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Is New Lemony Snicket Book For Kids? Yes and No
'Poison for Breakfast' is a great book. But should young fans of Snicket read it?
The books of Lemony Snicket are among some of the greatest middle-grade novels ever written. Scratch that. A Series of Unfortunate Events and the prequel series All the Wrong Questions are some of the best contemporary novels— period. If you’ve only ever watched the fantastic Netflix series, that’s good, but it also means you haven’t experienced the full brilliance of what makes Lemony Snicket so funny, meditative, and straight-up cool. The stories of the Baudelaire orphans, and later, Snicket himself, are more than just engaging mysteries. It’s a whole world of philosophy, adventure, and dark, sometimes macabre humor. The Snicket books have always pushed the boundary of what a children’s book can be and unlike some more popular books (*cough Harry Potter*) the stories don’t rely on magic or the notion of a “chosen one.” In the Lemony Snicket universe, problems are solved by invention, knowledge, and sometimes cooking.
So, with that in mind, is the latest book carrying the name “Lemony Snicket” in that same tradition? Is this really a book for the same (grade school-aged) kids who read, and loved the other books? The short answer is kind of.
Who is Lemony Snicket?
First things first: If for some reason, you don’t know this, Lemony Snicket is both a fictional character and an “author.” In real life, Lemony Snicket is the pen name of author Daniel Handler, but in the context of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket is also a colorful character, a person who knew the parents of the Baudelaire orphans, and whose siblings — Jacques Snicket and Kit Snicket — have powerful and pivotal roles in those books. In the Netflix series, Snicket was played by Patrick Warburton (yes, of Seinfeld fame!) and added a whole new dimension to the character.
This is a long way of saying a book that is “by Lemony Snicket” is loaded. Before you even start reading it, you enter a world in which the writer also has one foot in a wacky, and wonderful fictional world. Imagine if the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was literally Willy Wonka. For the uninitiated, that’s what reading Snicket is like. Only much better.
Is Poison For Breakfast a children’s book?
The answer to this question is tricky. The kneejerk answer is probably no, simply because the plot or story isn’t really comparable to one of the more famous Lemony Snicket books. And yet, if you have a grade-school-aged kid, this book is amazing. If your kid is open-minded about what constitutes a book for them, then yes, this book is for kids, because the book is for everyone. As Snicket jokes many times throughout the book, “It could be said to be a book of philosophy, something almost no one likes, but it is also a mystery, and many people claim to like those.” The philosophy part is true. Poison For Breakfast is a slim book about thinking. To that end, Snicket talks about poetry, metaphor, dreams, and the unexpected things that make life worth living. It’s edgy and macabre in the same style as A Series of Unfortunate Events, but the story here is more meandering, a word here which means “there’s less pressure on the characters and the reader, which has a delightful result.” The story begins when Snicket gets a note that says “you had poison for breakfast,” and embarks on a brief existential and touching crisis to figure out what that means. This leads him on a journey that involves rants about supermarkets, swimming in the ocean, and having conversations with people who aren’t actually there. It’s a chef’s kiss of creativity and balm to any mental stress you might have.
It’s delightful and thoughtful, and for adults, it’s kind of like the book version of CBD gummies. But for our kids, it’s probably a challenging book, insofar as it encourages them to think about life and death in different ways than other books generally marketed at children. If that sounds pretentious, the good news is, the book isn’t. Something that makes all the Lemony Snicket books so good is that the writing never talks down to children. This book isn’t necessarily for children, but it isn’t child-averse either.
From brilliant slice-of-life-insights to laugh-out-loud jokes, to wonderful references to great books and films, Poison For Breakfast is a one-of-a-kind book. It dares to remember that kids are people too and that some adults used to be children.
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On Wednesday 4th September the Contemorary Art Museum in Panama will open the exhibition FOTOSEPTIEMBRE by Fernando Alda. The photographs belong to the project “The poetry of a skeleton” and will be exhibited within the permanent collection at MAC. For more information, the Museum will publish a press relase next week. You are cordially invited to attend the opening and to visit the exhibition at a later stage.
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Professional photographer since 1981, specializes in photography of architecture and infrastructure from 1987. My stories recorded works of great interest and uniqueness, documenting its construction and final state. My studio is developing a high quality work in editing analog and digital images. This material, exceeding seven thousand reports, is consulted regularly by publishers around the world, being published monthly in books and magazines and foreign. | <urn:uuid:394db7b2-e17c-4f3f-8891-e02ce9ebc9e4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.fernandoalda.com/blog/en/2013/08/ | 2024-04-13T22:28:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.942112 | 199 |
State Street was founded in 1792 and is the second oldest financial institution in the United States of America. The company’s headquarters are in Boston but it has offices in 29 countries around the world. They are a huge American worldwide financial services holding company responsible for around $28 trillion of assets.
State Street Corporation has a buoyant State Street Pride (LGBT & Allies) group who, jointly with their UK Families Network, invited FFLAG to a lunchtime event at their London offices in Canary Wharf on April the 14th.
The aim of the lunch & learn event was for FFLAG to offer advice and support to potential parents of LGBT children, inform them about the work of FFLAG and where parents could find more information/ support when needed.
Two FFLAG Trustees, Virginia Field and Bruce Kent were pleased to attend the event which was simultaneously broadcast by live video link to the State Street offices in Edinburgh, Luxembourg, Munich, Paris, and five different office locations in Eire.
Bruce mentioned that it was the first time he had been asked to speak specifically to potential parents of LGBT youngsters and how pleased he was to be able to do so. Too many parents, he said, are totally unprepared for that moment when their youngster says, “Mum, Dad, I’m gay” and can easily not react in the most helpful way as a result.
If they had looked into the subject beforehand and come to learn that being LGBT isn’t a sickness that needs curing and that sexuality and gender identity aren’t lifestyle choices they would have saved themselves and their offspring much heartache.
Virginia and Bruce both went on to tell their own personal stories and tell the group about the resources that are now available to parents and family members in the UK and about the work that FFLAG is currently doing. There followed a question and answer session and it was clear to both Virginia and Bruce that there is a growing need for support for Trans youngsters and their families.
The presentations were well received with much positive feedback from the delegates and State Street has asked to continue to work with FFLAG in the future.
Virginia and Bruce
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Brahmastra Part One: Shiva ended with the introduction of Dev, Shiva’s (Ranbir Kapoor) father in the film. Hrithik Roshan and KGF fame Yash were also been considered to play the role of Dev but a recent report in News 18 has its sources confirming that Ranveer Singh has been finalised to play Dev in the second installment of the Brahmastra series. It was already reported earlier that Deepika Padukone will play Amrita, Kapoor’s mother in the film.
The source revealed, “Ranveer has been finalised to play the role of 'Dev'. He has signed the dotted line. The scripting for the second part is still in progress and the film is expected to roll in 2025. Currently, Ayan is busy with War 2 and Ranveer will also begin shooting for Baiju Bawra this year. So, when Brahmastra 2 will go on floors is still unclear.”
The source adds, “If all goes well, Ranveer will kick-start Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Baiju Bawra mid-2024. While it was decided that the shoot of Brahmastra 2 will begin in early 2025, it is now being said that Don 3 will go on floors at around the same time. In all likelihood, Ranveer will shoot for Don 3 first and then Brahmastra 2.”
Although, an official announcement for the same from the makers is still awaited. Brahmastra Part One: Shiva also featured, Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna and Mouni Roy in pivotal roles. Shah Rukh Khan was also seen in a special appearance in the film. | <urn:uuid:59cc0388-8617-4fad-ab74-40ddc2cacf40> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.filmcompanion.in/news/ranveer-singh-and-deepika-padukone-to-play-ranbir-kapoors-parents-in-brahmastra-2 | 2024-04-13T23:04:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.972166 | 371 |
In this projects implementation, we considered creating wireless network as VANET architecture, which has On-board Unit (OBU) or Road side Unit (RSU), vehicles and access points (AP).
For Node’s authentication, we used Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithm for creating nodes private key
Additionally random generated key pair values are assigned to nodes as public key and private key
Identity-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication scheme for VANETs
Vehicles are authenticated by RSU and can communicate within the network.
Implementation is done using ns-allinone-2.34 software tcl command. Software and Tutorial is available under following link https://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/
Modules implemented in this project
Vehicle registration module
Vehicle joining module
Broadcasting and verification module
Key revocation and renewal module
Check the Demo video of Identity-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for VANETS
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Benevity Inc., a Calgary, Canada-based global supplier of workplace giving and volunteer management software solutions, completed a $38m CAD Series A funding round.
JMI Equity made the investment. As part of the transaction, JMI General Partner, Bob Nye will join Benevity’s Board of Directors.
The company intends to use the funds for product development.
Founded in 2008 and led by Bryan de Lottinville, CEO, Benevity provides a social platform for companies to build social responsibility and giving into their businesses to increase the social impact of their programs and to attract, retain and engage customers, employees and partners. Its employee giving and volunteering solution, Spark, is used by some of the most notable companies in the world, ranging in size from a few hundred to more than 250,000 employees. | <urn:uuid:6bc034b2-8a40-4ad3-b403-865b1c012a73> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.finsmes.com/2015/07/benevity-completes-38m-cad-series-a-funding.html | 2024-04-13T23:20:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.954137 | 170 |
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These are pictures of my latest aeration system for my dams, the drum had disinfectant in it and has been washed so safe to use in a dam, the aerator is a membrane type and around 250 ml wide the drum will keep the aerator off the bottom so it will not stir up silt and mud from the bottom of the dam, the pipes are to allow fish to use the drum as habitat, the aerator should create a gentle flow beneath it, the blackfish should breed in the pipes and the small current will be ideal for them to keep eggs clean. I use a good quality garden hose as an air line so it is a simple task to fit it .
This aerator will be run off a solar panel with a battery backup .
I have placed old bits of steel in the drum to help it sink and I will attach a chain and buoy to it for retrieval if necessary for cleaning at a later date.
I drilled some holes around the bottom to help it sink and I have made the holes big enough for small fish and yabbies to come and go, the dam is about 3 mts deep so I have made the chain just a bit longer. Now we just need sun shine.
After finishing the aerator I attached the hose floated it out to the deepest part of the dam and let it sink , it in about 3 metres of water the drums are about 1 metre so the aerator is at about 2 metres that should create a slow current that will circulate the water pretty well.
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Not long ago a campus petitioner stopped me and asked for my support to end voter fraud in Florida.
He was a young man like myself who could even pass for a student were he not holding a clipboard with a stack of papers pressed against his chest. He pulled out a sheet and handed it to me.
The proposal sounded innocuous — you want real ballots in every election — so I questioned him further and he quickly said, “you don’t need real identification to vote, so this would only allow people with a state ID or driver’s license to cast a ballot.”
Not true. Unless you’re voting through a provisional ballot, Florida elections mandate proof of identity with photo IDs. While Florida requirements are not as strict as other states that limit photo ID options, the consequences of these methods have resulted in lower voter turnouts among minorities.
We have also seen ‘voter fraud’ being used as a political weapon.
In the last two years, Donald Trump claimed voter fraud in both the national election and pivotal elections in the state of Florida — Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio publicly agreed. Without evidence, these assertions promote distrust for the political process at a time when Democrats are looking toward voter expansion. When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked about House bill H.R. 1 this January, legislation to make Election day a federal holiday, he declared it a ‘power grab’ by the Democratic party.
”We can do so much more:”
This made me think about the passage of Amendment Four last November. The constitutional amendment proposed restoring the voting rights of people with prior felony convictions, upon completing parole and probation, but exempting those convicted of murder or charged with a sexual offense felony.
In total, one-tenth of the state’s voting population was restored, a historic 1.4 million people. It also occurred exactly 150 years since 1868, the year when the provision of criminal disenfranchisement first became law. Amendment Four was a triumph over this anniversary and the blighted history civil suppression in the state of Florida.
If we look at the history, the felon disenfranchisement clause was inherited from the Florida Constitution of 1868. In this document of Southern Reconstruction politics, racial prejudice from the era of slavery lingered like an acrid odor within the codified language of judicial power. At first, nearly half of Florida’s population was black by the end of the Civil War, and Civil War Amendments resulted in the Florida’s first black elected officials.
According to University of South Florida Professor Emeritus of Government Darryl Paulson, “Nineteen blacks were elected to the 76-member Florida Legislature and Josiah Wells, a former slave and Union soldier from Alachua County, became Florida’s first black member of Congress when he won election in 1870”; however, “Wells would also be the only black member of Congress from Florida for the next 116 years.” In Dr. Paulson’s six-part article on the history of black voting in Florida, he notes that the “explosion in the number of black voters and black elected officials” was countered by Jim Crow legislation and racist Black Codes that would criminalize black lives.
Before Amendment Four, only Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, and Virginia permanently banned felons from regaining their civil liberties. However, Florida rates of incarceration are unique because they are some of the highest in the nation. Today the state is littered with 143 individual correctional facilities scattered from the panhandle to Monroe County.
“Take action on climate change. Defend individual liberties with fair-minded judges.”
Comparable to the U.S. prison system at large, African-Americans are disproportionately overrepresented in the state of Florida — the black population makes up 16% of the state yet nearly half of the prison population. Because of the state’s disenfranchisement provision, an astronomical 1 in 5 black men and women could not cast a ballot before 2018.
What brings this landmark piece of legislation, which passed with over 64 percent approval, into question is that it is yet to be enacted. There is also a general concern that its fate lies in the hands of the bill’s first opponents.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis postponed signing into law the ‘Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative’ stating, in an interview with the Palm Beach Post, that the ballot amendment should be reviewed by Florida Legislature first for “implementing language.”
In order to understand the fear of potential injustice, we must speak honestly about the ways that Florida politicians have obstructed, in the recent past, the reintegration of Florida felons into civil society.
“Those who hoped to have their voting rights restored were required to plead their case to the state’s Executive Clemency Board — a panel made up of the governor and his Cabinet,” according to a The Hill report. This panel is now remembered for the mercilessness it upheld before thousands of individual atonements.
In 2007, Gov. Charlie Crist was criticized by the GOP for being weak on crime when he made it easier for felons to regain their voting rights. The move was significant and impacted voter turnouts during Barack Obama’s presidential run in Florida.
“But none of these ambitions are possible without the bedrock guarantee of our right to vote”
However, former Gov. Rick Scott reversed the ruling in 2011. For the next seven years, the Clemency board was widely criticized as arbitrary and riddled with racial discrimination and political bias. It was eventually sued for racial animus and deemed “fatally flawed” by District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee at the end of Scott’s tenure.
Yet the damage was done. During Christ’s four years as governor, more than 150,000 Floridians had their voting rights restored, [but] over the next seven years, Gov. Rick Scott restored voting rights to only about 3,000 people,” according to NPR.
This was the result of a five-year mandatory waiting period post-release, a backlog of more than 10,000 applicants, a board that only met four times a year, and baseless standards for civil restoration.
“Scott restored the voting rights of twice as many whites as blacks and three times as many white men as black men,” according to an report by the Palm Beach Post.
“Black men accounted for 16 percent of voting restorations even though 38 percent of released prisoners were black men. Blacks accounted for a lower percentage of restorations under Scott than under any of his predecessors, Republican or Democrat, going back at least half a century.”
Ironically, racial discrimination was not ‘sufficiently proven’ when the Brennan Center for Justice sued Governor Bush and other members of the Clemency Board in 2002. Foresight over the future mishandling of the Clemency Board was overlooked.
In the legal summary of Johnson v Bush, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld criminal disenfranchisement on the basis that “there is no allegation of racial discrimination in 1968 when legislators decided to include a felon disenfranchisement provision in the revised constitution.”
“Let’s be clear: voter suppression is real.”
How can we relegate honest discussions about racism to the era of slavery, or to the decades of the Civil Rights Movement, when these moments clearly strike at the core of political repression? Until we can confront, earnestly, the lasting echoes of flaws from early-American democracy there will always be hypocrisy within democratic structures.
As Amendment Four awaits a signature, it will first be battled within Florida’s Republican-majority State Legislature, a majority that has never changed since 1995. Since those years, key elections have come down to the thousands of votes.
2000: Republican President Bush wins by 537 votes
2002: Republican Governor Jeb Bush wins by 655,418 votes
2004: Republican President Bush re-election wins 380,978 votes
2006: Republican Governor Charlie Crist wins by 341,556 votes
2010: Republican Governor Rick Scott wins by 61,550 votes
2014: Republican Governor Scott re-election wins by 64,145 votes
2016: Republican President Donald Trump wins by 112,911 votes
2018: Republican Senator Rick Scott wins by 10,033 votes
2018: Republican Governor Ron DeSantis wins by 32,463 votes
It is important to not get bogged down by these figures of the past, although they do illustrate a trend. For a battleground state, elections have been fairly one-sided. The restoration of over a million votes may finally tip a few scales in the upcoming years.
“From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.”
— Stacey Abrams, Rebuttal to President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union
I remember the campaign initiative for felon restoration coming to my campus. I signed on the page. Each one added to a movement that began a decade before when Desmond Meade struggled to elevate the issue of voting rights to the ballot. Meade had battled homelessness, served imprisonment, then earned a law degree, to later lead a coalition that would amend a shameful 150 year old legacy.
The legislators will meet on March 5 and confront this legacy themselves. I am left with an uncanny feeling about the potential change that signing a ballot initiative can provoke.
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How Working From Home Can Affect Your Eyesight
As the country is once again in a national lockdown; people are again setting up desks in their kitchens, dining rooms, or living rooms and working from home. Whilst this kind of lifestyle might be beneficial for some people, it can be a real headache for others. Along with having a negative effect on your neck, spine, and shoulders, there’s evidence to suggest that working from home can have a negative effect on your eyesight.
When you work in an office, it’s likely that your desk, chair, computer screen, keyboard and even the lighting has been specifically designed to be ergonomic and suitable for working. This means that you can work for long periods and remain comfortable. There is, in fact, a guide for workplaces on how to make sure your office is ergonomic for your workers.
If you’re working from home at the moment, it’s likely you may have set up a temporary desk on the dining room table, or maybe even on the sofa. These workspaces are not designed for sitting and concentrating for long periods. Additionally, the soft lighting that is used in homes means that there isn’t sufficient light on specific areas. This kind of lighting from lamps and low-energy bulbs whilst you’re at a screen means you could be causing long-term damage to your eyes. And may be one reason why you’re struggling to focus on your work more. Your eyes could be getting slightly more irritated than usual.
Why This Happens
The BBC recently reported that people’s screen time during the spring lockdown was up by almost a third compared to pre-lockdown. This is bad news for our eyes! This increased screen time can lead to a form of eye strain called Computer Vision Syndrome.
When you’re looking at a computer, you might notice that you’re blinking less than you normally would. As a result, the protective film over your eyes dries out and becomes irritable. If you often get this kind of irritation, read one of our previous blog posts on how to prevent eyestrain from computers.
This eye strain caused by increased use in screen time carries symptoms such as; headaches, blurred vision, dry eyes, and occasionally struggling to focus.
Make Sure Your Work From Home Setup is Kind to your Eyes
Unfortunately, we don’t just mean making sure your desk is instagram-worthy, clean and tidy. (so many work from home images online this year!) In order to make your home desk a nice place for your eyes, make sure there’s as much natural light as possible. Avoid dark and dingy corners where the light from the computer screen is glaring into your eyes. Whilst natural light is good; you don’t want too much of it. Ideally, you want to find somewhere that means you’re not squinting to look at the screen.
It’s also important to make sure you’re far enough away from the screen, and your screen is at the right height for your eyes. It’s advised that you keep your screens at arm’s length from your eyes. (How many of you just checked that?) You should also make sure that the top of the screen is level with your eyes whilst you’re sitting at the desk.
In addition to this guidance, it’s recommended that you take regular breaks, and don’t forget to blink! It’s suggested that every 20 minutes of looking at the screen, move your focus away from the screen to something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. It’s also a good idea to get up and walk around regularly as well. Whilst you’re taking these breaks, remember to catch up on some much-needed blinking to give your eyes some moisture!
Perhaps also invest in some comfort drops, that will give you a bit of relief after a long day, adding a temporary amount of moisture for your sore eyes.
Contact lenses can also dry your eyes out more, so perhaps have the odd day when you wear your glasses instead.
Regularly Having Trouble with your eyes?
If you’re regularly having trouble with your eyes throughout the day; why not book an appointment with Focus Medical Eye Centre and get a professional eye examination. If you’ve noticed a change in the sharpness of your vision recently, you might need glasses or an update to your current glasses prescription.
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Real Madrid come into El Clasico on a six-match unbeaten run, but still without a certain fluidity, as was seen in the Madrid derby on Saturday.
Injuries and fitness are set to play a key role in the fixture, with Barcelona missing their three best attacking players in Pedri, Ousmane Dembele and Robert Lewandowski.
Real Madrid are missing David Alaba and Ferland Mendy, while they are also sweating on the fitness of Rodrygo Goes. The Brazilian injured his gluteus against Liverpool, missing Atletico Madrid. He returned to training on Wednesday.
“Rodrygo has trained, it seems that he is fine but we will make a decision after,” manager Carlo Ancelotti told the press.
He also gave updates on Eden Hazard and Aurelien Tchouameni, who are no longer injured but have not featured much of late.
“Hazard is fine, he is training and wants to have minutes, he can have them in the coming games.”
“Aurelien is fine, recovering his condition and can be a starter.”
“Camavinga is doing very well and that’s good, having two players of this level gives us something more.”
The Italian manager will have a selection headache on his hands against a weakened Barcelona. Real Madrid could strike an important emotional blow by beating the Blaugrana and condemning them to three straight defeats. Equally, being the first of a two-legged tie usually brings more caution, although Liverpool can attest that that is not always the case. | <urn:uuid:002cbfb0-ba2b-4931-9844-68e7ed189d03> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.football-espana.net/2023/03/01/carlo-ancelotti-provides-fitness-updates-on-three-players-ahead-of-barcelona-clash | 2024-04-13T21:57:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.981849 | 337 |
We all know that the “free of cost” Google Forms have delighted us at first due to many reasons like its logic threading functionality, unlimited free forms, and responsiveness. But as soon as we encounter its drawbacks, it must have taken us aback.
Believe it or not, but this free platform restricts you with many important features such as limited design customization, lack of SSL security, conditional logic, etc.
Out of this list, one such limitation of Google Forms is the restricted file upload option. It allows you to upload files from 1 MB to 10 GB only. So, you can not upload more than this.
Further, for uploading files to Google Forms, you need to perform a lot of workarounds that involve complicated scripts and other methods.
Now, as soon as you come across these drawbacks, it must have taken you aback from using Google Forms. So, you must be wondering how you can allow your website visitors to upload more than 10 GB file attachments to your forms, that too very easily.
Is there a better alternative that can help you to collect files from your form?
Now that you have decided to get over the Google Forms, fortunately, there are a handful of pretty great alternatives to it. And, they offer many great options for file upload that you can try. The one best alternative of it would be Pabbly Form Builder. It is a sophisticated and more focused form builder that offers premium features like unlimited file upload, submissions, etc, that a free platform like Google Forms just can’t.
Pabbly Form Builder
Pabbly Form Builder is the only form builder that does not restrict you to use any of its features. It is the cheapest and most effective form creator that offers features like unlimited submission, payment collection, etc.
Yes, you heard it right!
Pabbly Form Builder is an inclusive tool that comes with great file upload capabilities. Unlike Google Forms, it does not restrict you to upload files by superimposing limits on it. It allows your clients to upload unlimited files with any size as many times as they want.
Let’s understand how Pabbly Form Builder stands out from others.
What sets it apart??
There are a lot of reasons behind calling Pabbly Form Builder the best tool for providing file upload option. Some of the functionalities of this alternative to Google Forms involve:
- Unlimited File Upload: There are no limitations to the size, number, and type of files that can be uploaded on a form. This gives you the flexibility to receive as many files as you want on a form.
- Anyone Can Upload Files: While Google Forms has a file upload option, it still requires anyone completing your form to be signed in to a Google account. This leaves out those who may not have a Google account and introduces a barrier to getting answers from your respondents. But, with Pabbly Form Builder, your clients do not require to sign in for uploading files.
- Move Files To DropBox: Pabbly Form Builder allows you to actually move the files from its database to your DropBox account.
After reading all these, you should be more than ready to create your first form with a file upload option with Pabbly Form Builder. But, how can you allow your visitor to do this?
How you can allow your visitors to do this?
Pabbly Form Builder supports uploading documents and files in several formats. You can find the file upload feature directly in the form builder’s dashboard. It allows you to add fields to your forms so that you can enable your users to upload any kind of file using it. Further, you can specify some particular format for which you want files to be uploaded into your forms. Once the files get uploaded, they get stored safely within Pabbly Form Builder’s database and you can access them at any time.
Further, it allows a user to upload images, docs, etc. through your forms. Besides this, different file extensions allowed to upload are jpg, gif, png, tif, doc, zip, pdf, rar, docx, ppt, mp3, mp4, mov, and flv.
Apart from this, Pabbly Form Builder enables your clients to upload an unlimited number of files without superimposing any limit on uploads.
Let’s see how you can add file upload option into your form via Pabbly Form Builder-
Step 1: First, you need to create a new form or you can also try one from the plethora of beautiful pre-built templates. Also, you can edit these templates as per your requirements.
Pabbly Form Builder provides you with plenty of design tools that you can use to customize your form inside the dashboard.
Step 2: Here, you can find & add the file upload option to your form from the “Blocks” tab on the left. Also, you can insert headings, dropdown, video, image, captcha, radio, etc by using its drag & drop editor.
Step 3: Next, you can set up & customize the file upload field using the “FileUpload Field” section. Further, you can also click on the form fields and drag them to rearrange the order on your form.
Step 4: After adding all the required fields into your form, you can save it for further use. Now, to share this form with your users, click on the “Share” button on the top right corner of the dashboard.
Step 5: In addition, it offers 4 types of form embedding options for sharing form: Direct Sharing, Sliding Form, Full Form, and Pop up Form. Besides, you can share the link directly on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn with your customers.
Step 6: You can easily delete the file upload option. But, make sure that if you have accepted any submission for this form, you should export submissions first.
How to view the submission & uploaded files?
You can view the submissions directly from the “Submission” option available at the left-hand side panel in the dashboard.
Now, you can download the uploaded files & submissions directly from here. Besides this, you can download them into PDF format for further use.
This is how you can successfully add a file upload option into your forms which can help you to collect files from your clients.
How much does it cost?
Pabbly Form Builder gives you the freedom of unlimited File Uploads, submissions, webhooks and many more just at the cost of $10 per month.
Try Pabbly Form Builder now!
And, there you have it! You now know how to create a file upload form using Pabbly Form Builder. There was a reason why we made you familiar with this form creator.
First of all, you will be paying an amount now which wasn’t required at all while using Google Forms. So, it is your right to spend only on a dutiful form builder software.
Don’t think of the cost. Think of value.
And like I said earlier, there are numerous features that were not included in Google Forms, nor there is any scope to find them in the near future. That’s why its high time that you try this Google Form alternative that is meant to suffice your business needs.
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Published on April 16th, 2012 | by Kim LaCapria
0Tupac Hologram Could Tour, Says MTV
Perhaps the biggest story in entertainment today was that of the appearance of legendary dead rapper Tupac Shakur at the Coachella festival last night.
One joke circulating Twitter noted that it must have been kinda freaky for all the people who’d been doing acid for a few days to spot Pac on the stage, and undoubtedly, the sudden appearance of Tupac was probably in part such a big deal because no one was expecting it. Indeed, there’s something a bit sad about such tributes, after you contemplate it and contrast it with the fact the Tupac really isn’t coming back to drop another album.
But according to MTV, Tupac’s CGI likeness (which, they point out was entirely generated and not from archival footage) could eventually come to a town near you. Nick Smith of AV Concepts, the company that brought Tupac back, says:
“We worked with Dr. Dre on this, and it was Dre’s vision to bring this back to life… It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life… You can take their likenesses and voice and … take people that haven’t done concerts before or perform music they haven’t sung and digitally re-create it.”
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Today I wanted to share my lazy girl tips to increase energy and weight loss. A funny thing happened when I started sharing my nutritional goals last Summer 2018, many of you could relate. I wouldn’t say I am a lazy person, in fact I am the complete opposite but when it came to preparing healthy meals, snacks and watching my nutrition, I just didn’t have the time or knowledge about what to prepare and as a result, I did nothing. You know how that goes right?
How to lose weight
Lazy girls tips to increase energy
Updated June 2019 – Not the best grainy cell phone shot but you get the idea!
I had no time to consistently buy, cook and prep all the right foods that I required.
I had never blogged about nutrition, exercise or anything remotely close until early last Summer and I realized that a lot of you were interested in some sort of a balanced lifestyle whether it be eating more healthy, weight loss, tips on how to increase energy or simply the proper nourishment for your body.
I put together this collage above that shows the 12 week weight loss journey that I started last Summer. For me, I didn’t need to lose a lot of weight, I just wanted my clothes to fit like they use to.
My biggest issue was lack of energy and a mom fog brain that needed to go away. For all you mom’s out there, you know exactly what I mean.
Boosting Metabolism over 40
I remember when I wrote that first post thinking, “my how things have changed in my perception of healthy living.” Something happens when you are in your mid-40’s.
You find yourself remembering when you made fun of your parents for using their $2 CVS reading glasses and now you need them. My mom giggled at me the other day when she had to read something for me because I couldn’t see the words.
Time to get my eyes checked.
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Metabolism Boosting Foods
The secret for me to a more healthier way of life was to actually eat. I know that sounds crazy but when you don’t eat what your body actually needs to burn fat, you end up doing the reverse effect to your body.
YOU too can hit your health and wellness goal by putting the right amount of nutrients in your body
I hit my goal to lose 10 lbs over the course of 12 weeks last Summer 2018 and have maintained ever since.
How did I do this? These tips to increase energy below are exactly what I did.
I eat the right kind of food. Living in a multigenerational home, we have made a deal that we cook healthy during the week (most of the time) and watch the amount of sugar and carbs in our meals.
How to increase Metabolism to lose weight
#1 Eat but eat the right kinds of food
I didn’t starve myself and I took a chance and tried something that I was totally against my entire life. I tried a meal replacement shake system that one of my friends suggested. Basically it has everything you need in it to burn fat naturally. For someone like me who has no time to consistently buy, cook, prep and eat many small meals throughout the day, this was perfect!
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#2 Nutritional Cleansing and Replenishment System (intermittent fasting once a week or every other week)
I do a cleanse usually every other week for 24 hours. It’s not a starvation or poop cleanse! Those are not healthy. My cleanse allows me to eat or drink every hour and allows my body a day of rest from regular food. I use to think cleansing was weird but I was proven wrong!
There is nothing too crazy about this program. It’s the most simple concept on the planet. I drink one or two meal replacement shakes a day and fill in with healthy real food snacks and meal (s).
I needed SIMPLE and convenient. Quick and easy and all natural. If you have your own personal chef (wouldn’t that be amazing?) shakes may not be for you but if you are like me and do not, then this may be for you.
I didn’t give up coffee in case you are wondering and I still splurge on the weekends occasionally with a glass of wine or sweet dessert.
All in moderation. That is key.
#3 Drink enough water, getting in your servings of greens everyday is most critical.
Eat healthy meals that fill you up that that are full of protein, fiber, fat and greens.
Nourish, don’t restrict.
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I add ice and water, the best protein I’ve ever found.
Tips to increase energy – I also add a scoop of cold-pressed greens that’s the equivalent of 20 organic salads and a scoop of nature’s legit answer to stress, sleep, and belly fat to make the most delicious shake of all time.
These are high-end nutritional products that are soy-free, gluten-free and non-GMO with dairy free options.
The picture above is one that I took mid way (maybe week 7) through last Summer 2018.
#4 Exercise – tips to increase energy
For the first 6 weeks (summer of 2018) , I was only walking 1 – 2 miles.
That’s not a lot!
Anyone should be able to do that even if it means walking around your house more. I found tracking my steps on an app helped.
The running and increased mileage started this past Fall 2018.
Updated Summer 2019. I consistently power walk and run about 3 miles 5x a week. I cannot stress enough that exercise (even if it’s a mile a day walk around your house) and it’s free! You don’t need to join a gym. As long as your legs work, go outside and walk.
For me, I run 1/2 mile, walk 1/2 mile ect. and when I am feeling super energized, I actually run the entire 3 miles. NEVER in my life did I think I would enjoy running.
Related: See my full health journey here
Related: You can find some of our new healthy recipes here.
2019 has been a year of new beginnings and fun adventures. One thing I love to do now is find healthy comfort food recipes to cook. I love comfort food (who doesn’t!!?) but it does me absolutely no favors so I am always searching for healthy comfort food recipes.
Cooking has always been a passion of mine (especially in the Fall and Winter) and there is something so relaxing about preparing a meal when I have the time. Do you know what I mean? I try to at least once a week, prepare something I love. My son also enjoys cooking and he is really good at it!
My neighbor Steph (above in her 10 pound loss picture) and I walk or run together most days and she also does the same nutritional program and follows these tips to increase energy. She is currently down 13 pounds and feeling great! When we first started walking last year, she swore she would never run with me but that changed quickly changed.
On a side note, it amazes me everyday how much more energy I have to get home and organizational projects done in my house and the ability to focus. If you follow me on my personal facebook page, you know that I am in the middle of a massive master bedroom makeover (Full Reveal Completed – updated 2019) and I can’t wait to show you. It’s looking great!
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The sugar addicts diet is found in Beyond Sugar Shock, written by motivational speaker, journalist, blogger, former sugar addict, and author Connie Bennett.
It is a six-week plan designed to help you overcome your addiction to sugar and other carbohydrate foods.
Bennett explains how your sweet tooth can damage your health and how sugar has been linked to a range of conditions.
Excess sugar intake can play a role in development of heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, migraines, depression and kidney disease. It also speeds up the aging process and suppresses your immune system.
At the beginning of the book there is a quiz to help you determine how addicted you are to sugar and carbs. You are then categorized as a green, yellow or red-lighter depending on your degree of “sugar shock”.
Those with the most serious sugar addictions may need to quit immediately whereas others can reduce their consumption more gradually.
For the first three weeks of this sugar addicts diet you will get ready to eliminate sugar and “quickie carbs” from your diet.
Each week you are given four activities to undertake. You should focus on them for five days a week and have the weekends off to relax and reflect.
They cover a wide scope including having a positive mindset, increasing your nutritional knowledge, discovering healthier sweet substitutions, exercise and meditation.
After week three you will begin to implement your sugar-kicking plan as you continue to discover more tools to assist you in this process.
Bennett clearly outlines the pros and cons of all three approaches so that you can make the decision that is right for you.
Bennett recommends obtaining a balance of protein, healthy fats and low-glycemic carbohydrates in every meal.
Also included is advice on nutritional supplements that can reduce sugar cravings and a seven-day meal plan with recipes.
Grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, salmon, sardines, shrimp, eggs, goat cheese, walnuts, oats, almonds, flax seeds, chia seeds, lentils, hummus, quinoa, brown rice, oatmeal, whole-grain bread, broccoli, asparagus, spinach, kale, sweet potato, sea vegetables, avocado, berries, pear, grapes, coconut oil, olive oil, herbs and spices, dark chocolate, goji berries, bee pollen, herbal tea.
Egg and Veggie Scramble |
Avocado Chicken Salad |
2 organic celery stalks |
Connie’s Mustard Dill Salmon |
Optional Evening Snack
¼ cup raw shelled sunflower seeds |
High-intensity interval training is recommended because it is the most effective and time efficient way to burn fat. This involves short bursts of intense activity.
Additionally this type of exercise raises your levels of the “feel-good” hormones, serotonin and dopamine, which helps reduce cravings for sweets.
If you haven’t been working out regularly you can get active by doing gentle walking or yoga for 15-30 minutes at least three times a week. Then when you are ready you can start to incorporate high-intensity exercise into your routine.
Beyond Sugar Shock is a step-by-step, six-week sugar addicts diet for overcoming addictions to sugar and refined carbohydrates.
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5 French books from Romain Gary
Romain Gary, born Roman Kacew on May 8, 1914, in Vilnius, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), was a French writer and diplomat. He is known for his versatility as an author, tackling a range of genres, including novels, memoirs, and essays. Gary’s writing often weaves together elements of autobiography, imagination, and social commentary. His works explore themes such as identity, war, love, and the human capacity for resilience. With a powerful and lyrical prose style, Gary captivates readers with his storytelling prowess and profound insights into the human condition.
Here are five notable books by Romain Gary that readers should discover:
“The Roots of Heaven” (Les Racines du ciel) (1956)
This novel, which won the Prix Goncourt, tells the story of Morel, an impassioned activist determined to save the elephants of Chad from extinction. Through Morel’s struggle against poaching and environmental destruction, Gary examines themes of humanism, idealism, and the clash between personal beliefs and societal norms.
“Promise at Dawn” (La Promesse de l’aube) (1960)
In this memoir-like novel, Gary recounts his extraordinary relationship with his mother, Nina. The book is a moving tribute to a strong and ambitious woman who believes in her son’s potential for greatness. “Promise at Dawn” explores the complexities of love, ambition, and the enduring bond between a mother and her child.
“The Kites” (Les Cerfs-volants) (1980)
Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, this novel follows the lives of Ludo and Lila, childhood friends who are separated by the war. Gary masterfully captures the emotional turmoil and resilience of individuals caught up in the devastating effects of war. It is a poignant exploration of love, sacrifice, and the enduring power of human connections.
“The Life Before Us” (La Vie devant soi) (1975)
Written under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, this novel won the Prix Goncourt. It portrays the unique relationship between Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor and former prostitute, and Momo, a young Arab orphan she takes in. Through Momo’s perspective, Gary tackles themes of identity, racism, and the importance of empathy.
“The Dance of Genghis Cohn” (La Danse de Genghis Cohn) (1967)
This darkly humorous novel tells the story of Genghis Cohn, a Jewish ghost who returns to Berlin after World War II to haunt his former Nazi captors. Gary explores themes of justice, revenge, and the absurdity of prejudice. The book offers a thought-provoking examination of guilt, redemption, and the complexities of post-war Europe.
Romain Gary’s works demonstrate his remarkable storytelling skills and his ability to tackle profound themes with sensitivity and depth. His writings capture the complexities of the human experience, exploring the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Exploring Gary’s books allows readers to engage with thought-provoking narratives that challenge societal norms and offer insights into the power of compassion and the triumph of the human spirit. | <urn:uuid:f863e6b8-4bf0-4900-bee7-04a133ef069b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.french4me.news/2023/07/03/5-french-books-from-romain-gary/ | 2024-04-13T23:34:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.928988 | 687 |
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UPDATE: In July 2023 the City of Toronto passed a by-law giving the Foundry site Heritage Designation.
In May 2023 representatives from Aspen Ridge, the effective owner of the site, met with Friends of the Foundry and with the West Don Lands Committee to discuss their plans and establish lines of communication with the community. They met again in October 2023.
On March 28, 2022 the Province sold the Foundry Site for $101 million. The buyer is listed as Eastern Avenue (Condo), a company associated with the deGasperis family of Aspen Ridge Homes.
We forced the Province to stop demolition, saving the two most important heritage buildings on the site and ensuring they will be protected in the future. However, the work is far from over.
Here's a recap of what happened.
On Friday August 20, 2021, it was announced that the parties in the February court case have come to an agreement regarding the fate of the Foundry site. The Province has committed to change its plan and move forward according to recommendations outlined in a new Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA), made public the same day.
The Office building and the Warehouse were demolished. These two buildings were in poor repair and of less heritage interest, and we expected that they would not be preserved. The Foundry Demonstration Project we sponsored back in February also suggested these buildings be removed.
The purchaser and future owners are legally required to protect the heritage value of the site. As the property is passing into private hands, this is most important.
The percentage of affordable housing to be built on site has been increased from 25% to 30%. This brings it into line with current City targets.
The not-so-good news is that the Minister's Zoning Order of October 2020 still governs how the site will be developed, and it cannot be appealed. This means there will be high-rise towers built on the site.
How will it look?
Below are concept drawings of views from southwest and northwest corners, the preserved south wall of the Machine Shop, and the interior of the eastern portion of the Machine Shop.
After public demonstrations and a court case paused demolition, the Province brought in independent heritage experts to re-evaluate the heritage value of the property.
These experts confirmed that the Dominion Foundry Site does meet the criteria for a Provincial Heritage Property, and put forward a set of recommendations to retain and protect the two most significant buildings and develop a Heritage Conservation Plan.
The Province has committed to moving forward according to these recommendations. They demolished the Office Building and the Warehouse, and sold the property to a subsidiary of Aspen Ridge Homes in March 2022.
What happens next?
Aspen Ridge will develop the Foundry site to include three high-rise residential towers of 43, 34, and 18 storeys. These heights are set by the Minister's Zoning Order and, unfortunately, cannot be appealed through any legal process.
Here is the current concept of how the towers will be placed on the site.
Let's take a moment to recognize that we have achieved something very important: the preservation of a neighbourhood landmark, adaptive reuse of two important heritage buildings that were slated for demolition, and a commitment to protect it for the future.
This is a significant victory that would not have been achieved without the help of thousands of community members, including. They — the REAL friends of the Foundry, who signed petitions, donated to the legal fund, wrote politicians, came out for in-person demonstrations, and much more — made this happen. They deserve the gratitude of all the people of Ontario.
The devil is in the details, and our work is far from over. We need to keep watching events at the Foundry to ensure that the intent of the Heritage Impact Assessment is carried out.
If you'd like to download the new Heritage Impact Assessment and the updated Cultural Heritage Evaluation Report please do so; the more informed we all are, the better we can protect our neighbourhoods and heritage assets.
We will keep you posted with news about the Foundry as events unfold, watching for opportunities to remind politicians, public servants, and the media that the community still cares.
None of this would have been possible without the help of literally thousands of people, but we're going to single out a few dozen here:
- The St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Association, who stepped up and initiated the court case on our behalf
- Many local politicians, notably Toronto Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, MPP Suze Morrison, MPP Chris Glover, and federal candidate Brian Chang, who were present at the very first demonstration and nearly every one after that
- Green Party Leader Annamie Paul and provincial candidate David Morris came to the Valentine's Day Protest and subsequently met with us
- MP Marci Ien wrote a letter of support and met with us as well
- Dozens of municipal and provincial staff have been working very hard on this case for many months
- The Board and residents of Canary Park as well as other neighbouring condos made sure nobody who visited the Foundry could miss the point with their balcony signs and Gobo light display
- Many media outlets and individual journalists followed our story and reported on it with insight
- Local graffiti artists and wheatpasters kept the Foundry hoardings lively with visual protests
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It can feel like the equivalent of banging your head against a brick wall, when you are trying everything at your disposal to make your business reach a new market, or you are attempting to push your promotions as far as they can possibly go, but nothing is working, promoting your business can feel incredibly frustrating. And so, it is at this point, we feel ready to give up, but is there anything we can do at a last ditch attempt to get our promotion campaigns match fit and get those all-important customers?
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You have a website, you have an opt-in on that website, and you’re having success in trying to grow your email list. So why on earth would you need a separate landing page if you have all these three in place? Well, that’s what the experts do to supercharge their list growth and that’s what I’m going to be covering in this post. I’m going to explain to you the importance of a landing page in building your email list, and how to set up one that is going to convert really well. You’ll also find this extra useful if you haven’t yet got a website.
In this post, I’m going to walk you through my own strategy for creating freebies that convert. That is, a free offer you can put in front of your audience that will entice them to sign up to your email list.
Let’s start with some benchmarks.
Although we are all increasingly doing business online and e-commerce is booming where bricks and mortar stores are not, in many cases, there are still plenty of things that online retailers can learn from retail shops in the real world.
The sales pipeline is one the most critical components to your business. However, many businesses often neglect it altogether. As companies continue to ride the digital wave, focusing on emerging techniques, it may be easy to fall behind in traditional processes like closing sales. Even if a business owner has a salesforce, they must be responsible for effectively training them and still perform business negotiations at a high level. In this article I will aim to help you better understand the process of effectively closing sales leads in your sales pipeline, and help improve your bottom-line.
When I first starting running a business online, one of the most enlightening exercises I carried out was when I took steps to figure out who my customer was and what they wanted from me (spoiler: it wasn’t what I thought).
A new business and no website sales. Or, as I call it, the website launch trap. It’s a problem many entrepreneurs fall into: they spend time and money building their perfect website, fine-tuning their product offering, getting traffic, and then…..wait a minute.
Where are my customers?
It can be so frustrating to an entrepreneur who has put their heart and soul into creating something from scratch. You know you have a fantastic product. You really believe in what they are doing. But people just aren’t buying it. And the longer this goes on, the more you start to doubt yourself:
Am I in the wrong business?
Is my product just a failure?
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No matter what time of the year you visit Salem, MA, a tour of this adorable New England town is a must!
Given its spooky history as the location of the Salem Witch Trials, many tours in Salem, MA focus on witches, ghosts, and other haunted lore.
Keep reading to learn about the best Salem, MA tours for your trip.
Best walking tours in Salem
If you’re more into food or architecture rather than witches and ghosts, check out these fun Salem food tours and other Salem walking tours.
Salem Spirits Trolley
The Salem Spirits Trolley is a fun way to sample your way around various breweries, distilleries, and food shops in Salem.
On this tour, you’ll also learn about the history of the spice trade in Salem.
You’ll make stops at Deacon Giles Distillery, East Regiment Beer Company, Far From the Tree Cider, Notch Brewery, The Cheese Shop of Salem, and Salem Spice for delicious tastings.
As the tour includes alcohol tastings, it is only open to people 21 and over.
Salem Food Tours AM Coffee Walks
On this 1.5 hour tour, you’ll learn about the spice trade in Salem and its current day culinary scene.
The tour also includes free coffee or tea, a snack, and a spice tasting.
Salem Food Tours Afternoon Stroll
If you’re not a morning person, but really want to do a food tour, the Salem Food Tours Afternoon Stroll is a great pick.
On this tour, you’ll learn the same information in the AM Coffee Walk tour. However, the food samples are different.
You’ll taste New England Clam Chowder, cheese, wine, a sweet snack, and a spice.
NOTE: A vegetarian soup is available in place of the chowder if you do not eat clams.
Salem Merchants & Mansions Architecture Tour
If you’re more into architecture, the Salem Merchants & Mansions Architecture Tour is for you.
On this tour, you’ll visit the McIntire District of Salem to see all of the gorgeous mansions and homes of varying styles like Federal, Georgian Colonial, and First Period American.
Best Salem tours for kids
Many of the Salem tours aren’t exactly kid-friendly or some kids might get too scared from the stories – but not the tours from this company!
Salem Kids Tours runs 2 different kid-friendly tours of Salem.
On the Salem Kids Tour, you’ll learn about the history of Salem without any of the spooky ghost stories.
On the Slightly Spooky Tour, ghost stories are included alongside the historical ones.
The tours are usually led by a local middle school social studies teacher, Alicia Diozzi.
Sometimes other local teachers fill in for her – but either way, the tour guides are clearly trained to capture the attention of kids!
These Salem, MA tours all involve ghost stories and all things dark.
Salem Voodoo, Vampires, and Ghosts
If you want to learn a little bit about all things spooky and paranormal, this Salem ghost tour is for you.
Your tour will include stops involved in the Salem Witch Trials and haunted establishments.
You’ll also learn about local legends involving vampires and voodoo practice!
History & Hauntings of Salem
If you’re not sure you can handle a spooky tour in the dark, the History & Hauntings of Salem offers a choice between daytime and nighttime options.
This tour focuses on ghosts and spooky history, such as the Salem Witch Trials.
It’s mostly family friendly, as well – unless your little ones can’t handle ghost stories!
Candlelit Ghostly Walking Tour
On this Salem ghost tour, you’ll learn about local ghost stories and haunted lore using candlelight to light the way.
The unique aspect with this fun tour is that you’ll also learn about ghost photography and how to detect evidence of ghosts on photographs. How fun!
Salem’s Spooky Spectres
Last, but not least, is Salem’s Spooky Spectres, one of few tours to focus on ghosts and hauntings from murders and other gruesome stories from Salem, MA.
Salem witch tours
Did you even really visit Salem if you didn’t do a Salem witch tour?
Whether you want to learn more about the Salem Witch Trials or modern day witchcraft, you’ll love these Salem, MA tours.
Salem Forest Lore Tour
One of the most unique tours in Salem, MA is the Salem Forest Lore Tour.
This Salem walking tour takes you on an easy 1-mile hike through a wooded area in Salem.
During the Salem Forest Lore Tour, your guide will teach you about being a practicing witch and why nature is so important to their practice.
The Salem Witch Walk
On the Salem Witch Walk, a practicing witch will take you on a tour that blends the history of the Salem Witch Trials and modern day witchcraft.
In addition to the tour, your guide will also lead the tour group in an energy circle for a blessing!
Steps Through 1692
On this quick 45-minute tour, you’ll focus on the Salem Witch Trials.
You’ll learn about its history and see locations around town connected to them.
If you’re in town to learn more about the Salem Witch Trials, this is the Salem, MA tour for you.
Wandering Witches is another quick 45 minute tour that focuses solely on past and present day witches.
Which Salem, MA tours are you going to take?
Drop a comment and let me know which tour you ended up booking and if you liked it!
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Meg Frost is a Boston-based travel blogger that helps people embrace technology to make vacation planning and traveling wicked easy, affordable, and fun.
She holds an M.A. in Journalism from Northeastern University and B.S. in Communication & American Studies from University of Miami.
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New Jersey Firm Recalls Chicken Sausage Product That May Contain Foreign Materials
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2013 - Schmalz's European Provisions, a Springfield, N.J. establishment, is recalling approximately 8,424 pounds of chicken and apple sausage that may contain small pieces of plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following product is subject to recall: [View Label]
- 12 oz. vacuum packages of "Applegate Organics Chicken and Apple Sausage" with "Use or Freeze By 03/17/13" on each package.
The recalled product bears the establishment number "P-5411" inside the USDA mark of inspection. The products were produced on January 24, 2013, and were sold in retail stores nationwide and through limited internet sales in New Jersey.
The problem was discovered after the company received three consumer complaints. FSIS and the company have received no reports of injury at this time. Anyone concerned about an injury from consumption of these products should contact a healthcare provider.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify that recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers.
Consumers and media with questions about the recall should contact Gina Asoudegan, Public Affairs Specialist or Gerry Clarkson, Consumer Affairs Specialist at (800) 587-5858.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. "Ask Karen" live chat services are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. For information on how to report a problem with a meat, poultry or egg product to FSIS at any time, visit https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls.
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“Sales have gone ballistic,” said Alyn Lloyd of NutriTech, which sells Agrimat tankers and other equipment from Belgium. “We doubled our turnover last year and expect to do the same again in 2009. Apart from the regulation requirements, the price of mineral fertiliser makes slurry more valuable.”
The 12,000 litre Challenger tanker shown at the event is used as a demonstrator as well as for contract work with a shallow disc injector built by Dutch firm Duport to NutriTech’s specification.
The convex discs open a slot, with slurry then released at the surface from rubber outlets, with a simple mechanical pinch valve shutting off the flow when the unit is raised at the headland.
“Conditions are very different here than on the Continent, so our version is beefed up in places to cope with harder ground and take more punishment,” says Mr Lloyd. “Opening up a 2in deep slot for the slurry to go into is better than using a trailing shoe because I’ve seen strawy material left on the surface that tends to be lifted by the grass and ends up in the silage pit.”
Signals from a flow meter and forward speed sensor are used by a control box in the tractor cab to achieve the required application rate and for the operator a hydraulic filling arm results in more pleasant working conditions and a quicker turnaround.
Another advantage of the self-filling system, says Mr Lloyd, is that slurry can be sucked up from different places. Filling from just one spot tends to draw off the liquid leaving thicker material towards the end of the job.
“As it is, the centrifugal pump at the top of the suction hose means we can fill this tanker in 90 seconds, from a 3m deep pit or a three-ring above ground store,” he adds. “And with a double chopping unit on the injector, there’s no need to chop as you’re filling, which slows the job down.” | <urn:uuid:b93f0af9-56a5-4ef8-ad68-9b8546047108> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/muck-northwest-nutritech-increases-sales-of-slurry-kit | 2024-04-13T21:35:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.944639 | 464 |
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This development has prompted the entertainment app from Byte Dance to rally its vast user base in opposition to the proposed legislation.
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Reid is particularly looking forward to new events popping up this fall — a dock dogs diving event in September and an FLW Outdoors fishing tournament in August.
"We’re working on super boat ramps and a live well fish return," he said. "People can reserve camping spots if they stay overnight after events. We have electrical receptacles and spaces for motorcoaches."
The changes are slowly building, and Reid hopes it sets a precedent for the future.
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If you have a Cities Skylines 2 high rent problem, you’re not the only one; many fast-growing towns experience this issue, with either residential, commercial, or industrial rent becoming too high to afford. Luckily, if your city is suffering from high rent, there are ways to fix it and smooth over any Cities Skylines 2 money issues.
From creating affordable housing to providing better education, here’s how to fix high rent issues in Cities Skylines 2. And if you need help more generally these Cities Skylines 2 tips should help with plenty of things.
The Cities Skylines 2 high rent problem explained
The Cities Skylines 2 high rent warning often appears in small but rapidly expanding towns. You can recognize the warning by its icon: a blue house with a red banknote in front. If you hover over this little icon, you’ll see the “high rent” message on your screen.
As you would expect, the high rent pop-up means that the people living or working in that area have trouble paying their rent. This may occur in any type of zone, from residential to industrial. However, it’s usually not a reason for panic, as it takes a very long time for high rent issues to result in building abandonment. Still, if you want to keep your citizens happy and their businesses profitable, it’s important to fix the issue.
The cause of your Cities Skylines 2 high rent issue
Before solving your Cities Skylines 2 high rent troubles, let’s identify the cause of the problem, as there may be different reasons why the rent has gone up. Here’s an overview of potential reasons why your citizens are struggling with their rent:
- Poverty. The most common cause for the high rent issue is a lack of jobs or jobs that pay well. Check the “citizen wealth” and “workplace availability” info views to see if this may be the case for your town.
- A lack of space. Even if your citizens are doing well financially, if there’s a high demand for residential, commercial, or industrial zones in your city, it may drive up the rent. Check the zoning demand in the bottom left corner of the screen.
- Land value has increased too steeply. This may be due to an abundance of public services and recreational areas, but if the land value increases, so will the rent. Even with decent jobs, people living and working in a high-value area may not be able to keep up. Check the land value info view to find out if that’s the case.
How to fix high rent in Cities Skylines 2
Now that you’ve identified the issue, let’s go over the various ways to fix high rent in Cities Skylines 2:
- Provide higher education for your citizens (fix poverty). This will mostly help with the high rent in residential zones. In Cities Skylines 2, jobs for highly educated workers pay better wages, so if you want to increase your citizens’ income and thus their ability to pay the rent, investing in colleges and universities is a good way to do so.
- Provide jobs (fix poverty). This goes hand-in-hand with the previous tip on how to fix the high rent problem in Cities Skylines 2; you must provide plenty of jobs for your citizens, or they won’t have any use for their degrees. Try to build nearby commercial and office zones, and give them good access to large industrial zones.
- Satisfy the demand for zones (fix the lack of space). No matter whether it’s a demand for residential, commercial, industrial, or office zones, if there’s a shortage, the cost of renting in the existing zones will increase. The solution is to keep expanding your city; buy new blocks with plenty of space – the rent in new areas won’t be very high.
- Create more high-density zones (fix the lack of space). Upgrade your low-density zones to high-density ones, as large plots of land will become too valuable to be used for single homes and businesses over time.
- Decrease land value (fix high land value). By removing services and recreational spaces, you can decrease land value and thus decrease rent.
- Move industrial zones to cheap areas (fix high land value). The easiest high rent fix for industrial zones is to move the zone further away from the city center. As your city expands, the “attractive” part of your city may come too close to the original industrial zone, thus involuntarily increasing its land value.
- Bulldoze and rebuild. Not the ideal way to fix high rent in Cities Skylines 2, but you can always bulldoze a high-rent building (sorry, owners) and let someone else rebuild something of the same type. With any luck, the new occupants won’t have trouble paying their rent.
Beware that lowering taxes doesn’t seem to fix high rent. Although this may seem to be the obvious solution, as lowering taxes would leave your citizens with more money to spend on rent, it may actually increase the demand for housing in your city and thus create the opposite effect.
Likewise, building low-rent housing seems to be another obvious solution, but sadly, there’s often no demand for low-rent housing even if half your city suffers from high rent (although this could be a bug). Replacing a residential area with low-rent housing is thus not a great fix – but you can still try upgrading to high-density housing as suggested above.
Cities Skylines 2 high rent bug
Like other common issues in Cities Skylines 2, some players are wondering if the high rent problem is bugged. As cities with wealthy citizens and plenty of available housing and jobs still seem to struggle with high rent, this could indeed be the case. Even if a future patch decreases the frequency of the high rent message in Cities Skylines 2, you should still be able to use the suggestions above to solve the issue.
And that’s how to fix high rent in Cities Skylines 2. Time to get the zoning tool – or the bulldozer.
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If you’re running a business that requires heavy industrial machinery, you’ll be aware of how expensive upgrades can get. Whether expanding operations, upgrading current equipment, or maintaining existing machinery, all of it requires a substantial amount of investment to be made- which can be hard on small or medium-sized businesses. This is when industrial equipment finance comes into play.
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It might seem obvious, but industrial technology is constantly evolving. Technological advancements are being tested daily to fuel manufacturing and speed up the production rate of goods and services. More than ever, outdated equipment can be detrimental and lead to companies falling behind the competition.
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Flexible Payment Terms
Taking out a chattel mortgage or a finance lease allows businesses to spread the equipment cost over an extended period rather than paying one lump sum. Therefore, you can conserve your money for other essential expenses, such as paying salaries, buying stock, or investing in growth opportunities. Furthermore, you can enquire about longer repayment periods, deferred payments, and customised payment schedules.
In addition, commercial equipment finance can provide predictable monthly payments, making it easier for you to manage your budget. Furthermore, with a chattel mortgage, you gain ownership of the equipment from the outset.
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Spending your working capital on an upfront purchase can limit your cash flow. Depleting your working capital could leave you with limited cash reserves, making it challenging to cover ongoing expenses. With equipment loans, you can access the necessary funds to complete your purchase while freeing up your working capital for other essential business needs.
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Other tax benefits commercial finance may include:
- GST savings: Businesses may be able to claim back the Goods and Services Tax (GST) paid on the equipment purchased.
- Immediate deduction for small businesses: Small businesses may be able to claim an immediate deduction for assets costing less than a certain threshold. For more information about available incentives, click here.
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The new Burton Rd junction with the A612 will be open today after being shut for seven months.
The road will be reopened from 3pm today (December 4).
The new junction will connect the A612 up with the Gedling Access Road, which opens in Autumn 2021.
Burton Road has been closed since May of this year while a new traffic signal controlled junction for the GAR with the A612 is constructed.
Works on-site have now been completed and the road will reopen today
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Generali, main sponsor of the Barcolana, sets sail with the Generali Cup, the regatta dedicated to its employees
20 September 2017 - 13:30
Trieste - The Generali Cup – the regatta dedicated to Generali Group employees – will be contended in the Gulf of Trieste as part of the 49th Barcolana Autumn Cup regatta, scheduled to take place from 29 September to 8 October.
As main sponsor of the event for over 35 years, Generali has long supported sailing, a sport whose values it embraces and whose spirit it is committed to spreading by strengthening the ties with the local community and territory. This enduring commitment has been confirmed this year with a series of initiatives dedicated to Generali employees, to the wider public and, in particular, to youngsters, the aim being to discover, through the metaphor of sea winds and sailing knots, the lasting bond the Company has with Trieste, the sea and the local tradition.
The first of such events is the Generali Cup, to be contested by 50 employees – sailing enthusiasts from 13 different countries – selected from almost 300 candidates from around the world. The crews, aboard 10 one-design J70 keelboats, will challenge each other in a Trial Course and a Stadium Race on Saturday, before taking part in the Barcolana International Sailing Race proper on Sunday.
Generali has also organized Barcolana Lab, now in its second year, a workshop dedicated to “sea skills and wisdom” for children attending Trieste’s recreation centres, in partnership with the City of Trieste and the Bora Museum. This year girls and boys will be involved in making “pop-up” cardboard boats that will set sail in a special “Children’s Barcolana”.
Back onshore, the alpine ski racer Federica Brignonge, and other Olympic stars, will be at the Generali Stand on Saturday 7 October to meet fans, both young and old, and talk about sport and competition.
“As the Barcolana’s main sponsor, we want to contribute to creating an experience of value – we want people to know the territory, to understand the role of the sea in human culture, to involve the local community,” said Gabriele Galateri, chairman of Assicurazioni Generali. “We will be at the Barcolana with our men and women who will be coming to Trieste from around the world to compete in the regattas and to have a great time; we will be there for the children organising events at recreation centres across the city and at our own stand, to show young people the wisdom of the sea; we will be closely liaising with local entities and associations, starting with the Museum of the Bora, the wind that is a distinguishing feature of Trieste; and we will be interacting with sportswomen and sportsmen, professional and non-professional alike, who will tell us about the true meaning of sport. Because the Barcolana is the history – the history in the making – of Trieste,” chairman Galateri concluded.
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The National Institutes of Health today said that it has awarded 85 grants totaling $141 million in 2014 to researchers working on "highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research" under the High Risk-High Reward program.
Along with the NIH, the agency's Common Fund supports the program.
"Supporting innovative investigators with the potential to transform scientific fields is a critical element of our mission," NIH Director Francis Collins said in a statement. "This program allows researchers to propose highly creative research projects across a broad range of biomedical and behavioral research areas that involve inherent risk but have the potential to lead to dramatic breakthroughs."
Under the program, the NIH awarded 10 Pioneer awards this year, 50 New Innovator awards, eight Transformative Research awards, and 17 Early Independence awards.
Among the winners are Ibrahim Cissé, an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will use a five-year, $2.34 million New Innovator Award to research transcription at single-molecule resolution in live mammalian cells, MIT said.
Also, Chenghang Zong, an assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine, will direct a five-year $1.5 million New Innovator Award to profile and better understand genomic variation at the single-cell level in solid cancers, Baylor said.
Pamela Kreeger, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will use a five-year, $2.3 million New Innovator Award to conduct proteomic research into ovarian cancer. The university said that she will develop in vitro culture systems to mimic the spread of ovarian cancer cells and how they develop chemotherapy resistance. | <urn:uuid:92235593-e7b9-4f89-a31e-a6f41d9b94e9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.genomeweb.com/archive/nih-awards-141m-2014-under-high-risk-high-reward-program | 2024-04-13T22:57:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.928066 | 353 |
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Yes, the country singer Maren Morris is in town tonight in a nearly sold out Institute, not too shabby for a Thursday night of “country”.
Although you can’t really pigeonhole Ms Morris as just a country singer, she reminds me a little of a young Taylor Swift as she spends quite a while in the charts with several hit singles to her name. Taking to the stage tonight in tight leather look hot pants, she went straight into ‘Girl’, the title track off her latest album and also a big hit. It was obvious she had come to party, and party she did. She is only on her second album, but it is clear she is a natural performer and very likeable, with intimate chats with the crowd and powerful heartfelt vocals. She has huge potential and quite easily switches from all out pop to acoustic guitar, full of feeling. She even morphed ‘Second Wind’ with Beyonce’s ‘Halo’ before finishing with a massive sing along of her big hit ‘The Middle’.
Even at her quite young age she knows how to wow an audience. I am sure she will be around for a long time to come and I will be waiting for a repeat next time she comes back to the UK.
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Grant Burge Meshach Barossa Valley Shiraz 2014
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- Museum Release Of Iconic Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz
Vintage: | 2014 |
Source/Region: | Barossa Valley, South Australia |
Grape Variety: | Shiraz |
Cellaring: | Drink now or cellar for the next decade |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 14.50 |
Standard Drinks: | 8.60 |
Rating: | 95 |
The 2014 Meshach is inky red/black in colour with vibrant purple hues. It has great intensity and depth which is typical of Meshach. The aroma is truly distinctive, with rich dark chocolate, berry coulis, leather and cinnamon. The palate is textural with powerful fruit flavours and silky soft tannins providing a rich mouthful of wine. The balanced tannins perfectly complement the influential fruit characters. The flavours mirror the complex set of aromas, toffee and spice with a big berry hit. A truly distinctive Meshach from an outstanding vintage will ensure this wine is still drinking well with the best Australia has to offer well into the next decade.
Meshach William Burge (1843 – 1942) was Grant’s great grandfather and a central figure in establishing the Burge family’s winemaking tradition. He was 11 when his family moved from Hillcot in Wiltshire, England, to the Barossa Valley and established what has grown into a thriving viticultural, wheat and sheep property near Lyndoch. In tribute, Grant has selected his finest Shiraz to bear his name and be his flagship wine. Since the first vintage in 1988, Meshach has won several of Australia’s top trophies and many medals. It is generally regarded as one of the country’s best dry reds.
The fruit for this iconic wine is handpicked from near century old vines. Smaller parcels are also sourced from even older premium vines in the Barossa to add further complexity to the wine. There is a portion that comes from younger vines in different sub regions in the Barossa that have amazing flavour and colour profiles. The aged vines produce fruit with tremendous concentration and intensity that make Meshach powerful, yet beautifully balanced. After the dry vintages of 2007, 2008 and 2009, 2010 was a welcome relief with good winter rains and a mild summer allowing even ripening and retention of natural acidity as well as the development of concentrated flavours. The wines already released from this vintage have proven outstanding, and we believe the 2010 Meshach will follow suit.
Winemaking using such special old grapes is kept very simple. After crushing the wines remain in the fermenters for between 6 to 9 days, depending on the extraction required. Most of the wine for Meshach is basket pressed and then fermented in open and static fermenters. The tanks are pumped over 3 times a day with the pump over times reduced from 30 mins to 15 mins as fermentation progresses. After pressing, the wine is allowed to settle for 24 hours prior to filling in new French (20%) and American (40%) oak barrels with the balance predominantly one and two year old American and French oak. All of the wine completes malolactic fermentation in barrel. Meshach spends a minimum of 18 months in oak prior to bottling. It is un-fined and only passes through a coarse cartridge filter prior to bottling.
95 Point Rated - Jeni Port Wine Pilot
"Meshach looms large in the glass. It’s the Barossa Valley Shiraz’s signature as its creator, Grant Burge, intended. From vines 60+ years old, it holds court both colour-wise – deep, dark with twinkling red hues – and with a powerful presence that belies its age. Big perfume of cigar box, chocolate, spice, plum pudding, black fruits, earth and leather. It’s generous and complex and, yes, carries the bold, warm-hearted Barossa shiraz stamp. It’s packed with flavour that lingers long. Meshach lives up to many drinkers’ expectations of what a traditional Barossa Shiraz should be, and that includes an ability to age. Firm tannins are the not so quiet force behind this wine with the clear intention of providing the framework for that extended ageing. It’s still but a pup and you can’t say that about too many nine-year-old Australian Shiraz."
95 Point Rated - Andrew Caillard MW Vintage Journal
94 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review
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The introduction of Arenas into Apex Legends in Season 9 was a game-changer.
The new mode places two squads of three in a head-to-head battle on a much smaller map, with the first squad earning three victories, conditionally, declared the winner.
With a new way to play comes a different set of conditions that battle occurs, meaning that different heroes shine in Areas while others look a bit dull.
The tier list for Arenas looks slightly different from the Apex Legends character tier list for Battle Royale.
Bloodhound's Eye of the Allfather Tactical makes them the champion of Arenas, allowing them to easily scout out the opposing team in the confined spaces of an Arena map.
Once players can purchase Bloodhound's Beast of the Hunt, they become even more terrifying, with a quicker scanning and movement speed.
If there were an SS-tier, Bloodhound would be on it.
What better Legend to have in an Arena squad than Lifeline?
Her D.O.C Heal Drone can keep teammates up and running without having to worry too much about taking the time to pop a syringe, and that face that she can revive with the D.O.C. while she makes a quick duck for cover is invaluable to any Arenas match.
While it may seem like Octane would be too confined in Areas, his speed gives him a major edge over opponents, able to rush crafting supplies, supply bins, and drops with ease.
His Jump Pads give him vertical mobility in maps where there is not much height, allowing him to cross Arena maps quickly to get a drop behind enemy lines.
Oh yeah, he also heals himself over time.
A surprising turn of events, Revenant, goes from a D-tier Battle Royale Legend to an S-tier Arenas Legend.
His increased speed gives him just enough of an edge over most Legends to make him deadly, and his 20 second Silence Tactical shuts down opponents' abilities for what seems like forever in the short-and-sweet Arena rounds.
Once players can purchase his Death Totem, he becomes a true nightmare, giving him an extra chance to take down his foes.
As of the Genesis Collection Event, Revenant can now climb insane heights, easily making his way to the top of any structure the Arena has to offer.
Bangalore gets a bit of a revival in Arenas, with her Double Time Passive and Smoke Grenade Tactical perfectly suited to the chaotic nature.
Her Ultimate works well on some maps, but not so much on maps like Party Crasher or Golden Gardens, keeping her in A-tier instead of higher up in the ranks.
A defensive powerhouse, Gibraltar is a natural when it comes to Arenas.
His Gun Shield and Dome of Protection are indispensable in Arena play, especially when opponents come out guns blazing during a match.
Unfortunately, his Ultimate keeps him from rising to the top of the tier lists, being fairly useless in the smaller Arena maps.
Mirage pulls his weight more in Arenas than he does in Battle Royale.
Throwing out decoys works surprisingly well in the smaller Arena maps, while being able to revive teammates while invisible is a huge boon, especially when keeping squadmates alive is so important to victory.
An A-lister for sure, but he is just missing a little something to push him higher up to S-tier.
Valk's vertical mobility is key in Arenas, allowing her to quickly scout out an entire Arena map, though at the cost of leaving her a bit vulnerable.
Her missiles work better for keeping opponents away from certain areas than they are at causing damage, but they can be used to devastating effect on many Arena maps.
Her Ultimate is almost useless, but her other abilities make her an excellent and mobile choice.
Voices from the Void and Into the Void are both abilities that place Wraith near the top of the Arenas tier list, allowing her to sense danger and move around the map quickly without taking damage.
Her Dimensional Drift can also move her and her teammates in and out of the fray quickly, though it can be tough to pull off on the smaller Arena maps.
Still, Wraith is at the top of the Battle Royale tier list for a reason, and she works almost as well in Arenas.
Fuse is a damage powerhouse, but one that does not work well in close-knit team situations like Arena play.
His Knuckle Cluster is a killer in the right hands, but unfortunately, it can get pretty awkward when it damages his teammates and the opposing squad.
As far as his Ultimate goes, it is good for flushing foes out of an area or trapping weak opponents, but it does not come in handy as one might think in the Arena.
Horizon is still a great Legend to play, just not as much as she is in Battle Royale.
With her recent nerfs, her Gravity Lift Tactical is not as useful as it once was, especially in Arena play with her recent nerfsHer.
Her Black Hole is amazing but is expensive and can not be used until later Arena rounds.
If Horizon's Tactical still had some offensive capabilities, she would surely be A-Tier.
Unfortunately, it does not anymore, placing her in the middle of the list.
Pathfinder shines where there is a bit of height in a map, which none of the Arenas really have.
His Zipline Gun and Grappling Hook are not totally useless, still giving Pathfinder a ton of mobility as he zips around an Arena.
Unfortunately, it makes him a pretty good target and requires expert care to pull off properly.
Rampart and Arenas go very well together, with her Amped Cover Tactical shields coming in handy on most maps, and Shiela tears apart enemy squads like a hot knife through butter.
Her passive also makes LMG weapons like the Spitfire deadly in Arenas without spending extra credits upgrading them.
The only downfall to Rampart is that she is not a very mobile Legends, being better suited to hunkering down and protecting a choice location.
This is the only reason why she does not rank higher on the list.
Wattson and her fences work great for some Arena maps, like Party Crasher and Golden Gardens, but they become almost useless in other maps.
Her Interception Pylons are a great asset to a squad, charging shields and stopping enemies flat.
Unfortunately, there are too many conditions to make Wattson a real viable Arenas Legend.
Many Arena maps feature wide-open spaces without too many confined areas where Caustic normally shines.
Even in these areas, Arena matches are so short and brutal that many players will force their way through the gas to get the kill, often succeeding and taking the match before much gas damage is even taken.
Caustic is Fortified, making him a bit more of a tank, but his slower speed makes him a giant target in Arenas and a tough Legend to play in a match.
Both Loba's Black Market Ultimate and Eye for Quality Passive are useless in Arenas, tossing a large portion of what makes Loba great right out the window.
Her Burglar's Best Friend Tactical is great for getting her out of a rough situation, but with the small field of battle and frantic gunfights is hard to pull off successfully.
While Loba is a fantastic character to have on a squad in Battle Royale, she brings little glamor to Arenas.
Crypto's defining feature, his drone, makes him a giant target in the small confines of Arena.
The drone is not very helpful in Arenas at all, often getting shot down quickly or wandering around aimlessly looking for opponents while they are busy shooting Crypto in the face.
Without his drone, Crypto has to survive on his gunplay, which is pointless when other better characters are actually useful in Arenas.
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Training Christian Leaders for effective ministry in their own culture.
Our goal is to help the growing church in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Pacific to have the leaders, pastors and church planters that it needs. By partnering with leading Bible colleges in these regions we can contribute directly to the health and mission of the local church.
In essence, Local Leaders International supports Bible Colleges which are evangelical in theology, have good governance and are strategic leaders in their nation and region.
Local Leaders International directly supports over 200 Bible Colleges in the Pacific, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
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Glemsford Primary Academy is part of the Unity Schools Partnership Multi-Academy Trust. Being part of a bigger family offers us so many things: shared expertise, support and training, combined events and access to all kinds of opportunities for our children to link up with others.
Our school is housed in a uniquely characterful, Victorian building of Grade 2 listing. When the original clock up in the clock tower reaches ten to nine each morning, a Year 6 pupil takes their turn to pull the long cord and sound the old bell, for the beginning of school. Traditions like these are important to us.
We are fortunate to have two large fields and a range of facilities for gardening, outdoor adventures, climbing and playing together. Physical activity is valued as much as academic thought at Glemsford and we like to provide as many opportunities as we can for them to be outside.
We are situated at the centre of Glemsford, and we are proud to be a hub of the village, with strong links to many voluntary organisations and societies.
We have amazing, polite and inquisitive children, they are such confident and friendly pupils. We have positive staff who inspire and enthuse the children, and parents and governors who support us.
We are now recognised as a good school and our results over the past four years have been among some of the best in the county.
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Glenda's Christmas Cottage truly is a destination worth visiting. Begin each Christmas by driving out into the rolling hills of Mt Lehman to Glenda's to pick out that unique Christmas ornament or gift that will make this and every year a special one to remember.
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After operating a Preschool Nutrition Center in the small town of San Antonio Palopo, Guatemala since 2010, we need to establish a permanent building to house the over 50 preschoolers that rely on the center for daily nutrition and education. Currently the preschool operates in a temporary shelter which is dark, cramped, and not conducive to learning and growing.
San Antonio is one the most impoverished and isolated communities in the region, with an urgent need for quality education centers and regular humanitarian aid. Most of the children only speak their indigenous Maya language Kaq'chikel at home, limiting their ability to continue their education. Additionally, many of the students have grown up in extreme poverty, limiting their access to nutrition and ability to flourish.
The three-story building will house almost 90 students, as well as a kitchen to prepare a daily nutritional meal and snack. There, in addition to nutrition assistance and a bilingual education, the students will also learn about basic hygiene and get regular vitamins and deworming medication. This holistic approach will ensure that every child has the resources and support to stay in school.
With a permanent building in San Antonio we will be able to triple the number of children receiving daily nutritional assistance and education. Without the support that the Mayan Families Preschool Nutrition Centers provide, these children will most likely drop out of primary school and never escape the cycle of poverty. By widening our impact and committing to the health, future, and education of these children, we will prepare a new generation for success. | <urn:uuid:b41f7762-1ced-4f34-a893-cf9c212af25f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/building-a-home-for-the-san-antonio-preschool/ | 2024-04-13T23:31:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.953834 | 305 |
Wise Countries eases lockdown to move forward
Tunisia eases lockdown as zero cases registered
and supermarkets reopened Friday in Tunisia after the government announced zero
coronavirus cases for the fifth consecutive day.
In a statement published overnight, the health ministry also said that 217
patients still carry the COVID-17 virus, three of whom are being treated in
hospital.Tunisian people wearing protective face masks walk in the Habib Bourguiba avenue in the Tunisian capital Tunis on May 12, 2020, following the easing of the lockdown measures put in place to combat the spread of coronavirus Covid-19. – Tunisia urged continued vigilance against the novel coronavirus, a day after recording no new cases for the first time since March 2 as it eases strict lockdown measures. A broader relaxation is planned for June 14 but will depend on how the health situation develops, officials have said, warning of the risk of a second wave of infection. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP). |
But for the fifth consecutive day no new cases were registered in the North African country which has declared 1,032 cases of coronavirus, including 45 deaths, since March 2.
With infections slowing, retail stores, open-air markets and supermarkets have reopened, but authorities are urging citizens to stay vigilant and respect hygiene measures.
On Wednesday, President Kais Saied shortened an overnight curfew that has been in place since March 22.
Tunisia started easing strict confinement measures last week.
Football returns, beaches reopen as Europe eases lockdown
Beaches in France and Italy opened on Saturday for the first weekend since the countries eased coronavirus lockdowns, while football fans awaited the return of major league action with Germany's Bundesliga set to kick off.
The reopenings are a major sign of returning normality for countries hit hard by the pandemic, which has killed more than 307,000 people, infected over 4.5 million, wrought vast economic havoc and brought life to a halt.
But as countries lift restrictions to boost their stagnant economies, there have been widespread fears of a second wave of infections that could plunge the world back into lockdown.
Such fears have delayed the return of team sport -- where it is almost impossible for players to practise social distancing measures -- and all eyes will be on Saturday's Bundesliga matches.
The games will be held without spectators and players will have to follow strict hygiene guidelines -- former Chelsea striker Salomon Kalou was suspended by Hertha Berlin just for shaking hands with team-mates.
"The whole world will be looking at Germany, to see how we get it done," said Hansi Flick, the boss of league-leaders Bayern Munich.
Russia has announced its own football league will return next month and pushed ahead with plans to lift restrictions despite recording its highest daily death toll on Saturday, with 119 fatalities.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday the country would extend its state of emergency for "about a month" until the transition out of lockdown is completed.
In France, the first weekend after the most strict measures were lifted saw many venture out into the spring sunshine.
"I really missed nature," 55-year-old doctor Lise Balmes said of walking through a forest outside Paris.
- Here comes the sun -
With the European summer fast approaching, governments are moving to help their key tourism industries to salvage something from the wreckage.
Italy, one of the nations worst hit by COVID-19, announced it would reopen to European holidaymakers from June 3 and scrap quarantine requirements for arrivals.
Parasols and sunloungers have started to appear on Italy's coastlines and Greece will open some of its air and sea links from Monday.
Malls opened in the Philippines' capital Manila on Saturday but saw only a trickle of customers.
"It looks like people are not too excited to come back. Maybe all their money is gone," said shoe shop employee Kristine Grape.
However, for some the cautious easing of restrictions has not been enough.
Major German cities on Saturday will see the latest of a growing wave of protests against the country's lockdown measures.
The demonstrations have been mired in controversies over conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism and extremism.
In a sign of rising tension, a mock tombstone was found in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel's electoral offices, apparently to protests against the lockdown, police said Saturday.
- Vaccine hopes -
One hope of avoiding a dreaded second wave has been a vaccine, and US President Donald Trump voiced hope late on Friday that one would be available by late 2020 -- a timeline deemed unrealistic by many experts.
"We are looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before," Trump told reporters at the White House as he discussed America's "Operation Warp Speed" effort in the global race for a vaccine.
This timeline is more aggressive than the one-year scenario put forward by European scientists.
The hunt for a vaccine for a disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) says may never disappear has also threatened to become a source of tension between the globe's haves and have-nots.
The virus itself is having an uneven effect on communities around the world.
New research on Saturday showed that people living in the most deprived areas of Britain are more than four times likelier to test positive than those living in the richest neighbourhoods.
- 'No celebration' -
The pressure to ease lockdowns has mounted as the catastrophic economic effects of the virus have become clearer.
In the United States, the world's worst-affected country with more than 87,000 deaths and 1.4 million cases, industrial production plunged 11.2 percent in April, the largest drop in a century.
Department store JCPenney, a retail institution which has not turned a profit since 2011, on Friday became the latest US business to file for bankruptcy.
"May will not be a month of celebration. Nor will June. Nor July. Nor probably the rest of this year," warned Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail.
With 36.5 million Americans -- more than 10 percent of the population -- now out of work, Trump has been keen to ease lockdown measures as he seeks re-election in November.
Some areas are resisting. Lockdown measures in New York City have been extended until May 28.
In the US House of Representatives, Democrats narrowly pushed through a $3 trillion rescue package late on Friday -- but Republicans have vowed to block the package in the Senate, which they control.
Since emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, the novel coronavirus has affected almost every country in the world.
The WHO has warned Africa, which has so far been spared the worst, could have 231 million people infected and up to 190,000 dies.
Besides its health and economic toll, the pandemic has also caused political ructions.
The latest fallout was in Brazil, which lost its second health minister in a month as Nelson Teich resigned.
An official said the resignation was due to the minister's "incompatibility" with right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's approach to fighting the country's spiralling COVID-19 crisis.
Burundi expels top WHO team steering coronavirus crisis
Burundi has ordered the expulsion of the World Health
Organization’s (WHO) expert team backing the country’s response to the
coronavirus pandemic, just days before a presidential election.
The foreign ministry, in a letter to WHO Africa headquarters and seen by AFP
on Wednesday, said the UN agency’s representative in Burundi and his three
colleagues “are declared persona non grata and as such, must leave the
territory of Burundi” by Friday.The directive, dated May 12, expels WHO’s top official in Burundi, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo; the country’s coronavirus coordinator, Dr Jean Pierre Mulunda Nkata; communicable diseases head Dr Ruhana Mirindi Bisimwa; and a laboratory expert in the testing for COVID-19, Professor Daniel Tarzy.
World Health Organization PHOTO:Getty Images. |
“Late yesterday afternoon I was made aware through a note verbale about this decision of the government of Burundi which has asked our WHO representative and three other persons, one of whom is a consultant … to leave the country immediately,” WHO Africa Director Dr Matshidiso Moeti told journalists on Thursday.
“We are in communication with the government of Burundi to clarify and understand the reasoning behind this decision they have taken. We are in the meantime then working to organise the departure of our staff.”
The letter does not provide a reason for the decision. Diplomatic and administrative sources told AFP the foreign ministry aborted a similar attempt to expel the same four officials a month ago.
“They are expelled and the health minister has totally excluded WHO, accusing it of unacceptable interference in its management of the coronavirus,” a Burundian official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention described the move as “unfortunate” at a time when greater cooperation was needed to tackle the virus on the continent.
“We are in dire need of technical expertise as a continent, which has a very weak health system and fragile infrastructure, where we don’t have the luxury of kicking out WHO,” director John Nkengasong told reporters Thursday.
Meanwhile, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, tasked by the Human Rights Council to investigate alleged violations and abuses in the country since 2015, said in a statement that it “deeply regretted” the decision.
The announcement comes just days before Burundians go to the polls on May 20 to choose a new president, parliamentarians and local officials.
The country has officially recorded 27 cases and one death from the coronavirus.
But it has taken few precautions against the disease and testing is low, fuelling concern that the true extent of the outbreak is not known.
A health ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said seven patients have been hospitalised at one institution with symptoms such as respiratory distress and had not been tested and that “a whole wing has been dedicated to them at the military hospital”.
Meanwhile, a doctor, also seeking anonymity, reported six deaths of patients “presenting all the symptoms of coronavirus” last week.
One resident of the capital recounted that her neighbour, who had a fever and respiratory problems, was refused a test.
“This man was 65 years old and died at home last week,” she said.
Meanwhile, the National Institute of Public Health, the only place carrying out tests, has had six of its staff responsible for taking samples, fall sick with the virus.
“Since then all activity is paralysed, no test can be carried out, it is a catastrophe,” an employee of the institue confirmed to AFP, on condition of anonymity.
Election at any cost
Rights groups say the government is pressing ahead with the vote no matter the cost and accuses the ruling party and its youth wing of crushing dissent and threatening those taking their own measures against coronavirus.
Huge political rallies have been held across the country, drawing tens of thousands of supporters together in mass gatherings that have been banned in other parts of Africa and around the word.
Nkengasong warned such congregations were ripe for spreading coronavirus far and wide.
“We’ve seen that in countries where they’ve gone ahead and conducted elections, or where they’ve enabled people to come together in a political rally, the cases have increased,” he said.
Officials in Burundi have cited divine protection for the country’s ostensibly low infection rate and urged citizens to go about their daily lives without fear.
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Thirty-nine Filipinos are still in Gaza, a Department of Foreign Affairs official said on Saturday.
"May 39 pa na mga Pilipino na nasa Gaza... 'Yung iba, ayaw umalis doon... 'Yung iba naman, aalis lang kung kasama ang kanilang misis o mister na Palestino," DFA Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said in an interview on Dobol B TV.
(There are 39 Filipinos still in Gaza... Some of them do not want to leave... Others will only leave if their Palestinian wife or husband will be allowed to leave with them.)
The Philippines raised Alert Level 4 in Gaza City in mid-October. This means evacuation for Filipinos there is mandatory.
Two Filipino doctors were the first to exit Gaza and enter Egypt via Rafah Crossing amid the war between Israeli forces and the militant group Hamas.
"Hindi araw-araw bukas 'yung border. Next time na may opportunity, please cross," De Vega said.
(The border is not open every day. Next time there is an opportunity, please cross [the border].)
The DFA official also said some of the Palestinian spouses of Filipinos in Gaza were not given clearance to exit.
"Kaya tuloy 39 pa 'yung naiwan sa Gaza," he added.
(That is why there are still 39 [Filipinos] left in Gaza.)
There were a total of 137 Filipinos in Gaza when the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas started.
De Vega also said there were instances of Palestinians being allowed to exit Gaza but not given entry permit by Egypt.
"Kunyari nakalusot sa Palestinian side, pagdating sa Egypt, mayroon pang security check doon. Pero 'yung iba, hindi approved ng Egypt [kahit] nakapasa na sa Israel," he said.
(For instance, if someone has been cleared by the Palestinian side, when he arrives in Egypt, he has to undergo security check again. Some are not approved even if already given clearance by Israel.)
Those not allowed entry to Egypt have no choice but go back to Gaza, de Vega said.
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In the heartland of India, where tradition and taste converge, Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd stands tall as a beacon of culinary excellence. Established on January 1, 1962, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, this venerable institution has become synonymous with quality, authenticity, and the spirit of innovation. Under the flagship brand, "420 PAPAD," the company has carved a niche for itself, offering a delectable range of papad, Sada papad, Khatta Mitha Chana Papad, Punjabi Masala Papad, Special Papad Katran, Special Papad, Chana Chatpata Lahsun Papad, Gold Punjabi Masala Papad, Punjabi Masala papad, Chana Chatpata Papad, Disco Moong Papad, Chana Lahsun Disco Papad, Idli Instant Mix, Dosa Instant Mix, Vada Mix Flouretc., .
Legacy of Taste and Tradition:-
Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd takes pride in its rich legacy, spanning over six decades. With a commitment to preserving and enhancing traditional flavors, the company has perfected the art of papad and instant mix manufacturing. The establishment year, 1962, marks the beginning of a culinary journey that has withstood the test of time, evolving and adapting to the changing tastes of generations.
Nestled in the vibrant city of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd benefits from its strategic location at the crossroads of cultural diversity. This locale serves as the perfect backdrop for creating a diverse range of products that resonate with the palates of people across the country.
Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd takes pride in offering an extensive product portfolio that includes 11 varieties of papads and 14 instant mixes. From the crispiness of traditional papads to the convenience of instant mixes, the brand caters to the diverse tastes and preferences of consumers.
At the heart of Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd's success lies its unwavering commitment to delivering the best quality and taste. The company sources premium ingredients and employs state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to ensure that every product that bears the "420 PAPAD" brand is a testament to excellence.
Recognizing the vast and varied culinary landscape of India, Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd has established a robust distribution network that spans the entire nation. City-wise distributorship opportunities ensure that the brand reaches every nook and corner, bringing the authentic flavors of Indore to households across the country.
Margins and Schemes:-
Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd believes in fostering mutually beneficial partnerships with its distributors and retailers. With an attractive margin structure, distributors enjoy a substantial 8% margin, while retailers benefit from an impressive 35% margin. The company also offers enticing schemes and return on investment (ROI) programs, making the distributorship with Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd a lucrative and rewarding venture.
The mission of Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd goes beyond being a mere manufacturer; it is about enriching lives through the joy of authentic Indian flavors. The company aims to continue its legacy of taste, tradition, and innovation while expanding its footprint across the nation.
Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd Indore, with its brand "420 PAPAD," stands as a testament to the enduring legacy of culinary excellence. Rooted in tradition, yet forward-thinking, the company invites distributors to join hands in bringing the richness of its products to every corner of India. With great margins, attractive schemes, and a commitment to quality, Agrawal Papad Pvt Ltd is not just a manufacturer; it's a culinary journey that invites everyone to savor the authentic taste of India.
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2 Lacs to 3 Lacs
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Last year esteemed Swedish golf fashion company Oscar Jacobson teamed up with Spanish shoe specialist Lottusse to create a range of distinctive, eye-catching golf shoes.
Utilising the craftsmanship of the Spanish brand, who have been handcrafting shoes in Mallorca since 1877, the shoes were a natural extension of Oscar Jacobson's offering of timeless style and detail using only the finest materials.
Following the success of the 2015 range a new collection has been released, with new ultra-striking colours, full-leather designs and a new Monk Strap model.
The range features four all leather styles - Suede, Brogue, Monk Strap and Classic - with striking green, blues and yellows available in the Suede and Brogue shoes whilst the Monk Strap and Classic saddle retain a predominantly black-based colour palette.
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Earlier this year, the American Council on Education asked President Scheinberg to share the Goodwin story on their blog, Higher Education Today. They were interested in how the College developed and how it was working to benefit the local community as well as the students. The article went live on June 28, and we are happy to invite you to read the article.
Goodwin University is a nonprofit institution of higher education and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), formerly known as the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). Goodwin University was founded in 1999, with the goal of serving a diverse student population with career-focused degree programs that lead to strong employment outcomes. | <urn:uuid:861afadd-d683-44b3-bb26-bab51b8003d7> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.goodwin.edu/enews/higher-education-today/ | 2024-04-13T21:53:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.986683 | 142 |
j have all my google products and works with set up all the way I want it, all was good.
Then my son moved back in and sent a request to join the party, but I ignored it.
few months on, somehow he has joined and made himself a manager on my google account and is now changing things and messing up my system,
How do I stop this and remove and block him?
There should be no way for anyone to join your Google Nest "household" without an invitation from you.
You can remove members of your Google Nest "household":
Thanks for posting.
@MplsCustomer is correct. Your son cannot access or join your Google Home system unless there’s an invite or added his account straight to your Google Home app. Follow the provided link above for you to know who are with you as home members and from there you can decide if you want to remove them.
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In honor of our Denver GovUp coming up tomorrow evening, GovLoop wanted to shine a spotlight on a sweet project coming out of the Rocky Mountains called Open Colorado. Launched just a couple months ago by Colorado Smart Communities, Open Colorado “seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data…drawing on the expertise from those before us mainly data.gov.uk and data.gov.”
When creator Sean Hudson first contacted us about it, he described it this way:
“We are in early stages of working with many different Colorado government agencies to collaborate on a state-wide data catalog and developing tools that anyone can use to embed their own data on their own site.”
- Launched the new website and community that will drive theColorado Open Data Initiative
- Partnered with CKAN (the folks behind data.gov.uk catalog) and launched the Colorado state-wide data catalog.
- Used the CKAN API to create a mini-data catalog on the City of Arvada website.
- Launched additional mini-catalogs with cities like Boulder and Ft. Collins
- Helped promote the Rocky Mountain Gov 2.0 Camp which was held in Boulder, CO, on June 12
- Applied for not-for-profit status for Colorado Smart Communities and Open Colorado
- Launched a website to host CityCamp Colorado on December 4-5, 2010 in Denver.
What is Colorado Smart Communities?
Our goal is to utilize technology to transform Colorado government at all levels (state, county, and city) to be more transparent, accountable, and accessible. We are comprised of both public and private sector professionals. We are like a think tank, educational resource, and open source technology community all rolled into one. If you are a government employee, concerned citizen, journalist, programmer, hacker, elected official, vendor, or techie interested in how you can participate in transforming government in Colorado, we encourage you to join our group.
What’s your approach?
That’s best stated in bullets:
- Working with the web
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- Make the smallest possible changes
- Make the web work better
- Working with the grain:
- We are not looking to rebuild the world.
- We appreciate that some things take time; others can be done relatively quickly.
- Everything has it’s own time and pace;
- Using open standards:
- open source and open data
- a modular, sustainable system
- Building communities:
- working with and through them
- both inside government and outside
Over the coming months the site will be developing further as we incorporate visitor feedback and thoughts.
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There are a number of ways of getting involved in the project, dependent on your background or interest.
- Ideas: let us know any ideas you would like to see someone build as applications? Tell the community via the Ideas page and someone might just pick up the challenge!
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This focus on equality underpins the new Women’s Empowerment initiative from GLO Partner RAJEDES as they operate their microloan and savings groups. Participants each contribute a small amount of income weekly into a shared pot, from which individuals can take out low-interest loans, giving them capital to invest in business ventures which would otherwise be impossible.
The beneficiaries of the project are poor young women, and widows including women who have business ideas but lack the capital to start a business. Leader Donatien and his team do not discriminate in who is able to partake, and women from all faiths and backgrounds are included in the 100 women who are part of the scheme.
One woman who has benefitted from this scheme is mother-of-eight Médiatrice. With her husband struggling to find work, Médiatrice started selling tomatoes on the side of the street, but could only scrape together a small amount of produce to sell. She was unable to make enough money to support the children’s education so they did not attend school. With a loan of just £40, Médiatrice was able to offer an increased volume and variety of products, allowing her to pay back the loan and support her family, with the children able to go to school. Having paid off the first loan, she has come back for a second of £95 which will develop the business further. Médiatrice is just one representative of her group. Life by life, RAJEDES is transforming this community in one of the poorest parts of Bujumbura. | <urn:uuid:2eaaeb9f-6281-4972-8d77-0922b79253ac> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/taking-flight-together/ | 2024-04-13T21:23:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.980963 | 323 |
Australia is shaping up as the battleground for a showdown between corporate media giants, with the federal government keen to appear as if it is taking a stand for media diversity.
On one side are the federal government and corporate media giants News Corp, 9Fax (the merger of Nine and Fairfax Media Entertainment) and The Guardian. On the other are the online tech giants Facebook and Google.
The federal government wants the latter to pay royalties to Australian media companies for sharing news on their platforms. Its draft code of conduct has been met with fury by the tech giants.
At the heart of the dispute is how to make the most money from people increasingly accessing their news from online platforms. Traditional media, particularly print media, has been steadily losing advertising revenue to online companies.
According to a 2019 University of Canberra study, more than half the population now use Facebook and Google to access news, generated by traditional media companies.
More than 200 broadcast and print newsrooms have closed temporarily, or for good, since January last year, according to the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA).
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the suspension, or permanent closure, of more than 100 newspaper mastheads, many in regional areas. At least 1000 more editorial jobs are expected to go this year.
The government says it is concerned about all this. Yet, Australia’s newspaper industry is among the most concentrated in the developed world. The Coalition government tried to change the rules in 2016 that would have increased that concentration.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which developed the new media bargaining code of conduct, said it addresses “bargaining power imbalances between Australian news media business and digital platforms, specifically Google and Facebook”.
The government says the new rules are an attempt to correct this imbalance.
But, while mandatory, it only requires media companies to bargain with each other and, only if there is no agreement after three months, will an arbitrator be appointed.
The ACCC accepts that the tech giants benefit more than the news companies, and that their market power means the latter do not have the capacity to demand a better deal. The September 5 Guardian said that one reason for the need for compensation is that “news companies are different because they compete directly with the platforms in the digital advertising market in a way other online businesses don’t”.
It said the decline of advertising revenue in the print media had led directly to the loss of thousands of journalism jobs and the closure of many publications.
The tech companies are not happy, and have come out swinging. Facebook announced on August 31 that if the new law was passed, it will ban publishers and those living in Australia from sharing local and international news on their platforms.
How it would do this remains unclear.
Google has used its Australian platforms, such as Google Search and YouTube, to tell users by direct message that such revenue-sharing laws would threaten its services.
Australian media groups often pay tax on local earnings, at a rate of up to 100 times greater than Facebook and Google. This makes any level playing field between local media and the tech giants impossible.
The MEAA, which covers journalists, welcomed the new media bargaining code, saying Google and Facebook must compensate media organisations for using their content. However, the union argues the draft bill needs more work to ensure that any compensation will be fairly distributed to encourage “public interest journalism”. It says the funds need to “benefit the ultimate creators of value, our journalist members, including freelance producers of media news”.
However, only the Guardian has said it would “invest more in local journalism” from any increased payment from the tech giants.
News Corp’s involvement in drafting aspects of the bill has raised more concern. If the legislation is passed, it will entrench its print media dominance. In 2016, News Corporation and Fairfax Media together owned the majority of national and capital city newspapers.
Another major concern is that the bill effectively cuts off a potential source of revenue to ABC or SBS. While the government moans about the cost of public broadcasters and plans more ABC budget cuts, it is not hard to be cynical about its claim to want to level the playing field and diversify the media.
Neither does the fact that it took no regulatory action over Nine Entertainment’s recent buy-out of Fairfax Media for $1.6 billion inspire confidence.
While the bill purports to want to increase media diversity, it is really about re-distributing payments from one set of giant corporations to another.
Even so, Facebook and Google’s threats are troubling: through sheer market power they want to veto any government bills that mandate them to give up a small part of their profits.
In the past financial year, Facebook paid less than $17 million in tax in Australia, while it recorded more than $674 million in profit. Google Australia made more than $4.3 billion in advertising revenue from its platforms and paid just $100 million in tax.
As long as the media giants can keep people on their platforms, they continue to profit.
Given the power of social media to manipulate public opinion, from the data collected from individual users through to the online manipulation of governments, and the threat this poses to democracy, there is a case for regulating the giant tech companies.
In addition, much more needs to be done to diversify the media. The public broadcasters need more funding, and democratically-elected boards would help with that as well as diversifying content.
A truly democratic society does require media organisations to be able to hold the rich and powerful to account. The proposed news media bargaining code will do nothing fundamental to change that.
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RAILWAY enthusiasts and couples could soon be staying in the clock tower at Wemyss Bay Station under a plan to turn it into a romantic bolthole.
The £5,000 grant has been awarded to the Landmark Trust, a charity which specialises in restoring historic buildings to then let out as holiday accommodation.
The grant will help to fund a survey and feasibility study, with a view to further investment resulting in a quirky place to stay.
The two-storey flat inside the tower was lived in by a member of staff for many years, but has deteriorated and is now in a poor condition.
Andy Savage, executive director of the Railway Heritage Trust, said: “We have been involved in the station in both an advisory and a funding role for many years and we helped fund an attempt to restore the tower flat a decade ago, which sadly failed to stop the weather getting in.
"We have been seeking a way ahead to get it back into use ever since.
“The Landmark Trust offers a good way of getting ‘quirky’ buildings back into use, and this is well situated for them as they already have a presence on Bute.
“Assisting them in a feasibility study is a step towards a full restoration project.”
Andy hopes that their initial funding will persuade the Landmark Trust that the flat is worth taking on as a holiday home, and a more substantial grant would then be made towards its restoration.
He said: “This station is an iconic piece of architecture, and rightly has listed status.
“It is, however, very expensive to upkeep in relation to the limited use it now sees, and it is important to get commercial tenants in to look after as much of the station as possible – which also makes the station more welcoming, and part of the community.
“With a permanent tenant, and the support of an RHT grant towards restoration, we hope to see this part of the station fully restored, back in use, and being maintained properly.”
One further upgrade is due to be made to the tower, with Network Rail planning to install a new electric mechanism in the clock, which can only be accessed by a ladder built into the wall of the flat.
The clock tower flat was last lived in around five years ago, and local group the Friends of Wemyss Bay Station say they are supportive of the current efforts.
Greg Beecroft, committee member with the Friends, said: “We are very pleased about the idea.
“By far the best thing to happen to any building is for it to be used and I’m sure people will have an interesting time staying there.
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Finding a job, and more importantly finding the “right job”, can be likened to a treasure hunt, where there are clues and steps to be completed before finding the special prize that is hidden.
For anyone who wants to pursue a new career path in the global services sector, or advance their progression within the sector, it is important to find, understand and use job search clues that will lead them to the desired rewarding destination of best fit employment.
Though the job search process may sometimes seem like a daunting maze, this guide can lead to the jewel of a good job.
- Roam for a little to see which jobs are popular and/or available
When pursuing the best job fit, it is a good practice to scan the landscape of job postings to see which types of jobs are most popular and which jobs are have the potential of becoming popular in near future. For example, if you observe that there are many posts for “Data Analyst”, probing further to see what types of companies are making these posts will reveal what industries or sectors of an industry are becoming more reliant on these areas.
Adjusting your job search approach to reviewing companies first, might help speed up the process and reveal job positions that haven’t yet been posted on job boards. Researching companies also aids in identifying those that match your career values, goals, and interests.
Becoming more aware of such trends can aid you in determining which industries may present you with career expansion opportunities. Having such knowledge will help you to take the necessary next steps to better position yourself professionally in the global services sector.
- Read job descriptions as clues to getting a job that you want – and that also wants you
Reading job descriptions can help with identifying knowledge and skill gaps. Once those gaps have been identified, the next step would be to register for seminars, short courses, and other upskilling activities that can help you to become a better match to the required skills listed. Another clue hidden in job descriptions are keywords that are used to describe critical skills that you may already possess. Creating a skill list with those keywords can then be used to revise your resume, so that your strengths can be better presented by using critical keywords. This can make your professional profile more attractive for head hunters and human resource teams.
For example, if you notice that the skill “Digital Media Strategist” is a frequent skill set desired in job postings, and you have either the training or experience in coming up with digital media campaigns, you may want to consider adding such a skill description to your resume.
- Get help to improve your resume and professional profile if necessary
An extra pair of eyes to review your resume or professional profile can help with identifying and correcting grammatical and typographical errors, as well as removing resume layout flaws related to fonts, paragraphs, headlines and colour balance. Displaying a professional profile and resume that have little to no errors, show potential employers and headhunters that you pay attention to detail and take care in your work. The end result would be making a good impression.
- Use your social media presence and profile to help build your professional brand
Social media platforms have evolved from just being spaces where friends and families share jokes, funny photos and videos, and posting pictures from a vacation trip. Online social platforms have been used in recent times to organize social causes, recruit activists and even pre-screen potential employees to see if their ethos is a good fit for organizational culture.
Before commencing an active search for jobs, it would be best to clean up one’s social media profile so that what is visible is what you would like to be seen by potential employers.
You may want to consider removing any inappropriate images, videos or comments or, if necessary, setting your existing profiles to ‘private’. Creating a new social media account that is more professionally appealing and setting that profile to ‘public’ may be worth considering. For example, your more professionally friendly profile may include posting articles relevant to your area of interest or videos about that highlight topics in your industry.
- Stay on the hunt for better job opportunities
The best way to apply for a job is to be aware of the job. Staying alert about where job prospects are, is therefore critical. The search for jobs is best optimized with a balance of online and offline pursuits.
Setting up job alerts through email or text message will enable you to become promptly aware of job listings immediately as they go live, giving your job application the chance to be at the top of the resume pile.
It is always good to complement your online job search with offline searches such as job fairs, newspaper postings, networking at industry events or attending in-person seminars. These are also useful in connecting you to headhunters and hiring managers that just may have the right job for you.
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Recently, we held a team meeting in a client’s office. Part of the meeting was about creating consistent standards in the office. Somehow the topic veered toward to OSHA standards and the appropriate methods for ‘flipping’ a room. It turned into a full-blown demonstration of how to sterilize a room and then how to set it up for particular procedures. The conversation was eye-opening as I continued to hear “Oh that’s how you do that.” Or “Why do you wipe down in that area?” “Because Dr. Molar often will grab for something over there.”
I walked away from that meeting thinking that I couldn’t have set up a better agenda than what just occurred, although I will keep that idea for other practices. This office goes to OSHA training every year and they all know the regulations and is required, however, customizing all those regulations for their office to create consistency is a step that, until now, had been missed.
As the team reviewed their methods for completing each step, they would discuss and finally decide which way they would all do it in the future. Sometimes, all eyes would turn toward the doctor for guidance, then a new decision was made. Notes were furiously taken so that at the end, several clinical protocols were created, written and available in the event there was a question in the future.
At GTS, we constantly preach the need to have written protocols, processes, SOPs… whatever you want to call them. These are the steps by which everyone in the office completes tasks. It’s so important to know that everyone is doing things not only the right way but also the same way. As the previous demonstration proved, just telling someone to wipe down the room isn’t enough. You will want to give specific directions such as: you need to be sure to wipe in this area because the doctor will often grab the light this way, or this is where she sometimes grabs the tray to move it closer. These written SOPs will be a huge benefit for the new employee to understand how the office prefers things to be completed.
Anytime I begin talking about written protocols, I immediately get eye-rolls, although some people are polite enough to do it internally. Thoughts of employees working for hours on endless process lists are seen through the glazed eyes and heavy sigh. I have received a thank you once or twice for ‘forcing’ an office to undertake this task and I guess the biggest expressed gratitude was from an office that had an audit from Aetna, when it was requested to see the office’s protocol book. ☺
It doesn’t have to be a long drawn out project that takes the team away from productive scheduling, effective collection systems or excellent patient care. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. This is the time to put a microscope on how things get completed, meaning it can be done while it’s being done. Think about the example from the meeting at the beginning of this article – as people worked, notes were taken and voila’ a written protocol was completed.
Writing out the protocols, processes or SOPs can be completed by keeping in mind these 4 important guidelines:
Walk through the process as though you were doing it. It’s even better if you write it out AS you do it. This will assist you to remember every single step rather than going off memory.
As you are writing out the step include all the pertinent information without including the confidential information: To verify insurance for Metlife patient – go to Metdental.com > fill-in the user name and password > Select the box for eligibility > put in the patient’s subscriber ID (often their SSN)
It is often natural to think that all team members will be in their position for life, however, life changes and so do team members. It is for this reason that you will want to refer to the position not the person. A proper handoff – The clinical team member will escort the patient to the check out desk………….
It is important to be specific with explanations of how, what, where, who without going over board. Less is more. Find that fine line of being specific without being too wordy.
Written protocols only have value if they are kept relevant and up to date. Which means that every time a system changes, so must you processes book. It’s not a hard thing to do; it merely takes a concerted effort. In our fast-paced world, we often make changes without letting the entire team aware of the change. By keeping your book up-dated, you will keep your team up-dated. The initial example of a team meeting is the perfect way to build your protocol book – walk through anything: treatment planning, sterilization, following up on insurance claims, any and everything that the office does on a daily basis.
If you find you need help with this ever-important project, let me know. I’d love to get you started. You can contact me at: [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:440d77ee-9e57-4556-8cca-a21543568299> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.gtsgurus.com/post/2019/06/03/4-guidelines-in-writing-effective-sops | 2024-04-13T22:33:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.972125 | 1,067 |
Xaña Winans is the founder and CEO of Golden Proportions Marketing, the first strategy based, full-service marketing company exclusively for dentists. Xaña founded and built Golden Proportions Marketing on the belief that dentists deserved a goal-driven, strategic approach to marketing. Transparency, results, and return on investment are the driving forces behind the work her agency provides.
Xaña teaches her audiences the foundational principles of marketing, as well as the actionable strategies necessary to turn brand awareness into actual new patients. She believes that doctors should understand the patient journey in order to attract, capture, and keep new patients in the practice. Audiences will learn valuable internal marketing strategies and leave empowered to better manage and maximize their marketing relationships.
Xaña has been an invited speaker to numerous national dental meetings including GNYDM, Yankee, and the AACD as well as numerous state meetings and study clubs. She has been guest faculty for both Pankey and LVI, teaching marketing to thousands of dentists over her 30 year career. She and her husband Dr. Larry Winans are parents to Ryder and Savannah. Outside of dentistry, they have founded, manage, and market a regional craft brewery.
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Through a partnership between the Transnet Foundation and the Guild Theatre, Theatre on the Move brings the stage to your community. The Transnet Theatre Trucks are horse-and-trailers converted into mobile performance stages and are fully equipped with audio and stage lighting. The Guild is one of five theatres in South Africa to have such an exciting facility.
Theatre on the Move also brings great opportunities for the Guild Education programmes. Besides the performance opportunities from visiting Master and Emerging artists, the Guild will also be implementing a pilot education and heritage preservation project known as FACE (Facets of Art and Culture Explored).
FACE is an initiative promoting the documentation of communities’ cultural history, rekindling the passion of storytelling and the creation of new works or arts with communities across the Eastern Cape. FACE goes to schools or communities for a stipulated period of time. During the residency three performing artists and a digital documenter work with community groups and school children to document local art and cultural activities, while also facilitating the creation of new works. The end of the residency culminates in a showcase on the Theatre Truck as well as the creation of a documentary, identification of emerging artists, and – most importantly – the contribution towards building community and revitalising cultural identity.
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If you thought gutter guards were just a convenience item to eliminate the hassle of dragging out the ladder and dredging mucky clumps of rotting leaves, moss and who knows what else, we can tell you there’s so much more to it. Clogged gutter problems cause serious damage and danger to you and your home—damage and danger that you can avoid (along with the hassle), if you install gutter guards. These are just 5 Dangers of Clogged Gutters:
- Gutter Damage Can Cause Foundation Damage
Clean gutters work to keep rain and melting snow and ice away from the foundation to protect your entire house. If you have clogged gutters, excessive water can cause foundation damage and cause cracks that will shift the very structure of the house, making it unsafe for you and your family to live in.
- Clogged Gutter Problems Lead to Roof Damage
Of course, your roof can also suffer without fully-functional gutters. Improperly diverted water can pool in places, causing leaks that get into the frame and fascia of the house, not to mention the roof itself. This can lead to root rot, mold and mildew that can cause health problems and cost thousands of dollars to remedy.
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- Clogged Gutter Problems Can Hurt You!
We talked about the hassle of dragging out and climbing up the ladder at the beginning of this article, but for many people, this isn’t just a hassle—it can be dangerous too. Climbing up without someone to spot you, or inadvertently digging your hands into a wasp nest can land you in the hospital, or worse!
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Adjustment of generation is still the principle means of providing flexibility services and the core topic of the HydroFlex project. In this context, understanding the time scales of flexibility is important. These range from millisecond responses due to electrical faults all the way to yearly and even decade scale changes due to economic, technological and population development. Different mechanisms have evolved to cope with this range of time scales.
Physical requirements, commonly imposed by TSOs, related to protection settings, requirement to inertia and turbine governor parameters and performance characteristics of voltage regulator are used to secure the shortest time scales. Intra-day markets and day ahead markets are used to balance the hourly and diurnal variation, and financial markets (future markets) are put in place to balance the intermediate scale. The long-term development, such as grid development plans and capacity expansions, resides in the borderland between the TSO-level, regulatory bodies as well as political decision. Nevertheless, in a commercial, deregulated power market, reliable predictions regarding the types of markets that will exist in the future as well as reliable prediction of future pricing is critical for anyone considering investment in new.
During the last decades, several models for predicting wholesale electricity prices have been developed. The models vary in time resolution and geographical resolution but are in general based on minimizing the cost of producing the predicted consumption in a future time interval. Models to predict future prices for flexibility services have so far been quite limited. Within the HydroFlex WP2, a novel approach for investigating flexibility requirements is under development. The basic principle is to combine a traditional market model with a detailed simulation of failure events. For each hourly equilibrium load, failure events are injected, and a time domain simulation is performed in order to see if the system is able to stabilize itself again and the required dynamic response of the hydropower plants in the system. Initial results are encouraging, but there remains significant development and testing before concluding. | <urn:uuid:f0c57cc4-abbc-4667-b65e-d4a0639ebb7c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.h2020hydroflex.eu/summary-popular-science-presentations/ | 2024-04-13T22:04:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.945738 | 389 |
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Inspired by Nina’s love of nature, The Marguerite Collection is set upon English fine bone china, entirely handcrafted in Stoke-on-Trent in England, the illustrative designs draw fond memories of dining al fresco on sultry summer afternoons.
This white mug features the Lithodora Diffusa in ‘Heavenly Blue’, an evergreen plant, which grows in garden borders. Its vivid blue, star-shaped blooms are peppered amongst a mat of leafy green foliage, complemented with a matching blue feathered edge. The perfect addition to your collection.
Handcrafted in Stoke-on-Trent by skilled artisans, this English Fine Bone China mug epitomizes quality.
Its delicate design and exquisite colours pay homage to the meticulous craftsmanship that defines each piece. A true embodiment of elegance, artistry, and the spirit of the Serengeti.
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Welcome to the colourful world of interior design! As an artist and seascape painter, I understand the transformative power of colour in creating a harmonious and inviting home. In this post, we will embark on a vibrant journey to discover the secrets of choosing the right colours for your Australian abode. From the sun-kissed shores to the lush landscapes, let's infuse your space with the essence of Australian beauty.
1. Draw Inspiration from the Land Down Under
Australia is a land of diverse landscapes and breathtaking natural wonders. Take a moment to draw inspiration from the sunsets over the Outback, the turquoise waters of the Great Barrier Reef, or the lush greenery of the rainforests. Let these captivating hues guide your colour choices and bring a touch of the Australian spirit into your home.
2. Consider the Natural Light
With its abundant sunshine, Australia offers a unique canvas for playing with light and colour. Take note of the natural light that fills your space throughout the day. Bright, airy rooms can embrace cooler shades like crisp whites, soft blues, and soothing greens. In rooms with limited natural light, warmer tones like creamy neutrals, rich earthy hues, or even sunlit yellows can create a cozy and welcoming atmosphere.
3. Reflect the Coastal Vibes
Living in Australia means being surrounded by stunning coastlines. Embrace the coastal vibes by incorporating shades that echo the beach, sea, and sky. Think sandy beiges, ocean blues, and aquamarine accents. These colours evoke a sense of relaxation and tranquillity, bringing the essence of the seaside into your home.
4. Embrace Native Flora and Fauna
Australia boasts a unique array of native flora and fauna, bursting with vibrant colours and patterns. Why not let these natural wonders inspire your interior colour palette? From the fiery reds of the Waratah flower to the golden yellows of the Wattle, incorporate these hues into your decor. Splashes of vibrant greens and earthy tones reminiscent of the eucalyptus trees can also bring a touch of Australian wilderness into your living space.
5. Create Contrast and Balance
Choosing the right colours isn't just about picking one shade; it's about creating a harmonious balance. Consider the concept of contrast when selecting your palette. Pairing light and dark tones or incorporating complementary colours can create visual interest and depth. Balance warm and cool hues, or experiment with different shades of the same colour to add dimension to your space.
6. Consider the Mood
Colours have the power to evoke specific moods and emotions. Reflect on the atmosphere you want to create in each room. Opt for calming blues and greens in bedrooms and living spaces to promote relaxation. Energise your workspace with vibrant yellows or invigorate your kitchen with lively oranges. Tailor your colour choices to the desired mood of each area.
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Before committing to a colour scheme, it's crucial to test your chosen hues in the actual space. Lighting and other elements in the room can greatly affect how colours appear. Paint swatches on the walls and observe how they interact with the room's natural light at different times of the day. This will help you make an informed decision and ensure the colours truly complement your home.
Embrace the beauty of colour in your home and watch your space come alive. By carefully selecting the perfect palette, you can transform your Australian home into a personal oasis that reflects your style and invites you to immerse yourself in the captivating world of colour. | <urn:uuid:c7a03d44-a142-40cc-a833-27c5457654ea> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.hannahblackmore.com/post/dive-into-colour-a-guide-to-choosing-the-perfect-palette-for-your-australian-home | 2024-04-13T22:52:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.876816 | 740 |
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Starting Your Own Fix and Flip Business
There are so many people out there who are interested in investing in real estate and starting with their own fix and flip property. However, if you are looking to do more than just a single fix and flip—and really looking to take your investing efforts to the next business with a fix and flip business, then this is an entirely different undertaking.
This is a big decision and a big adventure, but there are a few tips that can help you get started with your venture so that you can set yourself up for success:
Get a Real Estate License
Before you go all-in with your fixing and flipping business, you want to get a real estate license. It can open up more opportunities for you as a flipper and it can be a major asset as you go through the process as you will understand all of the processes and terminology involved. Plus, if you can act as your own real estate license, you can save a lot with real estate fees.
Get Access to the MLS
Not everyone has access to the MLS, but if you are a real estate agent, you will be good to go. The MLS, or Multiple Listing Service, is the best place to go for accurate information on properties. It is much more reliable than other online sites. You will need this before you buy, before you price and before you sell. The MLS is going to be your best friend and essential for finding comps.
Partner with a Brokerage
You may not have plans to work full-time in a real estate office, but you should be partnering with real estate brokers as they can provide you with some valuable support, information and insights. They can be a valuable resource for helping your find potential buyers and learning the ropes of the industry.
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by Charisse Moritz
GENRE: YA Romance, (mature)
He’s the boy who wants to disappear.
One mistake and seventeen-year-old Shake LeCasse lost everything. Now there’s no going back and no way to move forward. The once-popular Varsity hockey captain is living in the basement of a grandmother he barely knows, ditching school, avoiding friends and working hard on self-destruction.
She’s the girl nobody sees.
Cleo Lee survives however she can. Lie, cheat, steal, whatever it takes, and saving Mr. Popular isn’t part of the plan. Telling him the truth about the night that destroyed his life is downright dangerous. She needs to keep quiet, be smart and let the guy she’s been half in love with since middle school throw away a future she’d do anything to have. Too bad she sucks at playing it safe.
He is sex on a stick:
I look over my shoulder to see Shake watching me. I’m wearing the purple bra and painties, pawing through shopping bags for pants and shirt to wear to school. I’m nervous about going back there. New clothes, new guy, same old me. A tag on my underwear proves I’m a total zero.
I don’t understand the look Shake gives me, but I recognize it. The slight curve of his lips, tip of his chin and concentrated attention of darkened eyes are becoming familiar. It never fails to saturate me in shivers.
It’s Monday morning. We spent Saturday and Sunday trying new places to screw around. Bent over the clothes dryer, on the stairs, on the picnic table, under the picnic table, next to the picnic table, in the shower … the boy is creative. We only came up for air long enough to eat. I also made it to my shifts at the bakery. He walked me to and from, like my own personal guard dog, and I barely made it back into the basement before the horny puppy was all over me again.
I’m not complaining. He is sex on a stick. By this point, his stick should be worn out. But with a T-shirt snagged around his neck and unzipped jeans sagging off his hips, Shake’s smoldering baby blues are again plotting ways to jump my bones.
“Shake,” I warn.
He prowls toward me. This playful Shake is a brand new animal. “I like purple.”
“That’s what you said about the red undies. And the blue. And the black.” I take a step backward. “You’re a horndog.”
“I’m focused. Goal-oriented. Found something I really want.” He steps closer. He towers over me. “I can’t get enough.”
“Oh, ah … ” My graceful self steps backward and tumbles into the dryer. My heart tries a pirouette but trips and cracks against my ribs. I’ve never felt like this before. I didn’t know anything like this was possible. It’s amazing. And scary. I need a handbook with directions, warnings, maybe diagrams, because I don’t know the next step or what the hell I’m doing. I’m bound to mess it up. Leaving this basement is the first step toward my downfall, but there’s no choice. We can’t stay down here forever. Can we?
“Be a good boy,” I tell him.
“I’m trying. It’s hard. Soooo hard. Kind of a shame to waste it, right?” His smile is all sly boots and as warm as the hands curving round my hips. “How bout I show you just how hard I can try?”
Who needs school? Especially since there’s a whole big, bad world waiting outside, and no one wants to see Shake and me in it together. And once he takes a good look around, he’s gonna agree with them.
Man, this book is raw. And real, sad, funny, happy and one of the most honest young adult books that I have ever read in my life. No lie. Best. Ever. It’s labeled mature for a reason. This isn’t a fluff YA book. It deals with real issues that both Cleo and Shake are having in their lives and trying to make the best of it. Growing up isn’t easy and with these two it’s even harder. I won’t go into the gory details but I will tell you that the book is a bit slow in the beginning. Hang in there. It picks up speed and doesn’t let you go.
The secondary characters like Rat, Allie, Sam, and even Shake’s grandmother are well-written characters that really enhance their story. I will have to say that Shake’s grandmother has no filter but she is important. Very important. There is also a subplot in regards to what really happened the night that Shake’s family is killed and Ms. Moritz does a fantastic job with it. I didn’t see it coming at all but it explains a lot with Cleo. And I will leave it at that.
Ms. Mortiz does an exceptional job of capturing just how crude, crass and unapologetic teenagers can be to themselves and the people around them. She has taken two very broken people and put them together to “fix” each other in a way. Only thing is, they don’t need to be “fixed” by the other person but the other person can help them in ways that they didn’t think they could. Cleo and Shake shouldn’t be together at all, maybe not be even friends but once you read the book, you will understand the why.
Ms. Mortiz wrote one outstanding book for all older teens. This should be in all libraries. I know I said that about another YA book that I recently reviewed here and I agree that this one should be right next to it. It deals with issues that no one should have to go through. Somehow though, Cleo and Shake do come through it. A bit burned but with each other. Plus, the Shakespeare quotes are great and relevant to the book.
Highly recommend for older teens and above. Just remember, Ms. Mortiz doesn’t sugarcoat some of the heady issues and there are some smexy times.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Emily Award Finalist and Melody Of Love Award Finalist, Charisse M Moritz divides her life between upstate NY and northern Florida. When not barricaded inside her writing cave or enjoying every possible minute with her husband and three kids, you’ll find her listening to 60’s music, singing offkey and looking for new reads.
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New champions were crowned during Zero Hour ahead of today’s AEW All In pay-per-view. Adam Cole and AEW World Champion MJF successfully defeated Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis of Aussie Open for the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship during the pre-show. MJF and Cole are still set to compete in the main event of today’s show, with the AEW World Championship on the line.
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Phone: 326-4646, Ext. 266
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On November 28, police responded to a report that an 86-year-old South Kohala man had paid thousands of dollars to two unknown men after they supposedly protected his home from insects. The two men had gone to the victim’s house and, without prior authorization or an estimate for their services, cleaned insects from the eaves, sprayed what they said was insecticide and then washed the exterior of the windows. When the work was completed, they told the homeowner he owed $3,600, which the victim paid.
Police urge the public to report any suspicious business practices and not to feel intimidated into paying for services they didn’t request. Police ask that anyone with information about similar incidents call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311.
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Welcome to our regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.
All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details of all of the current offers, together with links to our major articles on each hotel scheme. However, a positive response from readers – especially our 19,000 email subscribers – means we run this monthly article as a handy summary.
We’ve seen a bounce back in the number of offers from the winter low BUT ‘big brand’ American Express cashback deals are still noticeably absent.
Are these now over? American Express was heavily subsidising them, and as they have all stopped (Hilton, Marriott, IHG and Hyatt ran them multiple times) it is possible that Amex has turned off the tap. The only offers we have are from second tier chains.
Here are quick summaries and links to the registration pages you need for each offer – do it before you forget. (I apologise to email readers if this block is mangled – scroll down to the main text area.)
Hilton Honors is offering 2,000 bonus points, plus an extra 500 bonus points if you select a Digital Key via your smartphone, on every stay between 1st January and 1st May 2024.
Marriott Bonvoy is offering 1,000 bonus points per night, plus double elite night credits, on every stay between 13th February and 29th April. Registration closes on 15th April.
World of Hyatt
World of Hyatt is offering 3,000 bonus points for every three cash or reward nights you complete between 1st March and 30th April 2024. Nights do not need to be consecutive. Registration closes on 15th April.
Current offers for buying hotel points
Here are the ‘buy points’ offers running at the moment:
Current American Express cashback offers
It’s worth noting the current American Express cashback offers with the big chains. These may be showing on one or more of your cards and may influence which hotels you book this month:
- Get £100 back on a £500 spend with selected Mandarin Oriental hotels (expires 27th May)
- Get 7% cashback at Radisson Blu Edwardian hotels (10 hotels – nine in London / Heathrow and one in Manchester, expires 10th April)
- Get £100 back on a £500 spend at The Londoner hotel in Leicester Square (expires 10th April)
- Get £100 back on a £400 spend at The May Fair Hotel (expires 10th April, part of Radisson Rewards, website here)
- Get £30 back when you spend £175 at Macdonald Hotels (expires 26th April, book here)
- Get £100 back when you spend £500 at Corinthia London (expires 31st May, book here – this is a fantastic property if you are looking to splurge)
- Get £100 back when you spend £300 with Maybourne Hotel Group (The Connaught, The Berkeley, Claridge’s) (expires 31st May)
- Get £100 back when you spend £500 with Preferred Hotels (expires 30th June)
- Get £75 back when you spend £400 at The Standard London (expires 3rd June)
- Get £20 back when you spend £100 at Expedia on pre-paid hotels (expires 24th June – see here for details but you must be targetted and opt-in via your Amex online account)
Where should you credit your stays for April 2024?
Remember that, irrespective of the offers below, there is never a single ‘best’ offer.
Some offers require multiple stays to maximise the bonus, which you might not do. Some require stays to be a minimum number of nights before a bonus is earned.
You need to factor in any elite status you have, which will earn you additional status bonuses.
More importantly, you need to be able to use the points. There is no value in earning a large bonus in a scheme where you will never go on to earn enough points to get a free night.
Hilton (Hampton, Conrad, Waldorf-Astoria etc)
Hilton has a promotion called ‘Points Plus’.
You will earn 2,000 bonus points on all stays, plus an additional 500 boints if you select a Digital Key in the Hilton app.
You need to register in advance of your first stay during the period via the Hilton website here. Existing bookings count and all Hilton Honors hotels are taking part.
The Hilton booking page is here.
IHG One Rewards is offering 2,000 bonus points for every two nights you stay.
The promotion runs from 1st April to 31st May. Only cash nights count, not reward stays. Existing bookings are OK.
Whilst not hugely rewarding (we value 2,000 points at £8) some members were emailed with an additional bonus offer which stacks on top of this one.
You can book your IHG stays here.
Marriott Bonvoy (Renaissance, The Ritz-Carlton, Sheraton, Westin, W, Aloft, St Regis, Luxury Collection, Moxy etc)
Until 29th April, you will earn 1,000 bonus points per NIGHT and double elite night credits on every cash stay at a Marriott hotel.
I value a Bonvoy point at 0.5p so this is equivalent to a £5 bonus per night. It is clearly a better deal on cheap one-night stays than expensive week-long holidays.
For many readers, the double elite night credits will be more important, allowing you to get a head start on status requalification for next year.
The home page for bookings is here.
World of Hyatt launched its latest promotion on 1st March, which will run until 30th April.
You will receive 3,000 bonus World of Hyatt points for every three nights you stay. Nights do not need to be consecutive. Reward nights count.
You can register here. Registration closes early on 15th April.
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One of my favorite dishes! healthy! tasty! and most of all easy to cook!
Creamy Spinach Sauce
80g cream cheese
100g grated parmesan
10g minced garlic
180ml full cream milk
500g salmon fillet
10g unsalted butter
1/4 tsp pepper
2 tbsp olive oil
100g diced tomato
100g diced yellow bellpepper
- Rub the salmon with pepper and olive oil
- Pan toast the tomato in thyme then add in the yellow bell pepper, cook until the aroma comes out. Set aside.
- Sauté the garlic in butter until slightly golden brown. Set aside half of it for the sauce
- Add in the salmon, add 2-4 tbsp of water and cover the pan, cook each side for about 6 min or until it turned brown. Set aside.
- Remove the overcooked garlic, then add the milk, cream cheese, remaining garlic and parmesan. Continuously mix in low heat until cheese is melted.
- Turn off the heat, mix in the red and green spinach.
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Medications To Avoid During Pregnancy
Some of the medications that could help with cold symptoms are off-limits to moms-to-be because they may complicate pregnancy and cause harm to their unborn baby, although further research needs to be done. Dont panic if you happened to inadvertently take one of these medications. Its probably fine, but just let your doctor know. Off-limit meds include:
- Some pain relievers and fever reducers. Studies suggest an association between analgesics such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen , especially during the third trimester, and pregnancy complications, including low birth weight and preterm delivery.
- Most decongestants. Most practitioners say to stay clear of decongestants such as Claritin-D, Sudafed or DayQuil. Even those experts who say its okay to take some decongestants will probably caution that they’re only safe to use after the first trimester, and only in a limited amount .
- Some nasal sprays. Steer clear of non-steroidal nasal decongestant sprays containing oxymetazoline unless given the green light by your practitioner. Many will tell you to avoid these sprays completely while you’re expecting, while others will advise only limited use after the first trimester.
- Alternative or homeopathic remedies. Dont take echinacea, supplemental vitamins like zinc supplements or other over-the-counter herbal remedies without medical approval.
How Should I Take Advil Cold & Sinus
Use exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. An overdose of ibuprofen can damage your stomach or intestines.
Take Advil Cold & Sinus with food or milk to lessen stomach upset.
If you need surgery, tell the surgeon ahead of time if you have taken this medicine within the past few days.
Store at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
Advil Multi Symptom Cold And Flu Medicine Cold Medicine For Adults With Ibuprofen Phenylephrine Hcl And Chlorpheniramine Maleate
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- One bottle of 20 coated tablets of Advil Multi Symptom Cold and Flu Medicine, Cold Medicine for Adults with Ibuprofen, Phenylephrine HCL and Chlorpheniramine Maleate
- Powerful Ibuprofen 200mg, chlorpheniramine maleate 4mg and phenylephrine HCL 10 mg tablets for multi-symptom relief
- Uniquely formulated to fight common cold and flu symptoms, providing nasal congestion, nasal swelling, sneezing, sinus pressure, headache, fever, body aches and runny nose relief
- Cold medicine for adults available in easy-to-take coated tablet form
- For use by people 12 years of age and older
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Active Ingredients In Tylenol
Tylenol Cold comes in several varieties. The most popular are Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom and Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom Daytime.
The Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom Severe has four active ingredients: acetaminophen, dextromethorphan HBr, guaifenesin and phenylephrine HCl. These ingredients reduce fever, suppress cough, work as an expectorant and lessen congestion. Tylenol Cold for Daytime has all the same ingredients except guaifenesin, which is an expectorant.
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Where To Find Reliable Information On The Web
An Internet search will turn up lots of websites with advice on “safe medications to use during pregnancy.” But the advice is inconsistent and recommendations are often based on a lack of data, rather than evidence for safe use according to a study of Web-based information published in 2013.
For up-to-date, reliable information, we recommend www.MotherToBaby.org, the consumer website of the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing evidence-based information on medications and exposures to other substances during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. You can also call toll-free at 1-866-626-6847 to talk to an information specialist free of charge.
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Are Antibiotics Safe During Pregnancy
Yes, antibiotics are usually safe during pregnancy. However, tetracycline and doxycycline can cause discoloration of an infants teeth, so its safest to avoid them. Always follow your doctors advice for your own unique situation. Here are some types of antibiotics that are commonly prescribed for pregnant women:
What Can Pregnant Women Take For A Cold Safe Medications For Colds During Pregnancy
Before you reach for anything in your medicine cabinet when youre in bed with a cold, reach for the phone to call your practitioner so you can ask which remedies are considered safe in pregnancy, as well as which will work best in your case.
Be sure to double-check any prescription or OTC medication or supplement recommended by a different health care provider, such as a therapist, nutritionist or pharmacist, with your practitioner to make sure its safe. And watch out for multi-tasking meds, like general pain relievers, which could contain ingredients that arent cleared for pregnant women. Some remedies youre used to taking may not be safe during pregnancy.
So what cold medications are generally considered safe during pregnancy? Here’s a list:
Always check with your practitioner before you take any medication prescription, over the counter or homeopathic. And dont put off calling the doctor or refuse to take a medication he or she prescribes because you think all drugs are harmful in pregnancy. Many are not. But do be sure the prescribing doctor knows youre expecting.
COVID-19 symptoms including fever, cough, chills and fatigue can mimic those of the cold and flu. If youre sick with COVID-19 or think you may have COVID-19, stay home and call your doctor for next steps.
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Tests For A Sinus Infection During Pregnancy
If you seek medical attention, your doctor may conduct a variety of tests. These include:
- Nasal endoscopy. Your doctor inserts a thin, flexible tube into your nose to examine your sinuses.
- Imaging tests. Your doctor may order a CT scan or an MRI to take pictures of your sinuses to help them confirm a diagnosis.
Depending on your specific case, your doctor may also order a nasal and sinus culture to determine the underlying cause of your sinus infection. You may also undergo allergy testing to see whether allergies are triggering your chronic sinus infections.
Can Advil Cold & Sinus Cause Any Cardiovascular Side Effects
Cardiovascular side effects in Advil Sinus users are rare, occurring in roughly 1-3% of patients. Symptoms include swelling of fingers and toes, high blood pressure and peripheral edema. Research shows that a chief ingredient of Advil Cold & Sinus, pseudoephedrine, may increase the severity of previous hypertension issues. Pseduophedrine may also be responsible for additional cardiovascular side effects such as coronary artery spasm and chest pain.
Find out whether you are predisposed to heart arrhythmias, as Advil Cold & Sinus is known to increase the likelihood of future incidents of arrhythmia in a small percentage of patients.
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Sneezing Runny Nose And Watery Eyes
These symptoms are the result of histamine release, which isan immune response to an invading virus. Chlorpheniramine, such as TriaminicAllergy, and diphenhydramine, such as Benadryl, are safe to take duringpregnancy. However, both can cause drowsiness, so these are best taken atbedtime. The maximum dosage for chlorpheniramine is 32 mg in 24 hours.
When compared to placebos, antihistamines have the most successful resultswithin the first couple days of treatment. Patients didnt report any relief ofsymptoms between days three and 10. Newer antihistamines, such as loratadine, are approved for allergies, not colds, so there isnt informationabout how well they work for cold symptoms.
Types Of Cold Medications To Consider
Even after your first trimester, it is best to speak with your doctor about the types and brands of cold medications that are safe to take. Typically speaking, you should avoid any multi-symptom product, which could include ingredients that range from painkillers and decongestants to expectorants and cough suppressants.
Instead, get the drug to treat the symptom youre experiencing. There are a number of over-the-counter drugs considered to be safe in pregnancy, such as:
- Anesthetic cough drops such as Chloraseptic or Cepacol lozenges
- Expectorants containing guaifenesin to help clear mucus
- Alcohol-free cough syrups containing dextromethorphan, such as Tussin DM
- Combination guaifenesin/dextromethorphan drugs
- Tylenol to treat fever and minor aches and pains
- Menthol rubs such as Vicks or Mentholatum ointment
When buying any over-the-counter cold or flu remedy, always read the label closely. In some cases, there may be ingredients you should avoid. In others, there may be ingredients you dont need.
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Before Taking This Medicine
Ibuprofen can increase your risk of fatal heart attack or stroke, even if you don’t have any risk factors. Do not use this medicine just before or after heart bypass surgery .
Ibuprofen may also cause stomach or intestinal bleeding, which can be fatal. These conditions can occur without warning while you are using Advil Cold & Sinus, especially in older adults.
Do not use Advil Cold & Sinus if you have used an MAO inhibitor in the past 14 days. A dangerous drug interaction could occur. MAO inhibitors include isocarboxazid, linezolid, methylene blue injection, phenelzine, tranylcypromine, and others.
Do not give ibuprofen to a child younger than 12 years old.
Ask a doctor or pharmacist if this medicine is safe to use if you have ever had:
enlarged prostate, urination problems.
If you are pregnant, you should not take Advil Cold & Sinus unless your doctor tells you to. Taking an NSAID during the last 20 weeks of pregnancy can cause serious heart or kidney problems in the unborn baby and possible complications with your pregnancy.
Ask a doctor before using this medicine if you are breastfeeding.
When To See Your Doctor
A sinus infection can resolve itself with home treatment. But there are times when you should see a doctor.
Make an appointment with your doctor if your symptoms dont improve with OTC medications or home remedies, or if your symptoms worsen.
Contact your doctor if you have a fever higher than 101°F , or if you start coughing up green or yellow mucus. Also see your doctor if you have recurrent sinus infections.
Leaving a severe sinus infection untreated increases the risk of complications, such as meningitis. Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes in the brain or spinal cord.
An untreated infection can spread to other parts of the body, such as the bones, eyes, and skin. It can also affect your sense of smell.
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How To Prevent A Cold During Pregnancy
Besides avoiding anyone who is visibly sick, wash your hands with soap and water a little more often and scrupulously than you did before. Dont just wash and shake use a towel to make sure your hands are completely dry when youre done. In a pinch, carry an alcohol gel with 60 percent alcohol on the label for quick sanitizing on the go.
But dont blame yourself if you still come down with a cold or several during your pregnancy, despite your best efforts. Viruses are almost impossible to avoid, especially in the winter. There are many joys of being pregnant, but alas, being even more vulnerable to nasty cold bugs isnt one of them. And just remember: This, too, shall pass.
Can I Take Ibuprofen And Pseudoephedrine If Im Pregnant Or Breastfeeding
If you are pregnant, you should not take ibuprofen and pseudoephedrine unless your doctor tells you to. Taking an NSAID during the last 20 weeks of pregnancy can cause serious heart or kidney problems in the unborn baby and possible complications with your pregnancy.
Ask a doctor before using this medicine if you are breastfeeding.
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What Cold Medicines Are Safe During Pregnancy
Most pregnant people will experience cold or allergy symptoms, at least at some point. The safest way to treat them is via non-drug remedies: Rest, drink lots of fluidsespecially warm onesand use a saline nasal spray to help relieve stuffiness.
If cold or allergy symptoms interfere with your ability to eat or sleep, it’s normal to wonder, “what medicine can I take while pregnant?” But according to Dr. Park., “Pretty much all of the over-the-counter meds for the common cold are thought to be safe.” Benadryl, Sudafed, Mucinex, Robitussin, Vicks Vapor Rub, and Halls cough drops are all okay.
One thing to keep in mind is that there are a lot of combination meds, such as Tylenol Cold, that treat multiple symptoms, such as a runny nose and cough, and fever. But if the only cold symptoms you have are a headache and stuffy nose, why would you take a medication that also treats a cough? “Rather than taking meds you don’t actually need, target only the symptoms you want to treat by buying drugs for each of your specific concerns,” says Dr. Park.
What Side Effects Are Possible With This Medication
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.
The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
Although most of the side effects listed below dont happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- blurred vision or other eye symptoms
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- signs of bleeding in the stomach
- symptoms of a severe allergic reaction
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
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Why Get A Flu Shot
- Pregnant women who get the flu are at higher risk of hospitalization, and even death, than non-pregnant women.
- Severe illness in the pregnant mother can also be dangerous to her fetus.
- When you get your flu shot, your body starts to make antibodies that help protect you and your baby against the flu.
- Antibodies can be passed on to your unborn baby, and help protect the baby for up to six months after he or she is born.
See the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flyer on why pregnant women need a flu shot.
What Pregnant Women Can Take To Help Recover From A Cold
- Doctors say pregnant women shouldn’t take Advil, ibuprofen, and aspirin-based products for a cold.
- It is safe for pregnant women to take most over-the-counter cold medications, like Tylenol or cough drops, to help recover from a cold.
- Cold symptoms might feel stronger or come on quicker when you’re pregnant, and you should talk to a doctor if your cold lasts more than seven days.
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You’re told to avoid certain behaviors while pregnant drinking that glass of wine, going out for sushi, and, of course, getting sick. But sometimes, despite your best efforts, you feel those tell-tale signs of a cold coming on.
Plus, catching a cold probably won’t harm your baby. The CDC has a list of infectious diseases that are severe enough to cause a miscarriage or birth defects, and the common cold is not one of them. But it’s still important that you take steps to help you recover as soon as possible.
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How To Treat Your Cold And Flu While Pregnant
Having the cold and flu while pregnant is the worst. What medications can you safely take?
You know that unpasteurized brie is a no-go during pregnancy, and those double martinis and oysters on the half shell are strictly verboten. But what about cold and flu medications? When you inevitably come down with a hacking cough, myriad aches and pains, and a serious case of the sniffles, what can you take? Here, our guide to navigating cold and flu season with a baby on board.
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YOURE PREGNANT!Sign up to get weekly email updates on your baby »Influenzaa severe respiratory illness that causes fever, cough and congestionis not something to be trifled with. As Laura Magee, an obstetrician and clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia, says, women who are pregnant and have the flu are at an increased risk of serious complications. And that list of potential repercussions includes pneumonia, kidney failure, swelling of the brain, premature labour and even death. An estimated 10 to 20 percent of Canadians becomes infected with influenza each year, causing upwards of 12,000 hospitalizations and 3,500 deaths.
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John Players DIY Denims- AW’16 Collection
Gone are the days when one had to wear clothes off the rack. With DIY being a huge trend since last year, India’s leading men’s brand, John Players recently came out with a cool concept wherein you get to style your jeans your own way as part of their AW’16 collection. Aimed at the cool and fashion forward youth, John Players’ collection is stylish and full of life. This season, the brand has totally amped up the style with patch on and patch off jeans and washed denim shirts.
The denims are available in multiple styles, fits, unique washes, treatments and various fabric options which are a must have for AW 2016. Raw, distressed, bleached and laser printed, you name it and they have it. John Players invited our team to try our hands at DIY denims and we got to customize it with patches, color splatter, sequins, rips and scissors.
We opted for a distressed pair of jeans and customized it with patches on the back pocket. One can really showcase their personality and make it a unique pair with a bit of experimentation. And if you’re not too confident of your skills, John Players also has pre-made patch denims which are further complimented with patches on the denim shirts in the collection.
Besides the DIY jeans, the AW’16 collection has a range of the coolest and the most striking of colors like coral, sour green, gold moss and deep teal. Indigo denim is naturally there to enable the full range of looks in denims. Dominant motifs such as Scottish checks and deep navy further underline the individuality, freedom and confidence of John Players’ consumers.
We loved their slogan tees and full body print t-shirts that are bang on trend and will be really popular amongst the men. Biker jackets with contrast lining and great detailing makes one stand apart from the crowd hence I styled our model in one. With denim on denim still ruling street style, you can also pair a distressed denim with a washed denim shirt and make heads turn.
The John Players AW’16 collection is uber stylish, cool and bang on trend for the season. It emphasizes on the core qualities of millennials and provides fashion at a decent price tag. We love the concept of DIY denims for men and highly recommend checking it out at the stores.
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Louis Philippe is a seasoned professional drummer, composer and arranger. He started playing at the age of 10 and playing gigs at 16.
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Hellberg Safety celebrates 60 years of progress for personal protection. Since 1962, we have worked tirelessly to enable people to work in noisy or dangerous environments without having to worry, injure themselves or suffer from hearing loss.
Since 1962 we have worked tirelessly to make people able to work in noisy or hazardous environments without having to worry, getting injured or suffer from hearing loss. Our history and dedication mean that we know all about safety. Today Hellberg Safety is an international company, providing protective equipment to workers all over the world, but it all started in a family garage in a small town in Sweden.
Welcome to our digital museum and have a look at how it all started!
The early Hellberg-products was marketed and sold under the brand name ”No Noise”. They became such popular protective equipment amongst workers that eventually the name ”Popular” was added as model-name. Both No Noise and Popular lived on as product names long after the 1960's.
Hellberg was early on represented all over Europe and North America. In a product sheet from The Netherlands the photo-model perfectly represented the modern worker at the time.
The first Hellberg models called No-Noise was also available for helmet mounting. Here being marketed by one of our first retailers, Swedish AB Tegma
The Royal National Board of Occupational Safety and Health (ASS) was a Swedish authority responsible for occupational safety and health issues. ASS was established in 1949 and was headquartered in Solna. ASS were reorganized in 2001 into the Swedish Work Environment Authority (AV).
Hellberg early understood the importance of being able to combine different PPE products without compromising with fit, comfort and safety.
Having similar climate, environment and industries as Sweden, Canada early became an important market for Hellberg. In the late 70’s Face protection is introduced to the product range and becomes an instant success with the forestry workers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hellberg has through-out the years been partnering up with different helmet manufacturers, to make sure our hearing protectors have a perfect fit to their safety helmets.
In the 70's, many Film- and TV stars made the moustach a popular attribute, even in hearing protector data sheets
The Swedish State Railroad Company was one of the early adaptors of the new active listening technology developed by Hellberg in the late 80's. This enabled the workers to hear warning signals and other important sounds while working on the tracks, still protected from high noise
It doesn’t matter how good the protection is if it is not comfortable to wear. In the 80's, several independent surveys was made on hearing protectors, all ranking Hellberg no.1 in comfort, including one performed by the Swedish Armed Forces. And user comfort is still at the top of the list when we develop new products.
In 1985 the EPOK system was introduced. This was a revolutionary system for combining head-, face- and hearing protection in a completely seamless way. Users could easily switch between different face-shields or earmuffs, suitable to the current work task, and without needing multiple helmet.
The first Mark-series passive hearing protectors was launched together with the EPOK combination system. It featured a new connection system for helmet and visors. The Mark series was expanded in the early 90's.
Using the Concorde was very popular in all kinds of marketing by pretty much everyone at the time. Here represented on the packaging of the "Hellberg Mark X Super" earmuff.
Local, Regional and Global. These were the model-names of a series of communication headsets introduced in the mid 90’s. The headsets enabled workers to communicate in noisy environments over short-, mid- and long-range distances. This year we launched a new version of the Local-headset, check it out here
The Intego-system was a new system combining eye-, hearing- and breathing protection and was launched at the Birmingham Fair in the UK.
The Mark 8-10-12 hearing protectors had a 3 dB protection-level difference between them, following the principle that a doubling of the sound pressure represents a 3 dB increase. The 3dB steps are still being used in our current “Secure” series.
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, Hellberg introduced a new technology in all our active hearing protectors, called “EPS” (Electronic Protection System). It limited the built-in electronics to only reproduce sounds to a safe level of max. 82 dB. The system was lightning fast, ensuring that no peak-noise would ever reach the wearers ear through the speakers. The EPS system is still integrated in all our electronic earmuffs, with new and improved technology.
A different way of communicating our message, worked well in Italy at the time. Nevertheless, it is just as important to protect yourself during work as during your spare time!
During the 2000-2010’s Hellberg develops and launches a new series of passive hearing protectors called SECURE, which would soon become a branch standard for color coding of hearing protectors’ protection levels. In the early 10’s, electronic models are added to the Secure range, including FM-radio and active listening models, and by 2014 Hellberg´s first Bluetooth hearing protectors are introduced.
In 2018 we became part of the Hultafors Group.This lets us develop in many ways, both product and people, but also in our mission of delivering a safe working day for everyone. Today Hellberg Safety is an international company, providing protective equipment to workers all over the world. We are constantly expanding and improving our product portfolio, to give you Peace of Mind.
Hellberg Safety provides quality hearing protection and eye & face protection such as safety glasses and visors. Keeping our customers safe at work is our top priority. To cater for all relevant hearing safety needs, we produce both passive and electronic hearing protectors, as well as a range of hearing protection accessories. Features such as Bluetooth, AM/FM radio, boom microphone, active listening and two-way communication ensures that our hearing protectors create a better work environment.
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For more than 250 years, since long before independence, American law protected human beings in the womb by increasingly restricting abortion. Local legislatures began to do so in the early 18th century, and under the common law, “abortion…was regarded as unlawful and could have very serious consequences at all stages” of pregnancy. State legislatures began to pass pro-life laws in 1821, and nearly every state had done so by 1859, less than a decade before ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. That year, the American Medical Association called on state legislatures to prevent the “unwarrantable destruction of human life” by prohibiting abortion.
By 1973, most states prohibited abortion except to save the mother’s life, and a handful that had modified their laws during the previous decade allowed abortion only for narrow reasons or only in early pregnancy. In Roe v. Wade, however, the Supreme Court of the United States held for the first time that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protected a woman’s right to decide “whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” The Court’s rules for implementing this right rendered unconstitutional the pro-life laws of all 50 states.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of abortions performed annually in the United States increased by nearly 80 percent in the five years after Roe v. Wade. Despite the decision and the surge in abortions, however, states continued their legislative efforts to protect human beings before birth, and cases challenging pro-life laws continued to come before the Supreme Court. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court in 1992 reaffirmed Roe’s “central holding” that a woman has a constitutional right “to choose to have an abortion before viability.” Three decades later in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case challenging a Mississippi ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the Supreme Court overruled both Roe and Casey, holding that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” The “authority to regulate abortion,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority, “must be returned to the people and their elected representatives.” With the Supreme Court’s blockade lifted, legislatures are pursuing this goal in both traditional and new ways.
Under the Tenth Amendment, states have all powers that are not “delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States.” These state powers include what is often referred to as a general “police power” to provide for “[p]ublic safety, public health, morality, peace and quiet, [and] law and order.” Relevant to the subject of this Legal Memorandum, the states’ police power also includes both regulating the medical profession by proscribing certain procedures or setting standards for performing them and regulating, restricting, or prohibiting abortion. A pro-life law, the Supreme Court held in Dobbs, is constitutional “if there is a rational basis on which the legislature could have thought that it would serve legitimate state interests.”
Much has changed, however, in the decades since 1973. Not only is the annual number of abortions in the United States on the rise after a 35-year decline, but a growing majority of those abortions result from drugs rather than surgery. In fact, abortion advocates often refer approvingly to “self-managed abortion.” As a result, states seeking to protect human life before birth face a new challenge. While reserving broad powers to the states, the Constitution also provides that “the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance [of the Constitution]…shall be the supreme Law of the Land…any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.” This provision is the basis for the legal doctrine of federal preemption, the principle that “federal law supersedes conflicting state laws.” The preemption issue is relevant today because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded that mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used for abortion, are “safe and effective” under certain conditions and therefore may be marketed.
As of July 2022, 33 states allowed only physicians to prescribe abortion drugs, and 19 of these states also required that abortion drugs be dispensed in person rather than delivered through the mail. Two states prohibit chemical abortions directly: Texas at seven weeks and Indiana at 10 weeks. As the Congressional Research Service notes, “a state’s ability to restrict or prohibit access to these drugs may solely depend on the interplay between state and federal law.”
Within hours of the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe and Casey, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a statement disagreeing with the decision, asserting that “the FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone. States may not ban Mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy.” His statement, however, suggested that states may restrict or even ban abortion drugs based on other justifications or authority.
This Legal Memorandum addresses whether FDA approval of abortion drugs preempts state laws restricting or prohibiting them. The context for examining this specific question includes a review of federal drug regulation in general, the development of abortion drugs, and basic preemption principles. This analysis will apply those principles to conclude that no real preemption conflict exists and that, exercising their traditional powers to regulate the medical profession and to restrict or prohibit abortion, states may also restrict or prohibit abortion drugs.
Federal Drug Regulation
Statutes. Both the statutes that provide the structure for federal drug regulation and the FDA regulations that implement them carry out the FDA’s mission of “assuring Americans that the medicines they use do no harm and actually work—that they are, in other words, safe and effective.” To that end, federal law prohibits introducing a prescription drug lacking such FDA approval into interstate commerce at all.
- The Pure Food and Drug Act, enacted in 1906, prohibited the interstate commerce of “any article of food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded,” but it did not require evidence of safety or effectiveness as a condition for marketing.
- The Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), enacted in 1938, established the FDA and is the statutory foundation for its current operation. It required evidence of a drug’s safety before it could be marketed.
- The Kefauver–Harris Drug Amendments, enacted in 1962, added the requirement of demonstrated effectiveness.
The FDA does not opine generally about a drug’s relative safety or efficacy in the abstract. A “foundational principle” of the FDA is that “a drug may be approved only if an applicant establishes the product to be safe and effective for its proposed indication and under the proposed conditions of use” so that it may enter interstate commerce. In other words, the FDA’s conclusion regarding a drug’s safety and effectiveness “sets a regulatory floor,” a threshold standard of safety and effectiveness, for the specific purpose of allowing a particular drug to enter or remain on the market.
Application and Approval Process. The FFDCA places the burden on a drug’s manufacturer to provide “substantial evidence” of safety and effectiveness “under the conditions of use prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling or proposed labeling thereof.” The process begins with filing an investigational new drug application with the FDA that includes information on animal testing and a proposed design for a clinical study involving humans. If those clinical trials are successful, the manufacturer will submit a new drug application, which contains the clinical trial results as well as information about the manufacturing process and facilities, product description, and labeling. When reviewing a new drug application, the FDA considers whether the drug is “safe and effective in its proposed use,” the “proposed labeling…is appropriate,” and the manufacturing process is adequate to maintain the drug’s quality and purity.
In the 1980s, the FDA began to develop additional, more targeted risk management programs that included specific restrictions on the use of particular drugs. In 1992, the FDA issued regulations for this purpose, allowing restrictions on a drug’s marketing and use such as limiting distribution to certain facilities or to physicians with specific training. The FDA Amendments Act of 2007 then gave the agency statutory authority to determine whether, in addition to “routine risk minimization measures,” a formal “risk evaluation and mitigation strategy [REMS] is necessary to ensure that the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks of the drug.” Drugs with additional safety restrictions imposed before 2007 were “deemed to have in effect an approved [REMS]” until an actual REMS was approved.
The FDA website explains that a REMS is “a drug safety program that the [FDA] can require for certain medications with serious safety concerns…. While all medications have labeling that informs health care stakeholders about medication risks, only a few medications require a REMS.” These safety measures go “beyond FDA-approved professional labeling” and may result in approval of drugs “that otherwise may have been kept off the market due to safety risks.”
Development of RU-486. In 1980, the pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf synthesized the drug mifepristone, which ends a pregnancy by blocking the hormone progesterone that is necessary for a fertilized egg to attach to the uterine wall. Adding part of the drug’s serial number to the company’s initials produced the familiar name RU-486. The FDA approved the drug for clinical trials in 1983, but six years later, Roussel Uclaf stopped providing the drug for abortion in the United States. In June 1989, based on concerns about the drug’s possible health risks and use without physician supervision, the FDA prohibited the importation of RU-486 for personal use by placing the drug on its import alert list.
The Population Council, which had been granted the right to market RU-486 in the United States, submitted a new drug application to the FDA on March 18, 1996, and the FDA’s advisory committee concluded in July that “it is safe and effective as an abortifacient when used under close medical supervision.” The need for such close supervision was widely accepted. In a June 23, 2000, Washington Post op-ed, abortion advocate Judy Mann noted: “All parties seem to agree that providers need specific training in how to administer this drug, counsel patients on its use and provide surgical backup in case there are complications or the drug fails to work.”
Approval of Mifeprex. Three months later, the FDA approved RU-486 as Mifeprex, the trademark of manufacturer Danco Laboratories, as a method of abortion during the first seven weeks of pregnancy. From the start, the FDA subjected Mifeprex to its more rigorous safety restrictions. It was, for example, one of only nine drugs requiring additional restrictions under the FDA’s pre-2007 regulatory standards. Although the FDA “only rarely…place[s] restrictions on how a drug can be used by doctors,” it did so for Mifeprex. It could not be obtained, for example, through a pharmacy but had to be dispensed “directly in a physician’s office, and it must be administered in the presence of a health professional.”
After passage of the FDA Amendments Act, mifepristone was initially deemed to have an approved REMS in effect. The FDA approved a formal REMS on June 8, 2011, affirming that additional restrictions were necessary “to ensure that the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks of serious complications.” These restrictions included Elements to Assure Safe Use (ETASU), which provided that prescribing physicians must be “specially certified” and that mifepristone may be dispensed “only in certain health care settings…by or under the supervision of a specifically certified prescriber.”
The FDA also issued a Medication Guide outlining how a patient should take the abortion drug combination. After a physical exam, a patient takes mifepristone in her provider’s office and two days later, if still pregnant, returns to the office to take misoprostol. Two weeks after this process begins, the patient must return for a “very important” follow-up visit to ensure that the “pregnancy has completely ended.”
The FDA has modified the 2011 Mifeprex REMS three times.
- March 2016: The agency extended Mifeprex use to the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, continued the requirement that the drug “be dispensed in person to patients” only in certain clinical settings, and removed the requirement that the patient take mifepristone in a physician’s office.
- April 2019: The FDA approved a generic version of Mifeprex, manufactured by GenBioPro, kept the 2016 REMS terms, but converted it to a shared REMS applying to both brand and generic versions.
- December 2021: It permitted Mifeprex to be dispensed by certified pharmacies.
The most recent REMS revision did not occur in a vacuum. In May 2020, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which already opposed the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, sued the FDA to lift it in light of the expanding COVID-19 pandemic. The FDA was taking steps to “allow patients to forego unnecessary in-person visits,” and declining to do so for mifepristone, ACOG argued, violated the rights of privacy and equal protection that, according to ACOG, were protected by the Fifth Amendment.
On July 13, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary injunction against the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone. The district and appeals courts denied the request for a stay, and the Supreme Court first held the stay application in abeyance before granting the injunction on January 12, 2021. Concurring in that result, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that because of the deference courts owe to “politically accountable entities” with responsibility for public health, there was an insufficient basis “for the District Court to compel the FDA to alter the regimen for medical abortion.”
That decision, however, had already been overtaken by political events. The 2020 election replaced a pro-life Administration with one seeking to advance abortion rights, including by promoting the availability of abortion drugs. The Biden Administration accomplished this goal in two steps.
- In April 2021, the FDA announced that it would not enforce the in-person dispensing requirement because “a clinic visit solely for this purpose” may present “additional COVID-related risks to patients and healthcare personnel.”
- In December 2021, without any reference to the pandemic, the FDA formally modified the shared REMS for mifepristone by removing the in-person dispensing requirement.
In summary, the FDA’s approval identifies the point at which a drug’s benefits exceed its risks for intended use in a manner that justifies allowing it to enter interstate commerce. The FDA approved mifepristone in 2000 under significant restrictions, including in-person prescribing and dispensing by physicians and in-person use by patients. Those restrictions remained in effect under both regulatory and statutory risk management regimes and have been relaxed only in the past several years. Even then, the restrictions have most recently been relaxed under changed political circumstances, after judicial intervention, and only under COVID-19 pandemic conditions.
Preemption Principles. The Constitution’s general rule that federal law supersedes conflicting state law does not identify the actual situations requiring federal preemption. Supreme Court precedents, however, offer several relevant guidelines.
- “Congress has the power to preempt state law,” and the “purpose of Congress is the ultimate touchstone” in preemption cases.
- “[F]ederal law should not be read to preempt state law ‘unless that is the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.’”
- This general presumption against preemption is stronger when the “‘historic police powers of the States’,” such as regulating the medical profession, are involved.
- As a result, “the presumption [is] that state or local regulation of matters related to health and safety is not invalidated under the Supremacy Clause.”
- Therefore, with Roe v. Wade overruled, the states may again exercise their traditional police power to restrict or prohibit abortion.
The Constitution provides for both federalism and federal preemption, and these principles are necessary to keep them properly balanced. More specifically, these preemption principles help to avoid, as the Supreme Court has warned, “an overbroad view of an agency’s power to pre-empt state law.” Such an overbroad view may be less tempting in cases of express preemption, when Congress has stated its preemptive purpose in the text of a statute, than it is in cases of implied preemption, where Congress’s purpose must be inferred.
Express Preemption. “There is no doubt that Congress may withdraw specified powers from the States by enacting a statute containing an express preemption provision.” The Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), for example, states that its requirements for employee benefits plans “shall supersede any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan.” The Federal Railroad Safety Act expressed Congress’s purpose in a different way, allowing states to enact laws related to railroad safety until the federal government adopted regulations “covering” or “substantially subsuming” the subject matter of such laws. Congress has also expressly prohibited state requirements that are “in addition to, or different from” federal requirements.
The presumption against preemption is not generally relevant in cases of express preemption because Congress’s purpose in this context is discerned “from a statute’s text.” In these cases, the courts will “tak[e] Congress at its word” and “giv[e] its words their ordinary, fair meaning.”
Implied Preemption. Courts have recognized two ways by which federal law can preempt state law in the absence of such an express statutory instruction: field preemption and conflict preemption.
Field preemption can occur “when a pervasive scheme of federal regulation implicitly precludes supplementary state regulation.” This can be “a field in which the federal interest is so dominant that the federal system will be presumed to preclude enforcement of state laws on the same subject.” Such fields include nuclear safety, construction and maintenance of tanker vessels, and the sale of natural gas in interstate commerce. In Arizona v. United States, for example, the Supreme Court held that “the Federal Government has occupied the field of alien registration” and that a federal statute requiring that “aliens carry proof of registration” preempted an Arizona law that, in effect, “add[ed] a state-law penalty for conduct proscribed by federal law.”
In Ray v. Atlantic Richfield Co., the Supreme Court held that the federal Ports and Waterways Safety Act preempted a Washington state law regulating navigation of oil tankers in Puget Sound, including the requirement that tankers have a local pilot on board. The Court acknowledged the “‘assumption that the historic police powers of the States were not to be superseded…unless that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.’” Supreme Court precedents had long established that the federal government has exclusive authority to regulate pilots on vessels engaged in trade along the west coast. The State of Washington eventually conceded that the state and federal laws were indeed in direct conflict.
In California v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Power Act (FPA) preempted California state regulation of minimum stream flow related to hydroelectric power plants. The FPA has a provision suggesting that it should not “be construed as affecting or…interfer[ing] with” state laws “relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses.” In 1946, however, the Supreme Court interpreted this provision to apply only to uses “of the same nature as those relating to the use of water in irrigation or for municipal purposes.” Since California did not seek to regulate stream flow for such purposes, there remained the FPA’s creation of “a highly complex and long-enduring regulatory regime” in which “Congress clearly intended a broad federal role in the development and licensing of hydroelectric power.”
Conflict preemption can occur when “compliance with both federal and state regulations is a physical impossibility” or when a state law “stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.” Just as conflict preemption derives by inference rather than from statutory text, identifying an “obstacle” requiring preemption is a more subjective exercise than assessing “impossibility.” The preemption principles, while always important, are therefore especially so in this latter category.
The Supreme Court has upheld federal preemption where there was a direct conflict between federal and state laws that set different rules on the same specific subject. In Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, for example, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act, which allows parties to agree on claims that will be subject to arbitration, preempted a California law that effectively required arbitration for certain claims. The Court applied “ordinary pre-emption principles” in Barnett Bank of Marion County, N.A. v. Nelson to conclude that a 1916 federal law allowing certain national banks to sell insurance in small towns preempted a 1974 Florida law prohibiting them from doing so.
Zogenix v. Patrick directly addressed whether FDA approval of a drug preempts state regulation. In 2014, then-Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared a public health emergency to address the burgeoning opioid epidemic. Acting under this declaration, the state health commissioner prohibited the prescribing and dispensing of Zohydro ER, a hydrocodone analgesic, until an alternative “abuse-resistant formulation” of Zohydro had been created, which would require the company to “return to the FDA and seek approval of a drug different from the one the FDA has already deemed safe.” The U.S. District Court concluded that this amounted to Massachusetts “countermand[ing] the FDA’s determination” and “interpos[ing] its own conclusion about Zohydro ER’s safety and effectiveness.” Its actions were, as Attorney General Garland put it after the Dobbs decision, “based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy.”
In other words, the FDA said that Zohydro could be marketed because it met the FDA’s standards for safety and effectiveness, while Massachusetts said that it could not marketed until it met not only a different standard, but also one that actually required production of a different drug. The court put the issue this way:
Wyeth [v. Levine] assumed the availability of the drug at issue and analyzed whether stronger state labeling requirements obstructed the FDA's objectives. Here, the obstruction is clearer because the drug Massachusetts wants Zogenix to adopt—Zohydro ER with an “abuse-resistant formulation”—has not been approved by the FDA. To satisfy the Commonwealth, Zogenix would be required to return to the FDA and seek approval of a drug different from the one the FDA has already deemed safe.
In Wyeth v. Levine, a state court jury awarded damages to a plaintiff who alleged that a drug manufacturer had failed to warn of certain risks. The manufacturer argued that the FDA’s approval of the drug’s labeling presented an “actual conflict” and that the suit should therefore be dismissed. The Vermont Supreme Court held that the jury’s verdict did not conflict with the FDA’s approval because that approval “create[s] a floor, not a ceiling, for state regulation.”
The conflict in Wyeth was over the FDA’s specific substantive judgment regarding the actual content of the drug’s labeling. In other words, it was a much more “direct and positive” conflict with the FDA than state laws that add to the bottom-line safety measures required for FDA approval of abortion drugs. Even with such a direct conflict, however, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the manufacturer’s implied preemption arguments and affirmed the Vermont Supreme Court. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens emphasized as one of the “cornerstones of our pre-emption jurisprudence” the presumption, noted above, that “the historic police powers of the States were not to be superseded by the Federal Act unless that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.”
The Court not only agreed that FDA approval sets a regulatory floor for safety and effectiveness, but also rejected the idea that FDA approval sets a ceiling. In fact, Justice Stevens wrote, the FDA itself “cast federal labeling standards as a floor upon which States could build…. It further noted that, in establishing ‘minimal standards’ for drug labels, it did not intend to ‘preclude the states from imposing additional labeling requirements.”
Application and Analysis
Informed by these principles, the question is whether it is the “clear and manifest purpose of Congress” that FDA approval of abortion drugs preempt state laws restricting them. On the federal side of the equation, the answer begins with the FFDCA’s text. “As it enlarged the FDA’s powers…Congress took care to preserve state law.” The 1962 Kefauver–Harris Amendments, for example, added language requiring a “direct and positive conflict” to preempt a state law regarding drug labeling. That preemption provision, however, applies only to medical devices, not to drugs.
The Supreme Court emphasized this point in Riegel v. Medtronic. “Congress,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his majority opinion, “could have applied the pre-emption clause to the entire FDCA. It did not do so, but instead wrote a pre-emption clause that applies only to medical devices.” Basic canons of statutory construction counsel that when the legislature includes language in one provision, its exclusion of that language from another is intentional and purposeful. Citing Riegel, the Court in Wyeth characterized Congress’s decision not to apply preemption language in the FFDCA to drugs as “powerful evidence that Congress did not intend FDA oversight to be the exclusive means of ensuring drug safety and effectiveness.”
The suggestion of implied preemption fares no better than the absence of express preemption. Two factors are important at this point in the analysis.
First, as explained above, the general presumption against preemption is stronger in situations involving the states’ police powers. As Professor Patricia Zettler writes, “state laws governing pregnancy termination drugs are generally medical practice laws, limiting how practitioners may prescribe the drug.” Medical practice laws fall squarely within the states’ general police powers, including regulating the practice of medicine, that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held federal regulation is presumed not to preempt. The Supreme Court held more than a century ago that it was already “too well settled to require discussion at this day that the police power of the State extends to the regulation of certain trades and callings, particularly those which closely concern the public health. There is perhaps no profession more properly open to such regulation than that which embraces the practitioners of medicine.” That presumption stands unrebutted by any evidence that Congress intended the requirement of FDA approval for marketing prescription drugs to preempt the states’ police powers.
Second, clarity about the federal and state actions shows that they are simply not in conflict. As explained in this Legal Memorandum, the FFDCA prohibits prescription drugs from entering interstate commerce without FDA approval. That approval sets a minimum standard of safety and effectiveness, the point at which the benefits outweigh the costs. The fact that an FDA-approved drug may be marketed, however, does not mean that it must be marketed or may only be marketed in the manner that the FDA has approved. In Wyeth, the Supreme Court expressly rejected the argument that the FFDCA “established both a floor and a ceiling for drug regulation.” As noted above, the Court held that, by establishing minimum standards for introduction into interstate commerce, “[the FDA] did not intend to ‘preclude the states from imposing additional… requirements.’”
In 2016, the FDA revised mifepristone’s REMS so that it would no longer require in-person prescribing or dispensing in specific clinical settings. If FDA approval of abortion drugs preempted state laws, mifepristone’s REMS would constitute the exclusive conditions under which it could be marketed. This would directly contradict the Supreme Court’s holding in Wyeth that FDA approval need not be “the exclusive means of ensuring drug safety and effectiveness.” Again, that approval “sets a regulatory floor,” a threshold for a drug entering or remaining on the market, a foundation upon which states can exercise their reserved powers to ensure public safety and to regulate the medical profession.
A state law that allowed the marketing of abortion drugs that failed to meet the FDA’s approval standard for safety and effectiveness would pose a clear conflict and require federal preemption. State laws that “impos[e] additional…requirements,” however, do not. State laws that impose such requirements do not challenge the FDA’s standard, or its conclusion, for allowing abortion drugs on the market. They simply set a higher safety standard—one that the FDA itself had long imposed—for those drugs.
In fact, the Supreme Court has explicitly acknowledged that the states’ power to regulate the medical profession includes the very kinds of restrictions that states are imposing on abortion drugs today. The “Constitution gives the States broad latitude to decide that particular [medical] functions may be performed only by licensed professionals, even if an objective assessment might suggest that those same tasks could be performed by others.” These are the very restrictions that states today are applying to abortion drugs. While the right to abortion created in Roe and maintained in Casey tilted the balance against the states, Dobbs tilts that balance back in their favor"> by overruling those precedents.
As noted, the FDA evaluates whether prescription drugs are safe and effective for their proposed use. In the case of abortion drugs, that proposed use is the termination of pregnancy and is focused exclusively on the pregnant woman. State restrictions on abortion drugs, however, not only set a safety standard regarding the mother that is above the FDA floor, but also seek to reduce the number of human beings killed by those drugs in the womb. Since Dobbs, that objective is wholly within the states’ police power.
The California Court of Appeals has put it this way: “As far as the [FFDCA] is concerned, it would be more accurate to say that the act evidences, far from implied preemption, an instance of implied nonpreemption.” Other federal statutes go even further. It is a federal crime, for example, to use the U.S. mail, a common carrier, or an “interactive computer service” to convey or deliver in interstate commerce any “thing which is advertised in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion” or that is “designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.”
Preemption Case Study: GenBioPro v. Dobbs. While, as noted above, federal courts have addressed FDA approval of medical devices and drugs unrelated to abortion, none has yet to rule on the preemption question addressed in this Legal Memorandum. However, in a case of first impression, the manufacturer of generic mifepristone sued Mississippi over its law restricting the abortion drug. The Women’s Health Defense Act of 2013 seeks to “[p]rotect women from the dangerous and potentially deadly use of abortion-inducing drugs when administration of the drugs does not meet the standard of care” and to “[e]nsure that physicians meet the standard of care when giving, selling, dispensing, administering or otherwise providing or prescribing abortion-inducing drugs.” To that end, the law restricts who may prescribe and administer mifepristone and the circumstances in which they may do so. Like the laws in other states, Mississippi’s restrictions in large part mirror those once imposed by the FDA itself.
GenBioPro contended that these state limitations conflict with the FDA’s determination that mifepristone is safe and effective for purposes of entering interstate commerce. While GenBioPro relied heavily on Zogenix v. Patrick, the state even in that case was not prohibited from regulating certain aspects of the drug’s distribution. Mississippi argued that agreeing with the manufacturer would not only preempt this state law, but also effectively neutralize a state’s constitutional authority to regulate the medical profession and to restrict abortion. Overruling Dobbs expanded rather than cut back states’ authority to do so, Mississippi argued, and Congress has never displaced their authority to regulate the distribution of medications. Significantly, on August 18, 2022, less than two months after the Supreme Court returned authority over abortion to the people and their elected representatives, GenBioPro filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of its lawsuit.
The Constitution reserves to the states the powers to protect public health, regulate the medical profession, and restrict abortion. At the same time, it provides that federal law supersedes conflicting state law. With abortions once again on the rise, and with a growing majority of them involving drugs rather than surgery, states are enacting laws to prohibit abortion drugs or restrict how they may be used. Since those abortion drugs are regulated by the FDA, the question is whether FDA approval of abortion drugs presents a conflict with state laws that only federal preemption can resolve. The answer is “no.”
In order to keep federalism and federal supremacy in balance, the Supreme Court has recognized a general presumption against preemption that is especially strong when states’ traditional powers, such as regulating the medical profession, are involved. Additionally, with Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey overruled, the states may once against exercise their authority to restrict or prohibit abortion. This means that Congress must have a “clear and manifest purpose” to preempt state laws in an area like this.
There exists no real conflict between FDA approval of abortion drugs and state laws restricting or prohibiting them. FDA approval of abortion drugs as safe and effective for their proposed use set a regulatory floor for allowing them to enter or remain in interstate commerce, but it did not set a ceiling or exclude any other safety considerations. State laws that, for example, require in-person prescription and dispensing of abortion drugs, which the FDA itself had long required, do not conflict with the FDA’s approval. Rather, they exercise states’ authority to regulate the medical profession, enhance public safety, and restrict abortion.
Both the Supreme Court and state courts examining the question have characterized Congress’ purpose as, in effect, the opposite of preemption. It has not imposed a statutory preemption requirement for drugs as it has for medical devices. And federal law explicitly makes criminal using the U.S. mail, common carriers, or computers to obtain abortion drugs. These and other considerations made the plaintiff in one lawsuit calling for federal preemption of abortion drug restrictions voluntarily withdraw its complaint. States may indeed use their constitutional authority to restrict or prohibit abortion drugs.
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“I fear the death toll will continue to rise...”
Sharif (not his real name) is a surgeon from a HI partner hospital in northern Syria near the Turkish border. He recounts what he has seen following the February 6 earthquake.
A building destroyed by the earthquake | © HI partner in North Syria
Hospitals are overwhelmed
"I work at a hospital on the Syrian-Turkish border. We're all exhausted, having worked for 30 hours straight. The pressure on all of us is intense. Most of those whose homes have collapsed are dead.
I am shocked. This is the first disaster of this magnitude I have ever witnessed... Our hospital teams, including myself, are tired, but we cannot stop working. Ambulances keep coming and going, and we are deeply sorry and sad for all the victims...
We are treating many people with severe injuries, crushed limbs, and complex wounds... The situation is very bad...
People are under shock.
Many buildings are destroyed, and rescue teams don't have enough equipment or personnel to save everyone.
Our hospital lacks essentials like mattresses, food, blood bags, and surgical kits. We have to use 750 liters of fuel for our generators every day to power medical equipment, and I'm worried that we'll soon run out.
Everyone we encounter is in shock. People are shouting. A woman lost her six-month-old baby and two daughters, and she can't stop asking "Where's my baby? Where are my daughters?" People are becoming crazy with sadness. I am so sorry for them...
Some of the injured are refusing surgery until they find out about their relatives. It's a source of great distress. We don't know what to tell them when they ask about their loved ones... Many of our staff have also lost family members.
It's very cold and rainy these days, and the emergency operations are difficult. In some areas, it's too dangerous to approach the buildings because they might collapse.
I fear the death toll will continue to rise, as there are still many people trapped in the rubble that we cannot rescue." | <urn:uuid:23ef9ba5-db7d-4045-853f-20756fc80e08> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.hi-canada.org/en/news/-i-fear-the-death-toll-will-continue-to-rise---- | 2024-04-13T22:01:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.983509 | 434 |
Supporting families to engage in early child development
This week, Handicap International staff members from Bangladesh, Thailand and Pakistan are gathered for a training on early child development, and how to foster the well-being of children in the early years. The training is an important part of the Growing Together project that supports vulnerable children in displacements settings through play.
HI Bangladesh, Pakistan et Thailande following early childhood development workshop (Growing Together project supported by IKEA Foundation) | © Ch. Shin-Hua Yeam / Handicap International
Nilutpaul, Disability Officer from Bangladesh, carefully lies his doll on her tummy. He listens to the guidance from the trainers, but soon, he will be the one explaining to community workers and caregivers that ‘tummy time’ is very important for the development of the baby.
‘The idea is that caregivers understand that early stimulation of their baby can greatly support their child to progress in their development and growth. Without stimulation in the early years a baby’s brain does not grow to its full potential’, explains Cheryl Shin-Hua Yeam to her participants. Cheryl is Handicap International’s regional technical coordinator of the Growing Together project, and specialised in children’s development through play and stimulation.
‘A child that is sad, cannot learn and develop’
‘We encourage play and routine based daily interactions between caregivers and their young children because these early years are crucial for the development of a baby and child’s brain, and therefore impacts them for the rest of their lives and helping them to reach their full potential. We are also trying to foster healthy adult-child relations’, says Cheryl. ‘The psychological and emotional welfare of the child is very important: a child that is sad, stressed or lives in fear, cannot learn and develop.’
The Handicap International staff member take notes and practice. Once they are back in their own working-area, refugee camps in Bangladesh and Thailand and IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps in Pakistan, they will identify the youngest refugee children who are at risk of development delays. ‘Our staff will show community workers and caregivers how they can stimulate their children through play-based activities throughout daily life in the home, because the most important stimulation activities for a child are the learning experiences the child has at home, and the interaction with the parents, siblings or caregivers.The best intervention is the one provided regularly, in the context of ordinary family routines, by family or caregivers.’
The early child development training is an essential part of the Growing Together project. With support from IKEA Foundation, Handicap International develops accessible, safe, and child-friendly spaces where children with disabilities and other vulnerable children can play and learn. Through educational games, arts, sports, and learning activities, the organisations promotes holistic child development and well-being, essential life skills, self-esteem, social cohesion, and inclusion. In a safe environment, parents and caregivers will learn how they can help their child grow stronger and more independent. | <urn:uuid:b0d8b386-4cea-4dd0-8747-23f95eb7fb19> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.hi-canada.org/en/news/supporting-families-to-engage-in-early-child-development | 2024-04-13T23:07:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.9493 | 638 |
i25 Integrated Amplifier with Optional DAC & Prisma
The Primare i25 is an award winning modular full size integrated amplifier featuring our UFDP 2 ampliciation technology delivering 100 watts of power per channel, with the option of adding digital to analog converter and Prisma network player modules at any time. Of course, you can order them pre-installed for the ultimate user experience straight out of the box.
i25 Integrated Amplifier
i25 Integrated Amplifier with Optional DAC
i25 Integrated Amplifier with DAC & Prisma Options
The Primare i25 modular integrated amplifier is the latest iteration of Primare’s now iconic integrated amplifiers and among the first to use our new UFPD 2 power system, a radical reworking of Primare’s award-winning UFPD all-analog Class-D technology.
Providing 100 watts at 8 ohms of absolutely linear UFPD 2 amplification across the entire audible bandwidth, i25 delivers naturally fast, clean and agile sound with an unprecedented ability to bring music to life.
The modular design of the i25 allows for a sophisticated digital to analog conversion module, DM25, as well as a Prisma network player module module, SM35, to be added to the amplifier at any time for unprecedented system customization.
i25 continues a Primare tradition of delivering astonishing performance from compact and elegant integrated amplifiers for easy installation into virtually any living environment.
- UPFD - 22 x 100W 8 ohms / 2 x 200 4 ohms
- RCA - 5 x stereo pair analog inputs
- RCA - 1 x stereo pair analog LINE output
- RCA - 1 x stereo pair analog PRE output
- C25 remote IR system control
- IR - 3.5 mm input/output
- 12V Trigger - 3.5 mm output
- RS232 -outboard system control port
- Weight - 11 Kg
- Dimensions - 430 x 106 x 420 mm (WHD)
- Finishes - black or titanium | <urn:uuid:1c48ead1-5633-4542-b2a8-12621f846181> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.hifi.rocks/product-page/i25-prisma | 2024-04-13T22:59:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.787811 | 418 |
Discover Glamping at Holgates Ribble Valley
Here at Ribble Valley we have a selection of Standard Pods, an alternative to traditional camping for all the family to enjoy.
Glamping is the perfect middle ground between the humble camping trip and keeping some of your home comforts! Whether you’re looking for a stay that brings you close to nature, or a quirky accommodation that breaks away from something more traditional, our glamping pods could be the perfect choice. Available across various parks, you can enjoy your next glamping break in any of our magnificent locations!
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Sleeps up to 4 people
Pet friendly option
Our Standard Pods are a fantastic alternative to traditional camping, offering a break with all the fun of camping without having to put the tent up! Standard Pods have plenty of space for two adults and two small children* (any more than this may be a squeeze!) Standard Pods are the perfect choice for family adventures in the great outdoors and those looking to explore the natural surrounding areas. Why not bring your four-legged friend along in one of our pet friendly standard pods?
What do I need to bring?
When staying in our Standard Pods you will need bring along everything you would for a traditional camping stay, apart from your tent! Bring all your own bedding, *additional sleeping surfaces for children, towels, cooking equipment etc. We also recommend you bring along a torch for late night trips to our facilities.
Our Glamping Collection
Our deluxe glamping option perfect for families sleeping 6 guests with a fully equipped kitchen and mezzanine level.
The ideal retreat for couples, our luxury pods feature a kitchenette and outdoor space to enjoy.
Luxury with Bunk Beds
An alternative layout with an element of luxury, featuring bunk beds perfect for the little ones.
The humble glamping stay, our standard pods are the perfect alternative to traditional camping.
Choose your glamping location
Find the perfect location for you with our collection of parks with holiday caravans, from the Morecambe Bay coastline to the rich countryside in the Ribble Valley.
Staying with us for a short break is the perfect way to experience life on our countryside park, it also provides an opportunity to view our holiday homes and speak to our team in more detail.
or call 01524 701508
Family owned and operated since 1956, Holgates Family Group providing outstanding holiday parks and accommodation to enjoy our natural locations throughout the year.
Holgates Caravan Parks, Middlebarrow
Plain, Cove Road, Silverdale,
Lancashire LA5 0SH, United Kingdom (UK)
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Free Desire Call [Anne]
Book a discovery call to get to know Anne and see if it's a fit.
Everyone deserves and is worthy of being happy and having more pleasure and peace in their lives. We’re all different, but at core, we tend to desire the same things: - to love and to be loved - to have clarity on our desires and to feel desired - to get our needs and desires met - to feel that we are safe and - that we belong It would be my honour to have you join the Selfishly Happy Revolution and to start your own, empowering Pleasure Journey as a Selfishly Happy You. After all, pleasure IS your birthright! Book a free discovery call so we can meet and explore how I can help you. | <urn:uuid:7d3f9c8e-c4cd-4eb6-972f-622bfe2b616e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.holius.co/service-page/free-desire-call-anne | 2024-04-13T21:31:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.953862 | 157 |
Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
About this Piece
Length: c. 15 minutes
Orchestration: 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings, and solo horn
First Los Angeles Philharmonic performance: August 1, 1972, Lawrence Foster conducting, with soloist Barry Tuckwell
Joseph Leutgeb (1732-1811) was the preeminent Austrian horn player of the second half of the 18th century, concertizing widely in continental Europe. In 1763 he became first horn of the orchestra in Salzburg, where he became friends with the Mozart family. He traveled with them in Italy, Leopold Mozart loaned Leutgeb money when he moved to Vienna in 1777, and Leutgeb remained a friend of Wolfgang Amadeus to the end of the composer’s life. (In his last letters to his wife, Mozart mentions staying with Leutgeb and socializing with him.)
So it might not be surprising then that the first work Mozart composed in 1781 after he too relocated to Vienna was his first work for horn and orchestra, a Rondo in E-flat major, K. 371. Mozart ended up writing four concertos and a quintet with strings for the horn, all with Leutgeb in mind. Mozart included some characteristically pungent humor at Leutgeb’s expense in the manuscripts, but he clearly had enormous affection for the older musician and utmost respect for his abilities.
“Ein Waldhorn Konzert für den Leutgeb” (a hunting horn concerto for Leutgeb) was how Mozart described K. 495 in his own catalog. He used ink of four different colors in the manuscript, and the work is indeed a merry one, at least in the vivacious outer movements. The horn at that time was the natural, valveless instrument, and Mozart flaunts (or challenges) Leutgeb’s hand-stopping ability with chromatic lines in the first movement and lively passagework in the finale. The central Romanza is essentially an instrumental song, a typically Mozartean transformation of hunting horn commonplaces into reflective grace.
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