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Create NED (Northeast Detroit)
Studio: The Work Department
Restore NED (Northeast Detroit) was a recipient of ArtPlace America’s 2015 National Grants Program for the Create NED initiative. The project utilizes art, green design, technology, and community engagement to revitalize three public parks in NED in Detroit’s District 3. I along with other designers at The Work Deparment worked closely with a resident-led Advisory Board from the Northeast Detroit district to create all design assests. | <urn:uuid:27916273-8eff-4eec-b9e6-70bd330c0059> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://evazielinski.com/Create-NED | 2023-10-04T21:09:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.895 | 113 |
Traveling for academic credit, research, practicum, or clinical work?
Trainee International Travel Resources (TITR) is a collection of required and suggested global health travel resources for students doing academic work abroad.
Traveling for vacation or a conference?
Trainee Resources for Vacations and Conferences (TRVC) help trainees plan safe travel abroad.
Faculty and Staff: We Need Your Input
Adapt these resources, like the Required Curriculum Before Travel, for the specific needs of your own schools and programs. These adaptations can be added to our website, so that all trainees can find their required materials in one place.
The TITR Back-Story: A Cross-Campus Effort
These resources are offered in the spirit of providing essential preparation, both for safety and knowledge. The faculty and students of the UCSF Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy and the Graduate Division recognize the many benefits of international travel for trainee educational and research purposes. We affirm:
- The importance of adequate preparation, cultural knowledge, and humility.
- The objective of bi-directional learning rather than service, given trainee limitations in knowledge and training.
- The underlying objective of collaboration, as well as local community engagement and benefit.
- The imperative of traveling safely.
For questions or feedback about these resources, email Travis Pentz. | <urn:uuid:c4af99a5-1c18-4258-90e2-c3d8ab71df91> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://evcprovost.ucsf.edu/international-travel-resources | 2023-10-04T20:51:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.896047 | 287 |
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Tropical Plant Physiological Responses to Experimental Warming and Hurricane Disturbance
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We were thinking…why is there only one day to show off your Halloween costume? Why not make it a whole week!! Join us Monday, October 29-Saturday, November 3 as we show off our cat ears and witches hats. Even more exciting, for every kiddo that comes in with their costume we’ve got Halloween goodies to hand out.
And the fun doesn’t stop there! On Wednesday, October 31st all three of our offices will be trick-or-treating in the hallways. A safe way for your kiddos, friends and family to join in on the trick-or-treating fun! | <urn:uuid:d4d5665b-ec8d-4c64-a37c-d28c635a81b4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://everhear.com/costume-show-off-week/ | 2023-10-04T19:09:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.970831 | 133 |
When we hear about buying local, it’s usually associated with locally-grown produce, or locally-fabricated textiles or other goods. Today let’s talk about the notion of buying local when it comes to Mobile data SIM cards, and the benefits that come with doing so.
Seamless Network Compatibility
Purchasing SIM cards in Canada from Canadian-based providers not only supports the Canadian economy, but it allows you to stay connected through a provider who understands the support models and the pressures of the networks that these SIM cards have been specifically designed for.
Buying native Bell, TELUS, or Rogers SIM cards from a local provider like Evolution Data gives you direct access to the networks that those SIM cards are intended to run on. This provides you with a seamless connection and SIM cards that function to their fullest potential, as opposed to if you were to purchase a roaming SIM card through an international provider whose product is not inherently compatible with Canadian networks.
Strong Local Relationships
Just as a local SIM card will function more seamlessly with a local network than an international SIM card would, purchasing from those local options also provides you with a much simpler and more direct route to support services, should you ever need them.
Clients who use international SIM cards with Canadian networks have the potential to encounter difficulties when trying to access resources or supports from those networks. In contrast, purchasing a local SIM card means that you immediately have an official relationship with those providers, and with that relationship comes more direct and accessible support services, should you ever encounter an issue.
Double the Benefits When You Buy Local Through a Local Provider
Not only will purchasing Canadian SIM cards provide better connections and more accessible support, but doing so through a Canadian-based provider will expose you to all of those benefits alongside a more holistic and stress-free experience for your company.
Purchasing local SIM cards through a local service provider like Evolution Data means that you reap the benefits of SIM card – network compatibility, as well as the strong, official relationship developed between that local provider and local network operator. Should an issue ever surface, your local provider already has a relationship established with the relevant network support team, which they can leverage to solve your issue without the burden falling to you and your team.
Evolution Data is a grassroots, localized support organization that can and will provide you with all of the support you might need for your local Canadian-based activations and SIM cards. We offer local branded SIM cards that aren’t available through international providers, plus the ability to access the local support and reliability of those carriers without needing to interact with the carriers themselves. Through Evolution Data you can support Canadian providers as if you were a direct customer, while we handle the logistics! Contact us today to discuss your SIM card needs, and to develop a solution that works for you. | <urn:uuid:86a79ffb-ad5c-4751-86e7-451ba9548240> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://evolutiondata.ca/take-advantage-of-the-benefits-of-buying-local-for-sim-cards/ | 2023-10-04T19:05:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.955614 | 579 |
We Judge, Offend and Insult Ourselves by our own Actions
We judge, offend and insult ourselves by our own actions. Awareness of this self-imposed behavior is necessary. Being shown the errors and wrongs of our current ways is a blessing to help us Evolve Consciousness. The darkness can be brought up to the light for conscious awareness to choose the Wisdom of Right-Action over the foolishness of wrong-action. | <urn:uuid:78faa1b6-1263-47e1-baf2-656a314f3ab2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://evolveconsciousness.org/we-judge-offend-and-insult-ourselves-by-our-own-actions/ | 2023-10-04T20:52:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.928777 | 88 |
Why Consider a New HR Solution?
Businesses today are embroiled in intense competition to manufacture the best products, deliver superlative services, win customers in new markets and geographies, and accomplish all of this while saving money.
In this heated battle, the victors will be those organizations that employ not just the most talented individuals, but also establish ways for them to become fully engaged in their work, enmeshed in the culture and core values of the enterprise, in tune with its strategic objectives and committed to a long-term career. Yet there is one factor that can spell doom for these critical goals: outdated and convoluted HR technology.
World-class companies must ensure the workforce has access to real time information to make more informed, proactive decisions faster. In this regard, nimble business processes and agile technology solutions are vital considerations.
In this paper, we’ll look at creating an airtight business case for embracing an accessible, future-proof, data-driven human capital management (HCM) solution. First, we’ll highlight the many obstacles facing HR and payroll teams today, and then examine the exciting new wave of best-in-class HCM features that can…
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Tokyo has got a brand new FREE OBSERVATION terrace and lounge. The Tokyu Plaza Ginza. Opened for business on March 31, 2016, Tokyu Plaza Ginza is a brand new department store in the upscale shopping district of Ginza with a brilliant exterior motif of a traditional Japanese craft—Edo Kiriko cut glass.The exterior is brilliant piece of glass architecture, and the interior has an equally beautiful look especially the Kiriko lounge and terrace on the 6th and the Roof floor (14th) of the building. The rooftop Kiriko Terrace has a brilliant observation space presenting lush greenery with a café (Sakura No Chaya). Personally the location is the best spot to spend quality time in a refined space unique to Ginza….The 6th floor Kiriko Lounge is a brilliant glass interior with high ceilings and open space for exhibition space and plans for holding musical and other events for visitors. The shopping space on the 8th and 10th floor is kind of touristy and probably the Chinese tourists are the main target with a duty-free style shopping experience operated by Lotte. Unique was that there is a departures screen listing flights out of Narita Airport !!!!Now for some views from this department store. First the 6th floor Kiriko Lounge which overlooks the iconic square of Sony Building and the Fujiya building on the opposite side of the road in Yurakucho. Playstation ad on the Sony Building , never seen this top view before of this property.The cake and sweets shop Fujiya has been an iconic presence in the Yurakucho Traffic Square, Sukiyabashi. Getting a top down view with the traffic square could have been possible a few years back with a drone only. Now it is possible due to the Kiriko Terrace in the Tokyu Plaza Ginza store.We took a time-lapse video of the traffic action in the Sukiyabashi crossing from the Kiriko terrace
Some other snaps inside the store. Delicious sweeeeeets.Beautiful flowers on sale….Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway view from Kiriko terrace.Entrance to the Kiriko Terrace.. this new landmark in Ginza is a must see, even if it is just for the view of the shopping district.
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Opioid analgesics are highly effective for treating many forms of acute and chronic pain. The development of opioid analgesic tolerance is a pharmacological phenomenon indicative of the cellular and system adaptation that could affect the clinical use of opioid analgesics. Activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and protein kinase C as well as regulation of glutamate transporters has been implicated in the mechanisms of opioid tolerance, suggesting a possible link between neural plasticity and the mechanisms of opioid tolerance. More recent studies have shown that neural plasticity associated with the development of opioid tolerance may activate a pronociceptive mechanism within the central nervous system that could counteract the analgesic effects of opioids. Thus, exposure to opioids could lead to two seemingly unrelated cellular processes, i.e. (1) the development of opioid tolerance - a negative sign of cellular adaptation, and (2) the development of opioid-induced pain sensitivity - a positive sign of cellular adaptation. The converging effects of these cellular mechanisms would significantly reduce the opioid analgesic efficacy. The current evidence also suggests new approaches for improving the clinical use of opioid analgesics.
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Neuroinflammatory processes play a significant role in health and disease of the nervous system. These regulate development, maintenance, and sustenance of brain cells and their connections. Linked to aging, epidemiologic, animal, human, and therapeutic studies all support the presence of a neuroinflammatory cascade in disease. This is highlighted by the neurotoxic potential of microglia. In steady state, microglia serve to protect the nervous system by acting as debris scavengers, killers of microbial pathogens, and regulators of innate and adaptive immune responses. In neurodegenerative diseases, activated microglia affect neuronal injury and death through production of glutamate, proinflammatory factors, reactive oxygen species, quinolinic acid amongst others and by mobilization of adaptive immune responses and cell chemotaxis leading to transendothelial migration of immunocytes across the blood-brain barrier and perpetuation of neural damage. As disease progresses, inflammatory secretions engage neighboring glial cells, including astrocytes and endothelial cells, resulting in a vicious cycle of autocrine and paracrine amplification of inflammation perpetuating tissue injury. Such pathogenic processes contribute to neurodegeneration. Research from others and our own laboratories seek to harness such inflammatory processes with the singular goal of developing therapeutic interventions that positively affect the tempo and progression of human disease (Crutcher et al., 2006).
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From Spanish masters to modern gems, Barcelona breathes art and culture on every colourful corner. Here’s your guide to the best Barcelona museums.
It’s no surprise that, in a city so admired for its artistic prowess, Barcelona museums feature collections considered among the finest in Europe, famous for both the city’s modern art styles and equally impressive medieval and classical creations.
Sagrada Familia & Medieval to Modern Art
Get immersed in local art history, first in the multi-cultural Raval district’s Picasso Museum, boasting nearly 4,000 works of art by the cubist master. At the Museu d’Art de Catalunya, you’ll discover 800 years of important Catalan artworks from the 12th to the 20th century. Meanwhile, the expansive Fundació Joan Miró is the home to over 5,000 pieces by the famed modernist. Located under the basilica, the Sagrada Familia Museum showcases a visual display of how the temple was built through a series of photos, artifacts and impressive models of the Sagrada Familia itself.
For those who sway towards the avant garde, the minimalist works found at Museu d’Art Contemporani are for serious modern art enthusiasts while the bizarre works at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies will appeal to a quirkier sensibility.
Kid-friendly museums in Barcelona
Barcelona has lots of exciting museum and gallery options to keep smaller visitors happy. The Cosmo Caixa Science offers amazing exhibits including a manmade rainforest and interactive games for kids that entertain and inform. They’ll also enjoy the wacky Museu d’Idees i Invents (Museum of Ideas and Inventions) and Museu Blau, the natural history museum with special attractions for under-7s.
For parents looking for unique, outside-the-box museums Barcelona has a couple up its sleeve, including El Rey de la Magia, a magic tricks museum located in a tiny shop that has performances on weekends. The Sagrada Famila Basilica offers an audio guide just for kids and the Museo de la Xocolata (Chocolate Museum) will entice them with a history of all things chocolate.
Contemporary galleries in Barcelona
For true art connoisseurs, Barcelona offers an awesome array of independent art galleries ranging from classic to the cutting edge. Established standouts include the Joan Gaspar Gallery, a descendant of the space that exhibited the first works of Picasso; and the historic Sala Parés, the city’s oldest gallery, situated on trendy Calle Petritxol, known for its artisan chocolate. To discover hot young talent, head to the Artevistas Gallery, featuring over 800 contemporary works or Espai in bohemian Gracia, a two-room venue displaying photography, paintings and sculptures from promising up-and-comers. An honourable mention goes to PLOM, the first Spanish gallery exclusively for kids, promoting creativity through the arts.
Take it to the streets
Growing in popularity all around Europe, graffiti or street art has thrived in Barcelona since ancient times. The Open Wall Conference commissions local artists and supports street art as an authentic mode of expression. To see the latest wall art in Barcelona, tours portal Trip4Real offers a fascinating walking tour that details the history of graffiti through the ages while BCN Street Art Tour travels by bamboo bike to the most dazzling street murals around town.
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The Nigerian subsidiary of the South African telecoms group MTN has completed the year 2018 in the green, with growth in all its market segments.
However, the second half of 2018, marked by tensions with the Abuja authorities over the illegal repatriation of dividends from 2007 to 2015, left a risk of loss of consumer confidence. On the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, this news had plunged the action of the group by nearly 20% in its announcement on August 30, 2018. Especially that the central bank of Nigeria claimed a refund of 8.1 billion US dollars. But in the financial report of MTN Nigeria, this crisis did not really have an impact.
MTN Nigeria recorded growth in its subscriber base in 2018. It stabilized at 58.2 million customers at 31 December 2018, an increase of 5.9%. The company also saw its revenue increase by 5.3%, from 36,067,000,000 rand (US $ 2,621,700,991) in 2017 to 37,971,000,000 rand (US $ 2,760,102,263). in 2018.
The second half of 2018 brought these results with 20 741 000 000 rand (1,507,657,977 US dollars) recorded against 17,230,000,000 rand (1,252,444,286 US dollars), in the first half of the year. achieved a performance thanks to an investment of 6.9 billion rand (US $ 501,559,232) in the network that already allows it to provide 4G in 14 cities. However, this investment was down 2 065 000 000 rand (150 104 321 US dollars) compared to 2017.
Largest MTN market in Africa, the Nigerian subsidiary accounted for 28.22% of the group’s income, which amounted to 134,560,000,000 rand (US $ 9,781,131,932). It has retained its leading position with a 50.04% share in a market disputed with Airtel, Globacom and 9Mobile. | <urn:uuid:f501c964-f60b-4cb1-87d1-6c534884ec13> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://extensia-ltd.com/2019/03/11/mtn-nigeria-maintains-consumer-confidence-despite-a-tense-second-half-of-2018-with-authorities-in-abuja/ | 2023-10-04T20:54:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.947755 | 423 |
Mapquest Helps Millions to Navigate Routes More Easily and Successfully. Helping over 16 million visitors each month to find convenient driving directions, current traffic updates and total distance to travel are what the offerings on the newly updated mapquest website and mobile app were created to do.
In a quest to be more indispensable to motorists than ever before, the website has integrated with AOL Patch to help users find the most current information on specific geographic areas.
The addition of over 11,000 live traffic cameras focused on targeted traffic areas is another beneficial way to provide realtime traffic updates instantly.
Drivers in busy traffic areas these days need much more than a simple delivering of the best way to get from point A to point B. They also need to know helpful information like:
- Store locations – Helps make drivers aware of exact locations and exits so they can pick up essentials along the way
- Gas Stations – Gas station locations and prices for comparison purposes
- Toll Roads – So drivers can have toll funds ready to pay tolls when necessary
- Highways and toll roads – In case drivers want to avoid things like highways or take an alternate to a toll road route, they’ll know exactly where these roads are
- Restaurant Locations – Becomes an important part of a route planner for rest stops
- Hospital Locations – Especially helpful in an emergency situation
– Current Speed Limits – The speed limit is not always posted due to construction and other unforeseen circumstances. It’s helpful to always know what the speed limit is no matter where you’re driving to help you drive more safely and to lessen your chances of getting a ticket.
Types of Directional Assistance that Users Can Now Find
In addition to basic Mapquest driving directions, users also have advantages gleaned from Mapquest Vibe, a specialized social algorithm service that provides high quality and current local information. Drivers can now get insider tips, advice and ratings on shopping, restaurants, services and other useful information based on a person’s current location.
All the results and ratings that come up in a search are based on voting by users.
Drivers can find out about certain neighborhoods, the walk-ability factor of specific areas, and ratings of restaurants and services they may wish to use.
Users may even be able to get information on Wi-Fi hotspots in certain areas. Making technology more helpful and life easier is the goal of Mapquest Inc in the array of information they now offer to drivers through the website and mobile app.
New Helpful Features Provided Through the Mobile App
Users of the mobile app are now finding that they can get not only maps and directions, they can also get routing help that uses landmarks to help find their desired locale more easily. They’ll also find helpful voice navigation for walking and more specific information with new icons that are able to be customized to make specific locations more easily recognizable.
Places of interest along chosen routes, which are especially helpful on multipoint routes, give any driver a better idea of where they are and where they’re going, along with specific landmarks to look for along the way.
The app is also organized in a more helpful way that makes it easier for people to use its many functions on-the-go. Just a few taps on the app reveal quickandeasy maps and directions and help with planning create routes starting at locations like your home.
Helpful features like voice turn-by-turn directions are available to drivers no matter what device a driver is using.
Knowing the Shortest and Most Convenient Route is Essential for a Positive Experience
When you’re traveling, it doesn’t matter if you’re an individual driver, a truck driver, a delivery route driver, or if you’re involved in a sales occupation, it helps to know precisely the shortest route to take to your destination. Knowing exactly where you are at any given time also helps in times when you need roadside assistance and if you need help with finding rental cars or hotel deals.
Knowledge helps to make driving a more precise activity with better outcomes.
One thing that anyone who has spent a lot of time on the road has learned is that unexpected things will probably come up to cause delays or to create a need to know an alternate route to a destination. Today, this critical information is at your fingertips with help from smart phone apps. You often need this information instantly, sometimes even while you’re still driving. Traffic is a constantly changing and evolving thing.
One simple accident can cause backups and serious delays. Road construction that you weren’t aware of can also put an unexpected crimp in your most well thought out travel plans. Changing weather can be another critical factor in determining how long it will take you to get to your destination. Services like mapquest maps are available to help you in your quest to get to your destination quickly and safely and to know exactly what situations you may face along your travel route so there are fewer surprises and unexpected developments.
Things You Find When You Use the Search Function on Mapquest Maps
The updated search function now lets you do a simple search of a destination, or tailor your route to include things like stops and specific route settings that include locations of restaurants and businesses. Things you can now take into consideration when using the search function include:
- Grocery Stores
- Coffee Shops
- Points of interest
- K-12 Schools
- Gas Stations
- Local Business
The ultimate goal is to make your route planning by using maps and navigation easier, more effective and more personalized than ever before. You’ll feel like you have a personal travel assistant that is always with you in your vehicle. Things like Google maps can be helpful, but mapquest driving directions give you a more customized, specific search experience with its helpful search features.
Avoid Common Pitfalls of Road Travel
Mapquest Inc has made it their mission to incorporate GPS navigation to help drivers to drive more efficiently and more intelligently. Simply by typing in addresses for quickandeasy maps, a driver will notice that the routes that come up in their search may help them in avoiding highways where there are problems and issues that could impede their travel. They also receive the latest information for the fastest and most efficient travel routes.
Another advantageous feature that helps drivers avoid common travel pitfalls is the live traffic camera feature. This component is now available in over 100 markets and will most likely be expanded to include additional markets in the future. The way this feature works is that when a camera is available, you’ll see a blue camera icon in the corner of your screen.
Clicking on that will bring up live traffic screen shots and views based on your current location that are updated every few minutes. This is so you’re always assured of getting the latest, most accurate information.
Being Informed is the Best Way to Travel
Years ago, people would keep a trusty Rand McNally map in the glove compartment so they had a general idea of the route they would be taking and the time it might take to get to their destination. Today, there are so many factors that come into play that this is no longer a feasible way to travel. Having knowledge of potential obstacles and changes that need to be made to your travel route helps to reduce the stress people sometimes can feel when they travel.
Things like GPS navigation and maps along with navigation services are essential to help you avoid pitfalls and factors that can cause travel delays. Being able to know immediately of an alternate route you can take and the highways and toll roads that are open and clear of obstacles is a valuable tool in today’s travel.
Not only can you be made aware of travel obstacles, you’ll also know helpful things like store locations and hotel deals along the way! You’ll know the total distance you need to travel, which can be helpful in determining when you need to make essential fuel stops.
A More Accurate Determination of your Location
If an emergency does come up while you’re driving, a helpful maps and navigation service can pinpoint your exact location. This is essential for getting the help you need should you have mechanical or other issues with your car or truck along the way. It can help you to get exactly the roadside assistance you need, quickly and more efficiently.
You’ll even find that knowing your exact location can help with avoiding highways you don’t want to travel on and toll roads that you may want to take instead. In the event of a complete vehicle breakdown, you’ll be able to find the closest hotels and where you can find rental cars if that becomes necessary. Being well-informed helps you to plan for things you expect along the way and for the unexpected.
Having exact information can be a great stress reliever whenever you’re preparing for your next trip. Travel becomes a more pleasant pastime once again with the help of accurate maps and directions and correct traffic updates.
If you have not visited Mapquest recently, they have completely redesigned the site and added a bunch of new features. These changes are evident in both the desktop and mobile app. With competition from Google Maps, Bing Maps & GPS units, they have pushed the envelope in terms of the user experience and functionality.
While being well known for driving directions, MapQuest® is adding more elaborate tools to make users life easier. The online mapping site clearly has become a part of many people’s daily lives. In an attempt to separate themselves from their competitors, mainly Google, Map Quest has started to focus on a local discovery by integration with AOL Patch, a news reporting tool that helps users find out what’s happening in all the areas you’re searching for. And MapQuest® Vibe uses data collected around the country about local neighborhoods and rates the restaurants, shops, and services.
They base the results on user voting and give helpful information including wi-fi hotspots. They also give a walkability score in the more popular, trendy areas of town.
In recent news, MapQuest announced a new enhancement to their popular Live Traffic feature. Now available in over 100 markets, you can now view live traffic conditions through a network of over 11,000 cameras to make your traveling even easier and safer. Simply click the Live Traffic icon on the top, the right of the map and a blue camera icon will appear wherever a traffic cam is available. Most camera images are updated every few minutes, and will also be available on MapQuest Mobile and the mobile web in the very near future. This is a great addition to an already large array of travel information and tools, like gas prices, route planning, and local search. Be sure to check their blog, Facebook and Twitter to keep abreast of new developments with the roll-out of this unique feature.
In other news, mapquest® mobile now offers landmark-assisted routing by providing places of interest along the way for both driving and walking directions. For example, it may tell you to turn left on Route 19, right after the tennis courts. The new “You Are Here” icon will now show your location with a customizable icon, and the web APP is better organized and easier to use while on the go. And, with a single tap, you can now find local restaurants, hotels and other local services and points of interest.
They are committed to giving you the best mobile experience possible and are one the few services that provide free voice turn-by-turn driving directions via a mobile device. For more complete information, check out MapQuest.com from you iPhone, Android or another mobile device..
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How To Finally Get Rid Of Constipation So That You Can Improve Fertility
Jun 27, 2022
Did you know that 60% of women report weekly constipation symptoms and 90% report monthly symptoms? There are many women and men that only have bowel movements (BMs) a few times a week. This inability to eliminate regularly can have a dramatic impact on both men and women’s fertility, yet as a society, we have begun to accept it as normal. Not having 1-3 BMs a day is common, not normal. It is common, but it is not ok and here is why.
When we are not having 1-3 BMs a day (yes that is what is considered optimal, healthy and what should be “normal”) then this is our body’s way of communicating with us that something larger is going on. When we are not eliminating regularly, we cannot get rid of the waste that is toxic to our bodies including but not limited to pesticides, herbicides, and environmental toxins. It also means that whatever our body is trying to eliminate is reabsorbed through the gut lining right into our bodies. Yup, our bodies are having to work overtime to simply get the bad stuff out! In women, this can result in estrogen dominance, which can result in hormonal imbalances, headaches, PMS, bloating, heavy and irregular periods among a host of other symptoms.
Not to mention, constipation is an additional stressor on your body and can result in a vicious cycle that can feel impossible to beat. When we are constipated, our toxin load or burden increases and takes away from our bodies other resources resulting in compounding symptoms and ultimately impacting other bodily functions, like the ability to conceive.
What is an ideal BM?
If you haven’t before check out the Bristol Stool Chart, let’s start there. We are aiming for a Type 4 on the chart or a banana shaped smooth, brown poo that sinks. This BM ideally would come with an urge, not an emergency, and involve a 30-60 second evacuation with little effort.
Anything that varies from this is an indication that something is not right. No worries though, there is a lot we can do to meet this goal!
What is your body trying to tell you?
Constipation is a symptom and a sign that your body is trying to use to tell you something is going on. Sometimes it is simply due to dehydration, not getting enough sleep, or eating enough fiber. However, if you address those and you are still experiencing irregular BMs, here are the three top causes we witness regularly in our Fab Fertile Couples Coaching program.
When we have gut infections like H,pylori, Giardia, or Candida, our friendly and unfriendly gut flora are out of balance (more bad guys than good) As we begin to address these, the first thing we have to do is get our bowels moving! Why? Because in order to move the infection out, we need to poop it out! In order to do that, we need to have a supportive microbiome. A high quality probiotic like MegaSporeBiotic is a great place to begin.
Another thing we commonly see is magnesium deficiency. Surprisingly, 85% of us are deficient in magnesium. This can look like, loss of appetite. nausea and vomiting, fatigue and weakness, shaking. pins and needles, muscle spasms, and more.
For many, a magnesium deficiency can have a tremendous impact on constipation, and adding the appropriate supplement for your body could have a fast acting positive impact.
More often than not, stress is playing a massive role in one’s constipation. When we are stressed, our bodies are in fight, flight, or freeze mode, our bodies are in survival and not focused on digestion. When are body is unable to reach rest and digest mode, our bowels tense, our digestion slows down and our bodies struggle to literally let go. Yet once this vicious cycle starts, we can get stuck here because then we are stressed about not going, about being constipated.
Mindfulness exercises such as breathing, meditation, cold showers, journaling, walking and simply making time in your day for BMs can make all the difference.
Sometimes our diet choices can impact our BMs. Whether it is because we are reactive to a food and unaware of it yet or eating a food that is known to cause constipation, food is an easy fit. We commonly see both dairy and dried fruits have a dramatic impact on constipation and encourage you to evaluate your relationship with these if you are not eliminating your bowels daily.
How can we improve our BMs?
Step 1: Set Your Body Up For Success
- Eat Your Meals in a Relaxed Setting: Making time to eat without distractions or rushing. Chew every bite thoroughly. Put down your fork in between. This helps our body digest the exact food we just ate. If we don’t do this, we literally CAN’T absorb all the nutrients from our food. Start by aiming to eat this way for at least one of your meals, optimally two each day.
- Hydrate Your Body: Aim to drink 50-75% of your body weight in ounces of filtered water daily
- Get Enough Sleep: AIm for 7-9 hours of sleep nightly and work towards making sure you are asleep between 10pm and 2am whenever possible.
- Move Your Body: Whether you are walking, hiking or supporting your lymphatic system by jumping, skipping rope or jogging, daily movement that brings you joy will support your digestive tract in keeping this moving.
- Consider a Squatty Potty: This simple bathroom stool brings your knees to the right angle, making it easier to eliminate without straining.
- Prioritize Your Morning Routine: Wake up, drink water, be kind to yourself and leave room in your morning for a BM so you are not rushing on to your next activity before your body is able to eliminate it. It may take more time in the beginning, but note that it gets easier with time.
- Take Probiotics Daily: We highly recommend MegaSporeBiotic, yet a high quality probiotic daily will dramatically support a healthy microbiome.
- Eating whole foods rich in fiber: From chia seeds to raspberries, broccoli to avocados, there are many whole foods that are rich in fiber. Be sure your diet includes a variety of foods, including fiber rich ones.
Step 2: When You Need More or Faster Relief
- First and foremost, if you are experiencing chronic constipation, we highly recommend you contact your primary care provider.
- Castor Oil Packs: We highly recommend for every couple TTC that you add castor oil packs to your life ASAP. Listen to this podcast with DR. Mirasol to learn why.
- Magnesium, Enemas, Salt Shots and Vitamin C: Justine Altman, FDNP shares many options for faster relief in this podcast episode and how you may implement them into your life easily.
- Flaxseed and Prunes: You likely know that prunes are high in fiber as are flaxseeds. When I am traveling, my digestion can often get out of whack and this is a quick fix that works for me. I grab an organic prune baby food pouch from the store and/or about 1 tbsp freshly ground flaxseed. I mix them together and eat up. Paired with salt and plenty of water, my digestion usually quickly returns to smooth and easy BMs.
Podcasts To Support Healthy BMs:
- Why Constipation Matters If You are TTC with Justine Altman, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner
- What You Need To Know About Castor Oil Packs And Fertility with Dr. Marisol Teijeiro, ND, BA – Queen of the Thrones
- How To Optimize Sleep To Improve Your Fertility with Justine Altman, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner
Remember, the more we eliminate, the easier and better it gets! Practice makes progress and progress is where we being to heal.
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A documentary by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin. The film will be presented by Nicolas Winding Refn.
INFERNO ROSSO. JOE D’AMATO SULLA VIA DELL’ECCESSO
Inferno rosso. Joe D’Amato sulla via dell’eccesso, a documentary by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin, presented by Nicolas Winding Refn, about filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi known as Joe D’Amato, joins the line-up of Special Screenings at the 78th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.
Who was Aristide Massaccesi, alias Joe D’Amato? In America a horror film genius, in France a master of eroticism, in Italy the king of porn. Producer, director, author, electrician, cameraman and cinematographer. A man of a thousand pseudonyms who made hundreds of films ranging from spaghetti westerns to post-atomic films, from “decamerotic” to polished “eros”, from extreme porn to bloody horror. One hundred genres embodied in a single auteur. A fearless, mad, daring life dedicated to a single, unique, irrepressible and catastrophic obsession: the film set.
“To tell the story of Aristide Massaccesi,“ explain the directors Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin, “means telling the story of Italian genre cinema, from spaghetti westerns to horror and even porn, but also the remarkable life of a man who sacrificed everything for his great obsession: cinema! This incredible adventure was made possible by the contributions of cult Italian directors such as Lamberto Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Alberto De Martino and international directors such as Jess Franco and Eli Roth, and above all by the passion and commitment of a great author such as Nicolas Winding Refn”.
Nicolas Winding Refn stated: “Originality comes in many colors. And like it or not, Joe D’Amato is a SUPERNOVA!”
ARISTIDE MASSACCESI (JOE D’AMATO) – BIOGRAPHY
Aristide Massaccesi, known to everyone as Joe D’Amato, breathed cinema from childhood when, at a very young age, he worked with his father who rented camera equipment and with Lamberto Bava’s grandfather as an apprentice in the offices of Istituto Luce. His first experiences on the set were with great directors: Mario Soldati, Franco Rossi, Dino Risi, Mario Bava, René Clément, Roger Vadim and Vittorio De Sica, where the young Massaccesi learned various aspects of filmmaking.
He soon climbed the ranks and made his debut first as an assistant cameraman for Jean-Luc Godard in Contempt, then as a talented and respected cinematographer. After serving in that capacity for over fifty films, he became a director for the rest of his life. He made over 200 films for which he was the producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and even cameraman, a true one-man-show by a craftsman of cinema as he liked to describe himself, who was at ease with every type of film genre.
Guided by the aesthetics of the extreme and supported by his undeniable technical skill, Aristide Massaccesi pushed himself and the spectator beyond every limit, tenaciously following three rigid rules that became his trademark style: Surprise, Shock, Scandalise. Joe D’Amato’s cinema ranges from the darkness of horror films to red-light porn movies, from comedies to thrillers, from costume dramas to spaghetti westerns.
He made everything. Cult films such as Antropophagus: The Grim Reaper, Beyond the Darkness, The Emperor Caligula: The Untold Story, epoch-making films such as the series of Black Emanuelle, outrageous films such as Sesso nero (the first Italian porn film), ambitious films such as Endgame – Bronx Final Battle, or industrial films such as the mega-hard-core productions of the 1990s in which, however, Joe D’Amato felt trapped, forced to make them to pay the debts of his bankruptcy as a producer, though they might well have been the only way he had left to satisfy the obsession that tormented him throughout his life: his need to be on the set.
MANLIO GOMARASCA, MASSIMILIANO ZANIN – BIOGRAPHY
Born in Milan, in 1994 Manlio Gomarasca founded the magazine Nocturno Cinema for which he is the publisher and editor-in-chief. He published the books 99 Donne and Io Emanuelle for Mediaword, Stelle e stelline del cinema italiano for CinemaBis Communication and La piccola cineteca degli orrori and Monnezza amore mio for Rizzoli. He curated the retrospectives Italian King of the B’s and Spaghetti Western for the Venice International Film Festival and served as a member or consultant for the selection committees of the Rome Film Fest, the Nifff – Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival, the Festival of Locarno and the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at Cannes. Since 2015, he has worked in the field of film distribution for Koch Media, for which he founded the label Midnight Factory and served as its artistic director. He directed the documentaries Totally Uncut, Fernando di Leo: la morale del cinema, I Tarantiniani (with Stefano Della Casa) and in 2013 produced the film Il notturno di Chopin directed by Aldo Lado.
Italian screenwriter, producer and director. For over 15 years, he was filmmaker Tinto Brass’s screenwriter of choice and assistant on set. He directed the documentary Istintobrass, about the life and career of one of the most important auteurs in Italian cinema, which was in the official selection at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, and won him a nomination as one of the five finalists at the Nastri d’Argento 2014 for best documentary about cinema. With Federico Lami he produced the documentary Salvatrice, Sandra Milo si racconta which was in the official selection of the Rome Film Fest and the short film Inverno by Giulio Mastromauro, which won the David di Donatello 2020.
NICOLAS WINDING REFN PRESENTS
Inferno rosso. Joe D’Amato sulla via dell’eccesso
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#2 Brian G Newell MBE, Chairman, Shackerley
Brian G Newell MBE began his career as an apprentice tiler straight from school aged 15. His engineering talent and entrepreneurial approach led him to found the Shackerley business, utilising his expertise in ceramics to drive innovation in the façade sector.
Brian’s pioneering approach to research and development has resulted in two Queen’s Awards for innovation. Under his leadership, Shackerley has become a market leader in the ventilated façade sector with its SureClad® Ceramic Granite, Engineered Stone, Natural Stone and Terracotta façade systems, and its BrickClad® brick cladding system. The company has garnered a reputation for lasting quality, technical excellence and the highest standards of aesthetics and Brian was awarded an MBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours list.
Brian’s is focussed on ease, speed and accuracy of installation, façade performance, aesthetics, safety and service life. This led to the development of the SureClad® Access system; an innovative Queens’ Award-winning design that requires only one horizontal rail per course of SureClad® cladding panels, which can be used to install ceramic granite, engineered stone, terracotta or some natural stone panels.
Safety is also a priority for Brian: all Shackerley’s cladding systems are A1 or A2-s1-d0 rated to EN13501-1 and his focus on R&D has also led to the development of the sector’s only A1 rated safety meshing system. He has also carried out seismic testing on the SureClad® system.
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The Minority in Parliament has described the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PJF) Programme as a scam.
According to the NDC MPs, it was an avenue deliberately crafted to loot the limited resources of the state.
In a press statement issued on Wednesday, August 30, and signed by its Deputy Ranking on the Agriculture Committee in Parliament, Dr Godfred Seidu Jasaw, the Caucus said the program failed to achieve its intended goals.
Below is the full press release
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Author Ewan Morrison sent shockwaves through sci-fi fandom when he wrote in The Guardian that “[young adult] dystopias teach children to submit to the free market, not fight authority.” His argument is that popular books/movies like “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” deviate from their dystopian predecessors because they vilify the government rather than capitalism. In his words:
What marks these dystopias out from previous ones is that, almost without exception, the bad guys are not the corporations but the state and those well-meaning liberal leftists who want to make the world a better place. Books such as The Giver, Divergent and The Hunger Games trilogy are, whether intentionally or not, substantial attacks on many of the foundational projects and aims of the left: big government, the welfare state, progress, social planning and equality.
With a critical and sarcastic tone he says “these books propose a laissez-faire existence, with heroic individuals who are guided by the innate forces of human nature against evil social planners.”
The books he holds up as the old guard of dystopian literature are Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” (what became Blade Runner on the big screen), Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and the entire gambit of H.G. Wells. While these authors and their works are certainly classics of the genre, they are hardly enough to support the argument that “previous” dystopian fiction is “the free-market-will-bring-hell-on-earth period of speculative fiction” as Morrison calls it.
H.G. Wells was active from the end of the 19th century through the early decades of the 20th century. Philip K. Dick was writing until his death in 1982, and “Do Androids Dream” was published in 1968. Margret Atwood is still alive, and her award-winning “Handmaid” was published in 1986. So as best as I can deduce, Morrison is claiming that his anti-free-market period of speculative fiction is more than 100 years from the late 19th century through basically the entire 20th century.
The astute reader will probably notice that there was, in fact, a wide variety of authors who wrote throughout the 20th century. The anti-statism triumvirate of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” were published in 1949, 1932, and 1953 respectively. Granted, these works may not whole-heartedly endorse the free market, but they surely vilify the “state and those well-meaning liberal leftists” more convincingly than today’s young adult fiction does.
Not only are there plenty of works that pit the individual against the state, there are plenty of works that actually do promote the free market. In my next post, I’ll showcase a few of these for recommended reading.
Speaking of the modern works, Morrison concludes that “it’s a huge indictment of the history of the left and a promotion of the right.” I would say that these modern books are instead building on a rich pro-freedom literary heritage of the 20th century, the age when freedom triumphed over communism. | <urn:uuid:1abdae28-0ae2-48a5-9e31-82c6cc60b924> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://faithandpubliclife.com/free-market-dystopian-literature/ | 2023-10-04T21:06:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.960064 | 729 |
Arizona State University (ASU) is a large public research university located in Tempe, Arizona. ASU issues student ID cards to its enrolled students, which serve as an official form of identification for the university. The student ID card provides access to various university facilities and services, including the library, computer labs, campus events, and more.
Arizona State University (ASU) Student ID PSD template typically includes the student’s name, photo, ASU ID number, and expiration date. Some ASU student ID cards may also include additional information, such as the student’s major and campus location. To obtain an ASU student ID, students need to visit the university’s ID card office and provide proof of identity and enrollment.
The ASU student ID card is an important tool for students, as it helps them access the resources and services they need to succeed academically and personally. It is also an essential form of identification for campus safety and security. Students are expected to carry their ASU student ID card at all times and to present it upon request.
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Tiff and Wes had a quiet wedding at Tiff’s moms house in South Carolina. There was a beautiful lake with a dock and sand everywhere. It almost felt like we were at the beach. I sure wish my back yard looked like theirs. It was so pretty and Tiff and Wes were super fun, except when I almost fell of the back of their golf cart, but I guess that was my fault ha ha. If you haven’t seen their engagement photos you can check them out here. Oh and their photo booth pics are here. So much happiness, can you handle it? | <urn:uuid:d0bda345-0130-45c2-9997-a47e9d3cef39> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://famouswilliam.com/2011/12/05/south-carolina-wedding-photography-tiff-and-wes-famous-william-company/ | 2023-10-04T21:06:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.993536 | 121 |
Babe Ruth : biography
During spring training in 1925 concern over Ruth’s weight was a major topic of discussion. While playing in Hot Springs, Arkansas he developed a mild case of influenza, but felt well enough to travel with the team to Asheville, North Carolina. On his arrival at the team hotel he collapsed in front of Yankees main scout Paul Krichell.Montville, pp. 199-201. A local physician attributed the fainting episode to flu, and recommended that Ruth return to New York to rest. News of his illness quickly spread among the sports journalism community. A rumor circulated that he had died, prompting British newspapers to print a premature obituary.Montville, p. 202. In New York, Ruth collapsed again and was found unconscious in his hotel bathroom. He was taken to a hospital where he suffered multiple convulsions.Montville, p. 203. After sportswriter W. O. McGeehan wrote that Ruth’s illness was due to binging on hot dogs and soda pop before a game, it became known as "the bellyache heard ’round the world". However, the exact cause of his ailment has never been confirmed and remains a mystery.Montville, p. 204. Playing just 98 games, Ruth had what would be his worst season as a Yankee; he finished with a .290 average and 25 home runs. The Yankees finished next to last in the American League with a 69–85 mark, their last season with a losing record until 1965.
Babe Ruth performed at a much higher level during 1926, batting .372 with 47 home runs and 146 RBIs. The Yankees won the AL pennant and advanced to the World Series, where they were defeated by Rogers Hornsby and the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. In Game 4, he hit three home runs, the first time any player achieved this in a World Series game. Despite his batting heroics, he is also remembered for a costly base running blunder. Ruth had a reputation as a good but overaggressive base runner (he had 123 stolen bases, including ten steals of home, but only a 51% career percentage). With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning of the decisive seventh game and with the Yankees trailing 3–2, Ruth tried to steal second base. However, he was thrown out by ten feet, ending the game and the Series. (Yankee team president Ed Barrow later called this the only on-field boner Ruth ever made in his career.) This remains the only time that the final out of a World Series was a "caught stealing".
The 1926 series was also known for Ruth’s promise to Johnny Sylvester, a seriously ill 11-year-old, that he would hit a home run on his behalf.Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. , The New York Times, January 11, 1990. Retrieved June 28, 2009.
Ruth was the leader of the famous 1927 Yankees, also known as Murderer’s Row because of the strength of its hitting lineup. The team won a then AL-record 110 games(a mark for a 154-game season eventually surpassed by the 1954 Cleveland Indians), took the AL pennant by 19 games, and swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.
With the race long since decided, the nation’s attention turned to Ruth’s pursuit of his own home run mark of 59. Early in the season, Ruth expressed doubts about his chances: "I don’t suppose I’ll ever break that 1921 record. To do that, you’ve got to start early, and the pitchers have got to pitch to you. I don’t start early, and the pitchers haven’t really pitched to me in four seasons. I get more bad balls to hit than any other six men…and fewer good ones." Ruth was also being challenged for his slugger’s crown by teammate Lou Gehrig, who nudged ahead of Ruth’s total in midseason, prompting the New York World-Telegram to anoint Gehrig the favorite. But Ruth caught Gehrig (who would finish with 47), and then had a remarkable last leg of the season, hitting 17 home runs in September. His 60th came on September 30, in the Yankees’ next-to-last game. Ruth was exultant, shouting after the game, "Sixty, count ’em, sixty! Let’s see some son-of-a-bitch match that!" In later years, he would give Gehrig some credit: "Pitchers began pitching to me because if they passed me they still had Lou to contend with." In addition to his career-high 60 home runs, Ruth batted .356, drove in 164 runs and slugged .772. | <urn:uuid:7d8214f2-6abe-465d-8cd6-b641d0449a77> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://fampeople.com/cat-babe-ruth_5 | 2023-10-04T19:39:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.981026 | 1,000 |
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Each Gameweek brings an FPL community team reveal. As a result, that person gives insight into their transfers, captaincy and future plans.
Ahead of Gameweek 9, it’s the turn of FPL BlackWolf to tell us what he is doing to his team.
Hi BlackWolf and thanks for the team reveal. So how did Gameweek 8 go?
I played my Wildcard and finished on 62 points, resulting in a 300k green arrow, so I am happy overall. Although I originally intended to play the chip in Gameweek 9, I weighed the pros and cons of doing so a week early and decided that I could get ahead of the curve and catch some price rises by playing it in Gameweek 8.
The Wildcard team of this week wouldn’t have been much different, though there are a couple of positions where I might have gone in a different direction with an extra week of information. The international break injury to Alexander Isak is frustrating but I will happily take his nine points and run.
What does your defence look like?
In goal, I have the Nick Pope and Daniel Iversen combination. Kieran Trippier, Reece James and Joao Cancelo are my three starting defenders, with Emerson and Neco Williams as budget enablers. The West Ham left-back is a concern, given his expected minutes (xMins) risk, but I intend to leave him rooted to my bench as often as possible.
Meanwhile, what about your midfield and attack?
My midfield consists of Kevin De Bruyne, James Maddison, Jarrod Bowen, Gabriel Martinelli and Andreas Pereira. Then, up front, I had Isak, Aleksandar Mitrovic and Erling Haaland. Whilst I don’t own any Liverpool or Spurs players for the first time in many years, I have multiple routes to them if I decide to go in that direction.
So what are your transfer plans for Gameweek 9 and beyond?
Initially, I was hoping to roll this week’s free transfer, having just played my Wildcard. But the Isak injury has forced my hand, probably towards Ivan Toney barring any late news. I will then look to buy Wilfried Zaha for Gameweek 10, in place of Bowen. I’d ideally have given Bowen a little longer to impress but the saved funds would allow me to bring in Salah and possibly even Trent Alexander-Arnold for Gameweek12 when City and Arsenal blank.
Finally, what about captaincy?
Haaland will be my captain this week. As he is a big game player, I expect him to do well, despite facing an improved Man United. | <urn:uuid:ac0cf54b-a6f3-4b81-8a5e-ab5c3a5d81d1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://fantasyfootballcommunity.com/community-team-reveal-gameweek-9-fpl-blackwolf/ | 2023-10-04T20:35:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.970754 | 578 |
With spring just around the corner, it’s time to start pushing those trousers and heavy jumpers to the back of the closet in favour of some fun and flirty dresses. Whether you are heading to a garden party with friends or going out for a romantic date with your partner, the right dress is sure to help you turn some heads. Stay on trend this season by scooping up some of spring/summer 2013’s hottest dress styles and accessories. Here are just a few of my favourite looks:
1. The Sporty Dress:
This is one of SS13’s most wearable dress trends, the sporty dress gains its inspiration from the styles seen on the tennis court: scoop neck tops and flirty, above-the-knee A-line skirts. These athletic-inspired dresses look great in solid colours, so consider buying one in a chic black or navy or in one of this season’s hottest colours: poppy red, tangerine, pale pink, or violet. You can accessorise this dress with a wrist watch and a pair of trainers or sandal flats, and don’t forget to pull your hair into a low-hanging ponytail to complete the look.
This Periwinkle Cotton Estelle Dress below is a good example of this season’s sporty dress.
2. The Colour Blocking Dress:
The colour blocking trend provides women with the opportunity to dabble in new hues without overdoing the look. The basic idea is to pick two hues that contrast each other nicely—a neutral and a bright. If you want to give your look a little more complexity, add a third hue that is adjacent to your bright or directly opposite from it on the colour wheel, i.e. corals against mint, lilac against nectarine, or red against fuchsia. If your dress has three colours, choose accessories that match one of those shades; if it only has two, you have a little more freedom to play around with contrasting colours in your clutches and footwear choices.
This colour block pencil dress is a good example of the perfect dress for spring.
3. The Oriental Chic Dress:
This season, Oriental-inspired patterns and materials are trending big on the runways. Elegant high shine silks are the material of choice for modern party dresses, and they come bearing floral and bird patterns as well as intricate embroidery to give them a truly exotic aesthetic.
This cobalt blue kimono-style dress below looks fantastic when paired with some silver or beaded jade jewellery and a snake-skin clutch—a perfect material for SS13.
Check out these spring dresses and more at Avenue 32.
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The heating finally came on this month. We held on for as long as we could, knowing fully well, we would have the heating on for about 5 months now. And I hear the chill is back in full force from today..
I remember this time 3 years ago, I was pregnant with my twins and boiling. I was walking around wearing only a t-shirt and leggings, and I couldn’t feel the chill. We saved lots of money then because I was a walking radiator, I didn’t need any extra heating. But as soon as I gave birth, I felt the chill so bad. Oh the joys of pregnancy!
Heating up a house can be very expensive, especially for people like us who work from home with no office to run to. Back in my employed days, I use to look forward to going to the office (not the commuting) during winter. It meant my heating was only on few hours in a day. But that is no longer the case. My home is my office, and my kids are yet to start nursery so we have to keep warm at home, which means the heating has to come on at some point during the day.
I am always on the look out for energy-saving tips. I recently came across an article written by Premier Bathrooms and I found the energy-saving tips very useful.
Here are 4 energy-saving tips I will be trying this winter:
Time your heating
Our central heating comes in at various times during the time. I find it easier to control our energy usage with a timer. I am always too lazy to go down in the morning to turn it on (when it is freezing) and I sometimes forget to turn it off, so having a timer is the way to go.
So my jumpers, onesies and my socks are my best friends this season. Dressing warm ensure body heat is retained and the chill is no felt as much. Having the right bedding – winter duvets and flannel bed sheets, also helps at night.
Eat warm meals
Eating warm meals and taking hot drinks like the delicious cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows above is a smart way to stay warm this winter.
Shop around for best deals
Shopping for the best energy deals available is a smart way to keep costs down. Many people would save hundreds of pounds by switching energy providers, so it makes sense to shop around. I just switched!
How will you be keeping your energy bills low this winter? Please sound off in the comment section, let’s chat.
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Submitted by: Steph
Recipe by: Steph; Extremely modified from a recipe in Practical Encyclopedia of Vegetarian Cooking
1 cup Green Lentils [Soaked for 2 hours]
1.5 cup of Brown Long grain Basmati rice — the 45 min. cooking time kind], [Soaked for 2 hours]
5 cups Water
4 Low Sodium Vegetable broth cubes
2 tbs of Soya Sauce
2 tbs of dried Dill Seeds
Vegetable oil spray of your choice
2 Onions, slices
2 tsp of dried Dill Seeds
2 tbs brown sugar
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 Bay leaves
3 small russet potatoes, quartered
12 medium button white mushrooms
Fresh parsley for garnish, chopped
Grounded black pepper
Fresh mixed greens to accompany [optional]
This is one of my favorite recipes. I had to modify it extensively from the original in the Practical Encyclopedia of Vegetarian Cooking as it used animal products and had way too much fat! This one is much healthier and better tasting. Enjoy!
Tips: If you cook the lentils and the basmati in two separate pots at the same time, this recipe should take about 45 min to finish completely [make sure the lentils and the rice have soaked for several hours prior though]. I serve it in a bed of mixed greens, laying the rice inside a crown of greens, then the lentils on top and fresh parsley to garnish.
Another way to go about it is to use only one large pot and cook all the ingredients [minus the parsley and greens…] together. It’ll cut about 10 min. of prep time and use less dishes but it’s less pretty. 😛
1] Rinse lentils. Drain. Set aside. Do the same for the basmati rice.
2] Boil 5 cups of water with the vegetable broth, the Soya sauce, and 2 tbs of dill seeds. When the cubes are diluted, set aside.
3] At medium heat and in a medium pot, spray a bit of your favorite vegetable oil, add one of the onions and stir constantly for about 3 minutes. Add a bit of water to prevent sticking. Add half the brown sugar, half the garlic and 1 tsp of dried Dill Seeds. Stir for another minute.
4] In the same pot, add half the broth from #2, the Bay leaves and the Green Lentils. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for 25 min. Drain. Set aside.
5] In another medium pot, repeat step 3 with the remaining onion. Then stir in the rice, potatoes, and rest of the Soya sauce and Vegetable broth cubes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for 25 min. Drain the extra water. Set aside.
5] In a non stick frying pan, spray some oil and “fry” the mushrooms for 4 minutes or until soft. Set aside.
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The current breastfeeding culture instills the belief that all women can exclusively breastfeed without any acknowledgment of our biological, physical, social, and psychological abilities to exclusively breastfeed.
Auli shared with us how her mindset shifts as a low milk supply mother. She has insufficient glandular tissue, which is thought to affect up to 1 in 20 mothers.
- Today I realized I have a very fast refill—I can refill my bottle with formula in less than a minute! I can provide my baby instantly with however much milk she needs. I celebrate living in the 21st century with high-quality science milk. “Fast refill” means the breasts typically fill up with milk soon after they’re drained, a characteristic of full milk production.
- I also realized I will never be able to exclusively breastfeed—but I can breastfeed inclusively. Thanks to combo feeding, I can include my husband (or anyone else) in fully taking care of the baby from early on. They will never have to feel like the lesser parent, while I can use feeding time to attend to my other favourite things. I celebrate the flexibility of combo feeding.
- And finally, I may have insufficient glandular tissue—but I have sufficient brain tissue to adapt to the situation. I also have sufficient muscle tissue to cuddle my baby, etc. There are many tissues whose insufficiency would have an even more dire effect on me and my family. I celebrate the abundance of functional tissue in my body.
So you see, I don’t have to be imprisoned by the names and labels given to those of us whose biology is different. The reality is that my baby is well fed and I get to enjoy that. My story is not to install toxic positivity or invalidate our [IGT moms’] struggles. I have also had a long journey with so many rough days. But today was not one of them. Today was a good day, and I want to be open to having many more!
Feel free to leave a comment if this made you feel a little lighter.
-Auli and her baby Piibe.
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ServiceMax, a leader in asset-centric field service management, announced the release of a new report focused on the impact of digital transformation on customer services teams across the energy, automotive, medical devices, and digital imaging industries.
The report analysed and measured real-world outcomes to illustrate specific ways that digital transformation has impacted service businesses. Standout data points include:
● Schneider Electric saw over €65M in additional cross-sell/upsell revenue and an 8% increase in won opportunities.
● Pitney Bowes saved $4.7M through the reduction of inventory.
● Kodak Alaris realised an 80% overall customer renewal rate and consolidated multiple IT systems.
These results illustrate the positive benefits of digitization for service organizations, including:
● Driving revenue growth across existing customers and building new revenue streams.
● Mitigating the costs associated with service.
● Dramatically improving the customer experience and customer retention.
● Improving the performance of assets and increasing an asset’s overall lifetime value.
“Service organisations have long embraced digital transformation to better support their service teams and technicians, simplify how contracts are managed, and gain better access to service and asset data through expanded mobile functionalities,” said Sumair Dutta, VP of product marketing at ServiceMax. “This new report is illuminating in that it provides conclusive evidence that the benefits of digitization extend beyond efficiency and productivity for the service department. A digital strategy can unlock new revenue opportunities and engagement models while delivering value for R&D, operations, sales, finance, executive, and marketing leadership teams. Better still, companies do not have to complete their digital strategies to experience positive outcomes—they routinely experience value with each step.”
Among service organizations, the most frequently cited reason for implementing a digital strategy was to drive additional revenue. In a macro-environment characterised by increasing global competition, disruptive new technologies, executive pressure to improve margins, and the need to differentiate products and services, service leaders have been searching for innovative ways to generate revenue. Companies like Schneider Electric that have been successful in their digital strategies have seen increases to upsell and cross sell opportunities, first-time fix rates, won opportunities, and overall service revenue.
For more information on how service organizations can maximise their efficiency and profits, download the complete report here.
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Thank you for the overwhelming support of the premiere screening of Flagged!
It was a wonderful evening with over 200 people in attendance!
Thanks to Pleasantville Presbyterian Church and
Marmaduke House for your hospitality!
Thank you to our panelists, John Nonna and Bill O’Reilly
for the thoughtful discussion.
Thank you to everyone who attended!
SEPTEMBER 8th, 2022
6:30 pm reception on the porch of the Marmaduke Forster House,
415 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY
7:30 pm screening at the Pleasantville Presbyterian Church,
located across the street at 400 Bedford Road
A new documentary written and directed by Andrea Garbarini and Shane McGaffey
Panel discussion to follow the movie.
|The American flag has always been a symbol of freedom and unity to its citizens, or has it? Andrea Garbarini traveled and spoke with a diverse sampling of Americans, and through this journey discovered that there are many in the U.S. who feel that the flag has been co-opted by one political party and others who feel it has never represented them at all. Today for many the flag represents division, conflict and adherence to such repugnant ideologies as white supremacy.|
|It’s a provocative story about one woman’s journey to understand how the flag became a tool to divide the United States. |
It takes Andrea to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 and it asks:
What does the flag mean?
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Dr. Khary Rigg (@krigg01) is an assistant professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida. He is a behavioral health services and policy researcher with over 15 years of experience studying substance use disorders. He is also an affiliate with the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute and a NIDA Diversity Scholar. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Harm Reduction Journal, Qualitative Social Workand Substance Use & Misuse.
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These human eye images can be professionally printed in-person at your event or digital copies are also available so your attendees can share them online. They are a gorgeous work of art that people can cherish for all time. For optimum exposure, every eye art image can be branded with logos, websites, or other content.
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A really high class weird combination of well terminated Topaz with Multi Color Tourmaline, aesthetically sits on the Matrix. The tourmaline has artistically changed the colours in layers form.
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Keeping Your Child’s Braces Clean
If your child has orthodontic braces, or if you yourself have had orthodontic braces in the past, you know how difficult they are to keep clean. Food debris and plaque can get stuck between the brackets, flossing takes an extra step or two, and it can be tough to keep the breath fresh. Luckily, there are a few tips you can use to make sure your child’s teeth stay healthy during orthodontic treatment.
Tips on Keeping Braces Clean
Below are a few tips and tricks on how you can keep your teeth healthy and your braces in good shape:
- Brush after every meal – During orthodontic treatment, your child will need to ramp up his or her dental hygiene habits. This means that instead of brushing once in the morning and once at night, you should be brushing after each and every meal to remove any leftover food debris.
- Spend more time brushing – Instead of brushing for 2 minutes at a time, you may want to brush for closer to 3 minutes. This should give you time to spend at least 10 seconds on each tooth. Your child should be paying extra attention to the areas where the brackets touch the teeth. Make sure the gum line and the backs of the teeth are also being thoroughly cleaned as well.
- Make a clean-teeth kit – Make sure your child has a dental hygiene kit in his or her purse or backpack. This kit should include a travel toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, orthodontic wax, and mouthwash. This way, there are no excuses for neglecting to brush after each meal!
- Replaced your toothbrush – Your toothbrushes should be replaced every 3-4 months or once the bristles begin to fray. You may also want to purchase the toothbrushes made especially for those undergoing orthodontic treatment, or interdental brushes that can help brush between the teeth and the wires.
- Get regular dental cleanings – Lastly, it’s important that your child is still visiting our office every 6 months for a dental cleaning and exam. This is even more important during orthodontic treatment!
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6 Foods That Can Help Make Your Breasts Bigger
We live in a world that’s dominated by aesthetics. Being beautiful increases a person’s chances to be successful in all areas of life, including business.
It’s just the way it is – people that fit the beauty ideals are more likely to be loved and respected by others. Over the centuries, the idea of beauty has changed quite a lot.
For example, in the ancient past, those with a bit more fat around the hips were considered more attractive, as their look suggested health and wealth.
During the seventies and eighties, a skinny body physique was considered rebellious and sexy. Still, one part of the female body has always been in focus are the breasts.
Although the bigger the better might not be the golden rule when it comes to breast size, a number of women would prefer if they had D-cups. Of course, the easiest way to increase the size of the breasts is with surgery.
The problem is that breast implants are far from being safe for woman’s health. On top of that, doing the surgery may cost quite a lot.
That is the reason why lots of girls are looking for natural ways to increase their breasts size. One of those methods includes a diet change. In order to grow your breasts bigger, you will need to start eating more of these foods!
Estrogen and phytoestrogen are the two main female hormones. Same as men with high testosterone levels have a more muscular look, women with high levels of estrogen and phytoestrogen have bigger breasts.
Although the levels of these hormones in the body are determined by the genes, you can increase their presence by eating estrogen-rich foods, such as soy.
Apart from making your breasts larger, soy is also great for improving your general health. It’s full of antioxidants that will kill free radicals, the main culprits for the appearance of cancer and a number of other diseases.
On top of that, soy has a large percentage of high-quality protein and dietary fiber, with no cholesterol, so this food can be the pillar of your diet regime.
Spinach and other green leafy vegetables are also great for breast growth, as they also contain a fair share of phytoestrogens. Some physicians argue that the levels of the hormone found in these plants are not enough to make the breasts grow, but that doesn’t mean you should give up on them too easily.
You should give the green leafy vegetables a chance, as they also contain a big amount of essential minerals, vitamins, and dietary fiber. We can’t say for sure that these vegetables will make your breasts bigger, but they will surely help you get in a good shape.
Walnuts, pistachios, and other nuts contain even more phytoestrogen than green leafy vegetables. In fact, some nuts contain more than 10 times the levels of plant-created estrogen than spinach.
They’re also great for your skin, as they contain a lot of healthy fats. On top of everything, these nuts also taste great, which means that you can eat them instead of unhealthy snacks.
Oysters and prawns have been considered aphrodisiacs for centuries. The science has confirmed their efficiency in boosting the sex drive in both men and women. It’s all because of the mineral called manganese.
The role of this mineral is to regulate sex hormones. This means that if you eat enough manganese-rich foods, the levels of estrogen in your body will grow. The same goes for men – eating shellfish increases the levels of testosterone in their bodies.
5. Dairy Products
In order to increase the production of milk, some farmers have started giving hormones to cows. The milk of those cows might contain a certain amount of estrogen, which can help women who want their breasts to grow bigger.
However, the hormone can be harmful to men, which is why the controls of dairy products are getting stricter.
Still, it’s definitely worth a try. Even if milk and other dairy products don’t help you grow your breasts, they will provide your body with essential vitamins and minerals, such as calcium, for example.
Some herbs can mimic the effect hormones have on the body. That is why some of them have a special place in folk medicine. Herbs that can mimic estrogen include fenugreek, wild yam, anise, and fennel. All of these herbs have been used traditionally as a method for breast enlargement.
Although the knowledge about their effect has been around for centuries, science has only recently confirmed it with research. According to scientific studies, these herbs contain a lot of natural estrogens, but also substances that suppress the production of testosterone.
This means that these herbs are natural anti-androgens, which can help women solve problems with excessive body hair, pattern baldness, etc.
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Homo ergaster (or African Homo erectus) may have been the first human species to leave Africa. Fossil remains show this species had expanded its range into southern Eurasia by 1.75 million years ago.
Who were the first hominids to make fire?
Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2.0 million years ago (Mya). Evidence for the “microscopic traces of wood ash” as controlled use of fire by Homo erectus, beginning some 1,000,000 years ago, has wide scholarly support.
What hominins left Africa?
Homo erectus migrated out of Africa into Eurasia, dispersing throughout the Old World and reaching as far as Southeast Asia around 1.9 million years ago. But H. heidelbergensis, the ancestors to Neanderthals and Denisovans left Africa for Eurasia about 500,000 years ago.
Where was fire first used in Africa?
The new study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that fire may indeed have been used by our ancestor, Homo erectus. The evidence comes from million year old remains in Wonderwerk cave in South Africa.
What did cavemen eat before fire?
Europe’s earliest humans did not use fire for cooking, but had a balanced diet of meat and plants — all eaten raw, new research reveals for the first time.
What killed Neanderthal?
One model postulates that habitat degradation and fragmentation occurred in the Neanderthal territory long before the arrival of modern humans, and that it led to the decimation and eventual disappearance of Neanderthal populations.
What hominins left Africa first?
Who left Africa first? Homo ergaster (or African Homo erectus) may have been the first human species to leave Africa. Fossil remains show this species had expanded its range into southern Eurasia by 1.75 million years ago.
Why is Africa considered the birthplace of humanity?
Etymology. The self-proclaimed name Cradle of Humankind reflects the fact that the site has produced a large number of (as well as some of the oldest) hominin fossils ever found, some dating back as far as 3.5 million years ago.
What is our closest extinct relative?
Neanderthals (the ‘th’ pronounced as ‘t’) are our closest extinct human relative.
Where was fire invented?
The earliest evidence of humans using fire comes from many archaeological sites in East Africa, like Chesowanja near Lake Baringo, Koobi Fora, and Olorgesailie in Kenya. The evidence at Chesowanja is the discovery of red clay shards that scientists estimate are 1.42 million years old.
Is Africa still in the Stone Age?
The Stone Age period may have continued 20,000 years longer in some part of Africa than was previously thought, recent archaeological finds revealed. … Archaeologists found ancient West African inhabitants were still using simple tools about 11,000 years ago – up to 20,000 years after they went out of favour elsewhere.
Why did Africa fall behind?
Africa never had an industrial revolution on the same level as Europe or North America. While western countries developed rapidly, Africa was left behind, their growth further stunted by constant political turmoil. … The economic environment in Africa is not business-friendly at all.
How did humans eat before fire?
About a million years before steak tartare came into fashion, Europe’s earliest humans were eating raw meat and uncooked plants. But their raw cuisine wasn’t a trendy diet; rather, they had yet to use fire for cooking, a new study finds.
How did Stone Age man make fire?
If early humans controlled it, how did they start a fire? We do not have firm answers, but they may have used pieces of flint stones banged together to created sparks. They may have rubbed two sticks together generating enough heat to start a blaze. … Fire provided warmth and light and kept wild animals away at night.
How long did humans live without fire?
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The Flames and Heat could make franchise history on Friday night
Photo credit:Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
By Ryan Pike1 year ago
Folks, having a good National Hockey League team is really tough. Presently, only half of the NHL’s 32 clubs make the playoffs. The same thing is true in the American Hockey League most years, though this season they have a wacky modified playoff format so more teams qualify. But suffice it to say, it’s a rarity when an organization’s NHL parent and AHL affiliate are both good. This season, the Calgary Flames and their AHL club, the Stockton Heat, have qualified for the playoffs.
On Friday night, they can make some organizational history if both teams manage to advance in their post-season series.
Since the Flames moved to Calgary (and the minor league affiliate system stabilized) in the 1980s, the Flames and their farm team have both qualified for the playoffs just a dozen times. (This season is the 12th such occurrence.) In the salary cap era, the Flames and their farm team have both qualified for the playoffs just three times: 2006-07 (Omaha), 2016-17 (Stockton) and this season. That’s it.
However, both teams making the playoffs and advancing at least a round has only happened three times, period.
1985-86: Moncton Golden Flames (AHL)
Coached by future Stanley Cup winner Terry Crisp, the Golden Flames were a split affiliate between Calgary and Boston. Their leading scorers were Flames prospect Brian Bradley and Bruins prospect Greg Johnston, and their goaltending tandem was awesomely-named Bruins farmhand Cleon Daskalakis and Flames prospect Marc D’Amour. The 1986 Golden Flames won a round in the post-season but were dispatched in the second round. Up in the NHL, the Flames beat the Edmonton Oilers (off Steve Smith’s own goal) and made it all the way to the Cup Final before losing to Montreal.
1987-88: Salt Lake Golden Eagles (IHL)
A couple seasons later, the Flames’ farm team went on a long run, winning the International Hockey League’s Turner Cup while the NHL team played two rounds. The 1988 Golden Eagles boasted Theo Fleury on their roster, but their primary scoring weapons were former college stars Peter Lappin and Jim Johannson, along with former OHLer Rick Barkovich. A couple years removed from a brief NHL stint that seemed to close the door on his hopes of being an NHL Flame, D’Amour had since settled into his role as a very good minor league goalie and he carried Salt Lake to victory. (His backup was sixth-rounder Grant Blair, who retired following the season.)
1988-89: Salt Lake Golden Eagles (IHL)
The following season, the NHL Flames won the Stanley Cup while the Golden Eagles lost in the Turner Cup Final. Up front, Lappin, Jim Leavins and future NHLer Marc Bureau and occasional NHL call-up Rich Chernomaz ran the offense. In net, D’Amour had left for the Flyers as a free agent, but he was replaced by a tandem of Steve Guenette and Wayne Cowley.
How far do you think the Flames and Heat could go this post-season? Let us know in the comments!
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What Is Anxiety?
There are over 100 anxiety symptoms and signs for anxiety, panic attacks, and other anxiety disorders including the following:
- “Racing” heart
- Feeling weak, faint, or dizzy
- Tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers
- Sense of terror, or impending doom or death
- Feeling sweaty or having chills
- Chest pains
- Breathing difficulties
- Feeling a loss of control or going crazy
- Neck tension
- Upset stomach, nervous stomach, and nausea
- Sleep problems and inability to rest
What Is Trauma?
Anxiety & Trauma Resources
- You Are What You Think by David Stoop
- Switch on Your Brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf
- National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-SUICIDE & 1-800-237-TALK
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE
- Mental Health America — screening tools for depression, anxiety, bipolar, and PTSD
- Psychology Today’s Screening Tests
- Healthy Place’s Online Psychological Screening Tests
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Location: Central London
Job Type: Full time
Why join us?
If you love food and technology as much as we do, you’ll love life at Vita Mojo. We’re on a mission to revolutionise the hospitality experience for operators and their customers. Through our smart digital products, we’re powering the digital transformation of your favourite pubs, bars and restaurants. And we want a world where everyone gets the meal they’re hoping for. Each and every time.
Our Vita Mojo DNA
We’re proud to have built an award-winning digital platform. Vita Mojo is a positive, energetic and forward-thinking place to work, and when you become a Moji, you’ll be joining a supportive team who’ve always got your back. Our passion for technology and food is matched only by our support for our people.
About the role
Your mission as Senior Product Designer is to help Vita Mojo design and ship solutions to our clients and their customers by creating impactful interfaces for our consumer digital ordering platforms. You’ll have the opportunity to apply both highly polished interaction details and visual principles to craft useful and delightful designs across mobile, tablet and desktop platforms. You’ll also get to act as a steward of our in-house design system. This is a great opportunity for someone who loves design details and systems, while also having a stake in the overall design strategy for consumer products to help us understand and plan for products that solve customer problems and drive market impact.
Working in a startup means that things often change and we adapt to the growing and changing needs of the business. We expect the below to be the bulk of the role, but this may change over time depending on your own development needs, aspirations and the makeup of the team.
Reporting to the Head of Design (Hi I’m Nick 👋), your day-to-day as a Senior Product Designer will largely cover the following areas:
Partner closely with product managers, a researcher and developers to correctly scope and plan design tasks.
Understand the underlying motivations for our clients and customers and work around constraints to create and ship interfaces that are functional, beautiful and delight our customers.
Design holistic interaction flows and component behaviours rather than individual screens.
Choose the right design techniques and apply fundamental principles of good UI design.
Drive improvements to our product's overall visual design and offer support to other teams and their tools, such as presentations, the website and marketing materials.
Own, manage and evolve our in-house design system and improve the overall process and tooling of this discipline.
Commit improvements directly with engineers in an ad hoc way as discovered and evaluate your work by what's shipped, not what's in the design file.
Create basic prototypes to support research sessions as well as more detailed prototypes which explore the core behaviours of components through microinteractions and motion
Have an understanding of web and native technologies as they relate to design-developer handover processes, as well as basic JSON & CSS coding experience
- Previous Experience - Growing responsibility and autonomy within a design team at a software business, where the product is critical to the day to day of both clients and customers.
- Empathy - you’re always wondering about the why behind what people say and how they behave, even when it’s not your style, you constantly seek and gain insight into other people’s experiences.
- Problem solving - you’re mostly autonomous and comfortable leading design projects, helping teams to diverge and converge quickly and effectively through a human-centred design process towards successful outcomes.
- Collaborative - you’re eager to listen and take input from others as to the way things should be and then work with the product team on how best to refine, hone and execute on ideas.
- Strategic - you strive to deeply understand our target clients and know who’s using our products, their jobs, tasks, use cases and goals. You proactively seek new and deeper insights about customers to understand their needs and enable decision making with increased confidence.
- Leadership & Accountability - you take ownership of your work and are generous with your time and feedback, looking for ways to manage-up by adjusting how you work with stakeholders.
- Efficiency & Progress - you prioritise what’s most important by staying focused on goals rather than tasks. You can be proactive without waiting for direction from others, working autonomously but knowing when to ask for help.
- Growth Mindset - you consistently seek out opportunities to improve, applying lessons and inspiration from the success of others. You are resilient when faced with setbacks, eager to learn and make new mistakes.
Work perks and benefits
🏆 We pride ourselves on our fantastic open, honest, inclusive culture that we have built, and continue to build. 🏗️
As a testament to this, Vita Mojo has secured a place as the UK’s Number 1 startup to work for by Tempo.
Our approach. We work on a hybrid model which means that once a week teams come into the office for an optional team collaboration day, and the other four days are spent working from home (or hot-desking in the office if that’s your jam!).
💪 We’re proud of the flexibility that we offer our Mojis (check us out on Flexa’s Global Top 100 companies!) and want to promote a positive work/life alignment. A one-size-fits-all approach won’t work for every Moji and team, and we encourage you to have conversations with your line manager and team to understand your work preferences and team needs.
The aim is to ensure that Mojis are able to maximise their potential, build trust with their teams, establish an effective work/life alignment and also meet the needs of our growing business! 🚀
💻 Your tech kit. We want to supply you with the best hardware to get the job done. We will set you up with your basic kit when you start and anything else you need once you have some time to get your feet on the ground.
🏡 Work from home kit. When you join we’ll work with you to understand your work from home needs, and get you set up to be your most productive while working from home.
🕰️ Your hours. Where possible, you set your own hours to get the work done in line with your team and company needs. If you’re an early riser, come in as early as you like; if you need to do the morning school run, come in a bit later. At the end of the day, the work needs to be done but we also need you to balance that with life.
🌵 Your work environment. Our bright and spacious offices offer lots of natural light, a jungle of plants, and different spaces to relax and focus on what you need to do.
🍑 Food and drink. We stock all the coffee and tea you can drink when in the office and we’re never without snacks!
💳 Your budget. You have a monthly £80 wellbeing and lifestyle allowance available through your own personal wallet. Spend it on anything (within reason!) that will help improve your life.
💗 Your development. We have found that Mojis who thrive at Vita Mojo embrace a growth mindset and are proactive about their development, find ways to contribute and grow in non-linear (and linear!) ways. We offer a £600 L&D budget to support you in that development and to gain the skills, knowledge and relationships you need to soar, whether at Vita Mojo or later on in your development journey.
🧠 Your mental health. Through our partnership with Spill, you can ask a therapist for advice, schedule a one-off therapy session, or use a series of therapy sessions. We also offer Mental Health Days to use in moments when you need to take a day for some additional space to refocus your energies. Personal coaching is available to all Mojis through our partnership with MoreHappi, to help you grow and reach your goals!
🌴 Your holidays. We believe in finding your work life alignment and want you to take advantage of your 25 days of leave, plus public holidays. Your holiday allowance increases after each complete calendar year of service, up to 28 days.
💚 Carer’s Leave. We understand life happens and you may need to take some time to support your loved ones. Whether that be looking after your sick dog, friends or family members. We offer one week (5 days) paid leave to all Mojis.
🐣 Welcoming a child into your life. We have enhanced Parental leave policies! Parental leave is offered to all Mojis after 3 months at the company. Parental leave is the collective term and includes maternity, paternity, adoption leave and surrogacy. Our leave policy is meant to help you navigate through this time as successfully as possible.
We recognise both the primary caregiver (the person who spends most time with the child) and the secondary (typically this is the non-birthing parent). Primary caregivers receive full pay for the first 16 weeks and 50% pay up to week 32. But need more time off? No problem, you can take up to 52 weeks (statutory) with us!
Secondary caregivers receive full pay for the first 4 weeks and an additional 2 weeks after 36 months of continuous service. It's up to you when you start your leave, we are here to support you through the whole process.
🤒 Your health. We offer 10 days of full pay sick leave.
🥳 Your birthday. We love celebrating birthdays, whether through baked goods or gifts, and you also get the day off on (or around) your birthday every year.
🍾 Your social spirit. We love socialising with our fellow Mojis, whether through monthly drinks in the office, quarterly offsite socials (both virtual and in person), celebrating milestones, or anything else that comes up, we enjoy hanging out with each other!
🐶 Dog friendly. We love our furry friends who visit the office! Calling all responsible pet owners to join us! 😊
The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility
First we assess the flexibility options Vita Mojo provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Vita Mojo is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.
We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.
Working at Vita Mojo
Gender diversity (male:female)
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Austin Cohen (Founder & CEO of FlexIt)
The world of business is a harsh one. Businesses take aim at issues, offer their best solutions and directly compete with others attempting to do the same. As such, preparation is key. This is the foundation of business; it’s the work that doesn’t necessarily reach the surface that sets the course for the journey. The world is unpredictable, though, and ensuring you have the ability to read and react is key to remaining versatile and flexible in times of uncertainty.
For example, my company, a virtual personal training platform, is turning a corner. However, the company I founded a few years ago is completely unrecognizable from what we’ve built today. We’ve grown so much, but growth, whether in the personal or professional space, is always complicated.
And “complicated” is an understatement given the pandemic we’ve all been facing the past few years. Where we started, where we are and where we’re heading has been a wild, wonderful experience. Along the way, I’ve learned valuable lessons about how to pivot when facing a challenging time.
Stay true to your spark.
Our original flagship product was a flexible gym access app. It was an exciting time, as we were partnering with bigger gym and studio chains, hearing the industry buzz about our business model and connecting newcomers to the fitness space. It was at this moment that the pandemic shut down essentially every gym in the world.
It was crushing. All the work we had put into building an idea into a company fell apart. We had all this steam and nowhere to go. I had to sit down with my COO, who is also a founding team member and my close friend, to really consider where our future lay.
What we realized at that moment was this: While the product is always important, the company itself is so much more than a product. Turning an idea into a product and a product into a company is exciting, but you can’t lose the spark of that idea. The thing that pushed you initially is the thing that’s going to keep pushing you.
Coming to this realization wasn’t easy, and it was forced upon us, but trusting that gut instinct—that initial desire that drove us to build the company in the first place—is what guided us back on the path to success.
No matter what you’re building or what product you’re selling, I believe it’s the passion that people are really investing in. If you stay true to that passion and the impact it can have by catering to it and making sure you are serving that above all else, it can become pure rocket fuel to keep you moving forward. You won’t be stuck in the past.
Make yourself necessary.
We had to move fast to keep as much of our momentum as possible. So we looked at what we had in front of us. Just as the pandemic had halted our business, our gym partners were in the same boat. Leagues of personal trainers and fitness experts were now just sitting around. We had to come up with a solution. Our model had been dealt a huge blow, but then came an opportunity to pivot.
We had to ask ourselves a question that I would encourage any other business in a similar dilemma to consider as well: “How can we make this pivot without compromising who we are as a brand and our mission?”
In the case of my own company, this meant we needed to create a place for our key stakeholders to keep doing what they do best. So, we built a virtual personal training platform with them. The tech team who had worked on our app got started, and we gathered input from fitness experts and trainers. By leveraging the expert opinion of the trainers themselves, we took the guessing game out of the equation.
The value of flexibility cannot be understated. Even without a worldwide shutdown, nothing is ever guaranteed. No matter what you do and how safe you think your industry or product or company is, there could come a day when it all falls apart. The inflexible businesses—those that are unwilling to bend and refuse to find a niche in the market and capitalize on what they do have—are going to break. You cannot survive by insisting that you are necessary. You have to make yourself necessary to your partners, investors and, most importantly, the market.
To do this, instead of focusing on your needs, prioritize everyone else’s. For instance, our partner gyms needed a new way to bring leads in the door and keep their trainers active, and people stuck at home wanted a way to get the fitness guidance they needed, so we strived to fill those needs.
Pivoting isn’t easy and can be scary, but looking back, I can see that all we really had to do was stay true to our mission (and work hard). Not letting challenges stop us from doing what we loved, not letting fear dictate our actions and making sure that we were always trying to build better, easier ways to get people to their healthiest selves guided us to new heights.
Staying flexible and staying honest about your values and mission can give you the strength to turn a potentially ruinous circumstance into an opportunity. Necessity isn’t just the mother of invention; it’s the mother of innovation, and the pressure that resulted from the challenges gave us a chance to do more for ourselves and our users. | <urn:uuid:5d79bb1b-f763-409d-913c-4efc1084ed61> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://flexit.fit/thenextrep/lessons-learned-on-pivoting-your-business-during-challenging-times/ | 2023-10-04T18:59:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.972616 | 1,142 |
Nutrition plays a crucial role in our fitness journey, providing the fuel and building blocks our bodies need to reach our goals. Whether you aim to lose weight, build muscle, or enhance overall wellness, a well-balanced diet is essential for success. In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of nutrition in supporting fitness goals and provide tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, we’ll share pre- and post-workout meal
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Despite its reputation, studies have shown that 50% of people skip out on the meal that’s intended to start the day off strong. There are many benefits to this meal, and it’s important to keep them in mind before you step out the door! Fuel for an Empty Tank Skipping breakfast may save a few minutes initially, but the inevitable crash
Counting calories is a practice that has been used for decades. On the surface, this alone makes sense. Individuals burn calories via physical fitness, so regulating one’s caloric intake versus calories burned, can provide a method to practice weight management. Studies have shown that supplemental methods may increase effectiveness. Counting macronutrients (macros) offer additional insight into the specific nutrients added per calorie. What are macronutrients? These are the three most
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Fly Fishing The Famous Green River
Flaming Gorge Utah
If you love to fly fish, you have to add the Green River to your bucket list. I recently took a trip to the Flaming Gorge Utah area with a good friend. We enjoyed a couple of days float boating the famous Green River. The fishing was incredible to say the least. I have been fishing for most of my life and the Green River provided some of the best fishing I have ever enjoyed. Even more incredible was the scenery. What a gorgeous place. You could not ask for a more scenic place to fly fish. The fishing was so good that we had to remind ourselves to take time to enjoy the scenery too.
There are three sections to the river, where the float boats normally operate. They have labeled these sections A, B and C. We were fortunate enough to be able to float all three during our trip. Each section of the river is truly special. There are four primary species of fish in the river. We caught Rainbows, Browns, Cutthroats and even a few Whitefish. We fished in September. The weather was perfect. Not a rain cloud in the sky.
I cannot encourage you enough to try this place. We stayed at the Flaming Gorge Resort. Clean, reasonably priced accommodations. Not far from the Flaming Gorge Dam. Hope you enjoy these photos help to motivate you to take a trip there soon.
The Green River is one of the most iconic trout streams in North America. With over 15,000 fish per mile, this stream is one of the top fly fishing destinations for anglers from all across the United States. As mentioned earlier, there are three main sections to the Green River, with the A section beginning just below the Flaming Gorge Dam. Section A is easily the most popular of the three. There are more fish per mile in this section of the river than pretty much any other trout stream, this side of the San Juan River in New Mexico. There are lots of 20 inch browns and rainbows in the A section. You won’t have time to get bored floating this section. We didn’t get a bite on every cast, but we got bites on many of the casts we made. Be prepared for a fight. These fish are strong and they aren’t really interested in being netted.
There are some really big fish in this area. The largest brown trout caught in the state of Utah was over 29 pounds. That fish was caught just below Flaming Gorge Dam. The A section is absolutely breathtaking. It is hard to describe just how beautiful the canyon and river are through this section. Just breathtaking to say the least. Hopefully the photos I have included will give you some idea of what I am talking about. I can’t think of a more incredible place to fish.
The guide we were with set us up with a 3 fly rig for the A section. He used two grey nymphs and an egg. The pattern proved to be ultra productive. We caught fish all day long on the A section. Most of the trout we caught opted for the nymphs. We used a small strike indicator, positioned just below our end of our floating fly line. Best results came when we maintained a drag free drift with our flies. These fish are smart. You must present the fly so that it floats in a very natural way. If you do, you are in for a busy day.
The B Section of the Green River starts approximately 7 or so miles down from the dam. This section of river arguably receives less fishing pressure than the A section. There are more native fish in B. On average, the B section produces slightly larger fish than you will catch in the A section. We used a 3 fly rig in this section. Our top fly was a large dry fly. We used two nymphs, positioned below the dry. Using the dry was a bit more challenging. You must ensure that the dry floats drag free. If your line goes tight, you aren’t going to catch the bigger fish. We were drifting down stream in the boat. That meant that we needed to pay particular attention to where we casted our flies. When the boat was headed straight down the stream, we casted to one side or the other, attempting to land our flies just forward of the boat. We then attempted to mend our lines to keep the flies drifting with the boat. When the guide turned the boat horizontal in the river, we had to cast directly in front of the boat, adding slack to our line so that it floated well in front of the boat and free from drag.
We caught big fish near the bank. We caught big fish just below rapids. There may not be as many fish per mile in B section as their is in A, but we never got bored. The fish in B were hitting our nymph droppers most of the day. On this day, just a hand full of larger fish attacked the dry fly. Even though we didn’t take any fish on the dry, that dry fly ended up being a useful strike indicator. When these Green River trout hit, you have to set the hook quickly. They generally ran directly at the boat, each time we set the hook. Meaning, you had to set the hook and be prepared to quickly strip more line to keep pressure on the fish. These are smart, savvy trout. They fight like crazy when you hook them. You may want to use athletic tape of wear some fishing gloves, because these fish will go on runs away from the boat. Stripping line right through your finger or fingers you are using in your pole hand. When they run, they really go. That line will slide across your fingers, and eventually start to cut into your fingers. Nice problem to have right. Buy some Simms gloves. That will solve that problem.
The poles we used on this trip were perfect for this river. My friend used a 5wt, 9ft Orvis Clearwater Fly Rod. He paired a nice Orvis Clearwater reel with his pole. I used a 5wt, 9ft Scott Fly Rod and choose a Ross Animas reel for this trip. Both poles worked flawlessly. I really enjoyed casting with my Scott fly rod. I was able to land the flies pretty much where I wanted to. The wind picked up later on day 2 and I did have a few miss casts while throwing directly into the wind. Highly recommend both of these poles for the Green River.
The C section of the river starts about 14 to 15 miles down from the dam. This piece of the river holds some monsters. There are lots of native brown, rainbow and even some cutties. The day we fished the C section, we used a 3 fly rig. The top fly was a large dry fly, with a red worm as our second fly, followed by a small grey nymph dropper at the end of our rig. Depending on the time of year you are fishing the Green, dry flies can be really productive. On this trip, we fished the river in mid September. The dry fly drew a few strikes. Every trout we landed on B and C sections bit the worm, or the grey nymph. The fish we caught in sections B and C were consistently 20 inches or larger. What was really impressive was the girth of the fish. These fish were huge. They were thick and really healthy.
The Green River flows from Utah to Colorado. The fishing is really good in the A, B and C sections of the river. That is true even as far down as 30 miles below the dam. By the way, we plan to add these and many more great photos from the trip to www.FlylineImages.com in the days to come. You can purchase these and many other beautiful photos at Flyline Images. | <urn:uuid:29c34956-f10e-42ac-9838-baf24afc5b79> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://flylineimages.com/travel/fly-fishing-the-green-river/ | 2023-10-04T19:57:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.969213 | 1,607 |
You Should Be Using More Social Media Video Ads
Because they work so well.
Your own habits prove this to be true on Facebook as well as Twitter. You don’t intend to look at those videos that pop up, but very often you do. And even when you don’t watch the entire video, you remember something about the product. Right?
A few seconds all it takes to make an impression. And of course, the stronger the message and the more creative the video, the stronger the impression.
At Focal Point, we take notice of video ads on social media. In today’s environment, they are expected by up and coming and top brands already on social media. In fact, use of video on social media nationally is skyrocketing. Their use is substantially higher this fall than they were just a few months ago.
Not surprisingly, Facebook is still king of online video with the greatest share of social media video spending across all platforms. Google is a close second.
It really is incredible how quickly video advertising has risen to the top of digital advertising as a whole. U.S. video ad revenues on Facebook will reach $10.20 billion in 2020, more than doubling last year’s $4.78 billion high.
What about Twitter? Not far behind. Twitter is expected to earn $743.8 million in US video ad revenues by 2020. Like Facebook, video ads are also rising quickly, up from $563.4 million in 2017.
Video advertising may not be what’s best for your company. Or –maybe you haven’t figured out how best to use it for your needs.
For instance – an ironic or unexpected way of showcasing your brand. Perhaps even teasing out a new idea or product in a series of videos.
At Focal Point we do understand how to use video. And have the creative chops to add some spontaneity and zing to your next social media campaign.
That’s a good reason to budget for a fresh, fun video highlighting your brand. Chances are good that you’ll attract new interest to your product. Sometimes, when that video addresses the right issues in a compelling way, it gets shared. Often across platforms.
Boom. That affects your bottom line.
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Made with just a few ingredients, pesto is one of the richest-tasting and most versatile sauces. But as it is often mixed into other dishes, identifying the true flavor of pesto is hard.
What does pesto taste like? Pesto sauce has peppery notes thanks to the basil leaves used to make it. It is also creamy and nutty due to the crushed pine nuts. Olive oil, garlic, and cheese make the sauce complete and enrich the flavor of pesto.
In this article, we will tell you all about the flavor and texture of this Italian sauce. You will also learn everything about the storage conditions, shelf life, and signs of spoilage of pesto.
What Is Pesto And How Is It Made?
Pesto is one of the most popular sauces that you either love or hate. This Italian sauce takes its name from the word pestare which means “to crush”. Pesto is named so as its preparation includes crushing all the ingredients.
While there are numerous pesto recipes and variations, the traditional way of making this green sauce is using basil, pine nuts, garlic, Parmesan or Pecorino cheese, olive oil, and salt.
The traditional way of making pesto is crushing all ingredients using a marble mortar and a wooden pestle. Garlic and pine nuts are the first ingredients to go into the mortar Once crushed to a paste, basil leaves and salt are added.
Cheese is the last ingredient to go into the mixture along with virgin olive oil that helps improve the texture of the sauce.
But making pesto is much quicker if you own a blender or a food processor. You can also buy pesto if you don’t have time to make it yourself.
How Do You Use Pesto?
The most common use for pesto is with pasta. However, there are many other ways to use this green Italian sauce. Being peppery, buttery, and salty all at the same time, pesto sauce is a great flavor enhancer to use in many dishes.
Here are some ideas for using pesto.
- Make breakfast eggs with pesto
- Bake pesto bread
- Use pesto sauce as a pizza topping
- Make vegetable galette with pesto
- Use pesto as a topping for roasted vegetables
- Make pesto crusted salmon
- Use pesto as a sauce for chicken, steak, pork chops, etc.
As you can see, there are plenty of ways to use pesto sauce. Aside from being versatile, pesto is also healthy. While it contains lots of calories, it is packed with nutrients, and you typically don’t have to use a lot of it.
What Does Pesto Taste Like?
The flavor of pesto is quite complex. Though it doesn’t contain too many ingredients, all of them have pronounced flavor which makes the overall taste of the sauce very unique.
Pesto has peppery notes thanks to the basil leaves used to make it. It is also nutty and buttery thanks to the pine nuts used in it.
Garlic is another key ingredient that provides the traditional flavor of pesto. So, even if you don’t like garlic that much, we recommend you don’t skip it in pesto.
Parmigiano-Reggiano and Pecorino Sardo cheeses added to the sauce make it taste richer.
It is important to not oversalt the sauce as the cheeses are already salty. Adding a small amount of salt is all you need to balance the overall flavor of pesto.
It is also important to use high-quality olive oil to make pesto sauce as it is what gives the sauce the needed grassiness.
Don’t be surprised if you don’t find your store-bought pesto to have any grassy notes. Many manufacturers replace high-quality olive oil with other cheap oils to reduce production costs.
As mentioned earlier, there are many pesto variations. You can replace pine nuts in pesto with other nuts, including almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan, and brazil nuts.
Non-traditional pesto recipes may also include such ingredients as parsley, avocado, ginger, coconut, etc.
The flavor of the pesto sauce will change depending on the ingredients you use to make it.
What Is The Texture Of Pesto?
The true texture of pesto sauce is something in between smooth and overly chunky. Making pesto uniformly smooth is a mistake easy to make when you are using a blender or a food processor.
So, if you want to get the texture just right, using a mortar and a pestle is a good idea.
Your pesto can be thick and creamy or on the thinner side. In any case, you need to make sure you have added all components in proper proportions so that the flavor is balanced and rich.
The texture of the sauce may be modified depending on how many nuts, basil, and liquid ingredients you add. The more liquid (olive oil, lemon juice) you add to the sauce, the thinner its texture will get.
But no matter how much liquid you add to the paste, we recommend you do it slowly as it helps to make the texture of the sauce finer whether it is thick or thin.
Can Pesto Go Bad?
Pesto, just like any other sauce, has a limited shelf life. Whether you have made it yourself or bought a jar from your local supermarket, pesto sauce will eventually go bad.
And sooner than other commonly used sauces and condiments, including ketchup and mayonnaise.
The main ingredients in pesto – basil and pine nuts, are rather perishable. One of the reasons why pesto goes bad is the oils in it getting rancid.
How To Store Pesto
The storage rules for pesto differ depending on the fact whether it is homemade or store-bought, and if the jar has been opened or not.
Commercially manufactured pesto sauce is more shelf-stable compared to its homemade version as it contains preservatives. But even then, how quickly the sauce will go bad ultimately depends on its storage conditions.
If you go to the nearby supermarket to buy pesto, you will find it in a tin or a jar in the unrefrigerated section, as well as in jars in the refrigerated section.
If you still haven’t opened the jar, store it in the same conditions as in-store. When storing a jar of pesto at room temperature, make sure to keep it away from heat sources and direct sunlight.
The pantry or a cool and dry kitchen cupboard will work well for storing pesto sauce that doesn’t need refrigeration.
Once you open the jar of pesto, seal the lid tightly after each use. Store it in the fridge whenever you are not using it.
If the original container of the sauce is damaged or you can’t close the lid tightly, it is best to transfer the sauce into another jar or container.
Homemade pesto should always be stored in the fridge. Once you make the sauce, transfer it into a jar or a container with a tight sealing lid.
Don’t transfer pesto into a container that is too big for it as the contact of the sauce with a lot of air will cause it to deteriorate sooner.
Unlike store-bought pesto, homemade pesto doesn’t contain preservatives, it has a shorter shelf-life.
So, if you don’t need a lot of it for a specific recipe or know you won’t be eating it within a few days, make a small batch of pesto. Fresh pesto always tastes better than pesto that has been in the fridge for a few days.
How Long Does Pesto Last?
You can find the “best by” date of unopened pesto sauce printed on the jar. If you keep the jar in proper conditions, pesto sold in the unrefrigerated section may keep a few weeks longer than the date indicated on the packaging.
This is because the latter is the manufacturer’s estimation of how long the product will retain its best qualities.
Pesto sold in the refrigerated section has a shorter shelf life. It may keep only a few days longer than the date on the packaging indicates.
Once you open the pesto, it will keep well for 5-7 days.
Homemade pesto has a shelf life of around 5 days in the fridge. If your homemade pesto goes bad sooner, you have either left it at room temperature for too long or the ingredients you have used weren’t fresh.
Can You Freeze Pesto?
Luckily, pesto freezes quite well. It does undergo some texture changes after freezing and defrosting the sauce.
For some dishes, defrosted pesto sauce may not work well due to its texture changes. But in dishes where you mix it with other ingredients, the sauce will work as well as the fresh variety.
As for the taste, pesto sauce will undergo minimal flavor changes if you freeze it properly and when the sauce is still fresh.
How To Freeze Pesto
Freezing pesto is easy. However, before you do that, make sure to portion the sauce in a way so that it is convenient for future use.
If you know you will be using the sauce for sandwiches, single portions of soup, pasta, etc., freeze it in small amounts.
But if you will be needing a larger amount for a pot of pasta or such recipes as stuffed chicken breasts, freezing pesto in larger batches is a better choice.
To freeze pesto in larger amounts, transfer 1/2 cup of sauce into airtight containers or heavy-duty zip-top bags.
When freezing the sauce in a container, add a small amount of olive oil to cover the surface of the sauce. The oil will help prevent any oxidation of the sauce.
As for freezing pesto sauce in small amounts, the ice cube tray method is the best. Transfer a few spoons of pesto into each compartment of the ice cube tray and put it in the freezer.
After a few hours when the sauce is frozen remove the pesto cubes from the tray and put them in a sealable plastic bag.
Whenever you need to use the sauce, let it thaw in the fridge or defrost it using the microwave. Small pesto cubes can also go right into the hot dish as they will take only a few minutes to thaw.
How Long Does Pesto Last In The Freezer?
Pesto will last up to 6 months in the freezer. If the temperature of the freezer is stable, the sauce may remain safe for consumption past that time too.
However, the longer the sauce sits in the freezer the more its flavor and texture will deteriorate.
How To Tell If Pesto Is Bad
If you have had the sauce for a few days, we recommend you inspect it closely for any signs of spoilage before eating it. Here’s how to tell if pesto sauce is bad.
- Color changes. If the sauce has lost its appealing green color and has turned brown, it is time to discard it.
- Mold. Mold is one of the most obvious signs of spoilage. If you see specs of mold in the sauce or in the jar, don’t eat it.
- Off-putting smell. Discard pesto if it smells funny. As there is a lot of oil in pesto, it is also common for it to smell rancid when it goes bad.
If the sauce has no obvious signs of spoilage and smells good, give it a try to make sure it is good. If the sauce looks good but you have had it for too many days, err on the safe side and discard it.
What Happens If You Eat Bad Pesto?
Eating pesto that has gone rancid won’t cause any health issues. And as it doesn’t taste very good, you are unlikely to eat so much of it that it makes you feel sick.
As for eating moldy pesto by accident, you never know if the mold you have eaten is harmful or harmless.
In any case, the chances of suffering serious health issues as a result of moldy food, including pesto, are very low, unless eaten in large quantitites.
What To Do With Leftover Pesto
If you have lots of leftover pesto, the best thing you can do with it is to freeze it.
However, as much as pesto freezes well, some people don’t like the flavor and texture of defrosted pesto. Or they simply don’t have any more room in their cold storage.
In such cases, it is best to use pesto in recipes that require a lot of it. This is typically not the case with pesto recipes as a small amount of this sauce does the job.
You can also use pesto in more than one recipe if you don’t mind multiple appearances of the sauce on your dinner table.
If you have half a jar of leftover pesto sauce, the easiest thing you can do is to spread it on a piece of puff pastry.
The best thing about this recipe is that you don’t have to spend time on making the dough as you can find puff pastry in any grocery store.
Once you have spread the sauce on the dough, roll it up, slice it, and bake. How easy is that? And your leftover pesto sauce is gone and you don’t have to waste it.
If recipes that call for lots of pesto are not your thing, you can incorporate the sauce in various dishes and any meal of your day.
Make pesto sandwiches for breakfast, salad with a pesto dressing for lunch, and marinate chicken with pesto for dinner. After such a pesto-rich meal plan, you will hardly have any pesto left!
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Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. As of the latest SDK update, the company says OpenXR will become “the preferred API for all new applications going forward.”
Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR.
OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players.
OpenXR has seen a slow but steady rollout since reaching version ‘1.0’ in 2019; this new announcement from Oculus is sure to hasten the pace significantly.
The move begins with the v31 SDK update, in which Oculus is shifting to OpenXR as the “preferred API for all new applications going forward.” According to Oculus, that means only its OpenXR SDK will receive “full support” (like QA testing, bug fixes, and up-to-date documentation). New developer features, like the recently announced passthrough API, will be delivered only through OpenXR extensions from this point forward.
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One year after, on August 31st, 2022, Oculus will require that new applications be built with OpenXR, and the Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDKs will move to “unsupported” status.
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Nakon prvog javnog pokazivanja robokara u Monaku Roborejs danas obavlja testiranja
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Posted 14 May 2017 - 12:15
Nakon prvog javnog pokazivanja robokara u Monaku Roborejs danas obavlja testiranja
Posted 20 May 2017 - 12:33
Roborejs obavio prvo testiranje na ePri stazi danas u Parizu
Posted 20 May 2017 - 12:41
Roborace car for driverless Formula E support series makes debut
Roborace's autonomous racing car ran for the first time in public ahead of Formula E's Paris ePrix.
The Russian-backed initiative has partnered with Formula E to showcase the development of the first driverless racing car series.
At several races this season Roborace has run a test mule known as DevBot, which includes a cockpit so a human driver could aid the development.
This weekend it brought the first version of its completely driverless car to an event for the first time.
The Robocar emerged on track shortly after the end of first FE practice, carrying out one lap at very slow speed.
Its lap was punctuated by a short stationary spell parked up by the barriers.
Roborace chief technology officer Bryn Balcombe explained this was because "we were checking the accuracy of the line round Turn 8".
He told Autosport: "It got within a couple of millimetres of the barrier and that's a bit too tight for the safety margin!
"We're changing that line at the moment just to make sure it doesn't get as close.
"The car is in its own sensing state, learning the environment. We had a vehicle following behind, but that's just a safety mechanism."
The car is due to run again after FE qualifying in similar fashion to this morning, and the intention is to run it without the need for a following vehicle.
Roborace was not present at the Monaco ePrix last week while it carried out its final software development ahead of Saturday's demonstration in Paris.
It has been testing in private for three weeks, including on a purpose-built Formula E replica track that Balcombe says allows the team to "get the sensory perception correct and be training in the right environment".
"We've done loads of testing in the background so it's kind of strange, people come up and say 'you've changed the world today' and we feel like we did that a few weeks ago," he added.
"It's a big event and to show it in public is really important to us.
"We've still got a lot of work to do before this afternoon, but it's great to be focusing on that and not the technical side. We've proven that now."
Posted 20 May 2017 - 14:00
Izvršni direktor Roborejsa Denis Sverdlov uz robokara (ovaj sivo/crveni je samo za pokazivanje, onaj drugi služi za testiranje)
zadnji deo robokara je pure sex
Posle FE kvalifikacija robokar odrađuje drugo testiranje
Posted 20 May 2017 - 15:23
Edited by Dzoni_m, 20 May 2017 - 15:24.
Posted 20 May 2017 - 15:28
Ima snimak kruga negde? Sent from my SM-T810 using Tapatalk
ne, izaće na službenom dokumentarcu. na Twiteru sam nabasao na nekoliko amaterskih snimaka..
Posted 08 June 2017 - 00:45
Planning for driverless car 'races' begins
Roborace's second driverless racing car is due to be introduced this month and the initiative will now begin to work out how the first competition between its cars will work.
The Robocar made its public debut in support of Formula E's Paris ePrix last month, completing an autonomous lap of the circuit on race day.
Previously Roborace had only run its development mule, christened DevBot and based on an LMP3 car and with a cockpit so it could use a human driver while testing the software, at Formula E events.
Roborace now has three versions of 'DevBot', and chief technology officer Bryn Balcombe told Autosport the second Roborace was due some time in June.
Balcombe said that gave his company "a lot of opportunities to try different things".
Asked when a first 'race' could be expected, Balcombe replied: "It's really defining what Roborace is as a racing competition.
"If we stick to the traditional format of 10 cars just following each other around, there's very little differentiation you can have - it becomes lap time differentiation.
"We're looking at formats for the short-, medium- and long-term.
"It's not been defined yet but it includes road-relevant features, like traffic on the track.
"If you're talking about autonomous driving competition you need to push the boundary of the autonomous driver - not powertrain or chassis or aero or tyres.
"It's the ability to perceive, think and act."
Balcombe said "it's quite tight" between getting the cars back from Formula E's July 29-30 Montreal season finale and the start of the next season.
That suggests the 2017/18 curtain-raiser, set to take place in November in Hong Kong, might be too soon for Roborace to hold its first competition.
Roborace's priority for the remainder of the current Formula E season is to demonstrate to prospective entrants that the infrastructure, as well as the technology, is ready.
"The rest of the season for us is incremental developments and developing the platform to invite the teams to join," he explained.
"The team write the AI drivers, they take the risk, they define the performance level. The hardware is defined by us.
"We're gathering data so we can share that with all the teams so they can use that for training, and we're building a simulator environment in the background.
"So the objective is for us to show there's a working platform waiting for teams to arrive."
The Robocar's lap in Paris was at a very slow speed, but Balcombe insisted its pace will improve.
"The first thing is the car understands its environment in order to work out what action to take," he said.
"Speed is an action - it's making the decision, 'can the car proceed at a speed safely?'
"What we're proving is it knows where it is at all times, it knows where other objects are.
"Just like a human driver it can then start to push the limits."
Posted 10 June 2017 - 13:58
Roborejs će obaviti test u Berlinu s robokarom nakon što se uvere da će sve proći u redu tokom današnjeg testa s DevBotom
Posted 11 September 2017 - 13:15
We have a special announcement for you. A new future is coming. 13.09.17. #IAA2017 #FrankfurtMotorShow #Roborace
Posted 13 September 2017 - 13:11
Formula E champion Di Grassi becomes Roborace CEO
Formula E champion Lucas di Grassi has been named CEO of driverless racing series initiative Roborace.
Audi driver Di Grassi, who claimed his first FE title in a tense 2016/17 season finale in July, was a founding partner of FE and joined Roborace race as an advisor last year.
The ex-Formula 1 racer is a staunch advocate of autonomous vehicles and has reiterated his belief that the development of driverless racing can benefit traditional series.
“We want to take Roborace where motorsport cannot go, focusing the platform on future road-relevant autonomous technology,” said di Grassi. “The future of mobility is autonomous, that’s an industry consensus now.
“In the same way, I believe that motorsport is about the driver, who is the best human being behind the wheel.
“I want to develop the Roborace series to be complimentary to traditional motorsport, and not to replace it.
“We invite the OEMs, suppliers, technology companies and universities to use our platform to showcase their technology and intellectual capacity in driverless systems.
“With the technology evolving so fast we must remain flexible on the events, races and challenges we are promoting.”
Roborace completed demonstrations throughout the 2016/17 FE season, with its ‘DevBot’ test mule running in Marrakech, Buenos Aires, Berlin, New York and Montreal.
The first version of its autonomous racing car also ran for the first time in public ahead of Formula E's Paris ePrix in May, and series bosses have started to work out exactly how the ‘races’ will work.
A statement said Roborace will be using the upcoming 2017/18 season to “develop a flexible format for the competition that can adapt to the rapid developments in both the electric and autonomous industries”.
Roborace founder Denis Sverdlov will move into an advisory role as a result of di Grassi’s new position.
“We are thrilled that Lucas has agreed to come on board in an official capacity as Roborace continues to grow,” said Sverdlov.
“He brings a wealth of knowledge from other motorsport competitions he has developed and evolved and we are privileged to benefit from his experience.
“Lucas truly understands the importance of what Roborace can achieve – making our roads smarter and safer by sharing the benefits of A.I. [artificial intelligence] to advance everything from driver assistance to collision avoidance, security technologies to full autonomy.”
Posted 14 September 2017 - 16:21
ROBORACE: “THE VEHICLES WILL ACTUALLY HAVE PERSONALITIES”
In Montréal, we grabbed half an hour with Bryn Balcombe, Chief Technical Officer of Roborace, for a chat about the psychology of AI and what racing is, in a technology age. Well, technically we just meant to talk to him for ten minutes about the future of Roborace but things escalated a little and he humoured us getting a bit into what it means to call an AI a driver and whether the Robocar will ever actually offer gestures of universal respect and polite suggestions on driving improvement to its fellow drivers. This two-part interview will give you an insight into ROBORACE that you have not gotten so far.
THE STORY SO FAR
Roborace is an electric, autonomous racing championship, designed to be contested not by drivers but by programmers and technologists, via specialist racing Artifical Intelligences. In its early stages, it has been demonstrating at Formula E tracks and privately testing and developing the sensory, mechanical and programmatical technology that will allow it to ultimately launch its racing. Currently, most of its demonstration is around Devbot, an adjusted LMP3 car which can run autonomously. Soon the bespoke Robocars will hit the streets in earnest, with the beginning of autonomous racing alongside Formula E. But what does that mean, for AI and human drivers alike?
To take it back to the roots of Roborace, when you first started this project did you imagine that you’d go for something like Devbot as it is now, where it has to be mechanically operated as an LMP3 car, that is a driveable LMP3 or or did you think you’d go straight into the Robocars?
When it first started, the original idea is to use motorsport to advance technology – that’s what motor racing has been used for before. The other side of it is that you need to be able to engage the public – and that’s one of the things that motorsport is struggling to do – it’s a great challenge. Formula E’s doing a great job of building a new base for motorsport, Formula 1’s changing now to try and retain its base.
But you have to have an entertainment proposition and you have to be able to inspire the public and that’s why they created Robocar, that’s why Daniel Simon came on board to do that part. You then have the engineering elements of that, so you have to go from a 3D rendering to a manufacture-level product, that takes time. And during that process, what we created was Devbot. So while we were waiting for the final designs, in that period between concept design and product we created Devbot as a development vehicle to test out the concepts that were going into Robocar. So: four wheel drive powertrain, sensor suite, the computer architecture, is all identical on Devbot to Robocar.
Oh ok, so it actually is the same – with some variance for shape and whatever?
Yes, the only difference is we have a cockpit, and some differences in the steering mechanism because we have a human that can actually drive the car manually. But overall the idea is that you can develop software on Devbot and then you just port the software across, put it on Robocar and Robocar will work. And that’s the normal development routine that we go through at an event.
Ostensibly, the LMP3 looks very different from the Robocar but I guess it’s mechanically close to the same thing?
The main advantage is that you get to manually drive the thing, so you can test out all our power train systems, you can actually acquire a lot of data – which is what we’ve been doing here, so you can manually drive around just doing data acquisition. Now, in Robocar you can’t do that because it needs that data to drive. If it hasn’t got the data beforehand then it can’t drive. So always good to have an option to do that scanning and data acquisition manually. We then are able to run the software in the car, so we’re able to have a human in the car but monitoring that AI driving performance – so again, that’s another validation you can get, you can’t get closer to the vehicle dynamics than being in the car.
So when the human drives – obviously the driver takes Devbot for a lap, does Devbot then take the driver for a lap?
Basically – that’s exactly what happens. So you do some manual installation laps, so that’s really checking the vehicle performance, making sure everything mechanically is fine, from a human perspective.
That the brakes are working and things?
Yeah, exactly. And then the second step is that you put it into the AI mode, the driver stays in the car but takes his hand off the wheel, foot off the throttle and the brake and then he monitors the racing line and the performance of the AI driver. Once he’s confidence, he can then step out of the car and can start to do AI driver development testing.
In terms of developing the AI, it’s now within 8% of a human driver’s speed – or that was the last figure I saw?
Yeah, that was right – when we were in Berlin. But that’s a variable and that’s something that we’ll be talking about a lot more next season. Is, if you take the performance, how do you break the performance down? We look at it on three levels; you have the vehicle hardware’s performance, you then have the performance of the vehicle intelligence platform – which is the environment sensing and the communications – and then you have the performance of the AI driver. So those three things define overall performance and it’s important for us to be able to communicate that.
Does the AI driver – obviously it’s data based, it’s programmatical, it is ultimately a computer programme but does it have tracks it prefers?
Yeah, this is where you get the difference – so you would say, like a mechanical setup or an aero setup on the car will be tailored to a particular track. So that’s vehicle hardware, you can tailor the car to that. If you look at a sensor suite and the communications for the car – again, you can say that could be biased towards one type of environment or another. So when we run in Formula E tracks, for example, the lidars are really effective at looking at vertical surfaces on the walls.
Oh of course, cus you’ve got the sheer concrete barriers.
Exactly – then when you go to somewhere like Silverstone then you’re relying much more on machine vision, for example.
Because it’s not seeing an edge to the track?
You don’t have such a defined edge so yeah, for sure, the different environments we run at have different performance, if you like. So I wouldn’t call that a personality in terms of the programmatical.
No, but it’s better in certain circumstances.
Yeah. When you start to look at the personality of a driver, that’s really where the teams come in – and whether their use of sensors really affects their performance on a track, gives a sense of personality on track.
Which would be where, when you get Robocar into manufacture and the series gets going, the vehicles will actually have personalities in that respect, according to the way that they’re set up?
Somewhat – Daniel Simon described it the other day and he said that software always has a personality, that’s by Bill Gates created Windows and Steve Jobs created iOS and you have different people who are fans of each of those products and the way you use the software and the way it feels is very different. The same thing will manifest itself in cars. What’s interesting is that some of that comes through the dashboard and that human-machine interface of the car, the perception of the car but actually the personality of the car is defined by its actions.
That’s what’s really interesting. So in different countries there are different drivers that we know and know all drive a certain car in a certain way, so you can ascribe to the entire population of those car owners a particular personality. It will be the same but for autonomous vehicles. And that’s what’s really interesting, the interaction of the actions of the car define its personality. So in racing, it’s the actions but also the interactions with the other objects, with the other drivers.
So you might get like – a French Clio driver has a very different style to a British Volvo driver?
(Laughing) Yeah, so… in the UK we’re allowed to say ‘White Van Man’.
(Also laughing) Yes, yeah.
So effectively you attribute a style of driving to a certain model of vehicle because you’ve seen that vehicle being driven so many times in that way. So you’d describe that as a population. So when you then buy an autonomous…. Let’s say it’s a Toyota, for example, if the software is identical in all those vehicles then they’ll all behave the same way. So you’ll start to ascribe personality to those cars.
And there’s kind of like… as the owner of the car then you have to work out whether that personality matches your personality. And that’s what becomes really interesting. So we’ll see that play out but on a race track, in terms of whether one car pushes to overtake another car and if there’s an accident then who does the public think is in the wrong or in the right. And it’ll split the public, in the same way that Rosberg-Hamilton splits the public. You will have a particular favourite that’s built up over time, based on their actions that have gone before.
Yes definitely. I mean, the good thing about Robocar is it probably won’t storm down the pitlane having an argument with anyone.
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Still a big noob at Dynamo.
I have a 2D Detail item that has got several instance parameters. I have 30+ instances of this detail item and each one has differing values of the parameters.
I have created a schedule of the item with parameters and exported that to Excel and I am going to populate it in there. Then I want to push that into Revit using Dynamo.
Now. Where the heck do I start?
Hi @MartinGTE ,
@GavinCrump has made a great video about writing parameter-values into multiple parameters for FamilyInstances: Understanding list levels in Dynamo! - YouTube
Regarding getting the Excel information back into Dynamo should you use the Excel Importing node, that’s quite straightforward.
Brilliant thanks, will give it a watch and go.
Right, still struggling. All the examples I have found on YT etc get things like walls, windows, doors etc. I am trying to get a certain family type of a detail item.
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I’m trying to extract beam offset information - i.e. the distance in the X, Y and Z direction, that a beam is offset from its system line.
So far, I’ve managed to pull the information by subtracting the values from “Coordinate System at System Start” property from the “Coordinate System at Physical Start” property, but this requires a whole lot of string manipulation. I’m wondering if there’s an easier cleaner way to do it?
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We Asked 25 Rabbis: What Is One Thing Jews Need To Stop Doing?
As a part of our Rabbi Roundtable series, we brought together leading rabbis from all corners of the Jewish world to offer their thoughts on the big questions. This week, we asked our rabbis, “What is one thing Jews should stop doing?” Here are their responses:
Jill Jacobs , Conservative, T’ruah: The Jewish community should stop panicking about our own survival and focus on how to create a vibrant and meaningful Judaism for the present and future. This means that instead of obsessing about intermarriage, we invest in creating communities of meaning, that bring Judaism to life, that support their members, and that contribute positively to the world around us. Instead of responding to every criticism of Israel by insisting on Israel’s infallibility, and by casting Israel as the victim, we should invest in building a state that lives up to its human rights obligations and that makes us proud. We are the proud inheritors of a rich Jewish tradition that helps us express joy, mourn losses, live ethical lives, and contribute to the societies in which we live. Celebrating and strengthening these traditions — rather than obsessing over perceived threats to our survival — will help us survive and thrive today and in the future.
Asher Lopatin, Orthodox, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School: Jews need to be less afraid, less defensive. I say this as a self-critique: As my wife Rachel knows, I get very defensive when someone shows me where I made a mistake. But she also knows that the louder I get in defending my actions, the more I know that I’m wrong. We must be willing to listen to opinions and ideas that scare us to think about them and wrestle with them. The great Tiferet Yisrael commentary on the Mishna says that we will never learn if we fear to face the “other.”
Mitchell Wohlberg, Orthodox, Beth Tfiloh Congregation: Kvetching! Why is it that the story of a waiter asking the couple after serving them their meal, “Was everything ok?” is often associated with Jews? We have been that way right from the beginning! According to the Midrash, as the Jews experienced the miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea, they walked through it complaining that the seabed was muddy! As Gilda Radner put it: “There’s always something!” We are the most blessed generation in the last 2000 years of Jewish history. Instead of complaining, let’s start expressing some gratitude.
Aaron Potek, Pluralist, Gather DC: I like to compare Judaism to a sealed box you’ve inherited that’s been passed down for many generations. You’ve been told it’s really important to pass this down, but no one told you what’s inside. You’re curious, but you’re worried you’ll find out it’s empty, rendering all this passing down retroactively pointless. So you decide: better to just keep passing it down and leave open the possibility that it’s not empty. This needs to stop. A sealed box is useless. So open it. See if you find anything you like. If so, that will be a lot easier to pass down.
Shmuly Yanklowitz, Orthodox, Uri L’Tzedek: Orthodox Social Justice: When Judaism is confined only to the strictures of the synagogue, it is dead. When Judaism is made spiritually relevant to daily life through activism and good deeds, it thrives. And so can we! Jews need to stop treating Judaism as a religion only of the past. Jewish thought is more than nostalgia and memory. We need to allow the mitzvot to become relevant to our lives now! Jewish learning and morality can be deeply transformative on both spiritual and ethical levels. Each of these elements allows us to renew our inner worlds, our families, our communities, our society, and all of creation.
Benjamin Sendrow, Conservative, Congregation Shaarey Tefilla: I wish our people would stop trying to take Christmas away from America’s Christians. We should stop behaving as if being wished a “Merry Christmas” is a personal insult or a denial of our Jewishness. I believe in the Sendrow Doctrine: a Jew’s displeasure at being wished Merry Christmas is in inverse proportion to the richness of that person’s Jewish life. If you have a rich Jewish life, it won’t bother you much if someone wishes you Merry Christmas. But if the only thing Jewish in your life is that you’re not Christian, then Merry Christmas is the only Jewish part of your life. Enrich your Jewish life; let Christians enjoy their holy day.
Ayelet Cohen, Conservative, New Israel Fund, NY: Rabbi Richard Levy offers an alternative Al Cheyt (confessional litany) for Yom Kippur: for forgiving in Jews what we condemn in others; for forgiving in others what we condemn in Jews. Sadly, this is also increasingly true when the “others” are Jews outside of our particular camp. One particularly dangerous way in which this manifests is the refusal to see truths that don’t fit into our narrative because they are too painful or too destabilizing. It’s easier to condemn Israeli human rights organizations than to acknowledge the damage the occupation of Palestinians is doing to Israeli society. It’s easier to abandon Israel than to try to repair it.
Ari Sytner, Orthodox, Author of “The Kidney Donor’s Journey”: It is time that we stop pretending that other Jews are the competition or the enemy. Particularly in a Millennial environment, this type of public divisiveness will completely turn away the next generation of Jews from wanting to associate with us or the Judaism of our parents. Throughout our forty-year journey in the desert, the Jewish people marched as one, albeit in a formation of 12 unique tribes, demonstrating the value of Jewish unity while celebrating individual uniqueness. As a people of diversity, we must always march forward as one nation, loving our sisters and brothers — even when we disagree with the perspectives they hold. The threats we face, both internally and existentially, are reminders that we must not exhaust ourselves by castigating our fellow Jews, but rather invest our efforts in being tolerant of one another, thus strengthening the entire fabric of the Jewish people.
Nina H. Mandel, Reconstructionist, Congregation Beth El-Sunbury, PA: Jews should stop labeling themselves “A Bad Jew” based on their synagogue attendance or if they “had” a bat mitzvah. Bad Jews use their Jewish status or identity to harm or oppress others. Being a good Jew means trying to infuse the teachings, traditions, values, and history of the Jewish people into your everyday life. There is no one way to embody your Jewishness and there is always the possibility to learn more. The dialogic nature of the Talmud affirms this, even more strongly than the old joke about two Jews and one opinion.
Denise Eger, Reform, Former President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis: Jews should stop picking on each other. We have to love each other more, even in our differences. Enough with “My Judaism is better than your Judaism.” Let’s just accept one another and, in doing so, we will strengthen our community. When we fight amongst ourselves, it frays our souls and divides us from within. I believe we can be respectful and different in how we practice and observe — or for secular Jews, not observe — but we must stop being unkind and hurtful to each other. And most importantly, learn to love one another.
Adina Lewittes, Conservative, Sha’ar Communities: Living from fear. Anxiety over everything from interfaith marriage, synagogue doldrums and growing secularism to Jewish antipathy towards Israel, BDS and low day school attendance has us making communal decisions and ranking priorities from fear rather than hope, from anger rather than love. We have to quell the panic. While we can’t see the future, we must trust that it will unfold into the next great iteration of Jewish life. Let’s stop wringing our hands and use them to plant and nourish the seeds of the future. We should probably also stop making a fuss on airplanes, judging each other endlessly, and improve EL AL customer service.
Yitzchok Adlerstein, Orthodox, Cross-Currents: Kvetch. Why must everyone complain all the time? And what kind of a question is this? What am I supposed to be, some sort of Kurt Vonnegut, coming up with a “Wear sunscreen” line in Yiddish? (Yeah, I know he never said it. Who made you so smart?) More seriously, we should heed the sage advice of a 20th century giant, R. Chaim Shmulevitz, the head of the Mir Yeshiva. Each year, he spoke before Neilah on Yom Kippur, and asked the audience to pray for three things: the soldiers of the IDF, the Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain who were not able to pray, and for Jews not to bring misery to other Jews. We need to stop harming each other.
Adam Chalom, Humanistic, International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism: Stop calling each other (and ourselves) “bad Jews.” 75% of American Jews do not obey kashrut or Shabbat, and over 90% are proud of being Jewish (Pew 2013). Are 75% of us really “bad Jews”? And what does it mean to define yourself as a “bad Jew”? Being Jewish is what you DO NOT do, it’s where you fail! Being Jewish is who you are, but the opposite of how you live. Judaism is not limited to religious beliefs that many doubt, or prayers most do not say, or dietary laws which 75% ignore. EVERYONE chooses what is Jewishly meaningful — we may read less Talmud and more Jewish poetry, others read Talmud and not Amichai or Marcia Falk. Consider bagels: some say blueberry bagels are not “authentic,” but it’s useless to argue which bagel is the best, the original, the only bagel for all Jews. The more varieties of bagels, or Judaism, the more people can enjoy them and find the one that best fits.
Shmuly Boteach, Orthodox, Author of “Judaism For Everyone”: Jews should stop being ashamed of their identity. Jews should stop being reluctant to proudly and publicly and visibly affirm Jewish identity.
Scott Perlo, Conservative, Sixth & I Congregation: Denigrating Judaism. Sometimes it seems like a large part of contemporary Jewish identity is contempt for the practice of Judaism. I sense that many people see Jewish services, rituals, and ideas as silly or absurd (by sense, I mean that Jews just tell me these things outright). Yet I see, in the very same people who tell me it’s all nonsense, an incredible hunger and a deep thirst — not for bread, nor for water, but for meaning. And if someone is searching for meaning, how does a kind of casual dismissal of the Tradition serve that person? It is not that every word of Torah should be swallowed blindly, but perhaps curiosity should precede contempt.
Shalom Lewis, Conservative, Congregation Etz Chaim: We should stop the political naivete and denial and recognize that our true friends and allies today are mostly no longer on the Left, but on the Right. The Left, the Progressives, are hostile to Israel and represent a true and present danger to authentic American freedom that has enabled Jews to flourish. Their behavior on campuses, in government, on Main Street, in the media, in political correctness, is a culture of hypocrisy, intolerance and anti-Semitism. The old paradigm and the old labels are now meaningless. New alliances must be forged with those who possess moral clarity and genuine love of the Jewish people and Israel. No longer can we continue to be the ‘useful idiots’ of the Left. Some of the finest human beings I have ever met are those on the Right.
Joe Kolakowski, Orthodox, Koblentz-Richmonder Rov: Turning away potential converts with such fervor. Neither the Talmud nor the Codes ever codified any law mandating that a potential convert must be discouraged three times (an idea loosely based on the Book of Ruth), yet this has somehow crept into the collective consciousness. The fact is that the Talmud and the Codes both say that we should not discourage a potential convert too much, but rather we should encourage conversion when we see someone is sincere. However, due to draconian measures, mostly from Centrist Orthodox (not Haredi, as is often claimed) Rabbinical organizations, these laws have been ignored and violated, causing much pain to people who just want to come close to God and His Torah.
Avram Mlotek, Orthodox, Co-Founder of Base Hillel: The chutzpah we have to declare whose Jewish beliefs are beyond the pale strikes me as distinctively non-Jewish. To be sure, one can be a heretic, apostate, agnostic or atheist but they’re still Jewish. One can make choices that remove or distance themselves and their families from Jewish tradition and Jewish communities, but they are still a Jew. The Jew who believes that the Lubavitcher Rebbe was the Messiah and the Jew who believes the Torah was written by a human pen are Jews. The Jew who eats only the most stringent of kosher certifications and the Jew who converts to Christianity is still a Jew. Jews should stop caring about who is in and who is out and reemphasize the idea that every Jew is connected, arevin zeh la zeh, and is part of an unbreakable family bond.
Adam Jacobs, Orthodox, Aish Center: Historian Paul Johnson once wrote of anti-Semitism that “In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category.” This peculiarity holds true of the Jewish People as a whole and across the board. Though we are actively engaged in world affairs, when it comes to our core mission of teaching humanity about the One God and about Godly behavior, we will always be “a nation that dwells alone.” As such, one (among many) things that Jews should stop doing is behaving as if we are just another “normal” group among the nations. Rather, we should actively, joyously and proudly re-accept our historical mandate to be a “light unto the nations” and all that that entails.
Rachel Barenblat, Renewal, Author of “The Velveteen Rabbi”: Jews should end our internal triumphalism, the denominational attitude that says any one branch of Judaism is doing it “right” and therefore everyone else is doing it “wrong.” That’s as unhelpful as inter-religious triumphalism. I’d love to see us instead celebrating the diversities inherent in the spectrum of clal Yisrael, the whole Jewish community. Some of my favorite Jewish experiences have come from davening and learning with rabbis of other denominations, and being able to cherish my own flavor of Judaism even as I also open myself to appreciating what’s sweet about theirs.
Gil Student, Orthodox, Editor of TorahMusings.com: Tradition teaches that first you stop doing bad and then start doing good. However, in today’s world, many people cannot follow that order precisely. Every Jew should start by accepting on themselves two observances — one between them and God and one between them and another Jew. Take them seriously. Treat those observances like the sacred opportunities these mitzvot are. These will help us grow in awareness of our responsibilities to God, to other people and to ourselves. Mitzvot are a light burden when we enjoy them and see how they transform us. The more good we do, the more we will choose to avoid doing bad.
Rachel Timoner, Reform, Congregation Beth Elohim: Supporting racism.
Rebecca W. Sirbu, Post-Denominational, Rabbis Without Borders: Jews should stop denigrating one another. It pains me deeply when one faction of the Jewish community lashes out against another. We have deep divisions in opinion about Israel, egalitarianism, LGBTQ rights, intermarriage, and US domestic policies. For centuries Judaism has survived knowing there are differing opinions on significant matters. Just look at all of the arguments between the rabbis in the Talmud. Yet today many of these disagreements are tearing our communities apart. I believe that one of the core values of Judaism is a pluralist outlook, allowing for differing beliefs and opinions. It’s time to embrace this outlook again and stop the name calling that happens on both sides.
Michael P. Sternfield, Reform, Temple Beth El: We must stop pretending that Jewish life in the U.S. is pretty much the same as it has been, and all that is needed are new methods and gimmicks to attract the next generation to synagogues and Jewish institutions. There has been a sea change in the attitudes of young Jews who do not feel the desire or the obligation to join or participate. The Shoah and the State of Israel are no longer compelling factors. The evidence is abundant, but institutional Judaism has not demonstrated the willingness to confront what is undeniable. There is not much time left: one generation at the most.
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Slow roasted, barbecue has been a staple of American cuisine since the 1800’s. Regional rivalries exist, mainly throughout the South in Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, about which way is the best way to barbecue. BBQ style is a defining characteristic of the Southern region of the United States. The South is also known for great food, soulful music, and treating strangers like family. This exciting combination also makes for a terrific franchise opportunity in Tennessee.
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Table of Contents
1. Barbeque Franchise Opportunities in Tennessee are Hot!
“If there’s one food Americans are passionate about, it’s barbecue,” said Brad Bloom, VP of Sales and Marketing at CHD Expert The Americas.
- Americans adore BBQ: nearly 95% of U.S. citizens said that they love barbeque, and one third of them eat BBQ every week. It’s no wonder barbecue franchise opportunities in Tennessee and across the U.S. are very popular.
This market may be underserved today, and it is not as crowded as other segments like burgers.
And since barbecue restaurants make up just 2% of U.S. restaurants, the market is far from saturated. This 2% niche represents $2.9 billion in annual sales. Barbecue franchise opportunities are hot!
2. Fast Food vs. Fast Casual Dining
When it comes to restaurants, fast casual has been the growth darling of the industry for almost 20 years. While it accounts for less than 10% of the total market, the number and diversity of fast casual restaurants has been exploding across the country, with an astounding growth of more than 500% since 1999!
Instead of a fast food franchise in Tennessee, fast casual franchise opportunities like Edley’s Bar-B-Que can tap into that market growth today and in the future. Edley’s Bar-B-Que offers counter service and take-out experiences to customers at lunch and dinner – plus a full bar.
3. BBQ Makes a Good Franchise Opportunity in Tennessee
Tennessee is smack in the heart of BBQ country, so it’s a given that people are looking for restaurants that consistently serve good barbecue. Consider:
- TripAdvisor voted Tennessee the #1 state for barbeque.
- Tennessee is home to a $14.2 billion restaurant industry.
- Investing in a BBQ restaurant franchise opportunity in Tennessee contributes to the state’s economy – and employs local restaurants.
Whether you’re in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, or one of the many fine cities in our Volunteer State, this businesses opportunity in Tennessee awaits people with entrepreneurial aspirations, just like you.
4. Take A ‘Cue From Edley’s Franchise Opportunity in Tennessee
There’s little doubt that one of the most exciting franchise opportunities in Tennessee is Edley’s Bar-B-Que. Edley’s Bar-B-Que has been voted Nashville’s best barbecue time and time again. They’re known for their long-standing reputation for Southern hospitality – plus serving delicious, signature dishes every day.
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“Like politics and religion, barbecue is a polarizing topic in these parts. Most locals have their own favorite spot, and for many, it’s the…Edley’s Bar-B-Que Nashville locations that [fit] the bill. The ‘Tuck special’ is a sandwich to behold – choose from pork, brisket, turkey, or chicken – crowned with an over-easy egg, a hearty smear of pimento cheese, red and white sauce, plus pickles. Pro tips: Begin with the hot chicken nachos and a side of jalapeno ranch, then save room for the banana pudding. All of the above are easily ordered for takeout, and for delivery.”
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“Edley’s [Bar-B-Que] is a Nashville classic draped in American flags, where the milkshakes are spiked and everyone – families, dog owners, college kids on dates – comes out for the hot chicken. …Just order at the counter and grab a seat. The locally grown institution has resonated enough with customers that it has 3 locations in town, with more being built in other markets.
And Yelp puts Edley’s in the top 10 BBQ joints in Nashville.
Like its food, Edley’s is fast becoming a loved and established brand among fast-casual restaurant franchises and Nashville business opportunities.
5. Offer Up One of America’s Favorite Foods
BBQ is hot right now, with no signs of cooling off.
Smoked meat is the highlight of a barbecue franchise’s menu. Selections typically include brisket, pork, chicken, ribs, and sausage. Most barbecue restaurants also include plenty of other items on their menu, from fried chicken to favorite side dishes.
Southern comfort is a significant theme among BBQ franchise menus. Edley’s Bar-B-Que is one franchise opportunity in Tennessee where restaurant owners can offer customers classic Southern barbecue and plenty of homestyle sides to enjoy all year long.
Americans are passionate about barbecue, with it being a consistently popular menu item in quick serve and fast casual restaurants and even food trucks. It’s also reasonably priced, helping contribute to the growth potential of barbecue franchise opportunities in Tennessee.
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In the end, it is easy to see why investing in a barbecue fast-casual food franchise in Tennessee makes sense. An Edley’s Bar-B-Que restaurant franchise is a good Tennessee area business opportunity. I don’t think we want to promote franchising in Nashville?
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Theda Palmer SAXTON: I’m Dr. Theda Palmer Saxton. I’m a resident of 160 W. 97th Street, here in New York City, Upper West Side. Is that enough that you need to know about the situation?
I for one wouldn’t mind knowing a bit more. Why, for instance, Dr. Saxton has chosen to speak out about this issue.
SAXTON: I cannot possibly be quiet while I hear something that we fought… you know, Mandela had to fight about… I’m not doing that here. I did the ’60s already. I’ve done the dogs, I’ve done the water hoses. I’m not doing that again. Not here. This is the only place I have ever even had to say apartheid for myself.
Apartheid? On the Upper West Side of New York?
SAXTON: So I guess I am living in apartheid. I need a pass. They need to give out passes that say these are the good people and these are not. I don’t need a star to put on my little chest to say, ‘Oh, I am going to be put on a train and be sent off somewhere.’ Same concept. When you can start dividing people based on value, that’s dangerous. And these people here are dangerous.
Saxton is originally from St. Louis. She started out as a dancer and actor. She became an arts-in-education administrator. Later she got a Ph.D. in organizational communication from Howard University. Now she works as a life coach in New York, with a special focus on women over 50. Her business is called “The Seasoned Woman.” The “dangerous people” that Saxton is referring to – they held a public forum.
SAXTON: And this poor woman about three rows in front of me said, ‘Well can we pay? Is that okay? Aren’t we at least good enough to do something?’ And it was something to the effect of being good enough. And the man sort of — not sort of, straight-out said to her: ‘No.’ No! I have not heard anyone to their faces being told that they were not good enough to be somewhere, ever. I couldn’t get over that.
Saxton is African-American, but she says the problem she’s describing here is not about race. Here’s her neighbor, Jean Green Dorsey, who is on the same side of the fight:
Jean Green DORSEY: They are as relentless with the white people who are rent-stabilized, or the brown people or the yellow people. Because we have lots of Asians, we have lots of Hispanics, all of various stripes, along with a lot of American blacks and Haitian blacks. They don’t want to give a damn about any of us. They wanted to make all this money.
So what is it that led Dorsey, Saxton and others to level charges of apartheid? What is the violation that has got them so upset?
SAXTON: A physical fitness center cannot decide for me who I am, what I can and cannot do.
Did she say “a physical-fitness center”? Let’s listen to that again.
SAXTON A physical fitness center cannot decide for me who I am, what I can and cannot do.
That’s right, podcast listeners. The topic of today’s program: fitness apartheid.
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Theda Palmer Saxton lives in New York City, in a rent-stabilized apartment. There are a lot of buildings like hers in New York, and other cities. This one was built several decades ago, to provide housing for moderate and middle-income families. It used to be that her whole building was rent-stabilized. But in this case, that’s no longer true. The original affordable-housing program expires over time, and a few years back, this building was bought by a property-management company called Stonehenge Partners. Saxton and other tenants like her can stay at the rent-stabilized rate. But when an old tenant moves out or dies, Stonehenge can charge the going market rate. So a two-bedroom apartment that someone like Saxton might be renting for $1,000 a month might go for $3,000 or $4,000. Now, if you’re Stonehenge, what does it take to attract a $4,000 tenant to this building? Well, you’ll probably renovate the old apartment, and you may want to offer some building amenities. Like, how about… a little fitness center on the ground floor?
That’s what happened in this building. Saxton and the other long-time residents were pretty excited when they heard about the new gym. But once it was built, they found out there was a catch.
SAXTON: It was like, I am expecting them to tell us this outrageous figure, like $1,000 or $2,000, or no family, or whatever, the hours, I’m expecting something about that, and price to discuss. So then I was informed that there was nothing to discuss because the people there that had been there already, the so-called original — I call the aborigines, the original people — you are not allowed to be there. And I said, ‘My goodness. I’m not hearing right.’ And so, I was kind of like, I think we were all in a state of shock.
That’s right: only the new tenants paying market-rate rent would use the gym. There are more than 400 apartments in this building, about 60 percent of which are still rent-stabilized. So the gym would be for the minority who pay market rate; they’d get a special keycard for the gym. A sign went up on the gym door, said: “Please do NOT hold the doors open for other residents. ALL Residents MUST use their keycard to gain entry. Please make sure that the door fully closes behind you. Thank you and Enjoy. Stonehenge.” And that’s when Theda Palmer Saxton and a lot of other people from the building got upset and starting talking about fitness apartheid.
Daniel HAMERMESH: Uh, it’s a cute catchphrase, and I’m sure it’ll get a lot of publicity.
That’s Dan Hamermesh.
HAMERMESH: I’m Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway University of London and at the University of Texas at Austin.
I know Hamermesh a bit. Very sweet guy. He’s a grandfather – and grandfatherly. But – he’s also an economist.
HAMERMESH: Look, the owner had to spend money creating this gym, right? How is the owner going to get the money back by giving it away for free to people who are already getting an extremely good deal? Essentially what the people who are rent-controlled want is a bigger subsidy than what they’re already getting. Isn’t that pretty greedy?
Stephen J. DUBNER: But you can understand, let’s say, the parent walking past the gym with the kids feeling bad that their kids can’t use the gym, when the other people living next door to them can. In part because that’s the emotion attached to money. There are a lot of, economists like to talk about how prices take care of things, and they usually do, but in this case, it’s not really, in this case the price can’t really take care of the emotional harm that might be caused, can it?
HAMERMESH: No, the price can’t. There’s a very simple solution: abolish the rent control and the stabilization, and the people can pay the same price as the others, and they’d have access to the gym and their kids wouldn’t feel badly at all about it. I’m quite sure they’re not advocating that and will not be doing that anytime soon. I’m a tough guy on these things.
DUBNER: You are a tough guy on these things. Now let me ask you this: for the people who consider this fitness apartheid, don’t you think they would consider the first-class cabin on an airplane, which you have to walk through to get to coach, wouldn’t they consider that ‘airline apartheid’ as well?
HAMERMESH: Absolutely! My kid sees these people getting their Champagne before the flight takes off. That’s all they’re ever gonna see. I see very little difference in how they’re gonna tell the kid, ‘Gee, they get Champagne and we don’t.’ They’re paying more, we aren’t. It’s exactly the same. The difference is, there the company clearly unbundles the product. The first-class product is different than the coach product. Here, they’ve made the mistake of bundling them and they don’t have to be bundled. That’s my solution. It won’t help the kids feel better, but it would do the job.
So Dan Hamermesh doesn’t see fitness apartheid when he looks at the segregated gym in this building. But how might he have handled it differently?
HAMERMESH: If I were the owner, I’d say: ‘Look, included in the rent is partly a regular rental for your apartment and let’s say $50 or $100 a month gym fee.’ In other words, rather than calling it all rent, I’d separate it out. These are two separate un-bundleable commodities. Which seem to me to be easily unbundled. They’re different things.
DUBNER: Right, so rather than making the $3,000 rent, have the free gym, you’d say your rent is $2,985 and a $15 gym fee if you want it.
DUBNER: And then you can say to me, the subsidized guy, and if you want to use the gym it’s $15 a month, no problem.
HAMERMESH: That’s exactly right. And presumably the $15 or whatever the price would be, it’d be more than that, would reflect the actual costs of building and running the gym. I think it’s an easily solved problem.
Steve LEVITT: So Dubner, you know I believe in markets and prices and the usual way to deal with the provision of goods is through prices. But I think that the developers here probably have an ulterior motive.
That’s Steve Levitt, my Freakonomics friend and co-author. Also an economist – at the University of Chicago.
LEVITT: The way that these contracts are usually written is that these apartments will remain rent-controlled, below-market apartments for as long as the current tenants live there. So in a typical setting, it would never make sense to say the old guard tenants can’t use the gym, you just find the right price, it might be a very high price, that takes into account the negative externality they may have on the new tenants, but you wanna charge that price. And it would just be a mistake to ban them completely. But, I don’t know, if I’m that developer, I just wanna get these old guard out and so maybe really the market isn’t the best tool. It’s actually making life very unpleasant in a way that prices can’t actually make life unpleasant. So the idea that you actually ban them from the gym serves a real purpose here. It tells them, look, we think you’re second-class citizens, we don’t respect you, and as long as you live here we’re going to treat you horribly. Now that’s not a very nice and a very moral way to do it, but if your objective is to make life awful for these folks and get them out, it’s proving to be a pretty effective way of doing that, I bet.
DUBNER: Hmm. Good answer. What do you call this? It’s not quite price discrimination, is it market segmentation? What do you call this?
LEVITT: I would call this…disrespect. I mean, it’s intentionally showing through your actions that you have no respect for the old guard people, and rubbing it in their face in a way that markets don’t really do, and markets — markets are not moral or immoral, they’re amoral. Markets don’t care. In a market world, you say, I don’t care if you live here or not. I don’t care who the identity of the person is. As long as you pay the right price and you don’t impose negative stuff on other people, it’s fine. But what’s happening here is that regulation, right, the existence of rent control has obstructed markets and doesn’t let these folks use prices in the way they’d like to use them, to allocate resources so that they could have the quote “right” people in the apartment at the right prices. And so instead — I mean this is actually an example of how markets are good and regulation is bad, it’s that there’s no reason why a developer would insult people or try to intentionally degrade them if markets were allowed to work. It’s that they can’t do what markets want to do that makes degradation and disrespect the tool that you would use. I mean it’s like middle school right? Middle school doesn’t have markets so you get bullying and mean kids and stuff like that. But in general you don’t have a lot of that in the real world, you know? The cable company doesn’t bully you and doesn’t humiliate you, they just, you know, they just use prices. And in a weird way, markets are a relatively humane way of allocating resources. It’s not always quote “fair,” in the sense that if you have more money you get more stuff, but at least everybody understands the rules, and there’s no sense usually of outrage, it’s just an understanding that sometimes you have to pay for stuff.
Coming up on Freakonomics Radio: if we can’t make the fitness apartheid charge stick with the economists – how about a “poor door”?
HAMERMESH: I take more offense at the poor door, because it separates people out. It’s segregation. It really is apartheid.
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We’ve been talking about fitness apartheid, as the residents of one Manhattan building call it. We’ve heard from a couple tenants, and a couple economists, including Steve Levitt.
LEVITT: I would call this… disrespect.
DUBNER: Now, as much outrage as fitness apartheid has generated here in New York, I would say that even more outrage has been generated by a separate but quite related story which is now being called the saga of the poor door. Ok, so a poor door — have you ever heard the phrase, Levitt, a poor door?
LEVITT: No, I have not.
DUBNER: Ok, so a poor door is what happens when you build a building, but have two classes of [people] living in that building. So, in this case, there’s a building being put up, a 33-story residential building at 40 Riverside Boulevard on the Upper West Side — a nice neighborhood. There will be 219 luxury condos and 55 affordable-housing units in this building, and there will be a separate entrance for the affordable-housing tenants, which is now being called the poor door. So I am curious how you see that. Good solution? You’ve got subsidized housing which is being put in the same building, I’m sure, as a requirement for the developer, but they have to come in a different door, probably around the corner or something. Do you like this idea? Good solution?
LEVITT: I mean, it all goes back to the idea that somebody in the government thinks it’s a good idea to have relatively poor people live with relatively rich people. And so there’s some kind of either regulation or subsidy that goes to the developers for putting these mixed-income facilities together. And in that regard, so look, I have no idea whether there are benefits that come from the mixing of income this way, but you cannot possibly think that if the goal is to have rich and poor live together, or middle class and lower middle class live together, that having separate entrances is serving that goal. So, this really seems to me, like a case where there are well-intentioned regulations, or at least regulations that have an objective, and that clever developers have come up with schemes which are clearly not in the spirit of what was meant to happen and are finding ways to, essentially loopholes, to get around laws that maybe they think are stupid or maybe they think shouldn’t be there, but doing it in exactly a way which it seems to me is likely to infuriate everyone in sight. And even when an economist can see that it’s going to infuriate everyone in sight, you know, it’s pretty obvious it is going to infuriate everyone in sight. It’s not that there’s really anything wrong, in a moral sense, with fitness apartheid or the poor door, it’s just not the way we’re used to transactions being done. Right? So when you live in a place, you’re used to being allowed to go where you want and be able to do what you want. And I think, especially the poor door, has this feeling that harkens back to separate but equal…
DUBNER: Back of the bus…
LEVITT: … and all sorts of stuff which I think is very touchy and hurtful whether or not it’s meant to be. I mean, certainly, you and I, sometimes get to sit in the front of the plane because we do a lot of flying. And there’s a real, I feel a real awkwardness about it, I mean, I think we’ve even laughed about it that some of the airlines have a red carpet you walk down if you are privileged and other people are shunted to the side, and I hate walking down that red carpet. I feel awkward. Oftentimes I wait in line…
LEVITT: … You know, I remember, I remember one time I was going to a conference and for whatever reason the people who ran the conference, this was in South America, had given me a business-class ticket. And much to my horror when I showed up at the airport, a bunch of other people who were academics who were going to this same conference were not in business class. And I felt so terrible about the fact that this was happening, now, again, I didn’t feel so terrible that I wanted to give up my seat in business class, but I felt terrible enough that I didn’t want them to know that I remember feigning illness and going to the bathroom and stuff, so I would be the last one on the plane and then hoping that they wouldn’t realize that I was sitting up front. Somehow, I don’t remember what happened, but my plan fell apart and they did discover that I was up front.
HAMERMESH: I take more offense at the poor door, because it separates people out. It’s segregation. It really is apartheid.
That’s Dan Hamermesh again.
HAMERMESH: Whereas the other, the fitness center, is just another door within the building. I see my rich co-renters when I walk in and they see me. But in the poor door business, they don’t see each other even. And that I find personally more offensive.
DUBNER: I would think that if the people were – if people who were offended by the fitness apartheid idea, that the offense comes from having to have that uncomfortable confrontation…not… I shouldn’t say the confrontation, that uncomfortable passing in the hall, at the very least, ‘That guy is on the way to the gym that I can’t get to’—the poor door removes that discomfort, no?
HAMERMESH: It removes that kind of discomfort, but how is it very much different from the back of the bus? In a very real sense, I perceive that as a back-of-the-bus kind of thing.
DUBNER: When we talk about this kind of discrimination or segmentation, whatever it’s called, where does your brain go next? What kind of either problem or solution or scenario does your economist’s brain turn toward when you start thinking about this kind of issue?
HAMERMESH: Well, what you’re combining here are two basic economic issues. One is a price fixity, a fixed price, in this case the stabilized apartments. And the other is the issue of price discrimination, charging different prices for what might ostensibly be thought about as the same product. So I started thinking about price discrimination, what’s causing it. I started thinking about cases where there are price ceilings, for example the NCAA Regionals. They couldn’t raise the price on tickets, but they made you buy a map of the arena when you got in, as a way of getting the price up to market. Okay? And the question is here, they can’t do that. They’re sort of sneaking around by not giving you something they just added. And that goes a little bit of the way toward raising the price toward market, but not much.
DUBNER: Let me ask you to give me, finally, your favorite example of price discrimination. The purest example.
HAMERMESH: OK. I’ll give you two examples, because they’re basically two different causes. First example, when my kids were young teenagers, they were getting haircuts for $12 and I was getting mine for $10 at the same barber—which really ticked me off! As much as it ticks off the people in the gym, in reverse, for not getting the gym, the people in the building. I told him, ‘Darn it, ask the guy for a $10 haircut. Why are you paying twelve bucks?’ This is a while ago, obviously. And my son came back just laughing. I said, ‘Did you get the ten dollars, David?’ He said, ‘No, I paid twelve.’ ‘Why?’ I was really angry. He burst out laughing. He said, ‘The barber said to me, ‘You have more hair than your dad.’ Okay? That’s called cost-based. It was an easier job to cut my hair, of which even then there wasn’t very much, than my very hairy sons.
DUBNER: Once the barber put it that way, were you accepting of that cost-based discrimination?
HAMERMESH: I was completely mollified. The other and probably more common source of price discrimination, is when it really is the same product. My haircut and my kids’ were not the same product. But for example, take a seat at the movies. I go in there being a senior citizen, I pay $7.50 at the local theater here. You would pay $9.50, which is still a good deal, by the way. It’s one seat. Same seat. Why do they charge me less? Because my time is more flexible—in economic terms, my demand elasticity is higher, and they give me a lower price because they know I’ll respond to it. Well you, you can’t go during the day or even on weeknights if you have kids, so they’re gonna really sock it to you. So that’s demand-based, differences in our willingness to pay for the product. And those who are willing to pay any old price, like yourself, gets socked with the full price. The flexible people, like me, get a good deal.
DUBNER: Now why is that not considered discriminatory in an unacceptable way? Why is that not considered discriminatory against me, a non-old person? Or when a bar has a Ladies Night and ladies get in free? Why is that not discriminatory to me just because I was born with male anatomy?
HAMERMESH: And being a young man, too. It is, it’s exactly as discriminatory as anything else we’ve talked about. It’s certainly discriminatory and companies are allowed to do it, absolutely.
DUBNER: And they’re allowed to do it just because they got there a while ago when it was considered okay, and now it would be a weird thing to un-grandfather it? Whereas the newer examples are happening in an age when we’re a little bit more sensitive to this stuff? Is that the explanation then?
HAMERMESH: I think it’s an issue that, as you say, that we’re used to things. For example, when I turned 55, there was a three-week period when the local movie theaters still had 55+ as seniors. And then within a month of my birthday they raised it to 60. And I was really ticked off!
DUBNER: I bet you were. I bet you were.
HAMERMESH: It’s a classic example of loss aversion. They have every right to do whatever they thought, and it made sense, because people in their late 50s are still very active and they’re willing to pay a higher price. But you know, I had it and I was ticked when I lost it.
DUBNER: I recently read, and I can’t vouch for the verity of this, but I read that Jill Abramson, the New York Times executive editor who was fired, in part it said because of her management style, which was found to be grating, and she was the first female hire at The New York Times in that job. So people put one and one together and got that, ‘well, she was fired because she was a woman who was grating, that would’ve been acceptable in a man.’ And believe me, there were grating male editors of that newspaper…
HAMERMESH: Shocking, shocking.
DUBNER: Shocking. And now, this is the part that I read that I’m not sure is verifiable, is that she’s now doing a lot of media interviews to talk about different stuff—not just about her job there and her firing, but journalism and the future thereof and so on—but she’s only giving interviews to female journalists. How does that strike you? Is that an acceptable form of what we might call discrimination?
HAMERMESH: It’s certainly legal. I personally find it offensive. I’ll talk to anybody. I’ve been on Fox, heaven help me. I’ve been on Al-Jazeera. I mean, to me, you deal with people. But she has every right to do that. I think it’s sort of silly, though, because it limits the amount of outreach she’s gonna do. In that sense, it strikes me as being a bit self-defeating.
DUBNER: Now why does she have every right to do so? So I’m a male journalist. Let’s say I wanted to interview Jill Abramson for this show. And I’m told by her, and again, I have no idea if it would actually happen this way, but let’s say I’m told by her and her people, ‘well, you know Dubner, you’re not the biggest idiot in the world but sorry, you’re male and she’s only talking to women journalists right now.’ Isn’t that a violation of my, some kind of rights, as an American with free speech, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah?
HAMERMESH: No. I don’t believe that there’s a legal right that you have to give access to somebody. If some panhandler on the street starts talking to me, do I have to respond to him or her? I don’t think so. And I see no difference between her not wanting to talk to you.
DUBNER: So you’re basically calling me a panhandler, is what you’re doing here.
HAMERMESH: I didn’t say a ‘panhandler.’ You’re analogous to a panhandler!
As you’ve probably gleaned by now, economists see the world a bit differently than the rest of us. They think that simply putting the right price on something can take care of a lot of problems. But in the real world, with all its nuance and psychological shadings, a price tag is sometimes too blunt an instrument. A solution that might seem obvious to an economist may be, for one reason or another, impossible. There’s a big difference between price theory and public sentiment – and, as correct as price theory may seem, public sentiment can carry a lot of weight. As in the case of the fitness apartheid building and the poor door building. We reached out to representatives of both buildings; they declined to comment. Here, meanwhile, is the fitness apartheid tenant Theda Palmer Saxton:
SAXTON: The idea of someone saying to you that you are not good enough to do this but there is someone else in this very building who is good enough who might be sitting next to you, or standing across from you, in the same elevator with you, and we can decide the worth of your humanity. Now that was the amazing part about it. That someone sat in some room and said that and came before us in public and said it out loud. And I think it is dangerous to even start thinking that, because it is so easy to start a trend… you know, Germany had a trend…it turned into the Holocaust. You can start things. And people will accept things and you will say oh that can’t happen here. Sure it can.
So Saxton and her allies are pushing back on that trend. There’s a bill before the New York State Assembly that would require — here, I’ll read from it — that “any rental tenant must be provided with the opportunity to use amenities that are accessible to any occupant and/or not unique to an individual unit, including, but not limited to: pools, fitness centers, storage spaces” … etc., etc. Violation of this law would be, “punishable by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars.” That means a building with 15 rent-stabilized tenants would be fined $30,000 if those tenants were denied access to a new gym. Which sounds pretty substantial…until you realize that $2,000 per fine is roughly the difference between a single month’s rent for a market-rate tenant and a rent-stabilized tenant. Which, if you’re the landlord of that building, might be a fine worth paying if your long game is to maximize your profits, and as Steve Levitt put it, disrespect your tenants. Hey, come to think of it, maybe price theory does work. | <urn:uuid:077df7e1-c220-44d3-879e-61b5e869182c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://freakonomics.com/podcast/fitness-apartheid/ | 2023-10-04T19:45:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.970249 | 6,910 |
Just when you think George Zimmerman is banished from the lime light this raggedy mo fo reinvent himself; he’s back and he’s getting back into the ring. The George Zimmerman boxing match is back on only time it’s not considered a celebrity event anymore. This sucker got more lives than an accident prone cat.
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The George Zimmerman boxing match is no longer considered a Celebrity Boxing Match. According to the new promoters, this will be like Fight Club (a very bloody fight) Event. Trayvon Martin’s parents refused to accept any of donations from this event. The Martin family is opposed to anything that’s associated with VIOLENCE and GEORGE ZIMMERMAN!
The promoters decided to give all proceeds to The Trayvon Martin Foundation. All in an effort to give the people what they want, and that’s a bloody fight. People want to see George Zimmerman get his lights clocked. People want to see him get the “KNOCKED the F OUT!”.
The original promoter Damon Feldman decided to pull the original fight after the huge public outcry and after receiving numerous death threats to himself and his children.
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Thanks for posting. Great idea – just need to redesign filters so we add this option without doubling amount of options in each filter category.
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I would really like to see "not" as a filter parameter too. Trying to see a list of what is not completed seems like it should be very easy and basic yet I can not seem to do this at all.Ellie Armsby supported this idea · | <urn:uuid:7cb6f47d-808a-435d-bc05-d43a1d2d158a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://freedcamp.uservoice.com/users/305055673-ellie-armsby | 2023-10-04T20:06:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.93193 | 114 |
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Alex Jones, host of Infowars, is known for his forthright views, his popular platform and his alternative perspectives. In this interview, Alex hosts Brian Rose on the Infowars show to talk about the BANNED DAVID ICKE episode, London Real and more.
In a wide ranging hour-long interview, I talk with Alex Jones of Infowars about the amazing response we’ve had to our David Icke episode which has been removed from YouTube and Vimeo, the role of the BBC and how I am a broadcaster who believes in freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Watch this Infowars episode where Alex and I discuss the impact of censorship and the story behind the David Icke episode being BANNED and why Silicon Valley tech giants are deciding what you can and can’t watch.
Hear my views on being used as click bait by public broadcasters, why I believe in the power of long form content and how the episode seems to be resonating with people from all walks of life.
Join us as we discuss:
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Solve your math problems online. Tutor Pace an online tutoring website offers free demo session to understand the process. We facilitate parents and students to browse tutor’s profile and choose the best as per requirement.
The online math problem solver is the best and the most appreciated ways to teach students. The sessions are planned in a way so as to provide quick and accurate understanding of various math concepts. Making math interesting to students is not an easy task. We have a team of online experts to help you understand and resolve Math problems. They guide you on finding out how to get solutions for complex math problems. Our tutors help you in learning fundamental to advanced topics. So we provide a dependable platform to help you to get all your uncertainties clarified.
Often students struggle with Math and necessitate an expert to guide them. Our online experts help you to get Math answers for all your uncertainties. Our tutors offer live Math sessions and provide one-on-one help to all students from k-12.
Get step-by-step explanations for all your doubts. Get guidance from an experienced online tutor who will make the process of solving problems easy. The experts help you at every step not only by giving you the answers; but also explain the logic and underlying principle behind the problem.
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THE TOPIC FOR MY MID-TERM PAPER IS “AIDS.” THE PAPER MUST BE DONE IN APA FORMAT.
- When writing a mid-term paper use subheadings for each section and address the following: a. Title page (includes the running head with the topic of the paper, your name, course name, date). Include the page header (flush left with the page number flush right at the top of the page).
- b. Abstract, on a new page (your abstract page should already include the page header).
c. Introduction. d. Etiology of the disease (e.g., what brain regions sub-cortical and/or cortical are affected, discussed the impact of disease on neuromodulatory mechanisms).
e. Symptoms and Course (i.e., psychological symptoms, progression of illness).
f. Treatment Options – including medications (FDA approved) and alternative treatments that are under current investigation (e.g., cognitive remediation for Alzheimer’s Disease). If psychiatric medications are advised, discuss any possible drug interactions and describe, if any, symptoms of the organic brain syndrome that may mimic psychological symptoms (e.g., medications used to treat Parkinson’s Disease are associated with symptoms of depression). g. Conclusion.
h. Reference page (any web-based citation must also be referenced carefully in APA format). A mid-term paper (worth 30 points) will be 6 to 7 pages in length (not including the cover and reference pages), double-spaced, using 12-point font, and with 1-inch margins. The paper will contain at least five peer-reviewed sources not used in class. Peer review references associated with the selected topic must be published within last 8 years. An electronic copy of a mid-term paper is due at the beginning of class on February 26, 2017 to receive credit. This will be submitted on line to Moodle and will be checked for originality (Moddle has a plagiarism detection system). Students must use MS Word document format.
- A mid-term paper must use APA (American Psychological Association) style. If you are not familiar with APA formatting use the following link as your resource: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01…
For a mid-term paper students should primarily rely on peer reviewed scholarly journals articles, however, online academic sources (e.g., Stanford, Harvard or any other university websites) also acceptable. The free Pub Med NCBI database is an excellent resource to find peer reviewed articles and is a great primary sources in neuroscience: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ Wikipedia is NOT an academic source and must not be used as one of your references.
Rubric for grading Mid-Term Paper:
a. Paper is well organized and logically developed (10 points)
b. Paper demonstrates the ability to analyze and synthesize, and clearly present researched material (10 points).
c. Paper has correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling (5 points).
d. Paper follows APA style, including reference page (5 points).
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Southwestern Aztec Printed Leather
This is printed on real cowhide leather that we import directly from then tannery, then print in house.
You can use this leather for earrings, small purses, wallets, inlays, and many other accessories!
Thickness: 0.8mm (2oz)
Semi-Soft temper. This is a very flexible and pliable leather.
Backside is a grey suede.
DO NOT ADHERE PRINTED SIDE TO ANYTHING STICKY!
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Effective Online Teaching Tools
In your time as an educator, you’ve no doubt picked up effective teaching techniques. With the recent rise of eLearning, we want to help you adapt those techniques to work just as well online. We’ve already shared a few ideas like Relevant Topic Journaling and Summarize, Reflect, Ask. This week, we’re introducing Puzzle Piece.
The idea behind Puzzle Piece is to split course content into four to six different pieces. From there, students will break off into groups and learn about each different piece. They’ll need to become experts on their designated part. Once done, students will reconvene to discuss what they’ve learned. You can facilitate this several ways. Assign one student from each group into larger puzzle piece groups, or have students pick a spokesperson from their group to present to the class. The goal is to have students teach each other the content, which is proven to deepen their learning. By the end of the process, each group and student will have a complete picture of the course material, and the “puzzle” will be complete.
Puzzle Piece works well online, so you’ll have no shortage of options to use. Have students present their findings on VoiceThread, an excellent media sharing tool. Or, use a shared PowerPoint and assign each group their own slide. They can fill it in with pictures, graphs, or key talking points. Our final recommendation is Canvas Studio, where students and instructors can actively collaborate on the Puzzle Piece project.
It’s been said that you never really know something until you have to teach it to someone else. That’s the key behind the success of the Puzzle Piece activity. To teach each other, students will really have to know their stuff. This activity also ensures that all learners get involved, promoting engagement. So if you want an activity that will deepen your students’ knowledge of course material, try out Puzzle Piece in your next lesson!
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Fulton County is a beautiful place, and we all care about it. The environmental health of our County, and in turn our own health and that of our children and neighbors, is directly tied to the decisions we make. How we manage our properties, what we buy and what we do with unwanted goods/materials, how we use the land, energy and water, all influence the quality of our air, water, and soil- our environmental health. Therefore, if we wish to live in a clean, healthy, vibrant County, it’s up to all of us to do our part. Our actions make a difference, let’s keep Fulton County a place we are proud to call home.
Each year the Conservation District conducts a Tree/plant sale in the hopes that landowners will improve and beautify their properties, and perhaps even grow some of their own food. The proceeds from the sale are utilized for our Environmental Education programming. This year’s Tree Sale order form can be found
Along those lines, if you are interested in various aspects of gardening, some local groups are worth checking out, such as the Penn State Master Gardener’s and the North End Garden Club.
Many landowners in Fulton County have forested acreage. While the Conservation District does monitor the erosion and sediment control measures implemented during logging operations, the Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Forestry takes the lead on helping landowners manage their woodlands. They have a Service Forester who is happy to work with you. Penn State Extension also provides valuable information for managing your woodlands.
The Conservation District is no longer directly involved in County Recycling efforts. To find out what you can (and can’t recycle) in Fulton County, as well as any collections for electronic and hazardous waste, please contact the County Recycling Coordinator. For information about bulky waste collections, contact your local township officials.
Environmental Education is an important part of what we do. We often offer workshops on water quality issues, alternative energy, soil health, and other issues of interest to our residents.
If you are going to initiate any land disturbance on your property (construction, clearing for large garden, barnyard work, etc.) over 5000 square feet, you will need to implement some sort of erosion and sediment control measures . Please visit our earth disturbance page to find out what you need to do before any earth moving.
One issue that is of utmost importance is the quality of our groundwater, as we are all consumers of groundwater. How each of us manages our wastewater can have a dramatic effect on water quality. Anyone not on a centralized wastewater treatment system, and that includes most County residents, should consider reading our publication on how to properly take care of your on-lot wastewater system (septic system). | <urn:uuid:e9fdc31d-3112-4b66-90df-a8991ada2cd9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://fultoncountyconservationdistrict.org/homeowners/ | 2023-10-04T19:57:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.942695 | 568 |
Angolan national oil company, Sonangol, has suspended building work at the Lobito Refinery and the Ocean Terminal of Barra do Dande to reassess the project, the state company said in a statement issued Friday in Luanda.
The document adds that these projects are of paramount importance for the country, but Sonangol considers the measure a necessity due to the new reality facing Angola, particularly in the oil sector, which requires a thorough review of its development, phasing and financing.
The public company pledged to continue to meet its contractual obligations to date and reiterated its commitment to a sustainable fuel supply to the Angolan market, taking into account improved efficiency and the company’s cost structure.
The Lobito Refinery, which was due to occupy an area of 3,805 hectares, was expected to be completed in 2018, after the first stone was laid in 2012 with an estimated cost of US$5.6 billion.
The refinery is designed to process 200,000 barrels of oil per day and produce fuels such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel (Jet A1) and other derivatives.
In February 2015 Sonangol announced completion, this year, of the Barra do Dande Sea Terminal, costing US$1 billion, but in March said the work would be concluded in 2017. | <urn:uuid:8181aacb-cf9a-42a6-a7ad-898decbff4cc> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://furtherafrica.com/2016/08/23/sonangol-suspends-works-at-the-lobito-refinery-in-angola/ | 2023-10-04T20:10:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.964845 | 274 |
Glen Keane: Step into the Page
Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Disney’s Tarzan, to name just a few. The son of cartoonist Bil Keane (The Family Circus), Glen learned early on the importance of holding onto your childhood creativity—and how art can powerfully convey emotion.
Keane has spent his career embracing new tools, from digital environments to 3D animation to today’s virtual reality, which finally enables him to step into his drawings and wander freely through his imagination. At FoST, he’ll explore how to tap into your own creativity, connecting to emotion and character more directly than ever before. | <urn:uuid:c568a90f-a91c-4510-b920-1fe4dccfef89> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://futureofstorytelling.org/case-study/glen-keane-step-into-the-page/ | 2023-10-04T19:32:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.948906 | 161 |
Graphic courtesy of USM Athletics
Southern Miss has announced a future matchup with an ACC opponent.†
The Golden Eagles will travel to Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee on Sept. 9, 2023, for a matchup with Florida State. The two teams last met in the 2017 Independence Bowl – a 42-13 win for Seminoles. This will be USMís first trip to Tallahassee since 1996.†
USM and FSU first met in 1952 and Southern Miss trails the all-time series 14-8-1.†
In addition to the FSU game, the Golden Eaglesí 2023 non-conference schedule now includes a home game against Tulane and a short trip to Starkville for a matchup with Mississippi State.†
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My series “all about expat emotions” is not only about the unpleasant ones like envy or frustration. Although if you follow me for a while, you are familiar with my convictions: “You are allowed to feel the way you do”, and “emotions are not good or bad, all of them are providers of information”.
Acceptance is essential for expats to pursuit the goal of feeling at home, wherever they are. It isn’t easy, I know. Allow me to tell you a story:
This last few months have been extremely difficult for the people in and from Chile, my country of origin. There has been political struggles, riots, violation of human rights and memories from the dictatorship and its consequences are haunting the generation who had to experience this massacre. I have to witness everything from far away. I tried not watching the news, unsuccessfully and kept asking my family and friends; but their answers weren’t encouraging.
I started coping by helping Chileans around the world who were struggling, just like me. I received many requests from fellow Chilean expats that weren’t sleeping and were filled with guilt and desperation, because it was (and still is) a challenging time. Those sessions were extremely valuable, for them and me.
Another coping strategy was more work. Additionally to my growing number of clients and my usual tasks, I was creating content for my new website. I immersed in my job, that was my bubble, and it worked for a while.
The Slap in my Face
A dear friend from Chile noticed that I was absent. I told her that I was loaded with things to do. Then I started asking a lot of questions, trying to form a picture in my mind (not the images from the media) of everything that was going on. She was annoyed and probably a little bit sad that I wasn’t paying enough attention to all what was happening and she threw this bomb at me: “you wouldn’t understand, you are not here.”
That hurt. A punch straight to my guts. I know it is different reading about it, hearing descriptions from friends and family, seeing videos, the news. Obviously it’s not the same and I can’t have “the full experience” if I’m not in Chile. When we finished the conversation, I was angry. At her first, at me after. I went for a run and let the anger out, therefore I was able to think clearly and anger-free and felt relieved.
She is right, I’m not there, but thousands of kilometres away. What made me feel relieved was to remember the fact that me not being there is my choice.
What is expat acceptance?
- Acknowledging and embracing yourself, including the parts you are not so fond of
- Coming to terms with the things you can’t control and change at the moment
- Taking responsibility for your decisions, recognizing that the ones you took, were made voluntarily
- Not judging or overthinking what’s right or wrong all the time
- Acting instead criticizing yourself, your partner, the weather. Blaming is purposeless, pointing fingers is neither constructive nor beneficial
- Embracing the choices you’ve made. Some of them were not that clever, but how could you know that ahead?
- Seeing your missteps as part of your lifelong learning
I’ve come to terms with the whole thing. I can’t be in two places at once. It was my decision and it was really hard to reach. Still, that doesn’t mean I can’t have an opinion about what’s going on there. A different perspective actually, that may enrich the conversation and the points of view of the people that are living in Chile right now.
My dear fellow expat, accept all your emotions, your vulnerability and imperfections. That’s exactly what makes you courageous, strong and wonderful!
May your 2020 be full of love, success and peace, and may your expat life be the way you want it to be!
Check the testimonials of clients living the life abroad they want!
By your side,
Gabriela Encina is an online psychologist specialized in expat women and supports them with the guidance and tools they need to feel confident, make the best decisions for their lives, build and maintain meaningful relationships and prioritize their well-being.
Her approach is practical, solution-oriented and focused on the present.
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Since its formation in 2016 as Gurjar Infotech, GAC Infotech has been dedicated to providing top-notch IT solutions to its clients in Indore. Starting with computer rental services, we quickly expanded our services to include CCTV installation, CRM, server installation, video door lock, networking, GPS installation, and biometric machine services.
New Name and Team Formation
In 2017, we formed our team and renamed our company to GAC Infotech, which stands for Global Assembling Computer. With a new name and a dedicated team, we continued to expand our services and by 2018, we had a team of 15 to 16 people.
Expansion of Services
In 2018, we further expanded our services by adding CCTV installation to our offerings. We also provided CRM and server installation services to our clients. By combining our services, we successfully installed them in many companies, making our mark in the IT sector of Indore.
Diversification of Services
In 2019, we diversified our services and started providing all the facilities under one roof. We combined CCTV installation, computer rental, CRM, video door lock, networking, GPS installation, and biometric machine services. Our clients appreciated the convenience and efficiency of having all their IT needs met by one provider. By the end of 2019, we had provided online CRM and networking services to around 20 to 25 companies.
Growth and Expansion
In 2020, we continued to grow and expand our services, installing GPS in about 100 vehicles and providing services to more than 50 companies. We also installed more than 1500 cameras in schools, colleges, and homes, ensuring the safety and security of our clients' premises.
Leading Company in Indore
In 2021, we became the leading IT solutions provider in Indore, thanks to our dedication to excellence and the quality of our services. We continued to provide GPS installation services, and by the end of the year, we had installed GPS in more than 450 vehicles in over 50 companies. Our clients appreciated our attention to detail and our commitment to providing customized solutions to meet their needs.
Leading Company in Indore
As of 2023, we are still growing and improving, installing GPS in more than 450 vehicles and more than 1500 cameras in schools, colleges, and homes. We are committed to providing the best possible IT solutions to our clients and ensuring their satisfaction with our services. Our positive feedback from clients motivates us to continue our work with dedication and excellence, making GAC Infotech the leading IT solutions provider in Indore. | <urn:uuid:18ab4b7b-a10a-4dda-b4ff-663a442c630d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://gacinfotech.com/about-us/ | 2023-10-04T21:11:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.954342 | 541 |
Are you planning to install a flagpole on your property?
The health crisis, heat waves, and wildfires forced Americans to pay higher electricity bills. Using a flagpole light may seem inconsequential, but it still adds to your monthly utilities.
A solar-powered flagpole light is an excellent alternative. If you’re unfamiliar with solar power, a solar flagpole light will surprise you.
Continue reading below for some practical benefits and uses solar flagpole lights offer.
It Saves You More Money
Installing a flagpole light running on solar energy is cost-effective. It is cheaper compared to trenching grip power. There are no underground conduits to power it up.
The wiring is only present at the top of the poles. It uses low-voltage power, making the installation safe.
Performance-wise, it adds nothing to your electric consumption. It uses the sun’s energy collected from the top-mounted solar panels.
The panels collect energy from the sun for 6 to 12 hours. The energy can power a solar LED flagpole light for up to three days.
A Flagpole Light is Eco-Friendly
A solar flagpole light is an eco-friendly alternative to conventional lighting options. Converting solar energy into electricity doesn’t hurt the environment.
Solar energy doesn’t cause any pollution nor create radiation. The soil on your property remains safe.
The light uses renewable energy, meaning the flagpole has no grid connection. The flagpole comes with a battery. It collects and stores the power during the day.
When charging, the battery doesn’t release harmful chemicals. Your children can safely play near the light.
At night, the light uses the collected energy. As long as the battery has enough energy, your flagpole will light up through the night.
Display Your Flag with Pride and Elegance
More Americans say they will fly the United States flag on their homes this year. The U.S. federal law requires proper illumination of the flag. If you decide to fly your flag at night, you must give it the lighting it deserves.
Using the best solar flagpole light will showcase your patriotism at night. Meanwhile, some homeowners will only illuminate their traditional flagpoles on special occasions.
For example, the 4th of July is one of the few days people put effort into lighting up their flagpoles. With a solar flagpole light, you can put a spotlight on the American flag every night.
A solar flagpole light is more convenient than traditional flag lights. You need not hire a certified electrician to install it. After the initial installation, the flagpole light is good to go.
Allow the panels to collect solar energy and let it fill up the battery. Turn on the switch as soon as the sunsets.
You can change the LED bulbs at any time. They also come in various shades and colors. Match them with the color of your flagpole and home aesthetic.
It also requires little to no maintenance. The solar flagpole light can also withstand bad weather.
The LED bulbs can last for 20 years. The batteries remain efficient for up to 5 years before requiring replacement.
Cleaning the glass grid and light bulbs is the only task at hand. It ensures their sharp and elegant look.
Click on the link for the best commercial solar flagpole light options.
Types of Solar Flagpole Lights
There are two main types of solar flagpole lights: outdoor solar lighting and above-ground solar. Outdoor solar lights need mounting on the flagpole. Depending on your chosen unit, the flag light is either upward or downward.
It is a good option if you don’t want a fixture at the flagpole’s base. They also feature powerful LED lamps.
You must install above-ground solar lights on the base of the flagpole. They use a wireless fan-shaped light display. They have limitations since they only work on residential outrigger poles.
Some homeowners are not keen on using flagpole lights. Instead, they use spotlights to illuminate the flagpole. The spotlight spreads a light beam using a 10 to 30-degree spread.
You need three to four spotlights to give proper lighting. Others use their floodlights as alternatives. Unlike spotlights, their beams have a wider spread.
You also need three to four floodlights to achieve proper lighting.
Tips for Buying a Solar Powered Flagpole Light
Before buying a solar-powered flagpole light, consider various factors. Among these, the size of your flagpole is the most important.
Measure the height and circumference of your flagpole. Most flagpole lights can accommodate poles measuring up to 15 to 25 feet high.
Another consideration is the brightness of the solar LED lights. Check the lumens of the solar flagpole light. Never settle for anything less than 200 lumens since going lower will create deep shadows surrounding the flag.
Another factor is solar cell power. It will dictate the amount of energy it can harvest from the sun.
Check the lights’ weather resistance. They should have an International Protection (IP) rating between IP65 and IP67.
The IP rating is the lights’ ability to resist environmental elements, especially water. Find a light with a water-resistance rating between 5 and 7.
Examine the battery and charge time. The batteries will last for years, but the charge time may differ. Pick one that fully charges in 6 to 8 hours.
Buy from a reputable source. Compare the products of at least three suppliers. Look at the feedback section of their respective websites.
Ask about their warranty options. Trusted providers offer a warranty on the materials and workmanship. If you don’t damage the lights due to negligence or an accident, the provider should repair or replace them.
Discover New Ways to Improve Your Property
Investing in the best solar flagpole light allows you to honor the flag 24/7. You can provide proper illumination while keeping your electrical expenses low.
However, a flagpole light is not the only home add-on to consider. Learn about different home improvement topics to beautify your home.
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When building an Intel Coffee Lake 9th Generation system, it’s important to choose the right motherboard. Let’s go over the important factors to consider when selecting a motherboard for i5-9400F. By the end of this, you’ll have a clear understanding of the best motherboards available.
How We Choose a Motherboard for i5-9400F
Before discussing the top motherboards for the i5-9400F, it’s critical to comprehend the criteria you should use to guide your choice.
- Socket Type: The socket type must be compatible with the processor. The i5-9400F uses the LGA 1151 socket, so it is important to choose a motherboard that also supports this socket type.
- Chipset: The chipset is the part of the motherboard that determines the capabilities of the motherboard, such as the number of USB ports, SATA ports, and memory slots. The i5-9400F is compatible with the H310, B360, H370, and Z370 chipsets.
- Form Factor: The form factor refers to the size and shape of the motherboard. The most common form factors are ATX, Micro ATX, and Mini ITX. It is important to choose a form factor that fits in your case and provides the necessary features you need.
- Features: Look for a motherboard that includes the features you need, such as built-in Wi-Fi, RGB lighting, and M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs.
1. MSI Z390-A PRO
Do you want to create a powerful and future-proof system? So, look no further! The Z390 motherboard is for computer fans who want to be ready for future growth. Expanding your system will be a breeze with this board.
The best part is that the Z390 A PRO has every feature an enthusiast could want. With RAID support, a built-in LAN port, and so much more, you’ll have plenty of storage options.
This motherboard features cutting-edge technology such as USB 3.1 Gen 2, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0, dual Gigabit Ethernet LAN, and WiFi 6. You’ll also have plenty of connectivity options with three PCIe slots, six SATA ports, and one U.2 port.
Whether you’re a gamer or a tech enthusiast, the Z390 A PRO is an excellent choice. It offers exceptional performance for multitasking and demanding applications, and it works with both Intel and AMD processors.
Don’t overlook the advanced features, such as USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps), WiFi 6, and dual LAN. Furthermore, Intel Smart Response Technology will aid in the optimization of data storage on your hard drive.
So why would you settle for anything less? The Z390 A PRO is the way to go with the latest technology, stylish design, and exceptional performance from Intel and ASRock!
2. ASUS Prime Z390-P
This motherboard stands out for its small footprint, requiring little room inside your system case for installation. It is the best choice for cryptocurrency mining and works best with GPU-based mining rigs because it has 8 PCIe x16 slots.
It is a flexible option due to its high-performance features and exceptional audio quality. Four PCIe x16 slots, two M.2 PCIe Gen3 x4 slots, and one M.2 PCIe x4 slot are all present on this motherboard.
It has impressive connectivity options like Intel LAN, Intel WiFi 802.11ax 2×2 AC, Intel Gigabit Ethernet, and Thunderbolt 3. It can support up to three GPUs at once. It is compatible with mining different cryptocurrencies like BTC, LTC, ETH, and others because overclocking is also supported.
In conclusion, this motherboard is a great choice for putting together a powerful Bitcoin mining system and is especially good for mining BTC.
3. MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus
Do you need a new motherboard but have a limited budget? In any case, allow me to tell you more about the MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus.
With its wealth of features and low price, this motherboard is a powerhouse. It is simple to connect all of your devices thanks to its four Thunderbolt 3 ports (USB-C 3.1) and daisy-chaining capabilities.
It has a wide range of device and technology compatibility in addition to advanced features like Smart Fan 5 technology, dual BIOS with UEFI DualBIOS, support for PCIe RAID, and multiple display outputs, to name a few.
Not to mention the MSI Audio Boost III+, MSI Mystic Light II RGB LED lighting, and dual Intel UHD 630 graphics. With the help of these features, your gaming experience is improved and made more immersive.
The dual gigabit LAN ports and onboard WiFi 802.11ax, however, are what really distinguish this motherboard. This board can provide you with a strong and stable connection whether you’re streaming content, sharing files, or just need one.
The MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus is, in a nutshell, the best motherboard for esports and gaming on a tight budget. It has great BIOS features, excellent overclocking support, and high-quality audio. You won’t regret making this purchase!
Therefore, if you’re looking for a new motherboard, be sure to take a closer look at the MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus. You might just fit right in with it!
4. GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS PRO Wi-Fi
A wide variety of features are available on the Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WiFi to meet the needs of high-performance gaming, entertainment, and productivity. This motherboard is capable of handling demanding multi-tasking needs and graphically intensive gaming.
With dual M.2 and up to 10 GbE LAN ports, the Z390 AORUS PRO WiFi offers exceptional speed and compatibility with the most recent gadgets, including the new Intel Optane Memory technology. It also features the newest Intel WiFi standards, such as 802.11ax and Bluetooth 5.0.
The motherboard also supports WiFi 6 (802.11ax), which can reach peak data rates of 866 Mbps. Without the use of external adapters, onboard Bluetooth and WiFi support ensures seamless connectivity to any WiFi network or device.
With the onboard RGB Fusion, which enables users to customise their system through integrated RGB LEDs, customization is made simple. The Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO is the best option for the Intel Core i5-10600k processor because it also has onboard 802.11ac WiFi and Gigabit LAN.
5. GIGABYTE Z390 UD
If you need more processing power than your CPU can provide, the GIGABYTE Z390 UD motherboard is the ideal choice. You can easily instal up to four high-performance graphics cards in its four GPU slots, giving you a total of 24 processing threads.
This motherboard has a cutting-edge Thunderbolt 3 port, enabling seamless connectivity to monitors, external storage, and even virtual reality headsets, in addition to its impressive GPU capabilities. Multiple high-speed devices can be connected to its 10Gbps USB ports, which also support different RAID configurations.
The Z390 UD, which is intended specifically for crypto mining, has five fully compatible PCIe slots that can accommodate up to eight graphics cards while making no noise during use.
Dual DDR4 memory, USB 3.1 Gen 2 and USB 3.0, 6 DDR4-3200 SATA6 and 6 SATA2, 7.1 surround sound, 10 Gigabit LAN, Intel WiFi 6 with support for 802.11ax, Bluetooth 5.0, Thunderbolt 3, and other features are among those offered by this motherboard.
This motherboard is the best option for you if you’re interested in cryptocurrency mining and have 4G decoding capabilities. I also highly recommend the GIGABYTE Z390 UD motherboard to anyone who wants to build a top-tier gaming computer with the latest high-end features and great performance.
6. ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero (Wi-Fi)
For PC enthusiasts, the ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero motherboard offers unmatched performance and features. This board is made to handle demanding tasks with ease and comes with a dual-channel DDR4 memory kit, Intel Z390 chipset, M.2 2260 PCIe x4 M.2 SSD, four USB 3.1 ports, and a Thunderbolt 3 port.
The Maximus XI Hero is a great option for users looking to assemble a high-performance system because it supports multiple displays via DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0a and can be powered by two 6-pin power connectors and an 80+12v wall adapter.
The Maximus XI Hero has excellent performance capabilities, as well as cutting-edge security features, gaming software, and premium audio options. Its TUF Gaming series thermal compound ensures dependable and stable operation by offering superior defence against overheating and extreme overclocking.
The ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero motherboard is a great option for enthusiasts building fast gaming systems, high-end GPU setups, or home theatre PCs. It offers the best CPU performance and is compatible with Intel 9th Gen CPUs. It also supports up to 10 threads.
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The Evolution of Club Memberships: From Traditional to Modern Lifestyle Clubs
Community memberships have been a vital component of human socialization for ages, allowing people to interact, network, and participate in various activities. They have evolved, adjusting to shifting cultural standards and individual demands. This blog will look at the evolution of membership clubs in Bangalore from conventional to modern clubs, their developments, and their implications.
Traditional Club Memberships
- Ancient Societies and Exclusive Circles
Club memberships were a sign of prestige and power among elite groups. These clubs were frequently confined to a select few, fostering a sense of exclusivity and elitism.
- Membership Requirements and Exclusivity
Club memberships were traditionally regulated by strict regulations and restrictions. Background checks, recommendations, and financial responsibilities were among the requirements for applicants.
- Formal Dress Codes and Etiquette
Another distinguishing feature of traditional clubs was the strict enforcement of formal dress standards and stringent etiquette. Members were to dress a certain way, frequently in formal clothing or uniforms.
Lifestyle Membership Clubs
- The Rise of the Middle Class
The rise of the middle class and democratization has caused considerable changes in club membership. Clubs began to reduce their exclusivity and offer doors to a larger spectrum of people as society became more inclusive.
- Relaxation of Formalities and Dress Codes
Clubs began to reduce their strict rules to attract a larger membership base. Dress code regulations became more accommodating, allowing members to wear comfortably and according to their style preferences. This transition reflected societal attitudes that valued individualism and self-expression.
- Introduction of Recreational Activities and Sports
Traditional clubs are about socializing and networking. Recreational activities and sports, on the other hand, have become essential components of modern clubs. Members sought outlets for leisure and physical well-being, which resulted in the establishment of amenities such as golf courses, swimming pools, tennis courts and such.
Modern Club Memberships
Club memberships have evolved further in the contemporary period to meet the changing requirements of individuals in a fast-paced and networked society.
- Networking Opportunities and Professional Development
One of the most important advantages of modern club memberships is the networking possibilities. Members may interact with fellow professionals who share their interests, boosting cooperation and career progress. To assist professional growth, clubs frequently organize networking events, workshops, and lectures.
- Online and Virtual Clubs
The digital era has transformed the notion of club memberships, fostering online and virtual clubs. These platforms cross geographical barriers, allowing people to meet and communicate with others who have similar interests or hobbies. Online clubs provide members with convenience, flexibility, and a varied selection of communities to join.
- Wellness and Fitness Facilities
With a growing emphasis on personal well-being, contemporary clubs increasingly include cutting-edge health and exercise facilities. Members get access to gyms, spa facilities, yoga studios, and other amenities to help them prioritize their lives. This trend reflects an increasing interest in holistic lifestyles to drive personal growth.
- Affiliate Clubs: Enhancing Modern Club
Modern clubs often establish affiliate relationships with other teams, creating a network that fosters talent development and international exposure. These partnerships facilitate player loans, joint training programs, and scouting collaborations. This interconnected approach enhances growth, skill exchange, and global visibility for both the club and its affiliates
To conclude, the transition of club memberships from traditional to modern clubs has altered how individuals socialize, network, and pursue their interests. Today, clubs like Galaxy Club
exemplify the spirit of diversity by providing its members with multiple perks and activities.
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The major events reported by gd.ie in 2004 were:
1.Forfas report on ‘the Electronic Games Industry’, Jan.
2.Official launch of an Irish chapter of the IGDA in the Digital Hub by Ernest Adams followed by a game design workshop the next day, Jan.
3.Art of Games talk in TCD with Paul McLaughlin, head of art and Rune Vendler, Lead 3D Programmer with Lionhead Studios in the UK, Feb.
4. RoboCode in Tipperary Institute of Technology. Waterford Institute of Technology team emerges as winner, March.
5. gd.ie awards, Dublin, April.
6. Dare to be Digital Ireland competition with Red Ruckus emerging as the team to represent Ireland, April.
7. IGDA Ireland Sony event on the launch of the PSP, May.
8. Sony Ireland sponsor Irish games industry dinner on Sunset Boulevard, E3, May.
9. Torc Interactive Open Day, Dublin, June.
10. First graduates from Interactive Computer Entertainment course in NWIFE, Derry and launch of games incubator, June.
11. Launch of MIDAS, Digital Content Industries Research Programme, Dundalk, joint initiative between DKIT, UU and Dream Ireland, June.
12. Launch of IT Carlow’s BSC in Computer Game Development, Sept.
13. IDA sponsor Irish meeting point at ECTS, London, Sept.
14. Awakenings ’04, Derry, Oct.
15. EI and IDA supported Games Trade Mission to Seoul, Korea, Oct.
16. Galway games mini- conference and shindig, Nov.
17. Foyle Film Festival game related workshops, Nov.
18. Digital Hub – Had exhibits and a Talk Digital on games. Companies in the Digital Depot now include Havok, TKO Software and Eirplay.
Certainly it was a busy year and each month there were major events happening in Ireland to report on here at gd.ie. Further, Irish companies attended all the major international events this year including GDC, ECTS, E3 and Lyon Game Connection. I am not going to write about all these events because you can search gd.ie under either features of news to find out further info. Let me focus on a few of these events which I think will have future consequences.
Building on the much larger 2002 report Forfás consulted with the games industry and wrote a report titled the ‘Electronic Games Industry in Ireland’ which was circulated to interested parties in Jan. 2004.
The report identified short, medium and long term opportunities in all aspects of digital games and makes sobering reading for those wishing to target the console and PC segments of the industry. The report acknowledges the barriers to entry in these segments and suggests that mobile and middleware offer better opportunities for Irish companies. It also includes a long list of recommendations aimed at EI, IDA, education and the industry itself.
Launch of IGDA Ireland chapter.
Things gathered pace with the establishment of an Irish chapter of the International Game Development Association (IGDA). This event signalled a coming together of Irish game companies and academics to raise the profile of the Irish games industry both nationally and internationally.
Members of the committee in 2004 included;
Tony Kelly, Torc Interactive,
Peter Mee, Meedja,
Steve Collins, Havok,
Dylan Collins, Demonware
Michael Griffen, Kapooki
Ger Lawlor, Kapooki
Wendy Gibbons, Torc Interactive
Shane Whelan, Ballyfermot Senior College
Aphra Kerr, University of Ulster
In its first year the group organised three major events. First was the launch itself which saw Ernest Adams, game design consultant and author giving a very amusing talk to a packed room in the Digital Hub in Dublin and the following day organising a hands-on design workshop for over 100 people.
This was followed by a talk in May on Sony’s PSP with two speakers from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) UK, Zeno Colaco, Vice President, Publisher & Developer Relations and Mark James, Account Manager 3rd Party Relations.
Finally, the group went on to organize Awakenings ’04 on October 15, 2004 in Derry. By any standards this was a major event for the group’s first year and the calibre of the speakers points to the strong international connections which Irish companies already have.
About 235 students, educators and members of the industry gathered at the Northwest Institute for Further and Higher Education (NWIFHE) in Derry to discuss the future of digital games in Ireland. Speakers included Jason Della Rocca of IGDA, game designer Graeme Devine (Ensemble), Chris Van Der Kuyl (Vis Entertainment), Marcus Mäki (Remedy) and Robbie Hegarty of the NWIFHE. Around the main event itself other meetings took place too between companies and industrial development agencies and between academics.
More info: http://www.thememorypalace.org/igda/ http://www.thememorypalace.org/igda/ but these pages will in future be incorporated into gd.ie – watch out for our new design.
Press: See news/press_article.asp?NCID=3&NID=173&Y=2004&T=N&Print=the digital hub’s website
And Ernest seems to like my name! See:http://designersnotebook.ipadder.com/2918.phphttp://designersnotebook.ipadder.com/2918.php
Torc Interactive showed their Instinct game engine at GDC, sign up a number of educational institutions to their educational programme and are making moves towards establishing a game development studio. Kapooki defy the odds and are currently recruiting testers for a new game.
Havok could finally announce their involvement in Halo2 and remain Ireland’s flagship company and a world leader in middleware. Demonware are going from strength to strength and launched BitDemon Netcode, which supports console and PC multiplayer games.
Eirplay, founded in 2000 won the 02 Digital Games ’04 award for its java games. Selatra, founded in 2002 and based in Cork is also focussing on Java games and had a strong growth year. TKO Software, a recent arrival to Ireland must have broken all our records for the number of jobs they advertised on gd.ie this year. UpStart Games kept a low profile concentrating on its links with the Japanese market. Meedja continued to develop projects for other companies under license and their boss Peter became a highly visible spokesperson for the IGDA Ireland chapter. CanDo kept doing and are developing interactive 3D tools for education as well.
And there are newcomers who we still want to get to know better and must congratulate. Purplenose Games and Vyro Games in Dublin, Star Cave and Nephin Games in Galway, Phooka in Derry and the very latest ( I think!) Bit Rabbit, again here in Dublin but drawing upon a strongly Francophone set of talents.
And of course let’s not forget Microsoft Game Studios and Vivendi, both of whom no doubt worked to localise and ship a lot of our Christmas presents!
And then there was that gd.ie shindig jingle from fitch on the boards – the freelancers are also making their contribution.
So after all these positive developments how can I not be very happy?
Well it was sad to hear that the Bugaboo boys had to head back to England because they could not secure capital here to develop an original title. Indications from other companies also suggest that if you are in the mobile or middleware sector you will be looked upon favourably by funding bodies but funding a console or PC game is quite another matter. Perhaps this is something the industry and policy makers need to look at more closely in 2005.
What were the Irish game industry highlights of 2004 for you? If I missed something post to the forums or send me a private message and I will add the best ones to the end of this feature.
Author’s Bio and Thanks
Aphra Kerr is a full time researcher based at the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster.
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Hey everyone, it’s Kim again. I have tracked down another interesting find for you. This one is for all you Sega fans out there: it’s a game for the Sega Genesis (or Sega Megadrive as it is known outside the U.S.), that beautiful 16-bit console. The game is called BEGGAR PRINCE, and the listing includes the cart, case, and manual. Check out the listing.
Beggar Prince, The New Prince and the New Pauper
BEGGAR PRINCE, a 16 bit role-playing adventure game, was originally developed and released by C&E Inc. in 1996. The game is know as Xin Qigai Wangzi in Chinese, which translates to The New Prince and the Pauper. Two years later, in 1998 it was also ported to PC. The game is basically a retelling of the classic story. You play as the young prince and after spending a careless day in town must return back to the castle to reclaim your rightful position as prince. Along the way, the titular prince thwarts the Cat Minister’s plans to overthrow your father, the King, and take over the Shatt Kingdom. Like most JRPG’s of the time, you battle enemies. But, in addition to standard weapons, you collect and use magic to fend off foes. The game never made its way to US shores. This is particularly unfortunate considering the dearth of RPG’s on the Genesis.
Super Fighter Team Brings Beggar Prince to the U.S.
In August of 2005, the prototype for the American version of Beggar Prince was displayed at the Classic Gaming Expo in Burlingame, California. Super Fighter Team translated the title to English along with ironing out many of the worst major bugs of the original 1996 release of the game. The first run release of 600 copies sold out in only 4 months due to overwhelming demand. A second release produced another 300 copies, selling out in 8 months. The third and final release featured all new artwork and better functionality and bringing grand total sales to 1500! Not bad for a ROM hack!
Here Are a Few of the English Translation Features:
- Beautiful high-color graphics
- Battery backup save function
- Whopping 32-megabit game cartridge
This listing is your chance to get one of those original first run copies. Consider that for a minute. There are about 320 million people in the U.S. and only 1500 copies of this game were released TOTAL in the U.S. This is a fantastic opportunity to pick up an extremely rare find with a fairly limited release from a decade ago.
The listing is listed as being brand new. You can clearly see above that the cart does not come in factory seal. According to the seller, manufacturers didn’t seal these carts. Instead, the seller cello-wrapped the case. Keep in mind that this seller is in Italy, so you may have to pay extra on duties.
While I hunting for great items and good deals, I found some popular items that people are watching on eBay. Here ya go:
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- ULTRA RARE Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne Prize “Not4Sale” Poster Playstation PS2 – 11 people watching this BIN $99. Still in great condition since it was rolled. Very rare since these game posters were often destroyed following release.
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Breeze-Blessed Bed is a Furnishing item in Genshin Impact 4.1. Guide includes how to craft, how to get, & how to get the blueprint for Breeze-Blessed Bed.
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What Is Breeze-Blessed Bed?
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First off, this post defines podcasting is an effective way to deliver highly niche audio to a very enthusiastic audience (the World English Bible translated into Klingon or Tips for Triathletes in the Southwestern US for example).
Secondly, the numbers used here are rough and make for easy math.
Let’s say you’re making one show a week for a year. Here’s a quick pass at some costs:
Monthly Server & Bandwidth costs ($40 * 12 months): $480
Production and editing effort per show ($200 * 52 shows): $10,400
Equipment Costs (mics, software, etc): $500
- Beer, coffee, and other production/editing necessities per show ($20 * 52 shows): $1,040
- Monthly Server & Bandwidth costs ($150 * 12 months): $1,800
- Equipment Costs -mics, software, etc ($500 amoritized over 5 years): $100
Let’s say we’d like to gross $40,000 for the year (a fair amount for doing only one show a week).
Adding all this up puts your annual costs at $42,940.
For the sake of easy math, let’s say you have 1,000 listeners – the circulation of a small town Nebraskan newspaper like the Bayard Transcript. Frankly, the worldwide audience for a Klingon version of the Bible is probably a thousand.
Dividing the annual cost ($42,940) by the number of listeners (1,000) and the number of shows (52) makes the cost per listener: $0.8258
That’s less than a $1 per show per listener (iTunes – 99 cents, WalMart – 88 cents, coincidence?). One Dollar. $4 a month. $42.94 a year. Kris over at the Croncast settled on nearly the same numbers.
With numbers as small as these, I don’t see advertisers beating down the doors of podcasters. In the broadcast world, millions of dollars are sunk into spectrum, hardware, and talent. This gives advertisers the upper hand.
Early on, Heineken realized it was easier to start their own podcast than enter into an advertising agreement with the Rock ‘n Roll Geek Show. I agree. The economics of podcasting make it far more attractive to start your own thing than shoehorn in an awkward ad subsidized model.
If we go back to the original podcasting is best with niche audio assumption, there’s a point where the “ad message” is as valuable to the listener as the “show message”. One degreee further and the podcast is produced by the “advertiser” as part of their marketing campaign.
That’s far more interesting.
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Newport and Bellevue Forums to Discuss Gateway Urban Campus
Gateway Community & Technical College officials will participate in community forums Dec. 1 and 2 in Newport and Bellevue to gather urban community input about the colleges proposal to create an Urban Campus in downtown Covington.
The Newport forum will be Dec. 1 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the World Peace Bell, 425 York Street. The Bellevue session will be Thursday, Dec. 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the City Building, Callahan Center, 616 Poplar Street.
The forums are open to any member of the public, regardless of residency.
"We are in the planning stages for the Urban Campus that will serve the entire urban core including the residents of the River Cities and are seeking input on the kinds of programs and services residents, business and community leaders desire to see included in the planning for the campus. The campus is a long term commitment so our planning must encompass short term and long range issues, and it must address the needs across the entire urban core, said Gateway President/CEO G. Edward Hughes.
Sessions are sponsored by Southbank Partners and facilitated by the Center for Great Neighborhoods and Vision 2015. Refreshments will be provided by the Gateway Foundation.
The Urban Campus has been the top priority of the college and includes replacing the outdated campus now located on Amsterdam Road in Covington/Park Hills. The college has formed a variety of partnerships that include the Covington Independent Public Schools, Newport Independent Schools, STRIVE, Kenton County Public Library, the Gateway Foundation, City of Covington, Covington Business Council, Kenton County Fiscal Court, Southbank Partners, TANK and Kenton County. | <urn:uuid:757bed28-48b1-4b3e-95c5-ed536f4ac764> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://gateway.kctcs.edu/news/news-archive/newport-and-bellevue-forums-to-discuss-gateway-urban-campus.aspx | 2023-10-04T19:53:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.937953 | 362 |
“That man needs to sleep. At all costs, brother. That’s what needs to happen, brother” Ridouan Taghi wrote in a text message.
“He knows we’ll let everyone sleep on him if he has mentioned my name,” he says in another.
“Sleep” had prompted an alert, as did “liquidate” and “crack” — all code words for murder.
In Episode 1, we heard the texts from the criminal underworld, those which were obtained from massive police hacks. Here’s some more details on how we have those texts today:
First the criminal’s choice phone network was EncroChat.
The company, founded in 2016, was one of the largest providers of encrypted digital communication. They provided modified mobile handsets that had their microphones, cameras and GPS systems removed. The devices then have a special operating system and messaging software installed on them, which would send and receive encrypted messages.
User hotspots were particularly present in source and destination countries for cocaine and cannabis trade, as well as in money laundering centres.
EncroChat had previously claimed that it housed its servers in secure locations “offshore.” But they were actually in a data center in Roubaix, a city in northern France. The French National Gendarmerie realized that all EncroChat communications routed through Roubaix and started investigating in 2019, alongside the Dutch.
In early 2020, they revealed they had compromised the EncroChat network. They beat the encrypted system by planting malware which syphoned off more than 100 million messages. Eventually, they also figured out how to read messages in real time.
“It was as if we were sitting at the table where criminals were chatting,” Jannine van den Berg, chief constable of the Dutch police, said at the time.
Jan Op Gen Oorth at Europol told us that the hack illustrated just how big the world of organized crime was. “It's bigger than we thought. It's more international than we thought,” he explained. “They're better connected than we thought. They're moving more cocaine, more drugs than thought, more languages involved.”
A number of high-profile arrests and drug busts followed — in the Netherlands police arrested 100 people and found 19 meth labs. EncroChat was shut down in July.
With the downfall of EncroChat, many users switched to Sky E.C.C.
The company was founded in 2008 and by 2020, had approximately 70,000 active users. Nearly a quarter of them were clustered around Europe’s busiest seaports: Rotterdam and Antwerp.
But it was cracked by Belgian and Dutch authorities. In March 2021 they announced the attack, which caused widespread panic for users around the world.
Similar to the process of hacking EncroChat, police first intercepted and stored encrypted communications from the Sky ECC network, while experts worked out how to decrypt them. In the second phase, police were able to read live data sent across the network. Even weirder, Sky’s servers were also in the French city of Roubaix.
“Most of the criminals know that one day they'll get a knock on their door and it's their time to go to the prison,” Belgian journalist Joris van der Aa told Gateway. “There's so much evidence that the police have to work one after another, after another.”
While police insist these services were legally hacked, there has been a growing number of questions surrounding the hackings the invasion of privacy. At the end of last year, a case in Germany was sent to Europe’s highest court, regarding whether the obtained messages broke data-sharing laws across Europe. If it wins, the case could potentially undermine the convictions of thousands around Europe.
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With a couple of days to watch snippets of practices, plus keeping one ear to the ground, and gathering some numbers of relevance I feel ready to share some Star Game thoughts as the Shrine & Senior Bowl are upon us.
Let me start with one of the most pleasurable of the happenings once practices get under way… surprise standout players. No not guys that have jumped from Priority Rookie Free Agent to First Rounder. There really are not a lot of those miracles lying around out on those practice fields these days. But we do seem to find guys who go from “not on my Top 300 list”, to “might be late draftable”. Got one from each squad in Mobile.
Players do drop out of these events, and this late in the process it’s a mad rush to replace guys like ROSHCON JOHNSON/Texas who unfortunately broke a bone in his hand on Tuesday. So it is not surprising to hear JIM NAGY talk about watching tape of players who were at the Hula & NFLPA games that preceded this week’s Star action. He’s always looking for the “next man up”to get to Mobile to replace someone, for whatever reason it might be. So it’s a pleasant surprise, and a pat on the back to NAGY & his scouts, when some of these ‘Call-up” guys make their mark, like these two…
#67 ASIM RICHARDS OG UNC 6’04/307 10″H/34 1/8″A National Squad
I have to admit this man was not on my Prospect list two weeks ago. When he was announced as an add-in I shrugged and took a quick look at the 2022 UNC football guide. I liked what I read OK. But in two practices he’s been more than just OK. He’s a strong man, with long arms (for an IOL) and he is agile. It shows that he played in a pro style Offense for MACK BROWN as he is proficient in both run blocking and pass pro. I can guarantee you that he has made my watch list as game day approaches.
#0 MARTE MAPU SS/LB Sacramento St 6’025/217 33 3/8″A/80″Wing American Squad
From a strong smaller school football program, MAPU was called up after playing in the NFLPA Game last weekend. He is a seriously talented and athletic hybrid LB/SS who has practiced primarily at LB so far. And his penetration and head on tackling, in TFL ground quite often, is not going unnoticed. You can hear the pads cracking as he hits blockers and RB alike. He too just jumped onto the pages of my Top Prospect list. I am anxious to see what he does on game day.
As with much of higher level football these days, electronic timing is gaining big ground, and looking to eclipse things like the 40-yard dash as a meaningful measurement of player speed, in pads. I was anxious to see how fast/quick TREY PALMER is. Palmer was at Nebraska last season and put up some solid numbers, in both receiving and return work, in a lost season for the Cornhuskers. It sure seemed to me that PALMER would be moving up Draft Boards as his speed was revealed in post-season testing. We got a taste of that Wednesday as the National squad receiver was timed at 21.15 mph, running a fly route. Translation for future reference, that project to a 40-time of about 4.3? This guy is gonna rise all the way up until the NFL Draft begins.
Let’s flash to a guy who was not on many folks prospect radar until the 2022 collegiate season got to late October; TYJAE SPEARS/RB/Tulane. He rushed for over 1,000-yards, proved he was an above average receiver. He was the primary weapon for Tulane as they flipped from a double-digit Loss team in 2021, to a double-digit Win team in 2022. First good impression was weighing in at a solid 205, and looking like the most explosive RB here in practice. He is simply exploding through holes at the line-of-scrimmage and racing to the house. What I have seem in two practices in Mobile, combined with his season’s work at Tulane have him now entrenched in my Top 100.
Unfortunately, the highly scrutinized QB position has been much like a car accident scene; ‘Move along folks, nothing to see here”. But years of scouting (albeit admittedly amateur, not professional) tells me the real proof is in the game day play. So I will say for now, I might expect JAKE HAENER/#9, NATIONAL & CLAYTON TUNE/#3, AMERICAN to be the most effective game day leaders from the 6 active QB here.
This year’s small college darling appears to be CODY MAUCH/OL/N. Dakota St #70. He’s the big guy with flaming red hair sticking out of his helmet, a bit of a QUINN MEINERZ big belly (usually exposed) and a big smile despite missing his front 2 top teeth. But let me tell you, this young guy is not some kind of joke. He’s a legit college player, and pro prospect. He’s big and tough and aggressive. And the big experiment seems to be going well. That experiment is moving him inside to play OG/C here this week. MAUCH ‘s weigh-in numbers were as follows: 6’047/305, 9 5’/8″H/32 1/8″A/79 3/4″ Wing. It’s those relatively short arms that have NFL Scouts looking to see what he can do as a future IOL. He’s doing fine so far. He’s also showing a solid personalty with a self-deprecating sense of humor. Another Top 100 player for me.
OK, so really how big is DAWAND JONES OT/Ohio State? 6’801/375, 11 3/8″H/36 5/8″A/89 1/2″Wing
In other words huge or gigantic. The striking part is that when his unit huddles, even the 6’4/315 guys look a lot smaller than him. He sat out Wednesday with a possible concussion. So without teasing him about his size I will give you a point of reference if you have not seen his size differential with other full sized football players. Go to UTube and google up AndyReid Punt, Pass & Kick competition. It’s an often referenced video of Andy as a kid competing in the NFL sponsored PPK competition. Reid looks like a giant compared to all the kids in his age group. That’s DAWAND in most any football huddle. Now get better young man so we can see you in game action. He’s kinda raw, but as Coach Parcells used to say, you can’t coach size.
I have been a big fan of RASHEE RICE WR/SMU since the 2021 season. He’s an athletic, decent sized receiver @ 6’004/200, 9 1/2″H/32 1/8″A/77 1/4″W. Not numbers that sound like a small guy, but SMU’s media Gide had him about 6’3/210. Doesn’t matter a bit when you analyze his play. RICE caught 96 balls for 1355-yards & 10 TD last season for SMU in 12 games last season. He has decent speed but gets open on route running and a penchant for winning contested throws. He is also a workaholic when it comes to his playbook.
Most of the players in Mobile are 20+ years old. That sorta means that they are just transitioning from boys to men in their football molded bodies. But it looks like a few of them are already grown men, or at least playing like a man. One such player has been KEEANU BENTON DL/Wisconsin. In his muscled 6’3 1/2″/312# frame he is just pushing a lot of his National teammates around to make plays in any drill exercise his coaches run. He’s strong, and shows very good quickness and some well honed penetration moves. He reminds me a lot of 2 former SEC greats, now toiling in the NFL; CHRIS JONES/Chiefs & JEFFREY SIMMONS/Titans. At the pace he is practicing this week BLANTON could be edging his way into the late First Round come Draft time. Guy’s with his size, who can collapse the pocket from the inside are highly desired in today’s NFL defenses. He didn’t get the recognition as the Badgers 2022 season became a dumpster fire every other week of action. That’s why LUKE FICKELL is now their Head Coach and is working the Transfer Portal to boost the Badgers talent pool, as we speak. If you watch the Senior Bowl game this Saturday, keep your eyes on #95/BLANTON and a guy who may line up near him #6/KEION WHITE.
So let’s run this thru one more time. Star Games matter. Anytime they put on the pads and keep score it matters. So…
SHRINE BOWL Thursday (tonight) 8:30 EST/5:30 PST TV coverage NFLNetwork from Las Vegas
REESE’S SENIOR BOWL Saturday 2:30 EST/1:30CST TV Coverage NFL Network from Mobile, AL
Watch them both, and tape them for future study.
P.S. I almost forgot to mention my favorite player in this game: LB #1, National Squad, DAIYAN HENLEY, Washington State, 6’1/230#. He has been flying around the field in Mobile and I am pretty sure I am not the only “watcher” this week tat sees First Round (late) talent, in part because he is just as effective against either the run or pass game.
P.S.S. Not to forget the Shrine Bowl tonight… keep your eyes on ZAY FLOWERS WR/RS #4. This speedy/quick, little (5’9/182) water bug is the highest ranked prospect in this game. He’s on the West Squad somehow, even though he’s from Boston College. | <urn:uuid:1dc17382-7a5d-40af-8d83-14eeb35c62c8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://gbnreport.com/star-games-2023-update-thursday-feb-2/ | 2023-10-04T20:52:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511406.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004184208-20231004214208-00698.warc.gz | en | 0.971497 | 2,241 |
NEW YEAR BELLS
Ring Out, Wild Bells
A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1850, the year he was appointed Poet Laureate
‘For centuries, shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve campanologists have made their way towards many of England's parish churches where, on the stroke of midnight, they begin the ancient ritual of ringing out the old year and ringing in the new. The sentiments expressed in Tennyson's poem Ring Out, Wild Bells still resonate almost two hundred years after it was first published. The poem speaks of bringing relief from grief, about casting aside everything that was sad and bad about the year that has passed, and makes fervent wishes that the better aspects of human nature will emerge in the future. Isn't that what most people hope for when the New Year brings a symbolic opportunity for a new beginning?’
‘According to legend, the inspiration for the poem came when Tennyson, staying in the vicinity of Waltham Abbey, heard the Abbey Church bells clanging in the wind on a stormy night.
As a child in the large family of an impoverished country Church rector, Tennyson would have seen and perhaps experienced many of the features of society that he wrote about in Ring Out, Wild Bells.’*
Ring Out, Wild Bells
‘Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.’
*Continue and read more about ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’
Our New Year Message
2020 has been a difficult year. It's time to reset. It’s time to Ring in Hope
Photo: Jan Von Holleben/Trunk Archive/Via The Guardian
We all know well that 2020 has been a unique and challenging year for all of us all over the world.
The pandemic has become a pervasive and chilling backdrop to a changed world and a timely reminder of our own vulnerability on a planet teetering on the edge.
So how do we as individuals, communities and as a society reset? How can we begin to reimagine the better days yet to come? How do we acknowledge the threats and work together to build a world of connection, collaboration, unity and hope?
To our mind, perhaps the best we can do is, to be more thankful, grateful, and hopeful more than ever before, where and when we will all continue our common good journey and share a common belief in the potential of each one of us to become self-directed, empowered, and active in defining this time in the world as an opportunity for positive change and healing and for the true formation of a culture of peace by giving thanks, spreading joy, sharing love, seeing miracles, discovering goodness, embracing kindness, practicing patience, teaching moderation, encouraging laughter, celebrating diversity, showing compassion, turning from hatred, practicing forgiveness, peacefully resolving conflicts, communicating non-violently, choosing happiness and enjoying life.
May you find joy in the simple pleasures of life and may the light of the holiday season fill your heart with
the hope for a better and healthier world
As a token of our love, we wish to share this video with you:
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IT’S TRUE. ALL OF IT. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS IS COMING HOME
MAR 3, 2016
THE LATEST FILM IN THE STAR WARS SAGA ARRIVES ON MULTIPLE FORMATS THIS APRIL, ALONG WITH SEVERAL RETAILER-EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is calling to you. And you can let it in this April.
As announced this morning by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Iger at The Walt Disney Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the epic movie will be available to own early on Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere on April 1. It comes home on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on April 5. The film shattered box office records upon its debut, eventually grossing over $926 million domestic and $2.05 billion worldwide. Featuring new heroes and villains, along with classic characters, thrilling action, and a heartfelt story, Star Wars: The Force Awakens connected with fans and deepened the mythology of Star Wars. Take a first look at disc packaging below!
Blu-ray Combo Pack
Packaged with the film is a galaxy of bonus content that will take fans inside the making of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including an in-depth documentary, featurettes, and more. Secrets will be revealed through extensive footage, never-before-seen deleted scenes, and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers. Bonus features include*:
Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey – For the first time, discover the complete story behind the making of The Force Awakens, revealed through in-depth footage and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers in this feature documentary
The Story Awakens: The Table Read – Cast members familiar and new reflect on the memorable day they all first came together to read the movie’s script
Building BB-8 – See how the filmmakers brought the newest droid to the screen, creating an instant fan favorite in the Star Wars universe
Crafting Creatures – Watch movie magic as the filmmakers bring a cast of new creatures to life
Blueprint of a Battle: The Snow Fight – Go deeper into the epic, climactic lightsaber battle between Rey and Kylo Ren
John Williams: The Seventh Symphony – The legendary composer shares personal insights of his work on Star Wars and The Force Awakens
ILM: The Visual Magic of The Force – An insider’s look into the remarkable digital artistry of the movie’s visual effects.
Force For Change – Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. See how the Star Wars: Force for Change initiative has united Star Wars fans all over the globe to help others
Plus Deleted Scenes
* Digital bonus offerings may vary by retailer
Note: The 3D version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be available later this year.
To celebrate the in-home release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Target, Walmart, and Best Buy are each offering fans a retailer-exclusive, uniquely packaged, collectible version of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Combo Pack. These limited edition releases, seen below, will be packaged as follows:
TARGET – The Target Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Combo Pack comes with exclusive packaging and an added 20 minutes of bonus content, including never-before-seen interviews with Daisy Ridley and John Boyega and a deeper look at the movie’s costumes and weaponry
WALMART – The Walmart Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Combo Pack comes with exclusive BB-8 packaging and an exclusive Star Wars Galactic Connexions trading disc
BEST BUY – The Best Buy Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Combo Pack features exclusive SteelBook Packaging
Target Exclusive Blu-ray Combo Pack
Walmart Exclusive Blu-ray Combo Pack
Best Buy Exclusive Blu-ray Combo Pack
Star Wars: The Force Awakens saw the eagerly anticipated reteaming of original Star Wars stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill, along with Anthony Daniels, the only actor to have been in all seven Star Wars films, and Peter Mayhew. The returning cast was joined by newcomer Daisy Ridley, who beat out fierce competition to take the principal role of Rey; BAFTA Rising Star Award winner John Boyega (Attack the Block, Imperial Dreams) as reluctant stormtrooper Finn; Emmy nominee Adam Driver (Lincoln, Girls) as the villainous Kylo Ren, and Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Bourne Legacy) as Resistance pilot Poe Dameron.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was directed by J.J. Abrams and written by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt. Lucasfilm president and eight-time Academy Award nominee Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams, along with his longtime producing partner Bryan Burk, are the film’s producers. Having established a musical legacy with his iconic scores for the previous six films in the Star Wars saga, acclaimed composer John Williams returned to score Star Wars: The Force Awakens, ultimately garnering his 50th Oscar nomination for his work.
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OK I realize that to the Canadian media, AKA “The Justin Trudeau Fan Club”, that question is close to heretical.
After all, they keep telling us about how it’s our national destiny to see Trudeau the Magnificent proclaimed God-Emperor … oops I mean Prime Minister.
In fact, they seem irked we have to endure three whole years of non-Trudeau rule.
Yet we need, I think, to consider those controversial comments he made a few years ago that recently surfaced in a Sun News story.
It seems to me they might conceivably, possibly, perhaps, be considered somewhat of a mistake.
You probably know which comments I’m talking about.
While being interviewed for a French-language news show, Trudeau proclaimed “
isn’t doing well right now because it’s Albertans who control our community and
socio-democratic agenda. It doesn’t work.” Canada
He doesn’t say
isn’t doing well because
Conservatives are running the country or because Harper is running the country,
but because “Albertans” control our
socio-democratic agenda, whatever that means. Canada
To me, that sounds an awful lot like anti-Albertan bigotry. I mean, if you take Trudeau at his word, he would actually support a Conservative Quebecer for prime minister over a Liberal Albertan.
Take that Harvey Locke!
Take that Harvey Locke!
He then goes on to say the only good prime ministers come from
Quebec and indeed that Canada “belongs to .” Quebec
Needless to say, these are not the sort of comments that will win votes outside of
It also undermines the media narrative that Trudeau is an idealist whose only
goal in life is to unite all Canadians in a big group hug. Montreal
Mind you, I doubt this will get him into too much trouble, at least in the short term. For one thing the media won’t play it up. Check out, for instance, this Canadian Press story on his comments which manages to put Trudeau in a positive light and attack the Conservatives all the while burying the lede so deep you will need a steam shovel to find it.
Now that’s journalism.
Also, we must remember Trudeau’s comments were made in 2010, before the media realized he was the true Messiah who would rid the country of the evil Harperites. Recall, at that time they assumed Michael Ignatieff was the true Messiah who would rid the country of the evil Harperites.
So given all that, maybe technically-speaking we shouldn’t consider his two-year old comments a mistake.
But still, whether the media will admit it or not, this episode reveals two glaring weaknesses in Trudeau’s candidacy.
First, it shows how the guy lacks political savvy and message discipline. In other words, he has a tendency to say stupid things. This means the problem for the Liberals isn’t what dopey things Trudeau has said in the past, it’s what dopey things he might say in the future.
And you better believe once he steps in the jungle of leadership politics, his battle-hardened and tough opponents will do everything they can to get under his skin, hoping to trigger an ill-considered outburst.
Secondly, and more importantly, Trudeau’s comments on
reveal that his mindset is more suited to the 1970s. Quebec
Back in those days Liberals assumed
Canada’s governing classes had to come from
Central Canada, so as to ensure the country was run for the benefit of Central Canada.
Anything west of
was there simply to provide a location for Liberal Party socialist experiments like the National Energy Program. Ontario
This, by the way, is also apparently the attitude of Trudeau’s comrade, Liberal MP David McGuinty.
What McGuinty and Trudeau don’t seem to get is that
much different place than it was 40 years ago. Canada
Economic and political power is shifting west and if Trudeau doesn’t come to grips with that fact, he will need more than a god-like persona to lead his party out of the wilderness.
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- APSWREIS Inter CET 2023 result available soon, direct link is given under
- AP Social welfare entrance exam has been conducted on 23 April 2023
- APSWREIS Inter Result 2023 will be declared on 9 May 2023
- Selected candidates list (APSWREIS inter seat allotment) will be displayed on 9 May 2023
- A total of 42,831 students applied for the 13,560 seats, of which 34,545 students attended for the exam.
AP Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Gurukulam Inter entrance test Result 2023
The students who will appear for the exam can able to check their APSWREIS Inter CET 2023 Results on the official website at apgpcet.apcfss.in/Inter/. The applicants will be required to enter their Hall Ticket No. to check the APSWREIS Inter Results 2023. The candidate should check important dates related to seat allotment, counselling, selection procedure and the documents required at the time of admission.
Also Read : APSWREIS Inter admission counselling
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The APSWREIS Dr BR Ambedkar Gurukulam Inter Results 2023 (merit list & Selection list) will be uploaded on the official website at apgpcet.apcfss.in/Inter/. However, the candidates can also check their individual marks. The candidates are requested to check the site regularly for availing the information regarding the APSWREIS Inter Result 2022.
|APSWREIS Inter Entrance Exam Date 2023||23 April 2023|
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