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Claudius Schulze
Claudius Schulze is an artist and researcher, working with photography. His interest lies in nature, technology, and the consequences of Global Change.
Claudius Schulze holds a degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and is pursuing a practice-led Ph.D. on machine cognition & sensing and the Anthropogenic Extinction Crisis.
His work is regularly published and exhibited internationally. It is held by various private and public collections.
Claudius' work series Biosphere X documents the extinction of species, depicts the development of bionic robots, protocols animals and their behavior, visualizes urban retreats of wild nature from the perspective of autonomous machines and creates new species with Claudius' own artificial intelligence.
His book State of Nature (Hartmann books, 2017) explores technological solutions to climate change and natural disasters in the European landscape. It was shortlisted by Rencontres de la Photographie Arles and Aperture/Paris Photo for their respective awards and nominated for Prix Pictet.
The self-built raft The Conquest of the Improbable serves as his artist studio. He sailed it to Paris and Amsterdam as part of the official programming of Unseen Amsterdam, Paris Photo, and Triennial of Photography Hamburg.


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Monk | With their knowledge of marital arts, Monks are dangerous yet graceful in battle.(Good) | ||
Bruiser | Bruisers are in the frontlines of battle, laying waste their foes with brute force. (Evil) |

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The political impasse among Democrats over President Biden's $3.5 trillion social welfare and climate change bill has convinced liberals that the only way to advance their agenda is by purging moderates and taking over the party.
Although some on the far left have long held this view, many say the intransigence of moderate Democrats on Mr. Biden's spending agenda has hardened their resolve.
"A lot of activists and donors who never thought about primaries are now understanding that it really matters whether we have a corporate-aligned Democrat or a bold progressive in these seats," said Adam Green, a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
Mr. Green's committee and other groups, which have raised millions of dollars to bankroll liberal candidates at the state and federal levels, see the 2022 midterm elections as an opportunity to build a more ideologically uniform Democratic Party.
Toward that end, they think their strongest argument yet is in Mr. Biden's stalled $3.5 trillion expansion of the social safety net.
The massive bill includes a trove of long-sought liberal priorities, including free community college, expanded Medicare and ambitious regulations to arrest climate change. More important, it has the support of Mr. Biden, Democratic leadership and a majority of the party's lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
"This is not just some crazy progressive wish list that nobody else agrees with," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Washington Democrat and chairwoman of the 98-member Congressional Progressive Caucus. "This is President Joe Biden's agenda. This is the agenda that Democrats in the House, the Senate and the White House were elected on."
Establishment support has long been missing from the liberal agenda, including the battle for Medicare for All. Although the universal health care proposal garnered support from a large contingent of Democrats, the issue never broke out of the left-wing silo.
During his campaign for the presidential nomination last year, Mr. Biden ran as an avowed opponent of the plan, much to the chagrin of his leading challenger, far-left icon Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont.
The shifting paradigm has liberals confident that they have the upper hand. Many are already planning to use support for Mr. Biden's $3.5 trillion as a litmus test in Democratic primaries next year and in 2024.
"We have to insist that the will of the 96% of Democrats in the House and Senate, the leadership of the president and the majority of the American people is not ignored for the misplaced priorities of 4% of our colleagues that are not yet on board," Ms. Jayapal said.
Republicans, who see a favorable political environment in the midterms, say the Democratic infighting boosts their push to retake control of Congress.
They say that ousting moderates from marginal seats and replacing them with liberals will make a Republican sweep easier in the general election. Democrats who can stave off challenges from the left will likely deplete their campaign war chests in the process and be forced to take positions well out of the political mainstream.
Mike Berg, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the outcome is inevitable given the leftward shift of the national Democratic Party.
"Today's Democrat Party is run by far-left socialists, and this is just the latest evidence of that reality," he said.
Liberals' targets in the primaries are moderate House and Senate Democrats who are unwilling to acquiesce to the spending plan. Topping that list are Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
The two moderates are crucial to passing the package within the Senate through a special process Democrats are using to force the bill through the chamber. The process, known as budget reconciliation, allows some spending and tax measures to avoid the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold and pass with a simple majority of 51 votes.
The Senate is evenly split between the parties, so the reconciliation package needs the vote of every Democrat. Mr. Manchin and Ms. Sinema are the holdouts. They are calling for the spending plan to be trimmed and means-tested.
Although neither lawmaker is up for reelection until 2024, liberals have begun mobilizing. In Arizona, a political advocacy group funded by the left-wing Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros has launched a super PAC to lay the groundwork for a primary challenge to Ms. Sinema.
"Sen. Sinema is blocking Biden's agenda and standing in the way of popular policies, such as lowering prescription drug costs, that are supported by broad, bipartisan majorities of Arizonans," said a spokesperson for the Primary Sinema PAC. "She has badly miscalculated the politics here, and if she continues her obstruction, she's going to be met with a credible primary challenge."
One of the groups behind the PAC, Living United for Change in Arizona, recorded themselves berating Ms. Sinema in a women's restroom over her opposition to the spending package. Although Mr. Biden denounced the tactic, he dismissed it as part of the "political process."
Moderate House Democrats who are reluctant to back the $3.5 trillion package are similarly in the crosshairs of liberals, such as Reps. Stephanie Murphy of Florida and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey. Both represent districts that Mr. Biden carried comfortably last year and are prime targets for a primary challenge from the left.
"The irony behind the several corporate-aligned obstructionists in the House that almost tanked the Biden agenda is that most of them come from very blue districts where we won by 12, 18, even 40 points," Mr. Green said.


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Slaying the Unicorn: The Army and Fixed-Wing Attack
Consider another day under the hot sun as a four-man team in some distant land goes out on patrol on an "advise and assist" mission. This is hardly unusual — these missions are replicated globally thousands of times a year, in furtherance of building international partnership capacity to counter violent extremist organizations. Unfortunately, their adversaries have their own agenda and opportunities, and this routine patrol escalates to combat operations in the blink of an eye. Now the troops are in a fight for their lives, without air cover, against a numerically superior force. Tragically, a similar scenario resulted in the loss of four American soldiers, killed in Niger in 2017. While the Department of Defense highlighted the many mistakes that led up to this tragic result, the lack of airpower is addressed only in the context of what those forces had available, not what they could have had. With the expectation that the fight against violent extremists will continue for a generation, the United States continues to rely heavily on airpower to provide an asymmetric advantage. With ground forces far more distributed globally than air forces, the Army should clearly provide its own fixed-wing attack aircraft to support far-flung operations. Except that they can't. Hamstrung by a misinterpretation of agreements dating back to 1948, the Department of Defense believes that the Army agreed not to procure fixed-wing combat aircraft and can't arm those they do have. It turns out that's not true — such an agreement was never codified in writing. What they did agree to was to not duplicate a function assigned to the Air Force. It's long past time to slay this unicorn and erase a completely artificial line that hampers airpower options to the detriment of servicemen and women worldwide. The Army may be the best candidate for a light attack capability that is not an Air Force priority. Let the Army have an airpower capability appropriate to the mission.
Roles and Missions
Air cover, that coveted safety net that protects American soldiers in conflicts from Africa to the Middle East, is regrettably one of the most complicated instruments of U.S. national security, carrying with it the institutional baggage of service equities that dates from the end of World War II, over seventy years ago. Roles and missions are the coin of the realm inside the Department of Defense, as missions equal money from Congress and the Department of the Treasury. The battles over roles and missions predate the founding of the Air Force, but the modern allocations date from Secretary Forrestal's 1948 note to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Functions of the Armed Services and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (called the Key West Agreement), which was needed to mitigate inter-service rivalries and wasteful duplication. But this agreement (and its supplements, including the Pace-Finletter Memorandum of Understanding and McConnell-Johnson Agreement) are essentially the Department of Defense negotiating with itself — there is no codification of the roles and missions divisions within public law. Instead, there are long-held habits that don't stand up to close examination in a modern conflict.
From 1997 to 2017, National Defense Authorization Acts instructed the Department of Defense to submit Quadrennial Defense Review reports, ostensibly to assess and recommend elimination of duplications of effort across the department. Unfortunately, these legislative mandates only forced a scrum where the services negotiated as sovereign entities the least painful or most palatable infringement by other services on their roles and missions — even if those divisions don't make sense.
Recently, this dynamic was brought into such stark relief that a junior member of the House of Representatives, unhampered by pointless tradition, publicly commented that changing the status quo may be necessary. During separate Air Force Association Mitchell Institute panels, the U.S. Air Force promoted a future force structure vision to achieve the National Defense Strategy. At the same event, military veteran representatives questioned that vision's apparent abandonment of low-cost airpower in a panel on light attack aircraft. The aforementioned Congressman, Representative Michael Waltz (R-FL), a former Army Green Beret, spoke passionately about the need to increase capacity in air cover, and his perception that the light attack aircraft program was key to fulfilling that objective economically. Waltz stated, "if we can't move this program forward, then perhaps we need to explore if the Army needs that authority." While his statement is heretical to many, recall that then-Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Merrill McPeak, offered a similar recommendation in 1994 to transfer the close air support mission to the Army and Marines, and retire the A-10 Warthog. And as I discovered writing this piece, the "agreement" that prevents the Army from having armed fixed-wing aircraft is a unicorn.
A Long, Long Time Ago…
In the early 1950s the Air Force and the Army desired to reconcile their opinions of what the 1948 Key West Agreement specifically meant by "Army organic aviation," resulting in this language in Pace-Finletter document:
Army organic aviation will consist of aircraft primarily utilized by the Army within the Army combat zone as an integral part of its components for the purpose of expediting and improving ground combat and logistical procedures, subject, however, to the limitation that such aircraft will not duplicate the functions of the U.S. Air Force in providing the Army, by fixed-wing and rotary-wing type aircraft, close combat support, assault transport and other troop carrier airlift, aerial photography, tactical reconnaissance and interdiction of enemy land power and communications. Army organic aircraft are defined as fixed-wing utility or observation type aircraft with an empty weight of not to exceed 5000 pounds.
Agreeing that the Army would not duplicate Air Force functions did not settle the issue — Army aviation is still aviation, with aviation's inherent flexibility. Drawing such a line is nigh impossible. Not that it hasn't been tried.
In 1966, the Army and the Air Force remained in a conundrum. The Army was still operating fixed wing airlift aircraft, continuing an operation that had been ongoing since the 1920s. The Air Force was considering expanding its use of helicopters for combat. The interservice kerfuffle reached a boiling point in 1962, when an Army study group known as the Howze Board, formed at the direction of the Secretary of Defense, delivered a plan for the Army's new airmobile brigades. This plan included a force of 656 AC-1 — the study designation for what was then the de Havilland Canada Caribou, later the C-7A. The report hadn't been a paper study — it involved dozens of field tests using real aircraft and produced a report that was around two inches thick. And it landed like a hand grenade in the office of the Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen Curtis LeMay. LeMay already felt that if it flew, it should belong to the Air Force — a position explicitly rejected by Robert MacNamara when the Air Force presented a countervailing study, the Disoway Board. To add insult to injury, the Disoway Board also rejected the idea of developing specific aircraft for Close Air Support, insisting that multirole aircraft were more flexible and practical. Backed by the Secretary of Defense, the Army forged ahead, forming the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) in 1963. Not only did the Army get another division, but it got the authorization to add 15000 soldiers to build it. Simultaneously, the Army pressured the Air Force to buy into the Navy's A-7 Corsair, which the Air Force was reluctant to do — it was a Navy aircraft that couldn't go supersonic. Disgruntled, the Army moved out on the attack helicopter, or an "aerial fire support" capability. In the eyes of Air Force leadership, the Army was rebuilding the Army Air Corps, at the Air Force's expense. In the eyes of Army leadership, the Air Force was insufficiently committed to supporting ground forces. Both were arguably correct. Neither was being sensible.
Figure 1: The 1962 Howze Board and Army Combat Developments (RAND Corporation, MR-435)
Figure 2: South Vietnamese Air Force C-7 Caribou from Phu Cat Air Base taking off from a muddy airstrip after a supply run during the Vietnam War (U. S. Air Force)
The outbreak of the Vietnam War strengthened the Army's position. In the first half of 1965, the number of close air support sorties flown by the Air Force tripled. The Air Force had the wrong tools available for the burgeoning fight in Vietnam, and lacked both the habit and capability of closely cooperating with the Army for the delivery of air support. Additionally, the Army's C-7 was performing heroic airlift into airfields that the larger, heavier Air Force airlifters could not service. The visions of airpower differed — the Air Force banked on centralized command, increasing the efficiency of airpower and eschewing the idea of spreading airpower thin by providing small airpower "packets" that would directly support Army units. The Army wanted airpower that it could direct when and where it needed to support Army forces in the field. The pressures of Vietnam would drive rapid changes — on July 1, the nascent air assault division was renamed as the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), and less than a month later, it was on its way to Vietnam. Secretary MacNamara directed the Air Force to buy the A-7, and an order was announced in November. But the fault lines still remained. The Army's vision of air power was colliding with the Air Force's vision.
By the end of 1965, there was an ongoing attempt to resolve the issues with both tactical airlift and combat aviation. Generals John McConnell and Howard K. Johnson, Chiefs of Staff of the Air Force and Army respectively, hammered out an agreement (now called the Johnson-McConnell Agreement) in April 1966. In it, the Army gave up the Caribou and the Air Force gave up rotary wing aircraft intended to support the Army. The wording is curious — both services agreed to "relinquish all claims" to aircraft of the type, as if airpower could be practically chopped up in this fashion. The Air Force also agreed to detach airlift as needed to Army forces (which never happened) and the Army agreed to limit its fixed wing capabilities for tactical airlift. It is commonly expressed that this agreement also prevented the Army from arming its fixed wing aircraft. This assumption is a bedrock tenet for decades of discussions around roles and missions (a recent example here), but it's wrong. Nothing in the Key West Agreement, Pace-Finletter Memorandum, or Johnson-McConnell Agreement mentions prohibiting armed fixed-wing at all — the idea that the Army can't arm its fixed-wing aircraft because of these agreements is a unicorn. An ugly unicorn.
As early as 1961 the Army was flying fixed-wing OV-1A Mohawks in Europe, and when committed to Vietnam, they were armed for "self-defense." As low-level reconnaissance aircraft, Mohawks were used to perform reconnaissance in direct support of Army ground troops. They were capable of carrying rockets, guns and bombs up to 1000-lb in weight — and they did. The Army also tested guided missiles, and even the AIM-9B Sidewinder dogfight missile. The Air Force objected, of course, and officially the Army limited its combat loadout to gun pods and flares. In reality, the Army kept its fixed wing attack capability quiet, even going as far as to suppress a probable MiG-17 kill by Major Ken Lee — achieved with unguided rockets and guns.
Figure 3: OV-1A firing 2.75 inch rocket salvo on a training mission (U.S. Army)
Which Brings Us to Light Attack
Much to the author's disappointment, the Air Force light attack experiment's transition to a rapid procurement fizzled. Despite credible performance by two models of light attack aircraft and the availability of funding, the Air Force has declined to move ahead with fielding this capability. That doesn't mean that the capability is unneeded, only that as in the early 1960s, the Air Force has other budget priorities and airpower preferences. If the U.S. Air Force doesn't proceed with a light attack aircraft program, could the U.S. Army procure turboprop attack aircraft to augment its rotary attack capabilities? Is there any rationale that would prevent it? Waltz has already proposed it in Congress. It's a practical idea that would normally be doomed to founder under the incorrect belief that it would infringe on the U. S. Air Force's ownership of close air support and air interdiction missions. As Joint Publication 3.09-3 notes:
Close air support (CAS) is air action by fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and requires detailed integration of each air mission with the fire and movement of those forces.
The Air Force doesn't own close air support. It conducts it. So do all of the other services. The Army uses helicopters and for decades they called it "close combat attack" to avoid waving a red cape in front of the Air Force bull. In 2015, the Army Field Manual FM 3-04, Army Aviation, deleted close combat attack as a term. And in April of this year, the joint doctrine also changed, deleting the term from the Joint Fire Support doctrine manual. The Marines, naturally, have long performed the mission with rotary wing aircraft, and they call it "close air support," just like with F/A-18, AV-8B, and F-35B jets. The joint doctrine for close air support explicitly recognizes "fixed and rotary wing" aircraft. Each service conducts the mission with the air vehicles most appropriate to their needs. But if the Air Force thinks it doesn't need light attack, that might very well open a path for somebody else.
Upon reflection, light attack aircraft might be better operated by the Army. The aircraft have a dirt field capability. They require no ground support equipment to start. The aircraft are fuel sippers that can be topped off from a pickup truck's worth of fuel drums, making it possible to support them logistically at the end of thin supply lines. They employ some of the same ordnance that Army and Marine helicopters do, making it possible to fuel, reload, and rearm an AT-6 or A-29 at an Army or Marine Corps Forward Arming & Refueling Post. Indeed, during the light attack experiment the Air Force trained and certified the aircrew to load the guns and rocket pods themselves. Compared to attack helicopters, they arrive more quickly, stay longer, fly higher, require a lot less fuel and maintenance, and are more survivable.
From the first publication of the OA-X concept, the ability to operate from forward locations in support of the Army was specifically mentioned. The Army might even be able to own and operate the aircraft for less money than the Air Force. The backbone of Army aviation is its system of warrant officers, who have an intermediate pay scale about 15 percent lower than the Air Force's all-officer pilot corps. The Army already has thousands of aviators who know how to employ forward-firing ordnance against an enemy — they just have to learn to do it in a dive.
If the Army wanted to deploy small packets of light attack aircraft forward, it could. If it wanted to use them purely to support Army forces, it could. Army combat aviation brigades already operate mixed aircraft types, so if the Army wanted to add light attack aircraft to its combat aviation brigades, it could. The Army could even maintain control of its organic aircraft — it already exempts its rotary wing aircraft from the (almost) all-encompassing air tasking order that the Air Force generates to control and coordinate air activity across a theater. The Army could follow the Marine Corps and exempt organic rotary and fixed-wing aircraft from the air tasking order, ensuring that the aircraft were under Army control when needed.
Notably, the Army might actually be better positioned to interface and train foreign military forces with light attack capabilities. The Army, not the Air Force, bears the greatest burden of "advise and assist" missions worldwide, and Army aviators have been hip deep in expanding partner nation aviation capabilities for decades. The Army even created its 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, followed it with two more, and still plans to add another three.
Erase the Line
It's interesting to note that the services practice what district attorneys call prosecutorial discretion, rattling sabers over some sovereign challenges while ignoring others, e.g. the armed OV-1s. The proliferation of unmanned air systems further altered the status quo. The Army started arming its RQ-5 Hunter unmanned system with precision weapons more than ten years ago, deploying armed aircraft to Iraq even before they completed testing in 2007. It followed with the same GBU-44 Viper Strike weapons on the newer RQ-7 Shadow, and then added AGM-114 Hellfire to their MQ-1C Grey Eagles. The Air Force never said a word. The mythical "can't arm Army fixed wing" unicorn has been wounded. To object to arming aircraft to improve their mission capability in the combat zone would have been nonsense — just like it was nonsense 50 years ago.
In effect, the Air Force has already acquiesced to the unthinkable Army armed fixed-wing aircraft, because it just makes sense. It's not a duplication of missions — it is a shared mission, one of many, accomplished differently by the services. The Air Force certainly hasn't surrendered the close air support mission, re-winging the dwindled total force A-10C Warthog fleet and intimating future attack variants of the T-7A Red Hawk jet trainer. Neither has the Army relinquished close combat attack. But service visions make a difference in employment — it is unlikely that the U.S. Air Force would ever provide small packets of attack aircraft that dramatically increase the aviation capability of a small Army unit. It would be reasonable then, to have the Army utilize their own light attack aircraft, supporting small detachments where there is little or no Air Force presence.
Traditionally, U.S. Air Force — just as other services — mans, trains, and equips for the highest threat level they can afford, and then struggles with the capability/capacity/cost calculus that such a high-end force structure means for low-end missions. It's apparent the U.S. Air Force leadership desires to be an all-jet service. For two decades, this has entailed dealing with the low threat level missions with aircraft that increase the cost of regional campaigns and impart operational agility constraints in the need for longer prepared runways and infrastructure. That's part of the service vision. But it need not be the entirety of the nation's vision for airpower.
Conclusion: Getting Comfortable with Army Light Attack Capabilities
The bipartisan support for a light attack aircraft program is a clear example of attempts to be frugal stewards of the taxpayer's dollars — and introduce a lower-cost capability that can be used for a generation without breaking the jet fleet. While giving light attack to the Army is likely to result in knee-jerk opposition (the author is as guilty as anyone on that front), it makes sense financially, operationally, and strategically. A light attack aircraft program makes too much sense in terms of capability, capacity, cost, and utility for it to fade in the face of Air Force disinterest. We cannot afford (and should not need) to utilize high-end jets for operations against violent extremist organizations, threats that have metastasized globally and show no sign of receding ignominiously into history. American forces at the tip of the spear need low cost, flexible airpower options that can be supported on a logistical shoestring — and they will need it for decades. If the Army is prepared to fill that role — let it.
Col. Mike "Starbaby" Pietrucha was an instructor electronic warfare officer in the F-4G Wild Weasel and the F-15E Strike Eagle, amassing 156 combat missions over Iraq and the Former Yugoslavia during 10 combat deployments. As an irregular warfare operations officer, Col. Pietrucha has two additional combat deployments in the company of U.S. Army infantry, combat engineer, and military police units in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently assigned to Air Combat Command and is staring retirement in the face.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Air Force or the US Government.
Image: An OV-1 Mohawk in South Vietnam; note the rocket and gun pods on the outboard hardpoints (U.S. Army)


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tagDiv Composer is a page builder plugin designed specifically to create online magazines, news portals, and blogs. It has lots of design elements (called shortcodes) to make it easy for you to create the homepage of your website as well as other parts that display the content of your website dynamically such category pages, archives pages, and so on. One of the shortcodes offered by tagDiv Composer is Big Grid.
Big Grid is not a single shortcode. Instead, it is one of the shortcode groups available on tagDiv Composer. A Big Grid shortcode is used to display articles on your website in a grid style. The number of the boxes in a Big Grid shortcode is varied depending on the Big Grid you use. tagDiv Composer has about 33 Big Grid shortcodes.
Big Grid shortcodes are great to create the hero section of your online magazine or blog although you can also use it in any section. Articles displayed on a Big Grid shortcode are filterable. You can filter articles by category, tag, and author. You can also manually select articles to be displayed on a Big Grid shortcode by entering their post IDs.
How to use a Big Grid shortcode in tagDiv Composer
To get started, create a new page (Pages -> Add New) and edit it with tagDiv Composer by clicking the TAGDIV COMPOSER button. If you are new to tagDiv Composer, you can read this post to learn the basic use of tagDiv Composer.
Add a Big Grid shortcode you want to use and drag it to the canvas area. You can find a Big Grid shortcode on the Big Grid shortcodes section.
As you can see, the shortcode you have just added displays your articles in a grid style. By default, it displays the latest articles on your website. You can filter the articles.
Filtering the articles
To filter the article, you can go to the Filter tab. There are several parameters you can use to filter the articles. From post ID, category, author, slug to post type.
- Filtering articles by post ID
To filter the articles by post ID, you can paste the IDs or the articles you want to display and separating them by commas.
To get the post ID of an article, you can edit the concerned article and go to the address bar of your web browser to see the URL. Post ID is a random number between "=" and "&" signs of the URL.
Alternatively, you can also go to Post -> All Posts. Hover your mouse over the Edit link on the article you want to check the post ID of and check the URL on the bottom-left corner of the screen.
- Filtering articles by category
To filter the articles by category, you can simply select a category you want. Only articles under the selected category will be displayed on the Big Grid shortcode.
- Filtering articles by multiple categories
You can also filter articles by several categories. To do so, simply enter the IDs of the categories on the Multiple taxonomies filter field and separate them with commas.
Same as post, you can also find the ID of a category by editing it or by hovering your mouse the Edit link on the Categories page (Posts -> Categories).
If you want to display all articles from all categories with an exception, this is also possible. For instance, you want the articles under the "Windows" category not to be displayed. In such a case, you can select All categories on the Category filter option then add the ID of the category you want to exclude on the Multiple taxonomies filter field and "-" as the prefix. You can exclude multiple categories.
- Filtering articles by tags
To filter the articles by tags, you can simply enter the tags' name to the Filter by tag slug field and separate them with commas.
- Filtering articles by authors
To filter the articles by authors, you can simply enter the IDs of the authors to the Multiple authors filter field. Separate the author IDs with commas.
- Filtering articles by post type
If you have custom post types on your WordPress site, you can also filter the articles on a Big Grid shortcode by post types. By default, WordPress has two post types: Post and Page. You can simply enter the post types to the Post Type field to filter them. Separate them with commas.
Customizing the Big Grid shortcode
Once done filtering the articles, you can start customizing the Big Grid shortcode. You can set things like typography, overlay color, the gap between boxes, and so on.
Boxes in a Big Grid shortcode are called modules so you will find the label "module" instead of "box" when customizing the Big Grid shortcode.
tagDiv Composer itself offers several premade style presets to allow you to instantly get a beautiful Big Grid shortcode. To use one, go to the General tab and click PRE-MADE STYLE PRESETS and select a style preset you like.
To set the length of the title, you can go to the CONTENT LENGTH block under the General tab.
Here some customization options you might want to set.
- Modules gap
To set the gap between modules (boxes), you can go to the Layout tab. Set the gap on the Modules gap option (you need to enter the number manually).
Below the Modules gap option, you can also set the horizontal alignment of the post meta as well as the horizontal alignment. You can also disable/enable the zoom effect.
- Module elements
Modules in a Big Grid shortcode are divided into two categories, no matter the number of modules (boxes) a Big Grid shortcode has. To customize the elements on each module category, you can go to the module category you want to customize the elements of:
You can set the image size, image alignment, meta info width, meta info margin, meta info padding, article title space, article title padding, and so on. You can also show/hide the author and date.
- Module typography, image effect, overlay
To set the typography of the elements on a module (meta and title), you can go to the Style tab. You can set the typography of each element (font family, font size, font style) on the MODULE FONTS block.
Read this post to learn more about how to customize a text in tagDiv Composer.
To set the color of the texts, you can go to the COLORS block, still under the Style tab.
To add effects to images on the modules, you can go to the IMAGE EFFECTS / BLEND MODES block. Select an image effect and blend mode you like and choose the colors by clicking the color selectors. Set the brightness, contrast, and saturation accordingly.
In addition to adding effects and blend modes to the image on the modules, you can also set the overlay of the modules. You can set a different module for each module. Go to the COLORS block to set the overlay.
To set the margin, padding, and background of the Big Grid shortcode, you can go the to Css tab.
The bottom line
Big Grid shortcodes are crucial enough when you are creating the homepage of an online magazine or blog with tagDiv Composer. A Big Grid shortcode is great to create the hero section of your online magazine as it instantly displays articles in a grid style. You can use a Big Grid shortcode to display the featured articles, headlines, and other crucial content.


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Days Out With The Children
Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth Castle – right on our doorstep and perfect for children to let off steam. There are lots of activities running through out the year.
National Trust
There are numerous National Trust houses and gardens to enjoy in the area including Packwood House, Baddesley Clinton, Charlecote Park, Upton House, Coughton Court, Hidcote and lots more.
Hatton Country World
A fun filled kids day out. Farmyard animals, adventure play, children's shows, fun fair rides and seasonal events throughout the year. There is also a shopping village.
Coventry Transport Museum
A free museum showcasing the largest collection of British road transport.
St Nicholas Park, Warwick
Large play area, boating on the river Avon, children's fair ground rides and mini golf open in the summer.
Warwick Castle
Experience one thousand years of jaw-dropping history with stunning scenery, battles and shows.
Warwickshire Country Parks
Lots of opportunities for fresh air with different activities on throughout the year. Ryton Pools, Draycote Water, Ufton Fields Nature Reserve, Burton Dassett Hills, The Stratford Greenway.
Stratford Butterfly Farm
Watching hundreds of the world's most spectacular and colourful butterflies flying all around. You can see them feeding and flying in a wonderful tropical environment.
Umberslade Farm Park
A children's farm park with cafe.
British Motor Museum
The world's greatest collection of classic, vintage and veteran British cars with 4X4 experience, outdoor go- karting and lots more.
Draycote Manor and Zoo
A theme park and zoo which includes Thomas Land.
Cadbury World
Experience the magic, making and history of Cadbury confectionary.


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It provides the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry with the widest-ever range of anaerobic engineering adhesives that do not carry hazard labels, significantly enhancing the safety and comfort of their use while reducing environmental impact. The seven WL Born2Bond™ Anaerobic Adhesives are available in two pack sizes and include low, medium and high strength threadlockers, medium strength pipe sealant, instant and flexible gaskets, and a high strength retainer.
Not classified as hazardous substances/mixtures under the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP) Regulation, the range has been specifically designed to significantly improve the safety of the users and ease the EHS assessment of a new product without compromising performance.
Born2Bond™ Anaerobic Adhesives
The Born2Bond™ Anaerobic Adhesives range provides more reliable, cost-effective and convenient alternatives to commonly used mechanical fastening solutions such as traditional washers, gaskets, pins, hemps and tapes, with an array of solutions that enable rapid and easy repairs on site, as well as preventative maintenance. The range addresses a number of challenges commonly faced by MRO engineers: increasingly demanding environmental and safety regulations; reliability, smaller and more complex designs; and more adaptable and faster processes.
Included in the range are solutions resistant to vibration, impact, chemicals, oils and extremes of temperature. The adaptability and flexibility of these fast-curing, single-product adhesives eliminate the cost of holding extensive inventory and is a more convenient solution for the maintenance operative.
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Our Digital Ear Thermometer is quick, accurate and really easy to use. Just place in baby's ear, press the scan button and the temperature reading will appear within 1 second on the large LCD display. Simple!
- Tiny ear tip is ideal for newborns yet suitable for the whole family to use
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- Stores 9 readings in memory for easy monitoring and comparison
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No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy
In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major meetings we had — Sprint Planning. I've found this to be the most dreaded meeting for developers since it's often a time sink.
With a 2-week-long sprint, traditional scrum calls for a 4-hour meeting to set a goal and plan which issues will be released at the end of the sprint. The team should also determine how to achieve this. Planning is done with the entire team present so it becomes rather expensive.
In our attempt at async planning, the PMs created a Notion table with rows for each sprint. Inside the sprint document, we listed the epics that we wanted to achieve. We would write down the details for the epic so that the context was clear for developers. When a sprint started, we created the documentation for the following sprint so that developers had time to read, understand, and ask questions as needed. They could comment directly in the document, make notes about implementation approaches, and take time to think about potential pitfalls. Once everyone was on the same page, a developer would generate a list of user stories.
There are 3 things a PM should focus on: creating context, setting priorities, and eliminating distractions.
We still met as a team, using Zoom to have a face-to-face call, but now our meeting was 30 minutes long. As a team, we would discuss any last-minute questions, validate the task list, and make any needed updates. Overall, we succeeded! Our meeting was super short, morale improved, and everything shipped on time! Except that's not what happened.
I really think this system could work given more practice, but we definitely ran into issues: planning is a distraction, sprint scopes change, and next week is next week.
Planning is a distraction
There are 3 things a PM should focus on: creating context, setting priorities, and eliminating distractions. Planning is a distraction. During a sprint, engineers should be focused on that sprint, not what is coming up next. I'm not saying that future work doesn't impact current work, but it shouldn't be the primary focus.
We found that sometimes we were getting ahead of ourselves, trying to plan out things to build on top of features that weren't quite finished. Additionally, because the process was async, it needed to be started earlier in our 2-week-long sprint. If the team waited until the last minute, the planning wouldn't get done and we'd be back to a 4-hour-long meeting. The solution here is one where sprints are less rigid. Unfortunately, there was a contractual obligation to use sprints on this particular project.
Sprint scopes change
Most teams that practice agile aren't very agile, so this might not apply to you, but generally, you don't want to decide what to build until it's time to build it. PMs are constantly updating and reprioritizing the backlog. We had a couple of cases where we would complete async planning and be ready for the next sprint only for the goal and priorities to change.
Also, we had to handle failed sprints. Sometimes work would bleed over to the next sprint and we couldn't know the volume of that work until the end of the sprint. How can you prepare your next sprint goal unless you know where you stand? The solution here is to work in smaller chunks. Focus on one problem and solve that problem as a team.
Next week is next week
The final issue we had is one involving personal organization. The real deadline for finishing the planning was just before the planning meeting. There was usually one team member who would do the bulk of the analysis early in the week. They would then remind their colleagues to check the document. If engineers kept focusing on code (as they should), they wouldn't add their voice to the conversation. At the planning meeting, we discovered there was still more discussion to be had and the purpose of async planning was defeated.
The solution here is a bit tricky since it involves some interpersonal skills. Encourage team members to contribute and use positive reinforcement when they do. Having a structured unplanned feedback system that supports positive interactions is incredibly useful in this regard.
Don't give up!
As I mentioned earlier, I think this system could work given more practice. Overall, we definitely did save time. Meetings are incredibly expensive and we still saved time even in situations where only one person looked at the async planning docs. We'll definitely give it a try again in the future.
Don't be afraid to play around with core scrum processes. You can make small experiments, learn from them, and constantly improve. Be wary of changing too much at once, but if you have a truly agile team, the engineers will want to test out new things just as much as you. Listen to their pain points and think about what you can do to better create context, set priorities, and eliminate distractions.
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The contemporary archway of this dining venue leads to a light-filled elegant dining area where ingredient-led dishes place the focus on the local produce that's celebrated here in Melbourne. By collaborating with local producers, the chefs here source premium seasonal ingredients such as oysters from New South Wales, sustainable fish and seafood from the nearby coast, and grass fed beef from local suppliers.
This food is served alongside wines from an award winning wine list featuring over 700 varieties. Sourced from Australia and around the world, many premium labels are available by the glass, owing to the restaurant's Coravin wine system. In addition to individual bottles, the wine list offers a series of interesting and playful wine flights, from 'Aromatic All-Stars' to 'Giants of the Australian Wine World', and 'The Italian Job'.
With its highly commendable wine list Meat Fish Wine Melbourne has been awarded a prestigious Jury Prize in the 2017 World's Best Wine Lists.


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Is your advisor a butcher or a dietitian?
What is a fiduciary?
A fiduciary is a professional entrusted to manage assets or wealth while putting the client's best interest first at all times. Financial advisors who follow a fiduciary standard must disclose any conflict, or potential conflict, to their clients prior to and through the advisory engagement. Fiduciaries will also adopt a code of ethics and will fully disclose how they are compensated.
Who is a fiduciary?
Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) are held to a fiduciary standard of care. By law, they must act solely in the best interest of their clients. To ensure your advisor or a potential advisor is following a fiduciary standard, request to see the advisor's ADV (a form filed with the SEC) or ask if they will sign a fiduciary oath.
Things to remember
Non-fiduciary advisors can recommend investments with higher fees, riskier features and lower returns because they earn more money for the advisor, even if those investments are not the best choice for their clients.
Fiduciary versus suitability
How advisors are compensated does not determine their character, but it may influence their behavior. Unfortunately, an advisor's business structure and compensation model can make it difficult to avoid conflicts of interest and to provide objective financial advice. The majority of the public does not understand the two competing standards under which financial advisors operate: the fiduciary standard and the suitability standard. Failing to understand this difference can potentially have negative financial consequences.
Fiduciary standard
Fiduciaries are individuals you hire to act in your best interest. Examples of fiduciaries include physicians, accountants and attorneys.
In the investment industry, independent Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) are also fiduciaries, which means they are held to a strict fiduciary standard by law. They are regulated by the state in which they do business or by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A financial advisor embracing the fiduciary standard occupies a position of special trust and confidence when working with a client.
As a fiduciary, the financial advisor is required to act with undivided loyalty to the client. This includes disclosure of how the advisor is to be compensated and any corresponding conflicts of interest. RIAs generally charge a fee for their advice rather than commissions because commissions entail an inherent conflict of interest. In short, RIAs are legally required to put their clients' interests ahead of their own.
Suitability standard
Under current law, broker-dealers, independent advisors aligned with broker-dealers and many insurance salespersons are regulated by FINRA and are held to a lower standard known as "suitability."
The "suitability standard" only requires that the investment products they sell are "suitable" — not necessarily optimal — for their clients. For example, a broker/advisor could sell you the investment that pays the highest commission, as long as the investment is deemed "suitable." They are not required by law to disclose potential conflicts of interest.
Advisors operating under the suitability standard are often paid a commission for products they sell, or they are paid a combination of fees ("fee-based") and commissions, which entail an inherent conflict of interest between the advisor and the client.
"Dual registration" — Many firms, including the major "big-name" firms, are "dually registered" as investment brokers as well as Registered Investment Advisers. We believe this causes confusion as to when the advisor is working in your best interest under the fiduciary standard and when the advisor is acting under the lesser suitability standard.
If you are not working with Pinnacle Wealth, ask one simple question — "Are you acting under the fiduciary standard when recommending investments, and will you put that in writing?"
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The Rosterfy email history and sending activity report provides an insight into the sending metrics to identify your overall open and clickthrough rates.
You are able to get the following information:
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Rejects – The email was not sent due to an attachment or the content.
Bounces – The recipient's mail server permanently rejected the email. This event corresponds to hard bounces, soft bounces when the mail fails to deliver the email after retrying for a period of time.
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Deliveries – Successful delivery of the email to the recipient's mail server.
Opens – The recipient received the message and opened it in their email client.
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Being on lockdown for months on end will definitely take a toll on your physical and mental health. Especially with the ongoing pandemic, your mind will be cluttered with worry and the feeling of insecurity.
The insecurity can stem from many reasons, either its lack of job stability, feeling cooped up, lack of certainty with how this pandemic will change your normal life, or even because of helplessness.
This pandemic was not predicted and has caused so much change which is why it is understandable why almost everyone is having an off day. Think of it this way: You are so used to your normal life and your normal routine that this bump in the road knocked you off course and now you are on another path, leading to an unknown destination.
This unpredictability and change in your life caused a shift that your body and mind cannot cope with. They are having difficulty trying to make sense of what is going on. This is why for some people their brain has taken a fight or flight response and is shutting your body down as it is on high alert. In turn, this is causing your body to feel tired all the time.
You will feel unmotivated to do the things you normally do, and you will be less productive than before. If you're feeling restless, anxious, on edge, or unproductive, just know that it is okay. There is no way you can have the energy to do normal things because this situation is nowhere near normal.
But if you want to stop feeling this way, there are certain things you can do to reduce these negative feelings.
Exercising helps to get your body moving and distract your mind from the worries in your head. You don't have to break out in a full exercise routine but just doing small exercises to get your body moving is a good start. You can start with walks around the house and eventually do stretches and mini exercises that only require your body weight.
Reduce your coffee intake! When you wake up or want to do your work at home, try making tea instead of coffee. Coffee makes your anxiety worse and will make you even more restless. Instead, try to make it a habit to drink tea like Chamomile or Lavender to calm yourself down and relax.
If you feel physically tired and sluggish, home scents can be a good start to wake your body up. Do not underestimate the power of scents and aroma. By installing home scent diffusers, you can allow the scents to relax your body and calm your mind. Scents like Lavender can calm you almost instantly.
Again, scents and aroma are a powerful thing. Essential oils can be used to get rid of negative feelings and promote productivity. You can diffuse these in your homes or even apply them topically. Essential oils like lemon can help to clear your mind and promote concentration. It can ease your anger or anxiety as well. Jasmine can also calm your nerves and get rid of negative feelings as it is an anti-depressant. It can elevate your mood, inspire positivity, and revitalize energy.
Doing these things will be sure to give your body and mind a jolt of energy and inspire motivation slowly. You can then feel more awake and more positive to start doing your daily chores or work from home. This can inspire productivity and prevent you from feeling sluggish or lethargic all the time.
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Reliance Jio announces three new JioFi recharge plans, FREE JioFi device offer
Reliance Jio has launched three new postpaid monthly recharge plans, plus a free JioFi dongle. Know details.
Reliance Jio, the telecom service provider, has announced three JioFi recharge plans. The company is offering these new postpaid monthly plans along with the purchase of its JioFi 4G wireless hotspot. For those who are unaware of JioFi, it is a device that can be used as a portable WiFi medium. The JioFi dongle helps to create a personal hotspot and provides 4G network connectivity anytime and anywhere according to your convenience. Notably, this JioFi device is free, but is returnable. The new Reliance Jio recharge plans are priced at Rs. 249, Rs. 299, and Rs. 349. Here are all the details about the new Reliance JioFi recharge plans. Also Read: Reliance Jio FREE data and calls benefits! Are you eligible for this unlimited deal? Find out
Reliance JioFi new recharge plans
Rs. 249 JioFi recharge plan
The Rs. 249 recharge plan offers 30GB of data for a month. However, you need to note that it does not offer any voice benefits or SMS. Also, the 4G wireless JioFi dongle is on the use and return basis and it will be available with a lock-in period of almost 18 months.
Rs. 299 JioFi recharge plan
You will get the benefits of 40GB of data per month with the ₹299 recharge plan. Similar to the Rs. 249 plan, this too does not offer voice benefits or SMS. The lock-in period of the JioFi dongle is almost the same which is 18 months.
Rs. 349 JioFi recharge plan
The Rs. 349 recharge plan comes with 50GB of data benefits per month along with an almost 18 months lock-in period for the JioFi dongle. SMS and voice benefits are missing here too.
Customers need to note here that these JioFi Postpaid offers are only for users with registered businesses. So, the first minimum recharge plan should be a minimum of Rs. 200 to avail of the postpaid plans. According to the JioFi website, once the user consumes the complete 100 per cent monthly data benefits, the data services will continue but at a speed up to 64 Kbps. JioFi 4G wireless hotspot supports a nano-SIM which promises to deliver surfing for up to five to six hours with a speed up to 150Mbps. Also, you can connect up to ten devices at a time.
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When it's cold outside, a warm breakfast makes all the difference and top of the list: a bowl of homey, creamy oats. Here's how to make perfect oatmeal with honey figs.
Why Use Steel Cut Oats
These modifiers really describe the cut of the oats. Whole oat groats take more time to cook, but also are chewier. Steel cut oats are one step removed—they're whole oat groats that have been chopped into several pieces, meaning you've got more surface area of the oats to interact with the cooking liquid, and believe us they are your crucial step in how to make perfect oatmeal because the result is creamy oats, plumped from the cooking process. The recipe below takes it a step further, really dialing in a luxurious bowl of oats by cooking the steel cut oats in water bolstered with whole milk, while the oats get toasted in butter before being cooked.
For the Honey Fig Topping
We opt for Orchard Choice Golden Figs or Sun-Maid Golden Figs since they bring a slightly nutty, tangy, and delicately sweet flavor that marries so well with honey. You will want to put the honey fig topping on so much more than oats—try them in yogurt, on ice cream, or as mix-ins for salad, or to top grilled protein too. You can always use Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid Mission Figs for the topping for a jammy flavor reminiscent of your favorite nostalgic cookie from childhood.
Cooking the Oats
First, bring the water and milk to a simmer. Then, you'll stir in the steel cut oats, cooking for about 20 to 30 minutes or until cooked through and tender. You'll find the mixture in the saucepan will really look creamy and thick like gravy. Stir occasionally in the beginning and keep an eye on the saucepan as you get closer to the oats being done.
How to Make Perfect Oatmeal with Honey Fig Topping
Perfect Oatmeal
- 3 cups water
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 cup steel-cut oats
- 1/4 tsp salt
Honeyed Fig Topping with Vanilla and Cinnamon
- 5 ounces Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Figs quartered and stemmed
- 1 1/2 tbsp honey
- 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tbsp water
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
Perfect Oatmeal with Honey Fig Topping with Vanilla and Cinnamon
- Bring the water and milk to a simmer in a large saucepan over medium heat. Meanwhile, heat the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat until just beginning to foam; add the oats and toast, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until golden and fragrant with a butterscotch-like aroma, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
- Stir the toasted oats into the simmering liquid, and reduce the heat to medium-low; simmer gently, until the mixture thickens and resembles gravy, about 20 minutes. Add the salt and stir lightly with a wooden spoon handle. Continue simmering, stirring occasionally with the spoon handle, until the oats absorb almost all the liquid and the oatmeal is thick and creamy, with a pudding-like consistency, 7 to 10 minutes. Off heat, let the oatmeal stand uncovered for 5 minutes. Serve immediately, with topping if desired.
Honeyed Fig Topping with Vanilla and Cinnamon
- Bring the figs, honey, water, vanilla, and cinnamon to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium-high heat; cook until the liquid reduces to a glaze, about 4 minutes. Spoon a portion over the individual bowls of hot oatmeal; serve immediately.
Recipe source: America's Test Kitchen. Valley Fig is a proud sponsor of the America's Test Kitchen.


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Retailers looking to up their crowds on Black Friday may want to take notes on how Homewood's Krispy Kreme store executed its Tuesday opening.
Lines started forming Monday night at the store, located at 17815 S. Halsted St., and continued throughout its opening day.
Retailers looking to up their crowds on Black Friday may want to take notes on how Homewood's Krispy Kreme store executed its Tuesday opening.
Lines started forming Monday night at the store, located at 17815 S. Halsted St., and continued throughout its opening day.
The new store of the global doughnut maker has been highly anticipated not just locally, but throughout the entire region as it also marks Krispy Kreme's return to the Chicago regional market.
While Krispy Kreme once had a large presence in the area, it's been several years since the last store closed its doors. The Homewood outlet is the first of eight stores planned to open in Cook County by 2020.
Expecting early crowds eager to get their first taste of the classic sweet treats, Krispy Kreme set up a heated tent for customers to line up in and entertained and fed them.
The first 100 persons in line were rewarded with free doughnuts in the coming year. The first 12 received a free dozen a week for a year. The next 88 in line received a free dozen a month for a year.
A DJ played music and engaged the crowd with karaoke and those early in line filled up on complimentary pizza and soft drinks.
Julius Tomlin came from Chicago's Hyde Park to be one of the first in line.
"I work nights, so I'm used to being up all night," he said. Tomlin's spot as sixth in line guaranteed him a dozen doughnuts each week for a full year. He called doughnuts his "guilty pleasure" and said his co-workers initially questioned his sanity when they heard his plans.
"Now they're congratulating me on Facebook," he said.
Cheryl Levy of Homewood arrived at 5:30 p.m. on Monday and waited more than 12 hours.
"I love grand openings and I love waiting in lines," she said. "I love the people, the friendliness, the excitement and the atmosphere." She referred to herself as a "professional" who has waited in many lines and been among the first to get Cabbage Patch dolls, Beanie Babies, the original iPhone and Playstation.
Levy was 10th in line. Her daughter, Amy Shropshire, joined her in the 16th position and said she planned to share her free doughnuts with co-workers at the nearby daycare center where she works.
The store was developed by Chicagoland Restaurants LLC, a licensed Krispy Kreme franchisee.
Company President Carlos Larcada said an Aug. 15 groundbreaking was two years in the making. He said patrons can expect the same traditional menu items they've known, but the Homewood location is the second to open with an updated design.
"It's made to feel warmer and more inviting and where you'd want to hang out," Larcada said. "If you remember the old stores, they were more factory-like and it was reflected in the dining room. We've added wood and color and comfortable seating, but we have the same fantastic product and we're grinding coffee from whole beans for a fresher blend."
Larcada is pleased to have been able to open the first area store in Homewood.
"The municipality as been fantastic with us," he said. "It's a great place to get our feet wet in Chicagoland."
The location will feature a 24-hour drive-through.
Also part of the opening festivities Tuesday morning was a formal ribbon cutting and performance by the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Marching Band.


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School told to review its casual dress initiative
Bangkok Christian College which has created a buzz by allowing its students to shed off their uniform and wear casual dresses to classes on Tuesdays has been told to review the initiative by the Office of Private Education Promotion.
In a letter sent to the school management today, the OPEP expresses concern it will have on student discipline and how it may lead to more spending on clothing and cause social problems caused by casual dresses.
The office told the college management to rethink its initiative and to take into consideration the suitability of wearing casual clothing.
The college started to allow casual dresses for students on Tuesday. Its management claimed that the initiative would help promote creativity among students and correspond with changing circumstances. The trial period will last six weeks after which an assessment will be made to determine the impacts of the casual clothing.
Meanwhile, Secretary-General of Private Education Promotion Commission Chalum Atthatham recommended Bangkok Christian College to consult the school board about the new casual dress code and to report the result of the consultation to the Education Ministry, pointing out that private schools are still required to follow the ministry's regulation on dress code.
However, Education Minister Thirakiart Charoensetthasilp said he thought the students' dress code should not be an issue pertaining to education because the clothing has no impact on learning.
He cited remarks made by King Chulalongkorn that dress code was meant to ensure discipline and to ease social disparity.
The minister said that he was aware of the good intention of the school management and that the school had no intention to force students to wear casual clothing on Tuesdays.
Former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng said he didn't think casual dress would pose any harm. Instead, he said he found the casual clothing refreshing.


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Lamb, Fennel and Artichoke Hotchpotch
Warm up on a cold winters day with this delicious and hearty Lamb, Fennel and Artichoke Hotchpotch recipe.
- 1 lb lean minced lamb
- 2 fennel bulbs each weighing 8 oz
- 1 medium onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 14 oz tin chopped tomatoes
- 3 sprigs fresh rosemary or 1 teaspoon dried
- 14 oz tin artichoke hearts
- Chopped parsley and fennel fronds for garnish
- Peel the outside of each fennel bulb to remove any coarse strings. Trim root and stalk ends, then cut each bulb in 8 wedges. Retain any fluffy green fronds for garnish. Cook the fennel wedges in boiling salted water for 5 minutes, then drain and put to one side.
- Chop the onion and garlic finely. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and saute the onion with the garlic and ground coriander over a medium heat for 8 minutes, until the onion is transparent.
- Add the lamb and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes, until the meat is well browned on all sides.
- Add the seasoning, chopped tomatoes, rosemary and fennel, then cover and simmer for 25 minutes.
- Drain and halve the artichokes and stir into the pan. Simmer for 5 minutes, garnish and serve.
Calories: 427 kcal
Carbohydrates: 23 g
Protein: 24 g
Fat: 28g
Saturated Fat: 12 g
Trans Fat: 2 g
Cholesterol: 83 mg
Sodium: 647 mg
Potassium: 835 mg
Fiber: 8 g
Sugar: 6 g
Vitamin A: 373 IU
Vitamin C: 26 mg
Calcium: 118 mg
Iron: 4 mg


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Ransomware operators have taken their profession's profitability to new heights in the last couple years by outsourcing their work with the "ransomware-as-a-service" model, in which hackers lease out their malware in exchange for shares of the resulting extortion payments.
Now, a cyber firm has found a ransomware operator going one step further: asking prospective victim companies' personnel to deploy ransomware on their behalf, then take a cut of the proceeds.
Abnormal Security on Thursday said it recently blocked a batch of emails to its customers that solicited recipients to infect their employers' networks with ransomware. Researchers set up a fake identity to communicate with the would-be ransomware/insider scheme mastermind — who went by the screen name "Pablo" — under the ruse that the persona would do Pablo's criminal bidding.
The incident, which occurred in mid-August, marks another tactical swerve in the ever-shifting world of ransomware techniques, and if Pablo's to be believed, at least three companies have fallen victim to it.
"This is the first time we've seen a threat actor attempting to socially engineer an insider employee to deploy ransomware on their behalf against the company they work for," Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence for Abnormal Security, said in an email exchange with CyberScoop. "While I think most people would look at this campaign and ask, 'Who would fall for this?,' this example shows that cybercriminals are always evolving their tactics to try new things that may be able to evade existing defenses."
Hassold said his company couldn't verify Pablo's claims about successfully infected victims. There are usually valid reasons to suspect the truthfulness of cybercriminals, but some of Pablo's assertions were more evidently false than others, such as claiming they wrote the ransomware themselves.
In fact, the ransomware in question was DemonWare, the code for which is freely available on GitHub, Abnormal Security said. DemonWare made waves in March as one of the ransomware outfits trying to capitalize on Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities. That pointed investigators toward the notion that the hacker known as Pablo was part of DemonWare's ransomware-as-a-service program.
Pablo also gave Abnormal Security's fake persona a bit more information about themselves than they apparently later thought wise, revealing they were stationed in Nigeria and were trying to build an African social networking platform akin to Facebook that Pablo mentioned by name. Pablo later deleted some of that information from the conversation.
The scammer went on to explain that theyresorted to the insider option after trying and failing to get phishing emails to their targets, contact information for which they obtained from LinkedIn. Pablo said the ransomware would disrupt any evidence that could tie the accomplice to the attack.
A trademark of Nigerian cyber scammers is social engineering, most infamously in the "Nigerian prince" schemes in which fraudsters try to convince victims to send money under another guise.
"It makes sense that a Nigerian actor would fall back on using similar social engineering techniques, even when attempting to successfully deploy a more technically sophisticated attack like ransomware," Hassold wrote in a blog post.
As with many ransomware negotiations analyzed by CyberScoop and other publications, Pablo proved flexible on price. Initially, the scheme offered its accomplices $1 million out of a $2.5 million expected ransom. Upon contact, Pablo suggested instead a $250,000 ransom. Told that the company's revenue was $50 million, Pablo dropped further to a suggested $120,000.
"im confused about the amount, you said id get 1 mil but ur talking about just charging them 120k," the fake persona wrote to Pablo.
Answered Pablo, "if you want to charge them a milli we'll charge them a milli I was just being a little considerate for them, lol."


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Like so many of you, I am ready to transition to the hope and promise of a new year. And while 2020 was filled with challenges and uncertainty, I feel it is important to look back with clear eyes to review what we have learned and to also look forward to seeing where we should focus our attention in 2021.
The healthcare industry has faced enormous challenges throughout the past year. No one could have foreseen the impacts of the pandemic and how different the conditions were from community to community. To adapt and overcome, healthcare organizations had to be agile, focused, and determined. They had to be willing to make enormous changes at a moment's notice.
This also applied to those of us in the healthcare staffing sector. I could not be prouder of the way our Supplemental Health Care teams met these challenges and surpassed previous levels of service and accomplishment.
Never in our history has demand fluctuated the way it has this past year. Seemingly overnight, communities became hotspots, and demand for nurses and respiratory therapists followed suit. Hospitals were forced to reduce and even cancel elective surgeries to ensure they had staffing and beds to handle COVID-19 patients. And everyone, across all industries, found ways to implement new protocols to ensure the safety of their workers and those they serve.
Our teams joined together to pivot in creative ways and stay connected with our healthcare professionals in the field. We developed new processes to make sure they had the PPE and supplies necessary to stay safe.
You can all be proud of the vital work you did this past year, but we are not done yet. It remains to be seen what degree of impact early stages of vaccine distribution will have. We must continue our diligence in meeting our client partners' needs and being proactive in managing demand surges wherever they arise.
Healthcare Trends for 2021
A phrase we hear often is "the new normal"; I have also heard the phrase "the new abnormal". Especially in healthcare, these still seem appropriate when we look ahead. Below is a brief look at what "normal" might look like in 2021.
- Health and Safety Protocols: Even with the vaccine, we cannot let our guard down regarding the health and safety protocols that have been implemented in response to the pandemic. From our diligence in sanitizing workspaces to practicing sound personal hygiene, we can all contribute to safeguarding each other's health.
- Technology: We have all seen how technology can enhance our ability to work smarter and safer. The healthcare industry has rapidly deployed technology to allow clinicians to care for non-emergent patients virtually and telemedicine has finally become mainstream. As this continues, our staff in the field will need to stay well-informed of the emerging technologies directly impacting patient care.
- Recruiting Challenges: Clearly, the pandemic presented significant challenges in the world of healthcare staffing recruitment. Fortunately, we have access to robust digital tools and processes to reach passive and active job seekers. To meet future demands, we will continue deploying creative recruitment strategies and benefits packages to attract the talented care providers our customers require.
- Patient Care Outside the Hospital: While the pandemic accelerated the adoption of telehealth and digital health solutions, it was also a driver in expanding home health care and other outpatient solutions. This trend will continue creating more opportunities for our healthcare professionals to secure positions outside of traditional brick and mortar healthcare facilities. Home health care expansion also supports the need to stay on top of evolving technology solutions.
As we close the book on what has been an eventful year for Supplemental Health Care, the world, and all of us individually, I want to take this opportunity to say thank you. Each of you has contributed to our ability to meet the needs of our clients and provide quality patient care under very trying circumstances. We were successful because we all worked together as a team, as a family, and those efforts will allow us to continue rising to meet the challenges that lie ahead.
As uncertainty continues, my optimism grows with each passing month. We have proven our ability to adapt and overcome unprecedented challenges time and time again. Let's build upon the lessons learned from this past year and apply them to the new opportunities that will be presented in 2021.
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Members of the House of Representatives have finally invited President Muhammadu Buhari to explain the worsening security situation in Nigeria.
The lawmakers had earlier disagreed on the motion to invite the President, following which they went into an executive session.
When they reconvened, Borno lawmaker, Ahmadu Jaha, who had earlier stressed the need for the invitation which his colleagues from the state had agreed on, was told to move a formal motion for Buhari's appearance.
The motion, which was duly seconded, was subject to a voice vote, and received majority support, which confirmed the invitation of President Buhari to the lower chamber of the National Assembly.
No date has however been fixed for his appearance.
A motion, sponsored by 11 lawmakers from Borno, called for this briefing at Tuesday plenary.
The Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, disclosed this while speaking on the Borno massacre.
"Now is the time to ask difficult questions. We will consider intervention for the people of Zabarmari attacks," Gbajabiamila had said.
The rice farmers had been attacked by the terrorists in Zabarmari Village, in the Jere Local Government of Borno State over the weekend. The assailants had tied up the agricultural workers and slit their throats, according to reports.
Nigerians and the international community had condemned the killing in strong terms, while citizens renewed their call for an overhaul of the security architecture of the country.


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Daffodil International University Marketing Club organized an award giving ceremony among all the winners of the Event Mercatus 1.0 held on September 2, 2021 at DIU Marketing Lab, the first well equipped marketing lab in Bangladesh situated in the Daffodil Smart City – DSC, Ashulia, Dhaka.
Around 300 students participated in the event. Dewan Golam Yazdani, convener of the DIU Marketing Club along with other faculty members of marketing discipline were present in this program.
Moreover, a new committee of DIU marketing club was announced officially in this program and a flower bouquet was handed over to the newly elected President Ms. Khondokar Zarin Tasnim and General Secretary Ms. Humaira Sheikh Lima. The program was presided over by Md. Arif Hassan, Head, Department of Business Administration, DIU.


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By Malcolm Gladwell – The subtitle of this book, Gladwell's fifth, is "Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants." It's much better that he titled the book as he did, rather than "an exploration of the inverted U-shaped curve." Gladwell uses his well-developed skill at mixing anecdote and social science research to create a fascinating series of case studies of how, out on the far edges of that curve, powerful institutions and individuals (Goliaths) with seemingly everything going for them can be undermined or bested by seemingly weaker ones (Davids).
Gladwell maintains that people consistently misjudge these kinds of conflicts, because we don't recognize the weaknesses of Goliaths and underestimate the possibility that Davids can do the unexpected. By the end of the book, his cases demonstrate not just how those with supposed advantages can fail, but also how they can, paradoxically, end up causing these very failures.
As in his previous books—The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers—Gladwell marshals fascinating case histories to build and extend his argument bit by bit. Often these examples illustrate the wrong-headedness of conventional wisdom. An early example is the entrenched belief that smaller class sizes improve education, while a growing body of literature suggests that the number of pupils makes no difference in the mid-range (the large number of cases under the U) and that very small classes (one tail of the U) can actually be counter-productive: They are too easily dominated by one or two students and do not present sufficient variety of viewpoints.
The book's middle section talks about people who have overcome difficulties—dyslexia, racial prejudice—and how the experience of those difficulties actually have facilitated their success. (David Boies, the ultra-successful attorney with dyslexia, had to learn to listen very very carefully and remember very very well because reading was so difficult.)
It's hard to know what generalized conclusions can be derived from this section. Complicating the situation are an array of individual, parental, social, and other mitigating factors, which Gladwell doesn't address. So while overcoming severe difficulties is remotely possible (many successful entrepreneurs—perhaps a third—turn out to be dyslexic, for example), his argument seems more interesting than instructive. The exception proving the rule.
Finally, Gladwell discusses the limits of power and how people who have wanted to impose order, such as hardliners among the British in Northern Ireland or supporters of three-strikes-and-you're-out laws, actually devised policies that produced the opposite effect than that they desired. Gladwell makes a broader point here, well worth considering in light of current events: "The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission."
Gladwell is all about extending his arguments to new territory and, in that vein, reading this section, I couldn't help thinking about the forthcoming presidential election. Will preemptory allegations about the "rigging" of the vote undermine the election's legitimacy and, therefore, any new administration's ability to govern?
Reading Malcolm Gladwell is like brain yoga, an opportunity to stretch your thinking. Whether he's perfectly "right" in some of his theorizing or whether he too carefully cherrypicks his examples to prove his case, more thinking has to be a good thing in these times.


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17.2.222. MPI_Info_env
MPI_Info_env — Static MPI_Info object containing info about the application
The MPI-3 standard established a static MPI_Info object named MPI_Info_env that can be used to access information about how the application was executed from the run-time.
- command
If available, the value will be set to argv[0]. Note that the value may not always be available - e.g., it is valid for a program to call MPI_Init with NULL parameters, in which case argv[0] will not be set if run as a singleton. This value will never be set in a Fortran program as the argv are not available.
- argv
The argv given for the application. If no arguments are passed to the application, then this value will not be set. It will also not be set in the case of a singleton that calls MPI_Init with NULL parameters, or a Fortran program.
- maxprocs
The number of processes in the job.
- soft
Open MPI does not support the soft option for specifying the number of processes to be executed, so this value is set to the same as maxprocs.
- host
The name of the host this process is executing upon - the value returned from gethostname().
- arch
The architecture of the host this process is executing upon. This value indicates the underlying chip architecture (e.g., x86_64), if it can be determined.
- wdir
The working directory at the time of process launch by mpiexec. Note that this value will not be set for processes launched as singletons as there is no reliable way for the MPI library to determine the location.
- file
Although specified by the MPI-3 standard, no value is currently set for this field.
- thread_level
The requested MPI thread level - note that this may differ from the actual MPI thread level of the application.
- ompi_num_apps
The number of application contexts in an MPMD job. This is an Open MPI-specific field and value.
- ompi_np
The number of processes in each application context, provided as a space-delimited list of integers. This is an Open MPI-specific field and value.
- ompi_first_rank
The MPI rank of the first process in each application context, provided as a space-delimited list of integers This is an Open MPI-specific field and value.
- ompi_positioned_file_dir
If Open MPI was asked to pre-position files, this field provides the top-level directory where those files were place. This is an Open MPI-specific field and value.
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San Francisco's first, and the state of California's 42nd, hydrogen station is open for business.
Located on 551 3rd Street, it is the first of three stations to open in the city of San Francisco.
Developed by Shell, it has a larger capacity and more fuelling positions to meet the needs of the growing fuel cell passenger car market in the Bay Area.
The station, which will be open 24 hours a day, has a capacity of 513 kilograms and has two fuelling nozzles at H70 pressure.
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Dragon Tamer is a Simulation game developed by BEKKO GAMES. BlueStacks app player is the best platform to play this Android game on your PC or Mac for an immersive gaming experience.
Dragon Tamer is the turn-based strategy game where players hatch and raise beautiful, powerful dragons. Set in a gorgeous, colorful world where tamers earn renown and fame for their mastery over these fearsome flying lizards, Dragon Tamer will test your taming and dragonery skills.
Explore a vast world inhabited by all sorts of wonderful dragons both rare and powerful. Will you be the one who can capture and train them all? Travel from region to region collecting eggs, hatching them, and training the dragons to achieve their full potential. Then, go to battle and pit your team of dragons against those of other Tamers the world over.
Enjoy a slew of fun and creative ways to get creative and explore the world of Dragon Tamer. You get your own Dragon Island paradise to build and decorate to best express your personal tastes. Breed your dragons to get brand-new species that inherit the natural capabilities of both their parents. Compete in the online leaderboards and try to get to the top!
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text: Twitter Twitter Rolls Out the New Profile Look Umulkiram 10 Apr 2014 11:16 IST Follow Us New Update So what's new! It is the new web profile that Twitter has started rolling out to its users. But wait, does it not resemble the fellow networking site Facebook? Yes it does! Like Facebook like Twitter? The header's width is replaced by the cover photo's width on Facebook. The content is underneath in three columns, the left column features the followers and photos, the middle one shows tweets and the right column is for recommendations and trends. This new update not only allows the users to customize their profile with their favorite tweets but also a wide profile image and a wider cover photo, which is the header of the page. Users are now able to pin their favorite tweets on top of their pages, so that the followers come to know who you are and what are you all about. Your tweets which have more engagement will appear a little larger than your other tweets so that the best content is easy to find for followers. To make it more user friendly while viewing someone else's timeline, Twitter has filtered the tweets such as: tweets, tweets with photos/videos, tweets or replies. At first this setup was available only to a small number of users but we have seen the number of users increase in this week. And the new users, well obviously the next generation because who doesn't use twitter these days, will have this feature already. Twitter users Tweets new updates layout First Tweet web profiles Read More Read the Next Article


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Debunking 3 Common Nutrition Myths
Have you ever encountered trending health information that you accepted as truth because the majority believes it, but later on found out that it was one of the nutrition myths you wish you had not taken? Well, most of us experienced that once in our lives.
We all want to stay fit and healthy. Similarly, we want foods that are budget-friendly and true to what they initially claim. However, the advent of social media has gone wild, and it overloads us with information that is difficult to filter out. Among those also include outdated beliefs that have circulated through time. People have innumerable opinions about what you should and should not eat to attain a particular diet goal. But how do you draw the line to ensure that you will not fall off as a victim of false hopes and white lies in the world of nutrition? Let's find out!
Unfolding the Truth From 3 Common Nutrition Myths
We have lots of unnecessary meal spendings that could have been allotted to foods scientifically-proven to yield results. Experts believe that people tend to fall into the rabbit hole of misinformation because it appears more seductive than the truth. For one, false information travels faster and feeds directly to our confirmation bias. It turns out that the usual lessons we have learned since grade school, like regular exercise, a balanced diet, and enough sleep to prevent possible illnesses, are not attractive and compelling at all. myths are more sensational as it narrates a story in grand and exaggerated ways.
But now, it is fair-time to separate science from silliness as it will save us from wasted time and money.Similarly, it will help us not to compromise our body from beliefs that can do more harm than good. Below are common nutrition myths we need to know, so we can end their cycle once and for all.
Nutrition Myth #1 - Avoid Eggs Because They Are High In Calories
Most people with an aspiration to lose weight avoid as many calories as possible. Calories are essential because they generate energy. However, unburned calories may lead to obesity, which increases the risk for heart disease due to clogged arteries. For the record, eggs contain 211 mg of cholesterol found in their yolks. Experts say that a healthy person can consume an egg a day and still be okay.
The real culprit in increasing cholesterols are foods high in saturated and trans fats. Eggs do not bear impact because a large one only contains 2 grams of saturated fats with no trans fats. It is also a good and inexpensive source of many nutrients, such as zinc, iron, antioxidants zeaxanthin and lutein, and vitamin D. Additionally, they are also beneficial for your mental health. Eggs contain choline, a nutrient that regulates memory, mood, and muscle control.
Although moderation is still vital, experts suggest consuming 1 to 2 eggs a day for a healthy diet.
Nutrition Myth #2 - Bananas Are The Best Source Of Potassium
The right amount of potassium is essential. It regularizes your heartbeat and helps the nerves function. It also helps transport necessary nutrients into the cells while helping remove waste products from them. There is a correlation between sodium and potassium, as the latter helps minimize the harmful effects of sodium on blood pressure. Studies have shown that a 2:1 ratio of sodium and potassium could increase your risk of cardiovascular diseases. Case in point, if you take 3,400 mg of sodium, you should consume 6,800 mg of potassium. It is difficult and nearly impossible to reach that amount using a banana alone.
One banana can only provide 422 mg of potassium. It does not demerit the ultimate health benefits that this superfood can do to the body. However, it gives you the chance to look for additional options from which you can attain your potassium requirement. Among those include:
- 1 cup Swiss chard - 960 mg potassium
- 1 cup potatoes - 925 mg potassium
- 1 cup spinach - 838 mg potassium
- 1 cup Brussels sprouts - 494 mg potassium
- 1 cup cantaloupe - 427 mg potassium
- 1 cup broccoli - 457mg potassium
Nutritional Myth # 3 - Energy Drinks Are Less Harmful Than Sodas
Energy drinks are one of our instant go-to drinks whenever there is a need to stay awake for longer hours. Red Bulls and Monsters, among others, are popular brands that provide a kick of b-vitamins, amino acids, and herbal extracts. However, behind that lies ample sugar content that is bad for your body. For instance, a 16 ounce can delivers 280 calories of pure sugar. It contains 80 calories more than your regular soda, plus it is 11% corrosive to your teeth.
Here's the thing, if you want to have an additional kick to your energy, natural drinks with caffeine are the best option. You can take your shot through our Mocha Berry Smoothie, which is not only essential for night owls because of its espresso and cacao, but the superfood ingredients are also beneficial for your overall health.
Nutrition Myths Debunked: Be Healthy In A Factual Way
There are still countless nutrition myths existing that you have to beware of. If you worry about being a nutrition myth superspreader, educating yourself is the very first step. Experts also coined this as "prebunking" because being informed can help you be less susceptible to those nutrition myths the next time you encounter them. Similarly, communicating it right with others can avoid misleading beliefs.
However, be wary not to allow your emotions to get in the way. There is a high tendency that these people have already made up their minds and are not open to criticisms or outside information that will negate their existing knowledge. Learn to pause. Believe that words are just words until they come from the right person. In such cases, you cannot always serve as the rightful courier.
Indeed, staying healthy in the most truthful way is not only necessary in times of disinformation, but it is also convenient and practical!


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The behavioral capabilities of neonatal chimpanzees ore not well known. A ma(or goal of this study was to document their ability to orient to social and nonsocial objects and to compare their performance with that of human infants. The Brozelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) was administered to 13 nursery-reared chimpanzees, every other day during their first month of life, and to 42 humans, twice, on the third and thirtieth day of life. The orientation items included social stimuli (a human face and both human and chimpanzee sounds) and nonsocial stimuli [a red ball and a red rattle). Repeated-measures analysis of variance on the orientation cluster of the NBAS revealed that chimpanzee neonates have the capacity for sustained attention to all stimuli, both social and nonsocial, indistinguishable from that of human neonates. Significant improvements in orientation performance from Day 2 to Day 30 were found for both species. These striking similarities in early orientation ability are viewed as a challenge to notions of unique human propensities.
Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 309-321 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Infant Behavior and Development |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1992 |