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Objective: By mastering this lesson, you will be able to install razor wire.
Equipment: 2ea. come-a-longs, pliers, bolt cutters, chop saw or hand saw, wire rake for the appropriate height wire, speed wrench with ½” socket, barb wire dog, T-bar, and hammer.
- How do I install razor wire?
- What are the most common safety obstacles to overcome when installing these accessories?
How do I install razor wire?
Razor wire is designed to create considerable personal injury. For that reason, you should be properly in-field trained on both its installation and safety. Some facts to help you get started:
- Razor wire is a generic term for barbed tape. There are several forms of razor wire. The most common is known as concertina wire. Concertina wire uses a stainless steel tape wrapped around a core wire. Each complete coil is clipped to the adjoining coil. When stretched, this creates a spring-like effect.
- Actually, the edge of the barb is not very sharp. It is the needle like point on both ends that creates the dangerous effect. This is important to know when handling the materials. It won’t be the edge of the barb but the point that sticks you.
- Personal safety equipment is required to handle the materials. Safety glasses and a pair of thick forearm high leather gloves. No loose clothing and long sleeves.
- To prevent injury, use a slow fluid like motion to grab the materials. With your eyes fixed to your hands and arms, carefully navigate your hands to the materials. When reaching inside of the coils, carefully and slowly navigate your arms in and out of the coil.
- People most often get injured when pulling their arm out of the materials because they have taken their eyes off of the situation and hurriedly move to get clear. With eyes focused, move slow and consciously to navigate yourself out of the material.
- The second most common injury is a result of not firmly grasping the materials, allowing the barbed tape to slid in the palm of your hand and the barb to slide into the side of your hand. Ouch! At all times, grasp the materials firmly in-between the barbs. Do not let the material slide in your hand and do not let it go. Chances are if you let it go, it will spring back and injury you and others. Hold on!
- The third most common injury is too many people trying to work the materials at once. When fixing snags, attaching to the fence or adjoining roll, no one should be attempting to stretch or adjust the materials.
Before you get started stretching the materials, you should have the specifications for installation. These should include:
- Material placement. The materials may be installed on the ground, on top of an adjoining role, a pyramid, against the fence and on top of the fence. Each installation poses it own unique challenges.
- Coil spacing. How far apart are the coils to be spaced? This can be determined by measuring from one clip to an adjoining clip. Specifications generally require 12” spacing with a + 2”variance to this spacing so consistency is important.
- Attachments. How often and what type. Generally concertina wire is attached every foot to the fence and every four feet to an adjoining role. Concertina wire is attached with hog rings or stainless steel rebar ties. The rebar ties are used to reduce vibrations but take considerably longer to install.
Once you know the location and attachment of the materials, you may begin to install.
- Layout your coils along the fence line. You will need to know how much deployment per coil. This is determined on the coil spacing and number coils per role. Make sure though that you do not locate the coils where these can be easily tripped over or backed into.
- With the coil on its side, remove the wire ties and discard.
- Firmly hold the coil and place along the fence line where you are to begin the stretch. If you do not firmly hold the coil, it will spring loose.
- Allow approximately six coils to naturally spring free from the spool closest to the starting point. Carefully attach these to the fence or barbwire at about 6” centers.
- If not fence or barbwire, use ground stakes.
- Now that the spool is anchored, grab three coils on the other end of the spool. With all three firmly in your grasp, spread these apart from the spool about one foot, creating hand hold to stretch the materials.
- With the three spools firmly in your grasp, begin to stretch the wire along the fence line. Keep some distance from the fence and concertina wire to avoid snags.
- While pulling the materials along the fence line, gently shake it to break free any snags between coils. It is not uncommon that one barb gets entangled with another. These can be separated by firmly grasping the two coils and pulling the barbs apart and away. However, make sure that no one else is moving the materials while you correct this snag.
- As you pull the concertina wire along the fence line, another installer should be assuring the coil spacing is consistent by lifting and pulling the materials.
- Once the concertina wire is in place, hog ring the ribbon to the chain link fabric. You may have to twist the coil to get the ribbon to line up with the chain link weave. Do not attempt to force the coil into the weave with your hog ring pliers. This is a sure way to endure an injury when your pliers slip. Do not attempt to hog ring over a barb.
What are the most common safety obstacles to overcome when installing these accessories?
Cuts. Almost all these accessories involve applying tension or resistance on materials, thus if the material is allowed to become loose it will spring back to its original state. This means loose ends with sharp barbs are flying uncontrollable through the air. Make sure you have eye protection and gloves on at all times. Make sure you are in control of the installation and keep others out of harm’s way.
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Every year, usually in January, I resolve to tidy up my studio and THROW STUFF OUT! Get rid of my Murder History
Every year, I end up reading through old files, old plans and ideas. I look through old files of pictures and scrapbooks and diaries. Not only my own, but things that belonged to my parents.
But I rarely throw any of it away. I re-file, re-organise or simply move stuff, in boxes, into the loft for ‘Future processing’.
It's hard to let go
I always picture my own sons finding this stuff after I’ve died. Perhaps they fight over it (not who gets it but, rather, who doesn’t).
I open the old files, stuff my mother used to collect; reviews of plays, TV appearances, newspaper cuttings, programmes from my days at RADA, etc.
And then there is always the very early MURDER MYSTERY stuff. From our humble beginnings back in 1990.
It doesn’t seem so long ago to me but whenever one looks back, you realise how much has changed in that time.
The Apple Mac
Promotion is the biggest change.
It seems almost impossible to imagine a time before the humble PC (or Apple Mac in my case).
Everybody has a website or two (or more), everyone is on social media. Everyone spends most of their time looking at screens. But those days BEFORE computers…how did we manage?
We used to print books – designed to look like the Penguin books of old. In order to personalise them, we’d write the name of whoever requested information on a bookmark (remember them?).
It used to work, I think. In fact, it must have done because we did really well in the 1990’s. But it must have taken an age to get information out.
Whereas today, people expect you to get something over to them immediately, back then, people would make an enquiry with a phone call. We’d chat for a while and then post them their book (post!)
But I was quite proud of those little books. And as I scan one in now and enhance it (easily) in Photoshop, I recall how we produced them in the first place.
I owned an Amstrad word processor and I would write scripts, letters, promotional material using its ‘golf-ball’ type.
It made a hell of a noise. Also, it took a long time to print. If I had a lot of scripts to print, I’d set it off and let it run through the night. then I’d worry the neighbours would think there was a war or a gun-fight going on.
Of course, I would send the artwork to the printers to produce the actual books. But the design was all mine (I had worked as an artwork for a printing firm before I left Salisbury for RADA).
Our main image – Murder by Accident – was produced using photocopy machines and ripped illustrations, stuck down with glue. To this, I stuck down the carefully cut out (and in some cases, entirely manufactured) letters – as in a blackmail note.
Add the Red Magic
On top of this, I’d slop some red ink and let it run down the page. The final result became the cover of the book, the bookmark and the ads we’d place in corporate entertainment magazines.
We came up with our logo in the same way. A number of splodges were created, followed by a trickle from gravity, until we got the splurge we have used ever since (incidentally, copied by a number of our rivals at the time, one almost EXACTLY the same)
But what of earlier mysteries?
Every year, as I glance back into this history, I stumble across another mystery. In fact, a REAL mystery inasmuch as I can’t remember where it came from – it may have been my mum’s but it may have been given to me by someone else – and every year, I wonder if it can inspire me in some way to create something new.
It is a book, bundled together like a police file, from 1937 and written by Dennis Wheatley. It is titled; Who Killed Robert Prentice?
Of course, it pre dates video and the typed set up is rather long. The pages then turn into clue-pages, containing various exhibits such as letters (with what look to be real post marks) and cut-up photos, etc. All stored in the sort of little packets that stamps may have been kept in.
Then there is a newspaper tied into the bundle, and hand written letters. It must have been great fun to go through (I’ve never managed to get through the whole thing).
But it has the attention to detail I’v always admired, and try to include in my own mysteries.
I can’t bring myself to chuck it out and I convince myself that one day, I really will do something about it.
In the meantime though, if anyone has any idea as to what it is, please let me know. A small part of me hopes it is a long forgotten antique that is worth millions and that, at last, I can afford to retire.
In the meantime, it’s heading back to the loft for another year.
But if anyone knows what it is, please let me know by dropping me a line (or posting a letter) to: |
Online Sabong betting has emerged as a popular and convenient way for enthusiasts of this traditional sport to enjoy their favorite pastime in the digital age. One platform that has gained recognition for offering an immersive and engaging experience in this niche is WPC Live. In this ultimate guide, we will explore what makes WPC Live a go-to destination for online Sabong betting and provide insights into how to make the most of this platform.
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3. Live Streaming: WPC Live provides live streaming of Sabong matches, allowing users to watch the fights in real time and place bets accordingly.
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Tips for Successful Sabong Betting on WPC Live:
- Research and Analysis: Before placing bets, research the participating roosters, their previous performance, and their handlers. This information can help you make informed wagers.
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- Stay Informed: Keep up to date with the latest Sabong news and events on WPC Live to make informed decisions.
- Responsible Gambling: Always gamble responsibly. If you feel that your betting is becoming problematic, WPC Live provides tools and resources for responsible gambling.
In conclusion, WPC Live offers Sabong enthusiasts a dynamic and immersive platform for online Sabong betting. With live streaming, extensive event coverage, and a supportive community, it provides an engaging and entertaining experience. However, it’s essential for users to approach Sabong betting with responsibility, adhering to their budget and using their knowledge of the sport to make informed wagers. WPC Live is a platform that brings the traditions of Sabong to the digital age, ensuring that this beloved pastime can be enjoyed by enthusiasts from all walks of life. |
1. Jeep Wrangler
The Jeep Wrangler is a legendary vehicle known for its off-road capabilities. With its iconic design and rugged performance, it has become a symbol of adventure and exploration. The Wrangler comes equipped with solid axles, heavy-duty suspension, and impressive ground clearance, making it ideal for tackling challenging terrains.
Whether you’re navigating through rocky trails, crossing shallow streams, or conquering steep slopes, the Wrangler’s 4×4 system and specialized off-road features, such as locking differentials and sway bar disconnect, ensure maximum traction and maneuverability.
Furthermore, the Wrangler offers a range of engine options, including a powerful V6 engine and a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, providing ample power for your off-road adventures. Its removable doors and roof add to the thrill, allowing you to experience the great outdoors like never before.
2. Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk
If you’re looking for a luxury SUV that can handle rough terrains with ease, the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk is an excellent choice. Combining comfort and off-road capability, this model offers a refined driving experience without compromising its rugged nature.
The Grand Cherokee Trailhawk comes equipped with the Quadra-Drive II 4×4 system, Quadra-Lift air suspension, and an electronic limited-slip differential, delivering superior traction and stability on any trail. Its Trail Rated badge signifies its ability to tackle the most challenging off-road conditions.
With a powerful V8 engine option and a towing capacity of up to 7,200 pounds, the Grand Cherokee Trailhawk is not only capable off-road but also a great companion for towing your recreational toys, such as boats or ATVs.
3. Jeep Gladiator
For those in need of a versatile off-road vehicle with the functionality of a pickup truck, the Jeep Gladiator is the perfect choice. The Gladiator combines the ruggedness of the Wrangler with the utility of a truck bed, providing endless possibilities for adventure and hauling.
Equipped with Jeep’s 4×4 system and specialized off-road components, such as Dana 44 axles and heavy-duty suspension, the Gladiator can conquer tough trails and uneven terrains with ease. Its high ground clearance and water fording capabilities allow you to take on challenging obstacles without hesitation.
Additionally, the Gladiator offers an open-air experience with its removable roof and doors, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in nature. Its spacious truck bed provides ample room for cargo, making it a versatile companion for both off-road excursions and everyday use.
4. Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk
The Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk is a compact SUV that combines off-road capability with everyday practicality. With its distinctive design and trail-ready features, it offers a unique blend of style and performance.
The Cherokee Trailhawk comes equipped with Jeep’s Active Drive Lock 4×4 system, which includes a rear locker for enhanced traction. Its Selec-Terrain traction management system allows you to optimize performance for different terrains, whether you’re driving on snow, sand, mud, or rocks.
Inside, the Cherokee Trailhawk offers a comfortable and modern cabin with advanced technology features. With ample cargo space and convenient features like a power liftgate, it provides the versatility needed for both off-road adventures and daily commutes.
5. Jeep Renegade Trailhawk
If you’re looking for a compact and affordable option that can still handle off-road adventures, the Jeep Renegade Trailhawk is worth considering. Despite its small size, the Renegade Trailhawk packs a punch when it comes to off-road capability.
Equipped with Jeep’s Active Drive Low 4×4 system, hill descent control, and skid plates, the Renegade Trailhawk can handle rough terrain and steep inclines with confidence. Its compact size also makes it maneuverable in tight spaces, allowing you to navigate through narrow trails and urban environments.
With its rugged styling and modern interior, the Renegade Trailhawk offers a unique blend of adventure and comfort. Its fuel-efficient engines and advanced safety features make it a practical choice for both off-road enthusiasts and everyday drivers. Complement your reading with this carefully selected external content. Inside, you’ll discover worthwhile viewpoints and fresh angles on the topic. Investigate this in-depth resource, improve your educational journey!
In conclusion, these top 5 trail-ready Jeeps offer a range of options for off-road enthusiasts. Whether you’re looking for a rugged and iconic Wrangler, a luxurious Grand Cherokee Trailhawk, a versatile Gladiator, a compact Cherokee Trailhawk, or an affordable Renegade Trailhawk, Jeep has a model to suit your needs. So, gear up and embark on your next off-road adventure with confidence in any of these capable and trail-ready Jeeps.
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Plan on driving in Hawaii? Then read these things you need to know about seatbelt laws, car seat laws, and booster seat laws for vehicles in Hawaii.
General: DIY / How-To
General: Kid Friendly
Vacationing or living in Hawaii and plan to be in a motor vehicle? Then you’ll want to know all about the various laws that we have in Hawaii when it comes to vehicle seatbelts, infant car seats, and child booster seats. These laws are in place to keep drivers and passengers safe and violating these laws can mean big fines and forced safety classes.
I’ll summarize some of the most important information on these laws but note that laws change and this page is not intended to be legal advice in any way. I strongly encourage you to also read the Safe Communities Page at Hawaii.gov for the most current information and laws.
Seat BeltsThe laws in Hawaii require that all front seat occupants in a motor vehicle to be buckled up. If you’re in the back seat and under the age of 18 then you must also be buckled up. Failure to follow these laws could result in a ticket between $102 and $112 depending on which island you’re driving on.
Bottom line? Buckle up, it’s pretty stupid not to these days. In Hawaii, this is even truer since we have so many drivers on so few roads and accidents are pretty frequent. Why risk it? Click it or ticket, as they say.
Children Under 4Any child under four years of age must be in a child safety seat when riding in any motor vehicle.
The back seat is proven to be the safest place for them. Rear facing seats should not be put in the front seat of a vehicle with active front passenger airbags. Always follow the child safety seat directions to ensure your safety seat is properly installed.
Children 4 Through 7Keiki (kids) that are aged 4 years or old but under 8 years of age must be in a child safety seat or booster seat when riding in a motor vehicle.
Children 8 And OverEven if your child is 8 years of age or older, booster seats should continue to be used until a standard seatbelt fits correctly. The lap portion of the seatbelt should fit low and snug on the hips while the shoulder strap shouldn’t cross over their face or neck. Belts should never be placed behind a child’s back, head, or under their arm.
Have your child sit with their back against the seat back. Their knees should be able to bend over the seat edge without them having to slide forward. If that isn’t the case for the child then be sure to continue using a booster seat regardless of age, weight, or height.
Renting A Car?If you’re renting a car be sure to let the rental agency know that what type of safety or booster seat you’ll need. Simply asking for a “car seat” may not get what you need. Talk with the rental agent to let them know the age of your children and which type of seat you’ll need while making the rental reservation, don’t wait until you’re picking up the rental car.
Further ReadingFor more safety tips on passenger safety visit Hawaii.gov and the Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition website.
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Even for a company like Automobili Lamborghini, which is constantly looking to the future and is a benchmark for all the others brands, the idea of creating an SUV has been a really hard challenge to face. A challenge that now it’s accomplished with a precise name: Lamborghini Urus. A project born a few years ago, with a prototype that had captured the world’s attention, and which now becomes reality thanks to the arrival of the model intended for production, which can boast the fact to be the fastest SUV in the world with its 305 km/h of maximum speed.
What strikes the most in this project, however, is the great recognizability of Lamborghini stylistic lines even in a car that has profound differences with those made by the house of Sant’Agata Bolognese in the last thirty years. The challenge that the Centro Stile Lamborghini has faced has been to keep the same DNA of the Aventador and the Huracan even in a car that has different dimensions and set-up, with a height from the ground much higher than usual and an overall center of gravity positioned much higher. Despite this, the Urus continues in the furrow traced in the ’80s by LM002 but also maintaining that sporty and stylistic character that makes it clear that it is a Lamborghini even just admiring its lines and listening to the mighty noise of the 650 HP V8.
During the official presentation, which enthused fans from all over the world, a welcome kit containing the 1:43 scale model of the Urus branded Looksmart Models was distributed to all VIP guests. Both this model and the one in scale 1:18, have been developed in recent months in great secrecy in close contact with the Centro Stile, are already on sale on the Lamborghini Store as an Official Product and will soon be available also at all authorized Looksmart Models dealers. |
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No kitchen? No worries! Lori Webster Cooking can teach a no-cook class in any conference room with just a few basic kitchen tools, using only cutting boards, chefs’ knives, plastic utensils and paper plates. We can also bring in induction burners. |
A devilish little vintage brass knocker, in the form of a Goblin or Devil. With some good aged brass patina, in great condition - solid and heavy. He could be used on an external or internal door, or can also be propped up on the top of some books or as a shelf sitter. A versatile piece with plenty of character. (Does not include screws). |
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A few years ago, Lucky Saint’s Founder, Luke, had a thought: what if all the occasions on which we drink beer could come with, or without alcohol. Alcohol-free beer was nothing new, but great tasting alcohol-free beer? That would be a revelation.
As he approached the brewery, Luke was immediately struck by the imposing Bavarian architecture. But behind these traditional buildings lay a modern brewery, producing the highest quality lager in accordance with Reinheitsgebot, the German purity law.
The Fist Slam
Luke met with the Brewery Owner (who was wearing his drinking trousers - it was Friday after all) and painted his vision - to finally reward those who aren’t drinking with the beer they deserve. When he was finished, the Owner slammed his fist on the table - he loved it.
The Eureka Moment
After months of travelling back and forth from Germany, brewing 60,000 litres of beer, Luke got a call from the Brewmaster. He had something new to show Luke, a beer that had been left unfiltered. Poured fresh from the tank, hazy and golden, Luke took a sip. That was it - the beer he had been searching for.
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It was time to choose a name. Two words
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At Lucky Saint, one of our mantras is that fortune favours the brave (and the hardworking). That’s why we adorn each of our bottles with a centuries-old sign of good luck, our golden ladybird.
Praise the Haze
Five years after the launch of our Superior Unfiltered Lager, we proudly launched our Superior Hazy IPA.
Juicy and hazy with notes of tropical and stone fruits, our brand-new IPA is brewed with Pale Malts and New World Hops to create a balanced beer. |
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The DuPond Registry Aeroport Reception took place in Winter Park, Florida to commence the Concourse d’Elegance weekend with U-Boat Watches front and center, sponsoring the event. The evening included live entertainment, catered food, airplanes, boats, and of course cars. From exotics to classics, participants were invited not just to inspect generations of automobiles. There was even a chance to ride in the pilot’s seat as some of the fastest road cars in the world took off at top speed down the airstrip tarmac.
One notable and honorable guest in attendance at U-Boat’s section was Orlando City Soccer Club’s two time MVP goalie Tally Hall. Tally has earned awards and notable achievements since the start of his career and was recently voted 2015 Fan’s Player of the Year.
Tally Hall, goalie of Orlando City Soccer Club making an appearance at U-Boat’s area. |
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A tourist bus caught fire on an expressway near the southeastern city of Ulsan on Thursday, killing 10 people trapped inside, police said.
The bus was carrying 20 people when one of its tires exploded, causing it to slam into the guardrail and catch fire on the Gyeongbu Expressway near Ulsan, about 300 km southeast of Seoul, at 10:11 p.m., police said.
The fire gutted the bus, leaving 10 people dead. The 10 others managed to escape from the bus and were taken to hospitals for smoke inhalation and other injuries, police said.
The passengers -- most of them retirees of Hanwha Chemical Co. and their spouses -- were on their way to Ulsan from the airport in the city of Daegu after returning from a trip to China, police said. (Yonhap) |
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This playlist includes the Wasiat Nama (Will) of Imam Khomeini (r.a) in Urdu language.
This playlist consists of series of lectures delivered by Sheikh Hamza Sodagar in the Holy Month Of Ramadan 1433/2012 on the topic of Islamic Development. These lectures were delivered in Islamic...
This playlist consists of series of lectures on the topic of Aqaid.
This playlist includes demonstrations, rallies, protests, processions against the illegal, illigitimate, terrorist, criminal and Fascist Zionist State of Israel.
This playlist includes the series of lectures delivered by Sheikh Hamza Sodagar. these lectures are2 covering the practical Islamic Laws based on the rulings of Grand Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Khamenei....
This playlist includes all 12 parts of the movie Kisa e Tiflan e Muslim bin Aqeel (a.s). More videos will be added to this playliat as soon as they available.
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Enjoyed a fantastic day at Skaneateles High School, which has one of the most gorgeous school libraries I have ever seen. Many, many thanks to everyone there – the whole school was involved in this one, and the students incredibly well-prepared. And nice. And friendly. The day flew by at warp speed. Good luck to the boy’s basketball team tonight!
One of my favorite authors, Chris Crutcher, is catching a lot of Michigan flack because he uses realistic language in his books.
What do you think? Should characters in books for teenagers (grades 9-12) use curse words? Is it realistic? Is it realistic to have a book for teenagers in which the characters don’t curse? |
10 tips to beat winter depression and the post-holiday blues.
When your summer holidays feel like a distant memory and you’re turning the dial-up on your central heating, it’s easy to feel a little melancholy, remembering a summer filled with grand days out, holidays abroad and ice lollies melting in the sun. For many people, as the nights draw in and the temperatures plummet, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and winter depression are a clear and present danger. Even if we don’t suffer from SAD, post-holiday blues are a well-documented phenomenon…At least, they are according to Wikipedia!
A person may suffer from post vacation blues after returning home or to a normal routine from a long vacation, especially if it was a pleasurable one. The longer a trip lasts, the more intense the post vacation blues may be. This is because after the person returns home, they realize how boring and unsatisfactory their normal lifestyle routine is when compared to the activities he or she did while on their holiday/vacation. It is easier to overcome/adjust to a normal routine the shorter the trip was. Post vacation blues may result in tiredness, loss of appetite, strong feelings of nostalgia, and in some cases, depression. Jet lag may intensify the post vacation blues. – Wikipedia
Treating winter depression and the post-holiday blues.
Thankfully, because the Taylor tribe didn’t go far enough to get jet lag (Dorset), we’ve managed to avoid a serious case of post-holiday blues. Nevertheless, it’s still worth treating even the mildest symptoms of vacation withdrawal. After all, if we have any hope of making it to the end of yet another endless season of X-factor episodes, it’s vital we inoculate ourselves now.
So what, exactly, is the treatment? Wikipedia assures me the post-vacation blues will wear off in time, although how long the condition lasts can vary from days to weeks.
The good news is, there are plenty of ways you can speed up your recovery from post-holiday blues and the folks at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays are on the case! They sent me a post-holiday survival kit to treat my winter ‘funk’ until it’s time to welcome in a New Year, bursting with possibilities, including an eagerly anticipated family holiday.
The package contained some of the recommended pick-me-ups to beat the post-holiday blues, including aromatherapy candles, face masks, herbal teas, healthy treats and some fitness goodies too.
If you’re looking for ways to cheer yourself up as the winter months loom, my ‘blues-busting’ tips are a good place to start.
10 tips to beat winter depression and the post-holiday blues.
1. Enjoy the memories of your holiday experiences.
Rather than mourning the inevitable return to your daily routine, change your mindset and appreciate the experiences you’ve had instead. See the enjoyable moments of your trip as part of a lifelong treasure trove of lasting memories. Sharing your holiday memories with your friends is a good way of overcoming your post-holiday blues, too, so have some fun swapping stories with your friends.
2. Pamper yourself.
Whether you opt for a luxury spa break or treat yourself to a soothing facial, you’ll feel so much better after a bit of pampering. Pampering needn’t be expensive either. Try one of these fabulous Tonymoly ‘I’m real’ Face mask sheets and settle into your favourite chair and enjoy. You can buy all 12 varieties for only £12.90 including free delivery from Amazon : HERE.
3. Get some exercise.
As well as improving your general health and well-being, exercise can help you get back into shape after the summer excesses. Yoga is one form of exercise that’s perfect for improving your level of fitness and enhancing your mood. If you’ve never tried yoga, why not find a class near you and meet some new people? Then, when your summer holidays come around again, you can take your yoga mat on the road. Jennifer J. Ellinghaus has plenty of advice on sequences, postures and guidance for every journey in her handy guide ‘Yoga for travellers’. You can buy it here: Yoga for Travellers.
4. Make a list of things you want to do and experience over the winter months.
I love lists! So writing down things to look forward to and experience over the winter months is the ideal pick-me-up for a listaholic like me.
5. Learn a new skill or take up a hobby.
If you’re struggling with the return to ‘ordinary life’ after a fun-packed summer, why not perk yourself up by breaking free from your normal routines by learning a new skill or taking up a new hobby? Visit your local library, college, community centre or leisure centre to see if there are any local courses or classes that interest you. It’s a great way to meet new people, too.
6. Rest and relaxation.
Re-establishing regular sleep patterns and taking the time to relax can do wonders for your mood and sense of wellbeing. Whether your favourite form of relaxation is a herbal tea, listening to your favourite music or indulging in some ‘adult colouring’, make time to relax in the midst of the daily grind.
When levels of sunlight drop in the winter months, so too do our levels of vitamin D, so you may need to take supplements to avoid vitamin deficiency. Although, it’s tempting to eat comfort foods in the winter, a balanced and healthy diet will help to keep your body and mood in tip-top condition.
8. Embrace the winter months with Hygge.
Instead of dreading the dark nights and inevitable drop in temperature, embrace the winter season instead with ‘hygge’, the Scandinavian word which roughly translated means. ‘cosiness of the soul’. Hygge is all about candles, cosy armchairs, warm woollen mittens and snuggling up in a cosy armchair a favourite book. Sound tempting? If you want to find out more about the art of hygge, check out my earlier post: HERE.
9. Be grateful.
If you’re fortunate enough to have a wonderful summer holiday to look back on, count your blessings! Be grateful you had the chance to experience a great vacation, especially when many people can’t afford to travel or are limited by other factors.
10. Start planning your next holiday.
One of the best ways to overcome the post-holiday blues is to start planning and looking forward to your next holiday. Check out the online offers and pick up some early bird bargains at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays and start getting excited about what the future holds, instead of getting nostalgic about the past.
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Over to you.
Do you suffer from the post-holiday blues? If so, what medicine works best for you? As always, I’d love to hear from you.
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These tips are my own thoughts on beating the post-holiday blues. If you are suffering from SAD or depression, it’s always best to seek advice from a medical professional. |
Let me start by saying mother nature is an amazing thing. My name is Rob and I’ve got some health problems that shall we say are hard to live with on a good day. I have Fibromyalgia which for you that don’t know is a chronic pain syndrome. Hard enough to live with but then if you throw in PTSD, depression and anxiety well you have a party no one really wants to go to. I go to the doctors about every three weeks and have tried most of the tablets they can offer. I’ve also seen a lot of counsellors and although they are very good I’m yet to have any real positive effect from any of them if I’m honest. Then I met mother nature, like us all I’ve seen her around every where but never really let her in. Or should I say never really took much notice of her. I guess it was because I was brought up in the countryside and just took her for granted (shame on me).
One day I read an article about tree therapy where you hug trees, touch them, smell them, sit and look at the way they move. How the earth around them smells and feels in your hands and for some reason it caught my attention. I felt I had tried everything else so why not give it a go right?
The first time I went out into the forest near me, I won’t lie, I didn’t hug one tree, I felt so silly. “What if someone saw me?” was all I could think. And my anxiety went through the roof with all the what if’s.
My wife offered to come with me to see if it would help but I wanted it to be something I did for myself (I’m stubborn) if the truth be told. Anyway, I went out again the next day in a lot of pain but I was in between a rock and a hard place, my mental health makes my Fibro worse if it gets bad, and it was bad, so I had to make the choice of trying to make a change. Slowly I walked into the forest, this time with my dog, which I found helped me as well. I found somewhere to sit down on a fallen tree and just sat. I closed my eyes and just listened to nature. All I heard was the wind in the trees with its soft rustle of the leaves that it offered, birds calling and singing, and I could hear them moving from branch to branch. The smell of the air around me was clean and fresh with the smell of the pines in the sun. After sitting for a while, I got tuned in to the forest around me and every now and then I heard a bee or a bug of some sort go by with a buzz of their wings. The more I relaxed the more I felt and heard. I could feel myself relax for the first time in a very long time. It was like a door being pulled shut and all my monsters were on the other side of that door, all be it waiting to get out, but giving me a well needed rest from them. I could feel the bark under my hands where I was sitting, it was rough to the touch. I could feel it hard against my skin, in a funny sort of way it was like a comfort blanket letting me know I was going to be ok.
It’s hard to explain really, but it was like an anchor holding me still in the turmoil of my head. The smell of the ground came up to meet me where my feet had stirred it up. It smelt fresh, clean almost, if dirt can smell clean? There was a musky tone to it as well which stayed with me for a long time. It’s funny, I must have smelt that smell thousands of times in my life but that was the first time I really noticed it. I must have been there for well over an hour, just sitting there soaking in the feelings around me. I went home feeling a lot better, walking along I let my hands brush against the trees and the leaves of the bushes I went past, not really worrying about what I might touch.
How I changed my life
It would be nice if I could say that was that and I was cured but I can’t say that I’m afraid. What I can say is that we moved so we were closer to the forest, we made a lot of changes to the way we live and are now in a smaller house, but it only takes me three minutes to walk to the forest now.
If my Fibro allows it, which can be a real trade off sometimes, I try to get into the forest every day even if it’s just for five minutes. If I’m feeling really bad inside my own head, even if it’s raining, I will try to go out for a walk but that’s harder than it sounds because of my Fibro. I won’t lie to any of you, for me it’s not a cure, but it helps me to keep things under control a lot better than I was and for now that’s all I can ask for.
So that’s why I think mother nature is an amazing thing, no drugs, no doctors, just the outdoors.
I must say though, this is what works for me, and we are all different. So, if you’re doing something else that is working for you stay with it and maybe just try this alongside it for now. |
On a small stage in the corner of Parisi’s Restaurant, a fortyish woman sways to the music. She cradles a microphone lovingly, as if it were a crystal champagne glass.
Baby love, my baby love. Her hips, wrapped in a white sequined dress, swing left on “baby” and right on “love” in amazing synchroneity.
“Please tell me that is not my mother up there doing that,” pleads Kory Klem. “Tell me she is not singing the Supremes.”
Kory’s mother is the first in a long list of moms to step up to the karaoke machine and embarrass their children. As the night progresses, sons find themselves singing too, and dads serenade their daughters with songs like “My Girl.”
“I never realized my mother had a tolerance level,” says George Bullard, watching his mother dance with one of his roommates. “You don’t think about your mother having a buzz.”
Later, Bullard and his mother sit on a windowsill ledge, holding hands and talking, their heads close together. “We talked,” said Bullard later. “We were just talking, you know.”
The scene was typical of Junior Parents Weekend last February. If JPW’94 could be summed up, it would be the image of Bullard and his mother in the corner of that restaurant, holding hands.
A lot of hands reached across familial boundaries that weekend. Parents saw where their children worked and learned, who their friends were, and what Notre Dame was all about. Students finally met their parents – not Mom and Dad, but Margaret and Tom, or Elaine and Roger – or, for me, Suzette and George.
Anticipation had almost overshadowed the weekend itself. My mother was in touch with me daily the week beforehand. Something always needed to be confirmed or, as my mother put it, “I just want to make sure you’ll remember.”
Students had to decide whom they would sit with at the weekend’s dinners, what restaurant they’d go to on Friday night, how they would organize places like Parisi’s for late-night Saturday. Most students had things under control, yet some parents, including my mother, wouldn’t believe their children had anything under control.
That Friday my parents’ plane landed two hours late. “Did you wait the whole time?” my mother asked when she entered the terminal. “Didn’t you call ahead? You should have called ahead.”
“Well hi, Mom. Good to see you too.”
“Leave him alone, Suzette.”
After my parents checked into a hotel, we headed to Bruno’s for pizza with my roommates and their parents. Hordes of juniors were showing their parents the Italian restaurant, a current favorite of Notre Dame students. Bruno’s is one of many places I plan to tell my as-yet-unborn children about, just as my father tells of great nights at Kubiak’s and Rocco’s.
“You know, Tom got a couple of scholarship offers coming out of high school, but nothing big,” reminisced the father of one of my roommates. “But I didn’t push him. I had a lot of fun watching him play football for Moeller. He gave me my fun.”
It amazed me how quickly the parents dove into familiar conversation across checkered tablecloths: “…and so there was Jason asleep in the bathtub,” one woman concluded a story to a barrage of laughter. Jason shook his head and rolled his eyes and smiled, which is about all you can do when your mother is telling strangers about your childhood.
After Bruno’s our group joined a flood of parents and students at the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center for the Gala, the weekend’s official opening. It was intended as a dance, but most people just mingled, nibbling at food. For the event, the JACC was a colorful mélange of lights and electric décor – movie paraphernalia, large plastic fish, Mexican singers, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Monk Malloy, armed and ready to pose for pictures. Say “cheese.”
The Gala was people-watching as much as socializing, a pastime at which my mother excels.
“Georgie, there’s a cute girl,” my mother remarked as a short, dark-haired junior passed by – the first of Mom’s many sightings during the night. “What’s her name?”
“I don’t know.”
“You should. She’s cute.”
“George, get me a beer,” my dad said.
Saturday was a blur of hall luncheons and lectures and workshops. The colleges sponsored seminars with titles like “Paths and Prospects for Engineers” and “Themes in Philosophy” and “What Is American Studies?”
“My parents left really reassured that I had made the right decision about my major,” electrical engineering major Mark Naman reported later. “They knew a little about engineering but they didn’t know exactly what was available after school or what I was getting into. Now they do.”
Instead of attending the Saturday lectures and luncheons, my parents and I met up with some of my roommates and their families and headed to Coach’s Sports Bar.
“Football, Dad?” my friend Tom McCarthy said, baiting his father in the middle of lunch. The elder McCarthy bounded from his chair and within seconds the two were flinging rubber footballs through a hole as a machine kept tally. A few minutes later Tom was at the bar asking for more quarters and hoping he would not suffer further embarrassment by a father who had manhandled him in three quick games.
“I guess I wanted to take my dad to Coach’s to show him where me and my friends hang out,” said McCarthy. “That was what I wanted to show them more than my classrooms or the computer labs.”
And how about the football game?
“He always beats me. For as long as I can remember he has always kicked my butt.”
Whether you were introducing your parents to a professor or showing them your favorite bar, there seemed to be an urgency to the whole affair – a desire to display the current details of your life to the people who had shaped it. After Coach’s, some parents went to dorms, classes or other planned activities; my parents and I went to the Observer offices. I wanted them to see where I spend all my time and, although they hate to admit it, why they sent me to college.
“So we write stories here and then they are sent back to the production computers to be laid on the pages.” I ushered them around the office, trying to make my job seem complicated and important. My mother noticed that my desk was the messiest of all. “You need me here to tell you to clean it up,” she said.
Everything the University planned for the weekend was written in pencil. The students added or erased what was needed to give their parents a vivid glimpse of their world. The Observer was at the top of my list. But it was only a small piece of what I was trying to expose to the couple whom I’ve always tried to impress.
“My parents and I talked about things we never really talked about before,” Lisa Mancuso said later. “I remember talking to them about my brother and sister and the relationship I had with them. It was just very different, but they were things I need to talk about.”
Saturday night: The JPW herd filed into the JACC Fieldhouse to face an endless vista of 400 tables. “Honey, we’re number 165.” The search began.
The junior members of the Glee Club were performing, each member introducing a song with a special message for mom. The crowd reacted to each with sentimental “Ohhhhhh”s. “This reminds me of one of those long-distance phone commercials,” one father said.
After a meal that each student pointed out “was not like they serve in the dining hall,” Monk Malloy spoke about gratification and the sacrifice parents make for their children. But his speech was redundant; junior class president Bryan Corbett had already said it all. He’d started in about his parents and then his voice cracked – Bryan the politician, 6-foot-5 and a serious stare, with a crack in his voice. It had nothing to do with being nervous.
After the dinner, parties sprouted at restaurants and apartments and bars around South Bend. A group of Lyons Hall women rented Parisi’s Restaurant and invited friends and their parents to celebrate into the early morning. My parents and I went to Corby’s first; my dad said he wanted to buy his son a beer “at a real bar.”
A band was playing at the crowded bar. My mother slipped onto a stool and my father and I edged in on both sides of her. As we huddled together, drinking beer and smiling, talking about the future and my brother and my summer job, I liked my parents very much. More than I ever thought I did.
“At JPW students finally get to become friends with their parents,” 1993 student chairperson Laura Niemann has said. “Parents are introduced to the life of their children but from the perspective of friendship.”
The next morning, tired parents and their offspring assembled in the JACC one final time. It was the Farewell Brunch, and Lou Holtz was the speaker. He talked about expectations, when to push and when to step away. He got a standing ovation before his speech and after it.
A slideshow followed, featuring student-submitted shots of everything from tailgaters to hall dances to indecipherable “inside joke” scenes. “When the slideshow started, my mom sort of lost it,” Mike Robson recalled later, “She started crying, telling me how proud she was of me. I kept telling her to stop, but she cried more.
“It was like that the whole weekend. My parents started to see where I was going with my life and we got to talk about stuff you don’t talk about at home. And then my mom would start to cry.”
My parents and I slipped out in the middle of the slideshow in order to make Mass at Sacred Heart. We hurried across campus, a brisk wind sweeping around familiar buildings. I hadn’t been to Mass with them in a long time and had stopped going at all except when home on holidays. I felt strange being in a church and dressed in a suit, like on Christmas.
But that day I liked being at Mass. It was the first time I can remember feeling that way in a long time. I do think it was something spiritual. I think my mom and dad felt it too. Mom got teary-eyed in the middle, and I gave both of them long hugs at the part when you’re supposed to shake hands.
After Communion, my mother took my hand. For the rest of the Mass and afterwards, walking across campus, we held hands as we did when I was young – at that innocent age where all females are “gross” except for mom.
As we walked toward the library, then down near the stadium, we started a serious talk, stepping back to what they had done and what I had become.
“You know, church today was the first time I’ve gone in a long time,” I confessed. “I don’t go to church anymore.”
“It’s all right, you’re not ready yet,” my father said. “But when you have a family, you will want to go to church.”
My mother finally asked the question she must have been holding back for a long time: “Georgie, did we do a good job raising you? I mean, did we push you too much or not enough? Like Lou Holtz was talking about?”
“Mom, I don’t do drugs and I’m in college. Sure, I think you did a good job.”
“I feel really lucky, George,” my father said. “All my children have turned out great. Sometimes people ask me what I did right. And all I can say is something that my father told me: ‘The best thing you can do when raising children is love their mother.’”
At that moment I believed it too. I was sure I would take my children to church and I would love their mother. As I walked with my parents, talking with my father and holding my mother’s hand, I felt sure of so many things. Sure of myself and of my parents. Not sold on the whole image of the Notre Dame family, maybe, but sold on my family. Which may be one and the same.
George Dohrmann is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of the newly released Superfans: Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom. When this piece was originally published, he was a rising senior and the incoming sports editor of The Observer. |
In a striking visualization, NASA has transformed thirty years of complex data into a chilling illustration of the world’s rising sea levels. The animated graphic, masterfully crafted by Andrew J. Christensen of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, showcases the growing severity of our climate crisis.
Between 1993 and 2022, sea levels have risen by over 9 centimeters, or roughly 3.5 inches. This might not seem substantial, yet when represented as water encroaching a ship’s window, the danger becomes palpable.
These tangible visualizations help us understand the profound, albeit silent, impacts of climate change on our planet. Despite their seeming stillness, our oceans are warming, absorbing a staggering 90% of the heat added to the planet’s system.
Coastal communities worldwide are experiencing these rising sea levels, with saltwater lapping on their doorsteps. An alarming future awaits millions more, as coastlines are expected to ‘disappear’ unless greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced.
Satellites have routinely measured sea levels since 1993 by bouncing microwave signals off the ocean’s surface. This data, coupled with measurements from coastal tide gauges, ice masses information, and greenhouse gas emissions records, allows scientists to make more accurate predictions about future sea levels.
However, the challenge lies not only in gathering this data but also in communicating the implications of these findings to the world’s populace. It’s a sobering reality that the communities contributing the least to global warming will suffer the most.
The planet’s atmosphere, once a comforting blanket, now weighs heavy with carbon dioxide emissions, causing Earth to swelter. As seawater heats and expands, sea levels rise, further exacerbated by melting ice sheets and storm surges.
These visualizations provide an essential tool in raising awareness and underlining the urgency of our predicament. As the planet’s ‘vital signs’ show increasing strain, the time to act is now. Scientists are imploring us to understand and confront the imminent threat of climate change, lest we watch our world change irreversibly from the window of our sinking ship. |
Scientists used to believe that our neurologic fate was sealed at birth with a single, lifetime allotment of brain cells.
The thinking went – not so very long ago – that little by little, with the bumps of age and lifestyle, this initial stash of neurons died, taking our brain function along with them. Yet, strange as it may sound, canaries, video games, and young blood are finally putting that punishing prospect to rest. Studies involving bird song, gaming, and the rejuvenating factors of young blood have shown not only that neurons can be generated throughout adulthood, but also that the maddening aspects of aging, such as memory loss and slower processing speed, can be partially reversed.
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD. Photo: Cindy Chew
Both neuroscientists and coal miners revere the canary, but for entirely different reasons. Like humans, canaries are known in neuro-science as “open learners,” meaning they learn throughout adulthood. “Canaries learn songs, like we learn language, from older adults when young,” explains Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD, a stem cell neurobiologist at UC San Francisco. As they get older, they tweak their songs seasonally to distinguish themselves during mating season. Alvarez-Buylla’s mentor, neuroscientist Fernando Nottebohm, PhD, a professor at Rockefeller University, suspected that as these parts of the canary brain assembled and disassembled for the yearly acquisition of the new mating song, new neurons were being taken on board. Such a notion was unimaginable at the time.
“When Nottebohm proved by morphology, electrophysiology, electron micro-scopy, and connectivity between 1983 and 1986 that the new cells were neurons, the whole field of stem cell science became a lot more exciting,” recalls Alvarez-Buylla, who holds the Heather and Melanie Muss Endowed Chair in the Department of Neurological Surgery. The jaws of neuroscientists throughout the world dropped at the possibilities posed by Nottebohm’s finding. Neurogenesis offered a new way to repair damage wrought by age, neurological injury, or disease. Alvarez-Buylla went on to advance the field ever further by identifying the neural stem cell, its origins, and its behavior in the mammalian brain.
Now, decades later, young blood – literally speaking – has joined the canary as a harbinger and waypoint en route to realizing the promise of neurologic rejuvenation.
Last spring, UCSF Faculty Fellow Saul Villeda, PhD, published a study in Nature Medicine showing significant signs of reversal of age-related cognitive decline in old mice after they were infused with the blood of young mice over the course of several weeks. Two other studies showing the revitalizing effects of young blood in brain and muscle tissue were published at the same time.
Saul Villeda, PhD. Photo: Elisabeth Fall
“All three studies coming out simultaneously made things go supernova,” says Villeda, who, at the age of 33, is a bit of a young blood himself. In the media frenzy that followed, Villeda was inundated with requests for interviews, in both English and Spanish. Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Villeda was able to deliver in both languages. “What we were saying collectively, across three impressive institutions – UCSF, Stanford, and Harvard – is that there is reversibility in the aging process. It’s a bit of a game changer.”
The experiment itself proved quite easy for Villeda to explain to the lay press. He and the graduate students in his lab took the blood of young mice, stripped it of its cells, and infused the remaining plasma into old mice. They did this every three days for 24 days, using small injections of the plasma each time – just 5 percent of a mouse’s blood volume. The young mice in the study were 3 months old, the equivalent of humans in their 20s, and the old mice were 18 months old, the equivalent of humans in their 60s.
Days later, he tested them for cognitive changes. In one experiment, the mice had to wind through a water maze and remember where a dry platform was hidden; in another, the mice had to recall a location where they had received a shock. “When we gave them the injections of young blood, they no longer had the cognitive impairments of a normally aging mouse,” says Villeda. “Their performance wasn’t quite equal to the young mice, but pretty close.”
The two experiments tested the functioning of the hippocampus, a part of the brain, in both mice and humans, that is especially affected by normal aging. It’s our hippocampus that we use in searching for our car in a crowded parking lot. When we park, our brain, without prompting, will note spatial cues in the environment and keep them in mind to guide us back to the same place hours later. But the older we are, the more likely we are to forget those spatial cues, throw in the towel, and press the panic button to find the car.
“As we get older, we have fewer stem cells and newly born neurons in our brains, and our learning and memory are affected,” says Villeda. “It’s not dementia, it’s just the natural degeneration associated with age.”
Clearly, the young blood helped turn back the clock for Villeda’s old mice. So he began searching for molecular and biochemical changes in their brains that might explain the transformation. To accomplish this, he used the somewhat macabre technique of parabiosis, which involves sewing a young mouse to an old mouse so they share a single blood supply. After a month, he sequenced the genes of the old mice and found that the biggest changes occurred in genes associated with neuronal plasticity, the brain’s response to learning. When we are learning or responding to our environment, our brain either increases the number of connections among neurons or strengthens our existing neuronal connections. “Normally, with aging, the activity of genes that control synaptic plasticity decreases,” says Villeda. “We saw that exposure to young blood increased the expression or activity of these genes.”
The old mice with the new high-octane blood were blazing through the mazes because their neurons were making new connections, and solidifying previous connections, with the vigor of mice less than half their age. Villeda and his students searched the gene array for some sort of mechanism that might be responsible for the surge of neuroplasticity in these middle-aged mice who, without the blood infusion, might still be trapped in the maze. The patterns of activated genes and changes they found looked to Villeda like the work of a master regulator known as CREB.
“CREB is an old friend of neuroscience,” he explains. “We know that it’s very important for learning and memory, especially during development.” To figure out the extent of CREB’s role, a student in Villeda’s lab manufactured a virus carrying a phosphate that would turn CREB off, then repeated the blood-infusion experiments on mice lacking this master regulator. In the new experiments, the old mice with young blood gained some benefits of youth, but the effect was significantly dampened. The experiments showed clearly that CREB is important – but that it doesn’t work alone.
“Now we know that as we get older, we are not necessarily losing the genes or proteins in our brains that we need to improve cognition. Maybe, like CREB, they are just not as active,” says Villeda. “We’ve identified one part of the mechanism to wake up the brain. Now we have to find the other genes it works with to replicate the full effect.”
Hold or Reset?
Villeda is quite excited at the prospect of applying these findings to humans – a sentiment surely shared by anyone over the age of 40. “We know rejuvenation exists,” he says. “Now we have to figure out the bare minimum of therapeutics or genetic tinkering necessary for it to be safely translated into a human. There are so many questions we have yet to answer.”
We know rejuvenation exists. Now we have to figure out the bare minimum of therapeutics or genetic tinkering necessary for it to be safely translated into a human.”
For example: What part of plasma is really driving the changes, and are they lasting? Mice only live an average of 3 years; we live 80. How often would humans have to be treated, and when should treatments start? Cell proliferation slows in old age, perhaps to offset cancer risk. Would young blood factors stimulate cancer? If so, it might be more prudent to switch off the mechanisms that initiate the aging cascade.
“People who have a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s have a mutation, but they don’t get the effects until later in life, which means that something in their young bodies knew how to fight it or compensate for it,” says Villeda. “If we could reverse some of the aging signs, perhaps we could maintain ourselves at a younger stage and then maybe not have to deal with diseases until far later in life.”
While Villeda is turning back the clock in his cohort of mice, Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, is beating back cognitive decline with a joystick. Dressed in a black shirt and sleek gray blazer, Gazzaley looks more like a biotech executive than a neuroscientist. It turns out he’s both. Gazzaley rocked the world of neuroscience last fall with the release of a video game, NeuroRacer, that dramatically improved cognitive performance in elderly players. In the game, players drive a car along a winding track, while various signs flash into view along the way. Players are instructed to press a button when a specific sign pops up, ignoring the rest, all while keeping their eyes on the road.
“We developed NeuroRacer to put pressure on cognitive control abilities in a powerful way in older adults, who we know have deficits in this domain just by virtue of their age,” says Gazzaley. “The results were better than we even dreamed of.” After one month and just 12 hours of training, players who were between 60 and 85 years old were scoring as well as 20-somethings who had just learned the game. And, retested six months later, the players were still holding onto those gains.
Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD. Photo: Susan Merrell
The cognitive skills Gazzaley aimed to improve with his game are selective attention, sustained attention, working memory, and task switching. “We are building a tool to help people develop the cognitive control skills they need to interact with their environment based on their goals,” says Gazzaley. “If we’re trying to do too many things at once and can’t hold our attention to something we want to focus on, then all aspects of our lives suffer, whether it is family, work, safety, or even entertainment.”
Using EEGs, Gazzaley was able to show increased brain activity in the prefrontal cortex of the older players. After they played the game, their EEGs started to resemble those of 20-somethings. The prefrontal cortex, considered the seat of cognitive control, is the last part of our brains to develop – at around age 25. It is also the area that distinguishes humans from all other species.
The EEGs showed signs of connectivity to other parts of the brain as well. Like Villeda’s mice and Nottebohm’s canaries, Gazzaley’s game-players were enhancing their neuroplasticity, adding new connections while strengthening existing ones. He confirmed these gains by testing other areas of cognition. When assigned a facial recognition challenge, Gazzaley’s players showed improvements in working memory. This showed that the benefits of game play were transferable to other brain functions. Transfer, considered the gold standard for effectiveness in the field, is evidence of underlying neural connections among different areas of cognition. “That’s exactly what we wanted to achieve – to see if we could change the brain in a meaningful way,” says Gazzaley, “and have that accompanied by changes in cognitive abilities that we weren’t directly targeting.”
80 IS THE NEW 20: The brain’s command center for multitasking is in the prefrontal cortex. The brain scan on the left depicts the prefrontal cortex activity of Gazzaley’s 20-year-old subjects as they played NeuroRacer, a video game that involves multitasking. The scan in the middle depicts the starting point for his 60- to 85-year-old players, playing the game the first time. And the scan on the right shows the progress the older players made after playing a total of just 12 hours over the course of a month. Their scans showed signatures of brain activity comparable to that of the 20-year-olds who had played the game once.
NeuroRacer is clearly not your ordinary video game, in which users try to reach ever-higher levels of expertise. While popular first-person shooter games have been shown to improve cognitive abilities in young adults, Gazzaley says this happens by accident. NeuroRacer is a closed-loop game, in which the level of play is adjusted to the player’s behavior – and eventually to his or her own brain. The next version of the game, which Gazzaley is developing with Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs, where he is chief science adviser, will feature closed loops that adapt during every second of play. Gazzaley’s lab is also working on new games that employ transcranial electrical stimulation, a very mild shock targeted to particular parts of the brain to enhance learning. When playing one of these new games, the player receives low-frequency bursts of energy in certain parts of the frontal lobe. “We are studying if you learn faster if you play a game while we stimulate you at the right frequency,” Gazzaley explains.
The therapeutic and educational potential of such games is real and vast. They could be targeted, like NeuroRacer, to a healthy elderly population or be used as an educational tool in schools. Or they could be used to ameliorate known deficits in old and young alike. Gazzaley is currently working with pediatric neurologist Elysa Marco, PhD, on a game aimed at helping children with attention deficit disorder to better train their focus. The two are also teaming up to develop games for patients with autism, in an effort to stimulate the parts of their brains that the disorder has locked away.
Gazzaley and Villeda come at cognition along very different paths, but with equally impressive vigor and results. And they are energized by each other’s work. “Adam’s games are incredible,” says Villeda. “Soon we will be able to grab an iPad and do games that will significantly improve our cognition. Who would have thought of that?”
Villeda sees parallels in their approaches to enhancing cognition during the aging process – through collaboration. He joined forces with bioinformaticians to help him sort through his data, with molecular biologists to create viruses, and with behavioral neuroscientists to identify the best ways to test cognition. “Immunology, neurobiology, and stem cell science all come together when talking about rejuvenation,” says Villeda. He believes that building bridges among disciplines will be critical for translating what is now fascinating research into the clinical realm.
“Saul’s and my research could be very synergistic in ways that we don’t fully understand right now, and Alvarez-Buylla’s work has been foundational to neuroscience,” says Gazzaley. “There is no Holy Grail for enhancing cognition, so what we probably should have been focusing on for the past 40 years is how the many interventions in our toolbox might interact with each other.”
Perhaps someday soon, baby boomers will be able to relive their 20s, at least cognitively, by taking a shot of Villeda’s revitalizing plasma while playing a video game developed by Gazzaley. Or maybe Alvarez-Buylla will have figured out how to engineer the perfect mix of neural stem cells to rebuild what age tears down. While we wait, Gazzaley urges us to apply all the strategies that science has already endorsed: Research has long shown that diet, exercise, and enriched, engaging environments are good for the brain. In fact, a new study out of the Cleveland Clinic showed that people with a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s were able to stave off neurologic decline with a three-day-a-week exercise routine. Those with the same disposition who chose not to get off the couch showed significant degeneration.
“Clearly the brain does not do well with comfort,” Gazzaley says, “so challenge it as much as you can.” |
Luna Wedding Set - Tanzanite
Made to order
(4-6 weeks for production)
- Tanzanite - faceted Pear cut approximately 1ct
- Solid 14 Yellow Gold (585)
- .11cts of Natural VS1 White Diamonds
- 1.2mm bands
When worn as a piece of jewelry, the tanzanite can stay within your auric field and bring your consciousness to a permanently higher state. Not only that, but it also brings positive self-awakening attributes to other people who see its beauty.
The popular legend regarding the tanzanite crystal states that it was a gift from the gods. This is because its discovery was associated with the Masai cattle herders who first saw the mesmerizing blue color stones after the brown zoisite stones on the ground were scorched in a bush fire that was caused by lightning.
Please allow 4-6 weeks to craft your handmade jewelry. Email us at [email protected] if you need a rush and we will do our best to accomodate you.
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Luna Wedding Set - Tanzanite
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Yes, absolutely! Send us a message on Instagram so we can begin your virtual gem selection process! We will send you photos and videos of all the options available, and can work together on your custom gem layout until it's perfect!
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Most of our gemstones are sourced during our annual shopping trip at the Tucson, Arizona shows (the largest gem convention in the US) Our shop directly from the miners and small business businesses that come from all over the world. This is usually the first week of February.
The others are sourced by need basis throughout the year from our close gemstone dealers locally in the Diamond District in NYC.
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All Magick Alchemy designs are casted locally with a casting house we have worked with for over 5 years. We use them because 100% of their gold is from a refiner that recycles and processes old gold jewelry into new and clean alloys to be used again. We do not use newly mined gold as we don't see a reason to with so much recycled gold available. This is better for the planet and economy!
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All Magick Alchemy jewelry is made locally in NYC by the designer and a freelance jeweler. We do not mass produce, therefore there is a limit of how much we produce weekly. Please be patient as we take the time with each and every piece, and do not want to rush this important process to ensure your jewelry is made well to last lifetimes.
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What’s possible in a week? If you dedicated seven days to the achievement of one goal, how ambitious could you make this goal? These were the questions that the multilingual friends Katy and Sara posed themselves when they determined to learn English in one week, to prove that it can be done and anyone can do it with the right methods.
They would attempt to liberate themselves from the distractions and responsibilities of modern-day life in order to cram eight hours of study time and I was observing some of the world’s most capable language learners at work.
The friends set themselves the challenge of learning a language in a week in order to stretch themselves, and then it was a question of choosing which language to learn. English presented itself as a natural option; there are nigh on 300,000 English speakers in Germany’s capital, and the areas are dotted with stores adorned with signs in English.
“Truly understanding one’s environment requires one to first understand English”
The first operational step in the friends learning process was to decorate the entire apartment with sticky notes. This had an almost ceremonial touch to it as the friends delved into dictionaries and proceeded to label everything with its corresponding English name.
Within the space of about an hour it was impossible to carry out any menial task, be it making a coffee or flicking off a light switch, without first being presented with at least three different words related to this action.
The importance of the other twin’s presence became immediately apparent as Katy and Sara delegated responsibilities for rooms to decorate with sticky notes. This simple task was augmented by continuous little tests that they would spring on one another, and the fact that they split up their day slightly differently and studied different topics meant that each twin became a source of knowledge for the other.
The most extraordinary moment came towards the end of the week!
The friends simply switched their everyday conversations to English, asking one another if they wanted tea or coffee, were ready to cook dinner or when they were going to leave the house.
Katy and Sara had numerous micro-challenges throughout the week. On the first day they were visited by a English friend who greeted them in English and complimented them on how quickly they’d picked up their first words and phrases.
They then learned the names of fruits and the numbers from one to a billion so that they could visit the English market (although they refrained from purchasing nine hundred thousand kumquats). Displaying their haul after their first functional exchange in English, they beamed with pride and a palpable sense of accomplishment before marching back home to study further.
On our second visit to the brother’s apartment 24 hours into the week, we found them sampling dozens of different kinds of English snacks.
Like kids staring at the backs of cereal packs before heading to school, the nutritional information and various special offers and competitions on the packaging were analysed during snack breaks.
There was no moment of complete removal from the language learning process during the eight hours that the friends had allotted to it.
They were constantly using their existing knowledge to support the ever-growing knowledge of English, this being the root of their success.
“you will likely come across words that share common origins with your native tongue”
The friends spent a lot of time engrossed in books or on their computers and apps, flicking and swiping their way through exercises eagerly, but at other times they were to be found searching busily for English radio stations and write-ups of English football games on the web.
There is no definitive method to learn a language fluently
All too often, people enter their weekly language class to converse with their teacher, but then barely have any contact with other speakers and that’s not enough.
The old saying that we can solve problems more effectively when we sleep on it may be especially true if the problem we’re trying to solve is learning a new language.
Researchers from two Swiss universities wanted to know if they could enhance the learning of words from a foreign language by exposing people to the words during non-rapid eye movement sleep the deep, dreamless sleep period that most of us experience during the first few hours of the night.
To find out, they gathered two groups of study participants, all of whom were native German speakers, and gave them a series of Dutch-to-German word pairs to learn at 10 pm. One group was then instructed to get some sleep, while the other group was kept awake.For the next few hours both groups listened to an audio playback of the word pairs they’d already been exposed to and some they hadn’t yet heard.
The researchers then re-gathered both groups at 2 am and gave them a test of the Dutch words to uncover any differences in learning. And indeed there was a difference:
“The group that listened to the words during sleep did better at recalling the words they’d heard”
The simple yet potent trick the researchers employed is known as verbal cueing, and this isn’t the first claim made for its success while sleeping. But what makes this study different is that it puts a finer point on the conditions necessary for this trick to actually work namely, it only works when we’ve already been exposed to the verbal cues before we sleep.
The researchers added a techie dimension by conducting electroencephalographic (EEG)recordings of the sleeping participants brains to track neural electrical activity during the learning period.
They found that learning the foreign words overlapped with the appearance of theta brain waves, an intriguing result since theta is the brain wave state often associated with heightened learning while awake (usually we’re in either the high-frequency, high-alertness alpha or beta states while awake, but it’s thought possible to induce theta state slower in frequency than alpha and beta through concentration techniques). |
Two days after I parted ways with my job, I had my first client as a solopreneur. How? Because of networking. Networking has been one of the biggest power boosts to my career as a Portland freelance writer. In fact, my current active client list is composed largely of referrals from my networking group, the Portland-based Northwest Networking Professionals.
So, if you’re a freelancer, how do you find a networking group? My advice is to get in touch with your local chamber of commerce. Another option is to poll businesses and vendors, especially financial planners, insurance agents, bank managers, Realtors, and any other businesspeople who rely heavily on referrals.
Keep in mind that once you find a networking group, it may take some time to build a good client base. I had a good start with my group, and I stayed steadily engaged with local and non-local gigs, but the bonanza really occurred this summer. Members of the group had the first part of the year to understand my skill set and how it could apply to people they knew.
If you’re a freelance writer, you’ll have an edge because many of these groups don’t have members who are writers or editors. This allows you to tap into a rich vein of clients.
Another benefit is that you will have several trustworthy service providers that you can retain for yourself. I found a better insurance agent and a reliable construction contractor through my group.
So, what are you waiting for?! Go forth and network! |
“After a series of consultations with world experts, the WHO
will begin to use the new term “mpox” as a synonym for “monkeypox”, the WHO
says in a statement.
According to the WHO, the two names can be used
simultaneously for one year, after which the monkeypox name will be eliminated.
“This serves to mitigate concerns raised by experts about
the confusion caused by a name change in the midst of a global outbreak and
also gives time to complete the process of updating the International
Classification of Diseases and to update WHO publications.”
According to the organisation, when the “monkeypox” outbreak
expanded earlier this year, “racist and stigmatising language was observed and
reported to the WHO on the internet, in other contexts, and in some
“In several meetings, public and private, several
individuals and countries expressed concern and asked the WHO to propose a way
to change the name”, he stresses.
The term “mpox” will be included in the official list of diseases that the WHO will update in 2023.
For more information on the monkeypox virus in Portugal, click here. |
The 9th COMPILE General meeting
What: 8th General Meeting
Where: Athens, Greece
When: 25th – 26th October 2022
After three years, the Consortium was back in Athens. The last COMPILE General meeting was hosted by our Greek partner ICCS between the 25th and 26th of October in The National Hellenic Research.
The project is coming to an official close on the 31st of October, so the aim of the meeting was to check the last updates on the project and review the remaining deliverables. At the same time, the consortium has already planned future interactions and collaborations.
The meeting joined 16 representatives of 13 project partners from different EU countries. The next gathering of all partners will take place in mid-December for an online review meeting. |
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Khaby Lame, the most followed TikTok user in the world, has officially been granted Italian citizenship after 21 years of living in the country.
The 22-year-old social media comedian was born in Senegal but lived in Italy since the age of one. The citizenship was awarded to lame on 17th August, but the TikToker said that he had always felt Italian.
Lame was handed the citizenship during a ceremony in his hometown of Chivasso, and says that he feels a great responsibility for the oath that he took.
Lame had turned to the platform after losing his job in a factory when Italy went into lockdown at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. He went on to attract around 150 million followers, all whilst not uttering a single word.
He was notified of the citizenship by the Italian interior ministry on June 8th, just weeks before overtaking Charli D’Amelio as the world’s top TikTok user.
The citizenship comes amid a political debate in the country whether to grant citizenship at birth to children born in Italy to foreign parents, regardless of the parents’ citizenship. This would bring Italy into line with other European countries, as currently, kids born in Italy to foreign parents can only apply from the age of 18. |
Day 5 – Worlds started!
November 11, 2017
Another hard-working day. We were at track checking. The track is covered with sugar and seems to be adhesive. Most of the time at the track we were glueling tires and assebling electronic. At the end of the day we ate delicious supper and dessert. Tomorrow we are starting practisec. Keep fingers crossed! |
Globalization has changed the nature of many markets. Previously protected local industries have been forced to become more competitive, a situation that provides both opportunities and challenges. Key among these is the challenge of implementing responsible business practices. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is widely recognized as a worthy commitment to ensure sustainable benefit for both corporations and communities.
ISBN 9780470825204 / John Wiley / 2010 / 1ste editie / 212p. / hc / |
The amount of films that attempted to cash in on the success of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws is quite staggering, unfortunately, the number of them that turned out to be bad is quite staggering, but as many low-budget shark films hoped to get some of that Jaw’s money there was also quite a few filmmakers who took the formula that Spielberg utilized so well and then to it in inland. That was the case with Snowbeast, a made-for-television horror film that hoped to chill viewers but, instead, bored them to death.
NBC’s Snowbeast was not the first film to take the Jaws formula and apply it to a more land-based threat, that honour would go to William Girdler’s Grizzly, but it does get credit for going with the legendary Bigfoot as its threat, which is great because this particular monster has been underutilized by filmmakers for decades. The movie opens with a couple of female skiers coming across a set of “Bigfoot tracks” and while the one girl passes it off as the work of a prankster wearing novelty snowshoes, which is not an unreasonable assumption, a horrifying roar causes her companion to flee for life, leaving her dumbstruck companion at the mercy of the creature. This attack is one of the film’s many encounters that is shot from the point-of-view of the monster, a technique utilized well in Jaws due to the problems they had with their mechanical shark, yet in the case of Snowbeast the over-reliance on POV shots is not a case of a filmmaker’s ingenuity overcoming an obstacle but one of low-budget necessity and a terrible Bigfoot costume.
The film’s primary antagonist, if you don’t count the barely seen Bigfoot, is ski resort owner Carrie Rill (Sylvia Sidney), who convinces her grandson Tony (Robert Logan), who is the one who came across the bloody jacket of the first victim and has also seen the creature himself, that it would be bad for business if word got out there was a monster in the hills and she suggests that they simply close off that part of the woods and post “Restricted Area” signs and wait for the Winter Carnival to be over before investigating further. Sadly, this cliched plot element is the least of this movie’s problems as the filmmaker’s attempt at padding out the movie’s meagre 86-minute running time is even worse than its lack of monster action, with a lot of soap opera drama concerning the arrival of Olympic-has-been Gar Seberg (Bo Svenson) and his wife Ellen (Yvette Mimieux) there isn’t much to engage the viewer. Gar hopes to land a job at the ski resort while Ellen must deal with feelings she has been harbouring all these years for Tony, who she had a fling with before marrying Gar, and during any of these scenes, you will be praying for a Bigfoot attack.
Needless to say, the cover-up doesn’t last long once the body of the first victim is discovered, its bloody remains found in an abandoned barn, and so Sheriff Paraday (Clint Walker) plans to spread the story that there is a lone savage bear on the loose to keep the public from panicking, which to be fair, is a better explanation than either an avalanche or a Bigfoot, but his efforts to “snow” the population with this story quickly becomes moot when the Bigfoot creature attacks the local school, while the Winter Carnival preparations were underway, resulting in panicked stampeding and the injuring of poor ole Mrs. Rill. As luck would have it, Ellen is also a television journalist who recently did a piece on the “Bigfoot controversy” and when she stumbles across some Bigfoot tracks she immediately follows them, instead of calling down to the police, who she sees at the nearby crime scene, as any sane person would have done. And all I have to say about that is Ellen surviving to the end credits is a tad disappointing. When our group of supposed heroes eventually band together and go after the creature we don’t so much as have an exciting climax as one where the survivors just stand around waiting for the end credits to roll, in what must have been a career low-point for all involved.
Where Snowbeast differs from Jaws is that the local Sheriff in this film is all for covering up the fact that there is a monster roaming the mountainside, he even shoots and kills a poor bear so that he can drag its corpse in front of the townsfolk to prove that the threat is over which makes this guy more of an irresponsible asshat than the film’s hero. We never get a scene where he butts heads with the resort owner about keeping the Winter Festival on schedule and, strangely enough, the hero at the end of the film turns out to be the washed-up Olympic skier, who dispatches the beast with a well-placed ski pole, while both Tony and Sheriff Paraday come across as a pair of useless twits. Being this was a made-for-television event it had obvious limitations, mostly due to network censorship, thus nudity was a definite no-go but even the violence one would expect in a movie about a killer Bigfoot was completely missing, and it being made-for-television was no excuse because in 1972 ABC aired their “Movie of the Week” The Night Stalker which was practically brimming with action and violence with Darren McGavin tracking down a particularly nasty vampire, and while not graphic in nature it was still pretty damn impressive. Now, in the case of Snowbeast, we get none of this as eighty percent of the film consists of shots of people skiing through the woods and those rare scenes revolving around the monster are not only bloodless but the film cuts away for a commercial break before anything even starts to happen.
Note: These commercial breaks are heralded by the screen “fading to red” which one must assume was intended to fill in for the lack of blood, but one of these transitions doesn’t even occur during an attack but with Sheriff simply staring off into space.
• The ski patrol can’t even find the tracks of Bigfoot’s first victim, so they can’t even verify anything happened at all, but as it hasn’t recently snowed there’s no reason they couldn’t have simply followed the ski tracks of her companion back to the site of the incident.
• This movie replaces the Jaws “We can’t close the beaches, it’s the Fourth of July” with “You can’t close the mountain, it’s the Winter Carnival.”
• We don’t get a “This was no boating accident” scene but we do have a callous resort owner covering up the first death by having it reported as being avalanche related.
• The Sheriff calls for Tony to be brought to the abandoned barn to hopefully identify the victim, but as he points out “She has no face” exactly how exactly did he expect Tony to make any kind of positive identification? Did the girl have a well-known birthmark he hoped Tony would recognize?
• Who knew that a flimsy ski pole would be a proper weapon against something as powerful and as menacing as a Bigfoot? That’s something they should put in the advertisements.
• With this film Clint Walker’s horror cred takes another hit as it follows his other equally bad made-for-television horror flick, Killdozer, and the fact that his character dies in Snowbeast is about the only surprising thing about this flick.
This film may have been an attempt to capitalize on the phenomenal success of Jaws, by giving us a community plagued by attacks from a monster and a group of “heroes” tracking it down, but the filmmakers failed to even deliver on that premise as not only does the beast itself have less than one minute of actual on-screen time, mostly relying on those endless POV shots of the creature wandering around the woods, but our protagonists is not particularly likable, which makes it harder for us to care if Bigfoot stomps them all to death. Of all “nature attacks” movies Snowbeast is easily one of the worst because not only is it a lazy Jaws rip-off, it barely passes for a “So bad it’s good” entry due to the lack of any decent onscreen Bigfoot action, making this one a hard film to recommend even to bad movie lovers.
Movie Rank - 3/10
There are a lot of bad movies that fit into the subgenre of nature/horror films but Snowbeast stands alone as one of the cheapest and least effective of the lot, and it is clear that Clint Walker and Yvette Mimieux were both in obvious “paycheck mode” as they look checked out from frame one of this piece of made-for-television dreck. |
Landscape with classical style figures in the foreground. There is a group of people and animals to the right. It is formed by a woman and a child on a horse, some sheep and goats, a man standing with his right arm resting on the horse and a child standing beside two dogs. They all look at a sculpture in the left that is being pointed by the standing child. The sculpture is beside a tree and represents a bearded male nude figure. It is attended to by a nude male figure, whilst a female figure with her robes pulled down to ther waist sits to the side with children on either side of her. One of them helps the male figure with some cloth. There are trees and hills in the background.
plate: 27.7cm x 41.8cm
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Beau Geste Press
Published by the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux in collaboration with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, this reference book surveys the history of the independent publishing house Beau Geste Press (BGP) through the publications of its founding members Felipe Ehrenberg, Martha Hellion, David Mayor and Chris Welch, and of the numerous visitors to its rural outpost – visual poets, neo-Dadaists and artists affiliated with the Fluxus movement – from 1971 to 1976. A ‘catalogue dé-raisonné’ of all the printed matter produced by BGP, it is complemented by critical essays and first-hand texts that explore the working methods (economy and autonomy of production, distribution of books via post) and document the international influence of this short-lived ‘community of duplicators, printers, and artisans’.
Designed by Studio Manuel Raeder and edited by curator Alice Motard, this richly illustrated 472 page-book follows on from the exhibition Beau Geste Press, shown at CAPC from 2 February to 28 May 2017. A ‘catalogue dé-raisonné’ of all the printed matter produced by BGP, it is complemented by critical essays by Karen Di Franco, Zanna Gilbert, Polly Gregson, Carmen Juliá, and Mila Waldeck, and by previously unpublished original accounts by Allen Fisher, Mike Leggett, Clive Phillpot, and Cecilia Vicuña exploring the working methods and the international influence of this short-lived ‘community of duplicators, printers and artisans’.
This publication, which was long in the making, is in itself a collective labour of love that brings together a worldwide network of friends and collaborators: it is dedicated to them, to Beau Geste Press and to its extended family.
English/French, 230 × 285 mm, 472 pages, color illustrations, softcover
Edited by Alice Motard
Texts by Karen Di Franco, Zanna Gilbert, Polly Gregson, Carmen Julía, Alice Motard, Mila Waldeck et al. (Allen Fisher, Mike Leggett, Clive Phillpot, Cecilia Vicuña)
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Project proposes 284 multifamily residential units across 4 buildings on approximately 15.6 ac located at 134000 Genito Road. The project site is part of rezoning case 16SN0704. In addition to the multifamily buildings, the project proposes a clubhouse with pool deck, tot lot, dog park, and other amenities along with two stormwater management ponds and water/sewer/storm utilities.
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But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance. Luke 8:15.
Therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure. 2 Thessalonians 1:4.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
Perseverance. It is a virtue. It is faith and patience combined as one. Faith + Patience = Perseverance to the saving of your soul.
By faith and patience you obtain My promises. Perseverance means you are in it for the long haul and nothing is going to turn you back. And that is what the parable My Son told about the sower and the seed is all about, fighting the good fight of faith. Satan tries to wear you down so that the Word will not be fulfilled in your life. He is out to take your seed (My Word) by doubt, and if that does not work, then by trials, persecutions, disappointments, cares, worries, lusts, impatience, immediate gratification, or by just plain force, using storms of all kinds (physical and emotional), violence, abuse and disaster. But if you stand your ground and guard your seed, beating off the birds, getting rid of the weeds and insects, you will have your harvest through perseverance. It never fails. But only the one who continues to the end has the prize.
Do not cast away, then, your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward, for of patience you have need, that having done My will, you may receive the promise, for yet in very very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry; and the righteous by faith shall live, and if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him, and YOU are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul. Hebrews 10:35-39. Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win, for no one has your race but you, so you will win if you just persevere. 2 Corinthians 9:24.
Perseverance has to do with maturity. Immature people blame Me for everything and give up on My Word very quickly. But as Peter once reasoned when Jesus asked him if he wanted to turn away and give up too, “Lord, where shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” There really is no where else to go that will get you the result you want to have in your life. So if you give up on My Word because you do not see the promise immediately, you will never see the promise manifest in your life at all. The devil tried this tactic with Jesus, the devil offered Jesus a shortcut to immediate gratification.
The devil offered Jesus the glory of the kingdoms of this world if He would bow down and worship the devil rather than Me. Jesus came to save the world but it was going to take perseverance for the long haul to go through the cross and grave to resurrection and glory. But the devil offered to give Jesus immediate worldly fame and fortune to shortcut the pain and yet have what appeared to be His destiny. But Jesus knew that there would be no lasting glory in what the devil offered and it would not save anyone, so He refused the immediate for the eternal.
Abraham almost lost his destiny by trying to fulfill My promise in his way rather than Mine. It produced Ishmael, but Ishmael was not the child of My promise. Sarah was to have the son of promise, but at first, Abram and Sarai did not have the faith combined with the patience to persevere to the promise so they turned aside for immediate gratification. But what seems to be right to a man often ends in the death of his destiny if he is going contrary to My Word. And even if he gets back on track, sometimes the unwise decision will have grave consequences that last for generations. Be careful how you live, live by faith and stick on My promises and direction. My Word is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Many start out well in good works and faith for My promises in their lives but they grow weary of well doing because they are working out of their own strength and not Mine. They lose hope and give up too soon. But, beloved, I am convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation. I am not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward those who believe in My name, in having ministered and in still ministering to others. Do not lose heart in doing good, for in due time you will reap if you do not grow weary. While you have the opportunity in your short window of time, make the most of each moment and do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith. Galatians 6:9-10. My desire is that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:11-12.
Having been justified by faith, you have peace with Me through your Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also you have obtained your introduction by faith into this grace in which you stand; and you exult in hope of My glory manifesting in your life. And not only this, but you also exult in your tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because My love has been poured out within your hearts through the Holy Spirit who I have given to you. Romans 5:1-5.
How then do you persevere? Hope is the anchor of perseverance. In hope you were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if you hope for what you do not see, with perseverance you wait eagerly for it. In the same way the Spirit also helps your weakness; for you do not know how to pray as you should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for you with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:24-26. And I understand your spirit and My Spirit as they witness together before Me and I give you the strength to persevere in hope for I show you great and mighty things you could not know that will give you hope.
When I made the promise to Abraham, since I could swear by no one greater, I swore by Myself, saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.” I have promised you that also as Abraham’s descendants by faith in Jesus. And so, having patiently waited, Abraham obtained the promise. Men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. I, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of My purpose to BLESS and increase you, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for Me to lie, you who have taken refuge in Me would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before you. In this hope that you find in My promises you have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, to the very Holy of Holies, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for you as your representative in an everlasting Covenant, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:13-20.
It is My Word, My promises of good for you, that bring you true hope. For faith is the substance (title deed) of things hoped for and the evidence of things not yet seen in the natural. But you can see by faith into the supernatural realm and give substance to the hope of what you see by faith. You own all the promises for they are “yes” to you in Christ Jesus and I have given you Jesus. He is My gift to you. And what you own, you can have for your use and enjoyment with no strings attached. If someone took your possessions, you would fight to get them back. And you will win for legally they are yours. Remember what I call the devil? A thief and a murderer, and the father of lies. Do not let him get his hands on your possessions, fight the good fight of faith and you will always win. But you must stand and not cower down to him in the dust, for that is his element and he has you in captivity, though it is illegal activity, if you stay down there. Perseverance is persistence in My Word and resistance to all that is contrary to it. NEVER give up and NEVER give in. Perseverance has great reward.
I love you. Do not give up, the Glory is closer than you think, manifestation is on the brink, time and eternity will soon meet! The fulfillment is at hand in your life for My wonderful plan. Do not give up. Let down your anchor of hope. All these things you have dreamed are closer than they seemed. The glory is weaving a story untold, so step forward in love and be very bold. Perseverance is the key to a hope fulfilled, and don’t worry, to My account it will be billed. There is provision for your vision. Sing about that, for I have surrounded you with songs of deliverance! |
An inspiring race week has already lapsed. Marcel finished the world final and took the 10th place. This is more than he had planned. Although, he finished qualifying heats being fourth, third and first, we all still feel a little bit unsatisfied. In the final race, Marcel started from 6th position. It was very difficult to start from the outside line. Marcel lost 5 positions but quickly imposed a fast pace and started chasing the leaders. Unfortunately, after the fourth lap, he had technical problems – a faulty lottery clutch. Even though some faults, he managed to finish the final in a high 10th place. There were 93 racing drivers in the Mini class this year. It is a huge progress in sports career for such a young driver and the culmination of five years of hard work. Marcel, despite being very tired, cannot wait for the next struggle in the international arena. Thank you for your incredible support. Special thanks go to AV Racing team for your commitment and professionalism. From the bottom of our heart we congratulate Jan Przyrowski – the winner of the final! |
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Business success is the ultimate goal of any business, but this does not always know how it can develop. What can I do to grow my business? It is perhaps the most frequently asked question during the lifecycle of a company. Often, the measures such as business efficiency consulting for instance applied for the growth of a business arise from an objective need in view of the risk of the company’s survival and its financial instability.
There are many ways to boost the growth of a business. Choosing the best Top executive search firms in India will depend on the type of business, available resources, and financial resources you are willing to invest. If your business is ready to grow, here are 4 essential tips:
1- Study The Market Constantly
Knowing the market is one of the mandatory tools like business efficiency consulting for example for growing a business. It is essential to study the competition, check market trends, investigate new products, analyze more efficient solutions to produce at the lowest possible cost, or discover products that have little supply, high demand and that may be business opportunities.
The diversification of products and services available to its customers is essential. In addition, expanding into international markets can also be a powerful boost to your business growth. Studying the market is the basis of planning to boost your business growth. Knowing the trends of both competition and consumers is the foundation for discovering actions to take in the future.
2- Automate Tasks
Currently, technology is an ally of companies. The automation of tasks decisively contributes to the growth of a business, as it will reduce labor costs. For this, there are several tools on the market that allow almost all processes in a company to be automated. – but if you can’t I understand. For example, if you use software like GetYooz to automate your
The fact that this type of solution allows the automation of tasks will enable, for example, the sales department to increase its effectiveness in controlling orders and managing stock in real-time. On the other hand, your company must constantly be looking for solutions to improve the final product. Taking advantage of technological evolution is essential, making it more efficient, boosting greater profitability.
3- Develop Marketing Strategies
Growing a business also involves investing in marketing. Companies that don’t invest in marketing often fall by the wayside by consumers. The sale of products or services is much easier the better known your company is. A potential customer becomes an effective customer more easily after knowing what your company has to offer.
A good marketing strategy helps a company to position itself correctly in the market. It will help it win new customers, retain current customers, promote its products and services, differentiate it from its competition, and boost the business. Any company expects the return on investment to be greater than the amount invested.
4- Establish Partnerships
Establishing partnerships with other companies is another way to boost the growth of your business. Usually, these partnerships are made with competing companies, which sell the same type of solutions or sell products that complement each other.
This type of union brings advantages for both parties, as it offers great growth prospects. The great advantage of a company establishing a partnership with another is the access to new markets, with a low investment rate and reduced risks. The result of a partnership makes the company’s size greater, the bargaining power with suppliers greater, thus reducing costs. Processes will be more automated, and the sales value will be higher. This fact will give your company the possibility of being more commercially competitive, providing better prices to your customers. |
The moving industry has seen a huge transformation in the last decade. Like all other industries, technology has taken over this industry too. The executives of professional moving companies are getting aware of the changing needs of their clients and they are adding all the necessary technologies and changes in their companies. The moving industry is growing rapidly as unlike before people and companies are hiring professionals even for a small move. It has grown and changed in more than one way. Here we will discuss the changes that occurred in the moving industry and how these changes and transformations have helped the industry to become more customer-friendly.
Most moving companies have adopted technological tools to serve their clients better and faster. Technology has changed the moving industry for the good as their work has become much convenient than before. Both moving companies and clients are getting benefits of faster and simpler service that is also cost-effective. In modern times from the best state to move to, to the best moving company, people search everything online. So most reputable professional moving companies have their website where they provide all the information related to their company and services. Following are some of the latest technologies that have completely changed the working style of the moving industry.
GPS- The emergence of GPS technology has changed the whole scenario of the moving industry. No matter if it is a residential move or commercial or supply chain, every client wants transparency and the whereabouts of their goods and GPS technology has made it possible. People can track their move at any point in time during transit.
Mobile Apps- Most companies are providing mobile apps to have a better customer experience. The client can simply log in to the app and get all the information just at a click of their finger. Customers can get estimates and book the service by using company apps. Real-time tracking is also one good feature of these apps. Mobile apps are not only beneficial for the customers but are also helping company employees to organize and streamline their work well.
Artificial Intelligence- moving companies provide 24×7 services to their clients with the help of chatbots and artificial intelligence. Chatbots are software that companies are using to provide the accurate and right information at all times. They act like humans and build clients’ trust in the company by answering all their queries.
Digital Payments- The other big change that the moving industry has seen is the use of digital payment methods including internet banking, instant money transfer apps, and debit/credit card. Digital transactions have become very popular in the recent past as it is safe to pay online and keep track of your payment.
Better Regulatory Compliance
The moving industry has never been so regulated as now. Companies are stressing more about industry regulations, compliance, and administration. Both companies and customers are getting aware of their rights and responsibilities towards each other and their collective responsibility for compliance has made moving easier for them. Financial transparency, GDPR, working license, permits, industry regulations, and legal obligations are some of the common compliance that companies are following religiously.
In modern times, people are on a move all the time. For one reason or the other, most people move more than once in their lifetime. No matter if they are moving due to professional or personal reasons; they need a reputable moving company to transport their goods from one place to another. People also need moving companies to transport their commercial goods and businesses need them to run their supply chain smoothly. Moving companies have become more flexible in terms of their services as noted by nycmoverspackers.com.
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We cannot deny the role of technology in providing better customer services but moving companies are working hard on keeping their clients happy by hiring skilled and experienced moving executives. Companies are not only working to make a profit, they are also trying to earn goodwill and good reviews from their clients. The logistics and moving industry have always earned a bad name in terms of services as moving frauds have always been a common thing. But the modern moving industry is trying to change this perception by staying transparent during the whole moving process and by providing the best after-the-move services.
Most moving companies have expanded their portfolio of services. In general, a logistics company is an expert in one or two kinds of moving services. For instance, if a company is good in domestic and residential moves, it may not be able to provide commercial moving services. But, most companies are providing their employees for multitasking and to be ready to assist their clients in all the ways possible.
The above-said changes have dramatically changed the working style of the moving industry and both companies and clients are taking advantage of this changing phase. |
Social media has become a crucial part when it comes to marketing & advertising for brands. Nowadays, the marketing teams of many brands put in a lot of thought & creativity before launching their campaigns online. Since the audience pool is huge & opinionated, brands always need to up their game with each new post.
While Twitter witnesses its fair share of brand engagement, Instagram has always been a popular platform when it comes to creative campaigns & trends.
Today we bring you 06 such Instagram interfaces that served as the standpoint of every brands’ ad campaigns.
Normally when you tap on a post on Instagram you can see the other Instagram handles tagged on the post. This feature was cleverly used by many brands to bring out the creative side. Brands would normally create new accounts just to tag them in the post. Tap on the below Godrej Aer post and you’ll see it for yourself.
This was yet another creative trend started by Fake Ad Co. on Instagram. In this, the brands would place two arrows facing different directions to give away a quirky message. Soon after many other brands followed Fake Ad Co. in the trend.
Swiggy India started a trend on Instagram that picked up a lot of momentum. In this, the brands would place icons spread across one post and close together in the other, depicting exactly how people would react in different situations.
#5Steps was a format where five arrows were placed in a way that they point to various elements in the Instagram interface. Each arrow pointed towards the services offered by the brand and how you could make most of it.
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In this creative trend, the post would be divided by an image of the door. On the one side, the consumer’s needs were mentioned while on the other side the brand’s name when tapped on the screen.
Instagram’s ‘Save’ button might be the most used interface of the app however the ‘Saving Mode’ trend did not become as popular. Many brands used this feature creatively & placed their product or service over the save button which the customers could save. Just take a look at the Kenstar India‘s #savingmode post. |
The Lok Sabha Election 2019 will surely make its way down in the history as BJP yet again emerges as the ruling party of the nation. While the nation has already chosen Mr. Narendra Modi for the throne in these elections, a part of credit surely goes to their super spontaneous Marketing and PR team who did not only plan but also ensured successful execution of their brilliant strategies.
While Mr. Modi is yet again booming on Twitter’s trending list here’s to all the efforts the party has made in reaching out to its audience through digital media.
#MainBhiChowkidar The Viral Campaign
#MaiBhiChowkidar the viral campaign launched by BJP instantly shot up on the Twitter trends and became a hot topic to talk about on all social media. With bang on marketing skills Twitter saw all its BJP ministers and supporters add the prefix Chowkidar to their name on social media. The campaign was indeed a marketing masterstroke.
Your Chowkidar is standing firm & serving the nation.
But, I am not alone.
Everyone who is fighting corruption, dirt, social evils is a Chowkidar.
Everyone working hard for the progress of India is a Chowkidar.
Today, every Indian is saying-#MainBhiChowkidar
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 16, 2019
Ofcourse being a Prime Minister has its perks and double when one has a channel running their coverage 24*7. NaMo Tv. Launching NamMo Tv was a smart move made by BJP keeping in mind the power of digital sources in todays time.
Bollywood, Politics and Cricket the rulers of the entertainment world. In an effort to widen their reach BJP released an exclusive biopic based on the real life of Mr. Narendra Modi. Though the movie failed to get big numbers at the box office, the movie was much appreciated by the critics.
Apart from that BJP also promoted the launch of “The Accidental Prime Minister” based on the Ex-Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Riveting tale of how a family held the country to ransom for 10 long years. Was Dr Singh just a regent who was holding on to the PM’s chair till the time heir was ready? Watch the official trailer of #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister, based on an insider’s account, releasing on 11 Jan! pic.twitter.com/ToliKa8xaH
— BJP (@BJP4India) December 27, 2018
BJP boomed youtube with their digital songs. While their song titled, “My first vote to the one, one and only one who has got everything done” garnered 2.2 Million views and 4,000+ likes, their “Haan Mai Bhi Chowkidar Hoo” garnered 1. 4 M views with 92,000 likes and 4.5K dislikes and 11,438 comments.
BJP and Narendra Modi On Social Media
BJP and Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi both enjoy a good number of followers on their respective pages on social media. Where the official account of BJP enjoys 1.5 crore of followers on Facebook, Mr. Narendra Modi has a following of 4.3 Crore. On Instagram where BJP is stuck with followers in 6 digits, Mr. Modi has rules the social media platform with 1.9 crore followers.
BJP has over 50 lakh followers on Twitter and Mr. Modi has over 4.6 crore followers on the social media platform. Mr. Modi who has been listed as an influencer on LinkedIn has a following of 28 lakh while BJP has only 4 lakh followers.
Social Media Advertisements
Over the period of only 3 months from February 2019 to April 2019 BJP page “Bharat ki Mann Ki Baat” spent Rs. 1,15,62,550 on 2498 and made it to the top 20 pages that spent the most on Ads. As for the opposition party Indian National Congress their official page itself ranked at No. 12 spent Rs. 25,75,670.
NaMo merchandise has been much in talk. Not only we have seen minsters and MPs flaunting the NaMo merchandise, they are also available on e-commerce websites like Amazon and PaytmMall.
The Meme Power
Memes work like a superpower on social media and surely BJP is pretty much aware of the trend and its power. BJP keeping up with the trend makes full use of it keeping the audience engaged and also updated with their official and unofficial accounts. |
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Our interview with NBA’s breakout bench star Fred VanVleet
In team sports, there are few positions more concerned with bringing out the best in teammates than point guard, the basketball player who initiates a team’s offense.
When you look up the best two-, three-, four-, and five-man combinations in the NBA this season, only two point guards appear in the top 15 of each. The first is Ben Simmons, a nearly seven-foot-tall generational talent capable of switching between all five positions, picked first overall in the 2016 draft. The second is Fred VanVleet, a normal-sized man who went undrafted in 2016 and spent more of his first season in the minor league than the NBA.
VanVleet (aka FVV) doesn’t have the transcendent individual abilities of the league’s elite PGs. But what he’s shown, from the Illinois high school circuit to the NBA playoffs, is the ability to fit in at any level and keep a team running regardless of how much talent his team or his opponents have.
The Raptors’ FVV has broken out this year leading the league’s best bench, a cohesive collection of underdrafted young players that has pummelled opposing reserves while the starters rest. He’s gone from understudy to convincing duplicate of Raptors star Kyle Lowry: a small point guard who plays bigger than he is through dogged defense and an elite three-point shot. His bench mob’s dominance has propelled Toronto to a franchise-high 59 wins and VanVleet into consideration for the league’s 6th Man of the Year and Most Improved Player Awards.
So how do you go from hard-knock Illinois to the Missouri Valley Conference to a league now named after a sports drink to playing a key role for the number one seed in the NBA’s eastern conference?
You follow the approach that has served FVV’s so well that he prints it on t-shirts: bet on yourself.
VanVleet took a gamble and headed to lesser-known Wichita State, where over four college seasons he powered them to a Final Four berth, an undefeated regular season, and twice as many March Madness appearances as they’d had in the previous 20 years. He became one of NCAA ball’s signature stars, immediately recognizable in the bright yellow of the Shockers and a sharply-angled beard and haircut combo outlining his face like an Iron Man mask.
But despite his NCAA success, pro teams doubted VanVleet had NBA size or much remaining upside. So he again bet on himself, rejecting draft offers that required him to play full-time in the Development League in his first year, and went undrafted. His bet paid off — Raptors General Manager Masai Ujiri surprised observers by giving FVV a two-year contract in July 2016 and then the final roster spot in September, despite already having three point guards.
VanVleet played sporadically in his first year, tallying just under 300 minutes across 37 games. In between those NBA appearances, he was leading the Raptors’ minor-league team to a 39–11 record. The week after being Player of the Game in the Raptors905’s D-League championship win, VanVleet was playing respectable playoff minutes against Lebron James and the defending NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers, finishing plus-9 in a series the Raptors lost by 61.
That ability to adapt to any level of competition has defined VanVleet’s career. Although known for his bench play, FVV is equally impressive with Toronto’s top line. Coach Dwane Casey’s frequent end-game lineup of the four main starters plus VanVleet outscored opponents by 24.6 points per 100 possessions — the 10th-highest margin of all five-man combinations in the NBA. Not bad for a man who was logging games in the minors a year ago.
We talked to VanVleet when the Raptors visited UVic for their preseason training camp and got him to reflect on his university experiences.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
What’s it like being back on a university campus after having so much success as a college athlete?
It’s cool, man, just to be around the school and to see the fans that showed up. It’s hard to find passion like that anywhere but a university campus, especially a place like this where they don’t get to see the Raptors very often.
What do you miss most about Wichita?
[It turned into a second home for me, so I definitely miss it. I miss all my friends there. I don’t miss school, [but] I miss the people that worked at the school. Academic advisors, coaches, the staff. People that you grow close with, that become your family. I miss Wichita a lot but obviously I’m on to a bigger thing in my career.
Did majoring in sociology inform your impression of Canada when you moved here?
People kind of transcend everything. So no matter where you go, there’s going to be some sort of culture, and all people have some kind of similarity. So it’s easy to apply it to another country, a different culture. The things I learned in sociology will help me through the rest of my life. How you deal with people, how to understand people, and why they do the things they do.
Do you have any advice for current students?
I just think you have to find a way to apply it to your real life. That’s what any study does. You can read as many books as you want, but if it doesn’t make sense to you in real life and you can’t draw on experiences and make parallels, it’s going to be hard for it to stick.
For me in sociology, the things that I was learning in the classroom I tried to apply to my real life, tried to dissect what was going on in my life and help myself.
Any grooming tips, since you always have the sculpting on point?
It depends! You can go for it longer. I don’t let [my beard] grow very long, I keep it a little bit shorter and that way I can keep it sharper. But if you grow it out, then it’s gonna be a little more scruffy. You can’t go wrong as long as it makes sense to you. |
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One of the new VIP audio chat platforms won’t be invite-only for long.
Twitter is planning to roll out its Twitter Spaces feature to every user in April. The company has been testing out Spaces, its live audio Clubhouse competitor, since late last year.
Clubhouse has taken the social media space by storm over the past year. Names like Elon Musk have joined the platform to take part in live audio chats with its users. Clubhouse, however, is currently invite-only. If one doesn’t know someone already on the app with an extra invite code, they cannot yet join the platform.
While anyone can join an existing Spaces room right now on Twitter, only a small group of users have been able to host one. So, if you don't know or follow anyone who has access to Spaces, you might be completely missing out on the feature for now.
Twitter plans to change that soon. The company said it wants to make Spaces available for all users from April in a Spaces room it hosted on Wednesday. The Verge first noticed the time frame. However, it should be noted that it’s Twitter’s goal to release Spaces for all its users in April. The company has left itself some wiggle room if it decides to push the rollout back.
Interestingly, an update for the Twitter iOS app released on the same day promoted Twitter Spaces as a new feature in the App Store description. Some users might have expected to have access to the new audio chat feature with the update, but that’s not the case.
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Twitter also appears to have big plans to encourage users to create content in Spaces.
Jane Manchun Wong, a developer known for discovering upcoming features on apps, uncovered a “Tip Jar” option connected to Twitter Spaces. The screenshots of the feature posted to her Twitter account show the ability for a user to attach their PayPal, Cash App, Patreon, Venmo, or Bandcamp username. A Twitter user’s followers could then send a payment to a Spaces host or speaker via the feature.
Earlier this week, Mashable reported how Twitter seeks to differentiate its offering from Clubhouse. While the latter service is all about temporary, ephemeral audio that deletes when the chat ends, Twitter is planning to make audio and transcripts from Spaces downloadable. For content creators, this means being able to repurpose Spaces audio for other social media platforms. It also provides replays for users who missed out on the live audio chat. |
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The Administrative Capital contains many luxurious residential places, and it is the point near Ain Sokhna in the Suez Governorate, and is separated from the governorate by only 80 kilometers. It is located behind Mostakbal City, and is separated from the Madinaty Compound by very few kilometers. The distance between it and Cairo and the old capital is 60 kilometers, therefore. This makes it easily accessible via the southern Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Axis on the Suez Road or from the Jandali 2 Road.
The distinguished location is considered the best way to attract customers, as it greatly attracts customers who are looking for upscale residential units due to the New Administrative Capital’s unique architectural planning and construction that was done in accordance with the highest international standards and standards of quality.
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The area of the La Vista City New Capital project reaches 910 acres, built on only 15% of the land area, and the rest is for the La Vista City project’s services and green spaces.
The residential units in La Vista New Capital Compound vary between villas – townhouses – twin houses, and the areas of the residential units start from 230 square meters and reach 470 square meters.
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Twin house for sale in La Vista City provides a distinct and unique living environment in the heart of the capital, with a distinguished location next to the most important landmarks of the capital, and close to most roads and axes, in addition to providing various services that make living within La Vista the ultimate goal for those looking for tranquility, comfort and sophistication, with Investment opportunities and great profitability, as the New Administrative Capital contains the future of the Egyptian real estate market, and purchasing it means owning the future.
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Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast is your ideal opportunity to own a chalet or villa on the North Coast. Marseilia Real Estate Development Company, which specializes in building tourist resorts, has launched Marseille Beach 5 villas and chalets at very reasonable prices. It is located on Ras El Hekma, the most beautiful beach on the coast, and offers a comprehensive service that guarantees you an unforgettable vacation full of entertainment and fun.
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A new project by Marseilia Real Estate Development and Investment Company. The company is able to increase the share of its real estate projects in the Egyptian real estate market by offering new projects in a unique and distinctive area of the North Coast and is keen to distinguish Marseille.
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Marseille Beach 5 Village location
The location is important for a coastal project, as it must be close to main roads and axes and easy to access, which is something Marseille is keen to provide in its latest projects. One of the most prestigious and famous villages on the North Coast, for example, between Hacienda West and Fouka Bay. Close to Marseille beach.
Places near Marseille Beach :
- The northern coast of Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast is separated by the new Foca Road, just 3 minutes away.
- The distance between the village and Dabaa Road is 30 minutes.
- From Wadi El Natroun Road, you can reach Marseille North Coast within an hour.
- Ras El Hekma is located 50 minutes from El Alamein Airport.
- It is also located near the villages of Cali Coast and the North Coast of Mountain View.
Features of Marseilia Beach 5 Ras El Hekma
The most prominent features of Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast: The owner company has always relied on providing a wide range of high-quality services and facilities in all its real estate projects, through which the company is able to meet the needs of investors throughout Egypt. This time, it is keen to enhance a range of services and facilities in the project. .
The most important of these services are the following:
- The waterfront in Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast offers a length of more than 500 meters, which is one of the most important features of the project, with a view of the beach.
- It provides project depth up to 1000 meters, which makes this project superior to many other projects.
- Providing a mosque in a large and unique space that can accommodate a large number of individuals and worshipers with unique Islamic architectural designs.
- It offers a comprehensive business district that contains a group of commercial shopping centers that can meet all your needs.
- It offers a world-class hotel with a large number of unique rooms offering a full range of services and facilities.
- In addition to a large collection of equipment equipped with the latest sports equipment for the highest level of trainers, there is also a large specialized gym that can accommodate a large number of trainees.
- More than 20 unique pools of different sizes are available for everyone who wants to relax, play and enjoy.
- A unique inland beach for all those who want to get away from the hustle and bustle of life. It offers a wide range of unique contemporary designs that distinguish the project from other competing projects.
Marseille Beach 5 project area
Depending on the philosophy of investment issues such as the diversity of units and spaces, the developing company is keen to encourage investors by offering various investment options that encourage investment, most notably the diversity of spaces.
Therefore, the company is keen to announce the unit area as follows:
- There are townhouses for sale in the village with areas starting from 175 square meters to 200 square meters.
- It also announced the launch of the best-selling units on the North Coast, the cabins, whose areas range from 55 square meters to 125 square meters.
- The developer company increased the share of investment units this time, and offered a double room with an area of 220 square meters for sale in this project.
- It is also keen to offer a group of independent villas in the project for sale in stages starting from 450 square meters.
Units available in Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast
It is distinguished by its diverse sizes, including cabins, double rooms, townhouses, and separate villas. The area of Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast ranges from 55 square meters to 450 square meters.
Apartment size details:
- Chalets: The areas of chalets in Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast range from 55 square meters to 125 square meters with one or two bedrooms (the chalet building consists of 4 floors + elevator).
- Twin house spaces on the northern coast of Marseille start from 220 square meters (with and without a swimming pool).
- The area of townhouses in Marseilia Beach 5 ranges from 175 square meters to 200 square meters.
- Separate villas starting from 450 square meters.
- The different areas in the project lead to a large difference in unit prices
Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast prices
Marseilia Real Estate Company is also keen to make the project units available to the largest number of customers by offering the project units for sale at very competitive prices.
For more information, you can contact us on the following numbers:
Payment and installment systems Marseille Beach 5 Village
Not only does Marseilia offer great prices for villas and chalets in the village, but the company has also developed a very suitable installment system for booking with the lowest down payment and the longest payment period for the units, which makes Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast one of the best projects offered by the North Coast, with a down payment starting from 10% and installments of up to 8 years.
The developer of Marseilia Beach 5 North Coast
Marseilia Real Estate Development Company is a group of one of the Egyptian joint stock companies that has been operating in the Egyptian real estate market for many years, by offering a variety of investment projects that we can invest in easily, in an effort to develop the Egyptian real estate market on the northern coast. Marseilia Real Estate Company came up with a new slogan in the Egyptian real estate market, which is “An anthem for building a better life,” which is the company’s slogan and its loftiest goals to achieve its steps effectively and strongly over the years.
Needs of Egyptian landlord investors. Marseilia Real Estate Group was established in 2001 as an Egyptian joint stock company that brought together a group of other Egyptian companies, most notably Misr Holding Company and Misr Life Insurance, in addition to another group of companies that entered around them,
- The most prominent of which are:
- Misr Real Estate Asset Management Company..
- Egyptian Money and Investment Fund.
- October Development and Real Estate Investment Company.
- Al-Aqsa Tourist Marina Company.
The company has more than 20 years of experience in real estate investment in the Egyptian real estate market, and during this period it was able to gain a deep understanding of the Egyptian real estate market and its needs, through which it is able to provide the right project. right on time.
The company is able to provide more than 20 different residential and tourism projects. Not limited to a specific real estate sector in Egypt, Marseilia Real Estate Development and Investment Company is able to provide all investors in the Egyptian real estate market with many real estate investment opportunities in various regions of Egypt, keen to build real estate in the real estate market in Egypt better than ever before.
Previous work of Marseille Real Estate Company:
During the many years in which Marseilia Real Estate Company was able to enter the Egyptian real estate market, it was keen to present a large number of real estate projects through which it was able to benefit all foreign investors and companies in the real estate market in Egypt and abroad.
Among its most prominent projects:
- Marseille Hayat Alexandria.
- Marseille Beach 4 project, Sidi Abdel Rahman.
- Florence Mega Mall.
- Marseille Alam Rum Resort.
- Marseille Blue Bay Asia Ain Sokhna project.
- Marseille Florence Alexandria.
- Marseille Bouquet project.
- Mall North Coast.
- Marseille Cascadia Project.
- Marseille Golden Yard project.
Please note that the prices and spaces mentioned in the article are for the second half of 2023, so they are subject to change. We at Masharef Real Estate are keen to update the spaces, price and type of listings for both residential and commercial units to keep. Informing clients about the real estate market. |
ISO 15156-3:2009 gives requirements and recommendations for the selection and qualification of CRAs (corrosion-resistant alloys) and other alloys for service in equipment used in oil and natural gas production and natural gas treatment plants in H2S‑containing environments, whose failure can pose a risk to the health and safety of the public and personnel or to the environment. ISO 15156-3:2009 can be applied to help to avoid costly corrosion damage to the equipment itself. It supplements, but does not replace, the materials requirements of the appropriate design codes, standards or regulations.
ISO 15156-3:2009 addresses the resistance of these materials to damage that can be caused by sulfide stress‑cracking (SSC), stress‑corrosion cracking (SCC) and galvanically induced hydrogen stress cracking (GHSC).
ISO 15156-3:2009 is concerned only with cracking. Loss of material by general (mass loss) or localized corrosion is not addressed.
A non-exhaustive list of equipment is given to which this part of ISO 15156 is applicable, including permitted exclusions.
ISO 15156-3:2009 applies to the qualification and selection of materials for equipment designed and constructed using conventional elastic design criteria. For designs utilizing plastic criteria (e.g. strain‑based and limit‑state designs), see ISO 15156-1:2009, Clause 5.
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Mastro does not waiver from our belief that food is at the heart of good living and no meal should be an exception.
Taking a step back from the more traditional dining experience, Mastro Deli offers the perfect parcel of Italian delights, readily available to grab and go, easy eating, anytime.
Our deli and café offer a wide variety of Italian food products, from delicious homemade breads to ready-made pasta, the finest frozen soups or your favourite Italian cold meats and specialty cheese.
Join us for breakfast or lunch or come and grab a wholesome ready-made meal to enjoy at home.
From the production kitchen at Mastro our team also provides world-class event catering services headed up by our partner Susan De Nicola. Contact us to enquire about your caterings needs.
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Van Morrison Anthology
A superb compilation of Van Morrison's best songs which charts his career right up to the Enlightenment album. Arranged for piano voice and guitar complete with lyrics.
A Sense Of Wonder View Astral Weeks View Beautiful Vision View Bright Side Of The Road View Brown Eyed Girl View Checkin' It Out Cold Wind In August View Domino View Enlightenment View Full Force Gale View Gloria View Have I Told You Lately? Into The Mystic View Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) View John Donne Kingdom Hall View Moondance View Queen Of The Slipstream Rave On Real Real Gone View Saint Dominics Preveiw Tore Down A La Rimbaud View Warm Love View Wavelength View Whenever God Shines His Light View Wild Night View You Don't Pull No Punches But You Don't Push The River
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Coca-Cola is the most loved soda in the world, while Pepsi is the second. These delicious fizzy drinks are a household staple, regardless of whether you call them pop, soda, soft drink or anything else. There are many opinions on which one is best, and this can cause heated discussions around the dinner table. You might be surprised to learn that some people claim they taste exactly the same.
Coca-Cola is not part of the same company that owns Pepsi. PepsiCo owns Pepsi, which is based in Harrison, New York. Coca-Cola is owned in part by The Coca-Cola Company. This includes Berkshire Hathaway and The Vanguard Group.
Did you know that Coca-Cola is owned by Pepsi? You want to know more about these fizzy drinks? We know the answers to many of your questions so continue reading to find out more about Coca-Cola or Pepsi!
Who owns Coca-Cola and Pepsi?
Pepsi and Coca-Cola belong to separate companies. PepsiCo is the American multinational beverage, snack and food company that owns Pepsi. Their headquarters are in Harrison, New York. Caleb Bradham founded this company in 1919 when he created the soft drink Pepsi-Cola.
Although the name Pepsi-Cola was dropped later to just PepsiCo, many believe that the two companies are one and the same. PepsiCo owns and produces more than its signature soft drink.
Frito-Lay and Quaker Oats are also owned by the company.
The Coca-Cola Company owns Coca-Cola, as well as Berkshire Hathaway and The Vanguard Group. John Stith Pemberton founded this company in 1892. Coca-Cola’s original Coca-Cola product had cocaine from coca leaves, caffeine from kola nuts, but their ingredients were changed as the harms of cocaine became more apparent.
Coca-Cola also produces syrups, concentrates, and their famous soft drinks. The company also produces popular soft drinks like Sprite and Fanta.
Are Coca-Cola and Pepsi the Same Taste?
For as long as Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been around, there has been much debate about whether they taste the same. Pepsi and Coke fans will fight until the cows come home about which beverage is better, and what the differences are between them.
Pepsi and Coke have a distinct flavor difference. However, it is possible for some people to believe that they taste identical.
Pepsi is sweeter than Coca-Cola and has a stronger kick in the first few drinks. Pepsi has a strong citrus flavor, while Coca-Cola is more vanilla and raisin-based.
Coca-Cola’s flavor profile is milder and tastes the exact same every time you sip it. Pepsi, on the other hand, gives you a stronger initial burst, but this burst tends to fade over the course of a can.
Is Coca-Cola Or Pepsi More Popular?
Both of these drinks are extremely popular in the US carbonated soft drinks market. However, the market leader has been with Coca-Cola for almost two decades. Pepsi has been surpassed by Coca-Cola in terms of sales and revenue since 2004, but Pepsi is always close behind.
These companies are the industry leaders in soda, but they’re closely followed Dr. Pepper/Snapple. Perhaps Coke’s milder taste or its addictive original formula are reasons it is more popular. Pepsi is more popular in the United States, however.
Is Coca-Cola Or Pepsi More Profitable?
Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi are hugely profitable businesses, but one is more profitable than the other. Coca-Cola is more profitable than Pepsi but Pepsi tends have higher annual revenue.
Pepsi made more than 79 billion, and Coca-Cola earned more than 38 billion dollars. How is Coca-Cola profitable when they have such vastly different earnings?
Coca-Cola’s operating costs are far lower than those of Pepsi. This means that Coca-Cola’s earnings are used for business expenses less than Pepsi and the company is able to keep more of its profits.
Can a company sell both Pepsi and Coca-Cola?
Technically, a company could sell both Pepsi or Coca-Cola, provided that they have a contract with the right one. This is unlikely. Restaurants and other businesses will prefer to sell one of the two.
Pepsi and Coca-Cola also want to be exclusive so they won’t offer products to companies that have products from one. Pepsi and Coca-Cola products can be found at convenience stores, gas stations, grocery shops, and convenience stores. However, they are unlikely to be found in restaurants or similar establishments. |
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The international charity foundation of Oleksandr Petrovsky “Solidarity” continues to systematically support medical institutions of the Dnipropetrovsk region. In one of the scientific medical centers of the region, thanks to the fund, the cycle of works on equipping the operating room, manipulation room, as well as the wards where the patients are kept, was completed. Modern equipment helps to get the sick and wounded on their feet faster. And thanks to the unique equipment, our scientific specialists have the opportunity to apply progressive methods of treatment and rehabilitation. The hospital received another batch of modern beds for patients. They will help speed up the rehabilitation of patients. Yana Ivanilova, vice-president of the International Charitable Foundation “Solidarity”, notes: Multifunctional beds will be placed in the department’s wards. Patients will go through the process of treatment and rehabilitation much better. The international charity foundation of Oleksandr Petrovsky “Solidarity” works together with its partners to improve the process of treatment and rehabilitation of the sick and wounded. According to Vyacheslav Kapustin, the founder of the enterprise “Katerynoslavhlib”: In cooperation with the international charity fund of Oleksandr Petrovsky “Solidarity”, beds and mattresses were donated to the hospital. To make it convenient for patients to go through the rehabilitation process. Doctors are convinced that functional beds will serve for the convenience of patients, as well as the recovery process will become more effective. The assistance of the Oleksandr Petrovsky international charity foundation “Solidarity” to the medical institutions of Dnipropetrovsk region does not stop, but continues. After all, this is a matter of health and life of our defenders. In close cooperation with doctors, scientists and partners, the International Charitable Foundation of Oleksandr Petrovsky “Solidarity” is bringing our joint victory closer with concrete actions. |
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Trying to take good family photos during the summer is nearly impossible. Everyone's a sweaty mess, and the mosquitos and humidity leave everyone looking pained during the experience.
Thankfully, temperatures should start to wind down soon as the beginning of fall approaches. Soon you'll be able to stage a family photo shoot that's actually fun for everyone involved.
Not sure where to take your pictures? Here are some great locations that offer stunning fall backdrops and plenty of photo opportunities. Hire a photographer to accompany you on your trip, or grab your camera and stage the photos on your own.
Autumn at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
This one's a bit of a no-brainer, and if you're willing to pay the substantial admission fee to get into the gardens with the whole family, the Pumpkin Village is one of the best photo locations in the DFW area. The sooner you go, the more intact the pumpkins and other gourds will be. The Arboretum's autumn activities begin this weekend on September 22.
Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano
Local families love checking this place out once the weather is nice and cool. Whether you're hosting a family picnic or simply walking the pretty trails at dusk, Arbor Hills is home to a variety of great backdrops for photos. If you go towards the middle or end of fall, you might even catch the trees right as the leaves are changing to beautiful gold and red hues.
The Heard Museum in McKinney
With life-size dinosaur animatronics, miles of trails surrounded by nature, and plenty of wildlife for everyone to enjoy without crowds, the Heard Museum is a great place to spend a day as a family. Bring your camera to snag pictures of the kids frolicking in fields and gaping at a T-Rex as big as a small house.
The Big Orange Pumpkin Farm - Preston Trail Farms
You might be thinking it's too early to consider visiting a pumpkin patch, but you know fall will fly by. Plan your trip to this beloved pumpkin farm today to ensure you view it at the best time of year. It's just north of the DFW metroplex, and people of all ages are welcome to enjoy a hay maze, hay rides, a petting zoo, and of course, lots of pumpkins. The photo opportunities just don't end.
Spring Creek Forest in Garland
If you're just looking for some pretty natural surroundings, this preserve has what you need. It's located just minutes from Richardson, Plano, Dallas, and Mesquite, which makes an evening photo session doable for busy families. There's even a small creek that makes for a lovely backdrop.
White Rock Lake in Dallas
Everyone who lives in the DFW area knows White Rock Lake, but don't overlook it when you're deciding where to stage your family photos. Professional and amateur photographers alike can locate a variety of fun locations for pictures, like picnic areas and piers, as well as over nine miles of hiking trails.
Cedar Ridge Preserve in Cedar Hill
Just 20 minutes from downtown Dallas lies a beautiful preserve that covers more than 600 acres. Lots of people visit for bird-watching and hiking, but it's also an excellent destination for photographers with beautiful green foliage year-round.
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Computing technology continues to advance at an astounding rate, with new breakthroughs and innovations regularly emerging from the field of computer science. From artificial intelligence (AI) to quantum computing, cutting-edge technologies are shaping the future of how we process information, solve complex problems, and interact with machines. In this article, we will explore some of the latest advancements in computer science that are revolutionizing various industries and opening up new possibilities.
One of the most fascinating areas of computer science currently making waves is artificial intelligence. AI is no longer just a concept limited to sci-fi movies; it has become an integral part of our daily lives. Machine learning, a subset of AI, enables computers to learn and make predictions or decisions without explicit programming. This cutting-edge technology has been successfully applied in various fields, including healthcare, finance, and transportation.
In healthcare, AI algorithms have demonstrated exceptional capabilities, surpassing human accuracy in diagnosing diseases and predicting treatment outcomes. By feeding massive amounts of medical data to AI systems, researchers and doctors can identify patterns and correlations that may go unnoticed by human eyes. AI-driven tools can detect early signs of diseases like cancer or heart conditions, allowing for more timely interventions and potentially saving countless lives.
Machine learning is also transforming the financial sector by enhancing fraud detection, risk assessment, and investment strategies. AI-powered algorithms can analyze enormous quantities of financial data, identify fraudulent patterns, and make predictions on market behaviors with higher accuracy. This technology is helping banks and financial institutions prevent frauds, minimize risks, and make informed investment decisions.
Another cutting-edge technology in computer science that holds immense promise is quantum computing. Quantum computers harness the bizarre principles of quantum mechanics, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform computations at speeds exponentially faster than classical computers. While still in its early stages, quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize fields like cryptography, drug discovery, and optimization problems.
Cryptography, the science of secure communication, relies on complex mathematical algorithms that can take classical computers years or even centuries to break. However, quantum computers have the potential to crack these cryptographic codes with astonishing speed, raising concerns regarding data security. Nevertheless, researchers are working on developing new encryption techniques that can resist quantum attacks, ensuring data security in the post-quantum era.
In the field of drug discovery, quantum computing can significantly accelerate the process of identifying new molecules with desired properties for developing new medications. Quantum simulators can model and simulate complex molecular structures, allowing researchers to understand the behavior of atoms and molecules at the quantum level. This innovation holds promise for designing new drugs more quickly and accurately, potentially revolutionizing the pharmaceutical industry.
Moreover, quantum computing offers powerful optimization capabilities. Optimization problems, such as route planning, scheduling, or resource allocation, often involve a vast number of possibilities that classical computers struggle to efficiently explore. Quantum computers, on the other hand, can process and analyze large sets of possibilities simultaneously, enabling faster and more efficient solutions to complex optimization problems.
The advancements in computer science are not limited to AI and quantum computing. Innovations in computer vision, robotics, data analytics, and cybersecurity are also transforming industries and opening up new avenues for research and development. From autonomous vehicles and drones to smart homes and cities, computers equipped with vision and sensing capabilities are fast becoming our eyes and hands in the digital world.
In conclusion, the latest advancements in computer science are reshaping the way we live, work, and interact with technology. Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing numerous industries, enabling machines to learn from data and make informed decisions, while quantum computing holds the potential to solve complex problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers. As technology continues to advance, the possibilities are endless, and the future of computer science holds tremendous promise. |
Q.1. What is a hydropneumatic circuit? Where they are used?
In some applications, the hydraulic and pneumatic circuits are coupled to get best use of the advantages of both oil and air medium. This combination circuit is known as Hydropneumatic or Pneumohydraulic circuit.Uses : It is used in the situation where quick action of air is desirable but high pressure/force of hydraulic system is required.
Q.2. A hydraulic press is operated by 4/2 spring returned pilot(air) operated dc valve. Draw Hydropneumatic circuit to operated the press using one 3/2 press button pneumatic valve.
Ans: As shown in circuit the main cylinder of press machine is operated by 4/2 spring returned valve which is operated by pneumatic pulse.Pneumatic pulse is provided by pressing the press button which triggers the 3/2 dc valve. When the valve is pressed the compressed air moves to the 4/2 dc valve and shifts it towards the right side causing the oil flow to the top side of the hydraulic press piston.As soon as the press button is released it causes the release of pressure on the 4/2 dc valve and spring of the 4/2 dc valve returns it to normal position, in normal position the pressurized oil is supplied to bottom side of the cylinder, hence the piston moves in upward direction.
Q.3. A hydraulic press machine can be operated from both the sides. Draw a pneumatic circuit which ensures both hands safely of the worker while operating the machine from any side |
President of the national council of the Party for Justice and Development, Saad Eddine El Othmani, has been picked by King Mohammed VI as Head of Government in replacement of Abdelilah Benkirane, discharged from the position last Wednesday.
The King received Saad Eddine El Othmani, former Foreign Minister, at the Royal Palace in Casablanca on Friday and tasked him with leading negotiations to form a new government, announced the royal Office in a statement.
Benkirane was dismissed following his failure to form a coalition government after five months of negotiations with other stakeholders, mainly the National Rally of Independents (RNI), led by Aziz Akhennounch.
Negotiations between Benkirane and Akhennounch hit a stumbling block after the two men failed to overcome their divergences on which parties should be part of the coalition cabinet. While Akhennouch conditioned his party’s participation on the inclusion of three of its allies, the MP, the UC and the USFP, although they scored minor results in the October 7 elections, Benkirane flatly rejected the USFP participation and went as far as accusing the RNI of sabotaging the negotiations.
In view of the stalemate that was raising concerns as to its impact on the country’s economy, legislative apparatus and politics, the king made the decision to dismiss Benkirane, and out of many options he had, he chose to pick a new Head of Government from the same PJD party.
The King has thus complied with the spirit and letter of the Constitution, mainly article 47, which stipulates that the Head of Government is picked from the party that wins the largest number of votes in the elections. The article does not specify that the position of Head of Government must necessarily go to the leader of the winning party.
Saad Eddine El Othmani, born in 1956 in Inzegane, near Agadir, is known for his sense of compromise and dialogue and his comrades call him “the Wiseman” of the party.
He is different from Abdelilah Benkirane and often opts for dialogue rather than polemics and confrontation. His tenure as head of the General Secretariat of the PJD, between 2004 and 2008, was marked by the party adopting moderate positions. He succeeded in negotiating this political turn, at a time when several voices were calling for the dissolution of the PJD for its “moral responsibility” in the Casablanca terror attacks of 16 May 2003.
The former Foreign Minister will have to catch up for the lost time and form a new cabinet without any delays. |
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MEDDCO.COM is India's first digital pricing online platform, with the focus of price transparency in healthcare sector. At Meddco, we offer a platform for healthcare providers to sell their services and customers to take advantage of those services. Meddco's passion for making healthcare accessible to everyone has driven it to create an online healthcare platform that is user-friendly and innovative.
India’s Healthcare industry faces various difficulty each day. Finding affordable options for surgery with good doctors at affordable price is a major task for common people. Hospitals and patients need each other equally as healthcare is a two way affair. Due to absence of reliable platform both couldn’t connect to each other . This Problem was understood by Dr. Sanjit Paul CMD of Meddco.com a passionate healthcare professional who believes that healthcare should not come at a high cost. Dr. Paul spent years researching and understanding the various challenges faced by patients in India, from exorbitant medical bills to long waiting periods for appointments. This led him to create Meddco.com, a platform that makes healthcare simpler, quicker affordable and more transparent.
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At Meddco we firmly believe that healthcare should not be a privilege reserved for few, but a right that should be available to all.
We believe in empowering patients by providing them with transparent pricing information for various medical procedures, surgical treatments, diagnostic tests, and healthcare services. This allows patients to compare costs and make informed decisions that align with their financial capabilities.
At Meddco, we provide a platform for healthcare providers to promote their services with dynamic pricing of surgeries, treatments and test also online doctor's OPD appointment system, and health camp promotions. Our website enables users to search for surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, and other healthcare services offered by various hospitals and providers in their vicinity. They can compare the costs of services and assess the quality based on user ratings and reviews, empowering them to make well-informed decisions about their healthcare.
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Our platform features an extensive database of hospitals, clinics, doctors, and healthcare providers. Users can access detailed profiles, including qualifications, experience, patient reviews, and ratings, helping them make well-informed choices about their healthcare providers.
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This policy describes the personal information Medthusiast collects about you, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties.
This policy covers our online experiences. Our policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your information. If our information practices change, we will post an updated policy on our website. You can tell if the policy has changed by checking the revision date that appears above. If we change the policy in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you. You may exercise your choices about how we collect and use your information consistent with this policy at any time.
WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION DOES MEDTHUSIAST COLLECT?
We may collect personal information from you, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, credit card number, gender, birthday, personal interests, etc., when you engage in activities such as visiting our website, placing an order online, saving your information with us online, contacting us with a question or concern, or participating in a contest, promotion, or survey. We may maintain a record of your product interests and the purchases you make online.
HOW DOES MEDTHUSIAST USE MY INFORMATION?
We may use your personal information to provide products and services and to support our business functions. For example, we may use this information for the following purposes:
- To process and fulfill your order, including by shipping products to you, or others you designate, and sending emails to you, or others you designate, to confirm your order status and shipment and to process merchandise returns.
- To communicate with you and to send you information by email, postal mail, telephone, text message, or other means about our products, services, contests, and promotions, including marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you
- To communicate with other persons using contact information you provide, such as when you designate another person as the recipient of a refer-a-friend message or a gift.
- To make your shopping experience easier, more enjoyable and more efficient
- To address problems with and improve our products, brands, services and technologies, as well as to develop new products and services
- To allow you to use our online technologies
- To provide consistent, personalized services across all channels and all of our brands, including to personalize our advertising, marketing communications, shopping experiences and promotional offers
- To facilitate social sharing
- To allow you to enroll and participate in a loyalty or customer relationship program
- To administer and fulfill our contests and other promotions
- To help us learn more about your shopping preferences
- To prevent, detect, mitigate and investigate fraud, security breaches and activities that are or potentially may be prohibited or illegal
- As we believe to be required or appropriate to protect the rights, property, safety and security of Medthusiast and our employees, customers and others
- As we believe to be required or appropriate under applicable law, to respond to requests from government authorities and to comply with legal process
You always have the choice not to receive marketing information or calls. For instructions on opting out, please see the section entitled, "How do I make choices about receiving promotional communications?", below.
HOW DOES MEDTHUSIAST SHARE MY INFORMATION
We may share your personal information, such as in the following ways:
- By You. You may disclose personal information when you post content to our websites, social media pages, blogs, and online product reviews. Any information that you disclose through these services will become public.
- Service Providers. We may share your information with our service providers who manage our customer information and perform services on our behalf, such as fulfilling promotions, sending communications to our customers, conducting surveys, etc. We do not authorize any of these service providers to make any other use or disclosure of your information.
- Third Parties. We may share your information when we team up with another company to offer or provide products, services, contests, or promotions to our customers.
- Legal Requirements. We may share information about you if necessary or appropriate, in our good faith judgment, to comply with laws or regulations or in response to a valid subpoena, order, or government request, or to protect the operations, privacy, safety, property or rights of Medthusiast or others.
- Business Transfer. In the unlikely event of a sale or merger of Medthusiast or any of our businesses, our customers' personal information and other information we have collected as described in this policy may be among the transferred business asset
- Other Disclosures. We also may share information about you as described at the point of collection or otherwise pursuant to your consent.
WHAT OTHER INFORMATION DOES MEDTHUSIAST COLLECT?
We may collect information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as browser and device information; information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies, demographic information and other information provided by you; and aggregated information.
We may use and disclose such information for any lawful purpose. If required, we will treat such information as personal information in accordance with this policy. We will also treat such information as personal information to the extent it is combined with personal information. For example, when you use our technologies, we may keep a record of your product interests, the purchases you make and other content you generate (such as adding items to your shopping cart).
We may collect information in a variety of ways, including:
- Your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and browser click-through and usage data.
- Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: We may use pixel tags to, among other things, track the actions of users of our sites and services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of our sites and services and response rates.
- IP Address: Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet service provider. An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you access our websites, along with the time of the visit and the pages that were visited. Your IP address may also indicate your approximate physical location. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other technologies. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels and diagnosing server problem
- Aggregated information: We may collect and use aggregated personal information, which does not personally identify you. For example, we may calculate the percentage of our site users who have a particular telephone area code.
WHAT IF I USE DIFFERENT DEVICES TO VISIT MEDTHUSIAST WEBSITES OR MOBILE APPLICATIONS?
In order to provide you with a more efficient and convenient shopping experience, you may be able to access various content or sign into your account from many different devices. If you use different devices (such as your home computer, laptop, mobile device and/or an intelligent personal assistant device) to access our sites or our mobile applications and/or place a transaction with or request services from our brand, we may be able to associate you with each of your devices. For example, our sites may allow you to access your favorite items or shopping cart via an email link that is unique to your account. By clicking on the link, you will be automatically signed into your account in order for you to continue your shopping experience where you left off. If you choose to click the email link on a new device, we will be able to associate your current device with your account information.
Information we have collected from your different devices may be combined with other information you have provided us, including details about: information that is saved in your customer account; your transactional history with our brands; how you use our sites, apps and services; the products you view or services and features or in-store technologies in which you choose to interact. We may use such information to help provide more tailored experiences and consistent services and experiences across all of your devices as explained in this privacy notice. We also may use this information to prevent fraud, such as by identifying when your account is accessed from an unfamiliar device, or to provide customized offers or advertising based on your use of each device and your interactions with our brands, services and offerings. Please refer to the “Cookies” section to learn how you can exercise choices regarding cookie-based tracking, or refer to the section “How is my information used for behavioral or targeted advertising and what choices do I have?” to learn more about your choices regarding online advertising.
WHY DID I RECEIVE A MARKETING EMAIL AFTER I MADE A PURCHASE IN A MEDTHUSIAST STORE?
To provide you with a more seamless customer experience, we keep records of all your Medthusiast transactions, both online and in-store. For example, if you use a credit or debit card or give the sales associate your email address when you make a purchase in our store, we may associate that information with your online customer account. As described above, we may use information about your purchases to email you about other products and services that we believe may be of interest to you.
HOW DO I ACCESS OR CHANGE MY INFORMATION?
You can review and change certain personal information related to your use of our online sites (such as your name and contact information). To access your information at a Medthusiast website, simply sign in to your account using your email address and password, and you will be able to edit your personal information in your account profile.
You can also ask us to update your personal information by contacting us as described in the section entitled, "How do I contact you?", below. Please note that any request to update your personal information may take up to 10 days for your email request
HOW DO I MAKE CHOICES ABOUT RECEIVING PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS?
Medthusiast wants to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. If you prefer not to receive promotional information, such as information about special offers and sales events, you can let us know by contacting our customer service as described in the section entitled, "How do I contact you?", below.
If contacting customer service, please be sure to include your full name and the email address you used when you registered with or made a purchase from Medthusiast. If you ask us to remove your name and address from promotional lists, we will maintain your name in a "do not contact" file to ensure that we can honor your request. It may take up to 10 days to process your email request, during which period you may continue to receive communications from Medthusiast.
If you change your mind, you can start receiving promotional communications from us again by logging into your online account and changing your preferences, by signing up when you visit our websites or our stores or when you enter a sweepstakes or contest, or by contacting customer service.
Please note that when you make an online purchase from us, we will continue to confirm your order status and shipment by email. We may also need to contact you via telephone, email or postal mail with questions or information regarding your order.
HOW DOES MEDTHUSIAST PROTECT KIDS' PRIVACY?
Medthusiast is concerned about the privacy and safety of children when they use the Internet. We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information online from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. Our websites are general audience sites and are not targeted to or intended for use by children.
HOW IS MY INFORMATION USED FOR BEHAVIORAL OR TARGETED ADVERTISING AND WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE?
We use our own cookies to help determine which of our ads are shown to you on other websites. To opt out of this targeted online advertising by Medthusiast that utilizes our cookies, please click here.
We also work with third-party companies that use their tracking technologies (including cookies and pixel tags) on our websites in order to provide tailored advertisements on our behalf and on behalf of other advertisers across the Internet. These companies may collect information over time about your activity on our sites and other sites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications and use this information to determine which ads you see on third-party websites and applications. These technologies and the information collected about you may also be used to track your activity across multiple devices. For more information about this practice and to understand your options including how to opt out of receiving these tailored advertisements, please visit http://www.aboutads.info.
Please note that even if you opt-out, these tracking technologies may still collect data and you will still see ads, but they will not be targeted based upon the information collected through these tracking technologies.
HOW DO I KNOW MY PERSONAL INFORMATION IS SECURE?
We do our best to provide you with a safe and convenient shopping experience. We have in place certain physical, electronic, contractual, and managerial safeguards to help protect the security and privacy of your personal information.
When you enter your personal information on our websites, we use encryption technology to protect your information as it is transmitted to us.
WHAT IS "PHISHING"?
"Phishing" is a scam designed to steal your personal information. If you receive an email that looks like it is from us asking you for your personal information, do not respond. We will never request your password, user name, credit card information or other personal information through email.
I RECEIVED A SUSPICIOUS EMAIL FROM MEDTHUSIAST REGARDING AN ORDER I DID NOT PLACE. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
We are aware of phony emails sent out under our brand names. These emails did not originate from Medthusiast, and individuals who received fraudulent order status emails have not been charged. For your protection, do not click links or open any files attached to suspicious, unsolicited emails. If you believe your personal computer has been compromised as a result of the scam, please consult an IT professional. For more information, contact the FBI's Internet Crimes Complaint Center: http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx. We work with law enforcement on their investigations of these kinds of fraudulent emails.
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My wife and I have four grandchildren. The eldest is a little girl who was adopted by the eldest of our two daughters and our son-in-law. She is of Mexican descent with beautiful, thick black hair, brown eyes, and golden-brown skin. The second is a little boy, who was adopted by that same daughter and son-in-law, has skin that is a beautiful, rich brown with eyes to match and who came out of his birth mother’s womb with a natural Afro. Our youngest two grandchildren are the biological offspring of our youngest daughter and her husband. The eldest (and our third) is the palest of whites, bordering on pink, and her hair is as red as her father’s beard. Our fourth, not yet three years of age, has skin not quite as pale as his big sister’s but hair every bit as red.
These four children represent our family’s beautiful rainbow and like all grandparents we love them so much that it hurts.
These kids have magnificent smiles that light up our lives even more than the lights of the holiday season and laughter that warms us during the coldest of times. Such smiles have reminded me that throughout my whole life, whenever I have been blessed to see children smile, I am blind to any of the other features, that for reasons that are difficult to fathom, cause some human beings to pass derisive judgment. For me the smile of any child is a source of incalculable joy that is as common to the shared universal human experience as anything else in life.
I have spent my entire lifetime striving to understand why our world is so full of hatred over issues as insignificant as the color of one’s skin. I still struggle to understand why differences in eye or hair color are perceived as different shades of beauty while differences in skin color produce such extremes of enmity.
I was blessed to be born to parents who taught that we are all children of Creation and that we were blessed to live in a country in which we are all considered to be equal under the Constitution.
In 1951, I was equally fortunate to live in a neighborhood and attend an elementary school that was twenty-five percent black. It was at school where I learned to be a friend and playmate with one of my black classmates before I ever learned of the existence of bigotry and racism. Somehow, I never noticed that when I was playing with my black friend that my white friends were off doing something else and vice versa.
When I first witnessed the hatred that my white friends had for my black friend, I was devastated. My black friend and I never played together, after that. At the time I did not understand whereas he probably thought to himself “I should have known better.” This was nothing new in his life. For me, innocence was forever lost but I never lost my perception of diversity as something to be cherished as beautiful.
Later, at the age of 20, I was privileged to spend a summer working in a churchyard in Philadelphia, providing a place for young children to gather and play, safe from the reaches of the gangs whose territories sandwiched our little oasis. All these kids were black, save one. While I was responsible for the boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 16 who came to play in our churchyard and game room, I played with them far more than I supervised. While my job was to keep them safe and be a mentor, I must confess that these youngsters taught me far more than I ever could have taught them.
For the first nine years after college and the military, I worked as a juvenile probation officer where I supervised a multi-racial group of boys and girls between the ages of nine and seventeen. I also worked with their families. I have vivid memories of sitting at a kitchen table, having a cup of coffee with the mother of a young boy or girl—some white and others black—who was desperate to understand why her child was failing in school and seemed unable to stay out of trouble. “My kid’s not stupid!” they would often say. I had no answer for them, but I agreed that their sons and daughters were not stupid. In fact, their “street smarts” was apparent.
A decade later, I was one of the founding board members of a local Boys and Girls Club where, once again, I was privileged, as a volunteer, to be around, play with, and serve a diverse group of children. When in an environment where these children felt safe and received unconditional affection, patience, and affirmation their joy and laughter was contagious. These kids were voracious learners, quick to listen to adults with whom they felt a special connection. They were anxious to soak up whatever lessons their adult leaders might offer. If they struggled with a lesson, they sought the help of their trusted friend.
Often, the adults would scratch their heads and wonder why so many of these children, so full of life and curiosity, were failing in school. I was only beginning to comprehend.
More than a dozen years later, when I decided to relinquish my leadership and organizational-development consulting practice to focus on my life-long dream of writing books, I worked part-time as a substitute teacher for my local public school district. In those high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools, I was able to walk in the shoes of public school teachers and observe, first hand, the struggles of so many of these teachers and their students. Once I got over feeling overwhelmed by all that was swirling around me, I began to wonder why these classrooms were so different from the game rooms and playgrounds at the Boys and Girls Club or the churchyard in Philadelphia.
What I learned about children during these significant chunks of my life was that whether black, white, or shades of brown; rich or poor; male or female they are all just kids and they can all learn from someone who cares about them if given a fair opportunity. Whatever their backgrounds there are more similarities than differences between them.
They all laugh when they play or act silly; cry and bleed red when they get hurt; get mad when they lose; celebrate when they win; get embarrassed when they are made fun of; yawn when they get sleepy; respond to warmth and affection with warmth and affection; and, suffer egregiously when abused by their parents, feel disconnected in many of their classrooms, or when bullied by their peers.
All these boys and girls are capable of learning; they are all curious about the world around them; and, they all get discouraged and feel humiliated when they fail. They all suffer great loss of self-esteem when they give up on themselves after repeated failure and no longer believe in their ability to compete in classrooms that never should have become competitive environments in the first place.
They all deserve our respect not only as individual human beings but also as members of their unique cultural traditions. The only difference, once they arrive at school, is their level of preparation and motivation. They all deserve the best we have to offer and the very fact that so many of these children fail provides irrefutable evidence that what we are doing does not work for everyone.
Despite the heroic effort of our teachers, it is here, in our elementary schools that we will find the roots of the problems that beleaguer us as a nation and society. Whether we are teachers, administrators, policy-makers, or deans and professors of schools of education, we must be willing to pull our heads from the sand and stop defending the indefensible.
The fact that so many children are failing, particularly minorities and the poor, is not a predisposition of birth or a fact of nature. That children are failing is nothing more than an outcome of a flawed system of human design. The performance gap between white children and black kids and other minorities is an outcome our traditional educational process is structured to produce. Like any other production, service-delivery process, or software application, our education process can be reinvented to produce the outcomes we want and need.
This flawed system is not the fault of teachers and other professional educators. Rather, the culpability of educators is that they are the people in the best position to identify the failure of this flawed educational process, yet they hold back as if they are afraid to act. It is critical that we understand that this lack of action is not because they are bad people or incompetent professionals rather it is because they have learned to perceive themselves as powerless.
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While the original dogwifhat token took the Solana ecosystem by storm in early January, an Ethereum-based homage coin by the same name aimed to replicate its success.
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Specifically, 12 new wallets rumored to be aligned with the project’s developers purchased 24 million WIF tokens right after they were launched on Uniswap.
They sold 15.34 million of those tokens just 12 minutes later while retaining the remaining 8.65 million.
Other regular investors piled in shortly after those initial transactions, hoping to profit like the early whales.
However, WIF’s price soon plunged by 90% as speculators took profits.
This situation raised questions about potential price manipulation by insiders, which is a common concern in the meme coin space.
Copycat Token Piggybacks on Original dogwifhat’s Success
The Ethereum-based dogwifhat was stealth launched on Uniswap on February 3, likely seeking to capitalize on the viral popularity of the original Solana-based token.
Meme coins on Solana had seen a parabolic rise in late 2023 and early 2024, sparking interest in similar projects hosted on the network.
The Solana dogwifhat rose from $0.073 on January 8 to an all-time high of $0.481 on January 18 – a 558% surge.
At its peak, the token briefly hit a market cap of $452 million, making it the fourth-largest meme coin globally, ahead of Pepe (PEPE).
However, WIF’s value is now 58% below January’s high, thanks to speculative investors taking profits.
Still, the incredible gains produced by WIF highlight the power of social media hype, especially for tokens launched on the Solana blockchain.
Seeing this, the team behind the Ethereum dogwifhat likely sought to replicate the success of its Solana counterpart by playing into the meme coin frenzy.
As a result, whale purchases like those seen on February 3 were likely attempts to cash in on the buzz and artificially inflate the token’s price.
New Meme Coin Sponge V2 Hopes to Be Next Market Sensation After Uniswap Listing
Now, the crypto community is eagerly anticipating the launch of a new meme coin called Sponge V2 – with many wondering if it could deliver astronomical returns like both dogwifhat tokens.
Sponge V2 is the second iteration of the original Sponge (SPONGE) token that delivered almost 100x returns for early investors in May 2023, around the same time that PEPE coin’s value exploded.
The team behind SPONGE is gearing up to release an improved version that could tap into the ongoing interest in low-cap meme coins.
This improved version will feature play-to-earn (P2E) functionality within a SpongeBob-themed racing game, where players can earn SPONGEV2 tokens by winning races and ranking on leaderboards.
Sponge V2’s developers also intend to list the token on “bigger and better” exchanges than its predecessor.
Considering the original SPONGE was listed on top-tier CEXs like Gate.io and MEXC, this could significantly boost SPONGEV2’s liquidity.
Major crypto influencers are already betting on a price pump for SPONGEV2, with Insider Alpha describing it as “the next 100x meme coin.”
If Sponge V2 can leverage this hype and make solid progress on its ambitious roadmap, which includes the goal of hitting a $100 million market cap, then its prospects might be looking good.
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If you use the same rug for a few months, it gets damaged. It no longer looks attractive. Over-used rugs tend to lose the natural texture. You may not feel like having them indoors Old rugs can smell bad. Buying a new one is always more expensive.
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December 13, 2022
Differences Between All-On-4 Dental and Traditional Implants
Dental implants are the best option when it comes to replacing missing or damaged teeth.
Both All-On-4 implants and traditional dental implants provide a natural look and durability, but there are many differences between the two procedures. Let’s find out:
The All-on-4 is one of the most innovative teeth replacement options and it works as a kind of implant-supported denture that uses only four implants to replace an entire arch of lost teeth. While traditional dental implants require between four to eight individual implants.
Time and Efficiency:
Both are efficient procedures. All-On-4 dental implants may be more quick: the implants can be installed in a day, whereas traditional dental implants require multiple surgeries with a long recovery between each one.
Appearance and Practicality:
Both implants will give the patient’s smile a natural look and offer a permanent solution. The All-on-4 implants are removable. Traditional dental implants are not removable.
Traditional dental implants are inserted by screw into the jaw. Once the implants are in place, the jaw must heal and integrate the implants into the bone. In the All-on-4 procedure, the implants support a full arch of replacement teeth and are installed at an angle which is especially helpful for people who have experienced bone loss in their jaws.
Traditional dental implants may require at least two surgeries to install. While in the All-on-4 procedure, the artificial roots and replacement teeth are installed all on the same day.
Post Surgery Issues:
Bone grafting requires removing small fragments of bone from one area of your jaw and transferring them to the areas receiving the implants.
With traditional dental implants, bone grafting may be required. This is more common with traditional dental implant surgery and can add to the total treatment time. Bone grafting is rarely required with the All-on-4 procedure as the dentist selects the bulkiest areas of the jaw to place the implants.
With traditional implants, recovery time may be longer due to the different surgeries that the implant requires. With All-on-4, patients can expect a recovery time of approximately one week.
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The rise of right-wing populist parties and their ever-growing attacks on immigrants and minorities is an outcome of Europe’s inability to draft and pass a workable immigration, refugee and integration policy. Immigrants and refugees are not the real threat to Europe. It is weak leadership by politicians and standing up to the populist rhetoric that fuel prejudices and urban myths about Europe’s new inhabitants.
A good example why some integration policies are set to fail before they become public policy is that dear little has been done in many countries to promote acceptance and cultural diversity.
We all know that the millions of immigrants and Turks that emigrated to countries like Germany and Austria were not supposed to stay there permanently. After working a for a few years they were expected to return to their home countries.
In Germany, as well as in many European countries, there is no effective plan to integrate immigrants. A successful integration program must go further: It must give immigrants the opportunity to become equal members of society.
If we look at the ongoing debate in countries like Finland, one gets the view from some Social Democrats that migrant workers must be held in contempt because they work for lower wages and don’t pay taxes.
Certainly an effective integration and public policy would resolve many matters like the above. If employers are exploiting immigrants while the authorities turn a blind eye, is it the foreign laborer or the system that is to blame?
Humans are social animals and their first aim in a new country is to integrate in a group and establish social networks. If they see that integration is impossible to the majority culture and exploitation the rule, this situation will lure some of them to evade taxes and work outside the law.
If a society is exclusive and there is hostility towards immigrants, what are these people supposed to integrate to?
Immigrants and refugees are not the problem of Europe. The problem is public policy and lack of leadership. |
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4.5 million: Civil 20 India reached out to the highest number of people in C20’s history
- The Civil 20 (C20) Policy Pack urges the G20 Heads of State to put aside self-interests and address the deep inequalities that have increased after the pandemic.
NEW DELHI, Aug. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Civil 20, an official Engagement Group of India’s G20 Presidency, has submitted its policy recommendations to the G20 Secretariat. The Civil 20 Policy Pack is the result of an unprecedented number of C20 events—over 1,300 meetings, both online and offline, with more than 5,400 civil society organizations (CSOs) from 154 countries. Through mass outreach campaigns, including in vulnerable communities, C20 also connected to more than 4.5 million people worldwide.
India’s G20 Secretariat is now reviewing the policies in advance of the G20 Summit where its Heads of State will meet in New Delhi in September. The G20 (Group of Twenty) comprises 19 countries and the European Union. Its members represent around 85% of the global GDP, over 75% of global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population.
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified deep inequalities furthered by a global economic recession and increasing natural disasters. C20 specifically calls upon the world leaders to put aside their own self-interests and power struggles and shift their focus to cooperation and collaboration to build a better, stronger, and more inclusive world based upon compassion, mutual respect, and sustainability.
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) is a world-renowned spiritual leader and humanitarian who is Chair of this year’s C20 Engagement Group. She is the first spiritual leader to hold the position which represents volunteers with the world’s CSOs and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It is their work that addresses on a first-person basis the needs of the world’s most vulnerable communities and the impact of environmental destruction.
Amma said: “One of the key insights that arose from the deliberations was that in order to ensure the long-term existence and safety of humanity, it is necessary to embrace certain overarching values and principles, and work together as a unified whole. Indeed, the emergence of such a sentiment can be seen as a positive sign, opening the path for hope. Humanity’s intentions and actions must reflect a degree of this shared sense of unity.”
Amma added: “If not, our greed will reach such a pinnacle that it will threaten our very existence. Nature has been giving us strong warnings over the past several years that this is the direction in which we are headed. If we do not heed these warnings, human beings will very soon be added to this planet’s list of extinct creatures.”
Amma emphasized that everyone deserves respect and dignity regardless of background, setting the stage for ethical and sustainable policies. The Indian approach to public service has traditionally been founded upon selfless service and community participation. This is possible because there is a collective faith in self-reliance and sustainability, where economic growth, ecological health, personal enlightenment, and social well-being go hand in hand.
Amma said: “There will always be some people who will discourage us and obstruct our progress. We should never allow them to shake our confidence or conviction in fulfilling our personal duty. Only if we have self-confidence can we benefit society through our efforts.”
Mr Vijay Nambiar Principal Coordinator for C20 India said, “C20 India calls on the UN and the G20 to take bold action, including through substantial financial commitments, to help achieve the UN’s critical Sustainable Development Goals. Civil society around the world should have sufficient space to play a fitting role in the implementation of this agenda.”
The Civil 20 Policy Pack is founded upon on G20 India’s theme—One Earth, One Family, One Future. The motto is inspired by an ancient Sanskrit phrase, vasudhaiva kutumbakam, which is so valued that it is engraved in the entry to India’s parliament building. It means the whole world is one family.
After a successful conclusion of the C20 India Summit, Amma officially handed over the leadership to representatives from Brazil, the next country to hold the G20 Presidency.
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DS Roy var på reise i konvoi fra London til Blyth i ballast. Den 12. oktober 1941 ble konvoien angrepet av minst fire tyske E-båter med torpedoer før de i skadet tilstand ble jaget bort av den eskorten. En tysk torpedo traff likevel Roy og blåste bort halve poopen og vannet fosset inn. Livbåtene kom greit på vannet. To mann gikk om bord i vraket, fant en fastklemt og en hardt såret. Det lyktes å få den ene løs og ned i båten og et halvt minutt etter at de var kommet i livbåten, sank Roy. De overlevende ble satt i land i Grimsby. Tre nordmenn og en brite omkom i forliset.
SS Roy was on a journey from London to Blyth in ballast. By October 12th 1941, the convoy was attacked by at least four German E-boats with torpedoes before they got driven off by the convoy escort. One of the torpedoes struck Roy and blew away half the poop deck and water streamed in. The lifeboats were lowered to the sea. Two men boarded the wreck, found a crew member that was stuck and one that was badly wounded. They managed to save the stuck crewmember and down to the boat. Just half a minute after they got into the lifeboat, Roy went down. The survivors were brought to Grimsby. Three Norwegians and a Briton perished in the sinking. |
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Later this evening – at 6 PM in Room 003 of the Carroll County office building at 225 North Center St. in Westminster – the County’s Planning and Zoning Commission is having a hearing at which the Commission will discuss a “text amendment.”
This text amendment would alter the language of B-NR zoning (Business – Neighborhood Retail) to accomplish the following…
- Increase maximum store size on B-NR property tenfold, from 10,000 SF to 100,000 SF
- On all B-NR properties in the County
- Just to accommodate a grocery store chain (LIDL, pronounced “leedle”) that wants to open a single grocery store on just one B-NR property, near the intersection of Sykesville and Liberty Roads in Eldersburg.
If and when it opens, this new LIDL will become the seventh grocery store in an already over-crowded market. According to the LIDL site plan, the new LIDL will have 36,185 SF which is, obviously, far less than the 100,000 SF maximum that is in the text amendment.
So, why make this change for all B-NR zoned properties in the County? Raising the maximum store size to 100,000 SF when the LIDL needs less than 40,000 SF?
Forget about whether or not Eldersburg actually needs or can support a seventh grocery store and the impact this additional store may have on other grocery store-anchored shopping centers nearby. The questions for tonight’s hearing are…
- Why alter the language for all B-NR zoning in the County?
- Why increase the maximum store size all the way to 100,000 SF, with what impact on other neighborhoods around the County?
And, perhaps, most importantly…
- Why weren’t Eldersburg residents and businesses given adequate notice of the hearing and information about the text amendment? Equally important, shouldn’t discussion of the text amendment have been held at a hearing in Eldersburg which is, after all, the place the text amendment is all about?
We’re doing our best to let people – including management of the grocery stores already in place and the ALDI that’s coming soon – know about tonight’s meeting. If you’re interested and have time to attend – whatever your opinion – please do your best to attend. Even if you don’t want to speak, just being there makes a statement that the Commission will appreciate. Bringing neighbors and friends with you would be great.
Thanks. Please leave a comment below if you like – and take our survey before you leave. And feel free to read “Reasons Not To Approve The Eldersburg LIDL Site Plan.” |
3 Fun Games Kids Can Enjoy Outdoors
When they had their choice, most children would prefer to play outdoors than in their homes. But may finding exciting and fascinating games to experience may become routine and repetitive. Activities for example bicycle riding, skateboarding, playing Frisbee and taking advantage of an outdoor swing set could possibly get boring, for hyper energetic kids. But you will find three proven games almost every kid will enjoy playing once he’s brought to them and that he learns how you can play.
This is among the best games because you don’t have to buy any costly game equipment. Inside a blind walk, a parent or gaurdian or perhaps an older child gathers together several children at one finish of the backyard. The individual who’s not participating hanging around results in a destination to allow them to achieve across in the yard.
It’s more enjoyable to place something in the destination point that’s can be simply grabbed like a bicycle or perhaps a tall scooter. Each kid is told that he needs to achieve that destination point as rapidly as you possibly can. The issue is everybody needs to be blindfolded. Nobody who’s watching is permitted to out directional hints to try and steer them right course. They need to blindly walk all by themselves. The first ones to the destination and touch the item wins. Farmville offers plenty of healthy exercise.
It ought to simply be performed, however, in an empty position for safety reasons. A front or backyard without a lot of trees or rocks is ideal. This fabulous game may be easily performed three occasions consecutively for additional outdoors enjoyability.
Drag Your Body
Several children gather outdoors with this game. The top ought to be around the soft side, for example grass, sand or dirt. Hard asphalt, blacktop, or concrete shouldn’t be used. All kid contestants hanging around receive blankets of the identical size and texture.
One child makes the choice to be the one who sits around the blanket and holds on when he’s pulled. Another partner pulls the blanket and will the actual dragging. The aim of the sport would be to mix a definite finish line first. The conclusion line ought to be created using either chalk attracted on the floor or having a rope put up between two trees or posts. This is often an exciting, fast game. However it might get just a little bumpy, therefore the kid around the blanket must hang on tight. Prizes could be provided for first, second and third place. Small quantities of money may be exchanged rather from the material prizes.
Cereal Box Bowling
This is among the most creative outside games imaginable. Kids have to bring to one outside location their empty boxes of cereal using their home. A sizable rubber ball can also be thing about this game, however a standard volleyball doubles with equal effectiveness.
Farmville must be performed on the hard surface like a front yard or perhaps a wide walkway. The children then stack all of the cereal boxes what sort of group of ten bowling pins are stacked up. They stand back behind the boxes roughly 20 ft. Each child then proceeds to softly roll the ball in the boxes. The little one who knocks lower probably the most boxes on every roll builds up probably the most points for your roll.
Johnny Guyzer has 4 kids of their own and it has performed most of the games pointed out within the above article. He enjoys the recollections to be a child themself and relishes currently as he did not need to bother about property insurance or whether Alberta insurance was necessary as he moved his family there. |
A Retired Couple May Have Perfected Retiring on a Cruise Ship
We all dream of retiring. Its HOW we retire that differs between us. Some buy an RV and travel the country. Some enjoy their time at home with their dogs. Others have chosen living out their retirement days onboard a cruise ship. Its possible, and depending on your budget, could be an option for you as well.
Richard and Angelyn Burk may have perfected retiring on a cruise ship. The couple have been able to get their expenses to about $100 a day, $135 if they want to do a little something extra, all while having room and board and food provided for them. Their travels for 2022 will take them to Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada, Alaska, Japan, Indonesia and Vietnam. I don't like the phrase "living your best life" but its very applicable when it comes to the Burks.
Depending on your retirement strategy, it may not be that hard to be like the Burks. Galveston has both Royal Caribbean and Carnival cruise lines leaving port on a regular basis. Many other companies are looking into it or want to come to Galveston, including Disney. These cruise lines offer so many activities onboard the ship and at the various ports they stop at, also.
I mean, it really would be a great way to live out your retirement days. No cooking, very little cleaning and you get to visit a new place with every trip. My 401K isn't the biggest right now but I can certainly see the benefits of traveling by boat for the rest of my life.
Would you want to sail out of the Galveston port for a majority of the year during your retirement years?
The Burks aren't the only ones who are living this retirement life, Mario Salcedo has been doing it for two decades now. "Mama" Lee Wachtstetter spent many years aboard Crystal Serenity. Get a more detailed look at others who have chosen this retirement path HERE. |
FSI Goes Big, Bright & High Resolution
Over the past decade, Flanders Scientific has established itself as a premier reference monitor brand trusted by DITs, DPs, colorists, and VFX artists worldwide. The quality of their monitors, calibration abilities, and exceptional customer service have earned FSI a reputation as one of, if not the top brand in the reference monitor business.
While FSI’s brand has grown in the past 10 years, they’ve focused mainly on 25 inch and smaller HD – LCD and OLED SDR monitors (their 42in and 55in LCDs being the only large monitors they’ve released).
FSI has never been a company to jump on the latest technical fad just for the sake of keeping up with the Joneses. Along with their manufacturing partner, Zunzheng (based in Shenzhen, China), they’ve researched and plotted their product moves very carefully.
After a couple of technology previews of 4k and UHD monitors at trade shows over the past few years, this past year FSI made a big splash with the announcement of their new XM series – 4k & UHD HDR monitors. This new line up consists of the 65′ XM650U 65 inch UHD HDR OLED and the XM310K a 31in 4k HDR LCD Master Monitor.
The XML310K is still in development (expected to be released later this year) but the XM650U is just about ready to ship.
At the end of January, Bram called me to see if I wanted to take a peek at a pre-production unit – of course, I did! So I called Patrick and invited him to come to Washington DC and together we took the XM650U for a spin. We figured while we had Bram sequestered (we did buy him some beers!), we’d also pick his brain about this new monitor and some other technical topics.
Top XM650U Features
If you’ve been a Mixing Light member for a while, you probably know that I have a little bit of an obsession with LG OLED TVs. For the past 3-4 years, I’ve literally bought the new model (or multiple copies) each year. Why?
I love the look of OLED and I love the contrast performance. My FSI DM250 OLED reference monitor is wonderful, but it’s simply too small for a room full of clients. The LG OLEDs have filled an important need for me – a high-quality client monitor.
But taking a consumer TV and attempting to get to behave like a much more expensive professional reference monitor is no easy task. From service menu tweaks to LUT boxes and SDI > HDMI adapters, it’d be a fair statement to say using the LG OLED TVs as client monitors has been difficult.
There is another problem that a lot of people face – two monitors in the room. As I mentioned, a 24 or 25in monitor is simply too small with a room full of clients, but having multiple monitors – especially those with different display technologies introduces problems with matching them and perceptual differences that can be difficult to overcome.
Enter the FSI XM650U
At first glance, the XM650U looks similar to an LG 65in C7 OLED TV – indeed the same panel is used and the housing is equally thin to those of LGs consumer sets. However, on closer inspection, the XM650U shows itself as a professional reference monitor.
Taking a peek at the back of the unit reveals USB, Ethernet, Display Port In and 12 – 12G SDI connections (4in, 4out, 4 clean monitor outs). The XM650U is the first monitor from FSI to feature 12G SDI connections, but they are multi-rate connections meaning they can be used as 12G, 6G, 3G or 1.5G SDI, allowing for a wide variety of connection options including quad 3G (4k) connectivity and when using quad 1.5G SDI allowing the monitor to run 4 separate HD quadrants.
Additionally, the XM650U also lets you downconvert directly from monitor output 1 to HD (Mon 1 is automatically set to 3G/1.5G, while mon outs 2-4 are 12G), which is really nice to feed another HD monitor in the room or HD scopes for example if you’ve not upgraded to 4k scopes.
One great thing about the SDI connections is that they are recessed, which allows for close wall mounting using the XM650U VESA mounting system.
A familiar front panel (yes, it’s on the front of the display, not the top as with previous large format FSI displays!) provides input switching, function access, and other essential controls. The XM650U also features a revised look to the menu system – which both Patrick and I agreed looked great.
Because of its robust calibration capabilities (the same featured in other FSI monitors) and because of the absence of all the ‘auto-magical’ consumer settings of consumer OLED TVs, the XM650U can absolutely be considered an SDR reference monitor – it’s SDR performance it’s simply astounding. Which leads to a very important point.
Because of its size and accuracy, I wouldn’t hesitate to have the XM650U as the only monitor in a color suite – it’s large enough for clients and an operator to view it simultaneously and its SDR performance (Both HD and UHD) is essentially perfect.
As an HDR monitor, the XM650U is also very good. Calibrated for Rec709, P3 or Rec 2020 the panel operates a max luminance of 900nits – that’s very good, but not world class for a panel of this size. But that’s not FSI’s fault – that’s just about as good as WRGB OLED at this size performs.
FSI is very careful to describe the XM650U’s HDR capabilities as ‘HDR Monitoring’. What this means is that the XM650U will not adhere to recommendations for Dolby, Netflix, Amazon, and others for an ‘HDR mastering monitor’, which is usually defined as 1000-nit peak luminance or greater. This doesn’t mean that the XM650U can’t be used for PQ (Dolby Vision, HDR10/10+) and HLG grading, but it does mean that it can’t fully hit the specs of some distributors.
Used as a client monitor in combination with an HDR reference monitor (including FSI’s upcoming XM310K) this is hardly a limitation – clients will just see some clipping at very high nit values. For HDR workflows where the XM650U will be used alone, strict monitoring of scopes and evaluation of clipping still allow the monitor to be used in HDR grading scenarios. But for facilities that demand a large format monitor producing 1000-nits plus of peak luminance they’ll need to look elsewhere.
In the few hours Patrick and I spent with the XM650U we both felt as an SDR monitor it rivaled other offerings FSI like the DM250, but there was something liberating using it as single large format monitor in the room. We both agreed that might need to consider a single monitor setup soon.
Using the XM650U as an HDR monitor I was immediately excited that I didn’t have to contend with odd tone mapping and auto controls that you find in HDR consumer TVs. While we didn’t calibrate the XM650U, Bram assured us that both the SDR and HDR calibration process is straightforward and easier to get accurate results compared to consumer OELD TVs.
Updated Calibration Program
Flanders has always been known for its calibration program – at any point if you want to get your Flanders monitor calibrated with reference level gear, all you have to do is ship your monitor back to them (covering the cost of shipping) and in a day or two they calibrate it and ship it back to you.
FSI has also been known to help customers program calibration matrices into their own lower cost colorimeters using their reference level spectroradiometer, which is awesome if you want to calibrate on your own but don’t want to invest in a reference level meter.
All of that’s well and good, but there is a big difference between a 24in monitor and 65in monitor! Taking the XM650U off the wall or simply packing it back up in its box would not be an easy task every time you wanted to send it back to FSI for calibration.
I suppose you could invest thousands of dollars in reference gear, but FSI is rolling out a new program specifically for the XM650U so that you don’t have to.
Once a year, FSI will ship you a Colorimetry Research CR-100 (the same colorimeter we use here at Mixing Light) programmed with matrices derived with FSI’s own $15,000 CR-300 2-nanometer reference spectroradiometer specifically for the XM650U WRGB OLED panel.
What this means is that you essentially get the use of $20,000 worth of calibration gear for free! FSI will even pay the shipping for the CR-100. The only catch?
You must supply your own calibration software – Calman or Lightspace. The cool thing is that there are FSI specific versions of those tools at significantly less cost than the retail versions. Don’t worry! FSI’s support team is always happy to guide you through the steps of getting everything hooked up and helping you go through the calibration process. The calibration program is slated to begin in April 2018.
I must say, this new calibration program is a tremendous benefit to those who purchased an XM650U but haven’t made the jump to reference level calibration gear of their own. The accuracy of any monitor is essential and this program will help ensure that you can always trust your XM650U while at the same time, providing you insight into the actual calibration process.
Video: Bram Desmet From FSI Stops By To Talk About The XM650U
As I mentioned, at the end of January, Bram stopped by my facility so that Patrick and I could take a peek at the new XM650U. While Bram was in DC we decided to record a number of Insights with him – you’ll see those over the coming weeks. Bram (and in general FSI) is a tremendous resource for knowledge on all things monitors, calibration and standards.
In the video below, Bram walks us through the top new features and design of the XM650U – don’t forget you can preorder the XM650U today – orders are expected to start shipping within 6 weeks.
Finally, before checking out the video below, you need to know it wasn’t an easy task getting the large motorized road case FSI is shipping the XM650U around in up to my space – it turns out the elevator up to the third floor of my building is about 3 inches too small for the case! Thanks to Adam, Bram and Bryan from FSI as well as DP and friend Joe Tyler for essentially deadlifting a 400lb case up three flights of tight stars to make this and the other videos with Bram happen! |
ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has directed the Communication Authority to filter pornographic sites to help protect children.
Mucheru on Thursday said the increased access to the sites by young people has largely contributed to early pregnancies.
“Our children are our future. Let’s close the sites first, then have a debate on when to open them,” Mucheru said.
He spoke at the CIO 100 symposium at Naivasha.
KNEC Chairman George Magoha had on Wednesday said the ICT sector is partly to blame for the increased ease of access of pornographic sites in the country.
Magoha said the pregnancy crisis witnessed in the country is due to the fact that some of the young girls access some of these sites and that parents have failed to give advice to their children.
“The shame that we are getting pregnant girls all over the place implies there is absolute moral decadence among parents and it is a high time we produce children that we have time for,” he said.
“I dont hear our leaders talking about family planning. In fact some of them encourage people to have more children for voting purposes. They should be ashamed of themselves.”
Many pregnancy cases were reported during the KCSE and KCPE period.
Kitui county produced the highest number of KCSE candidates sitting exams while pregnant at 110 while about 30 KCPE candidates gave birth.
DPP Noordin Haji and Education CS Amina Mohamed have ordered a probe over the high number of pregnancy cases.
Early this week, DPP Noordin Haji ordered the DCI to investigate cases of teenage pregnancies and early marriages that came to the fore during KCPE and KCSE exams.
According to the United Nations Population Fund, nearly 378,400 adolescent girls in Kenya aged between 10 and 19 years became pregnant between July 2016 and June 2017. |
Lenny Kravitz never really stops. In a year where nearly nothing has gone according to plan, the 56-year-old rocker has managed to remain as active as ever.
Fresh off Paris Fashion Week, Kravitz flew to the Bahamas in March for a five-day stay ahead of his scheduled summer tour legs in Australia and New Zealand. As the coronavirus pandemic forced the world to pause, Kravitz's quick trip became a seven-plus-month sabbatical that afforded the jetsetting artist an invaluable opportunity to lie low and hone in. "Just living in the present is so good for me creatively," he gushes. "I do my thing."
Since then, the New York native has released a bestselling memoir, started working on his next album, and most recently, unveiled a grand piano collaboration with renowned partner Steinway & Sons. Built with fifteen layers of hard rock maple, Macassar ebony and more than 200 hours of hand-carving, the limited-edition piano reflects Kravitz's trademark attention to detail.
We caught up with Lenny to discuss the Kravitz Grand collaboration, as well as his thoughts on creativity, fashion and the future of rock music.
You’ve said piano was the first instrument that you fell in love with. Do you remember the first time you played?
The first time I played, I was banging on it. I was a toddler living in my parents’ apartment in New York. They had a little one-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side where I lived. I had the bedroom and they lived in the living room on a couch that pulled out to a bed at night, and in the corner of this room was a little spinet piano. That’s when my curiosity began.
How did the Steinway & Sons partnership come together?
I was thinking, "How can I make a piano that really defines me and my aesthetics?" I quickly knew what it was... but I had never seen it, so I put together a mood board. I’m very much into African art, brutalist art and furniture. That was the combination I wanted. When I presented to Steinway, they looked at me very studiously. I think they thought, “this is… I don’t know about this.” But they saw that I was extremely passionate, and I didn’t want to compromise. They did their best to support my vision and gave me nothing but positive energy.
Anytime I was in New York City, I went to the factory. It’s wonderful when you have a vision in your mind... could be a song, a piece of furniture or architecture, anything creative. If you get close to what you'd envisioned in your mind’s eye, that's great. If you achieve exactly what you had envisioned, then you hit the jackpot. But it’s very seldom when you exceed what you saw. And I have to tell you… it came out better than I had imagined. I was very serious about my details… picking the different metals, how the brass was going to be molded, and how the markings were going to be applied to the piano. The carvings on the side didn’t feel perfect, they felt like they were done by somebody — that was an imperfection, as well as perfection. When I saw this thing in the end, I couldn’t believe it. It looked better than I thought it was going to. So I’m really honored that they would work with me like that, and that we did this thing together that seemed like it was going to be quite a challenge.
How have you managed to stay creative and grounded over the past year?
Creatively, it’s something that I do no matter where I am. Funny enough, being here in the Bahamas and being under lockdown, I realized that I kind of live quarantine a lot in my life. I pretty much stay on my property when I’m recording here, so it’s not something that took a lot to change. So it’s been a very creative time, just by virtue of being quiet and being here... I work out. I work in the garden. I make music. I design. I practice my instruments. I do whatever I have to do.
Are you currently working on any new music?
Yes I am. I’ve been here for seven-and-a-half months since I left Paris. My studio was not up for six months, it had been down for a while and needed to be repaired. Getting people to come here and do the repair work was very difficult during quarantine. But that was really good, because when I couldn't record, it just forced me to listen to the music in my head. So for the last three weeks or so, I’ve been back in the studio and I have an abundance of material that's been floating around my head. I’m really digging it. It’s definitely a different sound on this record. I’m looking forward to finishing it and putting something out as soon as I can.
Where did you find the motivation to write your Let Love Rule memoir?
I met David Ritz through a mutual friend at a dinner and he said, ”You need to write a book.” And I thought, "Absolutely not." I’ve never thought about it or wanted to, but he'd convinced me by the end of the dinner. He said “I want to help you write it, but you know, you have to write it” and I began on that journey. For something I never thought of doing, I am so pleased that I did it. It brought so much to my life. It's been a really cathartic experience with things in my past and my relationship with my father. It entered the New York Times’ Best Seller list yesterday, which I’m blown away by.
Anything inspiring you in the fashion world right now?
Just before I came here, I did the Saint Laurent campaigns for the clothes and the fragrance. I’ve been a long time fan of Monsieur Saint Laurent, and after him, Hedi Slimane and now Anthony Vaccarello. It's my favorite house. So I was in Paris doing all these things in the fashion world, and I came to the Bahamas with a bag that had five days' worth of clothes because I was then going to New Zealand and Australia to start another leg of my world tour. (laughs) I've been living out of a bag that has five days’ worth of clothes, and I’ve been here for seven-and-a-half months. So it’s been very interesting to not think about any of that in this time. I did do one photoshoot for Saint Laurent where the clothes were actually brought down. But other than that, the fashion has been pretty laid back.
What are your thoughts on the future of rock music in the streaming era?
For some years now, rock 'n roll has not gotten the attention from radio because of the styles they want to play. They want to play the same fifteen songs over and over again and that’s it. I remember when it got to the point where the radio was telling me, “We don’t play guitars anymore. It doesn’t matter how great the song is.” And that was just quite ridiculous. But that’s the way it is and things change, but what’s great about streaming and the internet is that kids who want to know about music can find anything that they’re looking for. I've found that so many young people now know so much about music history and the past. Rock, blues, funk and soul, and they’re making really eclectic playlists. I think if you look on Instagram, you’ll see so many young kids now playing instruments, playing guitars, bass, drums, keyboard, horns, singing, you know, but with an old-school vibe. That’s what they’re learning. I mentor a couple of these kids, and I watch a bunch of them. They're like 8 to 12 years old and they’re virtuosos. Bass players playing like Jaco Pastorious. It’s wonderful. So I think that our future is going to have that element again where people are expressing themselves with actual instruments.
Photography by: Photos by Mark Seliger and courtesy of Steinway & Sons. |
September 10, 2019
As technology evolves, so too does gambling. No longer is it just casinos in Vegas and betting on pony races. Online gambling and online casinos are a fun, relaxing way to enjoy the thrill of gambling from the comfort of home. But what about people who are on the go?
Mobile casino apps and mobile games allow people to soak in the full casino experience, while commuting to and from work, school, or doctor's appointments, etc. Mobile app stores are full of games, and many of them may not be the best. Searching for a good and entertaining mobile casino game may be overwhelming.
Mobile slot games are to be found aplenty on mobile app stores and some of them range from to plain to just plain hideous. This one, however, Egyptian Rise, does not disappoint. For those looking for a slot game, this is the go-to. Here are some reasons why.
The aesthetic is a gorgeous mix of Las Vegas and Egypt. For many, gambling is not just about the reward and the stakes, but about the visuals and the sounds. The soundtrack of Egyptian Rise delivers and invokes feelings of euphoria and giddiness. The game itself is creative, with over 200 ways to win.
If Egyptian Rise does not cut it, Beat the Bobbies is another game to consider. Substitution symbols, scatters, and generous multipliers are what makes Beat the Bobbies so enjoyable. The color-scheme and the whimsical soundtrack is unique and complements the game very well.
Another option to consider is the Finn and the Swirly Spins. Leprechaun enthusiasts and fans of luck will enjoy this one, as this leprechaun definitely delivers the pot of the gold. This slot game also holds appeal for fans of the fantasy genre, with some gorgeous and well-illustrated locations, such as the Valley of Emeralds.
While mobile slot games and online casinos are new compared to traditional gambling, they have still been around since the conception of mobile apps, as gambling is something many people enjoy. As such, some brilliant mobile slot games are classics, compared to the newer ones featured above.
One classic mobile slot game which is worth playing is Starburst. Sometimes, less is more, and Starburst's choice to go with a simple interface definitely pays off for both them and the player. The game features a world-famous and classic, five-spin three-slot system, which has plenty of opportunity for big wins. |
Molds generating from wet weather and fallen leaves, pollen from ragweed, dust from dry weather are not easy to prevent; however, there are several things you can take around your home to help ease the burden of allergies for you and your family. In this post and the next, we will discuss 12 steps for making your home’s allergy suffers happier during the fall.
1) Vacuum the Floors and Furniture Often
Vacuuming your indoor areas are important for reducing the presence of allergens tracked into your home on the feet of your family members and the fur of your pets. In order to make a significant impact on the air inside your home, where allergens are often the most irritating, vacuum at least every other day. When you sweep your hardwoods and laminates, vacuum the dust piles as well.
2) Dust and Clean Your Home’s Surfaces Often
Dust and allergens collects on your television, counters, furniture, and other surfaces. Their presence will irritate allergy sufferers, even when they believe they are safe indoors. Rather than using a feather duster, use a damp wash cloth and rinse it often.
3) Change Your HVAC Air Filters
One of the functions of your system is filtering your home’s air of dust and debris. When your air filter is clogged, it reduces airflow, and leads to the increase of dust and allergens collecting on your home’s surfaces. Make sure you change your air filters monthly, or as often as they are dirty, so your heating and air conditioning can be a weapon in the battle against allergies.
4) Have Your Deck and Siding Pressure Washed
Dirt, debris, fallen leaves, and pollen can collect on your home’s outdoor surfaces as well. This will lead to allergy irritation for you and your family. Pressure washing surfaces will help reduce allergens around your home:
- Pressure Wash Patio and Outdoor Furniture
- Pressure Wash Siding
- Pressure Wash Front Porches and Railing
- Pressure Wash Decks
- Pressure Wash Roofing and Awnings
- Pressure Wash Solar Panel
5) Dispose of Raked Leaves and Thunderstorm Debris
When the beautiful changing leaves finally lose their color and falls, they collect in your yard where rain and groundwater help create the perfect environment for mold development. When you rake or blow your leaves into piles, bag them and dispose of them, rather than allowing the piles to sit in your yard. If you suffer from allergies, make sure you wear a mask while doing yardwork.
6) Remediate and Eradicate Indoor Mold
In every season, excess moisture in and around your home will lead to the development of mold. They symptoms of mold allergies are similar to pollen and dust; therefore, many people do not realize mold is the problem. It is important to have any mold total remediated, indoor and outside.
Mobile Magic Pressure Washing in Asheville, NC help ensure your outdoor surfaces are clean and free of allergy inducing mold and mildew. Contact us for our array of commercial grade pressure washing services in western North Carolina. |
BOB KINZIE TABLE LAMPS FOR AFFILIATED CRAFTSMEN STUDIOS
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A "mismatched" pair of massive, wheel-thrown and slip decorated pottery lamps by artisan Bob Kinzie for the AFFILIATED CRAFTSMEN STUDIOS of Costa Mesa, California. Kinzie is well known for his energetic throwing technique and for texturing his pieces on the wheel. These are classic examples of the 1960s California Craft movement. The lamp bodies were constructed in two pieces, jar and lid. The bases are walnut, stained in tones to complement the pottery. The shades are new.
BOB KINZIE (G. Robert Kinzie) founded AFFILIATED CRAFTSMEN STUDIOS in the early 1960's with friends Philip Barkdull and John Scott in Los Angeles, California. Shortly thereafter (1962) the workshop was relocated to Costa Mesa, some 40 miles to the south. The trio produced primarily large, textured lamp bases and garden pots. They adhered to the Japanese Mengei tradition of "the unknown craftsman" and therefore did not mark or sign their names to the work. (This would later change when Kinzie left AFFILIATED CRAFTSMEN in the early '70s; pieces then sometimes either bore round paper labels or were impressed with a stamp, occasionally both.) Kinzie was the principle designer of the three.
During the 1960's Kinzie also produced lamp bases for Stoneware Designs, Inc., the Los Angeles company owned by Raul Coronel (b. 1926), for whom Kinzie had worked prior to the establishment of AFFILIATED CRAFTSMEN. Some of these pieces were apparently sold by Coronel to the Architectural Pottery Company and are often mistaken for, or misrepresented as, the work of David Cressey, best known for his work with that firm. Kinzie and his wife Sandy are currently producing pottery and sculptures at their studio in Aptos, California (an unincorporated town within the city of Santa Cruz).
Production Period – 1960-1969
Country of Origin – USA
Designer – BOB KINZIE
Maker – AFFILIATED CRAFTSMEN STUDIOS
Attribution – WELL-KNOWN
Materials – STONEWARE, WALNUT
Colors – LIGHT BLUE, LIGHT GRAY
Condition – VERY GOOD (no defects; may show slight traces of use)
Plug – N. AMERICAN
Height (in.) – 32.5
Diameter (in.) – 19.0 |
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