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Global positioning system (GPS) receivers often use GPS patch antenna elements. These components are small, thin, and easily integrated with varied electronics systems. Essentially a square conductor mounted on a planar surface or microstrip, this antenna can be added into numerous applications while maintaining the high gain that aids in satellite signal reception. Determining factors include uses such as car navigation, phones, and watches, as well as portable computing and remote control airplane navigation. Common varieties can be broken down into active, passive, and reradiating antennas designed for either internal or external mount.
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While such moves are great for the future growth of Ripple (XRP), I would be skeptical about spending ripple (XRP) on real estate at the moment. That's because there is so much potential for ripple to grow that any expenditure at the moment might look stupid in the future. You can easily end up the guy that bought pizza using 10,000 bitcoins. Someone can argue that real estate is not the same as pizza, since it is an asset. However, going by the growth potential that Ripple holds, there really is no much difference between the two scenarios. Here is why.
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For the third quarter of fiscal 2009, Nvidia reported $897.7 million compared to $1.12 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2008, a decrease of 20 percent. At the time, chief financial officer Marv Burkett said that the company's "point estimate" for the fourth quarter was a revenue decline of 5 percent, but that that estimate was difficult to estimate.
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Telling people you are a carrier: Implications for relationships & marriage
When people find out that they are carriers, and intend to have children, it has implications for current or future relationships. For people who discover they are a carrier during pregnancy and are already in a relationship, the first priority is usually to get their spouse or partner screened too (see 'Partner carrier screening').
However, many people we talked to would rather have known before choosing a partner and said they might not have got together if they had known they were both carriers. This was true for people from a range of different faith groups and cultural backgrounds.
In communities where arranged marriage is customary, telling people your son or daughter is a carrier may be a difficult thing to do. However, several people thought it was better to be open about being a carrier, and said they thought it was important that both potential partners in an arranged marriage should be screened. They wanted their children to know about their carrier status so they could make informed choices.
- Age at interview:
- 20
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Housewife, married with two children aged 3 and 5 months. Ethnic background/nationality' Pakistani.
English transcription, video and audio clips in Urdu, read by an actor.
You mentioned marriage again, that both people should be tested before marriage…?
Yes. My mother-in-law said so. She [mother-in-law] said that she [daughter] has thalassaemia [carrier], and she says to me that whenever you arrange her marriage, it will be important to get the boy tested as well. Otherwise there will be problems for the girl. Children are born following such difficulties, and such pain, and if the child dies after birth, then the mother will suffer more than the child. The mother will suffer.
So she is concerned about her granddaughter?
But how would this happen? Say for example, if your daughter was an adult now, right, and if, you are arranging her marriage with your brother's son, for example - sorry, I don't know if your brother has a son…?
…yes, he has a son too.
For example, if your brother ask for your daughter, for his son, then will you be able to say that 'I want to have your son tested', and why? How would you do this?
I will say to him that I want to have both of them tested, 'My daughter has thalassaemia [carrier]. It's a condition, not a dangerous one where an individual would die or something, nothing like that, just a minor condition, and we want to have the boy tested to see if he has it or not.' If my brother says, 'Yes, I'll have him tested', then that's okay. If he has thalassaemia, then I would say, 'No', I would not be able to arrange my daughter's marriage.
Don't you think that they will think that your daughter has some disease?
Yes, he will think, will say, 'I hope my son does not have this condition. It's an arranged marriage from my sister, she wants to give her daughter to him, my son. God forbid, I hope he doesn't have this condition.' Then the both of us, brother and sister, could arrange the marriage. Yes.
But is there any fear in your mind, that you don't want them to think about what condition it is that your daughter has?
I will explain to them, so there is nothing to worry about. I will say that I am alive too.
Yes, of course.
My daughter will live too. We both have thalassaemia. I am fine, wandering around, and now my husband doesn't have it and my children will be safe. If I had it and my husband had it, then my children would not have survived.
Footnote' This woman and her daughter are carriers of beta thalassaemia. It is important to distinguish between being a carrier, and having the condition beta thalassaemia major. People can only inherit the condition if both their parents are carriers.
- Age at interview:
- 26
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Housewife, married to a restaurant owner, two children aged 6 and 3. Ethnic background/nationality' Pakistani.
Original translated into English from Mirpuri and Urdu.
And, did your husband have the test? And when did he have it, how did he have it?
When I found out that I have this problem, then he was tested as well, and he was okay.
And why was he tested?
Because the doctor said that he should have it as well, because you could have disabled children. And if your children have this problem, and if you arrange their marriage, then you should test the other family first.
Once the marriage has taken place, it would not be acceptable for the husband and wife to separate if they discovered at that stage they were both carriers. As one mother pointed out, it can also be difficult if a marriage has been formally agreed when the couple are still very young.
- Age at interview:
- 31
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Married housewife, four children aged 10, 9, 8 and 2. Husband unemployed. Ethnic background/nationality' Pakistani.
English translation, video and audio clips in Mirpuri, read by an actor.
And your husband knew before marriage that he is a carrier?
He is a carrier.
Everything was explained to him in childhood that 'If you marry, then make sure that the girl is not'…
… that she is normal.
Did you ask him later why he did not check?
No, no. The thing with him was that he was young. He was seventeen when we married. His mother took him to Pakistan and our marriage was arranged long before that. But this should not happen, because you don't know. I was young and my uncle [father-in-law] said that we want this girl [for our daughter-in-law], that's what happens in Pakistan. And then when they went for the wedding, then who would have let them check blood? They would have said, 'You have her hand in marriage and you want to pull out.' Some people say that 'Your son won't agree, that's why you're doing this. That's why they kept quiet.' They learned about my blood when I came here. And no-one in Pakistan would believe you either.
About what?
About carriers. They do now, but they didn't then. It's been eleven years since my wedding.
Why do you think they don't believe this?
I say that they should. You shouldn't take on this headache. It is the mother and father's responsibility to take care of their children, raise them. After that, it is up to the children for their own life. If the children themselves say, if my carrier son says, 'I don't want to marry a carrier girl', don't do it, because then it is their life. They have to look after their own life.
You said something very good, that if they said that the girl should be tested when they went to Pakistan, and you would have said, maybe your family would have said that the boy is pulling out, or they don't want to marry…
…yes, that's what happens in families.
Yes, I completely understand this. But then…?
The best thing is that marriage should not be arranged at a young age [in childhood]. No one should know whether anyone has asked for this girl, or who will marry her. Yes, when she is older, take your son, and even then the girl's blood should have been tested, if you know that the boy is a carrier then tell him which girls are normal and 'Marry which ever of these that you want to', that's better.
But you said, like I was saying about your husband, that his asking would be like…?
…But our marriage was already agreed. I'm saying that it should not be agreed. It should not be agreed at a young age. Nobody should know. People can go to visit Pakistan for no reason. Now just about all our village knew that my marriage had been arranged from a young age, that this girl's [hand in marriage has] been given there. To tell you the truth, my mother used to tell people too, that we've given her to that boy. When I grew up, and people asked [for my hand in marriage], she'd say I've given her to such and such. You shouldn't do that. There are girls inside the family and outside, and no-one should know that this girl has been given to that boy, or this boy will marry from there.
Some couples who discover after marriage they are both carriers might choose to have children anyway, and accept them as they are. Some might choose prenatal diagnosis and be willing to consider ending the pregnancy. Others might decide that it was best for them not to have any more children.
- Age at interview:
- 37
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Secretary of own business, husband runs own business. Two children aged 3 years and 18 months. Ethnic background/nationality' Pakistani.
English translation, video and audio clips in Urdu.
Okay. Are you happy that you have been tested and told about this D Punjab?
Yes, absolutely. I am most happy that at least my daughter will know when she chooses her partner and she will know that she would not marry such a person.
Some people are such that they would say, 'No, no, if D Punjab doesn't make a difference to the individual then they shouldn't be given much information, you shouldn't worry them because their children are still young', etc. What do you think?
No. At least parents should know. Children are young, but will grow up tomorrow, and obviously they have to face their future themselves, so you should tell them first (parents should tell the children). At least the parenting is in the hands of the mother, hands of the father. We teach them. When they grow up' in childhood you say, 'Don't go there, dear' - then doesn't the child go there when he grows up? But at least you have told them not to. You have done your duty. We think parents should be given as much information as possible about their children. This is our duty.
I was just asking because some people say that if 'No, if we give this information, then parents will become upset''
No, no, no. What is there to be upset about? No, no, there is nothing like that, and individuals should know. Look, knowledge is never disadvantageous in any way. Thank God that my husband does not have it. If he had it, then we could not have done anything, but we did not know at the time. If we knew, then we would have taken steps after consideration.
Interestingly, you said that you would not have done anything. What do you mean by this?
It means that if we were married and there was no haemoglobin problem in the first baby, but we would have stopped the next time. If my husband had the S trait and I have D trait, and luckily the first baby did not have it, then we would not have had a second child.
Okay, so you wouldn't have done it'
'because we would have taken precautions. If we know that the child will be disabled, then why should we have such a baby, for whom his own life will become a problem? This is how we are thinking.
Some people say that if there is a chance of this happening, then they can test you in pregnancy. For example, thank God that your husband is normal and he did not have S trait, but if he did have S trait, then you would have told that you could have the baby tested'
'I would have definitely had it if it was curable. Because, look, I would have done whatever was in my hands, the rest is up to Allah, what an individual do in front of him.
These tests are usually done because it is not curable, so you could have a termination?
But, I would not have done that.
Yes. It is not wrong to take precautions before pregnancy, but even if the baby is disabled, in pregnancy, and I knowingly became pregnant, then I would never terminate my baby. How could I kill something to which God has given life? Yes, I would take precautions the next time, that I would not have a second child.
Although many people we spoke to were in favour of telling people before arranging a marriage, not everybody will choose to do so. One woman from an Indian Sikh background explained why she and her family did not tell her future husband's family she was a carrier. She feels it will be up to her children to make their own decisions when the time comes.
- Age at interview:
- 29
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Finance officer, married to community development worker, with one child aged 23 months. Ethnic background/nationality' Indian.
Video and audio clips read by an actor.
So what did you think about when you chose your partner then? How did thalassaemia fit into all of that?
It didn't actually. I didn't… I had an arranged marriage. You know, you don't say you've got a disease and "We want to check you, you know, your son, if he's got it as well." You just went and got married. And when it came to kids - and you automatically being Asian now you get tested for it. And I already knew I was a beta thalassaemia carrier. And I had told my husband about it, so he got himself tested when we had our first son. And because he didn't have it, it wasn't really an issue. But I wasn't, you know, when I was looking for a partner, it wasn't a major topic at that time to think, "Oh, I've got to screen him before I actually get married to him." I didn't go that far because it was based on, "Well, there's a probability."
- Age at interview:
- 29
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Finance officer, married to community development worker, with one child aged 23 months. Ethnic background/nationality' Indian.
Video and audio clips read by an actor.
And when you did tell your husband's family, was there any kind of comeback from that, or the feeling that, "We would have liked to know before"? Or was it not a problem?
I don't know. I think they were quite surprised when they realised that I was a beta thalassaemia carrier. And I think my parents were just always, my mum was very much like, "Oh, well, don't say anything." And they feel that it's like a stigma that there's something bad. You've got something. You know, there's something wrong with you. And I was like, "Mother!" you know. But yeah, I think our parents do, and I think my in-laws possibly did. But then my sister-in-law's got it. You know, my husband's brother's wife, she's got it. So she had to get tested as well, which my mother-in-law didn't know. So when the counsellor came to see me and she had this talk and my mother-in-law and father-in-law were there, and then afterwards I says, "Oh yeah, well, so-and-so's got it." And she said, "No she hasn't." I said, "Yes she has." Because his brother told me that she had got tested. And so she was quite, "Oh. Right." [laugh].
So I don't know, I suppose, yeah, they do think, you know, they're coming into their family and they've given them something [laugh]. And they probably think like that. And like our parents are like, "Oh, we don't say anything." Whereas we think, "Well, it's no big deal." You know, that's part of you and it's not as if it's going to - it would only be a problem if he had it. So he hasn't got it. It's not a problem. And when our children get old and decide to have kids, that's up to them what decisions they make and how they go about it. You know, you can't tell them what to do, just like if our parents told us what to do regarding this, we would just think, "Well, no. It's our choice."
The question of finding out about carrier status before entering a relationship was equally important for many people in communities where it is customary to choose your own partner.
- Age at interview:
- 21
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Student, married, one child aged seven months. Ethnic background/nationality' Black African.
Video and audio clips read by an actor.
Abortion for me is just like a big sin. So I couldn't do it. But I think if I knew, if there's a way I could do a blood test before even getting pregnant that would be a different thing to me, you see? Because I would know myself that I can't have a child with someone who's got sickle cell. It's true you can't choose partners but the child's innocent. It's me and the person that's bringing up that child, giving the child that disease. It's not the child himself. So it's two people.
Would you say to people, then, based on your experience, that it would be better to be tested before pregnancy?
Yeah, before. Yeah, I would just reckon to all the - I don't know, if you're from an African background, or Caribbean, I would personally say to, if you want to marry someone or get involved, for my point I think you have to choose who. Well, you might be in love with the person, but at the end of the day it's the child that will be suffering, not you two. So you have to choose who - be careful really to know.
Footnote' although sickle cell is more common among people of African origin, it can also be found in people from other ethnic backgrounds, including white people.
One woman, who is a sickle cell carrier, was glad she did not find out her husband carried haemoglobin C until after they were married, even though she had tried to avoid marrying a carrier.
- Age at interview:
- 35
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Full-time mother (formerly secretary), married to a doctor, one child aged 5, pregnant. Ethnic background/nationality' Nigerian.
I think I did ask him that, you know, 'What would have happened if you had found out that you were AC [carrier of haemoglobin C] and I was AS [carrier of sickle cell]?' Then he said, 'We probably wouldn't have gotten together.' Yeah, because you know, he's a doctor. He knows all the things that could go wrong with a child, so he probably wouldn't think about it. So that's why sometimes I think it's just God that wanted us to be together, you know. And in the Bible it says that he wouldn't give you any situation that you cannot handle. And he gave us this situation and we were able to handle it, even though, yes, it was emotional, it was stressful, it was scary, but we handled it.
So are you quite glad, in a way, that you didn't know before?
Oh yeah, definitely, definitely, because, wow, I just can't imagine.
No, it's such a sort of watershed moment, isn't it? That you could have gone in a completely different direction.
Different direction, exactly. That's why I just think it's, it's God just wanted us to be together.
Footnote' Each child born to this couple has a 1 in 4 risk of having a sickle cell disorder called haemoglobin SC disorder, in which the child has inherited haemoglobin S from one parent and haemoglobin C from the other.
Of course, it may be difficult to ask someone if they are a carrier at the start of a relationship, and people often become involved with each other before discovering that they are both carriers.
- Age at interview:
- 30
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Chef, single, one child aged 2. Ethnic background/nationality' Black African.
Looking back to when you first had the, the blood test, when you came to the UK, do you now feel you should have been told more at that point?
What would you have liked then?
Just maybe, maybe to know like, or if they can tell, or saying to people that, 'Because you've got sickle cell trait you can't go out with somebody - you have to try to find somebody that is not.' But it's a bit difficult for you to start going out with somebody and telling the person to go and get a blood test. That is so difficult. It would be so difficult. So you wouldn't even know anything. And if you find out, it's like after the, for example when I found out, because they found out I had sickle cell trait, like three months you can do the screening and thing, and then you find out that your child might have sickle cell.
It's like having abortion, that's very very painful. It is very painful. Up till now when I had the abortion, the last one I had when she was one, lately I was thinking, 'Oh, gosh, if I'd had my baby, here she would have been one.' Because, just, just because I was so scared that the child might have sickle cell.
If I'd known, that's it. If I'd known. Sometimes I just say that to myself because I can't even, because if I keep saying that to him I know we're going to be fighting all the time. So I say that to myself most of the time. 'If I'd known.'
But then as you say it's difficult, because you don't, you can't ask someone on a first date. And then if you've started to get to know each other and like each other, then it's hard to separate?
I've actually known him for a very long time. I've been going out with him since I was like 17 in Sierra Leone. And that, at that time we didn't even have - because the medication back in Africa is not that good. We don't have information about that thing. But he didn't know he had sickle cell trait until after the [pause] the baby. But sometimes I just sit down and think, 'If I'd known.' And even when I had the child, he's actually, he's, he asked me to get married. But sometimes I just think like, 'I'm going to be having a child with sickle cell.' Up till now I can't even give him an answer to say I'll do it or whatever.
A few people said they might change partner or would rather not have any more children with their current partner. One couple described re-considering their relationship while they were waiting for the amniocentesis results during their first pregnancy, because they both very much wanted to have children. The husband said, 'If that doesn't work out, then we just have to consider maybe changing partners or doing something else. So it was that serious.'
- Sex:
- Male
- Background:
- Couple with no children, aged 35 (female) and 57 (male). Female partner is not working, male partner is a carer. Ethnic background/nationality' Female- Black African, Male- White British.
What would you do if you found out that your partner was actually a carrier?
I wouldn't think of having a child with him, because I wouldn't want to go through it. Like I keep telling him, the HIV is enough for me. I wouldn't want anything, any stress or - that's when the love is not enough, that 'Oh, because you love somebody then you have to go with it.' No.
So would you, you'd choose the route of not having a child at all rather than getting pregnant and then having the baby tested to see?
I wouldn't say I would like not having a child. Then that means my having a child with him would be over. Then I have to look for somebody else.
- Sex:
- Male
- Background:
- Married couple with one child aged 4 months. Father aged 35, market trader. Mother aged 29, full-time mother. Ethnic background/nationality' father half Arab, half White British, mother Thai.
Father' They were quite good to be honest, within, within a month, it was all done and dusted, I'd say. And no problems, [wife] , my wife was the carrier. I wasn't a carrier. So we're all right. The only thing we've got to be concerned about is as he gets older, if he meets somebody it's obviously - I think they come back to us when he's fifteen, sixteen, anyway, and say, you know, coach him, talk to him and explain to him what he needs to do as and when he has a partner. So we've been quite lucky really, compared to other people, I suppose. It hasn't affected us. We can have more children without the risk.
If you had both been carriers, what do you think you would have done? Would you have tried to have more children, and then have tests during pregnancy to see if the baby was affected, or would you just have not had any more?
Father' What do you think? Have another baby if we had some big problem, or not? Not have one?
Mother' No.
Father' No.
Mother' We'd see what happened, what's going on.
Father' No, if that had been the situation, then we wouldn't have had any more children. Obviously with Down's syndrome and all that, all the things that they test you for while [wife] was carrying, it wouldn't have been a problem. But if you've got the choice, if you really do have a risk of having that at a later date, then no. No, I don't think we would have had any more.
Other people felt they would stay with their partner but would have prenatal diagnosis and then decide whether they wanted to keep the baby. As one mother said, 'I know the different ways of finding out, you have a choice to keep the baby or not to, so it's not the end of the world. So I don't see it as a big deal at all.'
Another mother felt if you were in love with someone you would marry them despite the risks.
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Former safety engineer, married, first pregnancy. Ethnic background/nationality' Black African.
[Laugh] I would have still married him because everybody has their soul mate, you know? I'd have still married him. Maybe that's why we never checked. When you're, when you're made for somebody, you're perfect together, you forget the rest, the risk involved and all kinds of stuff. So I would have still married him. I married him against all odds, with even our different ethnic background - because in my country I'm Hausa, he's Yoruba. We don't really intermarry. My parents, my father didn't accept it at first, but I still went ahead to marry him. No, I'd have married him. It didn't matter. I don't think we'd have checked, but if we had checked I'd have still married him.
One couple got married knowing they both carried beta thalassaemia. As Catholics they would never consider terminating a pregnancy, but they were hoping that with modern technology, especially pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, they could avoid conceiving a baby with the condition. (See 'Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis')
Other parents also wanted to make sure their children knew how important it was to tell future partners if they were a carrier.
- Age at interview:
- 32
- Sex:
- Female
- Background:
- Full-time mother, single, with three children (twins aged 6, baby 4 months). Ethnic background/nationality' half white British, half Jamaican.
[Sighs] I don't know. I don't what's the right age to tell them, but I think pretty early, because boys and girls will be boys and girls, and they can have children at an early age of 13, 14. So I think, yeah, I will tell my children quite young that, 'Look, OK, you're going to explore girlfriends or boyfriends, but you need to be extra careful, because you have this in your blood and you could pass it to your baby. And if your girlfriend has this in her blood then you've got a potential chance of your baby being a full blown sickle cell carrier. So you've got to be extra careful.'
So I think from about 12 I'll explain. I will always let them know about it, but to sit down and explain to them the chances I think I need to do it between 12 and 16, in that age, so that they know. Because, like I say, some kids go early, and I don't want to take that chance with my grandchildren, you know what I mean? If I could have prevented it with my children I would have done. But at least now I know I can help my boys with my grandchildren to prevent it happening again, and any chance of them having full blown sickle cell babies.
Footnote' if both partners are sickle cell carriers, each baby has a 1 in 2 risk of being a sickle cell carrier and a 1 in 4 risk of having sickle cell anaemia. There is also a 1 in 4 chance that the baby will not inherit the carrier gene from either parent and will therefore not be a carrier or have the condition.
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1) Benny Hill:
"Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand."
2) Eric Morecombe:
"A friend is someone who's there when he needs you"
3) M Mwele:
"Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours."
4) Inchcock: (Not famous, but I thought you'd like to read the thoughts of a complete idiot)
"A rolling moss is worth no less than too many cooks on Wednesday half day closing with sugar."
5) Joseph Heller:
"I'm gonna live forever, or die trying."
6) Hubert Humphrey:
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."
7) Ronald Reagan:
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do."
8) John Prescott MP (Now a Lord):
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder"
9) Spike Milligan:
"I can see clearly now, the brain has gone, I think, can't I, maybe not?"
10) Tony Benn MP:
"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world."
11) Tony Hancock:
"Some people say that one's personality is reflected off of their car... Well, I have no car."
12) Tony Curtis:
"I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife."
13) Tony Parsons:
"Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy."
14) W C Fields:
"You can't trust water, even a straight stick turns crooked in it."
15) Will Rogers:
"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
16) Samuel Pepys:
"He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound."
17) Spike Milligan:
"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
18) Heraclitus:
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
19) Stephen Fry:
"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me."
20) Jack Handy:
"To me, boxing is like a ballet - except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."


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Soy protein is generally regarded as the storage protein held in discrete particles called protein bodies, which are estimated to contain at least 60–70% of the total soybean protein. The Soybean is a legume that contains no cholesterol and low in saturated fat. Soybeans contain all essential amino acids. Soybeans are good source of fiber, iron, calcium, zinc and Vitamin B. Soybeans also contain biologically active or metabolic proteins such as enzymes, trypsin inhibitors, hemagglutinins, and cysteine proteases very similar to papain. Due to its functional properties like emulsification and texturizing it has been used as an ingredient in a variety of foods such as salad dressings, vegetarian foods and soups.
Soybeans are processed into three kinds of modern protein-rich products: soy isolate, soy concentrate, and soy flour.
Soy Isolates:
Soy protein isolate is a highly refined or purified form of soy protein with a minimum protein content of 90% on a moisture-free basis. It is made from defatted soy flour which has had most of the non-protein components, fats and carbohydrates removed. Because of this, it has a neutral flavor and will cause less flatulence due to bacterial fermentation.
Soy isolates are mainly used to improve the texture of meat products, but are also used to increase protein content, enhance moisture retention, and as an emulsifier. Flavor is affected, but whether it is an enhancement is subjective.
Soy Concentrates:
Soy protein concentrate is about 70% soy protein and is basically defatted soy flour without the water soluble carbohydrates. It is made by removing part of the carbohydrates (soluble sugars) from dehulled and defatted soybeans.
Soy protein concentrate retains most of the fiber of the original soybean. It is widely used as functional or nutritional ingredient in a wide variety of food products, mainly in baked foods, breakfast cereals, and in some meat products. Soy protein concentrate is used in meat and poultry products to increase water and fat retention and to improve nutritional values (more protein, less fat).
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Soy flour is made by grinding soybeans into a fine powder. It comes in three forms: natural or full-fat (contains natural oils); defatted (oils removed) with 50% protein content and with either high water solubility or low water solubility; and lecithinated (lecithin added). As soy flour is gluten-free, yeast-raised breads made with soy flour are dense in texture.
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Joe Jonas Wants To Be A Movie Star And Has A Film In The Works! Do You Prefer His Music Or Acting?
Hollywood heartthrob, Joe Jonas is putting music on the back burner as he gets ready to take the silver screen by storm! Are you excited?
Ever since Justin Bieber dethroned the Jonas Brothers as the king of tween hearts around the world, we've watched Joe, 22, Nick, 19 and Kevin, 23, move on and focus their energies on things like solo music projects, marriage and now, movies. Yup! Turns out the middle JoBro is emerging as a film aficionado and is moving forward with plans to produce and star in his first feature length movie!
While we all know Joe has expressed an interest in acting, we had no idea he was so serious! Turns out, he's been developing his current film project since earlier this year and told E! Online that financial backing finally came through.
"I was in Mexico City last week and my manager called me and said, 'The movie's financed!'" Joe said. "I was, like, in tears."
Joe has been completely open with fans and poured his heart out about past relationships into his anticipated solo album "Fast Life" (out Oct. 11), but when asked about his film he was a little more vague.
"The storyline is still bare bones, but I will say he has a specific dream that he wants to accomplish, and it's the good and the bad he has to go through to get there," he said. "It's going to be an older-feeling kind of movie. It's a little bit of everything. One of my favorite movies is The Four Feathers, and that has everything. It has funny, romantic, passionate…I want to do something like that."
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Online retailers eyeing the high street after record-breaking Christmas period
Royal Mail research reveals that online-only businesses are planning to move to the high street
Christmas can be crunch time for many retailers, and fortunately it seems that last year's festive season was a case of make rather than break for those that operate online.
As figures released by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) have revealed, 18.6% of all non-food purchases were made on the web during December, with a 19.2% annual leap in total internet sales. This is record-breaking news for ecommerce, and also explains why businesses have been able to thrive by operating solely in the virtual space.
The news is promising, but there is a potential drawback: with online-only retailers booming, the logical conclusion is that the high street will continue to suffer.
However, if research conducted by Royal Mail is anything to go by then now certainly isn't the time to worry - indeed, the latest indicators are surprisingly positive.
One in six successful internet businesses are looking to expand into physical stores during 2014, while 40% plan to start trading from new channels in an effort to boost their sales
Clicks to bricks
According to the results of Royal Mail's study, one in six successful internet businesses are looking to expand into physical stores during 2014, while 40% plan to start trading from new channels in an effort to boost their sales.
It's all about offering customers a diverse experience, fusing different methods of commerce and taking advantage of the range of options available.
With the research showing that the high street is the preferred destination for 16% of all online-only retailers, it seems new businesses have not been deterred by the struggles major chains have faced in brick and mortar locations over recent years.
Multichannel market
The reason for this could be a trend highlighted by the BRC - namely that multichannel services proved increasingly popular over Christmas. Many retailers used tools such as click and collect to steal a march on their competitors, boosting their appeal among consumers.
The success of this approach could go some way to explaining why businesses are looking to expand beyond the online sphere, coupling their internet operations with physical stores in a similar way.
Pretty vacant
All in all the figures paint a positive picture for Britain's online SMEs, and if they follow up on their plans then the impact on the high street could be hugely beneficial.
Evidence that the situation is already improving was seen recently when Local Data Company figures revealed vacancy rates have now dropped to their lowest level since 2010, and with internet firms looking to make the transition circumstances could be set to get even better.
It would certainly mark a reversal of recent trends that have seen high streets suffer as a result of consumers' increasing willingness to shop online, but if web retailers are deciding to go the other way they could strike the perfect balance to help revitalise town centres.


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Event Type: Storytime
Age Group(s): Children
Date: 10/29/2019
Start Time: 11:00 AM
End Time: 11:45 AM
This 45 minute storytime is for children who are able to participate in longer group activities. They are continuing to develop social and early literacy skills through movement, music, and stories. Letter sounds, reading comprehension, and math are among the concepts taught in this class to help prepare children as they transition to school. An adult must accompany child.Library: Calvert Library Prince Frederick
Location: Storytime Room
Contact: Melissa DeCesaris
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There are so many wonderful cookbooks for children cooking. The following ones come highly recommended especially when it comes to toddlers cooking. A cookbook for children is a wonderful idea as it combines the maths skills used when cooking with reading skills.
We spend so much time cooking for children that it makes perfect sense to include them and teach them all the skills involved with preparing a meal for themselves.
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In environmental and civil engineering, as well as in the energy sector, managing remote teams is a way of life. Remote work is becoming more and more popular for a variety of reasons, including the fact that it offers employees and contractors a better work-life balance and it helps companies to save on overheads. That said, managing a remote team is also a unique challenge that requires a specific set of skills and tools in order to ensure that the whole team stays connected and productive. So how can you successfully manage your team in the field, no matter where they are? Here are just a few great tips and tools that will make managing remote teams easier.
Tip - Don't Focus on Work Hours; Focus on Deliverables
When you're managing an in-office team, you have control over your team's work hours and what activities they tackle and when. But with a remote team, you no longer have that same control – and trying to dictate your team's hours and activities down to the minute will often backfire and result in lower job satisfaction. After all, one of the reasons why remote work is so attractive to employees and contractors is that it gives them more control over their daily schedule.
This will require you to change your benchmarks for judging what constitutes good work and what constitutes hard work. Instead of measuring the amount of time that your remote workers dedicate to your project, measure their deliverables. Did they meet their deadlines this week? Is their work of a high caliber? These are the details that matter when managing a remote team.
Tip – Stop Trying to Micromanage; It Simply Does Not Work
Typically, people in supervisory and management positions have their own unique management styles. One common style of managing is known as micromanaging, also known as hands-on or over-the-shoulder managing. If you're a hands-on manager, you'll need to re-train yourself in order to succeed with a remote team. Not being there in person to look over your team's shoulders and keep things running smoothly means you will need to develop trust in your team and transition into a more empowering management style.
Step one: Remember that you've put your team in place because you believe they are the best people suited to the task at hand. You need to have faith in your team's abilities and in your judgment, and allow your team members the freedom to do what they do best.
Tip – Change Your Mindset to "Remote First"
Software startup Trello uses a remote-based marketing team for its advertising initiatives, and the team manager and VP of Marketing, Stella Garber, says that she had to completely change the way she approaches projects in order to better manage both an in-person team and a remote team. Says Garber:
"It took a while to get our rhythm down, especially from a management perspective…(the 'remote first' mentality) is an essential practice for us at Trello. It means that even if one team member is remote and the rest are in the office, everyone will default to a videoconference. That way, remote workers don't feel left out…there will always be a sense of FOMO (fear of missing out) when dealing with remote teams, so I've found that over-communicating is often better than assuming team members will find things out through the grapevine (or by message in a bottle)."
Tip – Don't Forget About the Social Aspect
When it comes to managing on-site versus remote teams, one key difference is in the social contact – or lack thereof – that each group has with key members. In fact, one of the biggest reasons that remote teams fail is that they don't end up actually developing a rapport. If you want your team to act like a team, you need to make them feel like a team – and that starts with giving them opportunities to simply socialize.
These team members aren't bumping into each other at the water cooler or making small talk in the lunchroom, so you need to re-create those opportunities in the virtual space. Encourage your team to regularly videoconference just to ask each other what's going on and simply bond as a team.
Tool - Arkit: Collaborate Quickly and Easily with an All-in-One Suite
Arkit is a map-based project management and collaboration solution that provides large enterprises with powerful new remote communication and project management functions. Arkit's project map makes it easy for on-the-ground employees, site managers, off-site contractors, and upper-level supervisors to view project details and communicate about project needs. Arkit offers powerful organizational capabilities like lab data management, document uploads, task lists, budget outlines, task assignments, and a project history. That means even though you're not in the same place as your team, you can still see everything they're doing in almost real time and adjust project deadlines, budget allocations, and strategies as the need arises.
Arkit's project activity stream serves as a detailed permanent record of everything that happened, so nothing gets lost. Arkit also provides an overview of man-hour utilization across sites, which managers can use to better allocate talent and avoid inefficiencies and redundancies. And with intuitively designed visual reports, you can quickly see detailed graphs and charts that show you which sites are about to overspend their budget, which sites don't have enough people assigned to the crew, and which sites are falling behind schedule.
Tool - GoToMeeting: The Gold Standard in Enterprise Videoconferencing
Project management suites are great for organizing files, listing project objectives, and keeping the team on the same page. But when you're managing a remote team, it can be challenging to work around communication barriers, especially if your team is comprised of people whose core communication competency is spoken rather than written. And considering the fact that a full 93% of human communication happens through tone of voice and body language, simply writing back and forth with team members isn't the most efficient way to communicate.
That's where a videoconferencing program like GoToMeeting can help. With GoToMeeting, you can host group video chats seamlessly to keep everyone on the same page. And with GoToMeeting's ability to host conferences with more than 10 people, it's better for managing large teams compared to one-on-one solutions like Skype.
GoToMeeting also allows users to share their screens with each other, which is great for troubleshooting errors or resolving communication problems. Your remote team can't simply drop by each other's cubicles to help each other solve problems, but sharing screens is a great substitute.
The GoToMeeting user interface admittedly leaves much to be desired in the intuitiveness department, but what it lacks in usability it more than makes up for in video quality and conferencing features. Quite simply, it's just about the only videoconferencing tool on the market that's designed to meet the needs of enterprise-level organizations.
Tool - HelloSign: Seamlessly Get Remote Signatures Without Headaches
Getting signatures on contracts and project proposals is still a necessity for online businesses and remote workers, but sadly, it's not as simple or straightforward as meeting in person and just signing a piece of paper. Getting a remote signature on a contract has traditionally involved all manner of unnecessary complications like printing the contract, signing it, scanning it, and then emailing it. Even digital signature applications haven't typically been very easy to use – especially when multiple parties are involved.
But no more.
HelloSign is a gorgeous, highly secure eSignature tool that allows you to easily request signatures from up to 20 people at the same time – and then automatically send the contract to the signatories. HelloSign also offers convenient app integrations with Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Evernote, Box, OneDrive, and Dropbox, and you can even add your company's branding to the documents you're having signed.
That means whether you're getting signatures on non-disclosure agreements, independent consultant contracts, or project budgets, it's easy to send documents to your team and get their signatures – or send a document with your signature to your team. And if you're determined to start running an entirely paperless business in order to help the environment or cut down on administrative inefficiencies, HelloSign is a great way to reduce your paper needs.
Managing a field team isn't easy, but with the right tools in place, you can overcome communication barriers, minimize inefficiencies, and keep your whole team productive and engaged. Want to learn more about how project management suites like Arkit can help you manage a remote team? Contact us today.


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The explosive population growth of the late 18th century provided both the supply and the demand that fueled the Industrial Revolution. As living conditions improved, infant mortality decreased and life expectancy increased. Having to feed and clothe significantly more people than before meant that the farming and manufacturing processes in place needed to evolve to meet these new demands.
The Industrial Revolution may never have begun if it had not been for the attendant rise in population. Farming and industry had been very unorganized and inefficient but were still sufficient to meet the basic needs of the people dependent upon them. With life expectancy so short, little thought was given to such ideals as "quality of life." People barely survived, but civilization limped along.
As more children survived to adulthood, and then more adults lived longer still, more food and higher quality goods were required. Inventions that automated farming and manufacturing processes were implemented. Previously, demand had not been high enough for people to change from the methods they were accustomed to. As supply began to fall short, people looked for more effective means of production.
Having too many people for one farm, town or village to support created a surplus of labor. That labor was put to use in the towns and cities that built up around the new factories.


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Pax 2 & 3 Half Pack Oven Lid
This oven lid for the Pax 2 Vaporizer or Pax 3 vaporizers takes up half the available chamber space and so allows you to use a smaller amount of dried herbs and still achieve efficient vaporization as your herbs are still tightly packed. If you want to be able to reduce the amount you use in a single session then this is the part for you.
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Organizational Design
All groups have Processes – they range from the heavily formalized to 'just common sense', but they define every operation of our organizations. Fortunately, we can engage with them proactively: we can design them, change them, and choose the appropriate process for the appropriate moment.
Group Process Design services are for just such creative organizational tinkering. Process design looks almost entirely different with each group and situation – but the approach is the same. I work with your group to discover and determine which group communication, decision-making, education, or operational process is appropriate for each aspect of your organization – and then co-design (and sometimes implement) their adoption.
What might Group Process Design look like?
- Restructuring your Member Education program to make it more actively inclusive.
- Designing a fun and effective Strategic Planning and Staff Development retreat.
- Guiding the Transition from one organizational structure to another.
- Designing the appropriate Decision-Making Process your group uses in each of its areas of operation.
- Creating a new member/staff Orientation Program that is interactive, memorable, and efficient.
- Re-tooling your Evaluations process to incorporate feedback more effectively.
- Designing a group Conflict Management process, and guiding your group through its first implementation.


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Registered Nurse - Pediatric Cardiology Clinic
Professional Connections (Profco)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ref: RP057-1209
Job description / Role
Registered Nurse - Pediatric Cardiology Clinic - Jeddah, For female applicant
Nursing and Midwifery
Cardiology/ cardiac medical
To apply for this post you should hold a European, North American, Australian or New Zealand Passport. Professional Connections is contracted by our client to recruit from these territories only.
Our Client hospital in Jeddah is a 500 bed JCI accredited acute care hospital providing state of the art medical care for the population in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. Jeddah is one of the most popular locations in Saudi Arabia, a cosmopolitan city with a population of 2 million, excellent shopping, international cuisine and a multicultural workforce.
Medical Services at the hospital include: Anaesthesia & ICU (ICU, PICU, Cardiac ICU, NICU, Cardiopulmonary Services, Oral & Dental Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Medical Imaging , Medicine, Renal Dialysis Unit, Obstetrics & Gynaecology , Paediatrics , Surgery, Oncology, Home Health Care Program, Outpatients Dept. and Al Iskan Clinics situated off site. In addition, it promotes and advances an understanding of diseases prevention amongst the population.
Founded in July 1982, the hospital has continued to develop and expand. Recent projects include:The Cardiology Centre, Nursing College at King Saud University for Health Sciences, Out patient clinic centre, Grand expansion to all Emergency Room facilities, Grand expansion to the Oncology Centre, Founding the Bone Marrow Transplantation Centre and Burns Unit.
Job Title: Staff Nurse I
Responsible to: Nurse Manager / Nursing Supervisor
Basic Function:
• Within the mission, vision and values of Saudi Arabian National Guard-Health Affairs and the Division of Nursing
• Services, provide total nursing care for assigned patients and assumes a leadership role when required. Rotates day and night shift to meet patient care requirements.
Principal Duties:
Clinical Practice:
• Provides direct patient care utilizing the nursing process within established hospital, divisional and unit specific policies and procedures, standards, protocols, etc.
• Demonstrates knowledge and clinical assessment skills appropriate to clinical area.
• Takes direct and appropriate action in urgent and emergency situations.
• Documents all assessments, interventions and other pertinent information in the patient's health care record in a timely and ongoing manner.
• Promotes continuity of patient care through oral and written communication.
• Demonstrates effective communication and collaboration skills when interacting with patients/families, other health care team members and staff of other departments.
• Complies with hospital infection control and safety protocols.
• Provides a leadership and resource role in the provision of patient care.
• Acts as a unit management resource e.g. care coordinator, charge nurse, team leader, as assigned.
• Addresses issues using a problem solving framework. Initiates the nursing or medicaVadministrative chain of command if unable to resolve issues satisfactorily.
• Liaisons with other health care team members and departments to provide continuity of patient care and unit activities.
Education & Research:
• Works with all health care team members in activities designed for the improvement of patient care outcomes.
• Acts as a preceptor and/or resource for new employees, trainees and other staff.
• Assumes responsibility for own professional growth identifying those areas of clinical knowledge and skills that need further development.
• Uses research/current references in the provision of evidence-based care.
• Participates in teaching and mentoring of Nursing, Medical and Paramedical students, Interns and Residents
• Anticipates and acts to maintain a safe environment.
• Assesses own care, that provided by others, patient care systems, and continuously seeks ways to improve.
• Complies with and participates in Quality Management Processes and activities.
• Serves as a professional role model, teacher and resource person.
• Develops and utilizes professional collegial networking.
• Demonstrates respect, compassion and cultural sensitivity to patients/families other hospital employees, students and faculty.
• Advocates for excellence in patient care and for patient rights.
• Assumes responsibility for own actions, decisions and behaviors.
• Demonstrates initiative in the performance of duties.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Generous Tax Free Salary. Each case individually negotiated.NEW! Increments for years of experience and for post graduate education.
• One year renewable contract. If you renew for a second year you will receive one month salary as a recontracting bonus.
• Holidays: 61 days paid leave per year. (Annual leave and public holidays)
• Free fully furnished western accommodation.
• Recreation centres at all hospitals free of charge. Gym, tennis +++
• Free utilities. Cable TV available with up to 250 channels.
• High speed internet.
• Free healthcare.
• Return flight to your nearest international airport (Point of Hire) at beginning and end of contract.
• Midyear ticket to your point of hire.
• Registered Nurse with current Nursing license
• Diploma/ Degree in Nursing (Western standard)
• A minimum of two (2) years current clinical experience in specific area of practice
About the Company
Professional Connections International Healthcare Recruitment Agency
Professional Connections, often referred to as Profco, is an international healthcare recruitment specialist. Profco is working to help placing credentialed nurses, doctors and allied health professionals in exciting opportunities with leading hospitals around the world. International assignments are a great way for nurses and other healthcare professionals to broaden their experience and to see how healthcare is delivered in other countries, while at the same time enhancing their career prospects as they gain experience in different parts of the world.


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And in most states, taking a coding class doesn't even count toward graduation. But to me the most compelling argument for learning how to code is not about schools or even jobs, mighty as those motivators are, and should be. It's about these basics. On Earth, atoms make things up, and gravity makes things fall. On digital, instructions code behaviors that build systems that every day run more and more of our lives. How we talk. How we move. How we exchange goods and services and information. Code isn't how a world works. It's how the world works. So even if you're not a student, even if you're not looking for a different job, try this question on for size: If you don't know how your world is built, how can you hope to thrive in it? It's a loaded outlook, if you choose to accept it, and not a widespread one — yet. In Code.org's latest video (its first has 10 million views), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts that in 15 years, basic programming will be as important a skill as reading and writing, and that "We're going to look back and wonder why it took us so long" to realize it. Is that the exaggeration of a multibillionaire who changed the world with a computer? Maybe. But what if it's not? "A lot of people don't like how fast things are changing, because it puts the burden on them to catch up," Partovi said. "There's no two ways about it. Things are changing." OK. So let's say coding really is that important. What does it mean to know how to do it? Code is language, a way to talk to computers to get them to do things. But it's unlike any spoken language we use in that it speaks in concepts, not words. Partovi compares working with code to working with Legos. There aren't many different types of pieces, but you can build anything with them. Hypertext Markup Language, better known as HTML, is the simplest way to build a Web page. It tells a computer what to do, but since all it does is give steps to lay out a document, it doesn't really count as code, Partovi said. Neither does, say, typing a quick formula into a cell on an Excel spreadsheet. But type layers of formulas into Excel, something that manages budgets or oversees data, and you're onto something. To understand the concepts of code, you don't need to build whole apps on something fancy like Ruby on Rails or PHP. You just need to teach a computer a behavior. Partovi told me about a lawyer he knows who realized she was going to have to work on Excel for five weeks to complete a task. In one week, she taught herself enough code to get Excel to do the work itself, saving her four weeks of hassle. For years I assumed people who code have a natural affinity for math or logic. Then my husband, who loves math as little as I do, taught himself to make a bookmarking app in a couple months. I saw him struggle through bug after bug, Googling fixes for hours until he found them. That revised my assumption: Coding takes an innate obsession with problem solving. Still, not something I know I have. Talking to Partovi made me revise that assumption again. It's not an addiction to problem solving that drives people to code. It's not something you either have or you don't. It's the pull of a creative medium so capable, transparent and responsive, yet so reliant on its creator's precision, that once you have a picture in your head of what you want that computer to do, you can't let go until you get it right. When I read him the column up to here, my husband got his copy of Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month," his favorite book on programming, and read me this: "The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were or could be." One taste of that power, and who knows? Even you or I may find ourselves going back to that most powerful language in our world, again and again and again. Mónica Guzmán's column appears in Sunday's Seattle Times. Got a story about living with technology in the Northwest — or know someone she should meet? Send her an email, follow her on Twitter @moniguzman or send her a message on Facebook. Comments | More in Code, Column, Education, Habits, People, Seattle, Tech Devotion


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Young people in Scotland are starting to adopt more healthy behaviours, a major new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of St Andrews found that youngsters are smoking less and using cannabis less often than they were four years ago, when the last round of the study was conducted.
The research, which involved 11, 13 and 15-year-olds across 39 different countries, also revealed that Scottish children are consuming fewer fizzy drinks and brushing their teeth more.
And overall satisfaction with life is growing, with youngsters generally having plenty of good friends and claiming to be happy with their lot.
Dr Jo Inchley, assistant director of the Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit at St Andrews, said: 'Despite having typical teen problems such as poor communication with parents, Scottish youngsters are generally a sociable bunch and not at all isolated.'
However, the study also showed that rates of alcohol consumption and unprotected sex are higher among 15-year-old girls in Scotland than in many other European countries.
Additionally, levels of physical activity were found to be relatively low at all age levels in Scotland, compared with other nations that participated in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children report.
Professor Candace Currie, international coordinator of the study at the University of St Andrews, observed: 'There are some good headlines for young people in Scotland, but our report also shows what we need to urgently address in order to improve the health and social conditions of young people.'
Overall, the report confirmed that European teenagers' chances of enjoying good health depend on a number of factors, including age, gender, geography and family affluence.


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"A Dome Camera, simply put, is a camera that sits inside the circular cover and is typically found as security surveillance in shops or outside of homes. These are the most common of security cameras and usually come in a dark color like black or gray, which makes it hard to recognize which way the camera is pointing."
There are many types of cameras you can find. Dome camera is additionally one of them. We could define it as a camera that features a dome cover on it. It's a kind of hidden camera. It may have vari-focal lenses or fixed lenses. You could use it in retail stores, casinos, restaurants, hospitals, schools, bus-terminals, shopping malls and apartment buildings.
The dome camera is the camera of choice in most circumstances since they're typically more affordable and easiest to install. Also the indoor dome camera in a plastic cover makes it very difficult to tell where the camera is pointed, thus one camera could efficiently deter theft outside of its normal field of view.
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Day and night surveillance feature of dome cameras provides full peace of mind to users and managers of particularly sensitive areas such as banks along with other security installations. The truly amazing part is it can certainly automatically switch to black and white type recording for better clarity in low lighting conditions.
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"Can't You Tell That I Am Not Afraid?"
Face-Reading Software Interprets Emotions In Famous Portraits
Reading faces
Understanding what emotions people feel towards products, brands, and advertisements is one of the cornerstones of consumer research. To demonstrate the potential of automated emotion detection, we ran five iconic portraits through FaceReader, a facial recognition suite by a Dutch company Noldus that captures and describes 500 different key facial points.
Guerrillero Heroico
Better known as a T-shirt silhouette worn on college campuses around the world, this photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara was taken by Alberto Korda in 1960 at a memorial service for compatriots killed in the La Coubre explosion. The photo is popularly described as evidence of Che's stoic determination in the face of adversity, and FaceReader confirms: El Comandante sports a neutral expression tinged with a heavy dose of anger.
The Young Lion
The most famous in the "The Young Lion" photo-session by Joel Brodsky (1966), this picture cemented Jim Morrison as an idol of his era. FaceReader interprets The Doors frontman's expression as mix of sadness and anger, which other researchers have shown to be exactly the expression you would want from a sex symbol. Also, Morrison was drunk during the shoot.
How would you feel if you were able to hear for the first time in your life? Young Harold Whittles reacts very differently than you might expect after receiving his first hearing aid: he displays fear at the novel sensation, as well as some surprise. (Undated photo by Jack Bradley)
Run on the cover of National Geographic, this picture of a then-unidentified Afghan refugee came to symbolize the consequences of the region's conflict in the 1980′s. The Afghan Girl's face reflects the refugees' sad plight, and displays no other emotions. (Steve McCurry, 1984)
Afghan Girl
The Mona Lisa's expression has remained inscrutable to generations of researchers, and now a computer algorithm has failed as well. A bit of sadness among momentous flashes of other emotions was all FaceReader could discern. (Leonardo DaVinci, c. 1503-1506
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