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Blueberries are my favorite fruit to pick with kids…they come off easily, they are plentiful and easy to find, and there are no thorns or prickles to watch out for. Even toddlers can join in the family picking; it’s that easy.
Our favorite place to pick the blueberries is at the Dexter Blueberry Farm; they have been so delicious every year, and it’s an activity we all look forward to. If you don’t think you like blueberries enough, it’s because you have never had them right off the bush. Trust me, you will lOVE there. Take your family out for an afternoon before school starts…eat them whole, make some muffins, and use the rest for freezer jam. It was a little taste of summer all year long.
If you go.
Address. 11024 Beach Road Dexter, MI 48130…it is a ways out and you will question if you are going the right way, but you are! Google maps lead you right there.
Price. $1.75 per pound
Hours. Monday-Satrday: 8am-7:30pm, Sunday noon-6pm
Season. The season lasts from mid-July until the second week of September, but the peak is now, so get there!
Payment. They take CASH ONLY. So be prepared.
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Rodent Society – Poverty
🐭The artist has borrowed imagery from the animal world of rodents to depict human society along with social issues such as poverty, robbery, and violence.
🐰The cause is attributed to the impact of diseases, wars, and negative human impacts on nature, leading to an ecological imbalance and natural disasters. The consequence is an economic downturn.
🐹Through this painting series, the artist aims to share a message that food and education are vital in addressing these social issues. Therefore, countries with agricultural economies like Vietnam play an important role in ensuring food security.
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Artwork "The Society of Rodents - Poverty"
Size: 30 cm x 40 cm
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World Water Day 2023
World Water Day is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate this essential resource than with a good laugh and a heartwarming story about companies doing their part to ensure safe water for all?
Enter One Drop Foundation and Buck Naked Soap Company, two organizations that have partnered up to make a splash in the world of water initiatives. One Drop Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to ensure sustainable access to safe water and sanitation to communities worldwide. Buck Naked Soap Company, on the other hand, is a Canadian-based bath + body company that creates all-natural, vegan, and cruelty-free products.
Now, you might be wondering what a soap company has to do with water initiatives. Well, Buck Naked Soap Company has committed to donating 2% of annual profits to One Drop Foundation's safe water initiatives. This means, funds are donated directly to One Drop's efforts to support and help ensure access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services to communities facing extreme barriers.
But that's not all! Buck Naked Soap Company has also created a "One Drop Soap" called Ripple Effect, featuring a refreshing, water-like blend, of angelica and palo santo essential oils. The 10% of the sale from this bar, as well as other Ripple Effect products, are also donated to One Drop Foundation.
So, not only will you be doing your skin a favor by using Buck Naked Soap Company's natural and eco-friendly products, but you'll be contributing to a great cause. It's a win-win situation!
In honor of World Water Day, take a moment to appreciate the privilege of having access to safe and clean water. And if you're in the mood for some shopping (even if you’re not), why not choose Buck Naked Soap Company and support One Drop Foundation's safe water initiatives at the same time? Your skin and the world will thank you! Until next time, stay clean and green!
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Software Engineer - Compliance Engineering
Datadog's Information Security Organization's mission is to enable our customers to adopt Datadog products by providing continuous assurance of our control environment, thereby building customer trust. Compliance Engineering is part of the Information Security organization and enables the organization to scale through tooling and automation. We are building a continuous monitoring platform to proactively monitor Datadog's security controls, identify and mitigate control deviations to provide greater assurance to our customers. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Compliance Engineering team. As a Full Stack engineer on the team , you will help us create a robust KPI platform that will help Datadog complete the periodic audits in an efficient manner. You will work on Python, Go, Postgres, Cassandra, etc on the backend and Typescript/React on the frontend to build and scale new features for the continuous monitoring platform.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You'll Do:
- Work closely with other engineers, stakeholders and users to inform/refine/validate product ideas and design concepts.
- Design and implement visually appealing and intuitive dashboards, reports and interactive visualizations to effectively present complex information in a user-friendly manner.
- Conduct thorough testing and debugging of your code to ensure accuracy, reliability and optimal performance, Implement compelling, usable UIs; and engineer them with React
- Collaborate with other frontend engineers across the organization and the broader Datadog frontend community to keep up with recommended standards and best practice.
Who You Are:
- You have proven experience in designing and engineering UIs.
- You know how to use design patterns to create simple and reusable components for complex UIs
- You are familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization
- You value code simplicity, performance and details
- You have strong problem solving skills and attention to detail.
- You are an accountable team player that likes to get things done
- You want to work in a fast, high growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$123,000 - $155,000 USD
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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An outpatient surgery with a quick recovery time, areola reduction can boost appearance and self-confidence
Some women believe that their areolas — the ring of pigmented skin surrounding the nipple of the breast — are too big, puffy or prominent. Areolas can be made larger because of genetics, weight gain, breast feeding and other factors. Also, as breasts sag, areolas can expand and stretch with age.
Areola reduction surgery can help solve this dilemma. A straightforward procedure that’s sometimes done in combination with other breast surgeries, it involves making a concentric circle incision around the edge of the areola, then removing a donut-shaped piece of tissue and skin. The nipple, with veins leading to blood supply and milk ducts, remains intact.
The surgery is not without some hazards, however. While the scar is hidden around the edge of the areola and will likely fade with time, loss of pigmentation can result in lightened areas of skin. Areola tattooing or micropigmentation can counter this by blending pigment into these areas for a uniform, consistent look. And all surgeries have risks, including anesthesia complications, infection and permanent numbness. These and other potential issues should be fully discussed with your doctor before going ahead with the surgery.
On its own, areola reduction is usually done on an outpatient basis. You can resume normal activities after a few days and the results are lasting. It is a minor and cost-effective procedure that can provide a long-term boost to a woman’s appearance and self-confidence. | <urn:uuid:04553e13-9cfa-4f63-9db5-b95a6de3c35d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://burgessplasticsurgery.com/circling-around-the-topic-of-areola-reduction/ | 2024-04-13T22:45:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.943751 | 321 |
Working with offshoots is probably the most ideal way to bring in cash on the web. There are various offshoot programs accessible, offering a wide scope of items. Presently you really want to sort out how you market those items to your site’s crowd. Here are a few hints to assist with further developing your partner showcasing abilities.
Make a short digital book and post it on report sharing locales. By doing this you can flaunt your skill, yet you can likewise draw in guests and planned purchasers who are searching for comparative data, to your site . Make certain to incorporate various connections to your site inside the report.
Focus on the treat length of the parent site of your subsidiary showcasing program. A site guest’s treats tell the parent organization that you sent them that traffic and permits you to get that commission. Assuming the treats terminate after an extremely brief timeframe, the parent organization is logical attempting to swindle you out of important commission dollars.
You can use past clients to attract new ones by giving a reward for alluding new clients to the assistance. Your old clients will cherish the opportunity to get bargains and will accomplish your promoting work for you. Their companions will trust a suggestion of a dear companion in excess of an advertisement, and they’ll be considerably more prone to shop at your store.
For offshoot advertisers managing messages, you must keep a distributing plan for your sends. You should do this for automated assistants and for broadcast messages. Likewise make certain to monitor your snaps, profit per mail, and other crucial data to let you know if your mission is working.
The best sponsors you can get in associate showcasing projects will accomplish bunches of work to assist you with aiding them. Many offshoots have coordinated inventive assets – brought together promoting plans, pre-composed duplicate and other instant apparatuses you can utilize. Associates partake in the consistency of message these assets give them; you can utilize the time they save you to focus on different pieces of your site.
A few merchants attempt to make you utilize their global positioning framework, yet you shouldn’t surrender. Do some exploration to track down a global positioning framework that you can trust.
Check the organization’s offshoot program to ensure they use following treats. You need to ensure that assuming a client visits their site the initial occasion when you yet doesn’t make a buy until some other time, you get acknowledgment for the buy they make. You need to ensure you get all the credit you are qualified for get.
To build the cash you make with member advertising, consider adding recordings to your site. As an associate advertiser, your main objective is to expand traffic to your site. Having recordings on your site is an extraordinary method for doing this. Google will rank your site higher in the event that it contains both video and text.
Making your relationship with your partners beneficial, can be a test, yet it merits the time and exertion. With these tips, you’ll have the option to make back the time that you put into your endeavors, in benefits. Stay with your partner advertising plan and you’ll make certain to see a positive outcome soon. | <urn:uuid:449f2859-b660-4e73-b752-86fb4a979afa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://businessideaus.com/become-affiliated-offshoot-marketing-tips-to-get-started/ | 2024-04-13T22:12:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.941674 | 650 |
There are certain individuals who are sufficiently lucky to reside in calm environments where the weather conditions is ideal all of the time. For most of us, we want great HVAC frameworks that keep us cool in the mid year and warm in the colder time of year. For help tracking down such a framework, read the accompanying article.
To keep your cooling unit running productively, ensure you supplant or clean the air channel one time each month. Actually look at the proprietor’s manual on the a/c for directions on the best way to clean the channel. Never run the unit when the channel is taken out and allow the channel to dry prior to reinstallling it.
Prior to calling for help, know the framework you have. It is critical to get what model it is and which brand it is. Additionally, assuming it has been adjusted previously, you ought to have that data helpful. This will guarantee that you can give your new project worker all the data they need.
Before you enlist anybody to accomplish any work on your HVAC, make certain to get a composed gauge which has organized costs recorded on it. This will guarantee that contrasting one worker for hire with another will be basic as you can see what one offers that another doesn’t, for sure value they’re charging for similar things.
Tell your loved ones about the limits that are conceivable through ENERGY STAR. There’s a ton of reserve funds that can be had here, so why hold this uplifting news all to yourself! You can save those nearest to you many dollars throughout the span of a year.
Ensure that your worker for hire gives a home evaluation. Only one out of every odd HVAC arrangement is for everybody. Your home could have unique requirements for warming and cooling. Your project worker ought to do a stroll around of your space to judge what is ideal. In the event that they aren’t make certain to demand one.
Now and then, it very well may be difficult to sort out assuming your HVAC framework should be fixed or should be supplanted. In the event that your framework habitually separates, is continuously turning on or off all alone, or then again assuming your bills are excessively high, it might pay to have it supplanted. Any other way, seemingly insignificant details can simply be fixed.
Make certain to check your evaporator loop depletes much of the time when your forced air system is running. Assuming this cylinder backs up, you can observe water harm to your dividers, roofs and floors. In the event that you end up with form simply utilize an answer of blanch and water to wipe out the cylinder.
To choose a HVAC project worker that you can trust, it pays to contribute some time investigating a couple of planned organizations and actually taking a look at their notorieties. A decent beginning would be the BBB to check whether there are any objections, then, at that point, search online for survey locales where you can see what real clients needed to say about their experience. These means can assist with guaranteeing you settle on the sharpest and generally educated decision.
Whenever you are searching for a specialist organization to perform administration on your HVAC framework, search for an organization that stands behind their work. This is particularly significant in the event that your blower or condenser is being fixed. Fixes to these two things are very costly, so you need to guarantee that the specialist co-op guarantees their work.
Except if you are adequately lucky to reside where the weather conditions is in every case exquisite, you will require a HVAC framework in your home. Without one, you will perspire the entire summer and shudder throughout the colder time of year. What you have quite recently perused will assist you with picking a framework that addresses your issues. | <urn:uuid:f85296b4-8fb7-4ef9-87da-a627757e4e58> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://businessideaus.com/change-yourself-into-a-master-of-hvac/ | 2024-04-13T21:32:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.96008 | 783 |
Any business starting up or being registered in the United Kingdom will have to have a physical and valid postal address. And being in the right location will also be part of building the brand image.
This is a legal requirement for companies and partnerships to have a registered address in the United Kingdom. This is the place where all your companies’ legal documents, statutory registers for inspection in case of any inspections. So what is a registered office? This is the place where you receive all legal correspondence from HMRC, Companies House, the courts and any other company related mail.
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This address can be different from your trading address, office address meaning. Still, it must be a complete postal address in the same jurisdiction where the company is registered, i.e., England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
There are three Jurisdictions in the United Kingdom:
- England and Wales – companies incorporated in England and Wales must have their registered office in this jurisdiction.
- Scotland – companies incorporated in Scotland must have their registered office in this jurisdiction.
- Northern Ireland – companies incorporated in Northern Ireland must have their registered office in this jurisdiction.Check the site Filmygod
It is not mandatory that you must do the trading from this address; you can trade anywhere in the United Kingdom. You can even run your business overseas provided the address is operational/maintained for the period the company is trading.
It is advised that you keep your home address separate from your business address, but then it will be your choice. If you are using a formations company to handle the registration, then it is advised that you should be that they will be comprehensive registered office service address.
In the United Kingdom company law, it is a requirement to have a registered office address; you will not run a private limited company or a limited partnership without a registered address. This will be placed onto the public record to achieve corporate transparency. You are permitted to change this address at any time as long as this address is in the United Kingdom. As a limited company requires, an LLP must also have a registered office address in the United Kingdom.
Company name must be displayed at the registered office address and any other place where the company trades from and must be visible to customers or public members. This is interpreted as that the company name must be displayed outside the registered address and readable at a given time, not just when the business is open. This is one of the Companies House requirements.
Dormant companies do not need to display this.
There is no restriction to use a residential address to be a registered address for a limited company, but it is not recommended. Therefore, it is always advised that you should have your business address separate from your residential address; this looks more professional and also keeps your residential address private.
Some of the main benefits of having a separate business address instead of a residential address.
- This will have a corporate disclosure to the address, and you could sometimes have unsolicited visitors and mail.
- The registered office address in a prestigious location can increase your customer base and suit potential investors.
- The company will have a professional image with a registered professional address.
- If the registered address is in a prominent city, it allows you to extend your reach to smaller towns and villages.
UK law must declare the office address for company registration and the Director’s service address. The service address can be the same as the office address. The Director’s service address is where the Director receives personal statutory mail from Companies House and HMRC. A service address can be anywhere in the world. Also, note that you cannot use a P O Box number to register your company in the UK.
You are allowed to use your residential address to register a company as long as it is safe to do so and you have the business authority. If you are the owner of the residential property, then you do not need any permission. Still, if you are rented or living in a Council property, you need to be very careful and follow the terms of your contract.
You also need to be careful with the below points if using a residential address for business:
- Being a nuisance to the neighborhood
- Causing any offences
- Be careful and not to have an unsafe/hazardous environment
- People footfall limit
Always avoid the above and declare it to your landlord; otherwise, he/she will not authorise the use of the residential address as a business address company registered address implications. Be careful that you will not be able to have billboards for Advertisement at the residential address. If you are a tenant in a council property, you must have written consent from the council. The council will require:
- Business plan
- If there are any alterations planned, the purpose
- Any exterior building required for the business
- Will there be the usage of commercial vehicles?
- Business hours and level of noise during business hours
Once you get the approval, you might have to pay business rates if part of the property is being used for business purposes.
The other option is to use a virtual office address that you can pay for so that all mail can be forwarded to you as and when it is received, your agent can explain to you how it works. Virtual offices have been used for an extended period. This is an alternative to have a leased property paying business rates and a lot of other overheads.
When doing business, you have to put your location address on the Letterhead/business cards, Adverts, website, etc. List your home address on this does not look professional and can be a downside for the business. Hence virtual registered office address can be an ideal place for you if there is no alternate available. You will have to pay a nominal price, but it is cheaper than renting a place and paying extra overhead expenses. In addition, this will keep your professional and personal life separate as required.
When you have a virtual office, the following are the benefits:
- No commuting – This takes a lot of your time with delays in trains or traffic jams on the road. Staff can be responding to clients from home, and this can be more productive.
- Professionalism – When you give your address in a landmark building in a well-known city, the image is instantaneously there. Your office stationery and other adverts will fall into the public’s eyes much better, and this will be better than giving your home address.
- Privacy – Virtual offices provide you with Privacy to keep your personal and business data separate. This is also supporting the accounting liabilities different and can be a headache at later stages. | <urn:uuid:52f7d9ba-306c-4c2c-8003-f3e1f2d5ebef> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://businesstodayweb.com/this-is-why-a-registered-office-address-is-important/ | 2024-04-13T23:25:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.956444 | 1,357 |
Prominent names will likely be the target for Kentucky and what’s more prominent than the current head coach of a fellow Blue Blood program. Cronin has done relatively solid work on the West Coast at UCLA but likely wouldn’t be against a return to Kentucky, where he’s worked and lived before.
Cronin was born in and graduated from Cincinnati, later serving on Bob Huggins’ staff with the Bearcats. A former Rick Pitino assistant at Louisville, he had great success as head coach at Murray State and across 13 years at Cincinnati before UCLA hired him in 2019. The highlight of his time with the Bruins was a shocking run to the Final Four in 2021, though his team did underachieve and miss the Big Dance this season.
With UCLA heading to the Big Ten next season, Cronin will be back in familiar country more often, but the Kentucky job would have to be too good to pass up on. Cronin has been a rumored name for openings at Louisville and Michigan and a return to the Midwest makes a lot of sense. He’s shown he can win at several programs and would be a pretty solid name to land in Lexington, even if he isn’t necessarily at the top of the list. | <urn:uuid:d06a29c1-c2fe-4deb-9b00-b27804e31aa1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://bustingbrackets.com/posts/kentucky-basketball-8-potential-candidates-to-become-next-hc-if-john-calipari-leaves-01hst1evte7p/2 | 2024-04-13T21:55:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.979508 | 258 |
ButterScotch - Japanese Fish Hook Key Chain - Polished Brass
Let it all hang out... well at least your keys with the ButterScotch Japanese Fish Hook Key Chain.
The Japanese Fish Hook is solid brass and has considerable weight.
Measuring roughly 2.5" the hook can be attached to your belt loop or pocket.
An additional 1" key ring is attached for key storage. | <urn:uuid:cc87401e-6543-40bb-9c56-49ac1592dd3b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://butterscotchlb.com/products/butterscotch-japanese-fish-hook-key-chain-polished-brass | 2024-04-13T21:54:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.934235 | 83 |
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With the first polls a little under a half-hour away from closing, we know that your election anxiety is mounting. Therefore, to ease your anticipation a bit, Bwog proudly brings you a roundup of its favorite election day liveblogs to keep you ahead of the game tonight as the first polls close up shop for good and the results start trickling in.
The most comprehensive aggregator of election liveblogs is Huffington Post. Be sure to check here for their exhaustive listing of editorial liveblogs, streaming video, poll closing times, nifty electoral maps, election widgets, and even some Intrade predictions.
The Booth and Beyond, an election liveblog run for twelve hours today by SIPA’s Morningside Post, includes commentary from Columbia professors as well as submissions from academics around the globe is another spot for election information that Bwog likes today. FiveThirtyEight celebrity Andrew Gelman might even make an appearance later on in the evening as well.
Be sure to check after the jump for a full list of election liveblogs to carry you through late into the night!
- Daily Kos offers a sexy Live Map.
- Spec has two reporters embedded in Chicago, where they’ve been catching up with locals, among other things.
- Check the Talking Points Memo for breaking news from swing states and keep tabs with their live election results on their scoreboard.
- In a change of pace, Politco brings you straight news today, but be sure to check out their hidden gems of liveblogs.
- Wonkette is running a series of reader dispatches from voting booths across the country.
- Need your exit poll fix? Catch the earliest released exit poll data at Drudge.
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The live-action “Beauty and the Beast” Disney movie highlighted what so many fans of the animated movie loved. There was a beautiful woman (the incomparable Emma Watson), a monstrous beast, funny side characters, a truly evil Gaston, and a redemption plot that showcases the power of love. What theme would better suit a great wedding than that of a fairy tale inspired wedding! If you’re looking for a wedding fairy tail come true, turn to these Beauty and the Beast themed wedding ideas.
When it comes time to dress up for the wedding, there are many options for the bride. The best is probably a yellow dress that looks like the one Belle wore in both the animated and live-action movie. This dress is gorgeous and will fit a wide range of women. Obviously, brunettes are going to look more “Belle-like” than blondes, but they can still try out this style too. They don’t have to be left out of the fun just because of their hair color.
The groom has a few options here, too. Some more extreme fans may want to wear a Beast mask to look the part. I don’t suggest this route because it is a little too silly. Instead, he can be styled like the human beast, including wearing his trademark blue suit. The bridesmaids and groomsmen should wear similar styles, too.
Decorations To Utilize
The world of “Beauty and the Beast” has a variety of awesome decoration ideas that you can use for your wedding. The animated and live action movie used anthropomorphic decorations to fill out the cast, items that you can integrate with your wedding such as candlesticks, teapots and teacups, small clocks, and decorative pianos or harpsichords. Make sure to finds items that look as much like the Disney movie versions as possible. Try vintage furniture rental shops for awesome finds (one of my favorite is Something Vintage Rentals).
Stationery That Looks Great
When deciding on stationery that looks good for a “Beauty and the Beast” wedding, go for some that are a little more old-fashioned. The movies take place centuries ago, so your stationery should match that aesthetic. Your napkins, table markers, and invitations should all match the brown, gold, and blue colors of the movies. You should also use phrases from the movie to decorate the stationary. Concepts like “tale as old as time” and phrases like “be our guest!” are very memorable and create an atmosphere that is suitable for your theme wedding.
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The fitness tracker isn’t dead, and if you’re reading this, you’re probably one of the people keeping these little devices alive. Smartwatches like the Apple Watch and the Samsung Galaxy Watch have all but taken over the mainstream wearable space, but the humble fitness tracker remains an option for anyone that's really focused on one thing: accurate workout and daily activity monitoring. Despite the overwhelming popularity of smartwatches, there are still a number of solid fitness bands out there to choose from. We've tested a bunch of the most popular fitness trackers available today to name our top picks.
The answer seems simple: Fitness trackers are best at monitoring exercise, be it a 10-minute walk around the block or that half marathon you’ve been diligently training for. Obviously, smartwatches can help you reach your fitness goals too, but there are some areas where fitness bands have proven to be the best buy: focus, design, battery life and price.
When I say “focus,” I’m alluding to the fact that fitness trackers are made to track activity well; anything else is extra. They often don’t have the bells and whistles that smartwatches do, which could distract from their health tracking abilities. They also tend to have fewer sensors and internal components, which keeps them smaller and lighter. Fitness trackers are also a better option for those who just want a less conspicuous device on their wrists all day.
Battery life tends to be better on fitness trackers, too. While most smartwatches last one to two days on a single charge, fitness bands offer between five and seven days of battery life — and that’s with all-day and all-night use even with sleep tracking features enabled
When it comes to price point, there’s no competition. Most worthwhile smartwatches start at $175 to $200, but you can get a solid fitness tracker starting at $70. Yes, more expensive bands exist (and we recommend a few here), but you’ll find more options under $150 in the fitness tracker space than in the smartwatch space.
When to get a smartwatch instead
If you need a bit more from your wearable, a smartwatch may be the best buy for you. There are things like on-watch apps, alerts and even more robust fitness features that smartwatches have and the best fitness trackers don’t. You can use one to control smart home appliances, set timers and reminders, check weather reports and more. Some smartwatches let you choose which apps you want to receive alerts from, and the options go beyond just call and text notifications.
But the extra fitness features are arguably the most important thing to think about when deciding between a fitness tracker and a smartwatch. The latter devices tend to be larger, giving them more space for things like GPS, barometers, onboard music storage and more. While you can find built-in GPS on select fitness trackers, it’s not common.
While we haven't given the Fitbit Charge 6 the full review treatment yet, we feel confident recommending it as the successor to our previous top pick, the Charge 5. The company added a few new features to the mix here, namely a more accurate heart rate monitor, the ability to pair with exercise machines and a physical side button that can be used in tandem with the touchscreen to navigate the device's interface. The Charge 6 has 20 exercise modes for tracking, and thanks to Fitbit's parent company Google, you can skip through and control YouTube Music playback, provided you have a YouTube Music Premium subscription.
Otherwise, the Fitbit Charge 6 is very similar to the Charge 5 that came before it. Key to its appeal is that it's decidedly not a smartwatch. That means it has a slightly lower profile on the wrist and lasts days on a single charge while tracking activity and monitoring your heart rate, step count and sleep. It also has a full-color AMOLED display and a relatively thin design, which makes it feel fairly premium when compared to other fitness trackers.
Other perks include contactless payments with Fitbit Pay and Google Wallet, plus a handy integration with Google Maps that lets you see turn-by-turn directions on your wrist. But make no mistake — built-in GPS remains the star of the show here. If you're looking for a wearable that can accurately map out runs and bike rides while also keeping track of your heart rate and other stats during each workout, the Charge 6 is a great option.
A more subtle-looking fitness band alternative is the $150 Garmin Vivosmart 5. It’s thinner than the Fitbit Charge 6 and fits in a bit better with bracelets and other jewelry you might wear regularly. But its attractive design is only part of its appeal — Garmin knows how to track fitness, and the Vivosmart 5 is proof that you don’t need to drop hundreds on one of the company’s in-depth fitness watches to get a capable device.
It has a lot of the same features as the Charge 6, except for a built-in GPS. It does support connected GPS, though, so you can map outdoor runs and bike rides as long as you bring your phone with you. The Vivosmart 5 tracks all-day heart rhythm and activity, plus sleep data and workouts, and we’ve always appreciated how many workout profiles Garmin has to choose from. You can customize which show up on your device and change them whenever you want. You’ll also get additional health and wellness information like Garmin’s Body Battery score, which tells you how long after a hard workout you’ll need to wait until you can train at peak performance again, blood oxygen levels, sleep stage data, women’s menstrual cycle monitoring and more.
The biggest disadvantages to fitness tracking with the Vivosmart 5 are the aforementioned lack of built-in GPS, plus its slightly harder to use mobile app. But on the flip side, Garmin devices can sync with Apple Health, whereas Fitbit devices still don’t have that feature.
Engadget tested some of the cheapest fitness trackers you can buy, all coming in at under $100. At the top of the list is the Xiaomi Band 8, which beat the Fitbit Inspire 3 and the Amazfit Band 7, namely due to its many sport tracking modes, unique “pebble” running mode and free and accurate sleep monitoring features. It’s also quite comfortable and fairly stylish with its sleek and nimble design. It also has a quick-charge feature that makes it easy to wear for 10 to 14 days (depending on usage) before it runs out of juice. Importantly, the watch made it really easy to track niche exercises straight on the watch face without being too distracting during workouts.
Pebble mode is a standout feature as it lets you attach the tracker to your shoe using the included running clip accessory, and it did a good job of reporting information about your pace and cadence directly on the display upon completing a run. More detailed insights are also viewable on your smartphone through the Mi companion app. When the Band 8 is on your wrist, it makes it easy to set up workout goals related to time, distance or calories burned per session for activities like deadlifting or skateboarding.
While the Amazfit Band 7 was only beaten by a hair in terms of its exercise tracking capabilities, the Xiaomi Band 8 had a real edge when compared to the Fitbit Inspire 3. Whereas Fitbit’s device was limited to only six pre-loaded exercise shortcuts, the Xiaomi Band 8 had more than 150 exercises you could track directly on the wearable straight out of the box. The Inspire 3 also blocked me from getting more detailed insights about my sleep and recovery because that information lives behind the Fitbit Premium paywall. Xiaomi’s devices, on the other hand, provided in-depth sleep reports with curated advice on how to improve your resting hours free of charge. — Malak Saleh, reporter
All of the previously mentioned fitness trackers are attractive in their own way (bonus points to those that have interchangeable bands), but they share a similar look. There aren’t many alternative designs for these devices anymore. The $70 Withings Move watch is an exception, and one of the most traditionally fashionable fitness trackers you can get. It’s an analog watch face with a couple of health monitoring features including step, calorie, distance and sleep tracking, connected GPS, auto-recognition for more than 30 workouts and a water-resistant design. But we really love it for its long battery life: it’ll last up to 18 months before the coin cell needs a replacement.
The Fitbit Inspire 3 strips out all the luxury features from the Charge 6 and keeps only the essential tracking features. You won’t get built-in GPS tracking or Fitbit Pay or Spotify control but you do get solid activity tracking, automatic workout detection, smartphone alerts and plenty more. The updated version has a sleeker design and includes a color touch display and connected GPS, the latter of which lets you track pace and distance while you run or bike outside while you have your phone with you. When compared to the Charge 6, the Inspire 3 is more fashionable, too. Its interchangeable bands let you switch up the look and feel of your tracker whenever you want, and it’s slim enough to blend in with other jewelry you might be wearing. We were also impressed by its multi-day battery life: Fitbit promises up to 10 days on a single charge, and that checked out for us. After four days of round-the-clock use, the Inspire 3 still had 66 percent battery left to go.
ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Iranian mission to the United Nations issued an angry warning to the U.S. to “STAY AWAY” after Iran launched a barrage of drones towards Israel on Saturday evening, leaving the Israeli military scrambling to intercept up to 100 incoming strikes and Washington pledging its “ironclad” support to Israel. The Israeli military has said it is closely tracking the drones and preparing to intercept them, with dozens of Israeli Air Force je
Iran launched drones at Israel directly from its territory Saturday, the Israeli army said, marking a major escalation of the long-running covert war between the regional foes. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said earlier that Israel was prepared for a "direct attack from Iran" following its threats of retaliation for a deadly air strike on its Damascus consulate. Read our liveblog to follow the latest developments. Summary: Iran launched drones at Israel directly from its territory Saturd
Burton Cummings's latest blow in his legal battle against the current lineup of the Guess Who is tarnishing the legacy of the famous Winnipeg rock band, a local music historian says — and could set the stage for similar rifts between bands and former members.The band's ex-frontman has terminated agreements with performing-rights organizations for every Guess Who song he wrote and published, which means fans of hits like American Woman or These Eyes won't be able to hear them played live in conce
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Best Moisturizer for Dry Skin
Some people only get dry skin when it’s very cold outside. Others develop dry patches year-round. These dry patches can be very noticeable, and they’re a sign that your skin is unhealthy. You need deep hydration over a prolonged period of time to maintain and restore the health of your skin.
While adding a lightweight moisturizer to your daily self-care routine is a step in the right direction, it isn’t the only thing your skin needs. Dry skin requires special care to heal and reach a state of perfect balance.
When using a night cream or daytime lotion, opt for a mixture of emollients, like ceramides, to help repair your skin barrier and humectants ( like hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, and glycerin). Look for ingredients like shea butter, vitamin e, and aloe vera.
What Causes Dry Skin?
Dry skin can be chronic or related to a specific event, like the seasons changing or exposure to a chemical. It can also be genetic or related to a skin condition.
The cold wind isn’t very kind to your face. In the winter, your pores contract, and your skin has trouble releasing enough oil to hydrate and protect itself adequately. As a result, it responds to harsh weather conditions by drying out.
Swimming Pools and Chlorine
Swimming pools, hot tubs, and similar artificial recreational water activities will expose your skin to chlorine. While chlorine effectively keeps the water sanitary, it doesn’t do any favors for your skin. Chlorine is harsh and drying.
You might notice that your skin and hair both get dry, and your eyes get red following a visit to the waterpark or a backyard pool party.
Too Much Sun Exposure
The sun is extremely damaging to your skin. Sunburn causes your skin to dry out and makes the top layer peel off. Even if you don’t have sunburn, the top layer of your skin is likely so damaged that the texture mimics leather.
Skin Conditions Like Eczema and Psoriasis
If you have a skin condition, you may have chronic dry skin as a result. Both psoriasis and eczema cause dry patches of skin that are usually itchy. They can appear anywhere on your body, including your scalp.
A Reaction to Topical Medications
Skincare ingredients like prescription tretinoin are invaluable for acne treatment, but they cause the skin to peel. While they’re treating the acne, they’re causing an upset in your skin’s natural balance of defenses. If you can’t stop using this topical medication, you’ll need to work to restore your skin’s hydration.
If you aren’t getting enough water, your skin isn’t getting enough water. Since your body is mostly made of water, it shouldn’t be a surprise that dehydration can become visible from the outside.
About 64% of your skin is water. Make sure you’re drinking at least the recommended daily amount of water, and increase your intake when you’re outdoors or engaging in an activity that makes you sweat.
Dry Skin Needs More Than Moisturizer
You may be having trouble finding a gel-based moisturizer that’s working to address your needs. Trying many different moisturizers and face creams until you find one that works will be an expensive project that lasts an indefinite period of time. Putting moisturizer on is the last step in a comprehensive regimen for effectively treating dry skin.
Dry skin isn’t a straightforward issue to deal with. Many issues can contribute to dry skin, and simply rubbing some moisturizer won't fix the problem in the long term. If your skin is dehydrated, the moisturizer may not even reach the surface it needs to reach.
While some moisturizers contain ingredients that provide deep hydration to your skin, many don’t. There’s a difference between hydration and moisture. Hydration fills your skin with water, and moisturizer protects the surface of your skin. You likely need hydration if your dry skin is significant.
Building the Right Skincare Routine for Dry Skin
Dry skin needs a few things to reach its perfect balance: a gentle cleanser, a hydrating serum, moisturizer, and sun protection. In many cases, dry skin will benefit from gentle exfoliation to remove the dead cells from the skin’s surface.
If the dead cells are obstructing the healthy skin beneath, the deeply hydrating ingredients won’t reach the layer of live skin cells beneath. Dead skin cells also contribute to the patchy and parched appearance of dry skin, so removing them will create an overall healthy glow.
At the beginning of your skincare routine, cleanse your face. Many cleansers are too harsh for dry skin. They’ll strip away what little protective oil you have, ultimately exacerbating your dry skin.
Wash your face with a natural cleanser like The Clean Slate. Designed to cleanse and invigorate the skin, The Clean Slate will help prep your skin to readily soak up the hydrating moisturizer.
Follow with The Good during your nighttime routine. It is made purely of active botanicals designed to address common skincare concerns. It’s packed with plant-based hydration that can penetrate your skin to deliver its powerful hydration and help to promote the health of your skin.
If you have extremely dry skin, you can apply The Good in the morning and at night.
Finish your skincare routine with The Base Layer moisturizer. The Base Layer contains hydrating ingredients, skin-protecting ingredients, and active botanicals that can help to reduce the visibility of fine lines and wrinkles.
If you’re going outside or if it’s daytime, finish off your skincare routine with SPF.
Deeply Hydrating Ingredients for Dry Skin
If you have sensitive skin, go for a creamy moisturizer that is also fragrance-free. Ideally, the best moisturizer for acne-prone skin and sensitive dry skin should be free of lanolin, parabens, and fragrances that commonly irritate the skin.
The Base Layer moisturizer helps to protect against environmental damage to your skin, restore homeostasis to your skin with plant stem cells and adaptogens, and provide deep hydration.
Our formula contains several deeply hydrating ingredients from natural sources.
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Peptides, antioxidants, and botanical oils will visibly firm, plump, and smooth the skin without feeling heavy or greasy. You don’t have to settle for a moisturizer that promises a single benefit when you’d rather address the health and appearance of your skin as a whole.
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Produce and fresh food will be a big priority for Metro Inc. stores over the next few years, says president Eric La Fleche, while Walmart’s invasion of Quebec has had minimal impact on Metro’s stores so far.
Speaking at the CIBC Retail and Consumer Conference in Toronto Wednesday, La Fleche said efforts to revamp Metro’s produce sections have to date yielded positive results.
La Fleche said produce managers recently told him that customers really like the new layout, rolled out in the past year. While he did not disclose sales specifics, La Fleche said: “The needle has not moved a huge amount but it’s moving in the right direction.”
The new layout includes lower tables, emphasizing a market feel. Stores are also putting out less inventory but more variety and with a greater emphasis on organic. Metro stores have been able to grow sales using this layout without adding too much extra shrink, La Fleche said.
To date, 96 stores in Quebec and 123 stores in Ontario have been updated with the new layout. In Ontario most of the stores changed are Metros and the company is now starting to revamp its discount Food Basics stores. In Quebec, about two-thirds of the conversions have been at the conventional Metro banner; the rest at Super C discount stores.
La Fleche said that before the conversions “we weren’t thrilled with consumer feedback on our produce departments and we set our minds to improving that.”
He added that: “What we did in produce we need to maintain and hopefully will do in other departments in the months and years to come.”
La Fleche said the company’s next big capital investment will be the construction of a new produce distribution centre in Laval. It will replace an aging warehouse inherited in 1992 when Metro purchased Steinberg’s.
La Fleche said that Metro is the top grocery retailer “or close” to it in Quebec and the second largest supermarket player in Ontario. The company has had a return on equity of over 15 per cent in the last five years and increased its square footage by 8.5 per cent in the past five years.
With greater emphasis across the industry on discount, La Fleche noted that the company now has 80 Super C stores in Quebec, up from 55 stores five years ago. The Quebec economy has not performed well lately and more shoppers in that province are willing to go to discount stores.
But La Fleche said Metro has experienced only “modest” impact from Walmart, which launched its grocery-focused Supercentre format in the province a year ago.
There are only six Supercentres in Quebec now but more are on the way. La Fleche said his company has prepared itself for Walmart. “We’ve made good moves to be ready and have a defence plan. We’re ready to compete to meet that challenge head-on.”
La Fleche also said that Metro is committed to growing the Adonis chain (pictured above) that it purchased a 55 per cent stake in last year.
Adonis specializes in Mediterranean food and has five stores in Montreal. La Fleche says more stores will open in Quebec and the concept will be brought to Ontario as well.
Asked by CIBC analyst Perry Caicco how a Mediterranean chain will help Metro’s ethnic strategy in Toronto–where most ethnic consumers are South Asian and Chinese, not Greek–La Fleche said he believes there is a market for Adonis’s assortment, focus on HMR and fresh foods, and strong service element.
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In a lottery, participants pay for tickets and hope to win prizes by matching a series of numbers. They may select their own numbers or let a machine pick them for them. Each ticket has an equal chance of winning a prize, and the size of the prize depends on how many of the numbers on the ticket match the numbers drawn by a machine. People can use the money they win to improve their lives, but if they don’t spend it wisely, they could end up worse off than before. In addition, lotteries are often addictive and can drain bank accounts and cause families to fall apart. In this article, we’ll look at the different ways people use money they win in a lottery and how to avoid losing it all.
The first recorded lotteries to offer tickets for sale with prizes in the form of money were held in the Low Countries in the 15th century to raise funds for town fortifications and to help poor residents. Town records from Ghent, Bruges, and other towns indicate that the lotteries continued to be held as late as the early 19th century.
Most states hold lotteries to raise revenue for schools, roads, and other public services. Some also hold a variety of other games, including sports events and scratch-off tickets. The lottery industry generates more than $80 billion in annual revenues, with some of that money distributed as cash prizes to winners. However, critics argue that the lottery is a form of gambling that unfairly targets lower-income Americans and can be a dangerous addiction.
Despite being a popular form of gambling, the odds of winning the lottery are slim. According to the National Institute on Gambling Abuse and Problem Gaming (NIGAS), 1 in 6 Americans reported engaging in professional sports gambling. In addition, the average American household has more than $600 in credit card debt. As a result, it’s important to understand the odds of winning the lottery before investing your money in this risky game.
One way to increase your chances of winning the lottery is to buy a ticket with fewer numbers. Some experts recommend choosing a sequence of numbers that has a pattern, like your birthday or other lucky numbers. Other experts argue that picking a random set of numbers is the best way to maximize your odds.
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President Barack Obama celebrated when sign-ups for his health care law topped 8 million, far exceeding expectations after a slipshod launch. Most Americans, however, remain unimpressed.
A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that public opinion continues to run deeply negative on the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature effort to cover the uninsured. Forty-three percent oppose the law, compared with just 28 percent in support.
The pattern illustrates why the health care law remains a favored target for Republicans seeking a Senate majority in the midterm elections.
The poll does have a bright spot for the administration: Those who signed up for coverage aren’t reeling from sticker shock. Most said they found premiums in line with what they expected, or even lower.
But even that was diminished by another finding: More than one-third of those who said they or someone in their household tried to enroll, were ultimately unable to do so. For the White House, it’s an uncomfortable reminder of the technical problems that paralyzed the HealthCare.gov website for weeks after it went live last fall.
The example of business owner Henry Kulik shows some of the cross-currents of public opinion.
Kulik is disabled as a result of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a condition that destroys the brain’s ability to control muscle movement. His family runs several stores that sell ice cream and other summer refreshments in the Philadelphia area.
Kulik says he doesn’t believe the federal government should require people to carry health insurance, as the law does. And he can understand worries about the cost to taxpayers. On the other hand, he’s been able to slash what his family pays for health insurance by purchasing coverage through the law’s new insurance markets and by taking advantage of tax credits to lower the premiums.
Before the law, his family was paying $2,400 a month. Now it’s several hundred dollars. And Kulik says the insurance for himself, his wife, and three children is comparable to what they had before.
“I think there is a lot of misinformation,” he says.
Obama’s health care law offers subsidized private coverage to middle-class people who have no health plan on the job, and it expands Medicaid to pick up low-income uninsured adults. But last fall’s launch of new health insurance markets was paralyzed technical problems. The debacle contributed to the departure of health secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
After Congress approved the law in 2010, a political backlash over its Medicare cuts, tax increases and new regulations helped Republicans win the House. This fall the GOP is following a similar strategy with the Senate at stake.
“Republicans hold an advantage on this issue among people who feel strongly about it,” said Robert Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health, who follows opinion trends on health care.
Still, just 17 percent of poll respondents said the law will be completely repealed. While that represents an increase of 5 percentage points from March, the poll found that 67 percent believe the health law will be implemented with changes, whether major or superficial.
In Walhalla, South Carolina, digital publisher Greg Freeman says he’s no big fan of the president. But now into his late 30s, Freeman thought it would be a good idea to get health insurance through the new law. It took several tries to navigate the federal enrollment website, but Freeman says he’s generally satisfied. His main complaint is that his new doctor is about an hour away, in a bigger town to the east.
“I can see if some of the kinks can be worked out this could be a very positive thing in the long run,” Freeman said. “We should be in a position to be healthiest country in the world.”
The poll found that sign-up success translated into higher approval for the health care law. Among those who succeeded in purchasing coverage, 51 percent back the law, compared with 30 percent among those who tried to sign up and weren’t successful.
In the tiny coastal Oregon town of Reedsport, locksmith Marvin Plunkett says he’s disappointed that public opinion about the law remains so negative. He was able to gain coverage through the state’s expanded Medicaid program.
Plunkett recalled former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s discredited charge that the law would set up “death panels” to judge whether seniors should receive medical care. “The truth about it is pretty mundane,” he said. “But the lies are really exciting and emotional.”
The AP-GfK Poll was conducted May 16-19, 2014 using KnowledgePanel, GfK’s probability-based online panel designed to be representative of the U.S. population. It involved online interviews with 1,354 adults, and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for all respondents.
Associated Press News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
AP-GfK Poll: https://www.ap-gfkpoll.com.
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Looking for some inspiration these holidays? Perhaps you’re having a staycation and looking to make the most of it, or, maybe there’s some wet weather predicted and you are at your wits end with what to do with the kids when you’re once AGAIN stuck indoors! Never fear! Here’s our guide with the best of the best activities to try these summer holidays.
Oh God, it’s raining!
Boo, it’s supposed to be summer! Yes, it’s SO lame that you can’t go to the beach today, but… it means you have the perfect excuse to go and see Wonder Woman 1985 at the movies!
We’ve been starved of great popcorn blockbuster films in 2020, but on Boxing Day we finally got a movie that almost makes up for not having much to watch this year.
I’m not someone who is big on Marvel or DC movies (or can even decipher which is which and what an Avenger is) but Wonder Woman is one franchise I can sure as heck get on board for.
She’s a long movie at 2hrs 35minutes (which I guess is good in terms of getting more for your buck – or the one bazillion bucks that the movie theatres like to charge now for tickets, popcorn and a frozen coke). But it truly is a good time.
I won’t even spoil a second of it for you, just get along and watch it for yourself (and marvel at how ridiculously beautiful Gal Gadot is).
Oh God, it’s raining… and you have kids!
If you’re in Auckland, get thee right now to Auckland Museum to take in their ‘Brickman Awesome’ exhibition.
Brickman is a certified Lego Professional and makes THE most jaw-dropping displays, all out of Lego.
The kids will be into it big time – but, as an adult it’s also truly amazing to see. From giant creepy crawlies, to a replica of the Sydney Opera House (complete with a cross-section so you can see inside to the theatre, bars and service areas).
There’s several rooms to explore, plus, there’s a few pits in every room to dig in and make your own creations (with two MILLION blocks available for building). Entry is every half hour, but there’s enough to see and do for hours.
I have FOMO because everyone else is away
Sometimes there’s absolutely nothing better than a staycation, but sometimes it can also involve moments of FOMO when Instagram seems to be full of OTT summer holidays (Pro Tip: Stay off insta!).
If you’re sticking around home this summer and you’ve got a bit of FOMO or the blues, why not treat yourself to a little night away in your own town/city?
Last month, I booked in for a night at the new QT Auckland, where I had a cocktail at their rooftop bar (why are there not more of these in NZ?) which has a spectacular view across the harbour (with a perfect view of the America’s Cup races).
I indulged at Sean Connolly’s new restaurant, Esther for dinner (the oysters and duckfat potatoes were my faves) AND breakfast (I had the breakfast bowl but I have it on good authority that the Breakfast pide wood-fired ‘kach-a-puri” with hens’ eggs, feta, massimo’s mozzarella and ricotta is where it’s at).
I can highly recommend booking into a hotel nearby and playing tourist in your own town for a night or two!
Dang, I wish I was overseas…
If you’re itching to get away from it all, and a change of scenery to the beach doesn’t seem to be scratching that urge, jump in a plane and head to Hamilton Gardens.
In my opinion they easily have the BEST international gardens in NZ. They’re so convincing, you’ll definitely feel like you’re in another land. There’s the Indian Char Bagh, the Italian Renaissance, Chinese Scholars’ and English Flower Gardens, plus the impressive Japanese Garden of Contemplation to explore.
Then, you can travel to a whole other realm with their Fantasy Collection gardens, including my personal fave, the Surrealist garden, where you literally feel like Alice in Wonderland. Kids, adults and seniors alike will love it.
Plus, it’s FREEEEEEEE! Enjoy!
It’s a beautiful day, but I’m over the beach…
How about a spot of strawberry picking? Or blueberries? Or something a little more different, like lavender picking?
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WHY DO YOU NEED MOUSE RECORDER?
Mouse Recorder Pro software is used to automatically move the cursor, mouse clicks and keystrokes on the keyboard. This application is most popular among fans of computer games. To facilitate / simplify the gameplay, gamers can automate some repetitive actions in games.
For example, alternating pressing of certain keys can be replaced by pressing just one key or using a simple combination. Mouse Recorder Pro has the ability to set a pause between clicks, so it can be used to automate actions that require observing a time interval.
However, the Mouse Recorder Pro application is used not only in computer games, but also, for example:
- Performing any repetitive actions on the computer (entering a predetermined text into a text field, automatic clicks on certain buttons / links in the browser, etc.).
- Launching any processes (programs) by pressing hot keys.
- Creation of your own hotkeys for other programs (for example, drawing geometric shapes in a graphical editor with predefined parameters).
- Or even - automatic trade on online exchanges, when it is required to buy / sell something at a high speed, after entering the price, placing a checkmark somewhere, clicking on a button, etc.
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Are you looking for Innistrad: The Midnight Hunt spoilers? If so, you’ve come to the right place, as today we’ll talk about everything we know about the new Innistrad set, that’s coming out in September 2021.
Although that’s still some time away, we already have some information including the set’s packaging, release date and more. Let’s take a look.
UPDATE: If you’re looking for the newest spoilers, you can find Crimson Vow spoilers here.
Midnight Hunt Spoilers
Here you can find a full list on Midnight Hunt spoilers. You can also click on the images to enlarge them.
Besides the main set spoilers, there are also cards from the Commander decks. You can find them and more information about the Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Commander decks here. Furthermore, you can find Midnight Hunt full-art basic lands here.
On March 18th, 2021 Wizards of the Coast confirmed the release date for Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. You’ll be able to get your hands on the newest take on this Gothic horror themed plane on September 17th, 2021.
Innistrad: The Midnight Hunt Products
Let’s check which type of products are we getting in September 2021.
These are your regular boosters. You get 36 packs per box, and this is the product you should get, if you’re planning on drafting. In Midnight Hunt limited lives up to the hype of the previous Innistrad sets (not counting Avacyn Restored), we’re in for an amazing draft format.
Set booster box contains 30 Set boosters. These tend to have more rares than regular boosters, and are best if you’re just planning on opening packs. You can find out more about Set boosters here.
Bundle contains 8 Set boosters. Nice option, if you’d like to get some Midnight Hunt cards, but don’t want to spend too much. You also get a nice sturdy box as well.
Finally, there’s the Collector booster. The box contains 12 of them. You’ll get a ton of powerful cards, multiple rares and all cards will be either in foil or will have an alternate art. Amazing pick for collectors, but it does come with a higher price.
You can find Midnight Hunt Collector Booster contents here.
Innistrad Midnight Hunt Commander Decks
As we mentioned before, there will also be two Commander decks, which you can already order on Amazon.
Additionally, you can find more information about Innistrad Midnight Hunt Commander decks here.
The Innistrad Japanese packaging was first leaked on the MTG Subreddit on February, 13th. These weren’t confirmed to be real, but they did look pretty convincing. Each type of booster has three different versions.
Since we have the matching official packaging, we can assume these single boosters are real too. So, what can we speculate from all this knowledge?
Draft boosters feature some well known characters.
Teferi has various cards, the two most powerful ones are most certainly Teferi, Hero of Dominaria and Teferi, Time Reveler. His latest card was Teferi, Master of Time in the Core Set 2021, which wasn’t on the same power level. We shall see how strong he will be when in the Innistrad set.
There’s also Olivia Voldaren, which will probably make Vampire fans happy. Last booster features an unknown character.
Set boosters show us some unknown characters plus some Werewolves, which are apparently making a return. This doesn’t come as a big surprise, as they are a very popular tribe of the plane.
Innistrad Collector Boosters
Wrenn and Six also appears on one of the Innistrad Collector Boosters. There’s also another character, which we don’t know yet. Do you have any idea who might it be? Let us know in the comments below.
That’s all we know about the 2021 Innistrad set so far. Once more Innistrad: The Midnight Hunt spoilers and information emerge, we’ll update this article, so make sure to come back. If you don’t want to miss it, follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
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How to Learn Computer Engineering
The field of computer engineering produces essential everyday items society relies on everyday, from mobile phones to routers. Embarking on a journey in this field as a career can be challenging, but you can gain an introduction to this discipline to learn whether or not it is for you with some of the resources we provide.
This article dives into what the field of computer engineering is and the steps you can take to learn more about it, or even make it into a career.
What is Computer Engineering?
Computer engineering is the integration of computer science, physics, and electronic engineering in the development of software and hardware. Computer engineers primarily focus on the design of computing devices from personal computers to microcontrollers.
They not only write software, but also firmware. A simple example of this would be the remote control you use to operate your television.
Computer Engineering vs Computer Science
Computer engineering is used to build everyday objects society relies on, such as the personal computer, mouse and keyboard, camera, speedometer, wireless service networks and advanced medical equipment.
How Does It Differ From Computer Science?
Computer science focuses on computational theory where algorithms, data, and statistical models are extensively dwelled on. Computer engineering focuses on the building of devices like remote controls, smart phones, and integrated circuits. Computer engineers have more of a hands-on requirement in building the actual hardware that goes along with a software.
Computer Engineering vs Software Engineering
Software engineering deals with the websites you visit, the apps you download, and the games. Software engineering is the reason why we traded our flip phones for smartphones.
Computer engineering is different — this field focuses on the hardware required to power the software we love. Computer engineering works with hardware and software to ensure the two necessary components cooperate to deliver great innovations to society.
Types of Computer Engineering
There are several different types of computer engineering specializations, each with their own responsibilities and job titles.
Below you will find five common types along with a description.
Cryptography, also known as infosec, is the study of secure communication. Many computer engineers specialize in cryptography because of their hybrid skills in hardware software. Computer engineers can specialize in coding and cryptography just like computer scientists.
Computer Vision and Robotics
Computer vision refers to how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images. This computer engineering specialization focuses on building technologies that give a sense of the environment to hardware through the gathering of three-dimensional data. An example of this is programming self-driving vehicles and robotics.
Process design is the steps engineers take to come up with a solution to solve a problem. This specialization focuses on the design engineering of building a computer processor, a key component in computer hardwares.
Compilers and Operating Systems
A compiler is defined as “a program that converts instructions into a machine-code or lower-level form so that they can be read and executed by a computer.” Although different from the functionality of operating systems, compilers still work with computer hardware.
Quantum computing is a type of non-classical computing based on principles of quantum theory. In quantum computing, bits are called qubits, which unlike classical computers, have the capability to be in a state of both 1 and 0 at the same time.
The most difficult type or subset of computer engineering is the specialization of quantum computing, which also has applications in other fields of computer engineering, like cryptography. You can experiment in building your own quantum structure on the IBM Cloud.
Learning Computer Engineering
The most common and popular route into computer engineering is through a four-year school for a degree in the field.
Unlike computer science, the field of computer engineering does not yet have the supply of bootcamps or trade schools which give students the hands on experience needed to land a job in the market. However, there are some certifications as it relates to certain types of computer engineering specializations which are obtainable without the need to go to a four-year school, like cyber security for example.
How Long Does It Take to Learn Computer Engineering?
If in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, the length would be approximately four years. However, if in pursuit of a certification of a type of specialization there are trade schools that offer courses for as short as sixteen weeks of study.
Five Reasons to Learn Computer Engineering
According to the Bureau Labor of Statistics the job outlook for the hardware applications of this discipline is slower than average at 2%, however, because this field has flexibility with its area in software, applications for this discipline can be put towards software engineering which is projected to grow at 22%. - Remuneration
The medium salary for this field is currently $117,220 a year in the Computer Hardware Engineer profession and $107,510 for the Software Development profession. - Innovation
In this field, you’ll consistently be at the cutting edge of technology, innovating and building tech for the future. - Job Satisfaction
Hardware Engineers were ranked in Glassdoor’s 20 Best Jobs with the Highest Satisfaction alongside other adjacent roles as it relates to computer engineering. - Versatile
A background in Computer Engineering can be used to obtain many job titles. Some of which include:
- AI and Robotics Engineer
- Hardware Engineer
- Microprocessor Designer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Electronics Architect
Job Demand for Computer Engineers
In November 2020 there were over 12,000 job postings on Linkedin for hardware engineers in the United States, over 5,000 of which were entry level. For cyber security there were over 55,000 job postings, and for firmware over 41,000. Other related computer engineering job postings were:
Robotics Engineer with over 51,000 job postings
Electrical Engineer with over 16,000 job postings
Computer Vision Engineer with over 41,000 job postings
Software Engineer with over 87,000 job postings
The Best Computer Engineering Courses and Training
There are several free, tuition based, or single payment courses and training available for computer engineering. All options are currently online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Cybersecurity Engineering – Manhattan, New York and Washington, D.C. (Online for COVID-19)
- 15 weeks
- Prerequisites: none
Flatiron School is a boot camp that offers several Cybersecurity programs both onsite and online. Their Cybersecurity Engineering program in New York can be completed in as little as fifteen weeks and their Online CyberSecurity Analytics program is a total of 480 hours and can be completed either fulltime or partime.
Computer Vision Bootcamp with Udemy
- Computer Vision Bootcamp with Python (OpenCV) – Online
- 10 hours or self paced
- Prerequisites: Basic Python programming skills
This Udemy course offers seven sections on computer vision covering the basics of computer vision concepts including face and object detection as well as deep learning and graphical processing units.
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- Introduction to Information Security with HelmetJS Challenges – Online
- Self paced
- Prerequisites: none
freeCodeCamp offers an Introduction to Information Security with HelmetJS challenges. The course is a great introduction to the infosec world and offers practical lessons for real life application.
- Cyber security – Manhattan, New York (Online for COVID-19)
- 17 weeks (full time)
- Prerequisites: none
FullStack Academy offers fulltime and partime programs in cyber security which are currently hosted online during the COVID-19 pandemic. This program is meant to take you from cybersecurity novice to in-demand cybersecurity professional in just 17 weeks of full-time study. The school also has a scholarships section where qualified potential students can apply.
- Cyber security – Portland, OR and Salt Lake City, UT (Online for COVID-19)
- 20 weeks (full time)
- Prerequisites: none
The Tech Academy has campuses in both Portland and Utah and offers both a part-time and full-time curriculum. One of the perks of this boot camp is the ISA financing option the school offers its students.
Computer Engineering Books
Author James Lance published a wealth of books for beginners interested in the engineering field. His books, including this one, are geared towards high school students exploring the field of engineering, and for those with non technical backgrounds.
‘ACareer in Computer Engineering’, Stuart Kallen
Another book geared toward teens looking to make engineering a possible career path. This book includes interviews with professional engineers as well as an illustration of the future of the field.
‘Introduction to Discrete Structures’, Raymond Yeh and Franco Preparata
This book is an important and comprehensive theoretical and practical comprehension of mathematics and its connections in computer science. This book is also used in many university curriculums in their Introduction to Discrete Structures course.
‘Modern Operating Systems’, Andrew Tanenbaum
This book offers insights on processes, threads, memory management, and operating system designs. The author of this book is a professor of computer science and has written many books on OS.
Should You Study Computer Engineering?
Anyone with an interest in the field of computing, robotics, physics, or engineering, should take advantage of the opportunity to at least learn more about the discipline and evaluate whether it is or is not something for them.
The field of computer engineering produces essential everyday items society relies on everyday. Computer Engineering students and majors use computer science and electrical engineering together to build and innovate products like from the remote control to autonomous vehicles.
There are many ways to find out if this field is for you, from the books recommendations listed above, to the freeCodeCamp course related to the computer engineering subfield of infosec.
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When a person with Alzheimer's disease can not live alone any longer, an assisted living center is one way to make sure they obtain the treatment and also attention they require in a secure location. The choice to relocate is not a very easy one for you, your loved one, and also your household to make.
Aided living is a kind of real estate for individuals who need aid with some clinical as well as individual care yet can still handle some components of daily living on their own. A lot of facilities are created to feel like residence and encourage citizens to be as independent as they can be. You and also your liked one can select the solutions you want the personnel to take on and those your loved one can deal with.
As you believe about their everyday requirements, think about these questions: Do you worry about their health and wellness or safety when they are alone in the house? Are you physically able to manage their treatment? Does the help they require maintain you from your work, family members, or personal life? Are you feeling extra stressed, short-tempered, or shed out? Would certainly the structure as well as social life in a care facility benefit them? The most effective means to judge the high quality of a nursing home is to see it face to face and talk to team and residents - 24 Hour Home Care Desert Hot Springs, CA.
If the individual with Alzheimer's or various other dementia favors a public living setting or needs extra care than can be offered at home, a residential setup might be the best choice. Different sorts of neighborhoods offer different levels of care, depending upon the person's requirements. An excellent lasting care setting must feel comfortable as well as homelike.
Find out concerning the various sorts of lasting like identify which one best fits the requirements of the person coping with dementia. Retired life real estate might be suitable for people in the onset of Alzheimer's (in some cases described as the moderate stage in a medical context) who are still able to look after themselves separately.
Aided living bridges the void in between living independently as well as living in a nursing home. It commonly uses a combination of housing, meals, supportive solutions and health care.
A lot of assisted living home have solutions as well as staff to resolve concerns such as nourishment, care planning, leisure, spirituality as well as medical care. Assisted living home have various staff-to-resident ratios as well as their employee have numerous degrees of experience as well as training. Assisted living facility are certified by the state as well as controlled by the federal government.
SCUs can take many forms and also exist within various kinds of household care communities, consisting of assisted living, and they might or might not be locked or secured units. Such devices frequently are collection settings in which persons coping with mental deterioration are organized on a floor or a device within a larger residential treatment building.
Since regulations differ, it is essential to ask particular concerns regarding what kind of care is supplied in an SCU to make certain that the level of treatment is ideal for the individual. Home Care Companies Near Me Desert Hot Springs, CA. Life plan communities give various degrees of treatment (independent, assisted living and assisted living home) based on individual requirements.
Repayment for these kinds of services can include a first access fee with succeeding month-to-month fees or payment might be based exclusively on regular monthly fees. Join our ALZConnected on the internet community and get guidance and also support from various other caretakers dealing with comparable situations. There may come a time when the individual living with Alzheimer's illness or dementia will need more treatment than can be supplied in your home.
As the disease advances into the late-stages, 24/7 treatment needs come to be extra intensive. Making the choice to move right into domestic care may be very tough, but it is not constantly possible to continue supplying the level of treatment needed at home. The inquiries below may useful when figuring out if an action to property care is a great choice: Is the individual with mental deterioration ending up being hazardous in their current house?
These sensations are prevail. Households that have actually been through the process tell us that it is best to collect details and also progress. Remember, that no matter where the care happens, the decision has to do with making certain the person receives the treatment they require. Use our Community Source Finder to look for regional long-lasting care providers.
Make a consultation for your very first browse through, however likewise make one or two unannounced visits. Check out and speak with the personnel, as well as locals as well as their families. When you visit a treatment area, ask to see the most recent survey/inspection report and, in some states, the Special Treatment Unit Disclosure type which they are called for to offer.
See the care setup at different times of the day, consisting of dish times. Ask the care service provider concerning area availability, price as well as participation in Medicare or Medicaid. Take into consideration positioning your name on a waiting checklist even if you are not all set to decide (Home Health Aids Near Me Desert Hot Springs, CA). If repayment will certainly run out pocket (or private pay), ask what takes place if the person living with dementia runs out of cash.
g., low salt, diabetic)? Do team supply ideal aid based on person's capabilities(e. g., motivation during meals or helped feeding if required)? Exist any ecological diversions throughout dish time (e. g., loud, TELEVISION)? Are friends and family permitted to take part in treatment? Do the visiting hrs work for the family? Has the discharge plan been discussed? (Find out about any kind of situation or problem that would certainly cause a discharge from the care company, such as adjustment in behavior or financial conditions.) Is proceeding treatment available as a citizen's needs change? Is there an "aging in place" plan where residents can remain in thecommunity also the exact same room throughout the training course of thedisease? Does the community provide an escort to the emergency room if a visitis called for as a result of ailment or a mishap? Does the area give end-of-life treatment? Is hospice careavailable if needed? The price for treatment varies widely relying on the kind of service provider.
Kinds of advantages that may cover nursing treatment consist of lasting treatment insurance policy (check the policy as certain demands may need to be satisfied prior to getting benefits), Veterans benefits and also Medicaid. Medicare does not cover the cost of residential in a treatment neighborhood. Medicare just covers short-term proficient treatment after a medical facility remain.
An approved supplier is an assisted living facility or helped living that fulfills really high standards of treatment set by JCAHO.
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In consultation with the Supervisor of Graduate Studies, graduate students can select from one of two program options :
- A Thesis Program option, usually completed in two years of full-time graduate studies;
- A Research Essay Program option, which may take less than two full years to complete;
Areas of research in French and Francophone Studies
Graduate students can focus their research on various areas of French and francophone studies, in either literature or linguistics. A comprehensive research methodology seminar provides all students with a strong foundation on which to build their individual program of research and study. Seminars cover a wide range of research focus:
- literatures from Québec (including New France), France, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East
- Renaissance to contemporary
- literature and history
- identity narratives
- postcolonial, globalization and transnational theory, migrant and diaspora writing
- translation studies
- women’s writing
- French of the Americas
- French in Africa
- phonology (theory, description & analysis, historical, dialect comparisons, second language)
- applied linguistics
- second language learning and teaching
- identity & language learning
- second language writing
- professional and academic biliteracy
- sociolinguistics (linguistic variation, language & nationalism, colonialism, social inequalities)
- critical discourse analysis
- history of the language
For current course listings, please consult the Séminaires page.
- An Honours bachelor’s degree in French with a minimum B+ average or better;
- Without an Honours bachelor’s degree, you can still be considered for admission by completing a qualifying year in which you take the equivalent of 5 credits coursework at the 4000-level. You may then proceed to apply to the MA if an average of B+ is achieved.
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- Applications: Please consult the Admission Process web page.
Statement of Intent
- Your Statement of Intent allows you to explain your personal interest in the program to which you are applying.
- It should reference the kind of knowledge you expect to gain from the program and should define the reasons why you chose the program and how it can satisfy your own interests.
- Your Statement of Intent must be uploaded within your application or as a PDF document in Carleton Central.
When applying to the Masters program, students should be as specific as possible in their Statement of Intent about the area of French and Francophone Studies they wish to pursue. This will help the Supervisor of Graduate studies and the Committee to determine potential/suitable supervisors.
- Please consult the Required Documents web page.
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Ducks and customer service, it’s a unique Venn Diagram, but one that’s relevant
There’s nothing worse for me than running late for a meeting, especially if I’ve spent the time planning so that I’ll be early. But, my ever increasing reliance on public transport, particularly trains, means that I can sometimes find myself sitting on a platform waiting for a train to arrive late.
So, as I sat on the train a few weeks ago, idly scrolling through Twitter, I came across a Tweet from a train company (I know…the irony), stating, ‘Here’s a gentle reminder…Being aggressive, swearing at us or calling us “liars” is not appreciated. We’re only human and we’re doing our best…‘.
And it started to make me think about the colourful interior monologue that had been playing through my head about me being late and it being a train company’s fault.
Now, I have to admit to limiting the number of things I complain about, because putting it simply, it feels like a Busman’s holiday when I do. So, when I have actually complained about something, I’m very polite but firm about the whole thing, despite the interior monologue going through my head being anything but. That’s not to say I’ve never lost my rag, but when that happens I try to keep it together enough to ask for a manager.
Why is that? Because I have worked in call centres and I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of verbal abuse in my time. And let’s face it, regardless of whether you’re being paid to be there, no amount of money can compensate when a customer who doesn’t know you, screams or calls you the most unrepeatable names. Speaking from experience, it can leave you (or your staff) feeling utterly flat and as though you can’t do your job properly.
But this was over the telephone and since this time technology has moved on at a pace, which means that people can make complaints by email, Twitter or even Facebook. This is often a good thing, making for a quicker dialogue between the parties and quicker resolutions. But, on the flip-side it can also go pear-shaped, as the train company referenced above experienced.
We’ve all heard of Trolls, but often when it comes to complaints, it’s one human’s frustration at a mistake with massive implications, or a series of mistakes with ripple effects each time, that can lead them to boil over. And when they make contact with another human being, with technology, the human factor can be lost entirely.
For me technology, and I include phones in this, means that often the person giving the abuse doesn’t see the very human fall-out from what they’ve said. They get to off-load and then they feel better, but the human on the receiving end, is left carrying the shitty stick. I remember that feeling and it can stay with you for minutes, hours and sometimes days. But, if I’m honest, this duration was always down to the company I worked for.
Put simply, if the business doesn’t have the training to help the front line staff in these situations or at the very least a process to allow them to get rid of said stick, you’ll end up with a valuable member of staff feeling de-skilled and looking for employment elsewhere.
So, what can you do? No business will get it right 100% of the time. And as a business, you can’t expect to be the proverbial Teflon and avoid any and all complaints. That’s not realistic either, but failing to set procedures for this type of thing, or even to manage your staff member’s expectations in terms of the support they can expect, deskills them and makes them feel that they aren’t valued.
However, the thing that is very in your power to do, is support your staff, with the right training to provide coping skills, as well as technical knowledge. Provide them with the tools to ensure that they are resilient and able to bounce back from communications that could leave them reeling. Provide them with the space to vent about an experience they’ve had and provide meaningful support which includes a degree of autonomy for them to be able to choose when a communication is terminated. It also means giving them the choice to get away for 10 minutes after a tricky communication to clear their head, something I wasn’t always provided with the luxury of after being called all the four letter words you can imagine…and here I am still talking about it some 20 years later. That’s how long this stuff can stick with you.
Because, day to day customer service and complaints handling isn’t always water off a duck’s back (There it is…).
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Today I signed my son up for piano lessons. The company’s website, where I registered, was in need of help on so many levels I’m going to write a series of “what not to do” posts about it. Installment #1: adding music to your website is a really bad idea.
I Might Not Be Alone
In this particular situation I was home alone, but what if I were at my office, surrounded by cubicle neighbors? I’d have to lunge for the speaker volume, or scramble to find the pause or “music off” button on your website. The most likely scenario: I’d quickly leave and never come back.
It Slows Your Website Down
Adding large images or media files slows down your page load time. This annoys people, increases your bounce rate, and makes them unlikely to return, especially if they’re trying to view your website on a mobile device.
Don’t Assume I Like Your Taste in Music
Yes, I’m signing up for piano lessons. But they’re not lessons for me, and I don’t even care for classical music. I’m just the one with the checkbook … the mom … your buyer persona in this situation.
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Beige Velvet Chesterfield Loveseat: A Touch of Elegance
Imagine sinking into the sumptuous embrace of a Beige Velvet Chesterfield Loveseat, where classic design meets modern comfort. This exquisite piece of furniture is more than just a seating option; it’s a statement of sophistication and a sanctuary of relaxation for your home.
Timeless Design Meets Contemporary Comfort
- Elegant Velvet Upholstery: Wrapped in luxurious plush velvet, the loveseat invites you to experience comfort that caresses your skin.
- Classic Chesterfield: With its iconic tufted design and tasteful nailhead trim, this loveseat exudes a timeless appeal.
- Sturdy Construction: A solid wood frame ensures durability and longevity, making this an investment in your home’s future.
- Comfortable Cushions: Foam cushions with a curved spring structure provide the perfect balance of support and softness.
- Chic Accents: Two throw pillows add an extra layer of style and comfort, completing the look and feel of this elegant piece.
Specifications for the Perfect Fit
- Dimensions: With an assembled size of 58.8″ in length, 29″ in width, and 30″ in height, this loveseat is perfectly proportioned for intimate spaces.
- Weight: At 77 lbs, it is sturdy yet manageable, allowing for easy placement in your desired location.
The Beige Velvet Chesterfield Loveseat is not just a piece of furniture; it’s a versatile addition to any room. Whether creating a cozy reading nook, offering a chic spot for guests, or simply elevating your living space, this loveseat adapts to your life with grace and style.
Care and Maintenance
- Avoid harsh chemicals and direct sunlight to preserve the velvet’s plush texture.
- Professional cleaning is recommended for longevity.
- Regular dusting and gentle cleaning will keep your loveseat looking its best.
Installation and Precautions
Assembly is required, but with clear instructions and a supportive customer care team, setting up your new loveseat is a breeze. Once assembled, it’s recommended to place the sofa against a wall for optimal stability and aesthetics.
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Mushrooms are laden with nutritional goodness including Vitamin D aka the “sunshine vitamin,” B vitamins such as niacin, pantothenic acid and riboflavin, Beta-glucans, copper, ergothioneine, good fibre content, potassium, selenium and long-chain polysaccharides.
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Computer Engineering (CpE) is a dynamic professional field that blends the fields of hardware engineering with software development. Computer engineers are proficient in electrical and electronic engineering, software design, and hardware-software integration. The goal of a computer engineer is to promote the advancement of digital technology, computer networking, and embedded computer systems. Special focus will be placed in this program upon embedded systems design with the integration of sensors, actuators, and communication technologies.
Engineering Standing Requirements
This program does not have specific admission requirements and only admission to Kennesaw State University is required. For more information, please visit the Admissions section of the Catalog.
Each student is expected to meet the Academic Policies Graduation Policies and Procedures outlined in the Academic Policies section of the Catalog.
Double Owl Pathway
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The CBRM Water Utility completed a universal metering program in 2006. Water meters are an essential part of the water distribution system and serve as a mechanism for equitable and accurate billing. A water meter is also one of the most important tools to assist customers conserve water and find leaks.
All new water services must be metered. A water meter will be supplied by the Utility and must be installed by the owner prior to the water being turned on. A standard 5/8" meter with 3/4" tail pieces and gaskets will be provided for residential customers. Small multi-unit dwellings and small businesses are supplied with a 3/4" water meter. Larger meters will be supplied for apartment buildings, commercial and industrial buildings following an evaluation by the Utility of flow requirements.
The meter must be protected from freezing or other damages and must be installed with suitable access for reading, inspection and repair.
Please review the Municipal Water Connection Procedure.
How to read the water meter
Reading your meter regularly can help with leak detection, conservation and understanding your water bill.
Take a reading at a set time of the day; take a 2nd reading at the same time the next day; the difference between the two readings is your daily water consumption.
Several different types of water meters have been installed in CBRM since the 1940's. The information below describes several of the most recent models. Modern regulations require that a water meter be installed at the point of entry of the water service line into the building; directly after the building isolation valve. In older buildings, the meter may not be in exactly this location.
To read this meter, look at the dials on the meter register. They look much like an odometer on a car. There will be an label on the register face which indicates if the meter is reading in Imperial Gallons or in Cubic Metres. (1 cubic metre = 220 imperial gallons). There are six dials on this register, 5 are whole numbers and the last number represents 1/10th of a cubic metre.
The small red triangle is called a "low flow indicator". If that triangle is moving, there is definitely water flowing through the meter. Observing this triangle while there is no water being used in the house (dish washer, someone in the shower, etc.), will indicate if there is a leak in the plumbing. Most often, a unexplained high water bill is due to a running toilet. Watch the meter, it will tell you.
To read this meter, look at the dials on the meter register. The register on this meter will have 8 dials. The first five dials represent whole number, the last three number represent tenths, hundredths and thousandths. This register does not have a low flow indicator, however, if you observe the last dial on the register, it indicates 1/1,000th of a cubic metre (1 litre) of water flowing through the meter. This is a good leak indicator.
This is the newest meter in our inventory. The meter is digital and has a transmitter built-in to transmit the meter reading to the meter readers handheld computer. To read this meter, shine a flashlight on the flashlight icon on the register, this will activate the display.
The 9 digit LCD displays your meter reading in cubic meters The last 4 digits of the reading are decimal points. (e.g. – 12345.6789 cubic meters)
Click here (PDF 2.1 MB) for additional infomation on how to read the leak indicator on this water meter.
How the Utility reads the water meter
The CBRM Water Utility reads 28,000 water meters every three months - 4 times per year. That's 112,000 readings a year. Meter readings are taken several different ways, depending on the type of water meter installed.
Read Inside: Where a meter was installed over 20 years ago, the Utility still goes inside the dwelling or business to take a direct read from the meter register. In some cases, where the reader cannot get access to the meter because the customer is not home, the reader will leave a blue card at the property requesting that the homeowner read the meter and call in the reading. Meters of this vintage are systematically being upgraded across the CBRM.
Outside visual or touch pad: Where a meter was installed 5 to 20 years ago, a touch pad or direct reading device would have been wired to the outside of the building. The types of Outside Reading Devices range from a visual read, like an odometer, a black box with pins to a small black oval pad. The reader carries a meter reading probe that will interrogate the box with the pins or the small oval pad. They read the visual read directly.
Radio Transmitter: Where a meter was installed or replaced within the past 5 years, a small radio transmitter has been attached or integrated into the water meter. The reader can take reading from this transmitter by walking by the building with a handheld computer, or by driving by with a larger drive-by receive and computer.
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Many people who don’t understand cricket think it’s a slow, boring sport, yet nothing could be further from the truth. With 2.5 billion fans, cricket is the second most popular sport, slightly behind soccer/football, which has 3.5 billion.
Cricket is the first sport that comes to mind when talking about sports in India. In India, where 93% of sports spectators are Indian, it is more common.
For a number of reasons, it has become a religion in India. As soon as possible, we will keep you informed on all international cricket council news.
International Cricket News: Trendy News from the Cricket Field
Cricket is frequently considered a talent-intensive sport. Though every generation after that believes it invented the wheel, temperament and skill remain the most important characteristics in sports. You may talk all you want about how the game has changed.
Despite being thrown in the trash, newspapers, movies, and cell phones still have their original packaging. Breakfast still consists of masala dosa and cornflakes even though devices like iPods and iPads are supposed to change everything.
Cricket follows the same rules, as confirmed by the international cricket press community. The bat and the ball continue to struggle despite frequent changes to the regulations. Bats are thicker and the same weight as a human, yet they are neither longer nor wider. Mint can be used to coat balls.
The pitch is the same length, and the stumps are the same height. There is no distinction between dismissals like “bowled,” “leg before,” “caught,” and others. Even if all of these changes happened gradually, it can be difficult to find the top cricket news. Short version: Cricket adjusts to its surroundings without sacrificing its essential principles.
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Since international cricket news frequently keeps you on the edge of your seat, every cricket fan excitedly anticipates the release of the most recent news. Whether it’s about the number of runs scored, the number of wickets taken, or a player’s performance that day, every bit of news is gold for its admirers.
Trending cricket news features articles for each cricket format to keep you informed. From the most prestigious Test cricket to the T20 matches, we at CBTF Speed News provide you with the most recent events in all cricket formats. CBTF Speed News will keep you up to date on the latest international cricket news.
Formats of Cricket
The International Cricket Council oversees the three various formats of cricket played at the international level (ICC).
Test cricket is regarded as the sport’s highest-level format since winning requires both mental and physical toughness. For this format, each participant dons a white t-shirt and a matching pair of jeans. A red cricket ball is used for the game. The first tests in cricket lasted six days plus a reserve day. Compared to limited-overs cricket, the field constraints are very different.
One Day International
The limited overs format of cricket is known as an “ODI.” The first time it was utilised, 60 over on each side were bowled. The gear was utilised just like in test cricket. The rules of this format saw significant alterations over time, becoming 50 over a side and coloured uniform. White-ball was substituted for the red ball.
The newest and most popular cricket format is T20. As a result, a considerable audience gathered to watch the game on the field. This format helped cricket gain popularity, and other nations including the United States, Malaysia, Canada, and the Netherlands quickly accepted it. It first appeared in the Caribbean islands of the West Indies. There are 20 overs on each side for each team.
Best International Cricket News for You
Cricket has long since spanned international boundaries and left its mark on every continent. This is how the idea of world cricket is created; it is no longer a domestic sport due to its enormous popularity among fans worldwide.
Cricket fans are surely glued to their seats throughout every international game. Because of this, we provide you with exciting international cricket news from across the globe as well as game-winning highlights. How did the coin flip go? Who scored the most runs? How many wickets were dropped?
Learn the answers to these queries as well as information about the highly anticipated international cricket matches. The team at CBTF Speed News works arduously to provide you with the most recent, exclusive news updates on everything happening in the cricketing globe.
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Finding the most latest and up-to-date cricket news today is difficult, and only a select few websites can genuinely back up their claims that they provide the most exciting cricket match news. CBTF Speed News is one such site to start getting your daily dose of the most recent cricket news.
We bring you the most important and well-reported cricket news from across the globe. Whether you are a passionate cricket fan or an aspiring cricketer, CBTF Speed News has you covered.
Crucial elements include the honesty and integrity of the news reports offered by CBTF. We dislike delivering International Cricket Council news that isn’t based on trustworthy sources. To make sure you receive the most latest cricket news today, our teams go above and beyond.
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You can count on CBTF Speed News to keep you up to date on all the most recent events and important information about the games that were played and how they finished. Additionally, we broadcast game highlights to keep you updated on the result and the number of runs each player scored with our international cricket council news. | <urn:uuid:ac47f0f3-ba9f-4c00-bf1a-52c9e9ee9735> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://cbtfspeednews.com/blog/international-cricket-council-latest-breaking-news/ | 2024-04-13T21:13:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.957538 | 1,196 |
Catholic Charities of Buffalo today celebrated the opening of its new Perry-St. Brigid Food Pantry located at 305 Perry St., Buffalo, with remarks and a blessing. This pantry, which has replaced the former Fulton-St. Brigid Pantry, provides an updated, expanded and more accessible space to better meet the needs of individuals and families in the community experiencing food insecurity.
The Perry-St. Brigid Food Pantry is open Wednesdays from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 12:30 – 2 p.m. The new pantry is anticipated to serve 1,745 households this year.
“The new location for this pantry provides a safer, more welcoming environment for our clients and staff and brings us closer to the community,” said Julie Lulek, senior director, Catholic Charities. “In this new space, we can offer more choice and better accommodate our clients whether meeting special diet needs or offering culturally appropriate foods. Client choice not only allows our volunteers to service the clients with dignity, but also results in less food waste.”
Deacon Steve Schumer, Catholic Charities president and CEO, offered a blessing on the new site, especially for the significance of its longtime and continued service to the neighboring community.
Funding for the 2,500-square foot pantry, which is located within the Commodore Perry Extension apartments was the result of a capital improvement initiative of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority. The space includes a waiting room, offices, storage and client service areas.
“The decades-long relationship between the BMHA and Catholic Charities has been extremely beneficial to our residents and we are grateful to be able to continue the partnership in the new location at 305 Perry. The BMHA’s investment of nearly $500,000 to give the food pantry a larger, modern location will ensure our residents have access to fresh produce and staples,” said BHMA Executive Director Gillian D. Brown.
Buffalo leaders also praised the work of Catholic Charities.
“A cold, blustery day like today reminds us just how important an emergency food pantry is for people in need,” said Dr. Callie Johnson, Deputy Mayor of Buffalo. “This brand new facility in the Old First Ward will be able to serve more residents and will be more accessible. I want to thank Catholic Charities for once again stepping up and making a difference in our City.”
The Perry-St. Brigid Food Pantry name reflects its history with the former St. Brigid Parish, the Roman Catholic church built in 1859 at Fulton and Louisiana streets. The parish is said to have served for more than 100 years as the center of the Irish immigrant community in the city’s First Ward neighborhood. In its latter days, the parish initiated a food pantry. Later the pantry moved to 488 Perry St. in the federal housing project, where a few of the Sisters of Mercy who served the church from its beginnings also lived at one time. The Sisters of Mercy were leading and working in the pantry during the 1990s when it moved to the most recent location for the Fulton-St. Brigid Food Pantry, 170 Fulton St., also in the Commodore Perry housing.
The pantry in central Buffalo is one of nine Catholic Charities’ pantry and outreach centers in Western New York with seven pantries in Erie County, as well as a pantry located in both Wellsville and Franklinville. Each pantry has emergency food and offers information and referrals. Trained volunteers assess and help those in need through these centers. | <urn:uuid:8f316838-8023-4ba9-bdf7-0a4f1baddb45> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ccwny.org/catholic-charities-celebrates-opening-of-perry-st-brigid-food-pantry/ | 2024-04-13T21:21:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.968723 | 749 |
American Kennel Club Junior Competitors Train in Maple Grove for World Championship
Three Minnesotans are training with their K-9 companions in Maple Grove for the American Kennel Club’s Junior Open Agility World Championship competition this summer in England.
“It doesn’t feel like a job or work, it’s just pure fun,” said Ava Gardner, who will be competing with her sheltie Merlee. “It’s playing with your best friend, what could be better than that.”
Gardner has competed in a world competition before, last year in Finland.
“At this level, there’s no room for mistakes,” said Gardner. “You see a lot of course work. You see dogs doing a couple of jumps, a couple of obstacles, and the handlers be really excited about the dogs doing it correctly and getting their reward.”
Gardner says the training revolves around a lot of positive reinforcement. She meets at Cloud 9 Dog Training in Maple Grove with two other Minnesota junior competitors, who will be traveling to world competition for the first time.
“I’m so excited,” said Brigit Mark, a student at Maple Grove Senior High. “I didn’t think I would ever get to this point.”
Mark decided she wanted to start training for dog agility shows after she gave up dance. She met Spice, a sheltie who was already trained, and decided to start practicing.
“She was a very seasoned dog before I started running her, so she knew what to do,” said Mark. “I was also experienced so I knew what to do as well.”
Ava Rawlings is the youngest junior competitor at the age of 12. She’ll be competing with her schnauzer Aksel.
“I think it’s really fun because you are bonding with your dog and they are understanding you more and it’s really fun,” said Rawlings. “You have to teach your dog how to do a lot of things, and you have to teach yourself how to do things. It’s hard.” | <urn:uuid:de445dcf-5060-41a9-a3f7-7f2e64de8b19> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ccxmedia.org/news/american-kennel-club-junior-competitors-train-in-maple-grove-for-world-championship/ | 2024-04-13T22:17:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.975691 | 467 |
CDS completed the HDD installations for the Okahu Bay Stormwater Separation project for CB Civil & Drainage and their client Auckland Council. The Okahu Bay project ran for 18 months and involved approximately 170m of 450mm diameter, 180m of 710mm diameter, 210m of 355mm diameter and nearly a kilometre of 250mm diameter PE pipe. The total length of pipe installed is longer than the height of the Skytower, Eiffel Tower, and Burj Khalifa combined.
Highlights of the job included;
- 180m single drill shot of 710mm diameter PE pipe, installed at a grade of 15% up a public walkway. The pilot shot was completed in two steps and successfully intersected.
- Multiple grade shots of less than 2% grade, including a 0.6% grade shot.
- Working around resident requirements in private property on multiple drill shots.
- Successful grouting procedures, including the installation of a large waterstop for excess groundwater.
- Three separate consecutive installations of 250mm PE Pipe in a single week.
CDS worked co-operatively with CB Civil to deliver the works safely, on time and to budget. CDS also assisted with hydroexcavation to locate services along our drill alignments, as well as calculations of surveyed drill depths to find the most effective bore path.
“CDS was the key component to successfully find the best method for work and finalise a design, often this was challenging due to very limited space in public walkways of private properties. I would also like to point out the professionality of CDS management for always providing us with an accurate programme of work and meeting production targets agreed before. CDS has been a great partner in helping us to complete the project and meet project objectives and CB Civil would be happy to see them on other challenging sites” – Davis Grazuls, CB Civil Project Engineer | <urn:uuid:072fa2dc-cc0e-4ff6-8a28-6029eab7abdb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://cdsnz.co.nz/projects/okahu-bay-separation-project/ | 2024-04-13T23:23:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.961667 | 392 |
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In a 43-page memorandum, the Aquaman star wrote that the judgment made by jurors during the June recent defamation case, which found her guilty on three claims of defamation, should be tossed on the grounds it was unsupported by evidence.
Heard, led by her team of lawyers, argues the award delivered against her by jurors was excessive, particularly given they concluded both she and Depp had defamed each other.
More notably, however, Heard's lawyers claim the jury did not have sufficient evidence to conclude Depp had lost roles and opportunities due to the op-ed article she wrote and had published in The Washington Post in 2018.
During the trial, the actor argued that he specifically lost his iconic role in Pirates of the Caribbean because of statements made by Heard – though in the latest court filing, Heard's legal team claims Depp's career was already on rocky waters, including within the Pirates franchise.
Heard also claims one juror who served during the seven-week trial was not properly vetted by court officials, with their listed birth year being 1945 but the person appearing younger.
By placing a question mark to this juror, her legal team implies the person who stood in may have actually been a "fake juror".
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The juror, identified in the filing as Juror 15, "was clearly born later than 1945. Publicly available information demonstrates that he appears to have been born in 1970," the motion said.
The document furthers that while the court's clerk is responsible for vetting all jurors, "it appears his identity could not have been verified" in this case.
Judge Penney Azcarate has indicated she is not inclined to schedule more hearings for the case, despite Heard's legal team desiring an appeal.
Azcarate has said that in order for Heard to appeal the trial, she will have to put up an $US8.35 million ($12.2 million) bond with an annual six per cent interest before an appeal could take shape.
Representatives have since admitted she does not have the money to pay Depp or the bond.
For now, Heard is left with a $US10 million ($14.7 million) judgment against her, meanwhile, Depp sees a $US2 million ($2.9 million) judgment against him for one single count of defamation. | <urn:uuid:48f0e117-0990-46b4-ac50-f92850a6860a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/amber-heard-wants-johnny-depp-verdict-tossed-redone-fake-juror/8a88a5c4-d1b3-4a44-b155-7dbe04e477cd | 2024-04-13T22:51:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.986971 | 490 |
Hello Divine Ones!
We continue to celebrate yesterday’s Full Moon Lunar Eclipse which occurred in 24 degrees of Pisces at 12:05 PM PT/3:05 PM ET.
Lunar eclipses are magical full moons on steroids…..VERY powerful and important events. Expect major transformational shifts for the next several weeks to months!
This particular eclipse activates the Virgo/Pisces axis with the sun in Virgo. The nodes of the moon are also involved with the North Node in Virgo and the South Node in Pisces. This places special emphasis on creating a connection between the energies of the head and the heart……the focus on the rational, practical mind (Virgo) and the world of spirit and your intuitive self (Pisces).
We are now being called to shift our consciousness, connect to our emotional bodies and our intuition on a soul level, bring in more of our dreamy spiritual side and make use of the healing modalities available to us. With Chiron (the “wounded healer”) also conjunct the lunar eclipse, we may find old memories, wounds and events popping up from the past that we would rather not revisit. Trust that whatever is coming up is needing to be healed…..so go within to do the necessary work to be able to forgive and release it. This is a time of completion, of endings. What are you aware of that is no longer useful to you in your life? It is time to release it with love so that you are able to move forward into new levels on your soul’s sacred path. Know that this is for your Highest Good and that we are always going to be transforming and releasing old energies throughout our lifetimes.
The last time we had a lunar eclipse in 24 degrees of Pisces was in September 1997. To get an idea of what area of your life will be affected by this eclipse, think back to what was going on in your life around that time. You will find similar themes being activated for you now as well. It won’t necessarily show up exactly the same way as it did back then, but it will most likely resonate with similar issues that were taking place at that time.
We are also still in the energies of Mercury Retrograde (until September 22) and the Solar Eclipse in Virgo for the next six to twelve months. There is a lot of energy flowing from all of these powerful events right now. Be sure to spend as much time as needed to rest and recharge! It is a very exciting time but we do need to focus on plenty of self care now to be able to handle all of these galactic changes that are occurring.
How are YOU flowing with these powerful changes? Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed with all of the mysterious planetary energies happening right now? Please leave a comment below and let me know about your experiences with this eclipse and retrograde season!
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The MIND and Mediterranean diets — both of which are rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, olive oil, beans, and fish — are associated with fewer signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brains of older adults. Green leafy vegetables in particular were associated with less Alzheimer’s brain pathology. This NIA-funded study, published in Neurology, suggests these diets may help protect the brain from damage caused by Alzheimer’s.
Primarily plant-based, the MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) and Mediterranean diets are rich in nutrients important for brain health. The MIND diet features vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables such as spinach, romaine lettuce and kale; berries over other fruit; and beans, nuts, and one or more weekly servings of fish. The Mediterranean diet consists of vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, and at least three servings of fish each week. Both diets also include olive oil, whole grains, and small amounts of wine; and limit red meat.
Previous research has shown these diets may slow cognitive decline and reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s. In this study, researchers at Rush University Medical Center examined the association of these diets with brain changes linked with Alzheimer’s.
The study involved 581 participants who agreed to donate their brains at death for dementia research. On average, the participants began the study with a first dietary assessment at an average age of 84 years. Annually, for up to more than a decade, they completed questionnaires about the food they ate in various categories. After the participants’ deaths, the researchers examined the donated brains for amyloid plaques and tau tangles, two protein hallmarks of Alzheimer’s.
The researchers also used the questionnaire information to score adherence to the two diets. Higher scores were given to participants who reported eating foods that each diet defined as healthy and reduced scores for unhealthy foods, such as red meat, and high-sugar and high-fat foods.
The brains of participants who had higher diet scores showed fewer signs of Alzheimer’s. This was primarily due to lower levels of amyloid plaques. This trend was not influenced by other lifestyle factors, including physical activity and smoking, or vascular health. There was no correlation between the diet scores and the presence of tangles.
The study’s participants were mostly White, non-Hispanic, and older. Future studies are needed with more diverse populations and to examine how different foods affect the brain and the cellular processes involved, such as inflammation. Nonetheless, the findings suggest that diet is an important lifestyle factor that needs further research as an Alzheimer’s prevention strategy.
This research was supported by NIA grants AG054476, AG017917, and AG072559.
These activities relate to NIH’s AD+ADRD Research Implementation Milestone 2.A, “Create new research programs that use data-driven, systems-based approaches to integrate the study of fundamental biology of aging with neurobiology of aging and research on neurodegeneration, AD and AD-related dementias to better understand the mechanism(s) of vulnerability and resilience in AD across all levels of biologic complexity (from cellular to population level) and to gain a deeper understanding of the complex biology and integrative physiology of healthy and pathologic brain aging.”
Agarwal P, et al. Association of Mediterranean-DASH intervention for neurodegenerative delay and Mediterranean diets with Alzheimer disease pathology. Neurology. 2023. Epub March 8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000207176. | <urn:uuid:24c312e8-7edc-489b-ad8a-2771883e62ae> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://centerforhealthandfitness.com/mind-and-mediterranean-diets-linked-to-fewer-signs-of-alzheimers-brain-pathology/ | 2024-04-13T22:01:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.941188 | 752 |
London, United Kingdom, 19th February 2023: Cezanne HR, a trusted provider of innovative Cloud HR software and payroll solutions for UK & global businesses, is delighted to announce the launch of their new February System Release
New in February: Onboarding, Documents and Comp Planning all receive major upgrades
The release, which went live on Saturday 17th February, is the latest update that enhances the user experience for Cezanne users. It focuses on making the day-to-day duties for people practitioners more efficient, and includes developments to the following user functions:
- Onboarding improvements
Based on client feedback, users of Cezanne’s Onboarding and Lifecycle module can now duplicate existing Onboarding portals to create new versions and personalise their content. This makes it quick and easy to welcome large numbers of new joiners. - New Document Kick Off Process
The new screen now allows you to add new employees to existing Kick off lists, improving the documentation process and saving time without adding another Kick off process. - Comp Planning and Active Directory enhancements
We’ve also added new improvements to help Compensation Planning and Active Directory integrations: including better usability, more flexibility and new search functions.
Andi Perger, Cezanne HR’s Product Marketing Manager commented that “Our development team have once again done some brilliant work in bringing user suggestions to life on our platform. I’m really pleased with this month’s system release as it focuses on several key areas our clients really value; plus, they also contribute to our roadmap of continuous improvement for the platform.”
And that’s not all…
Andi went onto say there’s also some big product news on the horizon, adding that “Along with this month’s system release, we’ll be launching a brand new module on the 27th February! We’re thrilled at the prospect of sharing details on this new module later in the month, and we think it’s something our clients will be excited to learn more about, too – stay tuned!”
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What does this anniversary of the March on Washington and the “I Have a Dream” speech mean for us today? Community Change Communications Fellow Ayanna Albertson did the math, and her grandmother was just about the same age during the 1963 March on Washington as she was during the 2020 protests against the murder of George Floyd.
Ayanna helps us remember a little bit about what life was like 60 years ago, and then talks to her Grandma Bettie to get some living history and what she remembers about life as a Black American in the south and New York City where she lived. Segregation, opportunity, and where we are now are just a few of the memories Grandma Bettie shares with Ayanna.
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Todays post is all about “Living With Purpose”
And hopefully I am going to inspire you to think about life in a different way and to learn that living for yourself is an important aspect of your own life too.
You see the meaning of life and finding your purpose are all intertwined.
So when you know what you want and have the motivation to get it you will achieve your dreams.
Whether you believe in God or the Law of Attraction or just yourself. The tips below will set you on the path to living with purpose and inspiration starting today so you too can live in the dream and be happier in life.
My Top Tips On Living With Purpose And Inspiration
- Treat life like a one way street – You should only go in one direction in life and that is forwards. If you are constantly looking back at life with regrets this will only ever hold you back.
- Have an aim or goal in life – When you are living with purpose you have direction, you know what you want, you just maybe don’t know where to start or how to get it. But you wouldn’t get in the car nowadays without a satnav to go somewhere, you just have to work out where you want to go and follow the directions along the way. It doesn’t matter what that goal is and it could be something simple but everyone needs something to aim for otherwise we just get lost in life.
- Find your passion – Finding something you absolutely love doing will give you the drive you need to go places. When you wake up in the morning and want to get out of bed and get on with the day, you will feel great. Map out lots of things you really enjoy doing and do more of it.
- Have motivation – We can all sit there in life sometimes thinking I can’t be arsed. I would love to do this or that but to be honest I just cannot be bothered. It’s like getting yourself off the settee to go to the gym, you will have more thoughts about not going and convincing yourself not too than anything else. But you know that when you get off your bum and go you will feel great. So every time you to tell yourself you can’t be arsed remember that it is easier and better to just get on with it, rather than question yourself. The art of motivation is not listening to the voices that tell you not to do something.
- Have a do it now attitude – When you learn to do things as they need doing, you will build up motivation inside of you. Putting things off will not need you to the path you want to living your purpose.
- Hold yourself accountable – Sometimes we are our own worse enemy because we hold ourselves back in life. Maybe it is due to lack of belief, were scared, we make excuses, we can’t be bothered, we don’t think we are good enough. These things are just thoughts in your mind and I can guarantee you that you can do anything you want to with the right attitude, the right environment and the right education. If that wasn’t the case then none of us would be able to drive and we would all get run over for not following the green cross code.
- Believe in yourself and your purpose – This is your dream and your life and do not let anyone get in the way of it. It doesn’t matter what other people think of you, prove them wrong at every opportunity you have to do so. Show them that you are good enough, turn those fears into motivation and follow your purpose with a passion and a commitment to succeed. Only you can do this and others can help but ultimately you have to be the one with the drive to live life to the full.
- Stop negative thinking – Our minds are amazingly powerful things but they have one flaw. They are constantly trying to protect us from harm, that is why we question ourselves about everything all the time. Your mind is constantly trying to work out how to keep you safe. But what if you are safe, what if you know that you can do this, what if you believe in yourself and you answer all those questions in your mind with a positive statement. By doing this you take control of your thoughts and you will train your subconscious mind to stop worrying about it. It is a bit like having your first baby, when they learn to walk you follow them round waiting for them to fall over, how often does the baby fall over? Not often enough for you to be following them around but it is your fear that creates this not the babies thoughts of whether they will fall over or not.
- Never give up – When you are living with purpose, you will fail and not once but lots of times. You will make mistakes, you will feel stupid, you will feel not worthy, you will feel like packing it in, you will think this is just not worth it. Stop it and drive yourself forward learn to see everything in life as a challenge you need to overcome. Do not be defeated by anything.
- Have courage – Build up your courage and don’t be scared, you can do this, keep telling yourself over and over that you are great, you are amazing, you can do this and then reap the rewards when you achieve it.
- Pat yourself on the back – It is not often nowadays that people will pay you compliments as everyone is absorbed into their own lives to care so much about others. So when you strive to hit your purpose, rewards yourself for each and every achievement you make along the way. Even with the bad things that happen, find the positive within it and then never make the same mistake twice. Everything is just a learning curve remember.
- Give it everything you have and come out smiling – How often have you done something that you have been really proud of and so much that you just want to show everyone? Yes it feels great doesn’t it and that’s because you have had a purpose and you have achieved that purpose and now need the rewards and recognition to go with. That is what living with a purpose means, achieving things in life and feeling great about doing it, being driven enough to do this is what really matters most.
Frequently asked questions about living with purpose
- Living for a cause – Some people do live for a cause. I have normally found that when something traumatic happens in someone’s life that they tend to back or follow a cause which then makes extremely driven and gives them a purpose in life. Friends of ours lost their son to cancer at an early age and they live to support this cause with charity events and host events to raise money for lots of different charities. It is great because they have found their driver in life and every time they raise funds it reminds them off their beautiful son and they feel like they are contributing to helping others. So finding a cause that also drives you will give you the motivation you need and also you will be less likely to quit because you will be letting others down.
- Living in contentment – Being content in life is everyone’s dream and quite often happens when you have lived your purpose and are content that you have achieved everything you need and want in life. Some people do not want to be driven, some have lived through the rat race and just want happiness and less stress. This all depends on how you can live everyday with a purpose to be content. If that means sitting in the garden reading a book, having a laugh with friends and generally being happy then that in itself is an enormous achievement in life.
- Living in ignorance – This can be a dangerous of form of living in some ways and a positive in others. The negative aspects are those that ignore the things that will impact you at a later date, as if you do not tackle your issues in life, they will lay their stagnant just waiting to bit you on the ass later on in life. The positive aspect is that you do not let others control or influence your life, so you ignore your influences. This is a great way to stay positive in your own mind and not let other distractions stop you from living your life’s purpose.
So there you have it my top tips on living with purpose. I hope you liked it and if you want to live a happy and fulfilled life then please do feel free to check out my transformation program at https://changeyourlifeforever.co.uk. You will get daily videos on how to stay happy, being positive, being kind and giving love to others. If you just need some inspiration to get started on improving your life then you will love it.
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Yellowknife, Canada – Authorities are still on the hunt for Karlos Hemming, a 29-year-old man who is wanted for the murder of 17-year-old Lewis Payne back in 2012. The incident happened over a familial dispute, and according to reports, Hemming allegedly ran over Payne twice after Payne was shot by one of Hemming’s associates, who is already in jail.
The case has been a long-standing one, and authorities have been working tirelessly to find Hemming, who has managed to evade them for years. Payne’s family has been seeking justice for their son’s death, and the authorities are urging anyone with any information on Hemming’s whereabouts to come forward and help in the investigation.
“We are still actively investigating this case, and we urge anyone with any information to come forward,” said Inspector Barry Clark of the Yellowknife RCMP. “We understand that this has been a long time coming, but we are determined to bring closure to the Payne family and see justice served.”
Lewis Payne’s murder was a tragic incident that shook the community, and authorities have been working hard to bring the perpetrators to justice. Hemming has been on the run for nearly a decade, and his continued evasion of the authorities has made him a person of interest in the case.
The RCMP has asked the public to be vigilant and report any sightings of Hemming, who is considered to be armed and dangerous. Hemming’s family has also been urged to come forward and help in the investigation.
“Karlos Hemming has been on the run for far too long, and we urge anyone who knows his whereabouts to contact us immediately,” Inspector Clark said. “We also urge Hemming’s family to come forward and help us in our investigation. It’s time for closure for the Payne family, and we need all the help we can get to bring justice to Lewis Payne.”
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I am delighted to have Matthew Harffy visit my blog today.
Matthew has written a tale of Dark Ages Britain that is receiving praise from readers and other authors alike.
Welcome, Matthew! Congratulations on the publication of your debut novel. Tell us about The Serpent Sword.
It is set in BRITAIN 633 A.D.
The book blurb is as follows:
Certain that his brother’s death is murder, young farmhand Beobrand embarks on a quest for revenge in war-torn Northumbria. When he witnesses barbaric acts at the hands of warriors he considers his friends, Beobrand questions his chosen path and vows to bring the men to justice.
Relentless in pursuit of his enemies, Beobrand faces challenges that change him irrevocably. Just as a great sword is forged by beating together rods of iron, so his adversities transform him from a farm boy to a man who stands strong in the clamour and gore of the shieldwall.
As he closes in on his kin’s slayer and the bodies begin to pile up, can Beobrand mete out the vengeance he craves without sacrificing his own honour…or even his soul?
What drew you to writing historical fiction and why this particular era?
I’ve always loved stories of warriors. Swords and battles. Strong characters fighting against injustice. Back in my teens, I was mainly attracted to fantasy and SciFi. But in the last couple of decades I found the same type of stories in factual-based historical fiction of the kind written by Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and David Gemmell.
Way back in 2001, I had an idea for a story set in 7th century Britain, after watching a programme on TV about an ancient burial ground being excavated at Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland. At the end of the programme, I started typing the first things that came into my head. Over the next weeks and months the story ideas kept rattling around in my head. I bought books on the time period and started mapping out a plot for a novel.
Did you uncover any surprising historical persons, places, events or things in your research?
When researching for the sequel of The Serpent Sword, I discovered that the village where I used to live in Northumberland, Norham, is purported to be the location where Saint Aidan crossed the River Tweed when heading to Lindisfarne. As Aidan arrives in the third novel in The Bernicia Chronicles, it seemed I had to include the crossing.
So much of the research we do as historical novelists has to be relegated to the far reaches of our brains so our books don’t come across as a history text to readers. But finding nuggets that can be incorporated into our stories is such a joy. Let’s back up just a bit – tell me, when did you first start writing?
I wrote short stories at school and always enjoyed creative writing. I even won a prize for a short story when we lived in Northumberland – I was about 11 and my older sister helped a lot with it, but don’t all writers need a good editor?!. I have always been interested in writing and dreamed for a long time of writing a novel, but like many others, I would start with what seemed a good idea, write a few pages, and then, soon after, forget about it.
Oh yes, that certainly sounds familiar! So how long did it take you to write The Serpent Sword? What is the most important thing you learned in that process?
As I’ve said, I started back in 2001, and didn’t complete it until the end of 2013. But I wasn’t writing for all of that time. A couple of years after starting, when I was just starting to believe I could actually write a novel, disaster struck. This particular disaster was dealt to me by one of my favourite authors, Bernard Cornwell. He brought out ‘The Last Kingdom’, the first book in a series that started in the same location and a similar time period to my novel (albeit a couple of centuries later). I was devastated. If I finished the story now, it would look like I had copied Cornwell, who was, and still is, a hugely successful author in the genre.
The wind was totally taken out of my sails, and I set aside the book and made a terrible mistake. I allowed my own despondency to tell me that it was not worth carrying on.
Years went by. My family was growing. I got promoted at work, and extra responsibility brought extra workload. I also found another outlet for my creativity, by forming a band and gigging in local pubs and clubs at weekends (more of that later).
So life was very busy, but all the time in the back of my mind, I kept going back to the ideas of the story of the young warrior in Dark Ages Britain on his quest to find his brother’s killer. Every time Cornwell released a new book in his successful Warlord series, I cursed my bad luck, read his novel with a mixture of disgust and awe at his skill as a storyteller. And each time, I asked myself whether I shouldn’t pick up the manuscript and carry on.
Then, in 2012, some ten years after I’d set the book aside, something clicked and I decided that enough was enough. I kept hearing tales of people independently publishing their books on Amazon Kindle and other eBook formats, and I thought that perhaps what I had seen as a weakness was actually a strength — there was a ready-made following of books of the genre, as proven by Cornwell’s success and that of many other authors.
So, the most important thing I’ve learnt in the process of writing The Serpent Sword is, “don’t give up”.
Based on the reviews I’ve read, I know your readers are thrilled you persevered. What’s the best part of the writing process for you? What has been the most challenging?
The best part of the process is finishing a novel! There are many times during the writing, that it seems it will never happen! I think the most challenging part of writing, is the editing and making sure it all hangs together properly.
Have you ever been inspired by a place? Have you visited the places you’ve written about?
I am inspired by places all the time. In fact, a major reason why I think I was able to complete The Serpent Sword and the sequels is that I lived in Northumberland as a child. The landscape – the rugged coastline, the mist-shrouded rivers and windswept hills – remained with me.
The Serpent Sword is Book 1 of The Bernicia Chronicles. When did you determine that you had a series in the works? Were you plotting the second book whilst writing the first? What can you tell us about Book #2 and Book #3?
When I started work on the book, I thought I would tell Beobrand’s life story in the single novel. I had mapped out a high-level synopsis for about 50 years of his life. Then I worked out that a debut novel should be somewhere around 100,000 words and, after hitting about 70,000 words, I was less than one year into the story! At that point, I realised I had a series in the works! I even changed the ending The Serpent Sword to make it a more satisfying standalone novel.
Book 2, THE CROSS AND THE CURSE, is already finished. It follows on straight after The Serpent Sword. The Bernician Chronicles continue in a third novel, the title of which I am planning to announce soon. I am about 30,000 words into the first draft of it, and it is just starting to all fall into place.
Speaking of plots…are you a plotter or a pantster? Did you create an outline or just write by the seat of your pants?
I create a high-level plot based on some specific historical events. This gives me the major beats of the story. I then allow the characters and the situations to drive the details as I write. This often results in interesting twists that I hadn’t foreseen!
Do you have a particular time of day for writing? A special writing place?
I write when and where I can! I find that I work best when I have a limited time in which to write, an hour or two at most. Nowadays, I do most of my writing in the spare room at home, but I have written parts of my first two novels in trains, airplanes, airports, hotels, school halls, cars (not whilst in motion!), libraries, the living room, kitchen, a holiday flat in Cornwall, and probably other places I can’t remember.
Are there certain types of scenes you find harder to write than others?
I find it most difficult to write emotional scenes with lots of interior dialogue, though I know that novels need this depth. I find it much easier to write external, physical scenes, particularly battles and combat.
What was your route to publication?
After completing The Serpent Sword, I decided to look for an agent and then to seek a traditional publishing deal. I sent out half a dozen submissions to agents who represented authors I admired and I was lucky enough to get an offer of representation within a month. My agent is Robin Wade, who has other historical novelists on his list such as Anthony Riches and Russell Whitfield. He pitched the novel at the London Book Fair in 2014 and there was a lot of interest, but after nearly a year, eventually all the leads dried up and I decided to get the book out there and went down the independent publishing route.
What writers have inspired you? Any favorite books?
I’ve mentioned three authors already, Cornwell, Iggulden and Gemmell. My favourite novel is probably Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry. I wrote a blog post a couple of years ago about some of my favourite novels: http://bernicia-chronicles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/ten-great-historical-fiction-novels-or.html
Writing isn’t your only passion. Tell us about your rock band!
Back in 2007, I decided to form a rock band, Rock Dog (http://rockdogband.co.uk/). I’ve always sung and been in bands (I even auditioned for X-Factor, about ten years ago). Performing is part of who I am, and something I cannot imagine not doing though with all the time spent on the writing, I have had to cut down on the gigs and rehearsals! In many ways, it is the opposite of writing. You share the experience with a group of musicians, and as soon as you finish a song, you get a round of applause (hopefully!). The approval is instant. (For a show off like me, that is great!) Writing takes years and is totally solitary, and you are never sure if it is any good until you’ve put it out there.
For a clip of the band, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7eqaIXjrU4
Who are your favourite authors now?
The newest author I’ve discovered is Robert Lautner (The Road to Reckoning). Other writers I really enjoy are Justin Hill, Angus Donald, Steven A. McKay and Paul Fraser Collard, to mention just a few.
Matthew, thanks for sharing your time with us today. Where can readers find you?
Get your copy of the The Serpent Sword at: http://getbook.at/TheSerpentSword
Matthew Harffy lived in Northumberland as a child and the area had a great impact on him. The rugged terrain, ruined castles and rocky coastline made it easy to imagine the past. Decades later, a documentary about Northumbria’s Golden Age sowed the kernel of an idea for a series of historical fiction novels. The first of them is the action-packed tale of vengeance and coming of age, THE SERPENT SWORD. The sequel is THE CROSS AND THE CURSE.
Matthew has worked in the IT industry, where he spent all day writing and editing, just not the words that most interested him. Prior to that he worked in Spain as an English teacher and translator. He has co-authored seven published academic articles, ranging in topic from the ecological impact of mining to the construction of a marble pipe organ.
Matthew lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and their two daughters.
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In the world of trading, success is often attributed to a set of habits that top traders develop and consistently practice. These habits are not limited to their trading strategies but encompass various aspects of their lives. This article explores the key habits that contribute to the success of traders.
Successful traders never stop learning. They understand that the markets are constantly evolving, and they need to stay updated with the latest trends, strategies, and technologies. They read books, attend seminars, listen to podcasts, and interact with other traders to expand their knowledge base.
Discipline is crucial in trading. Successful traders have a well-defined trading plan and stick to it religiously. They follow their entry and exit rules without being influenced by emotions or external factors. They manage risk effectively and do not take impulsive decisions.
Patience is another habit that distinguishes successful traders from the rest. They understand that trading is not about making rapid gains but about waiting for the right opportunities. They patiently analyze the market, wait for their setups to align, and execute their trades when the time is right.
Effective risk management is at the core of successful trading. Top traders always prioritize capital preservation. They set clear stop-loss levels and adhere to them. They carefully manage their position sizes and never risk more than they can afford to lose. They understand that losses are inevitable and part of the trading game.
The markets are ever-changing, and successful traders are adaptable. They are quick to adapt their strategies and approaches based on market conditions. They do not cling to a single method but constantly evaluate and refine their trading techniques to stay ahead of the curve.
Controlling emotions is essential for successful trading. Top traders understand that trading decisions should be based on logic and not influenced by fear or greed. They do not let a single trade or a series of losses affect their overall mindset. They remain calm, focused, and composed, even during turbulent market situations.
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In conclusion, the habits of successful traders go beyond their trading strategies. It involves continuous learning, discipline, patience, risk management, adaptability, emotional control, record-keeping, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. By incorporating these habits into their daily routine, traders can increase their chances of achieving long-term success in the unpredictable world of trading. | <urn:uuid:a0b89d35-0f6f-4140-9277-e6c614489364> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://charmcitymortgage.com/habits-of-successful-traders/ | 2024-04-13T21:37:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.961218 | 580 |
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The other day my youngest texted me to ask for the “other” kale salad recipe. “That sweet, salty and crunchy kale salad.” We both really like this one from Dr. Weil, which is simple and delicious, with Parmesan and bread crumbs. When I have fresh pomegranates around, I also like this kale and pomegranate salad. Those kale salad recipes are definitely side dishes. But the “other” kale salad is more main course like, with chickpeas and walnuts and apples and celery. I knew I had a copy of the recipe at home but I wasn’t home. We both tried Googling the ingredients we could remember but couldn’t find it online. I’ve had this happen before. Web sites and blogs disappear, along with your favorite recipes! So I almost always print out recipes–plus I like to write notes on them as well as I rarely make anything exactly as written. Or I get ideas on how to mix things up a bit and want to remember these ideas later. And then I try to record my favorites here so we can find them–but I hadn’t put this one up somehow!
When I got home I took a picture of my printout and sent it to her. I did find the blog was still alive but it still wasn’t easy to find the recipe. When I did, I began laughing because her intro was all about losing the recipe and not being able to find it online anywhere! Then she finally found her handwritten notes on it so she posted it so she wouldn’t lose it again.
I rarely measure the quantities in recipes like this, sometimes I want more kale (more side-like) and sometimes I want more “stuff” in my salads. Sometimes I’ll throw in some extras like pomegranate seeds (which gives you sweet and crunchy at the same time!). After my daughter said she was making this, I wanted some too so I made it for my lunch today. My daughter and I swapped pictures as she was eating hers at work and I ate mine at home.
It was as good as I remembered but I wish I’d put more onion in. And then I started thinking about using a red onion next time. I almost used some different nuts because I thought I had no walnuts. Then I spied the bag of homegrown walnuts my boyfriend’s brother had brought us so I cracked a few of those open and chopped them up. But as I was eating the salad, I thought about how good the nuts would be if they were candied a little. So I’m noting those thoughts now so I won’t forget!
I’m posting the recipe here so my daughter and I can always find it. Thanks to Tea and Cookies for the recipe!
Sweet, Salty and Crunchy Kale Salad
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 Tablespoons tahini
- 2 Tablespoons cider vinegar
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 Tablespoon honey
- 1 15- oz can of garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 cups or more of chopped kale
- 1 large apple, chopped or cut into matchsticks
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 Tablespoons chopped dried cranberries
- a few thin slices of onion
- salt and pepper to taste
- Stir the tahini together before using, then whisk together the oil, tahini, vinegar, lemon juice and honey. Set this aside.
- Strip the stems from the kale by holding the thick end of the kale leaf with one hand and stripping off the green parts with the other by sliding your hand down the leaf. (See the picture below.) Discard the thick stems then chop.
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There have been a number of celebrities that have paid a visit to Toy Story Land. Even they want to be shrunken down to the size of a toy!
Gloria and husband took their 6-year-old grandson to Toy Story Land for his birthday. They met Woody and rode Slinky Dog Dash together!
Venezuelan actress and TV host Gaby Espino took a spin on Alien Swirling Saucers with her children Oriana and Nickolas.
Who else is excited to visit this fun new land?
There have been other celebrities that have visited Toy Story Land. Sherri Shepherd and son Jeffrey visit Toy Story Land on June 27. and Tim Allen made his appearance with family to ride the new attractions and attend the dedication ceremony!
The new Toy Story Land at Walt Disney World Resort, inspired by Pixar Animation Studios’ Toy Story films, turns guests of all ages into “honorary toys” and allows them to PLAY BIG in the whimsical world of a child’s imagination.
In Toy Story Land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Woody, Jessie, Buzz Lightyear, Slinky Dog, Green Army Men and other fun-loving Toy Story characters come to life in the outdoor setting of Andy’s backyard. A world of toys surrounds guests: giant building blocks, Tinkertoys, yo-yos, board-game pieces, dominoes, Scrabble tiles, and even a giant roller coaster set. The entire land encourages the best playtime ever.
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BEA executive Jay Simons just posted more details about Participate 2008 on the en.terpri.se blog and, needless to say, all of us here at bdg are very excited about the event.
Last year’s event in Atlanta was a raging success. Over 1000 attendees came to hear BEA employees, customers and partners describe their experiences with AquaLogic User Interaction and AquaLogic BPM. For our part, we had the usual partner/sponsor booth, we gave away a Video iPod and hundreds of fun USB-powered laptop lights. We also presented a very well-received demo showing how to integrate ALI, ALSB and ALDSP.
In 2008 we’re upping the ante. BEA has contracted the development team here at bdg to build a suite of social applications for AquaLogic Interaction (formerly known as the Plumtree Portal) that will allow conference attendees to network with one another on iPod Touches that BEA will be providing at the conference.
(BTW, our applications will run in a normal web browser just like every other ALI-powered application, but they’ll also be optimized for the iPod Touch form factor.)
They’ll be much more info to come on these great ALI-powered applications that we’re building for Participate, so watch this space and my dev2dev blog as well. To give you a little taste, think Facebook tuned for the enterprise with the specific goal of conference social networking in mind. Rich user profiles; mini- and aggregate feeds; user, session and group walls; private messaging/poking; tagging and other popular Facebook-like functionality will all be included.
Imagine this: instead of raising your hand to ask a question, use your WiFi-enabled iPod Touch to post the question on the session’s wall while the session is in progress. Then, at the end of the session, the presenter can pull up the session’s wall on the projector and field the questions. Like the presenter? Ask him or her to be your contact or join one of your groups! Meet an influential C-level executive who’s an expert in SOA governance and want to get to know him better? You can poke him or leave a message on his wall.
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For as long as I can remember I have been experiencing frequent dreams whilst sleeping of a sexual nature. In my dreams I am always single and I meet a man where it goes on to become sexual. On very rare occasions it has even been a woman which is strange as I have never had any lesbian encounters in my life. When I wake I have a very real sense that I have been sexually violated (by a demonic spirit) whilst dreaming. As soon as I wake up the attacks stop. I have prayed, repented, and done all I knew to stand against this, but to no avail. My husband has even prayed over me before sleeping but nothing stopped these attacks.
Recently the Lord revealed an interesting revelation to me about an unholy union and counterfeit threefold cord brought about by sex before marriage (which proved to be the open door of these attacks). He started by first giving me the following Scriptures ~ And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder (Matthew 19:4-6, KJV). The word cleave in this passage in Greek is Proskollao and means 1) to glue upon, glue to 2) to join one's self to closely, cleave to, stick to.
The word 'hath joined together' in Greek is Suzeugnumi and means to 1) to fasten to one yoke, yoke together 2) to join together unite 2a) of the marriage tie.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body (1 Corinthians 6:13-18, KJV).
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband (1 Corninthians 7:2, KJV).
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols (Revelation 2:20, KJV). The word ‘to commit fornication’ in Greek is Porneuo and means 1) to prostitute one's body to the lust of another 2) to give one's self to unlawful sexual intercourse 2a) to commit fornication 3) metaph. to be given to idolatry, to worship idols 3a) to permit one's self to be drawn away by another into idolatry
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, KJV).
Scripture shows us that man and woman are joined together through marriage and become one flesh. God is part of this special covenant between husband and wife, and when we are married and in covenant with God He showed me that becomes a threefold cord. The threefold cord in this facet represents you, your husband or wife, and God, together in unity. There are other examples of good holy partnerships in Scripture outside of marriage, such as when Jonathan and David became knitted together through their Godly love for one another. Also when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour we become His bride, and the marriage (the coming together as one), which is you and Jesus along with other believers, will take place when He returns.
Scripture also shows us that fornication (which is to give oneself to unlawful sexual unions) which includes ‘sex before marriage’ between a male and a female results in that couple also becoming ‘as one flesh’. This is classed as an unholy union and the Lord told me results in a counterfeit threefold cord between you, your partner and satan. Satan takes the place of God and is the third part of the unholy threefold cord. It is also classed as a counterfeit marriage. In the natural marriage is supposed to take place first, then the consummation of the married couple. The consummation is the sealing of the covenant between you. In regard to the unholy union the Lord also showed me that when you enter into an unholy practice like sex before marriage, the devil assigns a demonic counterfeit husband or wife to you. In other words you are married to that demon in the spirit realm because of the sexual covenant of ‘one flesh’ that is designed to be holy between a husband and a wife, and should happen after marriage. That demon becomes your spiritual husband or wife and becomes extremely jealous and hateful, even more so if you later marry and become a Christian together with your spouse. The spiritual husband or wife will do all it can to divide.
An unholy union and counterfeit threefold cord also applies to a marriage between a man and a man, or a woman and a woman as these are all forbidden in the word of God and classed as sin. Another area of concern with an unholy union is that the tie that binds you together means that you can inherit every demon that each other carries. These demons can pass from one to the other at will. Although I had repented of having sex before marriage in my past this was not enough to sever the unholy union as I also needed to repent for defiling the Holy union and entering into a counterfeit threefold cord with satan. The holy union God has for a man and a woman is a sacred covenant and is very special to God. After I learned this and repented of the counterfeit three fold cord and divorced any spirit husbands, the dreams for me and attacks stopped immediately. I also deliberately waited a week before I released this word to make sure it stayed that way.
(PRAYER) – “Father God in Jesus name I repent for fornication – where I prostituted my body in unlawful sexual practices. I specifically repent for sex before marriage. I am sorry for committing sin against my own body. Father God I repent also on behalf of my bloodline for all unholy unions where I or my ancestors were joined together ‘as one’ with another, outside of the Godly holy union. I repent for defiling your holy union and holy threefold cord, and for making a mockery of it. I now break the unholy union and sever the counterfeit threefold cord between myself and all those who I committed this unholy union with, and satan. I divorce every spirit spouse that is with me because of this practice and command you to leave immediately in the name and power of Jesus Christ. Every demon that was inherited through this counterfeit threefold cord I command you to leave also in Jesus name, Amen.”
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I am not going to lie to ya. It took me a long dang time to appreciate living here in Los Angeles. When you come from a small southern town and quickly make a decision to move to L.A. you will feel like a redneck duck out of water. Over the years I have found my place here in this city and a few places that I have fallen in love with. One of those places being The Ace Hotel in DTLA. (Downtown Los Angeles)
“Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles opened early 2014 in the historic United Artists building in Downtown LA. Built in 1927 for the maverick film studio, this ornate, storied and vibrant Los Angeles gem stands as a monument to a group of seminal American artists pushing out on their own, and anchors the Broadway Theater District’s modern renaissance. Mary Pickford’s love for the ornate detail and stone spires of Spanish castles and cathedrals is manifest at the theater — a true temple of the arts. The mixture of reverent awe and irreverent independence is right up our alley — this is the kind of project we dream of.”- (Courtesy of their website)
This past weekend my husband, bff and myself met up with some friends for a brunch hang out! (I enjoyed the Avocado Toast and it was ammmmmmmazing). I have to say though that the rooftop is my ultimate favorite. As you can see here you can find some delicious beverages while lounging in a sea of pillows! The drink pictured here is a spicy margarita. Yummmmm. It wasn’t quite on the menu however the amazing bartenders here are pretty much the best in the city! As someone with some pretty bad social anxiety at times, I normally hate crowded places. Yet the patrons of this rooftop are unlike most others in Los Angeles. I feel at home here. If I said it wasn’t populated by mostly hipsterish folks I would be telling a false tale. But….let’s be real….about 90% of this city is made up of hipsters and the other 10% have hints of their very own hipster vibes within them. With that said, you will see your share of big hats, cutoff shorts, overalls, giant sunglasses, tattoos, etc. The greatest part to me is that I never feel like I am some uncool misfit. I am never anxious about “having to go” to the Ace. I genuinely WANT to be there.
(Photo of me taken by BFF Lisa Andes)
I quite enjoyed the TWO drinks I gulped down! One was just not enough because of the deliciousness of them.
(Top: Target/ Hat: H&M/ Nails: Yens Nails/ Watch: iWatch)
When you overlook the view of the rooftop you can see the this infamous ‘Jesus Saves’ sign. (which I have flipped and edited) At night from the opposite side of the sign you can read it in all it’s neon glory!
(Foxxy bag: Modcloth)
All in all this rooftop is beautiful (especially at night) with the view, the lush plants, canopies. The staff is amazing! Currently if you wear anything with stripes you may be mistaken for staff member. I love that you can tell who works there by the stripes and not a traditional “uniform.” You wear stripes…you will for sure be mistaken for one of these amazing servers on the rooftop. One of our favorite servers, Derrick, has this red hat that reads “ACE” that I also LOVE a ton. (See above “MAIN photo”)
BONUS! There is always, always. ALWAYS music playing and sometimes someone is there spinning tunes so the vibes are continuously great.
(above photo by: Lisa Andes)
The exterior of this hotel is beyond beautiful. I have said it before and I will say it again, Downtown Los Angeles, I love you. There is something about older architecture that is magical and makes you feel all the feels.
The next best part of this amazing hotel is the theater that is right next door.
According to their website, “United Artists studio and theater was the vision of silent movie starlet Mary Pickford, who — together with Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and DW Griffith — dreamt of forming an independent production house outside of the established Hollywood studio system. With the help of architect C. Howard Crane and Los Angeles architectural firm Walker & Eisen, the group erected the United Artists Theater and its adjacent tower — the tallest building in all of Los Angeles upon its completion.
Though it changed hands frequently over the following decades, the United Artists Theater stayed active as an arts venue until 1989, including a long stint as a Spanish-language movie house, and later as the broadcast site for televangelist Dr. Gene Scott. Following a meticulous restoration of the then-vacant movie palace, Ace cut the ribbon on The Theatre at Ace Hotel in February of 2014 — and we’ve been doing our best to honor the maverick spirit of its founders ever since.”
I have a special bond with this theater because it is where my husband proposed to me.
(above photo courtesy of Ace Hotel)
(above photo captured by friend and photographer, Alicia Chandler right after the proposal)
In conclusion The Ace Hotel will forever be a very special place to me. I will forever hold a special place in my heart for this place. So many memories made there.
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Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one-tenth of all my income.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’ I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
Two men, physically and socially distanced.
The righteous leader, one to be trusted, to share wisdom, in a stable and comfortable position, seen as worthy of respect and honour, publicly fasting and tithing beyond the normal requirements, standing aside, careful to maintain purity nor be unsullied by others.
The otherwise unemployed man, feeling the weight of the dishonour from both his employer the Chief Tax collector, and the people from whom he must collect tolls, despised from all sides, in a shameful position, beating his chest in anguish (as woman of the times would, further adding to his shame in this public manner.
Which of these honestly looks at his living and being, in the light of the Great Commandments?
Leaving the place of refuge and holiness to enter the harsh and truth-filled reality of house, family, and home, one maintains position and outward signs; one faces humility with honesty and grace.
Honest to you, O God,
it is easier to wear the clothes, do the tasks,
smile and nod, meet expectations
and keep up the profile in public…
yet, your calling is for utter honesty,
faithful humility and truthfulness.
It is easier to pray publicly in the safety of my Church
than to be public about my relationship with you
in the ‘church’ of all your people.
Mesh these two parts in my living and being.
Let me honestly pray through my everyday life
with the compassionate care and just practices
that reflect prayer-filled faith and Spirit led choices.
Jesus, guide me and help me to grow in grace,
so I am right with God as I enter God’s ‘home’ in all creation.
© Rev Anne Hewitt 19/10/2022
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The CHVN online auction has over 700 items up for bidding that could save you a ton of money, including furniture and home renovation items.
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This means your dogs can swim with the collar on and it’ll still stay absolutely practical. If you’re looking for a wi-fi dog fence, but don’t know where to begin out, don’t fret. We came up with a listing of necessary options to contemplate when selecting one. Below is a list you’ll need to take note of before buying it. As you possibly can see, getting a wired or wireless canine fence is actually as much as you.
- Electronic dog fences are a fantastic choice if you need to keep your four-legged good friend protected without the upper price tag of a bodily fence.
- We hope that this article will assist you in finding one of the best wireless canine fence for big dogs to have the ability to hold your pet safe and content material.
- The measurement of your yard will determine how huge of a fringe you want.
- The invisible wi-fi electric fence is alleged to be solely 70 percent efficient.
- Just observe that it’s regular for the collar strap to disintegrate after a few years as TPU breaks down naturally.
The good substitution could be Li-Ion batteries, which can be included in the future. An working information with fundamental methods is also included with the unit. The collar design is okay, but there’s nothing impressive about it. The buckle works well, and the collar doesn’t trigger any irritation because of friction. The value is okay, but we would have favored seeing it go down a bit. One can not say it’s a particularly cheap piece, however it’s positively reasonably priced and worth investing in. In case you own a small breed, don’t hesitate to consider investing on this sort.
One of the major disadvantages as far as the group is anxious is the worth of the alternative batteries. They aren’t particularly expensive, however some people complained about them being proprietary. The overall worth of the unit is okay, but it definitely isn’t one of the best available on the market.
Best Wireless Dog Fence : The Best Convenience!
Everyone can discover a resolution with PetSafe, which offers each lightweight and moveable choices as properly as more robust ones. A GPS wireless canine fence is a particular sort of wi-fi dog fence that uses GPS know-how to outline your property invisibly. A GPS wireless canine fence uses a small GPS device attached to your dog’s collar as opposed to typical wi-fi canine fences, which use radio waves to signal your dog’s collar. This gadget transmits a signal to your cellphone or pill, allowing you to track your dog’s whereabouts and create a virtual boundary.
While they aren’t excellent, they are a fantastic backup answer for many families. After digging by way of tons of online evaluations we’ve rounded up the best-reviewed invisible canine fence systems that we found on-line. Every canine proprietor is conscious of that regardless of how well you train your canine, most canine wander. A bodily fence is the finest possible approach to keep cussed or adventurous canines within the yard.
Actual fence structure could be customized with exclusion zones within the principle perimeter. This guide contains some of the finest invisible dog fences as nicely as some of the finer factors of invisible dog fencing. Suppose they do not return to their area after the third warning beep. In that case, the collar will give your pet a secure wireless fence correction static shock that progressively increases in depth from levels 1-4 until your pet returns residence. They additionally take pleasure in being transportable, so you’ll find a way to take it with you when you transfer or even if you go on trip – like tenting, as an example.
It only takes one journey by way of the fence to get hit by a automobile. SpotOn even offers a fantastic non-aversive training plan you need to use that depends on optimistic reinforcement boundary coaching. Begin walking on the opposite facet of the boundary while clicking and throwing treats to your canine so long as he stays inside of the boundary. When I first adopted Remy, I knew I wanted a containment system ASAP. However, he was nonetheless a new canine with conduct issues I didn’t fully perceive.
You have to go for an invisible fence system that may let you realize ASAP when it’s time to examine the fences. Look for an electric fence that has adjustable correction ranges. You wish to give your dog the lightest correction that they may reply to. You don’t need to shock your dog out of his socks each time he comes to the fence’s perimeter. Some canine are more sensitive, whereas others are extra stubborn.
The PetSafe Stay & Play Wireless Fence is our prime choose as the best electric dog fence total. This invisible fence takes solely an hour or two to finish the simple set-up. And, in distinction to in-ground techniques, it’s portable to take with you on trips where there’s access to an electrical outlet. With a collar that matches most dogs, the receiver has a tone mode and five static levels making it ideal for stubborn dogs. This fence system can include a number of canine with purchase of additional collars. It falls into the midrange of price, at $170 for the system. But it appears to be worth it, with users glad at the effect this collar had on their pets.
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With a fully waterproof collar, it might be used it doesn’t matter what the weather. The in-ground containment fence system covers up to 1/3 acre.
The auto-train feature routinely adjusts the correction levels up or down primarily based on how shut your dog is to the fence. You have the choice of upgrading to a distant device for extra training choices. After enabling the indoor transmitter, this wireless fence provides best electronic dog fence a round range of up to 3/4 acre of coverage. The complete system is portable to any location with an electrical outlet. Keep in thoughts that metallic objects and uneven surfaces may impede the signal, causing uneven or ineffective protection.
However, this sometimes only occurs with wi-fi models, not wired ones. Consider a bodily or wired fence if your property has any of those options. Most invisible fence techniques provide between 5 and 10 correction levels to swimsuit completely different conditions.
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Being a mother is a demanding and fulfilling job that requires a lot of dedication and hard work – that goes without saying. But on top of that, many mothers are choosing to also pursue careers while caring for their children, or making the jump into parenthood while advancing their careers.
There are many reasons for a mother to choose both – increasing costs of living has led many parents to both seek employment, while traditional gender roles no longer hold mothers back from becoming leaders in many avenues.
But this presents a unique set of challenges for working moms. Is it possible to juggle both motherhood and career? It’s not an easy feat – and each mom’s situation is unique – but it can’t hurt to try these 5 basic productivity and well-being tips for working moms to thrive:
Tip 1: Prioritize!
As a working mother, it’s easy to feel like you’re constantly pulled in different directions. One of the most effective ways to balance motherhood and a career is to prioritize what demands your attention. This means deciding what’s important and making sure those things are your top priority, because the truth is that no one’s perfect and we all operate on the same 24 hours. For example, if your child has a school play, make sure to attend if you know this play matters to them, even if it means skipping a work event. On the other hand, if you have an important deadline at work, make sure to communicate this to your family and set aside uninterrupted time to complete it.
But if you’ve had to make too many tough decisions and compromise your priorities, maybe effective time management is just what you need.
Tip 2: Create a Support System
Raising a family and pursuing a career can be a lot to handle alone. That’s why it’s important to create a support system to help you manage both roles. This could include your partner, family members, friends, or even a trusted babysitter. Having someone you trust to help with childcare or household chores can take some of the pressure off and allow you to focus on work or spend quality time with your family.
Tip 3: Take Time for Yourself & Set Boundaries
It’s essential to prioritize self-care, especially when juggling motherhood and a career. Taking care of yourself ensures that you’re healthy and energized to take on both roles. This means taking time to exercise, getting enough sleep, and doing activities that bring you joy. Remember, you can’t pour from an empty cup, so take care of yourself first, so you can take care of your family and career.
To even do this in the first place, you have to ensure that people around you respect your time and space. That said, there are good and bad ways to communicate your boundaries.
Tip 4: Embrace Flexibility
As a mother and career woman, it’s important to be flexible and adapt to change. Things don’t always go according to plan, and that’s okay. When unexpected events arise, be willing to adjust your schedule or work arrangements to accommodate them. For example, if your child gets sick, you may need to work from home or take a day off. Embracing flexibility also means being open to new opportunities that can help you achieve your career goals while still being there for your family.
Tip 5: Communicate and Negotiate
Effective communication is essential in any relationship, and this includes your relationship with your employer. As a mother, it’s important to communicate your needs and negotiate work arrangements that allow you to balance your career and family responsibilities. This could mean negotiating flexible working hours, working from home, or taking parental leave when needed. Be confident and assertive in expressing your needs, but also be willing to compromise and find solutions that work for both you and your employer. After all, a recent University of York study found that 69.3% of managers don’t expect employees to work from the office more than 4 days a week.
In Summary – Finding the Right Routines for You
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ROHM Semiconductor has announced that Lucid will be using its silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (SiC MOSFET) in the ground-breaking Lucid Air that is a state-of-the-art luxury sedan with a California-inspired design underpinned by race-proven technology. The Wunderbox which is the main on-board charging unit in the Lucid Air integrates a DC-DC converter and the Bi-directional On-Board Charger (OBC), where an advanced power factor correction circuit is capable of operating at high switching frequencies thanks to the superior performance of the SiC MOSFET.
The improved performance at high frequency and high temperature of ROHM’s SCT3040K and SCT3080K SiC MOSFETs have helped Lucid to reduce the size of the design and to reduce power losses, which results in high charging efficiency. When connected to DC fast chargers, it takes approximately 22 minutes to deliver a charge which will enable select Lucid Air models to cover 300 miles. The SiC MOSFET switched OBC can deliver up to 19.2 KW AC charging, adding up to 80 miles of range per hour. | <urn:uuid:2ff5c596-4d4e-4147-b1d2-6015917cc3bb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://circuitdigest.com/news/lucid-chose-rohm-sic-mosfets-for-efficient-on-board-charging-of-new-revolutionary-electric-vehicle | 2024-04-13T22:11:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.909775 | 260 |
S K Nataraj is Mayor and corporator of Sarakki ward. Even as he plans to visit each and every ward in order to understand their problems, citizens are pointing to issues in his own ward that need attention.
Sarakki ward includes 6th phase JP Nagar, a BDA-planned area, which is supposed to have basic facilities available to its residents when compared to revenue sites. But citizens here continue for suffer from inadequate piped water supply. Resident Anand Rao, in his late fifties, says that BWSSB officials point out that the line is at a higher point and the pressure of water is not sufficient.
Interestingly enough, the KR Layout area nearby, a revenue pocket (underdeveloped) gets better water supply – because of an earlier arrangement done by the erstwhile CMC.
“Due to this problem, I had to go for a private tanker last week,” says another resident Col (Retd) C K Seshadri. He has also filed a complaint with the local BWSSB office.
Open space issue
The one available playground in the 6th Phase part of Sarakki ward is slowly being converted to a big Iyappa temple. Now a Navagraha temple is also up coming there. Children don’t have a playground.
For walking, citizens do not have a park. There is a beautiful park in the ward but it is 1st phase, on the other side of 15th Cross Ring Road.
16th Cross overburdened
Traffic from Bannerghata Road to Sarakki is now using 16th Cross, because of the underpass project. 16th Cross is marked as a one-way and there is a signboard that says heavy vehicles are prohibited. Still, heavy vehicles are plying this route. A truck damaged a BWSSB water valve pit (located near the edge of the road) in the process. Seshadri complained to BWSSB officials, who merely filled the pit with mud. The surface continues to sink further.
Hole in the wall
In the Jayanagar bus-stand you will find a wall portion with what looks like a crack running top to bottom, wide enough that you can see the 4th Block shopping complex through it.
Civil Engineer Narayan Murthy, resident of Bannerghata Road says that gaps are normally provided to allow buildings to get adjusted to climate, and it is normal to include such gaps every 100 metres. However, he notes that the crack has to be filled with a special padding or the building may lose its strength. The gap has not been filled and the plastering is a mess.
The second floor of the Traffic and Transit Management Centre (TTMC) is still half complete. One portion there has been given to the BMTC’s students bus pass counter. Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, with Transport Minister R Ashoka inaugurated the transit centre one year ago.
Beware of fake police on the streets
JP Nagar Police Inspector S K Umesh has started an awareness program to caution citizens. Informative banners have been displayed across the neighbourhood.
Umesh explains chain snatchers are using new tactics, like displaying fake Police ID card, pretending to be police officials. Targeting women walking alone, the con-men talk to the victim about recent murder cases nearby. They advice the women to keep their jewellery in a cover, and offer her a cover.
When the woman gives them the jewellery to place inside the cover, they switch packets and replace the real cover with one holding fake ornaments.
If the woman hesitates, another person nearby will come and vouch for the (fake) police man, saying she also safeguarded her jewellery inside the cover when out walking.
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When their buyers closed up shop, some farmers created new opportunities by collaborating with their neighbors.
When their buyers closed up shop, some farmers created new opportunities by collaborating with their neighbors.
September 14, 2020
Ian Colburn, Zoey Fink, and Casey Holland all operate small, diversified farms in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. The farmers already had plants in the ground in March when they realized restaurants and farmers’ markets—two of their biggest sales channels—would likely shut down due to the pandemic.
Colburn of Solarpunk Farm worried his acreage was too small to support a robust Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and that he hadn’t planned for the kind of crop diversity that model demanded. Fink works part-time at Farm Shark Farm with her husband. They already had a CSA but didn’t think they could increase membership enough on their own to sell the rest of the vegetables.
“It was a scary time,” she said. “We thought: if we work together, we can be scaling up and serving 100 families per week.”
What emerged was the Better Together CSA, a cooperative effort that pooled their produce and resources to get fresh food to local families stuck at home. Now in its fourth membership cycle, the CSA has grown from 45 shares to 85, with nine to 12 farms participating, depending on the week.
“It felt very urgent,” said Holland of Chispas Farm. “We threw this whole operation together in a week, and we kind of workshopped it from there.”
Since the pandemic disrupted agriculture supply chains and changed how most Americans eat, a number of small farms around the country have been working collaboratively. Better Together is just one example.
While cooperative business structures are common in agriculture, they are often large and represent single commodity supply chains, like Organic Valley for milk, Ocean Spray for cranberries, or Midwest grain co-ops. On the flip side, small, diversified farms tend to operate independently and then sell directly to wholesalers or local customers. And many of them have been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 because of their dependence on restaurant sales and the fact that coronavirus-related federal aid for farmers largely passed them by.
As of yet, there is no formal count of the number of farms banding together to sell their goods, but it’s taking place all over the country—from New Mexico to Massachusetts to North Carolina. In April, North Carolina State’s Agricultural Extension hosted an educational series called “How to (Quickly) Organize Farms to Market Together.”
“The co-op knows what farmers are going to need to survive, and they want the farmers to survive—because they are the farmers.”
Doug O’Brien, the president and CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International, said that even before the pandemic, his team was talking about this time in history as a potential “cooperative moment.” Now, COVID-19 seems to be amplifying and accelerating that movement.
“If you look historically at when people have really recognized co-ops . . . it’s been in times of economic or social turmoil,” said O’Brien. “One of the great advantages is their resiliency. The co-op knows what farmers are going to need to survive, and they want the farmers to survive—because they are the farmers.”
O’Brien said that co-ops are particularly good at long-term survival, while investor-beholden corporations are more focused on short-term returns. Therefore, cooperative structures can help small farms—and many other food businesses—meet looming challenges related to equity and climate change.
Still, many of the collaborations that have come out of the pandemic have also added additional work to farmers’ plates, and it’s unclear whether COVID-19-related cooperation will last into the future.
“What I like most is that, from the beginning, we were creating this for farmers, by farmers,” Colburn said.
As a business model, a cooperative is generally a business owned, controlled, and benefitted by the people who work or support it. Co-ops can be owned by producers, workers, or consumers—or a combination thereof.
How co-ops are structured and which part of a business or industry they represent varies. For example, many agricultural co-ops, like in dairy, are focused on marketing and distribution. The co-op pools the milk from many small farms and handles selling it at the best price for farmers (although some co-ops in dairy, like Dairy Farmers of America, have gotten very big, and farmers argue they now operate like profit-hungry corporations rather than representing farmers’ interests).
On the other end of the spectrum, many small farms, especially during COVID-19, have started working together on the fly, while figuring out the business structure along the way. “A lot of the local food stuff is done informally with a handshake,” O’Brien said. “People just kind of do it.”
The Better Together CSA was created that way, as was the Sunderland Farm Collaborative, an online marketplace that now sells food from 40 local farms, many of which lost restaurant accounts, to residents of Western Massachusetts at home, through pick-up or delivery. In North Carolina, Lil’ Farm organized a multi-farm CSA that aggregated produce from several local farms as early as mid-March, just after the local farmers’ market shut down temporarily.
Additionally, some local food co-ops that existed before COVID-19 found they were uniquely suited to respond to the pandemic’s challenges. As large meatpacking plants shut down and commodity hog farmers struggled to sell their animals, Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative, which processes and sells meat from 32 small farms in Arkansas, ramped up processing to meet the rise in demand.
And as reports of the many failures of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm to Families Food Box program piled up, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, a co-op of Black farmers, landowners, and co-ops, landed a grant and began quickly buying excess food from small farms and distributing it to communities in need.
In the recent past, aggregation of local food has often been done by food hubs, but many have struggled to access capital and maintain the complicated logistics of fresh food distribution. Tahz Walker, the program manager and farmer liaison for the Farmers of Color Network run by the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), says it’s important to think about how farmers can own the process themselves.
Walker said that many of the farmers he works with were selling wholesale or directly to institutions and had to pivot quickly in the face of COVID-19. As they attempted to switch to direct sales, they struggled with creating structures to do so.
“[Often] one farmer who had been doing more direct sales would partner with a few others . . . and they would build out a CSA. That’s where I’ve seen farmers come together the most,” Walker said.
At Better Together, Holland was that one founding farmer. She had been running a CSA for over six years and had cold storage, wash stations, and outdoor packing space to share. Farmers dropped their produce off there and were scheduled to pack the shares on a rotating basis. The team raised the price of shares by a few dollars and created a fund to handle administrative costs.
“There’s a lot of opportunity around that kind of collective and cooperative organizing,” Walker said. And he should know. Walker is also a co-founder of the Earthseed Land Collective, just north of Durham.
About seven years ago, he joined a group people of color interested in buying land collectively as a means of creating systems change and just communities. Land access is consistently ranked as the number one challenge young farmers face, and it is even more challenging for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) farmers.
“A co-op makes it all a lot less risky, and you have more of a support system.”
The seven members have now been living on 48 acres of shared land for about three years. Walker runs his two-acre vegetable operation, Tierra Negra Farm, there, and another member operates a vermicomposting company. In the future, the members hope to use the land for community gatherings and agritourism.
For Walker, the benefits of shared ownership, stewardship, and management have become even clearer during the pandemic. “It makes it all a lot less risky,” he said, “and you have more of a support system.”
“In the most practical sense, we couldn’t afford [the land] individually. I don’t even know if we could dream it. I think [land-based work] has been done in isolation for a long time, and it wears down farmers and other land practitioners and stewards,” he said, noting that many people are struggling to meet the day-to-demands of running a farm while also looking to help unravel systemic land access barriers, for example. “It’s hard to have your head down and have your head up at the same time.”
In Massachusetts, Sunderland Farm Collaborative has been so successful that founder Caroline Pam is now investing in significant infrastructure to operate as a cooperative for the long haul.
But for all the benefits that cooperative farming can bring, the fact that it can actually add tasks to a farmers’ to-do list could mean that some won’t last beyond the pandemic.
“In many ways, they is more work for the members. There’s more participation and more engagement, but there’s more control and more benefit in many cases,” said O’Brien of the NCBA. “But honestly, sometimes co-ops aren’t the right solution.”
In August, the Better Together farmers were unsure about whether they’d continue to collaborate and form a more long-standing partnership going forward. Part of that uncertainty was based on the unpredictable nature of COVID-19 and what the world (and therefore markets for food) will look like next spring, when their next harvest season begins.
Colburn expressed a level of exhaustion in terms of dealing with the logistics of direct sales and collaboration. “I’m still up in the air, to be honest,” he said. “As much as I’ve loved collaborating, I’m also ready to just harvest vegetables and to sell everything wholesale.”
Fink and Holland jumped in to kindly tease him about being what farmers call “August tired,” the kind of deep fatigue that sets in after the grueling work of the peak harvest season. They quickly all agreed they’d keep checking in with each other as the winter got underway. “That’s the benefit of the collaboration. We can all make that decision together. There’s not a ton of pressure, when this ends at the end of October, to make that decision immediately,” Holland said.
All three farmers also agreed that they felt stronger and more certain of their resilience as individual farmers, and, more importantly, as a community that can come together and feed itself in a moment of crisis.
“As farmers, we’re like magicians. We’re able to create this food with seeds and sun and rain and the sweat on our brow—and we can do that with systems, too,” Holland said. “There will be future shocks and things to confront. To know that in an emergency we were able to throw this together, and that we can trust each other . . . It’s really important to be reminded of our own self efficacy. To say, ‘Actually, we can do it, and we’re going to do it well.’”
April 10, 2024
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture missed a USDA grant deadline to allow food banks to buy from local farmers. Now, the state is looking for ways to make up the funds.
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Genealogical research into the lives of African Americans before the Civil War can present a unique set of challenges. Many of those who were held in slavery chose their last name after they were emancipated, making them harder to locate in some of the records.
Frank Mallory was a member of the 48th US Colored Troops in the Civil War. His pension file is a great example of the genealogical value that these files can contain.
Frank explained in 1901 that he was known as Frank Mallory at that time. Almost 40 years earlier when he was in the Civil War, however, he enlisted as Frank Stallion. This required an investigation by the pension bureau in order to make sure that he was the same man who was known by this alias.
The investigation, all documented in the pension file, gives the reason for both names. Frank was held in slavery in Alabama by Jesse Stallings. Being unable to sign his own name when enlisted, he said his name was Frank Stallings. The person signing him on heard it as “Stallion,” so he became Frank Stallion during the war. After the war he changed his name to his father’s last name, Mallory.
These key pieces of information can unlock new avenues of research into his family, as well as give insight into how Frank Mallory made his way through the process from slavery to freedom.
His pension application was approved, and the federal government began paying him $12 per month (about $380 today). After he died, the federal government paid his widow $30 per month ($450 today). Like many soldiers in the US Colored Troops, Frank went from being born into slavery and having no real legal status to the government paying him each month until he died.
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Today I have a card and video for you, demonstrating two ways to apply ink to embossed cardstock. These techniques feature products that most people will have in their craft supplies. Hopefully you will be able to try it out today.
First in the video I have used a technique with sponge daubers to dauber various ink colours onto the embossing. The video shows a couple of techniques which help get the shaded and relatively precise colour application. I have used the Layered Florals embossing folder in the January to April mini catalogue for my samples.
Video showing two ways to apply ink to embossed cardstock.
Secondly I show a technique using the Silicone Brayer from the mini catalogue, This is a super easy technique and you get a different effect depending on which colour cardstock and ink you use. In the image below, I have used (l-R) Craft White Ink on Crumb Cake, Bubble Bath ink on Basic White and Crumb Cake ink on Crumb cake. I have used different colours in the video to show more effects.
Here is card using one of these embossed pieces. This is the second of the ways to apply ink to embossed cardstock shown in the video. It started with the middle piece shown in the image below. The bundle used here is the brand NEW Magnolia Mood bundle. This will be available to customers in the Online Exclusives section of my online store from Tuesday 5th March. Next I used Bubble Bath and Old Olive Stampin’ Blends to colour the image. Finally, I have also used the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder under the flower.
I hope you like today’s videos and samples. Check back tomorrow for some more ideas using the brand new Online Exclusives.
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Well, hasn’t the world of work changed recently?
As we write this post, the world is currently in lockdown thank to the Coronavirus pandemic. Here in the UK, we’ve been under lockdown conditions for several weeks now, which has massively altered not only the way we work at Claritel but also the work we are doing for our customers.
As a leading supplier of business telephone solutions in Blackburn, Lancashire, we’ve been working hard over the past few weeks to ensure all our customers can move smoothly from an office-based business to a work from home solution. And one of the biggest changes that businesses have seen over recent weeks is the move to video conferencing.
Why Has There Been Such An Increase In Video Conferencing?
Let’s face it, if you haven’t been on a video conferencing call recently, you’re in the minority. Even those who aren’t in business have been using video conferencing for the first time in their lives, often just to keep in touch with friends and family. We’ve had video conference meetings, video conference parties, even the government and Royal Family have been running the country via video conferencing software.
When we’re all unable to meet in person, it’s the best option for ensuring the world continues to turn.
The problem, however, is that, as so many people are now using this technology, there are often multiple people on calls who have never used it before and are unsure of how to use it correctly or the video conferencing etiquette involved.
Our Top Tips For Improving Your Video Conference
But fear not, because Claritel is here to help. Here are our top ten tips for better video conferencing.
- Choose The Right Platform
- Have A Good Internet Connection
- Ensure All Attendees Have The Invitation
- Start On Time
- Frame Your Camera Properly
- Have An Appropriate Background
- Use A Good Quality Headset
- Dress Appropriately
- Look Engaged
- Reduce Distractions
Let’s delve a little more deeply into these.
1. Choose The Right Platform
There are many platforms outs there at the moment offering video conferencing solutions but it’s hard to know which one is right for you. Should you use Zoom, Microsoft Teams or GoToMeeting?
When choosing the right platform for your business, it’s important to consider what level of security your business needs (do you need end-to-end encryption, for example?), the cost implications (can your business afford to pay for a platform or do you want a free version?) and who in your team will be using it (are they experienced at video conferencing and using new software or are they a novice?). The answer to ‘which video conferencing software is right for my business?’ will very much depend on all those things.
Here at Claritel, we’ve been helping our customers get set up with the correct working from home software and systems for several weeks now so we’re able to ensure you’re set up on the right platforms for your circumstances. If you’d like help with working out which video conference software is right for you, then please speak to the Claritel team and we’ll be happy to advise you.
2. Have A Good Internet Connection
Video conferencing takes up quite a lot of bandwidth, so it’s important to have a decent high-speed internet connection if you want your video calls to be a success. There’s nothing worse than people dropping in and out of meetings, meaning that important points need to be repeated or the entire meeting is delayed.
As a general rule of thumb, if you’re going to be making video calls, you’ll probably need about 3 – 5 Mbps. Unfortunately, as many people are now working from home, home broadband is often much lower quality than it would be in the office, which is precisely why you need Claritel.
If you’re struggling with your home internet connection right now, get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can do to help. If we can’t improve the infrastructure to your home quickly, we’ll usually be able to provide you with an interim solution, such as a dongle or a mobile phone, which will ensure you’re up and running and making successful business calls in no time.
3. Ensure All Attendees Have The Invitation
We’ve all been there; you start your video conference and then the people you’re supposed to be meeting with start emailing you or texting you to say they can’t find the link or they’ve lost the code to get in etc.
You’re never going to be able to prevent this altogether, it’s a fact of life. However, you can do your best to minimise it.
Best practice is to send a calendar invitation at the time you first book the meeting, with the link or password included. You can then follow this up shortly before the meeting starts with a reminder email and, if you have the recipients mobile phone number, a text or WhatsApp message too. This ensures that, whether your attendees are joining from their phone or laptop, they will have the information to hand and any late joining is their fault, not yours.
4. Start On Time
Would you turn up late for a business meeting in person? Well, don’t do it for a video call then.
If you’re the host, make sure you open the meeting room a few minutes before the meeting is due to start, so attendees can log in and ensure their camera and microphone etc. are working before the meeting proper begins. This reduces unnecessary delays and ensures your meetings run smoothly and are productive.
If you have things to prepare yourself for the meeting, you can simply open the room but turn your camera and microphone off (ensure you have an appropriate holding picture!) until you are ready to join.
If you are an attendee, don’t wait until the meeting is due to start before you begin looking for the meeting link or joining code. Have these to hand and start logging on a few minutes before the scheduled time. This is especially important if it’s the first time you’ve used a particular platform, as you may be required to go through a setup process.
5. Frame Your Camera Properly
How many times have you had a video conference recently with someone and all you’ve been able to see is up their nose? It’s happened to us a few times.
The whole idea of video conferencing is that you are able to see the other person and communicate with them in a much more natural, human way. If all you can see is the corner of someone’s eye or the top of their head, then it defeats the point. It’s also very distracting.
Similarly, if you are being invited to a video conference, then do not participate with your camera turned off. It’s just plain rude and hinders the meeting for others.
Hence, before the meeting starts, ensure your laptop or smartphone is positioned somewhere where the camera will frame your face properly and use the platform’s testing stage (most video conferencing software will enable you to test your picture before you join) to ensure you’re getting a good image. For example, is your face in the middle of the screen? Is it positioned at a good angle that doesn’t make you look like a yeti? Is the lighting good around you? etc.
6. Have An Appropriate Background
Before lockdown, when we were all video calling from the office, it was easy to have a professional background. Now, it’s a little more tricky. However, it’s still important that you consider what’s in the background of your screen before you start making your video call.
Don’t forget, the other members will be able to see what’s behind you as well as you, so you don’t want them to get a view of 3 days’ worth of washing up in the sink, the boxes of rubbish you’ve dumped in your spare room or your mountains of dirty laundry.
If you can, position yourself in front of a plain background with few distractions. Perhaps you even have a roller banner or expo display that you could use and set up behind you?
Failing that, most platforms give you the ability to have a virtual background, where you can choose one of their images or upload your own, such as your logo. These can be glitchy, however, so if you can create a more professional ‘real’ background then it often works better.
7. Use A Good Quality Headset
One of the problems of video calling from home is that there are often other noises happening around, plus our home laptops and computers don’t tend to have great microphones attached to them.
Again, we’ve all been on video conferencing calls with people who have been practically screaming into their laptops, yet we still haven’t been able to hear them.
If you’re struggling to be heard on conference calls, or if you’re struggling to hear the call despite turning your volume up loud, then we recommend you invest in a proper headset. This will not only block out all external sound and allow you to focus on (and hear) the meeting you’re in, but it will also ensure you can be heard properly.
Claritel is suppliers for high-quality headsets at very reasonable prices and – unlike many online retailers – we’ve got them in stock right now. If you’re looking for a quality headset, get in touch with us today and we’ll be able to select the right one for you and get it shipped to your home ASAP.
8. Dress Appropriately
It’s the obvious one, but you can’t turn up to a business meeting in your pyjamas. Of course, we’re not saying you have to wear a full three-piece suit or your best hat, but you will need to at least get dressed and brush your hair.
As we mentioned above, it’s not acceptable to join a video call with your camera off, so you can’t use the excuse of ‘I haven’t put my face on’ any more. You will be seen by your colleagues and business associates, and you might even be photographed or recorded and put on social media, so make sure you attend your video conference in the same state as you would a meeting in the office.
Whether you choose to wear your pyjamas underneath is, of course, entirely up to you!
9. Look Engaged
This is not so much an issue if there are only one or two people on a call, but we’ve been on many video conference calls recently with several attendees, where there has been at least one person zoning off into space!
Again, if you were at a business meeting in an office, it’s unlikely you would sit and stare off into space, do your nails or check your emails, so don’t do it on video calls either. Don’t forget that the other attendees can all see you.
They can also tell if you start looking at other screens on your laptop – especially if you’re wearing glasses, as the new screen you’re looking at will reflect in the lenses.
Even if it’s the most boring meeting you’ve ever attended, make sure you remain looking at the camera or person talking on the screen and ensure your face remains interested. Because believe us, people will notice if you don’t.
10. Reduce Distractions
We all recognise that we are in exceptional times; people are working from home with the rest of the family stuck in the house too. Particularly for those with small children, this is especially challenging.
However, it can similarly be very distracting when on video calls if normal life is continuing in the room around the person attending. Again, we won’t be the only ones recently who have experienced conference calls with people who have children coming in and out of the room, partners shouting around the house, even cats walking across the laptop and blocking the camera.
In these strange times, the odd distraction will absolutely be tolerated, but it’s still important to do what you can to minimise the chaos happening around you as much as possible. If you can, sit in a quiet room and reduce any external noise (a headset will help with this) as much as possible, it will help your video conferences run smoothly.
Contact Claritel For Help With Video Conferencing
So there we have our top ten tips on video conferencing etiquette.
We’d love to hear from you, however, so please tell us your worst video conferencing faux pas or the funniest thing you’ve seen recently on a conference call. We know there are some amazing horror stories out there but we’d love to hear yours.
And if you want to make sure your video conferencing doesn’t end up as someone else’s horror story, why not get in touch with Claritel and let us ensure your working from home setup is perfectly suited to you, your staff and your business? We’re experts in this field now, so we can always find the right solution for you.
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Nice images of the tank transfer - clearly something special for "Rambler" whatever that might be.
Can you give us your best guess at the engine and frame numbers?
33d6 gave us: "If it has the original engine the number will start with the prefix 364/, the frame prefix is B/" (if the bike is a rebadged Norman), but if I look at your first image seems to show no prefix on the frame number? This sort of thing is the key to differentiating "kit" bikes from "rebadged" bikes. For example A. G. Healing built many bikes from the teens into the 1920s. The complete Healing-built bikes have Healing frame numbers all over them (despite many different names on the tank), but there are other bikes that seem to use the same lugs, but have no frame numbers at all. Presumably the "no numbers" bikes are built from kits of Healing lugs.
Norman rebadged? Or kits of Norman parts built up locally (?) and badged Rambler? The answer might be in the numbers, or even the location of the numbers. Were Norman frame numbers stamped on the left side of the steering head lug?
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In Islam, What Is a Covenant With Allah?
29 SEP 2017
Like the Judeo-Christian scriptures, the Quran speaks of a covenant with God, who in Arabic is referred to as Allah. As Islam scholar Robert Darnell Jr. observes, the Quran describes a covenant with God as having three general features: the remembrance of God's favor, a promise of reward, and commandments to be followed. While Islam's understanding of the divine covenant may differ from other faiths in certain details, it can also provide a basis for tolerance and mutual respect.
The word "covenant" generally refers to an agreement, such as a treaty or contract. The fundamental relationship is reciprocal: each party provides something of value to the other. In Islam, a divine covenant reflects this mutuality in that God gives benefits to human beings and they render obedience in response.
According to Quran scholar Gerhard Bowering in his overview of covenants in "The Encyclopaedia of the Quran," reciprocity is not the sole defining trait of the covenant with God, as the Quran also speaks of God imposing the divine covenant through a promise. This reflects God's absolute sovereignty; as Islam scholar Bernard Weiss observes, God can impose an obligation on people whether or not they agree to give him something in return.
2 Primordial Covenant With Humanity
Islam teaches that the root of all of humanity's sacred obligations and afterlife rewards is God's covenant with all humanity. The main verse of the Quran cited in the support of this doctrine is from Surah 7, verse 172, which states that when God asked "all the children of Adam" whether he is their sovereign, they responded by taking an oath and agreeing that he was indeed their God and creator.
Although, as Bernard Weiss notes, medieval Islamic theologians argued that this passage was a metaphor, it is now common to describe this in terms of an actual encounter. On what is called the Day of Alastu, or Promises, God brought forth the spirits of all humanity from Adam's newly created body, and their first act was to acknowledge God's unity and to pledge their submission to God as their absolute sovereign. This constitutes the first divine covenant. In giving humans life and reason, God imposes upon them an obligation to obey him and his messenger. As verse 172 goes on to explain, their universal acknowledgment of him as God and lord means that on the day of resurrection, they cannot claim that they were unaware of the need for obedience in order to enter into paradise.
3 Covenant With the Prophets
Because people forget the Day of Promises when they are born, God has throughout human history reminded people of the pre-temporal covenant by entering into covenants with various prophets and their followers, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and, last of all, Muhammad.
According to Bernard Weiss, Islam's understanding of God's covenants is different from that of the Jews and Christians. Judaism teaches that God has chosen the Children of Israel as his people for all time, and Christians believe that God later added the Gentiles to this covenant. The Quran, however, sees all of God's covenants with monotheistic communities as essentially the same, though God's covenant with Muslims does differ in incidental details, such as not viewing circumcision as the mandatory sign of the covenantal relationship.
4 Perfect Covenant With Muhammad and His Followers
According to Islamic doctrine, both the Children of Israel and the Christians broke their respective covenants and corrupted their scriptures. By way of contrast, God's covenant with the prophet Muhammad and his followers is true and complete, calling believers back to the original divine covenant by reminding them of God's benevolence, teaching them his commandments, and promising the reward of paradise and forgiveness of sins for all who obey.
On a broader scale, observes Islamic scholar Joseph Lumbard, the fact that all of God's covenants are rooted in the original covenant in the Day of Promises can provide a theologically sound basis for an Islamic doctrine of pluralism in today's diverse society, inasmuch as the divine covenant binds all of humanity together as one.
- 1 The Encyclopaedia of the Quran, volume 1; Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed.
- 2 Encyclopedia of Islam; Juan Campo
- 3 Religión and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives; Edwin B. Firmage et al., eds.
- 4 Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions; Jacques Waardenburg, ed.
- 5 The Idea of the Divine Covenant in the Quran; Robert Carter Darnell, Jr.
- 6 Islam and Covenental Pluralism: Joseph Lumbard (Part 2)
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Riding the rails isn’t as popular as it was 100 years ago, but trains still play a crucial role in a number of industries, including transportation, manufacturing, and logistics. Trains have come a long way from their steam and iron origins, and aluminum has had a lot to do with the modernization of the railway industry.
Aluminum’s History in Railcars
The earliest locomotives were largely made from a combination of cast iron and wood. In particular the steam boilers were made from iron, meaning the parts would often suffer from severe corrosion and rust because of the amount of hot water that was necessary to power the trains. However, although the use of aluminum in the railway industry did not become prevalent until the last 50 years, even some of the earliest trains featured aluminum.
As far as we know, the first example of aluminum being used in a train dates back to 1894. A special lightweight car was built by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad that used aluminum seat frames, a technologically advanced endeavor at the time. In the 1930s, experiments were made with building all-aluminum railway cars, for either freight or passengers. For example, the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933 featured the world’s first main-line, aluminum passenger cars on display.
While experiments would continue for the next several decades, and certain specific uses of aluminum took off, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that aluminum use became widespread in the industry. By the 1980’s, aluminum was a go-to choice for all manner of railway applications, in particular, urban metro systems and high-speed trains.
The Advantages of Aluminum
Just as for comparable industries, such as aerospace and automotive, aluminum offers a number of clear benefits that have made it popular in the railway industry. The transition from the cast iron of early locomotives has gotten to the point where today many of the load-bearing elements of the train are made solely of aluminum, not to mention the carriage bodies.
The most important advantage of course is aluminum’s extremely high strength-to-weight ratio. Many of the greatest advancements in aluminum alloys came about as a result of innovations in the aerospace industry, where the premium on developing low weight materials is tremendous. The efficiency of railways, which depends greatly on lowering the amount of friction by reducing the weight of the vehicles, increased immediately with the extensive use of aluminum.
Another prominent benefit of aluminum alloys is their tremendous corrosion resistance. Aluminum’s natural passivation process (in which a thin aluminum oxide layer forms when the metal is exposed to oxygen) reduces the possibility of further oxidation, and the protection can be increased by anodizing the metal. This means that aluminum is one of the most corrosive resistant metals available, an important consideration for the durability of trains, which often have 30-year or longer lifecycles.
Aluminum also possesses high formability and is aesthetically pleasing, an critical factor for modern passenger cars. Because it can be easily worked into any conceivable shape and any excess material is fully recyclable, the production is also more efficient when compared to other materials.
Recent advances in aluminum alloys have led to many cutting edge applications for aluminum that are continuing to transform the railroad industry. For example, engineers have developed an aluminum foam that is being used to build high-speed train cars and is twenty percent lighter than fiberglass, yet still extremely strong.
Uses of Aluminum in the Railway Industry
Aluminum is pervasive in both freight and passenger trains. For the former, the low weight of aluminum allows for larger payloads to be shipped. One example of an application that has innovated the industry is the use of internally-stiffened, hollow extrusions that are used in the moveable side walls of freight cars. When compared to steel walls, aluminum walls can be made with fewer parts, making them both easier to build and lighter, and allowing a single worker to manipulate the wall, further reducing the labor involved.
These days, passenger cars are frequently made with single aluminum extrusions that are the full length of the car, in some cases 75 feet long. The individual parts are welded together and reinforced with horizontal members around the doors and windows. With fewer parts required and a simplified assembly process, the manufacturing is more efficient than steel and the finished product is lighter, cheaper, and more aerodynamic.
Aluminum’s versatility has also allowed train manufacturers to meet the latest demands of the industry. Many trains are designed to be tilting, which allows them to lean into curves, meaning higher speeds can be achieved. Trains are also being designed to generate electricity while braking, and aluminum technology enables extremely low axle weight without sacrificing structural integrity or safety. Additionally, issues such as sustainability and environmental protection are being taken into consideration more often and aluminum alloys are allowing manufacturers to better address these needs.
Which Alloys Will You Find in Trains
The characteristics that are most sought after in aluminum alloys include a light weight, ease of fabrication, mechanical strength, weldability, corrosion resistance, and how they take to heat treatment. The alloys that best match these characteristics fall into the 5xxx and 6xxx families. The sheet metals most commonly used are 5052, 5083, 5086, 5454, and 6061. For extrusion purposes, 5083, 6061, and 7005 are widespread. When welding, 5356 or 5556 are used as filler.
Even in the most advanced high-speed trains, the above alloys will be used, in addition to 7075 alloy, which is most commonly found in the aerospace industry. Because of the great diversity of alloys, aluminum can meet just about any of the challenges posed by the railroad industry.
Of course, this also means that knowing exactly what kind of alloy is needed for a particular application can be difficult. At Clinton Aluminum, our knowledgeable representatives are dedicated to helping our clients find the right alloy for any job. We pride ourselves on being your technical resource partner, with a strong commitment to service, value, and education. | <urn:uuid:e9e006df-35bd-4173-ac85-03e95ad6437b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://clintonaluminum.com/aluminum-uses-in-trains/ | 2024-04-13T21:24:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.962503 | 1,257 |
Once a common fixture in any office, paper is used far less in the current workspace. If Dunder Mifflin were a real company, their salespeople would be having a tough time getting paper off the shelves in this day and age.
Paper was a necessary tool for any business since the first industrial revolution, but since the turn of the century it has become less and less vital in the business world. Emails replace paper memos, billing can be done online, and so on and so on. The market reflected this, as graphic paper (normal paper) consumption fell by 32% from 2010 to 2020.
While paper is clearly becoming less important in the business world, industries like law, education, and real estate still have uses for paper. But as technology keeps advancing, paper will continue to lose its relevance in the modern world. Industries from tech to shipping are ditching paper and they are not alone.
Let’s take a look at five ways companies are streamlining business without paper:
Trip Inspection Forms
Since the practice of recorded vehicle inspections was adopted, business fleets used paper pre- and post-trip inspection forms to check on vehicles and record defects. The driver inspects the vehicle, writes down their findings, and turns it in to their boss so it can be kept for records. While using paper inspection forms is better than simply telling someone, it is still an inefficient and often inaccurate process.
Pre trip inspection software is changing the game for vehicle fleets. Instead of using pre-trip inspection forms to inspect a vehicle, drivers use an app to go through their checklist, then immediately send their report to the back office.
This type of quick inspection process helps companies because vehicle information gets to management sooner than it would have with paper forms. It allows management to know exactly how a vehicle is damaged right away so they can send it for repairs before the damage gets worse. Paper pre-trip inspection forms are often collected at the end of the week, which means defects can go unnoticed for longer periods of time or they can be lost.
By now many of you have already made an electronic signature, and you’ve probably noticed how much more convenient it is. You could be sitting on a beach in Australia and signing a lease for an apartment in Chicago without leaving your beach chair.
Electronic signature products like DocuSign have allowed people to sign documents from anywhere, which saves paper by not using an actual form for signing. This came type of technology proved to be very useful for businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic because it allowed employees to sign documents without actually being in the office.
There are still some things that require an in-person signature, such as a mortgage, but electronic signature products are making it so more and more people are signing documents remotely.
Paper agendas and notes were once essential to any business meeting. Now, business meetings still have agendas and notes, but they are viewed on a computer screen and distributed to employees digitally.
Microsoft PowerPoint and other types of presentation software also reduce the need for paper in meetings. Employees can view the presentation on the big screen and follow along on their laptop or tablet. They can also access supplemental important documents and records from their device.
From restaurants to retail, the utilization of digital receipts has grown significantly over the past decade.
Services like Square have offered a new way to share receipts without a single piece of paper being used. Receipts are emailed or texted to customers instead of printed out.
Digital receipts have been widely adopted by small businesses because they are easy to use and help companies save money by avoiding paper receipt purchases.
Cloud Document Storage
Remember when offices used to have giant file cabinets? These ugly metal wardrobes were used to store years’ worth of important documents and records.
Well, now those documents are just stored in the cloud. Instead of rifling through enormous file cabinets to find something, employees can simply look up a document in their company’s cloud database.
It is fairly easy to see why paper has become more and more obsolete. New types of technology have rendered so many uses of paper obsolete, whether it be digital receipts or just the notes app on your smartphone.
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From the Kitsap Daily News:
Kitsap Mental Health Services, the Bremerton Housing Authority and the City of Bremerton have teamed up to construct an apartment complex in Bremerton which aims to tackle Kitsap’s rising homeless population.
Pendleton Place, as the project is called, takes its namesake from national housing advocate Lloyd Pendleton, who inspired local housing providers and community members to create housing aimed at providing residences for people in need of staff supported housing. Pendleton recently passed away in early March at the age of 78.
The complex would feature a mix of studio and one-bedroom apartments prioritized for individuals who are residents of Kitsap County and experiencing chronic homelessness, living with severe and persistent mental illness, substance abuse disorders or other disabling conditions.
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What’s a 10 year old supposed to do a week-and-a-half after starting to run? Jump in a race, of course.
If you flip open the jogger’s diary that I posted yesterday, you’ll see that the first entry is from a 4 mile race I ran on October 13, 1979. I’d like to believe I ran 34:36 for 4 miles, as a 10-year-old. However, I realize they probably clocked this course by driving in their car.
I was actually able to find a photo that my mom took too. For some reason it’s a photo of our back. In case you can’t tell, I’m the short one. While it’s not a very good photo, believe it or not, she got everyone entered in the race in one shot. Yep, there were a total of 4 people in this race. If I remember correctly, I ended up losing a sprint and finishing 2nd. I sure hope I beat that guy that’s blatantly cutting the course.
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The campus visit is a crucial component of the admissions process. Campus tours are one of the best ways for prospective students to learn about a specific college and to get a feel for what daily life would be like on campus. It gives students an opportunity to get a glimpse of the student body, to feel out the overall atmosphere of the school, and to develop a sense of what the community and the surrounding neighborhood is like. If you do not know what questions to ask, or if you ask questions that can be easily answered through the school’s website or through a brochure, then you have not taken full advantage of the information the visit or the tour has to offer you. The purpose of a college visit is to determine if the school and the daily lifestyle on campus is the best match for you.
To maximize your tour, here are essential questions that you should ask during the visit:
Academics and Graduation Rates:
- How much reading and writing is expected in classes?
- For introductory courses, what is the average class size?
- For upper-division courses, what is the average class size?
- How prevalent are teaching assistants utilized throughout the campus?
- Are courses taught mostly by the professors or by the teaching assistants?
- What are the opportunities for undergraduate research?
- Do you have an honors program?
- What is your four-year graduation rate? Five-year graduation rate?
- What percentage of freshman return for their sophomore year?
Financial Aid and Campus Opportunities:
- What are the school’s work-study opportunities?
- What is the breakdown for loans versus grants?
- What is the typical financial aid package offered to students?
- How many students study abroad?
- What is your study abroad program?
- How many students earn internships while attending school?
- What clubs and activities are offered to students?
Campus Life and Student Well-being
- How many students live on campus?
- Do most students go home on the weekends or do they stay on campus?
- What are the dorm choices and housing options?
- Are the dorms concentrated in one area or are they spread out throughout the campus?
- What do students do on the weekends?
- Do dorms have access to the Internet?
- How is the quality of food in the dining hall or the cafeteria? What are the food options? Are there meal plans?
- What is a typical weekday like at this school?
After your visit, it is equally important for you and your family to think about the qualities of the college that are most important to you. Here are questions you should reflect upon:
Questions to Ask Yourself After Your College Visit:
- What was your interaction like with staff members and students tour guides?
- Do you feel that the campus is a good size for you?
- Do you feel comfortable and safe?
- How accessible are places that are off campus?
- How would you feel if you were in a classroom with these students or if you shared a dorm with them?
Be curious and thoughtful, and ask questions that will yield the most pertinent information for you during the campus tour. Plan ahead and start scheduling your college visits now. It is never too early to start touring schools. Essentially, try to imagine if this is a college where you can truly pursue your academic and personal goals. | <urn:uuid:8e4df053-7479-400f-8864-b03adbf0949f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://collegeconsultingexperts.com/2018/02/questions-to-ask-during-a-college-visit/ | 2024-04-13T22:10:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.969105 | 700 |
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- Examine areas like gutters where shingles might have been blown off to gauge the extent of the damage.
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Water damage can be a silent adversary. A small leak today can lead to significant structural issues tomorrow. Here’s how to spot and address water damage:
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Anyone Can Inherit the House. The Lucky Few Inherit the Wisdom, Direction, and Values That Made the House Possible.
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise Podcast, August 5th, 2023
Patrick Johnson, CFP featuring Catherine Hammond
The Healthy Wealthy and Wise Podcast with Patrick Johnson featuring Catherine Hammond brings together forty-three years of experience in estate planning and financial planning. You’d be wise to listen to this podcast to understand how these two industry leaders are thinking about aging, estate planning, families, and living your best life in retirement.
In this episode, Catherine tells a favorite story of George Washington’s legacy to his nephews. He left them each a sword used by soldiers in the Revolutionary War. But he didn’t just give them. He stated that they were only ever to be used in self-defense or in defense of the country and its rights.
With this potentially dangerous gift, George provides direction, principles and values. This is the “Why” behind the asset. Without the “Why”, an estate plan and all the financial preparation that go into it are nothing more than lines on an asset spreadsheet. Anyone can inherit a house. The lucky few inherit the wisdom, direction and values that made living in that house possible. That’s the real legacy.
Defining Estate Planning
Here are a few excerpts from the podcast:
Patrick: “How do you define Estate Planning?”
Catherine: “Most people think of estate planning as a will and a trust. Maybe if they’re savvy, they’re going to think about a power of attorney and medical directives. All of those are important. But that is not an estate plan. That’s a part of an estate plan. That’s a reflection of part of the estate plan. The estate plan is the holistic design of a plan that will take you where you want to go in those moments if you become incapacitated and when you die.
So, it incorporates legal documents as part of how it’s carried out. But it also incorporates a look at all of your assets. It incorporates a look at what succession looks like to you, especially if you’re a business owner. And most importantly, it incorporates your values and your relationships. Most people end up drafting and signing estate planning documents that simply make a transfer of assets to the next generation.
So yes, your bank accounts, your retirement accounts go to the next generation, that’s lovely. But it happens most of the time in a vacuum, without really thinking through how do I make this truly a gift? How do we create an opportunity for the next generation rather than just handing them a check for money so that they don’t have to work? And let’s say the average client has maybe a $2 million estate, somewhere between two and 5 million is probably our average client.
We have a lot of clients with more money than that. A lot of clients have less money than that. And in that spot, most people think, you know, if I die, and I leave $1 million to each of my two kids, it’s not going to ruin them. If that’s, you know, enough money to make a minor difference. And that’s all good without thinking it through. What do they want that money to actually do in the next generation’s lives? And how? Because it’s all related to legacy.”
Gifting More Than Just Money Through Values-Based Estate Planning
Patrick: “…Do you find that people are ready to go there? Or do you find that when they come in, they just want the thing that says trust at the top?”
Catherine: “My goal when anybody comes in to meet with me is to find out what’s really important to them. And so people come in thinking about all of the tactical things, and it seems like money is often the doorway into what’s really important to them.
And I just led a workshop for our clients last week on relationships and enhancing your relationships with your adult children, because when we open the money door at my conference room table talking about how to transfer wealth to the next generation, people tell me their stories.
And they tell me their stories of the estrangement with their children and grandchildren. They tell me the stories of what they’ve said to their children and grandchildren. And I get to see that what they really want has nothing to do with the money. It has to do with those relationships. It has to do with feeling loved, having the experience of being loved and mattering.” | <urn:uuid:d864d824-d324-4d50-9744-1ae3f7f90e1d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://coloradoestateplan.com/anyone-can-inherit-the-house/ | 2024-04-13T21:31:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.960341 | 981 |
Standards and banners are considered to be the most important and significant items of the interior. They are complemented with single- and multi-place cabinet floor stands, made of hardwoods (beech, oak, ash) with special decorative coatings. The coating color is chosen according to the customer’s demand. Standards and banners, made of silk, satin and velvet, can be complemented with fringe and brushes. Standards and banners, made of double-sided satin are very popular among our clients, because this nontransparent heavy fabric looks very presentable. Alongside with that, there is an opportunity of printing an readable image on both sides of the fabric. | <urn:uuid:98b41aba-9f00-4b07-a074-b0550488a374> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://columb.biz/products/banners-0 | 2024-04-13T22:59:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.950111 | 138 |
Divan bed bases - the ultimate design
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My Right Alliance
Founded in 2013, My Right Alliance (MRA) is an organisation based in Kigali, Rwanda. MRA advocates for the protection and promotion of human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
LGBTI rights promotion and advocacy, to eradicate all kinds of stigma and discrimination against the LGBTI community.
MRA work towards their mission by working on the following:
Research: Stakeholders and institutions at the national levels are committed into decision-making and lobbying to promote and protect LGBT rights. Conducting research on how the diverse Rwandan contexts affect the LGBT people’s lives; Providing and facilitating access to para-legal services for LGBT people but also, through publications, guides, reports, infographics, etc. sharing information about LGBT people's lived realities.
Community building: Community leaders and local LGBT groups are actively participating in changing behaviors and perceptions towards sexual orientation, gender identity and expression within their respective communities. MRA uses its publications, campaigns and calls to actions to raise awareness on different issues related to LGBT people's lived realties and they use the collected data and evidence to create user-friendly, engaging advocacy materials.
Capacity building: Partners are duly equipped/supported to effectively partner with MRA towards their vision while benefiting from the spaces and resources they facilitate. MRA supports community empowerment, personal and professional development through technical assistance and enganging with various forms of capacity building.
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I have a table with users and a table with invoices
Depending on how many users are active (linked) on an invoicing record the price changes.
In most scenario’s (99%) all users will need to be on an invoice.
Currently, I have set up a form to create a new invoice (a new record in the invoicing table) that requires a manual select of all the users.
Ideally (for now) I would like to automatically add all user in the user table to the record on the invoicing table (linked). I have been looking into the ‘update record’ automation but I can’t seem to find a way to auto-select linked records in there. | <urn:uuid:894f5582-370b-45b9-b408-85c102c6b603> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://community.airtable.com/t5/automations/linking-multiple-records-from-a-different-table-to-an-automation/td-p/92645 | 2024-04-13T23:33:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.929751 | 153 |
Hello Monali Haware,
For flash programming with CodeWarrior, please refer to the step by step document Flash Programmer for CodeWarrior Power Architecture.
Fist please create a bareboard project for the demo board, in the Debug Target Settings panel please select Connect/Download SRAM Launch configuration to use L2 Cache as SRAM to run the flash programming algorithm to avoid configuring DDR controller.
You also need to modify the default CodeWarrior initialization file for the demo board in <project_path>/CFG/T2080RDB-PCIe_init_sram.tcl according to your target board, probably you need to check and modify LAW, MMU and IFC controller timing configuration sections. For IFC controller configuration, you could refer to IFC Controller Configuration on QorIQ Custom Boards .
If there is no valid RCW on your target board, you could use hard-coded RCW on your custom board, then program RCW and u-boot.
In the PA Flash Programmer Task panel, you could add "Dump Flash" Action to dump the binary image on the target board.
If your NOR flash device is not listed in the device list in PA Flash Programmer Task, please refer to the application note C:\Freescale\CW_PA_v10.5.1\PA\PA_Tools\FlashToolKit\Documentation\AppNote-FlashProgrammer-PowerArchitecture.pdf to add new flash in CodeWarrior IDE. | <urn:uuid:b44751d2-c800-4f7d-830a-f8d7d3c7ae81> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://community.nxp.com/t5/CodeWarrior-for-QorIQ/How-to-burn-uboot-to-T2081-custom-board/td-p/891052 | 2024-04-13T23:24:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816853.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413211215-20240414001215-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.823641 | 316 |
So I'm working on a Big Red Button project. I'm thinking that it ought to throw a Pause/Resume toggle for any print job in-progress.
Philmore UPC 038975307817 Push Button (Red) Game Switch SPDT
For whatever OCD-related reasons I may have had, I designed the printed part to be just bigger than the switch itself, creating an hour-long activity of trying to reassemble everything inside.
My original thought was that it needs to be connected via a pair of JST connectors to the Raspi's GPIO pins. But now that I see it sitting here, it's telling me that it wants to be wireless.
Okay, so there's some space still inside there but it's not enough for a Pi Zero. There's enough room for a battery. What am I looking for? Is it a Tinyduino, a Feather, a Trinket...? Can I do remote GPIO from Arduino to Raspi? Has anyone used any of these boards yet? The last time I worked with a PCArduino I ditched the project because Node wouldn't work on it.
Is there a Bluetooth-only kind of solution?
ESP8266 is a super cheap and widely used solution for adding WiFi to stuff like this. It'd be simple for it to shoot out a REST call to something on your Pi (or MQTT or whatever).
If Bluetooth would suit you better, ESP32 can do WiFi+BT.
Thinking more about this - If you've used Arduino in the past you'll find ESP8266 Arduino to be super simple to use. Find a WeMos D1 Mini clone somewhere nearby (available from for about two fiddy) and it will have everything you need one one board. Set up Arduino IDE for ESP8266 then a simple sketch can call OctoPrint's REST API.
I had a bunch of links to examples in this post but the forum won't let me add any more so... feel free to ask if you'd like more guidance on this. The ESP8266 platform is perfect for this sort of use case and I have them all over my house doing simple tasks.
Alright, I think I'll go the more expensive Adafruit route but basically work from this platform. Guess I'll need a battery and a microUSB receptacle. Not entirely sure what I'm doing with this one. Do you have any information on a battery setup that allows the external USB connection to power the battery?
Just quickly chiming in to second the ESP - easy to program, very versatile and ridiculously cheap.
So in regards to battery - what is the use case? The ESP8266 isn't super about low power without some extra steps taken. Do you want the device to be entirely cordless? You can do that by having the button trigger an interrupt which will bring the ESP out of deep sleep, but you'll also need to source a battery management solution which could be as simple as a USB battery bank. There are ESP32 options which offer both deep sleep and integrated battery charge management that may be suitable as well. Check out Andreas Spiess' work on those devices for more detail.
The device you've chosen doesn't have built-in USB (which is the specific reason I suggested the WeMos), so now you have another problem - you're going to need a way to program and power this thing. The Adafruit link there should help you select some solutions for that.
edit: One more thing - I found this project which looks like it might work for your use case. The code and explanation will probably help you out. If you have any more questions I might need to PM you because apparently I can't post more than twice in a topic.
Yeah, I think that would do it. And yes, I understand the programming/cable requirements on the Adafruit version.
Did you already buy that thing ?
They carry that stuff in Frye's ?
I'm jealous !
I ordered a handful of ESP's yesterday, and I have to WAIT for them to come in the mail
Unfortunately Fry's doesn't have those but Adafruit has goodies that I need. I've been storing up a number of things I'll get from them (to include another Zero).
In regards to the slow boat from China I take the Mitch Hedberg baked potato approach - order a handful today, because by the time they get here who knows what use case you'll have thought of Monday I wanted to setup my sprinkler system to not turn on when it's raining, and 15 minutes later I had an ESP8266 and relay hooked up to my sprinkler controller which would stop it from running if the forecast called for 50% chance of rain. Today it's been raining and my sprinklers didn't kick on. It's these sorts of ad-hoc simple use cases that make cheap WiFi micros so stinkin handy!
Over the past year I've been working on an ESP8266-based project for home automation control which I call the HA SwitchPlate: http://haswitchplate.com
The device can display any information my home automation system (Home Assistant) knows about. Because Home Assistant supports OctoPrint, I now have the ability to monitor print progress and temperatures from any room in the house. The display looks like this:
All powered by a $2.50 microcontroller!
That is awesomeness. If I weren't in an apartment, I'd so do that. And yet, I'm so going to do that and just save them because they're awesome.
I can see displaying the SDGE cost-per-kilowatt data on one of these and perhaps a histogram of the $/kw for the last 24 hours.
It can do all sorts of stuff! Scene controller, light dimmers, weather display, alarm system controller, sprinkler zone controller, media player controls, basically anything that Home Assistant can talk to (and that's a ridiculously large list) can be setup for interaction on a touchscreen that mounts in existing wall boxes. The project is little more than the touchscreen, an ESP8266, a power supply, and a box to stick it all in.
There's loads of simple stuff you can get done with these things. A really nice Youtuber made a video about another quick project I made, this one almost embarrassingly simple but damn handy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DyblwsjfU8 If you have your garage door opener connected to your HA system, this project will open/close your garage door for you as you come and go. GitHub: https://github.com/aderusha/MQTTCarPresence
I'm thinking in terms of being able to adjust the power-cost threshold for lights, say. I could program in that I want the light to shut off if the cost for a k-h goes above whatever. (Power prices in San Diego skyrocket during the summertime and especially during certain hours.)
Similarly, you could toggle on/off the power for charging circuits to take advantage of cheaper cost at night for power.
grumble grumble Enron. That's when I lived in SD last.
(I miss 91X)
It was like $45/month two months ago, then without doing anything different it shot of up $100+ last month.
You gotta love stackoverflow. One person answers the question and fifteen others ignore the answer and answer it in essentially the same way. :laugh:
Color me jealous, though. My mining rig would be bigger in that case.
Alright, I bought the ESP from Adafruit along with the serial cable and lots of little friends who wanted to jump in the same box.
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I have a PIXMA MG3620 printer that constantly jams. The support code is 1303. My warranty is up because the printer was purchased in 2017. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
Hi Ageorgop! Thanks for posting in the Canon Community Forum. I see that your PIXMA MG3620 constantly jams and triggers the 1303 error.
If you have not done so, I recommend that you remove the paper from the tray and look inside for any objects that may have slid in (like a pencil or pen). You can also restart the printer and check the ink cartridges to make sure they are properly installed (if the paper is jamming inside the printer). If you are using thicker paper or photo paper, please check if the printer jams with regular copy paper.
Should the problem persist, I recommend that you restart the printer (to clear the error), remove the paper from the tray, and perform four roller cleanings. A roller cleaning is one of the printer’s built-in maintenance options. You will find instructions for performing this procedure in the following website:
Please perform three roller cleanings without paper. Then, load three sheets of regular letter-size copy paper, adjust the guide to match the width of paper, and initiate one more roller cleaning. If the sheets feed through without any issues, the problem should be fixed.
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I hope this information helps. Thanks again.
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We are thrilled to announced that we will be joined at the Writers Workshop this summer by both Anne Lamott and Dava Sobel!
Anne Lamott, who will be joining us as a special guest, is the author of seven novels, including Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, Crooked Little Heart, and Imperfect Birds. She has also written eight bestselling books of nonfiction, including Operating Instructions; Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son; and a writing guide; Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Her collections of autobiographical essays on faith are Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith; Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith; Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith; Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers and most recently Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair. Her last book of essays, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace, was published by Riverhead Books.
Dava Sobel, joining us as a nonfiction teaching staff member, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Longitude, which was the subject of a PBS science program “NOVA,” and Granada Films created a dramatic version starring Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon for A&E. Her nonfiction book, Galileo’s Daughter, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and won a 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Christopher Award, was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography and was the subject of a two-hour Emmy Award-winning “NOVA” documentary. She is also the author of the books The Planets and A More Perfect Heaven. Dava is a long-time science contributor to Harvard Magazine, Audubon, Discover, Life, Omni, and The New Yorker. Bloomsbury has just released a stand-alone edition of her Copernicus play, And the Sun Stood Still, which was produced in 2014 by the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company in Colorado.The editor of the collection Best American Science Writing 2004, published by Ecco Press, Ms. Sobel has served as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and the Lewis Thomas Prize awarded by Rockefeller University to scientists who distinguish themselves as authors. Her new book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, will be published by Viking in December. www.davasobel.com
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Technology has made business easier for entrepreneurs. Thanks to the Internet and the many apps available on your phone, it’s possible to run a business from anywhere. And while technology can make business life easier, it’s important not to rely solely on technology but rather use it as a tool that will help you grow your business.
A lot of entrepreneurs nowadays are investing in technology to help them achieve business success. Technology has brought so many advantages like business automation, marketing resources readily available online, and business analytics.
Some entrepreneurs even rely on technology to help them run their businesses by hiring virtual assistants to perform business tasks like bookkeeping, content writing, email marketing, etc. Brand caretaking services have also become a trend for business owners. As a result, many businesses have been able to achieve growth and success milestones more easily.
Using Technology to Promote Business Growth
To get the most out of business technology, you need to make sure it fits your needs and goals – otherwise, using technology could actually be a negative business decision.
With so many options available, you’ll need to figure out the best technology solutions for your business and carefully plan how to help further business growth. When selecting business tools like website builders, accounting software, or project management tools, ensure that they are easy enough for employees and team members to use every day.
This way, business technology won’t limit business growth because it’s too complicated to use. Below are examples of innovative technologies that entrepreneurs can maximize to promote business growth and success:
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI has the power to transform businesses and marketplaces. It is an emerging technology that helps improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency, and discover new revenue streams. It can even help provide a better way of doing business for entrepreneurs.
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- Improved operational efficiency: Entrepreneurs can use intelligent automation tools such as machine learning to automate business processes and improve operational efficiency. For example, a business owner who wants to automate their online marketing strategy could use AI-powered software that recommends the best content for social media posts or email newsletters based on consumer preferences and behaviors.
- Increased sales: AI can help entrepreneurs increase revenue by creating personalized offers targeted at consumers’ interests, improving the business’s email marketing strategy, and optimizing business pricing.
- Increased customer satisfaction: Entrepreneurs can also use AI to increase their customers’ satisfaction by providing a better online shopping experience personalized for each consumer’s unique interests or needs through chatbots. For example, using an AI-driven virtual assistant could help business owners quickly provide consumers with personalized product suggestions or business information to meet their needs.
Robotics is another business technology that entrepreneurs can use to improve business operations and production, reduce business costs, and produce better quality products or services for consumers. Robotics has implications for business operations and business products, as robots can be used by entrepreneurs to automate business processes such as data collection and processing.
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Here you can buy the WotLK Classic Tabard of the Hand tabard and complete the game's most hardcore and tedious WotLK quests. It's easy to complete most of the WotLK quests, but some could be tricky and complex such as The Unwritten Prophecy quest. Yes, the quest is the central part of the game, but who wants to spend all of their time on long and tedious WotLK quest chains like The Unwritten Prophecy quest? You will get a lot of rewards after completing this quest chain, such as Tabard of the Hand tabard, but you will spend an enormous amount of time doing it.
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Who is Adam’s Auctioneers?
Adam’s Auctioneers (James Adam and Sons Ltd, trading as Adam’s) is a Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers situated in 26 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 X665. The organisation was established in 1887 and currently offers specialist sales ranging from Important Irish Art, Fine Period Furniture, Fine Jewellery & Watches, Silver & Objects of Vertu, Contemporary & Modern Art, Militaria & Memorabilia as well as varying other valuation services. Adam's is proud of its relationship with its clientele and is a privately held company. Today, Adam’s Auctioneers is one of the fastest growing companies in its field, offering a service of distinction as Ireland's principal auction house. In relation to the current Data Protection Legislation, both European and National, Adam’s Auctioneers acts as both a controller and a processor. All this processing is done with all relevant Data Protection Legislation strictly applied
How we collect your data?
Direct Data Collection
Adam’s Auctioneers is required to collect information that you voluntarily submit to us in order to achieve the best user experience and respond to your requests efficiently. Adam’s Auctioneers may collect your data in several ways through several mediums. Data may be collected via phone, email, physical & digital forms and our website. Adam’s Auctioneers is the sole owner of this information. Adam’s Auctioneers only collects data that you voluntarily submit to us. We do not sell this information. Adam’s Auctioneers does not collect any further information regarding the data subject without further consent and does not create any further personal information from the information provided.
Automatic Data Collection
When you visit our website (www.adams.ie), your data will be automatically collected. This includes your computer and devices (including your internet address and browser type) to facilitate and personalise your experience, for security and analytical purposes (including trend analysis) and system administration.
Your data may also be automatically collected when you visit the premises of Adam’s Auctioneers on St. Stephen’s Green due to the presence of CCTV. Our CCTV monitors the property 24 hours, 7 days a week and may store your image for up to 40 days. Our CCTV is in place for the purpose of security and the health and safety of staff.
Our website also uses Google Analytics to monitor the number of visits to our website at any one time. Google Analytics collects information about your device, your browser and your location. This information is deemed as personal information and is retained under strict security measures. Google Analytics may collect your IP address, email, username, etc. In the case of a Subject Access Request, this information is also in scope.
What data do we collect and why?
Adam’s Auctioneers collects data about you which we place in our secure systems. We often collect information about our clients. This includes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, etc. We may also collect your credit card data & bank particulars. This information is stored securely in our applications. This information is required in order to fulfil the contractual agreements between Adam’s and the client.
Adam’s Auctioneers may need to retain your data for several reasons.
The retention period for each of these varies with completion of purpose, services and contracts varying per customer. The retention of data for statutory requirements is the current year plus 6 years. More information regarding the retention of data can be found in the data retention policy which can be retrieved by emailing [email protected]
Our legal basis
When users sign up to the ‘My Adam’s’ online account, this is your opt-in consent for your data to be processed in relation to this account. Upon the creation of this account, the user’s e-mail address will be used for marketing purposes and the user can amend their e-mail category preferences by logging into their account and amending their preferences at any time.
If you complete our physical forms when registering and provide us with your e-mail address, you will be invited to sign up for a ‘My Adam’s’ account. Upon receiving your welcome email, you can decide to create a ‘My Adam’s’ account and avail of its full functionality. By logging in to your account you can amend your e-mail marketing preferences or unsubscribe at any time or simply email our Data Protection Lead at [email protected]
The principles of data protection1. Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency
2. Adequate, relevant and not excessive
All data held about data subjects must be adequate, relevant and not excessive. To ensure this, Adam’s Auctioneers has updated their forms both physical and electronic to ensure adequate information is collected on data subjects. A review has been done to ensure that all the information we collect is relevant to the reason for collection.
3. Accurate and up to date
Adam’s Auctioneers strives to ensure that all information held about the data subject is accurate and kept up to date. This is often a difficult task due to the number of data subjects in contact with the organisation. In order to comply with this principle, an Adam’s Auctioneers employee may ask you to verify the information we hold about you to ensure it is up to date. You can also contact us if you have changed any information and would like it corrected on our system. This can be done by emailing [email protected] or by phoning the Adam’s Auctioneers office.
4. Purpose Limitation
Personal data may only be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and must not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes. In Adam’s, we will not use your data for any process that may fall outside our legal basis of consent and legitimate interest. You can opt out of communications from Adam’s Auctioneers at any time.
5. Storage Limitation
We have implemented a Data Retention policy which details the periods of retention for each category of data held by Adam’s Auctioneers. Personal data will not be retained by Adam’s Auctioneers for longer than stated in the data retention unless there is a legal reason.
6. Data Minimisation
Adam’s Auctioneers will only collect the information it needs about you in order to process your purchases or the services you require from us. The forms on the Adam’s Auctioneers website and our physical forms have been updated to reflect this.
Adam’s Auctioneers is doing its utmost to prove its accountability for the processing of personal data within the organisation. Eamon O’Connor has been appointed as our Data Protection Lead. All staff who process personal data have received GDPR training. All policies and procedures have been updated to clarify the steps staff have to take to ensure maximum security of personal data.
In compliance with the data protection regulations, both National and European, data subjects have rights to their data and Adam’s Auctioneers strives to facilitate the easy exercising of these rights. To exercise any of the rights listed below this request should be made in writing to our Data Protection Lead by emailing [email protected] or by sending a letter to 26 St.Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 X665. In order to process any of the below requests, you will be requested to verify your identity through the provision of a passport/driver’s licence and proof of address. All of these requests will be completed in the mandatory period of time set out in the data protection legislation, which is one month. This may be extended by 2 months but you will be notified in writing via email or post by our Data Protection Lead.
Right to be informed
Under data protection legislation, a data subject has the right to contact the organisation and determine whether the organisation has data on them.
Right to Access
Under data protection legislation, a data subject has the right to obtain a copy of the personal data an organisation holds on them. This data is supplied in a commonly used electronic form and is given in clear, concise and intelligible language.
Right to Erasure
Under data protection legislation, a data subject has the right to request the erasure of their data but this is not a complete right. The erasure of data can only occur under certain circumstances, where there are no legal obligations or statutory requirement to retain the data.
Right to Rectification
Under data protection legislation, a data subject has the right to rectify any data held on them by Adam’s Auctioneers. This is not an absolute right. The organisation can refuse to rectify the data if it has reason to believe that the data held about you is correct. If you feel this is incorrect, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
Right to Object
Article 21 of the GDPR gives individuals the right to object to the processing of their personal data. This effectively allows individuals to ask you to stop processing their personal data.
The right to object only applies in certain circumstances. Whether it applies depends on your purposes for processing and your lawful basis for processing.
Refusal to process Subject Access Request
Adam’s Auctioneers has the right to refuse the completion of a Subject Access Request on the grounds of excessiveness or if the request is deemed to be unfounded. If a request is deemed to be excessive or unfounded, you will be notified in writing of this and the reasons it has been classed as this. If you feel this is incorrect, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
Subject Access Request Fees
Adam’s Auctioneers has the right to charge for the completion of a Subject Access Request on the grounds of excessiveness or if the request is deemed to be unfounded. If a request is deemed to be excessive or unfounded, you will be notified in writing of this and the reasons it has been classed as this. If you feel this is incorrect, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. The cost will be calculated by determining the administration cost of fulfilling the request by calculating the number of hours spent on the request by the Adam’s Auctioneers’ resources.
Third party access
Adam’s Auctioneers will not transfer your personal information to third parties unless you have been provided with an opportunity to opt into this disclosure. Adam’s Auctioneers may disclose your personal information without your opt-in with selected third party service providers, including:
It is our practice to require such third party service providers to keep your personal information confidential and to use your personal information only to perform functions for Adam’s and in accordance with our instructions.
We further reserve the right to disclose your personal information to respond to authorised information requests from government authorities or when otherwise required by law.
The security of your data
The security of your data is priority to Adam’s Auctioneers and we strive to maintain that it is kept in a manner that retains the data’s confidentiality, integrity and availability. Adam’s Auctioneers have put technical and organisational measures in place to ensure maximum protection. All staff within Adam’s Auctioneers have been trained on data protection legislation and their associated principles and concepts. Refresher courses are offered for employees on a yearly basis. Adam’s Auctioneers also works with several IT providers to ensure the implementation of sufficient security on all applications and websites that collect and store data. We review policies on a yearly basis with updates needed as required.
This website contains links to other sites which are outside the control of Adam’s Auctioneers. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server - a device where one or more websites are stored - to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the web server each time the web browser requests a page from the web server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser and provide richer user experiences for visitors to a website.
Our website is powered by the Joomla Web Content Management System (CMS). By default this automatically installs a cookie into your web browser as soon as you visit this website. Below, this cookie is referred to as a "session" cookie; that means, the cookie lasts only as long as your current session when using our website.
Below is a full list of cookies that we currently use on this website at the time of writing this update:
If you choose not to accept cookies, then only the standard Joomla session cookie will load and be active until you close your web browser, the website will not function as intended and some facilities will be unavailable.
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How to raise a concern or a complaint
If you have any concerns regarding the processing of your personal data by Adam’s Auctioneers, you have a right to raise a concern with our Data Protection Lead. This concern can be raised in any form; phone, email or writing through the information listed below. If a concern is raised via phone, a written confirmation of the concern may be sent to the data subject for our records.
If you have a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data, this concern can be raised in any form; phone, email or writing through the information listed below. If a concern is raised via phone, a written confirmation of the complaint may be sent to the data subject for our records. You may also send your complaint to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
Contact our Data Protection Officer at:
Tel: +353 (0) 1 676 0261
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Contxto – In Rio de Janeiro, a pair of lawsuits continue for two startups that handle consumer complaints against airline companies. The plaintiff in both instances is the local Brazilian Bar Association (OAB-RJ) and the defendants are LiberFly and QuickBrasil.
These startups offer financial compensation to consumers who’ve had a flight canceled or delayed. And for up to R$1,000 (almost US$250) they assure a quick buck to those who want to sue the airline.
So it appears air carriers have had enough, and are fighting back in court.
Two lawsuits, a similar conclusion
According to Brazil’s Code of Ethics and Discipline, only established law firms may offer legal services through advertising. Consequently, the OAB-RJ argues that neither LiberFly nor QuickBrasil are legal companies and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to use marketing and ads that suggests otherwise.
In the LiberFly case, a federal judge determined that the startup does suggest giving legal insight to bait clients. Therefore, he ordered an injunction that bars it from generating publicity that hints at offering legal services to attract clients. The startup has made an appeal.
Meanwhile, a different judge for the QuickBrasil case is reaching a similar conclusion in viewing the advertisements made by the startup as suggesting that it can convey legal advice. Whether the outcome plays out the same way is to be determined.
Fight or flight?
Airlines shouldn’t use consumers as pawns to use however they please in arranging flights. Travelers often do have legitimate claims against carriers. And it’s hard to forget how slow judicial proceedings are to bring justice around in Latin America. Not to mention the expensive fees legal firms charge.
But then, there’s the other side of the story as well.
It’s been argued that airlines shouldn’t be held accountable for flight troubles under every circumstance, such as bad weather.
Likewise, when airlines cover the costs of lawsuits and legal mitigations of this nature it also drains its financial health. It’s reported that in Brazil, there were over 64,000 cases filed against airlines in 2018.
This number made a jump to 109,000 in 2019.
Therefore, according to Eduardo Sanovicz, President of the Brazilian Association of Airlines (ABEAR), in 2020, airlines in Brazil will be paying around US$500 million in legal troubles.
When money becomes tight, it leads to layovers, and that’s not fair to airline staff either.
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3 Reasons a Dehumidifier Is Essential for the Summer Months
The rains and mild spring temperatures give way to heat and humidity so quickly that some homeowners find themselves wondering what’s wrong with their air conditioners. They find the home sticky from summer humidity and decide that it’s just something they need to put up with. Fortunately, this isn’t so! For those homeowners looking for a way out of the sticky, mold-producing mess that is summer humidity, the dehumidifier is key.
Eliminates Musty Smells and the Dampness that Causes Them
One of the worst things about humidity in the home is the musty smells that always pop up. They can be embarrassing, to say the least, and downright gross at their worst. Those musty smells can come from the walls, the floors, and even the closest. This is because moisture finds its way into everything when there’s no way to control the humidity in the home.
Luckily, removing the humidity from a home isn’t all that hard. It just takes the right equipment. Air conditioners do some of the work, but a dedicated unit for removing moisture from the home does a much better job. A dehumidifier can help keep these moisture levels under control. And without moisture, there are no more musty smells to deal with. The home will start smelling like a home again with the right dehumidifier.
Keeps Mold at Bay
Another reason to invest in a dehumidifier for the summer months (and beyond) is mold. Moisture and mold go together like a foot and a shoe. But it’s more than just an aesthetic problem. Sure, no one likes to see gross mold growing in their house. But that’s nothing compared to the health problems that mold can cause.
Some people are deathly allergic to mold and can end up in the hospital – especially if there’s black mold growing in the house due to high moisture content. But even those without severe mold allergies can develop respiratory problems that are uncomfortably unhealthy. Less moisture means less mold means fewer asthma problems and less coughing.
Protects Hardwood Floors from Moisture Damage
Lastly, having a dehumidifier can help prevent damage to the home. Moisture can cause paint to bubble and curl. It can cause cracks to form in the walls and ceilings. And it can severely damage hardwood floors. Even though hardwood floors are coated to make them last longer and be more resilient, they’re not waterproof. Wood is still wood, and it can soak up moisture in the home.
So, avoiding thousands of dollars of damage to the home is a matter of contacting a professional HVAC company to see about installing a dehumidifier. Getting the right size, capacity, and features is essential for getting a dehumidifier to protect the home and the family within it.
About Conway Comfort Heating & Cooling
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Cooperstown Veterinary Clinic wants to be your full service livestock veterinary service. We provide a wide variety of general medicine, surgery and obstetrical services, in addition to reproduction and routine production services.
We have a well-equipped haul-in clinic for individual animal treatments or working trailer loads (up to a pot load) of cattle. The clinic has portable hydraulic and manual chutes and scales of various sizes and types for working cattle on the farm or in the clinic. Our portable Silencer hydraulic chute has a built in electronic scale to efficiently weigh and process cattle.
The clinic has a hydraulic tilt table for cattle lameness examination, diagnosis and treatment and for various other surgeries or treatments.
In addition, we provide full Breeding Soundness Exams (Fertility Exams) for bulls or rams, either in the clinic or on the farm. Other services include reproductive ultrasound for cattle or sheep, pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic measuring heifers and routine processing of cattle either in the clinic or on the farm.
The clinic has intensive care facilities with individual crates for sick calves and other neonates in need of intravenous fluids and supportive care.
We have ration balancing software for beef cattle nutritional consultation, which can be utilized to help set up herd Preventive Medicine programs and protocols as needed.
All other livestock including swine, sheep and other small ruminant examinations are services provided by appointment.
Our clinic strives to have a variety of products in stock for our clients convenience. If you request alternate animal health products, other than those in stock, we generally can order additional products by one to two business days.
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EP 39 - Rob Ziliak of Buckingham Wealth Partners & Ryan Armock of Thrivent Advisor Network
This month’s episode features two incredible guests: Rob Ziliak, Chief Operating Officer at Buckingham Wealth Partners and Ryan Armock, Head of Operations at Thrivent Advisor Network. Founded in 2019, Thrivent currently has 450 employees, and manages $6.5B in AUM. Buckingham Wealth Partners, a well-known RIA founded in 1994, currently manages $65B in collective assets between Buckingham Strategic Wealth and Buckingham Strategic Partners and has 540 employees. Together, Matt, Rob, and Ryan discuss the effect their respective roles play in creating and ensuring a great client experience and much more, including:
- An overview of each firm and their respective strategies for growth
- How each firm has adapted their business throughout the pandemic and the long-term effects of these changes
- What our guests are doing to attract the best talent in the current job market
- How our guests’ roles in operations impact their firm’s M&A strategy
You can read the full transcript here.
Investment advisory services offered through Thrivent Advisor Network, LLC., (herein referred to as “Thrivent”), a registered investment adviser. Advisory Persons of Thrivent provide advisory services under a “doing business as” name or may have their own legal business entities. However, advisory services are engaged exclusively through Thrivent Advisor Network, LLC, a registered investment adviser. Thrivent Advisor Network reported over $5.3 billion in AUM in its latest annual Form ADV filing. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is ranked 369 on the Fortune 500. (Fortune Magazine, June 2021).
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