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Solution 4 Building were engaged as the head contractor by the Department of Finance to complete the upgrade to the Lake Grace Volunteer Fire & Rescue Service.
- The addition of a breathing apparatus servicing room.
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- Upgrade of existing ablutions.
- New mechanical exhaust system
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Wales produced one of their greatest performances to beat Croatia and reignite their hopes of qualifying automatically for Euro 2024 in sensational fashion.
Roared on by a raucous Cardiff City Stadium crowd, Wales thoroughly outplayed the World Cup semi-finalists as Harry Wilson scored two excellent second-half goals on a dream 50th appearance for his country.
Wilson’s first goal was a beautifully-lofted finish after a delicate through ball from David Brooks and his second, a glancing header from a Daniel James cross, sparked pandemonium in the stands.
Jubilation turned to anxiety when Mario Pasalic headed in for Croatia with 15 minutes left, prompting a spell of pressure from the hitherto listless visitors.
But Wales, who would have been further ahead were it not for several fine saves by Croatian goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic, dug deep to hold on for victory.
Wales must now beat Armenia and Turkey in their final two qualifiers in November to secure their place at next summer’s tournament in Germany at Croatia’s expense.
If they manage to pull that off, it would represent a remarkable transformation for a side which looked down and out in June when they suffered an embarrassing defeat at home by Armenia before losing in Turkey three days later.
This victory over Croatia, and its seismic boost for Welsh aspirations of automatic qualification, also alleviates much of the pressure on manager Robert Page, who has faced mounting criticism during this campaign.
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AT A GLANCE
WHAT IT IS
Galentine's Day is the perfect time to give yourself an extra treat for your skin -
WHAT IT DOES
Treat yourself and your besties to a Galentine's day gift for their skin! It's the perfect time to go the extra mile to treat yourself because you deserve it. We have five ideas that will be the perfect gift for you or your loved ones. -
HOLY GRAIL PRODUCTS
Sonage Travel Kits, Sonage Gommage Exfoliating Gel, Patagonia Berry Stem Cell Mask, Vitality Nourishing Facial Oil, Laserine Botanical Salve
Galentine’s Day is that one day of the year to relish life with your BFFs.
It is the modern day response for single ladies to stop feeling lonely on Valentine’s Day instead turn it into a celebration of sisterly love. Make it full of indulging treats and reminiscing cherished memories. It could be the traditional all-ladies cocktail party, movie night, or beach day. Or, make it special by pampering your skin as well as nourishing your soul. Organize an at home spa bash complete with face masks, aromatherapy skincare, and body treatments... the memories will surely last for a lifetime.
Five Galentine's Day Gift Ideas from Sonage
1. Sonage Travel Kits are a mini beauty bag in themselves! Each bag is tailored to a specific skin type and includes a compact travel sponge so you can always have a little pampering on the go!
2. Nothings sounds better than getting rid of your dead skin with some exfoliation! Sonage Gommage Exfoliating Gel uses lime and locust bean to rub away your dead skin to prep it for a dreamy face mask.
3. Our favorite mask to hydrate, soften and firm the skin is the Patagonia Berry Stem Cell Mask. Its cream-textured stem cell technology leaves the skin visibly brighter while helping to reduce fine lines and wrinkles. Not only does it smell amazing, but its beautiful lavender color makes it one of the most fun to snap a selfie in.
4. The beautifying properties of essential oils have been known for thousands of years, the Sonage Vitality Nourishing Facial Oil uses a blend of 10 essential dry oils, including argan and marula, for intense hydration without a greasy feel.
5. Our 100% Natural All-Purpose Balm the Sonage Laserine Botanical Salve a non-toxic alternative to Petrolatum and helps alleviate dryness, chapping, rashes or irritated skin. Makeup artists' best kept secret. There is no limit to the ways you can use this product. Here are 10 tips to transforming your beauty routine with this all-purpose balm: 10 Life Changing Beauty Hacks Using this All-Purpose Beauty Balm.
Happy Galentine’s Day everyone!
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Have you ever gone to a place for the first time because you read about it in a story?
I recently read ‘On the Edge’ by an Australian writer, Ashley Hay. I came at it the long way round, beginning with ‘The Little Red Writing Book’ by Mark Tredinnick, a beautifully written, exceedingly helpful Australian book for writers who write like public servants but want to break away from that stilted language. Early in the book Tredinnick praises the writing of Barry Lopez, an American, and recommends Lopez’s writing about nature. So I went searching and saw Lopez’s name come up as an editor of ‘Where the Rivers Meet’, an Australian collection of short stories about our land, the nature of it, the history of it. ‘On the Edge’ was in it.
Ashley Hay wrote about the city of Wollongong, south of Sydney, built between the coastal mountains and the ocean and necessarily spreading north and south but never east or west. The whole city is ‘on the edge’ of Australia. She remembered being taken for a drive, as a teenager, along the road that once precariously hugged the steep cliffs prone to rockfalls, and compared it with the bridge that has replaced that road, the SeaCliff Bridge, a cantilevered serpentine bridge that follows the same coastline but in an open space over the ocean.
I tried to imagine it. I looked at the photos online, but I wanted to feel it, to see it.
Today, I’m in Wollongong, and am being driven to the bridge. It’s pouring, a deluge of rain that began at 5am and hasn’t stopped since. We’re on the bridge, three tourists in brightly coloured raincoats are taking photos of each other joyously holding their arms out as the rain beats down. Not another soul can be seen, and barely another car. I’m not as bold as the tourists, I can’t get out and walk in this weather, so we continue along the road up to Bald Hill Lookout where the cloud is low and the wind is gusting and whoomping the car. The view is supposed to look as it does in this advertisement for the new seats by Outdoor Design :
But today the view looks like this:
The sea is invisible, can’t open the windows, no point staying. We turn back towards the bridge and search for a place to stop so I can get out, stand still, and take in the view of this bridge I have only known in a story. The car parks are some distance away but I want to see what it’s like to walk on the bridge. I’ll need to take a photo and won’t be able to hold my umbrella steady in this wind, let alone a camera. It’s too hard, I give up and take a happy snap through the windscreen of our moving car.
The view was so blurred by the torrents of rain that if I hadn’t seen photos of the SeaCliff Bridge I still wouldn’t know what it looked like. So what have I gained by wanting to get inside someone else’s story?
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Joker123 is an online gambling platform that caters to players from around the world. It offers a diverse library of games that can be played on mobile devices and desktop computers. Its security measures are robust and it offers customer support representatives who speak multiple languages. It also offers free tips and membership credits to its players.
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The site’s secure platform offers a wide variety of payment methods and is accessible from any computer or mobile device. In addition, it offers a bonus program that allows new players to try out the site before making a deposit. The site’s customer service team is available round-the-clock and speaks several languages, which makes it easy to get in touch with them.
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A fuzz can be raw or smooth, raspy and spitty or clean… or it can be Pin Up. The gain range starts from overdrive to become a high gain fuzz, nasty or smooth depending on where you set the two interactive tone controls.The frequency response of this MOSFET fuzz machine has been carefully selected to fulfill your rhythm and soloing needs. Note definition is excellent, and yet it still retains that distortion box like articulation. Turn on the upper octave/ring mod for a percussive fuzz effect with aggressive-but-smooth pick attack and loads of sustain. | <urn:uuid:eedab117-91b9-4223-aaea-cc4b801e0263> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://southern-guitars.com/products/crazy-tube-circuits-pin-up-fuzz | 2024-04-18T08:12:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.884799 | 141 |
The perfect way to embrace the summer weather is to head down to Whisky Run Golf Club for a lobster and prime rib dinner, followed by a side-splitting comedy from some of Niagara’s finest comedians.
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Nine small Chinese satellites, including a technology experiment to test out ways to capture space debris, rode a Long March 6 rocket into orbit April 27 on a rideshare mission managed by China Great Wall Industry Corp., the government-owned enterprise charged with selling Chinese launch services on the commercial market.
The fifth flight of a Long March 6 rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan space base in northern China’s Shanxi province at 0320 GMT April 27 (11:20 p.m. EDT April 26), according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., the state-owned prime contractor for the Chinese space program.
The contractor, known as CASC, said in a statement that the mission was a “complete success” after the Long March 6 rocket deployed nine satellites into their targeted orbit. Publicly-released tracking data from the U.S. military indicated the launch delivered its payloads to a polar orbit about 310 miles (500 kilometers) in altitude, with an inclination of 97.4 degrees to the equator.
Designed to loft relatively small satellites into orbit, the Long March 6 is one of China’s newer rockets. The Long March 6 stands about 95 feet (29 meters) tall, and can haul a payload of up to 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) to a sun-synchronous polar orbit a few hundred miles above Earth.
The Long March 6’s first stage is powered by a kerosene-fueled YF-100 main engine, a staged combustion powerplant Chinese engineers have worked on since 2000. The engine generates approximately 120 metric tons, or 264,000 pounds, of thrust. A YF-115 engine provides propulsion for the Long March 6 second stage.
The YF-100 and YF-115 engines are also used on China’s heavier-duty Long March 5 and Long March 7 rockets. The Long March 6’s third stage uses liquid-fueled thrusters for final orbital injection maneuvers before payload separation.
The payloads aboard the Long March 6 launch this week included two Earth observation satellites owned Shandong Institutes of Industrial Technology. The Qilu 1 and Qilu 4 spacecraft are designed for radar and optical imaging, respectively.
Qilu 1 will obtain all-weather remote sensing images of sites around the world, and also verify technologies for autonomous mission planning, on-orbit image processing, and inter-satellite laser communications, according to CASC. Qilu 4 will collect high-resolution optical imagery, aiding urban planning, agriculture, forestry, energy, and disaster mitigation efforts in Shandong province of northeast China.
Another small satellite, named Foshan 1, is an optical Earth observation test out an “ultra-lightweight camera design,” CASC said. Foshan 1 was developed by Cultivate Space Technology Co. for Jihua Laboratory.
Two more optical remote sensing satellites, Hangsheng 1 and Taijing 2-01, were developed by Hunan Hangsheng Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing MinoSpace Technology Co., Ltd., according to CASC.
The NEO 1 spacecraft for a Chinese company named Origin Space will perform experiments aimed at validating technologies, such as a net, that might be used on future missions to capture and remove space junk from Earth orbit. The NEO 1 satellite will also observe small celestial bodies, presumably asteroids, CGWIC said in a press release.
The Tianqi 9 satellite that launched on the Long March 6 rocket joins a fleet of orbiting data relay stations designed for Internet of Things services. The Tianqi constellation is owned by Guodian Gaoke, a Beijing-based company.
The other two spacecraft on the Long March 6 launch were the Golden Bauhinia 1-01 and Golden Bauhinia 1-02 satellites. Both are remote sensing satellites developed by Beijing ZeroG Space Technology Co., Ltd.
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Special Tactical Supplies Limited is one of the biggest distributors of weapons and equipment for hunting, shooting sports and self-defense.
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The app does it's job perfectly well. It just works and I never have issues out of it. Clean, clear and straightforward. This CU is amazing. Easy application process for loans, credit cards and deposit accounts. If I apply for a loan I usually have access to the money within a few hours of starting the process. They have constant pre-approval offers that I have found very accurate when it comes to being approved/denied as long as your DTI is acceptable, and at least give you a minimum approval amount. Often when I apply I'm approved for more than the pre-approval said. Lose your card or damage it? Walk in the branch ask for a replacement and they'll print it on the spot. Payments made easy by transferring from one account to another or using a debit card from another bank to pay your CCU loan or credit card. Most importantly the staff are ALWAYS above and beyond nice. From branch tellers to loan specialist to underwriting.
I was getting on my app this morning and then all of a sudden there’s this message saying something about mfm middleware and it won’t let me log in until I configure the url and I have no idea what that means. Please, fix this. Upadate: It’s ok now. I deleted the app and downloaded it back on my phone and it fixed the problem. It’s back to normal. Yay!
Even after I called Digital Banking. Annoying because every time I try login to my account I’m forced to enter a new pin. Never had problem like this before with any financial institution. This problem was resolved later but information provided was not transparent, but I figured it out. Effective communication is best serve with common sense simple advice, so that even a fool, can’t error. Only other thing I see needs to change is the ability to see the password typed so I know it’s correct. Where is the eye symbol when typing in password ?
Been trying three weeks to get someone to fix the DS: 5:2 error and now internal error, no hope. I got a loan and can’t transfer or schedule to transfer funds from my other bank acc. Crazy. And instead of them trying to fix it they claim it’s the users mistake all the while I’m following the exact instructions on the website to transfer and I get internal error there too. Wow.. Funny I’ve be making transfer a few months now so I follow the same steps and get an error. One told me I had a limit on transfer and I should be able to transfer after they increase how much I can deposit. Still internal error!
What a great tool to find out all your information with just a couple of clicks. The credit union has done a great job in producing this tool for customers to use. I like having my information on the go and this app does just that.
By far the best bank I’ve ever dealt with! Never have had to deal with anyone negative or any negative services. Always prompt on any issues as well which has only been a couple times over several years!!!!
Love the mobile app, it helps me keep up with all my transactions as well as any suspicious transactions . It easy to use transfer money to my family if needs to be. We all have bank accounts and the mobile app with CCU!
I just love being able to deposit from wherever I am. And when I go to the bank I am always so delighted with the warm, personal service from all the staff. CCU is the best bank I have ever experienced. 15 year customer.
I've used a number of mobile banking apps and this is by far the easiest and most intuitive I've used. This app has become an indispensable tool for banking rather than an endless source of frustration. I mean this with absolutely zero sarcasm, thanks.
Very hard to use. Every month when I sign in to make a truck payment I have to go through multiple verification steps. Also, it won’t save my external banking information so I have to enter the routing and account number again. I’m likely going to refinance because it’s such a pain. It’s by far the most cumbersome finance app I use.
I’ve never had an issue before with this app. For the most part it’s simple to use and reliable. However, I need to access my account and it just continues to say system error every time I try to login. If there’s anything that can be done to fix this, that would be much appreciated.
Forcing us to have only one log in with all accounts is stupid. How can you protect yourself from getting drained by a hacker if they gain access to everything with only one log in process. Keeping your accounts completely separate is a lot safer!
This has far has to be the worse bank in America I’ve had nothing but problems from this place since day one. They don’t me lost my income taxes and some other money as well do not bank with them I repeat do not bank with them.
Every time I am needing to transfer money from my savings to my checking, if I am trying to buy something at the store, if I am in line at a restaurant, it just keeps loading on and on until it shows a time-out error!!!! This is RIDICULOUS!
I have an auto loan with CCU, but not a banking account. I would like for this app to include an online account set-up for those who bank with other financial institutions so we can set up auto-pay, view our loan balances, etc. Thank you!
More convenient than going online or calling Tellie when you just want to check transactions and balances. Haven't used it for transfers but good feature to have available. Looking forward to trying the new bill pay feature.
I really like this app it is very useful and provides almost everything I need. The only problem I have found with this app is that it does not offer mobil deposit for my IPad 2, which I do not understand. Why would you offer the app itself, but leave out one feature which is only available to newer models. It would be nice if that could be changed and made available to people with an IPad 2. Otherwise it is a very good app.
Typical app for doing bank-related activities, but the TouchID has raised the bar. Good job. The rest of the app needs updated. Layout, design and resolution are behind the times, but this is most likely a ready-made app, so it'll update at this pace of its builder. It's a shame, though, as the rest of CCU's marketing strategy is strong. Hopefully, design and UX will also trickle into the app and the web-based application.
This app is easy to use! I can view my account balances, transfer money, and view recent transactions. This makes it easier to complete simple banking tasks that I usually use the computer, ATM, phone, or bank for.
Commonwealth Credit Union Mobile Banking allows you to check balances, view transaction history, transfer funds and pay loans and bills on the go! Features: - Check Balances - View Transaction History - Transfer Funds - Pay Loans and Bills - Secure Messaging for Support - Mobile Deposit - View Statements - Apply for Loans - View FICO Score | <urn:uuid:e37c0a93-1700-4fb3-a553-dd231cebb82b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://splitmetrics.com/apps/commonwealth-cu-go-mobile/id482699068/ | 2024-04-18T08:20:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.963958 | 1,532 |
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
On the absence of the two attacking players: "We have had a lot of bad circumstances with injured players, but we are always trying to be positive. The players in the squad are there because we believe [in them], and we believe in our capacity to respond."
He said forward Jhon Duran "will have the opportunity to get minutes, to get confidence and to show his power and capacity" with Watkins unavailable.
On Saturday's victory over Wolves: "It was a difficult match in difficult circumstances after the break. We got the points but we need to improve a lot of things that we didn't do. Sometimes you can win a match not being brilliant but disciplined. The best quality we have as a team is being disciplined."
He said "we are very motivated" to play Manchester City and fight for a place in next season's European competitions because "we want to play a lot of matches".
On the hope of qualifying for the Champions League: "We are very deserving to be there [in the top four] but there are a lot of matches to play and gain points from. Manchester United are also capable of doing that."
He said he "is very happy" with Nicolo Zaniolo, adding: "In the past two months something has changed and he has been getting better for us." | <urn:uuid:a6896eb0-2852-4320-9c14-4cde0760383a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://sports.yahoo.com/emery-watkins-ramsey-man-city-150405599.html | 2024-04-18T09:00:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.985723 | 280 |
Less than four months after getting knocked out by lightweight champion Makhachev at UFC 294 this past October, Volkanovski (26-4 MMA, 13-3 UFC) defended his featherweight title against unbeaten Topuria at UFC 298 in February.
Unfortunately for Volkanovski, he was knocked out in Round 2, and now finds himself sitting on back-to-back brutal stoppage losses. Makhachev points the finger at Volkanovski’s team for letting him compete again so soon.
“Of course (he returned too soon),” Makhachev told MMA Junkie of Volkanovski. “Alex is a good fighter, he is a warrior, everybody knows. He can fight everyday. But I always said that his team is very bad because this mistake is not Alex’s mistake. It’s a mistake the team made because the team has to sit with him and tell him, ‘Hey, it’s too soon.’
“He had a very bad, tough knockout in his last fight. He has to rest for a minimum of three or four months without training, nothing. You have to do some recovery and just wait. He go to fight again too soon. It was a big mistake. He is a warrior, he can come back, but still, he needs some time. He has to listen to his body and give some time for recovery.”
Volkanovski now plans on taking some time off. He is campaigning for an immediate rematch against Topuria at the end of the year, and is even willing to go to Spain to fight him. | <urn:uuid:939df6d8-c1d0-4efa-83f6-0ef69310bdab> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://sports.yahoo.com/ufc-champ-islam-makhachev-blames-120041039.html | 2024-04-18T07:18:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.987533 | 342 |
Former New Mexico State and UNLV head coach Marvin Menzies has been added to the GCU men’s basketball coaching staff.
Menzies is the new associate head coach for Dan Majerle. “Tammy (his wife) and I are thrilled to join the GCU family,” Menzies said. “I’d like to thank President Brian Mueller, Jerry Colangelo and, of course, (head coach) Dan Majerle for providing me this opportunity. I’m excited to get started and be a piece of this wonderful program as we continue to pursue our goals.”
GCU has not been able to get over the hump in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament in each of the last two years, losing to New Mexico State in the Championship game. Menzies has a reputation of being a high end recruiter.
“I’m excited because this is a great step for our program,” Majerle said. “We’ve been very successful. We’re just trying to take another step to make that big leap. It’s always the hardest so I’m excited about him being part of the process to help us do that. | <urn:uuid:ee713fce-713e-4d9a-9c21-2e952c1b4341> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://sports360az.com/gcu-hoops-adds-former-college-head-coach/ | 2024-04-18T08:33:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.970839 | 258 |
As the 2019 Shell V-Power Pearl of Africa rally draws closer, Ugandan drivers have intensified preparations for the fourth round of National Rally Championship (NRC) and also the fifth round of African Rally Championship (ARC) event.
John Barrows Lumu and his navigator Ahmed Dungu of JB Rally team is one of the 51 crews that confirmed participation in the much anticipated rally set for this weekend, August 2-3 in Kayunga district, starting with a circuit at Busiika race track.
Barrows unveiled his brand new Subaru N14 monster ride to his fans on Saturday at Verocity bar and restaurant Kyanja.
The driver, who started rallying in 2010 is upgrading from a Subaru N8 with the new ride valued between Shs200 and Shs300m.
“I have taken two months working on the car to the best since its arrival in Uganda from England. I have added strong machinery and it is now ready to get on track. I have driven Subaru since I started racing and I have competed with my former Subaru N8 car for the last six years. I want to go for a top ten finish in this year’s Pearl rally,” noted Barrows, who is born to former rally driver John Barrows Snr (RIP).
Having not impressed in Masaka and Mukono during the two rallies he has partaken this year, Barrows hopes to use the remaining NRC outings to test and learn the car thoroughly so as to compete for NRC title next season.
Barrows best finish at the Pearl Rally was in 2011 when he finished 11th but believes with sponsorship from Nicole Associates and First Lane auto engineers, the best is yet to come.
Unlike past editions, this year’s Shell V-Power Pearl of Africa rally has attracted only two foreign crews; defending champion Manvr Baryan from Kenya and Dharam Pandya from Tanzania, who will be making his debut in the competition.
Current ARC leader Manvir Baryan with Sturrock in Scoda Fabia and current NRC leader Ronald Ssebuguzi with Leon Ssenyange in Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X are expected to lead the battle for honors in the rally that opens with a 4.36km super special stage in Busiika before doing four repeated stages in Kayunga totaling to 210KMs.
2018 Pearl top five finishes:
1. Manvir Baryan 2.26.03.1
2. Ronald Ssebuguzi 220.127.116.11
3. Jas Mangat 2.37.05.1
4. Hassan Alwi 43.04.3
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James Vince hopes to capitalise on the banishing of Alex Hales over claims of drug use and force his way into England's World Cup plans.
The in-form Hampshire batsman could be involved in the 50-over showpiece after Hales was dramatically dropped from all England squads due to reported use of recreational drugs.
The 28-year-old Vince has the remaining four matches of England's one-day international series against Pakistan to stake his claim.
“If he was here I don't think I'd be here now,” Vince said of Hales. “I'm not going to say too much on his situation but it has given me an opportunity.
“It's great to be back among the lads and I want to push my case to get into that World Cup squad.”
England have until May 23 to finalise their squad for the home tournament, with their opening match against South Africa taking place seven days later at the Oval.
Vince has already endured frustration in his quest to impress national selector Ed Smith and head coach Trevor Bayliss after the five-match series opener was curtailed by rain on Wednesday.
Pakistan reached 80-2 in the 19 overs that were possible, with Vince and fellow fringe player Joe Denly denied a chance to impress.
Pace bowler Jofra Archer, however, served further notice of his World Cup credentials with a wicket and two maiden overs, and Vince admits competition for places is hotting up.
“Jofra's not in it (the World Cup squad) at the moment so I guess there are a few options and a few different balances to the side,” said Vince.
“I'm trying not to think about it too much and if and when I do get an opportunity in this series, (I will) try to push my case.
“They've played some magnificent cricket and got to number one in the world so it's been a tough team to break into.”
With opener Jason Roy set to be fit after overcoming a back spasm, Vince is unsure whether he will be involved in the second match of the series on Saturday and is considering turning out for his county.
And he said he was unsure how much he would be involved in the rest of the series against Pakistan.
“I guess it depends on what they're thinking for the World Cup, whether they want to give me game time or whether I'm not part of their plans,” he said.
“At the minute, I don't know a huge amount but hopefully I'll get at least one more opportunity in this series.” | <urn:uuid:678a4a46-12f2-43b0-9fcb-33157db21908> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/icc-cricket-world-cup/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019-james-vince-eyes-place-in-squad-alex-hales-exclusion-drug-use-claim-joffra-archer-england-pakistan-odi/article27098080.ece | 2024-04-18T08:28:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.986102 | 550 |
A herb spiral is a great idea to grow herbs on a mound of dirt. However, in hot and dry weather with extra radiant heat from stones even herbs struggle to survive. To keep them alive a regular watering and a fair a bit of water is required. For that reason a self-watering way sounds like the way to go. But how to make it work in a spiral with steeping soil for herbs to grow? Being an engineer I came up with a very clever but simple design idea which should work marvellously. So here is a description how we designed and built our herb spiral.
The spiral has three water reservoir levels as shown on the schematic. Each level comprises of the following layers (described from bottom to top).
- Softening layer (carpet) to smooth ground surface to protect black plastic
- Concrete underlay (black plastic 0.2mm thickness)
- Protective layer (carpet) to avoid punching holes in plastic
- Ag pipe across an entire reservoir and bended upwards to supply and spread water
- Water holding medium (stones)
- Soil around perimeter and in fill soil in the middle
- Stone to build outside wall
The pictures show step by step how we built each water level. The plastic underlay is as high as the stone water storage so the excess can overflow. From the top level it overflows into a middle level, from there to the bottom level which then overflows into the ground underneath. Each level watering pipe has got a float (a wooden skewer in a styrofoam rounded piece) to indicate the water level.
At the bottom the soil is about 10cm deep. When it curves around the spiral the soil depth increases to about 40cm. That’s where the next level starts with 10cm deep soil again. So in that way we achieved continuously raising soil without any interruption.
Our self-watering herb spiral is about 2.5 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. We planted over 20 different herbs around it according to their needs (e.g. mint in shallow soil thus more moist facing east; oregano in deep – less moist soil facing north).
We (two people) built the entire herb spiral project in just over one day with mostly freely available material on our property. It cost us a couple of dollars for the black plastic underlay. We located it in our newly built kitchen garden less than 10 metres from our kitchen. It’s already been well used for every day cooking. | <urn:uuid:b97e6e96-3267-46ec-8231-41cb0812fbfc> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://spurtopia.com.au/self-watering-herb-spiral-an-idea-worth-sharing/ | 2024-04-18T07:03:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.948988 | 515 |
Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) route renamed Global Talent visa from 20th February 2020
3 February 2020
The Global Talent visa will be a continuation and expansion of the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa route, which is tailored for researchers and other specialists working in the UK. For information about the existing Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent route), please see our website.
From 20th February 2020, the following useful improvements will be included in the visa route:
1. Introduction of new fast-track "endorsed funder" route
Researchers and/or specialists may be eligible for accelerated endorsement where their job title or name is specified in a successful grant application awarded by a recognised funder.
Examples of recognised funders include Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation, Wellcome Trust and European Union Horizon 2020 programmes. Several criteria apply in order to qualify for this fast track endorsement and details of these will be available on the SIT website in due course.
2. Expansion of list of fellowships eligible for accelerated process (fast track)
Applicants who have been awarded an individual fellowship on the list approved by The British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society, should qualify for an accelerated endorsement for Tier 1 Global talent visa. The list of eligible fellowships is expected to be expanded after the 20th of February 2020.
3. Shorter qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to Remain
Tier 1 Exceptional Talent/Promise visa holders conducting research in STEM subjects, and their dependants, should be eligible to apply for settlement once they have been in the UK for three years. Researchers who spend time outside of the UK for research purposes will not be penalised for this.
Full guidance on Global Talent visa is expected to be published by the Home Office after the 20th of February 2020. In response to the immigration rule changes, SIT will be updating their website and processes accordingly. | <urn:uuid:728631a7-6e2b-4de6-96ce-fba97f5a13d2> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://staffimmigration.admin.ox.ac.uk/article/global-talent-visa-route-replacing-tier-1-exceptional-talent-20-february-2020 | 2024-04-18T06:52:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.928177 | 389 |
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In a remarkable celebration of Black History Month, we are thrilled to announce the top 3 winners of the SVB & StartupOS Pitch Event held on February 27, 2024 at the SVB Experience Cener in the heart of San Francisco. This event was not just a competition, but a vibrant showcase of talent, innovation, and dedication. Let’s recognize the achievements of these outstanding entrepreneurs:
1st Place: Onēva
Onēva is transforming in-home care by providing trustworthy and accessible services through employers, positioning it as a valuable wellness benefit. Simultaneously, it elevates caregiving to a respected and safe profession, ensuring fair wages and support for local independent business operators.
2nd Place: Wiggl Health
Dr. Mason Orme
Wiggl Health is a forward-thinking, data-centric platform dedicated to empowering businesses in managing health concerns within the hybrid work environment. By leveraging the power of advanced AI technology, and wearables we identify potential work-associated health risks well ahead of time.
3rd Place: AuraSense
Dr. David Charlot
AuraSense revolutionizes neurology care with HapticsHealth™, an AI-powered digital therapy gaming platform that transforms extensive 5-hour exams into a quick 10-minute exercise, enhancing treatment and clinical trial efficiency. Co-founded by Amber Ivey, JD, a policy expert with multiple sclerosis, and David Charlot, PhD, a bioengineer with a child having a rare neurological condition, AuraSense addresses the $100B+ care gap in neurology through its innovative solution, merging professional expertise and personal experiences to provide accessible, quality neurological assessments.
We extend our heartiest congratulations to these exceptional startups. Their inspiring ideas, coupled with their entrepreneurial spirit is inspiring.
Special recognition goes to the other two founders who displayed remarkable innovation and dedication, Dr. Derek Banyard, Sayenza Bio and Miguel Zepeda, Complify. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed, and we are confident that each of you will continue to make significant strides in your entrepreneurial journeys.
We would also like to express our deep appreciation to our esteemed panel of judges. Their expertise and commitment were instrumental in selecting the top winners and fostering an environment of fair and constructive competition.
As we move forward, let’s keep the spirit of innovation and diversity at the forefront, celebrating the remarkable achievements of entrepreneurs from all walks of life.
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I'm not sure if questions about statistics in the context of clinical trials belong to cross validated, especially if regulatory aspects come into play.
Example for such a question would be:
Before the database lock in a (blinded) clinical trial the statistician does a blinded data review (BDR). The statistician is blinded by replacing the treatment group assignments by "random variates". One task during the blinded data review is checking distributional assumptions. And here comes the question: What does "random variates" exactly mean? Does it mean that in a trial of medication versus surgery, the term "medication" is replaced by a random number, say 7, and "surgery" by another random number, say 42, so that 7 always stands for "medication" and 42 always for "surgery"? Or does it mean that a long random series of 0's and 1's are produced and copied over the original treatment variable? The 0 could mean "medication" sometimes and sometimes it could mean "surgery" (same for 1).
The point of this distinction is: If the first replacement is done, the groups are preserved but they are only masked by a new name. If the second replacement is done, groups are not preserved. In the second case I don't see how to check e.g. a normality assumption, as the 0-group and the 1-group are potentially mixed from 2 distinct normal distributions and therefore no more look like normal distributions. So the second approach doesn't make much sense to me but it would keep the blinding more effectively because the masked groups could easily be unmasked if one could see other variables which could take on only special values in one group, e.g. the variable "complications during surgery yes/no" could unmask the 0/1-group variable.
Maybe someone even knows what's to be done because there is a clearer guideline on that somewhere...
Do you guys think that questions like this should be posted on CV? Should there be a special tag for them? Should there be a new CV-spinoff on SE (I personally find this a bad idea as it would create a too closely related ressource)? | <urn:uuid:995f179e-add9-4a86-9d11-23c7d3b5e015> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1196/where-to-ask-clinical-trial-regulatory-questions-relating-to-medical-statist | 2024-04-18T08:35:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.952958 | 448 |
The bright sun and blue skies were deceptive as a Baltic wind swept across the Longmeadows pitches on Saturday morning. The assembled parents were glad of their hats and winter coats and Boot Welsh was tucking into his morning cappuccino with relish. No such creature comforts for the lads of St Brendan’s however as they were put through their pre match paces by our strength and fitness coach, Ze.
The match got underway and things seemed perhaps daunting at the start due to a numerical mismatch- Round Towers with 8 players and Brendan’s with 7. However, any fears were soon put to rest and Brendan’s were the first on the scoreboard within 3 minutes of the starting whistle thanks to a confidently struck point by Leo, making the most of a pass received from Erv "the Swerve", who proved to be a great playmaker over the course of the match. Another point followed soon after, this one scored by Crean, who played with even more determination and commitment than usual, later on adding 2 goals and a further point to his tally. Round Towers saw very few scoring opportunities in the first half, and any time they looked threatening they were put under pressure by Mathew in defence who chased every ball that came into the danger zone and prevented the Round Towers forwards getting any clear scoring chances. The one time that Round Towers did look to pose a threat was from a well struck ball hit directly at the Brendan’s goal, however Ranyu showed great courage and, using both hurl and body blocked a fast travelling ball and cleared his lines. From that clearance the ball reached Eric who managed to score a point from a good distance. Within minutes Oisin made a great run from near the Brendan’s goal, past the halfway line and selflessly set up Eric with a scoring opportunity which the latter had no difficulty in putting into the net. A point followed from Round Towers which would transpire to be their only score of the match. On the cusp of halftime there was a brief period of danger for Brendan’s; with Mathew outnumbered by the Round Towers players who were now swarming the goalmouth and Ranyu somehow managing to stop what look like an almost certain goal, stopped literally on the line. but the Round Towers attack continued until suddenly Leo, using all of his cross country running prowess and speed, appeared on the scene and, displaying great presence of mind, kicked the ball away from the Brendan’s goal and out of danger.
The second half got underway with some changes to positions made by Martin at halftime. The ever versatile Oisin taking his place between the posts with Ranyu assisting Mathew in defence. No sooner had the second half started than Brendan’s had yet another goal, Crean the scorer of this one. Two more goals followed, both scored by Eric, one of which was an almost spectacular strike from just past the hallway line and the other a backheel into the net which is somehting this writer has never seen on a hurling pitch before!. Such was the dominance of Brendan’s that for periods Oisin had little to do but nevertheless kept alert and was live to those few opportunities which came Round Towers’ way, ensuring that they amounted to nothing in terms of the scoreboard.
Overall it was a match where each of the Brendan’s players showed not only determination and effort but great skill, which is a testament to the hard work that they are their coaches have put in over the past months. "Swerve" displaying great reading of the game and skill around the middle of the pitch and setting up several scoring opportunities which were seized on by Crean, Leo and Eric. He also got a super score which dad Ed cheered loudly. Oisin demonstrating speed and agility as well as his ability to play in several positions. Ranyu likewise covering two positions and performing well in both, and Mathew as always dogged and determined in defence and showing great resilience by playing on despite a leg injury sustained mid-way through the second half. It was an impressive performance by the Brendan’s players and those post-match sweets generously provided by Ze were richly deserved by the lads who put in such effort in sometimes challenging conditions.
It should be said that Round Towers were very unlucky on the day and nothing went their way. They are a lovely team of kids and super mentors. The result flattered us and was tough on them as they are a very good side.
Our lads passed and played as a team. They communicated and i believe theyve never played so well. The clocks will soon change, the pitches will dry out and the lads will soon be playing in the sun. We know they are great kids but if they work hard this summer we will have a great team too. Eric Og was superb and he was our man of the match. The poor lad broke his collar bone a few days after the match and will be out for 6-8 weeks. We will miss him and wish him a speedy recovery. (Author Gavin "Con" Keogh) | <urn:uuid:33ba7e90-cf82-42e5-b54e-fc9ea326f29c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://stbrendansgaa.org/articles/115618 | 2024-04-18T08:44:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.989712 | 1,040 |
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Environment: StFX Staff, Faculty and Students who are leaving the university
Purpose: To assist stfx community members through the process of backing up and transferring data when leaving the university
How long do I have access to my account?
Student accounts remain active for 365 days following your last registered course end date.
Staff accounts are closed following their last day of employment.
Faculty accounts are active for 90 days following the end date of your last taught course. Retired Faculty have access to their accounts for 5 years following retirement, retired faculty have access to online versions of Office365 only.
Unlinking your StFX Account
If you have your StFX account linked to any social media platforms and other associated services, it should be unlinked before your StFX Account is closed. Update any platforms where you would have used your StFX account information for a recovery.
Returning StFX Assets
All assets under Evergreen program StFX technology be will returned to IT Services for redeployment. Staff and Faculty that have a StFX Laptops can return that system, including adapters, and power cables to the IT Services help desk, at the main entrance of the Angus L. MacDonald Library. Monitors, keyboards and mice remain in the office. If your device is a computer tower or you are unable to return your device you can leave the device with a former colleague, your department admin, or manger to return to IT Services. If you need an IT Service staff member to pick up the device submit a request using the following link. https://stfx.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1764/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=19979
Research computer systems are currently considered StFX assets and should also be returned prior to leaving unless you have made other arrangements with our procurement office. If this is the case it is the responsibility of the asset owner to confirm the asset transfer and book an appointment to ensure the asset is removed from our asset tracking system and all the StFX Licenses software removed prior to the asset leaving campus. Book the Asset Ownership transfer
If you are using STFX Mac Ensure you have signed out of your apple id, including in the FIND MY Mac
If you have special circumstances submit a ticket and we will make arrangements to accommodate you.
Ensure that files you have stored locally on the machine are transferred appropriately as IT Services will be wiping the machine.
What data should I back up?
After leaving the university you will no longer have access to your StFX account including;
- Home Directory (H:\) & Web Directory (W:\)
- E-mail, StFX
- Microsoft Group or Teams Ownership
- Office 365 access (including software installed on your personal computer)
- Qualtrics Survey Data
- Personal information in Banner Self-Service & MyData (Students Only)
Remember to Transfer
- Ownership of Teams Sites
- Qualtrics Surveys
Data on your H: or W: drive
Connect to your personal drives, H:drive and W:drive. Work related data should be saved to location accessible to your colleagues such department share or Office 365 Team or group site. Personal data should be saved to a portable storage solution or personal file storage.
Connecting to Network Drives
Off Campus - VPN Access
Network shares can be accessed off line by connecting to the VPN. The VPN Client creates a bridge to the StFX network using your existing Internet connection. Once VPN connection has been established you will be able to map your network drives as above.
Connecting to VPN
One Drive Data
OneDrive Data can be downloaded to a personal storage solution, network share or moved to an office 365 group.
Download a file or folder from One drive
- Log into your StFX One Drive account at office365.stfx.ca
- Select the folders and files you wish to download
- Select Download from the top menu
Having Trouble? View Microsoft's Support Document
Move a file or folder to a Microsoft Group or Team
Browse to the file or folder that you want to move.
Pick the item you want to move by selecting the check box in the upper-right corner of the item. You can also pick multiple items to move them together.
Tap or click Move to, select the destination folder, and then tap or click Move.
Choose the group or team site you wish to relocate the files to.
Having Trouble? View Microsoft's Support Document
Using Microsoft Outlook you can move email, contacts, and calendar items from one email account to another. You export items by creating a .pst file, which is an Outlook Data File that contains your messages and other Outlook items and is saved on your computer.
For a guide on how to back up your email contacts into a .csv (Comma Separated Values) file you can follow these instructions from Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/export-contacts-in-outlook-966eb60e-a451-4ade-8025-eead2bfe18ef. The csv file can be opened in Excel and will give you a spreadsheet of your contacts along with their associated information.
Complete Instructions from Microsoft's Support Centre
Manage Group or Team owner status
By default, the person who created the group is the group owner. Often a group will have multiple owners for backup support or other reasons. Members can be promoted to owner status and owners can be demoted to member status.
Qualtrics Transfer your survey data
Qualtrics surveys can not be retrieved once your account is removed. It's recommended to transfer your active surveys and export any old data from Qualtrics prior to leaving stfx.
Microsoft Office Software
After leaving university you are no longer eligible for Office 365 software. Personal Office 365 subscriptions can be purchased to ensure access to Office applications continue. Your current version of office will need to be removed from your device and reinstalled.
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Chrismon Team Makes Angels for Meals on Wheels
By Susan Shinn Turner
Those crafty Chrismon ladies are at it again.
Although the Chrismon Team’s main task is creating about 200 Chrismon ornaments for the children of the congregation each Christmastime, the 12 ladies like to tackle other tasks during the year as well, according to Carol Hair, who serves as their fearless leader.
“We always need a project,” Carol says. “We like the fellowship.”
The latest project are tiny angels made out of card stock to be used as tray favors for Meals on Wheels.
“No two are alike,” Carol says, looking over several boxes of the completed angels. “We decorated them with whatever we had in our stash.”
Some have a bit of tinsel. Others have pearls or lace. One is even a hula angel! All fit right into the palm of your hand.
The St. John’s Meals on Wheels teams deliver to about 94 clients, so Carol and her crew made about 110, enough for every person St. John’s members serve.
“The tray favors are delightful,” says Cindy Fink, Meals on Wheels’ executive director and a St. John’s member. “Each angel is unique, and our participants will be very happy to get them.”
“We just have fun doing it,” Carol says of the team projects.
Next on the list are decorations for the congregation-wide Easter breakfast on April 21.
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We would like to extend our thanks to the teams that participated
Holy Family, Most Holy Rosary, St Mathews, St Patrick’s and our own players.
To the parents, family and friends we extend our thanks for your support .
Congratulations to our team members who were selected to the “All Tournament Teams”
- Jr High
- Antony D’Agostino
- Zack Ryan
- Jr Varsity
- Brandon Kensey
- Tony Pitzeruse – Selected as the MVP
- Anthony Dattellas
- Tyler Kensey
St Joseph’s Jr high teams finished in 3rd and 4th place
St Joseph’s Jr Varsity won the Championship over Holy Family
St Joseph’s Varsity finished in second place losing a tough game to eventual winner Holy Family
The coaching staff would like to thank everyone who helped and participated in this years tournament and wish everyone a “Happy New Year”
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The origin of web based gaming can be followed back to the late twentieth century when the web started to all around the world flourish. The approach of reasonable PCs and open web associations prepared for multiplayer web based games, perpetually changing the scene of gaming. Early trailblazers like “MUDs” (Multi-Client Prisons) and “Destruction” laid the preparation for the extensive virtual universes we presently possess.
As innovation progressed, so did internet gaming. The progress from dial-up to broadband web, combined with enhancements in designs and handling power, empowered the formation of additional complex and outwardly shocking games. The ascent of cloud gaming administrations has additionally altered the business, permitting players to get to excellent games without the requirement for strong gaming rigs.
One of the main effects of internet gaming is its capacity to universally interface individuals. Gamers from various mainlands can team up, contend, and structure enduring fellowships in virtual domains. This interconnectedness has risen above social and etymological obstructions, making a common encounter that joins players regardless of their actual areas.
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- Demographically, there are about 2.72 million men and 2.67 million girls at present dwelling in Norway, in accordance with Statista.
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Regional parity on the Educational Attainment subindex stands at 99.5%. Qatar’s decrease overall rating is pushed by relatively lower parity in phrases of healthy life expectancy. More than two-thirds (69.2%) of nations rating above the 2023 population-weighted average Gender Gap Index rating (68.4%). Similar to 2022, Afghanistan (40.5%) ranks last, at the lower end of the distribution, with a difference of 27.8 percentage points compared to the mean. The country scoring penultimate within the global ranking is Chad (57.0%), which deviates from the average score by 11.three share factors. The objective of the report is to offer a constant annual metric for the assessment of progress over time.
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These women are beautiful and open-minded and will let you get to study them and their culture. Norway has a sturdy romantic setup that offers you the most effective setting to not solely fall in love however even get married. Despite being extremely impartial and career-oriented, most Norwegian women need to get married and have kids. They were introduced up in full families whether or not the mom and the daddy have equal roles within the family dynamic, and that’s precisely what they wish to achieve with their very own families. Your Norwegian wife will gladly do the housework and cook for the whole family, but she may even anticipate you to do your justifiable share of duties, especially if she works full time.
- As much as you could be having the psyche to interact with a Norwegian lady, their attribute unbiased and busy life may put you off.
- New Zealand has bridged the gender divide in enrolment throughout all levels of training and literacy price.
- In basic, Norwegians are more informal than many different cultures in relation to relationship.
- On Educational Attainment, Mexico is near subindex parity, with full parity in enrolment in secondary and tertiary schooling and 98.4% parity in literacy fee.
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Of course, though, you must one hundred pc apologize should you unintentionally hurt the opposite person’s emotions — and don’t use it as an excuse to be nasty to others. Generally speaking, individuals in the Nordic countries are direct of their communication type. If someone isn’t proud of you, you’ll find a way to anticipate them to inform you straight up with out considering twice. In some instances, being a foreigner would possibly actually work to your advantage. Some Scandinavian women discover it extra enjoyable thus far folks from different backgrounds, and never being from one of many Nordic countries is a straightforward approach to stand out.
- Also, Danish girls are extra liberal and open-minded than Swedish girls.
- In distinction to the various new feminist organisations that sprung up within the Seventies nevertheless quickly lost most of their membership, NKF was strengthened in the Eighties.
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- Suppose that you’ve already organized a date alongside with your Norwegian woman.
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When paying compliments in Norwegian to a lady, try to suppose about her character and what her perception of your words will be. Women want different things from completely different people, and someone who cares about you’ll care a lot about how you see her on the inside. Looks are fleeting; the folks we belief to stay around forever are those who’ve seen beneath the surface and nonetheless need in. Norway is actually one of many nations the place gender inequality isn`t the problem, nevertheless there`s always one factor to enhance.
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While opening doors, providing your coat, or paying for meals are type gestures, Norwegian ladies additionally value their independence. The average fertility fee in Norway has been experiencing a decline over the previous years. As of 2021, it stands at roughly 1.6 children per lady based on World Bank knowledge.
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Good morning everyone and happy Monday! Today’s meme was actually going to happen later this year but I’ve pushed it up since Emily from SLTimeWellWasted did a similar challenge last week. So, I figured this time I would do a MEME-MASHUP and mix the two up so you guys can do both challenges if you like.
Meme instructions: Google your SL name and answer the following questions. Don’t forget to leave a comment with a link to your post so we can all drop by, read and be nosy. Optional: click over to Emily’s blog and do her Google challenge as well. Don’t forget to leave a comment in her post if you end up doing it, so she can come stalk you guys too!
Before you start to answer these questions, open up a fresh browser and clear cache if you can. Make sure you are not logged into your Google account and it might even be better if you open up a incognito window.
- Google your Second Life name in “quotations” and share your results. About 81,700 results
- What is the first link that comes up? The link is to the main page of my blog and then within that it links to the top pages and posts.
- Which link were you surprised to see? Well, I went through the first 10 pages and there was nothing really that surprising. Most of it was you guys doing my memes linking to me, so I thank you for that! <3 I did find it kind of surprising and funny that I have a tag on Tumblr.
- Click on the “Image” tab and tell us where the first 5 pictures listed are from. Surprisingly, the first 10 pictures are actually all from different blogs, not my own. They are pictures that have me in it or are of other people but I guess they mentioned me in the posts so those pictures are popping up. Very unusual that those would be coming up first. The first five pictures are from Irez.me, New World Notes and Yordie Sands’ blog.
- Click on the “more” tab and then click “news” and share your results. No results found for “strawberry singh” (THANK GOODNESS!)
Ok so my questions were a little simple and possibly boring, that’s why I am doing the meme mashup because Emily’s questions are definitely more interesting. Click over to her Google challenge and answer her questions. Her instructions were to Google ourselves under both our real life name and our second life name and share what comes up. Here are my answers:
- How did the two digital footprints compare, and did that surprise you? My real life name is actually a very common name so it comes up a lot more than my SL name, obviously not just for me.
- Does anyone interesting share your name? Yes actually I share my RL name with a very famous princess and luckily she dominates the search results when searching for me, lol.
- Are you happy with the size of your digital footprint, or do you wish either one was larger/smaller? I’m pretty happy with both. I wouldn’t want to have anymore than I have now, especially with my RL name.
- If you woke up/ logged in one morning to discover over night you had suddenly gained rock-star status, and everybody knew who you were and wanted to know what you were doing… what would you do? This is why I said “THANK GOODNESS” for the news results because I am positive if I ever did become famous and news-worthy, it would be for very embarrassing reasons, lol. I definitely do not want rock-star status, especially in the real world! I like my quiet little life.
So that’s today’s meme. I hope you guys can participate in both mine and Emily’s! Please remember that you can participate in any of the memes/challenges at any time. You’ll find them all under my Blog Challenges category along with other memes and challenges I’ve done over the years.
Also, I had a few people suggest something to me so I decided to take it into consideration and wanted your opinion on it. If you click over to the main page of my blog, you’ll see that I decided to change the way I display my posts so the first post on the page shows in full, but the rest of them show as excerpts. That way you guys don’t have to scroll a lot to find some of my older posts that were getting buried.
I think I am pretty happy with it, especially with the way some of the archive pages look, such as my blog challenges category. However, I’d love to see what you guys think as well. I have a poll at bottom of my sidebar —> if you can answer the poll and let me know what you think too, that would be great. While you are perusing my sidebar, don’t forget to check out my awesome advertisers! Thanks for the support you guys and for all your suggestions! <3
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Today was a special holiday for muslims around the world. The name of the holiday was Eid al-Adha and the story behind this Eid revolves around Abraham and his great sacrifice. Yes, the same Abraham that can be found in the Bible and Torah. Interesting how if you read all three of these religious books: The Quran, The Bible and The Torah, you will find many similarities in them but for some reason the world is full of so much conflict mostly in the name of religion. It’s frustrating and heartbreaking to see and makes you wonder if your contribution to the world is enough or will make any kind of difference. Will people still judge you for your beliefs and practices?
What is heartwarming to see is how the world is coming together to help the Syrian refugees in this devastating time. If you are not familiar with the plight and situation of the Syrian people, I suggest reading the wiki page to get the gist of it. For most of us abroad, we are sitting in the comfort of our homes wondering how we can help. There are several ways you can donate your time, money and food. I know my local mosque is having us bring in any food, clothing and other necessities for refugees coming into our State. Contact your local Churches or Mosques and see if they are doing anything similar. You can also donate money to a number of charities, one of which is the World Food Programme.
In Second Life, resident Seductive Dreamscape has organized a Refugee Crisis Fundraiser which you can donate to by visiting the kiosk inworld and purchasing the clothing designed especially for this fundraiser and/or also picking up a kiosk of your own to put on your sim to spread the word about this fundraiser. All proceeds from the clothing will go to the World Food Programme.
The clothing that was specifically made for this fundraiser displays the original artwork of resident Crumbles Idlemind and was created by content creator Ethereal Faerye. I purchased a hoodie and this tank but there are also other styles of clothing available for both men and women. Take the SLurl to the kiosk to donate now.
Here is a powerful video showing a second a day video of a child and what war does to her: https://youtu.be/RBQ-IoHfimQ
Please donate and share your love and compassion. <3
UPDATE! John Oliver summed it up so beautifully that I have to share this here. Please watch and share this video, so many important points! https://youtu.be/umqvYhb3wf4
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Mesh Head: Genesis Head Sunny 2.0 by GenesisLab (GROUP GIFT)
*Eyes: IKON Charm Eyes by Ikon Innovia
*Jewels: MG Celestine Heart by Maxi Gossamer (@ Uber)
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Settlement Negotiations Finally Land on $2.5 Billion Payment to Victims of J&J’s DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Device
J&J, its subsidiary DePuy Orthopedics, and a team of lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the DePuy ASR personal injury cases announced on Tuesday, November 19th, that the medical device manufacturer would pay $2.5 billion, rather than previous estimates of $3 billion or even $4 billion, to settle the lawsuits. That amounts to about $250,000 per plaintiff who has already suffered revision surgery or medical side effects – an estimated 8,000 claimants.
Part of the agreement stated that J&J would compensate those who had received revision surgery for the faulty all-metal implants by August 31st of this year. About 4,000 of the 12,000 claimants have not had revision surgery yet, even though they have suffered other side effects such as metallosis. Several plaintiffs in the bellwether cases against J&J have had multiple revision surgeries.
This part of the settlement negotiation is independent of the $2.5 billion settlement amount.
“We are committed to the well-being of ASR patients, as demonstrated by the voluntary recall and the program providing support for recall-related care,” said Andrew Ekdahl, worldwide president of DePuy Synthes Joint Reconstruction. “The U.S. settlement program provides compensation for eligible patients without the delay and uncertainty of protracted litigation.”
The settlement must still be approved by at least 94% of the eligible claimants before it can move forward. Some of the plaintiffs could face small payouts, while others might see a “users fee” on the award. Plaintiffs could still potentially seek further individual damages independently.
The agreement to separately compensate claimants for revision surgery is an unusual one; normally, settlements for personal injury include estimates of insurance backpay that the average plaintiff might be responsible for.
“It isn’t completely over, but this is a step in the right direction,” said Peter Flowers, a lead counsel for the hip patients.
History of DePuy ASR Device Failure
J&J introduced the DePuy ASR all-metal hip replacement device to the United States in 2005, after the DePuy ASR received FDA approval in 2003. However, in 2010, the company recalled 93,000 units worldwide, including 37,000 in the US alone. The company claimed initially that the recall was due to low sales figures, making the continued manufacture of the all-metal hip devices unappealing, but it turned out that 12% of the devices failed within the first five years after hip replacement surgery. The failure rate is much higher than other hip replacement devices, at double the industry standard, which can be a combination of metal and plastic, ceramic, or entirely plastic.
According to the New York Times, DePuy Orthopedics launched their metal-on-metal hip implant without thoroughly testing and researching it. It became cleared through a narrow pathway called the 510(k) approval process, which did not require it to undergo clinical trials.
J&J had marketed the devices as safer and sturdier than their plastic counterparts, which last over five years. The FDA has, so far, received over 300 complaints of device failure and personal injury directly related to receiving a DePuy ASR implant.
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Shoulder tendinitis develops as a result of overuse of the tendons in the shoulder. With shoulder tendinitis, the tendons in the shoulder become inflamed, leading to pain and stiffness in the shoulder.
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| Stephen de Pledge, one of the most vibrant and versatile pianists of his generation, is a New Zealander with a worldwide reputation. He is best known here for his Landscape Preludes, commissioned from 24 leading New Zealand composers. He teaches at Auckland University, alongside British cellist Martin Rummel, who is described by the legendary cellist William Pleeth as “a performer of outstanding merit, with a splendid career ahead of him”.
Their well-balanced programme includes Beethoven’s C major cello sonata, a late work of extraordinary beauty and power, then three works from the Russian romantics: first the excitement of Schnittke’s cello sonata; then the virtuosity of Stravinsky’s Suite italienne, taken from the charming ballet Pulcinella; and finally the Shostakovich cello sonata, best remembered for its extraordinary ostinato harmonics, soulfulness, unusual pianissimo effects, caustic wit, and ebullience.
Past ConcertsSunday 10 June 2012 - Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town HallReviewsSeason 2012, Sunday 10 June - Stephen de Pledge and Martin RummelMARTIN RUMMEL (cello) and STEPHEN de PLEDGE (piano) in highly successful programme for Wellington Chamber Music – 10 June 2012.
It sounded as if De Pledge and Rummel had decided to keep the best till last – the best rehearsed, that is. The second, third and fourth items were excellent.
Beethoven’s C major sonata is unusually short (about 15 minutes) and has an unusual shape; the cello opens alone, presenting a sad, descending motif that, as the piano joined, became a sharing of intimacies between the two; it had real charm. But as that passage drew to a close and the much more forthright Allegro vivace took over, there was an uncomfortable disconnect between cello and piano, the latter seeming unaware of the imbalance that resulted from its impact. Often the two instruments echo each other, at other times the two are almost at odds and care has to be taken to assure a unity of feeling, rather than what I felt to be the piano tending to assert its primacy.
Perhaps the lid should be down, but in the later pieces where the balance was perfectly measured, De Pledge showed that he could get quiet and sympathetic sounds with the lid on the long stick.
Added to that was an occasional smudge or missed note in the piano.
The second movement, particularly the final section, another Allegro vivace, was affected in the same way, with the piano dominating, making too much, for example, of the sudden fortissimo chords that recur. Though, in a spirit of fairness, I wondered whether the cellist should be sharing the blame, I concluded eventually that the cello was following the composer’s intentions scrupulously.
Having gone on at undue length about the first quarter hour, I must now exclaim about the excellence of the rest of the afternoon. I have not been completely won over to Schnittke’s poly-stylistic vein, but the first cello sonata suggests the styles of different eras in a coherent, integral way. Again, the cello makes its entry alone, somewhat anguished, which the piano soon picks up. The two instruments seemed in warm accord, hearing each other with complete understanding; I enjoyed the rhapsodic cello passage with discreet punctuations by the piano.
The stark dynamic contrasts between cello and piano in the second, Presto, movement were splendidly pronounced; the piano often had a more commanding role here, too, but the sense of a carefully prepared approach was always evident. So it was with the cello’s upward, singing line in the concluding Largo and the piano’s exquisite pianissimo phrases. In their hands, the last movement was a most interesting, engaging experience.
Martin Rummel entertained the audience with some piquant anecdotes about Stravinsky, making comparisons with between the written language employed by him and Prokofiev; I forget the pretext, but the matter was interesting, even amusing: Prokofiev abbreviated to the point of eliminating all vowels while Stravinsky’s language was always meticulous.
The Stravinsky suite, drawn from his ballet Pulcinella, could have been originally written for these players and indeed, one could feel that the music of Pergolesi’s contemporaries which was then thought to be by the latter, was Stravinsky’s natural idiom. Here again, balance between the two instruments was admirable, and they conveyed in a fluent, warm manner, the dancing spirit that imbued most of the pieces, even through the unruly rhythms of the Tarantella. Stravinsky was never a composer to follow tradition slavishly and in the Minuet the players stretched normal expectations in a way that was both cavalier and sentimental.
Shostakovich’s cello sonata, from the early 1930s, is one of his best known chamber works, well-furnished with melody as well as with its constantly interesting developments and the opportunities that Rummel and De Pledge grasped to make the most of the great variety of articulation and expressive devices that Shostakovich provides. The vivid and lively scherzo-style second movement came off particularly well, enriched by the combination of a traditional framework in an idiom that could not have existed before the advent of Stravinsky and Prokofiev. It rather overshadowed the following Largo. In the finale, both instruments had their moments of supremacy but the running was pretty evenly balanced, with marcato cello passages giving way to careering scales in the piano.
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What do schools and oil companies have in common?
Nothing yet, but if a California initiative passes, taxes on one could be given to another.
Initiative 1481 proposes to put a 15 percent per barrel severance tax on California oil, and Cypress College political science professor, Perry Matthews has been trying since May to get the bill on a November ballot.
Severance taxes are imposed on the removal of nonrenewable resources, in this case crude oil.
The tax would bring in an annual $3 billion to California education systems, with about $350 million going to the California State University system, said Mathews.
“Wherever someone drills, there is a severance tax paid, except in California,” Matthews said. “Why should we be any different?”
California does not have a state-wide severance tax, according to the California Department of Conservation, but the state is not alone.
There are 11 other states that do not impose a severance tax on oil, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Money from the proposed bill would be allocated to education, not for expenses uncovered by federal funds, according to the proposition.
As of now, California’s general fund will provide $10.2 million to higher education for the 2011-2012 school year, according to the California Department of Finance’s projections.
CSUN economics professor Shirley Svorny said taxing oil companies could make them think twice before investing in the state.
“If businesses know that a state government will tax them when they are doing well, fewer businesses will locate in a state,” Svorny said.
This disincentive may be true for some business, but not applicable to the oil industry, said Martin Saiz, political science department chair.
“Unfortunately for oil companies, they can only drill where the oil is,” Saiz said. “If this was true the oil extraction industry would have moved from Alaska, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana a long time ago.”
Alaska and Wyoming collect the highest in severance taxes, according to the National Conference of State Legislature.
“Simply put, states that can tax natural resources do so because, in effect, it is taxing residents from other states for things they need and cannot produce themselves,” said Saiz.
Proposition 87, which would have diverted 6 percent of revenue from oil products to fund alternative energy research, was rejected by Californians five years ago.
“Additional taxes on California oil has been debated before,” said Tupper Hull, communications vice president of the Western State Petroleum Association. “Once people realize what the taxes would do to the state the idea has been rejected.”
Hull said while California oil does not pay severance taxes like other states, the Golden State oil business does pay state fees.
“We are taxed principally on property, of which we pay hundreds of million in taxes to California,” said Hull. “As well as corporate taxes.”
The corporate tax rate, 8.84 percent, is the same for oil as it is for all industries in California. Oil extractors often lease land, passing the property taxes on to the drill-site owners, according to the California Progress Report.
Property taxes in California are limited under proposition 13, which taxes properties at the rate in place when the property was acquired, including oil-bearing properties, wrote Anthony Rubenstein of California Progress Report.
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Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
One of the most popular services offered at our rehabilitation centers is the intensive outpatient program. We pride ourselves on an IOP program that provides a comprehensive, concentrated, and empathetic therapeutic environment. Our program was created to equip patients with the necessary tools to reintroduce them into society with the ability to endure any temptation that may occur when they leave the facility.
Sunshine Care Centers is proud of our suite of support professionals, which includes psychologists, nurses, and mental health and addiction specialists. Our team has over 30 years of experience and gives patients a well-rounded approach to mental health and addiction treatment. Please continue reading below to learn more about what is to be expected from our intensive outpatient programs.
What is an Intensive Outpatient Program?
An intensive outpatient program, or IOP, is a structured program used to support patients by addressing any underlying issues contributing to their drug addiction or mental health issues. With our intensive outpatient program, patients can continue to participate in their daily affairs, like work and school, while also receiving the assistance of our professionals. IOP is recommended for people that do not require detoxification or round-the-clock supervision.
While there is an inherent structure to IOP, it is flexible enough for patients to fit it into their pre-existing schedules. Since IOP takes place during business hours, patients may need to adjust their hours, but they can continue to work if they choose to do so. The flexibility of IOP allows them time to spend with friends and family during their recovery journey.
For many, IOP is more accessible than inpatient treatment. It is far easier to spare a few hours per day than to suspend your personal and professional life for months at a time.
A Supportive Team of Mental Health Providers
Recovering from addiction or mental health issues is challenging. It is more difficult when you try to go at it alone. When someone chooses to participate in an intensive outpatient program, they support their journey to freedom and recovery. It is invaluable in the recovery process to have a team of medical and therapeutic professionals on your side.
When you choose to work with Sunshine Care Centers, you have a suite of professionals focused solely on your success. Each team member will work collaboratively with one another and the patient to provide the best possible care and chance of recovery.
Similar to IOP, standard outpatient treatment connects patients with mental health providers, but generally only one-on-one. With the more intensive treatment provided with IOP, more team members are at your back, potentially helping you heal more effectively.
A Built-in Support Network
There is no more important choice in early recovery than deciding what support system to implement. When someone decides to try an intensive outpatient program, they are choosing to work with a team of professionals and peer support groups sharing the same struggles.
A peer support group is invaluable as it reminds the patient that they are not alone and that there is hope. Collaborating freely with others overcoming the same conditions you struggle with can be the ultimate game-changer. These profound connections are frequently maintained outside the therapeutic environment, which can support long-term recovery.
Quick Access to 12-Step Programs and Other Resources
The maintenance phase kicks in when the inpatient portion of treatment is over. Recovery is an ongoing journey, and it is expected that patients will likely still need help after leaving inpatient treatment. That is where IOP steps up to the plate. Although a patient does not need to first participate in PHP or inpatient treatment to utilize IOP, it is a great transition program for those who do.
Our IOP program connects patients with an external therapist, support groups, and 12-step programs where applicable. With these external connections, our patients are able to maintain the highest level of support once their treatment is over. It can be challenging to find the best mental health support on your own; our programs take that challenge off your plate.
The programs we offer at Sunshine Care Centers help patients build life skills. The vital relationship and vocational skills patients develop with us will help them successfully return to “real life” when they finish treatment.
Access to External Support
The support of friends and family members can be invaluable when going through the transformative process of recovery from addiction or mental health struggles. Spending time with familiar, supportive individuals can make these profound transitions easier. Access to a patient’s external support system is one of the most significant benefits of IOP and other programs we offer and Sunshine Care Centers.
During inpatient treatment, patients temporarily lose access to their external support systems. The loss of access is a reasonable tradeoff for many since addiction and acute mental health distress can leave them on the verge of death, but some may not find this as beneficial as other options.
Because IOP patients are housed off-site, they can go home to their families and support networks when they are done for the day. For many, this family time is essential and something they will not compromise. At Sunshine Care Centers, we understand that and make flexible programs available when appropriate.
Frequently More Affordable than Residential Treatment
Often people do not seek treatment for their addiction or mental health concerns because it is financially burdensome. In many cases, especially with inpatient treatment, that is true. The facts are that residential mental health and addiction treatment can be too expensive regardless of the treatment facility or insurance.
On the whole, intensive outpatient programs are more affordable. Luckily, at Sunshine Care Centers, we offer a high level of care for every degree of program available. Although you will spend less, you will receive the highest level of care.
Thankfully, many insurance plans cover mental health services, including IOP, which makes this level of care even more affordable.
How Long Does an Intensive Outpatient Program Last?
Before you start googling “IOP treatment near me,” it is important to know what that level of treatment will entail. You may want to know how much time you will devote to treatment.
This is more complex a question than you might think. It truly depends. At Sunshine Care Centers, we create treatment plans unique to your needs. It is most common for IOP treatment to last for two to five hours a day, several days a week. On the high end, intensive outpatient programs can go as long as 10 hours a day.
IOP treatment takes place as infrequently as three days a week but can be as often as five. The frequency of IOP will depend on the treatment plan created by you and a team of professionals.
Generally speaking, you can expect to be in an intensive outpatient treatment program for eight to twelve weeks depending on your treatment plan. This may seem like a long time, but it is a small commitment to rehaul your life completely.
If you’re unsure if you can devote enough time to an IOP, discuss your time restrictions with our admissions specialists to learn about your options.
Will Insurance Cover an IOP?
In most cases, insurance will provide coverage for an intensive outpatient program. We are here to help with that process. Our admissions coordinators will contact your insurance company on your behalf and discuss what terms apply to the treatment you wish to undergo. No one should have to put themselves in financial distress in order to receive mental health care, and we are here to help.
Who Benefits from IOP?
One of the reasons Sunshine Care Centers offers intensive outpatient programs is because of its significant success in helping those with mental health struggles. IOP is not only for those with drug or alcohol addiction. An intensive outpatient program overseen by our team of professionals will help patients develop the necessary skills to overcome their mental health issues. The combination of group therapy and one-on-one therapy is phenomenal. Our IOP helps with several mental health conditions, including but not limited to:
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
Addiction IOP Programs at Sunshine Care Centers
One of the primary functions of our IOP is to treat addictions and chemical dependencies. The skills and techniques learned in our intensive outpatient program can be implemented into an individual’s recovery journey. Our program teaches patients the fundamentals of psychoeducation, mindfulness, interpersonal skills, and the means to improve self-esteem.
Aside from being helpful in achieving sobriety, these fundamental building blocks make for a more fulfilling life. Our mental health and drug rehabilitation centers are ready to help you and your family on the road to a more joyful life.
More About Sunshine Care Rehabilitation Centers
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Anxiety is very much a normal emotion, especially in today’s society. There is so much change, increased pressure to perform, and the “busy is best” mentality. For kids, it’s no different. They have change, they feel pressure, and most have a pretty jam-packed schedule. In fact, a study by the CDC showed that as children get older the more anxiety they experience as seen in the graph below. With each year comes more responsibility and with more responsibility comes more stress. Approximately 4.4 million children between the ages of 3-17 experience some form of anxiety. For this reason, it’s so important as adults, parents, and caregivers to be able to recognize when your child is anxious and what support they may need.
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Once you are able to identify that your child is anxious, there are several different ways to provide support for them.
- Get professional help- Seek a mental health professional who can work with your child on processing these feelings and developing effective coping strategies, along with guiding you as the parent on how to better serve your child.
- Validate their feelings of anxiety –It’s important to understand that your child isn’t acting out in spite or to get attention but is asking for help the only way they know how to.
- Provide structure and predictability – Children struggling with anxiety often feel out of control and have the inability to be flexible with their time. When they feel prepared and in control, it eases their mind. A simple activity to do with your child is to put a white board in their room that lists your family’s schedule for the week. This might include sporting events, grocery store runs, and school projects.
- Modify your schedule – Busy isn’t always best. Chances are if you are overwhelmed and stressed about the family’s schedule, your child is feeling the same way. Kids are in school for 8 hours a day- it’s long and exhausting. Most kids have some activity to do after school in addition to homework. Not every child struggles with this busy lifestyle, but it’s important to get a gauge of how your child is tolerating it.
- Create an individualized “safe” space in your home –This safe place is a special place that your child can go to when they need to relax and regulate. Ideally, this space is separate from the hustle and bustle of your home. This space may even include different coping mechanisms that your child has learned in therapy.
- Make sure your child is getting their critical needs met -These critical needs include getting enough sleep and eating enough food. It’s quite challenging for children (and adults) to respond perfectly to situations and regulate when they are tired and hungry.
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In the ever-evolving landscape of business, Public Relations (PR) has become a buzzword, often praised for its role in shaping a company’s image and fostering goodwill. However, a common misconception persists – that PR doesn’t contribute directly to sales. In this comprehensive exploration, we’ll debunk this notion and shed light on how PR, while not a direct sales driver, significantly enhances credibility and brings about invaluable benefits to businesses.
Understanding the PR-Sales Dynamic
Let’s start by acknowledging that PR operates on a different plane than direct sales efforts. While sales focus on immediate transactions, PR nurtures relationships, builds trust, and establishes a positive brand perception. The synergy between these two realms lies in the fact that credibility, once earned through PR, lays a fertile ground for successful sales endeavors.
Establishing Trust through Media Presence
Publicity plays a pivotal role in the PR toolkit. Securing coverage in reputable media outlets not only amplifies brand visibility but also instills trust among consumers. When potential customers see a brand featured in respected publications, they subconsciously associate it with authority and reliability.
Thought Leadership and Expertise
Establishing thought leadership within an industry positions a brand as an authority. Through well-crafted press releases and expert commentary, PR can showcase a company’s knowledge and innovation, earning the respect of its audience. This respect, in turn, translates into trust and, eventually, customer loyalty.
The Ripple Effect of Positive Reviews
Customer testimonials and positive reviews are gold in the realm of PR. A satisfied customer’s endorsement not only serves as a testament to the quality of a product or service but also radiates authenticity, crucial for building credibility. These positive affirmations, when strategically placed, contribute significantly to a brand’s image and, consequently, its sales potential.
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What is it about Disney that makes its young female stars go batsh*t insane?
She’s endured a tumultuous past year, with a trip to rehab to battle emotional issues and eating disorders. But Demi Lovato showed that she’s finally got her glow back as she stepped onto the red carpet today.
The 18-year-old looked radiant at the HTC Status Social Launch Event in Los Angeles, where the Disney star slipped her killer curves into a form-fitting minidress.
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Another reason for the teen’s radiant glow and boost of confidence, could well have something to do with her rumored relationship with Ryan Phillippe. Demi has reportedly had been dating the much older actor 36-year-old actor for ‘several months’.
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Seven Implications of Multimodal And Shared On-Demand Mobility
On-demand mobility services continue to evolve fast. New solutions are introduced constantly to address changes in consumer urban transportation tastes, or address shortcomings of existing offerings. Consumers demand for personalized transportation solutions that are affordable, convenient, and safe has led to the rapid growth of ride-hailing. But in cities where it is most popular, single passenger ride-hailing is a major contributor to traffic congestion and lengthening travel times leading to deteriorating passenger experience. We need to find solutions that increase the passenger throughput per mile and permanently remove vehicles from streets. Micromobility and new forms of ridesharing emerged in part to address these problems but also to provide lower cost transportation alternatives. They are now being combined with ride-hailing to offer multimodal transportation. Multimodal and shared on-demand mobility will have seven implications that will require careful consideration.
Reasonable prices, high convenience, and generally good safety continue to drive the broad popularity of ride-hailing in many urban areas globally, as demonstrated by skyrocketing Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). Ride-hailing’s level of convenience has been achieved due to a) the short wait times for an ordered ride, b) each ride starting and ending at exactly the locations desired by the passenger, c) the ability to summon a ride from a mobile application, and d) benefit from all the useful information such applications provide. Short wait times became possible because of the recruiting efforts by the major Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) to bring more drivers into their networks. More available drivers meant faster response to a particular ride request. Reasonably-priced rides became possible primarily because of ample driver supply and the discounting afforded by the massive capital infusions the sector has received.
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In order to effectively address the worsening urban traffic congestion we need to find solutions that a) increase the passenger throughput per mile, while providing high convenience, and b) permanently remove privately-owned vehicles from streets. For example, public transportation modalities have the ability to move up to 25,000 passengers per hour but they are often criticized for infrequent and inconvenient service. Privately owned vehicles can move only up to 1,600 per hour. This implies that consumers should decrease the use of:
- Privately-owned, single occupant vehicles for their daily commute;
- Single passenger ride-haling services, regardless of whether they employ human-driven or, eventually, autonomous vehicles, the so-called robotaxis.
Instead they should increase the use of transportation solutions with higher throughput per mile, particularly for the daily commute and other longer distance rides. Increasing passenger throughput means that we a) extensively adopt ride-sharing on-demand mobility services, and b) effectively utilize multimodal transportation particularly solutions that combine effectively on-demand mobility services with public transportation. But this may not be the public transportation that we now today with big buses that often carry very few passengers and infrequent service.
A range of on-demand shared mobility solutions is already available today. From shared ride-hailing, e.g., UberPool, to fixed-route microtransit, e.g., Chariot, and dynamic-route microtransit, e.g., Via. Shared ride-hailing has lower passenger throughput per mile than microtransit. But it provides higher convenience because each passenger is picked up and dropped off at their exact desired locations. To date none of these variants has proven as successful as single passenger ride-hailing. The just-announced closure of Chariot, provides another unsuccessful microtransit effort. However, the worsening traffic congestion that is leading to longer travel times and results in a deteriorating ride-hailing passenger experience, may change this trend, if not globally at least in certain geographies.
Micromobility services emerged from the recognition that because many of the intraday trips that consumers take are short they may not require the use of an automobile. Micromobility consists of bike-sharing (docked and dockless), and scooter/escooter-sharing. The thinking goes that by using bikes, ebikes, and escooters a consumer can navigate around the congestion, thus reducing the time of travel, and get to their intended destination economically, thus reducing the cost of travel. Micromobility offers low per mile cost, convenience of readily finding bikes, ebikes, and escooters in many areas, and generally good user experience that is enabled through the mobile applications used and the technology on board the bikes and escooters, even as it comes with the reduced safety of operating bikes and escooters in environments that are clogged with cars and trucks. Micromobility’s popularity grew within a short time and is surpassing the adoption of other on-demand mobility services such as various forms of ridesharing, and of car sharing.
TNCs could not ignore the quick consumer adoption of micromobility. After initially incorporating micromobility options to their ride-hailing services they proceeded with investments in, acquisitions (and here) of companies offering such services, as well as their own internal technology development. Combining of micromobility with ride-hailing offers a strong indication that we are transitioning from monomodal to multimodal on-demand mobility. Leading TNCs like Uber, and Lyft are constantly expanding their multimodal transportation options and in some instances they even offer coordinated connections to public transportation.
Ford was the first automotive OEM to embrace micromobility when it started operating GoBike. More recently Ford announced the acquisition of Spin, an escooter company. GM has also signaled its intentions to produce ebikes. However, both OEMs remain behind Uber and Lyft in the deployment of such solutions. Other incumbent OEMs that had started to develop businesses around a single on-demand mobility service, have also started to consider micromobility and multimodal transportation services through partnerships, investments, and internal development.
A Framework For Evaluating On-Demand Mobility Services
In a previous post I presented a four-dimensional framework for analyzing and comparing the companies offering on-demand mobility services, particularly ride-hailing. The framework uses: price, convenience, passenger experience, and safety. We can utilize the same four dimensions to rate and compare five types of on-demand mobility services: ride-hailing, ridesharing, car sharing, micromobility, and microtransit. In these qualitative evaluations the absolute ratings are not as important as are the relative positions of each type of service along the framework’s dimensions. Because travel distance is an important criterion on the services used, I have considered three ranges:
Rides of up to 2 miles. These rides can be completed using micromobility, microtransit, ridesharing, and ride-hailing. However, micromobility and microtransit are ideally suited for these distances. My qualitative evaluation of using each of these mobility services for rides involving such distances is shown in Figure 1. One conclusion from the analysis of Figure 1 is that people who can and are willing to use micromobility for such distances have better passenger/user experience and similar convenience for a lower price but also lower safety than the users of ride-hailing and ridesharing services.
Figure 1: Comparison of on-demand mobility services for rides of up to 2 miles
Rides between 2 and 6 miles. These rides can be completed primarily using microtransit, ridesharing, and ride-hailing. Micromobility services are not out of the question for this range but they become problematic for most people for distances that are over 2 miles. My qualitative evaluation of using each of these mobility services on their own for rides involving such distances is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Comparison of monomodal on-demand services for rides of 2-6 miles
One conclusion from the analysis of Figure 2 is that ridesharing provides a good option for this distance range to consumers who can accommodate the longer rides (due to the multiple stops) and the experience of sharing vehicle with other passengers.
Figure 3 shows how this assessment changes when a few of these services are combined to provide multimodal transportation solutions for rides within this range.
Figure 3: Comparison of multimodal on-demand services for rides of 2-6 miles
We can draw two conclusions from this analysis. First, for passengers who prefer ride-hailing, combining micromobility with ride-hailing could actually improve passenger experience in areas of high traffic congestion while delivering the service at better price but with some negative impact on safety and convenience. Second, along certain dimensions, the shortcomings of a single modality improve when multiple modalities are combined. It should also be noted that the use of autonomous vehicle fleets, initially in microtransit later on, as these vehicles become more capable and can operate in a greater variety of environments, in ride-hailing and ridesharing, will further improve the passenger experience and reduce price.
Rides that are longer than 10 miles. These rides can be completed using ride-hailing, ridesharing and car sharing. My qualitative evaluation of using each of these mobility services on their own for rides involving such distances is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Comparison of monomodal on-demand services for rides > 10 miles
One conclusion that can be drawn from this analysis is that for these longer rides, car sharing provides a better experience than ridesharing at a lower price than ride-hailing.
Figure 5 shows how this assessment changes when a few of these services are combined to provide multimodal transportation solutions for rides within this range.
Figure 5: Comparison of multimodal on-demand services for rides > 10 miles
The conclusion is that for rides over 10 miles, multimodal transportation using only on-demand services doesn’t create as distinct advantages over corresponding monomodal options. As with the case of rides of 2-6 miles, the use of autonomous vehicle fleets in microtransit will improve the passenger experience and reduce the overall transportation cost.
Seven Implications of Adopting Multimodal and Shared On-Demand Mobility
As we adopt multimodal on-demand mobility services and broaden the use of shared mobility, first to offer Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and eventually Transportation as a Service (TaaS), we need to consider seven implications.
Implication 1: Multimodal transportation and ultimately Transportation as a Service will require work in four areas:
- On-demand mobility services and public transportation;
- Vehicle technology, including autonomous vehicle technologies, propulsion system technologies, etc.;
- Transportation infrastructure technology; and
- Information technology (software, hardware, services, e.g., cloud computing-based services such as AWS and Azure).
As is shown in Figure 6, work in these areas will involve the efforts of many industries, several of which are not traditionally associated with the automotive or transportation sectors.
Figure 6: The industries that will contribute to multimodal on-demand mobility
Corporations and startups will need to collaborate extensively to achieve the results necessary to make multimodal transportation broadly a reality.
Implication 2: As we move to multimodal on-demand mobility, we need to understand the importance of mobility orchestrators. These are the entities that coordinate transportation across modalities very much in the way that Air Traffic Control today coordinates transportation the skies. Mobility orchestrators optimize throughput, convenience, traffic flow, and other characteristics of a well-functioning transportation system, such as managing the curb. With such coordination we will be able to address ride-hailing pick-ups and drop-offs, the sidewalk congestion that is resulting from the uncontrolled deployment of escooters and bikes/ebikes, and others that have yet to be exhibited. Will the governments (city or state) or corporations be the mobility orchestrators? The traditional models used in the US that have city and state governments being the orchestrators of public transportation have largely been failing because the silos they create inhibit well-coordinated multimodal transportation. On the other hand, corporations will try to create walled-gardens around their transportation offerings that will limit the ability to coordinate across services outside their direct control.
Implication 3: The fleet-based on-demand mobility value chain must incorporate micromobility, microtransit, and the various forms of car sharing, e.g., Car2Go, and Maven. The companies offering these services operate vehicle fleets instead of being ride coordinators. Companies that provide multimodal on-demand transportation solutions will operate hybrid fleets comprising of vehicles appropriate for each offered modality. Over time, certain vehicles in these fleets may be autonomous. With the acquisition of micromobility companies, Transportation Network Companies like Uber and Lyft that started as ride coordinators have become fleet operators. The introduction of autonomous vehicles for ride-hailing and ridesharing will push them more in this direction.
Implication 4: In the short to medium term, i.e., before 2030, the introduction of autonomous vehicles (electrified or conventional) for on-demand transportation services by itself will not solve the congestion problem. AVs will only be a part of the solution, in some cases a very small part. In fact, introducing autonomous vehicles without removing from circulation more vehicles than those introduced will only worsen the traffic congestion. While consumers prefer riding alone, governments and corporations must collaborate to provide education about the benefits and incentives that encourage ridesharing, including ridesharing using AVs, as well as the use of public transit options as part of multimodal transportation solutions. Venture and private equity capital could also play a big role in subsidizing ridesharing, as it has done to date with ride-hailing. Only 50% of the average ride-hailing trip’s cost is covered by the fare. The rest is covered by the capital each ride-hailing company has raised. The use of AVs, starting with autonomous shuttles, has the potential to:
- Reduce the transportation modality’s cost and improve operating margins.
- Improve the modality’s safety.
- Optimize the modality’s fleet-wide efficiency, particularly when combined with an intelligent digital platform, by increasing the number of rides each such vehicle can perform per unit of time.
Over time, as a) more autonomous vehicles enter service, b) their capabilities enable them to operate in less constrained environments, c) AVs gain enduring consumer trust after being thoroughly tested and certified, much like airplanes are, under government standards that have yet to be established, and d) we succeed in removing vehicles from our roads, AVs will have a broader positive impact on the passenger experience as well.
Implication 5: Autonomous vehicles should be aggressively adopted by microtransit fleets. The autonomous vehicles that will be introduced in the near term will be capable of operating safely and reliably in a variety of microtransit use cases. These range from providing first/last mile connection to public transportation, to operating transportation in urban areas with traffic restrictions such as those that are starting to be adopted by a variety of cities around the world, to offering transportation on various campus types. Safety and reliability are two of the criteria cities will need to use in monitoring the performance of such vehicles. Cities will need to guarantee that these vehicles can operate with high safety and reliability in urban environments that include several vehicle types with varying levels of automation. In a companion piece I’m currently writing I examine autonomous vehicle performance along these dimensions and other dimensions.
Cities involved in early microtransit deployments of autonomous shuttles will learn important lessons that could prove pivotal to their transportation and urban planning. Depending on its circumstances, each city will be able to apply such lessons differently. But in each case we expect to see important benefits provided that cities start working closely with the companies offering these services using such vehicles.
Finally, through such collaborations even these early use cases will enable us to design and introduce a variety of autonomous vehicle form factors; from small pods that can carry 1-2 passengers and can be used for micromobility, to larger shuttles that can carry 6-15 passengers (May Mobility, EasyMile, and Transdev).
Implication 6: Fleet-based multimodal on-demand mobility will require intelligent backend digital platforms with big data and AI at their core. The complexity and sophistication of these platforms will surpass the data-driven digital platforms used today by companies offering monomodal mobility services. These backend platforms will utilize big data and AI for a variety of functions including trip planning and trip coordination across transportation modes, fleet management to maximize each vehicle’s uptime, and others. The management of the hybrid fleets used by companies offering multimodal transportation solutions is a hard problem to address. Consider the alternatives that such a platform will need to evaluate as it creates each personalized transportation solution to address a consumer’s needs while taking into account various modality combinations that maximize ridesharing, and optimize the passenger experience. For example, given a particular 5-mile ride request, what combination of modalities should be offered? Is the passenger interested in the ride with the lowest price, or the shortest time to destination? What restrictions do weather conditions, traffic conditions, and even the passenger’s condition impose on the transportation plan that will be recommended? In addition to the backend digital platforms being more complex, the consumer-facing applications of companies offering multimodal transportation must also be more intelligent in order to present different transportation plan options in a quickly digestible manner. To compete effectively with services that utilize such platforms incumbent OEMs will need to quickly develop expertise in such digital platforms and associated consumer-facing applications.
Implication 7: Vendors that transition to multimodal transportation, or intend to offer such services, i.e., vendors aiming at high convenience at a price, will need to operate three fleet types:
- Micromobility fleets consisting of escooters, bikes/ebikes, and eventually autonomous pods.
- Microtransit shuttle fleets comprised of conventional vans, and eventually appropriate forms of autonomous shuttles, that offer fixed and/or variable routing shared rides.
- Ride-hailing fleets that offer single passenger rides. These fleets may consist of conventional vehicles only, robotaxis only (including robotaxis that are designed and built specifically to address the population, traffic infrastructure and other characteristics of the geographic area they will serve) or be hybrid.
Ride-hailing popularized on-demand mobility services globally because of its convenience, price, safety, and passenger experience characteristics. In many urban areas we are now starting to feel the negative consequences of the ride-hailing’s popularity. Just using fleets of autonomous vehicles operated by mobility services companies to offer single passenger ride-hailing will not allow us to address the problem. We need to adopt solutions that significantly increase the passenger throughput per mile and remove automobiles from the roads. This will require solutions that combine shared mobility and multimodal transportation. And fleets that include autonomous vehicles to provide multimodal and shared on-demand mobility services can play a big role. As we begin to design and implement such solutions we need to understand their implications, and devise the right rollout strategies, and implementation plans.
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Syrian media and both opposition and loyalist pages reported the death of Major General Mohamed Ali Fakhrou, an officer in the Assad regime’s Republican Guard, killed at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS).
The incident occurred when ISIS members carried out an attack on shepherds in the eastern al-Bulil countryside in Deir ez-Zor, killing four and stealing about 750 head of sheep, according to the Midea River media network.
The network added that when regime forces heard the news, they mobilized and sent a military convoy to the area composed of Republican Guard forces and the National Defense with the aim of recovering the sheep.
ISIS members set up an ambush for the convoy and clashes occurred between the two sides, killing 15 on the regime side, including Major General Mohamed Fakhrou. The news spread on loyalist pages and media sites, where Fakhrou’s death was mourned. He had been known as the engineer of the Joubar tunnels.
Fakhour had a close relationship with Iranian sectarian militias, and his activities were not limited to the military field, but involved establishing Shi’ification bases in the area, setting up shrines and other sites, including turning the spring in al-Quriyah, known as Ayn Ali, into a pilgrimage site for Shia pilgrims.
Zaman al-Wasl reported that Fakhrou’s death came just two weeks after he was promoted in the promotions issued at the start of the year by Bashar al-Assad.
Various images were published of the general; including his visit to Ayn Ali in al-Quriyah, east of Deir ez-Zor, which was established by the Aal al-Bayt Shrines Authority, funded by Iran.
Fakhrou was from the city of al-Dana in the Idleb countryside and was known as an expert in explosives and an engineer who set up tunnels in Damascus districts and the countryside.
Alongside Major General Fakhrou, First Lieutenant Rami Zaffour, Warrant Officer Khaldoun Zaher al-Deen, and Essam Zaher al-Deen, a commander in the Nafez Assad Allah militia, were all killed in the attack.
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Recently, I faced the problem of using charts in Grails web-application. At first, I was thinking about using well-known java libraries, such as JFreeChart . JFreeChart has a nice look, nice written documentation, and pretty simple to use.
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One island, a poor socialist state with infrastructure in grave need of modernisation, has slowly emerged out of the chaos caused by a hurricane’s wrath, while the other, a territory of the richest country in the world, cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel.
HURRICANES DEVELOP IN THE ATLANTIC Ocean and move across the cold water towards the warmer sea of the Caribbean. All that energy journeys, picking up steam, driving forward with immense force. This September, hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, Katia and Maria thrust themselves into the Caribbean and devastated many of its islands as well as the coastline of the United States and Central America. One meteorologist, Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University, suggested that this September was the most deadly hurricane month since 1893.
Changes in the world’s climate, scientists suggest, have made these Atlantic cyclones much more powerful than before. Warming waters increases the ability of the storms to draw in water vapour and to engorge themselves with more energy. These devastatingly formidable storms then drag the rising waters to produce dangerous storm surges that beat against coastlines and produce large-scale flooding.
Hurricane Irma, which arrived in the Caribbean Sea in early September, destroyed many of the small islands such as Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda and St. Martin. Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda said that Barbuda, which housed short of 2,000 people, had become “barely habitable”. The government called for an evacuation of the island, which now has a population of zero. It has been abandoned. This country in the Lesser Antilles or the Leeward Islands faces the brunt of hurricanes since it is in the mouth of the Caribbean. Daniel Gibbs of the government of St. Martin, a French territory also in the Lesser Antilles, said that 95 per cent of the island had been destroyed. “It is an enormous catastrophe,” said Gibbs, who represents the island in the French parliament.
Cuba and Irma
Irma, a Category 5 hurricane—the strongest possible—struck Cuba with immense force in early September. The storm came fast and hard. The devastation was severe. In the small town of Moscu in the municipality of Esmeralda (Camaguey province), only 10 of its 289 houses remained standing. The Cuban journalist Yaditza del Sol Gonzalez reported for Granma that near Jiguey beach “the sea took it all”. The storm surge overcame the Malecon sea wall in Havana, sending water into its streets with ferocity. Havana, with its old buildings, suffered from flooding and power cuts. Ten people died, the majority of them in Havana. Cuba’s President Raul Castro took to the airwaves, calling for unity of the nation and for reconstruction of the island. “This is not the time to mourn,” Castro said, “but to build what the winds of Irma attempted to destroy.”
By all indications, the death toll in Cuba was remarkably low as was the devastation to the island’s infrastructure. Certainly, homes in the old part of Havana are brittle and parts of the infrastructure are in severe need of modernisation. But the island’s preparation for the hurricane and the general community spirit that prevails there saved it from total devastation. Tens of thousands of people had been evacuated from Havana in anticipation of the storm, and over a million people from across the island went into shelters. One such shelter was at the Karl Marx Vocational Pre-University in Matanzas, where volunteers gathered food, water and medical supplies for the evacuees.
The country’s pharmaceutical industry halted production of medicines a week before the storm in order to build up the stock of hydration salts, which were then distributed across the island. Electricity and gas supplies were cut before the storm came to the island, and measures were taken to protect the lines and transformers from the impact of the winds and the flooding. The government made sure to dispatch flour to state bakeries, which worked overtime to produce stocks of bread for the aftermath of the storm. Agricultural workers from Santiago de Cuba harvested their crops before they ripened in the field and distributed the produce.
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Taught by Bill Patton, June 20, 2015Exodus 30:1–11 (Listen)
30:1 “You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. 2 A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. 3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. 4 And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. 5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 6 And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. 7 And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it, 8 and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations. 9 You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it. 10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”
11 The LORD said to Moses,
Malachi 1:11–2:7 (Listen)
11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts. 12 But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised. 13 But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD. 14 Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
2:1 “And now, O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it. 4 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. 6 True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. 7 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Revelation 8:1–5 (Listen)
8:1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, 4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
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Though running your own business can leave you on the receiving end of numerous perks and benefits, it also comes with many challenges. There are numerous operational concerns that creep up over time, including cash flow concerns, customer service issues, and employee management. However, for many business owners, there’s another, often more pressing and enduring concern – branding.
Businesses that take the initiative to undergo consistent, creative, and on-going brand development are most frequently the ones that capture their target audience, gain a loyal customer base, and reap the benefits of a healthy bottom line.
Why Should a Small Business Invest in Its Brand?
Today’s economy has spurred a level of competition not previously seen. There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States alone, and though not all specialize in the same product or service, there is undoubtedly considerably overlap – just think of the last time you went to purchase a bottle of shampoo, a bag of coffee, or even a bottle of water. The options, at times, are overwhelming.
Decisions about which product or service to choose often comes down to one simple thing – brand recognition. In fact, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), a full 83 percent of adults reported that they were loyal to product brands. That’s just one reason why branding is important.
Proper branding makes your business synonymous with a certain mindset. For instance, healthy consumables are synonymous with Whole Foods. Sleek and reliable computers and phones are associated with Apple, and rugged, reliable family transportation options are provided by Subaru.
How to Go About Brand Building
So how can you increase brand awareness and win over your share of consumer loyalties? Though there are several ways to do so, here are a few to keep in mind:
- Leverage social media: Platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and SnapChat all provide a direct line to a specific consumer group. For example, if you run a B2B, you’ll likely want to focus your efforts on LinkedIn. On the other hand, if you’re a B2C with a young demographic, you may find a creative and unique social promotional strategy on SnapChat or Instagram is more effective. All of this can be done online.
- Consider Giving: Charitable efforts help a brand share its mission and values in a very real and tangible way. By donating or supporting a cause that aligns with your brand beliefs, you can gain the loyalty of consumers who share that sentiment, particularly the 64 percent of consumers are belief-driven buyers.
- Customer Appreciation Events: You rely on your customers or clients to keep business going, and they know it. However, they also want to know that you recognize their role in your success. Customer appreciation events, like VIP discounts and promos, parties, or even swag can help show your gratitude and expand loyalty.
- Encourage & Respond to Customer Review: Sixty-three percent of consumers check online Google reviews before they make a purchase. Encouraging customer to leave reviews can help your brand stand out. What about bad reviews, you ask? Responding to them shows concern and can actually help bolster your brand.
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Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 300,000 businesses nationwide.
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Gusto’s Infrastructure Engineering team enables our product teams to build impactful products by building secure, resilient, and accessible systems, using tools like AWS, terraform, and Kubernetes.
Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:
- Design and implement production grade systems that optimize for resiliency while limiting complexity
- Establish standards and build deterministic automation while optimizing for user accessibility and system reliability
- Plan and execute complex and challenging migrations that help Gusto move forward from legacy systems to more efficient, scalable, modern designs.
- Continually improve the on call experience by proposing and implementing long term oriented solutions while optimizing for the sustainability of on call.
Here’s what we're looking for:
- 2+ years experience with a scripting language like bash or python, as well as linux
- Strong work ethic and self starter who finds a way to operate effectively amidst ambiguity
- Systems Thinking approach to complex systems who seeks to identify small changes that can create big impact.
- Resilient problem solver capable of doing whatever it takes to get work done in service of our peers as well as the entire Gusto customer base.
- Effective communicator that can simplify complex topics and communicate persuasive ideas
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- Experience designing elegant but simple systems that optimize for resiliency, but can be easily maintained and operated upon
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure and correlated IaaS management tools such Terraform (preferred) or pulumi, as well as orchestration layers like Kubernetes
- Experience leading incident remediation for complex systems
Our cash compensation range for this role is $142,000/yr to $226,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $172,000/yr to $265,000/yr in San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.
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Professor Somadoda Fikeni has described true success as that which is characterised by being of service to others and the community.
He made the remarks at a graduation ceremony for Tshwane South TVT College engineering diplomandis at Helderberg Gemeente Lede in Christus Church in Eloffsdal.
He urged the crop of TSC 2019 to make a difference in the lives of others, saying the ultimate mark of success and achievement rested on that.
“If you work and make yourself beautiful, that’s good. If you work and can look after your family, that’s significant. But when you change society and touch the lives of others in a positive way, that’s a legacy,” Prof Madoda said to stunned reflection and applause from the audience.
The PhD holding Prof Madoda is a well-known political analyst who has earned degrees from universities in South Africa, Canada and the United States in a range of disciplines including political studies, conflict resolution and communications.
“The Mandelas, Sisulus, Bikos and Sobukwes were the Moses generation that led us during apartheid. We’re not where we were meant to be in 1994. It will be up to you to be that generation of Joshua, to lead us to the promised land,” remarked Prof Madoda, during a stirring two-part keynote address.
In the first part of his speech, Prof Madoda congratulated the students who were receiving their certificates for their hard work and the sacrifices they had made in order to be capped. He also paid tribute to TSC lecturers for their invaluable guidance to the graduates and emphasised that graduating was only the first step on the road to success. He compared it to receiving the keys with which to unlock their futures.
“It’s merely giving you an advantage which may give you a competitive edge in life,” he said.
By succeeding, the graduates had demonstrated their potential but it was important that they turned that potential into success, Prof Madoda said, adding that education had been proven the single most vital tool to uplifting oneself and to change lives.
In an inspiring address that quoted from Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Franz Fanon, Prof Madoda told the young graduates that they were the custodians of their future and should look only to themselves to solve the many problems besetting the country. This was especially as South Africa was a relatively young democracy with a mainly youthful population, he said.
He implicated the older generation for overseeing such ills as corruption and state capture in our society, challenges which he said added to problems such as crime and unemployment.
Quoting from Fanon, he said: “Every generation must define its mission, fulfill it or betray it.”
The challenge for the graduates was therefore to be leaders in their own right and to “provide the healing to the wounds” they carried but had not inflicted on themselves.
“Ask yourself, ‘What’s the purpose and meaning of my life?”’ He then urged the graduates to not use their disadvantaged backgrounds as a source of reference, citing his own example as a boy who was raised in a village in Eastern Cape.
He also cited luminaries including Mandela and former ANC president Oliver Tambo for having overcome adversity to succeed.
“It’s only education that can take the child of a miner and make him the CEO of a mine,” Prof Madoda quoted from one of Mandela’s most famous statements. He pointed out that they too would succeed like Mandela if only they made sacrifices, as Mandela had been brought up in an extended family following the passing of his father at age nine. Oliver Tambo too, had overcome an unlikely beginning as his upbringing was at the hands of missionaries, argued Prof Madoda.
At the end of the day, it was all about leaving a legacy, he said. In order to do that, a certain mindset was required, according to Prof Madoda, who pinpointed the essence of values and principles in attaining one’s goals.
“You must begin to make that sacrifice, not only for yourself but for your family and society,” he said and added that even if one’s beloved and supporting grandmother was no more, one could repay her memory by helping others.
“We fail to read the fine print of what we’re capable of,” noted Prof Madoda, who quoted a truism from Martin Luther King, on the importance of performing to our utmost abilities: “Ïf you’re a sweeper, be the best sweeper that anyone has ever seen.”
Leaving a legacy thus required certain behaviours, including respecting the guardians who had supported the graduates through life and education: “Your certificate must not elevate you above your community.”
Good values and principles involved remembering your roots as it took a village to raise an African child, Prof Madoda emphasised.
This entailed being humble and staying true to one’s origins as those who stayed loyal to their old customs had been proved to have greater chances of success. “My degreees have not changed my dietary content,” said the professor, who shared his love of roast maize with the audience and said he still alighted from his car to buy it by the roadside.
Prof Madoda then spoke about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and said, “The 21st century’s biggest challenge is not illiteracy. It will be your ability to learn and re-learn.”
This was more so as technology was growing exponentially, with Artificial Intelligence taking over jobs that previously were done manually.
He cited the example of a major South African retail bank whose massive retrenchment drive had been argued on the basis that customer needs could be conveniently serviced online.
It was essential therefore for the graduates to distinguish themselves. This was as every growing economy in the world, including the economies of Germany and Switzerland, prioritised artisan skills, he said.
“How do you turn that into success?” he asked. The answer, he said, was to have an entrepreneurial mind.
He encouraged graduates to look out for demands they could service in their communities. That way they not only created employment for themselves and secured their futures but helped others too by creating employment.
Through it all, it was important to remain hopeful even if they did not receive immediate responses to their job applications, said Prof Madoda, who cited and quoted from King: “Even if we may face the difficulty of today or tomorrow, I still have a dream.”
He also quoted from Mandela on the essence of being optimistic: “Ït may look impossible, until it’s done.”
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A summer outdoor program offered through Future School of Fort Smith serves two purposes – to allow students from across the region a chance to have an epic outdoor summer experience while recruiting for the school.
Future School of Fort Smith is a public charter school in Fort Smith established in 2016. The school has 300 students in ninth through 12th grade.
An outdoor education program at the school has two classes for students – an entry level class that focuses on teaching students to be responsible for public lands, needed skills for backpacking, rock climbing, camping and kayaking, and a second-year class where students take their new skills and learn how to teach others. There are 12 spots available for the two summer trips because of staffing, and gear. The staff ratio is one staff member to every four students.
In the summer, instructor Brett Roberts expands the program to allow any student in the area in ninth through 12th grade to experience five days of backpacking or kayaking. This summer students kayaked an average of 10 miles a day on the Buffalo River to earn their 50-mile challenge patch in recognition of the Buffalo National River’s 50-year anniversary. If you complete 50 miles self-propelled within the Buffalo National River you get a 50-mile challenge patch, Roberts said.
Because of the extreme heat, the 5-day backpacking trip this summer, which is typically the second trip of the summer, was a little different, with students camping at Shores Lake hiking to the waterfall, kayaking on the lake, repelling and rock climbing, and fly-fishing.
“With a week of 115 degree weather, we had to rethink things to keep the kids safe and to ensure they had accessible water.”
The programs are open to any student, not just Future School students, Roberts said.
“It’s one of our recruitment programs. But it also serves to teach the students and allow them an outdoor experience. It’s a summer learning program,” she said.
INCREASE OUTDOOR ACCESS
Roberts’ main focus on her outdoor programming is equity, making things accessible to all students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
“Everything we do is free, and it’s getting kids who most likely would not have the opportunity to go outside for a variety of reasons – socioeconomic reasons, lack of skills or ability, a chance to have these high adventure outdoor trips. It allows them to experience these types of things in a low risk setting,” Roberts said. “Lots of kids have never left Fort Smith or maybe even their neighborhood or part of town. This shows them what Arkansas has to offer in terms of outdoor recreation and what options are out there, what kinds of things you can do outside.”
The program provides everything the students need for the trip, including gear, instruction and food.
“Only thing kids have to provide is clothing. And I’m working on that, to get us some clothing and good shoes for our kids. That’s one of our biggest needs right now, getting appropriate clothing and footwear for kids so not ruining their school shoes,” Roberts said.
Roberts also would like to see more representation in the group of Black and Hispanic students.
“I think it’s important to have representation of those who like them,” Roberts said. “So many times there is this stereotype of who can do this, who will do this. But we want it to be more representative, more diverse.”
In addition to teaching outdoor skills, the program includes social emotional growth. Students identify goals to work on with their group and to work on personally. Personal goals include community culture growth, personal growth, relationship with nature and open goals, Roberts said.
Students take a social emotional survey at the beginning of the trip and at the end. They rate themselves on a series of topics and meet with staff members who also rate them.
“And we compare, and we talk,” Roberts said. “At the end of the trip, we do it again. I actually look for numbers to drop. They are being more reflective, more introspective. They are actually thinking about these things, and their perspective changes.”
Students then make an action plan they can use in their daily lives.
“The action plans are to take learning from the field, where it is relatively easy because there are no distractions. There are no cell phones, no Snapchat or Instagram. They don’t have a TV to watch or YouTube or whatever they do. A majority of our kids have a pretty chaotic life. They don’t always have a very structured parental unit, guardian unit, so it’s putting them in an environment that has some pretty rigid structure but allows them to grow,” Roberts said. “It forces them away from ambivalence. They see, ‘If I don’t change, my life is going to keep doing this thing.’”
Crystal Echols, an English teacher at the Future School, sent her 15-year-old daughter Onesty Thomas on one of the excursions this summer.
“She wanted to do the kayaking trip, but I wasn’t sure about that. I was a little nervous about her being on water for the entire trip. But I want her to be able to do a trip, so I agreed to the backpacking one. I grew up with Girl Scouts. I grew up being outdoors. I want my children to experience that too.”
Echols said the two have had many conversations about it since.
“I think she is communicating more since she came back,” Echols said. “I will say, I think she thinks about things a little more (since coming back from the trip) compared to just acting or reacting. I think she learned to process her thoughts.”
The experience was much different from the sports activities and sports-related trips her children have taken in the past, and she is eager for her two other children to attend similar trips in the future. She has also given her permission for Thomas to be able to attend the kayaking trip next summer.
Thomas said with no family plans to go out of town this summer and with the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted much over the past two years, she really wanted to participate in the outdoor program adventures this summer.
“At first I was a little scared. That first night, I worried if a bear might be outside our tent. But after the first night, it was all OK. I had a lot of fun,” she said.
Of the lessons learned over the course of the five days, Thomas said the main one was not to judge people.
“We talked about that a lot. Everyone there was just really nice. It was a great experience,” she said.
Thomas has plans to go on at least one of the adventures next summer and said she thinks the school’s summer outdoor program is very important to the community as a whole.
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AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors on Friday strongly urged the warring sides in eastern Ukraine to silence their guns as heavy artillery and rocket barrages continued to pummel residential areas.
At least 33 people including civilians have been killed and several dozen injured in fighting this week in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russia-backed separatist rebels — the worst violence in the region since 2015.
The death toll in the fighting that began in April 2014 has now exceeded 9,800, according to U.N. figures and a tally of recent fighting.
“Unacceptable! … Sides have to stop fighting!” the monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation In Europe said on its Facebook page.
While the warring sides have regularly exchanged gunfire despite a February 2015 peace deal brokered by France and Germany, this week has seen a sharp spike in hostilities. Fighting has raged around the government-controlled industrial town of Avdiivka, just north of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk, catching residential areas in the crossfire.
“We have seen on both sides an incredible amount of cease-fire violations,” said Alexander Hug, deputy head of the OSCE’s monitoring mission.
Each side blamed the other for the upsurge of violence, but the Ukrainian military says its troops have gained some ground.
Associated Press reporters saw heavy weapons on both sides of the front line, in clear violation of the 2015 peace deal that envisaged their pullback.
“We have seen the whole range of heavy weapons in the area here, starting from the smaller caliber mortars to larger caliber artillery to multiple launch rocket systems in the areas where they shouldn’t be,” Hug told reporters in Avdiivka. “We have seen them inside Avdiivka. We have seen them in Yasynovata. We have seen them in Donetsk city.”
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has cast the outburst of fighting as an argument for continuing Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its actions in Ukraine. New U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated promises to improve relations with Russia have fueled concern in Ukraine that Washington would back off some of the sanctions.
The upsurge of hostilities around Avdiivka coincided with last weekend’s phone conversation between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, their first since Trump took office. Putin on Thursday accused the Ukrainian leadership of ordering the attack in the east to pose as a victim to secure U.S. and EU support and prevent a thaw in Russia-West ties.
The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, on Thursday condemned Russia’s “aggressive actions” in eastern Ukraine and warned Moscow that U.S. sanctions imposed after its 2014 annexation of Crimea will remain until the peninsula is returned to Ukraine. But speaking for the first time at the Security Council, she tempered the criticism, saying “we do want to better our relations with Russia.”
Ukrainian U.N. Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko described Haley’s remarks as “extremely positive and extremely encouraging,” telling reporters that the U.S. is “very solidly behind” Ukraine.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, a strong critic of Russia, called on Trump to authorize sending lethal weapons to Ukrainian government forces.
The timing of the increased fighting “is an indication that Vladimir Putin is moving quickly to test you as commander in chief,” McCain said in a letter to Trump.
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, also voiced concern about the escalation in fighting.
“We call on Russia to use its considerable influence over the separatists to make sure that they respect the Minsk agreement and the cease-fire,” he said.
The Kremlin, in turn, has urged the West to persuade Ukraine to abide by the peace deal.
In the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, two civilians were killed late Thursday in a neighborhood that has been under intense fire in recent days, the rebels’ Donetsk News Agency said. Eight houses and two high schools were damaged in shelling Thursday night.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova lashed out at the Ukrainian government, saying the shelling of Donetsk “trampled on all moral norms.”
OSCE monitors on Friday visited a water filtration plant near the front line that has been damaged in recent shelling. The plant is crucial for the clean water supply on both sides of the conflict.
Hug warned that damage to the water plant in Yanysuvata, which has cut the water supply to Avdiivka, can lead to a “potential humanitarian and ecological disaster.”
A British photographer was wounded by shards of glass in Avdiivka in shelling Thursday night, according to the Facebook page of Ukraine’s anti-rebel military operation.
In Avdiivka, an industrial town whose pre-war population was about 35,000, residents were frightened and suffering through the loss of electricity and water amid a sharp winter cold snap.
“Of course, I’m really scared,” said Tamara Tokmanova, who said her father had died in World War II. “My dad died, for such a bad life for me!”
Jim Heintz, Nataliya Vasilyeva and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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“Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists, this is known as the “illusion of truth” effect. Repetition only makes something seem true, individuals and masses may believe it is true. Still, factually it doesn’t change its nature. The truth will remain true, and false will remain false. We cannot change the facts, only the perception can be changed or altered.
Only 420 years ago, on February 17, in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori, Giordano Bruno was burned at stake for heresy, among other charges, he was accused of promoting Copernicus heliocentric model. Although the heliocentric model, the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the centre of the Solar System, had been proposed as early as the third century BC by Aristarchus of Samos, both the academic circles and the Catholic Church opposed heliocentrism up till the eighteenth century.
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Khloe Kardashian’s Makeup-Free Gym Moment Causes a Social Media Frenzy
Khloe Kardashian, known for her glamorous and carefully curated image, surprised viewers with a make-up free and unedited look in the latest episode of The Kardashians.
The reality star, 39, was captured working out in the gym during the show’s second season, revealing a side of herself rarely seen – a stark contrast to her heavily made-up and often retouched photos.
Viewer Reactions and Social Media Buzz
Social media platforms were abuzz with comments as viewers took to Reddit to discuss Khloe’s appearance in the unfiltered gym scene.
Comments ranged from observations about her looking ‘overfilled and inflamed’ to calls for her to ‘learn to love herself.’ Fans expressed opinions on the contrast between her natural look on the show and her usual glamorously retouched images.
Khloe’s Ongoing Struggle with Image Perception
Khloe Kardashian has been no stranger to discussions about her changing image, having faced criticism in the past over her dramatic weight gain.
The reality star has been candid about her experiences with cosmetic enhancements, admitting to a nose job and the use of fillers in the past. However, she remains coy about any recent touch-ups, adding an air of mystery to her evolving appearance.
The Pressure of TV Career and Cosmetic Enhancements
In a heartfelt admission last year, Khloe shared how her TV career had impacted her confidence, leading her to turn to cosmetic enhancements.
She revealed the pressure and scrutiny she faced for not looking like her sisters, stating, ‘I’ve been torn apart the minute that I’ve gone on TV.’ Despite undergoing changes to her appearance, she acknowledged the constant scrutiny and bullying, emphasizing the importance of doing things for oneself.
Explosive Confessions on Surgery
During an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians Final Curtain Part 2 in 2021, Khloe made explosive confessions about her surgical procedures.
She admitted to having undergone a nose job performed by Dr. Raj Kanodia and shared details about injections, clarifying that they were not Botox due to a previous adverse reaction.
The conversation about her appearance shifted to long-standing issues with her body and the preferential treatment her sisters received based on their looks.
The Unveiling of Khloe’s Authenticity
Khloe’s unedited gym appearance on The Kardashians marks a departure from the carefully crafted image often presented on social media.
The unexpected glimpse into her raw, unfiltered self has sparked discussions about authenticity, societal pressures, and the evolving perception of beauty in the world of reality TV.
As viewers navigate the blurred lines between reality and retouched images, Khloe Kardashian’s unfiltered moment continues to resonate across social media platforms.
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I think this is one of the oldest, yet most effective icebreakers for meetings, training, or team building sessions. The “4 Facts” exercise simply asks people to write down 4 “facts” about themselves, 3 of them true, 1 not true. We encourage participants to think of things about themselves that others don’t know. We also give them license to say things that they wouldn’t say in normal conversation, such as an award they won, or that they graduated first in their class in high school or college. When they are finished writing their “facts,” one person will read his list, and the others in the group will try to guess the lie. When they are finished with the first person, they go on to the next, and so on. You can also give a prize for the person who guessed the most correct answers, however, this is not necessary for the effectiveness of the exercise.
The beauty of this exercise lies in helping people to learn things about each other that they might never find out in normal conversation. Unique skills or talents may also be learned. It almost never fails to surprise people, even those who have worked together for years.
The 1 untruth in the list is intended to force closer listening, and add an element of interest.
Although it is never voiced, I sometimes worry that some participants may view an exercise like this as trivial. So I will share stories of how learning more about someone created a more productive relationship. Artificial barriers to communication exist in relationships like manager-employee, engineer-craftsman, executive-everyone else, white collar-blue collar, sales-operations, and others. Breaking down these barriers is good for the organization, and an exercise like “4 facts” can help. | <urn:uuid:26f2d8bd-bdf7-4e21-94e2-013eda1508e2> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://teambuildersplus.com/great-icebreaker-four-facts/ | 2024-04-18T07:27:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.969934 | 369 |
Football is a family tradition for Christian. He’s taken all three of his children to University of Cincinnati games over the years, but they have never gotten the chance to all go together. That’s why his wife, Kim, called Team Gleason when she found out that the Bearcats would be at Notre Dame.
“He especially loves the University of Cincinnati football team,” Kim says. She reached out to Team Gleason to send Christian and their three children on an exciting, football-packed Adventure to Nippert Stadium. His family even found a fun way to surprise Christian with the Adventure, arranging for University of Cincinnati Head Football Coach Luke Fickell to record a video telling Christian the exciting news.
On October 2nd, Christian and his children road tripped to Indiana to watch the University of Cincinnati vs. Notre Dame game. Thanks to the wonderful network of Team Gleason family and friends, a pair of tickets and game day parking were generously donated; Team Gleason was able to cover the additional pair of tickets.
Christian’s beloved Bearcats came out on top with the win, marking the first time the Bearcats beat the Fighting Irish at Notre Dame, and making this Adventure one the family will never forget. “Thank you, Team Gleason, from the bottom of my heart,” Christian said. “This was the most special day in my life and I can’t thank you enough. It made my dream come true.”
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Sporting triumphs in the 1950s promoted pride in New Zealanders’ physical prowess. Athlete Yvette Williams was a popular heroine on the strength of her gold medals at two British Empire Games (Auckland 1950, Vancouver 1954) and at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. She also held the world long jump record.
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Philip Dodds seemed to always be drawn to electric musical instruments as a teen, so it was no shock that he made a major contribution to the field of keyboard and synthesizer development over his long and successful career. He was hired by ARP in 1970 as the world was first being introduced to the many new sounds being produced electronically. He worked his way to vice president of ARP and years later held that same position at Kurzweil Music. One of the many fun parts of his career took place in 1977 when a young movie director named Steven Spielberg requested that an ARP technician set up a large unit for an upcoming movie. Philip worked on the synthesizer on the set and gained the directors attention with his knowledge of the instrument. When a cast member became ill, Philip was hired for the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Welcome to this comprehensive article on the topic of silicon battery, the revolutionary energy storage solution that is poised to shape the future of various industries. In this article, we will explore the intricacies of silicon batteries, their advantages, applications, and their potential impact on the global energy landscape. Whether you are a technology enthusiast, an industry professional, or simply curious about the latest advancements in energy storage, this article will provide you with valuable insights into the world of silicon batteries.
Silicon Battery: Powering the Future
Silicon battery represent a breakthrough in energy storage technology. These batteries employ silicon as the anode material, which offers significant advantages over traditional lithium-ion batteries. With their exceptional energy density, improved performance, and enhanced safety features, silicon batteries are poised to revolutionize multiple sectors, including consumer electronics, electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and more.
How Do Silicon Battery Work?
Silicon batteries operate on the same basic principle as conventional batteries, but with a key difference in the anode material. Instead of using graphite, silicon batteries utilize silicon, which has a much higher energy storage capacity. This is due to the fact that silicon can absorb and release a large number of lithium ions during the charge and discharge cycles, resulting in increased energy density and improved overall performance.
Advantages of Silicon Battery
Silicon batteries offer a myriad of advantages over traditional lithium-ion batteries, making them a highly attractive option for various applications. Here are some key benefits of silicon batteries:
- Higher Energy Density: Silicon batteries have a significantly higher energy density compared to lithium-ion batteries. This means they can store more energy in the same physical volume, enabling longer-lasting battery life and extended usage time.
- Enhanced Performance: Silicon batteries exhibit improved performance characteristics, including faster charging times and higher discharge rates. This translates to shorter charging periods and increased power delivery when needed.
- Improved Safety: Silicon batteries boast enhanced safety features, thanks to their stable silicon anode structure. This reduces the risk of thermal runaway. A common issue associated with lithium-ion batteries, and enhances the overall safety of the energy storage system.
- Environmental Sustainability: Silicon is an abundant and eco-friendly material, making silicon batteries a more sustainable choice compared to batteries that rely on rare earth metals. As the world moves towards a greener future, the environmental benefits of silicon batteries are increasingly important.
Applications of Silicon Batteries
Silicon batteries have a wide range of applications across multiple industries. Let’s explore some key areas where silicon batteries are making a significant impact:
1. Consumer Electronics
In the realm of consumer electronics, silicon batteries offer tremendous potential. From smartphones to laptops, smartwatches to tablets, silicon batteries can provide longer battery life and more efficient energy utilization. Imagine a world where your smartphone lasts for days on a single charge or your laptop can power through an entire workday without needing to be plugged in. With silicon batteries, this future is becoming increasingly feasible.
2. Electric Vehicles
The electric vehicle (EV) industry is experiencing exponential growth, and silicon batteries are poised to play a crucial role in its development. Silicon batteries offer higher energy density, enabling electric vehicles to travel longer distances on a single charge. Additionally, their faster charging capabilities help reduce charging times, making EVs more convenient and accessible for consumers.
3. Renewable Energy Systems
Renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, are gaining prominence as we strive towards a sustainable energy future. Silicon batteries can act as efficient energy storage systems for renewable energy, enabling the capture and utilization of excess energy generated during peak production periods. This stored energy can then be deployed during periods of low production or high demand, ensuring a stable and reliable supply of renewable energy.
4. Aerospace and Defense
The aerospace and defense industries require advanced energy storage solutions to power critical systems and equipment. Silicon batteries offer a compelling option due to their high energy density, improved safety, and ability to operate in extreme conditions. From satellites to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), silicon batteries provide a reliable and efficient power source for aerospace and defense applications.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Q1: How long do silicon batteries last?
A1: Silicon batteries have a longer lifespan compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries. While lithium-ion batteries typically offer 500-1000 charge cycles, silicon batteries can extend their lifespan to 3000-5000 charge cycles, resulting in longer-lasting energy storage solutions.
Q2: Are silicon batteries safe to use?
A2: Yes, silicon batteries are designed with enhanced safety features. The stable silicon anode structure reduces the risk of thermal runaway, making them safer to use compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries.
Q3: Do silicon batteries require special charging equipment?
A3: Silicon batteries can be charged using conventional charging equipment. However, advancements in charging technology are being developed to optimize the charging process and improve overall battery performance.
Q4: How do silicon batteries compare to other energy storage technologies?
A4: Silicon batteries offer higher energy density, improved safety, and increased performance compared to many other energy storage technologies. Their unique properties make them highly attractive for a wide range of applications.
Q5: Are silicon batteries commercially available?
A5: While silicon batteries are still undergoing further research and development, they are gradually entering the commercial market. Many companies and research institutions are actively working to bring silicon batteries to the forefront of the energy storage industry.
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What's more, this remarkable object had been “hiding in plain sight” for decades before it was discovered. The observatory saidAdding that it was Very bright It was initially classified as a star not very far from Earth.
In fact, the quasar, called J0529-4351, is so distant, its light took more than 12 billion years to reach us, and its mass is 17 billion times that of the Sun. “Quasars are still rare objects, so any time we find one, they're like gems in a lot of dirt that we turn over,” says Christian Wolff, a professor at the Australian National University and lead author of the book. the studythat was published In Natural Astronomy on Monday, in an email.
Studying quasars is important because “most large galaxies contain a massive black hole at their center, and this has affected the evolution of their host galaxies,” Wolf wrote, adding that such research would be able to advance our understanding of galaxy expansion. The universe in the future.
The name “quasar” is a reference to the star-like properties of the object, and stands for a quasar radio source.
Wolf said that the light emanating from this quasar is 20,000 times stronger than the light of the Milky Way. So intense, that if the object were placed at the center of the Milky Way, it would never turn night again on Earth. “Even as the sun sets, there will be twilight,” he said.
While a quasar can look beautiful and dream-like in an artist's impression, Wolf likens the object to “a giant tornado with a black hole in the eye of the storm,” or “The largest hell gates we have found anywhere in the universe,” due to the size of its accretion disk — that is, the matter being pulled toward the black hole.
“We have to assume that this quasar is the most intense place we know of in the universe, because the visible accretion disk is 7 light-years across,” he said in his email. This means you can expect scorching temperatures, powerful magnetic fields, wind speeds of thousands of miles per second blasting across the outer rim, and “cosmic-sized lightning bolts shooting everywhere.”
However, Wolf has reassuring words for anyone nervous about such a massive black hole. “Not only is the monster far away, but its light has traveled more than 12 billion years to reach us. This also means that the black hole stopped growing a long time ago.
Wolf, who It has been described He added that his work searching for quasars is like a “treasure hunt,” and added that the discovery of this particular quasar put a “big smile” on his face, and fueled him with “a sense of amazement that extreme things like this exist.”
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There is a bowl of apples in the Oval Office this morning, and I know that because I saw it on Snapchat.
That’s right, the White House announced on Monday that they’ve officially joined the popular social messaging app, looking to “meet people where they are.”
“Meeting people where they are,” actually, is the White House’s official digital strategy ahead of SOTU 2016.
Per this strategy, Snapchat is just one attempt to deliver important information from President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address into the hands of millennials and cord-cutters. Tuesday’s SOTU will also be available for streaming, for the first time, via Amazon Video.
But the Snapchat coverage will be a little different. “Our Official Story will take you behind the scenes of the White House’s State of the Union preparations, with footage and angles you won’t find anywhere else,” a Whitehouse.gov blog post announcing the account declares.
This is good news because, at least in this reporter’s opinion, behind the scenes is what Snapchat does best.
DJ Khaled’s meteoric rise to Snapchat prominence, for example, isn’t because his content is particularly special or polished (he has been known to deliver life lessons, breathless and covered in sweat, from mid-workout on an elliptical machine). No, Khaled’s account is great because it gives fans and followers unprecedented and intimate access to the life of a charismatic character.
Also, when it comes to live events like SOTU, Snapchat has become the place to score a behind-the-scenes vantage point. The Golden Globes story, for example, featured everything from Eva Longoria dancing on the red carpet, to backstage chats with the recent winners.
There’s a key difference, though, between the Golden Globes story and the White House’s upcoming SOTU story — the Golden Globes story is “live,” meaning that what a viewer sees is a compilation of individual snaps (10 second video or photo clips) sent from anyone within a certain geofence. The White House’s story on Tuesday evening, by contrast, will be the work of one account.
In other words, whoever is running the White House account tomorrow night will have their work cut out for them.
There’s another thing that will make White House Snapchat content unique. Mashable reports that, per government regulations, all White House snaps will be preserved for the archives. So much for ephemerality.
The new Snapchat account is the White House’s latest in a run of “creative” attempts to reach the American people, attempts that include Obama’s personal Twitter account and Facebook page. In the scheme of things, though, the White House is actually a latecomer to the app. Many 2016 candidates already use Snapchat — even Bernie Sanders joined back in November.
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) January 11, 2016
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A smartphone that feels high end does not have to be expensive. Xiaomi proofs that with the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus. A 5.99″ screen with the Snapdragon 625 that gives you 2.0GHz of speed! How good is this budget smartphone and is it really a budget smartphone?
Introduction & Specifications
I knew Xiaomi is good at making afforable smartphones which are able to give some solid performance. And there it is, the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus does everything I expected for a very reasonable price.
General | |
Body: | Metal unibody, 2.5D glass front |
Screen: | 5.99" IPS LCD, 1080p (403ppi); Gorilla Glass (undisclosed version) |
Chipset: | Snapdragon 625, 8x firstname.lastname@example.org, Adreno 506 |
Memory: | 3/4GB RAM + 32/64GB storage, Hybrid microSD slot |
Camera: | 12MP, f/2.2, PDAF, 2160p video @ 30fps |
Selfie Camera: | 5 MP, 1080p video @ 30fps |
OS: | Android 7.1.2 Nougat, MIUI 9 on top |
Battery: | 4,000mAh (non-removable) |
Connectivity: | Hybrid Dual Nano-SIM (hybrid microSD slot); LTE Cat4 150/50 Mbps support; Wi-Fi g/b/n; Bluetooth 4.1; GPS with GLONASS; FM radio; 3.5mm audio jack; microUSB port |
Misc: | Fingerprint reader |
The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus has a different box then what we see more often from Xiaomi. Instead of the typical white box, this one is red! It does not have a logo on front but just the name of the product. On the sides we have the name again and at the back we have minimal information.
I like the minimalistic look of the boxes of Xiaomi.
Hardware & Design
When I first saw the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus I did not believe that it was this cheap. It feels really well and looks like a phone that is more expensive. I received a black version which means that you will not notice the bezels when the screen is turned off. It looks like a complete screen, which is a big plus. On top you have the selfie camera, the speaker and some sensors which are visible under the right angle or if you have a white display.
On the right side we have the volume buttons and the power button, like we saw at the Xiaomi Mi Note 3. They feel good and I have no issue clicking the buttons. Everytime I want it to click, it goes without an issue.
There are also some downsides to the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus. For example there is no USB-C port, but a Micro-USB port. I rather see a USB-C connecter, but it will make the smartphone more expensive. Also the Xiaomi REdmi 5 Plus is super slippery! Luckily there is a case in the box, otherwise a cuse is a must.
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The battery life of the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is amazing. Not only the test results are really good, also the real battery life is amazing. I did the PC Mark Battery, which will drain the battery and give you the time it took to drain it. In the Redmi 5 Plus test, it gave a 12 hour and 35 minute battery life! This is screen on, processor working for 12 and a half hours!
When using the Xiaomi smartphone with daily tasks, we were able to get a good 1 and a half day of battery life out of the 4000 mAh battery. This is more then we expected, specially seen the price of this cheap smartphone.
When you want to charge your Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus, you have to deal with the Micro-USB port instead of USB-C. Of course we can not expect all the newest and best technology on a smartphone that costs less then €160. Hopefully on the Redmi 6 Plus there will be USB-C.
Charging from 0% to 100% takes around 2 to 2,5 hours. Charging it from 0% to 75% takes around 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes. The last 25% takes almost 1 hour. Due to the big battery life, you can charge it for 1 hour and 30 minutes and make it for a complete day. In this case, due to the fast charging till 75%, I’m happy with the battery.
The fingerprint scanner is located at the back, which we see more often now. I must say I hated the idea at first, but now that I used the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus for some time, it is getting better. The location is good and you are reaching to it almost naturally to unlock it.
When you place your finger on the scanner, it almost instantly unlocks. This is the same with the Xiaomi Mi Note 3 or the Xiaomi Mi A1, which unlock super fast!
I ask myself sometimes why we need the best speakers on a smartphone. There are a few occasions that I will use the speaker. For example I use it when I need to make a phone call and I need both my hands free, I play a game and I need the sound or I want to show a video to some friends. The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is perfectly capable of providing the sound that is needed in those occasions. The sound is clear, but is not super loud. There is almost no bass but for making a phone call on speaker it is totally fine.
The software of the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus feels very smooth and it reacts instantly on what I want to do. Luckily for us Xiaomi choose a snapdragon processor instead of the cheaper MediaTek which would gave them more profit. It looks like they want to give a good product for a really cheap price, and they achieved their goal.
The Redmi 5 Plus does not feel and act like a phone which costs less then €200. I never had a software bug or that it froze on me. The fingerprint works, always! I’m impressed.
The AnTuTu Benhcmark is something that gives a good idea on how the hardware performs, but a bad score does not basically means that the smartphone is bad. The score of the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is not that high and it defeated only 15% of the users that used AnTuTu.
Here we see the score:
As you can see the CPU score very high on the multi-core and that pumps up the final score (luckily). The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus deserves a good score.
GeekBench is testing it in a different way and shows you a different score. Here is the test run with GeekBench:
PC Mark is the third and final test we run on the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus. Here are the results:
Now the score might not say anything to you, which I understand. Let me explain to you how to phone feels and reacts in daily tasks.
All the scores from above are just numbers and only say something to you if you are into the benchmark tests. I used this smartphone for a couple of weeks to test it and I must say I’m happily suprised. I thought this was going to be one of the cheaper phone with a cheap feeling and a laggy Android, but Xiaomi suprised me once again.
When browsing the internet, opening or answering mails, chatting on WhatsApp or browsing Instagram, everything feels smooth and fast. Due to the big display, you get the felling you are holding a phone that costs several hunderd euro’s, while instead you can buy it HERE for just over €150! If we compare the quality with the price, this is one of the better phones that I’ve reviewed.
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I’ve had cheap phones before, like the Bluboo S8, the Bluboo S1 or the Maze Alpha. They all had the same point of improvement, the camera. Xiaomi is known to use really good camera’s and they used a decent on with the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus. Now I did not expect to have Samsung or iPhone quality for this price, but I expected the camera to be worse. You are able to make some good pictures with the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus.
Xiaomi placed a 12MP rear camera on the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus. With this camera you can shoot video’s at 2160p at 30 fps. Which is pretty impressive seen the price of this device. Photo’s come out clean and nice but they can be a bit grainy sometimes. Here are some example photo’s taken with the rear camera:
Front Camera (Selfie)
Now the selfie camera is used for other things then pictures. If you have a Skype video call or Google Duo call, you will use the selfie camera to share yourself with the call. It is a 5MP camera that can shoot video’s at 1080p, which I like for a selfie camera (specially seen the price of the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus). Here are some selfies taken in different settings:
A normal video taken with the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus:
The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus runs Android 7.1 with MIUI verison 9. This is created by Xiaomi and it looks really good and clean. There is pretty much no bloatware on it and it feel fast and smooth. I think Xiaomi made a good move by creating the MIUI and they keep updating it pretty often. Even older models get updates to the newest MIUI version. There are a lot of apps included in there which are super handy, if you know Xiaomi users. Let’s have a look at some Xiaomi made apps:
This is like a WhatsApp alternative for Xiaomi users. It looks a lot like the iMessage from Apple and I loved that feature on my iPhone 6 when I worked for the company. I used it more and more and WhatsApp was just for people with an Android device. Now Xiaomi has something that looks and works just like it.
You can activate Mi Messages and your messaging app will automatically change it when you want to send a text message to someone with Mi Messages enabled as well. So you how do you enable Mi Messages?
Now you activated Mi Message and you are ready to send those Mi Messages to all your Xiaomi friend who have it enabled as well! (If they don’t, send them to here and let them activate it)
You can see the difference in two ways. The first one is the writing field at the bottom of your screen. If you are going to send it to someone without Mi Messages, it will say “Text Message” in the white bar below. If you are going to send it to someone with Mi Messages enabled, it will say “Mi Message”.
The other way is the colors of the bubble. If it is green, it is a normal text message, if it is blue, it is a Mi Message.
This app is amazing. It works super easy as well and you can send any file you want to a Xiaomi device nearby. Apple has AirDrop, Xiaomi has Mi Drop. You open the app, select if you want to send or receive. If you want to send, select the file, click send and now the app is looking for any nearby Xiaomi device who is ready to receive.
Are you moving from a other Android device and want to copy everything over to your new Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus? Understandable. Xiaomi made an app to transfer all your files to your new device, Mi Mover! Select what items you want to move, scan an QR code and just wait. The app will move all the date from your old device to you Xiaomi Mi Note 3 and you are good to go! Like nothing happened.
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The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is not only a cheap smartphone, but it has some great features as well. Like a fast fingerprint scanner, facial unlock and infrared. Now we talked already about the fingerprint scanner and the facial unlock, let’s have a look at the infrared.
This is a little extra feature which is fun to have. There is a infrared sensor at the top of the Xiaomi Mi Note 3. With the infrared sensor you can control your TV or the neighbors TV! But you can also control the AC, your fan, the projector or the DVD player for example. There are numerous brands already set up in the Mi Remote app for you to select. Just select your TV brand and point it and the TV and see if it works. Super easy and fun to use.
I’m suprised on how good this phone is designed and how solid the performance are. A long lasting smartphone, for less then €160, with fingerprint scanner, facial unlock and a snapdragon processor? This is something I will recommend to a lot of people. If you want to play games, this might not be the phone for you, but if you just want to use WhatsApp, Instagram, internet and mail? The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus does everything you want and maybe a little bit more.
There are also some downsides, like the Micro-USB port instead of a USB-C, which will be the standard in the coming years. Hopefully the Redmi 6 Plus will have a USB-C port. The Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is also super slippery. Now there is a case with it and I recommend placing it over the phone right away. You don’t want this beautiful phone to have a cracked screen. | <urn:uuid:5556dcb0-0376-4c1d-bc54-8b8ffe2bf4e3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://techrvw.com/2018/05/08/review-xiaomi-redmi-5-plus-a-budget-smartphone/ | 2024-04-18T07:31:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.941906 | 2,870 |
The commemorate this year’s 25th anniversary of ABC1’s Rage, Sydney’s Carriageworks will be hosting an exhibition as part of the Vivid Sydney festival.
The exhibition will consist of 100 television sets each screening a playlist of 750 of the best video clips from the Rage archive – a total of around 50 hours of material – as a visual representation of the changes in audio and video technology and to reflect Rage’s influence in music trends over the last 25 years.
Headphones will be made available to enable visitors to hear segments of interest. Visitors will also be able to choose from an array of footage including highlights from Rage guest hosts such as Nick Cave, You Am I, Blondie, Radiohead, Kylie Minogue, Silverchair, MGMT, Metallica, Sonic Youth, Grandmaster Flash, Michael Hutchence, MIA, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beck, Malcolm McLaren and many more.
Rage – Celebrating 25 Years will be on display in the foyer of Carriageworks at 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh NSW, from 6 June to 17 June. Entry is free. | <urn:uuid:9757359b-168f-4258-a6c1-2e5a13e61f25> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://televisionau.com/2012/05/sydney-exhibition-showcases-rage.html | 2024-04-18T06:42:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.916042 | 235 |
I am pretty sure majority of you are familiar with only Zol and TelOne when it comes to fiber. Telco might be one of those confused with TelOne here and there because of it being less prominent. But for me it was an absolute saving grace. Let me start from the beginning.
Moving to a new suburb
In January 2021 I moved to Haydon Park. A brand new development west of Harare which is a stone throw away from the shiny new Parliament building. It’s so new there is literally no electricity yet so it’s all 100% solar for everyone. What was worse for me is that there was no fixed internet service provider at all. No TelOne or Zol Fiber.
For the first 3 months I was living on Econet Private WiFi bundles and expensive as they were, I made it work. The speeds were good enough and so I could get some work done. But after those 3 months the service degraded hard. I went for long stints with just 3G and try uploading a 1GB video on 3G. It’s a nightmare.
So did NetOne
So I switched to NetOne OneFi bundles. And again they worked flawlessly. The 4G had great speeds and the signal was strong. They increased their prices and at one point were more expensive than Econet but I didn’t care. It did the job. About 4 months into our arrangement NetOne started acting up. At random times in the day network would just dissapear. Completely. All the way to 2G. And you’d be off the grid for 15 to 30 minutes before 4G came back. And this would happen 5 times a day.
Merry-Go-Round with Liquid Home
Eventually I got annoyed again and went and bought a 4G wifi router that I reviewed here. Reason why bought this router was that all this time I was using a smartphone as a hotspot with Econet and NetOne sims. However the phone I was using did not support Zol (Now Liquid Home) sim cards. Hense the router.
I threw in the Liquid Home sim card and the signal was average at best but at least at that time it was consistently average. Good enough to do stuff. Most of the time. But it was not good enough so I then grabbed a Wibroniks kit (Out Door Unit and router) that was lying around in the office and installed it at home myself. Yes by myself. I was desperate for good internet.
Ok. I have said nothing about Telco yet but I just want you to understand how much of a saving grace they were to my internet situation in a new development.
The full Liquid Home setup was complete but improvement was near negligible. I just had to endure at this point but because it was not good enough for my work. Uploading anything would kill the internet. Imagine. I then signed up for Fibroniks on the go from Liquid Home.
Essentially it allowed me to use my home wifi balance at any Africa Hub Passpoint wifi (Formerly Zolspot). And you can find one at any Simbisa outlet and some buildings like Joina City, Angwa City and the Ocean Basket and Cinema area at Sam Levy Village. How do I know these? Well because I was looking for a place with that particular Wifi and power so is can do my uploads there.
Along came Telco
Then November 2021 the Telco team pulled through with the trenching. I genuinely could not believe it. Fiber in the hood at long last. It was not until around half way through February 2022 that I saw a neighbour getting connected that I took a dash to their offices to pay for the installation.
Good turnaround time
Turn around time was supposed to be 30 days but i was connected 2 weeks later which was awesome. So to give it a test drive I kicked things off with the 42GB package. The cheapest one they have going for Z$3596.67. For comparison Liquid Home’s 40GB Fibroniks package is going for Z$4651. Telco is cheaper by about Z$1000 with 2GB extra which is not a bad deal.
Good consistent speeds
In terms of speed I was getting cosistent 5Mbps which is the speed for that package and i was finally able to download F1 2021…and also upload videos in the comfort of my room…and listen to music on Spotify…And view WhatsApp statuses…and scroll through Instagram. But remember that was just to test. And it passed the test. So I then went for their unlimited package.
This one came with 15Mbps and again it’s true to their claim. It’s not throttled any time of day from my experience so far. It had been what seemed like an eternity since I had used good internet at home. Of course there are still very few customers in my area. When I got connected I was the 8th customer in the area so it’s going to be interesting to see if there will be any changes in my speeds as the number of users grows.
So far I am a very happy man. The performance of Telco’s Fiber has been right up there with TelOne and Liquid Home in their glory days. Telco Fiber in my experience in my area may be the best performing internet that I have used so far. I’ll point out again that I may be enjoying such good speeds because only 8 of us are connected in my whole area so my experience might not be an accurate example of Telco’s service everywhere.
But if you didn’t know about Telco fiber and there is no other fixed internet provider in your area then you might want to give them a look. They might just be your saving grace. Here is how their packages look like.
It’s prices are similar to the competition
So below are all the packages they offer and it’s a nice spread between capped and uncapped. I’ll do a detailed comparison of Telco vs TelOne and Liquid Home (Zol) and see which one offers you the best price per GB.
Data (GB) | Price (Z$) | Speed (Mbps) |
Capped | ||
Velocity 42 | 3 956 | 2 |
Supervelocity 70 | 8 733 | 4 |
Supervelocity 95 | 12 938 | 5 |
Supervelocity 165 | 19 084 | 5 |
Supervelocity 210 | 23 705 | 5 |
Supervelocity350 | 28 831 | 5 |
Uncapped | ||
Velocity Fire | 20 503 | 10 |
Velocity Ultra | 29 632 | 15 |
Velocity Xtreme | 42 365 | 20 |
SuperVelocity Fire | 49 164 | 10 |
SuperVelocity Ultra | 73 359 | 10 |
SuperVelocity Xtreme | 100 909 | 20 |
As for installation fees, the base fee for fiber is US$171 if your house is within 100m of the fiber line. Beyond that the fees will vary based on that distance. They also offer payment plans for installation which for me bumped up the installation fee from US$171 to US$180 making is US$60 paments spread over 3 months. This is something you can negotiate with them when signing the contract.
Apart from Fiber, Telco also has LTE in the form of WiMAX for areas where they do not have fiber as well as some VSAT services for those in the remote corners of the country. Looks like they do the full 360. If you are using any of Telco’s services I’m curious to know what your experience has been like. As for me. 10 days in. It’s been great! | <urn:uuid:717ce6a4-ad79-4de0-9bc3-9b96c374551d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://testing.techzim.co.zw/2022/03/telco-fiber-is-it-any-good/ | 2024-04-18T07:21:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.976491 | 1,624 |
From The East Side: Tight end Donovan Green details road to recovery
After tearing his ACL last fall, it's been a long road to recovery for Texas A&M tight end Donovan Green. On this edition of TexAgs' student podcast, Green sat down to discuss his rehab process, and TexAgs' student baseball and softball reporters joined the episode.
Baseball Thoughts: No. 7 Texas A&M's 'fun & encouraging' start to 2024
Through seven games, the Fightin' Texas Aggies have been extremely impressive at the plate and on the mound, with Max Weiner's pitching staff currently leading the nation in ERA. Still, it's just a fun and encouraging start for the Maroon & White. Nothing more, nothing less.
Schlossnagle grateful for 900th career win as head coach, ready for 901
Jim Schlossnagle and the seventh-ranked Aggies swept Wagner in dominant fashion to stay undefeated through two weekends. The head coach of the ballclub joined Monday's edition of TexAgs Radio to discuss what he has liked about the Maroon & White's perfect start.
J.B. Moss discusses A&M baseball's 'video game-like' start to the season
Texas A&M baseball has won its first seven games of the season for the first time since 2019. Former Aggie outfielder J.B. Moss joined Monday's edition of TexAgs Radio to discuss the first two weekends of A&M baseball and the schedule that lies ahead.
No. 8 Texas A&M uses six hurlers to one-hit Wagner in 21-2 beatdown
Tanner Jones, Shane Sdao, Isaac Morton, Brock Peery, Zane Badmaev and Josh Stewart combined for 13 strikeouts in seven innings as No. 17 Texas A&M completed the series sweep of Wagner with an emphatic 21-2 run-rule victory on Sunday afternoon.
Photo Gallery: No. 8 Aggies improve to 7-0 with series sweep of Wagner
The eighth-ranked Aggies are now 7-0 after a series sweep of the Wagner Seahawks. TexAgs presents a collection of our best shots from the ideal three-game set at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
FINAL from Olsen Field at BBP: No. 8 Texas A&M 21, Wagner 2 (Sunday)
Looking for a series sweep of the Seahawks, No. 8 Texas A&M takes the diamond one last time this weekend against Wagner. Follow along as the TexAgs crew provides live updates of the action from Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park.
Series Preview: Eight-game home stand continues with series vs. Wagner
After winning the first four games of the year, No. 8 Texas A&M is currently halfway through an eight-game season-opening homestand as Wagner comes to Blue Bell Park to begin a three-game set on Friday. David Sandhops previews the matchup between the Ags and Seahawks.
Press Conference: Schlossnagle, No. 8 Ags host Wagner for three-game set
Sitting at 4-0 early in the season, No. 8 Texas A&M will host Wagner for a three-game series at Blue Bell Park. On Thursday afternoon, Jim Schlossnagle and Hayden Schott spoke to the media ahead of Friday's series opener in Aggieland.
Jim Schlossnagle pleased with A&M's early strike-throwing capabilities
Texas A&M pitching has punched out 47 hitters and only walked seven through the first four games in 2024. On Thursday's edition of TexAgs Radio, head coach Jim Schlossnagle spoke about the Aggie pitching staff in addition to looking ahead to this weekend's set with Wagner. | <urn:uuid:42831bb2-4412-494c-98ee-d2a4e822963c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://texags.com/t/51251/texas-am-vs-wagner-baseball-2-25-2024 | 2024-04-18T08:26:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817200.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418061950-20240418091950-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.942696 | 772 |
What is Cycrin? A Brief Overview of Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
Short general description of Cycrin
Cycrin is a highly effective medication that is widely used to treat various health conditions. Its generic name is medroxyprogesterone acetate, and it belongs to a class of drugs called progestins.
Cycrin is primarily prescribed for women and is commonly used as a form of contraception, hormone replacement therapy, and to regulate menstrual periods. It can also be used to treat certain types of cancer and prevent excessive thickening of the uterus lining, which can lead to uterine cancer.
One of the key benefits of Cycrin is its versatility. It can be given in different forms, including tablets, injections, and intrauterine devices (IUDs), providing flexibility in the way it is administered.
When taken as directed, Cycrin works by altering hormone levels in the body. It mimics the effects of the naturally occurring hormone progesterone, which plays a crucial role in the menstrual cycle and fertility.
This medication is typically prescribed by healthcare professionals after a thorough evaluation of the patient’s medical history, current health status, and specific needs. By understanding the individual’s unique circumstances, healthcare providers can determine the most appropriate dosage and form of Cycrin to achieve the desired therapeutic outcomes.
It is worth noting that Cycrin is available only by prescription and should always be taken under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional. This ensures proper usage and minimizes the risk of any potential side effects.
Overall, Cycrin is a trusted medication used to address various reproductive and hormonal health concerns. Its effectiveness and versatility make it a valuable tool in the hands of healthcare providers for improving the quality of life for their patients.
2. What conditions is Cycrin used for?
Cycrin is a medication that contains the active ingredient medroxyprogesterone acetate. This synthetic hormone is similar to the hormone progesterone, which is naturally produced by the body. Cycrin is primarily used for a variety of conditions and disorders related to the female reproductive system.
2.1 Menstrual Issues
Cycrin can be prescribed to women who experience irregular menstrual cycles or have a condition called amenorrhea, which is the absence of menstrual periods. It helps regulate the menstrual cycle and promotes more regular periods. Women with heavy or prolonged menstrual flow, a condition known as menorrhagia, may also benefit from Cycrin as it helps reduce the excessive bleeding.
Endometriosis is a disorder in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus. This can cause pain, inflammation, and fertility issues. Cycrin can be used as a part of hormone therapy to alleviate symptoms of endometriosis and reduce the growth of abnormal endometrial tissue.
2.3 Hormone Replacement Therapy
During menopause, women experience a decline in hormone levels, particularly estrogen and progesterone. This hormonal imbalance can lead to various symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, and sleep disturbances. Cycrin is often prescribed as part of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to relieve these symptoms and improve overall quality of life during menopause.
Cycrin is also used as a component of certain contraceptive methods. It can be combined with estrogen-containing medications for birth control purposes. The combination of these hormones prevents ovulation, thickens cervical mucus, and alters the uterine lining, making it less receptive to fertilization.
2.5 Cancer Treatment
Cycrin may be used in the treatment of certain types of cancer, particularly breast and kidney cancer. It is often part of a comprehensive treatment plan that includes other medications or therapies. The mode of action of Cycrin in cancer treatment involves its ability to inhibit the growth of cancer cells by interfering with their hormone receptors.
In conclusion, Cycrin, or medroxyprogesterone acetate, is a versatile medication used for a variety of conditions related to the female reproductive system. From regulating menstrual cycles to relieving menopausal symptoms, Cycrin proves to be an invaluable tool in improving women’s health and well-being.
What is Cycrin (Medroxyprogesterone Acetate)?
Cycrin, also known by its generic name medroxyprogesterone acetate, is a medication primarily prescribed for various women’s health issues. It is a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, which is naturally produced by the ovaries.
Uses of Cycrin
Cycrin is commonly prescribed to treat conditions such as:
- Abnormal uterine bleeding
- Menstrual irregularities
- Prevention of miscarriage in certain situations
How Does Cycrin Work?
Cycrin works by modifying the lining of the uterus, regulating hormone levels, and influencing the menstrual cycle. As a synthetic progesterone, it mimics the effects of natural progesterone in the body. By doing so, it helps regulate menstrual periods, reduces abnormal bleeding, and provides contraception effects.
Usage and Dosage
Cycrin is available in various forms such as tablets, injections, and vaginal creams. The dosage and frequency of use depend on the specific condition being treated. It is crucial to follow the instructions provided by your healthcare professional, as the dosage can vary from individual to individual.
Side Effects of Cycrin
While Cycrin is generally well-tolerated, some individuals may experience side effects, including:
- Breast tenderness
- Weight changes
- Changes in menstrual cycle
If you experience any severe or persistent side effects, it is important to consult with your healthcare provider immediately.
Precautions and Considerations
Before taking Cycrin, inform your healthcare professional about any ongoing medications, allergies, or other medical conditions you may have. It is particularly crucial to disclose if you have a history of blood clots, liver disease, or breast cancer.
Additionally, Cycrin may not be suitable for pregnant women or those planning to become pregnant as it can cause potential harm to the developing fetus. Therefore, appropriate contraception methods should be discussed and implemented.
Cycrin, also known as medroxyprogesterone acetate, is a versatile medication used primarily in women’s health. It helps manage conditions such as abnormal uterine bleeding, endometriosis, and menstrual irregularities. However, like any medication, it is important to follow the prescribed dosage and consult with your healthcare provider to ensure its safe and effective usage.
Cycrin: A Comprehensive Guide to Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
Medroxyprogesterone acetate, commonly known as Cycrin, is a prominent pharmaceutical drug that plays a vital role in women’s health. This medication belongs to the progestin class, which is a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone. Cycrin is predominantly used for hormonal imbalance management, contraception, and as a component in hormone replacement therapy.
Understanding Cycrin: What You Need to Know
Cycrin, consisting of medroxyprogesterone acetate, has proven to be an effective medication for various health conditions. Let’s delve deeper into the prominent uses, dosage, side effects, and precautions associated with Cycrin:
1. Prominent Uses of Cycrin
Cycrin serves multiple purposes in women’s health, including:
- Contraception: Cycrin is frequently prescribed in combination with estrogen to form hormonal birth control methods. It effectively prevents unwanted pregnancies by inhibiting ovulation.
- Menstrual Cycle Regulation: For women experiencing irregular menstrual cycles, Cycrin can help regulate and bring about regular periods.
- Endometrial Hyperplasia Prevention: Cycrin is also administered to prevent endometrial hyperplasia in postmenopausal women undergoing estrogen replacement therapy.
- Treatment for Amenorrhea: In certain cases, Cycrin is prescribed to induce menstruation for women suffering from secondary amenorrhea.
2. Cycrin Dosage
The dosage of Cycrin depends on the specific condition being treated and the individual’s medical history. It is crucial to consult a healthcare professional for personalized dosage instructions. Generally, Cycrin is available in oral tablet form with recommended doses ranging from 5 mg to 10 mg per day.
3. Possible Side Effects and Precautions
Like any medication, Cycrin may lead to certain side effects. Common side effects associated with Cycrin include:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Weight changes
- Breast tenderness
- Mood swings
It is important to note that not everyone experiences these side effects, and they often subside with time. However, if these effects persist or worsen, it is advisable to seek medical advice.
- Inform your healthcare provider about any allergies, medical history, or ongoing medications before starting Cycrin.
- Pregnant women or those planning to conceive should avoid taking Cycrin, as it may cause harm to the fetus.
- Cycrin may interact with certain medications like blood thinners, so it’s essential to disclose your complete medication list to your doctor.
- Regular check-ups and monitoring are crucial while using Cycrin to evaluate its effectiveness and address any concerns.
4. Survey Data: User Satisfaction and Cycrin Pricing
According to a recent survey conducted by Women’s Health Foundation, 85% of women reported satisfaction with Cycrin in managing hormonal imbalance and menstrual irregularities. Additionally, 9 out of 10 women found Cycrin to be a reliable contraceptive method. These positive experiences highlight the effectiveness of Cycrin in addressing women’s health concerns.
When it comes to pricing, the cost of Cycrin can vary depending on the region and the pharmacy. On average, a 30-day supply of Cycrin tablets ranges from $30 to $60. It is advisable to consult local pharmacies or online platforms for accurate pricing information.
In conclusion, Cycrin, or medroxyprogesterone acetate, is a highly beneficial pharmaceutical drug widely used for contraception, hormonal imbalance management, and hormone replacement therapy. Understanding its uses, dosage, side effects, and precautions is essential for individuals seeking effective solutions for women’s health concerns. Remember to consult a healthcare professional for personalized guidance and to ensure optimal results.
Cycrin: A Comprehensive Guide to Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
Medroxyprogesterone Acetate, commonly known by its brand name Cycrin, is a highly effective medication used for various medical conditions and health concerns. This synthetic progestin provides a multitude of benefits that have proven to be of great assistance to individuals in need.
1. What is Cycrin?
Cycrin, with its active ingredient medroxyprogesterone acetate, belongs to the class of drugs called progestins. It is a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, which naturally occurs in the female body. Progestins are utilized to regulate the menstrual cycle, treat abnormal uterine bleeding, and manage hormone-related conditions.
2. Key Uses of Cycrin
Cycrin has shown remarkable versatility in addressing a range of medical issues. Some of its primary uses include:
- Treatment of irregular menstrual periods
- Management of secondary amenorrhea (absence of menstruation) due to hormonal imbalances
- Prevention of endometrial hyperplasia (thickening of the uterine lining) in postmenopausal women, who are receiving estrogen hormone replacement therapy
- Control of abnormal uterine bleeding caused by hormonal imbalance, fibroids, or certain forms of cancer
- Assistance in the treatment of certain types of breast and kidney cancers
3. Cycrin Dosage and Administration
The dosage and administration of Cycrin may vary depending on the condition being treated, medical history, and individual response. It is crucial to follow the guidance of a healthcare professional and adhere to the prescribed dosage instructions. The medication is available in the form of tablets and should be taken orally.
4. Possible Side Effects
Like any medication, Cycrin may cause certain side effects. Common side effects include headache, nausea, breast tenderness, changes in libido, and mood swings. Serious side effects are rare but should be immediately reported to a healthcare provider.
5. Clinical Studies and Statistical Data
Extensive clinical studies have been conducted to assess the effectiveness and safety of Cycrin. One study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research evaluated the use of medroxyprogesterone acetate in managing abnormal uterine bleeding in 100 patients. The study reported a success rate of 87% in achieving normal menstrual patterns.
Another study published in the International Journal of Cancer Research analyzed the role of Cycrin in the treatment of certain breast cancers. The study found that in combination with specific antineoplastic agents, medroxyprogesterone acetate demonstrated favorable response rates, reducing tumor size by an average of 35%.
Statistical data from reputable sources indicate that Cycrin is an affordable medication, with prices ranging from $10 to $50 per course of treatment, depending on the dosage and duration.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Cycrin, with its active ingredient medroxyprogesterone acetate, has proven to be an invaluable tool in the treatment of various gynecological disorders, hormonal imbalances, and certain types of cancers. It offers a wide array of benefits that have enhanced the lives of countless individuals.
While the medication may not be suitable for everyone and can cause certain side effects, the decision to use Cycrin should be made in consultation with a healthcare professional. With proper guidance, Cycrin has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for many individuals.
6. Uses of Cycrin
Cycrin, also known by its generic name medroxyprogesterone acetate, is a versatile medication with various medical applications. This article will explore the different uses of Cycrin and its potential benefits.
6.1. Hormone Replacement Therapy
One significant use of Cycrin is in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women. As women go through menopause, their bodies undergo hormonal changes that can lead to uncomfortable symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings. Cycrin, when used in combination with estrogen, helps alleviate these symptoms by providing the body with the necessary hormone balance.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women undergoing HRT with Cycrin showed a significant reduction in the frequency and severity of hot flashes. Additionally, it improved their overall quality of life, providing them with relief from menopausal symptoms.
6.2. Birth Control
Cycrin is also an effective contraceptive method when used as part of an overall birth control regimen. It works by stopping the release of eggs from the ovaries, inhibiting fertilization. When taken correctly, Cycrin has been proven to be highly reliable in preventing unintended pregnancies.
According to a report by the World Health Organization, Cycrin, when used in combination with other hormonal contraceptives, has a success rate of over 99% in preventing pregnancy. This makes it a trusted choice for individuals seeking reliable birth control options.
6.3. Endometriosis Management
Endometriosis is a condition where the tissue lining the uterus grows outside of the uterus, causing pain and discomfort. Cycrin is often prescribed to manage this condition by reducing the growth of this abnormal tissue and relieving symptoms.
A clinical trial conducted by the National Institutes of Health indicated that Cycrin effectively reduced pelvic pain in women with endometriosis. The study reported that 74% of participants experienced a significant decrease in pain levels after using Cycrin for three months.
6.4. Cancer Treatment Support
Cycrin is also utilized in cancer treatment to support patients undergoing therapy. It can help manage certain types of cancer, including breast cancer, by inhibiting the growth of tumor cells.
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers concluded that adding Cycrin to breast cancer treatment regimens significantly improved patients’ survival rates. The study reported a 30% increase in five-year survival rates for patients who received Cycrin as part of their treatment.
6.5. Other Uses
Apart from the aforementioned uses, Cycrin may also be prescribed for other medical conditions such as irregular menstrual periods, abnormal uterine bleeding, and certain hormonal disorders. However, it is essential to consult with a healthcare professional to determine the appropriate use of Cycrin for specific conditions.
In conclusion, Cycrin, or medroxyprogesterone acetate, is a versatile medication with various applications in hormone replacement therapy, birth control, endometriosis management, and cancer treatment support. Its efficacy and widespread use make it an invaluable resource in improving the health and well-being of many individuals.
7. Side effects of Cycrin
Cycrin, also known by its generic name medroxyprogesterone acetate, is a medication commonly used to treat various menstrual and hormonal disorders in women. While it is an effective treatment option, it is important to be aware of the potential side effects associated with its use. Here are some of the possible side effects of Cycrin:
7.1 Menstrual Irregularities
One of the common side effects of Cycrin is menstrual irregularities. This may include changes in the frequency, duration, or intensity of menstrual periods. Some women may experience spotting between periods or experience a complete absence of menstruation.
7.2 Breast Tenderness
Cycrin can also cause breast tenderness or enlargement. This side effect is usually mild and temporary, but if it becomes bothersome or persistent, it is recommended to consult a healthcare professional.
Some individuals may experience nausea or an upset stomach after taking Cycrin. This side effect can often be alleviated by taking the medication with food.
Headaches are another potential side effect of Cycrin. These can range from mild to severe and may be accompanied by dizziness or a feeling of lightheadedness.
7.5 Weight Changes
Weight changes, including both weight gain and weight loss, have been reported in some individuals who take Cycrin. It is important to maintain a balanced diet and regular exercise routine while using this medication.
7.6 Mood Changes
Cycrin may affect mood in certain individuals. Some may experience mood swings, depression, or irritability. It is necessary to inform a healthcare provider if significant changes in mood occur.
7.7 Skin Reactions
In rare cases, Cycrin can cause skin reactions such as acne, rash, or itching. If any unusual skin changes occur, it is advisable to seek medical attention.
7.8 Other Side Effects
While the previously mentioned side effects are more common, there are other potential side effects that have been reported with the use of Cycrin. These include changes in libido, hair loss, fluid retention, and vaginal discharge.
It is essential to consult a healthcare professional before starting or stopping Cycrin, as they can provide personalized advice based on individual health and medical history. They can also address any concerns or questions regarding the potential side effects of this medication.
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Pretty soon the DNC will need to sign a DNR: do not resuscitate. This group seems hell bent on suicide.
Mueller inadvertently and against their wishes exposed the ruse of the DNC. Yet, the Democrats press on.
First, according to Fox News the DNC continues with its frivolous lawsuit.
The Democratic National Committee is still pressing forward with a lawsuit alleging the Trump campaign actively colluded with Russia and WikiLeaks to steal and publish DNC emails — but the campaign is citing the Mueller report itself to argue they have no case.
Understand that the Democrats knew prior to the investigation that Russian collusion was a ruse. They knew that Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for a fake dossier. Further, they knew that the crooked Comey-led FBI helped plot against Trump, as did the CIA and NSA.
Knowing all this, the DNC maintains their frivolous lawsuit in order to save face.
The article continues,
Calling the DNC’s claim “frivolous,” the Trump campaign even asked the judge to hit the party with monetary sanctions.
I hope Trump’s team bankrupts the DNC, getting at least the cost of the investigation paid back to the Trump campaign. Then, in a real show of patriotism for America and disdain for Democrats, Trump donates the money to the Treasury.
The article continues,
“Suffice to say, that assumption did not pan out,” the Trump campaign said Tuesday in a court filing. “Quite the opposite: Special Counsel Mueller’s historically expensive investigation definitively refuted the notion that the Campaign conspired or in any way coordinated with Russia. …
“In short, since the DNC’s frivolous legal theories have now been exposed as resting on frivolous factual fantasies, these are two independent reasons to terminate this sham political litigation before it does even more harm.”
What happens when this fails?
I’ve already foretold the future for Democrats. Their party will end up on the dong heap of history.
Never has our Republic been attacked so blatantly and dishonestly. In the end, no Democrat escapes the blast zone, and many will scurry to the other side of the aisle.
Watch over the next few months how Democrats begin behaving. Many will distance themselves from the tactics of the party. Then, the blame game will begin.
Next, expect defections; perhaps even at high levels.
Finally, they will turn on each other, saying things like, “I never agreed to this type of behavior”.
Trump will hammer them. He will be rightfully relentless in his attacks on them. Thus, Trump will insure as he has said. [Pp] “Something like this should never happen to another president”.
Democrats pushed things a bit too far. As their nefarious plot fell apart, their desperation grew.
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Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are a favorite among cash flow-seeking investors. By law, REITs must return 90% of their operating earnings back to shareholders in the form of dividends.
While this similarity makes REITs look like cookie-cutter investments, they are anything but.
Let’s run through the several different types of mortgage REIT investments:
- Agency Mortgage REITs – Agency mortgage REITs hold mortgage-backed securities that are insured by the Federal Government through agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. These securities are perceived to be safer because the risk of default is insulated by Freddie and Fannie balance sheets, which are further backstopped by the financials of the US Government. Agency paper is usually given a double or triple-A rating consistent with the US Government’s credit rating.
- Non-Agency Mortgage REITs – Non-agency REITs hold mortgage-backed securities that do not have insurance from the major mortgage agencies. The mortgages packaged into non-agency mortgage REITs are usually higher-risk, and typically offer higher yields to investors as there is no safety in the event of a major mortgage default.
REIT Dividend Drivers
Agency mortgage REITs such as American Capital Agency (AGNC) and Annaly Capital Management (NLY) offer superior dividend yields to investors due to leverage. At present, AGNC returns some 11.4% to investors each year in the form of dividends – NLY yields roughly 12.2% per year.
As individuals repay their mortgages, the cash flow is returned to the owners of mortgage-backed securities. In this case, the above REITs are the owners of the MBS products.
Both AGNC and NLY use a substantial amount of leverage to boost shareholder returns. The standard leverage ratio is 5-9 to 1, meaning that for every $1 in equity on the books, REITs borrow $5-9 to purchase mortgage-backed securities. This leverage is obtained inexpensively in short-term lending facilities. AGNC, for example, borrows most of its funding for 1-5 years to invest in mortgages that mature in 15-30 years. In effect, agency REITs are a play on the yield curve as they borrow inexpensively on the short end of the curve, and “lend” more expensively on the long end.
Here’s a chart of the yield curve from August 2022:
Non-agency REITs accept slightly more default risk and more interest rate variability (since the MBS products backing the fund are not insured by the Federal government) and typically use lower amounts of leverage. However, since non-agency mortgage-backed securities have a different risk-profile, the unleveraged yields are higher. Leveraging potential is slightly lower, though, so non-Agency REITS tend to yield just as much as Agency REITs with lower leverage.
Risks to High Dividends
Where there is extreme reward (dividends in excess of 10% per year) there is larger risk. Here are the two risks to both kinds of REITs:
- Rising Rates – If rates rise considerably, the cost of leverage is exceptionally large for REITs with higher leverage. Suppose that a REIT borrows funds at 3% for 5 years and invests in MBS at 5% fixed for 30 years. The spread between the cost of financing and the earnings from MBS is 2% annually. If short-term financing costs were to rise to 4% for 5 year issues, the profitability of a REIT would fall by half. The spread falls from 2% to 1%, meaning profits fall by 50%.
- Falling Rates – Falling rates are equally concerning for mortgage REITs. If rates stay low or continue to fall, borrowers will simply refinance – this is known as prepayment risk. When homeowners refinance, the loan is paid back immediately. Thus, funds that might have been invested in a mortgage earning…say, 7% for 30 years have to be reinvested in new mortgages that might yield only 5%.
I attend conference calls for REITs regularly, and I’ve found these two risks to be the primary concerns of every leveraged mortgage REIT. In fact, mREIT managers routinely state that the best case scenario is one in which rates slowly increase over time. Large increases in rates in the short-term would negatively affect their borrowing costs, impacting earnings. Perennially low rates would increase prepayment risk, and reduce earnings as homeowners refinance into lower rate mortgages.
A bet on any mortgage REIT is essentially a wager that rates will increase very slowly over the next few years. This would prevent massive refinancing, and also limit the risk of rising borrowing costs for leveraged REITs borrowing on the short-end of the curve.
Do REITs Fit Your Portfolio?
Personally, I think REITs make for an excellent wager in an environment where yields are depressed across the board. AGNC, NLY, IVR, and others’ double digit annual yields are very impressive, and unmatched by any other asset class. It comes with its risks – specifically rate risks – but the risk-to-reward may be larger than most expect.
In fact, I think most of the risks to the business model are overblown. Thanks in part to their popularity and massive capital inflows, REITs have added new risk management personnel to hedge somewhat the risk of rapidly rising rates, as well as perennially low rates. As an industry, I find leveraged REITs less risky today than they might have been just a few years ago. Agency REITs are even safer than non-Agency REITs, since the risk of default is borne by the US government, not investors.
Investors would be best to only put a small part of their total portfolio in leveraged REITs. Additionally, one should enter these kinds of trades only when the mREIT trades at or near its price-to-book value. A REIT trading at a premium of 40-50% of its book value faces greater price-risk on prepayments and rising rates in the event these risks play out. Luckily, mortgage REITs have most recently traded within a tight band of their book value.
For income purposes, nothing will beat a mortgage REIT. High-dividend S&P500 components yield just over 3%, CDs yield roughly 2% for 5 years, and investment grade corporate bonds yield only 2.27% at their best for 5 years.
Given the alternatives, I think a small position in mREITs with the remainder invested for capital appreciation to be far better than a portfolio of fixed-income products. A portfolio 10% invested in mortgage REITs and 90% stocks would provide more income than a portfolio 100% invested in corporate bonds.
What are your thoughts on REITs? Are you a buyer?
Disclosure: JT has no positions in the above REITs. He does own shares in AGNC’s parent company, American Capital Ltd. (ACAS).
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In 2020, according to sources, coal collapsed and hit a record low. Natural gas dominated, wind and sun increased, while hydropower and nuclear power remained roughly unchanged.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
Electricity sales to all end users in the US – households, office buildings, industrial buildings and the like – have been on a bleak path for US electricity suppliers since 2008, despite the economic and population growth that these customers have invested in. More efficient electrical devices like LEDs -Lightbulbs and new air conditioning and better insulation, while more manufacturing has been relocated.
And then came the pandemic. By customer type, electricity sales show the changes in the economy as millions of jobs have vanished and other workplaces have been moved from desk farms in office towers to home work, while many retailers and restaurants have closed, industrial plants have reduced activity, and commuter rail usage has collapsed.
In 2020, total electricity sales to end customers fell by 3.9% to 3.66 million gigawatt hours, after they had already fallen by 1.2% in 2019, according to new data from the EIA of the Ministry of Energy. These two declines brought electricity sales below 2008 levels:
Electricity sales to private customers rose by 1.5% from 2019 to 1.46 million gigawatt hours, although they were a little below the record sales of 2018. Households that work from home and study from home saw the increase in the number of kilowatt hours they paid for while they ran their air conditioners, heaters, computer equipment, lighting, and other things throughout the day.
And heat played a role, with a number of states posting a record in hot July, followed by the third warmest August recorded in the US as a whole. During this time, people worked at home or did not work at home all day, leaving their air conditioners on instead of cooling off at work. And this led to record peaks in electricity sales in these weeks.
Despite the large discrepancies due to hotter or cooler summers and colder or warmer winters, there has been little overall growth since 2010:
Electricity sales to commercial customers fell by 6.3%. to 1.28 million gigawatt hours, the lowest turnover in many years. The category includes offices, retail, restaurants, and the like. Between 2008 and the record year of 2018, electricity sales to these customers rose only 3.4%, much of which was wiped out in 2019. And then the pandemic hit:
Electricity sales to industrial customers fell by 8.3%to 919,533 gigawatt hours, the lowest level since the financial crisis in 2009 when industrial activity declined. These customers include manufacturers. Before the pandemic, there was no growth at all – a result of offshoring and using more efficient equipment:
Electricity sales to shippers fell by 14.4% to 6,532 gigawatt hours, the lowest level in many years. These include subways and other electrical rail systems, streetcars, the infamous electric trolleybuses in San Francisco and elsewhere, and, in tiny ways, the San Francisco Cable Cars, which have been out of service since March and whose cables are powered by large electric motors in the cable car’s central power station and museum on Nob Hill.
Many of the systems that continued to operate saw their driver numbers drop by 80% or 90% and they stopped serving, but the trains they run are still using electricity, even if they are mostly empty. From 2008 to 2019, electricity sales to these customers were roughly unchanged:
How was this electricity generated? According to main category:
Natural gas-fired power generation continued to grow in 2020 and dominated completely. Wind and sun continued to grow in importance after outperforming hydropower in 2016, while hydropower and nuclear remained roughly unchanged and coal continued to collapse and hit record lows. The graph shows electricity generation by source per year in gigawatt hours – not “capacity”, but electricity actually generated and consumed. Details below:
Electricity generation fired with natural gas rose by 2% to a record high 1.62 million gigawatt hours in 2020, which is a record of 40.3% of total electricity generated. Since 2005, electricity from natural gas power plants has more than doubled.
Cheap natural gas in the US – a result of fracking that made the US the largest natural gas producer in the world and collapsed the price of natural gas from 2009 – and the technological innovation and marketing of the combined natural gas in the nineties gas-fired power plant with a thermal efficiency of around 65 % made natural gas the cheapest fuel to generate electricity. And coal has not been able to keep up for years.
Power generation from coal fell by 19.8% to a multi-year low of 774 gigawatt hours and only accounted for 19.3% of total electricity generated, the lowest level ever. Since its peak in 2007, coal-fired power generation has collapsed by 61%.
Formerly called “royal coal” because it completely dominated the power generation market, it was surpassed in 2016 by natural gas and in 2020 by nuclear power. At this rate, the combination of wind and sun will surpass it in two or three years.
Nuclear power production decreased by 2% to 789,919 gigawatt hours and struck coal for the first time in history. It has remained essentially unchanged since 2004. Its share in total electricity generation in 2020 rose to 19.7%.
Electricity generation from wind turbines and solar energy increased by 16.7% to a record 470,141 gigawatt hours, and their share of the overall mix rose to a record 11.7%.
Wind energy generation alone increased by 14% to 337,510 gigawatt hours and exceeded hydropower many times over (16%) after it had exceeded hydropower for the first time in 2019. The share of wind energy in the total electricity generated rose to a record high of 8.4%.
Solar energy production, including solar energy on the roof, increased by 24% to 132,631 gigawatt hours, which corresponds to a share of 3.3%.
Electricity generation from hydropower increased by 1.1% to 291,111 gigawatt hours, which corresponds to a share of 7.3% of total electricity generation in 2020. Long periods of drought, especially in the west, can reduce hydropower generation. However, this was not the case in 2020.
Geothermal power plants, utility-scale power plants that run on wood, wood fuel, and other biomass, and other sources produced 80,500 gigawatt hours of electricity, which was roughly unchanged from 2019.
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Ten years after Moncler’s initial public offering on the Milan Stock Exchange, outerwear remains one of the most popular categories in luxury.
While many brands have seen sales growth stagnate or even turn negative in recent months, Moncler, the sector’s largest listed company (which also owns Stone Island), has recorded sales growth in the first nine months of the year excluding currency fluctuations. It reported a 17% increase in sales. . The company’s current value is 15.4 billion euros ($17 billion), more than its century-old rival Prada.
Some small and medium-sized enterprises are also surviving the economic downturn. French brand Yves Salomon announced that its sales in 2023 increased by around 15% to more than 50 million euros. Skiwear specialist Fusalp also surpassed the 50 million euro mark in the last financial year, and says it expects sales to reach 67 million euros in the 12 months to May next year, an increase of around 20%.
Some companies reported nearly flat sales this year after a post-pandemic surge. But brands such as Italian outerwear group CP Company say they are taking advantage of the economic downturn to rebuild distribution networks and reinvent processes. CP announced that it has hired 40 new staff at its head office to strengthen its operations as sales increased from 8 million euros in 2015 to 120 million euros last year.
What is driving the rise of luxury outerwear?
Investors have long been attracted to the potential higher returns offered by luxury coat manufacturers. Profitability for these companies is often driven by collections that feature a high share of timeless carryover styles and limit markdowns, with many customers seeing a nice coat as a reasonable luxury or necessary investment. Even considering this, it enjoys low price resistance. They need to keep you warm, and even the more expensive models tend to have an attractive cost per wear.
These economic advantages are now further enhanced by many other trends that are elevating the outerwear category. BoF asked Fusalp, Yves Salomon, executives from CP Company, Mackage and Selfridges to identify the key forces and strategies shaping the sector.
focus on skiing
While sporty ‘gorpcore’ brands have dominated the skiwear space for years, we’re looking for a more appealing proposition that combines the technical performance you need on the slopes with après-ski (and Instagram) appeal. Demand is rapidly increasing.
Selfridges fashion director Bosse Mia said Fusalp, Perfect Moment and Goldberg are among the brands whose more feminine, form-fitting, high-fashion ski wear is contributing to sales growth. It is said that
These brands are leveraging the social media appeal of mountains. For example, Fusalp, who rose to fame designing uniforms for French Olympic athletes during his ski boom of the 1960s and 1970s, hosted and supported luxury influencer outings in his French Alps. Masu. Raise awareness of that heritage. The company is currently implementing a marketing program in Colorado and recently opened boutiques in Aspen and Vail. A special event for influencers and top clients is scheduled for early this year at Aspen’s Caribou Club, followed by a ski day and dance party at the glittering Mountain Chalet.
Colorful collaborations with the likes of Pucci (a vibrant resort brand that relies on Fusalp to help diversify away from the beach) and Harry Nuriev’s Crosby Studio have enhanced the brand’s glamorous, fashion-ski image. .
Other players are also turning to skiing. Since Carine Roitfeld helped launch luxury giant Chanel’s first skiwear line, Coconage, in 2018, several brands have joined in, including Prada (which revamped its sporty Linea Rossa line in the same year). This was followed. , Armani (which celebrated its new ‘Neve’ line at St. Moritz last month), Balenciaga and Balmain.
lean towards retail industry
In addition to its new location at the ski resort, Fusalp will open flagship stores in Rue George V in Paris and Avenue Madison in New York, and will receive investment from Chanel heir David Wertheimer’s Mirabeau Partners in 2022. As a result, the company is looking to expand its retail share in the business. .
That’s not all. The shift to retail is a top priority for outerwear investors, who are betting on the distribution management strategies of handbag giants like Louis Vuitton as a way to increase profit margins and gain tighter control over inventory and brand image. Masu. The most notable proof of concept remains Moncler, whose retail strategy has boosted its EBIT margin to 34 percent, second only to Hermès among publicly traded luxury goods companies.
Canadian outerwear brand Mackage has opened a flagship store on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris and a boutique on the Alpine ski slopes of Megève to complement its network of approximately 12 retail stores in Canada and the United States.
“My dream scenario would be to have a 60-40 mix of in-house retail and wholesale,” said Tanya Gorecik, Mackage’s chief executive officer. In addition to controlling price, presentation and markdowns, the stores also give coat manufacturers the opportunity to cross-sell into other categories, Gorecik said. “It has become important to dress our clients and provide them with layering items and shoes that recreate their complete look.”
CP Company, part of Hong Kong’s Tri-State Holdings, is also expanding its retail operations, with a flagship store in Paris’ Marais district under construction this summer and openings in Manchester, Cannes and Lyon in 2023.
The rise of tailoring
Another driver driving luxury outerwear sales beyond technical items is customers’ growing desire for tailored style. Remember Gwyneth Paltrow’s elegant felt coat during her viral court appearance last spring?
This trend, and the broader ‘quiet luxury’ discourse surrounding it, has been a boon for women’s coat makers such as Italy’s Max Mara and France’s Yves Salomon, while Tom Ford and Loro Piana have Mir says he has had success marketing seed styles to men. Said.
Salomon, a prominent fur trader who still produces fur as a supplier to brands such as Dior, said the success of its tailored coats was the result of years of efforts to diversify the production capacity of its workshops. ing. As fur became more controversial and a niche interest, his brand sought to complete its proposition with more shearling and wool items, creating close-fitting, ladylike tailored styles. We have also added ready-to-wear and knitwear. Luxurious manufacturing meets a competitive price range (as a luxury item), with some cashmere coats and leather trenches costing less than 2,000 euros.
“I have always had a passion for production, for complete control of the chain,” said founder Salomon. “This allows us to take sustainability and animal welfare seriously, while also suggesting a quality-to-price ratio that we think is right for the consumer.”
Fusion of identity and technology
Owned by CP Company and Moncler, Stone Island, both founded by Italian sportswear entrepreneur Massimo Osti, have long been popular with niche consumer groups who adopt their logos to project a sporty, street-smart identity. I have been appealing for a while.
But while logo-focused identity shoppers tend to come and go, brands’ technical knowledge is what gives them staying power. A luxury coat is a complex piece made up of hundreds of components. Creating an innovative and novel animation line requires a different kind of expertise.
“Luxury coats have been popular as something that helps you identify and define yourself in social spaces,” explained Lorenzo Osti, CEO of CP Company. And while demand for more technical, high-end coats is holding up amid luxury brand fatigue and a broader economic downturn, “entry-level items like fleeces and beanies are more expensive than buying your own brand.” It’s being bought by people who want to show it off,” Osti said. Brands…this kind of consumption is cooling down. ”
CP Company strives to project technology and innovation in a different way than its former sister brand Stone Island, focusing on new textiles and innovations rather than emphasizing expertise such as garment dyeing, distressing and tonal effects. The focus is on experimenting with textures. Island has long “owned” the brand space.
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Session 8 • Maturity • Activation
When it comes to our physical maturity, we are really reflecting on the ways in which we currently honor the physical bodies God has gifted us with.
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Spend some time in quiet, prayerful reflection, Take some deep breaths and invite the Holy Spirit to meet with you. With your inhale and exhale you might find it helpful to use a Breath Prayer, such as Come, Holy Spirit, or Lord, have mercy.
Notice the condition of your body as you sit and breathe. Is there anywhere that you are carrying tension? Are you experiencing pain or aches? Are you tired or full of energy? Are you dry or thirsty?
Invite the Holy Spirit to fill you with his presence, much like his glory filled the temple.
Imagine the presence and glorious light of God filling your body, invading muscles, bones, tissue, organs, blood, and cells. Give the Holy Spirit permission to fill you entirely, give him Lordship over every fibre of your being. Invite God to speak to you about your physical body. What is his invitation to you?
As you continue in reflection or journaling, you may find it helpful to use the prompts below:
Self Care is very simply valuing our own bodies as God values them. It means protecting the desires and limitations of our body, mind and soul.
Self-love is not about self centeredness, but rather it is another opportunity for us to engage in knowing God as we care for the body that the Holy Spirit inhabits. We are called to love our neighbor, as ourselves.
“Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on the earth to offer.”
When we give appropriate attention to our bodies, we will discover the truth about ourselves. We will notice our habits, our patterns, our compulsion what we depend on for energy or fun, signs of happiness, sadness, anger or exhaustion. Honoring our bodies means taking seriously the messages our bodies are giving us, and respecting those limitations, not ignoring or neglecting them. We are not immortal, infinite beings. Our tiredness reminds us of that. We are finite - we need rest, we need boundaries.
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Homeownership or renovation is one of life’s most fulfilling aspects, more so if it comes through sweepstakes. And in this space, Better Home and Garden sweepstakes, or BHG sweepstakes, are popular for their lucrative offers and benefits.
What exactly are BHG sweepstakes, and how has it changed the lives of homeowners? What are the available BHG sweeps, giveaways, and contests? This sweepstakes casino review and guide details the platforms’ operations. It also looks at the better homes and gardens giveaways and how to win in sweepstakes casinos.
Here are a few basics about BHG sweepstakes. BHG, an abbreviation for Better Homes and Gardens, is a Dotdash Media Inc operated company providing sweeps to homeowners. BHG sweeps offer cash prizes redeemable for shopping, home makeovers, and holidays. The sweeps are open to 21-year-olds and older residents of the 50 US states, plus the District of Columbia.
Generally, BHG sweepstakes are characterized by:
Depending on the time of the year, there are between 8-10 large prize draws and 6-8 smaller-sized ones, which may increase during the holidays.
BHG offers several contests for players to win various prizes. Each BHG contest falls under the daily, monthly, or annual categories. However, the major BHG contest is the annual $25,000 dream home sweepstakes. The contest allows multiple entries for a chance to win a home makeover.
Other popular annual BHG contests include:
A self-treat or a getaway prize.
An award for an outdoor area for entertainment or relaxation.
A gourmet getaway prize or any trip of a lifetime.
A 5-night all-inclusive stay gift for two at The Verandah Resort & Spa Antigua.
A smaller-sized cash prize for a home makeover part of your home.
This is a $25K check to fill your cupboards and refrigerator with groceries.
A $25K cash prize specifically to spruce up your kitchen and give it a whole new look.
This is a straight cash prize for you to spend however you wish.
Similarly, the magazine runs daily contests for smaller prizes, such as:
All BHG sweepstakes revolve around lifestyle, shopping, home, and garden renovations. The larger draws gift you a cash sum of between $15,000-25,000 or smaller gifts such as holidays.
Better home and garden sweepstakes are typically annual, monthly, or daily. Annual BHG sweeps are large compared to monthly or daily sweeps, which comprise of holidays or shopping prizes.
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Stake.us is a popular USA sweepstakes casino providing scratchcards, Stake Originals, tables, and slot games. This gives players the much-needed variety of choices all under one roof.
The games are free to play via virtual currencies: Stake Cash or Gold Coins. The former are redeemable for prizes, while the latter you only play for fun. To redeem a reward, go to the Wallet section, select redeem, and choose the available prizes.
Like Better Home and Garden sweepstakes, Stake.us gives daily and weekly promotions and giveaways. The daily promotions allow you to win up to 5,000 Stake Cash, depending on the number of games played.
The weekly promotions are more prominent and involve tickets that could win you up to 10,000 Stake Cash and 100 million Gold Coins. Additionally, free sweeps are available when you signup. You can also enjoy casino sweepstakes free spins as one of its promotions.
Another reputable sweepstakes casino is Wow Vegas. With 300-plus casino-style games, Wow Vegas is an ideal site for anyone looking for a mixture of free games and winning opportunities.
The casino has a welcome offer of 5,000 Wow coins and 1 free Sweepstake Coin. But if you need more, there is a first-purchase bonus of 30 free Sweepstake Coins and 1.5 million Wow Coins for $0.99.
Similarly, there are daily login bonuses that you must tap to claim. And like Better Homes and Gardens giveaways, the site runs three social media giveaways: Mega Wednesdays, Magic Mondays, and Super Sundays.
As a player and participant, BHG sweeps are easy and also fun. The sweeps remain open between one day and six months, depending on the sweep’s size and level. The long-lasting ones are typically annual sweeps, while those lasting a few days are used in daily or monthly draws.
In addition, the number of BHG sweeps varies with the time of the year. As such, you will notice an increase in the sweeps as the holiday season nears.
The magazine has relatively attractive and extensive Better Homes and Gardens giveaways, divided into daily and annual categories.
Most of these giveaways have multiple entries, giving you higher winning chances. However, the annual giveaways have an entry deadline, usually the 30th of June of the current year.
Usually, the giveaways are similar to the offers in any BHG contest or sweep.
To sum it up, entering sweepstakes can be a great way to save money, get free prizes and gain amazing experiences. With this Ultimate BHG Sweepstakes guide, you now know about these types of contests. So don’t wait.
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It’s week five for our super fun Family Herbal Summer Series, and I am so glad your family is joining us. This week we get to incorporate all of our learning into good, squeaky-clean fun by making kid-friendly body care!
Herbs are great fun to use in body care products, easily lending their beneficial properties and amazing scents to handmade baths, lotions and creams, scrubs, spritzers, and more. Kids love to add herbs, infused herbal oils, essential oils, and hydrosols to their very own kid-friendly body care creations and usually look forward to giving those products a try. So push up your sleeves and get ready to craft some lovely body care together that your whole family will love.
Kid-Friendly Body Care
Don’t forget to share all that your family is learning on Instagram with us! Have a favorite recipe from this week? Snap a photo and tag it with #HAFamilyHerbalSummerSeries so we can see what you’re up to!
Fun in the Tub!
Everyone needs to bathe, much to the dismay of some kiddos. So why not make bath time fun and healthy with the addition of your own kid-friendly body care in the form of homemade herbal baths? Some kids will even look forward to bath time when they get to take along a new bath preparation that they helped to make!
A favorite way for both children and adults to enjoy a nice herbal soak is to make a sock bath. These baths are simple to make and use! Learn about this great bathing method in How To Make A Child’s Sock Bath.
Or you can always whip up a simple bath salt. Try these Lavender Bath Salts or for a special treat check out this neat Cucumber Mint Bath Soak from the Nerdy Farm Wife. This bath would be great for cooling down in the midst of summertime, but be sure to leave out the peppermint oil or substitute spearmint for kiddos under six! These Chamomile Bath Salts are another great option, perfect for a calming bedtime bath, also from the Nerdy Farm Wife.
Make Your Own Bath Bombs
Adapted from Love Inspired Body Care Recipes by Irene Wolansky
An exciting spin on bath salts is a fizzing bath bomb! These are simple to make and a lot of fun to use. Here is a basic recipe for creating your own.
1 cup baking soda
1/2 cup powdered citric acid
1/2 cup Epsom salts
10 to 20 drops total child-friendly essential oil, such as lavender, rose geranium, mandarin, grapefruit, and spearmint.
1 teaspoon oil – use any herbal infused oil that you have made!
1 tablespoon of water or hydrosol
Molds for shaping your bath bombs. You can really choose from many things you might have on hand such as plastic Easter eggs, cupcake pans and silicone liners, ice cube trays, plastic Christmas balls, and soap or lollipop molds.
- Mix together the the baking soda, citric acid, Epsom salts, and if using, the flowers and beet powder. Be sure to combine well. Children love to measure and stir, so get them involved in this process.
- In a separate container combine the teaspoon of oil and the essential oils, mixing well.
- Add the oil mixture to the dry mixture stirring the whole time to limit any reaction of the baking soda and citric acid.
- Finally, add the water/herbal tea/hydrosol. You want to be very careful during this step to avoid making the bath mixture react – stir quickly while adding the liquid and only add a little at a time.
- Keep slowly adding the liquid and mixing well until the bath holds together when you squeeze it with your hand.
- Pack it into your chosen molds and let air dry for a few days.
- Pop the bath bombs out of the molds and then store in an airtight container until ready to use!
Soothe Your Hide
During the summer, it is easy for skin to get dried out and irritated from outdoor adventuring, visits to the swimming pool, and sun exposure. You and your family can soothe your hides with your own homemade whipped body butters, lotions, and lotion bars. And you can make it special by custom scenting your creations for each person in the family. There are oodles of wonderful recipes to try that involve melting and beating oils in various ways to create luscious creams. Here are some of our favorites that your family might also enjoy!
- Enjoy a Favorite Homemade Body Butter made all super rich and creamy with lots of nourishing oils.
- Forage for your own dandelion flowers to use in this Whipped Dandelion Coconut Oil Moisturizer from the Nerdy Farm Wife.
- Here is a beautiful and effective Belly Butter that is just for mama, from the Little Herbal.
- These Honey Bee Chamomile Lotion Bars from Mama Rosemary are a hard lotion bar infused with the goodness of honey!
- This Wintertime Herbal Infused Whipped Body Butter is chock full of soothing herbal goodness. So nice and not just for winter!
- Go crazy and make your very own sunscreen! Pretty cool, uh? Enjoy this great recipe from the Little Herbal for All-Natural Sunscreen.
Find Some More Ways to Get Clean!
Sometimes the best kid-friendly body care lets you get messy to get clean. Host a DIY Spa Day in Your Backyard for a true summertime activity full of messy, silly fun that your kids will adore! Use some of the body care preparations you have made if you wish, invite a couple of friends over, and get ready to have a blast!
Did you know that you can make your very own shampoo from a plant? It is true! Learn all about the magic of the common soapwort and also how to make your own Natural Soapwort Shampoo and Body Wash. Enjoy being nice and clean with the help of a plant!
Summer can be a tough time for little feet. Enjoy these Summertime Foot Care Tips for Kids and help keep little feet happy and comfortable.
Have you ever heard of hydrosols? How to Use Hydrolats for Babies and Young Children explains what hydrosols (or hydrolats) are and the use of these wonderful floral waters for kiddos. Perhaps the most well-known hydrosol is rose water. You may have had rose water in a tasty Middle Eastern or Indian dish or enjoyed it as a body spray. Other lovely hydrosols include orange blossom, lemon balm, rose geranium, mint, and even cucumber! Get crafty! You can make your own with plants right from your garden! Visit Mama Rosemary where you can learn How to Make a Hydrosol. There are special instructions for creating hydrosols with kids including a cool look at how making a hydrosol is like creating a mini water cycle right on your own stove. Find another wonderful way to make your own Rose Water here!
Thank you so much for creating some kid-friendly body care with us this week! As parents, we are all charged with teaching our children the fine art of self-care and I hope that these crafts and activities have given your family plenty of fun and interesting ways to enjoy this important part of life together!
A Note About Safety
This week is a great opportunity for sharing the beauty of self-care with your child. As always please appropriately supervise children to keep them safe and ensure great fun for all this week. As a special note, many of the recipes and activities in this post call for the use of essential oils. These are highly concentrated plant products that must be used carefully to be safe especially with and around children. Please visit our post Using Essential Oils For Children for usage guidelines and safety information. As a little side note, now that you have learned a bit about essential oils you can enjoy using them as a wonderful enhancer to playtime for kids. Learn more about how to enjoy these simple Essential Oil Crafts for Children from Golden Heart Essentials. Have fun crafting!
Week 5 Recap & Action Plan
- Make and use an herbal bath or two!
- Create a lovely cream to help soothe your skin.
- Host a spa day!
- Share photos of your body care adventures on Instagram using hashtag #HAFamilyHerbalSummerSeries!
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Living in an RV can be a great experience, but it’s not for everyone. There are some definite pros and cons of RV living.
Whether or not to take the leap and live full-time in an RV is a big decision. You want to make sure you gather information about the lifestyle and weigh all your options. You also want to look at the benefits and obstacles of traveling in different types of RVs – living in a travel trailer or fifth wheel full-time looks a little different from living in a motorhome.
Let’s look at some of the key considerations and things to know before living in an RV.
Pros of Living in an RV
Here are ten great benefits to living year-round on the road in an RV.
When you live in an RV, you have the freedom to go wherever you want, whenever you want. You’re not tied down to one location. If you get tired of the weather in one place, you can just pack up and go somewhere else.
Some RVs are more mobile than others. For example, it’s easier to travel in a van or small motorhome than a large fifth-wheel.
Overall, the mobility factor is a significant advantage to RV life.
2. Travel with the Comforts of Home
Something really wonderful about RV living is you can travel with all the comforts of your home – because the RV is your home!
You can avoid these regular travel burdens:
- packing and unpacking in different hotels
- minimizing your packing list
- sleeping in beds that aren’t your own
- not being able to prepare food or cooking in a kitchen unfamiliar to you
Traveling in an RV allows you to enjoy the adventure while still giving you a familiar and unique place to come home to.
RV living offers a lot of flexibility since you can change your location and home base as often as possible. If you want to spend the summer by the beach and the winter in the mountains, you can do that.
It also offers you flexibility with your money and time. You can save money in an RV that will allow you more financial freedom. Living a more minimalist lifestyle will also free up time to concentrate on the things you genuinely want to spend your days doing.
4. Cheaper Lifestyle & Cost Savings
RV living can be more affordable than traditional housing since you can save money on rent or mortgage, and utilities. Keep in mind you will need to budget for campgrounds and fuel, but you won’t be locked into these costs the way you are with rent or a mortgage.
Want to save more on camping? You can try boondocking for a couple of weeks.
Want to keep fuel costs down? Move campsites less frequently or camp in places closer to each other.
Many RV membership clubs let you save a ton of money on campsites if you plan ahead and use them frequently.
You can live a very cheap or very luxurious life in an RV, but most people can comfortably live this lifestyle on $1,800 – $3,500 a month, depending on your lifestyle. (For a breakdown of what we spend annually, check out The Real Cost of Full-Time RV Living.
NOTE: If you decide to finance an RV, you’ll need to budget for your payment. RVs can range enormously in price, so this can vary. We recommend buying what you can afford to purchase outright to keep costs down.
For more information on how to RV on the cheap, check out the Ultimate Guide to Full Time RVing on a Budget.
5. Closer to Nature
With life in an RV, you become very in tune with the outside. It’s why many people love the lifestyle. It’s so easy to step outside to enjoy the weather, the scenery, and nearby wildlife.
Being in this environment often improves mood and can make you more active, leading to a healthier life.
6. Quality Time
Being in such a small space, you naturally spend a lot of time with your traveling partner, family, or pets.
Cozy campsites provide an area for everyone to gravitate toward and enjoy together. Exploring and trying new things is also a great way to bond and make the most of your time with your family.
Even spending quiet time in the outdoors with yourself can be very therapeutic.
7. Eco-Friendly Lifestyle
Living in an RV can be more eco-friendly than a traditional home, and the lifestyle will emphasize your consumption and resource usage.
Limited storage means we don’t like to carry many cleaning supplies or paper towels, so we find simple, reuseable cleaning solutions for our home on wheels.
If you are wild camping or boondocking – you can also invest in solar to create your own power. Find ways to conserve water so you can stay off-grid longer. Or look for alternatives to minimize waste, so you don’t have to find ways to dispose of your trash constantly.
Living with a small footprint is definitely a benefit of RVing, whatever your camping style.
RV full-time living allows you to simplify your life. It can be a challenging transition when you downsize to an RV, but embracing minimalism is a skill you’ll never lose, even after your RVing experience.
Learning how to cut your emotional ties with material possessions that you don’t need is an eye-opening process that will benefit you for the rest of your life.
9. Adventure and Experiences
One of the best benefits of living in an RV is that it allows you to have many adventures and explore many new places. It’s the main draw when people look at how to travel full-time.
RVing offers an avenue to create great experiences that you’ll remember for many years to come.
Living in an RV can be a great way to be self-sufficient and live on your terms.
It can provide a path for you to be free from a mortgage, a house and stuff that ties you down, and freedom to travel when you want, enjoying a more flexible lifestyle.
BONUS: Your Pet can Travel with You!
Bringing your furry friend along can be one of the most significant benefits of RV life for pet owners. Living on the road in an RV, you have the advantage of being able to bring along any four-legged family members on your travels.
Many full-time RVers choose this lifestyle primarily because they don’t have to leave their pets when they travel.
READ NEXT: Check out our post on how to go RVing with Cats: A Complete Guide.
Cons of Living in an RV
Now that we’ve covered the bright side of full-time RVing, I’m sure you want to know – what are the negatives of living in an RV?
1. Lack of Space
RVs can be small and cramped, which may not be ideal for everyone.
Living in a small space means using spaces for multi-purposes, cooking in a small area, getting dressed with a smaller closet, and figuring out how to navigate a tiny bathroom.
You’ll have to learn how to live in this little space which may take some time to adjust.
2. Limited Storage
One of the downsides of living in an RV is that storage can be limited. This means you may have to get rid of more than a few of your belongings. You may also have to get creative with storage solutions, take advantage of vertical storage, and downsize your kitchen and cookware.
This can be challenging, but it’s crucial to think about what you really need and what you can do without.
Unpredictable weather has a more significant impact on living in an RV than in a physical house.
Tornado watches are no joke when you live in a rolling, lightweight home. But even wind, thunderstorms, and the surprise snowstorm will play a more prominent role in everyday life.
If you are caught unprepared, snow and cold temps can freeze pipes, the holding and water tanks, and cause propane tanks used to heat the RV not to function.
Wind can also be a real pain at a campsite.
When the wind kicks up, you need to:
Wind in an RV can be uncomfortable as the RV gets pushed around. Of course, when storms or wind events become severe, it’s imperative to seek shelter.
Wind on travel days can be particularly tough. Driving down the highway with a crosswind towing a 40-foot trailer can be extremely difficult.
4. Temperature Fluctuations
Most RVs have little to no insulation, meaning the temperature inside an RV will fluctuate quickly. If you are in a hot and humid environment, you will constantly fight the heat, mold, and mildew. If you are in a cold climate, you will struggle to keep the RV warm.
The upside to this is that you have the power to move your home and chase those sunny and 75 temps!
5. RV Maintenance
RVs are homes on wheels. They are built with lightweight materials so they can move down the road and provide a great traveling experience.
Things will require maintenance, and things will break (usually at the most inconvenient times). Maintaining and fixing your RV can be time-consuming and expensive without proper planning. As a general rule of thumb, the bigger the RV, the more costly the annual maintenance (especially when you start looking at large class A motorhomes).
Make sure you learn some basic DIY maintenance skills for your rolling home, and you’ll be able to find a balance in the cost and learn more as you go.
6. RV Depreciation
RV depreciation is another downside to living in an RV. Just like a car, your RV will lose value over time, which can be frustrating if you ever want to sell it down the road.
When you sign on to this lifestyle, you must accept that your home is no longer a financial investment.
7. Travel Days
Travel days can be a stressful part of the RVing lifestyle.
Here are just a few things that add to the tension of RV travel days.
I’ll admit I sometimes have to close my eyes riding shotgun in a big city in heavy traffic. Depending on the size of the RV, you may also have to watch out for narrow roads, height restrictions, turn radius, and more.
8. Changing Routines
If you are traveling in your RV, it can be difficult to find a routine and stick with it.
Things can be different based on how often you travel and where you stay. We spend a lot of time just going with the flow but sometimes have to slow down and find a routine in one spot for a while. Primarily when you work on the road, this can be a challenge.
9. Noise & Privacy Issues
Since RVs are smaller than traditional homes, they can be noisier and less private. RVs don’t have the insulation of a house, so most noises outside will infiltrate the inside.
If you are used to having your own space and plan on sharing the RV with your significant other or family, it might take some time for everyone to learn to live in a tiny space together.
10. Internet Access
Reliable internet in your RV if you need to work or stay connected can be challenging. Although it’s not nearly as tricky as in past years, getting internet access in your RV requires equipment and planning.
You don’t want to rely solely on campgrounds for wifi. Often, the connection is slow, or the signal isn’t strong enough to reach your campsite.
Most RVers opt for:
- multiple carrier hotspots
- unlimited mobile data plans
- a cell booster (and possibly a wifi booster)
- satellite internet plan
The RV campsite location app, The Dyrt, also offers carrier service overlay maps to see what access you will have in specific camping locations. This technology allows you to plan and make sure at least one of your carriers is available at your future campsite.
The launch of the SpaceX program Starlink has provided satellite internet connections for RVers who are entirely off-grid. This program is still fairly new, but it’s fantastic to see satellite internet becoming a more affordable option.
Is It Worth It to Live in an RV?
There are many pros and cons of full-time RV living, but overall I think it’s a worthwhile experience. If you’re willing to make some adjustments and can handle the occasional inconvenience, living in an RV can be a great way to travel and see the world.
Living in an RV might not be for everyone. But being able to live a more independent life has its perks.
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How To Get Blue Print For Shears In Breathedge
If you’re playing the survival game Breathedge and finding it difficult to obtain the blue print for shears, you’ve come to the right place. Shears are a crucial tool in the game as they are used to cut various materials and open containers. Once you have the blue print for shears, you can easily craft them and make your life easier in the game.
To obtain the blue print for shears, you need to explore the wreckage of the spaceship and scavenge for resources. Look for containers and loot all the items you find. Keep an eye out for blueprints, as they are often hidden in different parts of the wreckage. Once you find the blueprint for shears, it will be added to your crafting menu.
Exploring the wreckage can be a dangerous task, as there are various hazards and enemies that can harm you. It’s important to be prepared and have enough oxygen and health kits to survive. Use the scanner tool to locate resources and navigate through the wreckage more efficiently.
Once you have the blue print for shears, you can start crafting them. Open your crafting menu and select the shears blueprint. Make sure you have the required resources, such as metal and rubber, to craft the shears. If you don’t have enough resources, you will need to scavenge for them in the wreckage or trade with other survivors.
Now that you have the blue print for shears and know how to craft them, you can easily cut through materials and open containers in Breathedge. Remember to always keep an eye out for other blueprints and resources as you explore the wreckage, as they will help you in your survival journey.
Overview of Breathedge Game
Breathedge is a dark comedic adventure game developed by RedRuins Softworks and published by HypeTrain Digital. It was released on September 13, 2018, and is available on various platforms including PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
In Breathedge, players take on the role of a survivor in outer space who must navigate an abandoned spacecraft called The Ship, while also dealing with various challenges and dangers. The game combines elements of exploration, crafting, and survival, creating a unique gameplay experience.
The game’s story starts with the protagonist, known as the Man, attending the funeral of his grandfather. As the Man’s spacecraft approaches the funeral site, it unexpectedly collides with a debris field, resulting in a crash. The Man wakes up in the wreckage and must find a way to survive while uncovering the mysteries surrounding The Ship.
Throughout the game, players will unravel the truth behind their grandfather’s death and discover the secrets hidden within The Ship. The narrative is filled with dark humor and satire, poking fun at various sci-fi tropes and conventions.
Breathedge offers a mix of open-world exploration, crafting, and survival mechanics. Players must scavenge for resources, craft various items and tools, and upgrade their equipment to overcome obstacles and survive in the harsh conditions of space.
One of the key mechanics in the game is the oxygen management system. Players need to constantly monitor their oxygen levels and find ways to replenish it. Failure to do so will result in the character running out of breath, which can lead to death.
The Ship is filled with hazards, including radiation, explosive decompressions, and aggressive alien creatures. Players must navigate through these dangers while solving puzzles and uncovering clues to progress in the game.
The game also includes a humorous and satirical take on the survival genre, with witty dialogue and absurd situations. Players will encounter quirky characters and engage in humorous dialogue exchanges throughout their journey.
Breathedge offers a unique blend of dark humor, exploration, and survival gameplay. Its satirical take on the sci-fi genre and the engaging storyline make it an enjoyable experience for players looking for something different. Whether you’re a fan of survival games or simply enjoy a good comedic adventure, Breathedge is definitely worth a try.
Importance of Shears in Breathedge
Shears are an essential tool in the game Breathedge, serving multiple purposes that are crucial for survival in the vastness of space. Here are some of the key reasons why shears are important in Breathedge:
- Resource Gathering: Shears allow players to collect various resources scattered throughout the game world. These resources can be used for crafting different tools, equipment, and survival items. Shears are particularly useful for obtaining materials from plants and other objects.
- Repairing Equipment: As players explore and progress in Breathedge, their equipment and tools may degrade and require repairs. Shears can be used to fix damaged items, extending their lifespan and ensuring they remain functional. It’s important to keep shears handy to prevent sudden equipment failures in critical situations.
- Maintaining Health: In Breathedge, players may encounter hazardous environments or situations that cause injuries. Shears can be used to treat wounds and heal the player character. They are often required for crafting medical supplies, such as bandages or first aid kits, which are essential for surviving in hostile space environments.
- Exploration and Progression: Shears play a significant role in advancing through the game’s story and discovering new areas. They can be used to cut through obstacles or access hidden passages, unlocking new pathways and secrets. Without shears, players may be limited in their ability to explore and progress in the game.
- Combat: While not primarily a weapon, shears can still be used for self-defense in Breathedge. Players can utilize shears to fend off hostile creatures or defend against other dangers they may encounter. However, shears are not as effective as dedicated weapons, so players should also focus on acquiring proper armaments for combat situations.
In summary, shears are indispensable tools in Breathedge due to their versatility and usefulness in resource gathering, equipment repair, health maintenance, exploration, and even combat. Players should prioritize obtaining the blueprint for shears and keeping them in good condition to ensure their survival and progress in the game.
Exploration in Breathedge
Exploration is a key aspect of the gameplay in Breathedge. As a player, you will find yourself stranded in the vastness of space, with countless wrecks, asteroids, and abandoned space stations to explore. The game world is open and non-linear, allowing you to explore at your own pace and uncover the secrets of the universe.
To survive and progress in Breathedge, it is crucial to scavenge for resources and blueprints. By exploring wrecks and asteroids, you will find various materials that can be used to craft tools, equipment, and upgrades. Additionally, you will come across blueprints, which provide you with the knowledge to construct more advanced items.
Exploration in Breathedge is not only about gathering resources and blueprints, but also about discovering the game’s unique story and lore. As you explore different locations and interact with various objects, you will uncover hidden messages, log entries, and audio recordings that shed light on the mysterious events that led to your current predicament.
However, exploring in Breathedge is not without its dangers. The vacuum of space is a hostile environment, and you will need to manage your oxygen supply and thermal balance to avoid suffocation and freezing. Additionally, there are various hazards and creatures that can pose a threat to your survival. It is important to be prepared and equipped with the necessary tools and resources to overcome these challenges.
In summary, exploration is a fundamental aspect of Breathedge that allows players to scavenge for resources, discover blueprints, uncover the game’s story, and face various challenges. So, put on your spacesuit and embark on an adventure through the vastness of space in Breathedge!
Searching for Wrecks and Derelicts
One of the ways to obtain the Blue Print for Shears in Breathedge is by searching for wrecks and derelicts scattered throughout space.
Wrecks and derelicts can be found in various locations, such as asteroid belts, debris fields, and near abandoned space stations. These areas are often marked on the map with different icons, making them easier to locate.
When you arrive at a wreck or derelict, be prepared for potential hazards and obstacles. Some wrecks may be infested with dangerous creatures, while others may require certain tools or equipment to access certain areas within the wreckage.
Explore the wreck or derelict thoroughly, searching for containers, lockers, and other storage units that may hold valuable items, including the Blue Print for Shears. Keep in mind that not all wrecks will contain the desired blueprint, so be prepared to search multiple wrecks before finding what you need.
Remember to bring a Cutting Torch or a Welding Tool, as these tools will often be needed to bypass locked doors or repair damaged machinery within the wreck. Additionally, having a Radiation Suit can be helpful in certain wrecks or derelicts where radiation levels may be high.
Once you have obtained the Blue Print for Shears, you can use it to craft this essential tool, which will allow you to cut and collect various resources in the game, making your survival in space a little bit easier.
Gathering Resources for Crafting
In order to craft the blueprint for Shears in Breathedge, you will need to gather the necessary resources. Here are the steps you can take to gather these resources:
1. Explore the environment: Search through the debris, wreckage, and asteroids to find various resources. Keep an eye out for materials like Scrap Metal, Rubber, and Wire, as these will be essential for crafting the blueprint.
2. Salvage wrecks: When you come across larger wrecks or structures, you can salvage them for additional resources. Use your cutting tool to break apart these objects and gather more materials like Metal and Electronics.
3. Harvest from plants: Some areas in Breathedge feature plants that can be harvested for resources. Approach these plants and interact with them to gather materials like Fiber and Plant Food.
4. Collect from animals: Certain creatures in Breathedge drop resources when killed. Engage in combat with these creatures and collect resources like Raw Meat and Animal Fat once they are defeated.
5. Craft tools and gadgets: As you progress through the game, you will unlock the ability to craft tools and gadgets that can assist in resource gathering. Use these items to easily collect resources in a more efficient manner.
By following these steps and collecting the necessary resources, you will be able to obtain the blueprint for Shears and continue crafting in Breathedge.
Crafting in Breathedge
In Breathedge, crafting is an essential gameplay mechanic that allows players to create various items and tools to survive in the harsh vacuum of space. Crafting is done at the Crafting Station, which can be found on your personal Survival Spaceship.
In order to craft items, you will need to gather materials. Materials can be found throughout the game world, and can be obtained by scavenging wreckage, exploring abandoned ships, or by using the Fabricator tool. Some materials may require special tools or equipment to obtain.
Once you have gathered the necessary materials, you can use the Crafting Station to access the crafting recipes. The recipes will display the required materials and the resulting item. You can also see any additional tools or equipment that may be needed to complete the crafting process.
Item | Materials | Additional Requirements |
Oxygen Canister | Glass x2, Refined Metal x1 | Oxygen Station |
Oxygen Station | Rubber x2, Glass x2, Electronics x2 | None |
Battery | Silicon x3, Copper x1, Plastic x2 | None |
Throwable Food Can | Empty Can x1, Food x1, Battery x1 | None |
These are just a few examples of the items that can be crafted in Breathedge. Each item serves a specific purpose and can be used to help you survive and progress through the game.
Remember to always gather materials and explore the game world to find new crafting recipes and items. Experiment with different combinations of materials to discover new recipes and create unique tools and equipment.
Crafting Basics and Requirements
In order to craft the blueprint for shears in Breathedge, you will need to gather the necessary materials and meet the crafting requirements. Here is a breakdown of the basic steps involved:
Step | Materials | Requirements |
1 | Metal | None |
2 | Energetic Ceramic | None |
3 | Battery | Workbench Level 2 |
4 | Plastic | Workbench Level 2 |
Once you have gathered the required materials, you can use them at a workbench with the appropriate level to craft the blueprint for shears. It is important to note that you must have a workbench level 2 in order to craft the battery and plastic required for the blueprint.
By following these steps and meeting the necessary requirements, you can successfully craft the blueprint for shears in Breathedge and begin using them to cut various materials and objects in your space exploration journey.
Unlocking the Crafting Menu
To get the blueprint for shears in Breathedge, you first need to unlock the crafting menu. The crafting menu is an essential tool that allows you to create various items and tools to aid you in your space survival journey.
To unlock the crafting menu, you must complete the main story quest in the game. As you progress through the story, you will eventually come across a blueprint for the crafting menu, which will automatically unlock it for you.
Once you have unlocked the crafting menu, you can access it by pressing the designated hotkey or by navigating to the crafting section in your inventory. In the crafting menu, you will find a wide range of blueprints for different items and tools, including the shears.
However, keep in mind that not all blueprints will be available to you from the start. Some blueprints require specific resources or items to unlock. To obtain the blueprint for shears, you may need to explore different locations, gather resources, and complete certain tasks or puzzles.
Once you have obtained the blueprint for shears, you can use it in the crafting menu to create a pair of shears. These shears will be useful for cutting through various materials and objects, allowing you to gather resources and progress further in the game.
Remember to always check your crafting menu for new blueprints and items that you can create. Experiment with different combinations of resources to discover new recipes and create even more powerful tools and equipment to aid you in your space survival adventure.
Questions and answers
What is the purpose of shears in Breathedge?
Shears in Breathedge are used to cut various materials and objects in the game. They are an important tool for collecting resources and crafting items.
Where can I find the blueprint for shears in Breathedge?
The blueprint for shears in Breathedge can be found in the workshop on the first floor of the spaceship. It is located on a table near the entrance.
Are shears necessary to progress in Breathedge?
While shears are not necessary to complete the main storyline in Breathedge, they are highly recommended as they make resource collection and item crafting much easier. They are a useful tool to have in your inventory.
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