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What LauRen Likes: Inflatable Boat
Cash us outside, how bout dat.
Roy brought this to LauRen’s attention today and with Summer days in the future, it was a must for What LauRen Likes.
Amazon is now selling a 6-person inflatable boat! It even has a huge cooler ready for you! The best part? It’s a lot cheaper than an actual boat. You don’t even need gas…just a pump to blow it up!
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Sunshine and White Sand at My Beach Getaway to Hollywood, Florida
Travel is on everyone’s mind after the pandemic. We decided to try something new together for our mini-vacation this year. When I was visiting my grandparents in February, my grandmother mentioned they had a timeshare we could use in May. This timeshare took us to Hollywood, Florida which was a new spot for both of us! The beach sounded pretty appealing to us, so we decided to check it out. So, we packed our bags and embarked on a new adventure.
Traveling on a budget is always a win. My brother and his friend also joined us on this holiday. For this vacation, we snagged flights from Concord, North Carolina, and the total was only $171 round trip for two! When we got to the Fort Lauderdale airport we used the Uber App and paid a little under $30 for a trip to the hotel. We stayed at the Hollywood Beach Tower which was recently renovated. This location is right on the beach and connects to the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk. It was a perfect view! After unpacking, we headed down the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk. This boardwalk is 2.5 miles long and connects with a nature center. On our first day, we grabbed some late lunch and drinks at the Hollywood Brewing Company. This was a pretty small brewery but they had yummy handcrafted beers brewed and an epic oceanfront view.
Our next few days were spent relaxing on the beach and enjoying the cool ocean, white sand, and warm sun. One thing I hated was the trash. It was a little depressing to see so much stuff around. I grew up in a small beach town so I will always have a special place for keeping the ocean and beaches clean. On this beach, there was a lot of debris on the shore and in the ocean. There were some people trying to clean it up (which I did my part as well) but I wish the beach would be more proactive in keeping the shores’ garbage free.
The restaurants we enjoyed during our stay were all within walking distance of our hotel. We ate at Hollywood Brewing Company, Giorgios Bakery & Bistro, Taco Beach Shack, Le Tub, Mamacitas (which had great breakfast), and Alvin’s on the Beach. One of our favorite dessert spots (which we visited every night) was a place called Puffles. It was such yummy ice cream wrapped in an egg waffle. We even got to see our cousin and enjoy some good food and laughs during our visit. All the eateries were around $15-25 per person and gave pretty generous food amounts.
We wanted to go see the pier during our trip so we rented a four-person bike during our vacation from Skippy’s and biked. It costs $2 per person to get on the pier because of fishing) but it’s a small price to pay for the view. It was breathtaking and you can see all the way to Miami. We biked back and finished in less than 2 hours. It cost only $75. It was some great exercise. I like riding the four-person bike, but it is a little more difficult than it looks. I clipped my foot a couple of times trying to keep up with the rest of the team.
A bit of salty air is good for everyone from time to time. I really loved being able to visit the beach and it was a perfect way to relax. We saw wild parrots, lizards and enjoyed each other’s company. I highly recommend getting an alcoholic pineapple when you go as well too because they are yummy and picture-worthy. For a simple beach getaway or if you are in the area, Hollywood, Florida should really be on your list. It has plenty of things for couples or families to do and is an affordable location.
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Want a simple way to enjoy the delicious taste of apple dumplings? We show you 3 ways to make Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings with just a few ingredients and can be ready in just 30 minutes. Treat yourself to a warm and flavorful Fall dessert with a hint of cinnamon spice.
Easy Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings
The best thing about making crescent roll apple dumplings is that they are versatile. Using crescent rolls and apples or apple pie filling as the base you can create endless variations of this delicious dessert. By using crescent rolls as the base of the apple dumplings, you can enjoy the flakiness and buttery taste of pastry without all the fuss of making it from scratch.
Not only are these easy apple dumplings recipes that are so convenient to make, but they also have a comforting and homey feel to them. This is perfect for when you want to treat yourself or guests to a Fall dessert that feels like it was made with love. You can also easily customize them to suit your preferences by adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream or drizzling some caramel sauce on top.
What You’ll Need for 3-ingredient Apple Dumpling Bake
- Crescent roll dough – use the refrigerated crescent rolls in a tube.
- Apple pie filling and cinnamon– Use Homemade apple pie filling or store-bought
How to Make Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings Casserole
Make the Casserole: Unroll the dough on the cutting board. Use a knife to cut the triangle and cut into 6-7 pieces each. Combine the filling the ingredients together in a bowl, making sure all pieces are coated with pie filling. Spread the mixture into a greased baking pan.
Bake the apple dumpling casserole: Bake the casserole for 25 minutes until golden brown and cooked through. Cool slightly before serving.
What You’ll Need for Apple Pie Crescent Rolls
- Crescent roll dough – It’s usually sold in a tube form and comes with pre-cut perforations for easy handling.
- Apple pie filling – If you don’t have time to make your own filling, store-bought apple pie filling works great as well.
- Caramel sauce – The perfect topping for these apple dumplings. You can either make your own or use store-bought sauce.
How to Make Apple Pie Crescent Rolls
Make the Rolls: Unroll the crescent rolls and separate the triangles. Place the pie filling at the end of the crescent roll. Roll up the triangles and place them on the baking sheet.
Bake: Bake for 12 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven and drizzle with caramel sauce.
What You’ll Need for Crescent Roll Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings
- Crеѕсеnt rоll dough is the key ingredient for this recipe and you can find it in most grocery stores.
- Butter is another important ingredient for this recipe as it adds flavor and richness to the dish. You can use either salted or unsalted butter, depending on your preference.
- Brown sugar is used to create a sweet and caramel-like glaze for the dumplings. You can also use white sugar if you prefer, but the brown sugar adds a deeper flavor to the dish.
- Vаnіllа extract can be used to add a subtle vanilla flavor to the apple filling. This ingredient is optional, but it adds an extra layer of flavor to the dish.
- Cinnamon pairs perfectly with apples and adds warmth and depth to the dessert. You can also sprinkle some on top of the dumplings before baking for an extra burst of flavor.
- Mоuntаіn Dew- You can also use 7 up, Sprite, or even Ginger Ale. This ingredient might seem unusual, but it adds a subtle lemon-lime soda flavor to the dish and helps caramelize the sugar for a perfectly gooey texture.
- Granny Smith Apples- These tart and crisp apples hold their shape well when baked, making them the perfect choice for this recipe. You can also use other varieties of apples, such as Honeycrisp or Braeburn if you prefer.
How to Make Mountain Dew Apple Dumpling Recipe
Assemble: Unwrap the crescent rolls and separate the triangles. Place the apple slices on each triangle of dough and roll it up. Combine the butter, cinnamon, sugar and vanilla and mix until the sugar dissolves.
Bake: Butter the baking the baking dish. Add the cinnamon rolls to the baking dish. Add the cinnamon butter mixture over the crescent rolls. Pour Mountain Dew between the rolls and bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown. Serve Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings with vanilla ice cream
What to Serve with the Casserole
Whipped Cream – Top your serving of casserole with a big dollop of whipped cream or Cool Whip.
Ice Cream – Add a big scoop of vanilla ice cream to individual servings of the hot apple dumpling casserole.
Warmed Milk – Many people eat their apple dumplings with a bit of warmed milk poured over top. You can do the same with this apple casserole.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep the leftovers covered tightly or in an airtight container. The casserole will stay fresh at room temperature for up to two days, or in the refrigerator for up to three days. Reheat individual portions in the microwave.
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Apple Dumplings Casserole
- Preheat oven to 375F. Spray a 2-quart glass baking dish with non-stick cooking spray; set aside.
- Open the tube of crescent rolls and lay the dough out on a cutting board. Use a knife to cut each crescent roll triangle into 6-7 bite-sized pieces.
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the crescent roll dough pieces, apple pie filling, and cinnamon. Note: the dough may stick together, but you can separate it as you add it to the baking dish. Just be sure the dough is well-coated in the pie filling.
- Spread the mixture evenly into the greased baking dish. Bake at 375F for 25 minutes, or until golden brown and the crescent rolls are cooked through. Remove from the oven and cool slightly before serving.
Apple Pie Crescent Rolls
- Unroll the crescent rolls and separate the triangles. Place the pie filling at the end of the crescent roll. Roll up the triangles and place them on the baking sheet.
- Bake at 370 degrees for 12 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the oven and drizzle with caramel sauce.
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Camille Bailey is a self-employed writer and editor who thrives on the art of storytelling. She relishes the challenge of diving into novel subjects and unearthing unique perspectives to present to her audience.
Writing articles can be a fulfilling and creative process, but it can also be challenging to know where to start and how to make your writing stand out. As a writer myself, I've learned a few tips and tricks along the way that I'd love to share with you. Here are some tips for writing articles:
1. Choose a captivating topic: The first step in writing a great article is selecting a topic that is interesting and relevant to your audience. Think about what your readers would like to know or what problem they need solving. Once you have a topic in mind, do some research to gather information and ideas.
2. Plan your article: Before diving into writing, it's helpful to create a plan or outline for your article. This will help you organize your thoughts and ensure a logical flow of ideas. Start with an introduction to grab the reader's attention, then outline the main points you want to cover in the body of the article, and finally, conclude with a strong ending.
3. Hook your readers: The introduction of your article is crucial in capturing your readers' attention. Start with a compelling opening sentence or an intriguing question to pique their curiosity. You can also use storytelling or share a surprising fact to engage your audience right from the beginning.
4. Keep it concise and clear: When writing articles, it's important to keep your sentences and paragraphs concise and easy to understand. Avoid using jargon or technical terms unless necessary, and break up your content into smaller paragraphs to improve readability. Use bullet points or subheadings to make your article scannable.
5. Add value and provide solutions: Your article should aim to provide value to your readers. Offer practical tips, advice, or solutions to their problems. Share your expertise and insights to establish yourself as a trusted source of information. Remember to cite credible sources and include examples or case studies to support your points.
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Australia and New Zealand are home to some of the most unique and fascinating wildlife in the world. When it comes to iconic animals, birds and marsupials take center stage in these two countries. But have you ever wondered why these particular creatures hold such significance? Let's delve into the reasons behind the prominence of birds and marsupials in Australia and New Zealand.
Firstly, let's talk about Australia, a land known for its diverse and distinctive fauna. One of the main reasons birds and marsupials are iconic in Australia is due to their incredible diversity. Australia is home to over 800 bird species, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth. From the colorful rainbow lorikeets to the majestic wedge-tailed eagles, Australian birds captivate both locals and visitors alike.
Marsupials, on the other hand, are a unique group of mammals that carry their young in a pouch. Australia is known as the marsupial capital of the world, with iconic species such as kangaroos, koalas, and wombats. These marsupials have become symbols of Australia's unique wildlife and are beloved by people around the globe.
But why are birds and marsupials so prevalent in Australia? One reason is the continent's isolation. Australia has been geographically isolated for millions of years, allowing its wildlife to evolve in distinct ways. This isolation has led to the development of unique bird species and the dominance of marsupials in the ecosystem.
Additionally, Australia's diverse habitats, ranging from deserts to rainforests, provide a wide range of niches for birds and marsupials to thrive. This rich variety of habitats has contributed to the evolution of numerous species, each adapted to their specific environment.
Now, let's turn our attention to New Zealand, a country renowned for its breathtaking landscapes and rich biodiversity. New Zealand is known for its unique bird species, with the most famous being the kiwi bird. The kiwi is not only a national symbol but also holds cultural significance for the indigenous Māori people. Its distinctive appearance and behavior make it a beloved and iconic creature.
New Zealand is also home to other remarkable bird species, such as the kea, the world's only alpine parrot, and the tūī, known for its beautiful song. These birds have captured the hearts of New Zealanders and visitors alike, contributing to their iconic status.
As for marsupials, New Zealand has a more limited presence. While Australia is known for its marsupial diversity, New Zealand has only one native marsupial species, the brushtail possum. However, it is important to note that New Zealand's unique fauna extends beyond marsupials, with a wide range of bird species and other endemic creatures.
In conclusion, birds and marsupials have become the iconic animals of Australia and New Zealand due to their remarkable diversity, cultural significance, and unique evolutionary history. These creatures represent the rich and distinct wildlife found in these two countries, captivating the imagination of people worldwide. So, next time you encounter a kangaroo or hear the call of a kiwi bird, take a moment to appreciate the natural wonders that make Australia and New Zealand truly special.
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Korea officials approve Volkswagen recall plan
Volkswagen’s first recall plans were declined in June as the company didn’t acknowledge that it fabricated test results. Four months later, it filed another plan admitting it used illegal software that downsized emissions for its cars.
For the next two months, the government conducted tests on software, emission, vehicle functions and fuel efficiency. The results showed the modified software abided with environment laws in terms of gas emission and did not impose much change to functions and fuel efficiency.
According to the approved recall plan, Volkswagen Korea will undergo a free software upgrade, which takes less than 30 minutes. For customers of the problematic models, it will provide a 1 million won ($848) coupon, transportation fees, pickup and delivery service, along with operating a call center. Recalls will start Feb. 6. “The goal is a recall rate of 85 percent,” said a ministry spokesman.
This is opposed to what domestic consumers have been requesting so far, to push VW to grant product exchanges instead of simple recalls of system upgrades. The Environment Ministry said in Thursday’s statement that the measure was unplanned unless the recalls prove to be ineffective for solving the technical problem.
Law firm Barun, which is handling class-action civil lawsuits against Volkswagen, opposed Thursday’s acceptance of the recall plan through a statement on Thursday, pointing out that the investigation was not conducted thoroughly in terms of methods and tools used for the test. “The victims will submit a lawsuit today to request annulment of the approval,” attorney Ha Jong-sun said.
Meanwhile, seven Volkswagen employees and one agent for certification processes were indicted by Seoul prosecutors on Wednesday as the result of a 11-month probe into the company for forging test results and importing models that did not meet emission standards under the Clean Air Conservation Act.
Three among the list are senior executives of Audi Volkswagen Korea: Chairman Johannes Thammer, his predecessor Trevor Hill and CEO Park Dong-hoon. The latter two were heading the company when the problematic 15 models were imported from mid-2011 to mid-2013. “We found circumstantial evidence that they turned a blind eye on the matter despite having enough room for suspicion,” the prosecutor’s office said in an official statement.
“As the suit is still ongoing, we can’t give out details - all we can say is that the company is willing to actively cooperate in the remaining legal process,” said a spokesman for Volkswagen Korea. “Recall plans for the remaining 13 are already under discussion.”
Another barrier for Volkswagen Korea is restarting sales for 34 recent models whose certifications were revoked in August for falsifying papers in emissions and noise tests. This dealt a critical blow to the German car brand as the models were almost all of what it sold in Korea.
While the 15 that used illegal software were old models whose sales had ended by late 2015, the 34 were imported later and many of them were still on sale at Volkswagen dealers. VW can restart sales after the vehicles are recertified by the government, a process that has become longer and stricter since the scandal.
The worldwide probe into Volkswagen is slowly settling in other countries as well. Last month, the German government accepted the company’s recall plan. The U.S. Department of Justice ultimately settled compensation worth $4.3 billion on Tuesday. Last year, Volkswagen also agreed to provide nearly $15 billion to U.S. owners and maximum 2.1 billion Canadian dollars in Canada.
On the other hand, Volkswagen’s smaller compensation for Korean consumers caused controversy among the local public. Last year, the company offered a one million won worth gift coupon usable for repairs or auto accessories. But this only fueled further outrage as the amount was far from being close to the money Volkswagen settled over in the U.S. and Canada, which are a maximum of $10,000 and 5,950 Canadian dollars per person.
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Meeri Koutaniemi, 32, a Finnish photographer and journalist, was born in Lapland and currently lives in Helsinki.
Koutaniemi's work extends to over 60 countries, where she has photographed and documented people with compelling stories of struggle and resilience. Her work stems from the question and definition of identity. Koutaniemi has focused on the humanitarian side of conflicts, displacement, and discrimination. At the core of her work lies a universal ability for empowerment and resistance.
In 2012 and 2013 Koutaniemi was selected as the 'Photographer of the Year' in Finland. In 2012 Koutaniemi received the 'Memorial Award of Tim Hetherington' in the United States and the 'Memorial Award of Carina Appel' in Finland 2013.
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Graphic novels, time-lapse, pine-martens, and Dam Keeper 3
Well, my two pitches are into my agent, so it’s time to get back to writing my regular newsletter, while I continue to work on #1.
If you’d like to support me in my work, I’ve also just set up a page on Ko-fi. Any support goes a long way - and thank you!
Here’s a little work-in-progress from my latest graphic novel pitch. The main character is a pine marten (a member of the weasel family). In the short video below, she’s trying to learn self-defense from a Victorian self-defense book, just before she heads out on an adventure at sea. The book has examples of things like defending yourself with an umbrella or hat pin.
Here’s a real pine marten in the wild:
They’re pretty cute, but ferocious fighters and clever.
One of my favorite graphic novel discoveries lately has been Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi’s The Dam Keeper trilogy. This is a series that is beautiful on every level, from storytelling to artwork to heart.
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Energy Star Recommends Set Air at 78 During the Day & 82 at Night?
It's hot! As the temperature rises outside you try as best you can to make the temperature in your house go down.
A new study from Energy Star the federal program said the best guidelines for the most efficient cooling would be to set your airconditioning thermostat to the following:
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- 85° F when you’re at work or away
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Now that is a little to warm for even me! My husband who is a trained architect has always said that you can really only expect an airconditioning unit to cool up to 20 degrees from what the outside temperature is, at least efficiently to where the unit isn't running non stop!
We got a few responses on our app as to what temperature they keep their thermostat at:
We keep ours on 68 during the night, 72 when we are gone and during. The winter it never gets above 74.
I keep my ac at 64 at night and 70 during the day
66' with fans running year around
Let us know what you keep your thermostat at this time of year. Text us through our app!
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New Local Eatery Opens in Nash
I've been noticing lately there are a lot of little locally owned restaurants popping up around town...and that's a good thing! The latest one I've seen is called the Pully Bone in Nash, Texas.
At one time, we were all so excited about the big franchise restaurants coming to town and now the pendulum has swung the other way. Local is what it's all about. The Pully Bone located 240 New Boston Road in Nash, officially opened yesterday (Wednesday, October 17), promises to offer good old fashion home cooked meals and more.
Their menu has classic comfort food daily specials from meatloaf on Mondays to chicken and dumplings on Wednesdays to their anytime entrees like burgers, fried chicken and catfish.
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Texarkana Apartment Manager Arrested For Alleged Theft
The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested Erin Mackenzie Megginson, 38, of Texarkana Texas, for alleged felony theft last week. Megginson is the property manager at the Arista Apartments, where the thefts are alleged to have occurred.
According to the press release, on August 5, the victim reported that personal items, including purses, jewelry, and clothing, had been removed from her apartment over the previous eight months. The victim stated her job required that she be out of town for extended periods of time and she noticed the items could not be found when she returned. The victim, who had previously befriended Megginson, said she allowed her to enter her apartment on occasion while she was out to town. When the victim reported the thefts to the apartments’ management, Megginson suggested that a relative of the victim was responsible for the thefts. However, the thefts continued after the relative moved from the area. She came to suspect Megginson of the thefts after she saw some her stolen clothing in Megginson’s vehicle.
As a result of a two-month investigation, Detective Warren Smith determined that Megginson had been in possession of some of the items reported stolen by the victim about the time of the theft, and he eventually recovered those items.
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It’s a book called Crochet Your Way to a Buyer’s Heart with Amigurumi by Elisa Rose.
The book has the focus specifically on the Amigurumi patterns, but the information and advice provided here apply to any kind of crochet patterns.
I want to share some points why, I believe, this is a valuable resource for someone who wants to have their own online business of selling crochet patterns!
1. A big part of designing and writing quality patterns is math! There is just no way around it! But let’s be honest, not everyone is good at math or likes it. This could be one of the main reasons crocheters prefer to buy patterns. Instead of spending hours trying to figure out the calculations, they would rather pay someone else to do it.
I don’t remember if I ever shared with you that my degree is in statistics. So of course my math knowledge is very valuable in my pattern writing business. However, to create and write crochet patterns you don’t need a college degree in math.
The math concepts that you will need, such as multiples, factors, remainder, etc are all exceptionally well explained in this book.
This is the first time that I come across such well organized and well explained comprehensive guide on all the math needed for crochet designing.
Of course, you can find bits and pieces of it on the Internet, there are tons of articles, blog posts, and videos, for instance I myself recently made a video on my YouTube channel explaining how I figure out “multiple of, plus”.
But if you want to have one resource that you can refer to for all of you crochet math questions, this book is it!
2. A big portion of this book is dedicated to the actual structure of a crochet pattern. It guides you through how to create a template and what to include in it.
This was one of my most favorite chapters of the book because as I was reading through it, I was like: "Check, Yep, I do that, Yes, I always include that in my patterns!" I kind of gave myself a pat on the back because I do include in my patterns everything that the author mentions!
It’s essential that your pattern is well written, comprehensive, and easy to follow. If you have a template, based on which you write all of your patterns, then obviously all of your patterns will have that same quality standard.
If a customer buys one of your patterns, finds it well written and easy to understand, they are going to come back and buy more of your patterns.
3. I’ve been crocheting for over three decades, and I’ve been writing crochet patterns for over a decade, I’m good with math and I have no problem figuring out stitch calculations, so I consider myself to be good at all these aspects of running a crochet business!
But there is one thing that I feel I’m terrible at and that is marketing my work!
Marketing and reaching your potential customers are essential to a successful crochet business, and the author puts a lot of focus on that! There are tons of helpful information, advice, and tips on the subject in the book.
Some of them were completely new to me, others were like “Yeah, I know I should be doing that, but I’m just not really comfortable”, and it’s like if she can read your mind because then she takes you to the next step and talks about how to push yourself out of your comfort zone and try new things.
This part of the book was especially helpful to me! And I can see how it can be helpful to other crocheters trying to sell their patterns!
You know how the saying goes: Don’t judge the book by its cover! To be honest, my expectations of this book were that it was going to be mostly inspirational and motivational, talking about all the wonderful things of having a crochet business of your dreams, and doing what you love, and having passive income…
And the book certainly fulfilled that expectation, BUT in addition to that, it provided tons of practical information, which in my opinion is way more valuable than the inspirational and motivational talking. I greatly recommend this book!
You can find this book on Amazon; it's available in three formats: electronic, paperback, and hardcover.
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Land access is the top challenge emerging and beginning farmers face. At the same time, ownership of millions of acres of agricultural land is changing hands as farmers and ranchers across the country retire — presenting an important opportunity to shape the future of our farm and food system.
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ALAIN GUIRAUDIE’S NEW FILM and festival favorite, L’inconnu du lac, observes the unfolding of a series of relations between men at a lakeside cruising spot. The film focuses on bodies in action, and yet we are not merely or only watching individuals doing things with and to each other. The film rather presents a kind of staging of a mind, with actions and reactions figuring as parts of a psyche working itself out.
After a young man drowns, an older gaunt detective breaches the otherwise insulated location to question those that return day after day, apparently unmoved by the mysterious death. Cornering our protagonist Franck after dark, Inspector Damroder demands to know how Franck and the others could be so indifferent to the death of one of “their own.” He admonishes Franck to “show some concern for himself,” and marvels aloud, “You guys have a strange way of loving each other.”
As in all fantasies of interrogation, the law’s demand for revelation and confession is intimate and invasive, posing questions that suggest something shameful on the part of the interrogated. Damroder actually seems less interested in solving the murder than in extracting from Franck some sort of justification both for himself and “his own.” Indeed, the murder itself does not carry the plot of L’inconnu du lac. There is no mystery as to who the murderer is, either for Franck or the viewer — we see the drowning, from Franck’s point of view, in a single unblinking four-minute shot. The real unknown of this film, then — the l’inconnu of the title — is not the killer, but Franck.
The English translation of Alain Guiraudie’s L’inconnu du lac is “Stranger by the Lake,” a translation that loses the rich ambiguity of the French. While “Stranger by the Lake” specifies some stranger, some person, L’inconnu du lac allows the unknown to remain undetermined. That is, with the French title, the film’s orienting concern is diffused: it might not only be about one particular unfamiliar person, but about some less exact unknown. Guiraudie’s is not only about those others whom we don’t ultimately know, but about the ways we can be strangers to ourselves, and the ways in which we work out who we are in what we do, often in the dark.
Franck is introduced as a kind, yet self-assured, young gay man who has just found himself without a job. He is attractive; as his new friend Henri observes, he could pass for straight — or in Henri’s words, he seems “normal.” It is the beginning of the summer and the film opens with Franck’s first visit to the beach this year. We learn that while cruising is his consistent pastime, he is actually looking for a real relationship, for someone with whom he can have dinner. The film is composed largely of point of view shots, letting us see what Franck sees, and while some of these shots are plot-driven — we see who he wants, who he is sleeping with, who he is hiding from — many are scenes of indefinite reflection: shots of water and sky and wind in the trees. One of the only shots that is unanchored from Franck, and to which Guiraudie returns like a metronome, is the high angle, wide shot of the lake parking lot with which the film begins. More than half a dozen times we return to this perch to watch Franck’s car pull slowly into a space. The shot functions to punctuate the film, not in order to signal development or the passage of time, but on the contrary, to signal our capture in repetition, in a kind of perpetual present.
Nearly everything in the film is presented as a closed series of patterns of repetition. The space itself is fully insulated, the only setting of the entire film; scenes of action are bookended by shots of wind-blown treetops, migrating clouds, and the surface of the lake; bodies mirror one another, and interactions are reprised again and again. The “other side” of the lake is discussed as though it were another planet, and while occasional reference is made to a character’s job, or to a time before the summer, or to an evening happy hour, these all seem extremely distant, almost intangible. When Franck proposes to his new love interest, Michel, that he would like to see him outside the woods, it is not only that Michel is too non-committal to acquiesce, but that the prospect of life outside the woods becomes over the course of the film increasingly unimaginable.
Other reviewers have noted that the film is structured around a series of divisions, and have pointed out that these can be seen as allegories of social divisions — between gay and heterosexual spaces, or between freedom and the law. This is at least partly right. But by taking such care to insulate the action, in the echoing and doubling of acts and persons, and in returning so often to the oneiric medium of water — in the depths of which lurks an apocryphal fish of Loch Ness proportions — L’inconnu du lac should also be understood as a film exploring not inter-subjective but rather intra-psychic divisions and relations.
The story itself primarily concerns two relationships and the murders that link them. On the one hand, Franck befriends the sad-eyed, fully-clothed, saggy-bodied Henri who sits alone, far enough from the cruisers to be isolated, but not so far as to be separate. He hovers like an unpopular sibling or half-forgotten dream, until the end when he joins the cruisers and radically redirects the course of events. Where the murder only facilitates further repetition — the beach visits and the sex carry on — Henri’s final deed, a feat of self-sacrificial passivity, is the film’s only true action.
We first see Henri from Franck’s perspective as he swims in the middle of the lake; the shot is buoyant and focused, as the camera unsteadily and almost imperceptibly zooms in on Henri, as though both Franck and we were drawn to him by unknown forces. Franck climbs out of the water and sits with Henri, and so begins a gentle, genuine, and intimate friendship. They speak candidly, especially about their other relationships. While Henri is physically uncomfortable — he keeps his arms wrapped around himself as he sits and often leans away from Franck — Guiraudie avoids the ready cliché of presenting him as a prude to play off the sexually gregarious Franck. It turns out that Henri had a girlfriend and that he even experimented with men. And yet Henri has apparently never met, never even heard of, a “real” gay man. That one might simply be gay, and not keep one foot in straight culture, seems to him amazing and inconceivable. Like the inspector, Henri queries Franck on the very fact of his being gay, and Franck is again put in the position of having to speak for “his kind.” Unlike with the inspector, however, with Henri, Franck is not defensive or ashamed; instead he is ready to explain what it means to be gay, as if to a marveling child.
On the other hand, Franck pines for and then begins having sex with Michel, a pin-up character straight out of the 1970s, the perfect composite of Tom Selleck and Tom of Finland, empty of feeling or motive, pure drive. As Franck knows, Michel is also the murderer.
In contrast with lumpy, wary Henri, Michel is a fantasy of sexuality incarnate. He seems somehow of another element; we first see him emerging from the water, and indeed he shares in the alienness, evasiveness, and power of the lake’s fearsome fish. At first Michel is attached to a young man who gets fussy when he catches Michel and Franck speaking together. But this obstacle to Michel is quickly dispensed with — Franck witnesses Michel drowning the young man after dark, in a high, long shot that fills the screen with water, presenting the struggling figures in dark silhouette, the scene ending with clouds migrating across a purple sky. It is as though Franck’s wish that Michel was available makes it so. From then on, Franck and Michel enter a charged sexual relationship, with Franck becoming increasingly desperate for more in the way of a committed relationship; indeed he begins to display the same clingy fussiness of Michel’s victim. Shortly after Michel and Frank start seeing each other, the equilibrium of the beach is disturbed by the appearance of police helicopters and Inspector Damroder.
It is now commonplace to see thrillers as drawing a tight connection between sex and guilt, sex and risk — Hitchcock was one of the first masters of the genre, and these themes were brought to a conservative fever pitch in the American erotic thrillers of the 1980s. It would not be wrong to see L’inconnu du lac as an erotic thriller pivoting on the question of how to live with AIDS — as a person, as a couple, and as a community — some 30 years after it came into our world. While there is no explicit mention of AIDS, characters are drawn in terms of their attitudes towards it. Michel seems a relic of a pre-AIDS era, both in his iconic vintage looks and his readiness for unprotected sex. By contrast, the unnamed man with whom Franck first hooks up immediately asks for a condom, and his close-trimmed beard, sensible backpack, and age mark him as distinctly post-90s. Naturally, relations with the former type of man turn out to be deadly. Here it would seem like L’inconnu du lac was a standard if artfully done erotic thriller, where the realization of fantasy comes only at the greatest cost.
But then what of Henri? If the film uses characters to explore Franck’s intrapsychic dynamics, it is easier to place the other figures: Michel is a kind of insatiable and threatening id, Damroder the disapproving if feeble voice of the law, while the unnamed partner represents the possibility of responsible, self-respecting gay adulthood (not to mention the handful of other cruisers who look at Franck but never speak, flickering moments of unrealized self-reflection). But Henri cannot be immediately placed into such a function. If the movie is a kind of exploration of inwardness by way of public acts and relations, what does Franck’s relation with Henri reveal?
In a sense, Henri is like an unreflective medium through which Franck’s experiences are filtered and find imperfect expression. After Franck and Michel first get together, Henri — not knowing this — tells Franck that he can’t wait to get back to work, that here at the lake he just sits and thinks all day. Following Franck’s first interrogation by Damroder, where he becomes visibly more upset than the remorseless Michel, Henri — again knowing nothing of this — reports, for no reason, that he is “kind of depressed today.” Whereas Franck is distracted by his new partner and seems like the kind of man who perhaps takes little very seriously — he has no job, and apparently no other interests than cruising — Henri sits on the beach and thinks too much. Further, Henri seems to know that Franck cannot maintain both of his relationships — with Henri and with Michel — and that one of them, like summer itself, must come to an end. Franck, meanwhile, seems convinced that his relations are not mutually exclusive, that each day he can return to the beach and cross back and forth across the rocks, visiting Henri and always returning to Michel.
The moment that finally pierces these patterns and forces something to happen is actually the only moment in the film where we are privy to events to which Franck is not. The scene begins with Franck and Michel laying on the beach holding hands, advanced to a new stage of intimacy or commitment. In the distance we see Henri walking towards his spot on his edge of the beach, and for the first time, Franck looks up but does not go to him. Instead he walks into the water and begins a leisurely backstroke. As he is swimming, Henri stands up and begins walking towards Michel, crossing for the first time onto the cruising beach and thereby undoing a boundary between himself and the rest of the men, between himself and the other half of Franck’s life. Michel begins their conversation by asking if Henri isn’t bored just sitting there alone everyday, and suggests that the other men think he is “weird.” Henri counters with an almost direct accusation that Michel is the murderer (and it isn’t clear how he would know this, since Franck never told him and was the only witness to the crime). After making his case, Henri rises and tells Michel he is going to take a stroll in the woods, crossing yet another boundary. Michel follows him. All the while, Franck floats weightless on his back.
The film’s final moments take place in near total darkness with Franck alone in the woods. All distinction between himself and his surroundings collapses, all other characters are gone. The camera settles on Franck, centering him in the shot from the shoulders up. An intimate close-up like this might normally indicate Franck’s interiority, his reflection on what he’s been through; but instead the screen is nearly black, we and Frank see nothing. What is the best way to know a mind? Is it through what we avow to ourselves when conscientiously reflecting on who we are — in monologue for instance? Or are minds shown in what bodies do, in the moments when we think we are being least reflective, least vulnerable? Guiraudie’s great skill is his construction of a story about interiority told entirely externally, by way of the relations that circle in a single place. The suggestion of this film is that the work of understanding who we are and what we are doing is neither intentional nor self-aware but rather more like groping around, charged and frightened in the dark. By the end, everything is obliterated, with Franck disoriented in the night, by himself.
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South Africa is doubtless one of the most promising on-line betting markets on the planet and remains to be quite go now younger in comparison with the betting industries in different major countries.
This means that Players betting on sports activities in South Africa can get pleasure from all the advantages of betting and unique presents that come with a market crammed with top-class bookmakers competing for first place within the nation.
The betting industry in South Africa is regulated by the National Gambling Act of 2004. With this in thoughts, sports betting is fully legalized and controlled by the SA Gambling Commission. There are plenty of guidelines, though most of them are geared toward legislative regulation of operators, and not individual South African Punters.
Speaking in regards to the authorized aspect of online sports activities betting in South Africa, it’s also worth mentioning the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Council. The WCGRB serves to manage all gambling and racing within the Western Cape..
It is also the most well-known regulatory council of the 9 playing and racing councils that exist in this country. In addition, all national bookmakers should get hold of a license from the IAGR and the National Gambling Council to function in South Africa.
How the Rating of the Best Betting Sites in South Africa is Formed
There are several standards for evaluating the quality of the bookmaker’s work. First of all, that is reliability, honesty, variability of the road, convenience of coming into and withdrawing funds, as nicely as customer-oriented assist service.
Let’s have a glance at all these criteria in additional detail:
The reliability of a bookmaker is among the primary criteria for its evaluation. We consider a reliable bookmaker who:
The analysis of this attribute displays the breadth of the bookmaker’s pre-match line. This means the variety of sporting events, the variety of markets and outcomes within the line before the start of the sporting occasion. At the present stage, this estimate is set manually and is probably not accurate sufficient.
The ranking of this characteristic reflects the breadth of the bookmaker’s live line. This means the variety of live sports events, the variety of markets and outcomes for betting throughout a sports activities event. At the present stage, this estimate is determined manually and may not be correct sufficient.
The size of the maximum sports bet, no splitting of the payout;
The analysis of this attribute reflects the worth of the bookmaker’s margin. The smaller the margin, the higher the bookmaker’s odds and rating. At the current stage, this estimate is determined manually and may not be accurate enough.
The analysis of this attribute displays the number of payment strategies and the velocity of making funds by the bookmaker. A greater score is supplied by the presence of cost systems well-liked among Russian-speaking players at the workplace.
The ranking of this attribute reflects the competence and friendliness of the help service. All support service channels are evaluated — e-mail, live chat and phone line. The absence of any channel reduces the score.
The score of this attribute displays the quantity and quality of the bookmaker’s bonuses and promotions. Each kind of bonus is assigned an individual weight when evaluating. The score might differ relying on the bonuses and promotions provided by the bookmaker in the intervening time.
This criterion evaluates the technological development of companies and their capability to maintain up with the times by introducing new technologies into their merchandise.
The Best Betting Sites in South Africa
So, it’s time to get acquainted in detail with our professional score of one of the best sports activities betting operators in South Africa.
Hollywoodbets is a global bookmaker that has started lively improvement in the last few years. It has a wide network of customer support factors in South Africa and a fairly useful Internet site.
To date, that is definitely the most effective bookmaker on the proposed line, which is distinguished not only by plenty of events, but additionally by a magnificent painting with a huge variety of obtainable outcomes.
The service presents users sweepstakes, video broadcasts of matches, playing and a number of other entertainment. Matches with increased odds are offered daily. There are additionally some uncommon bonus offers right here.
Hollywoodbets exterior seems fairly respectable. When you first get to the location, you get the impression of an everlasting vacation and there’s a desire to play and win.
I like that the site design itself looks nice on a widescreen display, without stretching and without changing the navigation buttons. During its testing, the positioning didn’t cause any special complaints.
The major sections of the top menu here are:
The cellular version of the site also doesn’t cause complaints. and work along with your personal account and personal data are also available here.
As for its major operate, specifically sports activities betting, everything is greater than good right here.
The operator presents more than 20 sports activities, as properly as esports, cultural and political occasions. The list for each of the disciplines is broad, and whenever you click on on a sure sport, the most anticipated occasions are displayed.
Popular soccer matches like the video games of the African Premier League supply 1,500 outcomes or extra. In addition to totals, double likelihood is offered outcomes like Asian totals and handicaps, even totals, handicaps, and so forth. For tennis games – 70-100. There are few outcomes for the NBA – up to 10, for the Euroleague basketball – 30-50.
The operator’s offer for sports betting in actual time may be objectively attributed to top-of-the-line not solely within the authorized African market, but also among the world bookmakers. For example, a bookmaker offers more than forty betting markets for a large – scale soccer assembly in real time, and from 20 markets for a preferred soccer meeting
In addition to sports betting, after passing the Hollywoodbets Register, gamers have the opportunity to moreover make bets on e-sports, horse racing, weather, TV video games, and occasions from the world of show enterprise, politics.
As for the coefficients, here they are at a median level – from 1.70 to 2.20.
Hollywoodbets Register and authorization on the location is made in just a few clicks. The questionnaire is crammed out shortly and should you all of a sudden “flew off” the Internet, then all of the previously specified information is saved routinely. You also can carry out verification immediately on the website in your private account.
The operator presents its prospects a fairly good beginning set of bonuses:
The standard bonus for many bookmakers is a primary deposit bonus. Here you can get 50% of the amount, which should not exceed 2500 ZAR.
Replenishment of the account is out there by all recognized strategies: bank cards, electronic wallets, online transfer. The minimal deposit quantity is 50 ZAR. Funds are credited to the game account instantly. The exception is a bank transfer (1-5 days).
No commission is charged from the player.
3. SportPesa South Africa
SportPesa is a wonderful representative of the African sports betting market, characterised by the presence of a full set of official licenses and work permits. With good taking half in situations that are not inferior to different companies, the bookmaker is distinguished by reliability and an excellent level of customer service.
The presence of Live bets, the flexibility to look at broadcasts of matches, an excellent part with gambling – all this enables us to call it top-of-the-line in South Africa undoubtedly.
Customers are additionally offered a lot of methods to replenish their pockets and a great help service.
By going to the official website of the operator and specifying your personal and password, you will notice the entire range of playing entertainment that you can solely imagine.
The appearance of the resource did not trigger any complaints during testing.
Like different operators from South Africa, you can find a number of dozen in style sports activities disciplines in SportPesa, however to a larger extent the operator is focused on football. At the same time, you can bet on soccer not only on the primary outcomes, but additionally on many further ones. So, for example, you probably can guess on the 15-minute interval of the sport, or on the creator of the objective, or on the writer of the double. More than 1,000 new occasions are available daily.
In addition, after you may have a , it is feasible for you to to wager on uncommon sports activities, or on various sweepstakes and casinos. In addition, there are a lot of lotteries, e-sports and digital sports. All this by some means attracts new customers not solely from South Africa, but additionally from all over the world.
In addition, the bookmaker accepts bets on various non-sporting events – political, cultural or scientific.
The stay mode additionally makes a good impression. Events can be sorted by reputation or alphabetically, as nicely as added to favorites. There is a separate setting for altering the coefficients for accepting bets, but there are no fast guess and bet redemption capabilities. Info-graphics and on-line broadcasts of occasions are additionally available in real-time.
The odds in the bookmaker’s workplace are average. They are principally at the stage of 1.80-2.60.
As for authorization on the positioning, there are completely no difficulties with this. At the same time, you completely don’t have to enter the and password each time, because the system mechanically remembers it and saves it on the server.
The bonus program of the operator is quite good.
To do this, the user should utterly fill out the questionnaire, pass verification and top up the account with no less than 50 ZAR.
After the SportPesa Login, you can play at no cost and place bets, thus honing your expertise.
Transactions are carried out here in a separate safe tab. Accesses financial institution transfers and digital wallets.
The minimal deposit quantity is 50 ZAR. Funds are credited to the game account instantly.
No fee is charged from the player.
4. Supabets South Africa
Supabets might be the most lively bookmaker on the entire African continent, together with its southern territories.
The operator presents a big pool of services – sports activities betting, e-sports, digital sports, bingo, sweepstakes, horse racing and other gaming entertainment. However, probably the most valuable benefit for South African players is the flexibility to keep an account in the national currency – rand (ZAR).
If we talk immediately concerning the site, then there is something to notice here. First, there are a number of language versions. The website design was developed quite a lengthy time ago, but it is still related. It can’t be referred to as very new, it is quite minimalistic and at the similar time all the tabs are in their locations.
It is updated every three seconds. This permits gamers to follow all of the events extra precisely. It can be very convenient to search for the necessary information right here, since all of it’s placed in separate sections. At the very backside you’ll be able to see all the information about the company, in addition to news, hyperlinks to contact the assist service.
The web site itself just isn’t overloaded with pointless data, all the necessary blocks are nearby and even an inexperienced person will instantly be in a position to discover what he needs. In common, it is quite convenient, has no disadvantages, and is time-tested. Thus, it is perfectly suitable for placing bets. Its good functionality and design have been repeatedly famous by the players from South Africa themselves.
A broad signature and a really good betting line is on the market to gamers from South Africa immediately after logging in and entering the and password.
It is best to sign prime tournaments and soccer competitions here, but even for events with a low rating, the bookmaker gives a good painting.
You can bet on more than 30 completely different sports activities. In addition, e-sports disciplines (Counter-Strike, League of Legends, Dota 2, Overwatch, Starcraft), cultural events are offered, political events, present enterprise and poker tournaments.
We can say that the presented line is one of the greatest in the trendy South African market.
In addition, the operator offers a wide variety of live bets. Even for a not-so-popular soccer match, there might be all the time a smart choice. Events are sorted by popularity or in alphabetical order; there is an option to add to favorites.
The bookmaker offers excellent odds for sports such as football (2.10 – 3.65), garden tennis and hockey. The margin in the pre-match is 3-6%. In the Live betting mode, the margin is somewhat overstated and is at the degree of 6-8%.
To be succesful of make a guess on-line, a player needs to create a gaming account. To do this, you should specify private data, provide you with a Supabets Login and password.
Immediately after that, the personal account shall be opened, and the bets will turn into available.
Regarding the bonus program, Supabets has no equal.
After Supabets Login, every shopper can rely on:
You can open an account here in almost any popular currency. Here, the bookmaker didn’t restrict his clients.
Several dozen other ways can be found for replenishment. This includes bank cards, cell banking, online wallets, and even cellular operators. The minimal deposit quantity is 50 ZAR. Deposits are made instantly.
A competent choice of a bookmaker for betting is among the essential elements of success in betting. We have compiled an objective score of bookmakers who provide their companies in South Africa. Experts have rigorously analyzed the positioning information in order that it might be simpler so that you simply can decide about registering with a specific office.
When compiling the ranking of the most effective bookmakers, the important thing and secondary elements that are most necessary for players were taken into account.
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Inside Device Update Agent (XPe)
This technical article contains information about how to configure and use Device Update Agent (DUA), an Embedded Enabling Feature that is designed for servicing devices.
Overview of Device Update Agent
Configuring the Component in Target Designer
Creating Device Update Agent Scripts
Using DUA and Write Filters
Configuring a Web Server for Remote Polling
Commonly Requested DUA Scenarios
One of the important aspects of embedded development is planning for how the device will be updated when it is deployed in the field. The environments that embedded devices are used in are varied, they may be part of an enterprise network, they may be stand-alone devices not connected to any network, or they may be remotely administered devices. Servicing scenarios for embedded devices are therefore varied also.
An enterprise may use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) to manage all computers on its network or may service devices through a Web site. Remotely managed devices may be connected to a network share and stand-alone devices may require a technician to apply updates from a CD or USB disk on key.
Overview of Device Update Agent
Device Update Agent (DUA) is an Embedded Enabling Feature that is designed for servicing devices. DUA is a lightweight Win32 service that runs on embedded devices or clients and performs administrative tasks such as copying files, creating registry keys, or executing processes. It is included with the component database and has minimal dependencies. Therefore, it is ideal for smaller footprint devices. The DUA client itself (DUAgent.exe) is only 30KB.
DUA allows for updates to binaries and registry keys on devices that are in the field and being used. It can be used, potentially, to update existing applications or application data, apply hot fixes or system updates, deploy new components or device drivers and automate cleanup and remote device management tasks. Because it can be used without any other "management" infrastructure (such as a centralized server) there are multiple options for configuring the location that the client polls for update scripts to apply. The device can poll a Web server, a network share or a local location such as a floppy, CD or USB drive or another partition on the same device.
The client consumes DUA script files from the polling location. The script files are included together with an update package that contains the files to be bin placed on the target device and/or scripts, batch files or executables to be run. DUA script files can be chained together so that one script will call a second DUA script or point to the next DUA script to be processed later.
Configuring the Component in Target Designer
All the settings that apply to DUA can be configured offline in Target Designer, under the Settings node of the component.
This setting specifies which account permissions to use when you update the device. If Local system is selected then DUA will be able to access any resources on the system. If Administrator is selected the DUA client may be unable to update certain registry keys on the system. For this setting an administrator user account component must be included in the run-time image configuration.Run on Start
This indicates whether DUA should immediately poll for a DUA script the first time that the device starts. If it is selected it will poll on first start and afterwards poll at the date and time configured. If it is not selected it will poll for the first time only at the date and time configured.Require HTTP support
This setting should be checked when a Web server will be the location that DUA should poll. More settings associated with polling a Web server are specified in additional configurable settings that are discussed later in this document.Poll interval
This setting specifies the interval, in seconds, between polls. For example, a value of 60 seconds means that the agent will poll the server one time per minute during each one hour polling session. The polling interval cannot be less than 1 minute nor greater than 1 week.Poll jitter
If this setting is selected it specifies that polling will occur randomly within the polling interval. This is recommended when polling a Web server so that not all the devices poll at the identical time, even if they are all configured to poll within the same polling interval. In other words, with a 60 second polling interval specified one device may poll at 2, 62, 122 seconds and so on and another device would poll the same server at 15, 75, 135 seconds and so on.Working directory
This setting specifies a temporary storage directory on the embedded device that DUA uses when it updates an image. When an update is pulled down to the device the contents of the update package are temporarily stored in this directory until the DUA script is parsed and those updates are applied to the final location in the image. You can specify any working directory and DUA creates it if it does not exist.Note
This setting cannot be left blank or it will result in an error when you build the image in Target Designer.
Expand working directory using the environment of the embedded device
This setting specifies whether to use the environment variables in the command file path, when you use the working directory.
For more information about environment variables, see this Microsoft Web site.Poll Time/Day
This setting specifies the days and hours that you want the client to poll. Anything from a minimum polling schedule of one hour on one day to every hour of every day is supported. It is important to predict the wear on the polled device before you configure the Device Update Agent settings because frequent poll intervals may wear out your hardware (floppy disk or CD-ROM). As all the options are selected by default in Target Designer, it can be cumbersome to manually cancel those options that are not required. This setting, as with all other DUA settings, is written to a registry key and can therefore be configured in several other ways.
One way is to create a custom component that contains the registry setting that you want. The polling schedule is defined in one hour increments by a mask that indicates which day of the week and a mask that indicates what hour of the day to poll on. The key in question is a Reg_Binary type, with the following structure:- An array of up to 7 DWORD "Hour-of-day" masks (one per day) used to indicate the polling schedule.
- The high byte of the high word (bit 24-31) indicates the day of the week the schedule applies to. There can only be one schedule for any given day.
- The remaining three bytes (bit 0-23) are used to indicate the hour of the day that polling should occur. Bit 23 represents 00:00 or midnight, bit 0 represents 23:00 or 11PM.
- Bit 31 is reserved and must be zero.
For example, here is the registry setting in a custom component that specifies polling should occur on Mondays at 1 A.M.
Another way to set this registry key may be to create a DUA script that the client uses as soon as the device starts. In this case the check box in the DUA configurable settings in Target Designer for Run On Start should be checked. The syntax contained within that script is as follows:
//Set the polling day and time to Monday 1 A.M. 11,0,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,0,SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DUAgent\Parameters\ Config\,0,PollToD,3,4,32,64,0,0
For more information about Device Update Agent scripts, see Creating Device Update Agent Scripts in this article.
Select command path type
This setting specifies polling a local or a remote location. Local polling would be used for polling things such as another hard disk on the computer, a CD, floppy disk or USB key that would hold the DUA scripts. It would also be the option that is used if polling by using a UNC path. This is the default option.
"Remote using HTTP" is used to indicate that a Web server is to be polled. If they are selected then additional configuration settings will be displayed.
- Host Name
This setting specifies the name and domain of the Web server to connect to. A protocol, such as HTTP, should not be specified here. - Expand Host Name Using the Environment on the Embedded device
This setting specifies whether to use the environment variables to expand the name of the server. - Two additional sections are also visible when "Remote using HTTP" is checked, namely Advanced Settings and Security Settings. These sections contain the settings for configuring things such as HTTP or HTTPS, the host port number, proxy settings, and the user account and credentials to connect to the Web server.
When you use HTTPS, we recommend that you assign the DUA service a specific username and password on the server. This can be a new account specific to DUA, or an existing account (and make sure that the appropriate user account component is included in the run-time image and has the correct name and password specified). More details about these settings are available in the product Help documentation.
Local polling supports a push model. The DUA script file is delivered to the agent. Polling using HTTP or HTTPS supports a pull model. The agent pulls the file from a server.
- Complete Path to the Command File including File name and Extension
This setting specifies the path of the DUA script and the name of the first script file. - Expand Command File Path using the Environment on the Embedded device
This setting specifies whether to use the environment variables when reading the path of the DUA script file.
Here is an example of the settings for "Local" polling:
Creating Device Update Agent Scripts
Device Update Agent script files are what the DUA client on the device parses in order to understand how to apply the updates that are contained in the accompanying package.
There are four main terms associated with DUA:
- The DUS file is the text file that contains the update information. It is created by the DUA script author, the embedded developer or IT pro administering the system.
- The DUP file is a compiled script file. This is what is positioned at the update location and is consumed by the DUA agent on the deployed device.
- DUSC.exe is the DUA compiler- it runs on the development workstation.
- DUAgent.exe is the service that runs on the embedded device in the field and applies the update to the device.
A DUA script file is basically a series of commands stored in plain text that is then compiled and stored in an encrypted binary format. This is the file that the agent on the device pulls down, parses and applies the actions specified. In order to create this script file to apply an update, you must collect the information about what is being updated, collect the files that are being updated, and also become familiar with the commands that describe to the agent how to apply to update.
For embedded security or optional updates from Microsoft, the information about which registry keys and which files must to be updated are described in the Additional Information document that is included with every update executable package. The updated binaries to apply to the run-time image can be found by expanding the EXE package and looking in the repository. These binaries can be copied to a folder at the poll location and, together with a DUA script, when authored, will form the update package.
DUA Script Syntax
There is a broad command set available when you create DUA scripts. Files can be copied, added and deleted, registry keys can be created or registry values can be changed, executables can be started and the system can be restarted.
Here is an example of a basic DUA script file, created in Notepad, that creates a directory on drive C of the embedded device, and then copies a file from the polling location. In this example the polling location is drive F on this system, either a physical drive, a USB disk, or a drive mapped to a network share, to this new directory.
In this example, you see that every command has several parameters associated with it. Some of these parameters are required and some are optional, indicated by the square brackets, and each parameter is separated by a comma. If optional parameters occur before required parameters an empty placeholder must be inserted into the command string, as the script will walk from one parameter the next checking whether there is a value written. If a placeholder for an optional parameter is omitted, the script will parse the next value that it sees as being the value for the omitted optional parameter and will produce an error. In the example, the command string for CreateDirectory includes empty placeholders for the optional parameters [ErrorMode] and [ExpandMode], and the command string for CopyFile does specify a value for the optional parameter [ErrorMode], but contains an empty placeholder for the second optional parameter [ExpandMode]. All optional parameters that occur after the required parameters can be omitted from the command string. The script will look for any values after the required parameters. If it finds nothing, it will execute the command. If a required parameter is missing, or an empty placeholder is omitted between required parameters, then the script will produce an error either during compilation or during execution.
For more information about the commands that are available for building DUA scripts, see this Microsoft Web site.
Notice that if there are updates to system files that are being used, they require some additional steps as you cannot overwrite them. In this case, you must rename the existing system file, copy the updated system file to the correct location, and then restart the system so that on restart the updated system file would be the one being referenced. Then you can delete the old system file.
Here is an example of the DUA script commands to use:
// Rename the target system file.
// Move the new version into the system32 directory.
// Delete the old version after rebooting.
Alternatively you could incorporate a utility such as File-In-Use Replace Utility (Inuse.exe) in your run-time image and execute it from a DUA script command to update files that are being used.
InUse is a command-line tool that performs on-the-fly replacement of files that are currently being used by the operating system. You must be a member of the Administrators group to use this tool. For more information about InUse, see this Microsoft Web site.
Remember that any registry key can be changed on the system, if the account that the DUA service is running under has the appropriate permissions. Therefore, DUA settings themselves can be configured and changed through commands in a DUA script also.
The DUA text file is saved with an extension of .dus.
Compiling DUA Scripts Files
The last step in creating a DUA script file is to compile it. You do this by running the Dusc.exe utility found at \Program Files\Windows Embedded\Bin\Dusc.exe on the development workstation. Before you run this executable for the first time Duscaut.dll must to be registered. This is done in a Command Prompt window with the following command:
Regsvr32.exe <systemdrive>\Program Files\Windows Embedded\Bin\Duscaut.dll
Dusc.exe runs at a command prompt. In Windows Vista this must run as administrator, and accepts a minimum of two parameters, the DUS file to be compiled, and the name of the compiled file.
Dusc.exe \script1.dus \script1.dup.
The DUP file is included in the same polling location as the updated files that must be applied to the device, and will be pulled or pushed to the device at the next scheduled polling time. When a script is executed it may be deleted from the polling location; for local polling the DUP file will be deleted, for remote polling it will not. Depending on the polling method, you may have to add a command to the end of the script file to instruct the DUA service to look for the next update script when next it polls:
//Change cmd path of next dup file
For troubleshooting, you may want to include the Event Viewer component in your run-time image so that you can monitor the device update agent’s actions.
Using DUA and Write Filters
There are certain points that should be considered if you are using DUA to update your devices when one of the write filters (File Based Write Filter or Enhanced Write Filter) is also present on the system. If the write filter is enabled and protecting the image then any changes that the update tries to make will not persist on the disk, but will be redirected to an overlay and may be lost on a restart of the device. Different approaches can be taken, depending on what kind of overlay is used (Disk, RAM, or RAM-REG).
Integrating with RAM or RAM-REG overlays
It is good practice to restart your run-time image before you apply updates. This makes sure that you discard any other information that may be in your overlay, but that you may not want to be committed to the disk, for example, user data. There are three options to update devices with a RAM or RAM-Reg overlay:
Run DUA as a background service on the device and let it poll for updates. When you author your DUA script, bracket the update commands with commands to use FBWF Manager or EWF Manager to either disable the filter, or to commit the appropriate files in the overlay, and then re-enable the filter after the update is applied. For example:
// Disable FBWF
EXECUTEPROCESS,,,,c:\windows\system32\fbwfmgr.exe,0,c: -disable,DAYES,60000,,DASEC_REV,,,,DASEC_REV,,,,,, c:\windows\system32,1,,WinSta0\Default
// Shut down and restart the system
//Run typical update command in this section of the script
// Re-enable FBWF
EXECUTEPROCESS,,,,c:\windows\system32\FBwfmgr.exe,0,c: -enable,DAYES,60000,,DASEC_REV,,,,DASEC_REV,,,,,, c:\windows\system32,1,,WinSta0\Default
// Shut down and restart the system
Notice that a restart is required to implement disabling and re-enabling the filter as this action only happens at shutdown.
Optionally, you can leave the DUA service disabled on the run-time image. When there is an update available, you can manually disable the filter, start the DUA service, and let DUA to apply the updates. When the DUA update is complete, you can restart the filter.
Additionally, you can use a DUA command in the script to execute a program that uses the filter APIs to enable and disable the filter programmatically.
One thing to note when integrating with an enabled filter is, because the filter is still protecting the partition when it processes the first command until after the next restart, DUA will "forget" that it has already run, for example, Fbwfmgr.exe. The DUP file will also be one of the files that are cleared from the RAM cache. On restarting DUA will find the DUP file again and start to process commands from the top of the DUP file. This causes DUA to run "Fbwfmgr c: -disable" again and restart again. But because the filter is disabled this time, DUA will be able to correctly "remember" its current status after this second restart and the updates that are listed in the next commands will persist.
In this case, if polling locally, the original DUP file will be deleted from the polling location so on restart DUA will not find the DUP file at the polling location to continue processing. In this case, you could use a backup folder and make sure that a copy of the DUP file is in the backup folder. Have the first command in the DUA script copy the file from the Backup folder to the polling location:
//copy dup file back to poll locationso that it is available after reboot
You can also make the folder that stores the dup files read-only, in a domain environment that has NTFS.
It might be useful to use the -commitanddisable (for RAM\DISK), or -commitanddisable -live (RAM, RAM- REG) commands in your DUA scripts as these reduce restarts.
Integrating with Enhanced Write Filter Disk Overlay
All the same information as File Based Write Filter applies to Enhanced Write Filter if Ram or RAM-REG overlay types are being used. There are some other things to consider if you are using Disk overlays. For example, you may want to reserve your first overlay level for applying your DUA updates. That means that in typical operations, you set your overlay level (setlevel) to level 2 so that any writes by users are written to that overlay level. Then when you must update your development workstation, you have your DUA script first discard any user writes by calling the ewfmgr setlevel command and setting the overlay level to 1, then disabling ewf. At this point, you can apply your updates.
Configuring a Web Server for Remote Polling
If remote polling is used in DUA you have to configure some settings on the Web server. Any existing Web server can be used. You do not have to have a dedicated server just for DUA.
The following actions must be taken:
- Obtain and install a certificate, if it is necessary.
- Update the registered MIME types on your Web server to support .dup files.
- Review the user account that you will use on the run-time images and make sure that this user account is registered on your Web server.
- Make sure that permissions are set correctly for the user account so that it has access to the necessary folders where the DUA scripts will be hosted.
- Review your DUA configurations to make sure that they match the Web server configurations.
Register MIME Type
Add User Accounts
Because server certificates are issued to the fully qualified domain name of the server, the fully qualified domain name of the Web server must be used in the Device Update Agent Script as well as in the DUA configuration.
There are two permission issues to consider when you use DUA to poll a Web server.
First, make sure that the embedded device can access the .dup files on the server through specifying a user account as mentioned earlier.
Second, make sure that updates can be applied as soon as the .dup file is downloaded to the device. Some registry hives and branches have different access permission, for example, only the system account can access certain branches. Therefore, if you have decided to have the DUA service run under an administrator account then these keys cannot be updated.
For more security, customers should consider using HTTPS when they update a device from a Web server.
Commonly Requested DUA Scenarios
The source for these common scenarios is customer questions in a newsgroup or from a feedback alias. All the things that are listed are technically possible, although not supported. Each scenario may require extensive investigation and testing to be able to work correctly.
Adding DUA to a device if it was not included at build time
Adding the Device Update agent to a device that did not first ship with it is a common request from customers. Determine what dependencies DUA has in order to assess whether the existing deployed run-time image can satisfy those dependencies. One way to assess this is to open the existing configuration in Target Designer, turn off auto-resolve dependencies, and then add the Device Update Agent component. Run a dependency check and see what is flagged as missing. If most dependencies for DUA (there are only a few) are already present on your system then it should be fairly easy to collect the necessary files and registry keys for DUA. Manually deploy these changes to the device.
If a technician is already going to be onsite, then it may be easier to just rebuild and redeploy the whole image.Deploy new drivers to a device
Deploying new drivers to an embedded device can be as easy as creating a .dup file to bin place the INF and SYS in the correct location on the run-time image and then restart. On restarting, PNP should detect the new hardware, install the driver, and setup service registration information. This does not work if there is a required Class Installer missing from the run-time image. For example, a printer driver cannot be installed in this manner if the Printer Class Installer components and libraries were not included in the run-time image at build time.Add missing components or features to a device
To deploy a missing component or feature to the device presents a new level of complexity. The easiest way to approach this task would be to use Target Designer to build an image with just those new features, without running checkdeps first.
This image would not be bootable and is not designed to be deployed. You can access the file information from the run-time image folders that are created when you build. You can load the hives from the image to find which registry keys were written. It may be just a matter of creating a .dup file that has this information, for simple features such as Regedit.
However, you want to make sure that your existing run-time image satisfies the dependencies of any feature or component that you are adding. To retrieve the dependency information, open an existing configuration, turn off auto-resolve and then add the new feature, run checkdeps and see what is missing. Then you just repeat your previous steps of creating and building a run-time image with just that new feature and the dependent features to obtain the information for your .dup file.
The big challenge is if the feature requires complex setup logic handled by FBA, for example running some custom script to populate registry keys such as a RunOnce request, or registering DLLs. Another challenge is that it may be difficult to discover some dependencies, for example WMI. It is very important to thoroughly test your image to make sure that you have not caused any regressions.Install Windows XP Professional updates
It is common for customers to want to be able to consume the approved Windows XP Professional updates from the DQI folder on the ECE site and apply them to the run-time image. It would be necessary to identify which of the dependent components required to support the Windows Sustained Engineering installer are already present on the run-time image and which components must be added, in the way described in the previous section. The components that are required for supporting Windows XP Professional updates are as follows:- Client/Server Runtime (Console)
- Common Control Libraries Version [184.108.40.206]
- Microsoft Visual C++ Run Time
- Primitive: Crypt32
- Primitive: Mpr
- Primitive: Ntdll
- Primitive: Ole32
- Primitive: Oleaut32
- Primitive: Psapi
- Primitive: Setupapi
- Primitive: Shell32
- Primitive: Userenv
- Primitive: Version
- Primitive: Winspool
- RPC Local Support
- Windows API - Advanced
- Windows API - GDI
- Windows API - Kernel
- Windows API - User
- Windows Installer
If these components are present on your run-time image you can easily create a .dup file to copy the update .exe package and execute it.
Windows XP Professional updates obtained from anywhere other than the OEM secure site (ECE) are not licensed for installation on an embedded system.
What you have learned
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This report examines how diary participants achieve the financial wellbeing that they have. The evidence we found is that low-income people work very hard to manage their finances. They endeavor to control their finances so that, as one participant said, their finances don’t control them. They must prioritize needs and wants because there is not enough for both. One participant talked about her goal of having a ‘little bit more’ than her needs so that there was a little extra for savings or small purchases or trips. Finally, we saw that family and friends are terribly important for achieving financial wellbeing because social supports can provide loans, gifts, and emotional support. Having a low-income means that banks offer few financial supports. Of course, family and friends also make demands.
This report summarizes the results of a follow-up survey with nineteen low- and modest-middle income Winnipeggers, undertaken in June through September 2020. These respondents were drawn from the 29 Canadian Financial Diaries (CFD) participants who completed a year-long diary in 2019. The results of the survey illustrate that low- and moderate-income earners are feeling stressed with increased expenses and uncertainty about future economic stability.
The Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project is using the financial diaries methodology to understand the financial dynamics of vulnerable Canadians in a rapidly changing socio-economic context. This includes understanding the barriers and opportunities that people face in trying to improve their financial and overall well-being. The website shares research insights and news about the project as the different phases of research are synthesized. | <urn:uuid:a4d77c49-e814-4d40-a000-8aa4db0b4883> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://learninghub.prospercanada.org/knowledge_source/canadian-financial-diaries/ | 2024-04-25T07:47:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.970391 | 314 |
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…but it bought me a Game Cube.
Today at work I got so p*ssed that I decided to go out and spend some money on stuff I don’t really need. In the end I bought a Nintendo Game Cube, Mario Kart Double Dash!!, a memory card, and an additional controller in a shop close to my work, as well as a copy of Metroid Prime on eBay which I should get in a few days.
Q: You know that capitalism only works by making you so depressed that you just need to buy something in order to feel better?
A: Yes, that’s why I’m also pretty ashamed every time I fall for this, but sometimes you just can’t help it…
Q: Don’t you think that sucks then?
A: Sure I do, but you can’t get drunk all the time.
Q: Why a Game Cube and not a PS2/X-Box/whatever?
A: I’ve collected game consoles starting from the old NES until Sega stopped producing their own consoles after my beloved Dreamcast. Personally I just think that Nintendo and Sega rock, while MS and Sony…ahm…just don’t. I don’t need the newest and greatest hardware, I just want a nice platform which offers the kind of games I like to play. Additionally I already own a Game Boy Advance for several years, which can be used in conjuction with the Game Cube.
Q: You could have bought that Game Cube a lot earlier.
A: That’s not a question.
Q: But still…
Well, after Sega announced that they won’t release any new consoles, I got so depressed and ended my career as a video game collector (I never really liked PC games). Now that I spontanously changed my mind, the Game Cube was the only system I considered worth buying. No flame wars please, I quite regularly play PS2 and X-Box games when hanging out with friends, I just don’t want to spend my own money on those particular systems.
Q: Will you start blogging about Game Cube games now?
A: There might be the occasional post on this topic, but this site definitely won’t turn into a gaming blog.
Q: What about the revolution?
See blog subtitle.
Q: Have you turned into a bitter cynic lately?
You’ve noticed? If I only knew what could be the reason…
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“The duty of the court is to construe the words used by the parties in the agreement. The courts do not have powers to interfere in contracts and impose terms arbitrarily, However, courts may imply a term in order to fill a gap left by the parties in the terms expressly agreed upon which fail to regulate their respective rights and inabilities in the situation that had arisen”.
“It is the duty of the court to state whether and when frustration has occurred; in other words, to determine the existence of frustration. Frustration occurs whenever the court recognizes that without default of either party a contractual obligation has become incapable of being performed”.
“Frustration occurs wherever the law recognizes that without default of either party, a contractual obligation has become incapable of being performed because the circumstances in which performance is called for would render it radically different from what was undertaken by the contract”
“We are inclined to accept the views of Viscount Simon and LordWright as being the correct statement of the law that the doctrine of frustration may in certain circumstances apply to a lease. We think that it may tantamount to injustice to deny a tenant the benefit of frustration in cases where, owing to circumstance of an intervening event or change of circumstances so fundamental as to be regarded by the law as striking at the root of the agreement, it has become impossible for the tenant to enjoy the fruits of his lease and at the same time to expect him on account of the abstract estate concept to honour his obligations under the lease. Such denial may also suffer injustice to a landlord who finds himself in the same situation as the landlord. ” Per BELLO, J.S.C. (Pp. 17-18,paras. G-C) | <urn:uuid:d06bc4ff-d1a6-43c8-85a0-d094def34f6f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://legalideasforum.com/convid-19-and-commercial.html | 2024-04-25T07:18:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.96819 | 358 |
Writing Objectives For Lesson Plans – When I began instructing, my first work was to compose lesson plans. I thought it was very essential to create lesson plans, at least to start with, so that I had a source of details that I might refer to when the time came to execute things that were taught in course.
Having a lesson plan is among the most important assets that you can have when training young kids. Lot of times we as teachers or as moms and dads feel like we are also active to show our kids something when they require assistance. These little life lessons are such an integral part of having healthy connections with our youngsters that all of us have a tendency to ignore them till they have actually required us.
I would recommend that you start writing up lesson plans as soon as you obtain into teaching due to the fact that you never ever understand when the trainee will certainly come back in rips as well as weeping since something in the course went incorrect. That is why I always suggest that parents start teaching by putting with each other lesson plans as well as also going back and evaluating some of those lesson plans when the pupils leave the classroom.
As soon as you have actually decided on a certain lesson plan, you can go out and also seek a teaching assistant or someone who can create a few papers on exactly how to carry out that certain lesson plan. You ought to be able to discover a good assistant for just a pair of hours per week if you are teaching young children. I have actually had the ability to find some excellent mentor assistants who have simply a handful of hours weekly devoted to creating lesson plans.
Your aides can help you in a number of methods concerns to the writing of your lesson plans. They can additionally aid you with various other activities such as choosing which material needs to be covered as well as where the class that material requires to be covered. Their support can likewise be a huge possession to you.
I can not stress sufficient exactly how valuable lesson plans are to our lives as instructors. It is extremely simple to come to be as well associated with assisting the pupils discover. Even though you may feel that you are doing a terrific task at what you are doing, there is constantly area for enhancement.
The majority of the time, we are so worried with educating the particular student what they need to recognize that we lose out on the many other aspects of life that we must be giving attention to. I feel that lesson plans are extremely vital for instructors because it offers us a place to develop the curriculum and start around a certain idea. I always consult my lesson plans when I have concerns concerning things that are associated to the pupil’s specific subject issue.
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Dear future president,
America is supposed to be a country with equality. They say everyone is equal, that we’re all the same underneath. If this is true, why does racism and sexism still exist? Why are people still being discriminated based on gender, race and ethnicity? And some people can’t even stand the fact that same-sex marriage is now legal. Things like this need to be ended. But we shouldn’t be supporting just one thing, like feminism, we should be supporting it all. Not just that women are equal to men but that everyone is equal. We need to be promoting equalism because everyone is equal and no one deserves to be known as a minority.
So, let’s talk about racial equality. You may think that this has already been fixed, but you must know that it’s not. People are still being discriminated based on the color of their skin. For example, a few years ago the Commision for Racial Equality, or CRE, was doing the exact opposite of what they should have been doing. An article called “Poor HR leads to race claims from CRE staff” published by Personnel Today, it talks about the incident, here’s what it said, “More than 22 policies were deemed to require such an assessment, meaning the CRE had 0% compliance with Race Equality Duty.” They were supposed to assess over 22 policies, this is not some weird accident, this is major race discrimination. People can’t just get away with this kind of stuff. This is why we need equalism.
Now, we have immigrants. This one is tricky because no one wants terrorist, but immigrants are good for our country. So many people talk about and discriminate against immigrants like they are all illegal and as if none of them contribute to America. Instead of focusing on illegal immigrants we need to be welcoming immigrants that can help the US succeed. In an article titled, “wrong debate on immigration” published by Newsmax it says, “this nation has been caught up in the wrong debate. It shouldn’t be about punishing current illegal immigrants, it should be about attracting highly educated and skilled immigrants who want to devote their carriers to furthering American innovation.” I couldn’t agree more with this statement. As I said before, no one wants terrorists, but we can’t just ban immigrants all together because they are different from us. We need them and that fact needs to be accepted. This is why we need equalism.
And we’ll also talk about misandry (prejudice against men) and misogyny (prejudice against women). A while ago many women, including myself, classified themselves as feminists, but then some of those feminists started going way over board saying crazy things like “even if she consents, it’s still rape.” And after that many women, again including me, stopped saying they were a feminist because they didn’t want people thinking they were the crazy misandry type. Now, we all know that there are some men who are bad and who might sexually assault you in some way, but that doesn’t mean all men are that way. There is an article called “A Bookshelf of Wounded Man Hood” published by Philadelphia Inquirer and it talks about how some so called “feminists” are very misandrist and how it’s not right, it says, “Some women don’t just want equality. They want it all. Once-proud american males are being made into demonized second-class citizens.” Now I’m all on board for being equal, which you’ve probably picked up on by now, but I don’t want to be superior to anyone. And again, I know some people out there are bad people, but as for both men and women who respect the opposite gender, they deserve to be treated with equality. This is why we need equalism.
So, future president, do you see now why this is a problem? Do you understand that America is still not completely equal? Do you get that all these things are why equalism is needed? If not, read this again and again until you do. We need to fix this, and we can’t stop until it is fixed. Thank you for reading this and hopefully understanding. | <urn:uuid:0b54e9d9-735f-478b-a5e3-0601d7bdb77c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://letters2president.org/letters/15316 | 2024-04-25T07:40:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.98293 | 917 |
Landslides, also known as landslips, are the most destructive type of natural phenomenon that causes significant damage to human life and property. In simple words, landside refers to the massive movement of rock, debris, soil, or earth in a downward slop-like movement. This is because gravity is the primary driving force. Moreover, they can occur anywhere in the world but are specifically more common in mountain regions that have steep slopes. Now that we know about the landslide definition, let us explore the causes, effects, types, and prevention of landslides,
Causes of Landslide
After the landslide definition comes its primary causes. Landslides generally occur when the slope undergoes some processes that change its overall condition and make it unstable. It can also occur when any type of shear stress exceeds the sheer strength of or the resistance strength of the materials that join to form the slope.
Natural causes of landslides include:
- Increase in water content due to snow or glacier melting
- The rising of groundwater due to rainwater infiltration
- Loss of soil structure or nutrients due to wildfire
- Erosion due to water bodies
- Physical or chemical weathering
- Volcanic eruptions
Human activities that cause landslides include:
- Over cultivation of land
- Heavy and consistent construction
- Blasting and mining activities
Effects of Landslide
The aftermath of a landslide can be extensive and unimaginable.
- Landslides can lead to the loss of human lives.
- It can cause destruction to the infrastructure of the affected regions.
- Landslide disasters can also damage natural resources.
- It can also block water bodies which further increases the risk of flooding.
- Farmers can lose their crops and livestock which can deteriorate their living conditions.
- It can also cause roadblocks and make transportation impractical.
Types of Landslide
Interestingly, landslides are classified based on the type of movement they show. Generally, there are four types of movements such as falls, slides, topples, and flows. Let’s explore them in more detail.
- Falls are sudden movements or landslides that include the breaking away of soil, debris, and rock from slopes and cliffs.
- Characteristics of fall landslides include contents free falling from height through the air and bouncing and rolling over.
- As the name suggests, slides include the material slipping or dropping along a rupture or slip surface.
- The top of this type of landslide has a scarp which is a steep drop as well as a flat portion behind it which is called the bench.
- Slide-type landslides are of two types, rotational slides (slumps) and translational (planar) slides.
- Topples are a bit different from other types of landslides.
- They include a mass of rock or debris falling in the forward direction out of a slope.
- They are more common at the bottom of the block of the rock.
- Ice melt and weathering can cause topple landslides.
- As the name implies, flow-type landslides include the mass movement of debris, soil, and rocks from a slop in the form of a fluid.
- Flow landslides leave behind an upside-down funnel-shaped deposit. This place signifies where the material has stopped flowing.
- It can include mud, debris, and rock avalanche flows.
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Prevention of Landslide Tips
The concept of prevention is better than cure goes for various aspects of our lives. For instance, although one cannot truly avoid landslides completely forever, numerous ways can mitigate their effects and help to reduce the frequency. Here is what the prevention of landslides includes:
- Steps can be taken to identify landslide-prone areas and ask the residents to vacate the area during monsoons.
- Monitoring and warning systems can be made better.
- The government can impose restrictions on heavy construction activities.
- Deforestation should be avoided and awareness should be spread about the need for afforestation.
- Water drainage systems and management should be improved.
- Evacuation plans should be made in advance to deal with unforeseen situations.
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To explain the landslide definition in a few words, landslides are nothing but a large mass of soil, rocks, mud, and land that slide from the earth’s surface in a downward direction. This happens when external or internal shear stress somehow exceeds the resistance strength of the slope.
Landslides are of different types and can occur due to a wide range of reasons such as deforestation, earthquakes, an increase in water concentration, etc. Moreover, this sudden movement of massive earth, rocks, mud, and debris can cause major damage to human life, infrastructure, property, and more.
The four types of landslides include falls, topples, slides, and flows.
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On January 20th, the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) was proud to watch our country’s democracy at work as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in on inauguration day. The peaceful transition was a much-needed sign of hope on the heels of the violent insurrection that shook the country two weeks earlier. President Biden’s inauguration day message of unity, putting aside our differences to find common ground and working together to improve the lives of all Americans in every corner of this country shows that we can expect a very different White House over the next four years.
While there is a lot of work to be done and change isn’t going to happen overnight, one place we are already seeing progress is at the Department of Labor. President Biden has selected Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a second-generation member of Laborers’ Local Union 223, to be the next U.S. Secretary of Labor. Mayor Walsh has spoken proudly about his union affiliation, has always stood side by side with working people and has a track record of protecting the health and safety of workers in Boston. LIUNA and the Laborers’ Health & Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA) look forward to having an ally in the Department of Labor who won’t hesitate to enforce existing labor laws, who is committed to improving conditions on the job for millions of American workers and who will hold all employers to the same high standards.
Another important area that should be a focus for the new administration and Congress is supporting infrastructure projects that create middle-class union jobs and pay family-supporting wages and benefits. Bringing this approach to infrastructure projects at the federal level would not only create more opportunities for workers but would also improve jobsite safety and health. It’s critical to create a bidding environment that values workers and encourages contractors to include the safety equipment and protocols necessary to keep workers safe on the job while remaining competitive. Nowhere is this more true than on highway construction projects, where a low-bid environment that doesn’t allow opportunities to include barriers and other positive protection often results in construction laborers being seriously injured or killed in work zone intrusions.
In a piece of positive news, the U.S. vaccine rollout is well underway, with millions of Americans already getting their first shot in the two-stage vaccine. These vaccines have proven to be safe and effective, and the LHSFNA wants to encourage all LIUNA members and their families to get the COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available to them. Because the distribution of these vaccines is being handled by each state, some workers may get this opportunity before others, but we should all be ready to do our part. Getting the vaccine protects your health, the health of your loved ones and the health of your LIUNA brothers and sisters on the job. By working toward widespread vaccination, we also take major steps toward reducing health inequities in vulnerable groups, getting our lives back to normal and getting our economy back on track.
As we look towards a brighter future in the months and years to come, let us recommit ourselves to building a stronger democracy and labor movement and protecting the safety and health of workers both on and off the clock. If the last year has shown us anything, it’s that no obstacle is too big to overcome when we remain united and never forget that we are all in this together. | <urn:uuid:31e836fa-0bc7-4da5-87cf-24aea57bc0de> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://lhsfna.org/message-from-the-co-chairmen-brighter-days-ahead-for-worker-safety-and-health/ | 2024-04-25T06:55:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.961684 | 702 |
Once you start creating citations and references, you need to consider referencing styles. There are hundreds of them out there, and each has a slightly different set of rules about how citations and reference lists should appear in your text. The Cite Them Right Harvard style is one of the main referencing styles used at Newcastle University, but there are many other styles, including Vancouver, IEEE, OSCOLA, and many, many more. Referencing styles are like a set of instructions. They tell you what types of information you need to include, the order that information should appear, and the way it should be formatted in your work. At a basic level, every style will ask you to record who created the information, when, what it is called, and how you access it.
Your lecturers will expect you to use a specific style, and all your citations and references should match that style accurately and consistently; same punctuation, same capitalisation, same everything. The style of referencing you use will vary depending on your subject area. It's important that you know which style you are required to use – check your programme and module handbooks and speak to your lecturers if you are not sure which style to use.
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Many of our sons are suffering, in more ways than we realize. And what they need is more time with us, their fathers.
Here is a reflection I posted at The Catholic Gentleman:
“Hunting is also laden with seriousness, if not excitement, from beginning to end. Every action has real consequences. There is no pushing a ‘new game’ button here. A boy feels this; and it keeps him close to reality—to the real world around him. It also will tend to keep him close to his father.”
Husband, father, and professor of Philosophy. LifeCraft springs from one conviction: there is an ancient wisdom about how to live the good life in our homes, with our families; and it is worth our time to hearken to it. Let’s rediscover it together. Learn more. | <urn:uuid:2bccaa05-fffb-484e-ae12-77e3725266cb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://life-craft.org/fathers-and-sons/ | 2024-04-25T08:01:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.972963 | 178 |
Do your kids bring their lunch back home from school almost every day, without eating it? If yes, then probably they are tired of eating what you cook! Agreed, you prepare a healthy lunch, because you want to ensure overall health of your children. Even if it is healthy, you need to make it taste as delicious and look as attractive as possible, because your kids might be too young to understand the nutritious value of what they eat. The best way to ensure a proper diet for your child is to serve lip smacking recipes for lunch, which look attractive and are healthy as well. If you are looking for some nice school lunch ideas, then go no further. Read this article and get some easy school lunch recipes for kids.
School Lunch Recipes For Kids
Make lip smacking delight for your kids, by using tortilla. Spread your kid's favorite sandwich filling in a tortilla and roll it up. For a refreshing taste, you may add one or two twigs of parsley as well. Pair it up with fresh orange juice and the lunch is ready.
Cheese With Brown Bread
Is your kid fond of eating cheese with every finger food? If yes, then make a mouthwatering recipe out of cheese. Cut a slice of cheddar cheese into a small star, using a cookie cutter and slip it inside brown bread slices. You may complement the recipe with apple slices, to make a nutritious and tasty lunch.
Celery stalks with peanut butter, though nutritious, is a very common school lunch recipe. You may improvise on it and make it even more attractive and enticing. Fill the celery stalks with peanut butter and top it up with grated cheese and chopped raisins.
Steamed Rice Cake With Cheese
Spread melted cheese on a slice of steamed rice cake. Now, make a cute face on the cake, with the help of raisins, cherry and grated coconut. Use two raisins for the eyes, sliced cherry for nose and grated coconut for the hair. It would make an attractive, healthy as well as tasty lunch for your kid.
Hot Dog With Mashed Potatoes
Smear a few drops of vegetable oil or butter on a hot dog bun. Now, fill the bun with mashed potatoes, steamed peas and raw carrots. Add tomato ketchup to the hot dog, if your kid likes to eat it. Now, heat the hot dog bun in a pan, over simmer, and then pack for lunch.
Cook the breast portion of chicken and mince it thoroughly. Now, place the minced chicken breast, along with grated cheese, cucumber and avocado slices, inside the tortilla. Roll the tortilla tightly, and wrap it up, in an aluminum foil. The lunch is ready!
Tofu Blocks With Bun
Tofu is a health-promoting food, rich in proteins and high in vitamins. So, you can include it in the school lunch for your kids. Heat a wheat bun over simmer. Now, mix cooked and mashed tofu with oats and soy sauce. Make a cutlet out of the mixture and then place it inside the bun. It would be a healthy treat for your kid.
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Well, today we might as well party like it's 2099: it's the anniversary of Beat prophet, poet, huckster and general gad-about-town, big Bill Burroughs. For those looking for the gory details, The Biography Project is happy to oblige.
For the real, nitty-gritty goods, check out this fantastic full length documentary (129 minutes), entitled simply Burroughs, directed by Howard Brookner in 1983. Worth your time, you ask? The NY Times review would be a big fat yessir. Simply put, it's great.
In line with all this magnanimous goodness (well, ok, badness, for the Crowley inclined), there is more to explore in the nest of sites around the Burroughs-themed Interzone.
And, finally, though it might be a chilling, Tibetan Book of the Dead full-bore fear method of dying, you could do worse than listen to the dulcet hypnogogic droning of William Burroughs audio at the Internet Archive on your stroll down that white light tunnel to a rebirth of decidedly questionable resonance.
Or not. But, really, ya gotta love a huckster, especially when the stakes of that shell game are a might steeper than a cup-a-joe at Dante's Circle Nine Cafe and Entomologic Parlor of Elusive Delight. | <urn:uuid:abf14cf8-4148-45ad-b625-c515872fadb6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/02/dining-with-bill-burroughs-at-circle.html | 2024-04-25T07:00:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.918922 | 293 |
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12/20/2023, 2:41 PMNok Lam Chan
12/20/2023, 2:46 PM_load
method and it shouldn't be able to write at all.fmfreeze
12/20/2023, 3:04 PM_load
method and it shouldn't be able to write at all.
yes, if I implement/inherit my own custom dataset.
But "locking" any dataset from being overwritten unintentionally at the config layer would be a nice feature.
Every situation where one wants to "lock" a dataset because it surely is always a pipeline input only (e.g. raw data) may be a use case.
Currently I do it be setting versioned: true
, but then I also have to do sanity-check if the latest version is unmodified (e.g. no other version exists).Iñigo Hidalgo
12/20/2023, 3:14 PMbefore_dataset_saved
hook (https://docs.kedro.org/en/stable/hooks/common_use_cases.html#use-hooks-to-customise-the-dataset-load-and-save-methods) combined with some metadata in the catalog, that's a new feature I haven't used myself so probably somebody from the kedro team can bring up the relevant docu for that sidefmfreeze
12/20/2023, 3:26 PMAbstractDataset
I forgot to reply to @Nok Lam Chan's question about what should happen:
The user simply should be informed that the current pipeline definition is wrong, because it defines a dataset as output which is configured as read-only.Nok Lam Chan
12/20/2023, 3:41 PMIñigo Hidalgo
12/20/2023, 3:45 PMNok Lam Chan
12/20/2023, 3:49 PMmetadata
field of dataset so there is no change in the core api.Iñigo Hidalgo
12/20/2023, 5:10 PMSo while custom implementations to achieve that behaviour are possible, this still would be a nice kedro feature on thethinking about this, what would be the cleanest way to subclass abstractdataset in order to modify the behavior of all datasets which inherit from it? is that even possible/desirable?level.AbstractDataset
12/20/2023, 8:26 PM__new__
https://github.com/Galileo-Galilei/kedro-mlflow/blob/master/kedro_mlflow%2Fio%2Fartifacts%2Fmlflow_artifact_dataset.py#L16-L147 method to decorate all save / load method automatically, but this looks very hacky.Iñigo Hidalgo
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Swimsuits familiar to everyone are open or closed models with panties, shorts and wide straps. Even in open bathing suits designed to create an even tan, the lower part sufficiently covers the buttocks. Bikini is the most revealing variety of a beach suit, and its main differences from a swimsuit are small panties and thin straps of a bra, which also has a small area.
Varieties of Bikini Swimwear
The most popular type of bikini is mini bikini. Such a swimsuit model is sewn from so small cuts of fabric that it hardly covers the intimate areas. The lower part is represented by narrow panties, tied on the sides, or thongs. Mini bikinis are a good option for those who want to have an even tan with almost no pale spots. Another frank model is a micro bikini. Its difference from the previous variety is miniature panties that hide only the most secret places.
Brazilian bikini consists of an open bikini top, often without a push-up, and panties of various shapes with a low waist. The peculiarity of such a swimsuit is that it emphasizes the beauty of the buttocks and looks very sexy.
Unusual on a slim figure looks a whale tail bikini. The panties of this swimsuit have an assembly along the rear center seam, which gives the model an originality. The most piquant type of bikini is an extreme bikini - a swimsuit that covers only the nipples and intimate areas, usually consisting of only a few narrow strips of fabric and intended, rather, for a private vacation.
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Jock Palfreeman interviewed by Tony Iltis, Sofia
May 17, 2013 -- Green Left Weekly -- “I’m in Villawood!”, Jock Palfreeman exclaimed, with the cheerful exuberance he displayed throughout an interview conducted through glass and wire-mesh partitions in the gloomy surroundings of the visiting room of Sofia central prison.
He told Green Left Weekly that it was the plight of refugees illegally detained in Sydney's Villawood detention centre by the Australian government that first radicalised him. His first protest, as a high school student in Sydney, was a blockade of the offices of Villawood’s then operator Australasian Correctional Management on May Day in 2002.
A year later he organised students at his school to attend the “Books Not Bombs” student walkouts to protest against the war on Iraq.
It was because of his seeming inability to ignore injustice that he is now serving a 20-year sentence in Bulgaria.
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim and Laura Gilbie
March 11, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- After two decades of political deadlock, Africa’s oldest refugee population is losing faith in UN mandated peace negotiations.
“No one will give us our freedom — we must take it!,” Sahrawi journalist Embarka Elmehdi Said told Green Left Weekly. Said sees little hope for a peaceful resolution to the crisis that has gripped Western Sahara since its independence from Spain in the 1970s.
A child when her family fled the Moroccan invasion of Western Sahara in 1975, Said has spent most of her life in the Polisario run refugee camps on the Western Sahar-Algeria border.
Her two sons, aged 12 and three, have spent all their lives in the camps.
Occupy Brisbane, Australia.
By Ash Pemberton
October 29, 2011 -- Green Left Weekly -- Some conservative commentators have declared the global Occupy movement to be “socialist”. Right-wing musician Ted Nugent said in the Washington Times on October 14: “Occupy Wall Street is nothing more than anti-American socialism on parade... These useful idiots are clamoring for social justice, as if they don’t have enough of that already.” Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly declared: “The Occupy Wall Street movement is basically socialistic.”
By Mark Harris
July 23, 2011 -- Resistance.org.au -- There is no denying it, depression is on the rise across the world. The World Health Organization says depression will be the second largest contributor to the global burden of disease by 2020. For young people this is already the case. Depression leads to about 850,000 deaths every year.
But why is depression on the rise? In some instances it is a product of more readily available methods of diagnosis and public understanding of the disorder. But increases in suicide rates and other indicators suggest that the increase in depression is well beyond this statistical readjustment.
Depression is not always caused by a chemical imbalance or as a result of human biology. It is a result of social factors such as loneliness, lack of social support, financial strain, lack of purpose and unemployment. These are endemic under capitalism.
Even in a wealthy country like Australia, youth often look to a future that is at best unfulfilling. Furthermore, capitalism is based on competition. In all sorts of ways we can only succeed if someone else fails. Obvious examples are job interviews or exams to get into uni.
Capitalist culture emphasises competition and individualism. Even the main form of transport — cars — means being physically separated from, and often in competition with, other people travelling on the same road.
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[PVE-User] proxmox backup cron not working
miguel_3_gonzalez at yahoo.es
Fri Sep 30 23:36:43 CEST 2016
I have upgraded to Proxmox 4.2 and I see an erratic behaviour of the
cron jobs for performing backups.
The /etc/pve/vzdump.cron exists and If I copy and paste the content in
a shell, the backup is performed.
However I find that the cron job is not always performed, in fact
after one month I just find that just a couple of times the cronjob
triggered the backups.
Where should I look at? I can´t find any error entry of vzdump in
/var/log/messages or /var/log/vzdump.
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On 5/31/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/30/07, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The purpose of BADSITES was, in general, to
ensure that any policy
like BADSITES would never be passed, and in particular to insure that
links to WR would not be removed from Wikipedia.
It seems to me that this argument has only been recently put forward
and yet the whole controversy about the proposal is much older than
this. I'm having trouble reconciling the two.
The first version of BADSITES was started on April 6th. Within a week
I had already privately e-mailed people regarding my suspicions that
it was a strawman. On April 27 there were several public statements to
that effect on this maillist, including one by me. That was over a | <urn:uuid:8151bb92-0f53-4ca4-b682-9405b83623d7> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/NM3UGRNFWMGWO3O4SFFDUQYRIHKNS7U6/ | 2024-04-25T07:14:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.987342 | 201 |
sustrik at 250bpm.com
Fri May 21 17:00:44 CEST 2010
> It would be nice to have 0MQ sockets owned by Erlang light-weight
> processes (LWPs). What's perceived in 0MQ world as application threads
> would by the OS kernel threads running Erlang VM schedulers. The
> problem is that there's no control on which kernel thread LWPs would be
> scheduled and therefore we cannot assume that a socket gets created on
> some application thread and further send/receive calls would be done on
> the same application thread. I am not quite clear why there is such a
> hard restriction in 0MQ to enforce a hard relationship between 0MQ
> sockets and an application thread. I suppose it's done to avoid locking
> at some level, but could this restriction somehow be optionally lifted?
In theory, it can be done modifying 0MQ so that it creates app_thread
for each socket.
That way socket could be migrated between threads -- assuming that full
memory barrier is executed during the migration.
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When Adam and I were building our wedding registry, I sought out advice but didn’t find anything useful online other than “don’t be afraid to register for the expensive stuff”. Great. Super helpful.
But why would anyone need wedding registry advice in the first place? After all, it’s such a minuscule part of the wedding planning process! That’s a great point. The reason I think it’s important is because you and your future spouse are going to need a few things to build a home and a life together. I think it’s worthwhile discerning the items that you will use day by day as a family. These things will (hopefully) last for years after your wedding day. In addition, you and your spouse can save money by creating a well-thought out registry of items you will use often.
I won’t be covering where to register or if/how to register for honeymoon/cash funds in this post. There seems to be lots of advice out there on these topics already. I will say, however, that we enjoyed using www.myregistry.com/ because it allowed us to add items from multiple stores.
I definitely got way too into making a registry and would obsessively edit and check it every day. So, my first piece of advice would be to not do that! But that should likely go without saying. We didn’t do everything on this list perfectly, but these are some things we learned along the way that would’ve been helpful to know from Day 1.
Questions to ask before adding something to your registry
Before I go through my list of wedding registry advice, here are some questions to consider before adding each item to your registry:
1. Is there a need for this item in my and my spouses’ life?
2. Will I get good use out of this item?
3. Is this worth the hard earned money of my friends and family?
Okay, now here’s my actual list of advice for those building a wedding registry:
1. Prioritize the basics
Your registry will depend a lot on what you and your future spouse are in need of and what you already have that needs to be replaced. But I would advise to start with the basics and go from there. These basics include towels, sheets, dishes, and pots and pans. These are the things you will use constantly and will hopefully last you for many years to come. For that reason, I think it’s a good idea to register for the higher-quality versions of these things.
2. Go easy on the kitchen gadgets
Kitchen stuff is definitely the largest registry category especially nowadays where there seems to be a specific appliance for every type of food: panini presses, breakfast sandwich makers, rice cookers, etc. And then there’s all the fancy coffee and espresso machines you can get. My mother-in-law once pointed out that if you go to a secondhand store you’ll get a good idea of what the less useful kitchen appliances are because there will be a bunch of them there!
Reflect on you and your future spouse’s cooking habits and think of a couple appliances you need the most and would use regularly. Consider registering for multi-purpose appliances. For example, Adam and I don’t have a toaster because we use our toaster oven for toasting, baking small meals and side dishes and keeping food warm. You may also want to consider registering for one of those blenders that also function as a food processor, puree-er, juicer, and vacuum all in one. Just kidding about the vacuum part; that would be gross.
The reason for not registering for all the cool kitchen machines is because they take up space. Small kitchen appliances can be clunky and hard to store. Also, the appliances that accomplish very specific tasks seem to shoved somewhere and forgotten about once the novelty wears off. Not a great use of your loved ones’ money.
3. Don’t go overboard
I’ve seen info-graphics on Pinterest that break down how many items to register for in each price range according to your guest count. Don’t worry about these. You don’t need a mathematical formula to build a wedding registry, that’s just silly! Remember, the more frivolous items you register for, the less likely you’ll be gifted the things you’ll actually use. Stick to the essentials and throw in a couple nice-to-have things that you really love. Yes, the bigger your guest count the more you “can” register for, but if you’re trying to figure out how much you can possibly fit on your registry, then you’ve got the wrong idea.
4. Read the reviews
This one is pretty self-explanatory. You might come across something you think is amazing only to find out that it stopped working for many people after just a couple months. Reading reviews is especially important for the “basics” and for higher-ticket items.
5. Don’t register for stuff you can easily thrift
As bad as it sounds, it’s tempting to register for a bunch of stuff just because someone else is (hopefully) going to buy it. But there’s a lot of stuff that it just doesn’t make sense to buy new. I find this is particularly true for kitchen stuff, things that break easily, seasonal items, and serving/entertaining items. For example, you can probably find a plain white gravy boat at a thrift store for $1 after you’re married instead of registering for a $20 one. One less thing to move into your new place anyway!
Even if you’re not into thrifting and are more comfortable in a HomeSense, you can still apply the same principle. I get sucked in by all the gorgeous servingware at HomeSense so I didn’t register for much of it. I knew I would rather come across something unique and affordable at HomeSense than register for a bland and overpriced item at a department store. For this reason, you may want to consider registering for a gift card or two from your favourite decor or housewares store.
6. Consider the children
You may not have kids yet, but if you are planning on having kids that’s something you may want to consider when making a wedding registry. It would be weird if you registered for kids bedding and toys, but extra dishes and towels will come in handy when you have little ones running around. Sure, it’s not super convenient to store and move extra stuff when you don’t already have kids, but it might be hard to find matching place settings down the road when there are more chairs around the table.
7. Don’t forget the boring stuff
If you are like me you will have a hard time not adding all the decorative cushions and throws to your list. But before you go there, don’t forget the mundane everyday stuff that’s even less sexy than a nice set of towels. I’m talking things like tools and cleaning supplies. The stuff that you don’t want to have to go out and buy when you’re in the middle of a household emergency! Consider browsing my cleaning kit list for ideas.
8. Think outside the house
Adam and I love camping so we registered for a bunch of camping supplies including an air mattress, camp chairs, a cooler, camping pots, a lantern, etc. This seemed to be the most popular category on our registry! I think it was because these items were a bit more unique and reflected things Adam and I enjoy doing together. If you and your significant other have a shared hobby, you may want to register for a few things that are useful for that hobby. If nothing comes to mind and if you’re not big on camping, you might want to consider adding some things for outside like gardening and lawn tools or even patio furniture.
And that completes my list of wedding registry advice! If you’re getting married, I hope you found this helpful and I wish you every happiness in your new life together! Thanks for reading! | <urn:uuid:0acf9e92-1e30-47f5-9174-cc079a854220> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://littlebitbetter.ca/wedding-registry-advice-i-wish-someone-had-told-me/ | 2024-04-25T08:27:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.952181 | 1,726 |
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Health check is a great way to take a look at the security infrastructure you have within your business and investigate where it is necessary to improve or build upon. Even if everything is in top working order now, a health check can give tips for the blueprint for the future or different ways you might wish to work in the coming months or years.
Here are a few reasons why it is an important step to take.
Prisma Access Health Checks BPA Result
The detailed health check report will quickly and clearly demonstrate your Prisma Access strengths and weaknesses, indicating how to become more effective and to where action is needed. You’ll discover how to increase your level of protection.
The Service Health option under Best Practice Assessment tab will provide you with the detailed information about each health check and the necessary actions that are required to pass each one of them.
Figure 2: Health Checks Description
Quickly understand where to focus your security team’s efforts by regular BPA scans to identify the health of your Prisma Access to prioritize tasks to address deficiencies.
Figure 3: Health Check Summary report under Best Practice Assessment Summary tab.
Keep track of your progress by checking trending data every time a BPA report is generated. This will help you to understand and outline the health of your Prisma Access.
Figure 4: Service Health Passing percentage track
Figure 5: Service Health Historical data Heatmap under Adoption Heatmap tab.
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The market could not have been more consistent. We recorded $5.1 billion worth of sales in Australia in October 2022, just as we did in September. The result, which was 26 per cent less than what we recorded in October 2021, continued the trend we’ve reported for most of this year.
New South Wales and Victoria reported the biggest year-on-year declines in sales volumes of 35 per cent and 28 per cent respectively. Queensland continues to outperform these larger states, though its network still reported a 14 per cent decline on its 2021 figures. South Australia was approximately in line with last year. Western Australia was the only state to be up on last year – in fact, well up – with a 17 per cent jump. Does this year-on-year fall in our sales figures point to a market in turmoil as the media headlines are so quick to proclaim?
Mike DelPrete is a highly regarded real estate technology strategist based in the United States. He argued recently that comparisons of today’s United States real estate market to 2021 was a bit meaningless because 2021 was “a strange aberration where everyone moved, house prices skyrocketed, and nearly every real estate business posted record revenues… 2021 is an outlier, not a benchmark.” Could the same argument be applied to Australia? Looking at our figures over the past three years, it probably can. Our October 2022 sales results, while well down on October 2021, were well up on October 2020 and October 2019, by 25 per cent and 35 per cent respectively. Even
when we exclude the impact of average property price growth over this period by focussing on the number of sales, again we see that the number of sales has also increased over October 2019 levels.
So our October numbers show anything but a market in turmoil.
Whilst the usual trend is for October’s sales to exceed September’s, we did flag in last month’s Ray White Now that listing numbers in recent months were relatively weak. So it’s pleasing to see somewhat of a bounceback in the value of residential stock listed for sale during the month at $6.1 billion, which was well up on $5.5 billion in September. We also reported last month that auction clearance rates, auction bidder numbers and days-on-market have stabilised, pointing toward a more balanced market between buyer and seller. This stabilisation has no doubt created greater confidence in potential vendors to come to market.
The total amount of property for sale in the market has risen sharply this year. In October 2022 we held 21,377 listings, a 39 per cent jump over the prior October when we held 13,005 listings. The most interesting aspect of this is not the fact that listings are up by this much, as we held more listings in the same month in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and just five per cent less in 2020. It’s that there were so many more listings that had been on the market for more than 90 days. Twice as many in fact. Nearly 38 per cent of today’s listings are older than 90 days.
So what happens to these listings? Extrapolating our data for the first 10 months of this year, these listings will have a 48 per cent chance of selling.
We’re seeing some great case studies of properties that have been on the market for some time being re-marketed as auctions and subsequently sold. An example of this is Ray White Windsor identifying 10 properties that had been on the market for between two to three months, and then taking them to auction, achieving seven sales in 42 days. Our ‘relaunch campaign’ encourages vendors that have been on the market for some time to have a renewed marketing campaign via the auction method to close their sale by Christmas. Many of our clients will see value in not having to worry about what the market might be like in 2023, and bring fresh energy to their campaign to achieve a result before year’s end.
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Like a weary spy on a never-ending mission, the Bourne franchise seems to be losing its spark. You’ve followed Jason Bourne through thrilling adventures, but lately, the thrill seems to be fizzling out. Critics aren’t impressed, box office numbers are dwindling, and you’re left wondering if Bourne has lost his edge.
Why do the latest releases feel so lackluster? Are other spy franchises outperforming Bourne, or has the franchise simply overstayed its welcome? Let’s examine the evidence and consider what might be next for our favorite rogue agent.
- The Bourne franchise is declining due to decreasing box office revenues and poor critical reception.
- Audience fatigue and disappointment with repetitive storylines are contributing to the franchise’s dwindling appeal.
- Intense competition from other spy franchises and streaming platforms is further impacting Bourne’s performance.
- The franchise’s future remains uncertain, with possibilities of reboots, spin-offs, or adaptations for TV or streaming platforms.
Bourne Franchise’s Box Office Decline
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the Bourne franchise’s box office performance, you’ve probably noticed a rather unsettling trend: the revenue has been on a steady decline with each new film release.
This suggests a serious case of audience disillusionment. Viewers are no longer as eager to shell out their hard-earned dollars for a ticket, and who can blame them? The franchise’s appeal is dwindling, and with it, the excitement and anticipation that once surrounded each new release.
While the reasons behind this could be many, it’s clear that the franchise’s repetitive storylines, changes in lead actors, and lack of innovation aren’t helping. It’s a classic case of declining franchise appeal, and it’s a trend the Bourne series desperately needs to reverse.
Disappointed Fan Reactions
Just take a quick dive into social media discussions, and you’ll feel the palpable disappointment of Bourne fans echoing throughout the digital sphere. The fan backlash has been loud and clear, with social media criticism amplifying their collective disappointment.
Here’s a snapshot of the fan sentiment:
- ‘The series has lost its charm,’ laments one Twitter user.
- ‘I miss the old Bourne,’ echoes a nostalgic Facebook post.
- ‘It’s like they’re not even trying anymore,’ complains a disgruntled Reddit thread.
Fans feel let down by the direction the franchise is heading, and their disappointment is unmistakable. The Bourne series, once a beloved staple of the spy genre, is now grappling with a dissatisfied fanbase yearning for its former glory.
New Bourne Actors: A Mixed Bag
Adding to the fans’ disappointment, the franchise’s shift in lead actors has stirred up quite a storm of mixed emotions. The new actor dynamics brought fresh faces into the Bourne universe, yet the audience reception was a cocktail of anticipation and skepticism. The charisma of Matt Damon, the original Jason Bourne, set a high bar that successors struggled to reach.
Jeremy Renner’s appearance in ‘The Bourne Legacy’ was met with lukewarm responses, his portrayal of Aaron Cross failing to capture the essence of the Bourne identity. It’s clear that fans yearn for continuity and depth in character development.
In a nutshell, the changing roster of Bourne actors has been a mixed bag, exciting for some, but for many, a dilution of the franchise’s original allure.
The Impact of Rival Spy Franchises
As the Bourne franchise grapples with its own identity, rival spy franchises have seized the opportunity to make their mark, significantly impacting Bourne’s standing in the genre. The spy genre evolution and franchise competition have played crucial roles in this shift.
- Franchises like James Bond and Mission: Impossible have consistently evolved, delivering thrilling plots and unforgettable characters, leaving Bourne in the dust.
- The emergence of new franchises such as ‘John Wick’ have redefined the genre, offering fresh perspectives and innovative storytelling.
- The popular Marvel Cinematic Universe also dabbles in the spy genre with films like ‘Black Widow’, further intensifying competition.
You can’t ignore the fact that Bourne’s inability to adapt and innovate has cost it dear in the face of such fierce competition.
Streaming Platforms: A New Threat
In the midst of fierce competition, streaming platforms have emerged as a new threat to the Bourne franchise, offering a diverse range of spy-themed content that continues to draw audiences away.
You’re seeing sophisticated series like ‘The Americans’ and ‘Killing Eve’ stealing the spotlight with their fresh, compelling approaches to espionage narratives. These platforms have adapted to changing audience preferences, offering content that’s not only binge-worthy but also filled with intricate storylines and complex characters.
It’s clear that the competition from streaming is relentless, forcing the Bourne franchise to up its game or risk fading into obscurity. Aging franchises must evolve, or they’ll be left behind in the digital dust. The stakes are higher than ever before.
Bourne’s Formulaic Storytelling
Despite a slew of sequels and spin-offs, the Bourne franchise’s storytelling has become disappointingly predictable, failing to deliver the plot twists and turns that spy thriller fans crave. Its predictable plots and character development have left audiences yawning.
Here’s how the formulaic pattern typically unfolds:
- A hidden secret from Bourne’s past surfaces.
- Bourne embarks on a globe-trotting mission to unravel this secret.
- Along the way, he outwits numerous enemies with his superior combat skills.
This repetitive narrative has cemented a sense of déjà vu that’s hard to shake. It’s no longer about ‘what’s next’ but rather ‘here we go again’. To breathe life into the franchise, a shake-up in storytelling is desperately needed. A new approach that challenges the status quo could be the franchise’s saving grace.
The Problem of Franchise Fatigue
While the Bourne series keeps churning out films following the same old beat, it’s clear that viewers are growing weary of the repeated rhythm, a phenomenon known as franchise fatigue. This overpowering sense of déjà vu is stifling audience engagement, making it hard to keep the once-adored spy saga fresh in their minds.
Overexposure of the Bourne brand has led to this fatigue, with box office numbers dwindling with each release. The once-thrilling fight scenes and high-speed chases now feel all too familiar, resulting in a lackluster reaction from its once loyal fanbase.
To combat franchise fatigue, reigniting interest is crucial. A fresh perspective, innovative storytelling, or even a well-placed hiatus might just be the saving grace the Bourne series needs.
Failed Attempts at Bourne Revival
So, you’ve seen the Bourne franchise try to shake things up, but let’s face it, these attempts at revival haven’t quite hit the mark.
- Unsuccessful reboots: You’ve watched as new characters were introduced and the old ones were sidelined, but none could recreate the magic of the originals.
- Revival missteps: You sat through plot twists and turns that only led to confusion and disappointment rather than the thrill you expected.
- Franchise fatigue: You’ve been bombarded with sequel after sequel, but they’ve only made you yearn for the end rather than the next installment.
It’s clear that the Bourne franchise is in need of more than just a simple revival. It requires a complete reinvention. But unfortunately, the question remains – is it too late now?
Future Uncertainty for Bourne
Facing an uncertain future, the Bourne franchise is teetering on the brink of obsolescence, leaving you wondering what’s next for the world of Jason Bourne. Slumping box office performances and waning audience engagement signal a need for franchise reinvention.
As the world of spy thrillers evolves, Bourne seems stuck in a repetitive loop, struggling to keep up with innovative storytelling in rival franchises. The rise of streaming platforms has further exacerbated the franchise’s struggle, offering viewers a plethora of spy-themed content.
While the future is uncertain, it’s clear that something needs to change. Will they explore other characters or storylines? Or perhaps bring in new creative talent? Only time will tell if Bourne can regain its former glory.
Potential Reboot: A Fresh Start
Amid all the uncertainty, a reboot could give the Bourne franchise the fresh start it desperately needs. Let’s explore some reboot possibilities.
- Fresh Faces: Introducing new actors could breathe new life into the franchise.
- New Direction: A shift in genre or tone could reinvigorate interest and offer a fresh direction.
- Innovative Storyline: A departure from the predictable plot could captivate audiences again.
So, where does Bourne go from here?
It’s a tricky question. With a 50% drop in box office returns since its peak, it’s clear something’s got to give.
Perhaps it’s time to hang up the spy gear, or maybe a complete reboot is in order.
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(Last Friday, I spoke at the fall meeting of the Law Librarians of New England and the Association of Boston Law Librarians. I was part of a panel with Stephanie Godley Murphy, manager of research services at Ropes & Gray, on “Turning Challenges into Opportunities: New Directions for Legal Information Professionals.” The panel was moderated by Susan Vaughn, legal information librarian and lecturer in law at the Boston College Law Library, which co-hosted the program. Stephanie and I each gave opening remarks; what follows are mine, more or less.)
In my law practice, I represent newspapers, and for much of my career, I worked at newspapers. When I hear it said that newspapers are dying, I have to strongly disagree. Yes, perhaps paper will die out as a delivery mechanism. But the work that newspapers do, the value they provide, will never disappear.
There is a strong parallel with law librarians – or, as we’re calling you today, legal information professionals. You may have seen the article yesterday in The New York Times about Kaye Scholer’s move to a new office in New York, in the process of which is discarded nearly 95 percent of its law books.
“Shelves full of uniformly bound legal volumes — beloved of any photographer, videographer or cinematographer who needs a background that instantly proclaims “law office” — are headed to oblivion in the digital era.”
No doubt, the library, the physical space in which many of you work, is already evolving and could someday disappear. But the work you do, the value you provide, will never disappear.
Time of Unprecedented Innovation
Within the legal profession, change is all around us. In a blog post earlier this year, written just after I attended Reinvent Law NYC, I said that I believe we are in a time of unprecedented innovation in legal technology – and I include within that the field of legal information.
Why is there this groundswell of innovation? The reason, at least in part, is that the Internet has changed the formula for innovation. No longer do the behemoths, alone, drive the development of legal technology.
We live at a time when a Harvard undergrad who started something in his dorm room rose seemingly overnight to become one of the world’s wealthiest people. We live in a time when two guys in law school who think they have a better idea for a legal research site can run with it and create the company Ravel Law by the time they graduate.
We have transformed from a time when legal technology and legal information were products driven by large corporations to a time when anyone with a way to make things simpler and smarter can succeed.
So What Does That Mean For You?
To my mind, there has never been a more exciting or important time to be a legal information professional.
For too long, librarians were defined in the public consciousness by the place in which you work. As that New York Times article suggested, many now believe that that place is irrelevant, unnecessary and too expensive to keep around. At both law firms and law schools, there are some who argue for doing away with the physical library altogether.
I understand why that could be a cause for concern for many of you. But it also provides an opportunity to examine what it is you provide – what value do you provide to your firm or institution.
As soon as you begin to look at it that way, you see immediately that what you provide is something that cannot be done away with. You, more than anyone else in your firm or institution, holds the key to information. Your skill set is not about shelving, but about knowing how to find and manage information.
Way back in 1993, I first started writing and speaking about how lawyers can use the Internet for research, marketing and other purposes. I figured then that I’d do that for a couple of years, by which time everyone would have caught on and there would be no more need for what I was doing.
Two decades later, I’m still at it. Without question, the Internet has made it a kazillion times easier to find information. But there are several major problems:
- There is way too much information, making it hard to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- It is more difficult to assess the quality and reliability of information.
- It is still difficult to find many forms of very specific information – the very kinds of information lawyers often need.
- The nature of information is changing. In particular, data has become information, and in this era of Big Data, many are struggling with how to manage and make sense of it.
I heard it said recently that Google has made us stupid. There is real truth in that statement. We know how to Google, but we’re stumped beyond that.
And the notion that up-and-coming generations are more research savvy because they are more digital savvy is a bunch of bunk.
Anyone who says the librarian is a dying breed is simply wrong. What is true, however, is that you need to redefine yourselves – redefine your value proposition – in terms that others can understand. That means that you must identify and emphasize what it is you bring to your institution and to the people it serves, whether they be the lawyers, the clients, the marketers, the fundraisers, the faculty or the students.
At the Private Law Libraries Summit during this summer’s AALL meeting in San Antonio, Susan Hackett, CEO of Legal Executive Leadership, gave a great keynote on re-engineering the role of the private law librarian. She pointed out one of the major forces that is driving change in the law firm business model.
What lawyers want to sell is expertise by the hour. But that is not what clients want. They want solutions to their problems, delivered efficiently. Librarians, Hackett argued, are uniquely situated to help lawyers leverage the firm’s knowledge resources and develop new products, processes and multi-disciplinary strategies that will help give clients what they want.
After all, what is legal advice? Simply put, it is the application of experience to information. Information is and will always be an essential part of the equation of practicing law.
The Many Roles You Can Fill
Going forward, what you as information professionals need to do is to consider how you might adapt to this changing environment and how you might help your firm or institution adapt. You need to look more strategically at the skills you possess and how you can deploy those skills to maximum effect to help your firm or institution thrive.
Here are just some of the ways in which you can provide unique value:
Librarians as publishers: In the early days of the Internet, law libraries led the charge in publishing legal information online. Over the years, I’ve seen less of that. There are huge opportunities for librarians to take a leading role as publishers of both primary and secondary legal information, or at least as facilitators of publishing.
Librarians as publishers, Part II: Help your firm or institution use blogs and social media to help push it knowledge and resources to its constituents. You can help in researching, writing and maintaining blogs and in both tracking and participating in social media.
Librarians as facilitators of access to justice. We are in an access to justice crisis in this country. An AALL report published in July, Law Libraries and Access to Justice, underscores that librarians have a critical role to play in helping to expand access to and understanding of legal information.
One example of this is The People’s Law Library of Maryland, a legal self-help information site operated by the Maryland State Law Library. The AALL report has other examples.
Librarians as market analysts. In today’s highly competitive environment, market intelligence and competitive intelligence have never been more important to law firms. I suspect there is an equivalent to that in academic settings as well. This is the kind of information and analysis you can provide. I don’t know how common it is that a law firm’s librarians ever work with the firm’s marketing and business development staff, but why not?
Librarians as trainers. We are in an age when lawyers are more likely to work independently, to work remotely, and to focus on mobility. But if they do not have the skills they need to use research services, they cannot do this effectively. Training lawyers and associates on how to use research services is as important now as it ever was – maybe more so.
Librarians as knowledge managers. You are perfectly trained and situated to create and manage libraries of firm knowledge and practices. These libraries can be used within the firm but also adapted for use by clients. Consider helping your firm create playbooks and process maps.
Librarians as prospectors. Work with your firms and your firms’ clients to help them make sense of this Big Data, social media world we live in. Help them understand what data they have and how they can use it. Research that data to mine useful information.
Librarians as members of client teams. Why is it that librarians are rarely if ever considered part of the direct-services teams at law firms? You should be directly integrated with the projects your firm is handling and the teams that are handling them.
Librarians as specialists. Develop in-depth knowledge about particular practice areas and industries and become part of the team serving that practice area or industry.
Librarians as drivers of change. You have immense power to control the direction of legal information and legal publishing. You can help drive the media in which information is published. You can help drive or defeat efforts to increase open-source publishing and open access to legal information.
Librarians as experimenters. None of us here have all the answers. You need to be willing to try new things and to be willing to fail. Out of those experiments will come the future course of your profession. And that means the future is in your hands.
Disruption is an overused word these days, but there is no question that the legal profession is in the midst of radical changes. The business models that underlie both law schools and law firms have never before been so closely scrutinized and so widely criticized. A sea change is coming in the way our institutions operate.
The fact is, that is disruptive – and disruption equals opportunity. This is not a time to bemoan changes you can do nothing to stop. Rather, it is a time to push forward based on the skills that you already have. After all, the work that you do, the value you provide, will never disappear.
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Hamachi:Windows File Sharing
This article will walk you through setting up Windows File Sharing. File sharing can be used to move files back and forth between Hamachi enabled computers without the use of another program.
Simple File Sharing
Enable Simple File Sharing
If you are using XP Professional you have this option, otherwise XP Home does not have this option. It's enabled by default.
Open Windows Explorer (My Computer) > Tools > Folder Options > View > "Use Simple File Sharing." at the bottom, ticked.
Make sure virtual network adapter has File and Printer Sharing enabled
Go to Control Panel > Network Connections > right-click the Hamachi Adapter > and ensure "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and Printer Sharing" are enabled.
Allow Microsoft vulnerable services in Hamachi
Hamachi also includes a security mechanism that can be enabled during installation/preferences that blocks vulnerable Microsoft protocols. This feature is used to prevent unauthorized file access, but it needs to be disabled to share files. Do not do this unless you trust ALL of the other members of your Hamachi network(s).
Make sure you have a shared folder
Make sure you have a shared folder, by default you do, but if you managed to disable it somehow, go to My Computer right click Shared Documents > Properties > Sharing select "Share this folder" name it if it isn’t named. Notice the "hand" holding the file/folder you share.
if you are using XP Pro and want to have more control/security over how users can manipulate files/folders on the computer, continue reading.
Advanced File Sharing
The instructions for configuring Advanced File Sharing are essentially the same as Simple File Sharing, except for the differences below. This method is recommended for high security and requires a knowledge of NTFS permissions and Share permissions in Windows.
If you want to take the permissions/security of your file sharing implementation further, you can opt to not use Simple File Sharing, but rather Advanced File Sharing. In this mode, Windows requires a Windows username and password to access resources.
Disable Simple File Sharing
- You Must have a Professional version of Windows, so XP Home will not work for this.
- Go to Windows Explorer (My Computer) > Tools > Folder Options > View > untick "Use Simple File Sharing".
- This will do two things. It will disallow any shares already in place from being access via the Everyone group, which uses the Guest user account, and also enable the Security tab in the Folder Options menu.
- In here, you can enable two layers of security. The first is NTFS file/folder permissions. Thee permissions affect the computer regardless of network use or local use. The second set is Share permissions, which only impact network users.
Note, you need to ensure that the Workstation service is running on your machine. It is by default, but if you modify the default system services on your machine, make sure this one is set to automatic.
Recommending a solution is not in the scope of this article, as NTFS/Share permissions can get very complex. Just keep in mind that Windows enforces the most strict permission, so if your NTFS permissions are more strict than the Share ones, they will be overridden.
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- Type this command: net config server /hidden:yes.
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Are you aging faster than your years suggest, or could you be one of those lucky individuals who’s biologically younger than your birthday indicates?
Understanding your biological age, a measure that may differ significantly from your chronological age, is crucial in today’s health-conscious world.
In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the multifaceted benefits, diverse uses, potential costs, and the detailed process of biological age testing.
We aim to arm you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your health and wellness journey, leveraging this cutting-edge tool.
Whether you’re a fitness enthusiast, someone concerned about aging, or just curious about your body’s inner workings, this blog promises to provide valuable insights and practical advice.
How is your biological age different from your chronological age?
You celebrate your birthday every year, but does that number accurately reflect your body’s true age? Here’s where biological age comes into play. Chronological age is straightforward – it’s the number of years you’ve lived since birth.
Biological age, on the other hand, tells a different story. It’s a comprehensive measure of your body’s wear and tear, influenced by genetics, lifestyle choices, and environmental factors. Imagine two individuals, both 50 years old chronologically.
One could have a biological age of 45, glowing with health, while the other, burdened by poor lifestyle habits, might show a biological age of 60.
This difference is more than a number; it’s about how ‘old’ your body really is, irrespective of the candles on your birthday cake.
What is biological age testing?
Recent advances in science have made it possible to gauge your biological age with remarkable accuracy.
The secret lies in understanding the markers of aging in your body, such as telomere length in DNA, epigenetic changes, and various biomarkers in your blood.
These tests don’t just count years; they assess how well your organs are functioning, the state of your immune system, and even the rate at which your cells are aging. It’s a deep dive into your body’s real-time health status.
Why is it important to know your biological age?
Knowing your biological age is pivotal for several reasons. It’s not just about revealing how well you’re aging; it’s about gaining insights into potential health risks lurking beneath the surface.
It can help you tailor your lifestyle, nutrition, and exercise to better suit your body’s needs. Moreover, tracking changes in your biological age over time can be incredibly motivating, especially when you see the tangible benefits of healthier living.
It’s about taking control, making informed choices, and potentially adding not just years to your life, but life to your years.
What are the benefits of biological age testing?
Biological age testing is a gateway to a more informed, health-conscious lifestyle. It empowers you with crucial insights into your health, guiding you towards more effective health management strategies.
Here are some of its benefits:
Early detection of potential health risks
Biological age testing is more than a metric of time; it’s a crucial tool for gauging your health status.
By measuring biological age, these tests can predict risks of aging-related morbidities, including dementia , more effectively than chronological age alone.
This early detection allows for proactive measures to address potential health issues before they become severe.
Tailoring lifestyle and health interventions
Your biological age offers a snapshot of your current health and guides necessary lifestyle adjustments.
By understanding your body’s aging process, you can make informed decisions about diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes that directly impact your well-being.
Monitoring progress in health and wellness routines
Biological age tests are not just diagnostic tools; they are motivational instruments. Tracking the changes in your biological age can be a powerful motivator, encouraging adherence to healthier lifestyles.
Witnessing tangible improvements in your biological age can reinforce positive health behaviors.
Psychological impacts of knowing one’s biological age
Knowing your biological age can have profound psychological effects. It provides a realistic assessment of your health, which can either be a wake-up call or a reassuring confirmation of your health status.
This awareness can lead to more conscientious health decisions and a deeper commitment to personal wellness.
What are the common uses of biological age tests?
Biological age tests are gaining traction across various sectors for their ability to provide deeper insights into individual health and aging. Here’s how they’re being utilized :
Personal health and wellness monitoring
People are using biological age tests for a more accurate assessment of their physiological state, beyond what the calendar shows.
This heightened awareness encourages proactive health measures and lifestyle modifications.
In clinical settings for personalized healthcare
Healthcare professionals use these tests to tailor treatments and interventions according to an individual’s aging profile.
This approach is enhancing personalized medicine, especially in managing age-related diseases.
In research studies on aging and longevity
Biological age testing is a key tool in longevity research. It aids scientists in understanding the mechanisms of aging and identifying interventions that could potentially extend health span and lifespan.
In the fitness industry for tailored workout and nutrition plans
Fitness professionals are incorporating biological age assessments to create customized workout and nutrition plans.
This ensures that fitness strategies align closely with an individual’s unique health and aging status.
These applications underscore the growing significance of biological age testing in various fields.
From health monitoring to research, the insights gained are guiding more personalized and effective approaches to health and wellness.
What are the types of biological age tests?
Biological age tests offer varied insights into your health and aging process. Here’s a quick guide to the most common types:
Telomere length testing
This method assesses the length of telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. Shorter telomeres are associated with aging and age-related diseases.
These involve measuring key biomarkers in your blood, like cholesterol levels, that reflect aging processes.
Comprehensive health assessments
These tests combine various biomarkers and health indicators, offering a broader picture of your biological age.
Each test type offers unique insights, so the choice depends on what specific aspect of aging you’re most interested in exploring. Speak with your healthcare professional to help determine the most suitable test for your needs.
How to choose the right biological age test for you?
When choosing the right biological age test, consider these factors :
- Health goals: Select a test aligned with your specific health objectives, whether it’s understanding aging, disease risk, or overall wellness.
- Budget: Tests vary in cost, so pick one that fits your financial plan.
- Accuracy and reliability: Look for tests with published algorithms validated by scientific research. Blood-based tests are generally more accurate than saliva tests. Ensure the test controls for different cell types to maintain precision.
- Professional guidance: Consult healthcare professionals to understand which test best suits your needs and to interpret the results effectively.
- Methodology: Understand the methodologies used, like DNA methylation or metabolic data analysis, and choose one that suits your preferences.
- Reports provided: Decide if you need a simple age estimate or detailed reports and actionable insights. Some tests offer expert consultations.
- Validation studies: Look for tests validated through independent research, indicating reliability.
- Privacy and security: Ensure the company follows stringent data protection measures.
- Reviews and reputation: Check user feedback and the company’s reputation for additional insights.
It’s important to choose a test that uses scientifically validated methods and is relevant to your health goals and budget.
How are biological age tests done?
Understanding your biological age starts with various tests, each offering unique insights. Common tests include :
- Telomere length test: Measures telomere lengths in DNA, which shorten with age.
- Epigenetic clock: Analyzes DNA methylation patterns to estimate biological age.
- Blood tests: Assess biomarkers like C-reactive protein, glucose, and cholesterol.
- Physical performance tests: Evaluates physical functions such as grip strength and balance.
- Brain function tests: Assesses cognitive functions including memory and attention.
- Imaging tests: Uses MRIs and CT scans to check the health of organs and tissues.
These tests evaluate various biomarkers, including DNA methylation, a key factor in determining biological age.
They reveal how your cells and tissues age, influencing your overall health and well-being.
You can access these tests through healthcare providers, specialized clinics, or at-home testing kits, which often use saliva samples.
The choice of test depends on what aspect of aging you’re most interested in understanding, whether it’s your overall physiological state or specific organ health.
How are biological age tests analyzed?
When you receive your biological age test results, it’s crucial to understand what they signify.
Biological age, differing from chronological age, provides a more accurate representation of your health status.
It reflects cellular aging and is influenced by genetics, lifestyle, and environmental factors. The test results typically compare your biological age with your chronological age.
If your biological age is higher, it may indicate accelerated aging and a potential higher risk for age-related diseases.
Conversely, a lower biological age suggests a slower aging process, possibly due to healthier lifestyle choices .
Interpreting these results often involves analyzing various biomarkers like DNA methylation, telomere length, proteomic and metabolic markers, and immune system markers.
Understanding the gap between your biological and chronological ages is key. A significant difference could signal health risks or benefits, depending on whether your biological age is higher or lower than your chronological age.
Consult your doctor for a comprehensive interpretation of your results. They can help you understand the implications and guide you towards appropriate lifestyle changes or medical interventions if needed.
How much do biological age tests cost?
When considering the cost of biological age testing, it’s important to keep in mind that it can vary widely because of various factors.
These include the complexity of the test, the technology used, and the extent of information provided.
Generally, more comprehensive tests are more expensive, but they can help save money in the long run by guiding effective treatment plans.
Most insurance plans only cover single marker testing, not comprehensive panel tests that assess multiple biomarkers.
The average cost of biomarker tests ranges from around $78 to $224 for insurers . However, if not covered by insurance, patients might face substantial out-of-pocket expenses.
To give you a clearer picture, basic biological age tests typically start around $99. On the other hand, more comprehensive options, which include detailed analyses and reports, can cost upwards of $500 .
The variation in cost reflects the complexity and depth of information provided by each test.
Are biological age tests accurate and reliable?
When considering biological age testing, you need to weigh its accuracy, reliability, and ethical implications, as well as understand why a comprehensive approach to health is crucial.
These factors are vital in making an informed decision about whether these tests are right for you.
Accuracy and reliability
Biological age tests vary in their methods and accuracy. Common types, like telomere length testing and epigenetic clocks, have different degrees of precision.
For example, telomere testing, which measures the length of the protective caps at the ends of your chromosomes, can give insights into cellular aging. However, it’s not a definitive measure of overall health or longevity.
On the other hand, epigenetic clocks, which assess age-related changes in gene expression, are considered more comprehensive but still have limitations . Their accuracy can be influenced by lifestyle factors and genetic predispositions.
Each test’s reliability also depends on the quality of the sample collected and the laboratory’s standards. It’s essential to choose reputable providers to ensure the most accurate and reliable results.
Ethical and privacy considerations
Biological age testing raises important ethical and privacy concerns. Your biological age data, like any health information, is sensitive.
There’s a risk that this information could be misused, particularly if it falls into the hands of insurance companies or employers.
This could lead to discrimination or pressure to alter your lifestyle to improve your biological age.
Privacy is another concern. Ensure that the testing provider has robust data protection policies.
Your biological data should be as confidential as your medical records, with guarantees against unauthorized access or use.
Beyond biological age: Why a holistic approach matters
Focusing solely on biological age can be misleading. Health and wellness are multidimensional, encompassing physical, mental, and emotional aspects.
A holistic approach, which includes lifestyle changes, stress management, and regular medical check-ups, is crucial.
Knowing your biological age is just one piece of the puzzle. It should complement, not replace, other health metrics and personal wellness strategies.
While biological age testing offers valuable insights, it’s important to understand its limitations, ethical concerns, and the need for a holistic approach to health.
These considerations will help you make an informed decision about incorporating these tests into your health regimen.
What’s next for biological age testing?
Biological age testing is on the brink of transformative changes, driven by emerging trends and technologies.
Understanding these advancements will help you anticipate how they might reshape healthcare practices in the near future.
Emerging trends and cutting-edge technologies
Innovation is at the heart of biological age testing. Advances in AI and machine learning are refining the accuracy of these tests, enabling them to analyze complex biological data more effectively .
This means future tests could offer more precise and personalized insights into your aging process.
Another exciting development is the integration of wearable technology. Devices that track your daily activities, sleep patterns, and even heart rate are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
They could soon provide real-time data to complement biological age tests, offering a more dynamic view of your health.
Potential healthcare transformations
These technological strides could revolutionize healthcare practices. Imagine a world where biological age testing is as routine as a yearly check-up, guiding personalized healthcare plans.
This could lead to more proactive and preventive medicine, with treatments tailored not just to your chronological age but to your biological needs.
Moreover, the potential for early detection of age-related diseases could dramatically change treatment outcomes.
By identifying risks earlier, healthcare providers could intervene sooner, potentially extending healthy life expectancy.
The future of biological age testing holds exciting possibilities for more personalized, preventive, and proactive healthcare.
Staying informed about these trends will help you navigate the evolving landscape of health and wellness.
Understanding your biological age offers a unique lens through which to view your health, beyond the number of candles on your birthday cake.
This measure, enriched by emerging technologies and scientific advancements, has the potential to tailor healthcare to your specific needs, heralding a new era of personalized medicine.
However, it’s crucial to approach these tests with a clear understanding of their limitations and ethical considerations.
By integrating this knowledge with a holistic approach to health and wellness, you can make informed decisions that enhance your journey toward a healthier, more informed life.
Who should use biological age testing?
Biological age testing is beneficial for individuals seeking personalized insights into their health and aging process. It is particularly useful for those wanting to tailor their lifestyle, healthcare, and wellness strategies based on specific biological markers.
How do we age biologically?
We age biologically through gradual changes in our cells and tissues, influenced by genetic factors and lifestyle choices. This process includes cellular damage, telomere shortening, and changes in gene expression, impacting our body’s functioning and health over time.
How do I test my biological age?
To test your biological age, choose a reputable provider and undergo a specific test, such as telomere length analysis or an epigenetic clock test, which typically require a blood or saliva sample. Follow this with a consultation for result interpretation.
What does your biological age tell you?
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The treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s presents a tough challenge to modern medicine.
Recent research published in Nature’s Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy suggests a promising avenue for exploration: the gut-brain axis.
This complex communication network between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain could be key to understanding and potentially treating these debilitating conditions .
The gut-brain axis facilitates bidirectional communication through neural, hormonal and immunological pathways. It influences various physiological processes, including digestion, metabolism, immune and cognitive and emotional functions.
Disruptions in this axis have been linked to a range of neurological disorders, encouraging investigation into its role in neurodegenerative diseases.
Mounting evidence suggests that the gut microbiota, the diverse community of microorganisms residing in the gastrointestinal tract, plays a pivotal role in regulating the gut-brain axis and influencing brain health [2, 3, 4].
Dysbiosis, an imbalance in the gut microbiota composition, has been observed in individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, indicating a potential link between gut microbial alterations and disease pathology.
Manipulating the gut microbiota through probiotics, prebiotics and fecal microbiota transplantation has demonstrated therapeutic potential in relieving symptoms and reducing disease progression in various neurodegenerative disease models.
In addition, metabolites produced by gut microbes, such as short-chain fatty acids and neurotransmitters, can significantly affect brain function and neuroinflammation.
These microbial metabolites have been involved in neuroprotective mechanisms and may serve as targets for treatment in neurodegenerative diseases.
The gut-brain axis also intersects with other critical pathways involved in neurodegeneration, including neuroinflammation, oxidative stress and protein misfolding.
By modulating these pathways, interventions targeting the gut-brain axis can reduce disease pathology and improve results for patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
However, critical challenges remain in translating these findings from preclinical studies to clinical applications.
The complicated interplay between gut microbiota, host physiology and disease pathology requires a thorough understanding of the basic mechanisms driving gut-brain axis dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases.
Also, individual differences in gut microbiota composition and response to interventions challenge personalized therapeutic approaches.
Addressing these issues will require collaborative partnerships between researchers in neuroscience, microbiology, immunology and gastroenterology to solve the complexities of the gut-brain axis and develop targeted interventions for neurodegenerative diseases.
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Cryotechnology company targets regenerative medicine and organ transplantation with a range of preservation and transportation solutions.
Cryopreservation technology company X-Therma has concluded an oversubscribed Series B funding round, securing $22.4 million to advance its platform for regenerative medicine and organ preservation. The company is aiming to transform cold chain technology, improving global access to organs, engineered tissues, and regenerative therapies.
The range of products in X-Therma’s pipeline are designed to tackle specific challenges in regenerative medicine and organ transplantation. From non-toxic cryopreservation solutions for regenerative medicines and organs to transport solutions specifically designed for organs and biologics, the company is developing a range of alternatives to traditional cryopreservation approaches.
By extending organ preservation times and addressing critical time-sensitive limitations in the process, X-Therma aims to increase organ availability for transplantation with technologies designed to ensure high cell recovery and functionality.
Dr Xiaoxi Wei, co-founder and CEO of X-Therma, said that the company’s products “could eliminate time as a critical constraint, with the potential to save millions of lives.”
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with operations in Austria, X-Therma says it plans to use the new funding to gear up for clinical trials and global expansion.
“This funding marks a pivotal moment as we prepare to launch our GMP-grade cryopreservation and cold-chain solutions into the commercial market, responding to growing demand in cell and gene therapy and bioprocessing,” said Wei. “We are ready to get our products to customers and patients and begin getting more organs to patients around the globe. You have time.”
The new funding round was co-led by new investor Starling Locke Capital and existing investor LOREA AG.
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The Cuisinart AMW-60 3-in-1 Microwave Airfryer Oven stands out as the best small microwave air fryer combo. Its compact size and multifunctionality cater to space-saving and versatile cooking needs.
Today’s kitchens demand appliances that are both space-efficient and versatile, making the microwave air fryer combo an ideal solution. The Cuisinart AMW-60 combines the convenience of a microwave with the health benefits of air frying, offering a one-stop cooking experience for everything from reheating leftovers to preparing gourmet meals.
Its user-friendly interface and sleek design fit seamlessly into any kitchen decor. Durability and performance also rank high for this model, reassuring users that their purchase is an investment in both convenience and quality. With its quick-cooking features and reduced need for oil, this kitchen gadget matches the pace of modern lifestyles while promoting healthier eating habits.
Compact Cooking Revolution
Welcome to the Compact Cooking Revolution, a trend where small spaces meet big culinary ambitions. Modern kitchens are evolving. With the best small microwave air fryer combo on the market, the art of cooking becomes seamless, convenient, and incredibly versatile. Gone are the days of cluttered countertops. Enter the era of sleek design and multi-functionality.
Why The Hybrid Appliance?
Space-saving design, efficiency, and versatility define the modern hybrid appliance. A small microwave air fryer combo unit is the perfect answer for those with compact kitchens or minimal storage. Here’s why:
- Dual function: Bake or fry without switching appliances.
- Time-saving: Cook meals faster with cutting-edge technology.
- Energy-efficient: Use less electricity than operating two separate appliances.
- Easy to use: Simplify cooking with user-friendly features.
The Rise Of Multifunctional Kitchen Gadgets
As kitchens shrink and lifestyles become busier, the need for multifunctional kitchen gadgets grows. These are the heroes of modern meals:
Gadget | Functions | Benefits |
Microwave Air Fryer Combo | Heating, Baking, Air Frying | Compact, Multiple Cooking Options |
Instant Pot | Pressure Cooking, Slow Cooking | Fast Meals, One-Pot Recipes |
Blender Food Processor Combo | Blending, Chopping, Dough Making | Smoothies, Prep Work, Baking Aids |
Combination appliances, like the small microwave air fryer, become kitchen magicians. They make every square inch work harder and every minute count.
Key Features To Look For
Finding the perfect small microwave air fryer combo is an exciting journey. Focus on several key features that transform your cooking experience from ordinary to extraordinary. Whether compact living is your style or you’re after the efficiency of two appliances in one, these pivotal aspects ensure satisfaction with your purchase.
Size And Capacity
A balance between a compact exterior and a spacious interior is vital. Measure your kitchen space and check the specifications of the combo to guarantee a perfect fit. Here’s what you should consider:
- Total dimensions for kitchen placement
- Internal capacity to cater to your cooking needs
- A variety of tray sizes for different food items
Power And Efficiency
For meals that taste as good as they look, check these power details:
Wattage | Greater wattage equals faster cooking |
Temperature range | Wider ranges offer more cooking versatility |
Pre-programmed settings | For convenience and precise cooking |
Ease Of Use
Digital displays and intuitive controls are user-friendly features. Look for:
- Clear control panels for hassle-free operation
- Pre-set cook modes for one-touch cooking
- Timers and alerts to avoid overcooking
Cleaning And Maintenance
Effortless cleaning equals more time enjoying your meals. Key considerations include:
- Non-stick surfaces for a quick wipe down
- Dishwasher-safe components for easy cleaning
- Removable parts for in-depth maintenance
Top Picks For Small Microwave Air Fryer Combos
Space is a luxury in modern homes. The best small microwave air fryer combos blend style and functionality. They’re perfect for compact kitchens. These versatile appliances cook quick meals and crispy treats without taking up much room. Let’s dive into the top options on the market.
The Compact Pro: This sleek unit fits most countertops. It comes with preset functions for both microwaving and air frying. A dual-use appliance, it offers versatility in preparing a variety of dishes.
The Space Saver: Designed for the minimalist, this model boasts a simple interface. It delivers powerful microwave and air frying capabilities. Its size is perfect for dorms or studio apartments.
The All-in-One Chef: This gadget is a powerhouse. It offers microwave, air fryer, and even grilling options. Its user-friendly controls allow for seamless switching between modes.
Pros And Cons
Model | Pros | Cons |
The Compact Pro |
The Space Saver |
The All-in-One Chef |
Value is key when choosing kitchen appliances. Compare these models to find the perfect match for your budget:
- The Compact Pro: Mid-range. Offers excellent functionality for its price.
- The Space Saver: Budget-friendly. A great entry-level choice.
- The All-in-One Chef: Premium. Worth the investment for cooking enthusiasts.
When it comes to kitchen gadgets, the Best Small Microwave Air Fryer Combo is a game-changer. Let’s look at how it handles daily demands.
User Reviews & Feedback
Knowing what real users think can provide great insights. Here are highlights from various platforms:
- Quick and Easy: Many users rave about the simplicity of switching from microwave to air fryer mode.
- Space Saver: For those with small kitchens, this combo is a dream, freeing up counter space.
- Versatile Cooking: Home cooks love the range of dishes they can create, from crispy fries to juicy chicken.
Cooking Test Results
We put this appliance to the test with common kitchen tasks:
Food Item | Microwave Mode | Air Fryer Mode |
Frozen Pizza | Evenly warmed, soft crust | Crispy crust, gooey cheese |
Chicken Wings | Quick thaw and heat | Golden brown, crisp skin |
Vegetable Medley | Steamed perfectly | Roasted with a slight char |
Design And Aesthetics
The right small microwave air fryer combo not only delivers on performance but also complements your kitchen’s style. Whether you’re a minimalist or love a pop of color, design and aesthetics play a vital role. Let’s dive into how these appliances match your decor and bring innovation to your countertop.
Matching Kitchen Decor
Visual harmony is key in any kitchen. The best small microwave air fryer combos offer a range of looks that fit any theme. You can find them in:
- Classic Black – timeless and elegant.
- Stainless Steel – for a modern touch.
- White or Colorful – to brighten the space.
Choose a finish that speaks to your personality and brings unity to your kitchen’s decor.
Innovative Design Features
Today’s appliances go beyond basic functionality. They boast:
Feature | Benefit |
Compact Size | Saves space on countertops. |
LED Displays | Provides clear, easy-to-read controls. |
Touch Panels | Offers modern operation ease. |
Innovative features like these make the appliance versatile and a pleasure to use.
As we consider our choices, remember to look for units that blend well with your kitchen. They should have the latest design innovations for the best functionality.
Making The Decision
Making the Decision on the best small microwave air fryer combo for your kitchen entails a careful look at cost versus features, warranty, and where to buy for the best deal. This guide will help simplify your decision with key considerations.
Balancing Cost And Features
When searching for a kitchen appliance like a microwave air fryer combo, it’s essential to strike the right balance. Quality features often mean a higher price tag. Yet, investing in the right appliance saves money over time. Shoppers should look for:
- Convection settings for even cooking
- Air fry options that reduce oil use
- Compact size that fits small kitchens
- Energy efficiency for lower bills
These features contribute to culinary success and long-term savings.
Warranty And Support
Always consider the safety net of a good warranty. It shows brand confidence and ensures peace of mind. Look for:
Warranty Length | Inclusions | Customer Support |
Minimum one year | Parts and labor | 24/7 availability |
Manufacturers that offer extended warranties or excellent customer support often stand behind their products.
Where To Buy
Choosing where to purchase your small microwave air fryer combo can be as important as the product itself. Consider:
- Authorized retailers for valid warranties
- Online reviews for customer satisfaction
- Price comparison tools for the best deal
Online marketplaces often have special discounts and free shipping options, making them a smart choice.
Frequently Asked Questions For Best Small Microwave Air Fryer Combo
Which Brands Offer The Best Microwave Air Fryer Combos?
Several reputable brands offer quality microwave air fryer combos. Popular options include Cuisinart, Panasonic, and Galanz. They provide a combination of efficiency, convenience, and versatility in cooking.
How Much Does A Small Microwave Air Fryer Combo Cost?
Prices for a small microwave air fryer combo can range from $100 to $300. Costs vary based on features, brand reputation, and cooking capacity.
What Size Is Considered Small For These Combos?
A small microwave air fryer combo typically ranges from 0. 5 to 0. 9 cubic feet. This size is perfect for smaller kitchens or for individuals.
Are Microwave Air Fryer Combos Energy Efficient?
Most microwave air fryer combos are designed with energy efficiency in mind. They use less electricity than using two separate appliances for the same tasks.
Embrace the convenience of combo appliances with the small microwave air fryer hybrid. This clever kitchen essential saves space, merges functions, and offers versatile cooking options. Invest wisely, enhance your culinary experience. Happy cooking and healthier eating await with this innovative addition to your home.
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Centre of Excellence – Ecology Diploma Course
What Will You Learn?
Exploring the relationships between organisms and the Earth’s environment, the exciting field of ecology incorporates many branches of science. This course is designed to provide a well-rounded introduction to the field – explaining a range of complex concepts involving environmental knowledge, biological processes, evolution and ecological relationships.
From Greek philosophers and early science to advanced concepts including evolution and adaptation, the Ecology Diploma Course takes you through the history of the subject.
We’ll explore the diversity of Earth’s environments and the types of organisms that establish themselves in each, along with the environmental controls that regulate climate.
The course goes on to discuss the individual relationships and interactions that occur between organisms within populations and communities. We’ll look at the evolutionary adaptations animals and plants have developed to survive, population mechanisms, and community development and structure, including predator-prey dynamics. You’ll also be guided through the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and trophic level interactions.
The Ecology Diploma Course concludes with an explanation of climate change and its impact, the anthropogenic factors influencing climate change, and a look at the national parks and marine conservation initiatives.
By studying this course, you will:
- Understand the field of ecology
- Learn about Earth’s environments and climates
- Explore the relationships between organisms and their environments, and within populations and communities
- Learn about the evolutionary adaptations of plants and animals
- Discover Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and trophic level interactions
- Gain an understanding of climate change and the influence of anthropogenic factors
What will I learn on the course?
Module 1: History of Ecology
Module 2: The Environment
Module 3: Environmental Controls
Module 4: Community Dynamics
Module 5: Animal Adaptations
Module 6: Plant Adaptations
Module 7: Populations and Life History
Module 8: Community Structure
Module 9: Ecosystem Energetics
Module 10: Climate Change
Who Would Benefit from This Course?
Welcome home! The Ecology Diploma Course is designed for anyone who wishes to really understand the environments and inhabitants of Earth.
An introduction to the field of ecology, this course requires no prerequisite knowledge – just an eager and curious mind.
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Earth Day Activities
Earth Day is a time to honor the Earth and say thanks to Mother Nature for all that she gives us. It is a great day to plant a tree, learn what plants are good for your area, take a hike and admire the nature we are surrounded by each day.
Earth Day is April 22, every year, and is celebrated across the world. 2021 marks the 51st year of the celebration. You can read more about the history of Earth Day and fund more fun facts here.
If you are looking for Earth Day activities, we have ideas for you! We know that Earth Day 2021 will look at a little different, like most things we are celebrating right now, but that does not mean you cannot have fun and help make the Earth a better place for tomorrow.
If you want to take a step back in time, here’s a broadcast from the very first Earth Day in 1970.
The theme for Earth Day 2020 is Restore Our Earth. One way to learn more about how your family can help the earth is to look at the impact of the food you eat on the environment. If you want to learn something new, there’s an online “foodprint” calculator. It will understand to footprint food leaves on the environment. Or, discuss as a family some of the Earth Day challenges and pick some to do.
Activities you can do for Earth Day
Olmsted Parks Conservancy offers three free family-friendly nature scavenger hunts. This is one of the best Earth Day activities for kids.
Tour of the Waterfront Botanical Gardens and learn about different plants and explore what they have built so far.
Tell your kids about the Ripple Effects Photo Contest. Kentucky Waterways Alliance has information. It’s a photo contest about Exploring Water in Louisville for K-12 kids in the area. Submissions accepted through 6/10.
Check out our good friends over at Kidlist. They have a great post about How to Grow Your Own Food and Buy Food from Local Farmers.
Lift Up Lou is hosting a day during which you can volunteer to plant trees. It’s April 24. Sign up today and get active with you family and make a difference! Click here for info.
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Coasting in Your D/s Relationship LB097
In episode 97, we bare our souls a bit to share how we started coasting along in our D/s relationship only to find we’d coasted in separate directions. We caught it in time, but not everyone does. Hopefully, our struggles with not paying enough attention will help someone else help your own D/s relationship.
In this episode:
- We’re on YouTube and Fetlife now! Expect short video content soon.
- With help from Godemiche, our current giveaway bumped up from $25 in Loving BDSM merchandise to $50 for the winner. Plus, they’re sponsoring our 100th episode giveaway!
- If you’ve heard of Godemiche and it hasn’t been good, we briefly discuss their recent controversies so that everyone is informed and can make a decision that’s right for you.
- Enter our current giveaway!
- We coasted through our relationship for several weeks and drifted apart on a D/s level.
- Both of us had things on our mind but neither talked about it.
- We were both dissatisfied with what we were doing and not doing – and neither of us talked about it.
- Nothing major happened, we just let things ride because it seemed easier or because we were worried about stressing the other one out.
- The fix has been being more mindful of how we behave plus long conversations, plans for changes, and time to implement them.
Links from the show:
How to Help Reconnect in Your D/s Relationship (Episode 28)
Feeling More Vanilla Than D/s (Episode 66)
Listen to the show:
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1st president - elected at the convention held in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1929. Served one term. DECEASED
His father died when Ben was only 15 years old. Ben, being poor, had to quit school to help his mother to support a family of eight. Joe, Ben's younger brother, reminisced in 1970 that when he was growing up in Rockport, Texas, Mexican American children had to go to a one-room school out in the brush. In the distance, the Mexican American children could see the fine brick Anglo school. Ben never forgot those early experiences of discrimination and dedicated his adult life to help improve conditions for Mexican Americans.
When he was 18, Ben moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, to take a job as a waiter in a café. He lived frugally to be able to share his earnings with his family. Through his efforts, Joe was able to complete high school and two years of college. Returning to Rockport during World War I, Ben worked in the shipyards.
Ben has amazing foresight and faith in the growth of Corpus Christi. He bought 10 acres next to Wynn Seale Junior High School that increased in value many times the $1,000 per acre he paid. He bought the land and in 1920 built a restaurant for $23,000. In the early 1960s, his estate turned down a $415,000 offer.
Despite the fact that he lived in Corpus Christi only 17 years, six of them in poor health, he left an imprint that will never be diminished. He took part in many benefit drives and was director of the Chamber of Commerce.
His death has not dimmed the love and good memories for his widow and five children. Ben Garza Jr., a justice of the peace in Corpus Christi, said in 1978: "I knew my father, I was 14 when he died, and he was a very compassionate man." His widow said: "My children and I still cry for him and miss him very much, but I know that his death was not in vain." | <urn:uuid:f86a7fff-99fb-495a-9fb0-019032975eaf> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://lulac.org/about/history/past_presidents/ben_garza/ | 2024-04-25T09:13:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.993186 | 425 |
In keeping with its sustainability commitments, SN Aboitiz Power-Magat (SNAP-Magat) took part in a series of medical and dental missions in Diadi, Nueva Vizcaya.
A face-to-face cluster medical mission that would run across the municipality of Diadi began on March 3 in barangay Florentino, funded by SNAP-Magat’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fund. The medical supplies donation is worth Php 400,000.00.
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Last Saturday, 2/6, the mid-Atlantic region received an amount of snow that exceeded what it normally gets in an entire winter. By Sunday afternoon, major highways had a single lane well-plowed and a second one barely passable. We had delayed our planned trip from Connecticut (where we're used to snow and our towns budget for snow removal) to southern Delaware (where snow is much less common) from Friday. We arrived to find our destination had about 15" of snow and plowdrifts blocking the driveway. We were grateful to have a very short driveway. Having read a few local blogs, we'd packed 2 snow shovels, an ice hacker (MUTT = multi-use tough tool), some salt and a long pole for getting snow off trees, as well as boots and parkas. Some young men cruising the neighborhood looking for work had one snow shovel, and they borrowed one of ours and moved enough snow to get our cars off the street. We knew from the local blogs that shovels had sold out well before the snow started. Had we thought more deeply, we'd have bought 5 or 10 at our CT grocery store to offer to neighbors. I also wished we'd brought a Wovel with us; it would have had a great workout.
The next day, I went to see if anyone was in need of some shoveling help. One neighbor's car was sitting on top of compacted snow, and the MUTT turned out to be just what we needed to break up that hardened snow. The MUTT was also very helpful when I needed to hack through the plowdrifts, which had hardened. Without it, I would have been much less productive; my shoulders would hurt more, and I would have gotten less done.
While there are many pickup trucks and tradesmen's SUV's in the area, almost none have snow plows here; snow of a quantity that would require it is so infrequent as to make it uneconomical. Within a couple of days, though, some "bobcats" started to appear; I don't know how far away they came from.
A second storm arrived Wednesday, bringing more snow. We'd mostly cleared our driveway after the first storm, and getting the second cleaned out was easier. State and local snow plow drivers were very kind and avoided socking us with a plow drift, once we'd opened our driveway the first time.
I titled this post "land, labor and capital." Why? Well, here are some of the thoughts that occupied me while I shoveled and hacked.
- the young men who came looking for work on Sunday could not earn a living unless they had some land to work on -- in this case, ours.
- their single snow shovel -- capital -- made them far more productive than they would have been with no tools at all. But their lack of a second shovel made them far less productive than they could otherwise be. Even if they'd had funds to buy a second shovel, shovels were simply not available.
- having the right (specialized) tools for the job -- the MUTT, or a truck-mounted plow -- plus the skills to use them well makes a big difference in how much one can do with 10 minutes or 2 hours of labor.
I listened to a radio program coming out of nearby Washington, DC, which was largely shut down by the nearly unprecedented snows (there was no mail delivery from Saturday to Thursday; the federal government was pretty much shut down), and there was some discussion about whether towns and cities ought to spend taxpayer funds keeping inventory of plows to handle snows much heavier than what typically occurred, or whether perhaps there should be incentives for private individuals to own and maintain truck-mountable snow plows. Did it make sense to tax everyone, say, $50 more per year to pay for better snow-management equipment if it would save $100 worth of productivity per person?
I no longer remember what I heard on the radio, and what parts of this were my own musings. But it did pass through my mind that such things as snow removal ought to be financed not through taxes on people's wages or interest income, or on their purchases, but rather should be paid for by taxes on land value. People are willing to pay more to live where better services are provided, where more consistent utilities are provided.
Taxing the poor people of Washington, D.C., many of whom are tenants, $50 each, and taxing the wealthy homeowners in Georgetown $50 each is not nearly as fair as taxing people in proportion to the value of the land they own. Georgetown homeowners ought to be paying a lot more each than the owners of subdivided brownstones in less expensive neighborhoods. And the tenants of those subdivided brownstones are paying significant rents to their landlords; their share of the costs of providing local services should come out of the payments their landlords receive, which are a function largely of their location in Washington, D.C., not luxurious landlord-provided amenities within those homes.
The tenants are already paying 30% or more of their income for housing, which seems to me to be a form of sharecropping; their landlords share in their labor. For that matter, those of us who are paying mortgages are sharing our wages with a mortgage lender, who in turn paid off the seller of the property we're bought. It is highly unlikely that more than half of the purchase price was for the improvements to the land (unless it is a brand new house in a fringy area); most of the purchase price -- and the mortgage payment -- are payments for land value. And the seller didn't create that value, so it seems perverse and odd to me that he is the one who reaps what the community has sown. Our structure permits him to privatize this public investment.
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It is no secret that some cars are cheaper than others. When people search for a car, they are often left with a brand that they can afford. However, it is more of a secret that some states have cheaper cars than others. In fact, there are states that offer cheaper prices for their vehicles. When you’re shopping for a car, you can cross state lines to get the savings.
First, Oregon is a good option. The reason people choose Oregon when buying a car is because the state does not collect sales tax. If you live in Oregon, this can save you thousands of dollars. However, if you live out of state, you will need to check with your home state as they may charge you the tax.
Montana is another state that does not collect sales tax. Just like in Oregon, you can get a lot of savings from this. However, you will need to check with your home state and make sure you don’t have to pay taxes to them.
While saving on sales taxes may not seem like much, consider how much you actually pay in taxes when you buy a car. When you get an expensive item, like a car, the sales tax can add up. If you can get away with it without paying for it, it’s worth it.
Texas is also known as a place to buy affordable cars. Texas charges sales tax, but it also offers great deals on cars. You’ll be able to find a great deal when you visit one of the many car lots. There is a lot of competition in Texas, which is why the state can offer the deals they do offer. Many people cross state lines to go to Texas to purchase a vehicle.
Michigan is also known for its affordable prices when it comes to cars. There is quite a bit of vehicle manufacturing in Michigan, and that really helps with the price. If you live in or around Michigan, you can get big savings. You’ll find that great deals are held in Michigan throughout the year. People who live in Michigan can take advantage of the offers, as well as people who live elsewhere.
As you can see, it really matters where you buy a car. The good news is that the Internet has made buying a car in another state easier than ever. You can do all the research you need and get the car you want at an affordable price.
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Someone Else’s Life
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Published by: Thomas & Mercer
Release Date: February 1, 2023
A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything.
Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles. Her dance studio goes bankrupt. Her mother and beloved dog are gone the same year. Then a terrible accident leaves her young son traumatized.
It’s time for a change.
Palm trees, mai tais, peace and quiet—Annie should be at ease, safe in her new Kauai home with her husband and son. She hopes proximity to her family can provide them all with a sense of belonging and calm. But soon items from her past start turning up—her dog’s collar, a bracelet that disappeared years ago—and she has the unnerving sensation she’s being watched. Reality begins to fracture, and Annie’s panic attacks return. When, during a brewing storm, a woman appears on her doorstep looking for shelter, Annie is relieved to have the company and feels an unexplainable bond with her visitor.
As the night progresses, Annie realizes the woman is no stranger. Their lives are inextricably intertwined—and Annie might just lose everything.
"Well-developed characters and plenty of local color add to the slowly simmering plot, which builds to a strong and unexpected climax. Alfred Hitchcock fans will be satisfied." ―Publishers Weekly
“A skillful by-the-numbers thriller with its share of nice touches." ― Kirkus Reviews
"Chilling from page one, Someone Else’s Life is an unputdownable descent into two women’s parallel lives. With genuine jaw-dropping twists and enough seeds of doubt to populate a very wicked garden, Butler’s debut thriller is a breath of fresh Kauai air.” ―Eliza Jane Brazier, author of If I Disappear
“Lyn Liao Butler has mastered the art of full-body-tense suspense in this fresh take on the 'stranger in the house' concept, which will have you racing to the end even as your blood pressure increases and you have to remind yourself to breathe." ―Amanda Jayatissa, ITW Thriller Award–winning author of My Sweet Girl
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Russian Website Names President 'Bulgarian Obama' over Remarks
Russia | December 28, 2016, Wednesday // 15:21| viewsFile photo, BGNES
An interview of Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev with Germany's Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has sparked outrage in Russian media.
Plevneliv has been referred to as "the loyal servant of Brussels" by Federalnoe Agentstvo Novostey (Federal News Agency), with a piece reading he "traded friendship with Russia for defending EU interests".
Rossiyskaya Gazeta ("Russian Newspaper") says the incumbent Bulgarian head of state "decided to accuse Russia" of "all European (and not only European) sins," drawing on the example of US counterpart Barack Obama who worked "to bring maximum detriment to relations between the West and Moscow".
"Apparently, the presidents of the US and Bulgaria do not understand" their successors may act differently, according to the piece.
Ridus.ru, another Russian website, runs a headline: "Bulgarian Obama Decides to Kick Russia One Last Time", referring to his departure from the office in January and saying such behaviour is now "in fashion" among outgoing heads of state.
Russian news agency RIA has only quoted his words and has reminded readers he is leaving the office next month, with Rumen Radev, described by "several media outlets", as a "pro-Russian candidate."
For nearly five years of office, Plevneliev has often made critical remarks about Russia's involvement in Ukraine.
In the interview, cited by the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), he spoke of strong evidence of "Russian funding" being allocated to anti-European parties in Bulgaria and across the EU.
He also pointed to frequent meetings of such parties' leadership and delegations in Moscow and to the trend of seeing more Russian that Bulgarian flags being waved at some public gatherings in the country.
Plevneliev accused Russia of seeking to undermine the EU "from the inside", including by spreading doubt about the values of democracy and rule of law.
The head of state scorned the idea that separate EU member states can go off the common policy line on Russia while pursuing "short-term economic or political benefit".
But he also downplayed the idea the victory of Rumen Radev in the presidential election (in which the incumbent head of state did not run) should be interpreted as a step toward rapprochement with Russia.
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We look forward to welcoming our members to our session this Friday 8th March (9am-1pm) at Carnival Hall in Basingstoke…
🤖”Artificial Intelligence-what’s all the fuss about?” 🤖
This session will focus on how AI is impacting the workplace.
❔What’s in it for you❔
🧐Come and join experts from Lenovo to learn about the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Darren Rolfe, James Morrish and Simon Ward will be giving you a whirlwind tour of this fast-moving area.
This will be an interactive “triple act” from some great speakers
This is certainly an event not to be missed!
🤖AI – the basics (Darren Rolfe)
🤖AI – what Lenovo customers are doing and where the technology is heading (James Morrish)
🤖AI – impact on the workforce & the skills you need to be developing (Simon Ward)
⭐Please note our new temporary venue address: Carnival Hall, Council Road, Basingstoke, RG21 3DH⭐
⭐This week, the main session will be starting promptly at 9.30am so please arrive at 9.00 am for set up, refreshments and networking with other members; support and share ideas, successes and what has not worked so well with your job search experience.
☕Refreshments will be provided
🚗Free Carparking to front and side of Carnival Hall. You may also park along Council Road for a maximum of 3 hours.
⭐If you would like to join us for this session, please register your place as soon as possible by clicking here: https: https://forms.office.com/e/E4FXgDVe68
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US Federal Reserve Close to Cutting Rates
Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell indicated that the Fed is close to being confident about reducing interest rates, aiming for inflation to sustainably reach 2%. Investors have priced in a quarter-point rate cut by July. The Fed is expected to keep rates unchanged at its upcoming meeting in March while potentially planning for three to four rate cuts in 2024.
- Jay Powell mentioned that the Fed is nearing confidence in cutting interest rates to prevent a recession.
- Investors anticipate a quarter-point rate cut by July, with expectations for a potential rate cut in June.
- Federal Reserve expected to maintain interest rates at the March meeting and possibly implement three to four rate cuts in 2024.
- The US economy’s strength has allowed the Fed to cautiously approach rate cuts, contrasting with the ECB, which lowered its growth forecasts for the eurozone.
Recent Developments: In recent economic news, the US job market has shown signs of strength, with unemployment remaining low and wage growth steady. However, concerns about global economic growth and uncertainties surrounding trade tensions continue to loom over the market.
Potential Impact on Markets: The potential for rate cuts by the Federal Reserve has been received positively by investors, leading to increased market optimism. Lower interest rates can stimulate borrowing and spending, which could support economic growth. However, the impact of rate cuts on inflation and asset prices remains uncertain.
Looking Ahead: As the Fed navigates its monetary policy decisions, market participants will closely monitor economic indicators and Fed communications for further guidance. The upcoming Fed meeting in March will provide insights into the central bank’s outlook and potential policy actions for the rest of the year.
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Light waves bouncing around the cavernous confines of the coronary stent placed just months before paint a picture that is oddly beautiful and potentially deadly.
Not unlike those cement pipes placed inside the dirt tunnel running under your driveway to enable water to keep moving without collapse of that essential passageway, this stent was placed to keep this section of the coronary artery open and adequate blood flowing to the heart.
But even the casual observer can tell from this inside view of the artery that the new passageway for blood is now a trickle.
It’s called in-stent restenosis, a life-limiting reality for up to 10% of patients who have stents in their coronary arteries, a frontline approach to treating heart disease, the state and nation’s number one killer.
Now Medical College of Georgia interventional cardiologists Drs. Deepak Kapoor and Musa Sharkawi need to make a new path, so they use lasers and diamond-head drills that can blast their way through the scar tissue that formed in response to machinations of the blood vessel needed to place the stent initially. Scar formation can be excessive in some individuals and in short order can have the consistency of hard rubber, and intruders like calcium, cholesterol and fatty deposits can reestablish themselves inside artery walls and worsen the problem. Once these culprits have been pulverized, the doctors use an inflated balloon to create a wider passageway, including expanding the walls of the wire-mesh stent, which was severely under-expanded when originally placed inside the vessel, a common cause of restenosis.
The final step pairs the heart doctors with radiation oncologist Dr. Catherine Ferguson and medical physicist Dr. Ahmad Al-Basheer to deliver a focused dose of radiation directly to their worksite in the form of beta particles, high energy electrons that can, as they do with the wild growth of cancer cells, help stop future overgrowth of scar tissue, which in turn can encourage plaque reformation.
There were just a handful of interventional cardiology training spots in the country in the 1990s when Kapoor was finishing medical school at Lady Haringe Medical College in India and starting his internal medicine residency at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn. Physicians in the United States had a bit more than a decade of experience with coronary angioplasty, a technique to reestablish good blood flow to the heart by reopening clogged arteries, as an option for some to the standard of bypass surgery, which was pioneered more than 30 years earlier. Kapoor would do a cardiovascular disease fellowship at the Coney Island Hospital and Cornell Medical Center then move to California to practice cardiology until he got the call from one of those early fellowship programs in New Jersey at St. Michael’s Medical Center, a major teaching hospital for New York Medical College, with an unexpected opening.
Robust prevention strategies, like lipid-lowering drugs, were not commonplace in those early days, but smoking was along with heart attacks. So was having a heart surgery team always on standby during angioplasty, and interventional cardiologists sleeping in the hospital afterward because there was about 50-50 chance that the artery they just opened would close again within a few hours.
Coronary stents, made of a thin, flexible metallic mesh resembling chicken coop wire that was strong enough to shore up those collapsing vessels but malleable enough to adapt to the natural tortuosity of the arteries, surfaced in response.
But there were still problems as these foreign objects prompted excessive scar formation in about one-third of patients and sometimes “turbo charged” the disease process that had originally narrowed the artery.
Coronary brachytherapy centers began to pop up in response to the increasing use of stents and their problems. Radiation is known for its ability to kill growing cells in cancer, and this too was abnormal, undesirable cell growth, and brachytherapy put a sealed radiation source right next to the problem.
In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration approved drug-eluting stents, designed to help avoid in-stent stenosis. These stents are coated with an antiproliferative drug, the first ones with the chemotherapy drugs sirolimus or paclitaxel, and were shown to reduce major adverse cardiac events, like restenosis and heart attack.
And most patients did fine, as the drug coating to help minimize the overresponse of the healing blood vessel dissipates about the same time the blood vessel is healed. But 5-10% of patients still experienced in-stent restenosis and with the number of stents being used exploding even a small percentage became a big number of patients, Kapoor says.
The rise, fall and rise of coronary brachytherapy
Most coronary brachytherapy centers, including the one at MCG and AU Medical Center, shut down in response to the promise of drug-eluting stents. But there was still that growing number of patients in whom the same symptoms resurfaced, like chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, weakness, irregular heartbeat, sweating, even a heart attack, within just a few months of their procedures. They found themselves caught in a vicious, sometimes painful and deadly cycle of recurring blockages and repeated procedures to clean out their stents.
Dr. Vincent J.B. Robinson, now co-director of nuclear cardiology and Glen E. Garrison, MD Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine at MCG, saw that cycle with his patients. He vividly remembers one patient who had single vessel disease, had repeated bouts of in-stent restenosis and who ultimately was referred for bypass surgery by a colleague while Robinson was out of town. The patient even developed restenosis following his surgery, which is not uncommon, but that was a final straw for Robinson.
At that moment, the closest coronary brachytherapy program was at Louisiana’s Ochsner Medical Center.
Kapoor, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory, who came to MCG in 2002 was at first noncommittal about restarting a program in Augusta, but Robinson was characteristically committed to the cause and Kapoor is grateful he was. In 2015 the program restarted and today, as one of less than 40 programs nationally, is a regional referral center for these complex, sometimes last-resort cases.
In the many days since, Kapoor and Sharkawi, who joined the team this past summer after completing interventional cardiology and structural heart and peripheral vascular interventions fellowships at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, have pretty much seen it all.
By the time patients get to the MCG doctors, they’ve typically and rightly had all the more conventional options tried. “People use lasers to melt the plaque then balloon it, for example, and in the cases we get, they’ve already done all these,” Kapoor says.
They sometimes have multiple stents, stacked one inside the other like Russian stacking dolls, in a configuration called a ‘stent-witch,’ in an attempt to keep blood flowing through problematic stents. This stacking may give an initial good result but ultimately and mostly it increases the risk of more blockage, says Kapoor, who has developed expertise in reducing the impact of this ‘stent regret,’ by using lasers to expand the stents, and so the artery’s lumen, and/or a diamond-tipped drill to cut through the now problematic metal layers. In 2019, he published the largest experience with this approach called rotational atherectomy, which is more typically used to break up calcified plaque, to also get rid of these unsalvageable stents. The metal, like the calcified plaque, gets pulverized into minuscule pieces, sludge really, with a particle size of less than 5 microns, small enough to make their way through capillaries or gaps in the cells lining the arteries.
“We are talking about patients who have tried everything and failed,” he says. The coronary brachytherapy team can provide long-term relief to about half those individuals.
At this point Kapoor can pretty much tell who those patients are. Surgery may be an option for those who aren’t, unless excessive stenting has left no good and clear place to bypass and/or the artery has shrunk in response.
That day Kapoor received a referral from a well-known Alabama cardiologist with a patient who had stents placed in the left main artery, which supplies blood to about 70% of the heart muscle. This major blood vessel, typically the heart’s largest, is called the “widow maker” because of the damage it can do when blocked. This patient developed in-stent restenosis and experienced a heart attack despite multiple conventional therapies, which help the vast majority of patients. The referring cardiologist was thinking that perhaps brachytherapy could help, and Kapoor agreed.
Start with a clearer picture
One of the studies the MCG team is pursuing is better understanding the mechanism of restenosis with the newest generation of drug-eluting stents that young Sharkawi trained on. They are finding, perhaps not surprisingly, how essential proper sizing and placement are to ongoing patency. As an example, if a blood vessel has a diameter of four millimeters and you put one in half that size, “you go from a large pipe and it becomes very small then it becomes large again,” Sharkawi says of undersized stents, a site of turbulence, inflammation and risk.
So the team takes extra steps to get the lay of the land. Whether it’s a new stent or opening a blocked one, they get their first look at the blockage during the usual cardiac catheterization procedures. But they also take a second and closer look with intravascular imaging. This includes vascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography, which instead of soundwaves uses near infrared light, to assess the size of the blood vessel, get better insight on the size and content of the blockage, look for blood clots, which are a major cause of heart attacks, look at the condition of the stent(s) already there and identify the biggest stent that will comfortably fit and the best place to put it once they have cleaned away as much of the obstruction as possible. Sometimes the blockage is so critical that they must first clear a path for the imaging catheter.
Afterward, they look again with angiography, or X-ray, then take one more look with the even more sensitive ultrasound to make sure they did what was needed and that the stent is properly expanded.
These are extra steps, in terms of time (maybe 15 minutes), training and cost, but Kapoor and Sharkawi agree they are essential steps.
The length, circumference and twists and turns of everyone’s arteries are just different, and blockages also come in different thicknesses, lengths and compositions, with some literally as hard as a rock, Sharkawi notes.
“We can’t assume that everybody has a 3 millimeter size right coronary artery,” Sharkawi says. He referenced a course he attended where 200 interventional cardiologists were all asked to guess the size of a coronary artery based on an X-ray. 99% said it was that 3 millimeters — the mean coronary artery size — when it turned out to be 4.5 millimeters, an underestimation that could leave a stent “floating in air” and the patient at high risk for more trouble. That’s why intravascular imaging is considered the standard of care for MCG interventional cardiologists taking care of patients at AU Medical Center and a training standard for future interventionists in the fellowship program at MCG and its teaching affiliate AU Health System, led by Dr. Vishal Arora.
Once Kapoor and Sharkawi have assessed the problem and cleared a new path, Drs. Ferguson and Al-Basheer, already present in the control room of the cardiac catheterization lab, quickly calculate the radiation dose needed.
The treatment time and dose are individually calculated in real time based on the size of the area that needs treatment — including a 5 millimeter margin — and the rate of decay of their radiation source, says Ferguson.
It’s the nature of things, AlBasheer says, for the energetic electrons they deliver to want to go to a more stable state and they release energy to do that, in a process called decay, which starts the moment the element is born.
To get this internal radiation source precisely where it’s needed, the radiation experts put their catheter inside the interventionalists’ catheter, then water pressure pushes the radiation source directly to the site and keeps it there for the appropriate “dwell time.” After a treatment time of about five minutes, the water stream is reversed to push the radiation source back into a container.
“We treat every part of the artery that we think is susceptible to closing up again,” Sharkawi says, both inside and along either edge if there is any sign of problem there.
Like with tumors, the radiation will help shrink up any vestiges of scar tissue and other impediments left inside the stent and, also as with tumors, deter future regrowth from overhealing.
“We are killing the microscopic, subintimal layers of cells that could over-heal and cause that scar tissue again,” says Ferguson. “Radioactivity when it hits tissue creates free radicals that damage the DNA involved in cell division and that is what kills the cell,’ she says. Kapoor and Al-Basheer both like the analogy of removing weeds then putting down a weed control product to help them stay gone.
Placing stents technically injures the blood vessel wall, and normal processes of healing mean platelets move in, inflammation occurs and typically quiescent vascular smooth muscle cells, which normally give a blood vessel strength and flexibility, begin to migrate into and thicken the tunica intima, the innermost layer of the blood vessels, a layer normally comprised of endothelial cells and a thin layer of connective tissue that helps keep blood moving. The vascular smooth muscle cells begin secreting things like growth and pro-inflammatory factors. Bottom line, the lumen, the passageway for blood, shrinks in response.
Stents that are undersized, never fully expanded and/or when layers of stents are added to try to correct the problem, all increase the risk of in-stent stenosis.
So does not properly addressing the original blockage, like those rock-hard calcium deposits, Kapoor says, using the analogy of putting up a building without digging a proper foundation. One result can be an hour-glass shaped stent which clearly does not allow optimal blood flow and gives plaque another good foothold, and/or a diseased segment left just beyond the stent can become a point of stagnation, Kapoor says.
The interventional cardiologists note that even when everything is done right, things can still go wrong. Some people simply scar more in response to the maneuvers needed to clean out the original artery and position the stent. This time Kapoor analogizes the wildly divergent responses by two individuals to the COVID-19 virus. “All of our bodies are different,” he says.
But bodies are always about balance. The endothelial cells that line the miles of blood vessels in our body also fairly quickly embrace the stent, growing through and to the mesh walls. “You want it to be a snug fit,” Sharkawi says.
Heart disease is the number one killer in Georgia and the nation and heart surgery, angioplasty and atherectomy, typically all make the cut for some of the most common procedures.
At the most recent count there were 36 heart, vascular and radiation centers in the nation and Florida’s first was under development in Winter Haven.
At AU Medical Center, radiation is applied through the Beta-Cath™ System.
This type of internal radiation, or brachytherapy, has Ferguson, Al-Basheer and occupational health and safety technician David Miller patiently on standby in the catheterization lab with Kapoor and Sharkawi. Maggie Corley, cardiovascular nurse clinician, works behind the scenes to coordinate the process.
Radiation is all around us, Al-Basheer reminds us, in the cosmos and the ground, and the radiation they are delivering is very controllable.
The first coronary angioplasty was performed on an awake patient by German Radiologist Dr. Andreas Gruntzig in 1977 in Zurich, a decade after the technique was used in a leg artery. And it was performed for the first time a year later in the United States by Dr. Simon H. Stertzer at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Dr. Jacques Puel implanted the first stent in a human coronary artery in 1986 in Toulouse, France. The Food and Drug Administration approved stents in the US in 1994. The first drug-eluting stent was implanted in a human coronary artery by Dr. Eduardo Sousa in 1999.
Today’s stents have thinner struts providing structural support, which means less metal in patients and a reduction in restenosis, and they are the primary method for intervention in patients with one to even three diseased coronary arteries.
A study published in 2020 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that looked at a national cohort of more than 5 million patients indicated that about 1 in 10 interventions in the US are for instent restenosis and about 1 in 4 of those patients presented with an acute myocardial infarction.
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Introduction: Unraveling the Vegan Diet
Deciding to become vegan involves careful thought and understanding. One question often asked is, “Do vegan eat chicken?” To answer that, we first need to explore the basics of veganism. Simply put, veganism means avoiding all animal products. This includes not only meat, but also dairy, eggs, and even honey. In this article, we’re going to clear up any confusion around this question. We’ll also delve into the reasons behind vegan choices and examine the ethical principles that guide this lifestyle. So, let’s embark on this journey to understand the vegan diet, its principles, and its surprising depth. Get ready to discover a world of nutrition that’s kind to animals, beneficial for our health, and gentler on our planet. We’ll start by answering the pressing question: Do vegans eat chicken?
The Core Principle of Veganism – Do Vegan Eat Chicken?
Veganism is more than just a diet. It’s a lifestyle choice rooted in a deep respect for all forms of life. The core principle of veganism is avoiding all animal products. This extends to food, clothing, and other products derived from animals.
Why this strong stance? First, let’s understand what fuels this choice. Many people go vegan for ethical reasons. They believe it’s unjust to use animals for our benefit, especially when alternatives exist. Additionally, some make the shift for health reasons, as a plant-based diet has numerous benefits. Lastly, environmental concerns also play a part. Animal farming has a significant environmental impact, which vegans strive to minimize.
Now, let’s turn our attention back to the main question: Do vegans eat chicken? Since chicken is an animal product, the answer is a firm no. Vegans do not consume chicken or any other type of meat. This might seem restrictive, but it’s important to understand the reasoning behind this decision. For vegans, the idea of causing harm or discomfort to a living creature for the sake of a meal is unacceptable.
However, this doesn’t mean vegans can’t enjoy a varied, flavorful diet. Quite the opposite. The world of plant-based foods is diverse and delicious. From hearty grains to vibrant veggies, nuts, seeds, and fruits, the options are plentiful. Additionally, many creative vegan alternatives to meat exist, providing similar taste and texture without harm to animals. We’ll look at some of these alternatives later in the article.
So, while the answer to “Do vegan eat chicken?” is no, the reasons are grounded in a compassionate worldview. Being vegan is about fostering a more compassionate relationship with our planet and its inhabitants. It’s about making choices that align with a commitment to kindness and sustainability.
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The Curious Case of Plant-Based Chicken – Do Vegan Eat Chicken?
Vegans may not eat chicken, but they can still enjoy flavors reminiscent of it, thanks to plant-based alternatives. Let’s explore this curious case of plant-based chicken.
In recent years, the rise of plant-based meats has been phenomenal. For instance, take plant-based chicken. It’s a game-changer in the vegan world. Designed to mimic the taste, texture, and even the cooking experience of real chicken, it offers a cruelty-free alternative for vegans and anyone looking to reduce their meat intake.
Companies like Beyond Meat and Tofurky lead the charge, using innovative ingredients and techniques to create products that convincingly mimic chicken’s taste and texture. Ingredients like soy protein, wheat gluten, and pea protein are often used as a base. Herbs, spices, and vegetable extracts add flavor, while methods like texturization help create the right feel.
But why are plant-based alternatives important? Firstly, they allow vegans to enjoy familiar flavors and dishes without compromising their principles. Secondly, they make the transition easier for people considering a vegan lifestyle but hesitant to give up certain foods. Lastly, these alternatives cater to a growing demand for more sustainable, health-conscious options.
However, it’s crucial to note that while these alternatives can mimic chicken, they are not meant to be exact replicas. They are unique products with their own merits and characteristics. Some people might find the taste similar to chicken, while others might find it slightly different but enjoyable in its own right.
So, do vegans eat chicken? No, but they can enjoy plant-based alternatives that offer similar taste experiences. These alternatives are not only kind to animals but also gentler on the environment, making them a win-win for those adhering to the vegan lifestyle.
Can Vegans Ever Consume Chicken?
To answer the question, “Can vegans ever consume chicken?” the simple and clear response is, no. As we delve into this, we’ll understand why.
Veganism goes beyond a diet. It’s a lifestyle choice rooted in ethics, specifically the belief in not exploiting animals. This conviction extends to all forms of animal products, including meat, dairy, eggs, and honey. This means that true vegans refrain from eating chicken and any other animal-based products.
At this point, you might be wondering, “But what about ‘accidentally’ eating chicken or eating it without knowledge?” It’s important to remember that mistakes can happen. Sometimes, vegans may unknowingly consume animal products due to incorrect labeling, hidden ingredients, or misinformation. However, these are unintentional slip-ups and don’t change their commitment to the vegan lifestyle. When such errors occur, vegans typically take steps to avoid repeating them in the future.
Furthermore, it’s essential to understand that veganism is not about perfection. It’s about doing one’s best to minimize harm to animals as much as practicable. Therefore, while accidentally consuming chicken might be a setback, it doesn’t invalidate someone’s vegan status.
In the end, the choice to follow a vegan lifestyle is deeply personal and motivated by a desire to avoid animal exploitation. This core belief leads to the conclusion that vegans do not, and should not, consume chicken or any other animal product.
For those who miss the taste or texture of chicken, plenty of plant-based alternatives are available. These products provide the satisfaction of “chicken-like” dishes without involving any harm to animals. Thus, vegans can enjoy a broad range of foods while staying true to their ethical commitments.
Ethical Considerations: Why Vegans Don’t Eat Chicken – Do Vegan Eat Chicken?
Veganism is grounded in ethics and compassion for all living beings. As a lifestyle, it goes beyond mere diet restrictions, aiming to reduce or eliminate harm to animals. But why don’t vegan eat chicken? Let’s dive into this.
First and foremost, chickens are sentient creatures. They can experience pain, suffering, and emotional distress, much like humans. For vegans, causing any harm or distress to these creatures is unacceptable, hence the choice to not consume chicken or any other animal products.
Additionally, vegans aim to oppose industries that exploit animals. The poultry industry, unfortunately, has a history of poor animal treatment. From the living conditions to the methods used in processing, there are many instances of unnecessary cruelty. By refusing to eat chicken, vegans take a stand against these practices.
Moreover, the mass production of chicken and other animal products contributes significantly to environmental problems, like deforestation, water pollution, and climate change. Vegans, by avoiding animal products, are also making an environmental choice.
In terms of health, vegan diets are rich in nutrients and fiber while being low in saturated fats. This makes a well-planned vegan diet a healthy and balanced choice.
Many vegans also believe in the principle of “Ahimsa” or non-violence, which emphasizes not causing harm to any living creature. This principle, found in many Eastern religions, resonates strongly with the vegan lifestyle.
Lastly, with advancements in food technology, there are now plenty of plant-based alternatives that mimic the taste and texture of chicken. These offer a cruelty-free way for vegans to enjoy familiar flavors.
To sum it up, the ethical considerations behind why vegans don’t eat chicken are multifaceted, revolving around animal rights, environmental sustainability, health, and personal beliefs. Every meal without animal products is a step towards a more compassionate world.
Embracing the Variety in Veganism – Do Vegan Eat Chicken?
As we understand why vegans don’t eat chicken, we should also celebrate the vast variety of foods they do enjoy. Veganism isn’t about deprivation but exploration and creativity in the kitchen.
Firstly, the plant kingdom is full of diverse, colorful, and nutritious foods. These include fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Each of these food groups brings unique flavors, textures, and nutrients to a vegan plate.
Also, the world of vegan protein is more diverse than one might think. There are lentils, chickpeas, tofu, tempeh, seitan, and a wide range of plant-based meats. These options are often used to create vegan versions of traditional meat-based dishes.
Next, whole grains form a vital part of a vegan diet. Foods like brown rice, quinoa, oats, and barley offer great nutritional benefits. Not to mention, they provide the body with much-needed energy.
Besides, there’s a fascinating variety of vegan dairy alternatives available today. These include almond, soy, oat, and cashew milk. We also have vegan cheese, butter, and yogurt that help keep meals interesting.
Moreover, spices and herbs play a key role in vegan cooking. They enhance the flavor of plant-based dishes, making them tasty and exciting. From aromatic Indian curries to fiery Mexican chili, vegan cuisine can be as diverse as any other.
Finally, veganism is not just about salads. There are countless vegan recipes for pizzas, burgers, pasta, desserts, and more. There’s indeed a vegan alternative for almost every dish you can think of.
In conclusion, embracing veganism doesn’t mean giving up on taste or variety. On the contrary, it opens up a world of new foods and flavors to explore. Remember, every meal is an opportunity to make kinder, healthier, and more sustainable choices. So, why not give veganism a try?
Conclusion: Understanding the Vegan Way
In summary, veganism is a lifestyle choice that extends beyond diet. It’s an ethical stance against animal exploitation, which explains why vegans don’t eat chicken. They’re committed to kindness, compassion, and sustainability.
Plant-based alternatives, including those mimicking chicken’s taste and texture, help vegans enjoy diverse meals. The world of veganism is filled with color, variety, and flavor, debunking the myth of a boring vegan diet.
We’ve also explored the fact that chickens, like all animals, are sentient beings. They’re capable of feeling pain and experiencing emotions, making their consumption ethically problematic for vegans.
Understanding the vegan way is about recognizing these truths. It’s about seeing the connections between our food choices, animal welfare, and environmental health.
Finally, remember that everyone’s journey to veganism is unique. You might start with a few meat-free days per week or choose vegan options when eating out. The key is to make conscious choices that align with your values. It’s not about perfection, but progress.
So, next time you’re asked, “Do vegan eat chicken?”, you’ll have a deeper, more nuanced answer to give. Let’s continue the conversation, fostering a greater understanding of veganism and its benefits.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do vegans eat fish and chicken?
No, vegans do not eat fish or chicken. Veganism is a lifestyle choice that avoids the use of all animal products, which includes all types of meat.
What type of vegan can eat chicken?
There isn’t a type of vegan who can eat chicken. Vegans avoid all animal products, including chicken. However, there are individuals who follow a plant-based diet, who might choose to consume chicken occasionally. These individuals are typically referred to as flexitarians, not vegans.
Do vegans eat chicken and eggs?
Vegans do not eat chicken or eggs. Both are animal products, which are excluded from the vegan diet. Vegans opt for plant-based alternatives instead, such as tofu or chickpea flour for eggs and seitan or jackfruit for chicken.
Do vegans eat chicken and turkey?
No, vegans do not eat chicken or turkey. Any kind of meat, including poultry, is avoided in a vegan diet. There are various plant-based alternatives available, like tofu turkey and mock chicken made from soy or wheat protein.
Can some vegans eat chicken?
No, individuals who follow a vegan diet do not eat chicken. The term “vegan” specifically refers to those who avoid all animal products, including all types of meat.
Can vegetarian people eat chicken?
No, people who identify as vegetarian do not eat chicken. They avoid all types of meat, but some may still consume animal products such as dairy and eggs.
Can vegans eat any meat?
No, vegans do not eat any form of meat, including beef, chicken, pork, or fish. They also avoid all other animal products, such as dairy, eggs, and honey.
Do vegans eat chicken or turkey?
No, vegans do not eat chicken, turkey, or any other kind of meat. These foods are derived from animals, which vegans abstain from consuming.
Can Muslims eat vegan chicken?
Yes, Muslims can eat vegan chicken, as it does not contain any animal products. As long as it does not contain alcohol or other non-halal substances, it should be permissible according to Islamic dietary laws.
What is vegetarian with chicken called?
A person who follows a primarily vegetarian diet but still eats chicken is typically referred to as a “pollo-vegetarian” or “pescatarian” if they eat fish too.
What does Allah say about veganism?
It emphasizes kindness to animals and allows the consumption of meat, provided it is “Halal”. However, interpretation and application of these teachings can vary among individuals and communities. Some Muslims choose to follow a vegan diet as a personal choice. Always consult with a knowledgeable religious advisor for specific guidance.
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Home Massages in Lanzarote
A good massage in Lanzarote is a blend of technique, skill, and sensitivity to alleviate pain, reduce stress, and enhance blood circulation. At «Wellness Massage Lanzarote,» we specialize in bringing this experience directly to your home.
A good massage in Lanzarote should be performed by a trained and experienced professional with solid technique tailored to each client’s individual needs, capable of identifying pain and tension points in the body and applying the right pressure to relieve them.
Sensitivity and the ability to create a relaxing and comfortable environment are crucial for a good home massage. A quality massage should also focus on improving blood circulation, which helps reduce deep tissue inflammation and pain, and increases oxygen and nutrient supply to muscles and tissues, improving body mobility and flexibility.
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If you’re looking for a private masseuse in Lanzarote or a massage service in Lanzarote hotels, you’re in the right place. Our home massage service includes a wide range of offerings tailored to your needs. We come to you, bringing relaxation and well-being with us.
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Our highly trained and experienced massage therapists are certified and have extensive experience in various massage techniques. We guarantee a service of the highest quality, always tailored to your specific needs.
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Forget about traveling to a spa or massage center. We offer all types of home massage services in Lanzarote, allowing you to enjoy a relaxing and therapeutic massage experience in the comfort and privacy of your home. Save time and effort while taking care of your health and well-being!
We understand that each person is unique and has their own needs and preferences. Therefore, our therapists work with you to tailor each massage session to your specific requirements, ensuring you receive the most appropriate and effective treatment. We have the professional in-home masseuse you need.
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At Lanzarote Massages, we are passionate about promoting the health and well-being of our clients. Our therapists are committed to helping you relieve stress, reduce pain, improve mobility, and enjoy a healthier and happier life.
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Who We Are
I am Diego Chantada, a young individual passionate about helping others from an early age. My interest in manual therapies began four years ago, and today, I practice my passion as a professional masseuse.
My training in kinesiology and myofascial dysfunction allows me to offer a wide variety of services, including relaxing, muscle relief, sports, circulatory, lymphatic drainage, anti-cellulite, cranial, foot reflexology, and massages for cervical, lumbar, and limb issues.
I am always looking to improve and expand my knowledge, so I continuously train to provide an increasingly valuable service to my clients at Lanzarote Massages.
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We Answer Your Questions
We have compiled a list of the most common questions and answers our clients have when choosing a massage.
It’s important to talk with a massage professional about your needs and goals, so they can recommend the most suitable type of massage for you. Everyone has different needs and preferences, and it’s important to choose a type of massage that suits them.
You can expect a relaxed and comfortable environment, and a professional who will help you relax and relieve pain and tension in the body through specific techniques. It’s important to note that the massage can be slightly uncomfortable at some points due to the pressure applied to relieve pain, but comfort is always sought.
The duration of a massage varies depending on the type of massage and the individual needs of the client. Relaxing massages usually last between 30 minutes and 1 hour, while more intensive massages, such as muscle relief or sports massages, can last between 1 hour and 1.5 hours.
It’s recommended to arrive at the massage location a few minutes before the scheduled time, to relax and prepare for the massage. It’s advisable to avoid eating heavy meals before the massage and to wear comfortable, loose clothing to facilitate mobility during it.
It’s recommended to drink water to hydrate the body and help eliminate toxins released during the massage. It’s also advisable to avoid intense physical activity or taking hot baths after the massage to not interrupt the relaxation and recovery process.
Most massages are performed with clothing, but in some cases, it’s necessary to partially undress. For example, in a relaxing or sports massage, it’s recommended to wear comfortable, loose clothing. However, in a muscle relief or Thai massage, it’s necessary to partially undress to apply specific techniques to the areas being treated.
It is safe to receive a massage during pregnancy, but it’s important to inform the massage professional about the pregnancy status and follow specific recommendations to avoid any risk. Relaxing and lymphatic massages are recommended during pregnancy.
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Sergio Maestre Claims It is Indeed Possible to Stop a Ransomware Attack
Ransomware and Blockchain 2018 host and organizer, Sergio Maestre, hopes to present all the attendees with as many tools to prevent and stop any ransomware attack as possible
Last Wednesday and Thursday, the Maestre Corporation held the Ransomware & Blockchain event, dedicating its third edition to the presentation of the latest finds on how to identify, stop and prevent any data hijacking attacks.
Sergio Maestre, the Maestre Corporation’s CEO, said that “The issue of ransomware is quite complex and we have been victims of it for the last few years. We believe that there is a lot of information that our attendees should know in order to be able to develop their tools for protection against this threat.”
Maestre also states that he aims to explain, step by step, how this all works, what are the most common mistakes and what would the most efficient solutions be in order to protect companies from this threat.
He claimed that ransomware attacks can, indeed, be stopped. He asserted that these attacks “have different stages, each one of them characterized by a particular behavior, and there are security solutions that can detect and foil a ransomware attack against a technological infrastructure right on time, before the encryption of the documents or even before any ransom demands are made.”
The company led by Rafael Núñez Aponte, MásQueDigital, was also present at this event, in which the attendees were able to learn about some key points, such as the importance of understanding the complexity of a threat, since it can be much more serious than expected, as well as taking into account the possibility of considering security solutions other than the ones their companies were already entertaining.
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If our goal is to identify the causative factors which are driving the current health challenge, the smart investment goes on the time, effort (and sometimes the money) to investigate and address the true “aetiology”, or causative factors, contributing to the challenge at hand.
Because of the way we are educated, and the systems that are already in place in the society we grow up in, we often believe that disease is very complex – and only something that a doctor can really understand. We delegate the responsibility of our health to doctors, surgeons or other healthcare professionals because, given the level of complexity, that’s what seems to be the smart thing to do. However, as crazy as it sounds, those who specialise in disease, often know very little about health. Doctors, on average receive about 2 hours of education on nutrition in their entire seven-7ear training. An analogy would be that you keep studying the cars of people who regularly crash them, rather than analysing the driver. You are the driver in your own life; so, if your car (body) keeps crashing, it’s time to invest in some driving lessons!
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A very high percentage of today’s maladies – from cancer, to diabetes, to persistent pain, to Alzheimer’s, to cardiovascular disease or stroke – can be effectively addressed, not by treating the disease that the person has, but by coaching the person who has the disease. This is where the Foundation Health Principles come in… When you understand what they are, and how to apply them, your whole living experience will inevitably change for the better.
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A resident of Sloane Square for many years, Mary Katrantzou is heralded as one of the UK’s most exciting designers. Her use of prints and focus on form has had an enormous influence on the industry, changing the face of 21st century fashion. Lorna Davies finds out more
You grew up in Greece – do you think your birthplace/childhood has influenced your design?
The richness of colour in Greece influenced me from an early age. The house I grew up in, in Athens, had a different colour in every room. I remember being fascinated by the different rooms. There was a green room, a blue room, the peach room – and I loved the peach room! My mother was an interior designer and always had magazines like Architectural Digest and World of Interiorsaround the house. I would tear out the pages and create worlds in small collages. These experiences all helped shape the basis of my aesthetic identity.
You were interested in art and painting, and later trained in architecture before textile design – do you think these varied creative aspects have fed into the way you work/design?
I started to draw from a young age and painted in my late teens. It was when I started doing two-dimensional designs that I found an affinity with developing patterns and an innate sense of balance and symmetry. Growing up in Greece, I never considered a career in fashion, and architecture was a natural progression that allowed me to channel my creativity into a structured career. Art inspires the viewer to challenge the boundaries of perception and interpret the world around us with cross-disciplinary intelligence. Understanding this process has always helped me to forge new ideas.
You launched your own label during a recession – were you afraid of the consequences?
I decided very naively to start my own business after completing my MA. I had minimal business skills, I didn’t know what profit and loss or cash flow was. My naivety gave me a fearlessness to make my own way. Sometimes it worked well and other times I made mistakes, but ultimately it taught me to have confidence in my own instincts.
Your graduate show was something totally different to the minimalism of the time – were you aware you were making waves in the industry then?
When I first started, Phoebe Philo was leading the force of minimalism at Céline. It was a huge trend at the time, and proposing such vibrant, intricate prints was a challenge that I had to overcome and convince the fashion press and my customers with. The fashion buyers took a risk when they invested in my clothes and it was my job to prove that what I proposed was also commercially viable. Thankfully it was.
How would you describe your latest collection?
Autumn/Winter 2017 was one of my favourite collections to work on. We dived it into the fantasy kingdoms of Disney’s Fantasia and the moody cinematic overtones of 1940s film noir to create our own technicolour femme fatales.
Where do you find your inspirations?
I love being able to take inspiration from everywhere, from symbolism to applied design to art and architecture. Objects of beauty and archetypal codes inspire me. The starting point is always personal, sometimes ambiguous, sometimes of a contrasting nature.
Are you influenced by streetwear in London?
London is a fantastic fusion of styles and it is impossible not to be influenced by your surroundings. In the past streetwear elements, such as the trainer for Spring/Summer 2014, have formed the basis of entire collections. In recent collections, sportswear influences have shaped the silhouettes in technical lightweight fabrications, zipper details and billowing shapes pulled together with elasticated drawstrings.
Where’s your favourite place in Chelsea? What do you like about the area?
Sloane Square has been home to me for many years and I love that the area offers such a rich source of inspiration, from world-class museums and galleries to beautiful green spaces such as Holland Park. I can often be found taking meetings in Colbert or catching up with friends over dinner at the Gallery Mess at the Saatchi Gallery.
Do you have a particular ‘woman’ in mind when designing?
Diverse women wear my clothes, and I think the Mary Katrantzou woman is appreciative of design and art, as well as fashion. She likes to make a statement with her clothes and channels her personality through them. I hope that my work has allowed women to dress in a way that they couldn’t dress before, indulging in fashion to define their taste and aesthetic. My garments allow a woman to feel confident while being daring with print, shape and colour. While comfort and elegance is key, wearing the prints and luxurious fabrics that I use in my collections can liberate a woman to dress in a way that reveals more about her personality and style than a dress that just serves a pragmatic function.
What’s the one item of clothing you couldn’t live without?
My go-to dress is a black viscose Alaïa – they’re timeless. Black is a great palate cleanser when you make so many decisions with colour daily. If Azzedine Alaïa could dress me every day, that would be fantastic. His technical artistry is incredible.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
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In a current overview printed within the Journal of Nanobiotechnology, researchers reviewed current knowledge on nanotechnology-based supply of lively parts of conventional Chinese language medicines (TCMs).
TCMs have been used for generations to deal with illness; nevertheless, poor water solubility, restricted bioavailability, and possible toxicity hamper their efficient supply. Liposomes, polymeric and inorganic nanoparticles, and natural/inorganic nanohybrids could enhance TCM supply to attain higher therapeutic outcomes with fewer hostile results than customary formulations.
Within the current overview, researchers describe the function of nanotechnology in TCM supply, related challenges, and future instructions to speed up their medical transition.
Evaluation: Advanced application of nanotechnology in active constituents of Traditional Chinese Medicines. Picture Credit score: QinJin / Shutterstock
Function of nanoparticles in TCM drug supply
Nanocarriers have emerged as a viable approach for enhancing the bioavailability and goal motion of TCMs, which have been utilized for millennia. These nanocarriers can enhance TCM solubility and stability, growing absorption and bioavailability. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are appropriate nanocarriers because of their compatibility with biofilms, ease of modification of different teams, and low toxicity.
Liposomes have excessive biocompatibility, minimal cytotoxicity, easy manufacturing strategies, chemical variety, and simple pharmacokinetic property manipulation. They will alter treatment pharmacokinetics and biodistribution, cut back toxicity, and enhance therapeutic index. Strong lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) supply benefits resembling higher drug stability, greater bioavailability and tissue focusing on, managed medication launch, and superior pharmacokinetics. Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) have been created as second-generation lipid nanoparticles to resolve the restrictions of SLNs.
Structural illustration of purposes in nanodrugs of TCMs
Microemulsions (MEs) and nanoemulsions (NEs) are versatile drug supply and organic platform supplies. NEs are kinetically steady however thermodynamically unstable methods with tiny droplet sizes proof against droplet aggregation, creaming, and gravity section separation. The encapsulation of lively medicines inside MEs or NEs may end up in the formation of nanocarriers, which have a number of benefits because of their bigger particular floor space. Polymer hydrogel-based drug supply methods have emerged as a viable approach for focused and sustained TCM supply because of their exceptional biocompatibility, customizable physicochemical traits, and skill to encapsulate hydrophilic and hydrophobic medicines.
Inorganic nanocarriers resembling gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) and mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have emerged as viable platforms for drug supply because of their customizable measurement, massive floor space, and floor cost. Natural and inorganic nanohybrids have advantages resembling excessive stability, relative security, and clever drug launch in response to environmental cues. Prodrug-based nanocarriers present a number of benefits for anticancer drug supply, together with elevated drug availability, excessive loading effectivity, resistance to recrystallization, and managed drug launch. Self-assembled nanomedicines have proven anticancer efficacy and maintained the antitumor and hepatoprotective properties of ursolic acid, indicating novel paths for most cancers remedy.
Challenges and Future Concerns
Liposomes, SLNs, and polymeric micelles (PMs) are potential TCM drug supply strategies; nevertheless, their medical efficacy is restricted. Coupling SLNs with nanoparticle platforms resembling polymeric and liposomes might increase efficiency. PMs have distinct qualities resembling biocompatibility, internal drug safety, focused treatment supply, and prolonged drug circulation length. Nevertheless, analysis is required to enhance understanding of their meeting strategies and in vivo destiny.
Polymeric vesicles are a horny platform for TCMs because of their glorious efficacy in encapsulating hydrophilic and hydrophobic medicines. Additional analysis is required to completely comprehend the method and scale up the manufacture of homogenous polymeric vesicles for TCM supply. Inorganic nanocarriers confront difficulties in guaranteeing in vivo biocompatibility and stability. Floor chemistry and functionalization strategies have to be optimized for greater biocompatibility and decreased toxicity.
Nanomaterial supply strategies are being developed to deal with hurdles to TCMs, though single nanomaterials have limitations. Novel nano-level heterozygotes and natural/inorganic hybrid supply strategies could widen their organic makes use of. These methods might be utilized in most cancers remedy because of their adaptability, usefulness, and prolonged in vivo circulation length. Nevertheless, analysis continues to be in its early phases and is fraught with difficulties. Bettering the steadiness of nanostructures is vital for the medical translation of carrier-free nanoformulations. Utilizing nanocarriers in nanomedicine could improve toxicity, immunogenicity, and manufacturing prices.
Primarily based on the overview findings, nanocarrier-based supply strategies have proven promise in enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of TCMs, together with benefits resembling greater bioavailability, decreased toxicity, and higher effectiveness. Nevertheless, the event of nanomedicine for TCM supply continues to be in its early phases because of a restricted scope of software, poor theoretical information help, and incomplete elementary analysis. TCM-based nanomedicines might obtain medical purposes with an elevated emphasis on fundamental analysis, fixed innovation in supply strategies and manufacturing applied sciences, and the quick improvement of supporting applied sciences resembling synthetic intelligence and single-cell sequencing.
- Qiu, C., Zhang, J.Z., Wu, B., et al., Superior software of nanotechnology in lively constituents of Conventional Chinese language Medicines. J Nanobiotechnol 21, 456 (2023), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12951-023-02165-x, https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-023-02165-x | <urn:uuid:2ebc32f9-3c6a-41b6-bfc8-8a94e0ad1119> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mednewswatch.com/nanotechnology-could-enhance-traditional-chinese-medicine-delivery-promising-improved-clinical-outcomes/ | 2024-04-25T08:04:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.889988 | 1,268 |
Over 700 million individuals had been contaminated and nearly seven million died, making SARS-CoV-2 probably the most devastating pandemic of the twenty first century. Vaccines and medicine in opposition to Covid-19 have been capable of mitigate the course of the illness in many individuals and comprise the pandemic. Nevertheless, the hazard of additional outbreaks has not been averted. The virus is consistently mutating, which permits it to contaminate human cells and multiply increasingly successfully. As well as, it’s growing quite a lot of methods in opposition to the human immune system in a “molecular arms race”. A group led by researchers from the College of Göttingen has now found numerous “protecting switches” within the coronavirus that protect it from assaults by the immune system. The outcomes had been revealed in Nature Communications.
The researchers recognized two beforehand unknown chemical protecting switches within the virus’s fundamental “protease” – a vital protein of the coronavirus. Crucial drug in opposition to Covid-19, known as Paxlovid®, targets this protein. The virus makes use of its fundamental protease to chop out the opposite virus proteins in our contaminated cells, thus driving its personal replication. It makes use of the amino acid cysteine to do that. “From a chemical perspective, this could possibly be an Achilles heel for the coronavirus, as cysteines could be destroyed by extremely reactive oxygen radicals, which our immune system makes use of to struggle viruses,” explains Professor Kai Tittmann, Molecular Enzymology Analysis Group at Göttingen College, who led and coordinated the examine.
The protecting switches imply the virus’s fundamental protease is protected in opposition to the immune system’s bombardment by oxygen radicals: the protein is stabilized by one cysteine forming a disulfide with an adjoining cysteine by way of two sulfur atoms. This prevents the cysteine from being destroyed. On the similar time, a bridge generally known as SONOS connects three elements of the protein between sulfur atoms (S), oxygen atoms (O), and a nitrogen atom (N). This prevents radicals from damaging its three-dimensional construction. Tittmann says: “It’s fascinating to see how chemically elegant and efficient the coronavirus is in defending itself in opposition to the immune system. Apparently, a coronavirus found earlier – extreme acute respiratory syndrome, also referred to as SARS-CoV-1 – which triggered the 2002 to 2004 outbreak, additionally has these protecting switches. That is the primary time this has been proven.”
Regardless of this scientific first, the researchers weren’t happy with simply discovering “protecting switches”. With the chemical blueprint at hand, they set about looking for molecules that may bind exactly to the “protecting switches”, due to this fact inhibiting the virus’s fundamental protease. They recognized such molecules not solely within the check tube, but in addition in contaminated cells.
One of these molecule opens up the potential for brand spanking new therapeutic interventions which can cease coronaviruses of their tracks.”
Lisa-Marie Funk, first writer of the examine, Göttingen College’s Molecular Enzymology analysis group
The examine was made potential by funding from the Covid-19 Analysis Community Decrease Saxony (COFONI) and the German Analysis Basis (DFG). This interdisciplinary examine concerned researchers from the School of Biology and Psychology, and the School of Chemistry on the College of Göttingen, the College Medical Heart Göttingen (UMG), the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, the Hannover Medical Faculty and the Universities of Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Lübeck.
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It went public yesterday. In the biggest tech IPO since Google’s 2004 entrance on the Nasdaq (Google’s valuation on that IPO was something like $23B, Groupon’s by comparison was $12.7B).
There’s a lot of hoopla about Groupon, and the first day of trading mirrored the volatile press coverage the company has received over the past six months (shares were sitting around $26 in after-hours trading, up $6 from the offering price when the bell rang in the morning). Of course, any investor worth their salt will tell you that the first day of trading is meaningless. So is the second. And the third. It will be months before the market fully prices in the inherent risks and potential rewards of the group buying space- and indeed, the unique things about Groupon’s underlying business. Heck, they tried to use the non-GAAP accounting metric ACSOI in their first SEC prospectus filing. That alone makes me somewhat suspicious about the viability of the company. A friend of mine (@richardburcher) asked earlier today on Twitter what I thought about Groupon’s prospects, so let’s touch on that briefly before we move on to how Group Buying actually works.
Groupon has first-mover advantage in a market segment that they essentially created (LivingSocial may have launched first, but they didn’t adopt the current product-market fit until well after Groupon had conquered Chicago with its current business model). Groupon has a massive direct sales force, servicing 500 markets in 40-something countries. Groupon is now publicly-traded, and tends to annihilate or acquire smaller competitors when it moves into any new, localized market (by smaller, I mean the nondescript players that no one has ever heard of; and there are plenty of them around- a study by Business Insider suggested that there are around 500 firms competing in the group buying space right now).
There are some big threats to Groupon’s continued success though: there’s practically no barrier to entry in this space. Anyone with programming skills can design a group buying system for the web (web-based startups have very low overheads). Consumer fatigue in the deals space is a threat (what’s your threshold for deals that you aren’t interested in? Five irrelevant emails a day? Ten?). Without millions of people subscribed and using the Groupon service, the core value-added component of the company falls apart. Additionally, without retail partners signing on and initiating group buys, there’s nothing of value to offer the consumers who are using the service. Essentially, the entire business model (as currently operating) relies on a huge subscriber base (consumers) to feed a large client base (retailers). Group buying is also a very fractious space (LOTS of players), and some competitors with very deep pockets have or will be launching competing services (Google, Amazon, and AT&T are some examples). Groupon also doesn’t turn a profit. The company has taken an operating loss every year since its launch in 2008 (but their CFO claims the company is very, very close to profitability). For Groupon to be sustainably profitable, their marketing expenses need to shrink substantially while revenues remain constant or grow (which is very difficult to do with this business model- Groupon has to maintain a large marketing budget to attract new subscribers, and to keep existing ones from migrating to competitors).
Personally, I think the biggest threat to Groupon’s future success is retailer fatigue. There isn’t much process support for retailers from Groupon about how to actually run a successful group buying promotion at the store level, and how to make them work for the individual businesses which come aboard. The owner of the small corner bistro who gets slammed with 100 new customers in a single day (and takes a loss on every single one) will never initiate another group buy- and those hundred customers who were most likely pissed off with the wait times/poor service (if the owner didn’t beef up staffing and service capacity) are unlikely to ever return. It’s also likely that a percentage of them took to social media and shared their dissatisfaction, which harmed the brand equity of the bistro (consumers tend to offer public praise very rarely, but are lightning-quick to share criticism and anger).
My bet is that Groupon completely implodes inside of three years, and the creditors pick it over to try and recover some of their losses (which they won’t, because internet firms rarely have significant assets to liquidate in a chapter seven action). Unless their business model evolves significantly, through innovation of their core product and the addition of related revenues streams.
Let’s talk about how group buying actually works in practice.
Do you own or manage a small business in retail goods or services? Yes? You will not make money on a group buy promotion. The group buying company which you partner with will take a commission on the value of the deal in the range of 40-70%. Let’s run through a simple example: your selling price at retail on a widget is $10. You initiate a group buy through a firm that operates in your area, and they charge a 50% commission on the post-deal value. Your promotion is 50% off that widget ($5). So, right away you’re collecting $2.50 (Company X took $2.50 in commission) for an item that normally sells for $10. Here’s the real kicker: for you to break even (before your facility/staffing costs) on that widget, your markup has to be quadruple keystone (400%!).
Knowing this, why would any small business owner initiate a group buy promotion? Are they nuts??!
No. The value proposition of group buying is that it brings a larger-than-normal traffic count into your store, and that many of these people will become new, repeat customers: thus, you have the opportunity to wow these new bodies on service (or whatever else your defensible/unique selling proposition may be). In essence, companies like Groupon and Living Social incent a bunch of new customers to visit your store, and it’s then the job of you and your staff to upsell them on related products or services and (most importantly) convert them into return customers.
Easier said than done when it comes to discounts. Personally, I think that growing a customer base with discounts or deals is a fundamentally flawed strategy. You know your customers: think about who your most profitable repeat ones are. Think about who you enjoy serving. Is it the guy who comes in every so often, asks for your help/advice and then pays the bill… or is it the guy who comes in with a coupon clipped from the weekly flyer AND tries to haggle?
Put simply: do you want deal loyalty or real loyalty?
But if you’re really into the idea of running a group buy promotion for your business, here’s a quick guide for making the experience successful, or at least not a complete write-off:
Assumptions to make before initiating a group buy (be prepared!)
1. You will not make money on the promotion, you will eat a loss.
2. You will have higher-than-normal traffic counts, possibly during non-peak hours.
3. You will be serving customers with psychographic and/or demographic profiles that are unusual for your store.
4. Few of the new customers will convert to repeat customers for your full price offerings.
5. You’re essentially subsidizing advertising with your inventory (but you have little control over the targeting and have no access to the reporting metrics afterwards).
Process changes to support your business during a group buy
1. Control the promotion as much as possible (make the promotion valid only between certain hours and set a short expiry date).
2. Staff for the deal, especially if you’re in food/hospitality (if the deal is valid for the next 30 days between 4pm and 6pm with 600 sold, you need to staff for an extra 20 transactions each day between 4pm and 6pm- and that’s assuming perfectly distributed traffic gains; more than likely the gains will be lower at first and higher near the expiry date).
3. Have extra inventory on hand equal to each confirmed coupon plus 110-120% of your normal inventory for that item and time period (the group buy, plus your normal demand, plus a safety margin to account for extra word-of-mouth buzz floating around or walk-ins who saw the group buy advertised but didn’t purchase a coupon).
4. Be wily about what product you put on a group buy– choose an item that encourages repeat business, ideally a product which requires service/maintenance that you provide or can be enhanced with add-ons that you sell (if you’re in CPG retail) OR a house specialty/signature dish that’s quite unique (if you’re in food/hospitality) OR a high-quality service that you specialize in and that your brand is known for, which has an extremely attractive unique selling proposition (if you’re in services). Don’t initiate a group buy for something that every retailer and their dog carries (like toilet paper).
5. Have a customer relationship management system in place, preferably one that includes a brand loyalty program of some sort. Do your absolute damndest to get every single group buy patron into that system- you need to be able to track the effectiveness of your group buy promotions with some kind of metrics system in order to plan and refine future group buys, and this is the best way to do so.
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