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Boiler Repairs & Boiler Service in Bellingham, Hither Green, SE6
Bellingham Plumbers is proud to offer the finest boiler repair services in the Bellingham, Hither Green, SE6 and surrounding areas. Specializing in local jobs, Bellingham Plumbers boasts superior knowledge of the local area that makes them uniquely qualified to attend to all of your boiler concerns. Whether it's boiler repair, boiler servicing or general maintenance you desire, Bellingham Plumbers is never more than a phone call away.
When you employ Bellingham Plumbers, you can trust that your boiler needs will only be addressed by highly trained gas safe registered engineers. When it comes to boilers, repairs can be dangerous and should never be undertaken by anyone who isn't qualified to do so. At Bellingham Plumbers, you will always receive the highest quality professional boiler service at a best price available!
The professionals at Bellingham Plumbers realise that a boiler is essential to keeping homes warm during winter and as such, you can always count on fast local repairs that will get things up and running again in no time. Boiler problems are never convenient, but Bellingham Plumbers offers prompt, extensive services at a price you can afford. Bellingham Plumbers handles system, condensing and combination boilers, so no matter what type of boiler you have, you can feel confident that it will be properly serviced.
To ensure that your boiler is running safely and efficiently, it is a smart idea to have your boiler inspected at regular intervals. This will give you peace of mind, help correct any clogs or other problems that may be emerging and prevent future breakdowns from occurring. All in all, this type of regular maintenance can save you a considerable amount of money in the long run, and the professionals at Bellingham Plumbers are the best choice for these check-ups.
Boilers are often working full time in the winter, heating your home to a comfortable temperature. This can be taxing, so it's wise to schedule maintenance into your routine. A boiler breakdown during winter needs to be addressed as quickly as possible, as temperatures in your home can drop rapidly without a working boiler. Bellingham Plumbers is the best option for these emergency situations, and you'll be glad you rang when your boiler is back to its full function promptly and smoothly. Whether you have an oil boiler or a central heating unit, the experts at Bellingham Plumbers are always available to handle each and every job.
When your boiler fails, call in the professional repair service that puts your needs first. Bellingham Plumbers operates locally to provide the fastest, most convenient boiler repairs to Bellingham, Hither Green, SE6, and surrounding areas. Let Bellingham Plumbers give you peace of mind, with affordable maintenance services and fast local boiler repairs that will satisfy your needs to the fullest extent possible.
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Boiler Repairs And Boiler Service In Bellingham, Catford, Hither Green, SE6
When you rely on your boiler for heat and hot water, you dont want to worry if your system is going to work when you need it. When you adhere to a regular schedule of inspection and service, the chances of your boiler working without issues is usually much greater than if you ignore it until there is a breakdown. For your boiler to run at peak performance, it is necessary to have it cleaned on a regular basis. Filters will clog up, parts can get worn and settings can drift out of alignment over time without attention. Bellingham Plumbers, located in Bellingham, Catford, Hither Green, SE6 offers full service care and inspections of all boiler systems to keep them running at full efficiency.
Our plumbers have experience with all kinds of boiler systems, from condensing boilers to combination units. All of our plumbers are completely trained in the most up to date safety and regulatory industry standards to better serve you and do the best job possible. We can get you set up with a regular cleaning and service schedule so you dont even have to think about when the last time was you had service. A clean boiler runs better and will save you fuel in the long run so it makes good economic sense as well as extending the life of your boiler. With regular inspections, our plumbers can see potential problems that may be due to parts wearing out or other things that happen within the system. When you take care of issues before they become breakdowns, you can handle them at your own convenience as well as avert further possible damages.
In the event that an unexpected issue causes a breakdown of your boiler system. You cant always afford to wait for business hours to talk to someone about getting a repair. Bellingham Plumbers has a 24 hour call service centre that is available 7 days a week for just such an unexpected breakdown. We have local plumbers on staff who have vans fully equipped with the tools and parts they might need for most restoration issues. We can have them dispatched to your door generally within the hour from the time you call. When you talk with our call centre staff, we can help determine what sort of services you might need and tell you precisely what sort of services costs you will become dealing with
We can have them dispatched to your door generally within the hour from the time you call. When you talk with our call centre staff, we can help determine what sort of services you might need and tell you precisely what sort of services costs you will become dealing with
We can have them dispatched to your door generally within the hour from the time you call. When you talk with our call centre staff, we can help determine what sort of services you might need and tell you precisely what sort of services costs you will become dealing with an ideal up front side. This will make it easy that you should strategy what you will become spending and help you make your options about the program of action to take. If you need more considerable maintenance than what was thought in the beginning, we can not only handle the job, we can give you an accurate estimate as to how much it will cost in the very long run.
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COMPANIES are often extremely busy, with simultaneous major projects underway and some teams performing well whilst others need help, and resources are stretched. When deadlines, targets and deliverables must be met, it pays to enlist a mentor for the purposes of guiding teams and individuals who are struggling.
SMO- Strategic Marketing Outsourcing Pty Ltd is one company that uses mentors, citing their ability to produce all-round performance and professional outcomes on-time every time, something expected by boards and senior management.
A mentor acts as a trusted third party with an objective view and hands-on implementation experience, a second opinion when the issues and facts are clear but the options are ambiguous or not readily obvious.
Compared to employing an expensive senior manager with a roving role who may not be permanent, retaining a mentor can be very cost effective.
For a few thousand dollars a month, mentors can be pointed at specific projects. Their independence guarantees objectivity and a commercial focus on results.
Strategic Marketing Outsourcing has also noticed that more organisations are reviewing their branding and updating their logos, market imagery, straplines and promotional positioning statements.
It believes this is because Australia is at the mid-decade point of the business cycle with the upside to come. This is certainly true of the housing and building products sector, one of the major drivers of the Australian economy.
Updating positioning at this time makes good business sense, but good business process is essential to get it right relative to competitors' offerings.
If brands are a promise to buyers of the benefits and values of products and services, and the strength of a brand today and in the future is a building block for future net cashflow (free cash or net profit before interest and tax); then brand evaluation and strengthening techniques now are very worthwhile.
Strategic Marketing Outsourcing uses a simple brand wheel analysis process to get a good handle on where it is today and where it wants to develop its brand to become sustainably different and better in customers' minds.

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HVA hi pot tester and its safety features
With safety "designed in" an HVA series hi pot tester by b2 electronics fulfills all the requirements so as to protect both operator and instrument.
Short circuit protected
The short circuit protected output prevents damage to the device during a test sequence.
12 kV feedback protection
For maximum electrical safety an HVA hi pot tester is equipped with 12 kV feedback protection – by means of an integrated transient resistor.
Signal lamps for high voltage
A RED lamp on the front panel indicates active high voltage! A non-active output is indicated by a GREEN lamp.
Status display of safety functions
All important safety functions and messages are shown on the integrated display. Hence, safe operation of a HVA hi pot tester is guaranteed.
Fully integrated discharge circuit DDD®
The fully integrated Dual Discharge Device (DDD®) safely grounds the device under test at the end of a test sequence.
Main switch with key-lock
Unauthorized switch on of a HVA hi pot tester is prevented by means of a key-lock main switch.
Emergency-off button
For immediate output switch-off in case of emergencies, an emergency-off button is placed in the center of the front pan


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Hello Kitty Messenger Bag: Bonbon
Item # 17211-201408
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Pretty as a picture, this messenger bag is a great choice for girls and young adults. The durable polyester outer is embellished with embroidery, satin frill and bow. Large enough for books, a pencil case and sandwich and comes with a permanent shoulder strap and handle. Part of the Hello Kitty Bonbon collection.
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- 9"H x 13.75"W x 5"D
- Durable polyester weave with faux leather applique, embroidered logo, satin trim, pink polyester lining
- Adjustable shoulder strap: 60" maximum length with 27" maximum drop length
- Inside: 1 large velcro pocket
- Double zippered main compartment, flap with heart shaped velcro closure
- This product is not machine washable. Wipe clean with damp cloth and air dry
- Weight: 1 lb
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Thomas Meyerhoffer Talks About His ISAORA x Meyerhoffer "SURFORWRD" Collection
In light of today's unpredictable climate and active lifestyles, it's always nice to know that a
In light of today's unpredictable climate and active lifestyles, it's always nice to know that a brand has you covered — regardless of weather or occasion. New York-based ISAORA uses high-tech materials and construction to add value and functionality to each garment, offering value without sacrificing style. New for Spring/Summer 2013 is a line of technical surfwear designed in conjunction with Thomas Meyerhoffer — shorts, board shorts, tees and tanks in fabrics like water-repellent Aquastop and Schoeller-dryskin. As with all ISAORA garments, they'll "look, feel and perform wherever your pleasure takes you," ensuring the focus is solely on surfing without concern regarding uncomfortable garbs. Below is an interview between ISAORA and Thomas Meyerhoffer regarding the project and Meyerhoffer's own unique approach to design.
Look for the Thomas Meyerhoffer x ISAORA "SURFORWRD" collection now at our online store.
Hi Thomas! For those unaware, please introduce yourself and what Meyerhoffer is all about.
I'm interested in creating new stories and experiences through innovative design. My hope is that whatever I work on can help people see the world from a new perspective. I tend to gravitate towards designs that are simple and pared down…things at their most essential.
I worked at Apple for some time with Jonny Ive but ultimately left as I wanted to work outside of tech, so I started my own studio on the beach. Today, you can find me developing strategic designs for well-known brands or experimenting with whatever I find interesting… like surfboards or this collaboration with ISAORA, for example.
When did you realize that the surfboard was a design medium that you wanted to commit yourself to evolving?
When I surfed the first boards I ever made. In the beginning, the boards were more like sculptural art pieces, but after taking them out I realized that they functioned incredibly well, too. The hardest part was the next step, which involved consciously deciding on design choices. Ultimately, I went with my gut in regards to what I felt might work best on the waves. A few millimeters of surface discrepancy can spell the whole difference between a good and great board. Last year, I made over 40 prototype boards. Every time I go out, I surf a different board to keep my mind fresh.
How do you differentiate between upgrading/progressing an existing surfboard in your collection and knowing that it's time to develop a completely new one?
I don't. It's all one single process for me. I always keep forward momentum in mind when it comes to design. A new board is ready when it has its own soul. Whenever I release a new board, what you see, feel, and ultimately surf is a direct result of that spirit of progress. The current lineup is comprised of boards that are all highly evolved to perform optimally in the water. I consider them finished, for now.
Many people identify the SLIP IN as your most radical surfboard design. Could you please discuss the process that inspired and created that board, as well as what went into naming it?
Actually it shares DNA with this one longboard that has the same tail and that negative cut. I was in Barbados with my friend Zed, a great surfer who runs our test center out there. He suggested I should do a shorter version of the longboard. When I went back home I created a few prototypes and brought them out to the Maldives a month later. We rode them in head-high waves and they worked beautifully straight out of the box – it slips into any wave. It's a single fin and trims like one, but it turns more like a thruster with the negative cut in the tail. You can adjust how radical you want to be by moving your back foot. We won best in show at Boardroom last October and have seen a lot of orders come through since.
Say you were given the opportunity to visit the year 2087. What innovations in surfboard design do you hope humanity would have made by then?
I'm working on that as we speak :).
We are huge fans of how considered your home, and everything in it, is. Assuming you sometimes have large groups of people over to your house, are you ever anxious that entropy will prevail and all of your things will be out of order by the time everyone leaves?
Thank you, I appreciate that. The short answer is no, not really. As long as most of my surfboards are still there when everyone leaves!
As a clothing brand, we are clearly very invested in aesthetics and color. Can you discuss your favorite color scheme and how you decide what color arrangements will appear on your respective boards.
This year, I wanted to highlight the shape of the boards so I went with solid colors that contextualized the boards as single, coherent objects. I went with matte textures and stayed in the warmer side of the color spectrum –- lots of reds and oranges, some browns and ultimately a bit of black. For the next collection, I'll invariably do something different. I like looking towards fashion for inspiration… at the moment I'm toying with the idea of making a metallic blue, transparent board.
You made some of the most forward-thinking upgrades to snowboard goggle designs for Smith. Any thoughts about protective eyewear in surf? Is this a field worth exploring?
No, I don't think so J. Not currently, anyways.
We were recently fortunate enough to create a collaborative line, ISAORA x Meyerhoffer. Please tell us a little bit about the design philosophy/approach behind the collection.
Certainly where we're situated geographically influenced the design of the collection. We wanted to create a line that you could wear in California and New York; the beach and the city, if you will. The line is casual aesthetically but is built from high quality performance materials… we wanted to make sure that you could
wear all of these pieces at every level of activity.
Integrated technical details like the panels of Schoeller®-dryskin tech fabric used under the arm panel to help deal with the wax when carrying the boards. The same fabric is used on the seat of one of our sweatpants, keeping you dry and more comfortable while you to sit on rocks checking the surf.
I don't design retro surfboards; I'm constantly looking towards the future. That's where the SURFORWRD concept grew out of -– the desire to never go backwards. The Slip In and the Longboard, as well as this collection, are all manifestations of that philosophy.
It's difficult to choose, but can you tell us which two pieces from the ISAORA x Meyerhoffer line are your favorites and why?
I would have to say the gray sweater and the dark blue pants. I'll wear those everywhere, whether I'm checking the surf, concepting in the studio, or loading the truck with some prototypes or jumping a flight to Barbados.
If we're visiting Montara & Half Moon Bay (where you're based), what are three things we absolutely have to do?
Surf Grey Whale Cove, hike Montara Mountain (the third tallest peak in the Bay Area), and of course, check out Mavericks (in the winter). It's crazy to witness how far out people need to paddle.
Finally, we'd love to know what's next for Meyerhoffer.
We just wrapped a collaborative project with Coca-Cola on a heritage glass. It's the first time in 84 years that they've taken a look at reinventing this iconic form. We launched it at colette in Paris and they'll be ready Stateside by July. We'll also be at the US Open this summer with an entirely new board collection, so
stay tuned for that.


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Blogger collaboration (pink) / Suradnja između blogova (roza)
|necklace, ogrlica: DIY, dress/haljina: moda in, rest/ostalo: nije markirano/not branded
I choose a pink blouse, I love that thing - because, in my opinion, it´s very stylish. As you can see, I wear two different kinds of skirts - a black (leather) and a white one.
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Despite Putin's bluster, the authoritarian regime he has constructed is exceedingly brittle. At the center stands Putin; surrounding him, the power-hungry loyalists he has folded into his inner circle. Some, called the siloviki, belong to powerful institutions such as the secret police or the army. Others, formally affiliated with various government agencies, are loyal only to Putin. In such a system, sycophantism is rewarded above good governance, empire-building runs rampant, policy loses its effectiveness, and corruption becomes routine.
The neo-tsarist ideology of Russian imperialism, Orthodox revival, and anti-Western Slavophilism that Putin has constructed has limited appeal to the cynical men who help him run Russia. Therefore, Putin's ability to retain their loyalty rests primarily on his control of the country's financial resources. Thanks to the record-high energy prices that accompanied his assumption of power in 1999, Putin was able to personally purloin some $45 billion and still have enough money to raise the country's standard of living, strengthen the Russian military, and keep his cronies happy. No longer. Oil prices have collapsed and are likely to stay low; Western sanctions are hitting hard; and the Russian economy is on the downswing.
Sooner or later Putin will be forced to make some cuts, but it is hard to know where that money will come from. Given the ongoing war in Ukraine and his anti-Western ideological crusade, reducing military funding will be unfeasible. And Putin's popularity would take a serious hit if he were to roll back support to the lower classes. The only option, therefore, may be to stop his cronies from dipping into state coffers, even if doing so will alienate them.


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Winding drum elevators are an older type of elevator. Elevator cars are pulled up by means of rolling steel ropes attached to a drum, that wind around the drum. The weight of the car is usually balanced by a counterweight. In some cases, there are 2 counterweights. One attached to the car, and one attached directly to the winding drum. Winding drum elevators started to lose popularity in the 1920s, and are no longer allowed to be installed since 1955, except for freight elevators traveling 40 ft. or less, and traveling 50 FPM or less, though it is unknown if any manufactures still make winding drum machines for commercial elevators. This is most likely because if the final limit switch fails, the elevator will keep going, even when it hits the top of the shaft, and the motor will not stop, which can damage the elevator, the building, or even possibly cause the elevator to free fall. Winding drum machines are still allowed for home elevators and short distance dumbwaiters. Winding drum elevators appear to be designed for slow speeds. Winding drum elevators are very rare to see, because of how long they have not been allowed to be installed, and that they are often replaced with traction machines during modernization.
Winding drum machines are usually single-speed, and are powered usually by DC, or maybe in some cases AC electric motors. The electric motor in this design drives a worm-and-gear-type reduction unit, which turns the hoisting sheave. The gear reduction offers the advantage of requiring a less powerful motor to turn the sheave. An electrically controlled brake between the motor and the reduction unit stops the elevator, holding the car at the desired floor level.
|Elevator drive systems
|Traction • M.R.L. • Winding Drum • Hydraulic (Oildraulic)
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A Disastrous Date
by Gizel E. Vega Oquendo
I remember my first date. Not only because it was my first romantic experience with who I considered during that time "the boy of my dreams", but also because it was one of the most embarrasing experiences of my life. I was 17 years old back then, but I remember it like if it was yesterday. We took a long road trip from Carolina to the Old San Juan. Along the way we were sharing experiences and funny anecdotes, we were telling each other the kind of stories you tell in highschool, about pranks, teachers, odd classmates and issues that only a highschool student can understand.
We arrived to the restaurant and everything in it looked fancy. The sights were all bright because of the illumination of the place; everything was sorrounded with colorful lamps with different shapes, there were autographed pictures of what appeared to be various local celebrities who had visited the restaurant, such as José Feliciano and Ednita Nazario, the tables were decorated with red and yellow roses, Dean Martin's lovable music was comming out of the restaurant's speakers and the smell of garlic frying in olive oil in the air gave me that sensation that only good Italian restaurants can give to a woman with a great taste like myself.
As we walked in the host politely saluted us and asked my date if he had a reservation, to which he replied "yes", after checking my date's name and last name in a thick, old, black binder with Italy's flag and the restaurant's logo on its cover the host walked us to our table. The service was great, I can tell because only a few minutes after taking our seats the waiter was with our menus and...


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Here's a free system for you. I call it the "SPY RSI No Lie" system. It's called that because I like stupid titles, and internal rhymes are an added plus.
I read a post on Jeff Swanson's System Trader Success recently about using a short-period RSI value to trigger trades with the S&P 500. Jeff's post was more from a theoretical standpoint, as it used the SPX index (rather than a tradable ETF or future) and also traded on the same day the RSI is calculated. The index issue is easily translated to SPY or an equivalent ETF. Calculating the RSI of the day before the day is actually finished is, well, technically impossible. But in practice, it's doable in a sort of almost/kinda/fuzzy-round-the-edges sort of way. I thought I'd take a look at an easily tradable system.
This system was optimized on the period of 2000-2013, and then confirmed with out-of-sample data from 2014 through April of 2016.
The system:
• $1500 position size (rounded down to whole shares), $30,000 account size.
• no commissions or fees (yeah I know, we'll get to that.)
• Calculate the two-period RSI for the day, after the close.
• signal is when the RSI value falls below 28.
• Buy at the next open.
• calculate the 7-day moving average of the closing price.
• Sell at the close, when the close is above the previous day's moving average. Note: this can be a same-day trade.
That's it! Pretty simple. So let's take a look at some graphs.
Above is the full set of data from 2000 to April 2016, so it includes the in-sample and out-of-sample periods together.
And this is the out-of-sample period. It's bumpier because the resolution is finer, but it still trends nicely in the right direction. A winner, right?
But wait, what if we throw in some commissions? Our trade size is <=$1500, but what if we're paying $4.95 each leg of a trade? How does our system work then?
Well hey, that looks like garbage!
And as we zoom in, it still looks like garbage! Commissions are eating up our profits. Which is why you should open a brokerage, because that's where the real money is…
If you happen to be comfortable risking more than $1500 per trade, you can make the effects of those commissions disappear (almost). I ran an optimization on the position size for this system, and here's what it looks like:
The system doesn't become profitable until a position size of $2000, but even then it's just break even. To get the most bang for the buck, you probably want a $10,000 position size.
What if we traded a 3x ETF like UPRO instead? Would that be better?
It's better than buying SPY with that position/commission size. But the total profit is less (even with the 3x leverage). And you can see 2015 looks like it's rounding off and heading back the wrong way.
The OOS period is profitable, but only just.
There is, however, a solution to this problem.
Robinhood is a brokerage that you use primarily on your mobile device. And their main selling point: zero commissions.
A quick aside here: I don't work for them, they're not paying me, heck they don't even know I exist. I get nothing for saying this. But it's such a game-changer to trade with zero commissions, that I just have to mention it. Yes you do still have to pay the exchange fees, but that works out to about 2¢ per trade. This means you can trade with incredibly tiny positions, or use systems that make many incremental and small profits, and not suffer the drag of commissions.
Below is the system trading with SPY and a $1500 position size, but using a $0.03 fee instead of a $0.02 fee…just to be safe.
Looks a lot like our original system, doesn't it?
And our OOS sample set too. Nice.
That said, Robinhood is a strange beast in some ways. You can set limit orders, stop orders and stop-limit orders. But you can't do a market-on-close order! I find that incredibly frustrating, because I want the official closing price, not some price that's sort of near it. This also means I have to be available around 1pm PST to make my trade, which adds a little stress.
You can of course do a market-on-open order, just by placing your order in the after-hours period. What about limit-on-open and limit-on-close orders? Forget about it.
That said, I've changed the way I develop my trading systems now. I have two tracks: those that make money with "old fashioned" commissions, and those that make money with zero commissions. I haven't put all my financial eggs in one basket yet, nor am I likely to. But it sure does give me options like the system above! (No, Robinhood doesn't do options…)


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Identical twin girls among youngest born in Iowa
DYSART, Iowa (AP) — Identical twin girls Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt are young but already setting records.
Swaddled and warm in an Iowa City neonatal intensive care unit, the tiny infants are the most premature surviving twins born at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Keeley James and Kambry Lee arrived 18 weeks early on Nov. 24, delivered at just 22 weeks and one day gestation, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported.
"They would be clearly among the top four or five earliest babies ever delivered here. We had one at 22 (weeks) and zero (days) and another at 22 and one, but neither were twins," said Dr. Jonathan Klein, a neonatologist and medical director of the NICU at University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.
Late last summer, parents Jade and Wesley Ewoldt of Dysart were elated to find out they were expecting twins. Their family of four — including daughter Kollins, 3, and son Koy, 5 — would expand to six. Jade, 28, is a stay-at-home mom and Thirty-One Gifts consultant. Wesley, 29, is a pattern maker at American Pattern & CNC in Cedar Falls.
Jade Ewoldt's pregnancy was smooth until 16 weeks gestation when the babies were diagnosed with twin-twin transfusion syndrome. TTTS is the abnormal formation of blood vessel connections between identical twins sharing a placenta. Those connections create uneven blood flow between the babies and can be fatal for both twins.
″(TTTS) is also very rare," Klein said. "A lot of patients pass away before they are even born."
At 17 weeks gestation, the twins underwent surgery in utero at Cincinnati Children's Hospital to seal and disconnect the aberrant vessels. TTTS, even when treated successfully, often causes premature birth. That's what happened with the Ewoldt twins.
Four weeks after the surgery, on Nov. 23, Jade's water broke at home. She was exactly 22 weeks along.
"I was so mad and upset and scared," she said. "I was just praying the girls wouldn't be born at home."
The 1-hour, 15-minute ambulance ride to UIHC felt like one of the longest rides of her life, Jade Ewoldt said. The ambulance crew told her if the babies were born along the way, they weren't equipped to save them.
"I must've asked them a thousand times if we were there yet," she said.
UI Stead Family Children's Hospital is home to Iowa's only Level 4 NICU — the highest level recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics. It is among just 22 percent of U.S. hospitals that provide active care for infants born at 22 weeks gestation.
In 2016, among the nearly 4 million live births in the United States, 1,857 babies were born alive at 22 weeks, Klein said.
"For 22-week babies to survive, it's incredibly rare," he said. "Nationally, survival is around 10 percent. Here at (UIHC), our survival rate over the last 10 years is 65 percent, 650 percent higher than the national average.
"Many places consider babies less than 24 weeks incapable of survival. But we know it's possible. And it's one of those things we are now getting more recognition for nationally. I'll be going to a national meeting to talk about what we do differently at (UIHC)."
At birth, Keeley weighed 1 pound and Kambry weighed 13.4 ounces. Each baby was about the length of a dollar bill.
"I'd never heard of babies being born this early," Wesley Ewoldt said. "We didn't have a lot of positive thoughts. They told us from the get-go this is going to be a roller-coaster ride."
Klein said it's a huge team effort, from surgeons to obstetricians to neonatologists to nurses, to keep alive babies who are born so early.
"Every single organ system in the body is not designed to survive outside the mother," he said.
Skin is so fragile it can tear under the gentlest touch. Eyelids are not yet formed. Respirators delivering the smallest puffs of air keep the girls breathing. A neuroprotective strategy developed by UIHC doctors for premature babies limits and monitors stimulation — such as light, sound and touch — to keep the babies' stress levels low and limit swings in blood pressure.
"It's overwhelming when you think about these things," Jade Ewoldt said. "So much goes into making sure these two little girls stay alive."
Kambry lost some weight after she was born, which is common among preemies. Her lowest recorded weight is 11.64 ounces — less than a can of soda.
Keeley had surgery to close a vessel that's only necessary in utero and, left intact after birth, can cause heart failure.
"It's amazing the tremendous skills the surgeons have," Klein said. "Our babies, at the time of surgery, are smaller than most adult hearts. It's mind-boggling to think they are doing surgery around hearts the size of thumbnails."
Jade Ewoldt stays at the twins' NICU bedsides most days, returning home a couple of days a week to spend time with her husband and other children. Family and friends help shuttle Koy and Kollins to and from school and activities, and babysit while Wesley goes to work.
"It's a lot of places to be at one time. I'm just trying to do my best to hold it together for my family," Wesley Ewoldt said.
It's been that way for 57 days, and will be for many more. The earliest the twins will go home is their original due date — March 29. They'll be 4 months old.
The Ewoldts said they continue to take each day at a time, and aren't yet thinking about long-term prognoses for Keeley and Kambry. For now, the girls are growing and progressing. Earlier this month, Keeley weighed 3.1 pounds, and Kambry weighed in at 2.1 pounds.
Through faith, though, the parents remain hopeful.
"You just think of what they can be," Wesley Ewoldt said.
"They've beat all the odds against them so far," Jade Ewoldt added.
Statistics from the hospital's NICU are on their side.
"We've followed up on many of these babies over the years," Klein said. "The good news is, based on our neuroprotective care strategies, only 10 percent born at (UIHC) have long-term disability — blindness, deafness, cognitive disabilities."
Klein said the probability and severity of long-term disabilities in premature babies can be predicted based on problems present at birth or shortly after, such as bleeding in the brain.
"In these girls, we've not seen that. The odds are in their favor."
Nonetheless, Klein is cautiously optimistic.
"Until they've been off the respirator for over a month, we are still kind of day by day. They need to be able to gain weight without IV fluids. They have to be able to maintain their temperature. Usually this all comes together around the due date. I don't start feeling comfortable until we get about a month from the due date. You can't let your guard down."
Information from: Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, http://www.wcfcourier.com


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Bhaktapur, a historic little town, is a short drive outside of Kathmandu. The name, Bhaktapur literally means a "place for worshippers".
Damaged temples at Bhaktapur Durbar Square.
On any given day, you'd find the streets bustling with worshippers, local residents, tourists and folks from Kathmandu getting out of town for a few hours.
The streets are of Bhaktapur lined with temples, houses made of bricks glued together with mud, and handicraftsmen selling gorgeous dragon masks, little temples made of wood, and other artefacts made of brass.
But not today. Today was different.
The streets were still crowded, but there was silence. People walked around the Bhaktapur courtyard with protective masks on, as they stared at the temples, tents with medical clinics, and the city skyline that once was so majestic.
Unlike other damaged UNESCO heritage sites like the Basantapur Durbar Square and the Patan Durbar Square, the main square in Bhaktapur is not cordoned off because this isn't just a tourist attraction. This is in the heart of a vibrant town, where local residents live and move about freely.
Rubble from Vatsala Temple.
In Bhaktapur, you're never more than a stone's throw away from a temple. But today, about half of them are no longer standing. Some are merely piles of rock. The ones that are still standing face a precarious future. Many have suffered tremendous damage. A couple of temples looked like they would topple if someone leaned against them.
But first, a bit of good news -- Nyatapola Temple, the main attraction at Bhaktapur, still stands head and shoulders above the rest, and looks undamaged (except for a broken wooden window on the topmost roof).
I wandered across Bhaktapur and climbed on top of the steps where a temple once stood. I stayed there for a couple minutes watching this town like never before. I have been here many times, but it felt like a whole new place.
View of the Bhaktapur skyline from a destroyed temple.
"Bhaktapur is in shambles," I mumbled. But unfortunately, I hadn't seen the worst of it yet.
I ventured deeper into the residential neighbourhoods. There were very few people in sight now. I stopped to take a photo of a door with a padlock on a brick wall. This street looked completely undamaged, except for the house at the end. I walked up to it and that intersection looked like a bomb had exploded there. The houses had been ripped apart and their guts were lying all over the street.
But I couldn't get any closer, as there was an active search and rescue operation underway. I stepped away and walked back up the same street. I took another photo of the door with the padlock, when I heard a voice.
"Why are you taking a photo of the door?" said Kedar Machamasi (32). "Follow me, I'll show you what you should be taking pictures of." I followed him into the tiny hallway of his house, along with a Ukrainian freelance photographer.
We were shocked at what we found inside. The house had essentially imploded. The roof had caved in, and the walls inside has collapsed. I could see inside every room in his house from here. It was bad. It was really bad. There is absolutely no way anyone can live in this house again, until it's demolished and rebuilt. But, the wall facing the street is still intact and is very deceiving. Fortunately, no one was injured in this house.
"We have been sleeping in tents with many others in the main camp site," Kedar told me. "We have food and water because the community cooks and eats together." I asked him whether he had received any help from the government so far, and he replied "not even a single bottle of water."
I stepped back out into the street, and two men there told me the same story about their homes. "It looks fine from outside, but it's gutted when you step inside," they said. "Khattam chaa," one of them exclaimed, which means "It's finished."
This view is deceiving. These houses have virtually imploded and are uninhabitable.
This wasn't just the story of this street. This was Bhaktapur's story. The vast majority of homes here need to be completely gutted and rebuilt. That's not going to be an easy task, given the narrow lanes here. The road to recovery is going to be a long and slow one.
I witnessed a lot of destruction and heartbreak today, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention this.
Bhaktapur is only a 20-minute drive outside of Kathmandu. Both Kathmandu and Bhaktapur have the necessary short-term aid they need. Please immediately redirect the majority of resources to the thousands of towns and villages across Nepal that haven't had any help yet. They're in desperate need.
The entire district of Sindupalchowk is hurting. There are several villages that have been totally flattened with fatalities up to 80%, according to ISAD, the UK-AID International Search and Rescue team. It is impractical to reach these remote villages with aid by foot or by road. The only option is delivering aid via helicopters.
This is a condensed version of a longer piece on Bhaktapur after the quake. Read the full story here.
If you're outside of Nepal and are wondering how you can help. Click here to find out exactly how.
All images have been provided by Amrit Sharma.
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I am terribly spoiled as I experience summer conditions just about every day in Planterra's sun-splashed conservatory. For me, summer is more than a season, it has a scent, a flavor and it's a state of mind – that's why I enjoy cracking open my favorite bottle of French rosé or dry Michigan Riesling on a sunny day in January. The solar rays combined with the crisp and aromatic flavors of a summer wine transports me to the shores of Lake Michigan or the seaside of La Rochelle; I call it "summer in a bottle."
As a foodie I am mindful of food pairings and meal combinations. However, when it comes to sipping wine on the patio or the shoreline it more important to pair the wine with the mood you desire. Be sure the TV is off, the lawnmowers away, so you and your guests can get lost in conversation as the sun sets on a perfect summer night.
What's more, the philosophy of influencing the mood of your event with your beverage selection is truly for the artists of entertaining. This concept works for all kinds of occasions from the most elegant of weddings to soulful backyard barbeques. Designing a party is like directing a movie, if Budweiser isn't part of your vision, don't offer it.
Here are this year's selections to enjoy this summer or if it's not summer, transport yourself to a summer state of mind.
Delightful dry and semi-dry French rosé
There is something sophisticated about a pink drink that is not sweet but dry with subtle fruit tones. Call it a European bias but there are few summer drinks that are more delightful than a dry French or Spanish rosé. This summer I have these three rosé selections chilled at ready.
Sangliere Cotes de Provence, Rosé, France
Saint Andre de figuiere Le Saint Andres, Rosé, France
Alain Brumont Vin de Pays Cotes de Gascogne, Rosé, France
Summer wines from Michigan
The wine producing region of Northern Michigan shares not just the French names inherited when the peninsula was a French colony or the fact that Grand Traverse Bay and Bordeaux are both on the 45th parallel: Michigan produces outstanding, world-class summer wines, sparkling wines and Rieslings that are on par with those from most famous wine producing regions in the world. On a hot or cool summer night, enjoy some of these favorites.
Shady Lane, Riesling, Leelanau Peninsula, Michigan
Forty-Five North Vineyard, Chardonnay, Leelanau Peninsula, Michigan
Mawby, Blanc de Blanc, Sparkling, Suttons Bay, Michigan
Mawby, M. Lawrence Sex, Sparkling, Suttons Bay, Michigan
Shady Lane, Sparkling Riesling, Leelanau Peninsula, Michigan
Classic summer whites
Of course entertaining in the summer isn't without the tried and true varietals. In my two previous summers, I tired of Pinot Grigio, so I've moved to a direction this year seeking greater flavor. The Montus Blanc being my favorite.
Alain Brumont Chateau Madarin, Montus Blanc, France
Domaine Daulny, Sancerre, France
Ranga Ranga, Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough, New Zealand
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Volume 59, Issue 3 (2013)
Mother-Child and Father-Child Dyadic Interaction: Parental and Child Bids and Responsiveness to Each Other During Early Childhood
Sylvia Wilson and C. Emily Durbin
School Bonding and Alcohol Use in Italian Early Adolescents: What Comes First?
Fabrizia Giannotta and Metin Özdemir
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Behavior Problems Among Latina Adolescent Mothers: The Buffering Effect of Mother-Reported Partner Child Care Involvement
Erin N. Smith, Josefina M. Grau, Petra A. Duran, and Patricia Castellanos
Pretend and Physical Play: Links to Preschoolers' Affective Social Competence
Eric W. Lindsey and Malinda J. Colwell
Maternal Teaching During Play With Four-Year-Olds: Variation by Ethnicity and Family Resources
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Irene Nga-Lam Sze, Florrie Fei-Yin Ng, Ronit Kahana-Kalman, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
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Early in Feb I surprised my wife for her birthday with a trip to Iceland. Kind of a double edged sword really as she always wanted to visit Iceland and I always had photographing the Northern lights on my bucket list..
The few days we spent in Iceland were amazing and I have created a separate gallery with short video from our trip
Follow the link below if you fancy seeing some more of my images from our trip.
But the real reason for this post is to showcase my Northern Lights images.
We were so lucky, the first few days of our trip were overcast and not the right conditions, so every night our trip was cancelled, but on the last night the weather broke and we were successful.
We booked our trip throuigh the amazing Superjeep.is company on the island, they picked us up when they said they would and knew all the right places to visit. Our group was large that night due to so many previously cancelled nights trips all coming together but our driver and our time our chasing the lights was amazing.
As we were only there for a few days I had to travel light and that included my camera gear.
My camera bag consisted of :
Fuji xt-1
Fuji 16-55 f/2.8 lens
Samyang 12mm f/2
Carbon fibre travel tripod
Loads of batteries and memory cards
In hindsight I should have taken my Samyang 8mm FishEye lens. But hey ho, maybe next time.
For these shots I kept the aperture wide open at f/2, my ISO varied from 800-3200 and the shutter was between 3-10 seconds.
But as a base I started at f/2, ISO 1600 and 3 secs.
All images were shot in RAw and processed oin lightroom and photoshop. I can;t give specifics as I was just moving sliders until I got the result I wanted, but lots of clarity, contrast and adjusting of the balck channel were used..
Enjoy the images and thanks for looking.


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A NBS alumni working for Lazada, South-East Asia´s number one e-commerce player, was invited to give a workshop on business analytics and advanced excel to the current batch of MBA students.
Sunny Jain (NBS MBA Class of 2013) has over 6 years of experience of working for technology companies as well as financial institutions. Over the last 2 years he has been working as a pricing manager with Lazada, who recently made it into news with regards to its acquisition by Alibaba.
Sunny provided thought-provoking insight into the ways of working of e-commerce firms, especially with regards to the key performance indicators and the challenges that various firms face to remain competitive. In the second half of the course, he offered an excel learning session wherein he gave sample case questions based on data populated in an excel file.
The current MBA students who signed up for the workshop learnt to build pivot tables and simple statistical data models that allowed them to understand e-commerce dynamics and generated insights pertaining to an annual sales report of a hypothetical company. The speaker proved that Excel is indeed a powerful tool and stated that learning to build complex data models catering to various business challenges is indispensable to be well prepared for the corporate world.
The 3-hours sharing session was very insightful and after multiple "aha"-moments, the participating students left the room with many valuable takeaways from the workshop. Eventually, the lecturer closed the day with the recommendation to spend 5% of earnings every year to upgrade one´s skills – an interesting tip that the MBA students, who are to graduate soon, will certainly take to heart!


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Open to the public with a primary audience of fellow documentary filmmakers, these moderated screenings foster a space for critical feedback and constructive dialogue.
We accept applications on a year-round, rolling basis.
Details and deadlines related to specific upcoming dates will be included in the online application and updated regularly.
- Sunday, February 2nd (4-6pm) @Northwest Film Forum (FILLED)
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– Feature-length films, unless otherwise specified: 40-150 min
*We will be opening WIP Programming for Shorts in 2020 also
– Films at late rough cut or fine cut stage. Completed films as well as early rough cuts are ineligible.
– Independent projects: director owns copyright and retains full artistic, budgetary, and editorial control of the documentary project.
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– Director must be present for the screening. Other team members welcome. SeaDoc cannot cover travel expenses.
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Dean helped lead San Francisco to two Super Bowl victories, transforming the team into an N.F.L. powerhouse. He died of Covid-19.
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Good news- Super Star Striker FINALLY Completes Arsenal Transfer
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Arsenal has officially announced they have completed the transfer away of Takuma Asano on a season loan deal to German side Stuttgart.
The deal was announced today on Arsenal official website for the 21-year-old striker who recently joined Arsenal in July.
Here is a club statement:
"Takuma Asano will join German side VfB Stuttgart on loan for the season.
The 21-year-old signed for Arsenal in July, before travelling to Brazil to represent Japan at Rio 2016 where he scored two goals in three games.
The forward has spent the past three years with Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J-League, where he won two league titles, three Super Cups and the 2015 'Rookie of the Year' award.
We would like to wish Takuma well for his season in Stuttgart.
The deal is subject to the completion of regulatory processes."


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I am inspired by the way light transforms the world around me whether it is architecture, landscape or still life. Light, so much a part of nature, creates endless possibilities and presents me with the freedom to express and interpret that beauty in my paintings.
I work primarily in watercolor, an elusive and challenging medium. In spite of its technical demands, I manipulate shape, form, texture, value, and color to make a strong personal statement resulting in bountiful luminous effects using transparent paint.


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Language Development Major Questions: 1) What is language/what is involved in language? 2) What are the stages of language development? 3) Is language development driven by nurture or nature?
What is language? Language has no single definition, but Hockett's list of design features is a popular compromise. By this account, language has the following 9 attributes: 1) Mode of Communication (vocal-auditory, etc) 2) Semanticity (meaningfulness) 3) Pragmatic Function (usefulness) 4) Interchangeability (ability to function as speaker and listener) 5) Cultural Transmission (passed down) 6) Arbitrariness (no necessary relationship between sign and the signified) 7) Discreteness (made up of separable units) 8) Displacement (can refer to something in another place/time) 9) Productivity (can produce a theoretically infinite number of meaningful utterances)
Animal Communication (1) All animal communications have the following: mode of communication, semanticity, and pragmatic function. Some have interchangeability, 'cultural' transmission, arbitrariness, and discreteness. Essentially none have displacement and productivity. But there is at least one known animal language that displays displacement – can you guess which?
Animal Communication (2) The great and mighty Bee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NtegAOQpSs
For our purposes, know that (human) language: Involves using signs that are not innately related to the things they signify Allows communication of concepts Can be spoken, written, or signed (modes of communication) Can produce a theoretically infinite set of sentences Seems to be unique to humans
Language learning involves (1): Phonological development Learn which sounds (phones) influence meaning. These special phones are called phonemes and are the smallest meaningful sound changes in a language. We are able to recognize all phonemes (around 200) and eventually our phonemic inventory narrows to match that of languages we are exposed to (45 sounds for English) Semantic development Learn to manipulate minimal units of meaning, called morphemes. Stems and affixes (prefix, suffix, infix) are two kinds of morphemes.
Language learning involves (2): Syntactic development Learn the impact that the ordering of meaningful elements has on meaning. This is called descriptive grammar. This is NOT what we learn in school, but rather how people actually speak. What we are taught in school is called prescriptive grammar. Descriptive grammar only describes the system of use; prescriptive grammar imposes (prescribes) a particular system Pragmatic development Learn the rules of use, including social rules, etc. *Meta-linguistic knowledge This is linguistic knowledge about language: for instance, categorizing words a noun, verb, etc. This may not actually be necessary for language learning but is a common feature.
Language learning involves (3): Phonological development Semantic development Syntactic development Pragmatic development *Meta-linguistic knowledge Know these!
Methods of word learning Fast mapping (an idea which has come under fire recently, but is still worth discussing) Whole object assumption ('chair' means whole, not part of the thing being referenced) Mutual exclusivity assumption (no thing has more than one name) Pragmatic cues Social context Attention Intentionality Linguistic context Syntactic bootstrapping (using syntactic rules to guess meaning in context)
The stages of primary language acquisition: There are five basic stages of language acquisition Cooing: Appears at about 6 months or so. All infants coo using all the phonemes from every language. Even congenitally deaf children coo. Babbling: Appears at around 9 months. Infants are starting to selectively use the phonemes from their native language. One-word utterances: At around 12 months, children start using words. Telegraphic speech: Children start making multi-word utterances that lack function words. (about 2 years old) Normal speech: By about 5-6 years of age, children have almost normal speech
Nature or Nurture (1) Skinner: Behaviorism could define the way we learn language. Chomsky: Human language learning appears to be innate in a way that violate behaviorist expectations. Called Nativism.
Nature or Nurture (2) What about language could behaviorism not explain? 1) Novel utterances 2) Poverty of stimulus 3) Speed of learning 4) Creolization 5) Language creation
Further evidence for Nativism 1) Neurological evidence for dedicated processing 2) Inability of other species to create linguistic utterances even when exposed to language 3) Critical periods for language development 4) Preferential perception for speech sounds (we pay more attention to the differences between speech and non-speech sounds) 5) Costly physiological adaptation (larynx and choking)
However... Modern neural network models show some promise for being able to demonstrate how language is learned in a way that does not require special equipment.
Nature AND Nurture Both nature and nurture play valuable rolls in language learning. For proper language development you need a human brain and a human environment.
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Being able to collect signatures on-chain for a multisig proposal is an exciting feature that really highlights the strides towards usability and the user-focused design of EOSIO blockchains.
We at EOS Canada have put together a comprehensive guide to understanding multisig and permissions on EOSIO through our eosq block explorer and eosc command line tool, which has full functionality with the
eosio.msig and permissions systems.
Multisig: Security to Protect dapps and Users
All dapp developers should leverage multisig and permissions to take full advantage of the security features built into an EOSIO chain to protect themselves, and their users' funds. Users should also learn these features to increase the security of their own accounts.
If you're interacting with a dapp and notice that their account only has a single key in the
owner or
active permissions, consider reaching out to them to ask them why, and sharing this article series with them.
What Is Multisig?
Multisig is shorthand for multiple signatures, which is also generally shortened to msig. It's used to describe any situation in which you require more than one signing key to execute a transaction, whether it uses the
eosio.msig account or not.
There is a system account, eosio.msig, which handles storing and execution of multisig proposals and their corresponding signatures on-chain.
Multisig is useful for increasing the security of an account, security of a smart contract, and is also the method by which Block Producers are able to affect changes within EOS. In this first article in our series on multisig and permissions, we will focus on multisig within a single account.
How Does Multisig Improve the Security of an Account?
When a new account is created, it will have an account structure similar to this example, with a single key for the
owner permission, and a single key for the
active permission. Some accounts, namely untouched genesis accounts, will have the same key in both the owner and active permissions.
So if you had an account that you wanted to increase the security on, you could hold one key, while someone else holds the other key. Any actions that this account takes would need both of you to confirm that this is an authorized transaction. For example, the
active key here:
Notice the
/2, which denotes that a threshold of 2 is required to pass the
active permission. Since each of those keys was designated a weight of 1 (as shown by the
+1), both signatures would be required.
updateauth action needs to be invoked to change your permissions like this. If the key ending in
...zqLS was stolen or exfiltrated in in some way, it still could not sign transactions successfully, because the threshold would not be met.
Adding Nested Permissions
A nested permission is the child of a parent permission.
active is the child of
owner, so
owner can do everything within
active, but
active cannot do everything within
owner. You could add a nested permission below the active permission for low-risk actions, such as voting for Block Producers or playing a popular game. You could create that nested permission to only require one of the two keys, by using a threshold of 1, then issuing a
linkauth to only allow certain actions with that level of permission.
In the example below, either key
...zqLS or
...dnHZ can be used to vote for producers (the
eosio@voteproducer action in the blue box). The
active permission will still need to be satisfied for any other actions you might want to sign.
eosq is one of the rare block explorers that provide full linked permissions information.
Three Ways to Delegate Permission Weight
There are three things that can be used to control a permission:
- Keys represent public/private keypairs.
- Accounts represent another accounts' authorities.
- Waits represent required time delays, measured in seconds.
Each account's authority structure stems down from the
owner permission and has nested child authorities beneath that.
Each authority also has a threshold that must be triggered to be used. This is done by having all
accounts, and
waits that are assigned to a permission to hold a specific weight (the threshold).
Once the required cumulative weight used in signing a transaction has been met, the permission is authorized.
In the next article, we will demonstrate how to make all of these changes to your account using
eosc so that you can begin to take advantage of the power of multisig. If you haven't already tried it out,
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Effective exercises to get flat abdominal muscles
Abdominal exercises for a healthier you
To hear a person saying that he has an 8-pack abs would be very amusing and, maybe hilarious. But research shows that reaching this physique is possible with the right kind of diet and exercise. We are more accustomed to the reality of the six pack abs because we are constantly bombarded by advertisements flaunting this physical pre-eminence of men that hearing from others saying they have 8 pack-abs is rather absurd.
As much as it takes extreme hard work and dedication through exercise and diet to achieve six-pack abs, more hard work, focus and discipline is required when you want to achieve the magic 8-pack abs.
To do this, you have to combine plenty of the right kind of diet and abdominal exercise combinations. As our abdominal muscles get stronger and stronger with exercise, we need a lot of protein to fuel these working muscles. As such, it is required to eat light meals every 3 to 4 hours. This ensures that your food intake will meet the metabolic requirements of your body. These light meals should be packed with protein-rich food such as tuna and others kinds of meat. Basically, there are hundreds of choices to choose from that are rich in protein.
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Of course, having an 8-pack ripped abs will not be possible by eating protein-rich foods alone. It should be complemented with exercise; those effective abdominal exercises which are proven to tone your stomach muscles to the hardness of stone. You should do a combination of running and jogging to go with your abdominal exercises to maximize the belly-fat burning process as well as reducing the fat all around your body.
Achieving an 8-pack abs will be the epitome of the body's physical perfection. It will boost your confidence as well as contribute to the wellness of your over-all health. If you ever achieve this kind of physical stature, it is recommended to continue with your regular exercise and healthy diet to maintain the tone and strength of your stomach muscles. Good physical health doesn't just deter illnesses and diseases from coming your way but it will keep at bay your feelings of insecurity when dealing with other individuals in all aspects of living.
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Suspension Set Up
You love your bike, but you know it could be better. Maybe there are moments when you're not quite as confident in its handling as you would like. You need to be at one with the machine – bike and rider together.
If it's brand new, it still needs to be set up to suit you: your size, your weight and your riding style.
If your bike's older, perhaps it needs a tweak or two to bring back its (and your) full potential.
Three Steps to Heaven*
1. Book yourself an INSPECTION AND SET-UP. If you turn up without pre-booking, you risk a wasted journey.
2. Ride the bike to ERS at Knockhill and let Eddie – the Suspension Guru – check your bike over, make tailored alterations to improve any handling issues that you may be experiencing, and recommend possible further improvements.
3. Experience an amazing ride home!
It'll probably be the best £90 you've ever spent.
*For the benefit of younger riders, that was a song by Eddie Cochrane (an old rocker). It's Eddie Stone (different kind of rocker and less of the old, thanks) who arranges motorcycle heaven!