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The functions of the building
Rønnebærhus is a combination of activity centre and care home. Both features are located in the same building. In terms of spaces, there are several communal areas and a large degree of flexible use of the premises.
The building supports the values of the policy for the elderly: choices and continuity in the everyday lives of senior citizens.
The building’s rooms are distributed across the entry axis. Here there is a double-height space that is easily negotiable. To the south is a large, flexible café and lecture room, while to the north the administrative rooms are found. At the heart of Rønnebærhus is a longitudinal atrium. This provides an overall picture of the building.
On the 1st floor is a huge range of creative provisions, including photography, sewing, cooking, and gymnastics.
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Personal Hand Carry
Ever had a last minute requirement for items to be in a country where you do not have a visa to enter?
Are you frustrated at being out of the office to hand carry those important documents to your client, which takes you out of the office for days?
Let us help you
Focus Offshore Logistics can provide those services for you. Our personnel are available 24 hours a day for these important deliveries
This leaves you free to concentrate on your business. | <urn:uuid:fac4acbb-1cd6-4aa1-8395-d845f4e37f17> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | http://focusoffshorelogistics.com/7.html | 2021-12-03T14:16:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362879.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203121459-20211203151459-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.946955 | 98 | [
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Heifer International (HI) started life as Heifers for Relief in 1944. Its founder, an Ohio farmer named Dan West, was a Church of the Brethren relief worker, who, working with Quakers and Mennonites, directed a program where hungry children were given rations of milk. He quickly came to realize that was just a short-term solution however and the gift of a…
Heifer Project International Nepal (HPIN) is a non-profit organization working in Nepal since 1998 with the aim of ending hunger and poverty and caring for the earth through agriculture-based livelihood and market system development programs. HPIN invites application from eligible Nepali citizens for the following positions to support its access to finance initiatives in Nepal.
Position: Access to Finance Officer – 3
Term: 6 months
Station: Gulmi, Palpa and Dhading
Major Roles and Responsibility
The full-time field based consultants will work in the field of access to finance and business capacity development of smallholder farmers and other MSMEs in the Government Partnership Project-GPP areas. The main responsibility of this position will be to work with the groups of smallholder farmers, youth and different occupational ethnicity to start up or expand their enterprises by helping them in bringing interest subsidy concessional loans from Banks and Financial Institutions-BFIs and monitor its performance in the field.
Bachelor’s degree in Business Management/Economics/Finance or any related field with a minimum of 3 years of experience in access to finance, development sector, especially relevant work experience in the field of agriculture/livestock value chains is required.
Interested experienced individual from the same field is requested to submit application along with the following documents mentioning email subject line “Application for Access to Finance Officer” through email to: [email protected]
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The project Polar Bear Patrol is a documentary project.
Our film team will visit different regions of the polar area. We will follow scientists, rangers and volunteers of the polar bear patrol and polar bear police. We will visit Svalbard, Greenland, Canada and Russia. In Siberia, we will document the work and life at the new nature reserve in Chukotka. We also plan to follow the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources on their fieldwork and the first counting of polar bears in Russia in history.
In 2021/2022 we are planing 5 expeditions in total. We are working close together with an international team of different companies and institutions.
Our team will work out the current situation of the polar bears, their habitat, and how people live close together with these fantastic animals.
You can find updates and news on our Blog.
There, we will regularly keep you updated with our latest work and expeditions.
This project is only possible because of our partner and supporter.
You can find more details about them here.
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Although peritoneal resident macrophages (PRM) or peritoneal exudate macrophages (PEM) were activated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to kill tumor cells in vitro, lung macrophages (LM) obtained by mincing lung tissues or by harvesting bronchial lavage were not activated by LPS under any experimental conditions, i.e., different LPS concentrations, incubation times and cytotoxicity assay methods. The unresponsiveness of LM to LPS was seen in all of the mouse strains tested. Treatment of LM with indomethacin did not affect the unresponsiveness, although it greatly augmented the cytotoxicity of PRM stimulated with LPS. LM treated in vitro with crude lymphokines (LK) did not show cytotoxicity, but became sensitive to LPS and cytotoxic for tumor cells. LM treated first with crude LK and then with LPS were cytotoxic, but LM treated first with LPS and then with crude LK were not. The ability of crude LK to render LM responsive to LPS was neutralized by rabbit anti-mouse gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) antiserum but not by anti-mouse IFN-(alpha + beta) antiserum. LM treated with recombinant murine IFN-gamma became responsive to LPS and showed cytotoxicity. LM were resistant to direct toxicity of LPS under conditions in which significant populations of PRM and PEM died. However, LM became sensitive to direct toxicity of LPS by treatment with crude LK or recombinant murine IFN-gamma. Fluorescence microscopy showed that almost all PRM and PEM were stained with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-LPS, while less than 5% of the LM were stained. Instead, approximately 60% of the LM treated with the crude LK or recombinant IFN-gamma for 20 h were stained with FITC-LPS. Fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) analysis confirmed this result. The staining of IFN-gamma treated LM with FITC-LPS was inhibited by polymyxin B or unlabeled LPS. These results suggest that the defective responsiveness of LM to LPS is due to the lack or very low expression of LPS-binding sites on the cell surface and that in vitro treatment with IFN-gamma brings about the expression of them and renders LM responsive to LPS.
Lack of binding of bacterial lipopolysaccharide to mouse lung macrophages and restoration of binding by gamma interferon.
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The main aim to use these sensors is to handle challenging counting and to detect the non-guided objects in free fall in the automation industry. They are also used for the precise positioning of the objects in the printing machines and to periodically scan the target material on the R, G, B colour channels in order to detect the taught in colour.
Detecting shapes and dimensions through visual feedback
A vision sensor is a sensor that identifies the shape, dimension, orientation or location of an object through visual feedback. A very good example of such sensors is the camera in our laptop. Vision sensors are more flexible and efficient than the light barriers and are simpler in design due to the configuration for one special field of application. Many difficult applications that required multiple photoelectric or proximity sensors for their work before can now be handled with just one vision sensor, at a low cost. Depending upon the graphic card the application is working on, or on the complexity of the objects sensed, the vision sensors may be little bit slower than the proximity sensors. Vision sensors have a fixed resolution and generally require more processing time and are slower than cameras. The content of a vision sensor image can be accessed via the API (Application Programming Interface). The drawback with vision sensors is that its image content is only available during the actual operation. The two types of vision sensors based on the path of the projection of the rays are-Orthographic projection and Perspective projection.
Orthographic projection type: The field of view of this type of sensor is rectangular. It follows the orthographic projection of rays, where all the parallel rays are perpendicular to the projection plane. This type of projection is well suited for close range infrared sensors or laser range finders. These sensors are based on the concept that the viewer is at infinity or at far of distance.
Perspective projection type: The field of view of this type of sensor is trapezoidal. The perspective projection of rays is considered good for camera type sensors. In this, the rays radiate to a single point from the object at a given distance. These sensor applications rely on the fact that the spectator is at some distance from the object and not at infinity.
Vision sensors are used in cameras to increase the throughput of high resolution and high speed imagest. They are also used for monitoring purpose in different security cameras at homes, offices, etc.
Ultrasonic sensors — positioning or proximity
Ultrasonic sensors use sound waves instead of light. These are considered ideal for the stable detection of liquids, uneven surfaces, objects in dirty environment and clear objects. These sensors use a piezoelectric transducer to detect and send sound waves. These are not affected by the target colour or atmospheric dust, rain, snow, etc. and can work in adverse conditions. These work well in applications that require precise measurements between the moving and the stationary objects. Some companies consider this to be a type of proximity sensor, while others consider it to be a type of position sensor as it is used to detect the presence of nearby objects and uses time to measure the distance. These sensors can be divided into three types based on their modes of operation- Thru-Beam, Diffuse Reflective and Retro-Reflective.
Thru-Beam: It is based on the principle of presence of two separate units- a detector and an emitter. In this, the sound that is emitted by the emitter is detected by the detector and the target is detected, when it passes between the emitter and the detector.
Diffuse Reflective: It is considered to be a single package of emitter and detector in which their field of view cross each other. In this, the emitter emits sound continuously and when the target is within the operating range of the sensor, the emitted sound is reflected by the target and detected by the detector.
Retro-Reflective: This type of sensor contains an emitter, a detector and a Retro-reflector. The emitter and the detector are in the same package while the retro-reflector is placed a little far from the sensor. The sensor works on the principle that the sound from the emitter is reflected by the retro-reflector and detected by the detector, instead of getting reflected directly from the target to the detector.
These sensors are used for detecting objects where the normal photocells cannot be used like for level measurement of solids and liquids, diameter or loop detection for materials like paper, sheet iron, and for the detection of transparent objects like plastic, glass bottles, plastic filters, etc. They can be preferred over Photoelectric sensors for object detection because they are not affected by colored, transparent or shiny objects.
A device that gathers information related to temperature from a source and then converts it into a form that can be easily understood by an observer or any other device. These are the most commonly used sensors in the present world, a very good example being a thermometer. These sensors are used to measure the temperature of a medium so that they can be controlled. There are two types of temperature sensors- Contact sensors and Non-contact sensors.
Contact Sensors: As the name suggests, this sensor measures the temperature of the object to which the sensor is in contact with. However, it has a limitation, that is both the sensor and the object should be in thermal equilibrium, that is there should not be any flow of heat between them.
Non-Contact Sensors: On contrary to the contact sensors, these measure the heat radiations from the environments within a given area. These do not need to be in actual contact with the object. Many non-contact sensors now a days are being used to control temperature as well as humidity of an area and to make the area comfortable for us.
The temperature sensor is used in the refrigerators and in boilers in the HVAC systems apart from other applications in the Automation industry. They are used as a source of temperature control in many applications from windpower to compressed air.
Detecting Inclination and Angles
Inclination sensors are used to measure the tilt or angle of inclination of a machine or an object with respect to a horizontal plane. In this, the reference plane can be either a particular two dimensional axes or 3 dimensional plane. In order to measure the inclination with the Earth’s ground plane an accelerometer is used.
Markets, today have numerous devices to monitor the inclination angles however, these do not provide the information as per industry needs. These can measure the inclination angle in an angular range of up to 360°. These are contact free and can be easily integrated into the systems. These work on high precision levels of as low as 0.1° and can work in an extended temperature ranges of -40 to 85 °C. These can be used in tough conditions, inside compact metal housings. The main use of inclination sensors is to keep the display of a device in correct position as per the user hold it. These can be broadly divided into two categories- Switch based and Proportional Inclination Sensors.
Switch Based Inclination Sensors: These sensors are the most basic ones and have just two states of output. These can again be categorized as- Mercury Tilt Switch and Ball in a Cage Structure Switch. The switches that have mercury bead within them that completes the contact when inclined are called Mercury Tilt Switches. Depending upon the number of contacts used in them, mercury tilt switches can be either SPST and SPDT. Whereas in case of Ball in a Cage structure switches, a metallic ball plays the role of the mercury. The ball prevents vibrations and shock.
Proportional Inclination Sensor: The output of these sensors is proportional to the degree of inclination. Depending upon the inclination mechanism, these sensors can be further divided into three categories-Electrolytic inclination sensors, MEM based sensors and Optical inclination sensors.
Electrolytic Inclination Sensor: Similar to a lead acid battery, this sensor contains both positive and negative electrodes along with an electrolyte. When the sensor is at rest, no potential is generated as the electrodes are equally merged in the electrolyte, whereas when the sensor is inclined, a potential difference is generated depending on the level of submergence of the electrodes in the electrolyte thus, enabling a better electrical connectivity.
They are used in fall alarms, that indicates that a worker has fallen over while working. They are also used in thermostats and in pressure switches.
MEM Based Sensors: MEMS refer to Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems that integrate mechanical elements, actuators, sensors and electronics on to a common silicon substrate through the micro fabrication technology. The movement of the object on this sensor depicts its inclination. These are not as precise as the electrolytic inclination sensors however, do have the memory option to record the previous position of the object and these provide medium resolution too.
They level shift the outputs of the sensors for proper levels of conversion and are also used for rollover or stability control along with monitoring of patients.
Optical Inclination Sensors: These use a light source, detector and also lenses at times. These are smaller in size and detect the intensity of light that falls on them along with the angle with which the beam strikes and gives electrical signals accordingly.
They are used in robot hands for detecting the presence of liquid crystal glass.
As the name suggests, the humidity sensors are used to detect the humidity level (moisture content) in the air. These play a very important role from medical point of view. In areas, where humidity is extremely low, static electricity is generated, which can even burn things however, in areas, where there is high humidity things would get damaged due to bacterial and fungal growth. So, a humidity sensor senses the humidity level and transfers that information to any humidity controller for further action. Again based on their working principle, these sensors can be classified as-Capacitive and Resistive.
Capacitive Humidity Sensors: It is considered to be a mature technology in the field of sensing. The increase in the dielectric constant of a humidity sensor is directly proportional to the relative humidity of the surrounding environment. Thus, the material used in this sensor plays an important role.
Resistive humidity sensors: These use a thin piece of lithium chloride or other semiconductor devices that measure resistance. The material of this sensor becomes wet due to the presence of water vapor in the air and helps us determine the humidity information. These sensors can work in high temperatures up to 212° Fahrenheit.
They are used in the HVAC systems so as to detect the humidity level in the industry and in transmission lines, antennas, and waveguides used in telecommunications.
Sensing various parameters
Now we are able to understand the working and the advantages of different sensors in order to make their correct use in the required application. Most of the sensors discussed above, focus on measuring either the presence or the distance of an object, owing to their different working principles. However, there are other sensors as well, like the temperature and the humidity sensors, which are different and are used to detect the different parameters in the environment. Applications related to industrial automation can easily use these sensors depending upon their requirement and their working principles for the correct functioning of the device. | <urn:uuid:7c5f252a-1f7c-4234-a5eb-446b4de1cde0> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.electronicsforu.com/technology-trends/sensors-industrial-automation-choice-make/3 | 2021-12-05T01:02:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363134.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205005314-20211205035314-00432.warc.gz | en | 0.921404 | 2,328 | [
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7 Foods for Radiant Skin
Who doesn’t want more beautiful skin? Your skin is your biggest and most visible organ. When irritated, breaking out or inflamed, our skin is trying to tell us something. More often than not these are signs of an internal imbalance or inflammation.
If you struggle with a skin condition like acne, psoriasis, eczema, rosacea, excessive dryness or simply want more radiant skin, this article is for you.
Skin issues are near and dear to me. I’ve personally struggled with both eczema and acne. Before being introduced to naturopathic medicine, the conventional treatments offered to me were birth control pills and steroid creams. Sure, they suppressed the symptoms in the short term. But I couldn’t help but wonder what was causing the issues in the first place. The good news is, skin problems are curable with nutrition and naturopathic medicine.
The first place to start is nourishing your skin from the inside out. Having a good skincare routine is absolutely helpful. But for truly healthy skin, you need to go beyond skin deep with a diet full of skin nourishing foods.
Here are a few of my favorite foods for radiant skin...
This delicious fruit is loaded with skin nourishing Pantothenic acid (vitamin B 5). This incredible B vitamin has been shown to decrease breakouts, improve wound healing (1), and increase the antioxidant glutathione (which aids detoxification and protects you from free radicals). They’re also a great source of fiber, healthy fats, and other nutrients like vitamin C, E, A.
I recommend at least three avocados a week. They are delicious in salads, with eggs, in smoothies, with Mexican food, or by themselves as a snack with some lemon, salt and pepper.
Wild salmon, sardines, herring, mackerel, anchovies
These fatty fish are rich in the essential fatty acids, omega-3’s. Omega-3’s decrease inflammation in the body. That’s great for your skin because eczema, psoriasis and acne are all inflammatory conditions.
Aim to have a palm size serving at least three times per week. Avoid farm fish unless it’s organic, wild seafood is best. You may have also noticed the fish I listed above are all small fish. That's because small fish have less heavy metals and toxins accumulated in their bodies.
Bone broth is rich with collagen and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). These nutrients provide our dermis (the layer in your skin just below the surface) with structure. The dermis is responsible for providing nutrition to the epidermis (the outermost layer of skin). One study found that collagen consumption improved skin elasticity and moisture (2).
Bone broth has a ton of other health benefits you can read about in my article here.
Aim for a cup per day. I love using bone broth as a base for soups, but it also nice to sip.
Liver cleansing culinary herbs: turmeric, cilantro, ginger, parsley, garlic, onions
Your liver processes hormones and eliminates toxins from your body. A significant portion of adult acne is from hormone imbalance. Additionally, proper detoxification is necessary to reduce inflammation. Add these spices into your cooking daily.
Antioxidant-rich foods (colorful vegetables and fruits)
Antioxidant rich foods are critical to a healthy diet. They prevent damage to our cells from oxidation which protects our skin from UV radiation that can cause premature aging and skin cancer. Antioxidants also keep our microbiome happy.
Eating the rainbow is essential. Incorporate vegetables and fruits in a variety of colors. A good rule of thumb is the more vibrant and colorful, the more antioxidants. Think blueberries, dark leafy greens, purple cabbage, etc. Incorporate these foods with any and every meal.
When it comes to antioxidants, don’t forget about green tea. It's most well known for containing the antioxidants EGCG (read more here). It’s great for all skin conditions; however it is especially beneficial for patients with PCOS and acne. Have a cup a day.
Oysters are one of the best dietary sources of zinc. Zinc is a mineral that is anti-inflammatory, assists in wound healing, and protects against UV radiation.
Inflammatory foods to avoid
Sugar: avoid added sugar and sweetener
Fruit juices and dried fruit because of their high fructose (fruit sugar) content
White starchy foods like bread, pasta, potatoes, rice
Dairy: read more about this in my article about dairy
Industrial seed oils: canola, soybean, corn, peanut, safflower, sunflower, cottonseed oil and other "vegetable" oils
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The problems of lack of potable water, food and electrical power in and around the desert environment are analysed and their solutions based on the utilisation of indigenous renewable energy resources are evaluated in the current research. Self-contained, decentralised solar energy powered processes are devised in the research results as means to attain the objectives of supplying electrical power, potable water and food to the communities living in the deserts in environmentally sustainable manner. Needs analysis of desert community, a questionnaire survey, desert energy model utilisation scenarios, solar potential assessment and environmental emissions reduction strategy are used as means of analysis in the current research. A potential assessment of a desert site Islamkot, at Thar is carried out to demonstrate the capability of available solar potential to meet the energy needs of underground pumping, desalination of aquifer water potable water, cultivation of wheat, rice and pulses and domestic power consumption. The needs analysis estimates the amounts of electrical power needs of potable water desalination, agricultural commodities cultivation and electrical power needs per person per day, which can be scale up for any number of communities living in and around the deserts.The results reveals that indigenous solar potential capability can be used to produce the required amounts of electrical power to meet the water, wheat, rice, pulses, electrical power, drinking, non-drinking and cultivation water needs of the desert communities in environmentally sustainable manner. The research results are practicable and can be implemented to meet the energy needs of isolated communities living in and around the deserts in the long run. However, sustainable efforts would be required to encourage stakeholders to initiate a process of small, medium and large scale solar power utilization in and around the deserts. | <urn:uuid:c22186e6-a59d-4bcb-9eaf-297dc7e66240> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/analysis-of-solar-energy-production-utilisation-and-management-for-facilitating-sustainable-development-in-and-around-the-deserts-of-pakistan(9d3b9081-1739-4306-8f70-1eedefed5f61).html | 2021-12-05T02:44:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363134.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205005314-20211205035314-00432.warc.gz | en | 0.933327 | 335 | [
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Today Samsung revealed the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. These smartwatch devices usher in a new age of collaboration between Samsung and Google, as they run a version of Google’s Wear OS platform joint-developed by the two companies. These new watches also have Samsung’s own One UI Watch software interface and represent two different angles of approach for at least two different crowds of smartwatch wearers. The more basic of the two is the Galaxy Watch 4, while the more extravagant version is the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic – complete with rotating bezel.
Basically what we’ve got here are two watches that run Wear OS at their base – they’re able to run software made for Wear OS, available from the Google Play app store. They’re ALSO running One UI Watch, much like Samsung phones have Android, but One UI (user interface) over the top. Samsung’s One UI adds Samsung-specific features to the devices on which it runs.
These watches work with Home Training with Samsung Smart TV connectivity (in select markets). This extends functionality already present in the otherwise most-recent Galaxy Watch device lineup. With Wear OS, these Samsung watches gain new integration with services like Spotify and Google Maps.
Those users working with multiple Samsung devices with One UI will find automatic sync for aesthetics and features. Samsung designers will release visual themes that sync between devices – making your Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 have the same look as your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, and so forth.
All Galaxy Watch 4 family devices work with Snore Detection, Sleep Score, and Blood Oxygen Tracking. You’ll have a difficult time telling the two sorts of watches apart at a glance – it’s only up close and personal that you’ll see the slight differences in form for control.
Above on the left you’ll see a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. On the right you’ll see a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. Can you spot the differences?
Both models work with the Samsung BioActive Sensor. This is a 3-in-1 sensor that includes Optical Heart Rate, Electrical Heart, and Biolelectrical Impedance Analysis. These devices work with Samsung’s latest Body Composition Analysis Tool (using BIA) with a wide variety of readouts measuring the health and status of the wearer.
The Galaxy Watch 4 in 40mm size measures in at 40.4 x 39.3 x 9.8 mm, and weighs 25.9g. The Watch 4 in 44mm size measures at 44.4 x 43.3 x 9.8 mm with a weight of 30.3g. The Watch 4 Classic in 46mm size is substantially larger at 45.5 x 45.5 x 11.0 mm with a weight of 52g. The 42mm Watch 4 Classic is 41.5 x 41.5 x 11.2 mm in size and has a weight of 46.5g.
Both the larger versions of the watches have 1.4-inch display panels with 450 x 450 pixels. Both of the smaller versions of the watches have 1.2-inch display panels with 396 x 396 pixels. All display panels are Super AMOLED with “Full Color Always On Display” tech.
Both Galaxy Watch 4 models have Corning Gorilla Glass with DX+ protection across their faces. Both Galaxy Watch 4 Classic models have Corning Gorilla Glass with DX (no +) across their faces. They’ll both quite likely have more than enough protection against scratches and bashes in any case.
All versions of the Watch 4 (and Watch 4 Classic) have an Exynos W920 Dual Core 1.18GHz 5nm Processor inside. They’re all working with 1.5GB RAM and 16GB internal storage. All versions have the Samsung BioActive Sensor, Accelerometer, Barometer, Gyro Sensor, Light Sensor, and Geomagnetic Sensor. All versions also have 5ATM + IP68 / MIL-STD-810G ratings against water, dust, and impact.
Every version of the Watch 4 has Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC, and GPS. All Watch 4 models work with WPC-based wireless charging (with their included puck), and fast charge abilities.
The Galaxy Watch 4 is meant to be a slightly cheaper entry point to this new Wear OS / One UI universe. The slightly more extravagant Watch 4 “Classic” is a more “premium, timeless smartwatch design” with Samsung’s “fan-favorite rotating bezel.”
Galaxy Watch 4 Price and Release Date
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 classic will be released for a starting price of $349.99 USD (for the Bluetooth version), and $399.99 for LTE models. There’ll be 42mm and 46mm versions available in Black and Silver. There’ll also be a “special rhodium-plated Galaxy Watch 4 Classic Thom Browne limited edition” released in “late September” of 2021.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 will be released in both 40mm and 44mm versions with a starting price of approximately $249.99 (for Bluetooth versions) and $299.99 (for LTE models). At the start, the 40mm version will be released in Black, Silver, and Pink Gold. The 44mm variant will be released in Black, Silver, and Green.
Pre-order availability for the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic starts in August 11. All Galaxy Watch 4 devices have a release date of August 27, 2021. Pre-orders made between August 11 and August 26 “can get a $50 Samsung credit” if ordering from Samsung.com online. | <urn:uuid:84331b8e-767b-409f-8773-2c06c7417e21> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.slashgear.com/samsung-galaxy-watch-4-and-classic-series-release-date-price-and-first-details-11685871/ | 2021-12-05T01:42:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363134.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205005314-20211205035314-00432.warc.gz | en | 0.878519 | 1,191 | [
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The inspirational story of the Bentley Boys, and the Le Mans 24-hour race of 1927 that sealed their astonishing place in history.
Using the frame of that extraordinary race, in Racing in the Dark Peter Grimsdale paints a picture of a remarkable car at the historic moment when petrol overtook steam, and will explore the lives and motivations of a generation of dedicated men who were determined, above all, to blot out the enduring shadow of the First World War. Driver Sammy Davis had lost two brothers and his father in the trenches. Team owner Walter Bentley, a newlywed in the summer of 1914, had devoted himself to designing engines for Sopwith Camels, only to lose his young wife in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
The Bentley Boys emerged from every level of Upstairs Downstairs Britain, from the fabled Gatsbyesque Woolf Barnato to East Ender Wally Hassan, who joined at fifteen and would one day design Jaguars Le Mans champion, to the titled grandees and spirited adventurers who became Bentleys devoted clientele. But in the heat of competition, class distinctions melted away. Bentley and his boys became almost mythical beings, alongside Mallory, Shackleton and Lawrence of Arabia, in a generation of Britons bent on filling their lives with challenge and leaving the past for dust. Bentley Motors burned brightly but all too briefly; theirs is a tale filled with drama, tragedy, determination and glory.
Peter Grimsdale is a bestselling novelist, TV producer and former commissioning editor whose credits stretch from Big Brother to Panorama, from The Adam & Joe Show to Finest Hour and Dispatches on Deepwater Horizon and Tony Blairs millions. His first motoring book was the critically acclaimed High Performance: When Britain Ruled the Roads. Old Number Seven is his second book with Simon & Schuster. | <urn:uuid:f658e628-78c1-4a3a-aa74-19db09efebf9> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://pitstop.net.au/browse/item/9781471198267/Racing-in-the-Dark | 2021-12-06T17:42:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363309.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20211206163944-20211206193944-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.959946 | 369 | [
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[Bryony Wharfe | Contributing Writer]
“Depression and love is wanting to be shown that you are loved constantly but rejecting and not feeling worthy” – J. Moore.
What if you never learned to love yourself? That every day it becomes harder and harder to be happy in who you are and where you are in your life. People can come into your life unnoticed but leave craters where your heart used to flourish; memories can turn a happy moment into the reason you’re scared to close your eyes at night. But what if someone was there, holding your hand every step of the way? Tucking a piece of hair behind your ear whilst they looked you in the eyes to say “I love you.” Does it get better? For many people who live with depression, being in love can be as hard as waking up in the morning.
“I (not often) sometimes had moments when I completely had a meltdown/breakdown… sometimes I could feel it brewing within me when I was with my ex and I’d have to leave the room quickly because I didn’t want her to worry about me, I didn’t want her to know I was struggling this bad because I needed her.” – Male, 20, student, UH.
Sometimes you may feel every emotion all at once, and other days you may feel nothing at all. Every day is a struggle; trying to keep a smile on your face so your partner doesn’t notice is tiresome. People say that before you can love others you have to love yourself; for some that’s enough, but for many others, trying to love something you despise so much just becomes impossible. But that’s okay. You can love someone else before loving your own skin and someone will love you even if you can’t bear to look in the mirror.
“Often I feel so worthless that I have no clue why he loves me, but other times I see how we compliment each other, what I can do for him and what he does for me… There are ‘I love you forever and always’ days, and there are why are they even with me days.” – Amy, 25, UH.
However, hearing someone say “I love you” every day doesn’t always sink in: when you hate yourself, you believe that everyone else does, so why would someone love you? Why would someone love your snotty tears and your emotionless conversations?
But you know what? Some people will. Not all of them, but the ones who truly love you will love you through your snotty tears and emotionless conversations. Because it’s not only hard for a person with depression to be in love and believe someone is in love with them, it’s hard to be that person who is in love with someone who has depression.
“’I love you’ came too easy in that relationship, but I constantly thought why the hell is she with me when I thought so little of myself.” – Josh W., Student, UH.
You may not understand why they don’t want to eat their favourite food anymore, or why they end up crying hysterically whilst curled up on the floor when they can’t find the smallest of things. How every time you call them beautiful they dismiss it, or why they find it difficult to say that they love you too. One minute they may want to be cradled in your arms and the next they don’t want you to touch them. It’s confusing, it can ruin relationships, and it can cause more harm loving someone than being alone.
I’ve been through both scenarios and it hurts. Watching the person I love crumble in front of my eyes and feeling so helpless. Being so in love with someone but not being able to tell them or believe they care for me are two of the worst feelings I have ever had. But I overcame the darkness and I began to learn how to love myself and love another. The things I wanted my partner to do for me I was able to do for them, it brought us closer and heightened our love for one another, but not everyone has the same experience.
One female student from UH said that in a previous relationship the route of her depression was her boyfriend. After telling him how she felt and what the problems were, instead of helping her return to the woman she used to be, he blamed her for ruining their relationship. Even though it was heart-breaking to end the relationship, she began to blossom once again.
“Anyone or anything that made me feel less than comfortable with myself and who I was has been removed from my life and I feel so much better for it… My biggest bit of advice for anyone struggling with depression is to be comfortable with yourself and be happy alone before trying to be happy with someone else – be the master of your own happiness as it were.” – Josh W., Student.
Image: Unsplash – Greg Rakozy
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Calling all Volunteers!
MERC will be volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House Cooks for Kids (CFK) on November 12th. We are looking for 15 volunteers.
In addition to this registration please click the following link to preregister with CFK: http://vhub.at/MERC
Here are some details about the meal that you will be serving:
621 SE Oak Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Are there any age requirements?
· Yes. Volunteers must be at least 14 years old, and individuals between 14-18 years old must be supervised by an adult. Please note: Youth volunteers will receive a Minor Waiver upon registration. Please print the waiver, have a parent or guardian sign it, and bring it to RMH for your volunteer shift.
What is the time commitment?
· Dinner is served from 6:00-7:30 pm; groups typically arrive around 3pm to begin preparing their meal.
· Alternate prep times are available upon request
· CFK groups are asked to clean the kitchen, load the dishwasher, put away leftovers, etc. They generally leave 30 minutes after the meal is over.
What are the food guidelines?
· For safety reasons, all meals must be prepared and cooked at an RMH facility, however food packaged and prepared at a licensed restaurant, catering service or commercial kitchen is also admissible as long as it is delivered directly to our site.
How many people will we serve?
· Please plan for 90-100 people at dinner. A more exact number can be provided closer to the serving date!
What should we make?
· Please prepare a balanced meal that includes a main dish, vegetable, side dish, dessert and beverages. For menu ideas and to see what other groups are cooking, please visit: https://rmhtwincities.org/volunteer/CFK#menu
· CFK groups are welcome to enjoy the meal after the families have been served.
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There's no such thing as a stupid question. There may be stupid timing for it, such as a student asking when an exam is 5 minutes after the teacher already announced that information. But that was still a good question, they just asked it at a horrible time.
In general, there are not too many restrictions on asking questions. It's a lot about timing them. For example, you don't want to ask too many specific questions about implementation details if you're still trying to find out what a client needs in a potential product. Their needs are probably going to change every time you talk to them at this point and planning the implementation too rigorously could be a waste of time.
So, what are the benefits of breaking out of your fear of asking questions and just doing it?
To an extent, who cares how they feel about you asking a bunch of questions? Your career is yours and only you can be responsible for taking it to the next level.
I can't tell you how many people I've met through the DEV Community site and Twitter over this past month. It's really exciting how much support you can find in this industry if you put yourself out there.
Sometimes the scariest part about asking questions is knowing how to ask them. You can make 10 attempts at Googling something and Google isn't going to judge you for doing it. Re-wording a question to a human a few times to make sure you're getting the right information? That can potentially be frustrating for both of you. But good news! The more you ask questions, the better you get at wording them.
Have any insight on questions that you'd like to share? Leave a comment or send me a tweet! :)
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After spending the first two days in shorts, the Vikings finally put on pads for Sunday’s afternoon session. It was the first chance to see some physicality in the trenches. The practice featured several team drills and running periods, which slightly increased the intensity. During the final portion of practice, 1-on-1 OL/DL drills tested the offensive line in pass protection. The next couple of days will provide additional evaluation opportunities for many key position groups.
The WR Depth Chart
The first major portion of practice was dedicated to 1-on-1 WR/DB work. As always, Adam Thielen dominated this drill, including a beautiful comeback against cornerback Nate Meadors. Wide receiver Chad Beebe also ran a smooth corner route against Mack Alexander. Later in practice, Beebe had one drop behind the line of scrimmage and fell down three times when trying to gain traction in wet conditions.
Jordan Taylor struggled to get separation in the drill and was dancing at the top of his route. It resulted in Taylor being out-muscled at the stem by Holton Hill. One noticeable weakness from Taylor has been his inability to handle physicality at the top of routes. Early in camp, the wide receiver depth chart behind Thielen and Diggs hasn’t been very impressive. There were a few moments where it looked like a receiver ran the wrong route or didn’t get to the right depth for a concept. In the DB/WR work, I noted two positive routes from Davion Davis, who displayed excellent footwork on a quick slant against Mack Alexander.
Hikutini has a nice day
At the tight end position, Cole Hikutini had a fantastic day. In a team drill, Hikutini made a diving grab in the flat against linebacker Devante Downs. He also grabbed a tough contested pass between two defenders. After seeing his success, I specifically zoned in on his run blocking skills for a few reps. He was placed in-line twice and had two positive run blocking reps. Hikutini ran effective routes and made plays on the ball within traffic. Tight end Tyler Conklin was less strong against the run and had several reps where he was beaten off the edge. In those instances, Anthony Harris and Jayron Kearse managed to shed blocks and get into the backfield for potential stops. The ability to run block is going to be a key aspect of the tight end battle. This is especially the case in a system asking for versatility. There’s no doubt the Vikings are going to be using the tight ends in many creative ways, so executing in all areas will be critical.
Mattison makes a big play
It’s very difficult to evaluate running backs in training camp, but Alexander Mattison found a cutback lane and burst free for a long run. He planted, exploded off his backfoot and took advantage of the crease. Cook had a similar one-cut run as he burst into the second level of the first-team defense. Again, it’s hard to learn much without contact, but both running backs found the right lanes and avoided defenders.
Battles start in the trenches
Some of the biggest takeaways from Sunday’s session occurred at the line of scrimmage. During 1-on-1 drills, defensive tackle Armon Watts flourished. He used a pretty swim move against Dakota Dozier to win a rep. A little later in practice, he managed to shed a block and create a run stop in the backfield. Watts was disruptive and is a player to keep monitoring throughout camp. Josh Kline also performed well in the drill and had an excellent rep against Hercules Mata’afa. He got inside hand position, set an anchor and executed the rep. Mata’afa won the second rep with quickness and backed Kline up into the heels of the quarterback. Kline stood out in the team sessions and opened a cutback lane for Dalvin Cook to burst free. He also blazed a trail for Cook in the goal-line situational drill. Between key blocks from Kline and Garrett Bradbury, Cook had a clear path to the end zone. Bradbury also looked impressive in team settings and beautifully reach blocked Jaleel Johnson during a running play. In the 1-on-1 drill, he had a fantastic rep against Jaleel Johnson and flashed his technical skills. Bradbury’s hand technique, footwork and quickness are three traits that stand out.
During the team drills, Danny Isidora did an excellent job of scraping into the second level and finding linebackers. He also had an impressive rep against Jaleel Johnson in 1-on-1 drills. Over the past two seasons, Isidora hasn’t moved up the depth chart, but is currently working at right guard with the second-team. Left guard Dakota Dozier is another player who had one or two notable reps, including a second level block for an Alexander Mattison run. He split 1-on-1 reps and has caught my eye early in training camp.
Left guard Pat Elflein was out in space quite frequently and you could see the potential benefit of moving him within the scheme.
Defensive lineman Ifeadi Odenigbo had a notable run stop on a Mike Boone outside run and split 1-on-1 reps against guard Dru Samia. Outside of key names like Danielle Hunter and Everson Griffen, Odenigbo and Watts stood out the most.
Bailey makes his kicks, Vikings experiment with holders
The special teams depth chart remained the same, including the large group of players returning punts. After not doing any live kicking on Saturday, the Vikings had two different field goal sessions. Dan Bailey went 5-for-6, including makes from 34, 37, 40, 44 and 44 yards out.
His lone miss came from the middle hash (34 yards) while Adam Thielen was holding the try. It’s clear the coaches want to evaluate different holders during camp. Thielen spent time with the specialists for a few minutes of practice. Before practice, all of the quarterbacks also worked on holding technique with special teams coordinator Marwan Maalouf. None of them took live reps, but the coaches were clearly experimenting. Mike Zimmer was around the specialists frequently and monitored new players who were attempting to hold the ball. On Sunday, Bailey had success kicking the ball when punter Matt Wile was holding.
Wide receiver Jeff Badet remained sidelined, along with five players who remain on the physically unable to perform and non-football injury lists. After leaving practice on Saturday, defensive tackle Jalyn Holmes didn't participate in Sunday's afternoon session.
Day 1 Notebook
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“The transformation that will need to be brought about in our development model will only be possible if it responds to the dreams and expectations of citizens and communities and if collective responsibility is taken to adjust and make compromises on a fair, equal and sustainable basis” (preamble to the Durban Political Declaration). The Durban Political Declaration, adopted by the local and regional delegates gathered within the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders in Durban, builds on the work of our constituency and strong vision of the future of the international municipal movement for the 21st century, and aims to innovate and consolidate our strategy.
Our municipalist patrimony for the next decade
“The transformation that will need to be brought about in our development model will only be possible if it responds to the dreams and expectations of citizens and communities and if collective responsibility is taken to adjust and make compromises on a fair, equal and sustainable basis” (preamble to the Durban Political Declaration).
The Durban Political Declaration, adopted by the local and regional delegates gathered within the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders in Durban, builds on the work of our constituency and strong vision of the future of the international municipal movement for the 21st century, and aims to innovate and consolidate our strategy.
Based around four chapters, encompasses the principles of our movement, the need for local ownership of the global agenda, the themes that we are working on that will be critical for the future of humanity, and the commitments of our movement to fulfill the ambitious global goals.
The local dimension of development.
The Durban Declaration envisions a municipal movement that faces the global trends by returning to our roots and focusing on local democracy, and being an equality-driven movement, that champions a transition from an international to an inter-urban system and that takes a collective stand to end poverty and tackle inequalities.
The Durban Political Declaration addresses the renewal of local democracy, our commitments towards being equality-driven municipal movement building on the delivery of public services, and securing that the fourth industrial revolution services our communities and not just for those who have everything. Peacebuilding, resilience, and a commitment to localization are all part of the municipalist patrimony that needs to be fostered and protected as we enter the next decade
Local ownership for the future of humanity.
Our movement has been championing localization to achieve the global development agendas. In the interconnected world we live in, it is essential to stress that the ambitious objectives we set for ourselves in 2015, and 2016, will not occur in a vacuum. Only if we address all of the agendas as one, and only if we do so from the bottom-up among all stakeholders will we achieve the global goals.
The Durban Declaration lays out the principles of a local-global platform that will allow local voices to be listened to, but also to carry out the necessary changes in how cities and territories are co-created, empowering organizations that are rooted in their communities. The municipal movement will listen to the civil society, Academia, and all stakeholders to achieve inclusive and fair societies that allow our communities to fulfill their goals and expectations.
The dreams of 2030
The Durban Political Declaration encompasses some of the key themes that our movement has already been working on. The Right to Housing is essential to provide our communities with the conditions for adecent life, and we call for more powers for local and regional governments to be able to secure decent living for their communities. A rights-based approach to Migration that goes beyond border control and towards basic services, and the renewal of democracy and citizenship that envisionsthe local and territorial level oof government as key to recover trust and reforming the systems of governance are some of the key issues for the next era.
Peacebuilding is key for local and regional governments throughout the world. A people-based agenda that shares knowledge through intergenerational dialogues is key to promote transformative change and allow local and regional governments to contribute to a culture of peace. Our movement further commits to developing the mechanisms to defend those who serve their communities by being in positions of public leadership.
The future of our movement will take to heart the ecological transition, based on systems of solidarity and working to ensure a shift in our patterns of production and consumption, and will work to build resilient and sustainable societies, fostering the role of local and regional governments in the management of natural resources and their contribution to resilience.
The Political Declaration acknowledges gender equality as a critical condition to build the future of humanity, and calls to place gender equality at the core of development, and including the voices of women and girls in the localization process with the aim of not leaving half of the population of the world behind. Culture is further envisioned as the fourth pillar of development, and essential for a people-centered sustainable development.
Our municipalist patrimony, key to achieve universality and solidarity
We call for a more united membership of associations of local and regional governments, that works together to prepare for the so-called implementation decade to achieve the SDGs. Our networks are convinced that through learning and through decentralized cooperation we will be able to develop new instruments to further knowledge and cooperation.
We commit to contribute to unify the voices of local and regional governments through our Networks and through our joint work within the Global Taskforce and the joint ecosystem of sister networks, and we reaffirm that the World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments is the platform that will guarantee that the thought of our communities reaches the entire world
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Amazon Fba Photo Studio Diy
So for today’s video clip I’m going to be attending to a facebook message that I in fact published inside my facebook team web link for that remains in the summary, which was a complete break down of my wholesale drop shipping company. Amazon Fba Photo Studio Diy
Currently this is a video that I actually should have made a while back, but generally i’ve simply been making tutorials and also how to’s.
This is going to be more of a beginner video clip and it’s going to be discussing what precisely is wholesale dropshipping, yet a lot more especially, what is my business and my company design and all the components that go into my company given that you individuals have actually asked a number of Comments additionally several instagram vms, so I’m going to be answering it all in today’s video.
To start out, my company model is sourcing from wholesale distributors.Amazon Fba Photo Studio Diy
Currently there are different kind of providers that I will resource from.
Mostly you have representatives.
You likewise have brands.
You have importers, you have producers, and then you just have basic dealers so to break each one down.
A distributor is a person that basically purchases from all these different brands.
They are large firms and you can typically get a lot of various products from them.
Usually trademark name items but they’ll lug a variety of items, so I don’t work with as much suppliers.Amazon Fba Photo Studio Diy
Amazon Fba Photo Studio Diy
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Those are just firms that they make their very own item or they get it from china, and after that they slap their logo design on it, and afterwards they have a brand and also they sell their product.
Usually my organization is generally made up of two various techniques.Amazon Fba Photo Studio Diy
I will be a representative or i’ll, be an authorized reseller for these brand names and then i’ll market their items onto amazon.com or onto any type of industry that they permit, or I will really be the rep for the brand name on the industry.
So, for example, I deal with a number of brands that do not have an existence on amazon.com or on ebay or on etsy, as an example, or walmart, and what i’ll do is i’ll call them as well as i’ll state hey.
Let me produce the listings.
Let me be the seller for your items on these marketplaces and afterwards I will market their products on the previously mentioned markets.
The last sort of suppliers that I source from are importers.
These are individuals who have the items made abroad either in India, Vietnam, China or even in the U.S., and then they simply sell the products to other services.
They don’t really sell their items to the public and also they don’t really have a brand.
They just make items and then they market them, and afterwards I guess you can also identify that with manufacturers.
These are just individuals that make products and then they resell it to other sellers, and these are all companies that market company to service.
So they are individuals that resource the product or make the item, and after that I am the store they market it to me, and then I offer it throughout consumer.
That is the individual who is purchasing it from me, uh over any type of website like amazon.com, ebay or my own website? Allow’s chat about gratification currently most of the companies that I job with, I sourced using drop shipping.
This is where I do not house any of the supply.
Instead, when I make a sale, I send the details over to my supplier and my provider ships it bent on my client.
This is the approach that I picked to begin with, since it allowed me to expand without actually investing a great deal of cash on inventory.
It was low threat.
In this manner I didn’t have to go and spend a thousand dollars or acquire 10 000 units, and I was able to obtain accessibility to a big directory.
Normally, a lot of representatives will have a large directory or a number of brands, and you can go and also you can obtain accessibility to every one of their products, list them on the markets and then see what sells and then just ship out that thing from your vendor.
When you in fact make a sale, so you’re making money in advance, as well as by doing this you do not have to invest lots of cash or lots of capital on things that you’re uncertain if they’re mosting likely to sell.
So I begun with drop shipping, yet throughout the years i’ve gradually been expanding much more towards purchasing wholesale as well as even more particularly fva, so i’ve been doing fba for numerous factors.
Among the truth is that I can really see what an item offers or I can see which products are mosting likely to be excellent sellers.
Like I said before, with drop shipping, I obtain to test out a product and allow’s say I checklist a thing as well as it’s drop shipping and I’m making a hundred sales every single month.
If it really makes sense like if I can obtain much better deals, if I can conserve on amazon.com fees, if I can get really economical shipping or truly low-cost pack and also pack costs from amazon.com, I can go, and also I can get that and also I can have it Sent right into amazon.com’s stockroom instead than drop shipping that product the various other thing is, I can see which products from my manufacturer’s magazine or from my providers.
Catalog are doing well on amazon.com, for the sales ranking as well as are making a great deal of sales, and after that I can just send out that item into amazon.com as opposed to drop shipping it.
Some other factors why I like amazon.com fba, is because amazon handles the client communication.
Amazon takes care of the returns, the shipping everything like that.
In this manner, if I obtain a thousand drop ship orders, I don’t need to have my software.
Send that to my vendor, after that submit the tracking, it’s simply less things, less points that are going to go wrong.
There’s much less cogs in the wheel and also amazon is going to be automating most of it now amazon does have its troubles you’re, going to discover time for time that amazon misplaces, a delivery amazon doesn’t refund you money when they should.
It’s not best.
For me, it’s going to allow me to automate more of my company and for me to expand my company.
An additional aspect of me buying in bulk is, I will certainly likewise send products to my very own storage facility.
This way I can proceed as well as I can ship that out to various other markets like ebay.com, walmart, etsy, shopify and all the other marketplaces that do not have their very own fulfillment solution.
You can use third-party satisfaction services like provide or you can likewise utilize.
There are regional third-party satisfaction services and you can keep your inventory there and they will certainly ship out your order whenever you make a sale on the market so for the future.
I definitely want to acquire more wholesale and also I want to get larger orders for the things that are selling too, as I likewise want to do it to top.
I intend to improve discounts for the products so by doing this I can reduce my price and also I can improve my margins, yet also, if I place bigger orders, I after that reach build up my partnership with the select couple of distributors that I wish to.
This is mosting likely to enable me, like I stated, to improve price cuts, but also it can enable me to get access to other items.
It can likewise allow me to potentially obtain exclusivity.
Possibly the firm is going to do a cleanup of vendors who are not making enough sales.
This way, I can make it as well as I can boost my standing with that business.
The 3rd part of my business is private label and this is different than drop.
Delivering or wholesale because I’m mosting likely to be creating an item from square one or essentially.
What I do is I resource from all these wholesale vendors, and also I see what items are succeeding, so what you can do on amazon is, you can really develop a new listing for that item and if you have brand name computer system registry or if you have your very own Brand on amazon, you can put it under your very own listing.
You can improve that listing.
You can get your own images taken, you can go ahead and also you can get better testimonials.
You can in fact enhance that listing.
If, let’s say it was refraining from doing well already on amazon.com, if the original listing was terrible, if the initial listing – let’s say it was as well congested or if the item pictures are bad, so I am doing much more personal label, as well as this is not only sourcing products from My wholesale distributors, yet this is additionally let’s claim a product – is succeeding.
I can then go ahead and I can make my very own version of that thing put it under my very own brand and then I can proceed and I can release that item due to the fact that I have previous data that that product is doing well.
So I intend to place a caution below, since this is something that I am try out.
I’ve just launched two items using this technique and once again these are items that were wholesale items.
Nevertheless, I mosted likely to producers in the us, as well as I had my very own variation made.
So still something I am examining out, nonetheless, this is where you’re mosting likely to find the very best profit margin, because you are mosting likely to regulate your gratification approach, however it is going to cost you a lot more because you’re going to have to make the product you’re going to have To create your logo, obtain your trademark for your item.
If you want brand name windows registry and after that you’re mosting likely to need to position a huge moq with your producer that is making your product, so the last point I intend to speak about are sales channels.
This is mosting likely to depend on the product and also as well as the provider, certain suppliers will not allow you sell on amazon or ebay.com.
Specific distributors will not let you sell on walmart it’s mosting likely to rely on the distributor that you work with.
For me, I offer from a lot of different vendors.
I have more than 20 distributors and I normally function it out with supplier is going to be sold on where so some of them are sold on walmart.
Several of them are sold on amazon and afterwards some of them are sold on ebay.com, so whichever distributor enables me to sell where that is just how I set them up.
Also, allow’s state a product is handmade.
I work with a lot of brands that hand make their items.
Those things do extremely well on etsy, however they would not do well on walmart, let’s state or on ebay.com, so those would not be marketed there.
So it is going to depend upon where the brand name lets you sell those things along with if the item will really succeed on that marketplace.
A great deal of you have actually asked which markets I sell on I currently sell on.
In order amazon, I sell on ebay.com, I sell on etsy I sell on walmart, I sell on my very own internet site and also this is hosted on shopify.
You can also make use of bigcommerce or any type of other system, and after that I additionally sell on smaller markets.
Like gold mine, I sell mercarI I sell on poshmark I offer in real gether.
I saw an e-crater, after that there are various other ones that I’m trying to get approved for like sears, and there are simply various other miscellaneous markets, but my whole objective is primarily to contract out that, so I have va’s list on those marketplaces in addition to I use an omnI Channel software application – as well as I primarily just automate all that I take my listings from amazon as well as ebay, and also I listing it on all these smaller marketplaces.
Whenever I obtain a sale, I just fulfill it, however these are not my main sales channels.
These are simply smaller networks where I can get to other clients that I would not necessarily reach or else.
The last 2 points that I wish to speak about for my company are software programs in addition to va’s assistance hiring your very own employee, obtaining stockroom area and also the logistics of running a business.
The initial thing is software application for software application, specifically if you’re doing wholesale drop shipping or even wholesale and also you’re working with a bunch of providers.
You’re gon na want a really good omnI channel software.
It took me a while.
I experienced 30 various softwares 30 various trials, actually trial and error losing money.
So you’re going to desire a great omni-channel software application.
That top can import your items properly, that if you are in fact doing drop shipping that can track in and out of supply of rate variations, after that you desire an excellent network software program that can actually push out the things to the networks that you are Selling on you’re likewise mosting likely to want one if you are doing drop shipping that can do vehicle buying.
This is something that’s truly vital, since it’s mosting likely to allow you to range in terms of other softwares.
You additionally might wish to explore a great product research.
Software program for the various marketplaces that you’re selling on likewise you’re mosting likely to wish to look into one for repricing and those are just like the standard software programs, but after that for audit.
For accountancy I utilize quickbooks as well as I’m looking into making use of web dexterity.
I do not use it right currently.
I am on a demo with them, however that is something I am wanting to attach my sales channels to and then push out to quickbooks, which is what I use for audit.
So the last part is going to be the logistics, as well as this is going to be things like storehouse things like shipping points like having workers having aid.
This is still something that I am figuring out for my company as well, as I possibly constantly will be functioning on, however as your organization grows, you’re gon na want more aid.
You’re gon na wish to employ va’s.
You could intend to think of employing staff members if you’re trying to ship a great deal of things locally, however this is constantly something that I am working to improve which is generally a complete failure of my organization.
I collaborate with wholesale providers I resource and also I meet making use of a lot of various methods, and I sell on a great deal of different sales channels.
So thank you people for watching.
I really hope that you guys appreciated this video clip.
This was supposed to be a full break down of my business and also simply offer you a more basic idea of exactly how I run my company and the different parts that go into running a wholesale drop shipping service.
It’s not easy, yet at the end of the day, it’s something that I truly intend to grow and also due to the fact that I am collaborating with wholesale suppliers, I’m constructing relationships.
This is for the long term as well as in my concept, or in my view, I’m building a possession that I can in fact potentially market so by building my brand name by building my service by developing my relationships, I’m developing an asset that perhaps someday I can really market This business – or possibly it gets to the point where I can go public with it – I do not know, yet this is just how – as well as this is the business that I in fact want to construct. | <urn:uuid:9f1f7cf8-c54e-4921-8336-1403af7a47fb> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://ihaveiih.org/amazon-fba-photo-studio-diy/ | 2021-11-28T23:38:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358673.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20211128224316-20211129014316-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.969608 | 3,560 | [
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As I have been talking to third-party MW users quite a lot recently, I
notice that one of the major issues they are facing is the lack of
visibility on MW.org
. I have seen some previous work like that has been
reverted because WMF does not want to endorse any external parties on mw.org
However, at the same time I see some pages featuring such users such as
. So my question here
is how much is acceptable?
I think it would be helpful for both the third-party community and for MW
itself to give third-party users more visibility. It will help third-party
users know about each other and support each other, get more involved with
the community and possibly attract more business. At the same time having
some success stories visible is likely to attract more MediaWiki users,
while a thriving and engaged third-party community is likely to bring more
innovation to the software itself.
I have been working on some lists of wiki farms, consultants, developers,
hosting companies and interesting installations for my internship, which
you can see here. However, I am wondering if I could give the lists a
little more visibility with a disclaimer on top that WMF does not in any
way endorse the listed companies and guarantee for the quality of their
service. Also, I think updating and revitalizing the
page is a good idea.
Another way to give some users visibility is having featured projects of
the month or something like that, which would require someone's consistent
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Periodic Wannier-Stark ladder structures of the energy resonances associated with Bloch oscillations can be readily modified into quasi-periodic ones that exhibit peculiar self-similar effects. A compact theoretical description of the dynamics of driven Bloch oscillations is developed here within the quasi-momentum representation. We identify a rather viable scheme based on ultracold atomic wavepackets subject to gravity in a driven optical lattice potential where a self-similar scaling could be observed. Its feasibility in terms of realistic experimental parameters is also discussed.
|Titolo:||Quasi-periodic Wannier-Stark ladders from driven atomic Bloch oscillations|
|Data di pubblicazione:||2014|
|Parole Chiave:||atomic Bloch oscillations; self-similar structures; ultracold atoms|
|Digital Object Identifier (DOI):||http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2014.0421|
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When I was asked to speak at the Los Angeles installment of the March for Science, a vision leapt unbidden to my mind: thousands of scientists and science-lovers gathered in Pershing Square, carrying whiteboards and graphs, arguing with each other about how to properly interpret the data they were showing.
Presumably the real march won’t be like that. But nothing would be more characteristic of how scientists behave in the wild than a bit of good-natured disagreement. Indeed, the March for Science itself has notably stirred up some controversies—over the fear that it turns science into a partisan special interest, over worries that it has tried too little (or too hard) to promote diversity, over a concern that scientists shouldn’t descend to the tawdry realities of politics.
This tendency toward argumentativeness is, as computer scientists like to say, not a bug, it’s a feature. And it can be traced back to one of science’s core values, which it shares with democracy: the idea that nobody has all the final answers.
Science and democracy are two very different things. (Whenever someone wants to liven things up at a science conference by taking a straw poll of the participants on some contentious issue, a curmudgeon in the back will inevitably grumble “Science isn’t a democracy!”) Science is a method for learning things about the natural world, while democracy is a way we decide how to govern ourselves.
But notwithstanding their important differences, science and democracy share a crucial heritage. Though prefigured in many ways in the classical world, they each began to flourish in the early modern period in the 16th and 17th centuries. Among the many ideas that were mixed together to create these impressive structures was that of fallibilism: the simple conviction that we can always be wrong.
The centrality of this idea to democracy should be clear. By voting for our representatives, and then doing it again some time later, we are acknowledging that there is no one perfect ruler, no philosopher-king with all possible wisdom. If there were, it might make sense to turn over all power to them, as Plato advocated. Instead, we elect leaders on a provisional basis, reserving the right to change our minds (and sometimes even imposing term limits to prevent ourselves from being swept up with enthusiasm for a particularly charismatic politician). The United States Constitution proudly features checks and balances that make it hard for any single person or institution to wield too much power.
This principle of fallibilism is less clear, though equally important, to the practice of science. We have our wise heroes, our Newtons, Darwins, and Einsteins. But they are not infallible. There is no Science Pope to whom we can turn for final adjudication of sticky research questions.
Precisely the opposite: Science proceeds by showing how our wise heroes were, in larger or smaller ways, mistaken. Einstein overthrew Newton’s cosmos, and modern biologists are improving upon Darwin all the time. You may have a brilliant theory of the universe, but if it is contradicted by an experiment performed by a lowly graduate student, the data wins.
Science and democracy, in other words, both upend the ancient pyramids of power and knowledge: Answers bubble up from the bottom, rather than being imposed from the top.
This similarity between science and democracy is worth pointing out because it’s not an easy or obvious one to rally around, and that makes it fragile. Few people march down the streets carrying signs proclaiming “I Could Very Well Be Wrong!” But if we refuse to acknowledge the demands of that principle, both science and democracy will be threatened.
The temptation to appeal to authority or put our fates in the hands of a wise few—kings, popes, strongmen—is a powerful one. In science, we elevate most esteemed practitioners, ascribing to them an almost alien degree of intelligence and insight. In democracy, we can’t help but think that our problems could be readily dispatched with if the right person could simply impose their will and break the gridlock of our current system.
It’s worth resisting these temptations. As uninspiring as it may be to admit that nobody has all the answers, there are good reasons why the humble principle of fallibilism plays such a large role in the most powerful ideas of modernity.
It’s not simply that it’s true, as a matter of principle, that anyone can be wrong. It’s that foregrounding this idea—holding up fallibility as a foundational piece of our worldview, rather than begrudgingly admitting that we have to live with it—makes it much easier to correct mistakes when they do occur (as they inevitably must). And even better, it helps us recognize mistakes that we might otherwise ignore.
This is an area where democracy might be able to learn something from the practice of science. It’s not only that we finite human beings can always be wrong, it’s that we are often wrong in predictable, systematic ways. Science recognizes that people are not perfect reasoning machines. We have biases, intuitions, tendencies, blind spots. Much of the methodology of science, from double-blind studies to anonymous refereeing, is explicitly dedicated to correcting for these human foibles.
Government, where decisions made in a moment can affect millions of people for a lifetime, needs constant reminders of its fallibility. A big part of that has to be a proper respect for the methods of science, as well as for its substantive discoveries. Psychologists assure us that human beings have a strong desire to accept things as true because we want them to be true, not only because they are the best explanation for what we observe. In the hands of policy-makers, that natural tendency can have deadly consequences. Science has developed impressive (though not infallible) techniques for correcting for such biases; our government could stand to do a bit better.
The most obvious thing that our government can do, and our society along with it, is to help science to flourish in its own right, and accept what it has to teach us. Sometimes research tells us answers we don’t want to hear—that human activity is warming the planet, that we share a common ancestor with other living beings here on Earth, or that the universe is winding down toward its ultimate heat death. We need the courage to face up to the truth, whatever it turns out to be.
The practice of science is one of those human activities that elevates our lives a bit above merely surviving from day to day. Our brains, as wonderfully imperfect as they are, didn’t evolve to solve problems in quantum mechanics or biochemistry. But we haven’t been content to use our intelligence merely to scrounge up food and shelter. We’ve turned our attention to the stretches of the cosmos, the depths of time, and the mysteries of our own consciousness, and returned with remarkable discoveries. | <urn:uuid:3a61680a-9b6a-4bbf-9b2b-64a50f6703df> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/marching-for-the-right-to-be-wrong/523842/ | 2021-11-28T23:18:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358673.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20211128224316-20211129014316-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.948623 | 1,450 | [
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Robert B. Noland and Wenwen Zhang
Over the last year and a half, the transportation system in New Jersey and throughout the country has seen dramatic impacts due to the pandemic. The lockdowns in effect from March 2020 to early June 2020 led to large reductions in vehicle traffic and public transit use. More people took to bicycling and walking, either for exercise or other purposes. During the summer of 2020, many local governments set aside street space for outdoor dining or closed off streets to through traffic to allow for greater social distancing for pedestrians.
As the pandemic slowly recedes there are two major changes that policy makers in New Jersey should take note of. First, many employees have been able to successfully work at home and many employers are likely to allow some increased flexibility in the future. Our research suggests that the frequency of working from home will likely permanently increase. For transportation policy makers this means there will be less peak-hour congestion and also less public transit usage, especially for commuting to New York City.
The other revelation revealed by the pandemic (and found by our research) is that people are broadly supportive of converting streets and on-street parking to allow outdoor dining. The lesson for transportation planners and engineers is that this can be done quickly and the changes do not cause large scale disruption to the flow of vehicles through the road network. In normal circumstances, it can take many years to implement these types of changes as state agencies study the impact of traffic flow and often refuse to allow cities to implement changes if their studies find any effect on traffic. Many towns and cities are now considering whether and how to make these changes permanent, and state agencies should not hinder these efforts.
We will be continuing to study these issues and soon will be fielding another survey (thanks to funding from the New Jersey Policy Lab) to assess the permanency of changes in New Jersey.
Wang, Haoyun and Robert B. Noland, Bikeshare and Subway Ridership Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City, Transport Policy, 106 (2021), 262-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.04.004
Noland, Robert B., Evan Iacobucci, and Wenwen Zhang, Public views on the reallocation of street space due to COVID-19, under review with the Journal of the American Planning Association.
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Vintage Pacman Mini Tabletop Arcade. Tabletop was tested and works shown in pictures.Parts of side labels are coming off and missing battery cover. Please See Pictures for condition of tabletop. PLEASE CONTACT ME FIRST IF THERE IS ANY PROBLEMS WITH YOUR ORDER! The item "VINTAGE PACMAN COLECO ELECTRONIC GAME TABLETOP 1981 MINI ARCADE MIDWAY" is in sale since Friday, June 21, 2019. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Games\Electronic Games". The seller is "ricksvintagestuff" and is located in Maricopa, Arizona. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Mexico, Germany, Japan, France, Australia, Russian federation, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Uruguay. | <urn:uuid:f426c302-8913-4105-a6cc-66afeaad8787> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://tabletopgamesstore.com/vintage-pacman-coleco-electronic-game-tabletop-1981-mini-arcade-midway.html | 2021-11-30T12:22:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358973.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130110936-20211130140936-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.780622 | 407 | [
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Dowd Scheffel Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief on behalf of the Military Order of the Purple Heart
Dowd Scheffel filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in an important First Amendment case concerning a World War I veterans memorial that has stood in Maryland for over 90 years. Known as the Bladensburg Peace Cross, the memorial was erected to remember 49 men from Maryland who served their country and sacrificed their lives in that service during World War I. The case pits the long-standing memorial against the American Humanist Association, which claims the memorial is an unconstitutional establishment of religion and therefore violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The case has attracted numerous amicus briefs, as well as reporting in the local and national media. See reports by WTOP, the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, NBC4, and the National Law Journal. A copy of our amicus brief is available here. | <urn:uuid:1dad396c-f5b3-4b12-aa70-d17c29d07db0> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.dowdscheffel.com/single-post/dowd-scheffel-files-supreme-court-amicus-brief-on-behalf-of-the-military-order-of-the-purple-heart | 2021-11-30T12:39:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358973.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130110936-20211130140936-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94615 | 198 | [
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Hello, We have a setup where a webserver node hosts over 3000 sites. Currently each site has its own FPM pool, with chroot. Also, there are a few different PHP versions. So ideally, to reduce open sockets, we would like to have 1 FPM pool for each PHP version. If a site uses version 7.2, the Apache config would make it connect to the socket for PHP-FPM 7.2. This way we could greatly reduce the amount of open TCP sockets. There's just one problem I would see here: pools spawn as the user to which the site belongs. Meaning we would have a permissions problem, as the 'generic' pool would not be able to open the PHP files. At this point it's just a thought we are having, and we are curious how you guys see this. Would this be an interesting feature to have? And if so, are there any other problems you guys would foresee? | <urn:uuid:ec2f05ea-c9b1-4d51-928a-e6731a501d22> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/combined-php-fpm-pools.79871/ | 2021-11-30T12:59:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358973.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130110936-20211130140936-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969342 | 193 | [
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Olosho – GMG Boss ft. Trod
GMG records leader, GMG boss hooks up with the missofunyin entertainment rapper, Trod on a new exclusive record titled “Olosho”.
The Supa Brain beats-produced record came along with a befitting colourful eye-catchy music video cassette for your viewing pleasure, which was directed by Anees Films.
The brand new record and visual has been made obtainable below!
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Glasgow post-punk band Kaputt have unveiled the video for their new single "Gone West".
The song is out today (Nov 22) via Upset The Rhythm and is the first taste of their forthcoming new album. Get it here.
A restless riot of sax breaks, fidgeting drums and guitar riffage that continually swims against the tide. Cal from Kaputt shared that “Gone West is about the migration of affluence, when industry clashed with the living standards of the wealthy. The smoke blows East, so the money moves West.” Such choice lyrical concerns and their pointed address are set off against ‘Gone West’s needling impulse to dance its way into your brain. | <urn:uuid:213e6924-322b-4c3c-8860-52a130c1a4fd> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://koolrockradioofficial.blogspot.com/2021/11/watch-kaputt-unveil-new-singlevideo.html | 2021-12-02T04:35:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964361064.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20211202024322-20211202054322-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.939392 | 177 | [
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Featuring ½ inch plates, this small design contains big technology benefits, including advanced ceramic heat technology for even heat distribution. It also works at the optimum hair styling temperature of 185°C, reducing the risk of heat damage on hair. Contoured, floating plates are gentle on the hair and quick to glide through, and the narrow barrel holds short lengths – including curls – securely to reduce styling time and minimise fuss. Featuring an automatic sleep-mode when not in use for 30 minutes, a protective plate guard for ease of storage, and a universal voltage, the ghd Mini Straightener is super simple to store and safe for travel.
- Narrow Ceramic plates 12.7mm wide
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Background: The prevalence of increased oxidative stress and acute-phase inflammation in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has not been thoroughly investigated.
Methods: Biomarkers of oxidative stress and acute-phase inflammation were measured in a cohort of 60 patients with stage 3-5 CKD compared to a healthy subject cohort. Levels of oxidative stress and inflammation were also compared to estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula.
Results: All biomarkers of oxidative stress (plasma protein carbonyl group content, plasma free F2-isoprostane content, plasma protein reduced thiol content) and all markers of inflammation [C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6)] differed significantly between CKD patients and healthy subjects. There was no significant relationship between estimated GFR and any oxidative stress or inflammation biomarker. CRP levels were higher in patients with known coronary vascular disease (CVD) and in patients not taking angiotensin II inhibitors. Plasma IL-6 levels were significantly higher in patients with known coronary vascular disease and lower in patients taking statins. Biomarkers of oxidative stress were significantly higher in patients with diabetes and hypercholesterolemia.
Conclusion: There is evidence of increased oxidative stress and acute-phase inflammation in patients with stage 3-5 chronic kidney disease compared to healthy subjects that does not closely correlate with estimates of GFR. Among CKD patients, inflammatory biomarkers correlate with known CVD and inversely correlate with the use of angiotensin II inhibitors and statins. A further increase in oxidative stress was noted in diabetic and hypercholesterolemic patients. Inflammation and oxidative stress may contribute to cardiovascular risk in CKD patients. | <urn:uuid:cab4b8fe-4e7c-428f-a0bc-41c28dcda99d> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14871421/?dopt=Abstract | 2021-12-05T07:32:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363149.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205065810-20211205095810-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.949105 | 374 | [
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This post is part of Just Ahead’s Joshua Tree Trip Planner—our guide to everything you need to know to plan your trip to Joshua Tree National Park. Click here to see the complete series, and be sure to download our Just Ahead smartphone audio tour of Joshua Tree before you head to the park.
Naming the top 10 best sights in Joshua Tree National Park is like naming your favorite child, because we love every sandy, rocky, scrubby, wildflowery acre of Joshua Tree. But here we go anyway: a selection of our favorite places described in the Just Ahead tour of Joshua Tree National Park. Note: These are not in any particular order. Because remember, we love them all.
- Barker Dam. After a summer rainstorm or a rainy winter fills the basin behind it, it’s a very special—and unlikely—place: a lake in the middle of a bone-dry desert. Birds love it.
- Hidden Valley. If we were cattle rustlers, this is where we’d stash our ill-gotten gains. Huge boulder formations surround a serene enclave. Climbers love it. Kids, too: great nature trail.
- Keys Ranch. Worth reserving a spot on a tour—the only way you can see it—to behold the home and grounds of Bill Keys—the Mojave’s answer to Thomas Edison who was also a convicted gunslinger. Click here for information about reservations.
- Samuelson’s Rocks. They’re so hard to find that we don’t necessarily recommend the search, but adventurous sorts might make it to this collection of granite boulders painstakingly carved with arcane inscriptions by Swedish hermit John Samuelson.
- Cottonwood Spring Oasis. Rising from this moist oasis in the southern part of the park are dozens of tall palm trees filled with singing birds. Go very early in the morning and you might spot a bighorn sheep or a coyote slaking its thirst.
- North Entrance Visitor Center. We’re suckers for exhibits and information, plus the advice of park rangers who are up to date on current conditions and activities. We like to ask for new hiking suggestions. And Greg’s kids dig the Junior Ranger program.
- Cholla Garden. Cholla cactus are weird enough, but a whole forest of them? A must-see. Look but don’t touch.
- Ryan Mountain. The hike to the top of this 5,461-foot summit in the heart of the park rewards you with a dazzling view of the Wonderland of Rocks, Mount San Jacinto, the Pinto Basin—really, the whole dang world. It’s a great trail, too, with lots of carved stone steps—1.4 miles, climbing 1,100 feet.
- Wonderland of Rocks. Nothing like it anywhere: an 8,000-acre maze of jumbled boulder formations filled with secluded places like Rattlesnake Canyon and unnamed spots where you’ll feel like the first human ever to venture.
- Wall Street Mill. Tough to decide which mining site to include, but this one is exceptionally well preserved and includes a smattering of old cars and trucks resting peacefully in the desert sand.
To see our complete Joshua Tree Trip Planner series, click here.
No matter where you venture in Joshua Tree National Park, be sure to take Just Ahead along for the ride. Our app turns your smartphone into an audio tour guide that will guide you to all of these sights, and dozens more. It’s the best way to get the most from your visit. We point out all the landmarks, including many you might otherwise miss. And we suggest great hikes and scenic side trips. Click here to try Just Ahead for free. | <urn:uuid:4981edb1-2b05-4505-9767-f5ef60d5512e> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.justahead.com/10-best-sights-joshua-tree/ | 2021-12-05T09:09:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363149.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20211205065810-20211205095810-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.885552 | 787 | [
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Mad Art Lab made a craft! Well, one of the children who participated in our Scientist Paper Dolls Sandbox at CONvergence 2013 did. Photo by Jamie Bernstein.
Every year, the Skepchick Network and Freethought Blogs get together to host a science and skepticism track at CONvergence in Minneapolis over the 4th of July weekend. This will be my third year participating in programming, and every year it just keeps getting better.
CONvergence is one of my favorite cons to attend, for many reasons. Reason number 1, the big one, is that they work hard year to year to make things more and more inclusive and more safe, both in programming and social spaces. Melanie, our kickass track director, has worked incredibly hard to create a balance of science and skepticism programming that will appear to anyone. She’s taken feedback from a wide variety of strong *ahem, guilty as charged* personalities, who all aren’t shy about bringing up issues they see with representation and somehow taken all of that feedback and made it into a programming schedule that I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of. And that’s just the SkepchickCON panels. Looking at the rest of what the con has to offer, they’ve gone even further in trying to make science fiction and fantasy programming that not only avoids some of the pitfalls of typical convention programming (hello, straight, cis, white male gaze), but actively looks those challenges in the eye, says “hey, let’s talk about this issue”, and sits everyone down for an honest discussion about concerns. Over free giant bowls of soup from the Con Suite.
I was bullied as a kid. Relentlessly and aimlessly bullied. I was a special needs kid who had some neurological quirks and didn’t have the social niceties or group awareness enough to hide them. On top of that, I also had two (very) lazy eyes, a giant birthmark on my face, I walked on my toes and I was useless at sports. Pick on the weird kid is a game that never loses its entertainment value for kids.
Sound familiar? Yes? Good. We have a common ground to start from.
Let’s start with 5th grade. Gym class.
Your class is running laps. There are two kids in your class who hate you. You’re really not sure why, but they really, really hate you. You were trying to stay on the opposite side of the gym from the boys who hate you. But here’s the thing: You’re slower than them, and running hurts. So, no matter what you do, you fall further and further behind. As you’re falling behind, they’re staying at the same pace, so no matter what you do, eventually they’ll be next to you. And then they’ll subtly push you hard enough that you’ll fall. Or maybe this time around, they’ll say something horrible to you. Or maybe they’ll steal your glasses. That’s always a favorite.
The skirt length is Starfleet Regulation. I wouldn’t want to go against the admiralty.
“Honey, your skirt is a little short.â€
To be fair, it was a little short. It was short intentionally. I was dressed in a science officer costume from Star Trek: The Original Series. Not the sleek little work-appropriate but still sexy jewel tone tunics from the new movie, but the flared, strangely-constructed, unapologetically teal and chartreuse polyester cheerleader dresses that fit perfectly with the (now) retrofuturistic vibe of the original show. It’s a screen accurate dress. And by “screen accurate†I mean “shortâ€. And at the beginning of the day, I just assumed the lady who commented was pointing out that I needed to tug down the dress a bit. That was the first comment. After the next 30 or so, I had had enough.
I was at Balticon, a great science fiction convention that leans more to the literary side than the ones that are normally in my wheelhouse. This was my second year going to this con, and my second year costuming there. Last year I brought several costumes, but only wore one: a fairly conservative X-Men costume that didn’t involve skintight spandex, cleavage or even any bare skin below my neck. I did that because I knew the moment I walked in that it wasn’t the kind of con I wanted to wear my Ms Marvel costume. I wore that outfit for all of Saturday, became extremely annoyed with the response I was getting and then dressed in normal clothes on Sunday.
As a costumer, you have to develop a fairly keen sense for what is a safe space and what is not. I felt safe at Balticon both years. It isn’t a space where any harm would come to me. I could wear anything I want there and I wouldn’t come to any legal form of harm. That said, the responses I was getting made me want to run away. Or possibly take a shower to wash off the feeling of eyes and comments. | <urn:uuid:358fa934-53da-468c-b2df-afe5822aec6f> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | http://www.thisview.org/?cat=11 | 2021-12-08T12:28:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363510.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20211208114112-20211208144112-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.969315 | 1,138 | [
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What is your name, where were you born and where do you live now?
My name is John Barlow. I was born in England, and I now live in Spain.
Did it take a long time to get your first book published?
I was 32, by which time I’d written a lot of stuff. In a way it was a good training, because rejection pushes you to try harder and look at why your work is not succeeding.
Do you work another job as well as your writing work?
I do some food journalism and I work as a ghost-writer. I used to be a university teacher, but since 2004 (when my first book was published) I’ve made a living from writing, one way and another.
What is the name of your latest book, and if you had to summarise it in less than 20 words what would you say?
HOPE ROAD. It’s a crime mystery. Not hard-boiled, but with murder, counterfeit money, fine wines, second hand cars, racing horses... How’s that?
Who is your publisher? or do you self publish?
My previous books were published by HarperCollins and Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US, and a variety of publishers elsewhere in the world. HOPE ROAD is my first foray into self-publishing. I’ve decided to give it a go because things in the book business are changing so incredibly quickly and I don’t want to get left behind. The mystery genre is a new departure for me, so it seems a good moment to make the switch.
What can we expect from you in the future? ie More books of the same genre? Books of a different genre?
The same genre. HOPE ROAD is the first in a series which should comprise nine novels. This is my genre for the long haul...
What genre would you place your books into?
Crime mystery (not hard-boiled) with strong characters, particularly the women.
What made you decide to write that genre of book?
I decided to do a crime novel because I’d always read crime, and in fact in the early days I used to write it. A year ago I discovered that a half-uncle of mine was an arms dealer (and thief) who was found with his throat cut on a plane in 1984. That started me off thinking about families and how there can be crime within them but without dominating every part of the family.
Do you have a favourite character from your books? and why are they your favourite?
John Ray, the main character. He’s half-English, half-Spanish. He’s also the son of a career criminal but has a respectable life, including a girlfriend who is a police detective. So, he’s divided on many levels, and this, I hope, gives him an interesting perspective on life.
Do you read all the reviews of your book/books?
Yes I do. You can learn a lot from *some* of what reviewers say. I used to get very uptight if somewhere like the New York Times even hinted at anything negative. But now I stand back and try to see if I can learn anything useful. Overall, I feel that if you do the very best work you can, every time, there’s not an awful lot more you can do. I stand by everything I’ve written.
How do you market/promote your books?
I’ve only been an indie for a couple of weeks, so this is all new to me. I’m contacting book blogs, asking for reviews or the chance to do an interview, trying to get the word out. Visibility is the biggest problem for indie writers, even if you’ve been published traditionally before. All you can do is hope people will see your book and take a chance on it. Setting the price at a reasonable level helps with this, I guess.
What are you currently reading? Are you enjoying it? What format is it?(ebook, hardback or paperback)
Ebooks, almost exclusively. I’m working through the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child.
Do you think ebooks will ever totally replace printed books?
Not totally. Print books are so much a part of our culture, I think they’ll retain their special quality. But for everyday reading, commercial and ‘genre’ reading in particular, I think the transition will be pretty quick and pretty definitive. I also see a time when lots of people will start getting rid of their paperbacks, so there’ll be a bonanza of cheap second-hand paperbacks out there.
What piece of advice would you give to a new writer?
Don’t worry about failure. Keep going, but keeping pushing to improve. Ask yourself and others what you can do better, what your weak points are, what’s holding you back. Also, although you might like some parts of the writing process more than others, you’ve really got to love the overall experience of being a writer day-in, day-out, or it’s just not gonna be worth it.
Do you or would you ever use a pen name?
I work as a ghost-writer, so yes, definitely. Last year I also published an ebook under the pseudonym Joe Florez. The book is a humorous crime novel and I published it on Amazon as an experiment, to see what all this ebook thing was about. Clearly, I enjoyed the experience because now I’m back, and I’m not in disguise this time...
Thanks for inviting me onto Read n’ Review. It’s been a pleasure!
Any other Information you wish to add?
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I’ve been waiting to post here until I could take the time to write something poignant and meaningful, offer some deep reflections on the days before my book is born into the world for real. But, man, releasing a book requires hustle. So maybe—hopefully—that post is on its way, but this is not it.
In this post I want to tell you how full I feel. Stuffed, actually, bursting at the seams with news, with gratitude, with pride. I feel nervous, happy, scared, loved…this process has been a wild ride, that’s for sure. And it’s only going to get wilder.
More musings to come, but for now, let me share with you some of the latest news about Hand Me Down.
- People Magazine gave the book 3.5/4 stars! They called it a “compelling read.” Look for the review it in the April 23rd issue, on sale today.
- ML Johnson at the Associated Press wrote this wonderful review of Hand Me Down, which was then picked up by dozens of news outlets, including the Huffington Post and the Washington Post! “Melanie Thorne’s debut novel is raw with emotion.”
- Last Sunday the San Francisco Chronicle included the first line of Hand Me Down in their book section of the paper and online. W’s mom called all excited to see that I’d shown up in her Sunday paper.
- Cindy Wolfe Boynton at Book Page wrote a thoughtful review, “Reality Sparks Affecting Debut” that made my day. She called the book “impossible to put down” and said, “Readers vividly see and experience right along with Liz, thanks to Thorne’s sharp storytelling.” It was included in this special edition of Book Page. Plus, she interviewed me for a piece that is going to run in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
- Daily Candy featured my book in their “Spring Ink” section, “15 Books to Read While the Trees Blossom.” The other books in this list look really interesting, too!
- Hand Me Down made it onto Kirkus Reviews “New and Notable Fiction” list for April.
- Confessions of a Vi3tbabe posted a great review this week. “A heartfelt story that I couldn’t put down…Hand Me Down is truly a moving and empowering story, one I think everyone should read.”
- Candace’s Book Blog also posted a wonderful review. “This book was pretty fantastic. I thought it would be one I’d only read just a little at a time…but the second day I picked it up I ended up reading the whole thing. It sucked me in and I totally and completely ached for Liz and her horrible horrible situation.”
- And finally, I got a tiny mention in the Press Democrat in an article about books set in Sonoma County along with fellow Dutton authors Sere Prince Halverson and Jennifer Chiaverini. And, this reporter may do a feature on just me a little later!
See, that was a lot of news! Not to mention the Goodreads reviews—mostly great—my launch event tomorrow night at Copperfield’s, my event with Pam Houston at the Booksmith in SF next week, my other upcoming events, my live interview on Capital Public Radio in Sacramento on May 1st, and a forthcoming Q&A in the East Bay Express. Phew!
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What is financial independence, retire early?
Have you heard of the FIRE movement and are wondering what it all means?
Early retirement has been extremely popular over the past few years, and I’m sure you’ve heard of it, especially if you follow many personal finance blogs.
I know there are a lot of people who are confused or even skeptical of what early retirement is and whether or not it is a real thing.
Before I started my personal finance blog, I had never really heard of the term financial independence or early retirement.
I assumed early retirement was only for the super rich.
Now, it’s really all I ever hear about. Because I travel full-time, I have met many, many people who have been able to reach financial independence and/or early retirement.
Plus, being a financial blogger means that I’ve, of course, heard and read about it many times.
It is an amazing thing to read about, and I always get excited when I read stories about the financial independence, retire early movement. It’s really inspiring and motivating to read about how people have taken control of their financial lives, are living outside of the norm, and more.
If you’ve ever heard of financial independence, retire early and want to know what it’s all about, then this article is for you.
I’m going to explain some common questions about the financial independence early retirement movement, and maybe get you interested in starting on your path to early retirement.
For some, retirement is something that you do after working a full-time job for 40 to 50 years. However, there are many out there who sadly aren’t able to save enough money to prepare for the traditional retirement age of 65 to 67. And, as pensions have become a thing of the past, building your own retirement savings will become even more important.
Whether you want to travel, continue working (yes, you can continue working after you “retire” – there’s no rule that you have to quit when you retire early), have more fun time with family and friends, or whatever else, retiring early and reaching financial independence gives you the ability to decide on your own path and future.
Plus, early retirement can be at whatever age you want it to be, it doesn’t mean you have to retire when you’re 30. If you are able to retire at age 60, that’s awesome and still earlier than most! The point is to strive to become financially free, not stuck in debt, and/or living a paycheck-to-paycheck life.
And, even if you love your career, you can still think about early retirement.
I have saved enough to retire whenever I would like. Yes, I earn a high income, which is a huge help when thinking about early retirement. That’s what allows me to save the majority of my income.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love my current life and my online business. However, knowing that I can retire early means I am prepared for whatever might happen in the future. There are so many what ifs, like there could be a medical emergency, I may change what I want, the world may change, and the list goes on.
The future is completely unknown.
To me, having the ability to reach financial independence and/or retiring early is all about having FREEDOM.
Financial independence, retire early isn’t for everyone.
There’s also a lot of privilege when it comes to the FIRE movement, and that’s important to acknowledge.
Also, not all early retirement paths have to be extreme – some can actually be quite normal. Many people can still live a normal life, without really cutting too much out. Some of that depends on how much you make and how much you’re already used to saving.
There are many different paths that can be taken, because personal finance is personal.
Today, I am going to talk about some common questions when it comes to the financial independence early retirement movement. If you have other questions, please leave them as a comment below and I will answer them as well.
What is financial independence, retire early?
What is the FIRE movement?
FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early.
It can mean a lot of things to different people.
But, the basic idea is that you work towards financial independence – either having enough saved and/or enough passive income to cover your expenses.
You can then choose whether or not you want to work.
Related: 13 Best Early Retirement Books
What does financial independence mean?
The meaning of financial independence is different to everyone. Some people think it’s being debt free and others think it’s having a certain dollar amount saved in the bank, typically enough set aside to retire whenever you want.
My definition of financial independence is that you are making enough money to cover your monthly expenses, without a day job.
This income would come from investing, rental real estate, and so on.
What does early retirement mean?
Early retirement can have a few different meanings depending on the person.
It can mean never having a job again. It can mean having enough money and not having to work, but choosing to do so because you enjoy your line of work.
Think of it as no longer being tied to a job to make ends meet. You don’t have to work, but you can if you want.
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Is it a good idea to retire early or reach financial independence?
Learning how to save for retirement is a great idea!
But, I don’t think early retirement is for everyone.
Achieving FIRE is difficult. Some people do extreme things to save money to retire early. Others work 100+ hours a week between their day job and their side job to retire early. Some do both. This can take a mental and emotional toll on many people.
Whether or not it’s right for you depends on what you want and what lengths you are willing to go to. It also depends on why you want to do it.
Your reasons to retire early may include:
- You want to pursue a passion that you can’t do while having a full-time job
- To have more time to exercise and be healthy
- To spend more time with family and friends
- To have the freedom to choose what you want to do
- To travel more
- Because the future is unknown
And so much more!
How much do you need to retire early?
The amount of money needed to retire early or reach financial independence depends on the person.
Planning for early retirement means that you will have to carefully consider all of your different expenses, well into the future. For most early retirees, that starts by creating a budget that allows them to really know their expenses and save for them well into the future. You will most likely need to account for things like:
- Health insurance
- Medical bills
- Passion projects
- Long-term care
And so on.
A person planning for early retirement is thinking about what-ifs and emergencies as well. No one is going to have their calculations correct down to the penny, but you can factor in many different kinds of future expenses.
You can also use a financial independence, retire early calculator, like the one below. It helps you see how your savings rate affects when you can retire.
As you can see from the above:
- With just a 1% savings rate, it would take you 98.9 working years until you reach retirement.
- A 5% savings rate means that it would take you 66 working years to retire.
- A 20% savings rate means that it would take you 37 working years to retire.
- A 50% savings rate means that it would take you 17 working years to retire.
- A 75% savings rate means that it would take you 7 working years to retire.
So, by saving more of your money, you are likely to retire sooner.
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How can $1,000,000 last 30 years or more in early retirement?
Many people don’t believe that early retirement is possible, and I think it’s often because they don’t understand how someone can live off of a certain amount of money for the rest of their lives.
There are lots who think that $1,000,000 – $5,000,000 is not enough money to retire before the traditional age of 65 to 67.
The reason it definitely can be enough is because of how people save their money.
Early retirees aren’t just saving $1,000,000 in cash. They have it invested in different ways so it continues to gain interest, dividends, etc. Plus, they diversify their investments to limit the risk of losing everything.
An early retiree may also have other streams of passive income that bring in money each month. Some of these streams may be enough to cover their monthly expenses, like rental properties, a passive income blog, an ecommerce store, etc. It may be years before they actually have to tap into their early retirement savings.
For example, if you retired early with a nest egg of $1,000,000 but you had rental properties that covered your annual expenses, you could let that $1,000,000 stay invested and keep growing.
Using an investment calculator, I took that $1,000,000 to see what it would grow to in just 5 years without any additional contributions. With a somewhat conservative return rate of 7%, that $1,000,000 would grow to $1,417,625.26!
The reason invested money grows so quickly is because of a few different factors, and one of the most powerful ones is compound interest. It’s one of the reasons you should learn how to save for retirement as soon as you can.
So, what is compound interest?
Compound interest is when your interest is earning interest. This can turn the amount of money you have saved into a much larger amount years later.
With compound interest, the interest you earn is added to your balance, and the bigger your balance, the more interest you earn.
When you first start saving for retirement, it can take a while to see the power of compound interest, but as you start saving more, you will start to see exponential growth.
For example: If you put $1,000 into a retirement account with an annual 8% return, 40 years later you will have $21,724. If you started with that same $1,000 and put an extra $1,000 in it for the next 40 years at an annual 8% return, that would then turn into $301,505. If you started with $10,000 and put an extra $10,000 in it for the next 40 years at an annual 8% return, that would grow into $3,015,055.
What would I do with all of my free time if I retire early or hit financial independence?
There are many different things you can do when you have more free time when you reach financial independence, retire early.
I have heard so many people say they don’t want to retire early because they’ll be too bored.
I think that is crazy!
If you are looking to retire early, you probably aren’t the type to just sit around all day. I mean, if that’s your plan for retirement, that’s totally fine because you get to choose. But for many, early retirement still means working to some extent, while also having the freedom to spend your time pursuing your passions, traveling, spending more time with friends and family, and more.
With all the extra time you have after retiring early, you could volunteer, travel more, find fun things to do, learn a new skill or hobby, and more.
Early retirees aren’t lazy and looking for a way to escape the work world. I believe they are very hard workers, who want to live life on their own terms.
They simply want the freedom of choice.
You could even continue to work like many early retirees do. Just because you retire early doesn’t mean that you can’t ever work again. Remember, early retirement has a different meaning for everyone. Knowing you can retire early gives you choices in case something changes in the future.
For me, if I chose to stop working one day, I could easily find time to fill my day. I could travel even more, help the community more, be more fit, read more, learn more (I’ve been wanting to learn a new language), find a passion project, spend more time with friends and family, etc.
The list can go on and on forever.
The average early retiree, that I know, has a very active and meaningful life.
What is the 25x rule?
If you’ve read much about the financial independence, retire early movement, you may have heard of the 25x rule. The Rule of 25 is what some people aim for to hit FIRE. It’s when your net worth is 25 times your yearly expenses.
So, if you typically spend $50,000 a year, then you would want your net worth to be at least $1,250,000.
Not everyone follows this 25x rule. Some people go for 30x or more.
What is fat FIRE? What is lean FIRE?
There are different kinds of FIRE.
Fat FIRE is when you reach financial independence or early retirement with a higher budget and have a spending level of over $100,000 a year.
Lean FIRE is where you FIRE on a lower budget, such as with yearly spending of around $20,000.
There is also barista FIRE, which is when someone has a part-time job to cover benefits, such as health insurance.
There are many different kinds of FIRE as well. There’s no one solid choice that will work for everyone.
What is the best financial independence, retire early tool?
A free tool that I recommend using to monitor your retirement investments is Personal Capital.
You can see your investment portfolio all in one place so that you can easily track your performance, see your investment allocations, and easily analyze everything related to your personal finance situation.
The Personal Capital Retirement Planner will also tell you if you have saved enough for retirement, which is why it’s a great tool to track your FIRE goals.
What are the best early retirement books?
If you want to learn more about FIRE, I highly recommend reading some financial independence, retire early books.
They are my FAVORITE to read.
The books below can help you learn more about this topic, as well as dive deeper into the many different ways to become financially independent and retire early.
Here are some of the financial independence books that I recommend:
- Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way
- Your Money Or Your Life
- Quit Like A Millionaire
- The Simple Path To Wealth
- The Millionaire Next Door
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence
There are many more out there, but these are great books to start with.
Looking for early retirement stories to read?
If you’re looking for inspiration, I have some great interviews with early retirees and those that have reached financial independence. These are stories from some of the bloggers behind the best financial independence, retire early blogs too!
You can find them below:
- How This Couple Retired at 38 and 41: Interview With OurNextLife
- How I Retired In My 30s – From Ugly Crying To Retiring Just 10 Years Later
- How This 28 Year Old Retired With $2.25 Million
- How This Couple Retired In Their 30s and Now Travel Around The World: An Interview With Go Curry Cracker
- How Elizabeth Reached Financial Independence by 32 And Moved To A Homestead
- How This 34 Year Old Owns 7 Rental Homes
What happens to your 401k or other retirement savings plans if you retire early?
Most retirement savings plans have penalties if you withdraw before the age of 59½.
So most early retirees leave their retirement savings alone until they are old enough to withdraw money without penalties. And that’s all factored into the amount they decide to save for early retirement.
Depending on the kind of retirement account you have, you can still make contributions to it even if you retire early.
Can only high earners reach FIRE?
Earning a high income can certainly make it easier to retire early. When you make more money, you have more money to save.
However, people who don’t earn 6-figure incomes can still be financially independent and/or retire early.
There are many ways to increase your income, like with a side job you work outside of your normal work hours. You will also have to budget and watch what you spend.
It definitely takes more work and struggle for lower income earners to achieve FIRE, but it’s not out of the question.
Are there rules to financial independence, retire early?
For the most part, there aren’t any rules to FIRE. But, there are some rules that many people in the FIRE movement follow to help them save, such as:
- Only buy used cars
- Lower your housing costs, like downsizing to a smaller house
- Use credit card rewards to pay for travel
- Not pay for things like cable or expensive cell phone plans
- Live minimally
- Always spend less than you make
- Focus on adding multiple streams of income
- Lower your tax liability by investing in tax-deferred accounts like an IRA, HSA, 401k, etc.
How can I be financially independent and retire early?
There are many ways to become financially independent and retire early.
The first thing that you will want to do is realize why you want to reach FIRE. Achieving financial independence is not easy, so you’ll want to have a good reason to stay motivated when things get tough.
The main way many people reach FIRE is that they spend less than they earn and save like crazy. Remember, the less money you spend, the faster that you can save, the larger your savings rate is, and the quicker you can attain financial independence and early retirement.
Some of the ways include:
- Earn passive income, increase your income, and so on
- House hacking
- Invest, max out retirement accounts, take advantage of employer benefits
- Drive a less expensive vehicle, or get rid of one entirely
- Cutting expenses as much as possible
Some helpful reading includes the below. I also recommend reading the books as well as the FIRE interviews in the previous sections.
- Reaching Early Retirement Through Dividend Growth Investing
- What is Value Investing, and Why Should You Care?
- 12 Passive Income Ideas That Will Let You Enjoy Life More
- How To Invest in Real Estate Through Publicly Traded REITs
- How To Become Rich – It’s More Than Millions In The Bank
In conclusion – What is financial independence, retire early?
Knowing that I can retire whenever I want is one of the best feelings in the world. It’s all about freedom to me.
Working towards FIRE takes hard work, and it’s meaning is very personal.
And even if you aren’t looking to retire early, you can still apply many of the principles to your own life, such as spend less than you earn, budget, and avoid debt. Those rules will help you live a more financially independent life, whatever that means to you.
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mation on tape.
maRGo seLtzeR: It seems that there
are two sides to this. I agree that’s a
nice solution to the deletion prob-
lem, but it concerns me because you
may get the unintended consequence,
which is now you’ve got a key manage-
ment problem. Given my own abil-
ity to keep track of my passwords, the
thought of putting stuff I care about on
an encrypted device where if I lose the
key, I’ve lost my data forever, is a little
steVe KLeiman: We have a technology
that does exactly that. It turns into a
hierarchical key management system.
Margo’s right. When you care about
doing stuff like that, you have to get se-
rious about it. Once you lose or delete
that key, it’s really, really, truly, gone.
maRGo seLtzeR: And given that my
greatest love of snapshots comes from
that time that I inadvertently deleted
the thing that I didn’t want to, inadver-
tent key deletion really scares me.
steVe KLeiman: That’s why people
won’t do it, right? I think it’ll be done
for very specific reasons with pre-
thought intent that says, “Look, for
legal reasons, because I don’t want to
be sued, I don’t want this document to
exist after five years.”
Today, data ownership has a very
real burden. For example, you have
an obligation to protect things like
your customers’ credit card numbers,
or Social Security numbers, and this
obligation has a real cost. This gives
you a way of relieving yourself of that
burden when you want to.
maRGo seLtzeR: I hear you and I be-
lieve it at one level, but at another
level, I can’t help but think of the
dialogue boxes that pop up that say,
“Do you really mean to do this?” and
we’re all trained to click on them and
say “Yes.” I’m concerned about how
seriously humans will take an abso-
eRiK RieDeL: Margo, you’ve pointed
out a much bigger problem. Today,
one of the key problems within all
security technology is that the usabil-
ity is essentially zero. With regards to
Web page security, it’s amazing what
people are willing to click and ignore.
As long as there’s a lock icon some-
where on the page, it’s fine.
eRic BRe WeR: If we made deletion a
right, this would get sorted out. I could
expect business relationships of mine
to delete all records about me after
our relationship ceased. The industry
maRGo seLtzeR would figure it out. If you project out
Given my own 30 years, the amount you can infer
given what’s out there is much worse
ability to keep track than what’s known about you today.
of my passwords, maRy BaKeR: It’s overwhelming and
there’s no way to pull it back in. Once
the thought of it’s out there, there’s no control.
putting stuff mache cReeGeR: Now that we all agree that there should be a way to
i care about on make information have some sort of
an encrypted time-to-live or be able to disappear at some future direction, what recom-
device where if mendations can we make?
i lose the key, i’ve maRGo seLtzeR: There’s a funda- mental conflict here. We know how to
lost my data forever, do real deletion using encryption, but
for every benefit there’s a cost. As an
is a little scary. industry, people have already demonstrated that the cost for security is too
high. Why are our systems insecure?
No one is willing to pay the cost in either usability or performance to have
In terms of deletion, there’s a similar cost-benefit relationship. There is
a way to provide the benefit, but the
cost in terms of risk of losing data forever is so high that there’s a tension.
This fundamental tension is never
going to be fully resolved unless we
come up with a different technology.
eRic BReWeR: If what you want is
time to change your mind, we could
just wait awhile to throw away the key.
maRGo seLtzeR: The best approach
I’ve heard is that you throw away bits
of the key over time. Throwing away
one bit of the key allows recovery with
a little bit of effort. Throw away the
second bit and it becomes harder, and
eRic BReWeR: But ultimately you’re
either going to be able to make it go
away or you’re not. You have to be
willing to live with what it means to
delete. Experience always tells us that
there’s regret when you delete something you would rather keep.
Mache Creeger ( [email protected]) is a technology
industry veteran based in Silicon Valley. Along with
being a columnist for ACM Queue, he is the principal of
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The good, the bad and the All Blacks
SUCCESS Paul Cully Bigger-picture thinking is needed to conclude that the All Blacks’ season was a success, and even then the losses to France and Ireland weigh heavily on the mind. In a year when the All Blacks spent plenty of time living out of suitcases, a 3-0 Bledisloe Cup series, a Rugby Championship title and a brutal but valuable reintroduction to northern hemisphere rugby are big ticks after two years of Covid disruption. Let’s start with those losses in Dublin and Paris. If the All Blacks are to win the World Cup, those defeats will come to be seen as the starting points. Fatigue aside, coach Ian Foster likely learnt more about his players than a whole season of Super Rugby could provide. He mightn’t like some of those things, but, the point is that he learnt something. That intelligence will inform every decision he makes in the next few years, and it would be a big surprise if we didn’t get a much, much clearer picture of the preferred 23 next year, starting with three tests against Ireland. By simple mathematics, a number of players used this year won’t be part of that smaller squad to face Ireland. When Foster names his selections for Ireland in 2022 the lessons he took from this year will become a lot clearer. That is a good thing, and it may also be that the losses to Ireland and France open the selectors’ minds to players outside their current squad. That is also a good thing, because they initially left out Samisoni Taukei’aho this year before a head knock to Asafo Aumua opened the door. In hindsight, that initial omission was a mistake, so the selectors probably received a wee reminder to look again at their own methods. Are they sure they’ve got their processes right? Again, that’s an important lesson that may have eluded them had they won every test this year. If that is taking a positive from a negative, let’s also give the All Blacks some credit this year. They played some good stuff, and introduced a number of promising players. Taukei’aho was one, and Ethan de Groot is another. Tupou Vaa’i – Italy test aside – also continued to develop nicely, and Dalton Papalii is on the way to becoming world-class. Quinn Tupaea made enormous strides in the midfield and it was clear that Will Jordan had worked hard on the less glamorous parts of the game. He bounced back from a rough test against the Springboks and looks like a superstar in the making. Those younger guys – Ethan Blackadder and Finlay Christie are both good examples – stepped up this year and showed they could bring a different sort of physicality and energy that is going to be vital in France in 2023. The group was out on its feet by late November. Blackadder was described to me as being ‘‘near catatonic’’ in the Dublin dressing-room. That defeat will sting, and so it should. But 2021 may have been the making of a number of All Blacks, and that’s the success I’m looking at. FAILURE Marc Hinton Numbers, schmumbers. You can dress digits up to mean pretty much anything you want them to. Like, did you know the All Blacks, who went 12-3 for the year, won 80 per cent of their tests in 2021? That equalled Ireland’s hitrate (8-2) and was superior to England’s 70 per cent success (7-3) and France’s 64 (7-4). When you line the All Blacks up against their southern rivals, their numbers are even more impressive. World champions South Africa, who played pretty much the whole year in a biobubble, went 8-5 (62 per cent) and the good old Wallabies herked and jerked through a 7-7 annum that included three straight defeats to the All Blacks and an 0-3 northern tour. So, strictly speaking it’s hard to make a case that an 80 per cent success-rate can be considered a failure, right? Wrong. Bear with me. Of those 15 tests the All Blacks played in 2021, 11 of them were laydown miseres, or something close. July was a doddle, with all due respect to the improving Fijians, the Wallabies a barely functioning unit round Bledisloe time, Argentina in freefall, the US the equivalent of a half-decent club side and Wales were down over 20 frontline players in their non-window clash at the Principality. So, the harsh reality is the All Blacks had four tough, demanding tests in 2021. And lost three of them. They went 1-1 against the Boks in a pair of grindfests in Queensland, and the finished their year with comprehensive defeats to Ireland (29-20) and France (40-25). That constitutes failure to me, and surely any side that holds its standards as high as the All Blacks. Ian Foster’s men have had their shortcomings laid bare; now they have a season and a-bit to address them. They’ve got to find a worldclass No 6, settle on a midfield, make big calls on tight forwards who have fallen off the pace in aspects of the game, figure out Ardie Savea’s best position, assess whether Sam Whitelock and Dane Coles have two more years in them and develop top-end depth at halfback, loosehead prop, lock and the centres. Does that sound like the sort of issues a successful team takes into its off-season? Some players have enhanced their reputations. Savea and Rieko Ioane had outstanding campaigns, Jordie Barrett nailed No 15 when eventually given free reign, Dalton Papalii, Ethan Blackadder and Will Jordan showed test class, Beauden Barrett answered the great No 10 debate and Samisoni Taukei’aho looks a keeper. But others took worrying steps backwards. The props appear one-dimensional, that second row looks in need of a refresh and there is still room for another top wing (Caleb Clarke anyone?). Foster can hide behind the numbers, and demands of these unprecedented times, as much as he likes publicly, but he’s smart enough to know he has a laundry-list of fixes, and a shrinking time-frame to do so. All is not lost by any means, but the first step towards a solution is understanding the extent of the problem. | <urn:uuid:5fccf301-24cb-4441-8791-3de9ac4d6df5> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://stuff.pressreader.com/nelson-mail/20211126/281767042492178 | 2021-11-27T14:45:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127133237-20211127163237-00192.warc.gz | en | 0.974306 | 1,375 | [
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You may have run across an issue where none of your connectors are running. When I say none, I mean AD connectors, Configuration Manager Connectors…NONE!
You also may see repeated errors in the operations event log as well.
While trying everything that I thought I knew of, from going through the Workflow engine troubleshooting, credential permissions, to possible password character issues, I searched online and ran across this article that looked promising. Trust me, it was not an easy find.
It linked to another article that talked about having Stale SCCM Connectors and getting with MSFT premier that helped them find the source of the issue. So, I decided to give that a try. And what you know…BOOM! It worked! MIND BLOWN!
While I provided the link to how to get it fixed, I would like to share a little more of my step by step process just in case you visual folks like to see it that way…here we go!
Oddly, most of the connectors stopped on Halloween, October 31st.
It was a couple weeks later when this issue was discovered.
Looking at the Event logs you may see a bunch of repeated errors and I’m going to place keywords here that you could ignore, but I want to type this out just in case someone in the future has this same issue, and by researching using these keywords, they could run across this article. Also, by looking at the errors you would think there might be permission issues or firewall talking to the database and so on…
- Error: The relationship source specified in the discovery data item is not valid
- Warning: Data Access Layer rejected retry on SQLError:
- Event ID: 3333
- Event ID: 3334
Okay, let’s get to the fix. Again, big credit for the person who posted the original article above, because I was about to do a database restore if I didn’t find a solution.
The first portion of resolving this will be done in the database. The second part will be done from exporting the “ServiceManagerLinkingFrameworkConfiguration” and making some edits within and re-importing it back into SCSM.
- From the screenshots above you see the connectors that I’m working with. Just to be sure, run this query below against the Service Manager DB. The first one will provide you the results of the connectors that you should see in the Console.select * from MT_Connector
- Run this next query below to get the DataSourceName column.use ServiceManager
select * from lfx.DataSourceFrom the results of the above screen shot you will find that there are stale (Ghost) connectors that I never knew existed or even shown up in the console with the “Delete – “in front of the connectors name. Those are the ones we are going to delete and clear out.
- In this step, you want to copy the DataSource Name of the connectors that correlates with the name “Delete – “. Place them in the the DataSource name of the Ghost connectors in the script below.
I have screenshot of the script where you input your DataSource Name, which are lines 13 to 18.
---Start: Remove ghost("deleted") AD connectors from datasource--- use ServiceManager DECLARE @DataSourceId INT DECLARE @out VARCHAR(2000) DECLARE myCursor CURSOR FOR select DataSourceId from lfx.DataSource where DataSourceName in ( --!!Attention!! Don’t put the datasource name here if you are not --sure if it’s discarded object. --Replace the ghost datasource name identified in step #3 'ADConnector.c6f351d1445640fa942607b60c318220', 'ADConnector.0e1ccd9f233846a68c9949a9f8b35e0c', 'ADConnector.4c339a62fb0d4ae299825d50dd0eb853', 'ADConnector.ebbbbbdc51bf4499a95a35070483d651', 'ADConnector.35842b01cd22468d960f5680ba7a690e', 'ADConnector.87a69b3aa68140388d4c8d04a2045fcb' --Replace the ghost datasource name identified in step #3 ) OPEN myCursor FETCH NEXT FROM myCursor INTO @DataSourceId WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN EXEC LFX.DEL_DataSource @DataSourceId, @out SELECT @out FETCH NEXT FROM myCursor INTO @DataSourceId END CLOSE myCursor DEALLOCATE myCursor ---End: Remove ghost("deleted") AD connectors from datasource---
Results after running the script:
BOOM! Lookie lookie, the connectors ran!
But we are not done yet. Although the connectors ran, we still have one more main thing to do. That is to move on to the SCSM console and editing the Management Pack.
- Export management pack “ServiceManagerLinkingFrameworkConfiguration” to your desired location. I recommend making a copy of this management pack and storing it before editing it.
- Open the Management Pack and do a search of the DataSourceName that you used to remove the stale (Ghost) name that started with “Delete- “. It will be sandwiched between the “Writeaction” section. Remove the whole write action section of the datasourcename you find.
- After you have removed all the targeted DataSource Names, save the management pack and reimport into the SCSM console.
- Remove the HealthService folder.
- Stop Monitoring Agent
- Stop System Center Data Access Service
- Stop System Center Management Configuration
- Delete “Health Service State” folder (this is located where SCSM install location, example: E:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Service Manager
- Start Monitoring Agent
- Start System Center Data Access Service
- Start System Center Management Configuration
And all the errors in the Event logs cleared up as well:
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When I taught a large class on “Diplomacy” at the University of Tartu from 1996 to 2005, I could still use a text by Sir Harold Nicolson of the same title.
Nicolson had written that classic account in 1939, and the last version—the one I used, published in 1988—was still not significantly updated.1 This was possible because neither the practice nor even the theory of diplomacy had changed significantly since then, either. Several future diplomats, Estonian and otherwise, took this class during the decade, and their feedback has been that this was a very useful account indeed.
Fifteen to twenty years later, however, this would not be possible. Our lives have been taken over by ICT, and if identity means a cohesive set of memories, then our smartphones are more “us” than we ourselves are. And for a decade now we have no longer spoken about a “virtual” world here and a “real” one there, because they have collapsed into the same one. In the public sphere, eGov—now digital governance—is the paradigm for our times, an issue that needs no belabouring in Estonia where it has become the first national priority; and while digitisation is often not transforming government but just digitising it, in the field of foreign affairs (and diplomacy, which implements it) we seem to be witnessing a real difference from previous times.
Yet geopolitics remain, and remain prominent, as can easily be seen in Estonia, and existential threats to country and physical person are in fact at the root of many digital innovations that try to change the discourse or create survival strategies in the face of a potentially overwhelming enemy. Any discussion about the “end of the (nation-)state” and the creation of digital counter-concepts is best understood, I would suggest, in and through this context as, for now, such an end would in all likelihood lead to a dystopian “time of the tribes” reloaded, rather than to a global society.
So, what has really changed? The globe has truly become smaller, and communication has become much easier and faster; yet this is nothing new, just a logical extension from such game-changers as the transatlantic telegraph cable and steamboats, although Skype and the like do make a difference. What is more important is that the human individual has become more global (we can watch Thai farmers harvest live and interact with them whenever we want) and more local at the same time: news, information and networks at the small-community level, including highly dispersed communities, are the norm now, so they are much more resilient than they used to be, especially as our sympathies often (and rightly) lie with them. The nation-state, the central unit of diplomacy and foreign affairs, has therefore, it is true, come to be somewhat on the identity defensive, without—again—losing any of its key role of the general avoidance of death and enabling the good life; reform rather than abolition, evolution rather than revolution are called for. Arguably, then, at the present moment, the task of classical diplomacy and foreign affairs is one of reassertion.
Unfortunately, three classics—all with a less than liberal and more realistic bent—seem to have entered the discourse at this point: Carl Schmitt, with his assertion that politics is ultimately about blood and space; Niccolò Machiavelli, with his insistence on the importance of propaganda; and Thomas Hobbes, with his argument that governments cannot be expected to pursue goals that would lead to their own demise. Where do normativity and ethics stand when we look at this trio? Digitisation has its own dynamic, but one can say that most experts now agree that eGov is like MSG: it emphasises tendencies a particular government already has. More democratic or liberal regimes become more so, and less ones less so, rather than better, because of the incredible potential for coercion and control that ICT has. Realism, looking out of the window, suggests that decontextually pursuing normative goals in the world as it exists may lead to regrettable consequences.
In diplomacy, what we observe is a quantitative change that is almost qualitative in nature: negotiations at the national level are today almost completely unimportant; key questions are discussed by heads of state or responsible ministers face-to-face or at least phone-to-phone. The two central tasks of 21st-century diplomats are now, first, public-relations skills (to advertise one’s country in the host nation), meaning that social media presence, events, school visits and so on become the ambassador’s core activity; and second, what a truly embedded diplomat can deliver on the policy side is genuine information about what’s really going on in the host country and why, because—as always, but digitally reinforced—even the “nicest” countries have the tendency to project images of themselves that are only loosely associated with reality. The two tasks are connected: the more I genuinely network—and not only in those circles paid to network with me—the more I can know and report back home. Ironically, perhaps, this means a return of the old courtier diplomat so familiar from the 19th century: memories or old Hollywood movies, as a caricature of the suave gentleman—and the shady lady—subtly trying to sway opinion at court and among the population, while at the same time attempting to find out “what is really happening”. It is often the case that paradigm shifts bring back discarded older models, as an innovation is something that is new only in the current context, not necessarily in historical terms, but transformed: today, diplomats must tweet.
In respect of foreign affairs in general, it is important to recognise that ICT and the digitisation of the world do not replace geopolitics, but they have become another hard fact—indeed an absolutely crucial one—that is now part of the equation. Life today is not entirely digital, but it is significantly so, and it is on this insight that diplomacy and foreign affairs must be premised if they are to succeed in whatever their mission is defined to be.
This essay is based on a lecture given at the Myanmar Institute of International and Strategic Studies in Yangon on Easter Monday 2018; here it is put into the specifically Estonian context. It is part of TTÜ’s Digital Governance Competence Center initiative, headed by Robert Krimmer.
1 A digitised version of an early edition can be found at archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.14552.
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HEIDEMANN has releases her brand new single Last Chance, which is the second song she’s shared from her forthcoming ‘Detectives’ EP (out April 8th via Fabrique Records, pre-order). Last Chance is the synth-heavy opener on the EP, and follows the lead single I’m So In Love , which features vocals from her fellow bandmate in The Juan MacLean, Nancy Whang (also of LCD Soundsystem). Listen to Last Chance via Soundcloud below.
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Here we discuss When to euthanize a dog with Cushing’s disease? When the vet pronounces the phrase we never wanted to hear: “He is a few weeks old”, or, worse, “all that remains is euthanasia”, the world falls on us. And we feel it all, in its infinite weight. We cannot speak or think. We can’t even move. We are paralyzed, while the most beautiful images spent with our puppy pass in front of us. Faced with the most intense memories we feel our hearts break. The vet’s words of circumstance are useless. It’s the end. The end of everything, of the rides in the park, of the walks by the sea, of the evenings, spent curled up on the sofa, under the blanket, in front of the TV.
Suddenly, his lament quickly brings us back to reality: lying on the bed, he looks at us with his little dull eyes in need of love, now more than ever. Thus, we feel in front of our friend who has stopped wagging his tail, but who seems to have understood everything. And he is ready to accept death with dignity, with silent suffering. It seems to know how to welcome the passage to the other world (more than us), just as it welcomed life. Without fear. Our presumption of wanting to control everything, in front of his behavior arises in all its uselessness.
And here comes the most delicate point, when to euthanize a dog with Cushing’s disease, the Daily Mail writes, after having collected a series of testimonies: the veterinarians reveal what is the most difficult moment ever for the animal that is dying and what is the mistake that the owners make, in those delicate last moments of their playmate’s life
In this article, we express our very personal opinion on when it is right to do it, and when not. The fact remains that each of us is free to act according to conscience and make the decisions that we deem most right.
In this article, we will only deal with When to euthanize a dog with Cushing’s disease, euthanasia involving dogs with serious, disabling, or painful pathologies. We do not even take into consideration the hypothesis of euthanasia for aggression, which unfortunately happens much more frequently than we think.
It is often practiced by unscrupulous veterinarians, whose degree should be revoked, and who tarnish the reputation of the entire order of veterinarians.
When is it right to do it?
It all depends on the quality of life of the dog, and on its degree of suffering. Both of these parameters are too generic, however, and therefore interpretable.
If the dog can only stand once in 4 days, some will think it is a great achievement, that he is improving, that he will recover.
They do not give up on the idea that the dog has an incurable disease and is suffering enormously. Everything is interpretable, and we always try to interpret the facts in a selfish way.
There are those who say that it should never be done, that it is unnatural, against all ethical rules. Everyone should be free to die as and when they like, they say.
Quite right, it is flawless. However, there are some things to take into consideration when we have the misfortune of having to witness the end of our dog’s life. one of these is that keeping him alive with drugs is equally unnatural.
I read somewhere that you should make a list of the 5 activities you did with your dog, and if 3 of these can no longer be done then you should break down.
We cannot think about the death of our dog in mathematical terms. Behind every choice of this kind, there is a feeling and years lived together. Mathematics if they keep it tight, we don’t need it.
To be taken into consideration in this difficult choice
When the situation becomes more critical it is good to take 3 things into consideration:
- Take Care of your Dog
- Take Suggestion from the Vet
The first aspect to consider is the dog’s suffering. No one can actually know how much pain they feel, as it tends to mask the pain in every way.
A suffering animal is more exposed to the risk of an attack by a predator because it is weaker and with reduced ability to defend itself. In nature, therefore, there is a tendency to mask all suffering. The dog does not know that he is safe in a family and that no predator will ever attack him. Or rather: he knows he is safe but his instincts always tell him to keep his eyes open.
Since the dog has a very high pain threshold, when it gets to the point of showing it, it means that that pain is unbearable, excruciating, devastating.
Medicines can alleviate it, but if it is not a transient disease, or manageable with life-long therapy, euthanasia should be considered.
Take Care of your Dog
Every living being has the right to dignity. Nobody can or should take it away. It is absolutely necessary to ask questions with altruism, not thinking only of ourselves.
True, sometimes we are not ready, and we need more time to process it. We keep a dog alive artificially, stuffed with drugs without which it would not be alive.
For our personal need, dogs that have not been able to get up for many days are kept alive, with all that entails in terms of hygiene. Let’s not deprive a dog of dignity that has given us all of itself in recent years.
Forcing a dog to stay alive is just as unnatural as euthanasia. Which of the two choices deprives him of his dignity as a dog?
Take Suggestion from the Vet
In the same way that for the suffering, also for the life expectancy it is necessary to refer to the vet. Only he can give us an approximate estimate (sometimes blatantly denied by the facts) of how much time he has left to live.
These estimates come from experience, not from textbooks. So don’t be upset if the vet said 15 days and a month has already passed.
The response of each dog to suffering is completely personal and variable, but life expectancy must be evaluated together with the two previous parameters: suffering and dignity.
Do not get advice from friends and relatives or from Zampefelici. Everyone has their say, but how many of them have lived alongside him for years? Nobody.
The risk of regretting having or not having done so is very high. Almost all of us tend to blame ourselves for how things went, but this comes from the fact that our little one is gone, we will never see him again, and his absence will be felt from the first day and for many years to come.
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As a trusted partner of Cisco, TDSouth was invited to attend an online seminar on March 4, 2021 organized by Cisco with speakers who are leading personnel in transmission technology, system security. system and network security.
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As Europe stands inactive as if dumbstruck by the invasion of migrants eerily presaged by every zombie film, one nation-state’s leader has attempted to take a defining stance. Angela Merkel made the following revealing statement:
“If Europe fails on the question of refugees, this close connection with universal civil rights … will be destroyed and it won’t be the Europe we want,” she said.
Her statement is correct but not in the way she intends. This mass influx of foreign humans — called “refugees†by those who wish to obscure the situation by invoking an emotional pity response — poses to Europe a fundamental question of values. Europe can either destroy itself and have universal civil rights, or can continue to exist by discarding that notion as the illusion it is. She said more than she meant to reveal.
Merkel thinks the question for Europe boils down to “should we be nice?†This follows the cold shadow of morality currently in vogue: that if our choice is socially popular through a conspicuous display of altruism, we have no need for analyzing its actual effects. In terms of winning votes for the next election, or selling cellular phone plans, she is probably correct. However, the true question that Europe and European-descended people everywhere must face is “should we exist?â€
Choosing to meekly roll back under the advance of aggressive masses while quietly uttering apologies will negate the ability for European values to exist for the simple reason that it will physically negate Europeans. There will no longer be the Europe that Merkel wants because Europe will no longer be.
All other questions are secondary: Europe must decide whether or not it wishes to continue exist. To do so, it must escape the fetishism for universal civil rights that is a political outpouring of the perceived need for social popularity through altruism. It must realize that whether these ideas are foreign or not, they are bad and will result in the destruction of Europe by the destruction of Europeans. As with all other peoples, Europeans are a unique group with capabilities all their own, and when a mass wave of migrants pours in and effectively replaces that group, Europe ceases to be. If our addiction to universal civil rights is, as Merkel says, the seed of our destruction, we should get off that needle now and move on to something healthy instead. | <urn:uuid:26d543fc-3712-41c1-a6f2-033784f8c9fc> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | http://www.amerika.org/politics/angela-merkel-is-right-about-european-values/ | 2021-11-30T22:00:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964359073.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130201935-20211130231935-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.933028 | 497 | [
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Minnesota is the northernmost state outside Alaska, its isolated Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods is the only part of the 48 contiguous states lying north of the 49th parallel. Minnesota is in the U.S. region known as the Upper Midwest. The state shares a Lake Superior water border with Michigan and Wisconsin on the northeast, the remainder of the eastern border is with Wisconsin. Iowa is to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota are west, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba are north. With 87.014 square miles, or approximately 2.26 % of the United States, Minnesota is ...
Herman Beach is one of several beaches delimiting the shorelines of the prehistoric glacial Lake Agassiz. Of note is that the beaches of Lake Agassiz are presently not adjacent to bodies of water, and consequently, are no longer really beaches at all. Named for its proximity to Herman, Minnesota, Herman Beach was formed 11.700 years ago and runs for hundreds of miles through Minnesota and North Dakota. It has been described as a smoothly-rounded beach ridge made of gravel and sand. In contrast to the bottom of the lake, along the North-flowing red river, the beach rises from the South to t ...
Indian Ghost Hill is a hill in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States, next to Forest City. The Crow River runs through Forest City and is adjacent to Indian Ghost Hill. The name comes from an unusual optical illusion which makes it seem that the car with the handbrake off begins to roll up the hill. A local legend that the ghosts of Indian children pushing the car.
The Pembina Trail was a trail used by Metis and settlers to travel from Fort Garry, Manitoba, to Pembina, North Dakota. The trail followed South along the Red River, and there were many alternative routes depending on conditions and which communities the travellers wanted to avoid. The Pembina Trail is the beginning of the larger Red River Trail network, and is no longer in use today as a trail, however, a modified version of it has been paved to become the Lord Selkirk/Pembina highways. In Pembina trail and network of trails Red river regularly use at least since 1823. In the settlements ...
Wahnata County was an extinct county in Minnesota Territory. Created as one of the original 9 counties in 1849, the county was dissolved in 1851 to form Pembina County and Cass County. Parts of the original county are now parts of 24 counties.
Wilderness Canoe Base is a Christian youth camp that borders the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on Seagull Lake near the end of the Gunflint Trail, about 50 miles from Grand Marais, Minnesota, USA. The camp hosts canoe camping trips and work-service trips for youth during the summer as well as retreats for all ages year round. Part of the camp is on the northern half of Fishhook Island and another tract resides on nearby Dominion Island. It has been under the management of Lake Wapogasset Lutheran Bible Camp, Inc. since 2002.
ⓘ Geography of Minnesota
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- Hockey Adjectival: Minnesota Demonym: Minnesotan Geography of Minnesota Minnesota is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America Location
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- Groningen, Minnesota Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Upham, Warren 1920 Minnesota Geographic Names: Their
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Bækkelagets SK Boys 7 3v3 BSK Pumas
In addition to the four Bækkelagets SK teams, 55 other teams played in Boys 7 years - born 2012 - 3v3. They were divided into 2 different groups, whereof Bækkelagets SK BSK Pumas could be found in Group 1 together with Bækkelagets SK BSK Wolves, Vålerenga Fotball Lions, Abildsø IL 4, Skedsmo Ørner, Vålerenga Fotball Sort, Abildsø IL 3, Bækkelagets SK BSK Lions, Vålerenga Fotball 1 Vålerenga Grønn and Bækkelagets SK BSK Tigers. | <urn:uuid:742916ca-a64a-47d1-b5b3-69ba375e2e71> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://results.cupmanager.net/6339495,2019,en/team/23135330 | 2021-11-30T21:24:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964359073.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130201935-20211130231935-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.824597 | 282 | [
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File/folder permissions in v0.9.37 odd behavior
|Reported by:||Mike Giovaninni||Owned by:|
|Component version:||Operating system type:||Windows|
|Operating system version:||Windows Server 2008 Std|
Description (last modified by )
Environment: Windows Server 2008 Standard
FileZilla Server v0.9.37beta
Creating user accounts with the following structure:
Parent (Home) folder with Read File rights and List Directories & Subs
Child Folder 1 (Files from client) w/ R/W/D File rights & List Dir/Subs
Child Folder 2 (Files to client) w/ R File rights only and List Dir/Subs
In this configuration, a 550 error is generated on child folder 1 when the client tries to upload or delete a file
However, if the Parent folder has the Write and Delete attributes set, the client can write and delete files.. but in BOTH child folders, not just child folder 1.
Which tells me that there is a permissions issue in the server daemon. Based on a simple file permission model, I should be able to set the parent directory to allow only reads and directory listings, and then set my child folder permissions to the task they hold (i.e. writes only allowed in the folder I chose based on the granted permissions).
Note - all file paths are short, do not include spaces or special characters and are being accessed directly (not via a network share) if that helps...
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Where’s My Rent Relief? LA Slow To Provide Promised Aid
Many L.A. renters who lost income during the COVID-19 pandemic are still deep in debt to their landlords. But throughout Southern California, hundreds of millions of dollars available for rent relief have not been disbursed.
California has put $5.2 billion in federal funding toward rent relief programs across the state. The goal is to pay off rental debt accrued by low-income tenants during the pandemic so they won’t be kicked out of their homes once the state’s eviction moratorium expires.
However, the state has distributed only a small fraction of that rent relief money.
In many parts of the state, cities and counties have chosen to administer this rent relief on their own. We asked local governments how much money they’ve put into the hands of renters and their landlords. The responses show that, so far, governments across Southern California have failed to deliver the bulk of their funding to households in need.
For example, the latest figures from the city of L.A.’s rent relief program show that only about 7% of current funding has been distributed. Other cities aren’t faring much better.
With promised aid slow to reach tenants and landlords, Governor Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers extended the state’s eviction moratorium this week. Tenants who could have faced eviction for non-payment of rent after June 30 will now have protections through Sept. 30.
The extension gives local governments more time to pay off rental debt for low-income households, avoiding a potential wave of homelessness. The state’s last-minute deal may have eased fears of an eviction tsunami this summer. But tenants remain worried about whether their rent relief applications will be approved — and property owners say they’re again stuck shouldering an unfair burden.
‘I’m Not Getting A Lot Of Answers’
“This should have been over a long time ago,” said Irma Vargas with the Los Angeles property management company RST & Associates.
Vargas said her company has applied for rent relief on behalf of about 150 L.A.-area tenants who fell behind on some or all of their rent during the pandemic. So far, she’s received tentative approval for just three households — but has yet to receive any money.
She said the city of Los Angeles hasn’t provided updates about her applications, which means she can’t reassure property owners that help is on the way.
“They’re just frustrated, because they're not getting any answers,” Vargas said. “I can only give them the answers that I get. And I'm not getting a lot of answers.”
For A Struggling Single Mom, 'A Scary Time'
Tenants are also anxiously waiting for rent relief to come through.
Kelli Lloyd, a single mother of two in Baldwin Hills, said she stopped receiving child support payments at the start of the pandemic. By May 2020, she could no longer afford to pay the rent on her two-bedroom apartment.
“It has been a scary time,” Lloyd said. “We have, as a family, depended on the extensions and the moratoriums. It's been quite a relief to know that there is help available.”
Earlier this year, Lloyd applied for the city of L.A.’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which launched on March 30 with $236 million in funding.
While hopeful that her application will be approved, Lloyd said the city has only reached out to ask her for more identity verification documents.
Aside from that, she said, “I haven't heard anything yet.”
A Staggering $1.2 Billion In L.A. Rental Debt
The local need for rent relief is staggering.
More than 255,000 households in L.A. County are behind on rent, with average debt reaching nearly $4,700, according to estimates by researchers with the USC Equity Research Institute and PolicyLink, who studied recent U.S. Census survey data.
All told, the researchers estimate that L.A. County households owe $1.2 billion in back rent.
In the city of Los Angeles, applications for rent relief have far outstripped available funding. Tenants and landlords have requested payments for $636 million in back rent, but the city started off with just $236 million to distribute.
More help should be on the way, housing department spokesperson Sandra Mendoza said in an email.
“[T]he city anticipates receiving an additional $193 million” from the American Rescue Plan Act, which went into effect in March, Mendoza said. With that second round of funding, she added, “we will come closer to meeting the rental assistance needs of L.A. renters.”
A Plan To Help The Poorest Applicants First
L.A. has limited its rent relief program to households earning no more than 50% of the area’s median income. For now, the city is prioritizing applicants who are “extremely low-income” — meaning those who make less than 30% of the area’s median income. For a family of four, that translates into an annual income of less than $33,800.
L.A. is not the only city struggling to get money out the door. Long Beach has dispersed less than four percent of its $51.4 million in funding. Santa Clarita has distributed about 7.5% from its $11.3 million rent relief program. And Santa Ana has paid out just under 13% of its $20.8 million.
Other municipalities have distributed relief more quickly. For instance, Orange County has handed out close to one-third of its $59 million, and the city of Riverside has already spent almost half of its nearly $10 million in funding.
After multiple inquiries, three other local governments administering local rent relief programs failed to provide us with performance numbers: the cities of Moreno Valley and San Bernardino, as well as the County of San Bernardino.
Housing advocates say the process has been slow because applicants often need to submit multiple rounds of documents to demonstrate their eligibility, and some struggle to comply.
For example, some workers who typically get paid in cash have found it difficult to prove they lost income during the pandemic. Other applicants failed to adequately document the fact that they actually fell behind on rent.
In these situations, it takes time for the city to follow up with applicants and request further documentation, said Leona Rollins with the L.A. nonprofit Housing Rights Center. She has been helping the city of Los Angeles process its applications.
“We want to make sure that we give everybody ample opportunity to submit whatever documents they need to make their application whole, so that they could be deemed eligible,” Rollins said.
Rollins expressed hope that new rounds of federal funding — as well as the state’s extended eviction moratorium — will lead to local governments opening their rent relief programs to new applicants. She said the state is now giving tenants through March 2022 to apply for rental relief if they face an eviction, so there should be time to get money out.
Other changes are in the works. Originally, rent relief programs across California were offering to cover 80% of a tenant’s rental debt — as long as landlords agreed to waive the remaining 20%. However, under the state’s new deal, programs will be able to pay off 100% of rent accrued during the pandemic.
State-Run Relief Efforts Are Lagging, Too
Rent relief has been trickling out through many different programs, some run by local governments and others run by the state. State-run programs have also been slow in doling out money.
Los Angeles County opted to let the state administer its rent relief efforts. So far, the state has distributed about 13% of the money requested by county applicants.
Applicants in other areas have received even less funding from the state. In some areas, applicants have received nothing at all.
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Wright State Projects Budget Surplus; Petition Calls For Board's Ouster
During a Friday meeting, Wright State University’s Board of Trustees brainstormed new ways to boost enrollment as part of the board's continued efforts to shore up the school’s finances.
The university is projecting another budget surplus this year, for a second year in a row.
Wright State is expected to add another $5.8 million to its reserve fund this year. This means the school is unlikely to be placed under state fiscal watch.
Board Chairman Doug Fecher says, while that’s good news, they’re not out of the woods yet.
“If we're not able to reverse the declining enrollment trends, we will continue to have financial challenges that we have to overcome,” says Fecher. “So it all comes down to enrollment.”
Wright State’s student population has decreased for a number of years.
At the meeting, board members discussed bringing in more students by expanding online course offerings, though details of the plan were not decided.
It was the first time trustees met since faculty members issued a vote of no confidence against the board on Monday.
A handful of protesters from a group called Save Wright State showed up to the meeting Friday to call for board members to resign, citing years of financial mismanagement.
The group has so far gathered more than 300 signatures on a petition calling for the board’s ouster.
Fecher admits the board has made mistakes. But he says the university is now on the right path.
“I can tell you this board does not want to repeat the last two or three years,” says Fecher. “So to have the board resign I think would be a little shortsighted.”
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The race is on to develop the tech for an autonomous ridesharing service, and Uber is gunning for the lead by launching a self-driving test vehicle in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sporting an array of laser scanners, cameras, and radar, the custom Ford Fusion Hybrid is there to map the city’s streets and engineer driverless systems.
As the current leader among ridesharing apps in the U.S, it seems natural for Uber to create its on autonomous technology. From a business perspective, launching the service could mean the firm wouldn’t need to hire human drivers someday. The vehicles could roam the streets 24 hours a day and only need to stop to refuel. “In the future we believe this technology will mean less congestion, more affordable and accessible transportation, and far fewer lives lost in car accidents,” the business says in this project’s announcement.
Rather than following the trend of centering autonomous tech’s development in Silicon Valley, Uber headquarters its self-driving work at the company’s Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh. The business claims the city "is an ideal environment to develop and test our technology across a wide variety of road types, traffic patterns, and weather conditions.”
Uber isn’t alone in wanting to create an autonomous ridesharing service because Google also reportedly has the tech under development. It could mean a future where you request a ride on an app and a driverless pod arrives to take you away.
Steel City’s New Wheel
If you’re driving around Pittsburgh in the coming weeks you might see a strange sight: a car that looks like it should be driven by a superhero. But this is no movie prop — it’s a test car from Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center (ATC) in Pittsburgh.
The car, a hybrid Ford Fusion, will be collecting mapping data as well as testing its self-driving capabilities. When it’s in self-driving mode, a trained driver will be in the driver’s seat monitoring operations. The Uber ATC car comes outfitted with a variety of sensors including radars, laser scanners, and high resolution cameras to map details of the environment.
Real-world testing is critical to our efforts to develop self-driving technology. Self-driving cars have the potential to save millions of lives and improve quality of life for people around the world. 1.3 million people die every year in car accidents — 94% of those accidents involve human error. In the future we believe this technology will mean less congestion, more affordable and accessible transportation, and far fewer lives lost in car accidents. These goals are at the heart of Uber’s mission to make transportation as reliable as running water — everywhere and for everyone.
While Uber is still in the early days of our self-driving efforts, every day of testing leads to improvements. Right now we’re focused on getting the technology right and ensuring it’s safe for everyone on the road — pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers. We’ve informed local officials and law enforcement about our testing in Pittsburgh, and our work would not be possible without the support we’ve received from the region’s leaders.
“From the first steel mills to the laboratories at Pitt and Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh has a long history of innovation. Now we’re taking another step forward, this time as home to Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, where some of the world’s leading innovators are helping to shape the future of transportation. We’re excited that Uber has chosen the Steel City as they explore new technologies that can improve people’s lives — through increased road safety, less congestion, and more efficient and smarter cities.”
William Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh
Uber chose the Steel City as the home of our Advanced Technologies Center because of its world-class engineering talent and research facilities. Pittsburgh is an ideal environment to develop and test our technology across a wide variety of road types, traffic patterns and weather conditions. The city’s long history of innovation continues today as it helps us shape the future of transportation. | <urn:uuid:26e31124-279d-4aeb-84b6-ad7959015d81> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.motor1.com/news/62875/ubers-autonomous-fusion-finding-its-way-around-pittsburgh/ | 2021-12-04T02:52:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362923.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20211204003045-20211204033045-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.936861 | 858 | [
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The BEST thing about my job is that we are a family. Oh, there are no real blood ties, but we are family nonetheless.
These pictures of my family-friends-fellow-teachers were taken at our staff Christmas Party.
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WV Department of Agriculture
CHARLESTON, WV, US
30+ days ago
Division: Regulatory and Environmental Affairs
Headquarters: Guthrie Agricultural Center, Charleston WV
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Nature of Work:
An employee in this position performs administrative and professional work for the West Virginia Department of Agriculture Regulatory and Environmental Affairs Division Laboratories by analyzing agricultural products including, but not limited to commercial animal feed, pet food, forage, fertilizer, liming material, pesticide products, residues, environmental samples, seed, cannabis, meat, dairy, and food. The employee will also perform related work in the maintenance of a quality assurance program for the laboratory.
Examples of Work:
- Develops and maintains quality assurance measures to assure accurate analytical methods.
- Develops and utilizes methods consistent with the laboratories' equipment.
- Performs chemical analyses in accordance with scientific principles and techniques determined by a supervisor.
- Determines the type and extent of testing required to ascertain the quality of samples submitted for analyses, guided by the principles and techniques of analytical chemistry and by the methods devised by professional and testing organizations in developing the necessary laboratory procedures.
- Maintains records of all quality activities as documented in SOPs and test methods.
- Handles samples and performs analyses according to SOPs and test methods.
- Maintains and calibrates equipment.
- Reports questionable identifications or finds on work to a supervisor.
- Reports deficiencies or malfunction to the Assistant Director.
- Identifies and records non-conformities on Corrective Action Requests.
- Identifies and records potential non-conformities on Preventative Action Requests.
- Corrects non-conformities and potential non-conformities.
- Improves laboratory and/or quality activities on a continuous basis.
- Utilizes a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for data entry and other computer operations.
- Analyzes and interprets test results in order to assist in the administration of laws, regulations or specifications relating to the chemical composition of the products analyzed.
- Performs related work as required, such as assisting other division analysts as needed.
- Prepares official reports and may be called upon to testify before the court or the Commissioner.
- Makes final decisions which pertain to the microbiological content of individual samples.
- Attends meetings, including overnight travel.
- Writes SOPs and test methods.
- Signs reports when designated with signing authority.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Ability to sit, stand, and/or walk for extended periods of time; frequently bend, squat, reach above shoulder level, push, pull and handle objects and capable of lifting 50 pounds.
- Employment may require working with pathogenic microorganisms, hazardous chemicals such as disinfectants, acids, bases, mutagens, teratogens, and solvents; hot liquids, steam, and hot solid surfaces capable of burns; and warm, humid conditions can be found in the laboratory environment. Personal protective equipment is supplied to laboratory staff.
- Some jobs require employees to be exposed to unpleasant odors.
- Knowledge of the principles, practices and procedures of organic and inorganic chemistry.
- Knowledge of composition and significant properties of materials and substances used or tested by the State.
- Skill in manipulative techniques and in following standard scientific laboratory methods.
- Skill in the use of laboratory instruments and equipment commonly used in analytical laboratories.
- Ability to understand and to follow oral and written instructions, formulas and charts.
- Ability to prepare analytical reports and to organize and present scientific information in a clear and concise manner.
- Knowledge of computerized LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) is useful.
- Knowledge in the procedures involving the use, handling, and disposal of hazardous materials.
Education: Graduation from an accredited 4-year college or university with a major in chemistry or related physical science. Substitution: Six years of experience in carrying out technical work in a chemical laboratory.
Experience: Three years of experience in carrying out technical work in a chemical laboratory. Substitution: Graduate study in a related laboratory science may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
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This description is subject to review and revision at the discretion of the Commissioner and designees.
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Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Hong Kong-based Chinese University have shown that a common small nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is associated with an increased risk of stroke in cancer survivors treated with cranial radiotherapy (CRT). The results were presented at the Annual Meeting of the AACR in 2019 (GA, USA, March 29 to April 3) and have implications for future intervention approaches.
Previous research has shown that the risk of stroke increases six-fold for survivors treated with between 30 and 50 Gy of CRT compared with survivors who do not receive any. Treatment with more than 50 Gy increases the risk by 11 times.
Yadav Sapkota, the study's lead author, commented: "The risk of stroke seems to vary within the same dose group of CRT, even after accounting for other clinical and demographic factors. This has indicated to us that there may be genetic predisposition that influences the risk of a survivor exposed to CRT from developing stroke. "
The team analyzed complete genome sequencing data from 686 cancer survivors of European descent who had been treated with CRT and were part of the SJLIFE study. 116 stroke developed.
Analysis revealed that exposure to CRT combined with a common SNP at the 5p15.33 locus increased the risk three-fold compared to those without the SNP. The dose of CRT also mattered – the combination of the SNP with 25-50 Gy further increased the risk of stroke to five times.
"We found that the common SNP had the most pronounced effect on the risk of stroke after an intermediate dose of radiation," Sapkota noted. "While survivors treated with more than 50 Gy of radiation still have an increased risk of stroke if they carry the PNS, we assume that higher doses of radiation will replace the influence of genetics."
The results were replicated in two independent groups of the SJLIFE study. One group included survivors of African descent and one survivor of European descent who did not undergo CRT. These results confirm that the risk of developing stroke is a combination of genetic and CRT treatments.
"Survivors treated with CRT who carry this genetic variant can benefit from being monitored and advised to minimize their modifiable cardiovascular risk factors," concluded Sapkota.
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Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich’s lectures on German Idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American audience since the onset of World War II. They remain one of the most eloquent explanations and interpretations of classical German philosophy and of the way it relates to the concerns of contemporary philosophy. Thanks to the editorial work of David Pacini, the lectures appear here with annotations linking them to editions of the masterworks of German philosophy as they are now available.
Henrich describes the movement that led from Kant to Hegel, beginning with an interpretation of the structure and tensions of Kant’s system. He locates the Kantian movement and revival of Spinoza, as sketched by F. H. Jacobi, in the intellectual conditions of the time and in the philosophical motivations of modern thought. Providing extensive analysis of the various versions of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge, Henrich brings into view a constellation of problems that illuminate the accomplishments of the founders of Romanticism, Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel, and of the poet Hölderlin’s original philosophy. He concludes with an interpretation of the basic design of Hegel’s system. | <urn:uuid:029489d5-a5c7-4f89-ad08-df0cc6f38ee3> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674027374 | 2021-11-28T00:29:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358323.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127223710-20211128013710-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.926883 | 257 | [
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Five top tips for caring for your pet this Bonfire Night
It goes without saying that the autumn months are some of the busiest for British families – with Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night and the social occasions leading up to Christmas. But as we all wrap up warm and enjoy a mug of mulled wine or hot chocolate, spare a thought for the 51 million pets1 living in homes around the country. With loud bangs, unwelcome guests and other unfamiliar scenarios to contend with, the next three months are set to be the most stressful for our four-legged friends.
In fact, a recent RSPCA poll suggested that 18% more people will be hosting private events this Bonfire Night. This increase in ‘DIY firework displays’ is especially worrying when considering that our much-loved pets get distressed by these events – with 54% of cats and 62% of dogs becoming upset due to the loud noise caused by the commotion2.
To help support owners during this difficult time, here’s five top tips from Kevin Thackrah, Director of pet-care specialists Petpals, on how you can best care for your pets this Bonfire Night.
Set off earlier
Whilst your usual routine might see you taking the dog around the block for its nightly walk after the dark has set in, I would recommend making an exception for this one evening and setting off a little earlier. Walking your dog before the sun goes down – and before any bonfires are set alight! – will minimise any additional stress for your pet.
Keep curtains closed
Do your best to block out any background noise or light by closing all curtains and windows as early on in the day as possible. This will help keep visibility to a minimum and will stop your pet from panicking if there is a sudden noise or knock at the door.
Keep them company
When possible, stay home with your pet on the evenings where higher footfall is expected – keep close and comfort them if they do happen to become alarmed. And if that isn’t doable for you, leave the radio on or the TV playing in the background – just something familiar that will put them at ease.
Keep them inside
If your pets are usually kept outside, in a hutch or pen, perhaps consider bringing them inside for the few hours that firework displays usually go on for. This process – of moving from the outside in - in itself can be slightly unsettling for pets so do this in stages, slowly introducing them to the new sounds and smells that they aren’t familiar with.
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Spooked pets can run away, especially cats, so make sure they’re properly microchipped to make them easily identifiable if they do. If your pet is already microchipped, make sure your contact details are up to date so you can be contacted straight away.
1 RSPCA, 2021, Facts & figures
2 RSPCA, 2021, Fireworks Campaign.
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Join the Miller Worley Center for the Environment in exploring future possibilities in environmental fields. As a part of our series, we are hosting a conversation focused on graduate programs and fellowships. Ryan Lewis from the Fellowships Office will lead a conversation around fellowship opportunities and Olivia Aguilar, Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, will lead a conversation about graduate programs. They will be joined by recent alums.
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Donald Trump Jr. has become one of his father’s most vociferous social media surrogates during the 2020 presidential campaign by emulating his dad’s commitment to the enormous and easily fact-checked lie as his weapon of choice, at least when he’s not out hunting endangered species for sport.
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Joe Biden wants to raise taxes on 82% of all Americans.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 2, 2020
To properly vet this tweet, one must remember that Donald Trump Sr. and his GOP cronies slashed taxes for the richest Americans in the recent Republican tax cut after Trump took office, setting up a massive federal deficit that they are now likely to use as an excuse to cut so-called entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, part of the Republican party’s long-cherished goal of returning America to the excesses of inequality found in the oligarch-driven 19th-century gilded age.
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It’s easy, therefore, for Trump Jr. to fear-monger by claiming that a Biden victory would lead to a tax increase on 82% of Americans.
The only obstacle is that Junior’s claims are completely and utterly false.
The Biden tax plan calls for rescinding the irresponsible Republican tax legislation and raising taxes on households making over $400,000 per year.
If Don Jr. thinks that 82% of American households earn more than $400,000 per year, then he is even more disconnected from the lives of everyday Americans than his own gilded lifestyle indicates.
Only about 1% of American households command that lofty income level, according to a recent Bloomberg analysis.
Naturally, Trump Jr. is expecting that the unquestioning members of the president’s base that he is targeting with his lies won’t — or can’t — check his math.
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For the past 10 years I’ve been following the Ayurvedic way of life. I’ll get a little more into the topic of Ayurveda later but I follow my eating, sleeping and exercise habits a certain way. Thanks to a book that I was introduced to by a friend, I ‘ve lent and purchased copies of Absolute Beauty by Pratima on www.pratimaskincare.com (I’m in need of a new copy now) 😀
Ayurveda has ways that the skin is treated with natural ingredients while tackling some specific and difficult skin issues. I don’t have as much time to mix herbs and oils like I did when I started years ago so I started looking for ingredients that are acceptable by Ayurvedic standards for my skin type and body constitution. I found a gem in The Body Shop‘s Cucumber Cleansing Milk.
2014 Update: The Body Shop has since discontinued this product.! In it’s place I started buying Aloe Calming Facial Cleanser. It’s got the same creamy consistency and still does an amazing job! It calms down overactive or sensitive skin!
The Body Shop has many products which I discovered that have oils used throughout the Ayurvedic skin care regime i.e. sesame oil, brazil nut oil, almond oil, babassu oil. Cucumber Cleansing Milk contains organic community trade soy oil from Brazil! Soy oil is a dry oil that can moisturize dry and combination/oily skin effectively. Soy is a highly popular staple in Asia (Japan) which is where I started using soy more frequently 😀 Soy oil contains linoleic fatty acids that is easily absorbed into the skin and body to grow healthy cells. Soy oil is also anti-inflammatory.
I noticed after weeks of using the milk my occasional breakouts ceased and any facial cleanser that I used which would normally be irritating; completely stopped burning. Massaging the milk in the skin enables it to act as a barrier from harsh water, cleanser and environment. The cucumber, soy and glycerin combination work well to help calm, soothe and tone most skin types including skin with rosacea and acne. The milk rinses clean so there is no need to worry about a greasy residue. Soy oil helps the skin combat the effects of free radicals and pollutants in the water and air.
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The goal of Owyl: provide a fast and flexible Behavior Tree framework implemented in python. Owyl trees use nested generators to iterate through your behaviors. The root of the tree always works just like a normal python iterator. If you know how to work with iterators, you know how to work with an Owyl tree. Because Owyl is small and behavior trees are easy to grasp, it's easy to control and extend your AI behaviors.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Thursday denied as “sheer misreporting” a front page newspaper story that North Korea had provided a list of some 30 Japanese survivors still living in the isolated country, including known victims of state-sponsored kidnapping. The Nikkei business daily said North Korea produced the list at a July 1 meeting in Beijing to discuss North Korea’s plan to resume investigations into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 80s. North Korea agreed in May to reopen the probe, prompting Japan to ease some sanctions. “I’m aware of the report, but nothing like that happened during the meeting or during a recess,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference. “It’s sheer misreporting.”
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Docket number of the case in the first instance: No. 3675, first instance (初), civil case (民), (2019) Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court (粤03)
Where the product claim involves the claim of the preparation method in its subject name, according to the corresponding relation between the two, when the people’s court determines the scope of protection of patent rights, the patented preparation method referred to and the structure, composition and performance of the product all play the same limiting role.
Plaintiff: Solvay Special Polymers USA, LLC (Hereinafter, “Solvay”)
Defendant: Jilin Joinature Polymer Co.,Ltd. (Hereinafter, “Jilin Joinature Polymer”)
The plaintiff Solvay, an enterprise mainly engaged in high-tech materials and specialty chemicals, alleges that the defendant, by using the patented method involved and promising to sell series of polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK) products directly obtained according to the patented method involved without its permission, infringed upon its invention patent named “an improved process for preparing poly (aryl ether ketones) with high-purity 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone”.
The plaintiff requests the court: to order the defendant to immediately stop manufacturing, promising to sell and selling series of PEEK products with types including ZYPEEK_330G (pellet), ZYPEEK_770G (pellet), ZYPEEK_330UPF, ZYPEEK_770PF, ZYPEEK_330P and ZYPEEK_770P; immediately stop using the plaintiff’s patented process involved, promising to sell or selling products directly obtained according to the patented method involved; indemnify the plaintiff for the reasonable cost of RMB 300,000 to stop tort; and to agree that the plaintiff reserves the right to claim damages against the defendant for tort on the basis of evidence obtained in subsequent proceedings and for losses arising from the continuation of infringement acts; and that the defendant shall bear the court fee of this case.
The defendant Jilin Joinature Polymer defended: The technical scheme used by the defendant in the production and preparation of PEEK products didn’t fall within the protection scope of the plaintiff’s patent rights involved. Since the production of PEEK products, the 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone Jilin Joinature Polymer purchased all have a purity of 99.9% or above and directly been put it into use, and the product inspection report provided by the manufacturer of raw materials indicated that it adopted gas chromatographic analysis; the defendant has relied solely on its intellectual property rights to manufacture PEEK products so far, without any relation to the plaintiff’s patent involved. To sum up, the technical scheme used by the defendant in the production and preparation of PEEK products didn’t fall within the protection scope of the plaintiff’s patent rights involved, and the defendant has relied solely on its intellectual property rights to manufacture and prepare PEEK products so far. The plaintiff’s claim lacks factual and legal basis and shall be rejected.
The first instance of the Intermediate People’s Court of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province ascertained: On October 23, 2009, Solvay Advanced Polymer Co., Ltd. applied to the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) for an invention patent named “An Improved Process for Preparing Poly (Aryl Ether Ketones) with High-purity 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone”, and obtained the patent licensing on August 13, 2014. The patent number is 200980142463.9 and the priority date is October 24, 2008. On January 29, 2019, the patentee was changed from Solvay Advanced Polymer Co., Ltd. to the plaintiff Solvay. On August 6, 2020, CNIPA made a decision on the review of the request for invalidation of No. 45636. In response to the above request for invalidation, the patentee submitted a statement of views on May 7, 2020, and modified the claims for the patent involved by limiting Claim 8 to Claim 1 and deleting Claims 7 and 8.
The plaintiff’s claims for protection in this case include Claims 1-8 and 10-12 modified, of which Claims 1 and 12 are independent claims, while Claims 2-8, 10 and 11 are dependent claims, further defining the characteristics of the process method. As a high-tech enterprise with an annual output of PEEK products of over 1,000 tons, the defendant Jilin Joinature Polymer is the largest PEEK manufacturer in China at present. It mainly prepares PEEK raw materials with the preparation method of nucleophilic high-temperature replacement reaction, and finally prepares high-performance PEEK resin through high-temperature polycondensation reaction after adding self-developed catalyst formula in inert solvent with a high boiling point using hydroquinone and 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone as the basic raw materials. These basic raw materials 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone were purchased by the defendant from a party not involved in the case, with the amount of purchases over the years up to 10.21 million tons. Quality reports were provided for each batch of 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone, indicating that the content (purity) of 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone purchased from a party not involved in the case all reached ≥99.9%.
During the trial, both parties confirmed that the content of impurities in the alleged infringing technical scheme was detected with the gas chromatographic analysis method. However, the technical characteristics of Claim 1 for the patent involved specified that the content of impurities is determined using “liquid chromatographic analysis”. In comparison with the alleged infringing technical scheme, it’s not only necessary to compare whether the composition of raw materials, impurities and the content of each component are the same or equivalent, but also to compare whether the detection methods used are the same or equivalent. However, gas chromatographic analysis and liquid chromatographic analysis have different technical effects, and can’t be replaced equally. Therefore, the court ruled that the technical scheme involved is neither the same nor equivalent to at least one of the technical characteristics in Claim 1.
Another focus of the technical dispute is about the GC purity of 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone used in the patented technical scheme involved. First, the defendant used 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone with a GC purity ≥99. 90％ as its raw materials. However, according to the record in Claim 1, “4,4’ -Difluorobenzophenone with a GC purity <99.9%” should be used. Given that both parties have confirmed that all 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone purchased by the defendant after 2015 had a GC purity ≥99.90％ upon detection with the GC method, and this GC purity was obtained with the internal standard method boasting higher accuracy than the normalization method; moreover, in light of the invention aspiration of the patent involved that “technicians in this area usually require 4,4’- Difluorobenzophenone with a higher purity as raw materials to improve the crystallization and performance of poly (aryl ether ketone), 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone of 99.9 % or higher purity is usually chosen as the reaction material. This patent is based on the discovery of the effect of the use of [2,4’-Difluorobenzophenone] and [4-Fluorophenone] in the impurities on polymer crystallinity, thereby easing the limit of total impurity content in 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone and reducing the manufacturing cost of poly (aryl ether ketone). On this ground, the court ruled that the GC purity of 4,4’-Difluorobenzophenone used in the alleged technical scheme didn’t fall within the concentration range of the patent involved that is specified in Claim 1.
The independent patent claim 12 of the patent involved is a product-by-process claim. Seen from the subject name, this type of claim requests to protect products. However, in terms of the composition of technical scheme, it also adopts the claim by process. Regarding product-by-process claims for product patents, characteristics of the process also have a limiting effect on the protection scope of patent rights. Claim 12 for the patent involved is a product claim obtained by referring to the preparation method specified in Claim 1, and is an independent claim. When determining the scope of protection in Claim 12, the characteristics of Claim 1 referred to shall also be taken into account. As mentioned above, the technical scheme for production of the alleged infringing product didn’t fall within the protection scope of Claim 1 for the patent involved, neither within the protection scope of Claim 12.
Based on the above information, the court ruled that: As the production of PEEK products and the technical scheme used by the defendant Jilin Joinature Polymer are neither the same nor equivalent to the technical characteristics of the claims for the patent involved which the plaintiff Solvay seeks to protect nor fall within the protection scope of Solvay’s claims for the patent involved, the court ruled: Dismiss the claim of the plaintiff Solvay. As neither of the parties appealed after the judgment, the first-instance judgment has gone into effect.
To apply the requirements of the List of the First-batch Authorized Items for the Comprehensive Reform Pilot of the Construction of a Pilot Demonstration Zone of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in Shenzhen and the Regulations on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on assigning technical investigators, the Intellectual Property Court of Shenzhen has, since the setting of full-time technical investigators this year, adopted the mode of “technical investigator + expert database + patent examination cooperation center of the intellectual property office” in the trial of cases of inventions, trade secrets, etc. with technical complexity, to provide professional technical support, encourage both parties to submit “expert’s opinions”, introduce multiple technology identification mechanisms and quickly solve the focus of technical disputes, which helps address the long trial period due to the long judicial expertise duration.
The plaintiff, in this case, is an American company, while the defendant is a company in Jilin Province with a Peek resin synthesis capacity of more than 1,000 tons, which is facing an initial public offering (IPO) on the science and technology innovation board. Albeit early litigation delays due to the pandemic, the Intellectual Property Court of Shenzhen has relied on multiple technology identification mechanisms to improve the efficiency of intellectual property adjudication, and determined in time that the production and preparation of PEEK products by the defendant didn’t fall within the protection scope of the plaintiff’s patent, guaranteeing the development of the upstream industry of high polymer materials in China and fully demonstrating that the Intellectual Property Court of Shenzhen has become a “preferred place” for intellectual property litigation.
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The VA benefits for the elderly are able to cater for a portion of expenses of the nursing home care. This is only if the veteran or the surviving spouse has been catering for the expenses from their pocket. Though you will find in some rare cases, where assisted living expenses are not reimbursed by the insurance company, that’s when the VA pension comes in to assist and allow the veteran or the surviving spouse to live an affordable, comfortable assisted living. The VA can also give caregivers (spouses or close family members) tax free monetary assistance that is supposed to assist them to care for the veterans or the surviving spouse. The claimant though must be able to meet the eligibility requirements that have been set by the VA in order to get the money.
The veterans are not limited to pick a VA facility, they can pick any nursing home that they deem to be most convenient to them. Also, the provider doesn’t need to be a VA certified one, and any physician is able to document the care that is needed by the claimant. The nursing facilities costs will then be catered for by the VA Department, which applies to veterans and living spouses who are in independent living or assisted living.
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In many ways type 2 diabetes can be compared to cancer, in that it is a multifactorial disease that rarely affects each person similarly. For decades, the medical community has struggled to diagnose and treat type 2 diabetes since it presents with such a vast array of symptoms and associated complications. Moreover, it has long been thought that the disease, like cancer, could be treated more successfully if patients could be grouped into clinically distinct subtypes with more specific prognoses.
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The investigators sifted through a complex network of electronic medical records (EMRs) and genotype data for more than 11,000 patients. Patients were grouped into three distinct subtypes based on the EMR data, which was followed by genomic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis to pinpoint common genetic variants representative of each subtype.
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“This project demonstrates the very real promise of precision medicine to improve healthcare by tailoring diagnosis and treatment to each patient, as well as by learning from each patient,” explained senior author Joel Dudley, Ph.D., director of biomedical informatics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “It is absolutely efncouraging that we were able to paint a much higher-resolution understanding for a common and complex disease that has long stymied the biomedical community with its heterogeneity. I look forward to seeing what we can accomplish for other patient populations.”
The findings from this study were published recently in Science Translational Medicine through an article entitled “Identification of type 2 diabetes subgroups through topological analysis of patient similarity.”
The impact of this disease cannot be overstated as almost 29 million Americans are afflicted, and diabetes and its complications now rank among the leading causes of death in the United States. Furthermore, diabetes is the leading cause of nontraumatic foot amputation, adult blindness, and the need for kidney dialysis, as well as multiplies the risk of myocardial infarction, peripheral artery disease, and cerebrovascular disease. Globally, the World Health Organization estimates that 8% of the adult population is living with the disease, most unaware that they are affected.
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Besides the caffeine (150mg) there are 36 functional ingredients along with the natural colours, flavours and artificial sweeteners. The serving size for this product, like all products, is based on adults. I wanted to try G-Fuel because of recommendations by other pros and also I heard it was safe. Tyrosine is present in its free form and in the N-Acetyl- form. 5 (tartrazine) may cause allergic-type reactions (including bronchial asthma) in certain susceptible persons. I, myself, drink G FUEL daily. It’s used to boost acidity, enhance flavor, and preserve ingredients.”, According to the FDA, citric acid additive is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for consumption, and “the ingredient is used in food with no limitations other than current good manufacturing practice.”, Silicon dioxide is a food additive used for anti-caking. so my question is, do you think that G FUEL is the cause of this, or is it purely a coincidence. 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If you have been diagnosed with type-I diabetes, metabolic syndrome (type-II diabetes), have issues with your digestive tract, or have any concerns about ingesting this ingredient, please discuss with your doctor before supplementing with G FUEL. Calories from fat are the preferred energy system for your body in a resting state (lack of physical activity) and during steady-state aerobic activity. Sucralose is noncariogenic. G FUEL is sugar-free, gluten-free, and packed with tons of antioxidants and b-vitamins. Thank you so much for the review Dr. Corey. Vitamin B6 is important for the production of neurotransmitters in the brain. Code. I am also not real impressed with dictators. Note that significant ingestion (thousands of milligrams) will eventually cause flushing of your bowels, known as an osmotic laxative effect. Their G Fuel energy drink has been popularised by co-branding with online influencers and gaming … Reply. In G FUEL’s newer flavors, it appears they have significantly reduced the quantity of vitamin B12 from 425 mcg to 10 mcg. There are many other sweeteners that could be used that are better. Additionally, we would dilute the recipe and add more water than recommended on the package. They were one of the first esports nutrition brands on the market. We’ve concluded–based on the available evidence of each individual ingredient and each of their quantities–that 1 serving per day for the average, healthy adult should not pose any health concerns. Answer Save. 50 G FUEL coupons now on RetailMeNot. Taurine is an amino acid (nitrogen-containing protein molecule) that is important for functions in the brain, eyes, heart and skeletal muscles. However, research is not overwhelming in support of this claim. 2020-10-26 10:46:00. yes. Secondly, hydrogen is unsafe because if the hydrogen fuel cell was damaged in a crash the highly explosive gas would escape, with “dangerous consequences”. Maybe. I saw that there was a bogo deal on the fuel website so i went to ask my mom if she can buy it for my but she really don't like energy drinks... i told her that this was safe and there is nothing wrong with it so she searched up is g fuel safe on google and something from 2018 popped up saying that it is dangerous so now she definitely isn't getting it for me lmao... so is g fuel good for me? G FUEL ranks 2nd among Food & Drink Other sites. Learn how your comment data is processed. G FUEL ranks 2nd among Food & Drink Other sites. However, its conversion back to the active form may be reduced when present as N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine. G Fuel is generally considered safe to drink and is vegan, sugar-free, kosher, and gluten-free. In this case, phenylalanine is the main precursor. Read about each of these ingredients below. Our review was published October 20, 2019. Acesulfame potassium is another artificial sweetener commonly used in zero-calorie or zero-sugar soft drinks. A Calorie excess will cause you to gain weight, and a Calorie deficit will cause you to lose weight. Is it bad to take a multivitamin every day. Caffeine is a well known neurological stimulant, most notably in coffee, tea, and soft drinks. In a recent lecture on the future of the automotive held at Loughborough Grammar School, a senior academic stated that hydrogen was not a serious contender as a fuel for vehicles in the future. G-fuel is really sweet for me. G fuel is a healthier and cheaper substitution with a multitude of flavors to choose from. G Fuel is a naturally designed energy drink that has in it several important vitamins and antioxidants. UFC fighters, eSports athletes, body builders, skateboarders, YouTube stars, fitness models, and even NFL players all trust the healthy energy, focus, and endurance in G FUEL! For children, hopefully, their parents are monitoring what they are consuming. Calories from carbohydrates are the preferred energy system for working muscles. 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There was an outcry and the all-powerful film studios refused to distribute the film, but Guccione was undeterred. It claims Australiaa run m, but this needs to be confirmed.
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Film Censorship: Caligula (1979)
Hand in hand, they make their way to the bridal chamber. The restrictions which need to be imposed are those which affect the place of viewing, so a positive decision has to be made by a person to go to see a film, and there is no chance of under-age people seeing it.
Registered subject to the special condition that all advertising clearly indicates that this film is a "modified version". Mr Davies: Aren't the distributors trying to get you to change your mind so they can put it into a hard-top theatre?
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All of it. Banned in April due to "indecency and indecent violence".
Explicit depiction of sexual violence effect enhanced by actual Calligul .|But the controversial Roman epic Caligula is set to be sold on the High Street after the British Board of Film Classification finally gave it the green light. Helen Mirren in a scene from Caligula. An uncut version of the s film is set to make Hookups in Palmerston Australia way on to the High Street ssx censorship was lifted.
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The Bilerico Project’s Bil Browning attended a DADT repeal party in Washington DC last night. And of course, after the stroke of midnight killed the anti-gay law, the party DJ began spinning Lady Gaga‘s “Edge of Glory.” It’s not disappointing, just totally predictable. Luckily the music selection isn’t what mattered most from Browning’s point of view:
“I watched the soldiers around me suddenly grinning from ear to ear and dancing madly with each other, it hit me how much it must mean to finally be able to be honest about your life. The service members’ joy was palpable as they danced and sang along to Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory” in a blur of camo, dogtags, and tears. DADT was finally dead. They were free of the lies and mandated hiding.
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Page 1 of 2Absolutely humongous MMORPG (that's Massively Mutliplayer Online Role Playing Game to the less initiated) RuneScape is taking over the web. As we’re introduced to the brave new world of next generation consoles, it might come as a surprise that a rather quaint browser game has nearly three times as many users as there are Xbox 360s in the world.
When we call it quaint, it’s because the graphics are, well, not quite next-gen. But it's certainly not in terms of size: RuneScape boasts 220 million players registered globally. That's more than the combined population of Great Britain, Germany, France and Australia, with 10 million spare.
RuneScapeitself is a fantasy-adventure role playing game. You control an avatar and can explore the huge RuneScape universe to take on quests, build up skills, earning XP, embark on turn-taking battles against other players and collect Runes to cast spells. It’s the quintessential fantasy RPG. Played straight out of your browser for free but with an optional extra subscription service, it’s pretty much the anti next-gen game. Yet the MMORPG is bigger than it ever has been in its 12 years online. So how does a game buck the trend of big, mutli-million pound Hollywood AAA titles and hardware to keep its millions of worldwide players happy and engaged, all from the Jagex studio in Cambridge?
Ahead of the launch of the new and improvedRuneScape 3, we spoke to RuneScape CEO Mark Gerhard about the challenges and successes of running the world’s most popular free online multiplayer game. “I guess I’m not the classic, typical business guy. I’ve not got an MBA or anything,” says the CEO, who joined in 2008 as Chief Technical Officer and, from his IT background, was promoted to running the company just one year later. He tells us that whilst the next generation of consoles are causing the biggest buzz in games this week, they aim to be the leaders in online browser games. “We see the browser as the platform,” he tells us. So just how do you turn pixelated Runes into real business? Gerhard reveals all.
Free-To-Play Is More Than Try-Before-You-Buy
"We’re very happy with the balance between the free game, micropayments and subscriptions. We kind of pioneered free-to-play in that regard [RuneScape started out as a free game 12 years ago]. A lot of people think of free-to-play games as a free demo, but to us it’s epic. It’s thousands of hours of free game time. There’s this one Dutch lady who’s our number one free player, and she’s been playing for about 10 years for free. But we typically find that school kids will pay for the summer holidays and then stay as free players during school and have reduced activity. Some would probably feel that it’s a sales opportunity or a way to try before you buy but I think our players largely use it as a way to stay in touch with their friends without necessarily feeling the need to pay every month to access good content."'Free' Is Not The Answer For Everyone
"We have a number of games with different payment methods: RuneScape has a subscription method, we released a pay-to-download game called Ace of Spades, we’re releasing Transformers Universe later this year which will be quite compelling. But we never start with the billing model and then work backwards. Crucially the question is, how does payment not feel intrusive to the game experience? That’s a philosophy for us but it’s not necessarily echoed in the industry. Right now there’s so much heat around the idea that you’ve got to go free-to-play, but it’s a response, in my opinion — and this may sound awful — to failed games. Most of these games that are going free as a result of being a failed subscription game, for example. There are obviously some that have done phenomenally well without being free from the outset, but for most people I see it as a response to a problem rather than a smart monetisation opportunity that’s been elegantly developed with the rest of the game." On Page 2... what all online businesses can learn from RuneScape | <urn:uuid:f7dabb55-35fd-4d47-9d3a-7c542b3af02b> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://uk.askmen.com/money/career/runescape.html | 2021-12-07T15:57:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363400.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20211207140255-20211207170255-00632.warc.gz | en | 0.9608 | 949 | [
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Smart factory in Industry 4.0
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The transformation from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing intrigues the profound and lasting effect on the future manufacturing worldwide. Industry 4.0 was proposed for advancing manufacturing to realize short product life cycles and extreme mass customization in a cost-efficient way. As the heart of Industry 4.0, smart factory integrates physical technologies and cyber technologies and makes the involved technologies more complex and precise in order to improve performance, quality, controllability, management, and transparency of manufacturing processes. So far, leading manufacturers have begun the journey toward implementing smart factory. However, most firms still lack insight into the challenges and resources for implementing smart factory. As such, this paper identifies the requirements and key challenges, investigates available new technologies, reviews existing studies that have been done for smart factory, and further provides guidance for manufacturers to implementing smart factory in the context of Industry 4.0.
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For a lineup that had so many uncertainties before kickoff in Commerce City, U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann sure seemed to get a lot of things right last night. From the patchwork backline, to the formation, to the midfield alignment to the forwards, everything seemed to work, as much as a roster missing so many of its regulars can work.
Let’s start at the back
Brad Guzan was fine for the most part, but that was the easy one. With Tim Howard out, the Aston Villa No. 1 was the obvious choice, and while some early second half forays away from his line drew some gasps from the American faithful, Guzan was otherwise reliable. He was sure-handed, confident. He was expected what everybody expected.
We knew Omar Gonzalez and Geoff Cameron would start at the back. The question was where. Gonzalez was going to start in the middle, but electing to go with experience instead of injecting Tony Beltran, Klinsmann pushed Cameron to right back. It’s not a spot he’s used to with the national team, but he plays there with Stoke.
It was a safe choice, one that allowed Clarence Goodson to start a left-center half. It also allowed Klinsmann to get his most experienced defense on the field.
In truth, Cameron wasn’t that good. His distribution was poor and he did little to prevent Bryan Oviedo from being Costa Rica’s most dangerous player. Part of that was the weather, and part of Oviedo’s success was on Graham Zusi, but it was still a patchy performance from the Potter.
But there we no major errors. For a team protecting a 1-0 lead for most of the night, that was the biggest thing. Those Oviedo crosses could have proved painful (especially a first half ball that fell for Bryan Ruiz), but ultimately, Cameron’s growing experience outweighed his errors.
The revelation at defense was DeMarcus Beasley, who was having trouble getting called in at all before starting at left back. His night looked like it would end early when he went face-to-head with Omar Gonzalez, but the Puebla midfielder recovered to have one of the States’ better nights. Whether he holds up at Azteca is another matter entirely, but after for one night, DMB gave U.S. fans reason to think he’s got left back covered.
And he also revitalized his chances of getting to cap No. 100. In all likelihood, Beasley will reach appearance 99 Tuesday at Azteca.
With Danny Williams out, Klinsmann could have inserted Kyle Beckerman or Maurice Edu and maintain his tendency to select three players who normally play deep in midfield. But in a must win game at home, it was no surprise that Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones (right) were asked to do the job by themselves.
The slight surprise may have been the depliyment. We think of Michael Bradley as the midfielder most capable of getting forward, and on Clint Dempsey’s goal, he showed how he can contiribute without ever touching the ball. But for most of the night, Bradley was the deeper of the two, sitting deep to act as a fulcrum.
Jones was allowed to do what he does best – roam, disrupt, use his strength and athleticism to be as annoying as possible. In attack, that gave the U.S. a player to act as an outlet just inside the final third. In the buildup, it allowed the U.S. to patiently kick it around while the Costa Ricans trudged through the snow.
Add in Clint Dempsey’s contributions dropping into the void above the pivot, and the midfield struck a perfect balance. That perception was aided by the early goal, Costa Rica’s five-man defense, the field conditions, home field advantage, and the U.S.’s inherent edge in midfield talent, but the result’s enough to bolster opinion that Klinsmann needs to stick with two, not three, defensively-inclined midfielders.
Attack did enough
Jozy Altidore had one of his better nights of the Klinsmann era. His holdup play was excellent, and Costa Rica seemed to lack the willingness or personnel to compete for the long balls coming out of the States’ end. With a strong work rate and improved off-the-ball movement, Altidore is starting to improve on the qualities that made him an iffy fit before.
Herculez Gomez got the call on the left ahead of Eddie Johnson, a decision that’s more difficult to judge. Gomez was fine, and his experience seemed valuable as he shunned the weather and got to work. On set pieces and with the ball at his feet, Gomez offers a bit more, and his work rate is always among the team’s best. But it’s not difficult to image Johnson being as effective, if in a different way.
On the other flank, Graham Zusi (right) was a non-factor in attack and a detriment tracking Oviedo, but it’s hard to fault Klinsmann for this selection. In what the coach had labeled a must win game, Zusi’s recent successes were always likely to earn Klinsmann’s nod. Gomez could have started on the right while Johnson played on the left, but on a day when possession was going to be important, you can see why Zusi got the call.
On Tuesday, however? It’s hard to feel that confident about that right side matching up against Andres Guardado and Jorge Torres Nilo, particularly when Mexico scored each of their Friday goals while attacking the defense’s right. Klinsmann may have no better defensive option than Cameron, but for that flank to work, Zusi will have to be better running back toward goal.
And then there’s Dempsey, who was never not going to start, but the main issues with “Deuce” as a No. 10 had been his ability to keep the play moving. For both club and country, there’s been a tendency so slow play down outside the final third rather than build momentum. Positionally, a supporting striker’s role allows Dempsey to do the kind of penalty area poaching that made the difference last night, but when that role requires a No. 10’s flare in a 4-2-3-1, Dempsey’s limitations are exposed.
In the snow of Colorado, those limitations were equalized. Everybody became a player who had trouble building momentum. It wasn’t even worth trying. Smart, well-hit passes that actually got to your teammates became more important, and in that environment, Dempsey’s strengths stood out. Putting him in the middle of a 4-2-3-1 proved a valuable focal point for a team that needed to hog the ball.
Credit the coach
Nobody was surprised by Friday’s selection, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t significant choices to make. And it looks like Klinsmann made all the right ones. The right side could have been better, but you could see the coach’s logic. And in the choice of formation, midfield selection, promotion of Beasley, and putting Dempsey (back) in a No. 10’s role, Klinsmann seemed to get it right.
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Nature Reserve Raymond Mayné
Situated north of the village and facing south, the nature reserve stretches on a nearly-six-hectare surface; it belongs to the association “Ardenne et Gaume” and to the district of Rouvroy. It enjoys a warm and dry climate and consists of old quarries, limy lawns and thickets.
The limy lawn is called “truche” by Gaume’s farmers. This word mentions the drought and aridity of the ground. It is characterized by the predominance of shot herbaceous plants. The limy lawn results from the deforestation, the three-year crop rotation, the pasture extensive on the fallows and from the burning of grasses by common fires at the end of winter.
The giving up of those ancestral agro-pastorals practices leads inevitably the limy lawns to a natural bush-covering, which the reserve managers try to lessen.
Nowadays still, we can discover a fauna and a flora similar to those we find in Mediterranean countries: cicadas, grasshoppers, praying mantises, butterflies, lizards, grass snakes, orchids and other rare plants.
Contact : Syndicat d’initiative
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It's up to the DM
Both interpretations are valid. On the one hand, when you carry someone and you slow down your own speed, the other person's speed will also be slowed. On the other hand, despite of the name, the class ability's description says that it allows you only to reduce falling damage, not to slow your speed.
The nature of this damage mitigation process remains vague, thus, a subject to DM's interpretation (see also What is the source of the "spells do only what they say they do" rules interpretation principle?). DM have to make adjudications aside from the rules, that's what we have DMs for. The Slow Fall ability works differently with different DMs, it is completely normal for the 5e paradigm.
As a DM, you should allow this
The main DM's job is not following the rules as strict as possible. The main DM's job is ensuring that all the players at the table had a good time:
As the Dungeon Master, the most important aspect of your role is facilitating the enjoyment of the game for the players.
Always follow this golden rule when you DM for a group: Make decisions and adjudications that enhance the fun of the adventure when possible.
-Adventurer's League Dungeon Master's Guide: Additional Tips for the Dungeon Master
(available from the Adventurer's League resources page)
The rules is a tool for you, not a straitjacket. Your priorities should be: Fun > Story > Rules.
Grappling is underused in 5e. Your player has an interesting idea for their unique fighting style. He/she puts some efforts into the character, you shouldn't throw the idea out afterwards, that would be unfair.
...unless it breaks the game
However, you are supposed to care about all the players, not just about a single one. If one player starts doing too much with their character, other players can't contribute on par with them. That's why we say such a character becomes "unbalanced".
For instance, if a character (due to rules misinterpretation) gains a possibility of doing too much damage, other damage dealers would feel useless. Feeling useless is not fun.
Nevertheless, I don't think this Zangief-style Aarakocra monk is unbalanced. There are already a few restrictions for this style:
- You can do this only with light targets.
- Your speed (including your flying speed) will be halved while you maintain grapple.
- You either deal little damage, or you can damage yourself in the process.
- If you take damage, you fall prone. You will have troubles with the subsequent moving.
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I'm Male / 30 yrs old / Singaporean currently living in 5rm-HDB (Valued at $400k) in the East. Gross income about $3.5k/mth. I left 3 more yrs to reach MOP.
May I know how much cash & CPF needed if I intend to buy a Condo/EC worth about $800k after reaching the MOP? How much loan can I get to achieve the said condo if I still have outstanding HDB loan?
As for investment, is it better to flip the condo (sub-sale) or buy it and rent out the condo later? Or stay in the condo and rent out my HDB flat?
Main target is to have a long term passive income. When is the best time to do all the above?
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