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Best Nintendo Switch Games #28 – Ittle Dew 2+
Synopsis: Ittle and Tippsie are back to their adventuring ways, this time on a funny little island seemingly designed for intrepid explorers just like them. In a top-down, action-adventuring romp, these two will travel through eight distinct dungeons to obtain the raft pieces necessary to sail home. But it’s hard to stay on task when there are so many hidden secrets and strange puzzles distracting you at every turn.
Why it’s one of the best Nintendo Switch games: Too often, top-down action-adventures borrow too liberally from The Legend of Zelda and are describable as clones–fun for nostalgia, but not unique. Ittle Dew 2+ laughs at this designation and does what it can to iterate on the formula with new puzzle stylings and an open world so full of twists and turns that you can just as easily spend hours on this game as you can breeze through it accidentally. Its most distinctive feature is its ribbing humor, poking fun at everything from art to social media to itself. The “+” of the title hints at brand new dungeons that help pad out the campaign a bit more from the base game released previously on other platforms. | <urn:uuid:fe9d046c-b97c-4f97-a12e-7c252f11c5b7> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://apptrigger.com/best-nintendo-switch-games-right-now/23/ | 2024-04-15T00:22:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.937061 | 262 |
Budding Nigerian rapper Eniola Havoc, has released a scorching new tune titled ‘Wetin You Shmoke.’
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Eniola Havoc, a graduate of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), is one of the few young rappers who have stayed true to their profession over the years without straying from their original approach.
His seamless delivery of metaphoric lines is well-known, and he has an amazing rhyme system. A tireless worker who continually produces excellent music, such as the critically acclaimed ‘Ebutemeta Like Compton‘ EP released in 2020. He’s unquestionably on his way to the top. The record ‘Wetin You Shmoke‘ was produced by talented beatmaker Papi Gunzo
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When the Holy Land Foundation was acquitted of funneling money to terrorist organizations, it was not only a victory against Washington’s and Tel Aviv’s efforts to stifle any kind of support to the Palestinians, but also a reality check. Specifically, it highlighted a fact known to most, that groups like HAMAS don’t get their funding from North America, or even from Europe, but from the Middle East. Saudi Arabia tops the list, followed by Iran, Syria and expatriate Palestinian communities throughout the region. This is hardly a secret, and neither was it a secret that the intent of such prosecutions against non-profits like HLF was to terrorize the Muslim community in this post-9/11 environment against voicing their opinions on certain issues. If, however, the prosecution really were pursuing the case for the reasons they stated and not for political reasons, they could’ve done themselves a favor and instead picked up “Inside Hamas: The Untold Story Of The Militant Islamic Movement,” by veteran Palestinian reporter Zaki Chehab. They would have found out some important facts, such as how HAMAS really does get its funds. “Inside Hamas” is a thorough and concise work detailing the rise of one of the most notorious Islamist organizations in the world. The rise of HAMAS, from its roots as an obscure group called the Islamic Movement to its suicide bombing operations that have killed hundreds of Israelis to its successful election in Jan. 2006 makes it one of the world’s most important non-state actors. Chehab delves into every aspect of the group, interviewing leaders and families of the martyrs, and gives an accurate picture of what continues to fuel the Islamic Resistance. As a Palestinian refugee from a U.N. camp in Tyre, Lebanon and as well known Arab reporter with over 25 years of experience for CNN, the Washington Post and the BBC, Chehab is uniquely qualified to tell this story. Unlike other sources, Chehab gives the Palestinian version of how this Palestinian group came about, showing HAMAS in the context of the political chaos of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, rather than the typical theological explanations Western commentators give. That’s the strength of this book. The weakness is Chehab’s firmly held pro-Fatah worldview, which gives credence to such failed ventures as the Oslo Accords and his lamentations over how little the United States and Israel failed to bolster Mahmoud Abbas’s regime. He describes Fatah as a “mainstream” group, for example, and describes the terrorist operations of HAMAS in a detached tone similar to the Western press, often writing about it as if the operations themselves are detached to the ongoing occupation. He describes the words of a mother of one such martyr as seemingly “incomprehensible.””But I think it is important to document it as it shows the extremes of psychology which make this conflict so difficult to understand,” he writes. What’s so difficult to understand? Jewish settlers started settling in Palestine in the late 19th century with the aim of establishing a Jewish state and expelling the indigenous population, which they did in 1948 and again in 1967. Between then and now, they continue to settle the land, deprive the Palestinians of their human rights and commit atrocities in order to continue on their path of colonial conquest and ethnic cleansing, with the aid and complicity of the world’s lone superpower. Not difficult to understand, especially for a Palestinian refugee like Chehab, but it’s clear he’s writing for a Western audience, which is all the more reason he should drive that point home. The morality of such operations is debatable, but no one except Israeli propagandists can deny that they are part of a campaign of resistance against an immoral and illegal occupation. There are other troubling spots, as well. In chapter 9, “The Future Of HAMAS,” Chehab writes: “Fingers of blame point towards previous Israeli prime ministers for not taking pre-emptive measures to nip the HAMAS movement in the bud.” He wants Israeli involvement? Isn’t Israeli pre-emptive measures part of the problem here, especially since he documents elsewhere the Israeli support given to the burgeoning Islamic movement as a counterweight to Fatah and the PLO in order to weaken the latter and maintain control over Palestinians, especially during the first intifada? Chehab also gives credence to the election of Mahmoud Abbas, “on the strength of his program of peace with Israel and the demilitarization of the intifada,” while ignoring the fact that the election was, in fact, fixed. This was apparent when the Israelis were detaining candidates while Abbas was able to fly out to Kuwait and apologize for Palestinian support to Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion and occupation. He even hints at it on the next page, when he writes that “unlike his predecessor Arafat, Abbas was elected by the people with unlimited American and Israeli support,” a fact he apparently has no problem with, only that they “not only isolated him,” but left him “incapable of solving his people’s problems.” The most important of which is the interference from outside powers that manipulate and determine the affairs of the Palestinian people in a process called neo-colonialism, of which the Oslo Accords were just one component. 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The collection consists of newspaper cuttings relating to the Expedition, 1900-1903.
Records of the Scottish National Expedition to the Antarctic
- This material is held at
- ReferenceGB 237 Coll-282
- Dates of Creation1900-1903
- Language of MaterialEnglishEnglish.
- Physical Description85 cuttings (approx).
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) was undertaken with the sole aim of increasing and improving knowledge of polar science. Success was achieved by the production of high quality scientific results, particularly in the areas of polar oceanography, meteorology and wildlife observation.
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition was conceived and led by William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921) who had training and experience in all areas of the natural sciences, and a considerable background in polar observation. He regarded the Expedition as a Scottish response to the recent 'Discovery' Expedition, on which he had turned down the position of naturalist, due to its emphasis on exploration rather than scientific observation.
After failing to gain funding from the British Government, Bruce raised the cost of the expedition by private subscription. Two of the Coats brothers of Paisley donated generously providing two-thirds of the overall budget. In 1901, Bruce purchased the Norwegian whaler 'Hekla'. This was repaired and altered at Ailsa Shipbuilding Company's yard in Troon, under the free direction of the naval architect G. L. Watson. Following alteration the ship was renamed the SY 'Scotia'.
SY 'Scotia' departed from Troon on 2 November 1902. On board were a crew of 25 and an impressive team of scientists recruited from amongst Bruce's friends and colleagues. These included a zoologist, a botanist, a meteorologist, a geologist, a taxidermist and a bacteriologist. The SY 'Scotia' sailed south, via Madeira and the Falkland Islands. On the way, meteorological surveys were carried out every 4 hours and the oceanographic instruments tested. Scientific studies were also undertaken at the Cape Verde Islands and St Paul's Rock. Bruce recorded events throughout the trip using a variety of methods. These included cinematography, phonography and photography using a variety of cameras.
On 3 February 1903, the SY 'Scotia' arrived at Saddle Island in the South Orkney Islands, where the scientific team made their first Antarctic landing. Afterwards the SY 'Scotia' continued to progress southwards until a drop in temperature saw a short period beset in pack ice. After breaking free, the trip south was abandoned for the season. The ship progressed NNE along the pack ice before anchoring for the winter in Scotia Bay on the south side of Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands. A wooden meteorological observation station, named Omond House, and a cairn, as a reference point for topographic survey work, were constructed immediately. Over the winter, observations and collections of specimens were undertaken in a number of scientific disciplines. Small parties were sent out for short periods to enhance these. In addition, a considerable amount of topographic survey work was undertaken allowing the first map of Laurie Island to be draughted.
After breaking free from the ice in Scotia Bay, on 22 November 1903, the SY 'Scotia' sailed to Argentina via the Falkland Islands. A team of 6 men were left ashore to continue scientific observations, particularly on penguins. Negotiations with the Argentine Government, to assume the responsibility for meteorological observations, were successful, and 3 Argentines returned with the ship to staff Omond House along with Robert Cockburn Mossman (1870-1940). This team was left on Laurie Island to be collected by the 'Uruguay' in December 1904.
The SY 'Scotia' proceeded south into the Weddell Sea to undertake oceanographic observations. Previously undiscovered land was sighted on 3 March 1904. This was named Coats Land in honour of the Coats brothers' support of the expedition. The ship continued to edge south until meeting the ice shelf. Following a storm the ship became stuck in the pack ice at 74o | 01'S 22o | 00'W, the furthest latitude south achieved by the expedition, where it remained for 6 days. Following liberation, further oceanographic soundings were taken to compare with those recorded by James Clark Ross in 1843.
The SY 'Scotia' arrived back in Scotland on 21 July 1904, having travelled via Gough Island, south-west Africa, Saint Helena, Ascension Island, Cape Verde Islands and the Azores. During the journey a number of trips ashore were taken for scientific observation and collecting, as well as recreation.
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Well, it’s just a very quick crack and the game is in Turkish. A little background about the game, it’s originally written with Amos Pro 2.0 around 1995, later the game had been ported to PC DOS and Windows as CDROM version.
This one is Amiga 500 version, pretty iconic Turkish game. It has been welded into Turkish retrogaming culture. Cracked version is only tested on Kickstart 1.3 and 1MB of ram (most common amiga configuration).
As I said, this is a quick crack, it may or may not work. Game manual and original disk images can be found on the internet.
Flagmaina is a breed between snake and labyrinth. You control smiley character, once you move out of a block you cannot go back and it’s marked as gray. You have to collect all the flags and proceed to exit (E).
it’s a fun little game but it has only one level, and the title page mentions “when it’s finished, it will have 50 levels in total”. Yet another game idea went to bust.
As some of you know, I am collecting pieces of Turkish software especially made for Amiga and Zx Spectrum computers. A couple of years ago, I’ve added Vefa Lök Collection including almost all of the games by him in a package. Unfortunately (or luckily) they are in original released state, and some of them are still needs a crack/codes to run. I also published some of the codes under the same blog post (which can be reached and downloaded here).
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It’s the kind of club that attracts in a blended group the place all people simply gets on actually nicely and realizes the means to make some great memories. On Thursdays, elective music is played like name step or electro. In contrasting them with ladies from other northern European nations, they are more interesting on normal than Danish women. They will, normally, be slimmer and extra trendy than Danes. The Netherlands, or extra specifically Rotterdam, is very multi-social, which can be seen concerning the variety in the vibes of the ladies.
- I saw black, Indian, and Asian guys having a great time with them.
- The case isn’t any totally different for single individuals moving to the Netherlands.
- The greatest method to simply get married is to find someone who reciprocates your love for them.
By addressing these matters head-on, couples can ensure that both companions are on the same page and avoid misunderstandings or unmet expectations sooner or later. Unlike many different international locations, the Netherlands boasts a relatively low marriage price, with cohabitation being a well-liked different for couples. This shift in societal norms displays the Dutch strategy to relationships, which prioritizes particular person freedom and personal choices. One factor that contributes to their sexual contentment is the emphasis on open-mindedness and honesty inside relationships. Dutch ladies value communication and are unafraid to discuss their sexual wishes with their partners. This level of openness fosters an setting the place both companions really feel snug exploring their fantasies and ensuring mutual satisfaction.
The History of Dutch Woman Refuted
Once you understand that that is the only woman you like, don’t hesitate and move to Netherland instantly. If you managed to construct relationships, you’d notice that these horny Dutch women have good qualities for the healthy environment in your home. From being good wives and lovers to wonderful moms and monetary affairs organizers, you will be blown away by what these hotties can give you. For Dutch males wanting thus far expats, it’s truly fairly straightforward. Just do the exact opposite of what you’d normally do when relationship a Dutch lady. Be polite, pay the whole bill should you invite the woman on a date, make the first move and don’t break your neck getting to her place when she finally invitations you round to sample your rookworst.
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It is a metropolis that performs host to varied government associations. It would likewise intrigue you to realize that many authorities offices within the Netherlands are around dutch woman right here. The Hague is a wonderful and tranquil metropolis in the Netherlands. It is the third-biggest metropolis within the country and the thirteenth-biggest in the European Union.
Before courting or meeting any new girls, including Dutch girls, it’s all the time valuable to contemplate their main mentalities. Fortunately, in terms of Dutch women, a number of important traits come by way of strongly. One of the strongest of those is perhaps their honesty – certainly, in plenty of cases, Dutch women are loyal to a fault.
This is a land of blooming gardens and green plains, located on river islands linked by magnificent bridges. And also great people live right here, especially if we’re talking about breathtaking and gorgeous girls. In nature, a pack of wolves will decide off the weakest caribou then strike for the kill. A key factor to know about Dutch ladies is that they wish to hunt in packs.
For starters, the Dutch aren’t precisely recognized for dressing to the hilt. After all, attempting to bike in high heels and a cute little gown within the rain is not an appealing prospect. This also comes all the means down to the laid-back angle of the Dutch, which tends to extend to clothes – and make-up.
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The longer-term subscription you select, the extra inexpensive your membership might be. Another important facet while looking for dependable Dutch courting sites is to pay attention to the number of registered members. Avoid utilizing the services of those platforms that have an insufficient number of customers (less than 10000). If a model new platform would have some success in the future, you’ll positively learn about it.
Wear the denims, together with a pair of second-hand boots bought from Marktplaats (the Dutch eBay) and for the relaxation of the outfit, follow the example of Dutch ladies. When chasing their prey, a standard mistake made by Expat ladies is to dress properly. In different words, not sporting denims or old boots that look as if they’ve been handed down from mom to daughter to granddaughter. Expat ladies have also been identified to go to hairdressers greater than twice a 12 months and are not strangers to wearing makeup. This could make the skittish and extremely sensitive Dutchman extraordinarily nervous. A well-dressed lady with styled hair and make-up may be after the thing he values most, his money.
For a fun night out, head over to the Escape, Air, and NYX night time clubs. In order to charm a Dutch girl, you have to be confident, well-rounded, and respectful to everybody. The Netherlands are one of the equal countries in Europe and everyone will get treated pretty there, so that you shouldn’t show any outdated beliefs. Dutch girls also wish to date and marry males who don’t contemplate housework to be purely a woman’s prerogative and usually are not afraid of cooking or cleansing once in a while. A typical Dutch wife can hardly imagine a contented family without kids.
After all, anybody who is thinking about relationship you should also be ready to compromise on some elements of your tradition. Single ladies coming to the Netherlands can even make certain to find a match in the usually direct, opinionated, joyful and sensible Dutch males. A woman wishing to be handled with an excellent sense of affection and be given a therapy of an actual queen she goes to discover it in Dutch men.
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Successfully coped with breast most cancers after having undergone the necessary therapy. Sanne Nijhof (born October 20, 1987 in Oviridjssel, the Netherlands) is a Dutch model. Was the winner of the primary cycle of the Next Top Model of Holland. Her prize was 50,000 euros and a contract with Max Model, covers for the journal Glamor, and the right to characterize the Netherlands at the world competition Ford Models Supermodel. On January 17, 2007, she gained this contest, receiving $ 250,000 and a contract with a world-famous company.
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Travel, enjoy and have enjoyable with hot single ladies and you might even meet the love of your life. Read extra on how to date Dutch girls, where to search out sex and how to get laid in Utrecht, Netherlands. Remember that courting customs can range between individuals, so communication and understanding are key. It’s a good suggestion to discuss expectations with your date to make sure you’re both on the same page. You can look for a genuine particular person thus far on international courting apps to get the most effective in your search.
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Unfortunately, France has seen a large migration from Mediterranean nations for nearly a century. Northern France and extra Germanic elements of France had been nicer to me and I notice that whiter looking French women were extra receptive. Where you run into troubles are components of France where the local inhabitants seems very Latin or ethnic, they are very partial towards blond haired Germanic wanting men, very. If I had to rank, I’d say Danish ladies were probably the most receptive followed by Norwegian and Swedish women were lifeless last. I hear that the huge immigration mixed in with their popularity worldwide has made Swedish girls choosy and barely prejudiced. Still not as dangerous as a number of the different nations that I will get to although.
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Here we list all the new books about women artists—from the past, and also from the present—that have come to our attention, published in the third quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that should be on this list, please let us know by comment or by email ([email protected]).
The Portraitist, by Susan Dunlap. Publisher: She Writes Press, 2022.
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of eighteenth-century Paris. When at last Adélaïde receives a massive commission from a member of the royal family, the timing couldn’t be worse: it’s 1789, and her world is turned upside down by political chaos and revolution. With danger around every corner in her beloved Paris, she must find a way to adjust to the new order, carving out a life and a career all over again.
The Story of Art Without Men, by Katy Hessel. Publisher: Penguin, 2022.
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of post-War artists in Latin America and the women artists defining art in the 2020s. Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art forms often overlooked or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the story of art for our times—one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of the Instagram feed @thegreatwomenartists.
The Story of Art Without Men is Waterstones Book of the Year for 2022; and it was Tate’s September Book of the Month. Read the reviews in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Spectator; and read interviews with the author in Another Magazine and Gagosian Quarterly. The US edition was published in March 2023.
Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England, by Anna K. Sagal. Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2022.
In Botanical Entanglements, Anna Sagal reveals how women’s active participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social and cultural conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors. She pairs studies of well-known authors—Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Smith—with authors and artists who receive less attention in this context—Priscilla Wakefield, Maria Jacson, Elizabeth Blackwell, Henrietta Maria Moriarty, and Mary Delany—to offer a nuanced portrait of the diverse strategies women employed to engage in scientific labor.
Masters of Shape: The Lives and Art of American Women Sculptors, by Maria Ausherman. Publisher: Goff Books, 2022.
In this book, Maria Ausherman chronicles the lives of seventeen pioneering women sculptors who dared to speak their truths about inequality and injustice and overcame obstacles of gender and race in the last hundred and fifty years. With many helpful references for additional in-depth readings and beautiful photographs taken by Steven Taylor, this book is a gem for anyone who loves reading how immensely skillful and creative people pursue their passions through the art of sculpture.
How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (And Other Parents), by Hettie Judah. Publisher: Lund Humphries, 2022.
In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner Hettie Judah argues that a paradigm shift is needed within the art world to take account of the needs of artist mothers (and other parents: artist fathers, parents who don’t identify with the term “mother,” and parents in other sectors of the art world). Drawing on interviews with artists internationally, the book highlights some of the success stories that offer models for the future, from alternative support networks and residency models, to studio complexes with onsite childcare, and galleries with family-friendly policies.
Maria Sibylla Merian: Changing the Nature of Art and Science, Edited by Marieke van Delft, Kay Etheridge, Hans Mulder, Bert van de Roemer and Florence Pieters. Publisher: Lannoo Publishers, 2022.
Maria Sibylla Merian. Changing the Nature of Art and Science provides new insights into Merian’s life and work, re-examines the existing canon, and explores her influence on the contemporary arts. The contributing authors variously investigate her network, her processes and products, and her impact on art and natural history. Her work is compared to that of artists and scientists who preceded and followed her, as well as to that of contemporaries, both male and female.
Altogether, this richly illustrated volume presents the most recent knowledge about one of the most remarkable women of the early modern period.
Bertha Wegmann, Edited by Gertrud Oelsner and Lene Bøgh Rønberg. Publisher: Strandberg Publishing, 2022.
Bertha Wegmann (1846–1926) is one of Danish Art’s best kept secrets. She obtained great success abroad through large exhibitions both in and out of Denmark and received special recognition at the Salon in Paris. Despite this, Wegmann has almost disappeared from the collective memory of Danish art. Bertha Wegmann is the first research-based book on the artist and is plentifully illustrated with both well-known and recently discovered paintings, photographs and archived material. The book is published in connection with the first grand exhibition on Bertha Wegmann at The Hirschsprung Collection in 2022.
Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Edited by Andrea Jahn. Publisher: Hirmer, 2022.
In her time, Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967) shone as an artist and was, like Käthe Kollwitz, one of the few women members of the Berlin Secession. This monograph is dedicated to the highly gifted, successful, and unfairly neglected artist, presenting an impressive synopsis of her oeuvre. Berend-Corinth pursued a remarkable career with ultra-modern, radical subjects in the Berlin of the 1910s and 1920s until she was compelled to leave Germany and to emigrate to the United States due to her Jewish ancestry. Her early work, in which she captured the permissive mood of the Berlin art and theater scene during the 1910s and 1920s, represents one main area of focus, as do the later portraits of famous personalities of her time and some of her remarkable self-portraits, still lifes, and landscape pictures.
Lucie Rie, by Isabella Smith. Publisher: Eiderdown Books, 2022.
Isabella Smith here explores Lucie Rie’s tumultuous life through her extraordinary work. From early promise as a ceramic artist in Europe, Rie found herself on the verge of obscurity in Britain and spent her wartime “cabbage-days” creating buttons to make ends meet. But by the 1950s, her intentionally flawed and experimental glazed designs had become popular British domestic wares. Her signature sgraffito technique and later “flared-lip” vases are now among her most recognizable work. Today, as Rie’s pots smash international auction records, interest in this émigré artist—who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to become an icon of ceramic art—continues to grow.
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988–2009, preface by Elizabeth Smith; text by Douglas Dreishpoon, Suzanne Boorsch. Publisher: Radius Books with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, 2022.
Helen Frankenthaler’s invention of the soak-stain technique expanded the possibilities of abstract painting with references to figuration and landscape. In later years, her practice continued to evolve through the use of diverse media and processes, as she shifted from painting canvas on the floor to using larger sheets of paper that were laid out on the floor or on table tops for easier accessibility. The continuity between the late work and what came before is striking, as the painter, graced with a vast art-historical image bank, and technical prowess, moved in whatever direction suited her mood and imagination. Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988–2009 is the first book to explore the late period of Frankenthaler’s art and life. Profusely illustrated with more than 95 plates and 40 archival images, the book features essays by Douglas Dreishpoon and Suzanne Boorsch; a roundtable discussion with Katharina Grosse, Pepe Karmel, and Mary Weatherford; an illustrated chronology and selected bibliography.
Jacqueline Humphries, by Frances Guerin. Publisher: Lund Humphries, 2022.
Over the last three decades, Jacqueline Humphries (b.1960) has, through an innovative painterly process, challenged the limits of abstraction. She has produced a body of work that reaches beyond modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and abstraction as we know it. Multi-layered in application, Humphries challenges the viewer to interact with her painting in diverse ways, inviting new approaches to looking and being with a work. Expertly analysing the ways in which Humphries has challenged convention and placed abstract painting at the centre of our twenty-first century visual environment, Frances Guerin’s illuminating text reveals an artist at the peak of her powers.
Barbara Rae: The Lammermuirs, text by Barbara Rae, Duncan Macmillan and Maureen Barrie. Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, 2022.
Drawn by the long history of south-eastern Scotland and the many conflicting elements in its natural environment—wind farms, pylons, forestry plantations, grouse moors and sheep—the distinguished Scottish painter and printmaker Barbara Rae CBE RA has made numerous studies of these wild expanses. This handsome volume reproduces a wide selection of her intensely colorful images, with accompanying photographs and maps, and texts by art critic Duncan Macmillan and Maureen Barrie, who worked for many years at National Museums Scotland.
Diane Arbus Documents, Edited by Max Rosenberg. Publisher: David Zwirner Books, 2022.
Best known for her penetrating images exploring what it means to be human, Diane Arbus is a pivotal and singular figure in American postwar photography. Arbus’ black-and-white photographs demolish aesthetic conventions and upend all certainties. Through an assemblage of articles, criticism, and essays from 1967 to the present, this groundbreaking publication charts the reception of the photographer’s work and offers comprehensive insight into the critical conversations, as well as misconceptions, around this highly influential artist.
The Ladies of Art: Stories of Women in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Edited by Annamaria Bava, Gioia Mori, Alain Tapié. Publisher: SKIRA, 2022.
Much has been written about 16th- and 17th-century Italian painting, but the contribution of the women artists of that period has often been overlooked. The Ladies of Art sheds light on these artists and their lives, on the role they played in their day, and how some of them made a name for themselves in the great international courts. With 130 illustrations, this book describes the art and lives of thirty-four women artists, starting from Artemisia Gentileschi—the first woman artist whose work constituted a watershed able to question certain gender prejudices. Discussion follows of other famous Italian women painters, such as Sofonisba Anguissola—the Lombard painter appreciated by Van Dyck—Lavinia Fontana, Fede Galizia, Marietta Robusti, known as “la Tintoretta,” and many others.
Howardena Pindell: A New Language, with text by Anna Lovatt, Amy Tobin, Adeze Wilford, and Howardena Pindell. Publisher: Fruitmarket, 2022.
Artist, activist, writer, and teacher Howardena Pindell has been a force in contemporary art since the late 1960s. This book is a celebration and critical examination of her painting and writing and marks her first solo exhibition in the UK. It takes its title—and its cue—from her: “I am an artist. I am not part of a so-called ‘minority,’ ‘new’ or ’emerging’ or ‘a new audience.’ These are all terms used to demean, limit, and make people of color appear to be powerless. We must evolve a new language which empowers us and does not cause us to participate in our own disenfranchisement.” With illustrations of a selection of paintings from the 1970s to now, this book presents Pindell’s inspiring and unflinchingly active imagination, and explores her articulation of a “new language” as exemplary in articulating empowerment.
Betye Saar, Serious Moonlight, Edited with text by Stephanie Seidel; foreword by Alex Gartenfeld; text by Sampada Aranke, Edwidge Danticat; interview by Leah Ollman. Publisher: Delmonico Books, 2022.
Showcasing a lesser-known aspect of Saar’s art, Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight provides new insights into her explorations of ritual, spirituality and cosmologies, as well as themes of the African diaspora. Featured here are significant installations created by Saar from 1980 to 1998, including Oasis (1984), a work reconfigured at ICA Miami’s 2022 Saar exhibition for the first time in more than 30 years. With compelling scholarship and rich illustration—combining new installation photography and archival material—Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight reinforces and celebrates Saar’s standing as a visionary artist, storyteller and mythmaker. It also confirms the ongoing significance and relevance of her work to the most pressing issues in America today.
Gathie Falk: Revelations, by Sarah Milroy. Publisher: McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Figure.1 Publishing, 2022.
Glossy fruit piles, flower beds in bloom, floating cabbages, kitchen chairs festooned with blossoms, and night skies studded with stars: Gathie Falk has produced a world of wonders in her more than sixty years of art making. Her paintings, sculptures, performances, and sculptural installations express a deeply personal way of seeing, exalting the everyday in works redolent of ceremony and tinged with the legacies of Surrealism and Pop art. The myriad strands of Falk’s rampant imagination are brought together in this triumphant look back at the creative life well lived, and the mystery that lies ahead.
Cressida Campbell (no author/s specified). Publisher: National Gallery of Australia, 2022.
Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colorist who has worked between painting and printmaking for more than forty years. This book offers new insights into Cressida Campbell’s life and work, featuring original research and reflections from curators, artists, poets and writers, as well the artist’s own autobiographical notes. Generously illustrated, the publication will locate Campbell within the lineage of significant Australian contemporary artists.
Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists, Edited by Roxana Marcoci; with contributions from Helen Kornblum, Kathy Halbreich, Dana Ostrander, Caitlin Ryan, and Phil Taylor. Publisher: MoMA, 2022.
Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists spans more than one hundred years of photography, from a turn-of-the-century photograph of racially segregated education in the United States by Frances Benjamin Johnston, to a contemporary portrait celebrating Indigenous art forms by the Chemehuevi artist Cara Romero. By looking at the intersections of photography with feminism, civil rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and queer liberation, Our Selves contributes vital insights into figures too often excluded from our current cultural narratives.
Available as a new edition or in a new format
Xenia Hausner: True Lies, Edited by Elsy Lahner and Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Publisher: Hirmer Verlag, 2021; second revised edition, 2022.
Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations, by Christopher Andreae. Publisher: Lund Humphries, 2014; reprint, 2022.
The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston, by Maria Ausherman. Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, 2009; paperback and ebook, 2022.
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Magento 2 two-factor authentication can become a great security measure for your eCommerce store. Once you apply it, you will require to go through the two-step authentication to access your Magento Admin UI. There are numerous extensions to integrate by deciding to hire Magento developers, but these extensions have some drawbacks too. Let’s keep the drawbacks for the later sections and find out why there is an increasing trend to hire Magento development services to implement the two-factor authentication as added security layer on your Magento 2 store. Before you choose to disable it, let’s go through some significant insights about it.
Reasons behind the use of Magento 2 two factor authentication
Security is one of the primary concerns for every eCommerce store owner, no matter what platform they opt for their business. While people are spending ruthlessly to improve the store security, you can get it conveniently by using Two-factor authentication.
As per recent studies, the stores that use such measures can withstand cyber threats easily. As multiple authenticators can solve your purpose, the decision to hire Magento developer can help you choose the best option for two-factor authentication.
You can manage and configure the settings of such authentication with an option to reset them by deciding to hire Magento development services.
Disabling Two-factor Authentication in Magento 2.4
If you want to disable the two-factor authentication without using Magento development services, follow the below steps:
- Connect to SSH of your Magento 2 website or open CMD in your local host.
- Move to website docroot
- Run PHP bin/Magento module: disable Magento_TwoFactorAuth, and PHP bin/Magento setup: upgrade command, and that’s it.
These commands may not work if your website is yet in production mode. To make it happen on such a store, you can use the PHP bin/Magento setup:di: compile and
PHP bin/Magento setup:static-content: deploy command. Though removing authentication from the production website is possible, we strongly advise avoiding it as it is an extra layer of security for such a website.
Common reasons for disabling the two-factor authentication
Though there is an increasing demand for the implementation of two-factor authentication on an eCommerce store, we have seen people disabling it too. If you ask any expert, he will strongly recommend it. But there are some cons too that make it unsuitable for every Magento 2 store owner. Let’s look at some of these factors that lead to disowning of two-factor authentication in the eCommerce industry.
It is time-consuming
While discussing with experts from one of the top companies for Magento development services, we found a strange but valid reason to stop two-factor authentication. As per that expert, when we implement the two-factor authentication, it makes the processes time-consuming. Though it may seem irrelevant when there is only one user, things can worsen when your organization has numerous employees.
Delays caused during the authentication can lead to loss of working hours. I am not against the implementation of two-factor authentication, but you should choose the authenticator wisely. Check the reviews for such tools, so that you should get a fast solution otherwise, you can get frustrated due to the time consumed for such authentications.
Though this factor may not seem insignificant while talking about an eCommerce business with millions of dollars in revenue, small stores may find it difficult to manage expenses for it. For a small business, even a payment of a few hundred dollars for implementing such things makes a big difference in revenue sheets.
The cost associated with implementing and maintaining the two-factor authentication software and services may be a reason behind abandoning 2FA. Moreover, if store revenues are not sufficient to bear the cost of such security features, sticking to traditional methods is a wise choice.
Failure can be disruptive.
While two-factor authentication increases the hurdles for people trying to steal your data through unauthorized access, there is a problem too. As such tools increase the moving parts in authentication, the chances of authentication process failures can become inevitable.
Though the modern tools for two-factor authentication in Magento 2 don’t face such problems occasionally, it may happen. If it happens, you may face downtime, thus impacting the revenues of your Magento 2 stores. Though, you have an option to hire Magneto developer to avoid such problems.
It’s not completely secure.
Despite being one of the popular security measures to control unauthorized access, people keep on experiencing many drawbacks of using Two-factor authentication. We agree that there are many good options, but they are vulnerable to sophisticated security attacks by hackers.
A hacker with good knowledge and resources can undermine the two-factor authentication systems. People who face such problems, often stop trusting these tools and choose to disable the two-factor authentication. You also have an option to use multiple security tools at the same time to get unendurable security layers.
Better security tools
With the advancement in technology, eCommerce stores are shifting attention to more secure and friendly measures. Options like SSL Certificate, Web Application Firewall, Global Content Delivery Network, Website Monitoring Service and Dropmysite Website Backup have higher adoption rates these days.
As new tools are hitting the desk occasionally, it can be seen as a major reason for shifting from two-factor authentication to modern measures. These tools are capable of providing additional security layers without affecting the performance of your stores.
It was all for our insights about disabling the two-factor authentication without hiring Magento development services. If you wish to disable it, you need to have some technical expertise, especially while using the Magento 2.4 platform. If you lack such skills, deciding to hire Magento developer can turn into a wise choice.
We have seen people running into trouble while trying to disable such functionalities on their own. Make sure that you always have a certified and experienced developer by your side. It will help you avoid any issues with the store. However, Two-factor authentication still has its relevance, and you should not disable it on your Magento stores. | <urn:uuid:c373ca2b-0aa8-4790-a2cc-3129acccbfeb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://articlesall.com/how-to-disable-two-factor-authentication-in-magento-2-4/?amp=1 | 2024-04-15T00:48:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.934679 | 1,266 |
No matter how much you love art or how much soul you are looking to put into starting your own gallery in NYC, you should be realistic. Running a gallery is a business. While your passion may set your business apart, you will still need to be objective and keep a cool head. If you manage to strike a balance between sticking to business principles and being passionate about what you do, you can successfully run a gallery. Here are some tips to help you get started with your art gallery in NYC.
Study the Art Gallery Business
This is the first thing that you need to do before you start an art gallery in NYC. As mentioned before, starting an art gallery is a business just like any other. While it might be different in some aspects to running a commercial garage door installation business, you still need to study the business side of things. For instance, do you know a lot about the type of art you want to display? If people are to take you seriously, you need to show that you are a professional and you are knowledgeable in your area. Looking for similar galleries in the city can be a good first step. Take some time to learn more about the artists who are making the kind of work you want to display. If you approach running a gallery in a professional manner, your customers will see you as someone they can trust. For instance, to set yourself apart, you can explain each piece of art and provide its meaning and relevance in the genre.
Research the Market
Once you know as much as possible about the art side of things, you also need to look into the money. Is there a market for what you are looking to display? The best way to get such information is to take a survey of what’s already available in your area. You can even meet with different artists and community members to find out more about the market. This is a great opportunity to gain insight from others. The research you do will help you get a clearer picture of the market, which will influence the size, scope, and vision of your gallery.
As you visit different galleries and artists in your area, think about what value your gallery will add to what’s already there. Assess whether the type of art you are planning to feature isn’t already represented by other galleries. If not, will it attract clientele? If you don’t think there are a lot of clients looking for the art you are planning to display, or if you find out that it’s already sufficiently represented, you may want to go in another direction.
Your best chance to attract customers is to create a niche in your area. You need something that sets your art gallery apart from the rest. For instance, you might want to stick to the works of local artists exclusively. Or maybe you can dedicate your gallery to French Renaissance artists? Either way, it’s important to select a niche. Once you get something, use it for inspiration as you build your gallery.
Get the Right Space for Your Gallery
This is another important step in establishing your gallery. You need to locate a space that feels right and has all the predispositions for your gallery to succeed. To launch an art gallery successfully, you need to set up shop in a good location. Lack of approachability and availability can be a huge turn-off for a lot of art gallery geeks. If you stay in an area that is regularly visited by tourists, it will be good if you set up shop in an area that’s easy to find and access. Another good tip is to make your gallery unique and personal. While art should be the focal point, you also need to turn your gallery into an exceptional experience by creating the right atmosphere. Think a lot about the interior of your gallery. This can be something that will go a long way when it comes to attracting customers to your gallery.
When you get your space, ensure that you invest in a business security system. Your art should be kept safe at all times. You must also get roofing services to inspect the roof, and lastly, you should conduct electrical inspections. That way, you can rest assured you are operating in a safe space that won’t give you problems.
Don’t be Afraid to Lose
Running a gallery is not easy. The first 24 months are likely going to be super tough. You may even run at a loss. According to Resch, more than half of art galleries only make about $200k in revenue when they are starting out. This is really not a lot considering that you will need to give the artists their shares. You also have employees to pay, and there is rent to cover. You can tell then that things may not be easy when you are starting out. However, this doesn’t mean that you should quit at the first sign of trouble. All it means is you need to learn how to stay afloat. If other industry veterans managed to figure it out, then there is hope for you as well.
When you are running a gallery, one thing you need to learn is to accept your losses and move on. For instance, if the rents keep rising where you are, instead of closing shop and quitting, you can just move somewhere cheaper and continue with your business. Your mission as a gallerist is to maximize profits. You need to be able to keep encouraging creativity and beauty no matter the circumstances. This kind of job is beyond market forces.
Do things Differently
You need to focus on finding your own unique approach to doing things. A gallery is a place for artists to play with their imagination. As a gallery owner, you also need to tap into your creative side. The art market is primarily dominated by free spirits and wild personalities, so you need to find a way to make your gallery stand out, which is not easy considering how colorful the crowd is. This means a significant chunk of your time should be spent looking for things that others aren’t doing already. For instance, if there is a season and a time for exhibitions, why don’t you open every day and even during seasons that are considered unpopular for exhibitions? If this seems a little weird to you, then maybe it is just what you need for your art gallery in NYC.
Empower Your Passion
Long story short, art has to be your passion. This is the best way to enter the art gallery space. The art industry is designed in a way that allows people to discover certain things about themselves and share their stories with others around the world. It’s not only a platform to make money, but it also encourages innovation, learning, and conversation. To navigate this field, passion is one of the most important resources you need. It inspires you to work hard, and people will notice. If you are passionate enough, chances are you will keep improving your gallery, and you will go the extra mile. Naturally, this will separate you from everyone else. Passion encourages a level of curiosity that can help to push you forward.
Invest in Learning How to Run a Bussiness
While passion is important, it won’t get you anywhere without knowledge. Before you relax and start expecting results from your art gallery in NYC, you need to make some important decisions. How are you going to run the business side of things? There’s not much difference between running an art gallery and other businesses like moving and storage services, elevator repair services, warehouse forklift rental, and product manufacturing. No matter what you are selling, you need to learn the principles of business.
The best way to go about such decisions is to ask someone who is already running a gallery. When it comes to learning art business, someone who has been through the ordeal is probably your best resource. Once you have learned a thing or two, you need to come up with a sound business plan. Your business plan should determine the way you operate your gallery. For instance, you need to think about how you will get funding. How are you going to get money from your gallery? If you are aiming to get commissions, what would be the percentage? It’s important to figure all these things out before you start operating.
Make Sure Your Marketing Is on Point
One of the most important aspects of your growth plan is marketing. Marketing covers lots of things, including making sure your business is branded properly and that it’s discoverable. Nowadays, most of the marketing done by businesses goes on online. You need to create a strong online presence if you want to be successful. There are lots of ways to market your gallery. You can also try some offline methods as well. Still, online marketing remains the most effective approach. This means you will need to familiarize yourself with social media and websites. Even if this may not be your strong point, having a nicely designed website that reflects everything your gallery stands for is a great way to make people curious, which will encourage them to visit you. The internet makes it super easy for you to reach your target clientele. So, be sure to take advantage of it.
Don’t Be Afraid to Take Risks
Although it’s generally important to learn from other people’s mistakes, you shouldn’t be so cautious that you end up with a dull and homogenous space. Of course, it would be best if you had a comfortable and peaceful space. However, comfort zones are never suitable breeding grounds for growth. For your gallery to be successful, you need to stay ambitious and hungry for growth. This requires taking some risks from time to time.
This is very important if you are looking to run a gallery successfully. Even if you find a good location and you design your space beautifully, you won’t make it unless you strive to be professional. People in the art world want the whole package; you need to be good at what you do and be professional.
The way you behave will affect how comfortable people will feel recommending your gallery to others. Whether it be artists or customers, people want to know that they are dealing with a reputable person who doesn’t cut corners. People will want to know that you are business savvy, cooperative, responsible, and reasonable.
Use Your Website as a Powerful Presence
One of the things you will need when starting an art gallery in NYC is a website. However, just making a website and posting it online is not enough. Your website needs to be discoverable. This means you have to approach web design from a marketing perspective. While your website will not replace an in-gallery experience, it makes it possible for people to see your art 24/7. This means people will still get an idea of what you are about even if the gallery is closed. Think of a website as an introduction to your gallery. For the website to be effective, ensure that it gets designed by a professional. You must avoid cluttering it up with a lot of things. Instead, keep it clean. Also, make sure you supply details along with your images.
Attend the Openings
One of the most important things you need to do in the art business is networking. People need to know you, and you also need to know certain people. This can only happen when you make an effort to be known. You can attend as many opening receptions as possible. When you go to these events, don’t be shy. Congratulate people and speak to the gallery staff. You should also speak to other guests and exchange contacts. This is a great way to meet some people who are influential in the art world.
Starting an art gallery in New York City might not be the easiest, but it’s doable. All you need is proper preparation and a passion for art. You will also need to invest a lot of time and money. Running an art gallery is just like running any other business in some aspects. For instance, when you are selling refurbished Chromebooks or providing roofing services, you will still need to market your business. You will also need to get insurance and link with professionals like a workers comp lawyer. | <urn:uuid:8f487ef6-e33a-498b-aa5e-5f9691dab8c4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://artsandmusicpa.com/what-it-takes-to-run-an-art-gallery-in-nyc/ | 2024-04-14T23:44:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.963697 | 2,481 |
Dean of ARUCAD Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Prof. Dr. Hasan Erkek receives Honour Award from Pjetër Bogdani International Writers Association
Dean of the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Prof. Dr. Hasan Erkek was awarded the 2022 Honorary Award of the Pjetër Bogdani International Writers Association.
This year, Prof. Dr. Hasan Erkek was deemed worthy of the “High Writer” honour award given to the best writers translated into Albanian language by the Pjetër Bogdani International Writers Association (Pjetër Bogdani IWA), headquartered in Brussels and Pristina, which aims to bring international literature and Albanian literature closer together.
Erkek, who has more than 20 awards from many national and international platforms and who is an important name in terms of Turkish theatre history, joined the experienced academic staff of ARUCAD as the Dean of the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, which will begin teaching in the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
Who is Prof. Dr. Hasan Erkek?
He started his career when the radio play named ‘Bedel’ (The Cost), which he wrote while he was a third year university student, was broadcast on TRT Radio Theatre, winning the TRT Radio Theater award. Dr. Hasan Erkek has produced a total of 43 dramatic works, including 8 adult stage plays, 4 stage youth plays, 8 stage children’s plays, 7 film scripts and 16 radio plays. He has written 26 artistic and scientific books published in 14 countries. In addition, the script of the 1991 movie ‘Bedel’ (The Cost), directed by Kartal Tibet, also bears his signature.
Head of the Theatre Acting Department and Chairman of the Board of Playwright Translators Association (OYÇED), Prof. Dr. Erkek has held important positions in many associations and festivals such as the Theatre Writers Association, the International Association of Children’s and Youth Theatres (ASSITEJ), the International Young Playwrights Festival (INTERPLAY), the Authors’ Association, the Child and Youth Publishing Association and the International Puppet and Shadow Play Association (UNIMA). Erkek has presented papers at more than thirty festivals and symposia held in France, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Brazil, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, Liechtenstein and Tunisia, and has been a jury member at national and international festivals. In 2014-2015 and 2016-2017, he worked as a guest lecturer at the Theatre Department of Paris 8 University in France.
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Is OkCupid a beneficial dating website? This
review is actually full of all the resources you’ll want to decide if this complimentary dating site is really worth becoming a member of!
You’ll also find out when it makes sense to pay for reduced subscription, or if you’re best off deploying it 100% free.
Had gotten a particular concern? Follow on on the topic below to go directly truth be told there:
Good and bad points Of OkCupid
Like most dating software, OkCupid has its benefits and drawbacks. This listing will always make simple to use for you yourself to decide if its worth enrolling, and many more importantly, paying for.
- Seeking suits and sending/receiving communications has no need for a registration, generating OkCupid one of the recommended free of charge dating sites nowadays.
Features two degrees of settled membership being filled with
of good use advanced functions
. - With 20+ sexual orientations and 12 sex identities to pick from, OkCupid generally is the dating website for all.
- Launched by Christian Rudder, Chris Coyne, Sam Yagan, and maximum Krohn long ago in 2004, a lot of R&D moved into producing OkCupid one of 2020’s top online dating sites.
- The online dating app attracts a huge assortment of interesting singles – it is similar to going out at a funky bar in an university area. You’ll see sets from artsy, edgy & imaginative to attractive, challenging younger pros.
- Since anyone can produce a profile and send messages 100% free, some people on the website are not dedicated to actually fulfilling someone.
Even though you discover singles seeking a lasting relationship, general OkCupid has a relaxed ambiance when compared with online dating programs like
. If you’re 30+ and seeking for somebody to meet up the mother and father, some of those may be the more sensible choice for you personally.
OkCupid Assessment Verdict
Is OkCupid great?
Yes – OkCupid is an excellent dating internet site.
Due to the fact can make a profile, research matches, and message men and women for free, you really don’t have anything to lose giving OkCupid an attempt.
especially popular with singles inside their 30s to 40s
, when you’re seriously interested in finding top-quality suits in that generation, upgrading to reduced account could possibly be an excellent expense.
OkCupid Evaluation Round Up
, OkCupid provides a 3.49-star rating. The uploaded ratings varied from the normal complaints that plague any free of charge dating internet site like ”
Tired of the fraudsters and artificial folks
” to glowing compliments like ”
Located the love of my life!
The bloggers over at The Dating Gurus gave OkCupid an excellent a status, sharing the viewpoint it’s among the best free of charge websites out there. AskMen assented, phoning it an ”
business frontrunner in internet dating.
TrustPilot’s OkCupid review
, alternatively, gives the dating internet site a disappointing 1.3 celebrity rating. The majority of user reviews happened to be 1 star.
1000 OkCupid problems
submitted aided by the Better Business Bureau, with many different of them describing bad customer support.
Some consumers happened to be disappointed that their reports were dangling for a variety of – or unknown – explanations, making all of them not a way to opt-out of the auto-renewal for all the paid membership, and e-mails to customer support moved unanswered.
Others happened to be disappointed that their particular accounts had been terminated after becoming “reported” by another user. But OkCupid refused to clarify which information or behavior violated the website’s recommendations, at the very least without a ”
appropriate subpoena, search guarantee, or court purchase directed to OkCupid
In the grand scheme of things, 1000 or more problems isn’t a terrible history looking at OkCupid has actually over
new users. And dating site consumers are far more prone to take time to examine an adverse experience than an optimistic one.
OkCupid Is DTF
OkCupid’s progressive “DTF” advertisement campaign additionally was given mass media attention and contains already been assessed round the web.
Instead of the phrase’s conventional definition, OkCupid created slogans like “DTFall head-over-heels.”
As OkCupid’s CMO Melissa Hobley told
The knowledge operating this venture ended up being that the expression, DTF, is but one definitely generally used as a label on ladies, the one that they’ve got no proclaim or no vocals in. Definitely this venture had been birthed from inside the era of âMe Too’ and also in a-year that is vital for women.
Many proposed outlets found the advertisements much more unpleasant than empowering, with businesses like Chicago Transit Authority and nyc Subway declining to show some (or all) in the ads.
OkCupid Assessment: Price & Superior Characteristics
ne of the reasons for OkCupid’s popularity is the fact that its a fully operating cost-free dating internet site.
Possible create a profile, read/send messages, and seek out fits without paying a penny.
However if you would like helpful rewards like to be able to see which local singles “liked” the profile, you need to pay for a membership. There have been two improve degrees offered – “Basic” and “superior.” (The premium memberships was previously known as “A-List”).
OkCupid Simple contains these benefits:
- Delivering limitless likes
- Specifying some look criterion as a “dealbreaker”
- Undo your own “passes”
- Checking out your intros at the same time
- No adverts
Rates may vary based on where you are.
You could expect to spend somewhere in a nearby of $34.99 to use OkCupid Basic for one month, or $23.33 four weeks when you join a couple of months at once. The purchase price drops to $17.49 per month should you commit to a few months.
Note the OkCupid software will not frequently provide Basic anymore, you will need to login via the on the web version to invest in it.
OkCupid Premium consists of most of the fundamental features
- Witnessing everyone else who may have already “liked” your own OkCupid profile.
- 3 regular SuperLikes
- Unlimited Task Research
- Disclosing all a potential match’s question answers, not merely those you’ve both answered.
OkCupid advanced expenses around $49.99 for an individual thirty days. Join for 3 months and it’s $29.99 per month or $22.49 monthly once you have a 6-month membership.
But again, rates is market established. By way of example, some customers have reported a $39.99 cost for a single thirty days subscription to Premium, with a 3-month subscription charging $26.66 monthly or $19.99 monthly for a 6-month one.
Unsure if spending money on OkCupid is a good idea?
Find out if upgrading is worth the financial investment
for a guy inside certain situation, but for now listed here is an easy review:
Think about superior if:
You’re in the early 30s to middle 40s. Around
half of OkCupid’s customers
come into the 30-49 age bracket. Around 25percent of consumers tend to be under 30, together with remainder over 50.
- You’re in a populated area.
- You are intent on beginning a relationship.
Consider fundamental if:
- You’re budget mindful, but need to concentrate just on prospective fits exactly who genuinely fulfill the criteria.
- You are in an even more populated place.
Cannot bother updating if:
- You’re in an isolated place with a smaller sized dating share.
- That you don’t look at your internet dating records commonly.
Want to meet more desirable ladies on OkCupid? Check-out
these pointers and techniques
to make certain those added characteristics pay off!
OkCupid Assessment: Starting The Profile
You are able to produce an account when you go to
and pressing “Join”, or by getting the dating software for
Navigating the OkCupid join procedure is amazingly easy. Very first, you decide on your sexual positioning from 12 solutions, such as direct, gay, demisexual, pansexual, and questioning.
Picking your gender is actually just as comprehensive, with well over 20 solutions including girl or guy to androgynous, genderqueer, intersex, transgender, etc. You can also exhibit which pronouns you use in your profile.
Following upwards is your birthdate, country, area code, email, and code – after which boom, you’re a member.
Then you’ll end up being prompted to select what kind of commitment you are looking for, if you’re open to non-monogamy, and exacltly what the perfect partner’s age groups is actually.
Those days are gone of photo-less pages on OkCupid. So now you have to publish at least one making it past the profile setup procedure.
Pictures tend to be perhaps the most important piece of the OkCupid profile, thus select a range of 3-7 in which you seem equally attractive. It really is nearly impossible to appear similarly good in 8+ photographs.
It takes only one poor photograph to make somebody down. Likewise, making use of about 3 is very important because it’s challenging seem like a well-rounded, fascinating individual within just a few images.
For crucial advice on selecting an attention-getting picture lineup for OkCupid, check these
research-based internet dating photo tips
OkCupid’s users are a bit different than everything you’ll find on sites like Match.com and lots of seafood.
You are going to initial end up being asked introducing yourself:
You’ll need to place some thing here getting through set-up procedure, but you can constantly change it out afterwards.
Next, you’ll get the opportunity to respond to multiple-choice concerns to simply help decide just who your own suitable fits is.
You answer fully the question on your own, following for your ideal match. You may want to identify how important it really is for you yourself to discuss exactly the same solution, and add additional details in a text package.
As an instance:
OkCupid superior people can see all a prospective match’s concern responses.
That’s helpful as it offers further intel into their character, needs and wants. Any details you gather can inspire your icebreaker (or as OkCupid calls all of them, your own “Intro”.)
Wish give singles a look into
day to day life?
If you are with the mobile software, you could link your own Instagram account your OkCupid profile:
- Touch the “visibility” symbol on diet plan club.
- Pick “my profile.”
- Scroll completely with the bottom of this display screen, through the Topics & Questions sections.
- Under Instagram, tap “link” and supply your own IG recommendations.
From that time, you could begin checking out your own matches, but for the best outcomes on OkCupid it is in addition crucial to finish your own profile first.
Possible suits need to “like” your own profile in order to trade messages with you, so look at it compulsory to put some work in.
Overall, your OkCupid profile is made of 9 various parts, making use of capability to add more subjects if you want.
For every subject, you’ll be able to choose which prompt you would like to respond to from straightforward pull-down menu of 5 or 6 alternatives:
You don’t need to submit more associated with prompts, nevertheless never know exactly what might spark a destination therefore it is a smart idea to finish at the least some more areas.
Initial two prompts you answer can be obvious on the profile, and she’s going to have the option of clicking “+more” observe the rest of it.
Your responses should quickly catch the woman attraction making their want to know a little more about you. Highlighting a few enticing faculties is sure-fire option to improve elegance. If she likes just what she sees, she will keep reading.
Make use of one of these
OkCupid profile examples for men
Recall, whenever she actually is reading these sections she is going to envision what it’s desire spending some time with you very explain your self plus pastimes in an appealing means.
In the place of a dull set of adjectives or nouns like “I’m daring, funny, and committed, and I also like snowboarding and travel” tell the girl a tale that illustrates those traits. Revealing without advising is quite
way more appealing
Here is another illustration of a great OkCupid self-summary response:
Once you have finished your profile, it is possible to respond to a lot of complement concerns if you prefer.
Answering the additional concerns is really worth some time, since the much more you answer, the higher your own match portion together with other suitable people tends to be.
Resist the desire to test the “any regarding the preceding” package – that essentially takes your own answer outside of the picture.
Choosing Matches On OkCupid
You can find singles in Take a look at and Questions whom fit the criteria you given in the “looking” area of the profile.
OkCupid not features a conventional look like Match really does, and so the fits you find might be determined by the preferences you indicate indeed there. And it also will pay to fill out your very own profile entirely for the reason that it will discover a lot of choice categories.
OkCupid task Research
, OkCupid provides an Activity Report that shows you how active some one is (or perhaps isn’t) about platform. You will see your own personal Activity Report on the profile modifying display.
Statistics feature Finally Active, respond back opportunity, an answer Likelihood portion and a Sends First information portion. Premium subscribes have limitless usage of Activity Reports.
OkCupid Take a look at
Within the Take a look at area, you’ll see possible matches chosen individually because of the website’s algorithm. These are typically sorted into 10 various classes, or as OkCupid telephone calls them: Stacks.
As OkCupid CEO
Ariel Charytan told CNET
We know that daters are searching for various things at differing times, and we need encourage individuals on OkCupid to decide on their preferences because they match on which things in their eyes.
When you’re browsing through your own Stack feeds, you’ll “Pass”, “Like” or “SuperLike” any individual you will find truth be told there.
, OkCupid lets you discuss a specific element of a person’s profile. Only tap the “Intro” button to deliver the message. This directs your review with your “Like”. You can also merely “Like” the profile if you do not wanna consist of a note.
These OkCupid piles are absolve to consider:
- Cupid’s Picks
- On The Web
However the Popular and new-people Stacks both are priced at $1.99 to get into for seven days.
Cupid Picks On OkCupid
Cupid’s Picks are exactly the same assumption as
Tinder’s Leading Picks
Normally consumers the algorithm features defined as collectively suitable considering your preferences, their particular preferences and concerns that you have answered the same exact way. The same as on Tinder, Cupid’s Picks change daily.
The Passport Stack enables you to get in touch with men and women world-wide.
The SuperLikes feed demonstrates to you those who have sent you one. And when you SuperLike some one on OkCupid, might look indeed there for them.
All people get a totally free regular SuperLike that replenishes on Sunday. (with no, it’s not possible to stockpile cost-free SuperLikes. If you don’t utilize it through the few days, might nonetheless merely get one come Sunday.) Superior members have 3 SuperLikes every week.
SuperLikes on OkCupid price $3.49 each when you buy 2, $1.53 each once you purchase 15, or $1.33 each as soon as you purchase 30. Pricing may transform slightly based on where you live.
Once you SuperLike somebody, you can decide to feature an email alongside it.
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Following a healthy lifestyle can help prevent 80% of premature deaths from heart disease and strokes and 60% due to cancer.
Here are five tips from experts on how to take a few simple steps towards living a healthier life.
1. Always eat breakfast
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Raeesa Seedat, Registered Dietitian and ADSA spokesperson
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“Before you go to sleep, you need to give your brain a chance to wind down. Allocate between 30 and 60 minutes for this. Going to bed directly after working or after exercise can make it more difficult to fall asleep. Caffeine and alcohol can affect sleep, and sufficient time should be allowed after the consumption of these substances before getting into bed.”
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DG Okonjo-Iweala on MC13: “We are going to get it done”
Wednesday, February 14,2024AsemconnectVietnam - Speaking at a special meeting of the WTO’s General Council on 14 February, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala acknowledged the challenges members face in securing a package of outcomes for the organization’s upcoming 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) in Abu Dhabi but said she was confident members would be able to deliver.
The Director-General said that while she was encouraged by members' stamina and passion in advancing the MC13 preparations, "frankly speaking, we are still not where I would have wished us to be at this point in our preparatory processes."
"But I remain positive because of the relatively positive tone in the negotiations," she said. "This gives me hope that we'll get more convergence in our negotiating positions."
MC13 will take place from 26 to 29 February in Abu Dhabi.
Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the United Arab Emirates' Minister of State for Foreign Trade and Chair of MC13, addressed members at the General Council meeting. He urged them to continue working on narrowing their differences before ministers arrive in Abu Dhabi.
"In the present international context with considerable challenges and uncertainty, it is crucial to welcome the ministers at MC with some positive news," he said. "We need to show them that, yes indeed, reaching agreements on trade issues is possible today."
"We really need to settle the low hanging fruits now and show more flexibility across the different issues and areas, especially since we have just 12 days until MC13," he added.
The General Council Chairperson, Ambassador Athaliah Lesiba Molokomme of Botswana, briefed members on the state of play regarding the drafting of an MC13 Ministerial Declaration. She noted that she intends to work with delegations in the following days to address some issues that remain outstanding, in order to circulate a “clean” draft Declaration on 16 February for members’ consideration.
"The importance that we all attach to sending a strong, meaningful, and responsive political message from ministers is evident – particularly given the difficult period we are currently living in," Ambassador Molokomme said. "Let us all keep in mind what is at stake, as we finalize the MC13 draft Declaration."
Members received reports on MC13 preparations from the chairpersons of the following negotiating bodies: agriculture, Ambassador Alparslan Acarsoy of Türkiye; fisheries subsidies, Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson of Iceland; development, Ambassador Kadra Hassan of Djibouti; and services, Ambassador Zhanar Aitzhanova of Kazakhstan.
Also reporting to members were the Facilitator of the Work Programme on Electronic Commerce and the Moratorium, Ambassador Usha Dwarka-Canabady of Mauritius; and the Chairpersons of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), Ambassador Petter Ølberg of Norway, the Council for TRIPS, Ambassador Pimchanok Pitfield of Thailand, the Committee on Trade and Development (on least developed country graduation), Ambassador José R. Sánchez-Fung of the Dominican Republic and the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Mr Tayutic Mena Retana of Costa Rica. Mr Marco Molina, deputy permanent representative of Guatemala, was also invited by the DSB chair to report in his capacity as convenor of the informal discussions on dispute settlement reform.
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With just 40 more members needed to close the gap, " I am confident this agreement will enter into force this year, making it one of the fastest, if not the fastest, entry into force of a WTO multilateral agreement," DG Okonjo-Iweala said.
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Language and Power: In modern world and Black Skin White Mask
By – Alpana Khobra (February 2017, Vol.III, Issue.XXV)
“Yes, I must take great pain with my speech,
Because I shall be more or less judged by it.
With great contempt they will say of me,
“He does not even know how to speak French.”
( Fanon 1952)
Language can be considered as a system of group of letters and/or words corresponding to a meaning and vice-versa. It enables one to get acquainted with the world at the level of one’s understanding of words and sentences. In other words, it can be remarked that the use of language contributes towards bridging the gap between a person and the world. The study of language gives an insight into philosophy, anthropology, psycholinguistics, socio-linguistics and so on and so forth. It leads to a realisation of one’s existence in the world because the moment one speaks, a social circle circumscribes him or her. The Cartesian”I think, therefore I am”gets transformed into”I speak, therefore I am.”Thus, it is this social circle that determines one’s social identity. Sociolinguistics is one branch which deals with not only a mere study of language as a broad canon but also contemplates how a linguistic form is related to social realm and the relation of social interaction with the linguistic interactions. It believes that individual’s linguistic variation is actually a result of social differentiation, social identity and interactions. If one attempts to sum up this relation of the social and the linguistic in one line, it can be said that a person’s position in the social hierarchy is determined by his use of language. This is how the concept of power comes into the picture.
Power in a social realm is exercised through ideology and the ideological workings of language. The whole concept of ideology was brought in light by the twentieth century French Marxist philosopher Louis Peirre Althusser in his essay”Ideological State Ideology and Apparatus”. He wondered how a small number of the colonisers could rule over a large number of the colonised. This is achieved through ideology which involves rule by consent and not force. Althusser throws light on how people internalise the dominant ideology and abide by the set of ideas which support the capitalist class’s dominance. This is called rule by hegemony. However, this entire system of ideology is actually accentuated by the use of language. For instance, consider the use of English language on World Wide Web. It is a European language that is predominantly present on this network despite the fact that a huge percent of world population in bereft of this language. This is because of the discourse created by English language which shapes the power relations. Through the concept of discourse, one gets a glimpse of how closely power and language are linked to each other. A conversation of two scientists will make no sense to a layman. This is how language creates a discourse around it beyond whose boundary it appears indecipherable yet powerful. Power of language can also be felt in a normal day-to-day conversation. Person A holds certain opinion about something and person B says to him,”I am not being a killjoy or spoilsport but I don’t agree with what you say.”in the very act of saying”I am not being a killjoy or spoilsport”person B is asserting that he is right and the other person is not. This is how use of language in a certain way leads to the building up of a hierarchy. One also witnesses trickery involved in advertisements, media, etc. coaxing the viewers to watch a particular show or buy a particular product. Media in fact serves as a powerful site for producing and maintaining dominant discourses. One sees how different news channels carry different headlines for the same event or incident. Power lies in a group of people who decide what has to be shown and what has to be censored.
“Knowledge is power.”
The power of knowledge is also exercised with the help of language. For example, consider a meeting of a doctor and patient.In this binary, the former is knowledgeable in a particular field and it is because of this knowledge that latter comes to seek help. Hence, the knowledge of medical science perpetuated through language creates a hierarchical relation between the two. One also sees how ideology is involved because of which the patient abides by what all that the doctor suggest. A similar binary of teacher-student exists in the discourse of an educational institution. The exercise of power in discourse is all about how the powerful controls the voice of the non-powerful in such a way that it appears so legitimised and that is why nobody dares to challenge/ question it. One also witnesses the use of rhetoric in day-to-day life. The Oxford English Dictionary defined it as “the art of using language so as to persuade or influence others; the body of rules to be observed by a speaker or writer in order that he may express himself with eloquence. Thus, the picture of connection between language use and unequal relations of power consequentially becomes quite clear here. The need of the hour is to increase consciousness of how language contributes to the domination of some people by other because “consciousness is the first step towards emancipation.”
Moving ahead from this relation of language and power in modern world, this essay now embarks on journey leading to the further exploration of this relation in the world of colonisation. To elaborate, Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon has been brought into discussion. Black Skin White Masks (Peau Noire, Masques Blancs): The Experiences of a Black Man in a White World is a study of the status of blacks in a colonised domain at a psychological and psychoanalytical level. Frantz Omar Fanon was born in 1925 in Fort-de-France, in the French colony of Martinique. His father was descendant of slaves and mother of mixed French parenthood. Black Skin White Mask was written in a 1952 and translated into English in 1967. The readers associated the idea of black consciousness with it for it was the first book which brought into light the psychology involved in colonialism. Moreover, it appears appealing because the author himself has had many instances of personal experience. In Fanon’s words, it is comprised of “uncomfortable truths and naked honesty”. He primarily focuses on the internalisation of the black colour, i.e., “epidermalisation” and the diametrical opposition between whiteness and blackness.
Frantz Fanon in Black Skin and White Masks has explicitly elaborated how language acts as a major and most essential site used by the colonisers to subjugate the blacks. When the relationship of language and power is construed in the context of colonisation, the language gets laced with many profound connotations.
“To speak is to exist absolutely for the other.”
When a person speaks, the presence of an “other” is quite self-evident. However, it depends on the Eurocentric yardstick to decide whether what the person actually speaks is worthy enough to be called a “language” or not. It might be completely brushed aside as a “violent babble of uncouth sounds”as Joseph Conrad describes in Heart of Darkness or a mere “jabber” as Fanon calls it in his book, Black Skin White Masks. As a result, the use of language inevitably draws a dividing line between the self and the other leading to a certain hierarchy. It is this binary of the self and the other that the whole idea of colonisation foregrounds. T S Eliot once remarked, “We are certain of everything relatively and of nothing –positively.” So a person is a slave only in the presence of his master. This can be related to the post- structuralist theory of difference as stated by Jacques Derrida. According to this theory, an entity gains meaning by virtue of being different from other entities. For example, a pen is called a pen because it is not a pencil, eraser, and so on and so forth. This is how meaning takes place and hierarchical binaries emerge. But this division is not just confined to the coloniser and the colonised, rather the colonised witnesses a split within himself as well. A Negro’s way of behaving with his fellows is different from the way he behaves with a white man. This implies that colonisation is not just a case of invasion but also a driving force behind bringing change within the psychology of the colonised. It is this psychological charge which Fanon tends to explore.
“Mastery of language affords remarkable power.”
In the chapter called “The Negro and Language”, Fanon describes why a Negro feel overtly inclined towards learning French, a European language because it has certain power and authority attached to it. As opposed to French, Negroes consider their language powerless, thus, ignoring the very fact that loss of one’s language is equivalent to loss of one’s cultural identity. This is because language is not just about words, phrases or sentences, rather it has a certain cultural baggage attached to it. But in the eyes of the colonisers, no such thought of”culture”, “civilisation” or “standard” exists because, as Fanon puts it, there is no “long historical past”.
“I shouted a greeting to the world and the world slashed away my joy.
I was told to stay within the bounds, to go back where I belonged.”
The plight of the blacks which Fanon wants to convey is quite evident in theses above quoted lines. A”long historical past’ implies a well- documented/ recorded history which is laced with a grandeur of legacy which is absent among the blacks. This is the reason why blacks feel inclined towards learning a European language. It is believed to give them a sense of being more “civilised” and “closer to the white man”. It is considered to be a tool to break the shackles of colonisation and seek “emancipation”. However, unwittingly, they are further intensifying the whole concept of colonisation because it is the fact that at any cost they cannot come out of their blackness. It seems quite unsound to see how they set their color as the measuring tool that has already been belittled by the colonisers. This can be summed up in Fanon’s following statement,
“Wherever he goes, the Negro remains a Negro.”
Sadly, a Negro often tries to blur the dividing line between to be like and being, and delights in the process of moving closer to the state of human.
Fanon’s main idea that is pervasively present in his books like The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin White Masks is that the whole concept of colonialism will collapse if the natives refuse to get “coaxed” by the colonisers. His books are leashed with blatant remarks against the colonisers who actually flourish only because of the people they rule over. He wants to uproot the very basis of complexes injected into the mind of the black due to colonial environment. In Orientalism, Edward Said also brings in light the way the settlers tend to “civilise” the native as a part of white man’s burden. Fanon then brings to the forefront the paradoxical stand of the whites towards a Negro speaking in French. On one hand, they rebuke a Negro conversing in French mixed with Creole while on the other hand, if he utters fluent French, he poses a potential threat to the domain of the white. The latter in this case would say, “keep an eye on that one, he is almost white.” In either case, he is abused and scrutinised. On the contrary, he is deified among his fellow men. Fanon states, “he becomes an oracle.” This implies that a change in language leads to difference, a deviation and separation.
“Every dialect is a way of thinking.”
Damourett and Pichon
Clearly, change in dialect means change in perspective. Therefore, in case of a Negro who has just returned from France, it is evident that his mind has undergone “mutation” so as to put in a more convincing scientific term. Fanon further describes it in terms of an “evidence of a dislocation, a separation”. Language being well-knit with power and culture majorly adds to one’s ability to perceive the world. This has been discussed to an extent in the beginning of this essay but in the context of a colonial framework, language becomes quite a loaded term.
In the concluding paragraph, it can be remarked that the very presence of language and power is complimentary to each other. One exists due to the other, thus, being indispensable to their respective propagation in a socio-cultural framework. Both have to sit on the same swing called human society so that it comes into motion. If either of the two moves away, the other is left behind with nobody to push it. As a result, the society flounders. It can also be said that nothing in this world can be called apolitical. Whatever and whenever a person speaks, which involves use of language, it will be scrutinized under the scanner of politics and that is how power functions accordingly. Fanon in Black Skin White Mask has tried to give an explicit detail of the similar scenario. Colonisation has been presented as a tool tearing apart the tapestry of the world of the blacks which at later stages proves to be a double-edged sword for the holder, the coloniser. Fanon puts emphasis on the specificity of this tool being a “double-edged sword” for the white who might get devoured themselves. His words are infilled with such zeal which is actually in compliance with this thought. He blatantly puts in these words,
“I feel my soul as vast as the world,
truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers;
My chest has the power to expand to infinity I was made to give
and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.”
Fanon’s study of colonialism has obviously been done through a different lens providing an image of unprecedented kind. It is because of such novelty and vigour that he is called “the purveyor of the transgressive and transitional truth” by Homi K. Bhabha. There is an underlying prophetic spirit in his work which makes the reader delve deeper into its meaning.
Althusser, Louis Peirre. 1974, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus”
Alessandrini, Anthony C. 1999, ed. Frantz Fanon, Critical Perspectives
Conrad, Joseph. 1902, Heart of Darkness
Davidson, Harreit. ‘Improper Desire-reading”The Wasteland”’
Fairclough, Norman.1989, Language and Power
Fanon, Frantz. 1952, Black Skin White Mask
Thomas, Linda; Wareing, Shan; Singh, Ishtla; Percei, John S.; Thorborron, Jean; Jones, Jason. 1999, Language, Society and Power.
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The award recognises pioneering research about The Bahamas coastal seagrass ecosystem and its carbon mitigation potential.
(Heerbrugg, Switzerland) Hexagon today announced that it has received the Geospatial World Leadership Award with its partner Beneath The Waves for advancing sustainability with the Blue Carbon initiative in The Bahamas. The award recognises and celebrates individuals and organisations that champion innovation, pioneer cutting-edge solutions and advance technologies in the global geospatial industry.
The award in the Advancing Sustainability category honours the collaboration between Hexagon’s sustainability business venture R-evolution, the sensor and software company Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, and the non-profit organisation Beneath The Waves. Their joint project in The Bahamas uses Hexagon’s bathymetry solutions to produce multidimensional, intelligent maps to assess the density of the seagrass ecosystem and its carbon storage potential. To develop that innovative and scalable method, the teams integrated data from various sensors carried by sharks, divers, marine vessels and aircrafts.
The abililty to map the sea fields accurately and establish their contribution to mitigation is essential to protect the seagrass meadows and enable sustainable business models. At COP27 in November 2022, the Prime Minister of The Bahamas announced the unique Blue Carbon programme for his country, highlighting how these novel technologies realise The Bahamas’ value as the ocean’s largest natural carbon sink.
David Harris, Director of Blue Carbon Operations at Beneath The Waves said, “We have already mapped 340,000 hectares, and we are targeting to pass one million hectares in 2024. With this project, we could show how our collaborative effort pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, and that marine science will make a real, positive impact on the world. We’re proud and humbled to see everyone’s work and commitment to sustainability recognised by this Geospatial World Leadership Award.”
“At Hexagon, we believe that innovation and cutting-edge technology can tip the scale toward solutions that drive a more sustainable future. We’re thrilled to provide the technology and expertise that underpins The Bahamas’ Blue Carbon programme,” said Erik Josefsson, CEO of R-evolution, powered by Hexagon. “We’re honoured that the award recognises the partners’ dedication to sustainability and hope that it will inspire more cutting-edge research and cross-segment collaboration for the planet.”
Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety and mobility applications. Our technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous — ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.
Beneath The Waves
Founded in 2013, Beneath The Waves is an ocean NGO using cutting-edge science to advance scientific discovery and catalyse ocean policy. Led by a group of established and emerging leaders in the marine conservation world, their work has generated nearly 100 scientific publications, numerous first-ever discoveries, and they have been involved in the study and conservation of nearly 1 million square kilometres of marine protected areas. | <urn:uuid:bdd1fcbe-a7fe-48f2-a348-f45742555cb5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://asmmag.com/news/36150-beneath-the-waves-and-hexagon-win-geospatial-world-leadership-award-for-advancing-blue-carbon-research-in-the-bahamas.html | 2024-04-14T23:44:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.910252 | 664 |
Doctor Who: Rhythm of Destruction: 12th Doctor Audio Original
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Dan Starkey reads an exclusive new audio adventure for the Twelfth Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi.
The Doctor arrives on the uninhabited planetoid Quish, famous for having the biggest natural amphitheatre in the galaxy. The Blitzats Jazz Quartet are playing, but shortly afterwards the planetoid implodes. Everywhere they play they leave a trail of destruction in their wake – someone dies; a city is wiped out; an entire planet vanishes... But why - and how? The Doctor realises that the answer lies close to home.
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An infant health expert has told jurors it is "exceedingly unlikely" that Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's baby died of hypothermia.
Professor Peter Fleming was called by the defence to give evidence at the couple's trial for the gross negligence manslaughter of their newborn Victoria.
Her body was found in a bag at an allotment in Brighton last March after a weeks-long search for the family.
The couple deny manslaughter and a number of other charges.
Prof Fleming - professor of infant health and developmental physiology at the University of Bristol - told the Old Bailey: "I have seen no evidence of hypothermia as a cause of death.
"The description of how she was being cared for would make hypothermia exceedingly unlikely."
Prof Fleming later agreed that the account of how the baby was being cared for had been given to him by Ms Marten.
The expert witness said he had studied babies in Mongolia who safely slept in their mother's clothing when the "room temperature was commonly zero or below zero".
Judge Mark Lucraft asked: "Presumably they were wearing traditional Mongolian clothing?" Prof Fleming replied: "Correct."
Ms Marten has previously told jurors Victoria died on 9 January, but prosecutors allege she died weeks later.
Prof Fleming said a measurement of Victoria's foot length suggested she was not born prematurely and was about two to three weeks old when she died.
He added he could not confirm Victoria was eight-weeks-old when she died.
Prof Fleming said: "All the pointers suggest to me that she was much younger. The best fit is that she was two or three weeks."
Ms Marten's account of the death is that she fell asleep sitting up in a tent and "keeled over", waking up to find Victoria dead.
Prof Fleming said he had seen two cases in his career in which a breastfeeding mother had been sitting up, and fell asleep over the baby who died.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC asked the witness what his response would have been had Ms Marten told him she was going to be sleeping in a tent in temperatures between 4 and 10 degrees, with only "a baby grow and a vest".
Prof Fleming replied: "I would say it would be inadvisable, but if you have to then keep your baby inside your coat."
Asked by the prosecutor what he thought of the £40 Argos tent the couple purchased to stay in, Prof Fleming said it would not be "ideal" accommodation.
The jury has heard that the couple kept Victoria's body in a shopping bag for days or even weeks after her death.
The judge asked Prof Fleming a question posed by the jury about what the optimum time after death to carry out a post-mortem examination would be.
"The sooner the better," Prof Fleming said. "Within 24 hours ideally."
Both defendants deny manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice, concealing the birth of a child, child cruelty, and causing or allowing the death of a child.
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Hollyoaks spoilers follow from Monday's episode on Channel 4 streaming, which doesn't air on E4 until Tuesday.
Lucas has been troubled over the past few months, with headteacher Carter Shepherd exploiting the teenager as part of the conversion therapy storyline.
Declan, the brains of the operation, recently arrived in the village to take matters into his own hands, with the pair setting their sights on Lucas as they sought to manipulate him.
Tonight’s (March 25) first-look episode saw Lucas and half-sister Leah return to school, with the pair being greeted by Freya and Dillon.
The reunion was brief, however, as a brainwashed Lucas reiterated that he didn’t want anything to do with Dillon, urging him to stay away.
Dillon didn’t heed this, however, as he approached Lucas in the corridor as he was sitting on the floor, with the pair having a frank conversation.
Dillon persisted by remarking that the pair shared a connection, imploring him to ask him to kiss him, but Lucas didn’t budge as he walked off after insulting Dillon with a homophobic slur.
The exchange was heard by Carter, who was recently embarrassed after Maxine rejected his proposal of marriage, resulting in the headteacher bringing the student into his office for a chat.
Carter, who was reckoning with his own doubts, showed his vulnerable side as he intimated that he should give into his desires for Dillon, but quickly reverted to type as he ordered Lucas to continue with his therapy.
The latest meeting saw Lucas read out a message, with Declan ‘rewarding’ his protégé by giving him a necklace, leaving Carter to confront his actions as he remained behind…
Hollyoaks streams first online via Channel 4 each weekday at 7.30pm. Episodes then air on E4 the following day, before getting their YouTube premiere a week after that.
Selected omnibus episodes are available via Prime Video.
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With the world of music making becoming more mobile via powerful lightweight laptops and audio interfaces packed with DSP plugin power, the need for portable professional monitoring becomes vital. But surely you can’t mix and master with headphones?
When one of the world leading speaker manufacturers starts making pro audio headphones, you probably can. The Focal Clear Professional are a set of high- end headphones aimed to match the experience of listening to studio monitors.
Focal, while relatively new to the headphone scene, is quickly becoming one of the leaders when it comes to design, style, innovation and quality. The Clear Professional completes a line up of three headphones in Focal’s pro audio headphone range, the Spirit Professional being the older model and the rst venture for Focal into the pro- audio market, now complemented by a new closed back model Listen Professional, a lower cost product for general music production and the open-back Clear Professional, headphones made for critical listening which is the set of cans I shall be testing today. Slightly confusing there are identical spec Clear and Listen models in Focals consumer range, apart from colour styling and accessories.
In the Box
The Clear Professional comes in a luxurious hard carry case, a hard moulded flip clamshell design with a lovely textured finish and chunky zip, this sets the tone of workmanship right away, not wasted opulence but a nice touch of luxury with a professional and practical sense to the design. The included accessories are a spare pair of ear cushions and two low resistance OFC copper 24AWG cables, a 5m spiral cable and a 1.2m straight cable terminating via stereo 6.5mm adapter and mini-jack to the headphones via a Y split fitted with mini-jacks that lock into the headphone shells. Each mini jack is marked L and R but not obviously, a common problem with headphones that seem to hide the markers, making you waste time figuring out the orientation before you can listen to them. I often think a quick colour identification marker would be more helpful.
From the first moment you open the Clear Professional case, the high quality finish is obvious, with solid aluminium yokes that mould to the face shape and stand out leather and red pin cushioned fabric that lines the headband and thick ear cushions. These 20mm microfibre wrapped memory foam ear pads fully enclose the ear, to form an integral part of the sound isolation and part of the way the headphones adjust themselves to the head. The other obvious design diference is the angled drivers. Based on their top of the range Focal this design is one of my favourite features. The chunky open back metal grill covered ear cups enclose a weighty driver, specially designed for the Clear Professional, an aluminium/magnesium M-shaped dome, low impedance (55 Ohms) 40mm full range driver with a unique 5.5mm unsupported copper coil.
Focal’s aim to produce a set of headphones that can replicate the openness and response you get from working with a trusted set of monitors is an aspiring concept. The ergonomic design of the Focal Clear Professional headphones combined with the R&D that has gone into the driver assembly produces an open sound with an incredibly high detail.
The low impedance also supports its mobile versatility, driven from low power outputs like a laptop. I use Sonarworks Reference 4 monitoring so ware in the studio, Sonarworks kindly provided a Clear Professional calibrated Pro le that worked perfectly for me to match my monitoring setup. The Clear Professional frequency response is superb and there is no “hi ” mid range scoop, boosted bass and treble to be aware of.
After listen testing on finished mixes, I turned to using the Clear Professionals whilst mixing. This is my critical listening process, the sound reproduction is the canvas on which I build the sonic picture, each audio colouration of EQ or compression, when to cut or boost and audio clues, like how well the mix is starting to come together.
The Focal Clear Professional was a pleasure to work with, what surprised me was the frequency separation, the stereo field had nice width and depth, but the height impression of HF to LF was superb, the bass felt low to my jaw while sweet ear cookies of sparkling highs sat on top.
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Soundcraft has updated its ViSi Remote iPad app to allow control of both the ViSeries range of consoles, as well the Si Compact range released last month.
Available for free on the iTunes store, the new version of the ViSi Remote app is designed to enable a single iPad to control multiple consoles from the Soundcraft Vi Series or Si Compact range on a single wireless network.
The app also allows users to move around a venue with the ability to adjust both input channel levels and mutes, as well as aux send levels and matrix sends, and level and graphic EQ settings on bus outputs. Soundcraft Vi Series consoles controllable by ViSi include all variants of Vi1, Vi2, Vi4 and Vi6.
A single ViSi Remote app is now able to control a mixed network of consoles from the Vi and Si Compact series. Meanwhile, the app also uses Harman’s HiQnet architecture to connect the network of consoles to a wireless router, which communicates with the iPad.
Furthermore, multiple iPads can be used on the same network and the same console, meaning that individual artists can control their own monitor sends.
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As we discussed in our January 2019 bulletin, most private corporations organized under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) are now required to keep a register of individuals with significant control (ISC Register). Responding to feedback received since these requirements came into effect in June 2019, Corporations Canada and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and Corporations Canada (the Departments) are considering whether regulations should be enacted to provide more guidance and clarity about the ISC Register regime. On March 9, 2020, they published a consultation paper on this subject.
The Departments are seeking feedback on the following questions, among others:
- What steps should a corporation follow if it determines that there are no individuals who qualify as ISCs? Should it note that conclusion in its register?
- Corporations subject to the ISC Register requirements must take reasonable steps to update their ISC Register at least once per year. What would constitute reasonable steps?
Comments are due by May 12, 2020. If you would like to discuss the Consultation Paper and its potential impact on your business, please contact us.
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It’s time to grab your popcorn and get ready for the silver fox of reality TV romance! We’ve got something special brewing, and it’s not your typical dating show.
Meet Gerry, the star of ABC’s brand new spinoff series, “The Golden Bachelor.” That’s right, it’s not just about the young and restless anymore. Gerry’s here to show that love knows no age limits, and the sunset years can be just as romantic as the dawn of youth.
As we dive into this delightful spinoff, we’ll explore Gerry’s journey and get to know his three love prospects – Theresa, Faith, and Leslie.
So, who did Gerry decide to send home, and why? In a surprising twist, Gerry bid farewell to Faith Martin. She had received his First Impression Rose on the very first night, but the journey took an unexpected turn. After the Hometown Dates, Gerry had to make some tough decisions, and Faith, unfortunately, didn’t make it to the finale.
Who Did the Golden Bachelor Send Home?
Talk about a twist in the plot on “The Golden Bachelor”! In Episode 6, Gerry surprised everyone by eliminating Faith Martin, leaving Leslie Fhima and Theresa Nist as his final two contenders. The tension is building!
So, on Thursday’s episode, we saw Gerry taking off across the country to meet the families of these three remaining ladies.
Faith took him to her hometown, and she was worried that Gerry might not be into the rural lifestyle. You know, small-town vibes and all that. But Gerry seemed cool with it, even though Faith mentioned that she’d want to stay close to her two sons. It’s all about those family values, right?
Now, the big question remains: Who’s going to be Gerry’s ultimate choice? Reality Steve hasn’t spilled the beans on that yet, but he did reveal that Gerry’s final two are Theresa Nist, a 69-year-old financial pro from New Jersey, and Leslie Fhima, a 64-year-old fitness guru from Minnesota.
It’s getting exciting, and I can’t wait to see how this love story unfolds!
And as for Faith, well, she did get Gerry’s First Impression Rose on Night One, but alas, she didn’t make it to the finale. Sometimes, love takes unexpected turns, doesn’t it?
Who Is Gerry Turner from ‘Golden Bachelor’?
Alright, folks, meet our star! The charming 71-year-old from Indiana is headlining ABC’s latest Bachelor spinoff, “The Golden Bachelor,” and he’s not your typical Bachelor.
According to the network, he’s a “hopeless romantic” on the hunt for someone special to “share the sunset years of life.”
Now, what sets this show apart is that he’s the very first “golden bachelor.” He’s been around the block, retired from the restaurant biz, and has more hobbies than you can count.
Plus, he’s not new to love. He’s had a previous marriage and is the proud father of two daughters and two granddaughters.
It’s all about finding love, laughter, and maybe a few surprises in the golden years, and Gerry is yet to find his soulmate on the show!
What do you think about the idea of a ‘Golden Bachelor’ looking for love? Is age just a number when it comes to romance?
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Dubai, UAE, 16 July 2020: Azizi Developments, a leading private developer in the UAE, is set to be the first developer to launch an outdoor drive-in cinema at one of its prominent developments, Riviera in MBR City. 25+ cars will be accommodated in the premises for a fee of AED 150 per car. The cinema is scheduled to be opened by year’s end.
Adhering to the social distancing norms, only two persons per car will be permitted during movie screenings. The screenings will cover an array of genres of movies to ensure a wide spectrum of clientele can visit Riviera for entertainment.
This will make Azizi Developments the first developer in the country to establish an outdoor cinema within a residential community, bringing an element of leisure and relaxation to the doorstep of urbanites and inviting outside communities to enjoy the screenings.
Nima Khojasteh, Executive Director - Sales and Marketing at Azizi Developments, said: “Our decision of launching an outdoor cinema comes in an effort to bring communities together. Azizi Developments firmly believes in developing comprehensive lifestyles, rather than just homes. Real estate developers need to be innovative and add features to their offerings that encourage communal activities, bringing together residents and the community at large. Moreover, such activities will further push the ROI’s of properties and attract investors. We are now in communication with different suppliers to finalise this exciting plan.”
Riviera is the company’s flagship community project in the heart of MBR City, Dubai, comprising more than 16,000 residences spread across 71 mid-rise buildings that overlook an extensive retail boulevard, a canal walk with artisan eateries and boutiques, and Les Jardins — a lush-green social space.
With its strategic location near the upcoming Meydan One Mall and the Meydan Racecourse — home of the Dubai World Cup — as well as major business, leisure and retail hubs, Riviera is one of Azizi Developments’ most sought-after projects. Designed to introduce the French-Mediterranean lifestyle to Dubai, which is not merely about architectural art, but also about a certain 'joie de vivre' — a celebration of life, an exultation of spirit, Riviera represents a new landmark. | <urn:uuid:72d04f27-2121-4977-bf43-b02e7bca1e98> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://azizidevelopments.com/en/news-pr/azizi-developments-unveils-plans-to-launch-a-drive-in-cinema | 2024-04-15T00:30:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.936977 | 516 |
In today’s digital age, LinkedIn has emerged as the go-to social media platform for businesses and professionals looking to establish and grow their network, drive sales, and expand their brand reach. With over 722 million members across more than 200 countries and regions, LinkedIn offers a unique opportunity to connect with and engage your target audience, establish thought leadership, and position yourself as an industry expert.
However, simply setting up a LinkedIn profile is not enough to fully leverage the power of this platform. To succeed on LinkedIn, you need a fully optimized profile, a well-organized network, and an effective content strategy. In this article, we will explore six key strategies for boosting your LinkedIn post engagement and driving more sales.
The importance of having a complete and optimized profile
Your LinkedIn profile is your digital first impression and the key to establishing credibility and trust with potential connections and customers. To maximize the impact of your profile, it’s essential to have a complete and optimized profile that highlights your skills, experience, and value propositions. Here are some key elements to keep in mind:
This is your chance to make a visual impression on potential connections. Make sure to use a high-quality headshot that reflects your professionalism and aligns with your personal brand.
Your headline is the most prominent element of your profile and should clearly highlight your expertise and value proposition. Avoid generic titles such as “Sales Manager” and instead use specific language that showcases your skills and experience.
The summary section provides a brief overview of your skills, experience, and accomplishments. It should be kept concise, and bullet points may be used to highlight key achievements.
Skills and Endorsements
Be sure to list all relevant skills and seek endorsements from your connections to establish credibility and showcase your expertise.
Experience and Education
Highlight your professional experience and education to provide context for your skills and expertise. Use bullet points to highlight key achievements and results.
Organizing your LinkedIn network for maximum potential
To maximize the potential of your LinkedIn network, it’s crucial to organize it effectively. Here are two key strategies to keep in mind:
Use LinkedIn’s tagging feature to categorize your connections by industry, role, or any other relevant criteria. This makes it easier to engage with specific groups of connections and tailor your content accordingly.
Engage with your connections on a personal level by commenting on their posts, sharing relevant content, or simply sending a personalized message. This helps to build rapport and establish trust with potential customers and clients.
Knowing your Audience for Effective Content Creation
Knowing your audience is one of the most important aspects of creating effective content on LinkedIn. Here are two key strategies to keep in mind:
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2. Creating Valuable Content: Create content that is valuable and relevant to your target audience. This can include industry insights, how-to guides, case studies, or other types of content that provide value and establish your expertise.
Importance of Eye-Catching Visuals in LinkedIn Posts
Incorporating eye-catching visuals into your LinkedIn posts is a must if you want to stand out in the sea of content. Here are two key strategies to keep in mind:
1. Incorporating Relevant Images and Videos: Incorporate relevant images, videos, and other visual elements into your posts to make them more eye-catching and engaging.
2. Branding with Consistent Visuals: Use consistent visuals, such as your company logo or a specific color scheme, to establish brand recognition and reinforce your visual identity on LinkedIn.
Writing Powerful Headlines for Maximum Engagement
Your headline is your chance to make a powerful first impression on LinkedIn. Here are two key strategies to keep in mind:
1.Craft attention-grabbing headlines by using specific language, numbers and other attention-grabbing elements that make them stand out from the crowd.
2. Keeping Titles Short and Relevant: Keep your headlines brief and focused, while ensuring they accurately represent the content of your article.
Developing a consistent posting schedule
To keep your followers engaged and build momentum, you need to develop a posting schedule and stick to it. Here are two key strategies to keep in mind:
1. Frequency of posts: Determine how often you want to post and stick to a consistent schedule. This helps to build momentum and keep your followers engaged.
2. Timing of Posts: Experiment with different posting times to see when your audience is most active and engaged. This can help boost your post engagement and reach.
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However, as with everything, moderation is key. Here are two key strategies to keep in mind:
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In conclusion, LinkedIn offers a powerful opportunity to connect with and engage your target audience, establish thought leadership, and drive sales. To maximize the impact of this platform, it is essential to have a complete and optimized profile, an organized network, and an effective content strategy. By keeping these strategies in mind and staying persistent and focused, you can grow your LinkedIn presence and achieve your business goals. | <urn:uuid:6201e22e-7cd3-430e-97ea-6686eb61838f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://b2bdaily.com/martech/unlocking-linkedins-potential-a-comprehensive-guide-to-bolstering-your-business-presence/ | 2024-04-15T01:18:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.921707 | 1,262 |
Chelsea, without Enzo Fernandez and Mourinho due to injury, suffered their biggest defeat of the season.
Chelsea lost 0-2 to Brentford in the 10th round of the 2023/24 English Premier League (EPL) at Stamford Bridge in London, England, at 8:30 p.m. ET on Aug. 28, thanks to a Pinnock header and a Mbemboom goal.
Ahead of the match, Chelsea revealed their starting lineup. Chelsea lined up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Jackson starting up front. The second line is Madueke, Palmer, and Sterling. In the third midfield, Cazorla and Gallagher start, while the defense is Colwill-Disassi-Silva-Cucurella and Sanchez is in goal.
Against them, Brentford come with a 3-5-2 formation. Wissa and Mbomo would start up front. Janeldt-Nørgård-Jensen in midfield, and Hickey-Rørsleu on the left and right wingbacks. Collins-Pinochet-Arnier in the back three, and Flecken in goal.
Chelsea had the first chance in the fourth minute. A quick counterattack by Palmer led to Nicholas Jackson crossing to an onrushing Sterling. Sterling linked up with the penetrating Palmer, who played a roving pass back to Sterling but couldn’t connect.
In the ninth minute, Chelsea had another chance. Madueke broke down the flank, saw the far post, and fired a shot that hit the post.
In the 18th minute, another attack came from Palmer’s toes. Picking up the ball in the opposition final third, Palmer played a roving pass to the penetrating Cucurella, who took one touch but his shot went straight at the Flanagan keeper.
A controversial call came in the 23rd minute. Palmer’s cross was met by Sterling, but Lössel pushed him down. Chelsea claimed a PK for Sterling as he went down, but the referee stood by his decision.
The first half ended without much else. The first half was completely owned by Chelsea. Chelsea had 67% of the first half possession to Brentford’s 33%. Chelsea also dominated in shots, 10:2, and had nearly three times the number of passes, 334:136.
However, it was the quality of their finishing that proved to be their undoing. Sterling, Kukurela, and Jackson all had good chances but blew them away, showing that Chelsea need to sign a striker in the January transfer window.
Five minutes into the second half, the 0-0 balance was almost broken. A penetrating Lössel cut back to Yannert, who took one touch before firing a shot that Sanchez pushed away with tremendous reflexes.
A funny moment occurred in the 10th minute of the second half. Chelsea won a free kick on the left flank and Palmer was ready to take it, but Brentford striker Moufei, who was warming up, flicked part of the ball past him. The incident resulted in a yellow card for Moufei, who wasn’t even on the field.
In the 12th minute of the second half, Brentford took the lead. Jensen crossed to an incoming Mbemo, who immediately sent a high cross into the box. Pinnock headed it in to make it 1-0.
After a frustrating attack, Chelsea made a change. They took off Dissah and Madueke and brought on Reece James and Ian Mattesen to bolster their attack.
Unable to break through Brentford’s two-man defense, Chelsea took another risk. Kaysedo and Kukurela were replaced by Ugochukwu and Washington. Washington made his Chelsea debut in this game.
In the 43rd minute, Chelsea missed a great chance to equalize. A penetrating Leicester James crossed to Palmer, who got a foot on it, but the ball went straight to Washington, who couldn’t find the back of the net.
In the 44th minute, Brentford made a huge counter-attack. A counter-attack from a corner led to a four-man run and a shot on goal that Sanchez made a great save on. Shortly afterward, another cross was sent in for Mbemo to take a one-touch shot that went straight into the side netting.
Five minutes into second-half stoppage time, Chelsea struck again, this time on the counterattack. A corner kick was played to Moufei, and with 토토 Sanchez in the opposite goal from the corner, Chelsea’s goal was empty. Mufaye passed the ball to Mbemo, who finished into an unguarded goal to make it 0-2.
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Posted by Stuart Gilman (220.127.116.11) on December 12, 2002 at 05:48:28:
I have a friend who is openly gay. When we became friends he told me he was monogamous and did not do any bizarre or perverse sexual acts. I believed him. He is not a Bahai. Over the years he has been to my home and we have been "good" friends. I recently discovered that he is promiscuous, performs masturbation over the web with men using a webcam, and has many lovers, each of whom believes they are the only one, as well as casual lovers one-time which is common in the gay community. There are other aspects of his gay activity not worth mentioning at this time. My wife, learning of these aspects of his gay life, was revolted, as a person and as a Bahai. I, myself, became ethically revolted less by actions than by his lies. Together, we told him he is no longer welcome in our home, reasons emotional. Did my wife make a mistake in saying that she has been a Bahai for years and she also will not allow him in the home for Bahai reasons? This is the question and I would be grateful for any serious answer.
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The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines could be approved in a matter of weeks, but who in the United States will get them first?
Though nothing has yet been decided, US experts may differ from other countries in prioritizing “critical workers” who keep society running—potentially even before people at highest risk.
To be clear, there won’t be one single set of rules for the whole nation.
At the risk of creating confusion, which was the case during the vaccine campaign against the H1N1 flu in 2009, the federal government only makes recommendations to states, who decide for themselves how to distribute the doses and who gets priority.
Panels of top experts have already delivered their opinions, which diverge in certain key respects and reveal the tension at the center of the debate: vaccines should both protect the most vulnerable and help facilitate a return to normal.
It’s on the question of jumpstarting the economy as quickly as possible that the US may set itself apart.
France’s top health authority recommended starting with retirement home residents and employees who work there, followed by the elderly and health care workers, then the over-50s, people whose jobs put them at risk, medically high-risk people, the poor, and finally the rest of the population.
That’s the approach recommended by the World Health Organization and adopted by a number of rich countries, Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, told AFP.
In the US, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) compiled a more than 200-page report suggesting frontline health care workers are given the vaccine first, then first responders such as paramedics, police and firefighters.
Next would come people with two or more underlying conditions (including the likes of cancer, obesity and diabetes), whatever their age, then the two million people in nursing homes.
Keeping the country running
For the next phase, NASEM emphasizes less age and more profession, prioritizing “critical” workers who keep the country running.
These include teachers, workers from slaughterhouses to the supermarkets who keep Americans fed, and those who drive buses and trains, sell them their medicine, maintain order, or deliver mail and parcels.
People in these jobs are often minority Hispanics or Black, and have been hit disproportionately by the pandemic.
After these tens of millions of workers, the next on the list could be people who have one underlying condition, the homeless, prisoners, and people over 65 without comorbidities.
Younger adults and students, who are at lower risk of severe disease but have been major spreaders of the virus, would come next, ahead of the rest of the population.
This is only a proposal. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) are awaiting the opinion of their own expert committee, which will vote on Tuesday.
This committee has previously suggested that it could prioritize health care personnel and critical workers, because immunizing them will provide a “multiplier effect”: not only are they essential cogs in the health response and the economy, but they are in contact with a lot of people.
In practice, these ethical, epidemiological and economic considerations may be ignored in the initial rush on doses.
Problems remain to be solved: though it may be easy to target retirement homes and hospitals, how are pharmacists and doctors supposed to confirm that a person is indeed an essential worker, or that they have two underlying conditions?
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You can make one of these lovely Thai style houses your new home in Bangkok. These are detached, 4 bedroom, 5 bathroom homes with 426 sqm of living area. They are available either fully furnished (THB 220,000) or unfurnished (THB 200,000/month).
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On the package of Baobest BaoBites superfruit snacks ($9.99 for 5.5 ounces, Baobabfoods.com), it warns that they’re “deliciously addictive,” and the Triathlete staff can attest to that. These small fruit cubes, available in pomegranate, peach mango and blood orange flavors, are made with real fruit concentrate and organic baobab fruit powder with a sweet (but not too sweet) flavor. We liked them straight out of the bag, but they’re also great baked into muffins, sprinkled on oatmeal or added to trail mix. Baobab is a fruit packed with fiber, antioxidants, vitamin C and potassium, making these chews a convenient way to eat some phytonutrients in the winter months.
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Camber angle, a fundamental aspect of wheel alignment in automotive repair services, plays a crucial role in ensuring optimal tire performance and longevity. When it comes to maintaining proper camber angle, precision is paramount as even slight deviations can have significant implications on vehicle handling and tire wear. For instance, consider the case of an imaginary car owner named John who recently noticed uneven tire wear on his vehicle. Despite regularly rotating his tires and following recommended maintenance schedules, he found that one side of each tire was wearing down faster than the other. Upon inspection at a reputable auto repair shop, it was determined that improper camber angle adjustment was the root cause for this abnormal phenomenon.
Proper wheel alignment encompasses three main parameters: toe-in/toe-out, caster angle, and camber angle. While all three are important for overall stability and steering response, camber angle specifically refers to the inward or outward tilt of the top part of the wheels when viewed from the front or rear of a vehicle. It directly affects how tires make contact with road surfaces during driving conditions. Ideally, every wheel should be perpendicular to the ground for equal distribution of load across its entire surface area; however, small deviations are often introduced intentionally to enhance specific aspects of driving dynamics such as cornering cornering stability and handling.
Cornering stability refers to the ability of a vehicle to maintain traction and control while navigating turns or curves. By adjusting the camber angle, car manufacturers can fine-tune this characteristic according to the intended use of the vehicle. In general, a slightly negative camber angle (where the top of the wheel tilts inward) is preferred for performance-oriented vehicles as it helps improve grip during cornering by maximizing the tire’s contact patch with the road surface. This allows for better traction and reduces understeer, which is when the front tires lose grip and tend to push wide in a turn.
On the other hand, a positive camber angle (where the top of the wheel tilts outward) can be beneficial for certain off-road vehicles or heavy-duty trucks that require additional stability when carrying heavy loads. The positive camber compensates for weight transfer and prevents excessive tire wear under load conditions.
It’s important to note that extreme camber angles, whether positive or negative, can have adverse effects on tire wear and handling. Excessive negative camber may result in uneven tread wear on the inside edge of tires, reducing their lifespan. On the contrary, excessive positive camber can cause wear on the outside edge of tires.
To ensure optimal tire performance and longevity, it is crucial to regularly check and adjust the camber angle as recommended by your vehicle manufacturer or trusted auto repair professionals. If you notice any signs of uneven tire wear or handling issues, it’s advisable to have your wheel alignment checked promptly to prevent further damage and maintain safe driving conditions.
What is Camber Angle?
What is Camber Angle?
Imagine driving down the road and feeling your car pull to one side, making it difficult to keep a straight line. This could be caused by an issue with your vehicle’s camber angle. The camber angle refers to the tilt of a vehicle’s wheels when viewed from the front or rear. It plays a crucial role in tire wear, stability, and overall performance.
To understand how camber angle affects a vehicle, let us consider an example: Suppose you have a sedan with excessive negative camber on the right front wheel. As you drive, this means that the top of the wheel is tilted inward towards the center of the car. Consequently, only a portion of the tire contacts the road surface while driving straight ahead. This uneven distribution can lead to accelerated wear on that particular tire and cause it to lose traction during cornering maneuvers.
The impact of improper camber angles extends beyond tire wear; it also affects other aspects of a vehicle’s performance:
- Stability: An incorrect camber angle can compromise stability by reducing grip on the road surface.
- Handling: Excessive positive or negative camber angles may result in unpredictable handling characteristics such as understeer or oversteer.
- Fuel Efficiency: Incorrectly aligned wheels due to improper camber angles can increase rolling resistance, leading to decreased fuel efficiency.
- Safety: In extreme cases where severe positive or negative camber exists, it can significantly impact braking distances and contribute to accidents.
In summary, understanding and maintaining proper camber angles are essential for optimal tire longevity and overall automotive performance. Next, we will explore why precisely this aspect holds significant importance in ensuring safe and efficient operation of vehicles without compromising driver comfort or passenger safety.
Why is Camber Angle Important?
Camber angle is a crucial factor in maintaining the performance and longevity of tires, as well as ensuring proper automotive repair services such as wheel alignment. Understanding why camber angle matters can help vehicle owners make informed decisions when it comes to tire maintenance and overall vehicle handling.
Let’s consider an example to illustrate the importance of camber angle. Imagine a car with excessive negative camber angle on its front wheels. This means that the top part of the wheels is tilted inward towards the centerline of the car. As a result, only the inner edges of the tires come into contact with the road surface during normal driving conditions. Over time, this uneven distribution of weight causes accelerated wear on those inner edges, leading to premature tire replacement and potential safety hazards.
To further emphasize why camber angle is important, here are some key points to consider:
Proper camber angles improve cornering stability: When vehicles navigate turns or corners, having appropriate camber angles helps distribute weight evenly across all four tires. This improves traction and enhances overall stability, allowing for safer maneuverability.
Camber angle affects tire wear patterns: Incorrect camber angles can cause irregular tire wear patterns, such as feathering or cupping. These abnormal wear patterns not only reduce tire lifespan but also compromise their ability to provide adequate grip on different road surfaces.
Impact on vehicle suspension components: Improperly set camber angles can put additional stress on various suspension components like ball joints and control arms. Excessive wear or failure of these parts could result in costly repairs and compromised driving experience.
Considering these factors demonstrates how critical it is for drivers to understand and monitor their vehicle’s camber angles regularly. By doing so, they can ensure optimal tire performance and extend both tire life and other related automotive repair services’ intervals.
In our next section, we will explore the effects of positive camber angle on a vehicle’s dynamics and possible consequences if left unaddressed. Understanding these effects will provide further insights into the significance of maintaining proper camber angles for optimal vehicle performance and safety. So, let’s delve deeper into the impact of positive camber angle on a vehicle’s handling characteristics.
Effects of Positive Camber Angle
Understanding the importance of camber angle in wheel alignment is crucial for maintaining optimal tire performance and ensuring safe driving conditions. In this section, we will explore the effects of positive camber angle on vehicle handling and tire wear through a real-world scenario. Additionally, we will present a bullet point list highlighting key consequences of positive camber angle and a table summarizing its impact on different aspects of automotive repair services.
Imagine a sedan with excessively positive camber angles on both front wheels due to worn suspension components. As a result, these wheels tilt outward at the top, creating an uneven distribution of weight across the tire contact patch. This misalignment adversely affects the vehicle’s handling characteristics and can lead to premature tire wear.
Effects of Positive Camber Angle:
- Uneven Tire Wear: Excessive positive camber causes increased wear on the outer edges of tires, leading to reduced overall tread life.
- Decreased Grip: The tilted position reduces the effective contact area between the tire and road surface, negatively impacting traction and grip during cornering or braking maneuvers.
- Increased Steering Effort: With excessive positive camber, steering becomes more challenging as it requires additional force to counteract the tendency of the wheels to pull away from each other.
- Reduced Stability: Positive camber compromises stability by making the vehicle prone to wandering or drifting when traveling straight at higher speeds.
Table – Impact of Positive Camber Angle:
Aspect | Impact |
Vehicle Handling | Decreased grip; compromised stability |
Tire Wear | Uneven wear patterns; reduced lifespan |
Steering | Increased effort required |
Overall Performance | Diminished control and maneuverability |
By understanding the detrimental effects associated with positive camber angles, drivers are empowered to recognize potential issues affecting their vehicles’ alignment. In our next section, we will delve into another aspect closely related to camber angle: the effects of negative camber on tire wear and vehicle performance.
Effects of Negative Camber Angle
Negative camber angle refers to the inclination of the top of a tire towards the centerline of a vehicle, creating an inward tilt. This alignment setting has its own unique effects on tire wear and vehicle performance. To illustrate these effects, let’s consider a hypothetical case study involving two vehicles: Vehicle A with negative camber angle and Vehicle B with neutral camber angle.
Firstly, one prominent effect of negative camber angle is improved cornering stability. When a vehicle takes a turn, the body weight transfers onto the outer wheels. With negative camber angle, more contact area between the tires and road surface is maintained during cornering due to increased tire lean. Consequently, this enhances grip and traction, allowing for better control and handling in curves or sharp bends compared to neutral camber angles.
Secondly, negative camber angle may lead to accelerated inner tire wear. The downward tilt causes uneven distribution of forces across the width of the tread. As a result, more load is placed on the inner edges of the tires when driving straight ahead. Over time, this can cause premature wearing on those areas, reducing overall tire lifespan and necessitating earlier replacement.
The third important consideration with negative camber angle relates to fuel efficiency and rolling resistance. Due to increased friction along the inner edges of tires caused by their tilt inward, higher energy consumption is required to overcome this additional resistance while driving in a straight line at constant speeds. Consequently, vehicles equipped with excessive negative camber angles might experience decreased fuel economy compared to those set at optimal or neutral alignments.
- Improved cornering stability
- Accelerated inner tire wear
- Decreased fuel efficiency
These factors collectively demonstrate that while negative camber angle offers benefits such as enhanced handling during turns, it also poses drawbacks like premature tire wear and reduced fuel economy. Understanding these effects is crucial for both drivers seeking optimal performance and automotive repair services aiming to provide comprehensive wheel alignment solutions.
Transitioning into the subsequent section about “How to Measure Camber Angle?”, it is essential for technicians and enthusiasts alike to accurately assess camber angles in order to make informed adjustments and maintain vehicle performance.
How to Measure Camber Angle?
Negative camber angle refers to the inward tilt of the top of the tire away from the centerline of the vehicle. This alignment setting can have several effects on a vehicle’s performance and overall driving experience.
One example that illustrates the impact of negative camber angle is when a car corners at high speeds. In this situation, the weight transfer towards the outside wheels increases due to centrifugal force. With negative camber, these wheels maintain better contact with the road surface, maximizing traction and reducing the risk of skidding or losing control.
Here are some other key effects associated with negative camber angle:
- Improved steering response: Negative camber allows for more precise and responsive steering, as it helps counteract some of the lateral forces generated during cornering.
- Enhanced stability: The inward tilt created by negative camber provides added stability while driving in a straight line, especially at higher speeds. It helps minimize excessive rolling or swaying motions.
- Uneven tire wear: While negative camber offers performance benefits, if not properly adjusted or maintained, it can lead to uneven tire wear. Excessive negative camber may cause accelerated wear on the inside edges of tires.
- Ensure your safety on the road
- Maximize your vehicle’s handling capabilities
- Extend tire lifespan and save money
- Experience smoother and more comfortable rides
To provide clarity regarding different levels of negative camber angles and their corresponding impacts, here is an informative table:
Camber Angle | Effect |
Slight | Improved cornering grip |
Moderate | Increased responsiveness |
Excessive | Uneven tire wear; compromised stability |
Transitioning into the next section about adjusting camber angle without explicitly using the word “step,” it is important to understand how mechanics and technicians can make necessary adjustments to ensure optimal camber angles.
How to Adjust Camber Angle?
Camber Angle and Its Impact on Tire Wear
In the previous section, we discussed how to measure camber angle. Now, let us delve into understanding the importance of adjusting this angle in order to maintain optimal tire wear and improve vehicle performance.
Imagine a scenario where two identical cars are driven under similar conditions. Car A has a properly adjusted camber angle while Car B has an incorrect camber angle. Over time, it becomes evident that Car B experiences uneven tire wear, with the inner or outer edges wearing out faster than the rest of the tread. This is a direct result of the misalignment caused by an improper camber angle.
To highlight further why camber angle adjustment is crucial for maintaining tire health and longevity, consider the following points:
- Uneven tire wear: An incorrect camber angle can lead to uneven distribution of weight across the tires, causing one side to bear more load than the other. As a result, certain parts of the tread experience excessive friction and wear down prematurely.
- Reduced traction: Improper camber alignment affects tire contact with the road surface. Excessive negative camber (where top of wheels tilt inward) reduces tire grip during cornering, leading to compromised handling capabilities and reduced overall safety.
- Increased fuel consumption: Misaligned camber angles can cause increased rolling resistance as well as unnecessary drag on tires. This results in decreased fuel efficiency and higher operating costs over time.
- Suspension strain: When there is excessive positive or negative camber, suspension components may have to compensate for these imbalances by working harder than necessary. This additional strain can accelerate wear and tear on suspension parts such as ball joints or control arms.
Through careful adjustments made during wheel alignment services, automotive repair professionals ensure that vehicles achieve proper camber angles within manufacturer specifications. These adjustments help optimize tire lifespan while enhancing overall driving dynamics.
Camber Angle Adjustment | Benefits |
Correcting negative camber | Improves tire contact with the road, enhancing traction and cornering capabilities. |
Correcting positive camber | Reduces excessive inner edge wear and improves overall stability during straight-line driving. |
Balancing camber angles | Ensures even weight distribution across tires for uniform tread wear and optimal fuel efficiency. |
Preventive maintenance | Regular alignment checks help detect potential issues early on, reducing the risk of costly repairs in the future. |
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24 Jun 2023
Sample Technician (Knit & Woven) – Re-Advertisement
- We are currently hiring for the position of Sample Technician (Knit & Woven) at our HQ, in the heart of Dhaka. Join our family and build an inspired career you`re proud of.
- The Sample Technician holds the accountability for managing all technical aspects in the process of converting customer requirements to production viable samples across the Knit & Woven category, with the objective of ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction. The incumbent will be responsible for handling a range of tasks from understanding the techpacks to ensuring top of production (TOP) sample approval on daily basis, while directly troubleshooting technicalities with customers.
- Evaluate all types of samples: Proto, Fit, Size set, Seal, Buyer ref, etc. with a feasibility study of product and risk analysis.
- Handle sample inspection and sample approval by reviewing construction, measurements, patterns, workmanship, garments outlook presentation, fitting (dummy and model), on fit sample and size set
- Monitor the feeding of new styles, provide technical advice (sewing techniques, critical quality points, etc.) and guiding the team to resolve all technical issues, in coordination with the technical team to ensure that all relevant parameters are achieved to facilitate a smooth style change-over.
- Seal pre-production (PP) sample and handover style file for mass production.
- Attend pre-production meetings, providing the technical input (such as machinery, attachment availability, product quality, sewing techniques, bottleneck elimination etc.), foreseeing and taking preventive steps to avoid potential production problems.
- Review pilot run and monitor mass production for complex products and the new vendors.
- Coordinate and communicate with customers on product related issues pertaining to fit, construction, technical specifications etc.
- Clarify the technical requirements and recommend alternative value-added options to customers to arrive at mutually beneficial solutions.
- Develop the base size patterns for the products and advise the team on grading, so as to develop size-wise pattern sets required for subsequent processes.
- Analyze new styles together with the design and technical manager, providing the technical input to decide production viability and liaising with merchandisers as necessary.
- Ensure that the production pilot run is carried out effectively, identifying technical and quality issues, and setting the standards for bulk production, working together with the technical teams to facilitate a smooth production flow in the bulk.
- Provide buyer and factory QA advice on complex product items to factories before and during the manufacturing process.
- Provide shrinkage / pattern grouping, adjustments decisions to the production line.
- Assist factory technicians, QA for checking patterns, specifications & construction, and plan on quality according to company standards and requirements.
- Graduate in Textile Manufacturing from a well reputed institute
- At least 8 years relevant work experience as a Sample / Garment Technician in Buying House/Factory
- Should have experience in both Knit and Woven, pattern making for knit and woven, quality control / audit, basics on printing, embroidery and washing.
- Should have experience in the following categories: Menswear, Womenswear, and Kidswear product safety and process controls
- Ability to handle customer technical inquiries and necessary troubleshooting independently
- Knowledge in textile and print will be a definite advantage
- Should have thorough knowledge about garment measurement and patterns
- Should have experience in CAD (Optitex), manual pattern amendment, pre-production technical and quality
- Must have skills in examining and establishing proper quality operations and procedures
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to interact and build relationships work as a team
- Should be well-groomed, smart and energetic
- Strong presentation and delivery skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy, aiming for perfection
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English
- IT proficiency – advance level skill is a MUST in MS Office package (Especially PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook)
- Should be proactive and dynamic, ability to work hard efficiently
- Ability to multi task and remain organized, meet deadlines
Compensation & Other Benefits
- Attractive remuneration is being offered for the position
- Group life & Hospitalization insurance
- Contributory Provident Fund
- Pick and Drop facility
- Corporate mobile ceiling
- Subsidized lunch facility at corporate Canteen
- State of the art Passion Café
- World class work environment
Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Published on: 24 Jun 2023
Employment Status: Full-time
Job Location: Dhaka
Application Deadline: 24 Jul 2023
Read Before Apply
A cover letter including a 2-page (max) description of why you are an ideal candidate and what you would bring to the role.
A current curriculum vitae.
Names and contacts (telephone and e-mail addresses) of three professional referees who are familiar with your qualifications and work experience. Your nominated referees ideally should have persons from each of the following category: direct supervisor, head of HR and peer.
If you are applying online, you are advised to bring the hard copy of the aforementioned Cover Letter with a current curriculum vitae mentioning referees as mentioned above, if you are invited for the interview.
The screening will start immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Due to the high volume of applicants, we appreciate all interest, but only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Send your CV to [email protected]
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Ladies, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you cannot expect to stay safe if you are not situationally aware of your surroundings. This Guns Saving Lives story out of Jacksonville, FL highlights how important it is to always be aware and have an option for self-defense.
Police say a woman was being trailed Wednesday morning as she drove into her neighborhood and pulled up to her house onNorth Myrtle Street.
Police say the suspect followed the woman to her home in the Durkeeville neighborhood just before 10 a.m., then forced his way inside, according to police. When he tried to rob her, she grabbed a gun and shot him once in the torso, police said.
The wounded man fled the scene, then called 911 himself and was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said. A few minutes later, another call to police reported a strong-arm home-invasion robbery nearby, the caller telling dispatchers that she had shot a suspect, police said.
Whether you’re in your home or out and about, continue to be aware of your surroundings and always know your options for self-defense on every leg of your travels. Whether you are a concealed carry permit holder or are uncomfortable carrying a gun for protection, going through a Refuse to be a Victim program can help you take steps to ensure your safety and avoid potentially dangerous situations.
Don’t frequent stores alone after dark, if you must, be sure to park close to the doors in a well-lit area, check the area around your car before unlocking the doors, make eye contact with people around you, walk purposefully with your head held high, ask a security guard or employee to walk you to your car if you feel uncomfortable, drive to a police station or heavily populated establishment (like a gas station) if you think you’re being followed, don’t sit in your car looking down at your phone – there are many ways you can avoid danger and deter individuals considering you as their next target.
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Hey everybody! Hope you all had a good weekend. We soaked up every last minute of the beautiful weather and sunshine since it could end at any second.
Backing up to Thursday for a minute, the Littles had a playdate at Oma’s house. Lucy and Gordie played with the dollhouse together . . .
. . . did some grocery shopping . . .
. . . and had some serious conversations over pouches at lunch.
Matty had to work late Thursday evening so Lucy and I did a little browsing at Home Goods. You can imagine her delight when we walked in and these guys were waiting for us! My BIL, Brian, says that $600 for the large giraffe is a steal. I’ll expect to see it under our tree with a big red bow around its neck on Christmas Eve. 😉
Friday morning Lucy woke up and kept pointing to all of her toys and then pointing to her crib. She wasn’t happy until all of the toys on her shelf had joined her in her crib.
A play date at Sky Zone on Friday morning meant lots of jumping . . .
. . . and lots of little kiddos eating snacks in big kid chairs.
Lucy likes to wear Grandma Ri’s glasses, and will even take bites of chicken if it means she gets to put them on for a few seconds. I’m not above using them as leverage.
Saturday morning we had our first professional photo shoot for Christmas pictures. Lucy was not a fan of Santa, but definitely enjoyed the cookie that the photographers gave her. I can’t wait to see the pictures and plan out our Christmas card! Afterward, we took Lu to the playground and snapped a few of our own pics . . . cookie crumbs on her mouth and all!
Playing Peek-a-Book with Sydney through the window. Also, we have zero trees in our backyard. Thank you, neighbor, for all the leaves!
The coolest baby on the block!
Doing a little math on her abacus from Ikea.
My strategy for diaper changes lately has been to give Lu my phone to look at. Somehow, that smart baby figured out not only how to open the camera, but also how to turn it to selfie mode. #likemotherlikedaughter
The above picture was a sampling of the dozens that she managed to take in about thirty seconds. This is a screen shot of what my phone looked like!
Soaking up every minute of daylight before dinner. . . because it’s dark after dinner now! Thanks a lot, daylight saving time. This was Lucy’s first time on Matty’s shoulders!
Check out my cute family . . . and Matty’s great lawn striping!
Lucy took her first bath in the big girl tub this weekend. She did a great job and enjoyed all the extra water for splashing!
I’m a sucker for anything Melissa & Doug. This puzzle arrived from Amazon last week, and I couldn’t even pretend like I was going to wait a few weeks to give it to Lu. The chunky wooden pieces are super easy for Lucy to hold, and she’s well on her way to learning important Christmas vocabulary. Also, whenever she picks up the Santa piece she says, “Dada” which is hilarious.
And finally, I’ll leave you with this little gem of a video. The time change definitely caught up with Lucy around lunch time. She was a zombie and apparently forgot the proper way to eat her yogurt. It was hilarious!
We don’t have too much planned this week, except for a little thing called our GENDER ULTRASOUND on Friday morning! We aren’t excited at all. Knowing me, I probably will have a low key gender reveal, if I do one at all 😉
Oh, and speaking of babies . . . we heard through the grapevine this weekend that one of my loyal blog readers is expecting a baby girl in early March! Lauren, if you’re reading this, (and I hope you are!), congratulations!!!!! We are so excited for you guys!
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Hope you had a good weekend. Ours was the perfect mix of errands, relaxing, playing, and . . . Daniel Tiger!
Friday morning started off with a bang. Ems woke up and drank her milk as usual. While I was changing her diaper, she had a major coughing fit and suddenly projectile vomited twice . . . all over herself, me, her wall, and my phone. Not the greatest way to start the day, but she was super excited to get a morning bath!
Emmy was working her little legs so hard while pushing Lu around in this shopping cart. It was hilarious.
Aunt Judie sent the girls some Christmas money, and we used to it buy these Bilibo chairs. I didn’t actually get a picture of the girls sitting in them, but they are very versatile. They can sit in them and try to balance, we can spin the girls while they sit in them, we put scarves through the holes and pulled them around, and the girls like to stand on them and count how long they can balance. These are going to be great tools for keeping the girls active inside during the winter months!
Oh, and you can be a turtle with the chair too!
Sunday morning we took the girls to Toddler Time at Sky Zone. Emmy jumped her little heart out!
Ems got cozy in her tent and Lucy’s robe when we got home.
While we were at Sky Zone, one of my mama friends texted that she had tickets for Daniel Tiger Live on Sunday afternoon that she wasn’t going to be able to use . . . so I took them off her hands, and Lucy and I had an impromptu mama/daughter date!
Lucy was so excited!
I let her pick a special treat, and she didn’t have to think twice before asking for a Katerina stuffy.
Our seats were awesome, and we had the best time!
It turns out Sky Zone and DT Live in the same day was too much for Lulu . . .she fell asleep before we were even out of the parking garage!
We got home just in time for dinner. Emmy spent the afternoon napping and then hanging out with her Daddy and Grandma Rita. We brought her a Daniel Tiger stuffy since she didn’t get to go with us.
Another great weekend in the books!
I’m starting off the week with a little much needed “me” time and getting my hair cut. But not too short because Lucy will be devastated if my hair doesn’t grow as long as Tangled’s. #momlife
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Australia faces a serious drought, perhaps the worst on record. Whether this drought is simply a bad drought or a sign of global warming is an important issue. But in the conversation I am talking, about discussion went from drought to water to the need to phase out primary production dependent upon water, especially irrigation crops. Part of the argument was couched in terms of the need for the metro cities to have access to more water, part in terms of the need for the environment to have more water, part on the belief that farming and grazing was no longer viable in many parts of Australia.
Now that got me thinking, because it seemed to me to ignore the importance of agriculture to the Australian economy. So I thought that I would check a few facts. In doing so, I came up with a few nasty answers. The stats that follow are drawn from official statistics. I do not pretend that the analysis is complete or rigorous.
If we start by looking at the overall trade position over the period 1999-00 to 2004-05, we find that with the exception of one year, our exports of goods and services have been consistently less than our imports. So we have been borrowing from overseas.
When I look at the composition of our exports, I see that:
- our exports of primary products including minerals over the period have grown from $A54.8 billion to $A77.7 billion.
- our exports of manufactures were $A32.4 billion in 99-00, $A35.2 billion in 04-05, so have barely grown.
- our exports of services have grown from $A28.6 billion to $35 billion over the period, a reasonable increase, but only a small proportion of the increase in primary products.
On the surface, we appear to have a problem if we are buying more than we sell and at the same time are increasingly dependent on primary products in what we sell. So I then looked in more detail at the composition of exports.
I had some problems here because of data availability. However, a few tentative conclusions:
- Coal exports reached $17.1 billion in 04-05, increasing by 11 per cent per annum over the period. Iron ore exports were $8.1 billion in 04-05, growing at 12 per cent per annum. Coal, a green house problem export, is now by far our largest export. Both coal and iron exports depend upon world demand.
- If we look at our other major primary exports ranked by value we have crude petroleum ($5.7 billion in 04-05 but declining), gold ($5.6 million with a low upward trend), bovine meat ($4.9 billion growing over the period at 6 per cent per annum), aluminium ores including alumina (4.4 billion and growing slowly), aluminium ($4.1 billion but declining), wheat ($3.4 billion and declining), natural gas ($3.2 billion and rising over the period at 6 per cent per annum) and alcoholic beverages ($2.8 billion growing at 13 per cent per annum). I am not sure that this mix gives me great comfort.
- I do not have the data to comment on manufacturing exports except to note that performance does not appear good.
- Finally, the services data is difficult to interpret. However, working from numbers from other sources, our services exports appear to be dominated by tourism, something over over $16 billion, and education services, possibly around $9 billion. This leaves something aroundr $10 billion for everything else. Our net tourism earnings (exports minus imports) appear quite low, our net education earnings high. Given that overall net earning on services were negative in 04-05, our overall performance on the services side would appear to be dangerously dependent on education.
Now I might be wrong in all this, but if the numbers and my analysis of them are in any way right, just at the moment I would be worried about the impact of drought and water shortages on our export performance. To the degree that water is short, and subject to environmental considerations, I would be focusing short to medium term discussions on where we can get the greatest export gains from the water we do have.
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Cross Frame Savonarola Hallway Chair
Experience the enduring charm of the Cross Frame Savonarola Hallway Chair, an antique classic designed with an extra-wide seat for enhanced comfort. This chair showcases a beautifully carved wooden back adorned with a coat of arms and delicate floral accents. The arms and legs feature intricate carvings, including a distinctive circle where the curved supports meet the legs, adding to its unique appeal.
Restored to its former glory, the chair has undergone a thorough cleaning and treatment with brown furniture wax, resulting in a polished finish. The seat has been carefully renewed, now featuring new studs for added durability.
This antique piece not only provides a comfortable seat but also stands as a testament to craftsmanship and timeless design, making it a splendid addition to any hallway or living space.
Height of seat 39cm Height of back 75cm Width 57cm Depth 54cm
Nationwide delivery is available.
We arrange delivery with one of our trusted furniture couriers - this will generally be a one-man service and help will be needed to unload the item at the buyer’s home. If a two-man service is required there may be an extra charge.
Delivery to mainland UK is FREE.
For Highlands, Islands and Ireland, please contact us for an accurate quote prior to purchase.
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The band’s third studio album, The Black Parade, was produced by Rob Cavallo and released last October, hitting number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.,Turns out the guys of My Chemical Romance are actually pretty cool underneath their emo-pop facade.
The band’s third studio album, The Black Parade, was produced by Rob Cavallo and released last October, hitting number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The album even made number 20 on Rolling Stone’s list of the top 50 albums of 2006.
The Black Parade is a concept album about a character known as “the Patient,” who is taking a look back on his life. The guys even got Liza Minnelli to join them on the album for the song “Hey Mama.”
In support of The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance launched an international tour, playing with bands such as Rise Against and Muse.
My Chemical Romance started out as just a group of friends growing up in New Jersey that wanted to write music with a cause.
“In five years, we’ve lived out 20 lifetimes and we’ve seen a lot and met a lot of people along the way,” said rhythm guitarist Frank Iero in a phone interview with The Beacon.
He said he feels the band’s biggest achievement is helping fans deal with feelings of helplessness and coping with what their purpose is here.
“The constant fight to overcome and to want to live as opposed to just waiting to die is just something that has a universal theme,” said Iero. “We went out there and did this band and tried to make a difference in the world and we proved that a regular person from a small town can write a song and affect people around the world.”
Fans who catch My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade Tour can expect to see the band in much larger venues and arenas for the first time. Since The Black Parade is a concept album about the struggles of life and death, the concerts will be much more visual and theatrical, Iero said.
Joining the ranks of bands such as The Killers and Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance has made The Black Parade one of the most popular modern-day concept pieces.
“I think you’re seeing this resurgence of real artists and just real musicians that do care and take pride of their craft and their art behind it,” Iero said. “I’d like to think that we’re a part of this revolution of doing things from the heart and doing things for the right reason.”
However, the band gets the jitters playing to such large crowds.
“The hardest thing about playing the shows now is that it’s a totally different thing connecting with 10,000 people than it is 100 people,” Iero said. “It’s a different mindset to be able to connect with people that are so far away and it’s something that takes a long time to perfect. It’s something we’ve had a chance and been fortunate enough to try a bunch of times.”
The guys of My Chemical Romance have been nothing but appreciative and thankful for their fans and plan to show their gratitude by putting on an amazing live performance during The Black Parade Tour.
“It’s an incredible feeling just getting up there and seeing this sea of people,” said Iero.
The band doesn’t want fans to walk away thinking the concert was just a good show.
“We want them to walk away with an experience,” Iero said.
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Melissa Smith was NOT letting go of her SUV. She jumped on it rather than let a carjacker get away, according to a WISN report.
“Which isn’t the smartest or safest thing, but it was–I went with my instinct,” she said.
She said she was filling up at a BP gas station in Milwaukee, Minnesota on Tuesday. Surveillance footage shows a Cadillac pulling up, and a man sneaking up to her car. The alleged thief got behind the wheel.
“Didn’t see him ’til I saw him get into my car,” she said. “Someone was in my car, and I had my, ‘Oh hell, this isn’t happening to me today’ moment.”
She jumped on the hood. The driver, Smith said, was laughing as he hit the breaks twice–He was trying to throw her off. “Zero remorse,” she said
The man gave up and escaped from the still moving vehicle into his own getaway car with at least one accomplice. Meanwhile, Smith got off the car and back in the driver’s seat. The thief allegedly ran off with her purse, iPhone, and wallet.
LawNewz.com reached out to the Milwaukee Police Department for more information, but have not received any statement at this time.
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International Breweries Plc posted yet another loss for the last quarter of the year.
The brewing company which is a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) posted a net loss of N9.2bn in Q4 2019, bringing its total losses for the year to N27.9bn. In the same period in 2018, the company’s total loss was N4bn.
The company blamed its losses on rising costs, the new excise duty on alcohol as well as stiff competition in the brewing industry.
According to the company, sales declined by 6% in the quarter to N35bn from N37.2bn
Administrative expenses jumped 125% to N8.3bn, while marketing & promotional expenses rose by 44% to N6bn.
Net finance cost grew by 33% to N9.2bn, adding to the company’s woes.
International Breweries announced in September it would initiate a rights issue to pare down mountain debt, with the objective to replace long-term debt with equity, thereby easing the burden of interest payments, increasing management’s flexibility as well as removing volatility in earnings.
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By Pamela Constable
January 23, 2014
This week, Human Rights Watch released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world. In addition to highly critical reports on Syria, Central African Republic and other countries with repressive regimes or violence conflicts, the New York-based advocacy group highlighted a particular issue in the United States: the abuse of immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, under current U.S. policies and conditions. The non-profit group, while describing itself as non-partisan, stated that it supports comprehensive immigration reform.
On Thursday, Washington Post immigration reporter Pamela Constable spoke with Antonio Ginatta, the U.S. Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch, about the issue of human rights and immigrants in the United States.
WP: Most Americans might think of human rights as an issue in repressive foreign countries, not so much in the U.S. Can you explain the link your organization sees between human rights and American immigration reform?
Ginatta: We see the intersect between human rights and immigration policy to be varied and vast. The status quo on immigration breeds human rights violation in so many circles. First we highlight the importance of family unity. In the world of human rights, family is seen as the natural and fundamental group that deserves protection, but [U.S.] immigration policy doesn’t focus on family unity in the same respect.
Immigration judges are not allowed to consider family unity to the extent we think is needed to protect human rights. In the case of a very minor or very old criminal conviction, family ties don’t matter. Even if someone has close U.S. citizen family members, the removal still takes priority. We have documented situations where people who have been outstanding members of society, with multiple U.S. citizen children, and who have lived here for decades, still get deported.
WP: What other kinds of immigration policies or practices would you say fall into the category of human rights problems?
Ginatta: One area is violations in the workplace. Workers are incredibly vulnerable to exploitation because of their immigration status. People working in dangerous industries may be afraid to report serious workplace violations or women, such as farm workers, may be afraid to report sexual assaults, for fear they will be reported to immigration authorities and deported.
There is also the right to remedy. This is a key human rights principle. You should have the right to access law enforcement, and policies that create a fear or block between a person who witnesses a crime or is a victim of a crime and the police are human rights violations. We have documented many situations where people are afraid to contact the police because they fear a contact about a crime will become an inquiry into their immigration status.
WP: Do you see the deportation of illegal immigrants as a human rights abuse?
We are very worried about the growth of criminal prosecutions of illegal entrants into the U.S.. This is a federal crime and now people who are trying to come into the U.S. to be reunited with their families are facing federal prison time. These prosecutions have spiked to almost 100,000 a year. They are changing the population within federal prisons. Immigration is becoming the most prosecuted federal crime, and Latinos are becoming the number one ethnic group inside federal prisons because of this.
WP: How would you compare the treatment of illegal immigrants in the U.S. to other Western democracies??
Ginatta: We have documented problems in immigration systems throughout the world. Our main concern is not how the U.S. lines up against Australia or Europe, but how the U.S. lines up against its own obligations to the human rights treaties it has signed. The U.S. has signed the international convention on civil and political rights, and there is language in this treaty that puts a priority on protecting family unity as the fundamental unit in society that merits protection.
WP: Immigration reform today is a highly partisan and emotional issue in the U.S. Does your organization have any political agenda in connection with immigration reform?
Ginatta: We have been working on flaws in the U.S. immigration system for over ten years. We keep documenting the flaws but the laws don’t change, so we have bad laws with the added amount of time that no action has been taken. You’re right, people have preconceptions when they hear the phrase comprehensive immigration reform. But the way we are trying to talk about U.S. immigration system is by documenting personal stories and those of families who have been directly impacted by the flawed system.
WP: What is your official stand on the current debate and proposals for immigration reform?
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Understanding the Recruiting Process
Recruiting and hiring IT professionals can be a daunting task, but with the right strategies in place, you can ensure that you attract the best talent for your organization. The first step is to understand the entire recruiting process.
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Creating a Powerful Job Description
A powerful job description plays a crucial role in attracting the right candidates for your IT positions. Make sure to include the following elements:
By providing a well-written job description, you will attract candidates who possess the skills and qualifications you are looking for.
Utilizing Multiple Sourcing Channels
Gone are the days when placing a job ad in a newspaper was sufficient to find qualified candidates. In today’s digital era, it is essential to utilize multiple sourcing channels to widen your reach.
Some effective channels for sourcing IT professionals include:
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Implementing Effective Screening and Interviewing Techniques
Once you attract a pool of candidates, it is important to implement effective screening and interviewing techniques to identify the most suitable ones.
You can begin with a phone screening to assess their basic technical knowledge and gauge their interest in the role. This can help to filter out candidates who may not be the right fit.
For the candidates who pass the initial screening, conduct in-depth interviews that assess both their technical skills and cultural fit. Ask behavioral questions that reveal their problem-solving abilities, teamwork skills, and ability to adapt to change.
Conducting Technical Assessments
Technical assessments are a crucial component of hiring IT professionals. They provide a practical approach to evaluate a candidate’s skills and abilities.
You can use coding challenges, whiteboard exercises, or take-home assignments to assess a candidate’s technical proficiency. These assessments help you gauge their problem-solving skills, coding abilities, and their approach to finding solutions.
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Michio Kaku: The realm of optics is advancing so rapidly now that at MIT scientists were able to create a super camera that has one trillion frames per second. Now you may say to yourself so what. Well think of a light beam. A light beam in a billionth of a second travels about a foot. Now when you look at yourself in a mirror in the morning you say to yourself “well that’s me.” Actually that’s not you at all. You’re looking at an image that is you a billionth of a second ago because that’s the time it takes for light to go from your face, to the mirror, back to your eyes. Same thing for the moon, when you look at the moon you’re not really looking at the moon as it is at all. You’re looking at the moon as it was about a second ago.
Well here is a new camera that can take a trillion frames per second and actually capture these processes that are beyond human comprehension. We forget the fact that the human brain and our senses have a timescale associated with it. Chemical reactions in the brain, chemical reactions in the eye and our senses take place at a very definite speed - the speed of chemical reactions. So we have a normal timeframe. Our body measures time in fractions of a second to a second to minutes. That’s the normal frame of reference of the human body. But there is a whole universe out there. There is a whole universe out there where events take place on a scale of billionths of a second and another timescale where events take place over a timescale of billions of years - and the sad thing is that we humans, our human brain, is unaccustomed to dealing with these true extreme universes that we never see.
For example, evolution, why is it that so many people don’t believe in evolution? Because they can’t see it happening with their own eyes. And now we’re taking a look at another timescale, a scale of billionths of a second when perhaps in the future we may be able to photograph chemical reactions as they take place. This could open up a whole new realm of science, the science that takes place on a scale of nanoseconds.
For example, take a look at photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a rather mysterious process. Believe it or not we physicists still have not worked out the complete quantum mechanics of photosynthesis, which mother nature figured out billions of years ago. And part of the problem is these chemical processes take place on a nano-scale that is way outside our ability to photograph and that’s why new cameras like this could open up a gateway, really open up the floodgates to a new branch of research.
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A pair of brothers have vanished along with $3.6 billion (£2.5 billion) worth of Bitcoin that had been stored in their cryptocurrency investment platform.
South African brothers Ameer and Raees Cajee, who set up their crypto investment service Africrypt in 2019, were last heard from in an email to investors claiming the company had been hacked earlier this year.
The suspicious email, seemingly sent by Ameer who is named chief operating officer of Africrypt, request that their investors not report the hacking to authorities or lawyers.
Investors received the email when Bitcoin was surging to an all-time high in April of this year.
But luckily a group of sceptical investors contacted a law firm, Hanekom Attorneys, “which focuses on all aspects of the cryptocurrency industry” and advises “large volume traders, exchanges and arbitrage companies.”
The firm quickly reported the incident to the Hawks, an elite unit of South Africa's national police force, and also to crypto exchanges across the globe.
In a statement the law firm said: “We were immediately suspicious as the announcement implored investors not to take legal action.
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"Africrypt employees lost access to the back-end platforms seven days before the alleged hack.”
The firm found that the entirety of Africrypt's funds were transferred out of its South African accounts and client's wallets.
The currency was reportedly pooled with other bitcoin transactions to make them untraceable.
The Cajee brothers had previously appeared in a local news media outlet The Umhlanga Magazine and were interviewed about the success of Africrypt.
“Our goal is to bridge the gap between cryptocurrency and fiat currency, making it a seamless transition between the two," the brothers were quoted.
"The vision for Africrypt has always been to develop the first African cryptocurrency-focused bank, providing decentralised finance to the people who need it most, giving easy access to capital for young entrepreneurs, and stimulating growth and prosperity."
The massive heist comes after Mirror Trading International, another South African bitcoin trader, collapsed last year with losses of over $1 billion (£720m) in cryptocurrency.
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Starting Journey Of Sunday BMX Bicycle Brand
Sunday BMX bicycle company was established in 2005. It was founded by Jim Cielencki. Initially, he started this company to solve various problems related to BMX bike frames. According to him, most bicycle manufacturers face various problems in balancing the weight of the bicycle frame. Thus maintaining the right weight and strength balance of the frame is important for a comfortable ride.
Jim Cielencki’s goal was to create a bike frame that would be strong enough but not too heavy. At that time, there were many bikes in the market which were strong but the frames were too heavy. There were various problems in the field of BMX riding. Again, some bikes had very weak frames for the light weight.
- The main focus of the Sunday bike brand was to create a strong frame that would provide enough reliability without being too heavy.
On Sunday, you will find all BMX bikes that are more powerful than other brands but less heavy.
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- You can discover advanced frame technologies like thermal processing, wave tubing, and black magic in the Sunday BMX bikes. That’s why it is twice as strong as regular Chromoly frames.
- Ever since the company was launched in 2005, innovations have been arriving one after the other.
This brand invented heat-treated frames for the first time only a year after its inception. In the year 2012, the company unveiled the Soundwave frame. It is supposedly one of the most high-end BMX bike frames in the world.
In today’s modern era, Sunday BMX bike company manufactures different types of bikes and frames that are suitable for kids, beginners, adults as well as pro-level bikers, which is absolutely commendable.
Founded | April 1, 2005 |
Owner | Jim Cielencki |
Based On | Buffalo, NY, Austin, TX Etc |
Manufactures | Bike special frames, forks, handlebars, and complete bikes. |
Categories Of Sunday BMX Bikes
Categories | Use |
Freestyle Sunday BMX | Functional for performing tricks in skate parks, street riding, vert ramps, etc. It connects to a heavier frame and more durable components. |
Street | It is assembled for street stunts and jumps with a downward stance and sleeker design. |
Race BMX | It is Perfect for more aggressive geometry and higher-end features. |
Cruiser Bikes | It performs well in leisure cycling. This bike has a relaxed riding position and a strong grip on the handlebars. |
Park Bikes | It can use for cycling in skate parks, street riding, and performing tricks. |
Dirt Jump Bikes | Regular cycling and performing stunts on dirt jumps and other terrains. |
Everything’s About Sunday Bmx Bikes: Frame Design, Construction, Cost, Uses With Explanation & Compatibility
You will discover several advanced features in Sunday BMX bikes that can be especially helpful to improve your riding skills as a BMX biker. Let me tell you everything about Sunday BMX bike features & other details.
100% Authentic Chromoly Frame
On Sunday BMX bicycles, you will find 100% Chromoly. Which will undoubtedly give you more benefits than an aluminum frame. Although the Chromoly material guilelessly feels quite heavy, Sunday manufacturers specially create these bike frames. That’s why it is very strong, lightweight, and thin.
Sunday BMX bikes offer a very smooth riding capability for thin Chromoly. Notice that, it is much stronger and fatigue resistant than steel.
Extraordinary Sunday BMX Bike Frame Innovation
I have already told you earlier that the founder of Sunday Cycle brand originally invented the brand intending to produce high-quality bicycle frames. So, you will find a more robust, durable, and reliable frame design in Sunday BMX bikes. Below listings are all the details regarding Sunday BMX bike frames.
1. Wave Tubing
It is essentially a high-quality technology for bicycles. Through this, manufacturers can strengthen the upper and lower tubes of the bicycle. It is also functional to protect against denting. Employing this technology, the frame’s top tube and downtube are extremely strong.
2. Butted Seat Tube
This brand of BMX bike has a diverse type of seat tube compared to all other bikes. With the addition of a double-butted seat tube, you will get double power in the cycling period. Different classes of races require aggressive riding of the BMX bike. And these types of seat tubes support you to move forward faster.
3. Tapered Chain Stays And Seat Stays
A Sunday BMX bicycle can give you a unique tapered design in both the seat stay and the chain stay, which can convey the frame of such bicycles a more beautiful and refined look. They tend to be very light in weight which prevents them from adding extra weight to your bike.
Undoubtedly, a bicycle with these features should be employed to win a BMX ride competition.
4. Boxed Chain Stays
Sunday BMX bike’s chainstays have a unique boxy design. It assists to strengthen your bicycle frame against any denting. Also, having such a feature can build a larger clearance towards the rear tyre of the bicycle.
- This type of clearance permits you to fit tires as wide as 2.35 to 2.40 inches.
5. Thermal Heat Treatment Processing
You may figure out that thermal processing is manipulated to make any bicycle frame stronger. But in Sunday BMX bikes, this processing is done in particular a way so that the frame is strong as well as very light in weight.
This processing is a specialty for every Sunday BMX bike frame. There is no substitute for thermal processing to prevent any kind of cracking, breaking, or snapping problems.
6. Black Magic Bicycle Coating
Rust can shorten the life of your bicycle. If your BMX bike is rusted you will never win a race with it. And to eliminate this kind of problem, every Sunday BMX bikes will get a black magic coating. With this black magic coat your bike will never rust. It is mostly applied as an anti-rust coat finish.
Affordability For All BMX Riders
Some Sunday’s special BMX bicycles usually cost between $1300 to $1500 or are a little overpriced. But apart from this, the price of all other BMX bikes is within the reach of every rider. Most of them cost under $900. Then you can understand that they are much more affordable.
- You’ll also find Sunday BMX bikes in the $450 to $650 price range. Through this, you can participate in various big races.
- For kids, you will discover different bikes, and their range also at very low prices. Kid’s bikes are normally priced under $460.
Quality Aftermarket Components
When you originally purchase a Sunday BMX bike, you will find every component with it that are very good, highly featured, and extremely high-end.
Aftermarket components are also high-grade too. As a result, you can safely choose any aftermarket components for your Sunday BMX bike. Every component of this brand can promise a hundred percent reliability.
Special Warranty System
Sunday BMX bikes have a special warranty system. The manufacturers make such promises that you can last your bike lifetime with proper care.
BMX Bike Variation
By doing market research, you will discover that there are different variations of bicycles for every rider.
- There are starter bikes in various sizes for kids, and Blueprint bicycles for new riders.
- In addition, professional Bmx riders will find high-end bikes like the Soundwave Special or the Darkwave Authentic.
- Casual bikers will also locate BMX bike variations in cycling.
So, you can understand that Sunday is far ahead of all other brands for BMX bikes in terms of variations.
Flaws Of Sunday BMX Bike
Slightly Expensive Than Other BMX Bikes
For the Chromoly build quality, some of Sunday’s BMX models command a higher price. For example, Darkwave Authentic and Soundwave Special are much more expensive. They cost a minimum of $1300+, which is out of reach for most of the riders.
Moreover, the price of normal quality bicycles is comparatively high than others.
Fewer High-End Options
Although there are different variations of Sunday BMX bikes, you won’t find additional high-end options in every variation.
Entry-level and mid-range bicycles don’t come with many extra options. That’s why BMX riders need additional investment in participating in various big races.
Not So Durable Like Other BMX Bikes
They are not very durable like all other brands of BMX bikes. Aiming at keeping the low weight of Sunday BMX bikes, it is manufactured by employing very thin materials. For this, it has become moderately inferior in terms of durability.
Limited Availability In Some Areas
These bikes are not easy to find in all areas. Despite being quite famous, riders have to struggle to find a Sunday BMX bike for various reasons. Most of the time these bikes are missing from common bike shops.
A Short Chart About Sunday BMX Bike
Topic | Details |
Frame | Made with 100% Chromoly. |
Handlebars | You can find them in various shapes and sizes. The vastly ordinary handlebar categories are classic BMX bars, cruiser BMX bars, and flatland BMX bars. |
Fork | Sunday BMX forks are specially assembled from Chromoly, steel, aluminum, or carbon fiber. |
Tires | Tyres are made with durable rubber compounds. These types of tires come in various sizes and tread patterns. |
Grips | Manufacturers create these Sunday grips from rubber or foam. It arrives in different lengths and shades. |
Brakes | Some Sunday BMX bikes come with no brakes. Some have brakes- A V-brake, or a U-brake. |
Cranks | They are produced from aluminum or Chromoly. |
Pedal | Pedal’s materials are mostly nylon or metal. |
Repeatedly Asked Queries About Sunday BMX: You May Desire To Know
What Country Is BMX Popular In?
BMX is remarkably popular in many countries. Some of them are-
- South Africa
- New Zealand
- Czech Republic
In those nations you can find a big number of athletes participating in BMX.
Is Sunday BMX Good For Long Distances?
No, Sunday BMX bikes are not good for long-distance riding as BMX bicycles are not specifically designed for long distances. They are commonly used in different varieties of races.
Moreover, it can also deliver promising output when riding on flat dirt surfaces. A Sunday BMX would not be a better choice for cycling on normal paved surfaces. That is why it can be said that Sunday BMX bikes are good for short distances but not good for long distances.
What Are Some Basic Infos Of Sunday Bikes?
Headquarters: 13502 Pumice St, Norwalk, California, 90650, United States
Phone Number: (562) 623- 9995
How Much Does a Sunday BMX Bike Weigh?
The Sunday BMX bike weighs much less than many other BMX bikes on the market. Although it is not the lightest Bmx bike, its weight can still be considered very low.
Generally, most of the Sunday BMX bikes weigh between 25 pounds to 29 pounds. Those who feel comfortable riding a lightweight BMX bike can safely go for a Sunday BMX bike. It will definitely give you much better output.
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Do Sunday BMX Bikes Have Brakes?
Generally, most Sunday BMX bikes come with brakes for the rider. Through this, you will be able to control the bike at a perfect speed. These types of brakes are especially helpful in increasing your overall cycling safety.
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Final Saying About Sunday BMX Bikes
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Yom Kippur - 025 Inner Teshuvah
Teshuvah - Returning
We are in the Ten Days of Repentance, which ends on the holy day of Yom Kippur, the “day that atones for those who return”.
The Rishonim explain that “teshuvah” (repentance) means to “return” to the situation of before the sin. This applies both on a personal level, as well as on the collective level of mankind, for all of mankind must ultimately repent over the source of all sin, the sin of Adam HaRishon.
But to explain this more, the Gemara says that a baal teshuvah is one who is tempted three times in the exact same situation to commit the old sin, and he overcomes the test each time. So teshuvah is when the situation returns to you again, and you choose not to sin; that is how one “returns” to the situation of before the sin.
Rabbeinu Yonah, in Shaarei Teshuvah, adds on to this that even if the person is never actually tested with the temptation again, but he has elevated himself to a level in which it is clear to Hashem that this person would not sin again in this situation, it is considered that the he has overcome the sin and that he has genuinely done teshuvah over the sin.
In any case, teshuvah is defined as returning to how it was before the situation of the sin. On a more subtle note, it is a return to the exact same temptation and to overcome the temptation, which returns him to the level of before the sin.
From a simple understanding, teshuvah is when a person committed a certain act of sin and he repents over this action that he committed. He returns himself to what it was like before the sinful action. But there is more depth to it, for man consists of both external and internal layers, which go beyond action; Rabbeinu Yonah says that part of teshuvah is to fix the desire to sin - he must not only rectify the deed he committed, but the root of the sin, which was the very desire to sin.
Thus, teshuvah is not just about correcting the “action” that was committed by the physical body. It is about returning the soul’s abilities to their proper place, which had been misused for the purpose of sinning, and thus they need to be returned to their pure source.
If one only does teshuvah on a “body” level, his teshuvah begins and ends with deeds; he committed a sinful ‘act’ and later he repents over the sinful ‘act’. He stops sinning when he is tested again, by refraining from the committing the deed again. But one who cares for his soul will be more concerned that just rectifying the actions. Besides for doing teshuvah in the physical sense, by refraining from actions of sin, he will do more teshuvah than that. He does teshuvah in his very soul.
What is teshuvah on a soul level?
There are many facets to this. The Maharal wrote a section entitled Nesiv HaTeshuvah, which consists of eight chapters, and in the beginning chapters, the Maharal writes of four steps of what it means to do “inner teshuvah”.
Anyone who cares for his soul needs to first conceptualize these matters at least intellectually, and then he must attempt to recognize these matters on a personal level and do teshuvah accordingly.
Teshuvah on a physical body level, as we explained, is to refrain from committing the sinful action. This includes recognizing that the action is a sin; to regret it and to confess it verbally, and to resolve not to commit the sin again. These are the four parts of repentance which we are all familiar with, because they are all within the realm of action, and we live in a “world of action”, so we can identify better with these aspects. It is to clear to us what sin is and it is clear to us what teshuvah is; of course, there is difficulty in doing teshuvah, but at least we recognize what teshuvah is, when it comes to the realm of “action”.
One who cares for his soul not only does teshuvah on a physical level by refraining from sinful actions; he does teshuvah on an inner level. Inner teshuvah requires firstly a conceptual understanding of what defines teshuvah, and after that, for one to recognize these matters personally in his own soul, and to do teshuvah from that inner level of recognition.
1- Returning To Higher Intellect
The first facet of inner teshuvah, the Maharal writes, is to return to the higher intellect that is far removed from any materialistic aspects of man (“seichel nivdal”, or “seichel elyon”).
Sin comes from a pull towards materialism, which lowers man from the higher intellect that is apart from materialism. This intellect, the Maharal says, is essentially referring to the holy Torah.
It is clear that the fact that the Torah was given on Yom Kippur [the second set of Luchos] is not a coincidence; there is a connection between Torah and Yom Kippur. It is because Torah is the root of teshuvah. The inner work of our soul is to return the materialistic drives of the body that caused one to sin, to the higher intellect that is the Torah.
We can all identify with refraining from committing the action of sin again, but to return afterwards to the higher intellect is a concept that we are not always familiar with. We are not referring to regular human intellect, but to a higher intellect contained in the soul. It is for one to truthfully return, in his very soul, to the Torah. This is the avodah of doing teshuvah in our soul.
If one is not clear that the body and the soul are separate entities, he will be like a mixture that is not sorted out, and it will then not be possible for him to do teshuvah on the inner level. But if a person is aware of his inner workings, knowing the difference between his materialistic drives of the body\nefesh habehaimis (animalistic layer of the soul) with the higher aspects of his inner self – the higher intellect, contained in the neshamah (Divine soul) – he will be able to do teshuvah on Yom Kippur on an entirely deeper level. Besides for the five forms of suffering of the body on Yom Kippur, he will be returning to the Torah on Yom Kippur.
This is the hidden “giving of the Torah” that is contained in Yom Kippur. It is a concept that most people do not know about, not even intellectually. There is almost no one who thinks about the giving of the Torah that is on Yom Kippur. As we have explained here according to the Maharal, it is part of the fundamental understanding of deeper teshuvah.
2- Returning To The State of “Yashrus”
A second aspect of inner teshuvah, the Maharal explains, is to return to the state of “yoshor” (uprightness) which existed before the first sin.
It is written, “G-d made man upright (yoshor), but they sought many calculations (cheshbonos rabim)”. By sinning, man deviated from the truth, and ever since then, man has fallen into the state of “cheshbonos rabim”. By sinning, man deviated from the truth, from yashrus (straight-mindedness), and he fell into cheshbonos rabim which are crooked and deviating from truth.
Thus, teshuvah on a deeper level means to return from our crooked state of post-sin and to return the original state - yoshor, or yashrus, or seichel hayoshor.
Rav Chaim Volozhiner writes that yashrus of seichel defines the praise of our earlier Rishonim, who possessed sevara yeshara (straight, pure logic) and yashrus halev (uprightness of heart). Of yashrus halev, it is written, “U’liyishrei lev simcha” – “And to the upright of heart, there is joy.” When one reaches yashus lev on Yom Kippur through his teshuvah, he can arrive at the true simcha (joy) that is on Sukkos, the time of our joy.
Thus, there is an avodah for one to realize how he tends to diverge from truth; both the intellect and the heart can deviate from truth, and one must see how both his intellect and heart have a tendency to deviate. Then one must attempt to return himself to the original state of yashrus that is deep within.
One must first understand this at least on a conceptual level, and after understanding it intellectually, one must then work on this matter personally, returning his own soul from the state of crookedness, back to the man’s original state of yashrus. “G-d made man upright” – this is where we must return to when we do teshuvah.
3- Returning To “Peshitus”
The third aspect of inner teshuvah, the Maharal writes, is to return to peshitus, “simplicity”. Sin, by contrast, comes from harkavah (combining factors together), and when one combines various thoughts together, sometimes he acts correctly because of this, and sometimes he comes to act incorrectly. But the pure state of the soul is peshitus (simplicity), where it is not possible to think of sinning.
Thus, one who cares for his soul needs to return to this simple point (“makom hapashut”) in the soul. The depth of repenting over a sin – returning from it – is to return to peshitus. If one does not recognize a place of peshitus in his own soul, he is like a “captured child” who doesn’t know any better, who lives in ignorance of this place in the soul; he has nowhere to return to from sin. But when one recognizes in his soul the areas of harkavah and peshitus, he can then understand the concept of the Maharal that teshuvah is about returning to peshitus.
4 – Returning To Our Beginning Point
A fourth part of inner teshuvah, the Maharal says, is to return to our very beginning point (“nekudah raishis”).
When one does teshuvah only a partial level, he has not yet returned to his beginning. But we ask Hashem that we be returned to Him in “teshuvah shelaimah”, in “complete teshuvah”, as we daven in Shemoneh Esrei: החזירנו בתשובה שלימה לפניך – “Return us, in complete repentance, before You.” What is “complete teshuvah”? It means to return to the very beginning point.
This is the depth of the avodah of doing teshuvah. If one returns himself to the beginning point, he will surely arrive at Torah and Hashem. If he doesn’t return to Torah and to Hashem after doing teshuvah, he was missing complete teshuvah.
These four parts of doing teshuvah define the avodah of teshuvah for one who cares about his soul. It is about where we are supposed trying to return ourselves to.
If someone is only concerned with returning from sinful actions and to stop committing the actions of sin, this is wonderful, but to remain at that level is a teshuvah on the level of the physical body alone; he remains in katnus mochin (small-mindedness).
One who cares for his soul is concerned with returning to the higher intellect of the soul, which is the holy Torah, given on Yom Kippur; he is concerned with returning himself to yashrus, to the most complete level of teshuvah. He is not satisfied with the partial level of teshuvah; he seeks these four levels of teshuvah, climbing higher and higher through these levels, until he reaches the highest level of teshuvah, where he returns to his beginning point.
Doing teshuvah on a deep level requires one to first return himself to the higher intellect of Torah, then to yashrus, then to peshitus, and then to the beginning point. This is the meaning of “Return, Yisrael, to Hashem your G-d.”
Thus, the deeper part of our avodah in doing teshuvah is to return to these four places in the soul described: to recognize that we have fallen from these lofty places in our soul, and to then bring ourselves back.
All of this is based on the words of the Maharal.
Returning The Soul
Now that we have explained where one must “return” to in doing teshuvah – returning his body and soul – now let us reflect about the very concept of teshuvah, to “return”. We have explained to where we must return to; now let us think about what it means to return.
It is clear how we can return our body; we can go from place to place and return our body to where it was. But how do we use our soul’s power to “return”?
If one has never yet wondered about this, he is attempting to do teshuvah with a power that he has never yet recognized. He will be able to do teshuvah on the physical level, such as by refraining from sin, but he will not able to go beyond that level. Teshuvah involves regret and resolving not to sin again. These are powers of our soul, so we need to know how to use our soul’s power to return, in order to really do teshuvah.
The Inherent Force of “Teshuvah” Throughout All of Creation
What is the soul’s power to return? Teshuvah is an all-compassing power that applies to all of Creation, for all of Creation needs to return to its Source.
The Jewish people are commanded with a mitzvah to do teshuvah. Gentiles do not have mitzvah to do teshuvah, but they are capable of doing teshuvah; Adam, Kayin, and Noach all did teshuvah, and all the gentile nations who come from them inherited as well the power to do teshuvah.
But can an animal do teshuvah? Can a plant or an inanimate object do teshuvah? It seems that there is no concept of teshuvah by them. Can an animal sin? Does it commit a sin if it cohabits with a human? Can a plant commit a sin? Can a rock or any other inanimate object commit a sin? Obviously, there is no concept of sin when it comes to animals, plants, and inanimate objects. So what does it mean that there is a concept of teshuvah that applies to all the different kinds of creations?
However, this is not a question, when we truly understand the concept behind teshuvah. Teshuvah is a power of the soul, and all creations have souls, so every creation has a power to return, regardless of whether it sins or not. Of course, the main concept of teshuvah is to repent over sins. But there is an inherent ability in all of creation to do teshuvah – the power to “return” to a source.
With the Jewish people, it is a commandment to do teshuvah, and with gentiles, who are not commanded to do teshuvah, they can still do teshuvah. An animal can also do teshuvah – it can “return”; the Gemara says that birds yearn to return to their original nest, because they want to see where they came from. A dog laps up its saliva; it keeps coming back and returning to it. This also stems from the nature of teshuvah\returning that all creations contain.
Even inanimate objects do teshuvah. The Maharal and the Vilna Gaon write that fire is naturally rising higher, because it yearns to return to its source, which is in Heaven. Fire is an inanimate object, yet it has a yearning to return to its source.
All of creation has this nature to return to its source. When we only have a superficial perspective towards teshuvah, we cannot fathom why there is a concept of teshuvah with animals, plants, and inanimate objects. But when we realize what teshuvah is from an inner perspective, we know that teshuvah is about returning to its source and how all of Creation seeks to return.
Thus, repenting over sins is only the external aspect of teshuvah is to repent over sin. From this perspective alone, one sinned and teshuvah seems like some novel concept that he must come up with. The inner aspect of teshuvah, though, is not to come up with anything novel. It is a power inherent in all of Creation, so it is nothing new.
Even more so, the Sages state that teshuvah is one of the seven things that were created before the world. In other words, all of creation was created from teshuvah, and therefore, all of the creations contain teshuvah as part of their inherent makeup: the yearning to return to our source.
“Shov”: The Soul’s Power To Return
However, when a person sins, he loses this yearning to return to his source.
What, then, is the avodah of a baal teshuvah? The avodah is to reveal from within ourselves our inherent power to return. It is not some new power that we need to come up with and develop. Rather, it exists in potential form, deep inside the soul. This is called the power of “shov” (return) in the soul.
Thus, if one thinks he has to “come up” with the idea of teshuvah over his sins - as if it is something novel - his teshuvah will only be temporary inspiration, and it will probably not last after Yom Kippur. But if one reveals the inherent power of teshuvah from within his soul (“shov”), such teshuvah can last for the entire year, for now that he has revealed it, it remains with him long afterward.
It is easy to make resolutions during these days, because our minds are clearer and there is also inspiration in our heart. But after these days end, there are few who can remain with these lofty aspirations. The inspiration we had was strong while it lasted, but it doesn’t remain with us for the rest of the year. But if one worked on himself to reveal the power in his soul to “return”, this power of “return” will escort him during the rest of the year as well, long after the ten days of repentance are over.
Teshuvah in the depths of the soul is the fact that all of creation yearns to return to its source. What prevents a person from accessing this deep source of teshuvah? It is essentially our power of bechirah (free will) that prevents us, when we choose evil; but when one purifies himself, he uses his bechirah to choose good, and he yearns for good - he yearns for Hashem. He reveals a power in even his nefesh habehaimis to return to its source, and even more so, he reveals the depth of his neshamah, which yearns to return not only to our source, but to “Our Father in Heaven.”
This kind of teshuvah is called the soul’s power of “shov”, return. It puts a person into contact with the inherent power of all Creation that yearns to return to our source.
The Maharal says that all of Creation wants to return to Hashem, but in man, this nature is more concealed, due to man’s power of free choice, which prevents him from accessing his deep nature to return. But when man purifies himself and he reaches the points of the soul of seichel nivdal, yashrus, peshitus, and nekudah raishis, he then reveals the simple nature of the soul of “shov”, which wants to return to Hashem.
Once this aspect of the soul is revealed outward, it remains with the person on a more permanent basis, as opposed to just inspiration that comes and goes.
Why is it that most people do not reveal this kind of teshuvah in themselves? It is because most people view teshuvah as being just repentance from sin. Most people are not aware that teshuvah is also about returning to the higher aspects of our self: seichel nivdal, yashrus, peshitus, and nekuda raishis. Therefore, the soul’s power of “shov” usually remains unrevealed and concealed from the person, and all he will know of is inspiration. The resolutions that he makes as he is inspired usually will not last for the rest of the year, because they are not coming from the point of “shov” in the soul.
If All Creations Repent, What Sets Apart Humans From Animals?
All people have the power of “shov”, for it is contained in all creations. How, then, is man different from other creations?
Man can either keep returning to his sin again (like someone who says “I will repent, and I will sin” – he uses teshuvah as a way to sin), or, he can purify himself and do teshuvah over his sins; and even more so, he can do teshuvah from the point of “shov” in himself.
But this still does not answer the question. Any sensible person who thinks about it can wonder: If teshuvah applies to all creations – people, animals, plants, and the non-living – is teshuvah in humans unique from the other kinds of teshuvah?
If we reflect into it, we can see what sets apart humans from all other creations, with regards to teshuvah. Man is called “medaber”, a social creature. This enables him to recite Viduy, to confess, over sins. This Viduy can come from the power of “shov” in the soul. It sets man apart from all other creations, who cannot speak or verbalize their teshuvah.
The Teshuvah That Is Unique To The Jewish People
Even more so, the teshuvah that a Jew is capable of contains an even higher aspect than this.
It is written, “Return, Yisrael, up until (ad) Hashem, your G-d.” The Gemara explains that there are two levels of “ad”, “up to Hashem: There is “ad v’lo ad b’klal, “up until, but not including until”, and “ad v’ad b’klal”, “until, and including until”. The Gemara explains that an individual who does teshuvah can only do teshuvah “up until” Hashem, but not further than that point; whereas teshuvah of on a congregational level can reach all the way until Hashem.
Furthermore, Rabbi Akiva said, “Praiseworthy is Yisrael, for Yisrael is purified by their Father in Heaven.” Only the Jewish people are purified on Yom Kippur by Hashem. This is the Jew’s unique power of teshuvah: to return all the way “until” Hashem.
Thus, the power of “shov” in our nefesh habehaimis, which is the power that all creations have, can only reach up until\ad Hashem, but not beyond that. It cannot actually return us all the way to Hashem. Beyond that level, we can do teshuvah through Viduy, which utilizes our aspect of medaber that sets us apart from all other creations.
But all of this is not yet the Jew’s unique power of teshuvah. The Jew can do teshuvah all the way up “until” Hashem; he is purified by his Father in Heaven on Yom Kippur, as Rabbi Akiva says. He can stand “before Hashem”, on Yom Kippur.
In what way? When it is Yom Kippur, one is able to feel simply that he is standing in front of Hashem. As proof, everyone is hoping that Hashem will forgive him as he stands before Him on Yom Kippur.
As for one who doesn’t feel the presence of Hashem on Yom Kippur, he will still be purified through the “pure waters” that are sprinkled upon his soul on Yom Kippur, but he won’t become purified in his very being.
“Return, Yisrael, up until Hashem your G-d” includes the entire process of teshuvah, both on our external layers and our inner layers. The most external layer of teshuvah is to repent on the level of the physical body, which can refrain from sinning. The more inner layers of teshuvah involved the soul, where one must return the soul’s abilities, as we explained [these were the four aspects explained by the Maharal]. And finally, there is the complete level of teshuvah, to return to Hashem Himself, as we pray: “Return us, Hashem, in complete repentance, before You.” The place which our neshamah must ultimately return to is, to reach the simple recognition of the reality of Hashem.
During the rest of the year there are various obstacles that prevent us from feeling that simple reality, but on Yom Kippur where we are forgiven by Hashem, we can easily relate to feeling Hashem’s presence.
If one doesn’t feel Hashem’s presence on Yom Kippur, he is still atoned for on Yom Kippur, but this atonement and purity will not have penetrated into his entire being, and he will be left with traces of sin even after Yom Kippur. He will not become like a ‘fresh piece of paper’ after Yom Kippur that he could have merited on this day.
May Hashem give us the strength to recognize the definition of teshuvah, to recognize how our soul can do teshuvah, so that we can completely reach the meaning of “Return Yisrael up until Hashem your G-d” - and may it be an “ad” that is “ad v’ad b’klal” (up until, and including until): that we should do teshuvah “all the way until Hashem”.
May we all merit to sealed for a good year.
On another note, the Rav explained that there is also an aspect of Yom Kippur which atones even for those who do not return. Refer to the shiur of יום כיפור 007_בהנפש
Yoma 86a
Nesivas Olam: Nesiv HaTeshuvah
The four basic steps in teshuvah are: (1) azivas hacheit, abandoning the sin; (2) charatah, regret; (3) viduy, confession; (4) kabbalah al ha’asid – resolving not to commit this sin again.
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Congratulations to three bioengineering alumni named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Joshua Yang (MTM 2016) and Robert Chen (BS 2013) were named in Healthcare: Yang for his work on developing non-invasive tools to measure kidney injuries through startup company Nephrosant, and Chen for designing therapies for undernourished children, using links between certain gut bacteria and stunted growth. Joshua Nixon (BS 2016) and co-founder were named in the Social Impact list for founding Prime Roots, a company developing plant-based meat and seafood alternatives.
PhD alumni Lily Peng (2012) and Kate Rosenbluth (2009) have been named to the 2020 Fortune Magazine “40 Under 40”, an annual list of 40 young professionals of exceptional talent and influence in their fields. Peng, now Product Manager at Google Health, aims to bring health care to the masses through the use of artificial intelligence. She has personally designed algorithms including the firm’s diabetes-related eye disease detection program. Rosenbluth, Founder and CEO of Cala Health, has designed an FDA-cleared wrist device that eases hand tremors for the 7 million Americans who suffer from essential tremors.
Congratulations Professor Sanjay Kumar, named to the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Kumar was recognized for his “distinguished contributions to the field of bioengineering, particularly the development of biomaterial and single-cell technologies to investigate mechanobiological signaling in health and disease.”
PROVEN, the world’s first microbial biofertilizer for cereal crops, has been named one of the 100 Best Inventions of 2020 by Time Magazine. Developed by PivotBio, a BioE spinout company founded by Karsten Temme, PhD 2010, the product replaces synthetic solutions with nitrogen-fixing microbes, which capture nitrogen from the air and convert it into a form that plants can use.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Moriel Vandsburger, the first holder of our new Timothy and Karen Guertin Chair in Bioengineering. Timothy Guertin (B.S. alum, EECS) is the former Chief Executive Officer of Varian Medical Systems, a member of the Board of Directors at Teradyne Inc., and Chair of the Global Access to Cancer Care foundation, which works to expand the availability of modern cancer care in developing countries. The Guertins are passionate supporters of biomedical research and global access to quality healthcare, and have endowed this faculty chair to provide additional support to an early career professor pursuing promising research.
Congratulations to Professor David Schaffer, 2020 recipient of the Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering from the AIChE Foundation.
BioE spinout company Eko won the Best Hospital Diagnostics category at the 2020 UCSF Digital Health Awards digital stethoscope and ECG.
Congratulations to five Berkeley-based bioengineers named to the 2021 class of Siebel Scholars! Nicolas Altemose is developing microfluidic and molecular tools for studying genome regulation in single cells; Tiffany Chien is building a flexible simulation framework for calcium neuron imaging, simulating the 3D physical sample and the lens-less imaging system; Anjali Gopal is investigating the progression and resistance mechanisms of HER2 isoforms in HER2+ breast cancer via simultaneous single-cell proteoform and RNA sequencing measurements; Marc Lim is studying the physiological transport of three-helix-micelle (3HM) nanocarriers in solid tumors; Zoë Steier has developed totalVI, a computational framework for the joint probabilistic analysis of paired transcriptome and proteome measurements in single cells; and Alison Su is designing and validating measurement tools and workflows for biomedical applications ranging from bench to bedside.
Professor Amy Herr has been named the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor at UC Berkeley. The MacArthur Professorship is one of the most prestigious endowed chairs on campus, providing an annual stipend for scholarly activities and well-deserved recognition of Herr’s exceptional research, teaching, and service to the Berkeley community. | <urn:uuid:8382cb68-f5f0-4eb1-a0a3-8a420f4fba23> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://bioeng.berkeley.edu/tag/awards/page/7 | 2024-04-15T01:10:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.924325 | 847 |
William Blair upgraded Larimar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:LRMR) to “outperform” after the FDA approved the company’s proposed Phase 2 study design for CTI-1601 in Friedreich’s ataxia (FA), enabling a return to clinical activity by year-end. The stock closed at $3.20 on Sept. 16.
“We believe CTI-1601 has the potential to be disease-modifying for FA patients by restoring tissue FXN levels toward levels of heterozygous carriers that are asymptomatic,” writes analyst Myles Minter, Ph.D.
“We are upgrading shares of Larimar to outperform, given that we now have line of sight to Phase 2 sequential multiple-ascending dose data in FA in the second half of 2023 and the company is funded into the second half of 2024 with a $70-million ($75.7-million if the green shoe is exercised) follow-on offering announced in conjunction with regulatory news,” he added.
Dr. Minter said the FDA had previously placed a clinical hold on the program related to mortalities observed in high-dose non-human primate toxicology studies. The company responded with an updated tox report and proposed a sequential dose Phase 2 study, which was ultimately accepted by the FDA.
While the exact cause of the fatalities was not determined, Dr. Minter said the report included “findings of drug accumulation related to persistent edema at the injection site, possibly linked to mortality (3 of 34 animals) at the highest doses tested, while animals in other dose cohorts completed all study timepoints. The cause of mortalities is believed to be in part due to excessive drug exposure/accumulation in non-human primates displaying injection site reactions with significant oedema,” he added. | <urn:uuid:f2c9087f-04da-42bf-b6a1-e8ba613e2575> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://biotuesdays.com/2022/09/19/wb-ups-larimar-to-op-after-phase-2-clinical-hold-lifted/ | 2024-04-14T23:58:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.951012 | 387 |
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by Jolene Obrigewitch, Home On The Range Development Dir.
The theme of the North Dakota Knights of Columbus is “Charity is Love.” It’s certainly appropriate this Christmas season. Three short words that say so much, especially when talking about the children who live at Home On The Range (HOTR).
The children living at HOTR have been traumatized in many ways that people can’t imagine. They have experienced unimaginable things such as physical or emotional abuse. Some children have witnessed traumatic events that occurred around them such as domestic violence or drug and alcohol abuse. They more than likely haven’t experienced charity, and some haven’t received the love they so desire and need.
One resident shared, “My dad got really depressed when my ex-stepmom left. He turned to drugs and dropped everything, including work, friends and me. He was mad at everything, including God. I also got depressed. My dad was supposed to love me. He was supposed to be the one to tell the boys to go away. I became dependent on these boyfriends I had. Why wouldn’t I? It’s not like I had anyone to stop me, so off I went running around with these “boyfriends.” I didn’t even know how to love.”
At HOTR, the staff help the children cope with their issues, give them guidance and direction to make positive choices, teach them skills they can use to become stronger individuals, and role-model how to love, care and not judge each other.
Grateful for charitable acts
HOTR is grateful for the charity and love from benefactors. The children receive beautiful quilts or tie-blankets made by volunteers. The quilters give these blankets to the boys and girls so they can be wrapped with warmth and love. The kids proudly display their blankets on their beds and then take them home with them when they leave HOTR. Small groups will put together an Angel Tree to collect Christmas gifts for the boys and girls. This means so much to the kids, to open a Christmas gift on Christmas morning. It’s heartbreaking to hear how often some of the kids have never received a Christmas gift or Christmas dinner.
The true miracle of charity happens when the children not only acknowledge and appreciate all that is given to them, but when they make the decision to give back.
Another resident noted, “The reason I want to work in the kitchen is because I like helping others and being helpful. When I see the kitchen ladies struggling, I start thinking; they’re here almost all day and are probably tired. They also have to deal with us kids and sometimes the residents aren’t respectful or grateful for the food. I love knowing I’m making someone else’s job easier just by doing the dishes. I feel that working in the kitchen will also help me get into the habit of working hard, because I want to find a job when I get discharged. To me it’s better earning something rather than just getting it handed to me. If we didn’t get anything in return, I’d still do the dishes because I know it’s the right thing to do.”
When the boys and girls learn how to give back, they experience how good that giving feels. The student board decided to collect nonperishable items for the local food pantry. They said that there are people in town that have it worse than they do and may not get a Thanksgiving or Christmas meal. The children also help at the annual Mouse House. This is a place where young children can shop for Christmas gifts for their families. Donated items are priced from $1-$5. The HOTR students take the children shopping, help pick out special gifts and keep track of how much money they have to spend. Then the HOTR students help the kids wrap the gifts.
Reflecting on God’s love
From 1 Corinthians, we recall the verse, “The greatest of these is love.” This is not only expressed when the children unselfishly think of others, but moreover, when they reflect and remember that God loves each of us.
A resident shared, “While at HOTR I have learned a lot. I learned that a lot of people have had it way worse than me—for instance, Jesus. He was hurt and rejected and died on a cross and he did it for me. I have realized that my beauty comes from the inside of me and people like me. When I first came to HOTR, I was depressed about everything. I didn’t want to do anything with anyone. I hated everyone—even God. Why would He put me somewhere with all these strangers? I just didn’t understand it, but now I do. He put me at HOTR so that I could find myself. And, I found hope, love and faith. I’m just thankful to all the people who haven’t given up on me; that reflects in my daily life. If I find myself giving up on God, He will give me strength not to.”
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The BKDP leader Alexander Yaroshuk addressed the National Council on Labor and Social Issues (NCLSI) Co-Chairpersons: Vladimir Semashko, First Deputy Prime-Minister, Leonid Kozik, Chairperson of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FPB) and Anatoly Kharlap, Chairperson of the Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers). The address appeared due to concerns related to NCLSI’s activities. This important structure set up to influence directly economic and social policies has not had any meeting since January. The BKDP leader considers this fact as an unacceptable one since the problems in economy and social spheres affect hundred of thousands of Belarussian workers are accumulating rapidly and demanding their appropriate solutions.
As a NCLSI member, Alexander Yaroshuk insists on resuming regular Council meetings in the next two weeks. He proposed to put the most burning issues on agenda . They are: the draft of the new Law «On Trade Unions», new version of the Law «On Professional Pension Insurance», preservation of privileges for the most socially vulnerable groups of citizens of the country, implementation of Recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and bringing preferences in trade with EU countries back to Belarus . The leader of independent national trade union center also considers that the ways and terms of the creeping privatization of the industrial enterprises which has begun in the country is of vital importance.
To National Council on Labor and Social Issues Co-chaipersons:
Vladimir Semashko - First Deputy of Prime-Minister
Leonid Kozik - Chairperson of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FPB)
Anatoly Kharlap - Chairperson of the Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers)
Dear Mr. V. Semashko, Mr. L. Kozik and Mr. A. Kharlap,
The reason to address you is my concerns connected with the activity of National Council on Labor and Social Issues. It is impossible to consider normal that this important body set up to influence directly social and economic policy, has never gathered for the session since January. From my point of view, this fact cannot have any explanations, or justifications. Especially on a background of rapid increase in recent time of number of problems in social and economic spheres having negative impact on interests of hundreds of thousands of workers and demanding prompt reaction on the part of all parties of social dialogue in our country.
Among these problems is the Law "On Professional Pension Insurance" adopted during the first reading at spring session. It foresees cancellation of payment of higher pensions to workers who work in harmful conditions. There is also a problem of cancellation of social privileges for the whole group of the unprotected, needy citizens of the country (pensioners, students, invalids, etc.). Among these problems is the withdrawal of Belarus from the the European Union system of preferences in trade this summer because of regular infringement of the rights of trade unions. It is the doubtful initiative on the part of the government to adopt a new law «On Trade Unions», seriously worsening condition of setting up and functioning of the workers' unions. At last, it is the creeping privatization of the industrial enterprises which has begun in the country. It is being done privately, behind the closed doors; it excludes any broad informing of the public and participation of representatives of trade unions in this process. Such a situation is completely unacceptable. I think, you won’t deny the fact that even each of the problems mentioned here separately needs steadfast attention to itself as it touches upon interests of the state and destiny of many and many people, our compatriots. No one can say what may happen when all these problems, which have negative potential, are combined together. They may cause serious growth of social intensity in the near future and to lead to shocks in a society. In such a situation to behave like an ostrich hiding its head in sand and to pretend that nothing happens is not the best policy that state officials of the country having high authority power and resposibilities can afford. As a member of the National Council on Labor and Social Issues and taking into account the above-stated, I insist that the next session of the Council should be organized in the nearest two weeks and the following questions were included into its agenda:
1. On considering the final version of the Law "On Professional Pension Insurence" and introducing final ammendments concerning preservation of the full size pentions to workers employed in harmful conditions.
2. On preserving the privileges for most socially vulnerable groups of citizens of the country (pensioners, students, invalids, etc.).
3. On measures aimed at implementation of Recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and bringing back preferences in trade with the EU countries to the country.
4.On exclusion of articles seriously worsening terms and conditions of setting up and functioning workers' unions from the draft of the new Law "On Trade Unions»
5. On issues related to implementation of privatization process and on measures ensuring broad informing and participation of trade unions and broader public in it.
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Stephen Miahky, Joseph Joachim Professor of Violin
A teaching continuum
More than most professions, music celebrates the line of succession from teacher to student. Almost all master performers are also master teachers, passing on knowledge gained from experience to the next generation. Stephen Miahky, Joseph Joachim Professor of Violin, understands the importance of this time-honored approach.
“I’m a big believer in that aspect of history, how in the music world we hand things off to each other,” he says. “The fact that our teaching is done one-on-one, and in some ways is very much part of an oral tradition, it’s a continuum.”
Miahky teaches undergraduate and precollege students at Blair. “Not many universities can claim such a great precollege program,” he says. “That’s one thing that’s very exciting about Vanderbilt. When there are young musicians involved in the culture of the institution, it enhances the life of the university.”
As a performer, he plays first violin in Blair’s signature chamber ensemble, the Blair String Quartet, a position previously held by Christian Teal, who retired from Blair in July 2014 after 42 years.
“Replacing Chris is impossible,” Miahky says. “He’s been such a force and shaper of Blair. My goals are to try to build on what he’s done and keep going with the traditions that already have been started.”
One of those traditions is championing works by contemporary composers. Miahky, who is a member of the Brave New Works ensemble and the IRIS Orchestra—both of which focus on contemporary music—was drawn to the Blair String Quartet’s commitment to playing works by new composers, such as Images from a Closed Ward, written for the ensemble by Michael Hersch.
“We need to be advocates for the music of our time,” Miahky says. “I’m very happy that the quartet and others on the faculty tackle new works, bringing them to the forefront. It’s our responsibility.
“When you go to an art museum, you always want to see the great works of the past, but how they speak to the arts of the present is perhaps more interesting than the works themselves. That’s always been a big part of my musical life—performing, commissioning and interpreting new music.”
—Bonnie Arant Ertelt
Heather Conner, senior artist teacher of piano
As a recitalist and chamber musician, Heather Conner has performed in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New Haven, Moscow, Salzburg, Seoul and Salt Lake City. She won grand prizes at several international and national competitions and has performed on numerous occasions as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has recorded for the Naxos and Centaur labels and has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today.
Conner completed her doctor of musical arts in piano performance at the Manhattan School of Music studying with Arkady Aronov, a master of music from the Yale University School ofMusic under the guidance of Peter Frankl, and a bachelor of music from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Eleanor Sokoloff.
Ji Hye Jung, associate professor of percussion
Beginning her career in her native South Korea at the age of 9, Ji Hye Jung garnered consecutive first prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition after coming to the United States in 2004. She has presented concerts and master classes throughout the world, including with the Houston Symphony, at Carnegie Hall, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, Rice University, Beijing’s Central Conservatory and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. As the principal percussionist of West Coast-based chamber group Camerata Pacifica, she has presented premiere performances of works by Bright Sheng and Huang Ruo.
She holds a master of music from the Yale School of Music and a bachelor of music from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, both under the tutelage of Robert van Sice.
Christina McGann, adjunct artist teacher of violin
Christina McGann has been a featured performer at the Kennedy Center, the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, New York City’s Merkin Hall, Symphony Space and at various venues throughout the U.S., Korea, El Salvador and Europe. She has performed concertos with orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra, Musica Bella Orchestra in New York, the Moldovan Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony in Russia. She is also a sought-after orchestral musician and has been guest concertmaster of the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cape Cod Symphony.
McGann holds bachelor and master of music degrees in violin performance from the Juilliard School. Her principal teachers include Ronald Copes, Victor Danchenko, Robert Mann and Donald Weilerstein. She received her doctor of musical arts from State University of New York, Stony Brook, under the guidance of Soovin Kim, Philip Setzer and Hagai Shaham.
Ryan Middagh, lecturer in jazz studies
Ryan Middagh has received numerous commissions to write and arrange for high schools, colleges and professional musicians and ensembles throughout the country, and currently arranges music for Grammy-winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin. His music has been featured at the International Jazz Composers Symposium, recorded by professional and collegiate ensembles, and has been published by University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press.
As a saxophonist, he is endorsed by Conn-Selmer as a Yanagisawa Artist. He has performed with the Cab Calloway Orchestra, Nashville Jazz Orchestra and the Colorado Jazz Orchestra. Leading his own jazz octet, he has released two albums, Colorado Brew: Featuring Jeff Coffin and Tom Giampietro and To Somewhere and Back Again.
Middagh is pursuing his Ph.D. in jazz studies with a secondary emphasis in music composition at the University of Northern Colorado. He has earned three Downbeat awards as a member of UNC Jazz Lab Band One and sang in the Grammy-nominated Northern Colorado Voices.
Allison Edberg Nyquist, adjunct professor of baroque violin
Allison Edberg Nyquist is concertmaster of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, served as guest director of Music City Baroque this year, and is a member of Ensemble Voltaire, The Vivaldi Project and Baroque Band (Chicago). She performs frequently with Chatham Baroque, the Washington Bach Consort, and at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival and Bloomington Early Music Festival. Her discography includes recordings for the Eclectra, Delos and Centaur CD labels.
Highly regarded as a teacher, she has served on the faculties of Indiana State University, DePauw University, Ohio State University, the Interlochen Arts Camp and Lawrence University. She studied with Stanley Ritchie at the Indiana University Early Music Institute. She received a master of music from the University of Michigan where she studied with Camilla Wicks. Her bachelor’s degree is from the Peabody Institute with Daniel Heifetz.
Lindsey Reymore, adjunct artist teacher of musicianship
She has played with numerous festival orchestras, including the Banff Festival Orchestra, National Music Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival and the Marrowstone Fellowship Chamber Orchestra. She also plays baroque and classical oboe and is a member of the Austin Baroque Orchestra.
Reymore holds a master of music in oboe performance from the University of Texas at Austin as a student of Rebecca Henderson, and a bachelor of music from Vanderbilt University as a student of Jared Hauser.
Douglas Shadle, assistant professor of musicology
Douglas Shadle’s core research focuses on transatlantic musical cultures of the 19th century. His current book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, examines the complex and protean relationships between composers, performers, critics and audiences as nearly 50 American symphonists vied for space within national and international musical arenas throughout the century. He has contributed a chapter on early American symphonists to the final volume of A. Peter Brown’s The Symphonic Repertoire and an entry on “The Orchestra” to Oxford Bibliographies Online.
Previous research has appeared in American Music, Journal of the Society for American Music, Journal of Music History Pedagogy, MLA Notes, Journal of Musicological Research, and a peer-reviewed digital humanities project titled Verses and Fragments: The James L. Dusenbery Journal (1841–1842), hosted by the university library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | <urn:uuid:93f5c594-f1e1-4492-bc32-11cbf785c08e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blair.vanderbilt.edu/2015/06/30/blair-welcomes-eight-faculty-members-in-2014-15/ | 2024-04-14T23:03:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.949653 | 1,875 |
The Game, a proud father of three, is not letting online critics direct their comments at his daughter. The rapper took her defense after she posted a TikTok video of herself lip-synching and dancing to Sexyy Red and Tay Keith’s viral hit “Pound Town.”
In the video, California, who goes by “Cali,” is joined by her father and her two brothers dancing along to the track. In the comments, several people criticized the song choice, the rapper’s parenting skills, as well as Cali being 12 years old.
She replied to the critics in her own comment section.
“Some of y’all are really pushing 60 but in my comments mad on a tuesday get a lifeeeeee, or retire,” she said, garnering a few supportive replies.
Online critics didn’t stop there, they doubled down when celebrity gossip page Hollywood Unlocked shared the video on its Instagram account.
“She my kid,” commented The Game. “1/2 y’all kids got snot frozen on the outside of they nose but you tryna weigh in on the parenthood of mine… My kid in private school wearing uniforms makin straight A’s.. we good over here.”
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It isn’t the first time the rapper has come to his daughter’s defense against online critics. Late last year, Cali received hateful comments after she posted a photograph of herself dressed in a silver dress. She attended the Combs twins Sweet 16 party, which had a futuristic theme.
“I’m gonna say this once so people who aren’t her parents get it. My daughter is 12 & both of her parents are more than strict,” The Game commented under a post by The Shade Room.
The rapper referred to his ex partner and Cali’s mother, Tiffney Cambridge, who he referred to as an “amazing parent.” He explained that they checked in with each other to see if her outfit would be okay to wear at the party.
“I am her father and her protector and she is and will always be an amazing young woman,” he wrote. “I wish everyone happy holidays and thanks for your opinions on a child that belongs to US but we GOT THIS.”
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5 tips to get you back in gear
Happy New Year, Brave Writer families!
Too bad we can’t settle into a “long winter’s nap” right about now. January insists that you be productive, so let’s look at 5 ways to do it that I hope are relatively pain free.
If you live down under: You just finished your big holiday and it’s summer vacation. Rock it! Have a great time. We in the north envy you, but we know it’s well deserved.
1. Get cozy
It’s winter in the northern hemisphere. Everyone is nicer to each other under cuddly blankets or with fires roaring or with tea and candles. Don’t “hit the workbooks” so much as invite everyone back to the routine with a little attention to snuggling and pleasing natural light. Remember that winter can create a sinking feeling—moodiness, depression, pessimism, loneliness—all due to loss of sunlight. So bring some inside and warm up the space. Keeping tables and counters clear seems to matter more in winter too.
2. Read aloud
Nothing says “gentle return to education” like a new novel to read together. Pick something you loved as a child (not a new novel). This is “comfort food” time. Find the joy in the novels of your youth (pair it with The Arrow, if we have an issue created for it). This month’s issue (Jan 2013) is for Little Town on the Prairie (my favorite children’s book series of all time). You might also love reading Wind in the Willows to help foster the coziness you need (how can you resist Mole’s home?).
For older kids, you might simply designate a time that everyone reads to themselves at the same time. Shared reading time, with a fire, is amazingly intimate. It creates a dynamic of valuing literature and private reading experience, while also giving the home a moment of silence (akin to when a newborn baby is sleeping and a hush comes over the space). The Boomerang Already Published Issues is a great place to find titles to read.
Plan ahead and execute the One Thing you’ve been meaning to do all fall but never got to it: Poetry Teatime, Party School, etc. Check out our blog entry on how to focus on one thing at a time.
4. Go on a field trip to…
A nature center, a ski lodge, the library, an art museum, the movie theater, the zoo, a restaurant from another culture, your best friend’s house, McDonald’s playland (yes, sometimes that’s even a good idea in January), a shopping trip to China Town, or Little Saigon, or the Italian Quarter. Pick one. Plan it. Do it. Get OUT of the house.
5. Add one novelty item to your homeschool
This could be a new set of watercolors with an easel. You might purchase a whole set of dinosaur cookie cutters to go with your dinosaur unit and you will make playdoh and do cut outs. Maybe you add a bird feeder to the nearby tree and spend some time each day noting which birds show up. Get a new strategy board game or several decks of cards and teach everyone Solitaire. Even a new sled (for outside) or a mini trampoline (for the garage or basement) can inject some lively activity when you start to feel trapped indoors.
The main thing to remember is that January is the middle of the year. You can actually plug along nicely in your traditional education work (math, science, grammar work, reading, writing) because the quieter, slower months are conducive to all of that. Just remember to not let cabin fever take over. In those moments, remind yourself of this list and pick ONE to do! | <urn:uuid:a8824a29-56e7-4844-8ad0-1d6ba071a127> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.bravewriter.com/2013/01/02/5-tips-to-get-you-back-in-gear/ | 2024-04-14T23:23:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.940258 | 816 |
Brands Can Reach More Consumers with Amazon's Investment in Music and Video
Amazon is set to invest $7 billion in music and video content this year. The main objective is to make Prime the most valuable service of its kind in the industry. Music and video will lead the marketplace giant into new markets and give it the potential to take the lead over existing competitors. This strategic decision also holds significance for the brands who sell on Amazon. Continue reading to learn more about how Amazon’s investment in music and video will help brands reach more consumers.
Leverage Advertising Through Subscriptions and Smart Speakers
Amazon’s focus on music and video opens the door to new revenue through streaming subscriptions. Consumers will now have the option to choose Amazon over services like Spotify, Pandora, TIDAL, and Apple Music. If Amazon offers competitive pricing for shoppers, it will stand out from the key players that currently capture the market. This is one step toward expanding and enhancing its value across all retail.
Subscription services also will provide brands on Amazon another avenue to target customers through over-the-top (OTT) advertising. This is exciting because brands will potentially be able to target many of the 53 million adults in the United States who own a smart speaker as a part of this new audience. We can expect Amazon will claim even more advertising dollars versus traditional avenues, like Facebook and Google than it did earlier this year.
Amazon's Investment in Music and Video Aims to Increase Loyalty and Retain Customers
Investing in the lucrative market of streaming creates the opportunity for more consumers to become loyal to the brands selling on Amazon’s marketplace. Amazon’s hope is that the more people who use its services across the board, the more likely they will be to use Amazon to shop for products as well.
Brands will have the chance to leverage this high-level loyalty and a wider span of spenders as more traffic makes its way to the platform.
As Amazon continues its journey to become the leader in all retail, brands who sell on its platform can stay on top of the developments and enhancements along the way. If your brand needs a strategic partner and resource for all things Amazon, schedule a free consultation.
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The 19th century 20’s brought in the first industrial revolution with powered looms and steam powered railroads. The 20th century’s 20’s were roaring, an age of prosperity that ushered in widespread use of automobiles, telephones, movies, radio, electrical appliances, and air travel.
Cliff and Dorothy together would have been unstoppable.
Will the 21st century 20’s be the augmented 20’s?
We are or have been living in the “Information Age.” According to Wikipedia, the Information Age is “characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization to an economy primarily based upon information technology.” It’s hard to know what “information technology” means in this context. To my mind, the economy is primarily based on the purchase and sale of electronic gadgets that facilitate the dissemination and capture of information, Apple, Sony, Samsung, and companies that manage the information, Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn. People seem to REALLY like this “information technology,” so despite its misgivings, I suspect it will remain an important part of the economy in the 20’s.
The information age has created numerous ways to capture information and a virtually unlimited capacity to store it. The problem: We don’t have reliable means for retrieving the stored information. Google is great. Don’t get me wrong, but find that corgi video you watched 25 times and sent to all your friends in June of 2012 (after you’ve finished reading this post). Good luck…
This deficiency has made much of the information we’ve worked so hard to capture and store unusable. Neither the user nor computer has the vocabulary distinguish the cute corgi video that you remember from 2012 from the millions of cute corgi videos that have been captured and disseminated in the time before and after you spent 2 hours binge watching a little fluff ball throw a ball to himself 8 years ago.
Wouldn’t it be easier to find your favorite videos if you could describe what happens in the video (a corgi puppy throws a ball in the air and catches it) and your computer/smartphone/tablet could understand your description and return videos that meet it?
That’s exactly what AI technology, natural language processing specifically, promises to do: Make information accessible by allowing you and your device to speak the same language with the goal of making it easier to retrieve specific information quickly.
Intelligence is measured against time. In our society, geniuses know the answer. Really smart people can extrapolate the answer from what they know. Smart people know where to look for the answer. The rest of us hope Wikipedia is right. Nearly every test you’ve ever taken is timed, and clients often judge attorneys by “responsiveness,” i.e. how quickly they respond to their questions. Time separates the Ken Jennings of the world from the Cliff Clavons. Having the internet’s collective knowledge at your fingertips will undoubtedly make many Cliffs, Kens, by augmenting intelligence.
Boolean searching was a good start, and Google has done an incredible job of leveraging user data to identify what consumers are looking for in a few words. For example, a search for “meatball Pittsburgh” will immediately return Emporio: A Meatball Joint, which is a darn good place for meatballs, as the first result. Emporio is returned first because Google users have viewed the Emporio page more often than Sienna Mercato, the larger restaurant that encompasses Emporio. Weighting by popularity, scoring pages that were visited by users who entered similar queries more highly, works great for consumers and basic searching.
Unfortunately, weighting by popularity is not helpful when searching for technical information, scholarly articles, or patents. In most cases, search engines designed to search technical information score return results based on the number of times query terms are used. Our “meatball Pittsburgh” search on Google Scholar returns the book Pickles to Pittsburgh: The Sequel To Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and “New structures in complex formation between DNA and cationic liposomes visualized by freeze—fracture electron microscopy,” a scholarly article by University of Pittsburgh scientist that describes liposomes as “meatballs.” Notably, the terms “meatball(s)” and “Pittsburgh” are bolded in the description.
Most search engines simply count the number of times the search terms are used. There is no accounting for the relationship between the search terms, the spatial relationship of the terms in the text, or context. “Meatballs,” the food, and “meatballs,” the liposomes, are equivalent, and top references use the term meatballs more often than lower scored references regardless how this term is used. These searches return 1000’s of results that must be carefully reviewed to find texts in which the terms are used together in the proper context. Term counting is not a great way to search if you are trying to find information quickly.
Among other things, natural language processing (NLP) applies the whole search query to the search taking into account the relationships between the terms, their spatial relationship, and how they are used. Rather than simply searching for “meatballs Pittsburgh,” NLP based search allows users to describe exactly what they are looking for. For example, a search for “a meatball sandwich with bacon aioli on ciabatta” will find menu descriptions and recipes that include each of the components of the query, meatballs, bacon aioli, and ciabatta. NLP based search engines understand the relationship between words in the query and results, returning a description of a “meatball sandwich” higher than a description of a “bacon sandwich,” and the context of the query, returning descriptions of food before the descriptions of liposome meatballs.
There is a lot of work to be done before NLP based search engines truly understand written or spoken language. But, by using the relationship between terms, and their spatial relationship and context, NLP based search is a huge advance in searching technology. Dorothy returns 100 results that include sentences and paragraphs that describe the subject matter of the search query rather than 1000’s of results that simply use the terms, dramatically reducing the amount of time required to review search results. As this technology improves, the return results will be even more accurate, answering the questions encompassed by your queries more quickly and augmenting your intelligence. | <urn:uuid:eca5fefa-a7cd-488f-a21e-afe9d6f670c9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.dorothyai.com/blog/augmenting-intelligence-since-2020 | 2024-04-15T00:04:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.939362 | 1,382 |
I just fixed all known generics related bugs in the GExperts code formatter (again) \o/ You are extensively using Generics? Go ahead, compile your own dll and file bug reports for the ones I missed.
I just released GExperts 1.3.14 for all supported Delphi versions. Apart from the bug fixes to the source code formatter there are the following changes: Export and Import entries for the Tools menu (blog post) Copy and paste for Delphi Tool menu entries (blog post) The Uses Clause Manager builds its list of identifiers in … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.14 experimental twm 2019-09-08 released
There were some long standing bugs in the GExperts code formatter, most of them concerning language features that didn't exist back in Delphi 2007 (and therefore were not my primary concern for a long time). I have fixed several of them now: Anonymous methods were not indented correctly Various problems with Generics as reported here … Continue reading Various bugs in the GExperts code formatter fixed
Two more formatter bugs just got axed: #133 Code formatter does not support the "Final" keyword #134: Formatter does not handle variant records with methods correctly Also found and fixed a problem with the Uses Expert, but that was not in the released code yet. Still no new release yet, but you can always compile … Continue reading Fixed two more formatter bugs | <urn:uuid:5f371244-aa73-478c-b818-7930775481d9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2019/09/ | 2024-04-14T23:53:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.91963 | 293 |
The last US Navy propeller attack aircraft to disappear from the decks of the flat tops was the Douglas AD Skyraider. This aeroplane had a unique capability: even when it carried its full internal fuel of 2,280 pounds, a 2,200 lb torpedo, two 2,000 lb bombs, 12.5 inch rockets, two 20 mm guns and 240 pounds of ammunition, the Skyraider was still under its maximum gross weight of 25,000 pounds.
Entered in service just in time to take part in the Korean War, the Skyraiders in the improved A-1H version were quite slow; nevertheless in spite of performance not even comparable to those of the other assets in the Air Wing’s strike group, the propeller-driven attack aircraft managed to shoot down two MiG-17s during the early part of the Vietnam War.
In fact, some of the most unusual kills of the conflict did not come from the F-4s, F-105s, or F-8s but from the Korean War era piston-engine Skyraiders, thanks to the four M3 20 mm fixed forward-firing cannons capable of firing 800 rounds per minute, that fitted the A-1Hs.
The first of these victorious engagements took place on Jun. 20, 1965, when a flight of Skyraiders from the Strike Squadron 25 (VA-25) Fist of the Fleet, took off from the USS Midway (CVA-41) supporting the rescue of a downed USAF pilot in the northwest corner of North Vietnam were attacked by a flight of MiG-17s. The two enemy jets launched missiles and fired with their cannons against the two A-1Hs, but both Skyraiders’ pilots, Lt. Charles W. Hartman III, flying A-1H BuNo 137523, radio callsign “Canasta 573,” and Lt. Clinton B. Johnson, flying A-1H BuNo 139768, callsign “Canasta 577,” evaded them and manoeuvred to shoot down one of the MiGs with their 20 mm cannons.
Lt. Johnson described this engagement in Donald J. McCarthy, Jr. book 'MiG Killers' as follows: “I fired a short burst at the MiG and missed, but got the MiG pilot’s attention. He turned into us, making a head-on pass. Charlie and I fired simultaneously as he passed so close that Charlie thought I had hit his vertical stabiliser with the tip of my tail hook. Both of us fired all four guns. Charlie’s rounds appeared to go down the intake and into the wing root, and mine along the top of the fuselage and through the canopy. He never returned our fire, rolled, inverted, and hit a small hill, exploding and burning in a farm field.” The subsequent MiG kill of this engagement was shared by both Hartmann III and Johnson.
The second victory of the propeller-driven Skyraider against a North Vietnamese MiG-17 jet fighter, took place on Oct. 9, 1966 and involved four A-1Hs launched from the deck of the USS Intrepid (CV-11) in the Gulf of Tonkin flying as “Papoose flight.”
The flight was from the Strike Squadron 176 (VA-176) Thunderbolts and it was led by Lt. Cdr. Leo Cook, with Lt. Wiley as wingman, while the second section was led by Lt. Peter Russell with Lt. William T. Patton as wingman. It was during the RESCAP (the REScue Combat Air Patrol, a mission flown to protect the downed pilots from ground threats) flight, that the “Spads” (as the Skyraiders were dubbed by their pilots) were attacked by four MiG-17s. This engagement ended with one Fresco confirmed as being shot down, a second as probably shot down and a third heavily damaged.
According to McCarthy, the MiG-17 kill was awarded to “Papoose 409,” the A-1H BuNo 137543, flown by Lt. Patton who, after having gained a position of advantage on one of the MiGs, opened fire with his four guns, hitting the tail section of the enemy jet. Patton followed the MiG which descended through the cloud deck and when Papoose 409 emerged from the clouds he spotted the enemy pilot’s parachute.
The U.S. Navy Skyraiders last combat tour took place from July 1967 to 1968 onboard USS Coral Sea (CV-43), but this versatile propeller aircraft continued to fly with the U.S. Air Force and with the Vietnamese Air Force until the end of the conflict thanks to its unparalleled capabilities in close air support. | <urn:uuid:8dcba09a-3e75-4024-bfaa-dfe3a7a16ef6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.eastmanleather.com/view-post/mig-killers | 2024-04-15T00:47:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.969858 | 1,001 |
Auto Expo 2016 Tickets can now be Booked online
Good news for Indian auto-enthusiasts! The tickets for Auto Expo 2016 are now available online. Auto Expo is the India’s largest motor show that commences from February 5 to February 9 at New Delhi. It is a festival for those who are in the automotive domain – an event where auto brands, car manufacturers, motorcycles manufacturers converge to showcase and exhibit their innovation, concept cars, upcoming models and for other break-throughs.
The tickets for 2016 Auto Expo can be bought exclusively at the official website www.autoexpo-themotorshow.in and also at the popular ticket booking website – www.bookmyshow.com. The 5 day event will be held at the India Expo Mart Limited (IEML) in Greater Noida of NCR.
The 2016 Auto Expo Motorshow in Delhi acts as a platform for leading vehicle manufacturers across the world to showcase their upcoming and next-generation vehicles with innovative technologies.
Auto Expo 2016 Tickets
The tickets for Auto Expo 2016 is priced at INR 300 for public hours during weekdays (1pm to 6pm), and Rs 400 for weekends (10am to 7pm). For the visits during Morning business hours on weekdays (10am to 1pm), the tickets would cost you Rs 650 per head. The business hours ticket holders for Auto Expo would also be able to enter the venue during public hours, until 6pm.
Free home delivery facility is provided for those who would book 3 to 10 tickets before December 31, 2015. If you book tickets after Dec 31, the delivery charges of Rs 75 are applied per booking. The ticket delivery starts from January 15th of 2016. The booked tickets can also be collected from exchange counters at the counters located at parking lots near the event venue. | <urn:uuid:f15672a1-6ffe-4ada-9588-ab0b70d23329> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.gaadikey.com/auto-expo-2016-tickets-can-now-be-booked-online/ | 2024-04-14T23:51:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.963286 | 373 |
The Mossin Nagant M44 is a Russian rifle that came into being around 1944 and stayed in production until sometime in 1948.
This rifle evolved from the longer Model 91/30. During WWII the Russian Military saw a need for a carbine that was better suited for urban combat. A few Mossin Nagant variants eventually led to the M44. Most of the changes had to deal with bayonet configurations (The Russians were big on bayonets).
The Mossin Nagant M44: Details
- Caliber: 7.62x54R
- Capacity: 5 Rounds
- Action: Bolt
- Safety: Rear Knob
- Sights: Front Post, adjustable for windage; Rear Ramp adjustable for elevation to 1,000 meters
- Barrel Length: 20.5 Inches
- Overall Length: 40.4 Inches
- Weight: 8.9 Lbs.
The 7.62x54R cartridge has been around since the 1890’s and probably the longest lived in active service. This cartridge is on par with a .30-06 for ballistics and power. Ammo is readily available. The least expensive is bulk surplus that can be shipped in paper and cardboard or 440 round green “spam” cans. This stuff wouldn’t be bad for target practice, stopping trucks, or punching cement block walls as its all full metal jacket. The surplus ammo is also known for using corrosive primers, which require extra care after a day at the range. Surplus is also steel cased Berdan Primed, which rules out reloading.
The market has also opened up with game and hunting loads for the Mossin Nagant. Rounds are inexpensive when compared to other high power calibers. These rounds are jacketed soft point bullets with Boxer Primed brass, which is excellent news for reloaders. These rounds turn the M44 into a true woods rifle for hunting large game.
The M44 is a rugged built rifle with all parts being steel, wood, canvas and leather. Plastic is not found on this weapon…anywhere. It is designed to be dropped, swung, shot and generally take abuse. The sling is a simple “Dog Collar” affair. Two leather buckle straps hold the canvas and leather sling to the rifle, attaching to milled slots in the stock (no squeaking or clanking metal).
The front sight is a protected post that is adjustable for windage (though you really have to put some force into moving it).
The rear sight is a simple square notch sight that is adjustable for elevation. The elevation / range is a slider bar mark out 1,000 meters. I’m not sure I could hit anything that far away, but it’s still a neat feature.
Of all the features and mechanical design of the M44 and all Mossin Nagant rifles that is poorly thought out, is the safety. The safety is not easy to use or quick to disengage. The rifle is put on safe by means of a knob at the rear of the bolt. You grasp the knob, pull it to the rear (against the force of the fire pin spring) and turn counter clockwise.
Safety off is the opposite procedure accomplished by turning clockwise.
Personally, when hunting I have it easier just to leave the bolt in an upright position, thus rendering the rifle incapable of firing. Then it is a simple matter of closing the bolt to be ready. There are parts available to modify the safety making it somewhat easier to use.
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Curious to know who makes the cut as one of Forbes’ top influencers? The magazine has released its 30 Under 30 for 2021, and various social media stars appear among the ranks.
Now, 30 Under 30 may not be the definitive list to use when you want to find influencers for your brand. Always choose influencers who fit your brand’s goals and personality, and who also work with your budget and campaign timeline.
Yet, lists like these remind us of just how much, well, influence, the influencer marketing industry has on our world. So let’s take a brief look at the list and see why it matters.
What’s 30 Under 30?
Every year, Forbes magazine releases the 30 Under 30 list for four distinct regions: North Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. The lists highlight people under 30 who have made a mark on various industries like entertainment, finance, education, or social media.
Names are put forth via nominations, and then Forbes’ teams of researchers and fact-checkers whittle down the lists to semifinalists. Panels of top judges from each industry then vote to secure the finalists.
This year, various influencers made the cut. Youtubers, TikTokers and Instagrammers appear among teenage robotics scientists, researchers improving the accuracy of cancer testing, famous musicians, and startups planting trees with drones.
Who are some of the Forbes top influencers for this year?
Here’s a quick look at 5 of Forbes’ top influencers. For the whole list, check out the link at the bottom of this article.
This 26-year-old from New Jersey has over 13 million subscribers and 700 million views on his Youtube channel MKBHD. Brownlee studied at the Stevens Institute of Technology and his channel is all about tech. He’s reviewed all types of computers, smartphones, cameras and more, and has also interviewed celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk.
Sanjana grew up in Australia but is of Indian heritage. In 2017, she founded BrownGirlGang on Instagram due to a lack of representation of South Asian women in mainstream media. The page has about 129K followers and has been featured in the BBC, The Times India and The Huffington Post. Sanjana, 24, has been steadily growing the page since its inception and now has followers from around the world.
Beckii Flint and Alice Jones
Beckii Flint is an influencer turned influencer marketer. The 25-year-old first became famous in Japan, where Youtube videos of her dancing to J-Pop music went viral. In 2019, she partnered with seasoned marketer Alice Jones to start Pepper Studio, an influencer marketing agency. Together, they merge the creator and marketer perspectives to lead successful campaigns for their clients.
Addison Rae Easterling
Forbes cites this 20-year-old dancer as the top-earning TikToker. Since her dance videos blew up the social network, she’s secured collaborations with Rebook, American Eagle, and Swedish watch brand Daniel Wellington. Addison will also debut her acting career in a remake of She’s All That.
Michael Le and Michael Uy
The two Michaels, both 20, are the co-founders of Shluv House, an LA-based TikTok collective. Le, also known as @justmaiko, has 47.3 million followers on TikTok and handles the collective’s creative angle. Uy handles the business side of things, like finding collaboration deals for the group.
What do these Forbes top influencers mean for influencer marketing?
Research suggests that influencer marketing will be worth $15 billion in 2021. The money’s there, and with so many influencers appearing in lists like 30 Under 30, the prestige is too. Influencer marketing has solidified its position in the modern economy.
The list demonstrates how far influencers can go, too. Whether it’s ending up interviewing Barack Obama, starring in movies, or starting your own influencer marketing agency, influencers can leverage their social media fame and skills as a creator to brand into other areas.
Finally, the presence of TikTokers in the list can’t be denied. The network was the most downloaded app of 2020 both on Android and IOS, and TikTokers are gaining more and more traction with brands. So if your brand hasn’t yet tried it out, discover how to use TikTok for influencer marketing.
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Have you ever struggled with how to find someone on Instagram? One of the main purposes of social media is to connect with other people. But that’s not always as easy as clicking “follow.”
What do you do when you want to find someone on Instagram but don’t know their username?
You might know the real name of the person you want to find, but remember that many social media users create handles, or nicknames, to identify themselves online. So if you don’t know someone’s handle, how can you find them?
Thankfully, there are some other ways you can find someone on Instagram. This article will look at the most effective ways to do that. We’ll also touch on how businesses can find Instagram influencers easily by using Heepsy.
How to find someone on Instagram
According to the most recent count, there are over 1 billion active monthly users on Instagram. That means more than 12% of the world’s 7.7 billion population use Instagram every month. Long story short: there are a lot of people on Instagram.
If you want to find one specific person among these billions of users, there are various techniques you can use. Let’s look at 8 different ways to find someone on Instagram.
Read this first: the Instagram search bar
Before you can start trying to find someone on Instagram, you have to understand the app’s search bar. Look for the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the app, and click on it. It opens the search and discover panel.
At the top you see the search bar, and below that, you see content that Instagram recommends you check out based on your habits on the platform. Let’s ignore that content for now and focus on searching.
If you tap the search bar, you’ll see it open up with four options:
- Top – These results are a mixed bag of accounts, hashtags, and places. Instagram shows you things you’ve recently searched, as well as what it thinks you might want to find.
- Accounts – If you choose this tab, the app will only show you accounts. If you start typing in a name, Instagram will show you accounts you already follow, celebrities, or popular influencers whose handles match what you’ve typed in.
- Tags – This is the same as Accounts, but for hashtags.
- Places – You can see locations near you, or type one in.
In general, Instagram’s algorithm uses your past usage to predict what you might be looking for and show you the results it deems most relevant.
Now, if you know the handle of the user you want to find, it’s easy. Or, if you know their name, you could try searching for that, too. In addition to creating a handle, Instagram allows people to include their name on their profile. To find someone on Instagram with this method:
- Click the magnifying glass to go to the search panel.
- Tap the search bar at the top and then the Accounts tab.
- Type in the handle or the name of the person.
- Look at the users who pop up and see if you find your target.
Voila! Their profile will show up, and you can take a look or follow them. Remember if the profile is private, you have to request to follow them and wait for their approval before you can see their content.
Anyway, if you’re reading this article, chances are you might not know the handle or full name of the person you’re looking for. If you don’t know the person’s handle, finding them will be significantly more difficult. But you can give some other methods a go.
Friends of friends
Is the person you’re trying to find a friend of a friend? If your target might be connected to someone you already follow, you might be able to find them through your friend’s profile.
To find someone on Instagram through someone else you already follow:
- Navigate to your friend’s profile (the profile of the person you already follow).
- At the top of their profile, tap either followers or following.
- Start to type the name of the person you want to find.
At this point, Instagram will show you all the people connected to your friend whose usernames or names match what you’ve typed. If you find the person you’re looking for, great! If not, try another method from this list.
If you couldn’t find the person you’re looking for through a specific friend’s profile, you can try using the Discover people feature. This is a good option if the target might be connected to someone you already follow, but you’re not sure specifically who.
Full disclosure: if you have no connection whatsoever to the person you’re trying to find, they probably won’t show up here. But it only takes a few seconds to check.
To find someone on Instagram using Discover people, follow these steps:
- Go to your profile. Look for the person icon at the bottom of the app.
- Next to the button that says Edit Profile, click the dropdown arrow.
- In the expanded section, scroll to the right to see people Instagram thinks you know.
- If you want to discover more people, click See All.
The accounts that appear in this section works pretty similarly to Facebook’s recommended friends widget (and not surprisingly, as Facebook owns Instagram). Instagram will show you primarily accounts that you have mutual friends in common with. So if the person you’re looking for knows some of the same people as you, they could show up here.
Another way to find someone on Instagram is to go through the contacts you already have on your phone. So, if you got someone’s number and name, but can’t find them on Instagram, you could sync your contacts and see if the info you have on your phone matches what Instagram has on file.
You can sync contacts in a few steps:
- Go to your profile.
- Click the icon at the top right that looks like three lines.
- In the pop-out menu, click the gear icon to go to Settings.
- At the bottom of the list of settings, choose Account.
- Within the Account menu, tap Contact syncing.
- Toggle Connect contacts ON so that Instagram can access your contacts.
Now, if you go back to Discover people, you’ll probably see new suggested accounts based on the contacts you have stored in your phone.
If none of the above methods helped you find the person you’re looking for, it might get a bit more complicated now. But, you can try to find someone on Instagram by looking for them in connection with a specific location.
Do you know where the person is from? What’s their favorite restaurant, bar, or spot to hang out? Are they currently on vacation somewhere?
If you know something about the person’s location, you can use Places to try to find them. To find someone on Instagram using Places:
- Click the magnifying glass to go to the search panel.
- Tap the search bar at the top and then the Places tab.
- Type in the place where you expect to find the person.
- Scroll through the content and see if you find them.
Keep in mind that you’ll only be able to find someone if they’ve recently posted on Instagram. Also, while this might work at the micro level, like a specific restaurant or small town, it’s not a feasible strategy for very large places popular on Instagram. For example, trying to find someone who you know is in New York City will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Hashtags are essentially keywords that people apply to content on Instagram. If you take photos of your Rottweiler puppy and want other people to be able to discover that content, you might apply the hashtags #rottweiler, #rottie, or #dogsofinstagram.
So, if the person you’re trying to find belongs to some niche and might use hashtags on their posts, you could potentially find them if you search for the right hashtags. To find someone on Instagram using hashtags:
- Click the magnifying glass to go to the search panel.
- Tap the search bar at the top and then the Tags tab.
- Type in the hashtags you want to target. You don’t need to put the #, Instagram will do that for you.
- Take a look at the content tagged with those hashtags and see if you can find the person you’re looking for.
Now, this strategy really only works if you know that your target person is dedicated to a certain niche. For example, if the person is into #veganglutenfreebaking, which matches 2.1K posts, you might be able to find them.
But if they would only be using broad hashtags like #travel, which appears 571M times on Instagram, it will be nigh on impossible to locate them. Likewise, if they don’t use hashtags at all, they won’t show up here.
You could step outside Instagram and Google the person if you’re not able to find them on the app. With the power of an entire search engine behind you, you’ll get much more comprehensive results. One of those results might in turn lead you to the Instagram profile of the person you want to find.
Just bear in mind that when you search the entire Internet, you’ll see all types of results not related to IG. So this could take up a bit more time if you want to thoroughly review what the search engine returns to you.
If you’ve gone through all these other steps to try to find someone, you’ve probably done it because you don’t want to actually tell the person you’re looking for them on Instagram. But if all else fails, why not just ask the person directly if they have an account?
Nowadays, it’s normal for people to trade Instagrams, TikToks, LinkedIns, and other social profiles without it being awkward. A simple “Hey, do you have Insta?” could save you lots of time you’d otherwise spend searching. The next time you see them, ask them! And if it’s not someone you see often, try reaching out via email, SMS, Whatsapp, or another social network.
Reasons you might not be able to find someone on Instagram
No matter how hard you try, sometimes you just won’t be able to find the person you’re looking for on Instagram. This could be for a variety of reasons, which have nothing to do with you or your searching skills.
Why might you be unable to find someone on Instagram? Well, it could be due to any of the following:
- The person doesn’t have an account. 1 billion people use Instagram monthly, but another 6 or so billion don’t.
- You mispelled their name or username. Keep in mind some common names have multiple spellings (Katherine or Catherine? John or Jon?)
- Their account might have been deleted, suspended, or blocked. Maybe they had Instagram and chose to get rid of it. Or maybe the network suspended or blocked them.
- It could be a bug. See if anything else in the app is acting weird. Despite the resources behind companies like Facebook, not everything is always 100% under their control.
- The user may have been shadow banned. For example, imagine you know the person you’re trying to find was Instagramming at a specific restaurant last night, but you can’t find their posts when searching for the restaurant in Places. First off, maybe they didn’t use a geotag. Or, Instagram may have shadow banned their post. With this type of ban, the whole profile won’t necessarily appear blocked
How to find someone on Heepsy
Heepsy isn’t made to find people on Instagram just to take a look at their profile. We designed it specifically for businesses, primarily brands and agencies, to help them find and analyze influencers.
The idea of Heepsy is that you don’t have to know which influencer you want to find. Yes, you can search by handle. But you can also use our search filters to find influencers that meet your specific criteria.
Want a fashion influencer? Who has between 15-50K followers? Who’s based in London, and who’s interested in slow fashion? Plug those parameters into our tool and you’ll see all the Instagram influencers who match them.
To learn more about how to find influencers with Heepsy, check out the blog post How to Best Utilize Your Influencer Search.
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Hogwarts High School show casts spell over ISB
By Nick Yates, ISB Communications
Published on Friday, April 28, 2023
Cast, crew, and audiences at the International School of Beijing (ISB) had a spellbinding experience this week with a theater production that was perfect for indulging students’ passions and captivating them in challenging and joyful learning.
Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic is a spin on the well-loved books about young wizards told from the perspective of the underdog Puff characters. Written by Matt Cox, the play features humor, action, and magical visuals.
It was a great choice as the first High School staff-directed production since the pandemic because of its appeal to young and old in the ISB community. The original books and their movie adaptations are a worldwide phenomenon of course, and ISB’s Elementary, Middle, and High Schools are packed with Potter fans.
ISB has Strategic Focus Areas that include ensuring effective learning and helping students find curricular and co-curricular areas they are passionate about and in which they can excel. With such popular subject matter, learners in the audience and on stage were gripped by Puffs. ISB and other modern schools know how important it is to captivate students and give them study topics and projects they can enjoy for their learning to be at its best. Likewise, it’s recognized in education today that performing arts and other co-curricular pursuits play a valuable role alongside traditional academics in producing well-rounded students.
Here are some ISB community members’ accounts of how Puffs was brought to the stage and what spending time in the captivating world of Hogwarts meant to them…
Chelsea Hill, High School Theater Teacher
“It’s been over a year since I started looking for a High School production. After arriving at ISB, I felt the community needed a production that was lighthearted, whose story was familiar, and that would involve a lot of people.
“Puffs came to my mind early on, but I put it aside knowing that it is a very challenging show to produce… an ensemble with hardly any moments of pause, over 100 props, actors that have to switch characters and costumes within seconds, over 200 sound cues, and 300 to 400 light cues… very technical. As the weeks went on, I read play after play, but nothing seemed quite right. Puffs looked more doable after I met the amazing Chris Ma [ISB’s theater manager] and his team. After a few more team members stepped up, I felt, with everyone’s support, we could do it.
“It’s been a great experience for everyone. We have two fabulous students, Zack Y and Jade W, who attended every rehearsal, taking meticulous notes and doing an incredible amount of organization and coaching. I was also really pleased to have so many new-to-acting students join the production. We’ve focused a lot on ensemble building, pacing, and verbal and physical expression. I’m very proud of how everyone has grown and taken ownership of their parts/roles. I think we’ve accomplished our goal of bringing the community together, making them laugh, and sharing our passion for theater.”
Jasmine G, Grade 8, watched Puffs on Wednesday
“I was extremely excited especially because I’m a huge fan of the movies. I thought it was a super cool idea to retell the story from a Puff perspective so I could see a different point of view. There were a few friends of mine who hadn’t read the books who did find this show a little bit confusing. But overall, I would rate the show 4.5 out of 5!
“I learned how I can help improve ISB as a more welcoming community. Like the Puffs house in the show, I want ISB to be a place that can welcome everyone, no matter who they are. As an international school with students from around the world, we need to work harder to make sure that everybody can feel at home [here].
“When students can easily identify with something, it makes it easier for them to relate, enjoy, and remember what they are learning. That’s why I think it is important to base a lot of our learning on material we are familiar with, because then we can review what we know and cross-apply that to learn what we don’t know.”
Eva Y, Grade 8, also enjoyed being in the audience
“After watching the show, I realize the power of love and friendship. Being sorted into the worst house (the Puffs) was [a blow for the Megan character]. However, everything changed for her as she became friends with Oliver, and their friendship grew as they overcame difficulties together. It teaches us the importance of love and willingness to sacrifice for others.
“I am so looking forward to being part of the High School drama production team when I get to Grade 9 at ISB!”
Jade W, Grade 11, Puffs assistant director
“I first got involved in a production in fourth grade and the last one I did was in eighth grade. I missed it, so this year I decided to audition for a play in the One Act Festival. I loved it! I had forgotten how fun theater was, so I decided to do more. I want to experience different aspects of the process, so I applied to be assistant director this time.
“It was a hard work but also really joyful. One moment that stood out was rehearsing the Cedric death scene, which is very emotional and sad. The first time we rehearsed it, after the line ‘He’s dead,’ our actor who played Cedric jumped out of backstage and flopped face down on the floor. It cracked us all up! It was so jarring to have that moment of humor. It really worked to lighten the mood and keep us going.
“Being backstage is different. Your mental clarity needs be very strong. Directing is a lot of pressure, but it’s also super rewarding. I’d now like to get more experience directing. I’m also a writer. I’d love to write a play for the Oct Act Festival next year.”
This article shows ISB putting its Strategic Focus Areas into action – captivating students in challenging and joyful learning and helping them find pursuits they are passionate about and in which they can excel. ISB news articles in 2022-2023 are all looking at aspects of ISB that are examples of the Strategic Focus Areas. To find out more, click here.
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In case you’re planning to start a restaurant, one of the most important choices you’ll have to make is how to set up your restaurant’s kitchen.
The kitchen is the middle of your business, the location where your menu involves life. You want remarkable restaurant equipment that can face up to the pressures of day-by-day use and keep up with the style of tickets coming through on your kitchen display machine.
To do this, careful planning and research are vital to maximizing the efficiency and capability of your kitchen. Don’t forget to make an investment in one or all of the following restaurant equipment recommendations from a commercial kitchen manufacturer as you brainstorm and design the layout of your establishment.
In case your operation involves baking or bread making, a commercial mixer is an obligatory purchase. It’s vital to select a mixer primarily based on the extent of meals you’ll want and how frequently the mixer will be in use.
Refrigerators and Freezers
No doubt, all commercial kitchens require a refrigeration unit of some type. Refrigerating meal items prevents them from perishing quickly, preserves freshness, and presents cold meal storage space.
Industrial-grade refrigeration units are designed to fulfill the precise wishes of the meals industry, so they’re a key purchase for any food-managing operation.
Most, if not all, ranges come geared up with an oven. If your operation centers on baked items, it could be in your best interest to buy a range with a convection oven setting. In contrast to normal ovens, a convection oven has a fan and exhaust system that blows hot air around the food. They may be a terrific appliance for roasting, toasting, baking pies, and cookies, or dehydrating.
However, for dishes that might be made from batters like custards, desserts, and bread, use an everyday oven.
Cabinets to display food
Suitable cabinets can offer a perfect solution for storing diverse equipment in your kitchen as well as perishable and non-perishable ingredients. Furthermore, having an organized storage space will help streamline your kitchen operation.
Just think that you have the right recipe and the most up to the date of substances, but you have not hooked up the right kitchen equipment. Do you suspect you’ll be able to serve in the first-rate manner possible? We think no longer!!! The reason is, that you might be able to serve a few customers, but then while you start getting bulk orders, what are you going to do?
The cooking will take its time you can’t speed up the cooking manner. But what you can really do is reduce the prep time. With the right time management and high-quality equipment from a commercial kitchen manufacturer, you may clearly prepare meals a lot quicker and this can increase the efficiency of your kitchen.
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4 Benefits of ELSS Mutual Funds
Equity Linked Saving Schemes (ELSS) have remained a popular investment option in India, primarily because of their dual advantage of potential wealth creation and tax-saving benefits. ELSS mutual funds combine the benefits of equity investment with tax deductions under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, of 1961. This makes them an attractive choice for investors who not only wish to generate wealth but also save taxes.
Let’s understand the intricacies of ELSS funds and the four peculiar benefits that make them an investor’s and taxpayer’s preferred choice with Koshex – an online platform that recommends investment options based on your unique needs and allows you to invest in mutual funds, digital gold, and smart deposits.
What Are ELSS Mutual Funds?
ELSS funds, also known as Equity Linked Savings Scheme funds, are mutual funds that invest primarily in equities and equity-related instruments. These funds are eligible for tax deductions under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, of 1961. Investors are allowed to claim deductions of up to Rs. 1.5 lakhs each financial year from their gross total income. That’s why they are also called tax-saving mutual funds.
ELSS mutual funds come with a mandatory lock-in period of 3 years, which is the shortest among almost all the tax-saving instruments under Section 80C. With that in mind, let’s explore the four benefits of ELSS funds that make them an essential consideration for investors.
4 Major Benefits of ELSS Funds
Investing in ELSS mutual funds offers distinctive advantages. Here are some of the main benefits of investing in ELSS mutual funds:
1) Significant Tax Savings
The most prominent benefit of the ELSS mutual funds is their ability to offer significant tax-saving benefits to investors. By investing in ELSS funds, you can claim deductions of up to Rs. 1.5 lakhs from your gross taxable income during each financial year. This deduction can help reduce the overall tax liability, thus allowing you to save a significant amount of money while simultaneously growing your investments.
2) Lock-in Period
One of the distinguishing features of ELSS mutual funds is the relatively short lock-in period of just three years. Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides deduction by investing in multiple investment avenues. In those investments, ELSS mutual funds come with a significantly lower lock-in period as compared to other tax-saving instruments like Public Provident Fund (PPF), National Savings Certificate (NSC), and tax saver fixed deposits, which come with lock-in periods ranging from 5 to 15 years.
The shorter lock-in period of ELSS funds provides investors with more liquidity and flexibility to access their funds after the completion of the lock-in period. This liquidity feature can be advantageous for those who require greater financial flexibility.
3) Higher Returns
ELSS funds pool money from investors and invest in equity and equity-related instruments. Equities are known to have historically offered higher returns compared to conventional tax-saving instruments. Over the long term, equities have the potential to outperform other asset classes. This makes ELSS mutual funds an attractive option for investors seeking wealth creation along with tax benefits.
However, it is essential to note that equity investments come with inherent market risks, and you should always remember that past performance does not indicate future results. Diversifying your investment portfolio and assessing your risk tolerance is crucial before making investment decisions.
4) Multiple Investment Options
ELSS tax-saving mutual funds come with various investment options. For instance, you can invest in both growth and dividend plans, thus allowing you to choose a strategy that aligns with your financial goals. The growth plan reinvests the profits into the fund, unlocking the compounding benefits. Therefore, your returns magnify significantly in the long run.
On the other hand, the dividend plan pays out dividends to investors at regular intervals. Moreover, investors can start investing in ELSS funds with a relatively small amount, as low as Rs. 500 per month. This makes them accessible to a wide range of individuals.
In a Nutshell
ELSS mutual funds offer multiple benefits in a single instrument. This includes tax-saving benefits, the potential for higher returns, and a shorter lock-in period compared to other tax-saving instruments. The ability to claim deductions under Section 80C while investing in equity-oriented instruments makes ELSS funds an attractive option for tax-efficient wealth creation.
Koshex is an online investment platform that allows you to invest in more than 5000+ mutual funds. You can skim through multiple ELSS mutual funds and select the right one that aligns with your investment goals and preferences. You can also get help from our experts in finding the right ELSS fund. Each ELSS mutual fund invests in different equities, making it important for you to invest only after analyzing the underlying equities of the companies. Sign up with Koshex and start your investment journey today!
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I invest more than Rs. 1.5 lakhs in ELSS funds to claim tax deductions?
You can invest any amount you desire in the ELSS tax-saving mutual funds. However, the maximum deduction allowed under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for ELSS investments is limited to Rs. 1.5 lakhs in a financial year. Investing more than this amount in ELSS funds will not provide any additional tax benefits.
Q: Is the entire maturity amount of ELSS mutual funds tax-free?
While ELSS mutual funds have a mandatory lock-in period of three years, the entire maturity amount is not tax-free. Gains made by investing in ELSS funds shall be treated as capital gains. These are subject to long-term capital gains tax if they exceed Rs. 1 lakh in a financial year. Currently, the long-term capital gains tax rate for equity funds, including ELSS funds, is 10% without indexation benefit.
Q: Can I withdraw money from ELSS funds before the completion of the lock-in period?
ELSS funds have a mandatory lock-in period of 3 years from the investment date. You cannot withdraw money from ELSS funds before the completion of this lock-in period. After the lock-in period, you have the flexibility to redeem your investments partially or entirely as per your requirements.
Q: How do I choose the right ELSS fund for my investment?
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Not sure whether to start saving or investing? ‘Saving vs. Investing’ may be an ongoing debate. However, starting as early as possible is a safe thumb rule to secure your financial future.
The first step is to sign up on the Koshex platform to learn how much to save and invest to secure your financial future.
An Introduction to Saving vs. Investing
Aman and Sanjay are two friends who have passed out engineering from the same college. They have been working for three years for different software companies. Now let’s see which of these two friends uses the Koshex platform to save and invest smartly.
While Aman belongs to a business family and has been keenly interested in stock markets since his early days as a student, Sanjay belongs to a typical middle-class family, with both parents working as government employees. As Aman and Sanjay discuss their finances with each other transparently, Aman passes on some stock market tips and information to Sanjay.
Given the above background, there is a disparity in how the two friends park their earnings. Although hearing all about stock markets from Aman, Sanjay has 75% of his wealth in a savings bank account and fixed deposits, and a balance of 25% in gold, real estate, and mutual funds all put together.
Aman has been consistently investing in stocks and has a well-constructed portfolio comprising 60% of his wealth. He has invested 20% in mutual funds 20% in a savings bank account and 20% in bank fixed deposits; he stays in a rented house. He believes that his current job role may require him to relocate for a long term abroad. Despite having similar earnings for the last three years, his wealth is 40% more valuable than Sanjay’s.
So, if your financial position is similar to Sanjay’s and you want to grow your wealth like Aman, sign up now on the Koshex platform to explore the best investment options! Remember, a proper financial plan is essential to achieve all your financial goals.
Difference between Savings and Investments
Savings, as the term indicates, is the process of using your money to secure your financial future. Savings are generally parked in a savings bank account, or fixed deposits issued by the bank and mostly address the requirement of emergency funds.
On the other hand, investments are made to address the need to fulfill the various financial goals that one may have. Investing is when you put your money in mutual funds, equity stocks, real estate, bullion, or some structured products.
The key difference to note between the two is the different levels of risk and reward; savings come at minimal or zero risk and simultaneously provide minimal returns, whereas investments carry higher risk and yield higher returns.
So while allocating the funds between the two, one has to assess their appetite of how much they need to save and invest.
Pros and Cons of Savings Vs. Investing
Pros of Savings
- A savings account or fixed deposits will let you know your return in advance. Also, they carry fixed returns and fixed maturity, respectively.
- Bank products are generally very liquid, meaning you can get your money as soon as needed, though you may incur a penalty if you want to access an FD before its maturity date.
- These carry minimum fees or costs.
Cons of Savings
- Returns are low, meaning you could earn more by investing (but there’s no guarantee you will.)
- Not good during high inflation, as the rising inflation rate may eat up returns.
Pros of Investing
- Investing instruments like stocks can have much higher returns than savings accounts and FDs.
- Investing instruments like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds can easily beat inflation.
- Investment in instruments with lockin like Fixed Maturity Plans can ensure that funds are invested for the longer term, thus ensuring better-annualized returns.
- Investments are a means of wealth creation; without any investments, the scope for wealth creation is limited.
Cons of Investing
- Returns are not guaranteed, and there are possibilities to lose money, at least in the short term, as the value of your assets is subject to volatility.
- Depending on when you sell and the overall economy’s health, you may not get back what you initially invested.
- Requires time, effort, skills, and sometimes professional help.
Saving or Investing: which is a better choice to make? This dilemma prevails for many; both are critical, and the wise answer is the optimum or best allocation of funds between the two options. While investments may yield good returns, saving funds can shield the risk and protect one during emergencies.
In a nutshell, Investments provide a higher rate of return and are more suitable for achieving one’s financial goals and wealth creation. At the same time, savings can create or build funds for meeting emergencies and secure your financial future whenever an unforeseen catastrophe unfolds, like a medical emergency, a job loss, or the death of the family’s breadwinner, etc.
To make your financial journey easy and simple, unlock the power of savings vs. investing by signing up for Koshex and choosing between various investment and savings options.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Are Bank Fixed Deposits (FDs) considered to be investments?
Bank Fixed Deposits or FDs have fixed maturity; however, the funds are required to be locked in till the maturity date. There is always an option to break the FDs prematurely by paying penalties.
FDs normally offer fixed interest returns of 6%–8% and have little risk of losing money, as they are covered by insurance schemes. Compared to other asset classes like mutual funds, stocks, and real estate, FDs may much better be classified as a savings option due to their specific features like liquidity, low or zero risk, and fixed returns in the form of interest.
How much to save and how much to invest?
The answer to this question depends on one’s current financial situation, risk appetite, and future financial goals; savings can act as a shield for emergencies, liquidity needs, and capital protection.
But when it comes to attaining financial goals like buying a house, going on vacation, wealth creation, etc., it becomes very important to invest a certain portion of income or earnings in equity stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, etc. | <urn:uuid:683312d9-0305-46fd-bdeb-f9a6f0511ed6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.koshex.com/saving-vs-investing/ | 2024-04-15T00:48:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.962992 | 1,320 |
The long and short of it: No!
While IPv6 may seem superfluous to us as far as, “SBS can’t possibly be using IPv6 since we don’t have it “enabled” on our network”, it does in fact play an important role on SBS 2008.
If IPv6 does get disabled in the SBS 2008 NIC’s properties, there are a number of problems that may happen: SBS Blog: Issues After Disabling IPv6 on Your NIC on SBS 2008. Most of those problems centre around Exchange 2007 SP1.
Note that the SBS Blog does include a proper methodology for disabling IPv6 if there is an absolute need for it. But, only if there is an absolute need for it!
Please remember to test any changes that are significant in nature on a virtualized lab version of the production SBS box before going about with those changes. Also, make sure the backups are good too!
- SBS Diva: Outlook Anywhere and IPv6.
- Amy Babinchak: SBS 2008 DNS Resolution on IPv6.
- TechNet: SBS 2008: Managing IP Addresses.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
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Ask startups and scaleups about social media and most will tell you it is an important marketing tool to promote their business. Ask why, and the answers may not be as clear. Then, ask how, and that’s when the confusion really begins.
While it’s natural to feel the pull of making your own posts on social media after watching a brand go viral with a single tweet, it’s not as ‘easy’ or ‘free’ as it may appear. Fear of missing out (FOMO) tends to drive so much of the social media activity that many companies engage in. While most people understand that social media is an excellent way to share content across a network of subscribers, most people also struggle to find the best way to create value from using social media marketing.
A better approach to successful social media marketing starts with a well-conceived and well-executed social media strategy, and a commitment of time, money, and resources to communicate your messages and create value as part of an overall marketing strategy. There is no single, right way to get social media posts to go viral. There is no single best way to build an audience. It can be very challenging to determine the monetary value of a ‘like’. Instead, follow a framework to guide social media marketing along a path of planned and consistent growth over time that builds value.
Do Start With A Plan
Because creating a social media post is so easy to do, the value of investing in a social media strategy is often overlooked. Some companies find the value of social media in building awareness through impressions, shares, and likes. Others find value in the leads that can be directly attributed to social media engagement, clicks, and conversions. Like most everything in a successful business, create SMART goals as the foundation of a measurable plan, and identify the necessary resources for achieving goals. Invest in planning to understand what success looks like, and how to get there.
- Decide on your goals before you start.
- Determine how you will measure success.
- Allocate sufficient resources to succeed.
After a plan is in place, complete with goals, strategies, execution and resources, use metrics to track performance, with a ‘test-measure-learn’ approach to making adjustments along the way to improve outcomes. Social media metrics may include organic and paid reach to build subscribers and awareness, leads measured as clicks and conversions, and a host of other measurable data points. Use social media to complement and amplify existing content and build awareness and engagement with your target audience. The value from a social media plan as a part of a content strategy should align with a more holistic marketing plan that serves the overall business goals of the organization.
Do Focus On Your Audience
Social media marketing is about connecting with your audience. When you consider that your audience has invited you into their personal space to communicate with them through a select, one-to-one channel, you more clearly understand that it is your responsibility to use that channel responsibly to provide them with the information they find valuable. It’s not all about selling your product to them, but instead, it’s about connecting with them, providing information of value, and not abusing the relationship.
- Know where they engage.
- Know what matters to them.
- Give them a reason to stay interested.
Use personas to determine which social media platforms your customers and target audiences utilize the most, so you can communicate with them more effectively. Every industry and every audience is unique once you drill down enough to understand them. Who you are targeting with a social media post will change not only what you post, but how you post it. From a 20-second video message to an insightful question or even a poll, create a targeted message to reach a definitive audience using a specific social media channel. The more you are focused on your audience, the more effective your social media marketing will be.
Do Always Be Authentic
Because no one can be better at ‘being you’ than you can, you need to be genuine and authentic in your social media marketing to attract, engage and build a selective relationship with someone who subscribes to your social media channel. Being authentic on social media allows others to see the value you bring to the relationship, without the ‘sales pitch.’ And for those who aren’t following you yet, if they like what they see, they may decide to take the relationship to the next level and subscribe. It’s how you can use social media to turn strangers into followers, and then into raving fans.
- Be transparent and show your personality.
- Share valuable content, freely.
- Credit others, because no one knows everything.
Use your authentic voice, based on your values and your brand, on all social media posts. Being authentic in both what is said and what is shared on your social media channels creates consistency for your audience and strengthens your credibility and your brand. ‘Off-brand’ messages can create a disconnect with your target audience and cause them to question the trust they have granted you in your social media relationship.
If following a few key principles of social media marketing can help build a trusted relationship, then knowing a few key principles to avoid on social media can be just as valuable. There are some guidelines to keep in mind when developing and sharing content, in general. They are not absolute rules, but something to consider before you post.
Don’t Talk About Politics and Religion
Don’t. Just don’t! Unless your organization is a political or religious one, its best for your business to just refrain from conversations about politics and religion. Too often, people make assumptions that everyone else thinks the way they think. Just because people spend a lot of time in an echo chamber of ideas doesn’t mean it’s a universal truth. Talking about politics or religion can be a fast road to destroying your brand, your reputation and your ability to reach people, unless that is specifically your business.
Because social media makes it easy to share thoughts, it requires more discernment to ensure that the right thoughts are getting out there. The old rule of large family gatherings and unfamiliar social situations rings especially true in the digital age, where the wrong message at the wrong time can spread like wildfire. Remember that people don’t come to a business social media account looking for personal beliefs. Although you should always be authentic, you should also be judicious and polite on social media.
Don’t Make It Self-Serving
Social media is about building a trusted relationship based on sharing value that resonates and engages audiences. A quick way to dismantle those trusted relationships is to use social media as a self-serving tool. While it’s fine to share stories and information about yourself or your business from time to time, remember that people use social media to be informed and build relationships of value. Direct selling as the focus of social media creates a transactional relationship that may or may not bear fruit. Focusing on your audience instead of yourself will keep subscribers engaged and looking for more.
With that said, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ rule for how often a company should use their social media bullhorn for promoting a product or solution, but it’s a good idea to keep ‘sales-y’ posts to a minimum, unless your social media marketing strategy is specifically focused on selling online. Pushing direct sales with too many self-serving posts tells viewers that you are only there for your own benefit. The risk is that your social media channels gain a less than favorable reputation, and may likely commoditize your business or impair the effectiveness of your social media marketing.
Don’t Randomly Curate Content
No one can know everything, so there is undeniable value in providing a reliable source of news, information and relevant content that resonates with your target audience. Curating content that was originally generated by someone else is a great way to share knowledge that resonates without having to create an endless stream of all original content. A good starting point for content is:
- Curate a third of your social media content.
- Create a third of your content as original, thought leadership and expertise.
- Use a third of your content to create conversations with people on social media.
Remember to give credit when curating content and never try to pass off someone else’s original content as your own. Instead, make curated content ‘on-brand’ with your authentic self by taking the time to add some unique insights or perspective to the content that you’re sharing. This approach provides even more value as a trusted authority and thought leader while giving credit to the content originator.
When it comes to social media marketing, it is easy to get overwhelmed and confused with how to best use the tools to grow your influence and your business. Determine the right tools to use, the right platforms to engage, the right audiences to target, the right schedule to post, the right messages to share, and the right metrics to track so that you can make the most of your investment in social media marketing. It’s not easy, but following a few do’s and don’ts can put you on a path for success. | <urn:uuid:bec2d0ae-1799-497d-96ea-8b4d90022bb6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.sellerant.com/3-dos-and-3-donts-for-social-media-marketing | 2024-04-15T00:21:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.939864 | 1,925 |
In the age of rapidly advancing technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our daily lives. From virtual assistants to recommendation algorithms, AI is transforming various industries, including optimizing content for search engines. But can Google, the giant among search engines, detect AI-generated content? In this blog post, we will explore the concept of AI content and discuss how Real Intelligence, which combines organic and artificial intelligence, yields the best results for your audience.
Google's Detection Capabilities
As Google continues to refine its algorithms, it is increasingly able to detect AI-generated content. The search engine employs sophisticated techniques to identify patterns, inconsistencies, and other telltale signs of AI-generated text. Google's algorithms are designed to favor content that is valuable, accurate, and helpful for users. Therefore, it is in Google's best interest to detect AI content and rank it accordingly. Google also states that AI-generated content with the purpose of manipulating ranking is in direct violation of their spam policies. However, as long as AI-generated content proves to be valuable, informative, and meets the needs of readers, it is unlikely to be penalized solely based on its AI origins, which is why you need to incorporate Real Intelligence into your content creation.
The Role of Real Intelligence
Real Intelligence, a combination of organic and artificial intelligence, holds the key to overcoming the limitations of AI-generated content detection. AI is a phenomenal tool to use for first drafts, ideation, and research for your content. Organic intelligence is great for evaluating the quality, relevance, accuracy, and tone of the content and message that resonates with the intended audience.
Avoiding Penalties for AI Content
To ensure you don't get penalized by Google for AI-generated content, consider these essential strategies:
Prioritize Value and Relevance
Create AI content that offers genuine value and addresses your persona's needs. Focus on quality, relevance, and providing actionable insights.
Incorporate Real Intelligence
Have human reviewers review and refine your AI content to enhance its authenticity, accuracy, and overall value.
Verify and Fact-Check
Ensure the accuracy and reliability of your AI content by fact-checking and verifying information before publishing.
Engage with User Feedback
Actively listen to user feedback, address concerns, and improve your content based on their input.
Stay Informed and Adapt
Stay updated with search engine guidelines and adapt your AI content accordingly.
Can Google Detect AI Content? Write for People First
In the ever-evolving landscape of AI marketing, content creators must prioritize value, relevance, and transparency to avoid penalties from search engines. By incorporating Real Intelligence through human review, refinement, and fact-checking, content creators can enhance the authenticity and relevance of their AI content. Through the combination of AI technology and human expertise, content creators can deliver meaningful experiences that meet user needs while optimizing for search engine standards. By embracing Real Intelligence, content creators can navigate the realm of AI-generated content effectively, building trust with their audience and achieving long-term success.
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The Elements of Value
For Sellers, value in B2B is often seen as different to value in B2C. Business is about ROI and in B2C, other more personal factors, come into play. Right?
Well, not quite.
Turns out B2B has more in common with B2C than not. That’s of course because in both cases we’re dealing with people.
And so emotions and subjectivity come into play. We like to think of ourselves as logical and objective, especially in business, but we are at heart irrational. We can’t help it. That’s neuroscience.
And so value is more layered than simply being about $$$.
This article by Bain and Co, published in Harvard Business Review in 2016 reveals just how layered. It details 40 Elements of Value arranged as a pyramid that has a striking resemblance to Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy.
It classifies our traditional perceptions of value as ‘Table Stakes’, much like food and shelter to Maslow. Then, as with Maslow, there are another four levels above that.
Understanding customer perceptions of value and then articulating how we are a potential source of value can be challenging. Bain’s model provides an excellent framework to help us do that | <urn:uuid:32d34e8e-55d7-470c-bab3-cc6ef6bc843d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.thesalesnatural.com/post/make-people-feel-extraordinary-1 | 2024-04-15T00:16:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.953252 | 274 |
UPES collaborates with the University of Law (UK) for a Global Education Experience
UPES organized a legal conference in Delhi to announce the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Law (ULaw). This tie-up is another step to provide students a world-class education and global exposure. The MoU was signed by Dr. Deependra Kumar Jha; Vice-Chancellor of UPES and Professor Andrea Nollent; Vice-Chancellor and CEO of ULaw.
Professor Andrea Nollent, as part of the ULaw delegation, addressed the conference and shared her views on how ULaw is shaping the lawyers of future. Talking about the collaboration, she expressed her delight saying, “We are absolutely thrilled to be a part of this collaboration, we are very excited about how we can benefit each other as we are complementary, and we complement each other. UPES School of Law and the University of Law bring to this partnership different experiences and histories.”
She further explained why the current legal education wasn’t enough to equip students to be lawyers of the future. The primary reason is that traditional universities are slow to adapt to their well-established curriculum and this becomes a huge challenge since it is impossible to teach new skills using traditional methods. She continued by listing out the key attributes that have changed, which legal educators need to be adept at, and therefore, include in their courses. The changes were categorized into three categories.
- The commoditization of legal services through technology, which removes the necessity for expensive, customized and bespoke solutions that are traditionally provided by a lawyer.
- Leveraging the use of technological developments by law firms to reach new levels of productivity, efficiency, and innovation.
- The break-up of the monopoly of the price of law by traditional law firms through technological advances such as chat boxes, alternative business structures, the de-regulation of the legal services and the rise in the number of in-house lawyers.
To be able to catch up to these changes in the legal field, Andrea elucidated how ULaw is constantly evolving their programs to nurture lawyers who are in sync with advancements in legal technology. Better known as T-shaped graduates, these lawyers are well versed with the traditional methods of legal services, adept at non-traditional skills and come with knowledge of other fields, making them a complete package to collaborate with others more efficiently.
She closed the session by discussing how ULaw has created three Tech hubs across the UK- in London, Leeds, and Nottingham – with more plans for expansion and growth in the future, as this area continues to grow and evolve. She concluded by further adding, “Law Tech is transforming legal practice. It would create greater consumer access to law and will free lawyers from some of the routine work involved in the practice. To continue to be relevant and to add value to our clients, lawyers will need to develop emotional intelligence, entrepreneurial and business skills, as well as understanding and embedding the golden thread of legal technology throughout our practice.”
The insightful session by Professor Andrea Nollent delved deep into the changing paradigms of legal practice and how this MoU would open doors of opportunities to law students by offering global exposure and hands-on knowledge about the various facets of law, including cybercrime and more.
The Chief Guest of the event was Honourable Justice Dipak Misra, former Chief Justice of India. Other notable personalities included Honourable Justice Swatanter Kumar, former Chairperson, National Green Tribunal, Professor Andrea from ULaw, Professor Joanna from PVC ULaw, Professor Vassilis, PVC International Development, ULaw, and Professor Tatiana, Director- International Partnerships, ULaw.
The panelists included Mrs. Sadhana Ramachandran, Advocate, Supreme Court, Sri Pavan Duggal, Advocate Supreme Court & President, Pavan Duggal & Associates, Mr. Rajat Mukherjee, Partner Khaitan & Company, and Ms. Poonam Verma from Jyoti Sagar & Associates. A representative of Uttarakhand State Bar Council, Mr. Vijay Bhatt, Justice Manju Goyal and Sri Rupinder Suri were also seen as attendees amongst other eminent lawyers and practitioners from the legal field.
With this partnership, UPES aims to provide industry-relevant education to students who wish to excel in the law field. Now let us have a look at the benefits that the future lawyers and faculty members at both the institutes will get:
- Faculty and student exchange programs
- Online modules
- Scholarships for postgraduate programs
- Research collaboration
- Summer school programs
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One of the first of many choices business owners make involves their structure; in Australia, there are four main ones to select from. There's really no right or wrong answer to any one of them. But before arriving at a conclusion, it's important to understand what each of them are, what makes them unique and what your responsibilities are with such a structure set up to the government, your employees and your customers.
Here are a few more details about each, starting with the most basic and straightforward of the bunch:
1. Sole trader
In terms of setup and startup costs, becoming a sole trader is the simplest of the four most common business structures. As its description more or less suggests, when you're a sole trader, you're the one who makes all the decisions and have 100% ownership. At the same time, though, this also means you have all the responsibility and liability when it comes to day-to-day affairs. This means that if you incur debt, you'll have to come up with a strategy to get out of it. This includes surrendering assets to a lender for unpaid balances. If someone is injured on your property, be it a customer or employee, you may be deemed financially responsible for any medical bills.
Other key elements of being a sole trader include:
- Entails less paperwork and reporting requirements to the government.
- Able to use your individual tax file number for tax returns.
- Doesn't require you to arrange a separate bank account for business use.
Traditionally when you think of a partnership, you probably think of two people working together. A partnership in the business sense can be two or more people. It's up to the individuals involved for how to split ownership and liabilities, whether it's 50-50, 70-30 or roughly a third apiece among three parties.
Similar to what it's like for a sole trader, setting up a partnership is relatively simple, but it comes with a few more decisions due to the fact that there are several types of partnerships. The most common of the three is general partnership (GP). In this arrangement, each partner is equally responsible not only for the day-to-day management of the business but also the liability and debt obligations. Limited partnership (LP) refers to liabilities, meaning that whatever stake of ownership a partner has, their liabilities translate to that percentage (e.g. 30% ownership = 30% liability). Yet unlike a general partner, LPs typically work behind the scenes, uninvolved in terms of day-to-day management.
Last but not least is incorporated liability partnership. Here, at least one general partner holds unlimited liability. This means that if there is an incident involving an injury or unpaid debt, the general partner with unlimited liability bears ultimate responsibility. In short, the buck stops with them.
Here are a few additional characteristics of partnerships:
- Unlike a sole trader, partnerships require applying for an Australian business number.
- Taxes are paid on an individualised basis, meaning the share of net income that each partner receives.
- Partnership tax returns must be lodged annually with the Australian Taxation Office.
The term "company" is often used interchangeably with the word "business," but it's actually something very specific. In the legal sense, owning a company means you have the same rights and responsibilities you do as a citizen. However, should you be sued, you're treated as a legal entity, separate and distinct from who you are as an individual.
There are more layers to setting up a company, which by its very nature makes the process more complex than the sole trader or partnership structures. Shareholders run the company, even though they may not be involved in day-to-day decisions. Those fall to directors, who (unlike shareholders) have liabilities to the company if there is reason to believe they're not living up to their legal obligations, per the terms of the business arrangement.
A few additional aspects about companies:
- Setup is more complex.
- Startup costs are more expensive.
- Requires review and compliance with the Corporations Act 2001.
A trust is perhaps the most distinct of the structures because most of the decisions are already made. The trustee is tasked with distributing the available assets to beneficiaries as directed by the owner of the trust. The trustee, which can be an individual or company, is responsible for the ongoing operation of the trust and living up to the obligations in place. These may include allocation of profits, assets or property.
A few additional aspects about trusts:
- Allow for the protection of assets that can eventually benefit others.
- Different types of trusts provide better options and greater flexibility.
- Help prevent legal disputes over the contents of the trust.
At WMC Accounting, we have extensive experience in advising clients on business structures and taxation. If you're having trouble figuring out which is best, we're happy to offer guidance. Please contact us today. | <urn:uuid:56cd3ab3-713b-4fb1-aff3-e342f33d0771> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.wmcaccounting.com.au/business-accounting/what-different-types-of-business-structures-are-there | 2024-04-14T22:40:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.971979 | 1,007 |
Int.search-results.com is considered as a browser hijacker because it can change your web browser’s home page to and default search provider to its website without your permission. Is your homepage taken over by Int.search-results.com? Why antivirus program fails to catch this threat? How do you get rid of such malicious redirect virus?
Int.search-results.com is frequently categorized as a browser hijacker because it can appear automatically on Internet Explorer. Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without your permission while you are surfing the Internet. Its goal is to block you from browsing the web pages while you are trying to surf on your Internet browser and keep interrupting your browsing activities. To be more specific, it will change your default homepage and continuously redirect your web searches to some fake web sites like Int.search-results.com or Go.Speedbit.com. Undoubtedly, it is very disturbing if a redirect virus has invaded your computer and the worse thing is that it can not be fully removed by traditional Antivirus computer software. Even though you have spent several hours in scanning your computer, it still shows nothing related about this hijacker.
Typically, malicious actions of this hijacker can be shown after installing some free programs, for example, a video player, PDF creator, download manager and so on. Once it gets on the target computer, it can alter the search page of your browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome and redirect the user to its own page. It helps users to boost traffic of several websites and make some money from affiliate links. Int.search-results.com looks like a normal search website as similar as Google, Bing or Yahoo, but it is not reliable at all because if you enter search query and start to make a search, you will see it only shows many sponsored websites and various advertisement. It is extremely annoying because it automatically loads each time you open your web browser. Take immediate measure to get rid of Int.search-results.com adware/ browser hijacker as quickly as you can in order to keep your computer safe.
Homepage is changed without any permission.
Desktop background is gone somehow.
Browser setting is modified.
Browsers like IE and Firefox works slowly.
Registry files are corrupted.
Considering Int.search-results.com redirect can’t be fixed by any security tools, uses can use the manual guide below to fix this issue without any risk.
1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.
Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”
Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”
2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.
Once Int.search-results.com virus is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent, slowing down the computer. If your system’s CPU spike is constant, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time and it will open up task manager directly. Then change to “Processes” tab.
3. Show hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.
4. Remove all the malicious files manually.
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage
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A trio of exhibits is now on display in the gallery space of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Please see below for more information.
The gallery is located on level two of the Learning Centre, to the left of the circulation desk. For information about the space, please contact Allan Cho at [email protected] or 604-827-4366.
Cantonese Music: Where East meets West (until December 5, 2009) – courtesy of UBC’s Asian Library
Westernization has been a major process in Chinese music since the beginning of the 20th century, illustrated by the adoption of Western harmony, counterpoint and performance practices. Western elements have also influenced the design of instruments, introducing new sonorities to traditional texture.
This exhibit includes samples of hammer dulcimers, two-stringed fiddles, three-stringed lutes and a zither, along with scores. It’s believed that Steven Lee, who was an active member in Vancouver’s Chinese community in the 1940s and 1950s, collected these instruments.
For more information on this display, please contact Phoebe Chow at [email protected] or 604-822-2427.
Taiwan Sublime (until December 7)
Taiwan Sublime comprises four series of photographs taken by four Taiwanese photographers who have crisscrossed Taiwan and its smaller sister islands to create a record of its natural and human wonders.
This exhibit, presented by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, features 20 photos by Taiwanese photographers Chen Chih-hsiung, Liu Chen-hsiang, Huang Ting-sheng and Chi Po-lin.
For those interested in Taiwanese literature and culture, UBC is presenting a lecture featuring three Taiwanese authors – Chu T’ien-wen, Liu Ka-shiang and Ko Yu-fen – will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27 at the Learning Centre gallery.
As part of this series, the film A Time To Live, And A Time To Die by Director Hou Hsiao-hsien is scheduled for a 3 p.m. screening on Monday, October 26 in the Fairmount Social Lounge at St. John’s College (2111 Lower Mall). A discussion with screenwriter Chu Tien-wen will be held after the screening.
As Is – by Lincoln Clarkes (until November 7)
As Is, a collection of colour photographs of Vancouver’s distressed Downtown Eastside, is Lincoln Clarkes’s most eclectic series to date, incorporating people, architecture, still life, abstractions and signage.
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MoodFx was developed in partnership between the Mood Disorders Centre and the University of British Columbia’s eHealth Strategy Office. Both are located in Vancouver, Canada. We will never sell or release any contact or other personal information to any commercial third parties.
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Just like recovery is expected, blips and dips are expected. Whether we call those early warning signs, relapses or setbacks, it’s clear there is no one simple path from sickness to health. This edition of Visions looks at ways to think about dips and detours in our well-being from personal, professional and programmatic perspectives.
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Welcome to the Hope for Wellness Helpline – On-Line Chat Counseling Service Call the toll-free Help Line at 1-855-242-3310, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or use the chat box below to connect with a counsellor on-line The Hope for Wellness Help Line offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada.
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Urgent and Primary Care Centres are opening across the province to improve access to primary care. They provide an alternative to visiting emergency departments for issues that do not need to be seen in a hospital.
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Infertility is the inability of a female or male to conceive as a result of an issue with either partner’s reproductive system. Infertility is defined as not being able to get pregnant after 1 year of unprotected sex. Infertility can affect both men and women.
There are 2 types of infertility: primary and secondary.
If you have been trying to conceive for over a year with no success, please visit Babies & Us, a state-of-the-art IVF Center in Mumbai, for treatment options.
This article defines the causes, risks, and treatment options concerning infertility in both sexes that you may want to know.
Infertility has a variety of causes:
In men, infertility can be caused by a variety of factors, including:
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In women, infertility can be caused by factors including:
Please seek advice for female infertility treatment in Mumbai from our Babes & US specialists if you have had trouble conceiving despite trying for more than a year.
No matter what the cause of your infertility, there are treatment options available at Babies & Us IVF & ICSI Center to help you have the baby you have always wanted.
If you are struggling to conceive, there are several options available for infertility treatment in Mumbai. These include fertility drugs, surgery, IUI (Intrauterine insemination), IVF (In vitro fertilization), and ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection).
In IUI, the male partner’s sperm is injected into the female partner’s vagina with the aid of a catheter (a long, narrow flexible tube) to achieve fertilization and, eventually, pregnancy. This technique reduces the time typically required for the sperm to reach the fallopian tube and access the egg.
IVF is a form of ART (assisted reproductive technology). Primary IVF if not able to conceive within 1 year of unprotected intercourse. It involves:
ICSI, also referred to as IVF with micro-insemination, is an advanced technique of ART (assisted reproduction technology). In this technique, all the steps are similar to an IVF, except the fertilization of the egg. In ICSI, a single sperm is injected directly into an egg to fertilize it.
This method is typically utilized to treat male infertility to boost the likelihood of conception when other reproductive treatments do not work.
Infertility is a common problem that can affect both men and women. Despite the absence of recent statistics on infertility globally, approximately 186 million individuals and 48 million couples experience infertility globally.
There are many possible causes of infertility, including hormonal imbalances, structural problems with the reproductive organs, and medical conditions such as endometriosis.
Infertility can pose many challenges to individuals and couples wanting to raise a child. It can also affect the impacted person’s relationships and cause emotional stress.
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Blue Skies has awarded winners of the 2017 School Farm of the Year during a ceremony at the GNAT Hall in Koforidua, Ghana on the 30th of November.
Over 600 students attended the ceremony representing sixty schools who participated in this year’s School Farm of the Year Competition.
The School Farm of the Year competition was launched by Blue Skies in 2015 as a way to encourage more young people to take an interest in farming, and help raise the profile of agriculture.
In the competition, schools are required to setup and manage their own ‘School Farms’ and submit business plans to ensure their sustainability. Teams of inspectors made up of agricultural experts visit the participating schools periodically to assess their performance and ultimately determine the winners.
This year the SHS School Farm of the Year was awarded to Krobo Girls Senior High School (pictured below), and the JHS School Farm of the Year was awarded to Ankwane Dobro MA JHS.
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Ermine Frosting, also known as boiled milk frosting or heritage frosting, is a classic and time-honored frosting that brings a delightful combination of lightness, flavor, and versatility to a wide range of desserts. Unlike more common frostings like buttercream or cream cheese, Ermine Frosting is characterized by its delicate, silky, and creamy texture. It is made by creating a cooked flour and milk paste, which is then whipped into a smooth, fluffy consistency and sweetened with sugar. This frosting has a subtle, sweet flavor that doesn’t overpower the dessert it adorns, making it a fantastic complement to cakes, cupcakes, and other baked treats. Ermine Frosting is a versatile choice, perfect for those who appreciate a frosting that is not overly sweet but still adds a luxurious finish to their homemade desserts.
What is Ermine Frosting?
Ermine Frosting, also known as boiled milk frosting, cooked flour frosting, or heritage frosting, is a classic and lesser-known type of frosting used to adorn cakes and other baked goods. What sets Ermine Frosting apart from more common frostings like buttercream or cream cheese is its unique preparation and characteristics.
Here’s how Ermine Frosting is typically made:
- Flavorings (such as vanilla extract)
How it’s made:
- In a saucepan, a portion of flour is mixed with milk to create a smooth paste.
- This paste is heated and stirred until it thickens and becomes a pudding-like consistency. It’s crucial to prevent lumps from forming during this process.
- The cooked paste is then cooled to room temperature, ensuring it doesn’t transfer excess heat to the other ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, softened butter and sugar are creamed together until light and fluffy.
- Once the flour and milk mixture has cooled, it’s gradually incorporated into the butter and sugar mixture.
- The frosting is beaten until it reaches a silky, smooth, and light consistency.
- Flavorings like vanilla extract can be added for additional flavor.
Ermine Frosting is known for its subtle, sweet flavor, which is not overly sugary like many other frostings. It has a velvety texture and a lightness that pairs well with various cakes and cupcakes. This frosting is an excellent choice for those who prefer a less sweet and more delicate topping for their baked goods.
Ermine Frosting is also quite versatile and can be tinted with food coloring or flavored in various ways to suit your specific needs and preferences. It’s a delightful addition to classic and vintage recipes and is making a resurgence in popularity for those who appreciate its unique qualities.
Why you will love Ermine Frosting?
- Light and Silky Texture: Ermine Frosting has a remarkably light and silky texture that’s velvety smooth. It’s less dense than buttercream and not as heavy as some other frostings, making it a delightful choice for those who prefer a lighter finish.
- Balanced Sweetness: Unlike some frostings that can be overwhelmingly sweet, Ermine Frosting offers a balanced sweetness that enhances your baked goods without overpowering them.
- Versatility: Ermine Frosting is a versatile frosting that pairs well with a wide range of cakes and cupcakes. You can easily adapt it by adding different flavorings or food coloring to match your dessert’s theme or taste.
- Flavor Absorption: Ermine Frosting has the ability to absorb the flavors of your cake, creating a harmonious blend of tastes. This quality can make it a fantastic complement to various cake flavors.
- Vintage Charm: Ermine Frosting has a charming, vintage quality that adds a touch of nostalgia to your desserts. It’s a great choice for those looking to recreate classic or heritage recipes.
- Smooth Finish: When applied to cakes and cupcakes, Ermine Frosting creates a smooth, polished finish that’s visually appealing and enhances the overall presentation.
- Not Overly Rich: If you’re not a fan of frostings that are overly rich or heavy, Ermine Frosting is an excellent alternative that adds a layer of indulgence without feeling too overwhelming.
- Homemade Goodness: Making Ermine Frosting from scratch allows you to have control over the ingredients, ensuring that you’re using quality, natural components without any artificial additives.
- Low Effort, High Reward: Ermine Frosting is relatively easy to prepare and doesn’t require complex techniques or equipment. It offers a satisfying result without the need for intricate decorating skills.
- Resurgence in Popularity: Ermine Frosting is experiencing a resurgence in popularity as more people discover and appreciate its unique qualities, making it a trendy choice for modern bakers.
In summary, Ermine Frosting is a delightful option for those who appreciate a frosting that’s light, smooth, and not overly sweet. Its versatility, vintage charm, and ability to enhance the flavors of your desserts make it a favorite among those who value both taste and aesthetics in their baked creations.
Ermine Frosting Recipe
- 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 cup unsalted butter (2 cups or 4 sticks for a richer version)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (or other flavorings of your choice)
1. Prepare the Flour and Milk Mixture:
- In a saucepan, whisk together the flour and milk until the mixture is smooth and free of lumps.
2. Cook the Mixture:
- Place the saucepan over medium heat and cook the flour and milk mixture, stirring continuously. The mixture will thicken and develop a pudding-like consistency. This typically takes about 5-7 minutes. Ensure there are no lumps. Once thickened, remove it from the heat.
3. Cool the Mixture:
- Allow the cooked flour and milk mixture to cool to room temperature. It’s important that it’s completely cool before proceeding to the next step.
4. Cream the Butter and Sugar:
- In a separate mixing bowl, cream together the softened butter and granulated sugar until the mixture is light, fluffy, and slightly pale in color. This may take several minutes.
5. Combine the Mixtures:
- Gradually add the cooled flour and milk mixture to the butter and sugar. Mix well after each addition. Continue to blend until the frosting is smooth and fully combined. This may take a few minutes.
6. Flavor and Finish:
- Stir in the vanilla extract or other flavorings of your choice to add flavor to your frosting. Mix until well incorporated.
7. Frost Your Dessert:
- Your Ermine Frosting is now ready to use. Frost your cake, cupcakes, or other baked goods as desired.
Note: If you want to tint the frosting with food coloring or add other flavor extracts like almond or lemon, this is the time to do so.
Ermine Frosting is best used immediately to achieve its desired texture. If it becomes too soft, you can refrigerate it briefly to firm it up before frosting your baked goods. Enjoy the delightful lightness and flavor that Ermine Frosting brings to your desserts!
How to serve Ermine Frosting
Serving Ermine Frosting is a delightful part of enjoying your baked goods. Here’s how to serve Ermine Frosting:
- Frosting on Cakes or Cupcakes: Ermine Frosting is commonly used to adorn cakes and cupcakes. To serve, spread or pipe the frosting onto your cooled and prepared cake or cupcakes. You can use a spatula, knife, or piping bag to create various decorative patterns or swirls.
- Decorative Touch: Use Ermine Frosting to add a decorative touch to your dessert. You can pipe rosettes, swirls, or other designs on top of cupcakes, creating a visually appealing presentation.
- Flavor Variations: Ermine Frosting can be flavored in various ways. You can add extracts like vanilla, almond, or citrus to complement your baked goods. The flavor should enhance and complement the overall taste of your dessert.
- Tinting: If you wish to add color to the frosting, use food coloring to achieve the desired hue. Tint the frosting in advance to ensure it’s evenly colored before decorating.
- Pairing: Ermine Frosting is versatile and pairs well with a variety of cake flavors. Serve it with your favorite cake, whether it’s chocolate, vanilla, red velvet, or a fruit-based cake.
- Texture: Appreciate the silky, velvety texture of Ermine Frosting, which adds a lovely contrast to your baked goods. The frosting should be light, smooth, and not overly sweet.
- Room Temperature: Ermine Frosting is best enjoyed when it’s at room temperature. This allows its flavor and texture to be at their best. If you’ve refrigerated the frosting, allow it to come to room temperature before serving.
- Garnishes: Enhance the presentation by adding garnishes like fresh fruit, chocolate shavings, sprinkles, or edible flowers to your dessert. These elements can make your Ermine Frosting creation even more visually appealing.
Remember that Ermine Frosting is a delightful choice for those who appreciate a lighter, less sweet frosting with a silky texture. It adds a layer of elegance to your desserts and complements a wide range of baked goods. Whether you’re serving it for a special occasion or an everyday treat, Ermine Frosting can be a lovely addition to your dessert repertoire.
How to store Ermine Frosting
Storing Ermine Frosting properly is important to maintain its texture and quality. Here’s how to store Ermine Frosting:
- Refrigeration: If you’re not using the frosting immediately, place it in an airtight container. Ensure that the frosting is tightly sealed to prevent it from absorbing odors from the refrigerator. Ermine Frosting can be refrigerated for up to 3-4 days.
- Freezing (for Longer Storage): Ermine Frosting can be frozen if you need to store it for an extended period. To freeze, place the frosting in an airtight container or resealable freezer bags. Make sure to squeeze out any excess air. Ermine Frosting can be frozen for up to 2-3 months.
- Thawing: When you’re ready to use refrigerated or frozen Ermine Frosting, transfer it to the refrigerator to thaw overnight or for several hours. Allow the frosting to come to room temperature before using it. Gently stir or rewhip the frosting to restore its smooth consistency.
- Avoid Frequent Temperature Changes: Try to avoid frequent temperature changes. If you’ve refrigerated the frosting, keep it in the refrigerator until you’re ready to use it, and avoid taking it in and out of the fridge.
- Freshen Up: Before using refrigerated or thawed Ermine Frosting, it may benefit from a quick rewhip with a mixer to restore its light and silky texture. This can help ensure that the frosting is as fluffy and smooth as when you first made it.
Proper storage of Ermine Frosting will help maintain its quality and ensure that it’s ready to use when you need it for your baked goods. Whether you’re preparing it in advance or dealing with leftover frosting, these storage guidelines will help preserve its delightful characteristics.
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Tips to make perfect Ermine Frosting
Making perfect Ermine Frosting requires some attention to detail and a few key tips to ensure that it turns out silky, smooth, and delicious. Here are some tips for achieving the perfect Ermine Frosting:
- Cool the Flour and Milk Mixture Completely: After cooking the flour and milk to create a paste, it’s essential to allow it to cool to room temperature before combining it with the butter and sugar. This ensures that the frosting has the right consistency and doesn’t melt the butter.
- Use High-Quality Ingredients: Quality butter, fresh milk, and pure vanilla extract can make a significant difference in the flavor and texture of your frosting. Opt for the best ingredients available.
- Cream Butter and Sugar Thoroughly: Cream the butter and sugar together until the mixture is light, fluffy, and slightly pale in color. This can take several minutes, but it’s essential for a smooth, airy frosting.
- Stir Gradually: When adding the cooled flour and milk mixture to the creamed butter and sugar, do so gradually. Mix well after each addition. This step helps prevent lumps and ensures the frosting’s smooth texture.
- Vanilla Extract or Flavorings: While vanilla extract is a popular choice, you can also experiment with other flavorings like almond, citrus zest, or espresso for a unique twist. Just remember that a little goes a long way.
- Refrigeration for Firmness: If your Ermine Frosting is too soft for your liking, you can refrigerate it for a short time to firm it up before frosting your cakes or cupcakes. Be cautious not to over-chill it.
- Avoid Over-Whipping: Over-whipping Ermine Frosting can lead to a denser texture. Once you achieve a smooth, silky consistency, stop mixing to avoid overworking it.
- Coloring: If you want to add food coloring to the frosting, do so after the frosting is complete and well-mixed. Gel food colors are preferred because they won’t affect the frosting’s consistency.
- Enjoy Immediately: Ermine Frosting is best used right after preparation for its ideal texture. If you’re not using it immediately, store it properly, and rewhip it gently before applying to your dessert.
By following these tips, you can create a perfect batch of Ermine Frosting that’s light, smooth, and enhances the taste of your cakes and cupcakes. It’s a versatile and elegant choice for those who appreciate a frosting that’s not overly sweet and has a delightful texture.
Q1: My Ermine Frosting is too thin and runny. What should I do?
- Troubleshooting Tip: If your frosting is too thin, it may be due to warm ingredients or overmixing. To thicken it, you can refrigerate the frosting for a short time (15-30 minutes) to allow it to firm up. Then, gently rewhip the frosting to restore its texture.
Q2: Why does my Ermine Frosting have lumps in it?
- Troubleshooting Tip: Lumps in Ermine Frosting can occur if the flour and milk paste wasn’t fully smooth or if the mixture wasn’t cooked long enough to thicken properly. To avoid lumps, ensure your flour and milk mixture is smooth, and cook it until it has a pudding-like consistency.
Q3: How can I fix grainy Ermine Frosting?
- Troubleshooting Tip: Grainy frosting can happen if the sugar isn’t fully dissolved. To fix it, ensure the sugar is well-creamed with the butter before adding the flour and milk mixture. If the frosting remains grainy, you can gently heat it while stirring until the sugar dissolves, then cool and rewhip.
Q4: My frosting looks curdled. What went wrong?
- Troubleshooting Tip: Curdled frosting can result from ingredients that are too cold or if you overmix the frosting. To fix curdled frosting, allow it to come to room temperature, and then gently rewhip it to restore its smoothness.
Q5: Can I make Ermine Frosting in advance and refrigerate it for later use?
- Trouleshooting Tip: Yes, you can prepare Ermine Frosting in advance and store it in the refrigerator for a few days. When ready to use, allow it to come to room temperature and rewhip it for a smooth consistency.
Q6: Can I add food coloring to Ermine Frosting?
- Troubleshooting Tip: Yes, you can add food coloring to Ermine Frosting for different colors. It’s best to use gel food coloring, as it won’t affect the frosting’s consistency. Add the coloring after the frosting is well-mixed.
Q7: My frosting has an odd flavor. What might have caused this?
- Troubleshooting Tip: An unusual flavor in your frosting might result from using low-quality ingredients, expired ingredients, or not properly cooling the flour and milk mixture. Ensure you’re using fresh, high-quality ingredients and cool the paste to room temperature before mixing it with the butter and sugar.
Q8: Can Ermine Frosting be used in high-heat environments or outdoor settings?
- Troubleshooting Tip: Ermine Frosting is best suited for indoor settings with controlled temperatures. It can be sensitive to high heat and may soften or melt in warm conditions. If used in warmer environments, consider stabilizing it with a small amount of cornstarch.
These FAQs and troubleshooting tips should help you address common issues and ensure that your Ermine Frosting turns out perfect. Ermine Frosting is a wonderful choice for those who appreciate its unique texture and subtle sweetness.
Ermine Frosting is primarily made from common kitchen ingredients like flour, milk, butter, sugar, and flavorings. The nutritional content of Ermine Frosting can vary depending on the specific recipe and the quantities used. Below is a general estimate of the nutritional content for a typical serving of Ermine Frosting (about 2 tablespoons):
- Calories: Approximately 100-150 calories per serving.
- Fat: Around 8-12 grams of fat, primarily from butter and any fats in the milk.
- Carbohydrates: Approximately 7-10 grams of carbohydrates, primarily from sugar.
- Protein: Minimal protein, typically less than 1 gram per serving.
- Sugar: Ermine Frosting contains a moderate amount of sugar, usually 6-8 grams per serving, although it can vary based on the recipe.
- Fiber: Ermine Frosting contains minimal dietary fiber.
- Cholesterol: The frosting may contain a moderate amount of cholesterol due to the butter and any fats in the milk. This can vary based on the recipe.
Keep in mind that these values are general estimates, and the actual nutritional content of your Ermine Frosting may differ depending on the specific recipe and quantities used. If you require precise nutritional information, it’s best to calculate it based on the exact ingredients and quantities you use in your Ermine Frosting recipe. | <urn:uuid:85e22b3e-0663-439e-a144-e86e4adfdafc> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://bncake.com/ermine-frosting-artistry/ | 2024-04-15T00:07:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816904.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414223349-20240415013349-00867.warc.gz | en | 0.909707 | 4,039 |
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