowadays when there is a greater emphasis on providing great customer service, for management to put ideas down on paper, create mission statements and preach customer service — and then not review the interactions that take place with customers.
Companies sit back and proclaim that they’re focused on customer service, but then they let service happen the way it’s always happened without any follow-up with customers themselves to see if the service made a difference or if the customers appreciated the service.
In what other ways do they mistake good service for bad?
Another area where companies tend to fall short is they simply have someone available to assist customers and then consider that great customer service. Companies need to address the actual needs of the customer to provide a better overall experience.
I tell a lot of companies that I work with that it’s great to publish a phone number on their website, but customers might prefer to engage by accessing information on their own, whether through Facebook, Twitter or online live chat. Companies can have a phone number and an army of experts available and still fall short. If customers go away feeling disappointed, even if they received the correct answer, then the service wasn’t good.
How do you balance the need for customer self-service with great quality?
You can have the greatest field service technicians, but customers’ problems don’t always require a technician — even if he or she showed up on time. We’ll see more self-service opportunities, but at the end of the day, field service will never go away. In the future, I think field service will shift toward the upper-tier, escalated issues. Field service technicians will transition into doing more remote-based work.
How can technicians make the transition to more online support?
It varies by industry, but one hot area that I’m seeing, especially in the technology industry, is enabling more telecommuting opportunities for field service technicians where they work on semi-escalated issues from home. They’re out in the field, close to potential customer sites, but a lot of their work is done remotely, through either a remote desktop or through live chat, but they’re still dispatched when needed.
What other ways can service teams hit the mark?
Organizations that are able to take their service execution to the level where they actually have an emotional connection with customers are successful. Customers are really hungry for that, and they show loyalty to companies that interact with them on a personal level, whether through more human corporate communications or companies that allow field service technicians to be more personal. Put a human face to the organization so customers connect with the company almost as they would a close friend.
Also, invest more in getting customer feedback — and using that feedback. The last thing you want is for a customer to post a review that you may or may not see online. Hopefully it’s positive, but especially if it’s negative or contains constructive criticisms, you need to provide a channel where customers feel comfortable suggesting small adjustments when it comes to service delivery.
Best ways to solicit customer feedback?
I don’t advocate for one model. It’s something that each organization figures out by evaluating their customer base and how customers engage with the company. However you think your customers will respond best is a good way to try. But, at a minimum, have a channel that’s active, open and honest.
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Data Harmonization is the Key to Automating the Quote-to-Cash Process
Data harmonization is the process of bringing together data varying in format and sources into one coherent data set, creating one source of truth. Leveraging data that’s systematically combined through data harmonization empowers service providers to level-up their quote-to-cash process from a manual to an automated system.
Impact of a Manual Quote-to-Cash Process
The quote-to-cash process is at the heart of every service provider’s business. Crucial data from sales, operations, and finance is needed in order to create an end-to-end process. However, much of the data is siloed off as many service providers house most of their data in spreadsheets and in filing cabinets filled with paper. Furthermore, the lack of transparency between departments can cripple the quote-to-cash process. Different teams within the organization need access to the same set of data in order to create an efficient process.
Without data harmonization problems of visibility, incomplete or inaccurate data and lack of standardization can cause inefficiencies. Many times, pricing that was agreed upon in the Price Book or Master Service Agreement at the start of a job does not mirror the final invoice. Sometimes even crucial items are left off of the ticket making the invoice incomplete. In a manual world, human errors and duplicates are very common within the process causing delays or more work to get the correct invoice out the door. Delays in invoicing can significantly impact a company’s Days Sales Outstanding (DSO). Manual quote-to-cash processes stunt company growth and make it difficult to keep up with customer needs and demands.
Industry Based Requirements for Quote-to-Cash
The quote-to-cash process for service companies in the energy industry is very complex. Once companies realize they want to streamline and move away from paper-based processes, the pressure to implement a generic solution may be tempting. However, they can only solve the problem for the short-term, because these types of solutions do not have the domain expertise to meet the specific needs of the industry. In order to have long-term success, companies ultimately have to pick a solution that understands the way the industry impacts their quote-to-cash process.
Operating in the energy industry raises specific requirements such as complex pricing management, complicated invoicing requirements, strict contract compliance and lack of Internet at job sites. The ability to leverage data harmonization throughout the quote-to-cash process requires the solution to be able to meet these needs.
Data Harmonization Through Automating Quote-to-Cash with FieldFX
FieldFX enables service companies to create an accurate quote for a job, based on the correct pricebook. Then, while onsite, the field technician collects accurate job data in the field, offline from the Internet. When the Internet is again available, the data collected in the field is sent to the backoffice where it creates an accurate invoice The data in FieldFX is the single source of truth for the entire process. . We call this the four-way-match, when an accurate quote, produces an accurate ticket, generating an accurate invoice, with the price book serving as the common foundation. Another word for it- data harmonization. The resulting benefits are a reduction in DSO, increased cash flow and a streamlined, accurate quote-to-cash process.
FieldFX has the domain expertise to understand the complexity of the quote-to-cash process for service providers in the energy industry. Industry-specific requirements are built-in FieldFX out of the box, providing customers with a quote-to-cash solution built for their specific industry, allowing for a faster realization of value.
Learn more about FieldFX and how it’s helping companies automate their quote-to-cash process through data harmonization visit us here to schedule a demo.
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Recognizing the signs and symptoms of substance misuse is critical for early intervention and offering support to people who are addicted. Substance abuse can have serious consequences for one’s physical, emotional, and social well-being. We can help identify possible problems and direct folks to appropriate support and treatment by being familiar with the warning indicators.
Changes in Physical Appearance and Health
One of the first signs of substance abuse is often a noticeable change in physical appearance and health. Look for signs such as bloodshot eyes, dilated or constricted pupils, frequent nosebleeds (in the case of cocaine abuse), sudden weight loss or gain, poor hygiene and deterioration of overall health.
Substance abuse often leads to significant changes in behavior. Pay attention to signs such as increased secrecy, withdrawal from social activities or hobbies, sudden mood swings, irritability, agitation, impulsivity and a decline in performance at school or work.
As addiction takes hold, individuals may neglect their responsibilities and obligations. Watch for signs of increased absenteeism, declining academic or work performance, financial difficulties, frequent conflicts with family members or friends and a loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities.
Changes in Social Circles
Substance abuse can lead to a shift in social circles. Individuals may start spending time with new friends who share their substance abuse habits while distancing themselves from their previous support networks. Look for changes in friendships, sudden isolation, or association with individuals known for drug or alcohol use.
The misuse of substances frequently results in economic hardship. It is advisable to remain vigilant for indications such as inexplicable borrowing or theft of funds, selling of personal possessions, recurrent appeals for monetary aid or challenges in managing finances and settling bills.
Increased Risky or Dangerous Behavior
Individuals may exhibit risky or hazardous behaviours while under the influence of substances. It is advisable to observe indicators such as driving while intoxicated, involvement in legal issues, engaging in unprotected sexual activity, or participating in actions that may pose a risk to themselves or others.
The timely identification and comprehension of indications and manifestations of substance misuse are pivotal for prompt intervention and assistance. Through the exercise of vigilance and attentiveness towards alterations in physical, behavioural, social, and emotional domains, it is plausible to detect potential issues and extend assistance to those grappling with addiction. It is imperative to approach such circumstances with a sense of empathy, comprehension and a readiness to offer aid in facilitating access to suitable treatment and support amenities.
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As a leader, you have an effect on people. When you leave the room, people ether feel taller or smaller. This is an almost superhero power, but, unfortunately, leaders are often unconscious of it.
Setbacks are inevitable. They make us stronger and develop our character. But only if we maintain our perspective and use them to grow. Here’s how.
As leaders, we have an impact on others—whether we realize it or not. But that impact is a double-edged sword. It cuts both ways. It is either positive or negative. It is rarely neutral.
When a leader falls, it impacts everyone. It is easy to be angry or become cynical. In this guest post, Lisa Whittle reminds us to remember five truths.
Your heart is the most important leadership tool you have. It is not your experience, knowledge, or skills. It is your heart. Here are three reasons why.
Sometimes, you get stuck in a funk and can’t figure out why. Here are 24 ways to get out of it.
I started experiencing mild depression the week before Christmas. Here’s how I overcame it by re-focusing on the basics.
Everything you say has an effect. Even the things you don’t say—your attitude, your facial expressions, and your body language. All. Have. An. Effect.
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The Brooklyn Nightstand exemplifies all the best characteristics of the transitional style of furniture. The nightstand is available in a rich Ebony Oak or Light Walnut finish. The nightstand measures W:26" D:20" H:30" perfect for the main bedroom, nursery room, kids room, or guest room.
- Finish: Light Walnut or Ebony OAK
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- Weight: 75 lbs.
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The Manhattan Rect Cocktail Table is an elegant table that uses contemporary styles for a rich touch of elegance to any home. The Cocktail Table is available in Textured Espresso. This table measures 52" L x 28" W x 18" H and is perfect for game night or to accommodate guests.
- Finish: Textured Espresso w/ Brushed Stainless Steel
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3/12/20 Updates: The DMHC is no longer requiring Anthem to make changes to their Bronze PPO plans for groups with new and renewal dates between 1/1/20 and 4/30/20. However, they are still making changes to some of their Bronze plans effective 5/1/20. Read our news post for more information.
Required plan changes are coming May 1, 2020 from Anthem's regulator, the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC). They’ll affect some of your clients’ CA Bronze PPO (non-HSA) plans.
Changes the DMHC is requiring Anthem to make
Members currently get three visits to their primary care doctor or specialist before paying their deductible. Starting May 1, 2020 their plan won’t include these three visits with the deductible waived.
Members will pay for the care they get until they meet their deductible when they visit their primary care doctor, specialist, and other health care professionals. They’ll pay a copay after meeting their deductible and until they meet their out-of-pocket maximum.
A change Anthem is choosing to make — and it’s to your employees’ advantage
Anthem is increasing the number of LiveHealth Online visits available at no cost to members. Plans will include 12 visits, after which they’ll cost $5 per visit.
Anthem will send your impacted clients and their employees a letter about the changes.
View the updated benefit grid here. Want immediate access to the new Evidence of Coverage? Go to your Producer Toolbox, pull up the specific group name and select Go to EmployerAccess.
For questions, please contact a member of your B&P Sales Team - 888.722.3373.
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My father taught me to never, ever hitchhike because I would die. He illustrated the point with dinner table horror stories starring chopped up teenage bodies strewn along the highway and acid-crazed madmen speeding across America at 120 mph: “Those are the kind of people who pick up hitchhikers.”
I followed his advice until I turned 18, which–in this country–is the legal age to stop following your parents’ advice. I don’t remember my first time, though. I was probably in Europe and it just happened–I stuck out my thumb and got a free ride. It was so easy and I was so hooked. Others chased drugs and girls but I chased cars. Free travel is addictive.
I started small and safe, catching lifts with blonde families in minivans in the Benelux. I branched out and grew bolder in places like Sardinia, Poland, and the Sahara–I shrugged, pointed and thumbed my way across the map. I crossed foreign borders in the backseats of strangers, I rode shotgun in diesel-farting trucks and talked my way onto fishing boats that ferried me between islands. Once, when stranded up in the English Cotswolds, I managed to flag down enough cars to carry myself and ten grad school friends all the way home. I became a legend among my worrywart peers.
I devised a “hitch rate” for countries–the average number of cars that passed by before I got a lift. France has a better hitch rate than Spain, Spain better than Italy, Italian Switzerland worse than German Switzerland. Russians always pick up, as long as you have cash. Scandinavia is surprisingly good. The smaller the island, the better the hitching–unless it’s a British colony. And then there’s stuck-up bourgeois countries like Slovenia, where I waited 2 hours and walked over 10 miles before getting a lift from a bleach-blonde Austrian man who had crossed the border to buy a vacuum cleaner.
It wasn’t always movie montage bliss. I’ve had my fair share of scares:There was the self-proclaimed, card-carrying terroriste in Corsica with his pair of hound dogs atop a pair of loaded shotguns in the backseat. I played it cool, showed great interest in the Corsican liberation movement and nonchalantly pointed to an upcoming crossroads where he could drop me off. He drove past it, turned up unpaved roads that winded higher and higher into the lost mountains of the interior. I panicked and mentally practiced a Dukes-of-Hazard exit from the moving car window but there was no need. Le terroriste only wanted to show me the sunset from his village before driving me on to the next larger town.
There was the Ukrainian sailor in Crimea who rode his little Lada like a speedboat, chain-smoking with all windows rolled up, chewing and puffing on his cigarettes and conversing wildly, dropping inches of grey ash each time he shifted gears. Also, maybe he was a little bit drunk.
And I won’t edit out all the pervy creeps out there, like the beady-eyed, fifty-something French baker who wanted a male friend on this, his day off. Although, the one good thing about creeps is that most of them look like creeps. Hitching is all about judging a book by its cover and I’ve probably refused as many rides as I’ve accepted. I also accept that my own occasional creepiness has worked against me.
Like the time in Polynesia–sweat-soaked, red-faced and unshaven–when I stuck out a thumb and waited hours before getting a lift from a nice old lady in a flowery dress. I promptly fell asleep in her car (oh no, was I snoring?). Twenty minutes later she gently woke me at my destination. I thanked her and wiped the drool from my cheek, feeling like a numskull.
Hitching humbles you and makes you grateful for others. As I got older and wiser and less broke, I stopped taking so many lifts and started giving them.
In Costa Rica I picked up two Nicaraguans-a young mother and daughter who worked illegally in the banana plantations. In Zimbabwe–where a car with gas in the tank is viewed much like a free bus–I managed to fit 15 people in the back of an open truck. My passengers knocked on the window when they wanted to get off, then clapped their hands in thanks. In New Zealand, I picked up two Eurokids at the tail end of their gap year. They pretended everything was cool but displayed classic symptoms of backpacker poverty. They were out of cash and hungry with three more days before their return flight home. I drove them all the way to Christchurch and gave them dinner, then watched from the rearview mirror as they set up their sleeping bags under a bridge. Every true traveler needs to be broke on the road at least once. Everyone else is a poseur.
Like in Iceland when I picked up this soaking pair of entitled German campers with blonde dreadlocks and matching nose rings. They complained about the lack of space in my rental car, dripped their icky hippy wetness all over the backseat and demanded a monetary contribution for their organic, low-impact lifestyle. I offered them a fistful of blue pixie stix and dropped their ungrateful, low-impact asses off in a rainy parking lot. Kids these days; they got no respect.
There are no rules to hitchhiking but there are definite social graces–a delicate etiquette between giver and receiver. In America, that relationship of trust was broken long ago.
I don’t need to spell out all the gruesome ways people have been killed hitchhiking or giving lifts–I have a word limit and besides, you can read it all on Wikipedia, right under “serial killer”. Basically, a lot of people have died hitchhiking in America. It’s just one out of many head-shaking United States’ ironies–that in spite of our great freedom and multiple first amendment rights, imitating On the Road is against the law in most states because you might die. Meanwhile in “repressed” Europe, hitchhiking is legal, a rite of passage and the latest trend in charity fundraisers, kind of like our lamer walk-a-thons but way more fun.
Forget the economic woes, endless war and healthcare mess of the news: The real sign of America’s troubles is that Rousseau’s social contract has failed at this most basic level-between hitcher and driver, lift and lifted.
There’s a hundred ways to philosophize this phenomenon: As a car culture, all respectable Americans own cars or have friends with cars–hitchhikers are Americans without cars and therefore undesirable vagrants of ill character. Or that Americans prize freedom of expression above quality of expression (see American Idol), which inevitably leads to victory of the lowest, loudest element. Whatever the reasoning, something bad happened in my country that turned hitchhiking into a vehicle for death.
I never hitchhike in America, nor do I give lifts to strangers. Maybe my dad’s stories still haunt me, maybe I know better now, and maybe I have my own stories to tell: things that I’ve read in the paper, melodramatic TV newscasts, horrible stuff that’s happened during my own lifetime.
As the English say, it’s a pity really . . . how we’ve squandered this innocence, how we’ve closed the open road just a little bit, how our unfettered wanderlust is lost to precaution and cautionary tales. The American fairy tale of hitchhiking hovers on the verge of mythology–a belief rooted in history that might inspire young travelers, but nonetheless remains a kind of modern fiction.
It’s a pity really because some of my happiest travel moments occurred while hitchhiking. Like getting a ride in Scotland on some long rocky isle in the Outer Hebrides. A farmer motioned me into the back of his pickup and I sprawled out across a pile of freshly chopped logs. Everything smelled like sea and pinewood; the ocean wind whipped my hair wildly. I watched the world pull away from me, backwards, the red-brown moorland swept up into high crags and then over the edge of broken sea cliffs. To this day, this is how I remember Scotland: from the back of a truck.
And that’s still the way I like my travel: from the back of a truck.
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We collect personal information when you create an account, purchase a product, or interact with us online or in person. This may include your name, email address, phone number, and payment information. We use this information to process orders, communicate with you, and improve our products and services.
We will not sell or share your personal information with third parties, except as required by law or to protect the rights and safety of our customers and company. We may share non-personal information with third parties for research and analytics purposes.
We take appropriate measures to protect the security of your personal information, including the use of encryption and secure servers. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your information, and you should take steps to protect yourself online.
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Video: Promising Tomato Varieties, The Fight Against Late Blight
2023 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 05:47
How I saved the crop from late blight
Heavy spring rains and hail have taken over our area and summer months. We, in the Stavropol Territory, have not had this for a long time. From an unprecedented rain expanse, potatoes grew like leaps and bounds. Even the Colorado potato beetle, while laying its eggs, could not eat the mighty bushes.
True, before planting, I treated the tubers with Tabu and Prestizator preparations, which protect plants from diseases and beetles. This protection does not adversely affect future healthy crops. And during the growing season of a new crop, all hazardous substances evaporate and do not have a side effect on the body when using potatoes.
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But tomatoes from such a heavenly soul begin to suffer. Or rather, not from the rain, but from its consequences. After all, the humidity of plants and temperature changes create ideal conditions for the development of a dangerous fungal disease of nightshade crops - late blight (drying of leaves, flowers).
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I have a long history with this disease. Soon it is possible to defend a dissertation on this topic. I went out into the garden, I look - some leaves on the tomatoes are beginning to curl, it's time to start the war. I prepare weapons for such a battle in advance. There is always copper sulfate, Fitosporin, Baikal, whey, copper wire, and heavy artillery - Strobi, Ordan (in extreme cases). I throw the sprayer over my shoulder and go.
Just like in that saying: "It rains, but we will stack." First, I passed "Fitosporin" over the leaves and stems, the main thing here is to capture all parts of the plant. The neighbors used to look at my actions with disbelief, but now, seeing the final result, they are interested in: what am I spraying in such rain? I always give my simple advice, share my experience with you.
It rained for ten days with short pauses, all this time I sprayed the tomato plants with Fitosporin every day - 2 teaspoons per 6 liters of water and 1 liter of milk whey per 5 liters of water. Once I sprayed it with Baikal. And most importantly, I poured half a teaspoon of copper sulfate under each tomato bush. The root quickly absorbs copper in this rain. For some it is poison, but for others it is salvation. Add copper sulfate without fanaticism, strictly observe the norms, because it can be deposited in future fruits. After such foliar feeding, eat tomatoes only after a month. During this time, copper sulfate is partially volatilized.
Simultaneously with the processing of the plants, he spread the under-ripe hay and rotted chicken droppings along the aisles. I remind those who read about this for the first time: in such hay there is a hay stick, which also actively fights against late blight and does not allow it to develop from the soil.
Mineral fertilizer - nitroammofoska - also does not hurt, but make no more than 1 teaspoon under the plant.
In mid-June, when the plants gained growth, he proceeded to the laborious and lengthy procedure - piercing their stems with copper wire. For these purposes, I cut a wire 70 cm long, then pierce the stem with one end through and through. I set the wire so that the two segments are approximately equal. Then I wind the wire in several turns around the stem. When it grows to a serious size, it presses on the wire, and it grows into the stem. But in tomatoes, unlike a tree, growth does not stop from such a tug of the trunk, but, on the contrary, each plant receives a so-called implanted chip or a talisman against diseases. The plant looks healthy and the fruits are pouring to your delight. Spraying for prevention I continue to carry out harmless solutions - milk whey and Fitosporin, at least once a week,up to the mass collection of fruits.
I tie the plants with twine to wooden stakes, the height of which is 1.5-2 m.
Promising varieties of tomatoes and cucumbers
From year to year, the same question arises: what to plant this season? I have been growing tomatoes for a long time - a good part of a century. I have studied and tried many tomatoes of various tastes and colors. The main thing for everyone who grows this crop is to have a high yield so that the plants do not get sick. And, of course, the taste of tomatoes is important.
In 2016, knowing my weakness for tomatoes, you, dear readers, sent me about 300 varieties - they were mostly amateur varieties: someone in their outback grows such a variety from generation to generation, with others someone has previously shared the seeds … But from such a huge assortment sent, alas, only a few can be distinguished. These are the exception varieties I represent.
Bulgarian Challah is tall, has flat-heart-shaped fruits weighing up to 500 g, high-yielding, literally covered with them.
Poplar M is tall, the fruit is a huge ribbed pear, extraordinary, weighing 800 g each. As a Russian machine, it is happy to shoot for you.
Cream of China - tall, fruit - brown-green cream, growing in clusters, 50-60 g each, high yielding. Super-grade, unusual fruit color. “Oh, dear mother! I can't imagine how to close all banks."
Neptune is a tall variety, smooth, rounded fruits weighing 600 g. High-yielding variety. Class and power all put together, perfect for a salad.
Melon - medium-sized variety, flat- round fruits, tasty red-yellow color, weighing up to 500 g. High-yielding variety. Wow tomato, take a bite - and you will be glad.
Florentine beauty is a tall variety, tomatoes are flat, strongly ribbed, weighing 300 g each. They are similar to the fruits of the Lorraine beauty variety, only yellow.
Brown sugar is a tall variety, the color of the fruit is a mystery: they are yellow-brown-raspberry, racemes, 400 g each. High-yielding super-variety.
And you never dreamed of it - a tall variety with long-stored fruits. Miracle bush, strewn with dense, standard fruits weighing 200 g, high-yielding.
Tasmanian chocolate is a low-growing variety up to 1 m high. It has an indescribable fruit color - brown-red-blue-violet, weighing 200 g each.
In the greenhouse this year I planted an assortment: cucumbers, tomatoes, tobacco, eggplants, peppers, corn around the edges, for shade. The size of my greenhouse is 3x4 m, so it is not difficult to guess that the number of plants in such an area is small.
Cucumbers tied up with twine, as professionals do, you can look at the Internet. He adopted an excellent method shown by Alexander Ganichkin.
I also want to tell those readers who have a limited vegetable garden. You can successfully grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers in five-liter cut bottles. Make sure to puncture the bottom of the container for drainage. Lay prefabricated soil in layers, the main thing is that the top layer is loose.
I use my hybrids for planting cucumbers. I will tell you how to get them. And then you don't have to buy expensive seeds. Prototypes must be signed and isolated from all pumpkin crops. Temporary shelters made from nonwoven fabric are great for this purpose. Buy bee-pollinated hybrid seeds (which you like). Plant one seed at a time in 5 liter bottles. Ten plants are enough for you in abundance. You will also need one or two known cucumber plants for male pollination. For these purposes, I use the varieties Phoenix and Nezhensky. They usually have a large number of male flowers. They need to be planted a week earlier. And then, when the female flowers appear, start pollination. You can open the botany textbook for grades 6-7, where we studied pistils and stamens. At first sight,everything is simple - transfer pollen from the male cucumber flower to the stigma of the pistil of the female flower. In short, work as a bee.
When creating new hybrids, you can resort to a wide variety of test specimens, but do not forget to make notes of what you crossed with what. It already depends on your imagination and free time. Three years ago I had a long-fruited cucumber hybrid Tusk I, the fruit of which stretched up to 50-60 cm, had a rough prickly pubescence. This is a type of cucumber, about which they write a lot, they say, part of the fruit can be cut off, and it will continue to grow. These cucumbers do well in heated greenhouses and can bear fruit almost all year round.
The next year, for the experiment, I planted hybrids of the II generation in open ground, which, as everyone knows, do not bear fruit. But I planted them in a company with 1st generation hybrids and varietal cucumbers. There were about 20 different hybrids and varieties in total. I can't say which variety or hybrid was dusted with one of the tested specimens, but the cucumber grew much larger in volume, but it was shorter and much lighter. It is clear that I left it for seeds.
The next year, already realizing that the selection was a success, they occupied a whole garden with them. I will tell you that I have not eaten more delicious and aromatic cucumbers. There was a sea of cucumbers. The whole family ate: they both salted it, and twisted several cans according to the method of spinning the barrel ones (when the pickle with cucumbers ferments for 2-3 days, then boil and close). I noted this hybrid for myself as "Tusk II". Maybe he spoke too colorfully and vividly about his new variety, but this is like a child - mine is the best!
Igor Kostenko, experienced gardener
Photo by the author
Often potato growers are perplexed: there was a luxurious tops of the potato and suddenly it was gone in 3-4 days. There are only 90-100 small tubers left under the bush. Late blight did its dirty work - a disease that poses a particular danger
The earliest varieties of tomatoes ripen in our country in early August. To accelerate ripening, remove stepchildren, pinch the tops of fruiting shoots, cut off late brushes, from which the fruits will not have time to form. Provide plants with reliable lighting
In the first year of life, carrots are slightly affected by diseases in comparison with other vegetables. The most harmful diseases are black dry rot, phomosis, white rot and gray rot
Favorite berry of gardeners for the Northwest regionKaliningrad -old German variety of medium ripening. The berries are large (average weight 2-3 g, the first berries reach 4.5 g), red, irregularly blunt-conical shape, dessert taste. Productivity - 1
The Leningrad region is ranked among those zones of growing potatoes and tomatoes, where the detrimental effect on them of the harmful disease of late blight is considered a frequent occurrence ( every 2 years ) especially if varieties that are susceptible to this common pathogen are grown, or if a warm and wet summer
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There are times when the coverage you need is available exclusively from a non admitted carrier. What is the difference between admitted and non admitted carriers, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Should you be concerned if a carrier is not admitted? Making the wrong choice, or an uninformed choice can cost!
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An admitted carrier is one that follows guidelines set forth by the state and is therefore licensed in the state or country in which the insured exposure is located. Of course, these guidelines vary from state to state, and some are more stringent than others. The obligation to follow state regulations and submit rates to a state’s department of insurance limits the flexibility of the insurer. If an admitted carrier becomes insolvent, the state guarantee fund steps in to pay out claims and premium remuneration where applicable.
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It is a common misconception that non admitted is synonymous with non licensed. In reality, non admitted carriers do not have rates filed with the state and therefore are not as highly regulated, but this also means they are not protected by state funds. Because of this, they are sometimes able to offer better rates – these carriers can base price on specific exposures. Further, certain complex risks require the use of non admitted carriers because the conventional insurance marketplace fails to provide adequate coverage. However, in the case of insolvency, the state will not pay the carrier’s outstanding claims and premium remuneration.
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Since with a non admitted carrier you are not guaranteed payout from the state in the case of insolvency, as you are with an admitted carrier, one of the most important things to consider when purchasing coverage through a non admitted carrier is its A.M. Best rating, which rates a carrier on financial strength and size based on policyholder reserves.
As long as you are aware of market conditions and are sure the carrier is reputable, buying coverage from non admitted carriers can be beneficial in several ways:
They often provide lower rates, absolute control over coverage terms and coverage unavailable through admitted carriers (including specialty risks, risks that are unusual or those that are unusually large).
It is important to note that non admitted does not mean that an insurer is not regulated – many states do regulate non admitted insurers. In fact, many non admitted carriers are actually admitted carriers in other states. Non admitted carriers intentionally opt out of filing rates with the state not necessarily because they are unable to comply, but because doing so provides the advantages mentioned above. On the other hand, just because a carrier is admitted doesn’t mean it is financially solvent. Because of state restrictions on rates and forms of coverage, admitted carriers’ payouts may increase faster than permitted premium increases in certain classes of business, leading to financial instability.
Therefore, when making your choice of insurer, you should not ask yourself only whether the carrier is admitted or non admitted, but rather whether it is financially capable of paying claims in the event of an accident. In CA another issue is that you can not purchase insurance from a Non Admitted Company if an Admitted Company offers the coverage.
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As an example Legion Insurance Company was a large well run insurance company. After 9-11 their reinsurance company failed as did they. Clients that were insured with Legion on a non admitted basis had claims delayed, and mostly not paid. While Clients that were insured with Legions admitted side had the state guarantee fund coverage!
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Indian channel about technology TechTalkTV published the first real photos of the flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note
The pictures show the Plus version of the device. It seems that previous leaks were unreliable and instead of the Pro console, the top model will be called the Galaxy Note 10+ (by analogy with the Galaxy S10 +). At the smartphone, you can see the display with thin frames and rounded edges on the sides. In addition, a cutout for the front camera is seen in the center.
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According to the leaks, Galaxy Note 10+ will receive 6.75-inch Dynamic AMOLED-screen with a resolution of 3040 × 1440 pixels and support for the standard dynamic display colors HDR10 +. The main camera, as we wrote above, will be with four modules. Most likely, the sensors are the same as the Galaxy S10 5G: 12 Mp + 12 Mp + 16 Mp + 3D ToF.
Galaxy Note 10+ will work on the processorSnapdragon 855 or on the company's Exynos 9825 chip. The smartphone is also credited with a 4500 mAh battery with fast charging, up to 12 GB of RAM and built-in UFS 3.0 memory. The novelty will be presented together with other models at the presentation on August 7 in New York. The price tag of phablet will be exactly more than $ 1000.
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New York: Signet Jewelers Limited has launched an initiative to commit to improvement and increased transparency in the integrity of the global diamond supply chain.
The Responsible Sourcing Protocol for Diamonds (D-SRSP) is a collaborative effort, having gathered expert opinions from within the diamond industry, civil society and governments. These included the De Beers Group, Rio Tinto, Dominion Diamond Corporation, the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), the United States Jewelry Council, International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA), Partnership Africa Canada, the Diamond Development Initiative, Jewelers of America, officials from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), governments and Signet diamond suppliers from around the world.
The protocol requires suppliers to undertake due diligence when sourcing diamonds they deliver to Signet. The company hopes that the D-SRSP will become an industry accepted standard – and encouraged its use across different sectors and supply chains.
Signet CEO Mark Light said that today’s consumers were increasingly aware of the source of raw materials and the conditions under which they are obtained. He urged that corporate social responsibility was a way to show increased integrity across the supply chain and that implementing the D-SRSP would boost transparency.
“The D-SRSP builds on existing diamond industry standards, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD’s Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains to ensure transparency through a collaborative process that is practical and workable,” he said.
“We have been active in the development of harmonized industry guidance and standards for many years and with the new Responsible Sourcing Protocol for Diamonds, we are asking our suppliers to carefully map their supply chains more rigorously than ever before.”
The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) has announced its support for Signet Jewelers Ltd.’s Responsible Sourcing Protocol for Diamonds (D-SRSP).
“We believe this is an extremely important development and we are pleased to have been involved in developing the protocol,” commented WFDB President Ernie Blom.
“The initiative has extremely strong foundations, being based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD’s Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains. We believe it is an excellent example of the industry working together to create an unimpeachable standard of cooperation that puts to bed any claims that the proceeds from diamond sales are being used for illicit purposes and will have a positive impact for WFDB members. The industry knows it must take steps to assure consumers that it has nothing to do with any human rights issues or illegal labour practices in diamond-mining states. It also fits in perfectly with the themes of the World Diamond Congress to be held in Dubai in May of transparency, responsibility and sustainability and it will be on our agenda.”
“The global diamond sector has proven over the past decade or so, since the establishment of the Kimberley Process, that it is among the best self-regulated businesses in the world. It invests a great deal of time, effort and income in ensuring that diamonds are mined responsibly and sustainably with a fair income for workers and that the supply chain is transparent. We believe the Signet protocol will take this to an even higher global level and support it wholeheartedly,” Blom added.
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- American Express (AXP) experienced a 3% decline following the release of its second-quarter results. While the earnings per share exceeded expectations, the company's revenue for the previous quarter fell short of analysts' projections.
- Despite the revenue miss, American Express achieved an all-time high in sales, with $15.1 billion, shares were still 15% higher for the year so far and cardmember spending increased by 8% to $426.6 billion.
Why it matters
While American Express posted strong revenue and profit figures, the lower-than-expected revenue and slowdown in network volumes growth might raise concerns among investors about the company's future performance.
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Test and Review Apple Music or Spotify For a Year!
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Stallings Electrical Services
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In case you have never seen, Stardock Fences is an excellent desktop organization application for Windows. Fences help you in managing your cluttered desktop by letting you organize and store your icons and folders in “Fences”. As much as it helps in finding right application and files on desktop easily, Fences’ biggest benefit is that it makes your desktop feel minimal and clean without you having to do all the dirty work. The caveat of Stardock Fences? It’s price. Here are 5 Best Free Stardock Fences Alternatives that you should defiantly try.
The first on our Stardock Fences Alternative list is a lightweight and free desktop organizer Nimi Places. It lets you organize your icons and files into customizable containers. Once you have made a container, you can change its name, add colored labels and create different rules to automatically do some tasks at predefined times.
Apart from these features, you can change icon side, see thumbnails and even change container themes if you want to. If all you want is a minimal, no-frills alternative to Stardock fences, Nimi Places is defiantly worth checking out.
It’s not exactly a Stardock Fences Alternative, but for many people, Virtua Desktops are very helpful in managing a cluttered desktop. Windows 10 is the first Windows version to have built-in support for Virtual Desktops and with just a few clicks, you can start organizing all your open Windows into different desktops. For example, I keep all my social websites and tools open in a virtual desktop while I work on OneNote and Google Scholar in another one.
To create a Virtual Desktop on Windows 10, just click on Task View icon on the taskbar and then click on New Desktop button.
If you are on an older version of Windows, you can try Dexpot, it is a bit complex, but this free app is much more powerful.
Well, no list of Free Stardock Fences Alternatives should be complete without mentioning Fences. Yes, the latest version of Fences costs $10 after a 30-day trial. But, you can still download the first version of Fences for free. Sure, the new versions some more features and a bit better user interfaces. But if you don’t need these features, the free version of Fences should be perfectly serviceable for you.
As an added bonus, this version of Fences should be less resource hungry.
RocketDock is not exactly a desktop icon manager, instead, RocketDock is a powerful icon dock that mimics most features from macOS’ dock. You can add shortcuts to files, folder, and programs just by dragging them into the dock. RocketDock also has many useful extensions that can increase its functionality, for example, you can easily add a real-time analog clock to the dock. Heck, if you want, you can directly minimize your window to the dock, freeing you from using Windows taskbar most of the time.
RocketDock is free and there is a good community of users who have made skins and icon pack compatible with the dock. If you want a Stardock Fences alternative to just organize your desktop in a better way, RocketDock is definitely worth a download.
Just like Nimi and Fences, ViPad is also a container based organization system. The difference is that Vipad only uses a single container. To further let you organize icons and files, you can create tabs inside the container.
You can store files, web links, music and even video files inside these tabs if you want to. These tabs can be searched easily too, and you just need to drag and drop to make any changes. Aside from these features, ViPad has deep customization options, you can change the icon size as you need, and you can also download many custom icon pack from its official website.
ViPad is completely free and open source.
Available only for Windows, Sideslide is one of the popular Free Stardock Fences alternatives. Unlike Fences and Virtual Desktops, Sideslide’s working is completely focused on creating and organizing “Workplaces”. Once you have made one, you can easily add shortcuts, documents and even RSS news feeds within.
You can make as many workplaces as you like. Whenever you need all data in a workplace is easily available with a click. Sideslice is a very powerful and flexible application. You can add tags to links, add multiple RSS feeds and custom themes to these workplaces easily. Additionally, you can run it as a portable application meaning you don’t need to install it, just open the .exe file whenever you need and will launch.
What are your Best Free Stardock Fences Alternatives?
Which of the Free Stardock Fences Alternatives do you use? Do you know about some other good app that I forgot to mention? Share with me in the comments below…
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Eric Adjei, the regional director of communications for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has encouraged police officers who support any political party to resign from their positions.
He advised security staff members who were interested in politics to quit, using Wa West Member of Parliament (MP), Peter Toobu, as an example. Toobu is a retired police officer.
He noted on Adom TV’s Badwam morning show that having personnel in the army who have political affiliations is bad for Ghana’s security.
“No one has said a police officer should not be involved in politics but when you’re ready to get into it, remove your uniform. Peter Toobu who was interested in becoming a Member of Parliament resigned because one can go on voluntary retirement,” he said.
Mr. Adjei attributed the unprofessional conduct of some employees on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare.
He said that the present issue was brought on by the IGP’s silence on police deaths and brutality.
IGP Dampare and the three policemen named in the widely circulated recording are all “not clean” in his eyes.
He said that because to the information included in the leaked audio, the NDC has lost faith in and respect for the police moving into the general election of 2024.
He inquired as to why Bugri Naabu’s office had not issued a disclaimer about any of her remarks.
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Nowadays the headphones have almost become a fashion statement. Especially the young generation is very much in love with this accessory. Modern time’s basic need is time management. Everyone wants to do as many works as possible at a time. So they need some technology which gives them the opportunity to move freely. Headphones give them that freedom. Now a day’s everybody is running to catch the train of success. There is no time even to enjoy their favorite music. This problem has been solved with the invention of the headphone. It is even useful to talk while one is on move.
At first one should distinguish between the headphones and headsets. A pair of small loudspeakers or single speakers with a holder to connect with the person’s ears, and a technology to connect them to a signal source, such as an amplifier, radio or CD player. Earphones, ear buds, stereo phones, headsets or informally cans are some of the names by which we can call the headphones. The head set actually is a combination of head phone and microphone used for two way of communication such as telephone. The head phone is developed from earpiece. Before the development of amplifier the audio signals could be heard through the headphones.
CD players, DVD players, home theater, personal computers and other portable devices such as digital audio players, mp3 players, and mobile phones can be attached to headphones. Cordless headphones do not need any wire for receiving radio or infrared signals for transmission link like FM, Bluetooth etc. Previously headphones were used for radio work. Today headphones are used to listen to audio for recreating the sound. We see most use of the headphones by the professional people such as the disc jockeys in DJ mixing. The radio jockeys use headphones to talk with their listeners. The musicians and singers also use the headphones during recording. Earcup headphones, Circumaural, Super-aural, Earbuds, and Canalphones are some of the variety of head phones. Headphones can be used to listen to music without disturbing the others especially in places like libraries or hospitals. Headphones are also a good choice for computer games. There are also some short comings of the use of headphones. A use of headphones in full volume for a longer period of time can cause a temporary or permanent hearing impairment or deafness.
Sennheiser is one of the largest manufacturers of headphones in the world.Sennheiser offers a wide variety of headphones such as Sennheiser HD 201, Sennheiser HD 202, Sennheiser HD 650, Sennheiser HD 205 etc. As you can see there are several models to choose from but whichever one you pick you certainly can’t go wrong.
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Uh Oh the AI Shift is starting to hit the fan!!! In the last 2 weeks AI Copyright Infringement has been a hot topic in the news and in the months since the Chat GPT Explosion we are seeing more and more lawsuits against Google Bard and Open AI that can change the way we use AI for good.
If you’ve used Chat GPT, Bard or any of these other tools and you’ve thought about the safety of your own content you don’t want to miss this episode.
Tune in as Akilah tackles the pressing issues of AI machines scraping data without proper sourcing, leading to legal battles over unauthorized usage. And my thoughts and some other trusted creators’ thoughts on the potential future changes in the AI landscape, with companies being held accountable for attributing their data sources.
Drawing from real-life examples and legal discussions, host Akilah Thompkins-Robinson also explores the consequences faced by businesses that claim ignorance when it comes to ethical AI.
We go deep in this episode talking about
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Resources referenced in the episode:
- Akilah Thompkins-Robinsons Thoughts on the limitations of Generic AI Tools: https://www.facebook.com/GirlGetVisible/posts/pfbid0GfpXR4qWNXfcurtiVqj92Q2foa3eLAV7g37vavLCzV3wexCqRuy4J1pAHmt3NikUl
- Roberto Blakes post on Protecting your IP from AI Models and the importance of using a Paywall https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCovtFObhY9NypXcyHxAS7-Q/community?lb=UgkxVCrT4stR_O8EltrixgDXPuEst9Zi34ys
- Search Engine Journal Article on Chat GPT Law Suits https://www.searchenginejournal.com/chatgpt-creator-faces-multiple-lawsuits-over-copyright-privacy-violations/490686/?fbclid=IwAR0cIedNgRJb2SiTcrdzWqXau4N5nA7hYWfRSZxMsiSVaqUjrmc1mQY2IEE
- Niche Pursuits Podcast Episode ‘Did Google Steal Ai Content https://www.nichepursuits.com/did-google-steal-ai-content/
- GGV Podcast Episode 2023 Predictions the Best use of AI for your business https://girlgetvisible.com/2023-predictions-the-best-use-of-ai-for-your-business/
I know we didn’t have widespread copyright infringement on our 2023 Bingo Cards but here we are, 2023 is turning out to be a fascinating journey into the evolving world of content creation and protection.
So grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and get ready to be enlightened on this captivating episode, “The Dark Side of AI: Content Theft”
Let’s empower ourselves to navigate the realms of AI and protect our creative endeavors. It’s time for Girl Get Visible!
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If you're a fan of Sony Ericsson's P990 Symbian smartphone, you'll definitely scream like a little girl when you hear about the newest P1 phone. Not only is it 25% smaller than the 990, it's got a 3.2-megapixel camera, 512MB Memory Stick Micro slot, push email through BlackBerry Connect, Wi-Fi (802.11b), VoIP support, Symbian 9.1, 2.6-inch display, a quasi-QWERTY keyboard, Opera 8, Stereo Bluetooth A2DP, and 160MB of internal memory.
The most important surface change is probably the fact that it doesn't have the flip-open keyboard like the P990, but that's something you'll have to play with yourself to see if you prefer. Otherwise, it seems like Sony's got a great upgrade here with the P1. And yes, they've answered everyone's question about what they'd do when the numbers get to 999—wrap around again back to 1.
Bigger shots after the jump.
Press Release [Sony Ericsson]
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Jayne Lawrence, based in San Antonio, is a multidisciplinary artist who makes drawings, ceramics, and sculpture, and has recently begun making paintings and digital sculptures. Over the past decade, she has devoted her artistic efforts to making works that call attention to the ecological condition of the planet. Initially trained in advertising, Lawrence studied art at the San Antonio Art Institute and went on to earn BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and finished in 2000; now she’s a senior lecturer there in the Department of Art and Art History.
In addition to teaching and making art, she was co-founder, along with Leigh Anne Lester, of cactus bra SPACE, the city’s longest-running alternative gallery for emerging artists, which operated from 1993 to 2013. Lawrence has had solo exhibitions at San Antonio’s REM gallery, David Shelton’s former San Antonio gallery, and Sala Diaz, and she’ll open a solo show of new work on September 10 at the Southwest School of Art.
Particularly concerned that the natural world is being eroded and consumed by technology, Lawrence collects and studies various forms of insect and plant life as a means of getting to know and understand nature. Whether working with a two-dimensional or three-dimensional medium, the artist often creates composite compositions that have a stylistic affinity with the art of the Surrealists, but rather than depict their dream imagery, Lawrence is more interested in conjuring up ecosystems that conceptualize the mutual interdependencies that exist among the human, insect, and plant worlds.
In 2007, Lawrence noted the changing patterns of shadows cast by eucalyptus flowers that she had placed in a vase, having received them on the anniversary of her mother’s death. Lawrence thought about the temporality of the flowers themselves, and used them as the starting point for a meditative drawing process. The procedure, which she undertook at different times of the day, was to trace some of the flowers’ cast shadows while turning the paper, without letting the imagery become too literal. After filling in some of the shapes with shading, she was left with lyrical organic abstractions that personify the fleeting nature of existence.
From 2007 to 2009, Lawrence created a number of complex composite compositions, working in both drawing and sculpture, with the latter involving the merging of ceramics with found objects. With the idea of investigating what she considers to be symbiotic systems made up of diverse and seemingly incompatible elements, Lawrence began interweaving and conjoining images from three categories: human forms, insects, and plants. According to the artist, humans can be logical or emotional; insects are instinctual, ordered, and signify the “other;” and plants represent nature at large. In joining together these disparate components, Lawrence’s objective has been to study the dynamics of nature-based systems and subsystems, while seeking to imbue each conceptualization with a visual logic as well as poetic or metaphoric content.
For example, in developing her drawing, One a penny, Two a penny, Three a penny, Four. The roses have bloomed and we’re knocking at your door, Lawrence was inspired by a childhood memory of a neighbor’s English rose garden that he kept bug-free by hiring neighborhood children to capture insects and rewarding them for depositing the bugs in cans of insecticide. Metaphorically, the work calls attention to the fact that humans, insects, and plants must continue to coexist peacefully if the planet is to endure, and are often reliant upon one another for our own and the planet’s survival. As a form of visual shorthand, Lawrence’s composite works beautifully remind us that we’re all in this together.
For the 2009 Texas Biennial, Lawrence took her sculptural efforts a step further, creating large-scale composite sculptures that share features in common with the figurative works of Nick Cave and Yinka Shonibare. Exhibited at Austin’s MASS Gallery, Lawrence’s playfully eccentric mutant creatures are gender-ambiguous, in that they wear high-heeled shoes as symbols of feminine sexuality, but also sport phallic protrusions to suggest military prowess. Poised like hunters or soldiers who seem ready to attack, bite, sting, or destroy at any provocation, they could easily be imagined as inhabiting a future civilization where the planet is completely out of balance and every inhabitant must fend for oneself.
Lawrence, in fact, is a fan of science fiction films, and memories of B-movies such as The Fly (1958) or Empire of the Ants (1977) inspired her Appropriated Works series of 2011. Although unaware at the time of a similar undertaking by San Antonio artist James Cobb, Lawrence began drawing or painting images of insects over found prints and reproductions, but used a decidedly different approach than Cobb. In Lawrence’s hands, a sole insect or insect-hybrid is shown as a gigantic menacing inhabitant of an otherwise serene landscape. At once humorous and unsettling, the images tread the fine line between beauty and horror, serving as visually enticing metaphors for many of the real threats to human survival: disease, pollution, the loss of biodiversity. Over the past few years, such ominous insect images have become dominate elements in the artist’s sculpture.
The emergence of a quiet macabre temperament accompanied Lawrence’s shift from her earlier polychromatic sculptural work to more recent monochromatic composites such as Propagator Prototype (2011) and Rosie (2013), which debuted in Infestation, her 2013 solo exhibition at Sala Diaz. In the former work, a black insect hybrid rests atop books with blank pages and an antique sewing table. Taken together, the imagery directs attention to how things change over time, since books are a dying art form and the table is an artifact from the past. In the room-scale Rosie, the stark whiteness of the interwoven hand-cut fragments of human, insect, and frog pond imagery bring to mind skeleton bones, and the idea that a once-functioning ecosystem may have reached the point of extinction.
In Lawrence’s latest efforts, soon to be seen at the Southwest School of Art, infestation has run amuck in a manner that, from an aesthetic perspective, is delightfully energetic and visually dramatic. Using digital technology to produce colonies of black insect hybrids that dance vigorously atop illuminated light tables, Lawrence proves to us that some ideas seem to become sharper and more potent when reduced to black and white. In this case, the luminosity of the physical light serves to animate the black creature clusters, which, as agents of decay, seem to be replicating and spewing their venom at a disturbingly rapid rate. The same can be said, of course, of the increasing degree of urgency that accompanies every news report about our changing environment and the potential fate of our planet.
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Another Perspective on the Gun Issue
There is a lot of talk about fake news lately, but I think that the "fake news" is really a problem of trust. Many (most) people don't trust the media anymore.
Why? In my humble opinion, it's because the news organizations and the journalists themselves have an agenda and they don't even attempt to be objective anymore. Their goal is to try to get you to submit to their perspective.
There is no issue that brings out this more clearly than the gun issue. The media and journalists believe that the problem is guns, and the solution is gun control. All they talk about is gun control and they ask "why can't we lock down the guns?"
But here's what they NEVER talk about...
While mass shootings have increased over the past 50 years, people's access to guns has not increased. Guns have always been readily available.
This simple fact uncovers a significant point; there are other factors that are causing the increase in mass shootings. This is what is never discussed on CNN or other media outlets.
If you are truly interested in uncovering the truth, this is the question that must be studied.
If we were to look into this, there are some obvious places to start connecting the dots...
In the past 50 years there have been some significant changes in how people live their lives, such as electronics, cell phones, social media and more.
Here's an article I read over the weekend: Over 20% of millennials claim to have no friends! That's an incredible snapshot into people's lives today. When my son was younger he was one of the rare children who actually wanted to play outside. The problem was that while he had a lot of friends, his friends never went outside. They sat inside and played video games ALL THE TIME!
I observed his friends get very little exercise, eat horrendous junk food and energy drinks all the time, and they had very little purpose in their lives.
When my son graduated high school, he told me of a shocking number of his friends were seriously depressed.
Yes, drugs are a problem in our society, but the problem is significantly deeper. People have forgotten how to live and be social anymore. In his new book, Cal Newport talks about the human brain and how much of it is hardwired to process face to face social interactions with people. Not texting. Not clicking on a "Like" button on Facebook. Not talking on a headset while playing a video game. We are truly social creatures, and this hasn't changed because Facebook came along.
This is not a minor issue. I believe that lack of real social interactions is one of the most significant factors facing us today. This is why college students want to silence ideas - because they have no clue how to interact with people and understand other people's perspectives.
If people in the media were honest, they would discuss the problem of depression and the loss of a sense of purpose that people have nowadays. This is the discussion that needs to be had because this is at the core of the mass shooting problem. But you won't hear this discussion anywhere because it doesn't fit into their agenda.
What do you say about this? Please comment below.
Also, here is an interview with the gentleman I mentioned above, Cal Newport. It's a fascinating look into how our brains actually work, and how modern electronics are interfering with our brain functions.
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Vicky Bikini Bottom - Rosario
Sister to the Jolie Bottom, the Vicky bottom offers adjustability where you need it while staying sexy and extremely flattering. With rushed detailing and adjustable side ties, this bottom was designed to make you look great.
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The MUNIEQ Tetra Drip 01 is a coffee dripper achieves "portability", "stability", and "deliciousness" at a high level. It is a very beautiful portable coffee dripper with a minimalist aesthetic.
This coffee dripper weighs only 12g. The thickness is about 4.5mm when all three pieces are stacked together.
Polypropylene is a strong, heat-resistant material that does not absorb moisture. Even if it bends a little, it will quickly return to its original shape.
The package can also be used as a portable case.
It is strong and light, so you can actively take it out for picnics and outdoor activities. We recommend a cone-shaped filter such as V60 paper filter from Hario or a conical coffee filter from Key Coffee.
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Former Russian uranium seller to plead guilty to US money laundering charges
Vadim Mikerin, a former official at Russia’s state-owned uranium import-export company, Tenex, will plead guilty at a hearing on 31 August to charges that he conspired to launder bribe payments, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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An aspiring mathematician who could not afford to pay for university in the UK says she is “over the moon” after being gifted £23,000 by an unlikely donor – Taylor Swift.
Vitoria Mario was offered a place at university but doubted she would ever get to go due to financial obstacles standing in her way.
However, the unassuming 18-year-old, who achieved two A*s and an A in her A-levels, has now been thrown a lifeline to higher education from the American pop superstar.
The Wildest Dreams singer donated £23,373 to Vitoria’s fundraising page, which she set up in desperation so she could accept her offer from the University of Warwick.
Speaking to Sky News, Vitoria said: “It’s amazing. I’m just over the moon and so thankful.
“I was utterly shocked when I found out she’d made the donation, I just couldn’t believe it.
“This is a dream I’m now able to achieve, not have this financial burden for getting to university.”
The socio-economic barriers of not being eligible for maintenance loans and grants meant previously Vitoria’s future plans were in jeopardy.
In a bid to change her destiny, she set up a GoFundMe page with an initial goal of £40,000.
To her surprise, one of the world’s most famous singers offered a very generous helping hand.
Alongside the donation, 30-year-old Swift wrote: “Vitoria, I came across your story online and am so inspired by your drive and dedication to turning your dreams into reality.
“I want to gift you the rest of your goal amount. Good luck with everything you do! Love, Taylor.”
Generous members of the public had initially bumped the donation page to nearly half her fundraising goal to cover her university tuition, but the star’s almighty sum boosted the target beyond Vitoria’s imagination.
Her mother could not believe the news – well aware of the financial strain preventing her daughter from progressing.
“She was overjoyed. Everyone has been texting me with their messages of support. It’s been overwhelming,” Vitoria said.
Vitoria’s family had always been passionate about studying in the UK, so four years ago she left her mum behind in Portugal to move to Tottenham, London, to stay with family so she could invest in her education.
She has grafted ever since.
Vitoria initially set up the fundraiser after trying and failing to ask for sponsorship from firms that she wanted to work at.
Her friends suggested she appealed to the public for donations, but she was astounded that it caught the attention of Swift.
Armed with a place at Warwick University, Vitoria can’t wait to study maths. She wants more girls to study science and technology subjects, as she’s aware she’s in the minority.
She said: “I feel like as a black female, this is the career I’m passionate about. I don’t believe in impossibilities, literally I don’t believe it at all.
“And I feel like girls should be more encouraged to study STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and maths) because I feel like sometimes we are just driven away by fear, and we shouldn’t.”
She added: “Also, financial obstacles get in the way, but money shouldn’t be the thing stopping you from achieving your dreams.”
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In His Own Harmonies Words: John Popper on getting the new Blues Traveler album Hurry Up & Hang Around started
Blues Traveler – Hurry Up & Hang Around is available now @ iTunes.
“It was our 30thyear as a band, so we knew we wanted to make a record for that. I’m always fond of saying it’s in the “being-in-a-band” handbook. You know, it’s in the union bylaws. So we wanted to make an album, but we were so late because we were dealing with a previous manager, and it rolled around. It was 2017, and here we are as a band. We’re 30 years old, and we had no logistical setup or plan to make this record.
“So we got another manager in a hurry, and he lasted about three months before he couldn’t take it anymore. He was our manager long enough to get us set up in a house where we writing what became this album. We were also auditioning new management, and that’s where we met Jeff Castelaz and his people. Throughout this entire process, we had nobody to hang onto but ourselves, but we pulled together. Dang if we didn’t write a really good album.”
The quote comes from the Melissa Parker article for Smashing Interview.
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Photo: Stock Image
A Cedars-Sinai study released Monday shows new infection prevention practices implemented during the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in significantly shorter hospital stays for mothers and their babies, with no changes in the rates of cesarean deliveries, complications, or poor outcomes.
The retrospective study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM, examined the impact of several modifications in the Labor and Delivery Unit at the Los Angeles medical center. The changes included temperature screening of all patients and visitors, limiting the number of visitors, providing staff with personal protective equipment, and new approaches to delivery management and newborn care.
"Patients can be reassured that appropriate measures have been taken to protect them and their babies and that those changes are not going to impact their ability to have a good and safe delivery with us,'' said Naomi Greene, principal investigator of the study and an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Cedars-Sinai.
The study reviewed data from 1,936 deliveries, comparing two separate groups. The first cohort were patients who gave birth in January and February, before new COVID-19 guidelines were in place. The second group had their babies in March and April, after infection control protocols were implemented at the medical center.
"When the Labor and Delivery Unit made safety modifications in response to the pandemic, approximately half of the women who had vaginal deliveries -- and their babies -- stayed just one night in the hospital," Greene said. "But before the pandemic, only a quarter of the women giving birth went home after one night; most spent two nights, on average."
Similar patterns were seen among women who had a cesarean delivery. More than 40% of them spent two days or less in the hospital once pandemic protocols were in place. But before the safety changes, a much smaller number were discharged within two days -- just 12%, Greene said.
Maternal-fetal medicine specialist Dr. Mariam Naqvi, senior author on the study, said it was encouraging to find the shorter stay did not appear to impact the care or welfare of the mother and her child.
"It's always our goal to discharge a patient after she has met all of her postpartum milestones and is medically stable to go home,'' said Naqvi, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Cedars-Sinai. "But with COVID-19, we are mindful of the potential risk of unnecessary or prolonged stays in the hospital. It is encouraging to see that in the short term, spending less time was not associated with more complications."
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Our main campus is conveniently located at 1920 E Southern Ave, Tempe, AZ 85282, right on the US-60 and I-10 in the center of the valley. In addition we are featuring an additional classroom location at 14040 N Cave Creek Rd, Ste 101, Phoenix, AZ 85022 – near the 101 and SR 51 – North Phoenix. These locations feature our weekly Learners Permit Classes and our Defensive Driving Classes -TeenSmart.
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Especially if no one in the church travel group has ever set foot in the location, it may be hard for the event planner to enthusiastically promote the destination to garner enough interest from the church members. Sometimes time restrictions can also prevent travel planners from being able to properly research the place to market the experience.
When these problems arise, it’s often the travel planner’s attitude that can sell the new destination. Many times church members will take their cues from the event planner on issues ranging from dealing with grumpy travelers to calming travel fears.
If possible, the person convincing other church members to purchase the latest travel opportunity should have gone to the destination beforehand. Anyone who has already gotten the feel of a location can bubble over with enthusiasm much easier than someone who has only seen pictures. Experiences in Turkey, Italy and even domestic locals like Williamsburg, Va., can seem more real to potential tourists coming from someone who has seen the destination with their own eyes.
An easy way for church travel planners to familiarize themselves with a location’s sights and attractions is for them to attend a familiarization trip or “fam” trip. Organized through tour operators or tourism organizations, fam trips can not only allow the event planners to experience the destination first hand, but they can also prove very enjoyable for the event planner, since any excuse to travel to places like Italy can be a good one.
Working directly with travel professionals of specific destinations across the globe can also prove beneficial in convincing prospective church members about the merits of a new location. Asking convention and visitors bureaus or attractions for their help can bring reduced rates, fam trip offers or a visit from one of their travel experts.
If the event planner cannot tour a location, a representative from the new destination is often the next best thing. These experts can attend a presentation marketing the event or aid in putting together a professional and convincing sales pitch for the trip.
Creating a buzz for unfamiliar destinations long before the first bag is packed is essential in selling these destinations. Many event planners who sell mystery tours even recommend taking the unknown aspects of the trip and turning them into fun anticipation and excitement. Lesser-known destinations can sell fast when enough enthusiasm is built around the location.
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Gokey Immigration Law Office, 701-356-5995
Immigration is the act of entering a country with the intention of permanently living and/or working there, although U.S. immigration laws also cover entry into the country for almost any purpose, including temporary stays beyond a certain length of time. Below is an overview of immigration processes in the United States.
The immigration system in the U.S. is set up primarily to grant immigration status based on factors such as family reunification, in-demand work skills, and capital investment. The immigration system also covers refugees and asylum seekers, and provides a “lottery” for immigration status to people who have less pressing immigration needs. The procedure for gaining legal immigrant status will depend upon, among other factors, which path you are eligible to pursue based on your employment, education, and family situation.
If an individual is seeking immigrant status based on the fact that they have a relative who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, the following is required:
The individual must be eligible for lawful permanent residence based on a family relationship that is recognized under U.S. immigration law. Not every relative is instantly eligible, and some immediate family members (spouses and children) are given preference over others.
If an individual is seeking immigrant status based on a permanent employment opportunity, the following is required.
The individual must be eligible under one of the five categories of employment-based immigration recognized under U.S. law.
Although relatively rare, if an individual makes a qualifying capital investment in the United States, he or she may be eligible for immigrant status, provided that:
The investment meets a certain threshold dollar amount, benefits the U.S. economy, and creates or saves a specific number of jobs.
To be eligible for refugee status, an individual must have suffered past (or be in fear of future) persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political view, or membership in a certain group. An individual who is found eligible for refugee status must then satisfy certain medical and security criteria in order to be eligible for entry into the U.S. Political pressures make refugee status difficult to prove in some cases.
Through the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, immigrant visas are made available annually to people whose country of origin has low immigration rates to the United States. Each year, the State Department selects 110,000 applicants from all qualified entries. However, once 50,000 immigrant visas are issued, or the fiscal year ends, the lottery is closed. Immigrant visas are not available for people whose country of origin sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States in the last five years.
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Building Strong Foundations: The Importance of Early Childhood Education
Early childhood is a critical period of rapid brain development and learning. During these formative years, children absorb information like sponges and build the foundation for all future learning and development. Early childhood education (ECE) plays a pivotal role in shaping young minds, nurturing their cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. In this blog, we will explore the significance of early childhood education, the impact it has on a child’s life, and why investing in strong foundations during these early years is crucial for lifelong success.
The Power of Brain Development in Early Childhood
The first five years of a child’s life are a time of remarkable brain growth and synaptic connections. According to neuroscience research, a child’s brain forms one million new neural connections every second during this period. These connections are the building blocks of learning, memory, and problem-solving abilities that will influence a child’s entire life.
During this critical window, children are highly receptive to experiences and environments that shape their cognitive abilities. Early childhood education capitalizes on this brain plasticity, providing enriching experiences and stimulating environments that optimize brain development.
Key Aspects of Early Childhood Education
- Social and Emotional Development
Early childhood education fosters social and emotional development in children. It helps them understand and manage their emotions, develop empathy, and build positive relationships with peers and adults. Through play and interactions, children learn essential social skills such as sharing, cooperation, and communication.
- Language and Communication Skills
ECE lays the groundwork for language and communication skills. It provides opportunities for children to expand their vocabulary, develop listening and speaking abilities, and enhance their language comprehension. This foundation is vital for future literacy and academic success.
- Cognitive Development
In early childhood, children are curious explorers of the world around them. ECE supports cognitive development by engaging children in hands-on learning experiences that stimulate problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. These early experiences shape a child’s ability to approach challenges with confidence and curiosity.
- Motor Skills
Motor skills, both fine and gross, are honed during early childhood education. Activities like drawing, painting, building with blocks, and outdoor play help refine motor skills and develop coordination, balance, and dexterity.
- Self-Regulation and Executive Functioning
Early childhood education supports the development of self-regulation and executive functioning skills. Through structured routines, consistent expectations, and positive reinforcement, children learn to manage their behavior, attention, and impulses, setting the stage for academic readiness.
The Impact of High-Quality Early Childhood Education
- Improved Academic Performance
Children who receive high-quality early childhood education are more likely to perform well academically in later years. They enter school with a solid foundation of pre-literacy and numeracy skills, positioning them for success in primary education and beyond.
- Reduced Achievement Gaps
ECE has the potential to narrow the achievement gaps among children from diverse backgrounds. Providing equal access to quality early education levels the playing field and gives all children an equal chance to thrive academically.
- Enhanced Social Skills
Children who attend ECE programs tend to exhibit stronger social skills, including better cooperation, conflict resolution, and teamwork. These skills contribute to healthier relationships and improved social interactions throughout their lives.
- Increased High School Graduation Rates
Research has shown that children who participate in early childhood education are more likely to graduate from high school and pursue higher education. A strong educational foundation established in early childhood sets the stage for lifelong learning and personal growth.
- Long-term Societal Impact
Investing in early childhood education yields long-term benefits for society. It reduces the likelihood of involvement in criminal activities, decreases the demand for social services, and increases overall economic productivity.
The Role of Parents and Caregivers
Parents and caregivers are a child’s first and most influential teachers. They play a crucial role in supporting early childhood development. Engaging in meaningful interactions, reading together, and providing a safe and nurturing environment are vital components of a child’s early learning journey.
Early childhood education is more than just childcare; it is the foundation upon which a child’s future is built. By nurturing young minds during this critical period of development, we can create a generation of confident, empathetic, and academically proficient individuals. The impact of early childhood education ripples through a child’s life, influencing their academic achievements, social interactions, and overall well-being. Investing in high-quality early childhood education is not only an investment in individual children but also in the future prosperity and progress of society as a whole. By building strong foundations in early childhood, we set the stage for a brighter and more promising future for generations to come.
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