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Bridge Between Weblogic And MQ Series Issue
(Doc ID 2526606.1)
Last updated on FEBRUARY 06, 2024
Oracle WebLogic Server - Version 18.104.22.168.0 and laterInformation in this document applies to any platform.
This environment is running WebSphere MQ 22.214.171.124 & WLS 126.96.36.199.0.
There is a bridge between WebLogic and MQ Series and it is experiencing an issue where the managed servers are running in two different physical machines with the name MS1 and MS2.
The cluster is managed by an administration WebLogic server instance installed only in the first machine MS1.
-- Configured the bridge between WebSphere MQ server and WebLogic cluster environment.
-- Successfully configured the bridge from WLS to MQ and MQ to WLS with a TestDQ distributed queue and both bridges are properly working with MS1 managed server.
The below exception is faced when the manager server MS2 is started :
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Contract Approval Rule History Tree Table Error
(Doc ID 2205098.1)
Last updated on JUNE 27, 2022
Oracle Fusion Enterprise Contracts - Version 188.8.131.52.0 and laterInformation in this document applies to any platform.
On : 184.108.40.206.0 version, Functional Setup Manager
Contract Approval Rule Error
Contract approval rules are created to route a contract based on the Business Unit.
However, an error appears for 2 of the three approval rules.
The US business unit is routing correctly, while the UK and IND business unit are giving errors. All three rules are set up the same way.
Error occurred while displaying history tree table. Error in evaluating routing slip. Check the underlying exception and correct the error in the routing slip
The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:
1. Configure approvals to be specific for OrgUnits
2. Make sure to set an Approval Group for each approval
3. Approving UK or IND contract throws the error
The issue has the following business impact:
Due to this issue, users cannot approve UK or IND contracts
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You could answer me directly to [email protected] if you don't want answers to be public.
First of all I'm Simon Rousseau, a passionnate IoT entrepreneur (North America)... We will probably chat often in next few months as I've invested in your project throught bitmart.
Must say that having a way to communicate with your team is an awesome news thank's!
#1 To avoid pick drop in the WTK token price on bitmart... did you plan to explain how you're partnership with mastercard, tomochain, blockshere are evolving, how are you partner and why those partneship will push WTK to 1$ in a year from now. Did you know that by buying back some tokens (1 millions), you could easily make price go up again and make the project shine in a short matter of time Holders are starting to really holding !
#2 Since a couple of days, micro trades (limit buy/sell less then 100 WTK) continully appearing on Bitmart order books... Kind of polluating and lating to holders and traders that there is a bot that just manipulating the WTK transaction volume or steal funds... Briefly, this is a threat to the credibility of the WTK project and team. Did those transactions are related to new WTK token injected in the market ? Or those transactions are related to the team that test the WTK token in application... If so, those test should probably be done in the bitmart test network API. Briefly, could you explain this or why there is no more transaction volume since last thuesday on bitmart ?
#3 What is your plan to make the number of WTK wallet grow ? There is only 480-540 wallets at the moment... if you want adoption... you should reach 10-20 000 wallet at least... and by making that happen... the coin will shine more :D
I had couple of thousand invested in the project and hope it will help WTK reach 1$ and also make WTK project shine and grow... like my investment !
Have a nice day !
Thanks so much for the support and some great questions:
1. Yes, we are going to keep you updated (as much as we are allowed about the developments of our partnerships. A lot more news is coming sooner than you can imagine!
2. We are aware and looking into this, and checking with the exchange.
3. This number refers to the wallets which are currently not held on exchanges. There are likely significantly more wallets on both of the exchanges. We also do have plans to increase the total number of wallets especially after WTK is available on more protocols.
Thanks for the support again!
Thank you for your questions. We have done our best to address your points below however, please note that for confidentiality and privacy reasons there are some areas where we are unable to share more specific details.
1. Our business has shifted fundamentally from a B2C focus where we intended to have our own branded App as a hero product, and merchant network, to a B2B focus, where we provide the technology and infrastructure to large partners. These partners white-label our product offerings which can include having us build custom Apps for them, offer pre-paid cards, POS and more.
2. As per the above, we provide pre-paid cards as a white-label solution to our partners, who can use the cards for their customer bases to enable digital currency transactions. We do not put our branding on these cards at present, as our customers want their own branding.
3. You seem to be looking at archived pages. /where-to-wadzpay is our current version. With our partners' networks, transactions can already occur at their merchant networks. Their infrastructure is indeed powered by WadzPay and multiple digital currencies are already supported.
4. Point 1 addresses your first part of the question. That roadmap refers to the BitMart listing, and we are currently listed on two exchanges which you pointed out.
5. We are unable to directly name the issuers. WadzPay prepaid cards are not available, but WadzPay powered cards are available for issuance by our partners. Again, these aren't branded as WadzPay but these utilise their branding.
6. The global HQ is in Singapore’s CBD. We have removed the map as it had some mobile compatibility issues (appreciate you pointing out the wording, we will update that now), if you scroll below you'll see the full list of locations including where the headquarters are.
PS. The about us page you refer to is an archived version, the correct URL as accessible from our homepage is: https://wadzpay.com/about-us/
Thank you for taking the time to address my questions, I really appreciated.
How does this whole B2B thing work then? What's the role of WTK Token in the space and your infrastructure?
Regarding the office questions, still there are no addresses available for these offices? Since they exist shouldn't also be listed under their addresses?
Last but not least, who are these partners? I can't see them anywhere. Even the /where-to-wadzpay page is a generic page with generic images that lead to nowhere.
"You can now start paying at WadzPay-powered merchants across the world!"
Pay where and to who?
Once again thank you for taking the time to address my questions.
I do think that listing your white label partners that do actually use your global partner infrastructure / powered card would be a nice add-on to your portfolio/web site.
They should be proud of being part of your crypto venture and that could make both of you shine !
Briefly, don't be shy to show off your achievements !
Currently WTK is listed on BitMart and Bitrue, so it can only be bought on BitMart and Bitrue.
WTK will be introduced into the WadzPay App soon.
We are exploring launching on other exchanges in the future. Follow our social media channels to be first to know when the plans are announced.
This response is an update on WTK and should not be considered as financial advice, solicitation, offer or recommendation or any security, investment management or advisory service to investors or potential investors. It does not constitute investment, tax or legal advice. All investments involve significant risk. You should seek independent financial and legal advice before acting on any information and ensure compliance with any and all applicable local laws and regulations. | <urn:uuid:a19e3a73-6f55-4f36-bb51-bc9299e28258> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://support.wadzpay.com/support/discussions/topics/69000710297 | 2024-04-16T03:53:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.960296 | 1,353 |
My first question is does it support inside out positional tracking
via SLAM or another algorithm, preferrably with stereo cameras?
Second question, can the program developed for it run on Linux (Odroid)?
The program just needs to output positional data, nothing to render.
we do support inside out positional tracking with our InstantTracking. Our Instant tracking is does not support stereo cameras yet.
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A common issue for customers is finding that their Inventory Value report doesn't match their Inventory ledger value in either their Trial Balance, or their Balance Sheet.
When comparing these two reports, there are a few things to consider:
1) the Inventory Value reports value is derived from the value of the inventory received on purchase orders, and of course, the sale of inventory. We also want to consider that any adjustment made in the item record (stock adjustment) also affects the Inventory Value report.
2) The value of the Inventory ledger account in the Trial Balance or the Balance Sheet is derived from bills created in your system to record bills received from your supplier.
How can we be sure that the two reports will reconcile?
The proper method when working within Windward System 5 can be found in the bill creation procedure itself:
You will notice that when creating a bill, to the right, there is a 'POs' tab :
By clicking on this tab, we find we now have a list of Po's ordered and received by that supplier.
In the 'select' area, we then choose which PO is relevant to the bill we are creating. We then choose the 'Add PO Items' tab . We can choose to either 'Add All Items' , or 'Add Summary'. Choosing to add all items will list all items on the PO, and the summary will summarize the PO into a single total.
Once we have made our choice, we are then taken back to the bill screen and we can see that the bill is now created. We can also see that we are posting a value to the Inventory ledger account.
By following this process, we are able to see how we can keep the Inventory Value Report (populated by the PO) and the Trial Balance Inventory ledger (populated by the bill) in reconciliation.
Because we are populating the Bill through the PO itself, we can be sure the same values are being posted to both the Inventory Value Report and the Inventory ledger account.
Another possible difference to consider are any journal entries made to the Inventory ledger outside of the PO or the Bill.
The Bill and PO Reconciliation Report
Now that we understand how the PO and the bill are linked, it is time to introduce another tool we can use to bring us closer to reconciliation between the two reports. It is called the ' Bill and Reconciliation Report'. It can be found by going to: Accounts Payable/ AP Reports in the menu.
Open the report to make your settings
By choosing the settings shown here, we can then view all PO's that do not have a corresponding Bill attached. Keeping in mind the idea that the PO populates the Inventory Value Report, and the Bill populates the Inventory Ledger, we can now see that if all the values reported in this report are on a PO, but not a bill, then the two reports can't possibly match. | <urn:uuid:bb91ab3e-fb99-4811-abfd-bf37ab678c2f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://support.windwardsoftware.com/support/solutions/articles/66000491354-inventory-reconciliation-simplified | 2024-04-16T04:32:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.952411 | 596 |
Eight years ago, I was gifted with two trips to Europe thanks to my book, The Story of AC/DC-Let There Be Rock, which was first published in 2006. An updated version came out in 2009, and I was invited to do a book signing in Udine, Italy in May of 2010, the day before AC/DC played there. A few months later, in response to my trip to Italy, I was invited to attend the CD release party for a band called BandX, who was also Serbia’s only AC/DC tribute band. Wild Ride was released in 2010, and features their original, “Wild Ride,” and covers of songs by AC/DC, Abba and Bob Marley.
I originally met them on My Space, and they had even called into a radio show one night that I was appearing on. Once they saw that I traveled to Italy, Billy, the lead singer and mastermind along with his band mates, invited me to Belgrade, Serbia for a week of activities, promoting my book and their debut CD. They also invited Brian Rasic, a photographer born in Serbia but now living in London, who just happened to be the official photographer of the Rolling Stones.
Of course everyone in my life was dead set against me going to Serbia alone. I had wanted to go to Europe my entire life, and now I was being offered a second trip five months after I got back from Italy? Hell yeah, I was going! Besides, I’m a journalist, and that’s what journalists do, they travel and report what they experience. However, I have never written about my trip to Belgrade, and I apologize for that. I came home to a husband who was moving out, an editor who wanted revisions done on my book on Hank Williams and I had a bad case of hives from the stress. All I know is, that trip changed my life for the better in so many ways.
After flying from Chicago to London, I boarded another plane for a two hour ride to Belgrade. Brian Rasic was on the same plane, but I didn’t know what he looked like, so we didn’t meet until we landed. Waiting for me at the airport were the entire band, some of their family members, with a big bouquet of flowers, accompanied by tons of hugs and kisses. So far Serbia seemed pretty friendly to me!
Before I knew it, I was in a car with three Serbian guys and Billy was at the wheel. In the backseat were Dragan, who played Malcolm in the band, and Darko, who plays Angus. They were all chatting away in Serbian and I had no idea where I was or where I was going. For a fleeting second, I had wondered if I had made the right decision.
Before any real doubt could creep in, we pulled up in front of the Hotel Intercontinental in Belgrade, where I had a lovely room with breakfast served to my room every morning. To be on the safe side, Billy gave me a Serbian cell phone with his number and the band member’s numbers already programmed into the it. Billy told me to rest and he would be back in a few hours to take me to dinner. Accepting their invitation to come to Serbia was starting out to be an incredible adventure.
The next day their celebration of the release of their debut CD, Wild Ride, was planned for 1pm downstairs in one of the conference rooms in the hotel. The band was set up to play, and TV and radio reporters were there to record the event, which included several Serbian pop stars and some government officials who obviously were very supportive of rock and roll.
As I was getting ready for the party, I plugged my hair dryer into the outlet, using an adapter, and while I was drying my hair, I glanced over to see that the hair dryer was actually shooting flames at my face! In my shock, I pulled the plug out of the wall socket and cursed the damn hair dryer! Then I plugged it back in and turned it back on, and that’s when all the power in the hotel went out for about a second or two.
Son of a *****! I unplugged it and threw it in the bathroom sink, just as the fire marshal was banging on my door. I had to try to explain to him in English that there was no fire here, and all was fine. Except that my hair was still wet and it was going to stay that way. I loved the hotel, but the hotel air dryer I believe, was someone downstairs blowing air through a tube, because it wasn’t drying my hair, that was for sure!
I later found out that the band thought they had blown the power and the party was over, and when they found out it was me and my hair dryer, they couldn’t stop laughing. I’ll bet if they are reading this, they are laughing about it right now! Dragan liked to say that it was Tesla’s way of saying hello to me and welcoming me to Belgrade. I’d like to think that if I hadn’t seen the flames sooner, I wouldn’t have had any hair to worry about!
Luckily the party was a huge success, and the band sounded amazing! Billy’s vocals were incredible, singing both Bon and Brian era AC/DC songs, Dragan on rhythm, Darko on lead guitar, Darko on bass and Igor on drums were rocking the house and filling the dance floor. Interviews with me and Brian Rasic can still be found on You Tube, and it was such an honor to be treated as a special guest of the bands. All their wives, girlfriends and children were extremely kind and are still considered more family than friends to me. The same for Brian, who was a such a sweetheart and a true legend in the rock industry. Getting to know him during my visit also made my trip to Belgrade very special.
The following day, we were interviewed on live radio, and Billy, Dragan and Dragan’s stepson, Igor, took me on a ride to see one of the buildings that Tesla used to work in. That night Darko (Cliff), and his family had us over for dinner, where I met his wife, Lika, his children and mother, who all lived together. I was humbled by their hospitality, considering the average Serbian family lives on very little income compared to the US. They made me feel so welcome, and some of them had never met an American before.
On Wednesday, we did one of two live TV appearances and that night Dragan and Billy took me to the Belgrade Arena to see Cirque du Soleil. The zipper on my coat got stuck and I spent half the show working my way out of it. I managed to peal it down and pulled it off like a pair of pants. Lucille Ball would have been proud!
That Thursday was Thanksgiving in the US, and the band felt badly that I was missing the holiday with my family. To be honest, Thanksgiving has always been way too much work for me. Missing one wasn’t the worse thing that could have happened. Considering I got picked up that morning to go to a spa and wellness center run by a good friend of the band’s named Kristina (Kiki), who had me use the sauna, receive a healing from her, and then wind down by sitting in a salt cave, which helps asthma and has an amazing calming effect.
I was in a car accident when I was a kid, which left me with a whiplash neck and plenty of back problems. Whatever Kiki did that day, I have not had the pain I lived with my entire life on the left side of my neck. I know she trained with the Aborigines in the Outback of Down Under, and she is a healer and an Earth angel, and now part of my Serbian family. That night I was taken out to dinner and the band, Kiki and I celebrated an American Thanksgiving in Belgrade!
On Friday, I did an interview with the national newspaper, Kiki took me shopping and we got to see BandX in action that night at a local club. The place was packed, there were AC/DC/BandX fans who wanted their books signed and plenty of BandX fans who wanted to meet me. The band was incredible and I danced until the lights came on. The following day would be my last full day in Belgrade and that night Dragan said to me, “I miss you already.” Leaving Serbia was going to be harder than I realized.
The next afternoon, Dragan and Billy took me to the Tesla Museum in downtown Belgrade. Billy had to take care of band business, so it was just me, Dragan, a family of three and the tour guide. Due to my presence, she gave the tour in English, which was a real treat. Almost everything that Tesla had ever invented was right there in that building! The perpetual motion machine, the boat that he drove around a lake in Central Park in NYC using a remote control, the freakin’ Tesla coil, his safe, his hat, his walking stick and his ashes!
I had no idea that his ashes were there until we were led down this small dark corridor where on the left at the end of the hall, is a tombstone with a golden globe on top that contains Mr. Tesla’s ashes. It is lit from above and surrounded by curtains, and has a very solemn feel around it. Right in front of me were the remains of one of the greatest if not THE greatest inventor of our time. The privilege of that visit I will never forget.
As soon as the tour was concluded, the family left and the tour guide told Dragan and me to take our time. What?! We were going to be left alone in the Tesla Museum without supervision! The first thing I did was race over to the safe, bend down, and put my ear up to it and started playing with the knob. Dragan, with a stricken look on his face, asked me what I was doing. I told him to be quiet, I was trying to crack the safe!
Once we stared at everything and touched things we shouldn’t have, we reluctantly left to meet Billy. He couldn’t understand why our trip took so long, but we didn’t tell him that we tried to crack the safe, had a few private words with Mr. Tesla’s ashes, and ate two petit fours each at this irresistible bakery on the way back to meet Billy.
For my last evening, we all gathered at Dragan and Goga’s place, where I met Zika Jelic, the popular Serbian musician and member of YU grupa. Once again, their family was wonderful to me, and there were plenty of treats. Before it got too late, Mr. Jelic went home and we all went to Zemun, ( a suburb of Belgrade), where Darko (Angus) lived with his wife Biljana, and their daughter Sophia.
Their place had a sweet set up in the lower level which included a big couch, wood-burning stove, a computer for tunes, and drinks kept cold outside on the window sill. We laughed, drank and partied until 4am! They were listening to music on the computer, and I had the pleasure of introducing them to Hank Williams’ “Move It On Over.” They had never heard him or that song, and they loved it so much, they played it at least three times in a row. Then I introduced them to Hank III! Their reaction to that was even better!
Before I knew it, it was time to go to the airport and fly home. Billy, Darko, Darko, Dragan, Dragan’s stepson Igor and Kiki all went to the airport with me, and we talked until I had to board the plane. I never expected to fall in love with this band, their families, their kids, their way of life. Belgrade is a beautiful city that sits on the Siva and Danube Rivers. Saying goodbye was one of the hardest things I have ever done, and as soon as the wheels lifted off of the runway, I sobbed all the way to London.
I’ve never been to London, but I had plenty of time to enjoy Heathrow airport where I browsed around, including a spin through Harrod’s. My favorite movie is Love, Actually, which was shot partly in Heathrow airport. Just as I walked into the store, they started playing the song from the movie, “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” and the sobbing started all over again.
Someday I will return to Belgrade, Serbia where I had one of the most amazing weeks of my life. Thanks to Billy, BandX, their families, their friends and fans, who couldn’t have been nicer. Darko’s wife Biljana, gave me the best compliment the night before. She told me that honestly, her and the wives weren’t that crazy about some blonde American chick flying over to Belgrade to hang out with their men. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t have been a fan myself! Then she said that I was nothing like what they expected, and that they loved me just as much as the band did. All I can say to Billy, Dragan, Darko, Darko, Igor, Lika, Goga, Biljana, Igor, Brian, Anja and Kiki, is, hvala, hvala, hvala! Love and light, always and forever. | <urn:uuid:ca4e7aa1-cacd-4e1e-9b37-63affb82884b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://susanmasino.com/belgrade-serbia-tesla-bandx-and-a-hairdryer-november-2010/ | 2024-04-16T03:46:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.99143 | 2,869 |
Abstract: The cost of capital is a key driver of the low-carbon transition, as changes in firm-level financing costs
can support or hinder low-carbon energy investment (LCI) and high-carbon energy investment (HCI).
Using asset-level data from the S&P World Electric Power Plant database, we track firm-level LCI and
HCI for publicly listed electric utilities firms from 2012-2021. Using a fixed-effects Poisson model, we find that a reduction in the firm-level cost of debt directly increases firm-level LCI and HCI, and indirectly increases investment by enabling debt capital raising. We then control for climate policy using the OECD Environmental Policy Stringency Index. We find that market-based policies, such as carbon prices and taxes, directly increase domestic LCI and act as a moderator, strengthening the relationship between debt capital raising and LCI, while doing the opposite for HCI. With regard to pricing policies, such as feed-in tariffs, we find inconclusive results. In summary, these findings demonstrate the importance of capital markets in firm-level transitions and show that governments can channel capital away from HCI and into LCI through policy interventions. | <urn:uuid:41ac1d90-c66a-4279-89f9-5c66ab792bfb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://sustainablefinancealliance.org/blog/paper/drivers-of-firm-investment-in-low-and-high-carbon-energy-capital-markets-and-climate-policy/ | 2024-04-16T05:09:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.912084 | 246 |
The Opposite of Creative
Having the quality or power of creating.
Tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage.
Alfred Hitchcock defined happiness as “A clear horizon…being creative rather than destructive.”
I’ve always thought that the opposite of creative was, well…”uncreative”. Or “non-creative”. You’re either creative, or you’re not, right? But it seems the great Mr. Hitchcock was onto something when he suggested being creative instead of destructive. Create….destruct. Creative…destructive. Creativity….destructivity.
If I apply these terms to describe a state of mind, it begins to become more clear.
A destructive state of mind is one that is mired in worry, self doubt, and negative thoughts and emotions. This self doubt causes the mind to slow down and become muddy and unclear. It’s hard to think, to get off the couch, do anything. Trying to create anything of use in this state is an exercise in futility. At this point, it’s really about self-destruction. In extreme cases, the destructive behaviour can extend beyond the individual to others around him or her, causing suffering not only to the person causing the destruction, but to many other people.
On the other hand, a creative state of mind is one that is free from negative thought and open to accepting things just as they are. The mind is sharp, fresh and crystal clear. Thoughts enter and leave of their own accord. It’s that leap-out-of-bed, take on the world feeling. That is where creativity can really begin. Extreme cases of creativity can inspire great works and solve great problems, not only for the individual but for the greater good of mankind.
I consider myself a creative person. But at times that creativity doesn’t come easily. It isn’t there when I haven’t had enough sleep or eaten the right foods. It isn’t there if I’m too worried and preoccupied with other things that I falsely consider important. It definitely isn’t there when I’m surrounded by negative people or situations.
I have come to realize that creative really is the opposite of destructive. But it doesn’t mean you need to eliminate all the problems in your life so you can be creative – that would be impossible. Instead, it’s about taking control of the destructive forces at play in your life. By working through them, instead of against them, creativity will rise to the surface. It might seem easier said then done, but ironically, it’s at times when there is turmoil in your life that your true creativity can shine.
I asked a songwriter friend once why he hadn’t written a song for so long, and he said “I’m too happy!”. When my friend would experience struggles in his life, he wouldn’t complain about it and get wrapped up in negative energy. He’d use that energy to create something wonderful.
Next time you are feeling like you’re being sucked down into destructive thinking, try turning that destructive tendency into a creative one. Write something, play music, draw, paint, or figure out a way to solve world hunger. It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as it’s in the spirit of creation.
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Environment Canada is forecasting a Good Friday blast of snowfall for much of Southern Saskatchewan.
A Special Weather Statement was issued by Environment Canada earlier this afternoon advising of the potential of six to 12 centimetres of snowfall on Friday. An Alberta Clipper is forecast to track into the Southwest starting tonight and spreading across the rest of southern Saskatchewan into Friday. The snow will be accompanied to strong northeast winds on Friday, with gusts from 50 to 60 kilometres per hour.
Environment Canada notes the heaviest snowfalls are expected generally south of the TransCanada Highway.
The snow and winds will result in reduced visibility, but conditions will improve as the system tracks east and south.
In the Southwest, the statement has been issued for the Swift Current – Herbert – Cabri – Kyle – Lucky Lake, the Leader – Gull Lake, plus the Shaunavon – Maple Creek – Val Marie – Cypress Hills forecast regions.
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SynTech offers testing programs for resistance and cross-resistance to other Modes of Action (MOA). Our fully equipped analytical and radiochemical laboratories allow characterization of molecular and physiological resistance mechanisms.
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Our unique expertise and large weed seed collection, including herbicide-resistant grass and broadleaf weeds (e.g. groups 1, 2, 9, 10, 22 populations or biotypes) allow testing of Pre- and Post-emergence herbicides in greenhouse and field trials, including micro-plots for testing small amounts of new herbicide candidates.
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SynTech Research has earned a reputation with agrochemical companies for its insecticide and fungicide early stage screening. Our programs cover method development and validation services to assess pesticide properties of compounds against a wide range of targets including pesticide-resistant insects and diseases. These allow selection of potential molecules for dose-response studies through to advanced greenhouse trials.
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Ape Case Messenger Bag – Large, Orange
Introducing the Ape Case Messenger Bag in a vibrant orange color. This spacious and stylish bag is designed for photographers who need a reliable and convenient way to carry their gear. With its durable construction and thoughtful features, this bag is a must-have for any photography enthusiast.
Camera Insert Included
The Ape Case Messenger Bag comes with a camera insert that provides extra protection for your valuable equipment. The insert is padded and customizable, allowing you to arrange your gear in a way that suits your needs. Whether you’re carrying a DSLR camera, lenses, or accessories, this bag has you covered.
Shoulder Strap Included
For added comfort and convenience, this bag includes a padded shoulder strap. The strap is adjustable, allowing you to find the perfect fit for your body. Whether you’re walking around a city or hiking in the wilderness, this bag will stay securely on your shoulder.
In addition to the camera insert, this bag also features a dedicated compartment for your tablet. The compartment is padded and large enough to accommodate most tablets on the market. Now you can easily carry your camera gear and stay connected on the go.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the bag waterproof?
No, the Ape Case Messenger Bag is not waterproof. However, it is made from durable materials that provide some level of water resistance. It will protect your gear from light rain or accidental spills, but it is not designed to be submerged in water.
Can I fit a laptop in this bag?
No, this bag does not have a dedicated laptop compartment. However, the tablet compartment can be used to store a small laptop or notebook.
Is the shoulder strap removable?
Yes, the shoulder strap is removable. You can easily detach it if you prefer to carry the bag by the top handle.
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YJYPKpop Stray Kids Sweatpant – Hip Hop Sport Pant Unisex Trousers
Are you a fan of Stray Kids? Do you want to show your support for Felix, Jisung, Hyunjin, Jeongin, and the rest of the group? Look no further! Introducing the YJYPKpop Stray Kids Sweatpant, the perfect addition to your K-pop merchandise collection.
Unleash Your Inner Stray Kids Fan
These sweatpants are designed with comfort and style in mind. Made from high-quality materials, they are soft, breathable, and perfect for everyday wear. Whether you’re attending a Stray Kids concert, hanging out with friends, or simply lounging at home, these sweatpants will keep you comfortable and stylish.
- Unisex design – suitable for both men and women
- Hip hop sport pant style
- Elastic waistband for a comfortable fit
- Available in various sizes
- Official Stray Kids merchandise
Why Choose YJYPKpop Stray Kids Sweatpant?
1. Authenticity: Our sweatpants are officially licensed Stray Kids merchandise, ensuring that you are getting a genuine product.
2. Comfort: The soft and breathable material of these sweatpants will keep you comfortable all day long.
3. Style: The hip hop sport pant design adds a trendy and fashionable touch to your outfit.
4. Versatility: These sweatpants can be worn for various occasions, from casual outings to Stray Kids events.
5. Support: By purchasing these sweatpants, you are showing your support for Stray Kids and their music.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Are these sweatpants suitable for both men and women?
A: Yes, these sweatpants are designed to be unisex and can be worn by both men and women.
Q: Are these sweatpants official Stray Kids merchandise?
A: Yes, these sweatpants are officially licensed Stray Kids merchandise.
Q: What sizes are available?
A: These sweatpants are available in various sizes to accommodate different body types.
Q: Can I wear these sweatpants for sports activities?
A: Yes, these sweatpants are suitable for sports activities due to their hip hop sport pant design.
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In the sixth episode of the season, you’ll be introduced to the beautiful Nala, an Australian Sea-Lion born at Taronga 10 years ago. Taronga is part of a regional breeding program for the Australian Sea-Lion, an endangered species that is declining in the wild. The main threats to Sea-Lions are dangerous floating debris and overfishing of oceans, which is a huge threat to their food source as well as disruption to breeding areas. In this episode, Nala is introduced to Charlie, a 13-year old Australian Sea-Lion who was rescued as an orphan. Keepers hope that Nala and Charlie will make a good match, and that a Sea-Lion pup won’t be too far away.
Also in this episode you’ll go behind-the-scenes of Taronga’s incredible Reptile House. As well as laying eyes on some very dangerous and poisonous snakes, you’ll get to meet Olive, an Olive Python. This gentle, non-venomous species is found across northern Australia. Olive has been suffering from back problems, and so reptile keeper Emma takes her to the Taronga Wildlife Hospital so the veterinary team can investigate.
Plus, you’ll be invited to join a special birthday celebration for one of the zoos oldest residents!
An update on Nala
In episode six we watched the interactions between Australian Sea-lions Charlie and Nala. The pair were introduced by keepers in the hopes that their coupling would result in an Australian Sea-lion pup. We are so excited to confirm that Nala is in fact pregnant, and we can’t wait to welcome another little Sea-lion to the Taronga family at the end of the year. Hear more from marine mammal keeper, Kristal Thompson. | <urn:uuid:180567c8-0ad9-4ff5-a4d1-67a73c53d962> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://taronga.org.au/get-involved/behind-the-scenes-documentary/episode-6 | 2024-04-16T05:29:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.961582 | 377 |
Chris Stapleton, Thomas Rhett Tapped for iHeartRadio Music Festival
The 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival lineup was revealed on Tuesday (July 18), and two of the biggest names in country music are on the docket. Thomas Rhett and Chris Stapleton will both take the stage during the two-day festival, with Stapleton performing on Sept. 22 and Rhett the following night, on Sept. 23.
They represent country among other superstar acts in a variety of other genres: Coldplay, David Guetta, Lorde and Kesha. Kenny Chesney's "Setting the World on Fire" collaborator Pink will also perform, as well as Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles, who's taking Kacey Musgraves as an opening act on select dates of his upcoming 2018 Live on Tour gig.
Ryan Seacrest is set to host the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival live in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.
In addition to a main stage, the festival will also feature a Daytime Village area at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, where Kelsea Ballerini will serve as the lone country act alongside a host of other talent including Hey Violet, All Time Low, French Montana, Noah Cyrus and former One Direction member Niall Horan.
Until the big Vegas show, all three country acts are out on the road. Stapleton continues on his 2017 All American Road Show Tour through the end of the summer, wrapping on Aug. 25 in New Hampshire. Rhett is on his wildly popular Home Team Tour, while Ballerini has a jam-packed schedule between serving as an opening act on Rhett's tour and Lady Antebellum's You Look Good Tour. She recently released her new single "Legends" off her upcoming 2017 album.
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Behavior analysts draw on years of research that illustrates how to successfully toilet train individuals with autism. In addition to this research, Trumpet Behavioral Health has an incredible library of skills to pull from depending on the deficits your child is experiencing. To create this library, Trumpet pulls from landmark research as well as research from practitioners within our organization. As a research-focused autism therapy provider, our insight has paved the way for effective toilet training treatment plans for learners from every background. For example, if you’ve toilet trained your child in the past and they’re continuing to experience accidents, your clinical team will use a different approach than they would with a family who is new to toilet training.
Before we begin toilet training, our team will determine if your child has the readiness skills to be independent, which is crucial to toilet training success. As part of this process, our team will explore if your child has an awareness of elimination. Are they aware if their diaper is wet? Do they try to take it off themselves? Depending on your child’s level of readiness, your team will prepare a toilet training framework to meet their needs.
Once we create a plan, we’ll coach your family through every step. Toilet training requires a significant amount of support, and we begin preparing families for this momentous learning experience weeks in advance. Our team will meet with you to set up expectations, outline the toilet training process, define success, and create a plan for when an accident does happen. By the time your family is ready to begin toilet training, you’ll understand how to react to accidents, how to respond to successful attempts to use the toilet, and what to do when your child “self-initiates”, or takes themselves to the bathroom.
The toilet training process has several important steps, which your autism therapy team will review with you before toilet training begins. Although your child’s plan will be customized to their needs, most toilet training programs for autism include the following steps:
We want our learners to have success when they’re sitting on the toilet, so we’ll develop a sit schedule depending on your child’s history. This schedule will outline how much time is spent on and off the toilet during the training process. At the beginning, the schedule may be more intense and call for your child to spend 5 minutes on the toilet, 5 minutes off. As your child has success and begins to learn the basics of toilet training, the plan will gradually become less intense.
When a learner eliminates while on the toilet, it’s important to offer extremely potent reinforcement right away. As soon as they begin to go, give them their favorite snack, play their favorite video, blow bubbles, or give them something else they love. It’s important that your child receives an extremely powerful reinforcement at the moment elimination begins. You may be tempted to wait until your child flushes and washes their hands first, but that will make it more difficult for your child to link the reinforcement to the act of using the toilet.
After you reward your child for using the toilet, allow them to move off of it right away. Our goal is to train learners that being on the toilet is to eliminate – it’s not a place to sit and hang out. By allowing them off the toilet right away, you’ll reinforce that the toilet is for elimination and that they’ll be able to leave and do other fun activities outside of the bathroom.
As any child becomes toilet trained, accidents are bound to happen. When they do, remain as neutral as possible and refer to the procedure your therapy team created. Instead of providing a big reaction, use this as an opportunity to take your child to the bathroom. Avoid reasoning with your child about why they shouldn’t have an accident – it’s much more effective to teach them where to go and provide positive praise and reinforcement when they do.
Research shows that toileting is successful across environments. After a few successful training days, try toilet training in different places, like a relative’s house, a grocery store, or in the community. Be sure to keep on your schedule and keep your reinforcers with you. The principles of toilet training are the same – you’re just in a different bathroom.
Toilet training can seem hard and daunting, but it works. Be patient with yourself and know that the first few days are going to be hard. Remember, if all supports are in place and the procedures are clear, success can and will happen.
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Hulu joins BBC’s ‘Conversations With Friends’ from ‘Normal People’ author Sally Rooney
Disney-owned streamer Hulu has doubled-down on author Sally Rooney and joined the BBC’s adaptation of her book Conversations With Friends, following the runaway success of their recent collaboration on Normal People.
The 12 x 30-minute series will be led by the same creative team as Normal People, with Lenny Abrahamson returning to direct alongside writer Alice Birch.
It will be produced by Irish outfit Element Pictures, in association with the UK’s BBC Three, which announced it was commissioning the adaptation in February. Endeavor Content arranged the deal and is handling all international sales.
Based upon Rooney’s 2017 debut novel, Conversations With Friends follows two Dublin college girls who embark on an unusual sexual relationship with an older married couple, resulting in some life-changing complications.
Romantic drama Normal People was a hit for the BBC earlier this year and landed on Hulu in April, where it was also met with critical praise. The show was exported around the globe in a slew of deals last month. Its stars, Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, are set to reunite for two follow-up shorts, set 40 years later, as part of upcoming Irish TV special RTÉ Does Comic Relief.
“Sally Rooney perfectly and beautifully captures the complicated dynamics of relationships in her stories,” said Beatrice Springborn, VP of content at Hulu. “After bringing that to life in Normal People to an overwhelmingly positive response, we are honoured to do the same with Conversations With Friends. We are excited to continue our creative partnership with Sally, Element Pictures, Lenny and the BBC, which has been a dream collaboration.” | <urn:uuid:661ed72f-5e37-4014-8258-5784335c4584> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://tbivision.com/2020/06/26/hulu-seeks-second-hit-from-normal-people-author/ | 2024-04-16T03:46:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.951908 | 369 |
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Beware of fraudulent scam wondering around the world.
A scam is a quick-profit scheme where a dishonest person, group or company cheats another individual or group out of money by presenting them with false information during a deal or offer.
Scams traditionally resided in confidence trick where an individual would misrepresent themselves as someone with skill or authority, i.e. a doctor, lawyer, investor. After the internet became widely used, new forms of scams emerged such as lottery scams, scam baiting, email spoofing, phishing, or request for helps. These are considered to be email fraud.
There are many different types of scams that prey on unsuspecting victims. Scammers can approach their victims via email, SMS – short message services, and sometimes even a phone to your personal cell number.
One example of this is the lottery scam. In this scheme, a person receives news via phone call or email that they have won the lottery and can retrieve the cash prize after submitting a small processing fee. After submitting the fee, the attacker disappears with the money.
Another dangerous scam is called phishing, in which the scammer deceives the victim into forfeiting personal information.
Phishing scams usually appear in e-mail form and contain links to supposedly authentic websites, such as those containing a bank login form or a credit card company. When clicked, viruses and other malware can enter your system and passwords and other information processed through your computer will be recorded.
Fortunately, with adequate skills and proper knowledge you can detect when somebody is trying to cheat you. Make sure you are aware of the major Internet scams and keep your computer up-to-date with proper anti-virus software.
The other half of the issue is with the attachments that come along with emails. To protect from attachments that might be malicious, below are some basic rules:
- Do not to open any attachments included in unexpected emails
- Do not to open any executable file until and unless there is 100% confidence in the file and the source of the email
- Do not open any attachments from unknown senders
- When posting on forums and subscriptions, use free webmail accounts like gmail or yahoo.
In addition to Computer Security precautions, Never enter personal information in a pop-up screen.
Do not click on links in a pop-up screen. Do not copy web addresses into your browser from pop-ups. Legitimate enterprises should never ask you to submit personal information in pop-up screens, so don’t do it.
Check your online accounts and bank statements regularly to ensure that no unauthorized transactions have been made.
You should always be careful about giving out personal information over the Internet. Luckily, companies have begun to employ tactics to fight against phishers, but they cannot fully protect you on their own.
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The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has embarked on a comprehensive investigation into allegations of corruption within the Sports, Arts, and Culture department of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).
The probe aims to uncover any illicit activities or malpractices that may have occurred within this governmental sector, casting a spotlight on potential wrongdoing.
Probe Targets KZN’s Sports, Arts, and Culture Sector
With suspicions of corruption looming over KZN’s Sports, Arts, and Culture department, the SIU has intensified its efforts to scrutinize the inner workings of this sector.
Allegations of misconduct or financial irregularities have prompted this investigative action, signaling a commitment to transparency and accountability within governmental institutions.
Unveiling Suspected Wrongdoings
As the SIU delves deeper into the affairs of KZN’s Sports, Arts, and Culture department, attention is directed towards uncovering any instances of wrongdoing or unethical conduct.
The investigation seeks to shed light on potential corruption, ensuring that those responsible are held accountable for their actions and that appropriate measures are implemented to address any systemic issues.
Commitment to Accountability and Integrity
Amidst the ongoing probe, the SIU underscores its commitment to upholding principles of accountability and integrity within governmental departments.
By conducting thorough investigations and pursuing justice in cases of suspected corruption, the SIU aims to safeguard public trust and reinforce ethical standards in governance.
Implications for Governance and Public Trust
The outcome of the SIU’s investigation into corruption allegations within KZN’s Sports, Arts, and Culture department holds significant implications for governance and public trust.
Depending on the findings, the investigation could lead to reforms, disciplinary actions, or legal proceedings aimed at restoring transparency and restoring confidence in the integrity of governmental institutions.
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1870–90 Economic Progress
While the development of the North Island was slowed by fighting, that of the South Island accelerated thanks to pastoral farming and gold mining. During the 1850s and 1860s the eastern plains and hills, normally tussock covered and so immediately useful, were opened to sheep. In the North Island only the Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay districts showed a comparable development. Wool exports became, and have remained, basic to the country's economy. Sheep did not entail intensive settlement, but with a handful of men to manage them, spread on immense runs from the coast to the mountains. Agriculture was mainly confined to the neighbourhood of towns.
In the 1860s the gold rushes vitalised the South Island, especially Otago and the West Coast. In 1861 Gabriel Read, attracted by a bonus offered by the Otago provincial government, stumbled upon the rich Tuapeka field. Subsequent prospecting and discoveries drew men west and north into Central Otago, to the Dunstan mountains and the area of the great lakes. Miners from Australia, where the goldfields were petering out, swarmed across the Tasman, to the advantage of the shipping companies. Otago's population and exports sky-rocketed, though the great boom was over by 1865. But by that time the remote West Coast had become the magnet, as its rivers and beaches proved rich in gold. By 1867 some 30,000 people lived where there had hardly been a settler a few years before.
Understandably, the South Island was rich in the 1860s. Land settlement went ahead; pastoralism, agriculture, grew; and the commercial life of the towns quickened. Gold brought wealth to many – to traders, bankers, businessmen, and farmers rather than to the diggers themselves. Even North Island farmers felt the benefit of a new market for foodstuffs.
For its part, the North Island made considerable progress during the decade of war: population grew, farming expanded, imports and exports increased, especially in the later 1860s after the end of resistance in the Waikato. Military expenditure had its advantages, and in 1868 the Coromandel gold discoveries brought prosperity to Auckland at a time when Otago and Canterbury were suffering from depression. But the overall pattern of development was unmistakable: whereas in 1860 Auckland led in population and economic activity and the North Island as a whole outweighed the South, 10 years later the South Island had more than trebled its population to over 150,000 while the North Island had merely grown from over 40,000 to nearly 100,000, exclusive of the Maoris, and Otago, prince among provinces, had a quarter of the colony's total population and provided a third of its exports. | <urn:uuid:eb3de487-bdfe-4bf1-984e-9a6a8c107163> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/history-settlement-and-development/page-10 | 2024-04-16T04:31:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.97575 | 558 |
Last week NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was involved in an accident that claimed the life of Sprint Car driver Kevin Ward Jr. Sprint Car racing is quite a bit different than NASCAR racing. The cars handle differently and a lot of news spectators have jumped to some crazy conclusions without understanding the whole situation (please read this article for a good perspective). We won’t know the entire truth until the investigation is complete and official word has been given.
One thing that is identical in all racing is tempers flaring and drivers looking to prove a point to another driver. This wasn’t the first time a driver has gotten out of his car to confront another driver in any Motorsport, it happens all the time. Now NASCAR has officially made a rule specifically addressing such behavior. The rule basically states that drivers must stay in their cars until safety comes to the scene (exiting the car is OK if smoke or fire is present). It’s always been an unwritten rule that you don’t get on the track in front of or around moving cars. I guess it took the death of Kevin Ward Jr. to push NASCAR (and hopefully other Motorsports) to make this rule official.
“Really, we’re formalizing rules that have been there,” Robin Pemberton, NASCAR’s vice president of competition and racing development, said at Michigan International Speedway. “It’s reminders that take place during drivers meetings with drivers about on-track accidents. We’re just formalizing this and it’s something that we worked on this week.”
“Through time you have to recognize when you get a reminder or tap on the shoulder, something that may need to be addressed,” Pemberton said. “This is one of those times where we look outside our sport and we look at other things, and we feel like it was time to address this.”
Sometimes we learn lessons the hard way, it’s a tragedy that an entire Motorsports culture had to learn it this way.
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A Vancouver-based technology startup innovating the manufacturing industry revealed this week that it has raised nearly $8 million in capital to write a new chapter of expansion.
Elevated Signals today announced $7.9M in funding through a Series A round led by Yaletown Partners.
Third Kind Venture Capital, WGD Capital, Colin Harris, Raiven Capital, and Pareto Holdings also participated in the round.
Elevated Signals’ manufacturing tech serves a growing list of sectors, ranging from controlled environment agriculture to natural health product manufacturing and critical minerals recovery.
Cofounder Amar Singh says that the influx of capital “will fuel our expansion as we diversify the industries we serve with a focus on high-growth and tech-forward manufacturing businesses, especially those driving progress in food, energy, health, and beyond.”
Elevated Signals’ cloud-based platform automates the capture of real-time manufacturing data, providing a “unified source of truth that is accessible company-wide.”
“Traditional ERP systems are often too rigid for modern and complex manufacturing operations, which can force reliance on paper and spreadsheets, limiting access to operational data and ultimately hurting profitability,” says Singh, CEO.
“We learned quickly that ease of deployment and the ability to support diverse processes was a top priority for our customers,” adds Hardeep Shoker, cofounder of Elevated Signals.
“Being able to quickly unlock access to manufacturing data, costs, and records makes it possible to optimize operations, better manage product quality, and gain a clear financial picture,” the COO said.
Hans Knapp, cofounder of Yaletown Partners, believes that the BC upstart is “solving a real problem for its customers and is aligned with larger trends in the market.”
“We look forward to working closely with the company to continue to accelerate its growth,” Knapp stated.
In 2023, Elevated Signals increased its workforce by 30%.
In 2022, the firm was a finalist for Excellence in Technology Innovation at the 29th annual Technology Impact Awards.
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This guest post was written by Bryan Barletta, lead reviewer at AppVee, a site that offers iPhone app reviews and news. Barletta has picked out some of the App Store’s best applications, and we’ve embedded video reviews for some of them (click the corresponding review link to view a video if it isn’t already embedded). Also be sure to check out our picks of the hottest iPhone apps from back in July when the App Store first launched.
The iPhone and iPod Touch have taken the world by storm. In just a little over six months time we’ve witnessed the doors of the iTunes App Store opening to the 10,000 app marker being crossed. In between that time we’ve see the $999 I’m Rich make several people poor, fart joke apps earning over $25K in one day, and Apple still looking the other way when users mention copy and paste. And with the number of total apps reaching over 13,500 less than a month since the 10,000 mark was passed, that growth is showing no signs of stopping. But some of these stand out much more than others do, so we’ve tried to hone in on the cream of the crop.
Top 10 Apps
Browse through the music genome and find new artists that fit your taste. These are automatically recommended by the site’s algorithm, so it acts like a personalized radio that works surprisingly well.
Link: AppVee’s Pandora Review
Connect to multiple computers and stream their music directly to your iPhone.
Link: AppVee’s Simplify Media Review
Let your iPhone and the world around you create unique and original music. The app uses external inputs (like sound) to create a dynamic soundtrack).
Link: AppVee’s RjDj Review
A multi-client instant messaging app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Link: AppVee’s Beejive Review
Emulate 5 different camera and film setting directly from your iPhone. This helps spice up the photos you’re taking with the phone (the default application doesn’t offer much in the way of effects.
Link: AppVee’s Camerabag Review
An updated version of the Facebook app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, this allows you to chat with friends, post on walls, and use nearly every feature available on the social network’s main website.
Link: AppVee’s Facebook Review
A full featured replacement for the iPhone and iPod Touch contacts app.
Link: AppVee’s Friendbook Review
Voice control nearly every aspect of your iPhone and more – it’s like a more powerful version of the highly hyped (and still-impressive) Google Mobile App.
Link: AppVee’s Vlingo Review
Keep track of everything you could possibly want to remember (like notes or photos) whether you’re on the go or at home.
Link: Appvee’s Evernote Review
Top 10 Games
An epic platform adventure game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, this is easily one of the most innovate games to hit the platform.
Link: AppVee’s Rolando Review
A Tower defense game with SNES-like graphics. The classic gameply is highly addictive.
Link: AppVee’s Fieldrunners Review
A unique puzzle game that asks you to guide your “jelly car” to an endzone. As with most of the other games on this list, this is highly addictive.
Link: AppVee’s Jellycar Review
A multiplayer online word game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Multiplayer games on the iPhone are still rarer than they should be, and being able to play online definitely adds an extra dimension to the gameplay.
Link: AppVee’s Scramboni Review
Save your friends and family from deadly micro viruses in this iPhone and iPod Touch game.
Link: AppVee’s Dr. Awesome Review
Guide your balloon through various obstacles as you attempt to get the highest score
Link: AppVee’s Up There Review
Forget your fishing rod – this uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to allow you to mimic a realistic fishing motion to cast a line. Also check out many of SGN’s games, which feature similar motion detection.
Link: AppVee’s Flick Fishing Review
Hero of Sparta
Control King Argos as you battle the Gods and their minions in this action adventure game.
Link: AppVee’s Hero of Sparta Review
Brothers in Arms
Play through 14 levels on foot or vehicle in this WWII action game.
Link: AppVee’s Brothers in Arms Review
Aurora Feint II
The popular iPhone and iPod Touch puzzle RPG game goes multiplayer.
Link: AppVee’s Aurora Feint II Review
While it’s easy to simply break down the top apps and games that we’ve enjoyed in 2008, it becomes a lot more difficult to find just five apps that took a chance and brought more innovation to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Below are the five apps we feel helped define the future of apps on these devices.
Top 5 Innovations
Link: AppVee’s Ocarina Review
Link: AppVee’s RjDj Review
Link: AppVee’s iFun Review
Link: AppVee’s LogMeIn Review
Link: AppVee’s SlyDial Review
The future of the iPhone and iPod Touch is wide open, to some degree. Depending on what restrictions Apple decides to lift. Developers are already chomping at the bit to release a video recording option as well as the ability for apps to run in the background. While those factors sit solely on the shoulders of Apple as they have been proven possible by the jailbroken community, there are quite a few things that we as consumers should expect out of the apps we’ll see in 2009.
With titles like Rhythm Spirit, a rhythm fighting game based on Japanese folklore, and Myst, a remake of the classic adventure game, making their way over to the iPhone and iPod Touch sometime in 2009 we’ve got some idea of what to look forward to. The real question is: What will be our Ocarina? Our Rolando? What apps are going to challenge the capabilities of this phone and create such a large hype that we find ourselves begging for just one more screenshot or bit of information? We’ll have to wait and see what the App Store has in store for us in 2009 as we count down the remaining hours.
2008 was all about experimenting. A fantastic device emerged, developers went crazy, and we’ve been flooded. Its now time to settle down, dig in and create some revolutionary applications. 2009 is going to be all about quality and depth. We’re going to see richer games that rival the DS and PSP, applications that truly make this device a portable computer, and multi-user apps that really start connecting people. Mobile social gaming is going to be huge and we can’t wait to see what developers have in store for us in the New Year. | <urn:uuid:e7f1528a-076b-4e87-af38-544b77eb45d8> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/31/a-look-at-some-of-the-best-iphone-apps-of-2008/ | 2024-04-16T04:02:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.943505 | 1,527 |
Editor’s note: Surya Yalamanchili was previously a brand manager at Procter & Gamble and has worked at LinkedIn and Groupon. Follow him on Twitter @suryasays.
I love Silicon Valley. Love almost everything about the technology ecosystem. I grew up in New Jersey watching with extreme envy and wonderment as the ‘95-01 boom-bust played out. Like most, I also share a certain reverence for Steve Jobs. Unfortunately, the Valley tends to indulge in one of the less enviable Jobsian traits: the shithead/hero rollercoaster. People and companies are always one or the other. We glorify when it’s smooth sailing and bash mercilessly during turbulence.
Groupon has taken the entire ride. From wonder boy CEO and “fastest growing company ever” to becoming the evil company out to defraud merchants/investors. Now that I’m no longer directly affiliated with the company (other than being a locked-up shareholder), I thought it would be nice to provide a little balance. There’s plenty that’s been said on the negative side of the ledger — no doubt inspired by a righteous desire to protect the little-guy merchant and investor and not at all fueled by a desire for Twitter followers or endless TV appearances.
Outside of karmic balance, I also care about the company itself and for my friends there. A recent occurrence is that I’m also tired of conveying much of this content in response to questions. Last week alone, I got 5 inbounds from people who could potentially have a relationship to Groupon and who want to know “just how bad it is inside the company.” These conversations don’t scale, and as I dug deeper, I saw just how loud and effective the shrill cries of the critic have become. For the record, I’m not trying to lay out a pro-Groupon case here. That’s because I really don’t care/want you to buy shares, love the company, go work there, or whatever. I just want there to be another signal amongst the litany of noise on the company for intelligent people who want to form their own judgements.
Groupon is a strange company. It just is. Start with Andrew, a very charismatic, quirky CEO. Then take the unusual nature of their first investors (vs just investing, they become co-founders and partner with you) and their past business history. Corporate employee count and revenue base basically multiplied like rabbits. The international growth under the leadership of the infamous Samwer brothers was unprecedented. The massive fundraising rounds with large insider sales by early investors. Turning down a $4-6B acquisition after only 2 years in business. The very model had a simplistic appearance that appeared to lack a defensible element. The newly created accounting terms invented to share key business metrics with the outside world. The incredibly confounding Super Bowl ads that absolutely no one seemed to like. A COO who, in less than six months, made a Google-Groupon sandwich. Any one of these plotlines are interesting enough alone. Together? A strange, fascinating company.
It’s a Rorschach test, really. You could pretty much see anything you want if you look hard enough. Currently the ink-blot looks sinister (much self-inflicted) to pundits, a picture worthy of scorn and suspicion. While not actively seeking to change opinions, I do hope to provide additional context. Since context changes perception, that inkblot might look a little different by the end.
So here are some things that are no less true than the negatives, but get much less attention:
1) Groupon has put together a fantastically well-credentialed, experienced management team. The negative press constructs a narrative of a shortsighted enterprise hell-bent on ripping-off merchants and investors alike. The biggest problem with this contention, though, is the people. They’ve not only knowingly signed up to join the company, but they play also play a direct role in steering it. Groupon isn’t some faceless Borg ship; it’s full of Picards and Rikers. It is gospel in the Valley that people and culture are the most critical component to a company because they mostly determine outcomes. If one accepts this premise, what follows should matter heavily.
Jason Child, CFO: Jason is a veteran of Amazon and basically ran international finance there. His resume (but, really, resumes are dead, I mean LinkedIn profile) speaks for itself, but first-hand he’s one of the smartest, most thoughtful executives I’ve ever worked with. With the recent accounting restatement, there is a lot of, understandable, apprehension over financial controls/situation. Jason is clearly in the spotlight as head of finance*, but for what its worth, I trust the guy completely. He’s got his work cut out for him, but if the job is doable, he’ll get it done.
Rich Williams, SVP Marketing: Rich also worked at Amazon running worldwide customer acquisition, etc. Other than my close friend Gedioen, Rich is the other person I take in a marketing draft to save my life. He got in the weeds of user acquisition/conversion numbers and also was a clear voice on the brand challenges.
David Schellhase, General Counsel: David was Counsel for Benioff at Salesforce for 9 years. Yeah, that pretty much says it all. David’s a badass. A man of few words, but incredible presence he immediately got to work on all things litigation and compliance.
Skipp Schipper, SVP HR: Skipp (or “Brian” as, randomly, I just discovered is his first name according to his LI profile) was the global head of HR at Cisco. Yes, that Cisco Systems. Trying to be an agile Internet company while you have 10K+ employees spread out all over the globe is intense. It kind of helps that Cisco has 70K+ employees all over the globe, and Skipp has been there, done that.
Jeff Holden, SVP Products: Sometimes things are so interesting, that you only need one sentence: Jeff worked with Jeff BEZOS at DE Shaw, then joined Amazon in 1997 (!), and ran all of consumer for Amazon before founding his company, which was eventually acqui-hired by Groupon.
There is, of course, much other great talent. There’s Hoyoung Pak, who is, not just an operations ninja, but literally, an actual ninja. He joined as I was leaving, but I was struck by his thoughtful, calm discipline in turning Groupon’s far-flung (and often undisciplined) operations into something approaching world-class. The list goes on…Aaron, former-roommate Jason, Brian, Mihir… Look at their backgrounds and think about whether they’d join or be party to a willful scam. Or if you were a company that was basically imploding would you hire such smart, powerful, influential people or instead more middling talents who you could hide the truth from?
2) Groupon has been building a ton of lower-margin, high-value tools for merchants. Groupon Scheduler, so merchants can more efficiently schedule their appointments not only from deals, but everyday business. Groupon Rewards, a loyalty program to help drive repeat business from deals and otherwise. Groupon Now! to drive demand during off-peak times. The pattern here is that whether you use Daily Deals or not, these are tools to help your business. Daily Deals is the golden egg with huge margins for Groupon unlikely to be found in future offerings. That clearly doesn’t scare Groupon off from trying to meet merchant needs because being the ecosystem for local business requires massive scale and providing massive value. These are small steps in trying to deliver that. Success here unlocks massive value for Groupon (and its merchant partners), which they are clearly demonstrating they understand. Then there are the massive amounts of talent acquisitions (by Groupon’s incredible Corp Dev staff led by Jason and close friend Tom) that are no doubt building the next generation of great products.
3) Groupon has massive ongoing merchant relationships. If Groupon was such an evil company and so bad for local merchants – why are tens of thousands of these local businesses still actively working with them? As a national populace, we lionize small business owners. Do we only believe that they don’t know what’s in their best interest when it comes to the “evil Groupon”? That’s a bit insane. In every major city in America, a large number of very prominent local fixtures have repeatedly chosen to feature their businesses on Groupon. Are we really supposed to believe that these businesses are actively working against their self-interest? If you do, then I actively encourage you to embrace President Barack Obama’s radical socialist agenda for America** to help save them from themselves. Or if you believe that these businesses have no choice but to run a Groupon or face insolvency (wait, what?) then by that logic isn’t Groupon doing everyone a favor by helping these businesses bridge this cataclysmic chasm? It’s hard to divine any kind of logic here. The numbers and facts of repeat, free-market choices by local merchants defy all cohesive argument.
Now two myths/misconceptions:
1) Groupon is an awful, easily replicable business that is toast once “the real” competition arrives. This is the meme that refuses to die, but should, if only to give this amazing Hillary Tumblr the room it needs to thrive. But the clear consensus was that Groupon would die shortly from the clones because there was no moat.*** To be honest, when I joined Groupon this was the point that I was most ill at ease about. But when you take a breath, and look at reality, what’s happened? Yelp, probably the strongest brand in local merchant discovery, abandoned the deals business. Facebook, the stickiest web property in history, shut down shop quite quickly. Google has, it seems, gained zero traction. LivingSocial after surging has faded a bit (but still a great company). Amazon is still sorting things out, but clearly hasn’t cracked the nut. The hundreds of local clones have mostly gone quietly into the cold night. Those are facts, not theory. Finally, as critics love to say that the very “daily deal” model with its discounting and revenue splits is disgusting and evil (!). It’s apparently predatory. That must be why two public companies with valuations in the nine digits, Amazon and Google, seem to be stumbling all over themselves doing their darndest right now to try and exactly replicate it. Yes, clearly it is intrinsically evil (bad for local merchants!) and has no barriers to entry (will crumble as soon as anyone of substance enters!). Right.
2) Groupon is doomed! – The critics were right, just look at its stock price and all the negative press. GRPN is admittedly trading at a disappointing $13ish. That earnings restatement hurt****, no doubt. Of course those who have made a PR career off Groupon are using all of this to declare victory, repeatedly pat themselves on the back, and let everyone know that they’ve “been right all along.” Unfortunately just looking at the stock price ignores history. I’ve been lucky enough to have worked at two pre-IPO companies. LinkedIn and, obviously, Groupon. LinkedIn traded to a high of 120+ and dropped to the mid-50′s. This meant absolutely nothing about LNKD’s core business. Nothing. My point is just that stock performance doesn’t make any kind of demonstrable point. Signal? Sure. Point? No.
Second, just because the torrent of current herd opinion is against GRPN doesn’t turn it into truth. Why? How about this bit from the WSJ:
What would you do with a 3-year-old company that has never turned an annual profit, is on track to lose a quarter billion dollars and whose recent SEC filings warn that its services might be used for money laundering and financial fraud?
If you were the managers and venture capitalists…, you’d take it public. And that is what they hope to do in an $80 million offering that will test the limits of investor tolerance and financial market gullibility.
… (The market needs this company) as much as it does an anthrax epidemic.
Written about Groupon? Nope. PayPal. 10 years ago. What else? Well, PayPal paid its users $10 to join, $10 to existing members for a referral. This led Reid to once remark that they would actually decrease their burn rate, if they switched to throwing $100 bills from the roof. Yet, as uncomfortable as it was, it was a high-risk, high-reward strategy to winning a massive market. I’m not saying Groupon is PayPal. I’m not saying Groupon is LinkedIn. Those are two phenomenal businesses with the most precious of all advantages: network effects. While being the plumbing for local merchants seems network-y, ultimately we’ll have to wait and see. Regardless, we need to stop, breathe, and look around. There are clearly parallels.
At this point, you’ve been with me for 4 hours reading this. We’ve exited the part where I’ve tried to help you understand a bit about the company (and now I’ll try to stop typing because my fingers are cramping). If you’ve come this far, you might be wondering about my time with Groupon. I led the merchant group. That was basically everything non-sales that involved a merchant. This meant I worked on merchant marketing programs, new merchant tools and delivered sanctimonious speeches to the entire sales force about how important our merchants were to us. It was an incredible, great role, surrounded by amazing people at a very important time in the company’s history. I love the people and my time there.
Why did I leave? Part of it was that coming off my 18-month congressional sojourn, I wasn’t sure I wanted to commit myself to Chicago/a large company and from the first introduction from Reid to Andrew we structured as temporary/interim leadership. When I joined, neither Rich, Jeff, or Hoyoung (all mentioned above) were a part of Groupon. All of them quickly grew into invaluable partners and functional mentors once they did join though. They innately grasped the importance of merchants to our long-term success. Late summer, I brought to Andrew the idea of elevating the Merchant role or splintering the group functionally to these various heads, and he chose the latter. It’s hard for me to argue with his choice given how talented the team is. So folks who worked on my team in product, marketing, and operations spun out into these various heads. Always nursing a certain international wanderlust, I debated a role that was offered to move to Dublin to play (probably not so nicely) with the Samwers. Ultimately, I decided that I had already learned a ridiculous amount and was sliding down the curve of diminishing returns in learning and skills, and wanted to move on to what was next. Today when friends see all the negative news about the company, they expect that I’d be happy I left. On the contrary I often look back wistfully, part of me misses Groupon and wishes I were still there side-by-side with my friends.
Last, this post is sort of intentionally obnoxiously long. Why? Because I’d really rather not write another. I don’t aspire to be the “Groupon guy”. And so, to recap, I’m not trying to sell you on Groupon.***** I just want folks to take a breath and form their own opinion. The innate herd mentality combined with the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley can be a doozy. But after reading this, maybe a few of might think that Groupon has actually, maybe, done one or two things right in their lifetime. You might even think that they, in fact, have some chance at pulling off a veritable moon landing of becoming the plumbing of local commerce. There are lots of worthy companies out there: Square, Google, Amazon, PayPal, LivingSocial, Facebook. They all have some kind of shot at local commerce. But, it’s just not rational — just not fair, not an impartial reading of the facts, to say that Groupon isn’t also in that conversation.
We can spend our time hating on Instagram for selling at a $1B w/14 employees & no revenue, and Groupon for its variety of sins, or we can choose to live up to our individual human potential, and dare to try and be great. It’s much easier (and more fun) to judge people, but I think Roosevelt was on to something:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
* The two people most under fire are Jason and Andrew. I understand. I don’t really bring up Andrew in this post. It’s a shame that very few people in the Valley have gotten to know Andrew. He’s one of the most talented people I’ve ever come across. Most impressive? He’s been on a massive up/down ride and he’s always been almost inhumanly even-keeled about it. Equally impressive is how fast he learns. I heard from someone who was there in “The Point” days about how much Andrew still had to learn about business/management then. His instincts, and how fast he learned, was absolutely amazing. He’s not perfect (when he gets a pet project in his teeth, he can’t let it go), but NO ONE is. What he is: ridiculously talented. When I found a company (now or years in the future), I’ll gladly take Andrew’s money and bizarrely creative brain. For all the shit he takes, you should especially worry if Andrew isn’t running Groupon.
**For those of you about to freak out: relax. I ran as a Democrat for Congress in 2010. So: I kid, I kid.
*** Bill Gurley talks about moats in one of the best ever posts by a VC when he calls out that not all revenue is created equal. Though I agree w/his post completely, though we have a general disagreement on Groupon.
****But what does it say about the company? Probably that they went public too soon. This is a totally new category that has no precedent, no history for modeling. As customer cohorts age, and as they experiment with new deal categories and types, refund rates could have pretty large changes. This doesn’t do well for predictability, forecasting, or investor comfort, but that’s part of the deal for new businesses. I don’t believe that has anything to do with accounting shenanigans or other kind of scary stuff. No doubt internal controls need work. It takes time, and for the longest time, Groupon was a rocket ship where the company was just trying to hang on internally and with t he international sprawl, even harder. Internal controls are critical, the company knows that (see management profiles) and now must play catch up.
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Legal avenues for recovery
While the odds of recovering funds lost to fraudulent gambling sites are often stacked against victims, there are legal avenues worth exploring, albeit with varying degrees of success.
- Civil lawsuits – In some cases, victims may be able to file civil lawsuits against the perpetrators, seeking compensation for their financial losses and damages. However, this option requires substantial evidence, documentation, and a clear legal basis for the claim. Additionally, the process is lengthy, and costly, and proves futile if the defendants cannot be located or lack the means to pay.
- Criminal prosecution – Reporting the scam to the appropriate law enforcement agencies can potentially lead to criminal investigations and prosecutions. If successful, these cases may result in the seizure of assets and funds, which could potentially be used to compensate victims. However, the chances of successful prosecution and recovery are often slim, particularly when dealing with international criminal organizations.
- Alternative dispute resolution – Some jurisdictions offer alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as arbitration or mediation, which can provide a more efficient and cost-effective means of resolving disputes related to online gambling. However, the effectiveness of these methods largely depends on the cooperation of the fraudulent site operators and the jurisdiction’s legal framework.
Proactive measures – Prevention is key
- Research and due diligence – Before engaging with any online gambling platform, conduct thorough research and due diligence. Consult scam verification sites, read reviews from reputable sources, and ensure the site holds valid licenses and operates within a regulated jurisdiction.
- Stick to reputable and licensed operators – Prioritize playing on reputable and licensed online gambling sites that have established a strong track record of fairness, security, and customer protection. These platforms are more likely to have robust measures in place to safeguard player funds and prevent fraud.
- Utilize secure payment methods – When funding your online gambling account, use secure and trusted payment methods, such as credit cards or established e-wallet services. Avoid making direct bank transfers or using untraceable payment methods, as these can make it more difficult to track and recover funds in the event of a scam.
- Be wary of unrealistic promises – Fraudulent gambling sites often lure victims with promises of unrealistic bonuses, guaranteed wins, or other too-good-to-be-true offers. Trust your instincts and avoid engaging with sites that make such dubious claims.
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Unraveling Ursula Kriehuber’s Astonishing Net Worth: A Captivating Insight into the Life of a Legendary Artist
In the world of art, there are individuals who leave an everlasting impact through their exceptional talent. One such legendary artist is Ursula Kriehuber. Her captivating artwork has mesmerized art enthusiasts and collectors alike. While her artistic achievements are widely known and celebrated, have you ever wondered about the financial success behind her work? In this blog post, we will delve into the fascinating net worth of Ursula Kriehuber, uncovering the financial side of her remarkable journey as an artist.
1. Ursula Kriehuber’s Early Life:
Ursula Kriehuber was born on September 26, 1806, in Vienna, Austria. From a young age, she showed great interest and talent in art. Her parents encouraged her passion and allowed her to pursue a career as an artist. Despite facing several challenges, including gender discrimination that was prevalent during her time, Ursula remained determined to succeed.
– Ursula’s parents supported her artistic ambitions, providing her with the necessary tools and materials.
– She attended art classes, honing her skills and developing her unique style.
– Ursula’s dedication and hard work paid off as she began receiving recognition for her artistic talent at a young age.
2. The Rise of Ursula Kriehuber:
As Ursula grew older, her talent continued to flourish, and her artwork gained widespread appreciation. Her distinctive style, characterized by intricate details and a focus on capturing the essence of her subjects, became her trademark.
– Ursula’s reputation as a portrait artist grew steadily, attracting both local and international clients.
– She was sought after by numerous influential figures, including royalty, musicians, and writers, who admired her ability to portray their unique personalities.
– Ursula’s popularity earned her substantial commissions and further solidified her standing as a prominent artist of her time.
3. Exceptional Artwork and Financial Success:
Ursula Kriehuber’s artwork not only mesmerized viewers but also brought her significant financial success. Her ability to immortalize her subjects with great precision and emotion made her portraits highly sought after by art collectors worldwide.
– Art collectors recognized the historical significance of Ursula’s portraits, valuing them for their cultural and artistic importance.
– The demand for Ursula’s artwork continued to soar, leading to substantial sales and contributions to her net worth.
– Her reputation as a masterful artist expanded her clientele, ensuring a steady stream of commissions and financial stability.
4. Investments and Business Ventures:
Beyond her artistic talent, Ursula Kriehuber showed astute business acumen by investing in various ventures. Her wise decisions further added to her remarkable net worth.
– Ursula invested in real estate, acquiring properties strategically and benefiting from their appreciation over time.
– She also ventured into publishing, releasing prints of her famous portraits and collaborations with other artists.
– These investments, coupled with her artistic success, allowed Ursula to solidify her financial foundation and thrive as both an artist and a businesswoman.
5. Legacy and Artistic Influence:
Ursula Kriehuber’s influence extended beyond her lifetime. Her contributions to the art world have left an indelible mark, inspiring generations of artists to create exceptional pieces of their own.
– Ursula’s innovative techniques, such as her focus on capturing the essence of her subjects, continue to inspire portrait artists today.
– Art institutions around the world showcase her artwork, recognizing its historical and artistic significance.
– The legacy of Ursula Kriehuber lives on, ensuring her everlasting impact on the art world.
6. Frequently Asked Questions:
Q1: What was Ursula Kriehuber’s net worth?
A1: Ursula Kriehuber’s net worth was substantial, primarily due to her successful career as an artist and wise investments. While the exact figure is unknown, it is estimated to be in the millions.
Q2: How did Ursula Kriehuber’s portraits become so valuable?
A2: Ursula Kriehuber’s portraits gained immense value due to their historical importance, artistic excellence, and the demand from art collectors who recognized their significance.
Q3: Did Ursula Kriehuber have any notable clients?
A3: Yes, Ursula Kriehuber’s clientele included influential figures such as royalty, musicians, and writers, who admired her ability to capture their unique personalities in her art.
Q4: Apart from her artwork, how did Ursula Kriehuber accumulate wealth?
A4: Ursula Kriehuber made wise investments in real estate and publishing, which contributed to her financial success alongside her artistic career.
Q5: What is the significance of Ursula Kriehuber’s legacy?
A5: Ursula Kriehuber’s legacy lies in her artistic influence and the inspiration she provides to contemporary artists. Her work continues to be celebrated and showcased worldwide.
Q6: Are Ursula Kriehuber’s portraits still available for purchase?
A6: While Ursula Kriehuber’s original portraits are rare and mostly found in museums or private collections, reproductions and prints of her work can be found for sale.
Q7: How can I learn more about Ursula Kriehuber’s artwork?
A7: You can explore Ursula Kriehuber’s artwork by visiting art museums, galleries, or online platforms dedicated to her work. These resources offer a deeper insight into her exceptional talent.
Ursula Kriehuber’s astonishing net worth is a testament to her immense talent, hard work, and entrepreneurial spirit. Her remarkable career as an artist and businesswoman has left an indelible mark on the art world. The financial success she achieved through her artwork and wise investments showcases the value placed on her exceptional talent. As we continue to admire Ursula Kriehuber’s artwork and celebrate her legacy, let her story be an inspiration to budding artists and entrepreneurs alike.
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Earlier this year it was announced that construction on Amazon’s HQ2 was to be paused as a result of both the wave of redundancies at the tech firm and the shift towards remote work. The episode marks the latest in the long-running saga to host HQ2 that saw some refer to the affair as more of a con than a contest.
Critics argued that the huge tax cuts and other concessions offered to the tech firm wouldn’t produce sufficient returns to justify the outlay, especially as evidence from other tech firms suggests that local businesses fail to benefit from proximity to tech campuses as so many employees use the gyms, dry cleaners, restaurants, and cafes on campus rather than in the community.
Of course, most cities that have a thriving tech sector contain a much bigger pool of companies, but the evidence is equally mixed as to how valuable such a presence is for the typical resident. A recent study from Yale explores whether cities generally benefit from having a thriving tech scene.
The research explains that when a city has a thriving tech scene, house prices often soar as the city attracts a wave of well-paid tech workers. This also forces local employers to up their salaries to try and attract and retain employees.
After tracking VC investments across over 350 metro areas in the United States, the researchers also found that a tech boom also impacts employment, wages, and even rates of entrepreneurship. The analysis found that there was a particular impact on businesses whose sales are greatest outside of the region.
For such businesses, there was a decline in both the number of companies, the jobs they had, and the wages of their workforce whenever venture capital poured into the region. The researchers believe this is likely to be because of the increased competition for capital, talent, and resources.
This means that so-called “tradable” businesses, which sell outside of their local region, become less competitive. The losses suffered by these tradable businesses are not sufficiently offset by gains made in nontradable businesses, such as hair salons, restaurants, and convenience stores, which trade solely within the region they’re located.
The local nature of these businesses means that they tend to thrive through the introduction of a lot of new and well-paid jobs into the region. This results in growth in the number of nontradable businesses and the jobs and wages of those occupied in them.
While non-tech parts of the tradable economy tend to suffer, those parts that are backed by venture capital tend to thrive and become much more important to the local economy.
“Although an expanding high-tech sector may stimulate the demand for local goods and services, it can crowd out other tradable industries within the region, as it consumes human and financial capital,” the researchers explain.
The infusion of venture capital creates a localized version of The Dutch Disease, which befell the Netherlands after they discovered gas in the North Sea over 50 years ago. This resulted in huge investments in the energy sector and the soaring value of the Dutch currency. In turn, other sectors of the Dutch economy suffered. A similar phenomenon occurs when the local tech scene booms, as the costs for other businesses rise.
“Rising wages and real estate prices increase the cost of doing business. These rising costs prove particularly problematic for the tradable sector because these businesses must compete with those operating elsewhere, in lower-cost places,” the researchers explain.
Silicon Valley Syndrome
It’s an issue the researchers refer to as the “Silicon Valley Syndrome”, which highlights that encouraging the tech industry can have very real consequences not only for other sectors of the local economy but also in areas such as housing, where prices can quickly grow out of reach of many workers.
The study indicates that venture capital for the technology sector exacerbates pay inequality in the broader economy. When venture capital doubles, the average wages of the highest 25% of nontradable businesses increase by about 2%, while the two pay tiers below also experience gains.
On the other hand, the findings reveal that the average wages of employees in the lowest pay tier of nontradable businesses decline by approximately 1%. This category encompasses many waiters, hotel staff, and fast-food workers.
“This combination of the crowding out of the other segments of the tradable sector with rising income inequality appears to be the signature symptoms of the Silicon Valley Syndrome,” the authors explain.
While this is not a case of the absolute wages of those lower down falling, their pay relative to those around them usually is. What’s more, the buying power of their income also falls as the cost of living rises. It provides a reminder that while attracting tech companies to a region can be a good thing, local authorities need to do much more to ensure that other sectors of the economy aren’t left behind. | <urn:uuid:0844b58c-ac2b-4dc6-9f46-d0eab87faaaf> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://technoversepro.com/it-management/the-downside-of-having-a-booming-tech-sector/ | 2024-04-16T04:07:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.961593 | 994 |
Aweber vs TinyEmail – Which Email Marketing Tool Should You Choose?
In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into the Aweber vs TinyEmail debate, comparing these email marketing tools to help you make an informed decision.
✔ Comprehensive Email Marketing
✔ Seamless Integration Capabilities
❌ Steep Learning Curve
Aweber vs TinyEmail: Head-to-Head Battle
In the ever-evolving landscape of email marketing platforms, Aweber and TinyEmail have established themselves as reliable choices. But what sets them apart, and how can their differences impact your marketing strategy?
What sets Aweber and TinyEmail apart?
Aweber boasts a wide range of features, from customizable email templates to robust automation options. On the other hand, TinyEmail positions itself as a more streamlined solution, focusing on simplicity and ease of use. Understanding your specific needs is crucial in determining which platform aligns with your goals.
How do their pricing structures compare?
Aweber offers several pricing plans, catering to businesses of all sizes. This flexibility allows you to choose a plan that aligns with your budget and scalability requirements.
TinyEmail, while more affordable, may have limitations compared to Aweber. It’s essential to weigh the features against the cost to find the best value for your investment.
Which platform offers better customization options?
The ability to customize your email campaigns is a key factor in achieving a personalized touch. Aweber excels in this regard, providing a range of customizable templates and advanced design options.
TinyEmail, while offering customization features, may be limited compared to Aweber. If creating visually appealing and unique campaigns is a priority, Aweber might be the better choice.
A Closer Look at Email Templates
Email templates are the canvas of your email marketing campaigns, influencing the visual appeal and effectiveness of your messages. Let’s explore how Aweber and TinyEmail approach this critical aspect.
Aweber’s email template offerings
Aweber provides a diverse array of professionally designed templates, catering to various industries and campaign goals. These templates are not only visually appealing but also optimized for mobile responsiveness, ensuring a seamless experience across devices. Aweber also allows for extensive customization, enabling you to align the template with your brand identity.
TinyEmail’s approach to email template customization
TinyEmail, while offering a selection of templates, focuses on simplicity and ease of use. The platform emphasizes a user-friendly interface, allowing even those with minimal design experience to create compelling email campaigns. However, the template options might be more limited compared to Aweber. If you prioritize a straightforward design process, TinyEmail’s approach could be beneficial.
How personalized email templates enhance your campaigns
Personalization is a cornerstone of effective email marketing. Aweber’s extensive customization options empower you to create personalized templates that resonate with your audience. TinyEmail, though more straightforward, still allows for basic personalization. Consider the level of personalization you require for your campaigns and choose a platform that aligns with your goals.
Decoding Email Deliverability
Email deliverability is the lifeline of any email marketing campaign. Ensuring your messages reach the intended audience is non-negotiable. How do Aweber and TinyEmail tackle this critical aspect?
Understanding the role of email deliverability in marketing success
Email deliverability goes beyond merely sending emails; it’s about ensuring they land in the inbox and capture your audience’s attention. High deliverability rates contribute to the success of your campaigns by maximizing visibility and engagement.
Aweber’s strategies for maximizing email deliverability
Aweber utilizes sophisticated algorithms and authentication processes to optimize delivery to the inbox. It provides detailed analytics on your email campaigns, empowering you to refine approaches for higher engagement.
Leveraging these robust tools allows continually boosting open, click-through, and conversion rates over time. Ultimately, Aweber enables sending the right content to the right subscribers at the right time – ensuring emails prompt meaningful interactions.
TinyEmail’s approach to ensuring your emails reach the inbox
TinyEmail also prioritizes email deliverability, implementing measures to minimize the likelihood of your emails ending up in spam folders. The platform provides features to monitor deliverability rates and offers guidance on optimizing your campaigns for better results.
While TinyEmail may not have the extensive tracking and analysis tools of Aweber, it still focuses on ensuring your messages reach your audience reliably.
Aweber and TinyEmail: More Than Just Platforms
Beyond the basics of email marketing, both Aweber and TinyEmail offer additional features that can elevate your marketing strategy. How do these platforms integrate with your existing marketing stack, and what extra value do they bring?
Exploring additional features beyond basic email marketing
Aweber goes beyond traditional email marketing by offering features such as automation, analytics, and integrations with third-party tools. This comprehensive approach enables you to centralize your marketing efforts within the platform, streamlining processes for efficiency.
How Aweber and TinyEmail integrate with your existing marketing stack
Aweber seamlessly integrates with various marketing tools, allowing you to connect your email marketing efforts with other aspects of your strategy. Whether you use CRM software or analytics tools, Aweber aims to enhance your overall marketing experience.
TinyEmail, while not as robust in terms of integrations, still provides essential connections to support your marketing endeavors.
Leveraging Aweber and TinyEmail for comprehensive marketing strategies
Both Aweber and TinyEmail contribute to a holistic marketing strategy, but the extent of their offerings differs. Aweber’s comprehensive features make it a suitable choice for businesses looking to centralize their marketing efforts.
TinyEmail, with its simplicity, may appeal to those who prioritize a focused and straightforward approach.
Pros and Cons of Aweber
To make an informed decision, it’s crucial to weigh the pros and cons of each platform. Let’s delve into the strengths and weaknesses of Aweber.
A detailed analysis of Aweber’s strengths and weaknesses
– Robust Automation: Aweber offers a robust automation system, allowing you to set triggers based on actions like email opens or link clicks.
– Comprehensive Email Marketing: From customizable templates to in-depth analytics, Aweber covers various aspects of email marketing.
– Integration Capabilities: Aweber seamlessly integrates with other marketing tools, enhancing your overall marketing stack.
– Cost: Aweber’s pricing may be higher compared to some competitors, making it less accessible for smaller businesses.
– Learning Curve: The extensive features of Aweber may pose a learning curve for beginners.
Is Aweber the right choice for your business?
If you prioritize a feature-rich platform with extensive automation and integration capabilities, Aweber could be the ideal choice. While the initial learning curve may be steep, the long-term benefits for your marketing strategy make it a worthwhile investment.
Pros and Cons of TinyEmail
TinyEmail positions itself as a streamlined and user-friendly alternative. Let’s explore the pros and cons of this platform and understand when TinyEmail outshines the competition.
Unpacking the pros and cons of TinyEmail
– Simplicity: TinyEmail excels in simplicity, making it an ideal choice for those who prefer a straightforward approach.
– Affordability: TinyEmail’s pricing is generally more budget-friendly, catering to small businesses or individuals with limited resources.
– Limited Features: Compared to Aweber, TinyEmail may have limitations in terms of features and customization options.
– Scalability Concerns: As your business grows, you may find TinyEmail’s features limited compared to more robust platforms.
When does TinyEmail outshine the competition?
If you’re a small business or an individual with basic email marketing needs, and you prioritize simplicity and affordability, TinyEmail could be the perfect fit. It’s crucial to assess your current requirements and future scalability when considering TinyEmail.
Automation: Aweber’s Robust Offerings
Automation is a game-changer in email marketing, streamlining processes and maximizing efficiency. How does Aweber excel in this critical aspect?
How Aweber streamlines your email marketing processes
Aweber offers a robust automation system that allows you to set triggers for various actions. Whether it’s sending a follow-up email based on user behavior or nurturing leads through a series of automated emails, Aweber empowers you to create sophisticated campaigns without constant manual intervention.
Leveraging automation triggers for maximum efficiency
Automation triggers, such as email opens or link clicks, enable you to tailor your campaigns based on user engagement. Aweber’s automation system provides detailed insights into user behavior, allowing you to refine your strategies and deliver more targeted and effective content.
Integrating Aweber’s automation with your existing marketing efforts
A key advantage of Aweber is its seamless integration with other marketing tools. This means you can synchronize your email marketing efforts with your broader marketing strategy. Whether you’re using CRM software or analytics tools, Aweber ensures a cohesive and integrated approach to your marketing initiatives.
Understanding where each platform excels and falls short
Aweber shines in providing an all-encompassing email marketing solution, suitable for businesses looking to centralize their marketing efforts. However, it may be less accessible for smaller businesses due to its pricing.
TinyEmail, with its simplicity and affordability, caters to those with basic email marketing needs. However, as businesses grow, they may find TinyEmail’s features limiting compared to more robust platforms like Aweber.
Customer Support: A Crucial Factor
Effective customer support is a non-negotiable aspect when choosing an email marketing platform. How do Aweber and TinyEmail fare in this critical area?
Aweber’s support offerings
Aweber is renowned for its responsive customer support. The platform provides various support channels, including live chat, email support, and an extensive knowledge base. This ensures that users can quickly find solutions to their queries and receive timely assistance when needed.
TinyEmail’s customer support strategy
TinyEmail, while prioritizing simplicity, understands the importance of responsive support. The platform offers email support, ensuring users can reach out for assistance when faced with challenges. While it may not have the extensive support channels of Aweber, TinyEmail aims to provide effective solutions to user queries.
Why responsive support is vital for your email marketing endeavors
In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, having responsive customer support can be a game-changer. Timely assistance ensures that any issues or questions are addressed promptly, minimizing downtime and allowing you to focus on executing successful email marketing campaigns.
Choosing the Right Email Marketing Platform: A Decision-Making Guide
As we navigate the intricacies of Aweber vs TinyEmail, it’s essential to understand the factors that should guide your decision. Choosing the right email marketing platform is a decision that can significantly impact the effectiveness of your campaigns. Consider the following factors to make an informed choice:
- Specific Marketing Needs: Evaluate your specific marketing needs and goals. Aweber’s extensive features may be advantageous for complex marketing strategies, while TinyEmail’s simplicity may suffice for more straightforward campaigns.
- Integration with Existing Stack: Assess how well each platform integrates with your existing marketing stack. Seamless integration ensures a cohesive marketing strategy and enhances overall efficiency.
- Budget Considerations: Consider your budget constraints. Aweber, while offering extensive features, may come with a higher price tag. If budget is a primary consideration, TinyEmail’s cost-effective pricing plans may be more suitable.
- Automation Requirements: Evaluate your automation requirements. Aweber’s comprehensive automation features may be beneficial for intricate processes, while TinyEmail’s basic automation may suffice for simpler campaigns.
- Personalization Needs: Consider the level of personalization you require. Aweber’s in-depth personalization options may be crucial for highly targeted campaigns, while TinyEmail’s simpler approach may be sufficient for more general messaging.
Conclusion: Aweber vs TinyEmail
After a comprehensive comparison of Aweber and TinyEmail, it is clear that both platforms have their strengths and cater to the needs of small businesses. Aweber, with its extensive features and long-standing reputation, is a reliable choice for businesses looking for a comprehensive email marketing solution.
On the other hand, TinyEmail offers a simplified yet powerful platform that focuses on ease of use and affordability.
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Ultimately, the best email marketing platform for your small business depends on your specific requirements, budget, and preferences.
It is recommended to take advantage of the free trials offered by both Aweber and TinyEmail to get a hands-on experience and determine which platform aligns best with your business goals.
Remember, choosing the right email marketing platform is a crucial step towards building successful and impactful email campaigns.
As you embark on this journey, remember that the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns rests on choosing the right platform for your unique requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who is AWeber best for?
A: AWeber is best suited for marketers and businesses of all sizes, offering a comprehensive set of features that cater to diverse marketing needs. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a small business owner, AWeber’s versatility makes it an ideal choice for crafting and optimizing effective email campaigns.
Q: Is AWeber no longer free?
A: AWeber no longer offers a free plan. However, it provides various pricing plans to accommodate different budget constraints, ensuring users can access its robust features and reliable services with flexibility.
Q: Why should I use AWeber?
A: AWeber is a top choice for its proven reliability, extensive feature set, and adaptability. Its established reputation for high deliverability, customizable templates, and advanced automation makes it an effective platform for marketers aiming to maximize the impact of their email campaigns.
Q: Can I use AWeber for free?
A: AWeber no longer offers a free plan. However, it provides affordable pricing plans to cater to various budget considerations, ensuring that businesses of all sizes can access its powerful email marketing tools.
Q: What are the benefits of AWeber?
A: AWeber offers benefits such as high deliverability, customizable email templates, advanced automation, and seamless integration with existing marketing stacks. These features empower marketers to create, send, and track email campaigns with efficiency and effectiveness.
Q: What is AWeber used for?
A: AWeber is primarily used for email marketing, allowing businesses to create, send, and track email campaigns. Its features include customizable templates, automation, and analytics, making it a versatile platform for crafting and optimizing targeted and engaging email content.
Q: What type of company is AWeber?
A: AWeber is an email marketing company that provides a platform for businesses and marketers to create, automate, and analyze their email campaigns. It caters to a diverse range of companies, from small businesses to large enterprises.
Q: Is AWeber and Mailchimp the same?
A: No, AWeber and Mailchimp are separate email marketing platforms. While both offer tools for creating and managing email campaigns, they have distinct features, pricing structures, and user interfaces. Choosing between them depends on specific business needs and preferences.
Q: How long is AWeber free?
A: AWeber no longer offers a free plan. Users can explore its various pricing plans, each designed to provide flexibility and access to the platform’s features at different levels.
Q: Do you have to pay for AWeber?
A: Yes, AWeber operates on a subscription-based model. Users can choose from different pricing plans based on their business needs and the level of features required for their email marketing campaigns.
Q: How much does an AWeber account cost?
A: The cost of an AWeber account depends on the chosen pricing plan. AWeber offers tiered plans with different features, allowing users to select the one that best aligns with their budget and requirements.
Q: Is AWeber still free?
A: No, AWeber no longer offers a free plan. However, it provides affordable pricing plans to accommodate various budgets, ensuring users can access its powerful email marketing tools with flexibility.
Q: Can you use AWeber for free?
A: AWeber no longer offers a free plan. Users can explore its pricing options, which are designed to provide access to the platform’s features at different levels, catering to a range of budget considerations.
Q: What is AWeber best for?
A: AWeber is best for businesses and marketers seeking a versatile and reliable email marketing platform. Its comprehensive features, including customizable templates and advanced automation, make it suitable for crafting and optimizing effective email campaigns.
Q: Can you tell us what AWeber does?
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How many passwords do you have? Do you change them as frequently as you should? Do you forget them or confuse them? Have you forgotten the password that accesses your passwords? Password problems are the 21st century equivalent of losing your front door key.
For more than ten years research has been going on to investigate whether EEG headsets can be used to unlock devices using ‘passthoughts’. The neuronal electrical signals generated by our brains are unique. Ask a group of people to hum the same tune in their head and none of the brain patterns will be alike. Some researchers are claiming a 100% accuracy for their passthoughts systems. Some of these systems require users to wear electrodes on their forehead, which is probably not a look that’s going to catch on, but in ear EEG sensors are also in development and seem a likely way forward.
A passthought user will only have to think of a phrase, hum a tune or think of a shape to access devices: typing in a sequence of numbers and letters will be a thing of the past. Except that it’s not quite that straightforward. Brain waves are not constant, they are susceptible to physiological changes: fatigue, mood and stress can all change brainwaves, as will the use of medicine, caffeine or alcohol.
The claims for ‘passthoughts’ impregnability is also questionable. A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have been investigating how malicious software might be used to hack a user’s brainwaves. The study explored the ways in which software could learn an individual’s brainwave responses to the extent that it could start to make educated guesses about input. Their premise was that if a user paused a video game to log into online banking while wearing an EEG headset, their passwords could be at risk. If a victim can be tricked into typing a two-hundred-word response as a preliminary to re-entering a game, the software would then have sufficient data on which to work. The lesson is one we should already know by heart; no system is impregnable.
EEG, electroencephalography, the technology that allows us to look at human brain activity, has been with us since the twenties and has been a key tool in advancing our understanding of the activity of the human brain. In recent years EEG headsets have been widely available for personal use and studies of their potential for interacting with robotic devices as well as what they can tell us about the operation of the brain, have been widespread. A study by a London based behavioural research consultancy looked at the brain activity of professional and amateur poker players, to explore how emotion and logical thought differ at moments of stress.
A group of physically impaired musicians have used EEG headsets to create music with their minds and rapper Tinie Tempah has been helping researchers at Reading University explore how music therapy might be used to cure depression. Mind control, so beloved of fifties science fiction movies, may not be that far away. | <urn:uuid:7c4e0840-d8fe-482e-8b5f-823773505833> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://techstory.in/traditional-passwords-past/ | 2024-04-16T04:18:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.959901 | 613 |
We have a proven track record and reputation of providing highly valuable strategy consultancy at senior levels. We provide In-depth customised consulting including quantitative and qualitative analysis. We have guided different sized companies from leading global corporations to small companies on their IT strategies and investment plans, on technology road-maps to negotiating with vendors, on executive guidance workshops to product evaluation presentations. We have also spent significant time and expertise in guiding CEOs and VPs of the largest technology vendor companies on what direction to take, which geographies to invest and how and which product lines to develop. We can help guide with highly tailored projects in creating eco-systems, value stacks, partnership & acquisition strategies, investments & return on investment strategies, technical consulting, regulatory consulting, client presentations and road maps for vertical solutions.
We are currently helping both Vendors and corporate clients on their Digital and Transformational Technologies evaluations. Aiding enterprises to transform their thinking, their business processes, their relationships & Ecosystems, their sustainable competitive advantage, by unlocking the revenue potential of their data and market positioning through a tailored value-driven focus on Digital implications.
We provide Consultancy under two groups;
1) Strategic Consultancy
The Strategic Consultancy Group focuses on providing high value, high knowledge, comprehensive advice and strategic analysis. This hub delivers advice and analysis to both the vendor and the corporate end-user communities.
We are helping vendors and SIs transform their thinking, their business processes, their relationships, their sustainable competitive advantage, by unlocking the revenue potential of their solutions and market positioning through a tailored 'Digital' driven focus on strategic analysis and through effective delivery of compelling measurable performance. What does a Digital Transformation market mean to you, more profits or more problems? Where does technology fit into the equation? How do you leverage value from partnerships and create profitable eco-systems? How to translate this into a competitive solution regionally by leveraging global assets and delivering 'As-A-Service' offerings, What Platforms do you need to create, How about your Digital Experience management Solutions?, Is Outsourcing and BPO going to last in its present state or are Service companies going to have to adapt and change, how do you highlight Analytics, AI, Security in this new 'Intelligent Edge' world? Do you know how to value stack your Cloud products, etc?
We are helping guide corporations (End-Users)on how to optimise 'change' especially for new digital business models revolving around clients and creating outward waves challenging businesses to adapt to new models, processes, functions and relationships. We enable clients to leverage data and technology, as well as provide migration strategies to deliver improved ROI. The impact of technology is enterprise-wide, across many core business functions and processes; we work with clients to ensure technology is applied and not just deployed. Our understanding of vendor solutions enables us to advise and guide clients, to ensure the latest thinking is provided. We have a tremendous wealth of experience working with CEO's and CIO's on formulating IT strategies, optimizing IT operations, business continuity plans, security directions and compliance issues.
2) Rapid Consultancy
The Rapid Consulting Group provides fast bespoke consulting services. This consulting cluster delivers a number of services to mainly repeat clients, including a combination of primary research and advice as well as the ability to cover a variety of markets and or technologies. Our talents are not confined to the vendor and service provider communities but also extend and include vertical corporate end-users.
"Confidence" is a prerequisite in remaining focused, but its even more important in the process of execution. Knowing you have sound measurements, an in-depth understanding of the market, and where it is headed, and solid strategies of where you want to go are part of the solution in attaining goals, pushing forward and having the confidence to take action. Action metamorphoses concepts and strategies into realising goals and objectives, otherwise, the best plans remain as blueprints. We can provide you with the confidence to execute, enable you to take action and speed your execution given our significant experience and the measures you need.
A majority of our consulting projects are repeat business, clients have come to expect high-quality fulfillments on which we deliver and continue to execute. We have undertaken a wide variety of consulting projects that have included the development of eco-systems, due diligence, investment planning, market research, market surveys, End-user studies, positioning papers, market planning, strategic sales planning, business unit strategies, Routes to markets, Messaging, quick desk research, competitor benchmarking, etc. | <urn:uuid:8108651a-54e9-4a87-8a6f-b64738c05c34> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://tekplus.com/site/index.php/strategy1 | 2024-04-16T03:53:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.945267 | 926 |
The government of India under the rule of Mr. Narendra Modi Ji came up with an interesting app that can virtually detect the presence of Coronavirus in a confined region. Moreover, the app was designed to keep the entire country away from the life-threatening virus. In addition to this, the app also aids people in taking precautionary measures where they can protect themselves and their loved ones.
Now that everything is digital, the government came up with an interesting idea to protect people digitally. The app has been specifically designed to keep people on high alert, in turn, protect themselves from the potential risks.
Arogya Setu App Download :
It is very simple to download the app, moreover, it isn’t like any other app that people have on their phones. To use the app, the first and foremost step is to engage the GPS of the smartphone alongside the Bluetooth capability. The next step is that the person will be immediately alerted when they are in the close proximity of the Coronavirus prone place, and this would provide people ample of time so that they can distance themselves from the carriers.
The genius stroke of a feature of the app is that it will automatically capture and at the same time save the user data of the carriers and immediately alert the government. The app is designed to track information actively and uninterruptedly which isn’t possible by humans. For people using Android devices, Arogya Setu is available for download on Play Store. On the other hand, for iOS users, the app is available on the App Store.
How to use the Arogya Setu app?
- The moment, the app is downloaded on your smartphone, click on the option, namely “Open”
- You’ll be prompted to select a language of your preference and then choose “Next” option
- There will be a few images which are embedded in the app to provide the users about the details
- Then, the smartphone users will be prompted to choose “Register Now”
- You’ve to allow the permission for Bluetooth and then you’ve to agree with the terms and privacy conditions
- Also, click on “Allow” when you’ll be asked to turn on the GPS and follow the same step as written above for Bluetooth
- Then enter your mobile number and you’ll soon receive a One Time Password number.
- Then enter your personal credentials.
- Become a volunteer.
Now you can detect the host for COVID-19 and you’ll receive notifications when you’re in a safe location. Stay Safe, and Keep Everyone Else Safe as well. | <urn:uuid:8c7498f0-ea3e-4f5c-a343-d0647ecec6fb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://telegraphstar.com/arogya-setu-app-how-download-and-use-the-covid-19-tracking-app/ | 2024-04-16T05:38:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.941774 | 553 |
When tragic events happen, we’re tempted to think everything is different and will never go back to normal again. It’s sometimes referred to as the “new normal,” and it’s rarely seen as a good thing.
However, evil is evil—that’s not new! In the Western world, it feels that way because so much of the evil we hear about is far away, happening to people we don’t know. When it hits us in our own back yard, through a national crisis or other circumstance, it is new to us—and it seems desperately unfair. It’s then we can choose to berate and judge God for not stepping in, or turn toward Him and recognize that our finite minds cannot understand everything. Nevertheless, God is good, and He is in control!
In this single message by Jill, she shares lessons about a believer’s response to tragedy by looking back at her own experiences during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As she sat in a grounded plane in Newfoundland waiting to return to the United States, God used that time to teach her about the eternal promise of safety He has made to all of us who believe in Him. | <urn:uuid:24e6f93b-40e7-40f7-a5f6-a9672d9bcf5e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://tellingthetruth.org/series-teaching-series/the-new-normal/ | 2024-04-16T05:33:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.97195 | 250 |
If you’re looking for a professional presentation app, PowerPoint is a great option. However, if you want an easy-to-use graphic design app, Canva is a better choice. With its simple interface and powerful features, Canva is perfect for businesses of all sizes. Thanks for reading!
Table of Contents
What is PowerPoint?
Powerpoint is a well-known presentation software that has been used by many people for decades. Microsoft Office’s PowerPoint software is a great option for creating presentations, as it works on both Mac OS and PC with Windows. To get started using PowerPoint, you can download the desktop app.
What is Canva?
Canva is a great tool for graphic design that can simplify the design process for students of all ages. With its easy drag-and-drop interface, Canva is perfect for individual projects, group collaboration, or brainstorming. Canva is versatile and user-friendly, and it has a lot of potential in the classroom thanks to its wide range of uses.
As we mentioned before, Canva is a great tool for anyone looking to create professional-looking designs with ease. With a simple and easy-to-use interface, Canva is perfect for those with no prior design experience. And if you need a little help getting started, they even offer an interactive tutorial.
Although it doesn’t have as many features as some of its competitors, Keynote’s simplicity is one of its defining strengths. The limited design options might actually be easier for some users to learn than PowerPoint. The tutorial support is also excellent.
As you may have heard, fonts are a big deal here at Canva. We’re happy to report that not only does Canva have a great selection of pre-loaded fonts, but we actually approve of them! In fact, many of them are ones we highly recommend.
Yeah, this is something we need to consider carefully. It’s great that the software is easy to use, but the features are very limited. For example, the ribbon only allows you to:
– Pick your font
– Make the font bigger, smaller, bold, or italic
– Change the color of objects or make them transparent
– Hyperlink objects
– Align text
As creatives, we often like to have complete control over the fonts, colors, animations, images, and transitions in our work. We want everything to be perfect and personal. If you’re looking for that special touch that will really wow your audience, you may find it harder to achieve with Canva.
If you need more than 30 slides for your presentation, Canva may not be the best option for you. Keep in mind that less is often more when it comes to presentations. However, sometimes you just need more slides to get your point across.
We prefer PowerPoint over Canva because it offers a few features that Canva lacks, such as animations and transitions. Animations can help to spice up your presentation, and transitions make it feel more dynamic.
- Canva may be easy to use, but PowerPoint is just as user-friendly! Many of the features are straightforward and can be learned just by exploring the program. Additionally, it has a well-organized interface and ribbons that are easy to navigate.
- PowerPoint is a great tool for anyone who wants to create professional-looking presentations. The design possibilities are endless, and the contrast between PowerPoint and Canva is really noticeable. We love the design features in PowerPoint and we miss them when using Canva.
- PowerPoint is a versatile tool that can be used on any computer. It’s widely used in business and corporate settings, so if you’re looking to make a professional presentation, PowerPoint is a good choice. Additionally, PowerPoint can be stored on a private server, which is important for companies that want to keep their information secure.
- There are numerous ways to keep your audience engaged during a presentation, even if the material itself isn’t particularly exciting. In addition to showing a video, you can create a hyperlinked table of contents so viewers can easily navigate to different sections. You can also draw on the slides to direct people’s attention to specific points. Another option is to use Control + B to turn the screen black, which will shift the focus back to you. Whatever method you choose, make sure you keep your audience engaged throughout the entire presentation.
- What’s the bottom line? PowerPoint isn’t free. You have to purchase Office 365 outright for a one-time payment of $149, or you can subscribe annually for $100 or $70 depending on the features and programs you need. Keep in mind that this also includes other essential programs like Word and Excel. The price tag for PowerPoint may be a deterrent for some consumers; however, it is important to remember that Canva is a subscription-based service, while PowerPoint is a one-time purchase. When you compare the two options side-by-side, it becomes clear that PowerPoint is the more economical choice in the long run.
- Canva’s fonts are top-notch, and we’re going to talk about that in more detail below. We don’t like the pre-loaded fonts on PowerPoint because they’re very limited. Canva is the clear winner here. Thanks, Canva!
In fact, both software generally do the same thing for us and we use them, but in order to really understand how we can use them, we have to use them several times to find out which one of them is more useful. it works
Therefore, I suggest you prepare your different presentations with this software several times before your presentation or do anything else as long as you want to find out if this tool can be used well by you or not and then Start your main work with that tool.
presentation design services
With our presentation design services, we can help you create an amazing visual representation of your business. They are designed by professional strategists and designers who understand how important it is to have visuals that communicate clearly and effectively while still being aesthetically pleasing. They’re also created using the most up-to-date data so they won’t become obsolete quickly like other types of marketing material might be. | <urn:uuid:5093bd8d-d95a-457f-99c4-669ecba02732> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://temismarketing.com/blog/canva-vs-powerpoint-which-is-the-best-for-you/ | 2024-04-16T04:45:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.951287 | 1,300 |
Before starting the course of Medrol dosing, it is essential to know the facts about this medication. The most important information you should know is its side effects and the precautions that should be taken. You can also learn about the price and the options for refills. This article will help you decide whether this medication is proper for you. The following is a quick guide to Medrol dosing.
Some patients have experienced allergic reactions to Medrol Dose Packs. These symptoms include hives, swelling of the face and throat, and difficulty breathing. If you experience these side effects, contact your doctor right away. Your doctor can give you information about how to stop taking the medication. If you suspect you have an allergic reaction to the medication, stop taking medicine immediately and seek medical attention. You should not change your diet too much without your doctor’s consent.
Other side effects of Medrol Dose Packs include rapid weight gain, vision problems, nausea, and high blood pressure. The drug may also interact with specific vitamins and herbal products. Before taking it, you should consult your doctor about any health conditions and any other medications you may be taking. If you are taking any medicines, tell your doctor if you are taking Medrol. They will be able to prescribe you the right dosage.
When you are taking a medicine such as Medrol, there are some things you need to remember. It will weaken your immune system and make it harder for you to fight off infections. Therefore, you should be monitored by a doctor. Follow the directions on the label carefully. You may need to decrease your dose to ensure it is working correctly. Also, you should avoid taking this medication if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
While using Medrol, you should avoid contact with people who have infections or have recently had an infection. If you have been exposed to the flu or a cold, contact your healthcare provider immediately to take preventive measures. Live vaccines should be avoided because they may not be as effective while taking Medrol. These include measles, mumps, typhoid, varicella, zoster, and shingles.
The cost of Medrol Dosepak is relatively affordable, with a single sachet containing four 4 mg tablets. It’s possible to find discounts on this medication online, and some insurance plans cover the cost of your prescription. The medication is a white elliptical tablet, and the recommended starting dose is 4 mg. It treats many conditions, including rheumatic disease and endocrine disorders. The best place to store your meds is 20 to 25 degrees Celsius.
Medrol Dose Pack is a prescription adrenocortical steroid. It works similarly to the natural hormone cortisol, which controls the immune system and helps to prevent inflammation. It treats various medical conditions, including all allergies and sinus problems. It’s also used for treating allergic diseases and asthma. The cost of a Medrol Dose Pack depends on the dose, type of medication, and location. | <urn:uuid:d8abd604-6701-4108-8235-f6ae311d62b4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://teriwall.com/medrol-dose-pack-a-quick-guide/ | 2024-04-16T05:05:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.936711 | 609 |
Diversity and distribution patterns of sessile benthic fauna over space and time are often incompletely known. Understanding the factors that govern these patterns is important for informing marine spatial planning, and monitoring the impacts of climate change and habitat alteration in the marine environment. Historical and contemporary records of bryozoans from Scotland were mapped to produce a GIS distribution layer and were assessed in conjunction with JNCC GIS benthic habitat layers. Bryozoans have predominantly been recorded from the west coast, Orkney, Shetland and Western Isle archipelagos. The greatest number of bryozoan species occurred in high energy, rocky environments; few species have been identified from the continental slope, which also has the least number of records. The biodiversity, as measured by the average taxonomic distinctness and variation in taxonomic distinctness, was assessed for sampling sites and sub-regions within Scotland. High values were concentrated around the Orkney Isles and Southwest Scotland. This is the first known attempt at a comprehensive analysis of changes in Northern European bryozoan diversity and distribution from the 1700s through to the present day, but overall temporal patterns remain uncertain due to differences in the availability of records through time. This study provides an example of the application of methods that may be used to assess benthic diversity to identify potential sites for marine conservation or marine protected areas. As benthic data layers improve, and sampling is extended to unstudied areas, greater insight into the relationship between the physical environment and diversity and distribution patterns of benthic fauna will be gained. This study serves as a baseline for long-term monitoring of biodiversity changes in this poorly studied Phylum. | <urn:uuid:927af77c-4849-4fe0-9789-0e6662e47a4d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://tethys.pnnl.gov/publications/spatial-temporal-patterns-bryozoan-distribution-diversity-scottish-sea-regions | 2024-04-16T04:17:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.957791 | 344 |
As an Amazon FBA seller, ensuring the quality of your products is crucial to the success of your business. Not only does it protect your reputation and customer satisfaction, but it also ensures that your products meet Amazon’s strict quality control standards. In this article, we will discuss the Amazon quality control process, best practices for Amazon FBA quality control, and how using a third-party inspection service like Tetra Inspection can help you ensure the quality of your products.
Amazon Quality Control Process
Amazon’s Quality Control Process is designed to ensure that all products sold on their platform meet their strict standards for safety, labeling, packaging, and authenticity. This process includes the following steps:
Labeling is the process of attaching information to the product about its composition, origin, manufacturer, usage, and safety. Amazon has strict labeling requirements for all the products sold on its platform. The product labels should be in compliance with the country’s regulations and standards. Some of the important information that should be displayed on the product label are:
Country of Origin
Amazon Warning Labels:
Warning labels are an important aspect of product labeling as they help to prevent potential harm to the customers. Amazon requires all the products sold on its platform to have warning labels if they contain any hazardous substance or pose a risk to the customer’s health and safety. The warning labels should be written in a clear and legible font, and the message should be easily understood. Here are some of the most important Amazon warning labels:
- “Fragile” or “Handle with Care” for items that may break easily.
- “This End Up” for items that should be stored or shipped in a specific orientation.
- “Top Load Only” for items that should not be stacked.
- “Keep Dry” for items that should not get wet.
- “This Side Up” for items that should be stored or shipped upright.
- “Keep Refrigerated” for perishable items that require refrigeration.
- “Warning” for items that pose a potential hazard or danger.
Amazon Packaging Requirements:
The packaging of a product is a crucial aspect of its delivery and storage. Amazon has strict packaging requirements to ensure the safe delivery of products and to reduce the environmental impact. Some of the important requirements for packaging are:
- The packaging must be sturdy and secure enough to protect the product during transit.
- Labeling and markings must comply with Amazon’s labeling guidelines.
- Must be easy to open and must not require special tools or additional steps to open.
- It must not contain prohibited materials such as hazardous chemicals.
- The packaging should be recyclable or biodegradable where applicable.
- Should be the appropriate size and weight for the product and shipment type.
- Must comply with Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging Program requirements if applicable.
Amazon FNSKU Labels:
Amazon FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) FNSKU (Amazon’s Fullfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit) Label is a unique identifier assigned to each product stored in Amazon’s fulfillment centers. This label is used to track inventory and ensures that the correct product is sent to the right customer. To get an FBA FNSKU Label, follow these steps:
- Create an Amazon seller account
- List your product on Amazon’s marketplace
- Prepare your product for shipment to an Amazon fulfillment center
- Apply the FBA FNSKU Label to your product before shipping it to Amazon
- Wait for Amazon to receive and inspect your product
- Once your product is approved, it will become available for sale on Amazon’s marketplace.
Best Practices for Amazon FBA Quality Control
Regular Inspections and Testing:
Regularly inspect your products for any defects or issues, such as damages or missing components.
Conduct thorough testing of your products to ensure they are functional and meet quality standards.
Keep detailed records of all inspections and testing, including any issues found and how they were addressed.
Packaging and Labeling:
Use high-quality packaging materials to protect your products during transit.
Clearly label your products with relevant information, such as product name, weight, and any warning labels.
Make sure your packaging and labeling comply with any relevant regulations or laws.
Product Listing Information:
Use high-quality images that accurately depict your products.
Provide detailed descriptions that include all relevant information, such as dimensions, materials, and features.
Use clear and concise language to make it easy for customers to understand what they are buying.
Monitor customer feedback regularly, including reviews and ratings on your product listings.
Address any concerns or complaints as soon as possible, and make sure to follow up with customers to ensure their satisfaction.
Use customer feedback to identify areas for improvement and make changes to your products or processes as needed.
Keep a close eye on your inventory levels to ensure that you always have enough products on hand to meet customer demand.
Use inventory management software or tools to track your stock levels and reorder products as needed.
Monitor your sales data to identify which products are selling well and adjust your inventory accordingly.
How Tetra Inspection Can Help You with Amazon FBA Quality Control
As a reputed third-party inspection service provider, Tetra Inspection can help Amazon sellers ensure the quality of their products. We offer a variety of services, Supplier Verification Audit, Product Inspection, including pre-shipment inspections, production monitoring, and quality control audits. Our Amazon FBA inspection services are specifically designed to help Amazon FBA sellers to identify and address any issues with products before they reach customers, ensuring that they meet Amazon’s strict quality control standards.
One of the key benefits of using Tetra Inspection is that we have a team of experienced and trained inspectors who can conduct thorough inspections and testing of your products. With a meticulous approach, our inspectors check for defects, ensure compliance with regulations and safety standards, and verify that your products are packaged and labeled correctly. This can help sellers catch any issues before they become a problem and ensure that their products meet Amazon’s quality control standards.
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How to Add Google Play to the Idolian MiniStudio
There’s going to be quite a few 7″, 8″, and larger Android tablets coming out in 2013 and many will have Google Play. Unfortunately the Mini Studio 8″ tablet from Idolian won’t be one of them, but not to worry. This is something you can fix.
I got a Mini Studio as a free review unit from Idolian a little over a week ago, and while it is an okay tablet for a generic 8″ Android tablet the absence of Google Play or some other content store lessens the value, IMO.
Luckily this can be fixed with absolute minimum effort. All you need to do is download the following APK file to the Mini Studio and install it.
Where & What
The file can be downloaded from here:
If that link does not work then you can find a copy of the file in this ZIP file. Just ignore the other files; you don’t need them.
Here’s how to install this APK file over USB:
- Download the file to your computer.
- Copy it to a folder on your Mini Studio tablet via a USB cable. Then unplug your tablet.
- Once you’ve done that, open the file manager on your tablet and go to the folder where you put the file. Double-click on it to install it.
You could also email the link to the file to yourself and then open the link in the email app on the tablet. I think that is actually easier.
You just need to install the one file on your Mini Studio and nothing else. Once you have installed it you will have access to the full Google Play (or what ever is available in your country) as well as fully functional Google apps.
I have Gmail and gReader installed. Those 2 apps are most of the reason why I wanted Google Play. While they are available elsewhere in quasi-legitimate app stores, I wanted to make sure the Google integration worked correctly.
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Thor is a remarkable cat, known for his captivating eyes. This feature is especially striking because his eyes are two different colors. While this trait is commonly found in light-colored felines, breeds like the Sphynx, Turkish Vans, and Turkish Angoras can also exhibit this peculiarity. Thor, a stunning rescue cat, is now enjoying a wonderful life with his loving family who rescued him. He sports a beautiful black and white tuxedo coat, a perfectly fluffy tail, and, of course, those mismatched eyes that make him truly one-of-a-kind.
Thor’s Journey to His Forever Home
You might be curious about how Thor became a part of our family. Well, we found Thor at Petsmart and decided to rescue him, welcoming him into our home as a cherished member of the family.
Now, you may wonder why we chose to name him Thor. We already had a cat named Loki, and when Thor entered our lives, we thought it would be fitting to name him after Loki’s brother. After all, Thor’s unique feature of having two different colored eyes added a touch of extra charm to his already endearing personality.
**Q1: What makes Thor’s eyes so special?**
A1: Thor’s eyes are special because they have two different colors, a rare and striking feature in cats.
**Q2: How did Thor become a part of your family?**
A2: We found Thor at Petsmart and decided to rescue and adopt him, making him a beloved member of our family.
**Q3: Why did you name him Thor?**
A3: We already had a cat named Loki, and Thor’s arrival prompted us to name him after Loki’s brother. His two different colored eyes added to the uniqueness of the name. | <urn:uuid:5669fcaf-1131-49f2-ad26-e6d39cff8b21> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://theanimalcamp.com/meet-thor-the-unique-cat-with-mismatched-eyes/ | 2024-04-16T04:14:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.980618 | 387 |
The story about how a Soviet missile strayed into Lake Inari, Finland, in 1984, causing a media circus
Text by Ritva Torikka, Yle Sápmi
On 28 December 1984, local people near Lake Inari heard strange sounds and saw weird lights. On 4 January 1985, Herman Sotkajärvi from the Pasvik Valley in Norway and Aili Kuuva from Lake Inari in Finland participated in the TV news of the Finnish broadcasting company Yle, telling what they had seen and heard.
Herman Sotkajärvi had seen a light and heard a bang in the Pasvik Valley.
«I heard a loud bang here, above the village, and right after that something like a jet engine flying in the direction of Finland. Behind the jet motor, I saw a bright light.”
Aili Kuuva lived in Pisteriniemi. She was surprised to hear a rumble in the middle of the winter.
«First there was a bang, and then the sound disappeared like the rumble of thunder beyond our storeroom.»
Finnish air surveillance had also noticed something. However, the issue did not become public until Norway reported that a missile had flown across their borders and fallen east of Lake Inari and the Norwegian media started to tell about it.
This resulted in a search and an extensive international media event. But since nothing was found, the journalists from abroad left for home.
Things started to roll
Veijo Saijets, a reindeer herder and mailman from Nellim, Finland, found a piece of plastic on the ice in the middle of the lake when delivering mail at the end of January. The international media got excited. More than a hundred journalists from different countries arrived in the area.
When the news on a Soviet drill missile falling into Lake Inari was broadcast, Juhani Nousuniemi – Director of Yle Sápmi at the time – was sitting in the editorial office, listening to the national news on the radio.
«At first, it felt a bit terrible to hear that a missile had flown in the direction of Lake Inari,» he recalls.
Nousuniemi remembers that the situation began to seem less grave when they received more information. They learned that the missile was just a guided missile with no exlosives in it.
The incident drew a great number of journalists and people together, and Nousuniemi tells that he has a variety of memories and stories of the time. For example, he recalls how a journalist asked Einari Hirvelä, a local from Lake Inari, whether he felt it was dangerous to have a missile come so near.
«Hirvelä answered in a relaxed way that people would cope with one missile, but if they started coming one after the other, the situation would be different,» Nousiniemi says, smiling.
Biggest news event in his career
Nousuniemi participated as a journalist in reporting about the missile. According to him, there has been no other news event of equal size in Inari ever since.
«It was actually the biggest international news event in Inari in my whole career. And it certainly turned into a real media circus.»
«One American TV group arrived in their summer clothes directly from Africa to the airport of Ivalo, where the temperature was below –30 degrees Centigrade.»
Most of the journalists stayed in the hotel in Ivalo and traveled by taxi to get to Lake Inari, to the mouth of the Suolisvuono Fjord, to see the missile being lifted up from the lake. Nousuniemi recalls that there was quite a bustle in Ivalo and on Lake Inari at the time.
«Taxis drove the length and breadth of Lake Inari. The winter was really cold, but there was little snow on the ice. Journalists were also transported to the lake by helicopters and airplanes.»
The Sámi Radio came to its own
Nousuniemi had been the director of the Sámi Radio for two days when the missile event began.
«We had just got an independent Sámi channel and had to show what we were able to do when reporting on the case.»
The Sámi Radio sent its journalist to the lake every day after Veijo Saijets found a part of the missile.
«Our journalists didn’t freeze, because they were wearing reindeer fur boots and good winter clothing,» Nousuniemi laughs.
He also remembers that there was a competition among the journalists and the different media companies on who would manage to get new information and broadcast it first.
Broadcasts on the missile were so intensive and went on for so long that the Sámi Radio’s partners in Sweden got tired of the reports.
«I just answered them that what if the missile just fell into a wrong lake. What if its real destination was Lake Jukkasjärvi in Sweden,» Nousuniemi recalls answering them, jokingly.
The beginning of the year was very cold, and the missile brought good money to the clothes stores in Ivalo and the local hotels and restaurants during a season that was normally quiet. The missile event lasted for so long that companies managed to come up with new products.
The local gas station started to sell “Missile doughnuts”. Hotel Ivalo adjusted its menu to the event, including “Splinter soup”, “Arctic rocket trout” and “Seeker’s cake” in their menu.
The Finnish Tourism Agency Visit Finland used the missile for enhancing its goals, bringing none other than Santa Claus to the site. This was something the Government of Finland was not pleased with. Paavo Väyrynen, who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, commented in the program Yle Muisti by Yle in 2015 that he did not think it was appropriate to joke about such a serious event.
Was soon interpreted as an accident
The stray of a drill missile across borders 34 years ago was a politically significant event and even a hot issue for some time. International media had a variety of views on the case: for example, it was assumed that the missile was flying to Germany but the Soviet Union shot it down itself. Despite numerous, contradictory views and stories, the missile was soon interpreted as having strayed by accident.
Journalist Nousuniemi also believed this to be the case after he saw and heard how the heads of different countries dealt with the issue.
«There were many explanations. And you could also see how the heads of states reacted. You could see that the missile had escaped by accident.»
According to Nousuniemi, some people were of the opinion that the Soviet Union was testing the ability of Finland and Norway to monitor the air within their territories.
«But you never know, they were more like speculations,» Nousuniemi says.
He believes that it would not be as easy to lose a missile today.
«At present, they can electronically monitor very accurately what happens in the air and in space. But, you never know of course; people can always make mistakes when they are doing something.»
Translated from Sámi by Kaija Anttonen
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I started rowing when I was eight, in Warrnambool. I did disability rowing – what they now call para-rowing. I had a speedboat that would follow behind me and tell me to go left or right so I didn’t run into any other boats. In high school, I made it to the national championships in Sydney, which I’m really proud of. People keep asking me: if I wasn’t blind, where would I be? I don’t wish I could see. Blind is who I am. I’m just me.
My father and I are really close. We both like trains, we both like travelling. We both have the same hereditary eye condition.
My mother left when I was 13. I was living with my grandparents, but they got too old, so my aunty and uncle decided to take care of me. When I was 17, they didn’t want me there anymore. I couldn’t really go back to my grandparents, and my father only had a one-bedroom unit, so I thought, you know, what am I going to do? I had no real fixed address. At the time, I didn’t even care. I just thought, My life’s over.
I brought myself back somehow. I went to the Lighthouse Foundation – they have a mental health focus, so I basically got my mental health under control, and I started healing. Then I met my wife Portia, and we just clicked, we just work. I moved from Warrnambool to Canberra to be with her. The process took a lot of hard thinking. My family had been fighting over me for years. I had to fight for myself.
I needed to do something, because I was looking for work and couldn’t find a job. My father sells The Big Issue and encouraged me to give it a try – the rest is history. When I started at The Big Issue in Canberra that started a lot of healing from the trauma in my past. I could finally get out and do something, make something of myself.
Portia and I live in Victoria now. We are renting a house in Morwell. I love living in the country. I’m happy with life at the moment, I’m kicking goals. I started doing disability advocacy. I was in the first Victorian Youth Congress focused on mental health. I work part-time as a support coordinator, helping people with disabilities, especially when they are on the NDIS. It basically involves helping people that don’t always have a voice, and you’ve got to give them a voice. I want to help people.
I’m also selling The Big Issue nearly full-time, and I’m happy. My routine is waking up at 3am, getting ready for work, and catching the train at 4:30am, which gets me to my pitch at Southern Cross at about 6:45…if it’s on time. Before I start, I grab a coffee from Gloria Jeans. I know the franchise owner, he’s a nice fella. I think they give me a discounted rate. I work until 9.30am.
I also sell the magazine in Traralgon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Portia has started selling there, too.
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We had a week of boy birthdays. Sidney was three on Saturday and Chase was one on Tuesday. So it was a lovely week with two celebrations.
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DCU camogie team will look to continue their journey towards becoming the first ever college to win the Purcell Cup two years-in-a-row when they play Cork IT on Saturday afternoon (throw-in 6pm).
The game will be played at UL’s GAA grounds and midfielder Lisa Carey is anticipating a real battle to secure that final berth.
“Any Cork team is usually strong. We’ve seen that down through the years and we’re looking forward to a tough game. They will have huge quality in their team and it’s going to be very hard for us. They will be just as hungry for it as we will be and there’s not going to be much in it”, said the Kilkenny stickwoman.
Carey, who lined out at full back on last years all-conquering side, said they are succinctly determined on defending their crown: “We’re really looking forward to trying to win it again. It would be fantastic as no other college has managed to win the Purcell Cup two years in a row.”
The PE and Biology student spoke of the hard work the team has been putting in of late. “We’ve been going really well in training lately. There has been hard work put in all year by all the girls and we are all in good form. From the first training session, we’ve all put in a huge amount of work so we’re in quite a good place at the moment. The training has been really intense and the rest of the girls have been putting in a fantastic effort all year. The mood is great around the team and everyone is in high spirits.”
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About 160 resident physicians went on strike Monday over what they called low pay at New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public hospital once known as the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.The doctors-in-training at the Queens hospital, who are employed by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, are the first doctors to go on strike in the city since 1990, according to their labor union, the Committee of Interns and Residents local of the Service Employees International Union.
Mount Sinai “refuses to pay us the same as our coworkers doing the exact same job at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan,” Dr Joya Dupre, a second-year internal medicine resident at Elmhurst, said in a union statement.
”It feels, fundamentally, like Mount Sinai is saying that this community does not matter. Like we as Elmhurst residents do not matter, as largely immigrant, union doctors.”
Mount Sinai released a statement Monday saying it was “working towards an equitable and reasonable resolution that is in the best interest for both our residents at Elmhurst as well as for the Mount Sinai Health System.” It also said it was working with Elmhurst on contingency plans to ensure patient care is not affected by the strike. | <urn:uuid:4dd15a3c-f27d-486e-9967-dbbc5e28ea2e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://thedailyguardian.com/doctors-begin-strike-over-low-pay-at-time-of-covid-pandemic-in-new-york/ | 2024-04-16T03:44:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.968834 | 267 |
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The decision by the government of India to raise a mountain strike corps has triggered an interesting debate on just how India can effectively deter Chinese aggression on its border. The debate is between the Mackinderites and the Mahanians.
In an article in the Journal of Defence Studies in July (India’s Geostrategy and China – Mackinder vs Mahan), Zorawar Daulet Singh first staked out the Mackinderite position by arguing that India’s strategic plans for countering Chinese aggression must shift emphasis from “maritime dominance” to more “border-centric” formulations.
Then, Rear Admiral (Retd) Raja Menon, in a well-argued piece in The Hindu on July 29, chided the continentalists by criticizing the government’s raising of a mountain corps, which he felt served no useful purpose other than creating another unmanageable and ineffective asset. Menon argued that the effort and resources being lavished on forming an “air-immobile and single-axis” strike corps should have been spent on creating a more capable maritime force, which could be used to choke Chinese trade in the Indian Ocean. In a rejoinder to Admiral Menon’s piece a few days later, Singh reemphasized the futility of expecting Indian maritime strength in the Indian Ocean region to effectively deter Chinese adventurism on the border.
While both writers make compelling arguments, each appears to have missed out on at least one crucial aspect of the India-China conflict dynamic. In both cases, that aspect is a critical piece in the jigsaw of Sino-Indian strategic relations, the absence of which renders both maximalist positions untenable.
The Mackinderite Folly
To begin with, on available evidence, the Mahanians seem to have got it more right than the Mackinderites; simply because China is still most vulnerable at sea – regardless of its efforts at territorial integration and a consolidation of its land oil-supply routes. Fundamentally, a state’s strategic weaknesses exist, not so much in areas where its adversary is strong, but in domains where the nation itself faces a massive strategic disadvantage. That “weakest of weak spots” for China is its sea lines of communications (SLOCs) in the Indian Ocean region. Beijing realizes that its dependence on the Middle East and Africa for hydrocarbons is near total. With nearly 80 percent of its energy supply still arriving by sea, there is no escaping its dependence on the Indian Ocean SLOCs. What is more, the situation is unlikely to drastically change anytime in the foreseeable future. As strategic predicaments go, no ‘dilemma’ for Beijing is more ‘existential’ than its Malacca dilemma.
The proponents of continental deterrence are also guilty of an inadequate and somewhat flawed interpretation of Mahanian tenets. While Admiral Alfred Mahan’s tactics of large fleet maneuvers and big sea-battle are indeed passé, his strategic principles are as relevant as ever. These include the importance of the seas as a medium of power projection, employing sea-power to interdict trade, and the extraction of leverages using far-sea bases. Mahan’s strategic concepts make clear why all great powers during the past 500 years were maritime nations and dominated global trade. Globalization notwithstanding, nothing so drastic has occurred as to invalidate Mahan’s basic strategic cannon of national ascendancy through dominance of the seas. While it is true that the nature of warfare has undergone a profound technological and tactical transformation from the Mahanian era, the nature of material aspirations of nation states remains singularly unchanged. For Mackinderites to expect two competing nations like India and China to strike a “grand bargain” at sea is therefore a tad unrealistic.
Continental theorists cite China’s use of anti-access and area-denial (A2/AD) tactics in an evolving military-technological environment as evidence of the invalidity of “offensive sea-control.” But the PLA Navy’s sea-denial strategy in the Western Pacific – aimed principally at thwarting the U.S. strategic “pivot” – is not a universal template for all adversaries. If anything, it is a muted form of sea-control that applies only to conflict scenarios involving a superior opponent. As followers of Mahan point out, sea-denial quickly morphs into sea-control when dealing with a weaker enemy in geographically favorable maritime zones. Importantly, the semantics of naval battle tactics hardly detract from the vital fact that just the threat of denial of critical sea-spaces is often enough to alter a nation’s strategic calculus.
The shibboleth of strategic weapons
The biggest flaw with the continentalists’ reasoning lies in their advocacy of “stand-off” deterrence against China via the “threat of punishment.” The equivalence that is sought to be drawn with the India-Pakistan nuclear equation – used as evidence of a weaker state using nuclear leverage to its advantage – is patently misleading, as the deterrence dynamic between the two South Asian neighbors plays out along a relatively well-charted (even if deeply contested) border. Mackinderites forget that when dealing with a border area that is vague, un-demarcated and claimed by both sides – as is the case with significant sections of the India-China border – it is inherently destabilizing to attempt to achieve higher levels of deterrence by employing strategic weapons. Worse, even if stand-off systems are brought into the equation, the absence of clear markers or red-lines to determine their use renders the deterrence posture not just ineffective, but also dangerous.
China’s apprehension that India could offset its disadvantages in the mountains by threatening Chinese SLOC in the Indian Ocean, is not just conceptually intuitive, it is an imminent prospect. To qualify the proposition, however, holding out the threat of strangling Chinese trade isn’t the same thing as staging a blockade, which even the Mahanians would agree is not a real possibility. On India’s part, it merely involves leveraging favorable geography to its advantage. More pertinently, it isn’t escalatory in the same way that the deployment of strategic weapons on the border with China could be. When it concerns nature’s partial gifts, nations do not take give or take offense; they simple acknowledge their advantages and limitations and plan accordingly. Sadly, such isn’t the case with strategic weapons.
Flaws with the Mahanian Argument
As persuasive as India’s case in the Indian Ocean may be, however, the proponents of Mahan take the argument for greater maritime strike power too far. While strategic escalation along horizontal axes is a well-established principle in warfare, in tactical situations arising out of theater-level provocations, the response must be limited to a tactical riposte – unless both sides are prepared to radically escalate the conflict. It is something of a stretch to say that the response to a low-level provocation by China on the border can take the form of an Indian Naval blockade or interdiction of Chinese trade in the Indian Ocean.
The Mahanians also show little strategic empathy for the Indian army’s instinctive reflex of responding to a crisis by building troop levels. Here, too, there is an old-fashioned logic at play that savvy sea-power theorists are sometimes too uppity to acknowledge. In the Indian Army’s thinking, the massing of troops is the most effective means of sending a clear message of intent to a superior adversary without destabilizing the power-balance or unduly provoking a conflict. The recent Depsang incident is a case in point. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army reservations related to permanent infrastructure being created by the Indian Army on its side of the border were more pronounced than their objections to increased Indian force levels. But when it chose to signal its displeasure to India, it did so with a troop encampment in a contested zone.
In sum, whether one belongs to the Mahan or the Mackinder camp, the importance of peace-time theater-level tactics in a nuclear setting cannot be elided over. An acknowledged code of sub-conventional warfare between nuclear-enabled states is that both sides maneuver to achieve dominance over the other without disturbing the larger strategic balance. For if that happens, a minor incident can very easily spiral into full-fledged conflict.
By that token both extreme positions appear partly invalid.
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Book Review on The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
In a book review of The Fault in Our Stars by molliebookworm in The Guardian last Sunday, she said,
“If you enjoy young adult books, full of witty humour and heartbreaking events, this book is perfect for you. Expect to laugh, cry and smile throughout this masterpiece by the amazing John Green. I highly recommend this book.”
Admittedly, I am not one of those who enjoy YA novel books. I have heard that the book was actually good. However, at first, it did not interest me. I was apprehensive that the book would turn out to be all style and would lack substance. I hate to read books with plots that would just bounce along till they reach necessary tear-jerking endings. This was not the case on one of John Green’s masterpieces. I was definitely mistaken. Be warned that although the book is intricately written, it is also emotionally devastating in my own standpoint.
Two affable characters meet at a cancer support group meeting: Hazel Lancaster who has terminal thyroid cancer (narrator) and Augustus Waters who is a cancer survivor. The two become close even with Hazel’s desire to escape from becoming the reason to inadvertently cause pain over her passing. She considers herself a grenade waiting to explode. They skim between profound conversations on life’s meaning. These characters do not just show us every painful instance of living a life with cancer but we are also shown their battle not just to continue living but also to stop cancer from overshadowing their heart, mind and character. Their quest for Peter Van Houten, author of An Imperial Affliction is another reason to read further on the book.
The young adult novel is not just an entertaining novel but it is also a thought-provoking book that has the power to move readers. It shows that your life will never augment if you feel insignificant about yourself because of terminal disease. It focuses on becoming mature, learning to take accountability for your life and defining yourself by who you are and not what disease you may have. | <urn:uuid:976708f1-0c2b-406c-b5bf-8a574023235d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://thegoodnovel.com/book-review-on-the-fault-in-our-stars-by-john-green/ | 2024-04-16T04:53:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.974915 | 431 |
Most people historically associate tattoos with the Navy. But, as more and more people opt to get themselves inked, the Air Force has had to introduce tattoo policies that are more in line with the modern era.
Back in 2017, they completely overhauled their previous policy toward tattoos. Liberalizing the rules to allow for the proliferation we’ve seen over the last few years.
In this article, I’m going to look at the changes they made. And, for anyone in doubt, explain exactly what is and isn’t allowed in the Air Force tattoo policy.
Before the sweeping changes in 2017, the tattoo policy of the Air Force was a far more conservative affair. Airmen wern’t allowed to have tattoos that were larger than 25% of the body part where the tattoo was located.
Anyone with a full or half sleeve tattoo or a whole back piece was instantly ineligible to join the Air Force. This arbitrary rule also meant that a full 20% of applicants had tattoos that needed to be reviewed by a panel. As you can probably imagine, this wasn’t good for overall recruitment numbers.
Millennials are by far the biggest target market for air force recruitment. However, recent surveys show that 41% of this demographic have at least one tattoo. So, the policy had to move with the times.
To accommodate the sheer number of tattooed applicants, the 25% rule was scrapped in favor of a more liberal approach. Some would argue that it’s even more liberal than the tattoo policy of the Navy.
What Kind of Tattoos Are Allowed in the Air Force?
Airmen are now allowed to have tattoos with no size or placement restrictions on any part of their body. As long as it isn’t visible when wearing a uniform.
Arms, legs, chest, back, or even your butt, you’re now free to tattoo as much of it as you like as long as it remains hidden. Furthermore, the Air Force is the only branch of the military that allows tattoos on the feet.
They also allow for a single band or ring tattoo on one hand, only due to the popularity of this as an alternative to traditional wedding rings. Hopefully, divorce rates are low in the Air Force.
What’s Not Allowed?
As stated, any part of the body that’s visible when in uniform is off-limits for tattoos. This counts out any neck tattoos above the collar line. Any facial, head, or scalp tattoos are also strictly prohibited.
That includes any lip, tongue, or eyelid designs you may fancy. Also, aside from the one band/ring, the remainder of your hands have to stay ink-free.
Although restrictions on size and location have been eased, rules on the content of tattoos remain strictly enforced.
The US Air Force guidelines on tattoo content are strict. Tattoos deemed obscene or offensive are not allowed. Whether it’s of an overtly sexual or racist nature, affiliated with any gangs or extremist groups, anti-government, or graphically violent in any way, the tattoo will not be permitted.
What can be done?
If it’s questionable whether the tattoo breaks Air Force policy, then it’s up to the commanding officer to make the final decision. If it’s decided that a particular tattoo isn’t in line with Air Force values, there’s always the option of laser removal as a last resort.
Unfortunately, the air force will not cover this expense for you. Furthermore, airmen found to have offensive tattoos that they refuse to remove will be punished accordingly, including various disciplinary actions up to and including discharge from the service.
Whilst we’re on the subject of body adornment, airmen are not allowed to wear any visible piercings when in uniform. This includes any tongue piercings.
Women in the air force are allowed one small earring of gold, silver, or white pearl per ear lobe. It must be of a conservative design and be a tight fit, not extending below the ear.
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Of all the branches of the military, the USAF tattoo policy is the most liberal of the lot. As long as they can’t be seen when in uniform and are not judged offensive, at least 90% of the body is available to be tattooed to your heart’s content.
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“It has been wonderful building relationships with the students and staff at Hancock,” one of HHS’s new teachers this year said.
At the beginning of the year, this new teacher was known as Miss Eva Rasey. After getting married in October, she is now Mrs. Kaikkonen. Kaikkonen teaches Child Development, along with Foods and Career Exploration.
Kaikkonen decided to become the FACS teacher for HHS because she loves teaching students life-long skills they might not get the chance to learn at home.
“I truly enjoy being a FACS teacher because I love teaching students life-long skills, it is also fun to provide students with experiences they may not have otherwise.”
She has a warm and welcoming personality and makes students feel comfortable being around her.
“Mrs. [Kaikkonen] is my favorite teacher because she is always positive,” sophomore Kevin Nash said. “I like her class because it’s a chill environment and good vibes.”
Not only does Mrs. Kaikkonen impact the students, but also faculty members.
“Mrs. [Kaikkonen] was extremely knowledgeable about the FACS curriculum and she is passionate about teaching it,” HHS Principal David Williams said. “She has a lot of energy and many fresh ideas and students seem to really enjoy her classes. It has been great to see students learning to cook real meals.”
Not only is she a good fit for liking, but also wants to help Hancock grow.
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Interview With Comedic Social Media Influencer and Sensation, Tony Talks
Introducing Antonio ‘Tony Talks’ Baldwin, one of the most recognized and sought-after comedic influencers on social media. Presently, Tony’s social media reach surpasses: 1.7million on TikTok, 1.66 million on YouTube, 675K on Instagram, and 60K on Twitter.
His video content features wig-wearing characters who are influenced by growing up in a household full of women. Tony’s first video “Clock Out” went viral in 2020, garnering him a whopping 1.66 million subscribers on YouTube.
Hustle and Soul Magazine readers, please enjoy our interview!
Congratulations on building a massive audience across all social media platforms and landing partnership deals with major corporations such as SnapChat, AirBnb, Sprite, Scope, CitiBank, Verizon, and many more! What do you enjoy most about the work that you do?
Tony Talks: Thank you! What I enjoy most is being able to look back at these creations and see how crazy my mind works! I enjoy the entire process. It’s something beautiful about being able to have a thought, create it, and watch it back! I’m forever grateful.
What do you feel sets you aside from other comedic influencers?
Tony Talks: Great question! My goal isn’t to be “set aside” from anyone. I think that’s what makes me unique. I’m not focused on anyone or anything. I focus on being a trend rather than copying it; of course, nothing against those who do. This “influencer” game is so competitive and not worth racing in. I believe this mindset is seen and that’s what gravitated my audience to me!
What are you working on as of late?
Tony Talks: Lawd, currently I’m working on my mental and physical health! I’m also looking to create a scripted reality series.
Any exclusive news you can share with Hustle and Soul first?
Tony Talks: I wouldn’t say anything too exclusive, however, I have yet to share that I will be honored with the Social Media Influencer of Excellence Award at the 2023 Black Tie Gala in July!
What are some fun facts about you that many people may not be aware of?
Tony Talks: Here are a lot of cool fun facts about me that are completely random:
-When I was young I auditioned for the Disney Channel show Suite Life on Deck!
-My TV debut was on a reenacted docuseries Fatal Attraction!
-I’ve been posting content across multiple streaming platforms for the past 11 years, however, I’ve gained the majority of my following in the last 3!
-I’m learning how to play the piano as a hobby!
-I am newly addicted to spas!
-I have a new love for musicals!
-I swore I was going to be a pop star growing up!
-I have no clue what the tattoo on my right arm translates to!
-Donatella Versace follows me on Instagram!
What advice would you have for aspiring comedic influencers who are struggling to grow their fan base and get their content seen?
Tony Talks: I would tell them to keep going. It’s so cliche, but that’s what worked and still works for me. I forced the world to see me by posting consistently. I would get 10 views on a video and lose no motivation to post the next one because I knew there was at least one person who had the same sense of humor as me, and where there’s one, there’s two, and where’s there’s two, there’s even more! I also would advise to stay true to you and let your audience find you!
More on Antonio ‘Tony Talks’ Baldwin:
Antonio ‘Tony Talks’ Baldwin is most recognized for his comedic videos, which often take an everyday situation and apply a funny, breaking-the-fourth-wall, over-the-top comedy that is uniquely his style. He cites the TV shows Mad TV and Family Guy as being two of his biggest inspirations for his creative process because of their off-the-wall dry humor. As an actor, Baldwin has always admired Will Smith and Debra Wilson for their comedic timing and versatility to portray a variety of different characters and currently strives to recreate their success in film and television.
Baldwin was formally trained in acting at Words in Motion Studio and film credits include Beast Beast (with Executive Producer Alec Baldwin) and an independent film entitled, We Did a Bad Thing.
It is Baldwin’s hope that his videos will continue to let others escape their own lives and simply live freely through the content!
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Originally published Aug. 4, 2011
By Neil Schulman
Long Branch — The football and cheer program in the city has a new name, and a new outlook. Organizers want to show that it’s about more than just sports, and want to get the whole city involved, building on recent successes.
This year the Long Branch group voted to leave the Pop Warner program and become Long Branch Youth Football and Cheer, part of the American Youth Football and Cheer.
“The teams from the Jersey Shore all joined a new league, with the exception of six,” said President Allan Menkin. Joining the American Youth league allows city children more opportunities to play nearby teams, he said.
The new league makes it easier to get into championships, but the real focus is on giving children an experience that promotes academic and social work as well as athletics.
“We would like to get there, but that’s not our ultimate goal,” Menkin said.
The name isn’t the only thing that’s changed. The Long Branch Youth Football and Cheer Board, a combination of longtime members and some new faces, wants to increase community involvement.
Many people mistakenly assume that because the group practices at Manahassett Creek Park, it’s mostly for North Long Branch residents. That’s not the case, Menkin said. “All the kids in Long Branch should be a part of it.”
The board running Long Branch Youth has some new and some returning members. Menkin is joined by Jason Andrews, Equipment Manager; Greg Morris, First Vice President; Tracy Craig; Fundraising Chair; Sandra Benedict, Second Vice President; Anthony Smith, Treasurer; Jacqueline Menkin, Secretary, Timika and Shatarraa Whitley, Cheer; Tim Fitzpatrick, player rep; Jason Corley, and several others.
Smith said he wished he’d gotten involved earlier, but wasn’t aware he could have. “I would have been happy to help out, but because my son wasn’t in the program, I had no idea,” he said.
Tracy Craig, fundraising chair, said that businesses had been supporting the group. Many had donated water, sports drinks or gift cards.
For the first time this year, during practices they have opened the refreshment stands to help raise money. One of their goals is to get new uniforms for the kids this year.
More children have become involved, which is good for the group. Smith said that for the first time this year, they’ve been able to have a 7-year-old team.
“Two or three years ago, it was a 7, 8, 9 team, so the 7-year-olds didn’t get much playing time,” he said.
Now there’s also a Cadet (ages 7-10), Jr. Peewee (9-11); Peewee (10-12) and Midget (up to age 14) group. This program serves as a feeder for the Long Branch High School Green Wave team. Many of their athletes have gotten a start here.
The group encourages more than football and cheerleading. There’s a strong academic component. Last year, for the first time ever, three Long Branch players made it to the Scholastic All American held in Chicago, Menkin said. To be chosen, players must not only exhibit athletic talent, but academic ability and community involvement.
“We were so pleased to send three athletes from our city,” he said.
There have also been programs for the community as well. Last year, kids in the flag program were taken to the Prudential Center, in a fundraiser for a local boy who needed bone marrow.
This year, some of the cheerleaders will be visiting nursing homes to bring cheer to the residents.
The new board welcomes interested children, and also welcomes volunteers and those who wish to make donations.
“Come take an opportunity to see what’s going on with the new Long Branch Football and Cheer,” said Smith. “This isn’t just during the football season. This will be year round.”
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Can Ayahuasca Save The World? What I Learned at the 2019 Ayahuasca Conference
Six Scientists Argue Ayahuasca Can Be a Powerful Healer
When I set foot into the downtown St. James United Church, along with hippies, psychonauts, students, and researchers of all ages for the Ayahuasca Religions Conference 2019, I was ready to be enlightened.
The conference promised to bring forward spiritual and scientific arguments on benefits of the ritual use of the psychedelic substance ayahuasca in healing ceremonies led by certified shamans. And it delivered. They shed light on the religious and traditional uses of ayahuasca, the science backing up its claim to be able to heal the world, and the presence of the substance in Canada.
The conference strongly emphasized the role of Indigenous peoples in developing these rituals, highlighted the traditional Indigenous knowledge behind ayahuasca use, and that the conference is taking place on Kanien’kehá:ka, or Mohawk land.
As everyone piled into the church—which, unsurprisingly, was undergoing heavy construction—to the sound of harps, the colourful fractal patterns on the stained glass seemed almost psychedelic and gave everything a soft glow.
As we waited for the first speaker to present, I chatted with the people next to me. One of them had recently received the ritual ayahuasca sacrament, led by a shaman. He said it was one of the most intense, healing, and eye-opening experiences of his life—explaining it helped him open his mind and expanded his consciousness.
His friend said she had been too afraid of trying it, despite previous psychedelic experimentation, to which he replied, “As you should be.” But, they were both curious as to what else the substance has to offer—and who knows, maybe she’ll decide to take the sacrament.
I knew I would love this conference as soon as Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester started lecturing on consciousness, change, the ego, culture, and holistic spirituality. As a religious studies double major, this is my wheelhouse. Mestre Jeffrey Bronfman, Dr. Paul Grof, Dr. Marc Blainey, Dr. Ken Tupper, and Dr. Brian Rush accompanied her as speakers.
All speakers have been doing research, and pushing to be able to continue their research, on the scientific benefits of ayahuasca combined with the spiritual. They all have come to the same conclusion: the plant is a healer that can be an incredible and life-saving medicine.
Bronfman said ayahuasca can “help us build a better world of love and solidarity.”
The program I was given said, “This conference […] represents a message from the sacred plants, the Santo Daime, also known as Ayahuasca. There is a longing and a need for the awakening of consciousness to assist in the restoration of health and wholeness for each of us, for nature, and for our Mother Earth.”
Ayahuasca is a potent psychedelic brew made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and other plants. Its main psychoactive properties come from dimethyltryptamine, also known as DMT, which it found in Psychotria viridis shrubs. The brew requires monoamine oxidase inhibitors, or MAOIs, to be active in tea form, which is present in the B. caapi. It’s mainly found in the Amazonian region of Brazil and northern South America.
Ayahuasca users report having mystical experiences, spiritual revelations about their purpose in the world and the nature of the universe, and other deeply life-changing realizations and powerful visual hallucinations. Some see extra-dimensional entities who bring forth messages, or even dancing elves. It also creates a deep sense of being connected to nature and other humans. Many who have participated in ayahuasca rituals say it’s like being reborn.
Rush has been doing research on the use of ayahuasca among those struggling with addiction. He said that ayahuasca has nearly zero toxicity, no addiction potential, and has not been seen to cause neurocognitive decline in people who have used ayahuasca on a monthly basis for decades. For these reasons, it could have major potential in psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Rush said the dissolution of the ego and the idea that there is a transcendent force in the universe—yes, even for atheists—lead to people feeling connected to the world. He said one of his patients told him, “I felt more connected [after taking ayahuasca]. Alcohol didn’t matter to me anymore.” Rush added the feeling of having a purpose in this world leads to people feeling valid in their existence.
Ayahuasca has shown to help with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders as well. One attendee works as a medical practitioner and was hoping to eventually bring up the possibility of using ayahuasca in her practice.
But, Rush stressed the natural and spiritual components are essential. In the past, clinicians have been able to extract psilocybin from hallucinogenic mushrooms and put them in capsule form, along with LSD. He added he doesn’t believe this is necessarily the best approach, as plants are meant to be natural healers.
The speakers stressed that ayahuasca must be used responsibly and is not to be taken recreationally. Those who work with ayahuasca go through intensive training and supervision before being able to lead rituals and make sure those who participate stay in a safe set and setting.
Rochester said modern science is proving what Indigenous people have believed for centuries. She said Mother Nature is hurting, and we aren’t waking up to this reality quickly enough. So, Rochester said, Mother Nature provided us with the ayahuasca plants to get her message across. She said the plants open us up to the deepest parts of ourselves: the good, the bad, the ugly. It can bring difficult memories and feelings to the surface, but through the ritual guided by a shaman, people can work through these and heal.
“To fall in hell or reach the angelic, you need a touch of psychedelic,” said Grof.
To fall in hell or reach the angelic, you need a touch of psychedelic.
— Paul Grof
That being said, ayahuasca tourism can be problematic. Not everyone claiming to be a shaman is properly trained.
It’s important to maintain good relationships with the Indigenous peoples who use the plant as well. It also raises ethical questions, as illegal ayahuasca retreats can be very costly and corrupt. There have been cases of people passing away at Peruvian ayahuasca retreats.
Rochester first found ayahuasca in Brazil and started bringing the tea back to Canada with her. From 2001 to 2017, she pushed for the recognition of the Santo Daime as a legitimate religion and for the right to import ayahuasca for ritual use with Health Canada. In June 2017, her church, Céu do Montréal, received an exemption to import and serve the Santo Daime Sacrament as part of her religious freedom.
I started feeling skeptical about the mass-harvesting that would be needed to bring ayahuasca to western medicine. How sustainable can a clinical model really be?
Peyote tourism, which centres on the psychedelic mescaline-containing cactus, has made that plant vulnerable, with its population decreasing. Another example is bufotenin, a potent psychedelic found in Sonoran Desert toad venom. Since these toads were coveted by poachers, they became harder to find. This led scientists to synthesize bufotenin—which led to the creation of 5MEO-DMT, a substance with more risks.
So, what can be done to ensure the sustainability of such an important plant?
When I asked, Rochester told me the churches she visited in Brazil have very strict regulations, as does her church. But, there has been illegal harvesting of the vines deep in the Amazon, so it’s hard to tell how much these rules are being followed, said Rush. However, Tupper said the vines are invasive plants and, with proper regulations, a sustainable model is possible.
The speakers emphasized that there is too much stigma around drugs due to prohibition and the war on drugs. Rush said during his research he was “shocked at how unreasonable people’s ideas of drugs are.” After all, we still use nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, and pharmaceuticals almost without stigma.
Blainey said many psychedelic plants were banned because colonizers were afraid of Indigenous practices—accusing them of talking with demons.
Tupper said prohibition has done a good job of keeping drugs out of science, but not the streets, making them more dangerous.
But, the research isn’t close to its endgame yet. In fact, it’s hard to tell what the endgame is. Will Health Canada be willing to allow the use of ayahuasca in natural settings as part of a healing process? Or, will it be limited to psychedelic-assisted therapy in clinical settings? Is this really the best way to be using ayahuasca, if its healing properties are rooted in spirituality? Will prohibition around drugs ever weaken enough to allow this?
The answer isn’t clear yet. There are already many reports looking into MDMA as a treatment for PTSD, as well as the effects of psilocybin, LSD, and ketamine for depression—which all speakers mentioned. So, maybe we are opening ourselves up to the potential of psychoactive substances as medicine.
As Tupper said, if assisted death is legal, why not assisted rebirth?
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Listen Up: Concordia Students’ Nightline on Its Way to Referendum to Become Fee-Levy Group
Fee Levy Would Improve Accessibility of Peer-Support Service
Concordia Students’ Nightline passed a major hurdle on Feb. 12 in its quest to transition from student club to fee-levy group. The move would significantly extend its capacity to supplement Concordia’s overburdened mental health services.
“We’re here to listen on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, whether or not you’re crying in a bathroom stall,” the club recently wrote on Facebook.
“Everyone on our team, I think, comes to this from a genuine place of wanting to be able to provide a space of support,” said Camille Zolopa, president of Nightline.
The confidential service, which can be reached at 514-848-7787, is currently available from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. on nights it is open.
Becoming a fee-levy group would enable the organization’s volunteers to take calls every night.
“I think it’s incredibly important because we can’t ask people to only have thoughts and emotions on three nights of the week,” Zolopa said.
Nightline’s volunteers are trained to listen attentively to the thoughts and feelings of callers, no matter what’s on their mind.
“Non-judgmental listening is something we don’t always have access to in our day-to-day lives, even with friends and family,” said Zolopa. “They always have an opinion. They want to give advice.”
While the service cannot be viewed as a substitute for therapy, Zolopa sees Nightline’s active listening service as a vital alternative to what is available elsewhere at Concordia.
For many students enduring stress and turbulence, a months-long wait for an appointment at Concordia’s Counselling and Psychological Services might as well be an eternity.
“Wait times is something we’ve heard a lot about. People are frustrated by it,” said Zolopa.
Likewise, the undergraduate insurance plan only covers 80 per cent of the cost of psychotherapy, to a maximum of $750 annually.
This leaves struggling students in the lurch. Nightline can at least provide a caring person in whom to confide.
“Non-judgmental listening is something we don’t always have access to in our day-to-day lives, even with friends and family.” —Camille Zolopa
“Someone’s going to pick up your call, and you can talk as long as you want,” said Zolopa.
She hopes students will agree that Nightline is a good investment.
“In terms of 5 cents a credit, I think for most students that’s relatively reasonable in a semester for the service that we’re providing,” she said.
The Concordia Student Union council voted 17-0, with one abstention, in favour of including the referendum question on the upcoming ballot.
The near-unanimous vote represented a rare point of consensus for a fractious council.
“I think it goes to show that regardless of people’s political stances, […] we can all agree that mental health is an issue,” said Isaiah Joyner, the CSU’s external affairs and mobilization coordinator. “People that are working to close the gap of resources available to students for mental health is something we all want to see.”
Joyner noted that university is a stressful time in a person’s life and expressed hope that campus will one day provide students with the support they need to overcome any issue.
“We’re not there yet, but with initiatives like [Nightline], it looks like we’re taking the right steps,” he said.
Nightline presented a proposed budget based on a $0.05 per credit fee levy beginning fall 2020.
This would stabilize the group’s financial outlook and more than quadruple its training budget from its 2018-2019 level.
Nightline currently has 35 volunteers, more than the 24 it needs to achieve current service levels. However, opening each night of the week would require at least 56 volunteers to cover 112 monthly shifts, according to the club.
Nightline’s revenues in its current fiscal year are barely half what they were the previous year, according to its presentation, highlighting the need for a consistent revenue stream.
The fee levy would also facilitate new line items, such as an events budget and, eventually, funding for research.
General Coordinator Christopher Kalafatidis, who spoke in favour of the motion, argued Nightline’s trek to referendum approval reveals a need to create resources to assist groups with bureaucratic requirements, such as writing bylaws.
Several club members who sat on the floor to watch their club’s presentation were visibly stirred by the motion’s overwhelming approval at council.
“It’s a big relief,” said Zolopa, whose organization had presented twice before but faced procedural obstacles. “We’ve been working on this for three semesters,” she said.
Now the work begins to persuade students to vote “yes” to a proposal that would cost $0.25 per semester for a student taking a full course load.
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MONROE, CT – An Eversource spokesman updated his initial report on electrical issues in Monroe Monday night. He says the outages were not caused by the substation on Fan Hill Road.
“The outages were caused by one issue last night – a tree that fell on Route 111 near Old Coach Road,” said Mitch Gross, a spokesman for the power company. “That cut the power to the substation that feeds that area of Monroe. Some 2,000 customers were affected.”
“The flickering is typically a sign that there is an issue happening on the circuit that delivers your power,” he explained. “It is typically a tree limb hitting the line … last night it was a tree that came down on it.”
Earlier Tuesday, Gross had said it was related to the substation before receiving more updated information.
“Last night’s outages were not related to last month’s equipment issues at the substation,” he said. “Additional repairs are being made at that substation.”
The Monroe Volunteer Fire Department reported “active explosions” at the substation on Fan Hill Road in a post on its Facebook page, had contacted Eversource and recommended that homeowners unplug or shutdown breakers for electronics until the power stabilized.
Asked about the loud noises, Gross said, “last night’s reports of what’s often described as explosions or loud bangs was the sound of the equipment doing what it is designed to do – shutting down when there are power issues to prevent further damage to the electricity delivery system.”
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In recent years, Karan Brar, the talented actor known for his roles in popular films and television programs, has garnered considerable attention. In addition to his on-screen accomplishments, there have been rumors and discussions regarding his sexual orientation. The purpose of this article is to cast light on Karan Brar’s personal life and address the rumors surrounding his sexual orientation.
Is Karan Brar Gay?
Karan Brar’s fans can rest assured that he is not gay. While the actor is presently single, there are rumors that he is in a relationship with “Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything” actress Sophie Reynolds. However, neither Karan nor Sophie have confirmed these allegations, and their social media posts do not suggest that they share a romantic relationship.
In April 2015, Karan responded to inquiries regarding his romantic life on his official Instagram account. He posted a video in which he stated that he was unattached at the time and listed the qualities he seeks in a girlfriend, including a sense of humor. Despite articulating these preferences, Karan is still unattached and has not yet found a partner who meets them.
Karan’s single status has sparked speculation about his sexuality, but he has maintained his privacy regarding his dating life and romantic relationships. He frequently expresses affection and appreciation for his family, despite the fact that he rarely discusses his personal relationships.
To answer your question, no, Karan Brar is not gay.
Who Is Karan Brar Dating?
Despite rumors and numerous online sources claiming that Karan Brar is dating Sophie Reynolds, it is essential to note that he is currently single. Karan himself clarified this via a tweet, providing evidence that he is not in a relationship.
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If you’ve been considering a career switch or looking for something new to do, becoming a personal chef might be the perfect fit. Here are seven reasons why you should consider becoming a personal chef.
Flexibility – As a personal chef, you have complete control over your own schedule and can choose when and where you work. Whether it’s for part-time or full-time hours, this is an excellent career option for those who need more flexibility than an average nine-to-five job.
Creativity – If you’re the type of person who loves experimentation in the kitchen, being a personal chef provides endless inspiration for creative recipes and dishes which could help expand your culinary repertoire with potential clients or even on your future menus!
Healthy Eating – Most individuals are not aware of what they eat every day but by being a personal chef you can introduce people to healthy alternatives that promote nutritious eating habits without sacrificing flavor or quality.
Client Interaction – One of the most rewarding aspects of being a personal chef is interacting with clients; getting to know them on a personal level and understanding their needs so that you can create fantastic meals that make them happy — what could be better?
Making A Difference – Every meal cooked as a private chef has its own special story behind it– making each one special in its own way can bring enormous satisfaction as well as joy to someone’s life!
Financial Freedom – Working as a personal chef allows great financial freedom; by setting your own prices, rules, and conditions—you can find work that pays both fairly and generously according to your expertise in food preparation!
Become A Personal Chef
Here are some of my favorite tools for providing my personal chef service
As an experienced personal chef, I’ve found that the secret to creating mouthwatering dishes goes beyond just having a passion for food. It’s also about using the right kitchen tools. Today, I’m going to share with you my must-have kitchen items that help me bring my culinary creations to life.
1. Chef’s Knife
The first item on my list is a high-quality chef’s knife. It’s the most versatile tool in my kitchen, perfect for chopping, slicing, and dicing. My preference is for a Global Chef’s Knife, known for the edge and the way they are balanced.
2. Cast Iron Skillet
Next up is a good old cast-iron skillet. From searing steaks to baking cornbread, this pan does it all. I love the Lodge Cast Iron Skillet, which retains heat beautifully and adds a nice crust to anything you cook.
3. Stainless Steel Pots and Pans
A set of stainless steel pots and pans is essential for a variety of cooking techniques. They’re great for simmering, boiling, and sautéing. All-Clad’s Stainless Steel Cookware Set is my go-to choice for its exceptional performance and durability.
4. Immersion Blender
An immersion blender makes pureeing soups, making smoothies, and blending sauces a breeze. I suggest the Braun Multiquick Hand Blender, which is powerful, easy-to-clean, and highly versatile.
5. Digital Thermometer
To ensure perfectly cooked meats every time, a digital thermometer is a must. The ThermoPro TP19 Waterproof Digital Meat Thermometer provides speedy and accurate readings, ensuring your roast chicken or prime rib is cooked to perfection.
6. Silicone Spatula
A silicone spatula is a chef’s best friend for its versatility. It’s heat-resistant, non-stick, and perfect for everything from folding batter to stirring sauces. I recommend the OXO Good Grips Silicone Spatula.
7. Stand Mixer
Lastly, for avid bakers, a stand mixer is a game-changer. The KitchenAid Artisan Series 5-Qt. Stand Mixer isn’t just a pretty face; it makes mixing doughs and batters effortless.
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Over the scorching summer months, your entire building may have the same temperature as the outside air. This is because the roof absorbs all the heat. The heat transfers from the attic space to framing, and then the heat is conducted downward.
The rising living room temperature will cause you to switch on the AC resulting in a higher electricity bill. The key to lowering your cooling bills is to increase ventilation in your attic and reduce the amount of heat it holds and pushes into your house.
You must have undoubtedly discovered a Solar Attic Fan during your research for attic ventilation. They have energy savings and other advantages in both the summer and the winter.
There is a lot of information available regarding this but getting specific information is a challenge. You’re probably thinking, “how many solar attic fans do I need?”. So, here’s everything you might like to know about the solar attic fans?
What is a Solar Attic Fan?
A solar attic fan is an electrical gadget that you mount on your roof to ventilate the attic. Cooler air is drawn through the attic vents as the fan vents out the hot air. A solar panel drives these attic fans mounted on the roof’s exterior.
Solar panels are made up of photovoltaic cells, popularly referred to as solar cells. These materials react with light energy to generate electricity through a chemical reaction known as the photovoltaic effect.
Thus, when the sun shines, or sufficient indirect sunlight penetrates the clouds, the solar panel powers the fan, expelling air from your attic.
Advantages of Solar Attic Fan
- Solar attic fans are an environmentally friendly and economical method of ventilating the attic without electricity.
- Durable and straightforward to build in a matter of hours due to the absence of wiring, installation, or mess to clean up afterward.
- Maintain a comfortable attic in the summer by avoiding excessive heat accumulation in your house.
- Reduces power, service, and maintenance costs.
- Prevents the deterioration of roof structures and materials.
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How Many Solar Attic Fans Do I Need? Our Complete Table
Numerous variables may influence the amount of attic ventilation required by a household.
When measuring the amount of attic venting required, variables such as vaulted ceilings, the amount of current venting (soffit, ridge, roof), the form, pitch, and obstructions of the attic must all be considered.
This will significantly simplify and ease deciding the number, shape, and location of solar fans. Let’s discuss some important factors while determining the number of Attic Fans you need for your premises.
The first factor we must understand is the capacity of the solar attic fan. The ability of a fan to vent air is expressed in Cubic feet per minute or CFM. In simple words, it indicates the amount of air that a fan will displace every minute under optimal operating conditions.
Knowing the capacity of your fan, you can very well determine the number the fans required to cover the entire house.
Next is the amount of energy or power consumed by the fan. Power consumption is always measured in watts. You may decide on two fans with lower wattage than a single fan consuming more power per the space to be covered.
After all, the main idea of installing a Solar Attic Fan is to minimize energy consumption and its cost.
The size of the attic space of your roof is one of the essential factors in determining the number of fans you require for your premises. The size of the attic is measured in square feet. Determining the area of your attic is simple.
All you need to do is multiply the length and width of your house. This will give you the size of attic space in square feet.
The next element to consider is the slope of your roof, or more precisely, the attic slope or pitch of your attic. Your attic roof’s steepness is expressed as x/12, where x is the slope of your roof.
A low slope or pitch roof is generally up to 4/12 or 18°, while a High Slope or Pitch roof can be up to 45° or 12/12. The slope of your roof is essential since it determines the amount of air space available in your attic.
Because an attic with a low pitch holds less air, you won’t need too many solar fans to vent it out and suck in cooler air. For a steeply sloping roof, the same is true; it can contain a large volume of hot air, possibly requiring the use of multiple fans.
Amtrak Solar Powerful Attic Exhaust Fan
- EFFICIENT SOLAR POWERED FAN – The Amtrak Solar 12-Inch 80-watt solar attic fan is a powerful and efficient solution for cooling and ventilating your home, garage, RV, boat, attic, barn, or greenhouse. With a high-efficiency 12 volt 80-watt motor, this fan can be used as a push or pull fan, delivering optimal performance and reducing energy costs
- COMPACT & VERSATILE – With its compact size of 12"x12"x3" and versatile design, this fan can fit in gable vents or be installed anywhere in the attic. It can work with 40 watt to 100 watt solar panels, making it suitable for use in various settings such as greenhouses, chicken coops, sheds, off-grid living, RVs and garage
- EASY TO INSTALL – This fan is easy to install with its 4 mounting tabs and plug-and-play wire connectors that make it easy to connect the solar panel to the fan
It is possible to drive hot air out of your attic by using a solar attic fan, but this hot air must be replaced with cold air from somewhere else. Luckily, the majority of residences have soffit vents.
These are nothing but air ducts placed at the edge of your roof under the eaves of your house. This is an essential factor to determine the number of Solar Attic Fans. It is a general rule to ensure that you have four square feet of soft ventilation for each solar fan mounted.
If a grill conceals the soffit vents, we must multiply that number by 2 to get a figure of 8 ft² of soffit ventilation per solar fan.
The following chart can be used as a guideline for determining the required number of Solar Attic Fans for residential installations depending on square footage and roof pitch.
Size of Attic | Low Slope/Pitch[up to 18° or 4/12] | Medium Slope/Pitch[up to 33° or 8/12] | High Slope/Pitch[up to 45° or 12/12] |
1076 Square Feet or 100m² | 1 Fan | 1 Fan | 1 Fan |
1614 Square Feet or 150m² | 1 Fan | 1 Fan | 1 Fan |
2152 Square Feet or 200m² | 1 Fan | 1 Fan | 2 Fan |
2690 Square Feet or 250m² | 1 Fan | 1 Fan | 2 Fan |
3230 Square Feet or 300m² | 1 Fan | 1 Fan | 3 Fan |
From being environmentally friendly to being most economical, Solar attic fans can be considered the giant leap towards an Off-Grid Style of living.
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Finally oh my goodness finally working the forehand but Riley Newman’s paddle just snapped in half oh my goodness what is going on have you ever seeing that in the middle of a rally was that not a kitchen violation
Experience the jaw-dropping moment when a high-speed pickleball rally ends with the ball breaking the paddle! 🚀🏓 #PickleballFail #EpicMoment
Dive into this rare scene captured at the peak of a heated kitchen rally. Watch as players and spectators alike are left in disbelief when what’s meant to be unbreakable, breaks. This is pickleball like you’ve never seen it before!
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How to Install the GPIO Python Library
If you wish to create a program in Python that utilises the GPIO port on your Raspberry Pi then you'll need to install this library. The RPi.GPIO Python library allows you to easily configure and read-write the input/output pins on the GPIO header within a Python script. There are several GPIO Python libraries available but we recommend you use the one found at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RPi.GPIO. Although it is possible to download the library through a web browser it's much faster to do the installation process through the terminal on your raspberry pi. At the time of writing the current version of the library is 0.5.3a.
1. Open a terminal window on your raspberry pi and type the following to download the library to your home directory. If a newer version has been released replace the version number with the current version:
2. Extract the contents of the downloaded file:
tar xvzf RPi.GPIO-0.5.3a.tar.gz
3. Change to the newly created directory, again remember to change the version number to that of the version you downloaded.
4. Install the library into Python
sudo python setup.py install
5. Remove the directory and its contents
sudo rm -rf RPi.GPIO-0.5.3a/
6. Delete the archive file
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Another forward of note from the USHL for the 2015 NHL Draft is Erik Foley of the Cedar Rapids Roughriders. The Massachusetts native is a long way from home right now but enjoying a fine season at the top of the USHL standings.
Foley's year began in the Czech Republic representing his country at the scouting showcase that is the Ivan Hlinka Memorial tournament. His play there and in Cedar Rapids has earned him a top-60 ranking from NHL Central Scouting on their mid-term list.
We were happy to have Foley on The Pipeline Show in early December where we got to know more of his personality and background. The well spoken Foley is headed to Providence College next season to join the Friars which is just one of the things we talked about.
If you missed Foley's appearance on TPS, no worries, we have it for you after the jump.
Photo: Dan Hickling |
Cedar Rapids Roughriders
6'0, 185 lbs Shoots: Left
6th round 2013 USHL Futures Draft
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It was June 30th 2018 when Mimi saw her first daylight. After 3 months of playing and goofing with her siblings Mimi was adopted to our family. We can say Mimi charmed the humans who were looking for a boypup. But after meeting Mimi, black miniature poodle, the game was clear, she was the One. That’s when her pawsome & sweet new life began!
Mimi’s first year was full of adventures and awesome events. She was so sweet and amazing that mom and dad started to talk about a new puppy, a silver miniature poodle. Few weeks later daddy saw a silver poodle boy, born July 16th 2019, on social media. He was looking for a home and two weeks later our family grew with this beautiful casanova called Franz. | <urn:uuid:0965a843-560e-4316-ad7f-23ddc6f10b78> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://thepoodles.fi/ | 2024-04-16T04:10:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.989486 | 168 |
A nation that somehow survived the chaos of the 1876 election can survive the expected chaos of the 2020 election.
You’re no doubt aware of the predictions of chaos if the presidential election is close, due to several states changing the deadlines for mail-in ballots.
If the predictions come true, the nation will survive the chaos, based on history. After all, it survived the extremely chaotic election of 1876.
That election was between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden, to see who would replace incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, whose administration had been tarnished by various scandals, especially scandals regarding the politically-powerful railroads, which had been paying off members of Congress with shares of stock in exchange for subsidies and land grants.
Like today, race was a big issue of the day. It is not a stretch to say that unresolved racial issues back then laid the foundation for Black Lives Matter today.
In essence, Republicans were the party committed to ensuring that freed blacks were able to exercise their voting rights in the former Confederacy. Democrats, on the other hand, wanted to maintain Southern white supremacy, resorting to unspeakable violence if necessary.
Black lives didn’t matter much to Democrats after the Civil War.
To stem the violence, Grant had sent federal troops into the South, a military intervention that raised constitutional issues of states’ rights and further exhausted a nation already exhausted from the Civil War and the debts from the war. Southern blacks had won many elected offices because of military protection, but when the protection waned, so did their political power.
Blacks weren’t the only targets of racism. Irish immigrants in the North and South were hated about as much as blacks. Later, Italians and other Southern Europeans would replace the Irish as targets.
Ignorant of history, ‘woke’ Americans typecast all of the 100 or so white ethnic groups as coming from privilege, without realizing that Southerners put Italians in the same socioeconomic class as blacks, restricted them to black schools, and lynched eleven of them in New Orleans.
In 1876, Harper’s Weekly ran a political cartoon displaying ugly caricatures of blacks and the Irish on its cover by popular cartoonist Thomas Nast, who made a racist equivalence in the cartoon between “ignorant voters” of the Irish immigrant North and the black South.
An aside: Several other liberal publications, including The Atlantic and The New York Times, have a sordid history in terms of racism, imperialism, and other issues, going back to the 19th century and much of the 20th century. Maybe their fixation on white guilt today is a projection of their own guilt onto those who don’t deserve such guilt.
Anyway, back to the election of 1876.
It would take a couple of pages to detail all of the shenanigans surrounding the election, so an overview will have to suffice here. Let’s begin with an excerpt from the book, The Republic for Which It Stands, by Richard White:
The Democrats had relied on fraud, violence, and coercion to suppress the black vote, and the Republicans marshaled fraud of their own and their control of the returning [election] boards to count out the Democrats. Even the Democrats agreed that Hayes had carried South Carolina in a corrupt and violent election where there were more votes cast than adult males. In Florida, first the courts and then the new Democratic legislature had intervened, resulting in three different counts, one for Hayes and two for Tilden. In Louisiana, the head of the electoral commission, with his eye on the main chance, tried to sell the results to the highest bidder, but although there is some evidence that both sides nibbled, they did not bite. The attempt failed. Both states gave their electoral votes to Hayes.
The drama continued when Democrats got an elector in Oregon invalidated, which resulted in a tie in the Electoral College. Congress then had to convene and officially count the votes, but couldn’t reach agreement on the count because of differing interpretations of the Twelfth Amendment and disputes over the constitutionality of its own rules.
Neither side wanted the election decided in the House or Senate. If the election were decided by having the president of the Senate count the votes, Hayes would win. If it were decided in the House, Tilden would win.
Civil War hero George McClellan, a Democrat and first commander of the Army of the Potomac, threatened to raise troops and march on Washington.
To break the stalemate, both sides agreed to create a Federal Electoral Commission, drawn from the Supreme Court, Senate and House. But that also split along partisan lines, until a compromise was reached and the impasse was broken by an associate justice of the Supreme Court, who voted for Republican Hayes. To get the vote, Hayes had to agree to not deploy federal troops in the South and leave the fate of Southern blacks in the hands of Southern Democrats. As a result, Democrats retained the House, Republicans retained the Senate, and the nation missed an opportunity to heal its racial wounds.
It would take another nine decades before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, both of which were followed by Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and Great Society. All of these did much to advance equal rights and economic opportunities for blacks, but the last two also produced misguided welfare programs that led to the breakup of two-parent families, leaving most young black males today without a father in the household.
This is one of the leading causes, if not the leading cause, of crime, poor test scores, and economic disparities among African Americans—a causal relationship that is largely pooh-poohed by Democrats, who see traditional families as a white thing (and an Asian thing). This runs counter to their cliché that black lives matter, but at least they’re now saying that black lives matter, which is not what they said in 1876. | <urn:uuid:7c2d8cf2-396b-4386-8213-ea40992489d6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://thepricklypear.org/presidential-election-chaos-when-black-lives-didnt-matter/ | 2024-04-16T04:39:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.973744 | 1,233 |
The Associated Students of the University of California – Davis retained The Pulse Group in concert with Webb Design, to assist them in the development of a renovation and repositioning plan for “The Coffee House”, the major foodservice venue within the University’s Memorial Union. The Coffee House is an approximate 10,000 square foot facility, with 10 foodservice platforms and 600 interior/exterior seats that generates about $3.0 million in gross revenue annually. As part of our work, we conducted a comprehensive assessment of existing facilities/operations and undertook an in-depth evaluation of the major demographic and social trends influencing UC Davis as a consumer market. We also conducted 20 focus groups and completed more than 500 intercept interviews with various university constituencies covering issues related to satisfaction, dining habits/patterns, customer service, imagery and preferred concepts. Based on our work we developed several alternative renovation plans for consideration and made a number of detailed recommendations with respect to organizational development issues, operations and service.
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Producer Maja 7th has crafted tracks for various artists with varying styles, including GLC, Add-2, Dominique Larue, and Killah Priest to name a few. The Indianapolis, Indiana native’s music is tailor-made for the artists he works with, but with his own stamp on each track. Maja is set to release a compilation album called “Get Familiar” to allow those who aren’t to do just that – get familiar.
Dropping in May, Get Familiar is a collection of classic and new tracks produced by Maja 7th. The album features guest appearances by artists like Freddie Gibbs, Mikkey Halsted, Mic Terror, L.E.P. Bogus Boys, and Pill among others.
The Real Hip-Hop spoke to Maja 7th about becoming recommitted to record producing, why RZA and the Wu-Tang Clan inspired him to venture into Hip-Hop, and his new album, Get Familiar.
TRHH: Why’d you title the new album ‘Get Familiar’?
Maja 7th: A lot of new people and new supporters, I don’t like to use the word ‘fans’ because I don’t feel like I’m to that level, ask me, “What have you done before I heard this?” I started getting asked that question a lot so I got some of the records that were my favorites, some of the joints I did that got me to this point, and mixed those in with new records that I’m working on just to get people familiar, no pun intended, with me all the way around. That was the whole concept of the album to get some of the new supporters familiar with my older work and also give ‘em some new heat.
TRHH: In the video teaser for the album you said you had to get recommitted. What does being recommitted entail?
Maja 7th: For me there was some life instances that happened. I put out a couple of projects, The Breakout was good for me, and I worked with a couple of artists then I lost my father. My father passed away and it set me back mentally and everything. I had to kind of regroup and sit down and look at myself. Somebody actually asked me, “Yo, are you still working on music?” That bothered me because close friends and family know that’s what I do. When somebody asked me that I had to really look at myself and say, “Hey, you gotta get back out there and get back on your grind. There is so much more material and product to put out. You gotta use your gift.” I got recommitted. I started making beats, contacting artists, and using the relationships that I’d developed. I knocked the dust off, knocked the rust off and just went back in hard. It was a couple things that put me down for a little bit but I had to get back into it. I started putting forth the effort and working on the craft.
TRHH: I lost my father too about six years ago. Unfortunately I can relate to you. How difficult was it for you to get back to normalcy and the everyday grind after losing your father?
Maja 7th: There was a stretch where it was really, really tough. Like you said, that’s a small club that you’re in. Everybody can’t relate to that. You’d have to have lost a parent to understand what that does. It set me back for a little bit because my father was one of my biggest fans. He got to see me on MTV with Freddie Gibbs and Mikkey Halsted when we dropped ‘On My Own’ and the video came on. He got to see me on TV and that was huge to him because he’d always been a supporter. When he passed it was like taking a piece of me away. I had to go through my grieving process. I know it’s different for people, people grieve in different ways and I understand that. I had to sit down and really go through the grieving process because my pops was one of my biggest fans. He used to always tell me, “You’re going to be alright. I know you’re gonna make it.” When he was taken away from me I had to take care of the acceptance portion and accept it, number one. I also had to think about what he would have said. He would have said, “You gotta get back on your grind and go chase your dream. The fact that I’m gone, don’t let that stop you from chasing your dream.” Once I realized that it lit a fire under me. I got refocused, got back on my grind, and now we got Get Familiar.
TRHH: I read that Wu-Tang’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ inspired you to become a producer. What is it about Wu that grabbed your attention?
Maja 7th: Man, I’ll be honest with you ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ pretty much changed everything for me. RZA is my all-time favorite producer, period, no questions asked. When I heard C.R.E.A.M. come on the sample was so gritty, grimy, and dusty. These dudes are out here dropping bars in the midst of the grimiest grit. It caught me off guard to how dope they were lyrically. If you listen to the first album the production was so consistent. It sounded like they recorded it in a basement but it had that grit, grime, and soul to it. That’s what caught my attention, how nice they were lyrically. Chef was creative, Ghost was creative, Method Man was creative — they all were their own characters. They really got me hyped about Hip-Hop and RZA with the production, it was a wrap.
TRHH: That’s interesting. I’m a Hip-Hop fan from the cradle but there was a time when I stopped listening to Hip-Hop. When the Gangsta stuff took over I listened to Alternative music. When I heard Wu-Tang I was like, “Oh my God!” It reminded me of the stuff that I loved and grew up on like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. Wu-Tang got me back into Hip-Hop. Do you have a favorite RZA production?
Maja 7th: [Laughs]. You know what man, I’ll be honest with you, probably my favorite joint from RZA is ‘Triumph’. It’s hard because he got some heat, but the beat on Triumph is ridiculous. If you actually listen to how that beat is put together with the strings in the background, the bass line how it just thumps all the way through the changes, that beat is incredible. That’s a beat that you can put up against anything.
TRHH: What beat-making equipment are you currently using?
Maja 7th: I’m dabbling into Ableton Live. I’m old school so a lot of my guys laugh and are in awe that I still use Sony ACID Music. That’s what I taught myself to make beats on so there is a version of that, that I still use – I chop samples in that. Ableton Live has become my favorite and I mix that in with Reason. I also use Fruity Loops as well with sequencing in terms of drums and whatnot. Hardware wise, I’ve never really been a hardware guy. My guy Slot-A and my dude Mike Schpitz are always telling me about getting hardware. I got a Korg padKONTROL that I’m messing with, trying to manipulate it and use it like an MPC machine. That’s pretty much it, just a MIDI controller for the keyboard, that’s it.
TRHH: Do you play any instruments?
Maja 7th: I do. When I was in high school I played two or three different instruments. I studied brass, I had a Jazz Studies minor when I was in college so I can play trumpet, french horn, and piano. Yeah, I can play instruments and read music as well.
TRHH: How do you incorporate that into sample based production?
Maja 7th: Well the sample is the foundation once you find it. Anybody that makes beats knows once you get it and the foundation is laid, even if the drum pattern is not what you’re going to finish with, it’s just the foundation. The fun part for me is the melody — the part for the hook, the part for the bridge, the part for the intro, any transition that you put it in, that’s what excites me. That’s the part where I have to use my ear and try to sync it up with whatever key the sample is in. Whenever you hear my production anything that you hear, whether its horns or synthesizers, that’s me that’s playing that. I also make beats that are sample free. There are 2-3 joints on Get Familiar that have an R&B feel. The goal is to expand and show people that I’m not just a sample based producer, I’m not just boom bap, I’m not just this, you can’t box me in.
TRHH: I recently saw Talib Kweli on his tour with Immortal Technique and he said the Midwest has the best producers. He mentioned guys he’d worked with — Kanye, J Dilla, and Hi-Tek. What is it about the Midwest that we bring the soul out in our sound?
Maja 7th: Honestly I think in the Midwest, whether it’s Indianapolis where I’m from or the Chi, a lot of our family members are from the South. I grew up listening to Al Green, B.B. King, and James Brown. My mom used to play those records and they were from the South, so Soul music came with it. I think a lot of people in the Midwest have someone in their family that has Southern roots. You can look at the food in the Chi, a lot of it is Southern-influenced. It’s also a melting pot. We’re in the middle of everything. People come to a huge city like Chicago and they might be from Memphis, Mississippi, or out West – you never know. We’re exposed to so many different people and so many different types of music, it’s just a melting pot by default. Whether it be through your family or people that you meet it’s just soulful. I think people in the Midwest are in the right area where people pass through and you get the chance to get put on to a lot of different types of music.
TRHH: What can we expect to hear on Get Familiar?
Maja 7th: I got my guy Neak from the Chi. I got Real Talk from Chicago as well. He did an incredible record called ‘Get Ready’. The dude is a genius lyrically, he’s insane. You’ll hear versatility like I was talking about earlier. There are going to be a couple of records that will surprise people because I have a joint with an incredible songwriter that I started working with in Indianapolis by the name of Bubby B. You’ll see when you hear the records that we did that it’s a complete R&B song. It’s not what you would expect from me. You’ll hear a lot of different things. I did some experimenting as far as R&B, I put more singers on hooks, and I’m also going to dig back in the crates and get 4 or 5 joints that I feel helped put me over the top and we’re going to mix those together. It’ll be a melting pot. It’s not going to be your traditional album that’s sequenced a certain way or has a cohesive sound. It’s going to be all over the place in terms of the production but you’ll be able to see the versatility and people that have followed me will be able to see some growth. That’s what you can expect, I’m really excited. | <urn:uuid:b1a9188f-152a-4cc8-bedc-b949dcead5a8> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://therealhip-hop.com/maja-7th-get-familiar/ | 2024-04-16T04:14:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.980389 | 2,641 |
A reproduction chart is a grid that coordinates amounts in a style that helps with the process of reproduction. It can help children understand as well as remember reproduction realities.
When making use of a multiplication chart, children must start with the lesser, effortless multiplication realities that they can effortlessly remember or compute by trusting their fingers. At that point, they may operate their means up with the upper opportunities dining tables.
Lower Moments Tables
When pupils are actually discovering multiplication truths they commonly begin with the lesser times dining tables. These are actually the ones that have numbers 1 to 10, managing horizontally and up and down on the chart. When a pupil understands all of these they prepare to carry on to the following set of multiplication tables. free multiplication charts
As you progress via the lower multiplication graphes it is vital to concentrate on one row or cavalcade each time. This are going to create the process of remembering these simple facts less mind-boggling and easier to perform. Eventually, you will definitely possess the entire reduced multiplication dining table committed to memory and be actually able to administer it to the real world complications.
It is additionally useful to understand that reproduction is merely redoed addition. Therefore, as you analyze each number on the chart search for patterns in skip-counting. If you discover that an amount is actually increased through the same number again and again again, this are going to help to create it easier for you to consider.
Another method to create analyzing the reproduction graph a lot more fascinating is actually to participate in games. There are several games that you may make use of to make memorizing the lesser reproduction dining tables exciting. For instance, you can play an activity where each player makes a note of a variety on a paper and after that discovers the number on the multiplication table that provides the same product. The initial individual to find the right answer gains that sphere.
Upper Times Tables
Whether your kid is knowing reproduction as part of primary school mathematics, or even you are attempting to strengthen their skills in the house, making use of a reproduction graph is a crucial measure. It is a wonderful tool for helping children memorize the amount of times dining tables and additionally helps them learn more about multiplication styles. Possessing a sturdy understanding of reproduction is actually a crucial base for more advanced arithmetic subjects including division as well as parts.
The multiplication graph provides the multiplication truths in a technique that is effortless for children to comprehend as well as remember. The varieties 1 by means of 12 run both horizontally and also up and down on the graph and each amount is exemplified through its matching character. Kids can quickly find the product of pair of varieties on a multiplication graph through choosing the initial number from the left row and afterwards relocate down one line as well as across the leading row till they achieve the rightmost row where the 2nd amount is positioned. The product of the pair of amounts is actually after that detailed in the end of the rightmost cavalcade.
A lot of little ones can easily grasp their times dining tables through using traditional rote recall skills methods, yet lots of have a problem with the uppermost opportunities dining tables. This is where mnemonic moment devices enter play as these can help children discover the top opportunities dining tables much faster than they would with standard routine memorization.
A multiplication chart is actually a valuable resource that can help students know just how reproduction works. Trainees can utilize the graph to view trends as well as pinpoint faster ways to multiplying varieties. They can additionally exercise their mental computations along with the chart. This can help to boost their mental mathematics capabilities and also build self-confidence in reproduction.
Utilizing the reproduction graph is quite basic. You merely need to locate the variety you prefer to grow on the chart and also then adhere to the line as well as cavalcade until you connect with the factor where the varieties comply with. For instance, if you intend to locate the item of 7 x 6, you would begin with 7 in the top line and after that 6 in the left cavalcade. Then, you will outline a fictional line down coming from 7 and also all over from 6 to where they intersect on the graph. This will provide you the solution – 42.
The secret to utilizing the reproduction graph is to know the patterns and properties that compose each row and line. This are going to assist you to remember your reproduction realities and will reduce the opportunity it takes for you to perform an estimation. This may be particularly valuable for students who have issue remembering their multiplication tables. Possessing a tough knowledge of multiplication may decrease the requirement for little ones to count on calculators or even various other calculation gadgets and also can also assist to enhance their IQ credit ratings.
Learning multiplication could be hard for pupils, especially when the process experiences complicated or even overwhelming. Malfunctioning the multiplication table right into much smaller, a lot more convenient parts can help students create their self-confidence as well as approach proficiency of this mathematical idea. This is particularly crucial for much younger students that are still developing their conceptual understanding of reproduction.
For example, a lot of pupils locate it quick and easy to keep in mind the reduced opportunities tables (reproduction realities along with 1 as their very first number) as well as the ones numbers of the table of 10. When they discover even more difficult varieties, like 6 x 14, they can make use of methods including factoring or even the distributive residential property to damage down this complication in to less complex elements.
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Mark and I love a holiday, always have and always will probably. Especially if we go abroad, and we were desperate to take Grayson abroad this year but it just wasn’t feasible currently, so after the wedding we decided to look at booking a week in Centre Parcs.
After looking at the different Centre Parcs, we decided to go for Sherwood Forest as it’s far enough away that we aren’t near home, and it still feels like a holida, yet it’s not too far to travel (it took us an around 3 hours). We booked a lodge for Monday-Friday and didn’t book anything in (event wise) as we said we’d decide what to do when we arrived.
When we arrived on the Monday we unpacked the food shop we’d done before arriving and all of our belongings out of the car, and decided to stay in that evening for food, after we’d gone for a little explore of course! Centre Parcs really is a lovely place to just walk around at with no real aim.
Grayson has started walking properly in the last month or so and this was the perfect opportunity for him to really get the hang of it!
Mark and I are National Trust members, and Mark’s parents were actually on holiday near by, so on the Tuesday we met up and went to a beautiful Manor near by. It was a shame the weather was so bad because it had some stunning land surrounding it.
Once we arrived back at the lodge, we decided to go out swimming before our dinner, in the hopes of tiring Grayson out (it worked, thank god). After swimming, we headed to Cafe Rouge for our dinner. We’ve both eaten at Cafe rouge before and it’s what you’d expect really. The food is nice, but they did seriously under cook both mine and Mark’s steak, so much so that I physically couldn’t finish mine, but their kids meal deal for 3 courses and a drink was amazing and Grayson loved it, so there was definitely pros and cons to it!
The third day, unfortunately the weather still wasn’t great but it wasn’t raining so that was a bonus! We’d booked for Grayson to go on a baby bike balance course that morning, but unfortunately I think Grayson is like me and isn’t one for socialising that early in the morning (it was 8:45, but still). So we left and went to soft play instead which he was much happier with, as no one was around that early.
We ended up deciding to take Grayson to a local theme park specifically for 0-5 year olds. It was absolutely dead, so Grayson got to walk to his hearts content and we didn’t have to worry about him getting in the way of other people.
We actually took him on a carousel at the park, and it was so quick that I think Grayson wasn’t really sure what the hell was going on bless him! We then did the same of heading back, going swimming and getting food – this time we decided to eat back at the lodge though as we were all shattered (we got an Indian and I’m still not over how mediocre it was).
Our last full day was the Thursday, and, thank god, the sun had finally come out!! A few days prior I’d found a Manor and garden that was literally a few minutes drive from us, so we decided to go there after breakfast for a walk around and a play and it was absolutely glorious.
Grayson and I also shared some fabulous ice cream, so we were quite happy. After heading back to the lodge and going swimming again (obvs), we made our way for to the restaurant for food and honestly it really wasn’t very good. Both Mark and I said how our burgers weren’t that nice, I said I’d rather have had a McDonald’s because it just wasn’t nice and Grayson only had a few mouthfuls of his. So we just decided to head back to the lodge after this as Grayson was shattered and wasn’t feeling very well. We then just had a very chilled night in the lodge.
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What Is a Jackknife Accident?
A jackknife wreck occurs when a truck skids, causing the attached trailer to swing to one side like a folding pocketknife. By the time the vehicle comes to a stop, it’s likely blocking multiple highway lanes. Most car drivers aren’t prepared for this situation and often crash directly into the trailer or other nearby vehicles.
The following factors and scenarios can cause a truck to jackknife:
- The trailer axles lock due to improper brake adjustment and negligent vehicle maintenance
- The driver is speeding and is forced to quickly slam on the brakes
- The tires lose traction due to poor weather or road conditions
- The trucker attempts an evasive maneuver at a steep angle
- The driver experiences fatigue after trying to meet unreasonable company demands
- The trucker is inexperienced in operating such a large vehicle
A trucker can decrease the risk of experiencing a jackknife crash by: avoiding swerving and sudden evasive actions; keep a safe distance from other vehicles; never speeding; braking early and appropriately; and being careful at risky bends and turns. If an accident is in progress, the trucker can also try to steer the vehicle into a skid to avoid blocking lanes.
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September 28, 2010, Bridge Café (Wudaokou)
Speaker: Kate Westgarth, China Coordination Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
The main aim of ThinkIN China’s first event was to analyze corruption, a pivotal topic that represents one of the main aspect of the variegated Chinese reality. Moreover, being loyal to ThinkIN China beliefs, the debate intended neither to criticise nor to reduce such an intricate topic to banal distinctions. On the contrary, it sought to penetrate the topic with curiosity and genuine interest. Kate Westgarth presented the public a valued insight about corruption in China, particularly, its historical and cultural roots and related problems the Party has in managing and handling such a critical issue. Westgarth has an extensive knowledge of China, being the Head of China Coordination Team in United Kingdom’s Foreign Office. She is now on sabbatical studying at The Marxism Academy. During her career she spent more than ten years in China and has written about the Party, leadership and Xinjiang*.
The starting point of any analysis of corruption in China, according to the speaker, must deal with the differences existing between the West’s concept of corruption and the Confucian tradition of seeking social order through morals and harmony of personal relationships, rather than through law and punishment. Western universalist thought states that corruption can be controlled through an independent judiciary, official states that corruption can be controlled through an independent judiciary, official transparency and an enhanced supervisory role for both the public and the media.
However, it cannot be applied in a cultural and political context such as modern China, with its Confucian tradition and the predominant role of the Party in the State’s affairs.
It should be noted that corruption in China is not a phenomenon born or grown in the sixty years of Communist rule, it can be tracked to the Imperial times. General perception in China sees corruption and weak government as evidence of lack of legitimacy leading to the collapse of a political system. The main Party concern is linked to this general perception, namely to fight corruption without generating increasing public awareness on the problem, so as to avoid destroying the Party legitimacy. As Chen Yu said: “fight corruption too little and destroy the country? fight it too much and destroy the Party”.
In order to face the spread of corruption, the Central Party Committee (CPC) has adopted a dual strategy. On one hand it relies on the Confucian approach of exhorting cadres to be the moral example in their work style through retro slogan as: “be the Party’s loyal guards and the masses’ best friends”. On the other hand, the Party has started the implementation of western remedies, such as rules based regulation and other tools as an ombudsman and public hotlines etc… Moreover, the Party has issued a Code of Ethics for Cadres, in which more than 52 practices are described as unacceptable and can be the basis for criminal law procedures. Nevertheless, the role of the media are more concentrated on covering big scandals (such as those concerning sons of Party nomenklatura) rather than of being the watching civil eye on public matters. In fact, while the leadership encourages reporting on local level malfeasances, it clamps down when reporters uncover cases considered inconvenient to the Party. Finally, according to Westgarth, “West’s panacea seems a very long way off”. It remains to be seen whether anticorruption with Chinese characteristics is anymore successful for the CPC than it was for previous dynasties.
Westgarth’s speech and analysis spurred much debate amongst the audience, Audience members engaged the speaker on issues such as the links between political power systems and economic networks, sexrelated political scandals, the role of Confucianism norms in Chinese society, judicial regulation and the potential of a freer press as a vehicle for tackling corruption.
The vivid debate created by Westgarth’s speech demonstrates the extensive interest of the audience in the matter. The theme of corruption is seen as crucial within the political and cultural discourse of modern China and its patterns of transformation.
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A variety of saddle fitting techniques are available today. The most common way to fit or assess saddle fit is by doing a wither tracing. There are many websites that show how to take a wither tracing which may potentially work for your horse yet there are some points to consider. Most often a wither tracing will only tell you what won’t work. Even though the tracing may reveal a fit, you are inevitably looking at a trial and error situation which can be very time consuming, not to mention frustrating.
Searching the web and reading the wealth of information on how to fit a saddle can be confusing. There is so much information! Much of the information we gather can even be conflicting. Hopefully we can clarify and resolve some confusion as you read on. See our article on saddle fitting for school horses.
Size Does Matter
First, we will talk about the “tree” or the base the saddle is built on. You may encounter terms like “Full Quarter, Semi-Quarter, Quarter Horse, Draft, Arab, Gaited, Association, Mule, Wide, Regular, Narrow” etc. when describing a specific tree. These terms can lead us to assume a specific name of a tree is for a specific horse.
My first horse was a quarter horse and was told she should fit into a regular quarter horse tree. Ok. That’s easy. I bought a saddle from a local tack shop that was designed with Regular Quarter Horse bars. That saddle would not stay in place. I was constantly having to move the saddle forward and it kept slipping to the side when I tried to mount. Does this sound familiar? This is a very common problem when a saddle does not fit. This tolerant horse was trying to tell me … this doesn’t work!!!
Another dilemma, I received all kinds of advice from my fellow riders, friends, tack stores, etc. (I know they were just trying to help me, and I was desperate) I was told I needed a thicker pad, which would help pad against the areas that might be rubbing on the horse where it didn’t fit correctly. Trying nearly a 15 pound, inch-thick fleece pad sounded like a great idea. Right? It made sense, yet that only made things worse. The pad didn’t breathe at all and hung a good foot out the back and the saddle would actually push the pad back. These pads can work for some and I have seen success, yet it all boils down to saddle fit.
Imagine having purchased a pair of shoes that are too narrow yet a size bigger than you wear. Would you put a larger thicker sock on to make it fit better? Maybe a thick boot sock? Now envision wearing a boot sock with a shoe that is way too narrow. Let’s try that example with a 50 pound back pack for a 3 mile hike up the mountain. You wouldn’t get far before you would turn back and want to go bare foot for the trek back. Now imagine how your horse feels with that thick pad and saddle that doesn’t fit. The saddle needs to fit. Bottom line.
The purpose of the tree of the saddle is to disperse the rider’s weight across the horse’s back evenly. If the tree doesn’t fit, the rider’s weight will be dispersed only in the areas where the tree comes in contact with the horses back. Here is an extreme example, A really sway-backed horse that is ridden in a saddle that has no slope from front to back creating severe bridging. The tree of the saddle is only in contact with the horse in the front and the back. When you mount this horse, your total weight is divided to the front and the back areas where the saddle is in contact with the horse. Ouch!!! This will create a real problem. Bucking, rearing, bolting, biting, kicking and so very dangerous! Another indication of possible poor saddle fit is if your horse is not standing still while mounting or tacking up. If your horse is showing any of this behavior, check your saddle fit. I have seen horses with these behaviors totally disappear or change for the better once the saddle fit is corrected.
What’s in a Name?
Keep in mind, when considering the “name” on the tree of the saddle as each manufacturers tree will differ even though the name may be the same. “Crates” brand “Full Quarter” is totally different from “Tex Tans” “Full Quarter”. Don’t get stuck on the names a manufacturer labels a saddle to be. You want it to fit, not by name, but by the specific fit. Just because you have a Quarter Horse, it doesn’t mean a horse may not fit a “Gaited” or “Draft” tree.
A “Wide” tree can mean many different things. Think of the angle of your horse’s back as an A-frame. As the bottom of the A widens the A becomes flatter. A flatter A-frame would fit a flatter backed horse. Also, the front bars of the tree can flare out or come out straight which will add to assessing the fit.
In this photo, we have placed a saddle tree on Mocha’s back. The manufacturer has labeled this tree as “Full Quarter” which we will consider being a “Wide” tree.
This is not a good fit for this horse. You can see gaping areas behind the shoulder. This particular tree has bars that come out fairly straight. You can see in the picture below, the shoulders of the horse would push this tree back when ridden and the tree would be tipping forward and raising in the back which would throw the rider totally off balance! Very difficult for a rider and horse to travel balanced in this situation. Note: You can not place a saddle on a horse in a balanced position if it does not fit. You will constantly have to re-position it.
A closer look shows this tree would dig into the shoulders. Pay attention to the pommel sitting on the withers of the horse. Add the weight of the rider and you have a real nightmare! Now you might say this is too wide. If you made the angle (A-frame) narrower it would lift that pommel, yet narrowing the angle would not help as this horse has huge shoulders. This horse is a very difficult fit. Her short back is another problem with fit. Most production line saddles are too long to accommodate a short backed horse. You may also be interested in our guide to saddle fitting a thoroughbred horse.
The majority of our saddle fitting is done by the use of Steele Fit Forms, which have a wide array of forms that mirror various horse backs. You can see below, this form/tree would accommodate Mocha’s large shoulders. This particular tree flares in the front and there is good contact throughout the bar area of the tree. Here is where things get a little tricky. A gullet measurement is not going to tell whether a saddle will fit or not. Why? Even though a wide enough tree (which is shown here fitting this big shouldered horse) had bars that came out straight, you would have no contact on the back of the saddle even though the shoulders would be free.
How To Properly Use Shim Pads for Asymmetrical Horses
Many horses like Mocha are not symmetrical. She is more muscular on one side which means the tree will not have as much contact in the bar area on one side. The tree could be modified on one side, yet this is not suggested. The best suggestion would be to exercise the side that needs developing which will create more balance. Another option is to incorporate a shim pad. This would be an ideal situation for a shim pad.
Word of caution, NEVER use a shim pad to fix a saddle that does not fit. Shim pads are used to slightly fill in areas where the saddle is not in contact with the horses back. A shim pad would not help the saddle shown above that is slipping. Also see our English pad range and Western pad range.
The Right Saddle Fit Can Make All the Difference
One last story regarding saddle fit. Nearly 7 years ago we rescued a horse. This horse had not been ridden successfully and had serious trust issues. According to the owner’s grandson, they were attempting to ride this beautiful naturally gaited horse with no success. The last attempted ride, the saddle slipped under her belly, she bucked off the rider and never rode her again. The saddle they were putting on this horse was a horrible fit and extremely narrow through the shoulder area. After bringing her home, we spent weeks, months and years retraining this horse. Although she is fully trained now, she remembers the saddle slipping incident. She will stand for mounting yet you can see her eyes widen and she still trembles until you are in the saddle. It is a shame as this could have been avoided had the saddle fit in the first place.
Once you get a correct fit for your horse, you will not believe how willing and forward your horse will become. You will see a totally different horse that is fluid moving and balanced. Both horse and rider benefit from a saddle that fits properly.
Make sure you rule out a poor saddle fit if this is in question. It is not worth ruining the trust bond. Trust is “key” to building a solid foundation and long lasting relationship with your horse. Happy trails!
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I recently, unexpectedly, spent six days in a local Behavioral Health Unit due to the sudden onset of severe and debilitating panic attacks. I’m so grateful to be home now and feeling better. My time in the hospital now feels almost like it never happened, but I feel a need to integrate that experience as part of the truth of my life. This poem is part of that attempt. I hope if maybe you’ve had similar struggles it will somehow speak to your experience.
Brown Paper Bag
It’s not the
barcoded wrist band that gets to you
constant roll-call and waiting in line for meds.
No, it’s the
brown paper bag that holds your belongings,
and clean underwear your husband gathered from dresser
his and packed into a small suitcase to be dropped off
on his way
to work early the next morning.
suitcase you have only the pajamas you arrived in –
and a three-dollar t-shirt from the clearance rack at Target.
though, are better than the scrubs some patients wear,
clothes along with their freedom and, for a time at least, their sanity,
is vetted at the nurses’ station,
belongings checked for that which
is not allowed –
sharps, strings, medications.
wonder, though you didn’t then,
what they thought of the board
your husband packed. You asked him
to help you
remember” although now you cannot remember
what. The books, among them The Carrot Seed, were his
Your journal and bible, your bra, socks and shirts,
together in two hefty brown grocery bags and brought to you
room. These you place on the floor in a
large door-less wardrobe.
your toiletries with care, the small toothpaste and white plastic toothbrush,
the hospital-issue baby shampoo and lotion, taking organizational cues
from your roommate’s side of the
leave, six days later, half of your things
will go back
into the black suitcase, returned to you
from the safe place where it was
kept. The other
half you will carry out through the locked doors
in a brown paper
bag. You will stop at the nurses’
to have the wristbands cut off and their phantom presence
you to touch your
arm again and again
well into the following day, but it will be a week or more
before you begin at last,
to unpack that brown paper bag.
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John Gottman is well known and respected for his knowledge of what makes couples successful – and what will ultimately lead them towards divorce. His research uncovered ways to identify who would remain married and those who would not. When you pair my interest in how relationships work with my curiosity about how important trust is, it’s little wonder why I picked up Gottman’s book The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples. However, what was surprising to me is how much mathematics played into the book.
Rose Colored Glasses
There’s some level of naivety that comes with being an optimist. Despite the psychological and physiological benefits of being optimistic, there are some practical benefits as well. (See Emotional Intelligence; Thinking, Fast and Slow; and The Happiness Hypothesis.) The world is – to us – how we perceive it. So if you want the world to be a better place, simply view it that way.
Of course, this won’t change your actual situation, but it can change how you feel about it and that can change how you view the world and how you react to it. How Children Succeed would call it grit. Gottman focuses on what Robert Weiss formerly a professor at the University of Oregon called positive and negative “sentiment override.” In other words, the bias that someone has to interpret events based on their preconceived expectations of it. Sentiment override comes in both positive and negative form – so it’s possible to see things with rose colored glasses where the glass is half full, or negatively, as in the glass is half empty. (The scientists in the group sometimes quip that the glass is full – half of water and half of air.)
When someone has a pessimistic perspective – or negative sentiment override – it’s extremely difficult to have anyone appear to be positive around them. We’ve all heard folks retort back when we’ve said “Good Morning” with something like “Well, what’s so good about it?” They seem to find the dark cloud around every silver lining. In relationships this is life-draining, because relationships live on the ratio of positive to negative comments. Gottman’s research says that happy couples have a positive to negative ratio of greater than 5:1 – and couples headed for divorce have a ratio of 0.8:1.
On the other hand, positive sentiment override, reinforces the very lifeblood of a relationship. It creates more opportunities to be positive because there are more positive interactions that are seen. A person with a positive sentiment override might look at a traffic jam while traveling with their partner as an opportunity to finish a conversation rather than an unnecessary delay.
We All Have Problems
Gottman notes that all relationships have their problems – whether the couples are happy or unhappy. We all argue about essentially the same stuff. The difference with happy couples is that the arguments aren’t as all-consuming or as damaging. Happy couples are more apt to begin a discussion softly. They’re more likely to convey an issue in terms of what they need and what they feel – rather than by pointing out a fundamental character flaw of the other person. They’re also more likely to attempt to repair problems in the relationship – or in a disagreement – more quickly.
One concern of pre-marital counselors is how couples are fighting. They expect that even the healthiest couples are fighting at least a little. If a couple literally never fights or disagrees, it’s a sign that one or the other of the parties in the relationship aren’t expressing their needs and beliefs. However, happy couples may have trouble even deciphering that they are “fighting.” The disagreements are filled with so much respect (rather than contempt) that they just literally don’t see the “fight” as a fight. They simply see that they’re disagreeing – and reaching an agreement. It isn’t a fight because neither is getting hurt – at least not hurt in a lasting way.
Thus the distinction between an unhealthy couple – where one is capitulating – and a healthy couple – where both parties are actively building and repairing the relationship in the middle of the disagreements – is in the ability to discover that there are disagreements, but those disagreements never escalate to the point of a fight.
Gottman noted that happy couples moved to repair the relationship much sooner, and showed a much lower level of diffuse physiological arousal (DPA). In other words, happy couples were much less stressed about their interactions than unhappy couples – in part because they felt safe.
Our brains are curious places. One curious thing is that unresolved issues – things that we don’t fully process – are given more attention and have more magnitude of thought than our resolved issues. This is called the “Zeigarnik effect”. The problem is that this can sometimes draw couples into a stream of negative conversations because all relationships have issues that cannot be resolved. Instead issues must be managed and dialogued to prevent the accidental development of gridlock.
Gridlock is that state much like a Chinese finger trap where both fingers are stuck and it’s very hard to get free. The more that you pull the fingers back – or the more entrenched you become in your position – the more challenging it becomes to break free. Couples, in gridlock, vilify one another. Instead of accepting that we’re both good people with different perspectives, fundamental attribution error creeps in and we believe the worst of our partner. (See also The Advantage, The Me I Want to Be, and Switch.)
Gottman believes that the key behind these unsolvable issues are “hidden agendas.” He believes that there is a part of the conversation that isn’t being had. I remember reading a story of a man and wife where they were shopping for a new refrigerator and objectively the best offering wasn’t a Frigidaire. However, one of the options that they had evaluated was a Frigidaire model. The wife was insisting on it. The man was confused and frustrated because it didn’t make sense. In the end, the true reason was exposed. The wife had grown up with a father who was in appliance sales. He had his own business for a while and Frigidaire loaned him inventory so that he could sell it. Somewhere the wife had picked up on this and had built a sentimental attachment with Frigidaire because of how the company had supported her father when he needed it. Ultimately the story goes that they bought the Frigidaire – however, the point is not about where they landed – it’s about how an undiscovered motivating factor (hidden agenda) could create a stressful situation and once identified the problem fades.
We can’t get rid of all of our hidden agendas because we don’t know that they’re there. There are all sorts of crazy things that all of us do and feel without any rational reason. For me, for instance, I have to have at least $20 on me all the time. Not that we use cash that often any more – but I have to have at least $20 on me or I feel anxious. I also feel a bit of stress every time I go on a trip that I might have forgotten something important. The reality is that buying a tube of toothpaste on the road or picking up a new comb won’t break the bank – however, these stresses from my early adult life are still with me – even if they aren’t rational.
Acceptance and Shame
In a gridlocked situation – and in many less immobilized circumstances – the conversation can degenerate into a conversation about the differences of opinion. However, in many cases the undercurrent of a discussion is the need for everyone to be accepted. We all have a need to be accepted for the person that we are. It’s during the hard discussions where there’s very little common ground that the masters of relationships indicate their acceptance of their partner – in the midst of problem.
You may remember from my discussion of Daring Greatly, Changes that Heal, and Compelled to Control that shame is a powerful – and negative – force in people’s lives. Shame is separate and distinct from guilt in that shame is “I am bad” whereas guilt is “I have done bad.” Shame is battled with acceptance. David Richo discusses how important acceptance is in How to Be an Adult in Relationships. When we fail to recognize the importance of the person, we shame them and make them believe that they must not be good enough to be in a relationship with us.
Bidding for Attention
Gottman talked a great deal about what he calls “Sliding Door” moments (based on the movie Sliding Doors). The idea is that during certain moments of time you have two choices to make. Each choice leads to a different outcome. In the context of Gottman’s research, the sliding door moments are bids for attention. It’s where one member of a relationship is seeking out the other. One choice, to turn away from the partner will damage the relationship. Depending upon the bid for attention the damage may be small and insignificant – or something with a long lasting impact. The other choice, to turn into the partner’s bid for attention will build the relationship. It is these moments that Gottman surmises have significant long term impact on the relationship.
The Grass Must Not Be Greener
Every relationship has its good points and its bad points. It’s got things that go well and things that don’t always go so well. That’s what happens when you take two imperfect people and bring them together. The result is an imperfect relationship. However, from a long term stability point of view, Gottman believes that the way that you see the relationship can ultimately illustrate the relationship’s longevity.
The measurement is how we view the alternative relationship prospects. That is, whether we believe that our current relationship is better – or worse – than the alternatives. If we fundamentally believe that our relationship is the best possible answer for us then we won’t seek alternatives. Conversely, if we believe that the alternative relationships are better opportunities, we’re more likely to pursue – directly or indirectly – those other relationships.
It seems quite morally absent to discu¡ss the idea of a relationship being a comparison about what is best for us – however, that’s the way many people view their relationships – not that they are a commitment, but only that they are useful for the moment.
Learning to recognize and manage our emotions is a skill that few people have. (See Emotional Intelligence for more on managing our emotions.) Learning to manage emotions isn’t something that can be made into explicit knowledge – it’s hard to write down. (For more on different kinds of knowledge see Lost Knowledge and The New Edge in Knowledge Management.) Because of this, emotional intelligence is best learned through coaching. Parents that have coached their children about how to manage their feelings are rewarded with higher math, reading, and IQ scores.
However, sometimes it’s the children who need to coach their parents in better managing their emotions, and in that context, the word coaching becomes more challenging. To combat the stigma of having a child teach a parent how to better manage their emotions, Gottman uses the word attunement. He suggests that anyone can help attune you to an emotional situation – irrespective of the power differential between the parties.
Teaching emotional intelligence – or attunement in Gottman’s language is key. Couples will be happier if they can recognize the feeling in their partner and seek to connect with them. That just doesn’t happen over time, it’s a skill that has to be learned – largely from those who are closest to us.
Authentic Trust and Love
What can happen over time as couples have spent their lives together is that their love becomes intertwined with the trust that they share. Over time partners can learn to trust that their partner will be there to nurture them and share in the moral responsibility of leading a life together. That isn’t to say that every time there was a bid for attention that the other partner understood it and turned in, however, it happens with enough regularity that it can be relied upon – it can be trusted.
As I mentioned in my review of Building Trust, there’s an authentic trust that doesn’t blindly believe in something that has no basis in fact, nor is it basic trust which is implicit and without confirmation of fact. Authentic trust understands that there are no absolutes in life and that a partner will mostly be there.
The interesting dynamic is how love and trust are related to one another and strengthen each other. There’s a special kinship that comes with having a large number of experiences together. There’s even some schools of thought that believe that experiential is a type of trust.
The Four Horsemen of the Relationship Apocalypse
Ultimately, in his research and through his experience, Gottman discovered that there were four activities which signaled the demise of the relationship. These “four horsemen” were the signals of serious problems. Here are the four horsemen: Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, and Stonewalling.
Most all of us have been critical at some point in our lives. A key distinction is that criticism here is criticizing the other partner – not criticizing the situation or the environment – it’s a direct attack on the other person. Globalization – using the words always and never – is a good indicator that criticism may be following.
An example of criticisms are rhetorical questions that are really accusations. When your partner asks “Why don’t you care about me?” they’re really making an accusation that you don’t care about them.
Defensiveness is either denying that what the partner says is true – or more commonly responding with a counter attack instead of acknowledging that we all have limitations. Chris Argyris (mentioned in the Fifth Discipline, for which the review is coming soon) talks about “defensive routines” that we all have which protect us from threat or embarrassment.
Defensiveness prevents us from really understanding what the other person is saying. The antidote to defensiveness, I believe, is an integrated self-image which I covered in my review of Changes that Heal and Beyond Boundaries.
Contempt – which is the single biggest predictor of divorce – is placing yourself on a higher moral plane than your spouse. Often contempt is about how one person doesn’t have some challenge that the partner has and therefore they are better than the partner. Weird correlations exist including a husband’s contempt predicting the wife’s infectious illness. As crazy as it seems, a husband showing contempt for his wife will increase her risk for infectious illness.
Stonewalling is building a wall around you so that your partner can’t get in. It’s withdrawing from the conversation – and the relationship – because the partner doesn’t want to or isn’t able to participate. It can be subtle in terms of body language or more overt like leaving the room.
Science, Math, and Relationships
While I didn’t cover some of the mathematical principles that Gottman discussed to arrive at some of his conclusions, I think I may have been doing you a service. While I was interested in the background on the Nash Equilibrium and the von Neumann-Morgenstern equilibrium I felt like they were an academic detail compared to the practical help for couples struggling to make their marriage work and those interested in a deeper understanding of what is going on in their relationship.
It may seem like math and science have little place in relationships – however, as I found out, there’s a lot of math needed to be able to do the right science in order to be able to predict which relationships will endure the test of time – and which ones won’t. If you are looking for a rigorous look at relationships instead of the “touchy-feely” stuff, The Science of Trust may be your answer. | <urn:uuid:e07bd519-5cb4-4d21-8049-d3ded2bfc390> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://thorprojects.com/2014/02/02/ | 2024-04-16T05:22:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.968977 | 3,388 |
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Introducing TIBA + MARL ECO
For some time as a brand we have been working on making positive changes to reduce our impact on the environment, with the long-term commitment to make a cleaner, more livable planet for our future generations.
As part of our on-going commitment to sustainabilty we are launching a more planet-friendly option of our best-selling Elwood Backpack, and Etta Changing Clutch in collaboration with Selfridges as part of their Project Earth campaign. Eco Elwood and Eco Etta are crafted from 100% recycled plastic ripstop nylon - and it's what's inside that counts too - as the interior lining, changing mat and cross-body clutch are all created from 100% recycled plastic nylon - also the bags are packaged in biodegradable non-toxic poly bags that can be disposed off in compost or dissolved in boiling water.
Whilst all our bags have been 100% vegan and cruelty free since 2015, we appreciate that this is just the beginning of our eco journey and we look forward to introducing more sustainable options to our range, and near future initiatives include swapping ALL linings to recycled materials, and ensuring all packaging to be biodegradable (currently all packaging is either recyclable or oxo-biodegradable).
Whilst it has been a slow labour of love to bring this new collection to market, since 2018 we have been partnering with a Carbon Offset organisation where we have been donating a proportion of profits from each bag sold, to 3 UK and International carbon reduction projects, and to date have offset 165 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
You can also find lifestyle products within our Eco collection, in 2018 we launched our T+M skincare range in collaboration with organic, ethical UK based brand Honest skincare, where we created a micro-collection of products using 100% natural ingredients and packaging that is simple, biodegradable and reusable - as well as never tested on animals.
If you want to snuggle up your baby in style and safe in the knowledge that no nasties are near their precious skin, we have also introduced a beautiful 100% organic jersey cotton blanket made using GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified cotton.
We look forward to growing our range, and would love to hear your feedback on what you would like to see, and we will always appreciate any suggestions as to any steps we could take to become more environmentally conscious.
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Social Media is the biggest medium to popularize your brand nowadays. The entire business spectrum has become digitized. Online buying and selling of goods and services have become the norm. In this era of digitization, it has become important to display products on social media websites and handles like Instagram, Facebook, and Company Websites. Organizations have spent thousands of dollars on redesigning their websites and making them look attractive. This action has attracted a lot of customers to the business. It has also been successful in popularizing business principles. Search Engine Optimization is one of the basic components of the usage of Social Media. Optimizing Social Media business sites has become very important for the growth of the business. Therefore you can follow the tips mentioned here to optimize your Facebook webpage-
Choosing the Right Name
Naming the business page on Facebook is very important. The name should not be too small. In that case, the people who are viewing the website may feel that it has been copied from somewhere. The customers would not engage with a business entity that has a cryptic and duplicate name. The name should be original. Moreover, it should be attractive enough. It should talk about what your business deals with. Giving an attractive name would help you generate more customers. If they find the name of your Facebook business page to be attractive, they will be eager in checking out your website. Moreover while naming the page you should also keep the page ranking factor in mind. A short and crisp name would help your page rank higher on the Internet search engine.
Customize your URL
When you sign up on Facebook with a business page, they provide you with a sample URL. Do not continue using the same URL. Edit it accordingly and customize it according to your specifications. The URL which you input should be brief and catchy. People should be able to search the profile easily on social media platforms and web engines. After personalizing the URL you will find that the reach of your business page has also increased. Keeping it the same would dent its popularity.
For example, if you have got access to customize URLs, consider it as a benefit making it worth by putting primary keywords in it. Putting the accurate keyword of your business name may help visitors to understand your business better. Moreover, it can also develop your business branding.
Also read: A complete guide to opening Facebook Shops
Complete the details mentioned in the Facebook Profile
Complete the necessary details in your Facebook Profile. Give your birth information, a suitable profile picture, and cover picture, and update the information provided regularly. Your Facebook Profile should contain all the relevant information about the business. For example- it should contain the location of the business, the products being sold by the business model, and the methods applied to popularize the business. A complete business profile on Facebook will help you generate productivity and efficiency in the market. It will also create a positive reputation for your products in the market.
Emphasize the ‘About Us Section
The customers who are landing on your website want to know more about your business. They want to know where your store is, the kind of products you sell, the prices you offer for those products and the mode of delivery. They also want to know about your personal information. Therefore you must focus on providing all the aforementioned information through the About Us section of your business webpage. Prospective Clients would only engage after they trust you and your legitimacy. Therefore maintain clarity with all the information provided.
Mention Keywords associated with your business on your Website
Keywords refer to the main components of your business. Suppose you are in the garments business. Then the word garment would be a keyword for you. Try to mention the keyword as many times as possible on the Business Webpage. The more you use the keywords the more the chances are that your website will appear on the search engine more often. Therefore try and incorporate the keywords as frequently as possible. It will help in increasing the ranking of your webpage.
Mention the Contact Details on your Facebook Page
While starting your business webpage you must remember that the consumers would look for ways to communicate with you. They would prefer if they can call you or email you and solve their query. They would avoid visiting you physically to clear their doubts. Therefore while creating the business page on Facebook, provide your official contact number and official email id. That would help in maintaining smooth communication with prospective clients.
For example, you can update the Facebook page with necessary details such as website URL, contact details, and email address that can help visitors easily connect with you in no time.
Optimize the Facebook Updates
Anytime you are going to post on Facebook, share the content or upload a picture, and take advantage of the fact that you can add a description. Regularizing the Facebook updates portion would help in orienting your webpage in a better manner.
By following the aforementioned steps you can optimize your Business webpage on Facebook. Thus it becomes a convenient process to popularize your business brand and increase the acceptability of your products in the market.
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A mind map is essentially a diagram used to visually organize information, designed to help businesses improve brainstorming sessions, as well as collaboration and communication.
A mind map can be used by businesses to brainstorm thoughts and ideas organically. By plotting ideas into a diagram, you can turn often complex, monotonous information into an organized, colorful and memorable centralized format.
There are hordes of mind mapping tools available to small businesses, designed to enhance project cooperation, collaboration, clarity and efficiency.
Apps like MindMeister, MindGenius, MindManager and Creately, allow businesses to use diagram templates or create from scratch to craft visual cues designed to ensure teams process and retain information better.
By visualizing ideas, concepts and information, mind maps help people follow conversations and contribute in meetings for efficiently and effectively. Mind mapping is increasingly being used as an alternative to more traditional ways of presenting, such as using flip charts or PowerPoint.
By allowing the free flow of ideas in a controlled manner and creating easy visualization, mind mapping can reduce the completion time of different tasks, thereby significantly boosting a team’s productivity.
Research by specialist Chuck Frey, reveals businesses that the use of this tool for meetings, presentations, planning and more, increased productivity by an average 25%.
Many advocates also claim that 20 hours of work can be accomplished in just six hours simply by using mind mapping software.
As well as increased productivity, using mind mapping can be a vital tool in enhancing meetings. For example, mind mapping shows keywords and important points instantly, meaning meeting participants are less likely to miss anything.
This visual type of presenting helps others visualize, which can improve memory, meaning participants are more likely to remember important points raised at a meeting.
Optimize Project Management
From coordinating multiple, often remote teams, keeping on top of workflows, and ensuring every part of a project is communicated and collaborated so that deadlines are met, and products are finished on time, project management essentially deals with organized chaos.
Mind mapping can be used to simplify tasks and create simple to-do lists. Advanced mind mapping tools enable users to insert specific task information, making project management easier and more efficient.
From ‘professional doodling’ that enables employees to present and discuss plans with a colorful, visualized diagram, to task delegation in which an entire map or perhaps just one or two branches represent which team members are responsible for different tasks, to brainstorming sessions and being used as a note-taking tool, mind mapping software is an invaluable tool in helping small businesses get more organized through optimized project management.
Improve Collaboration and Communication
Collaboration and communication can also be improved through mind mapping. Using online tools can be an effective way for teams to collaborate, communicate and share ideas and concepts, particularly for teams that work remotely from different locations.
Mind Mapping for Creative Thinking and Innovation
Creative thinking and innovation are two of the most important requirements for sustained small business success. With spatial layouts and image and icon libraries, producing a mind map is an effective way for businesses to come up with creative, innovative ways to brainstorm an issue, deliver a marketing campaign, develop a new product, or make a pitch.
By transforming huge lists of often tedious and complex information into a highly organized, memorable and colorful pictorial representations, mind maps help stimulate ideas and nurture creativity and innovation within a small business.
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Has anybody gone, yet? The wife seemed interested though it looks like we'll have to attend at a somewhat dull but very midly tiki-ish Thai place. Looks like there are several cocktails that are part of Sippin Santa so I'm interested in recommendations.
Also... gingerbread mix in the Sippin Santa cocktail? I'm very intrigued. Though I'm also very intrigued by ingredients in 4 of the other offered cocktails so my liver and bank account are gonna hurt. | <urn:uuid:4759078f-e4dd-48dc-8f4e-7c8d111fc878> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://tikiforum.com/threads/sippin%E2%80%99-santa-2021-location-map.206/ | 2024-04-16T03:49:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.980515 | 99 |
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Morning Sickness & Postnatal Depression: Emma's Birth Story
I took my pregnancy test in a bathroom outside a Woolworths store. I wasn’t due for my period until later that week, but there was an overwhelming feeling inside of me that I might be pregnant. It would have been a surprise, but after seven years together, a very welcome surprise.
I was vomiting 30-40 times a day every day, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t shower, I was in bed for months at a time, I could barely work, and I lost 10kgs. I was in the hospital at least twice a week with multiple doctors and nurses struggling to find veins in my extremely dehydrated body. At 24 weeks I was admitted for seven days with a blockage in my uretra caused by this terrible illness. Mentally, I was struggling. I had lost all sight of my life before, I couldn’t be a good partner, friend, or sister. I didn’t want to answer the phone to talk to people, I just wanted all of this to go away. Truth be told, in the heat of my mental downfall, I wanted my pregnancy to end. I knew what was causing all of this and I just wanted it to go away. But somehow, I pulled through 332,640 minutes of hell.
At 32 weeks we were told our baby had stopped growing and had Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR). An IUGR is when an unborn baby is smaller than it should be because it is not growing at a normal rate inside the womb. I was monitored every second day with fluid checks, scans, and heartbeat and movement checks. I held on until 37 weeks when I was induced and our baby boy Kyan was born via emergency c section after some complications. When they showed me my baby over the sheet in the theatre my one and only thought was ’thank god that’s over’. I didn’t care that he was here, I didn’t care that we had just created this incredible life, all I cared about was the fact that I wasn’t going to be sick anymore.
The hospital stay was a whirlwind of visitors, and nurses, and learning to breastfeed (which I ended up not being able to do due to no milk supply), the first bath, hearing tests and trying to get some sleep. When we got home, the hospital bubble slowly started disintegrating and when it popped I knew I was in big trouble. I didn’t love my baby. I didn’t want to hold him, touch him, play with him, or feed him. I didn’t want anything to do with him, and my partner had to pick up every single piece of parenthood that I had just thrown on the ground. I was sad, crying all the time, wanting to walk away from my family, and just wanting to go to sleep and never wake up. This went on for a few weeks until I had my very first panic attack and ended up at the hospital with the psych triage team. Two days later I had my first perinatal psych ward admission and was diagnosed with postnatal depression, anxiety, and PTSD from having Hyperemesis.
Being there saved my life. I learnt to love my incredible baby boy. I would walk around the ward singing ‘you are my sunshine’ continually to him, and I was finally learning how to be a mum. We were discharged seven weeks later, but unfortunately only a few months after, I fell down the dark hole again and ended up in a second clinical admission, this time for six weeks. I realised I was overcompensating and wanting everything to be perfect for Kyan because I felt so much unbearable guilt over how I felt about him in the first place that when things weren’t going right, I would spin out of control. I was trying so hard to make it up to him that I was losing myself while doing so. I really struggled to get out of this headspace, and I still feel the guilt of ‘losing’ his newborn days, and I feel that and carry it with me every single day and I will for the rest of my life. But I’ve picked up the tools and knowledge along the way to work through it and to focus on the good and the positive.
It was in this second admission that I learnt about self-care and how important it is as a mum to look after yourself, to give yourself a break, and do something nice that you enjoy. So over a year after my first admission, I decided I was in a really good place in my life and wanted to give back to mums who are going through similar mental health conditions as I did, or mums who are just having a rough time in their motherhood journey. I wanted to share some love with them and show them its ok to look after yourself and prioritise yourself for a moment, and that’s where my project ELM Self Soothe Boxes was born.
I create boxes for women going through postnatal depression and anxiety and donate them. I do not profit financially from this, and I do not charge for the boxes. I donate them to perinatal wards across Melbourne, and to people who might know a mum friend of theirs going through a tough time.
It brings me so much joy and happiness being able to do this for others, and in a way, I look at it as my own self-care time. I continue to raise money through my go fund me page, and generous donations of products from local businesses to be able to continue making these boxes.
Going through postnatal depression, and anxiety and PTSD changed my life but it made me a better person, and it made me a better mum.
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Presently, there are no vacancies. However, we’re always on the look out for stand-out crew members. If interested, please forward CVs, for attention of Karen.
Hi guys! We are advertising for 4+ vacancies for committed individuals to join our professional team. You will be helping fellow team members set up the giant tipis and various structures for weddings, festivals, parties and corporate events. You will be expected to work from April – October (peak event season), and permanent positions will be offered to the right candidates.
- A self-motivated team player
- Enjoy physically demanding work in outdoor environments
- Naturally enthusiastic and willing to learn
- Have own transport to get to and from our base
- Punctuality – there will be early starts and occasionally late finishes
- Live or be in close proximity to Winsford CW7 2RB
- More than 1 years driving experience with van/trailers
- Current B+E driving licence certificate
- Full driving licence
- Educated to college level or above
Prior experience with handling tipi/marquees is preferred, but don’t worry it’s not essential as full training would be provided. We are more than happy to discuss competitive rates of pay and premium rates for candidates with driving experience etc.
We are confident that these vacancies will provide candidates with an amazing and insightful opportunity into operational work used in the events industry. If you are, or if anyone you know is interested, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
Our very best wishes.
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PROVOX OWP Console
Emerson PROVOX OWP Console alarm and event data is collected using either Serial or TCP/IP communications. In a Serial port configuration, LogMate is connected directly to an RS232 Serial port. By emulating a Serial line printer, LogMate collects any messages “printed” from the connected console. Serial configurations are typically used for smaller installations, or when the network cannot be trusted to maintain stable data transmissions between a console and a networked LogMate computer. Serial connections are the most basic LogMate implementation. LogMate can collect data across a network by communicating with a TCP/IP enabled device or computer. In Client mode, LogMate captures data sent from a Server device, typically a Serial to Ethernet converter. The Serial to Ethernet converter receives RS232 Serial output and converts it into a TCP/IP packet that is sent across a network. LogMate is configured to watch for transmissions from the Serial to Ethernet converter.
Emerson PROVOX alarm configuration is available through a set of CSV files. These CSV files are created using SQL Scripts that run against a Sybase database on the ENVOX engineering workstation. The LogMate KB Agent can be configured to import and provide a management of change process to review subsequent changes to the PROVOX alarm system. The KB Agent can be scheduled to automatically import records for user review in TiPSView. | <urn:uuid:b7e78516-ae83-4620-8dd7-2937c69b1325> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://tipsweb.com/owp/ | 2024-04-16T04:07:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00767.warc.gz | en | 0.863658 | 288 |
In the journey to attain success, many falter along the way. Yet for those who do succeed, they often share a commonality – the success mindset cultivation. This mindset forms the bedrock upon which dreams are built and achievements realized.
Grasping the Essence of a Success Mindset
Grasping the essence of the success mindset is the first step towards nurturing this pivotal attribute. It is a cognitive state that compels you to ceaselessly strive for objectives despite the hurdles. It translates adversities into opportunities for growth and sees each setback as a springboard for a comeback.
Fostering the Success Mindset
Formulating Realistic and Clear Goals
Foundation of a success mindset is laid with formulating realistic and clear goals. Having such goals outlines your path and act as a motivator. When the goals are achievable and well defined, they morph from being dreams to attainable realities.
Adopting an Optimistic Outlook
Having an optimistic outlook plays a vital role in fostering a success mindset. Confidence in your ability to navigate through hardships is a common trait among successful people, fortified by their shield of optimism. An optimistic attitude not only helps to repel negativity but also drives us forward on our success journey.
Emphasizing on Continuous Learning
Walking down the path to success warrants an ever-present thirst for knowledge. A mindset that values continuous learning and views every experience as a learning opportunity, becomes the driving force behind a success mindset. Accumulated wisdom, lessons, and experiences form the building blocks of successful people.
Nurturing the Cultivated Success Mindset
While planting the seeds of success mindset is challenging, nurturing and sustaining it is even more so.
Pursue Constructive Critique
The strengthening of a success mindset happens through constant self-improvement. This is usually achieved by seeking, accepting, and applying constructive criticism, which helps identify weaknesses, amend mistakes, and set a path for better decision-making.
Also of importance is the cultivation of adaptability. With life’s ebbs and flows, success is found in being able to respond to changes promptly and efficiently, transforming them into opportunities for growth.
The path to success is lined with challenges. The strength of a success mindset, therefore, is dependent on the individual’s resilience. The ability to overcome difficulties and rebound from setbacks can bolster your success mindset, propelling you upwards on the ladder of achievement.
Internalizing a Success Mindset
Although cultivating and nurturing a success mindset is critical, true triumph comes from internalizing this mindset, making it an intrinsic part of your life.
Keeping your Integrity
Integrity truncates to the consistency of actions, principles, and outcomes. Upholding it deepens trust in your abilities, promotes a potent success mindset and inspires others.
Part of a success mindset is being grateful for what you already possess. Acknowledging and appreciating what you have improves mental well-being, enhances relationships, and fosters a positive outlook – all conducive to cultivating a success mindset.
Maximizing Each Day
Lastly, embodying a success mindset means taking advantage of every day. Seeing each day as a fresh chance to grow, improve, adapt, learn, and get closer to your aim turns your success journey into a sequence of little victories.
Success mindset cultivation is a never-ending process, which entails constant care, adjustment, and enhacement. Embrace it and let it pave your way not only towards professional success, but also towards personal growth and satisfaction.
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The Incredibles 2: Coming soon to theaters near you.
In 2004, our hearts were stolen by a family of superheroes who went through a relocation program to hide their secret identities. In the film, Bob Parr – also known as Mr. Incredible– accidentally loses his temper during his day job and throws his boss through several walls after not being allowed to be a “hero.” This incident causes a rift within the family, while Helen Parr– also known as Elastigirl– desperately tries to keep her family together. Bob decides to start up hero work again without the consent of his wife, and ends up going on a mission for a woman named Mirage. After defeating a robot named Omnidroid, Bob returns to his family, providing them with a happier life.
As the film continues, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl battle against Syndrome, who once desired to be Mr. Incredible’s sidekick. Syndrome launches a newer and more advanced Omnidroid to attack and terrorize Metroville, with the plan to become the hero and save the city. Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl fight alongside their kids, Violet and Dash, as well as their best friend Frozone in this epic battle. Bob and his family defeat the robot once again by destroying its power source with its own arm. As the dust settles, Syndrome cannot be seen, and we quickly learn that he has kidnapped their youngest child, Jack-Jack. Once up in the plane, Jack-Jack’s super powers quickly come out and take Syndrome by surprise, causing him to fall into a plane’s engine, thus killing him. As things begin to settle down for the Parr family, they begin to act and behave like a normal family. That is until things go terribly wrong and we see a new villian appear, coming out from the ground on top of a giant drill. He calls himself the Underminer and the last glimpse we get of this family is all of them putting their masks on.
The ending to the first movie sets up the sequel extremely well, starting right where they left off with the new villain, the Underminer, coming out of the ground. The previews give us a glimpse into what new challenges the Parr family will take on. Bob becomes a stay at home dad, managing Dash and Violet during their teenage years, along with taking care of Jack-Jack and his new-found powers. All the while, Elastigirl is the one who is battling crime. The first trailer came out on November 18, 2017, and all this teaser had was Jack-Jack exploring his powers of teleportation, laser eyes, bursting into flame, and electricity, while introducing the new logo for Incredibles II. Since then, we have seen many different trailers providing different insight to the movie and its latest plot developments. This movie will be in theaters June 14th, and tickets are available for purchase now.
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Crystal Ma ’21 has been awarded a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, joining a cohort of more than 40 students from 22 states and 8 countries, each of whom will pursue independent exploration around the globe in 2021-2022. An art and biology major from Redmond, Wash., Ma shares her plans for the fellowship and beyond.
What will you do with your Watson Fellowship?
During my Watson year I will explore the emancipatory possibilities of live, experimental music production through four different musical subcultures that all maintain a shifting position between the polarities of the local and the global, the past and the present, the personal and the communal. I am attracted, specifically, to the underground electronic music communities in Kampala, Jaffa and Krakow which all refract traditional, regional musical culture through a modern, electronic lens. Each scene is rich with sounds that neither fit into the commercial mainstream nor adhere strictly to local musical styles or traditions. In these places, both traditional and modern conventions of composition, performance, transmission—vinyl, CD-R, tapes, soundwaves on the internet—and space—record stores, dancefloors, bedrooms, recording studios—are being questioned and subverted to reclaim marginalized identities. Through community-oriented sound and visual experimentation, using an ethnocentric approach to modern tools, I will explore how each of these communities use music to question internalized binaries, working to tear them down in myself as well.
How did you become interested in underground music? Why is it important?
Last year I studied abroad at the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO) and got really into the DnB (Drum and Bass) scene there because of my friend Hannah. I wouldn’t say that DnB is necessarily “underground” but it was definitely my foray into the praxis of live music wherein production, dissemination and consumption are collapsed into a single moment. From there I started getting into the more experimental, electronic stuff. My classically trained left brain was fascinated by DnB because somehow it incorporates two completely discordant musical elements: a ferocious and unrelenting drum programming on one hand and light, minimal manipulation of melodic textures on the other.
I received a grant from CES/CLiA over the summer to dive deeper and interviewed DJ Bailey, a Jungle/DnB DJ who had witnessed the entire birth and evolution of the subgenre: DnB began as a widely disparaged and supposedly illiterate form of music. It initially evolved among the Caribbean diaspora in South London without any media coverage or appraisal. What brought the two antagonistic musical components together was the rumbling reggae bassline—an obvious indebtedness to Caribbean soundsystem culture. The sound of DnB conveys a sense of social and cultural dislocation that speaks to my search for self. Witnessing the movement of musical forms across the boundaries of race, nation and authenticity, I experienced a more complex intersection between private and public histories, and arrived at a more complex understanding of culture and of myself.
How do the arts fit into a liberal arts education?
I’ve taken classes in at least 12 different disciplines at Williams, and I always find myself gravitating towards art because out of all these disciplines, art was the only one that acknowledged that knowledge is valuable not only when it is applicable, useful or testable but also when it is emotional, human, spiritual and personal.
What are your post-Watson plans?
I want to work with my hands, be in constant movement and thread culture together to create community and thwart alienation. I want to help myself, my community and the world achieve a balance between the Apollonian (clarity, logic, reason) and the Dionysian (disorder, intoxication, emotion).
Do you have a dream job?
I want to get a Ph.D. in plant genetics so that I can breed orphan crops—crops that have a lot of regional cultural significance but lack the profitability that industry and research networks seek—working to increase their yield potential and climate resilience. But I also deeply believe that art has a necessary role in the reimagining of our collective futures: in our daily lives, in politics, in law—and in plant science.
Who has been a major influence in your life?
I guess with regards to the development of this (Watson) project, specifically, I’d have to say Hannah. She came up to me at a social event during orientation week—I remember feeling really nervous —and invited me to a play her dad had produced which was touring and happened to be showing at the main theatre in Oxford. The rest is history!
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It is said former Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel will take charge at Stamford Bridge just a month after leaving the Ligue 1 champions.
In eight Premier League games, news of Lampard’s departure is evidently expected to follow a streak of two wins.
The Blues’ record goalscorer was appointed in July 2019 and led them to a fourth-place finish and the FA Cup final in his debut campaign as a top-flight coach.
Chelsea invested heavily ahead of the 2020-21 season and were top of the table at the start of December.
But a dreadful run has seen Chelsea slide down to ninth, 11 points off the pace, reportedly costing club great Lampard his job the day after a 3-1 FA Cup win against Luton Town.
Lampard’s failure to get the best out of an expensively assembled side appeared to heavily contribute to his demise.
Timo Werner continued his miserable run of form with a penalty miss against Luton, his only goal since November having come in the previous round of the cup at home to Morecambe.
Germany colleague Kai Havertz has netted only once in the Premier League, with his most recent three starts in the competition all coming in defeats.
Havertz was in the line-up at Everton when Chelsea, top after beating Leeds United in their first match in December, went down 1-0.
A late defeat at Wolves followed and victory over West Ham could not arrest the slump, as struggling rivals Arsenal eased past the Blues on Boxing Day.
Held by Aston Villa, Chelsea were then outclassed by Manchester City before a narrow win at relegation-battling Fulham eased the pressure only slightly.
Defeat at Leicester City – Premier League contenders while Chelsea flounder – was apparently the final straw, despite progress in the cup.
In Tuchel, a compatriot of Werner and Havertz, Chelsea would bring in a coach who won consecutive titles in France and also guided PSG to last season’s Champions League final.
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