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Azaleas in October? Why not?
These plants are reblooming machines – they’re flowering right now in our research and development greenhouses. In October! And they’ve been going all summer long. We typically see 12-18 weeks of blooming a year on the Perfecto Mundo® azalea varieties.
Impressive bloom time, and even the size and quantity of the blooms themselves, create quite a show in any garden. Yes, these plants are as over-the-top as a Broadway musical.
Perfecto Mundo® Orange will grow in USDA 6-9, and gets 3-4′ tall and 3-5′ wide. So while it’s certainly an appealing plant at retail or used in a deco container, this is a really good size for many landscaping applications, too.
It will grow in full sun or part shade.
Cats!
Not my cats, although if you video conferenced with me while I was working from home you probably saw mine.
No, I’m talking about the musical.
Cats opened on Broadway 39 years ago today. It was quite the thing. And while my own cat is pretty great at comic relief she’s not nearly as talented as the humans who sang and danced their way through T.S. Eliot’s poems.
The connection to azaleas is that azalea is one of the most commonly searched plants on the ASPCA’s toxicity list. Note: yes, they are toxic to cats – and dogs and horses, too. Poinsettias? Not so much. The sap can be irritating, but “generally over-rated in toxicity”.
Anyway, it’s a good link to have handy when people ask about their pets and plants. I’ve found that most animals don’t eat plants that are really dangerous but every once there’s one that doesn’t have much horse sense.
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Many patients present to our emergency departments with worrisome symptoms, but we physicians can find no objective evidence that they have disease. In this episode, I present a hypothesis to explain what is causing this confusing situation. By offering our patients an understandable explanation for what is happening to them we can more effectively reassure them and begin the journey toward relief.
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TechTank is a biweekly podcast from The Brookings Institution exploring the most consequential technology issues of our time. From artificial intelligence and racial bias in algorithms, to Big Tech, the future of work, and the digital divide, TechTank takes abstract ideas and makes them accessible. Moderators Dr. Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with leading technology experts and policymakers to share new data, ideas, and policy solutions to address the challenges of our new digital world.
Sign up to receive the TechTank newsletter for more research and analysis from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Online behavioral advertising can be discriminatory, so what’s the plan to fix this?
On social media, advertisers can use online tools to target people of color in housing, banking, and employment, resulting in limits to the opportunities available to them, and even violations of their civil rights. In this episode, host Nicol Turner Lee is joined by Jinyan Zang, Harvard Kennedy School fellow, and Dominique Harrison of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies to discuss new research on Facebook’s ad model and proposals to remedy such biases.
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Why schools still need a remote option to mitigate COVID-19
As the new school year begins, COVID cases are on the rise again – this time hitting K-12 students, especially those who are unvaccinated and under 12, placing them at risk of hospitalizations and dangerous complications. School closures may once again be imminent if the virus is not better controlled. But students without reliable access to the internet will be left behind once again, and unable to access remote classes and the resources necessary for them to continue their education. Have we closed the digital divide for students since the first wave of the pandemic? And what do schools need to do to ensure that technology is complementing traditional education?
Brookings TechTank co-host Nicol Turner Lee is joined by Jon Valant, Amina Fazlullah, and Alejandro Roark to discuss these important questions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Which U.S. Cities Are Poised for AI Growth?
As the AI economy grows, there is tremendous variation across local and regional economies in how
well-positioned cities are. Some metropolitan areas have tremendous assets and lots of AI-related activity while others see little activity. Those variations raise interesting questions about which places are doing well, why, and what other communities can do to boost technology innovation in their local economies. To learn more, Darrell West is joined by Mark Muro and Sifan Liu, co-authors of a new paper entitled “AI Cities: The Geography of the AI Economy.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
How will Biden’s broadband infrastructure plan address rural poverty while closing the digital divide?
The bipartisan infrastructure plan championed by President Biden and passed by the U.S. Senate aims to close America’s racial and rural broadband gaps. What local challenges lie ahead in the deployment of these resources? And what else can policymakers, industry, and civil society do to support these unconnected communities? Host Nicol Turner Lee dives into these issues and more with the Children’s Defense Fund’s Oleta Fitzgerald; Joe Kapp from the National Center for Resources Development, and Barry Toser of Declaration Networks Group.
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Why State Unemployment Insurance Programs Failed Workers During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government enacted a relief package designed to help Americans cope with the pandemic and resulting economic downturn. However, inadequate unemployment insurance programs left many people in need without help. To understand the challenges, Darrell West and Annelies Goger discuss the poor performance of unemployment insurance programs due to IT infrastructure, government procurement and inadequate data collection.
You can listen to the episode and subscribe to the TechTank podcast on Apple, Spotify, or Acast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Managing Privacy, Equity, and Access in COVID Vaccine Passports
Vaccination rates are on the rise and several countries, including the United States, are relaxing public health restrictions as they steer toward a full reopening. Digital health certificates, or vaccine passports, are part of these efforts as a number of organizations are requiring proof of vaccination. But while digital health certificates may facilitate a safer reopening and faster economic recovery, technological solutions to vaccine verification also raise valid concerns about the privacy of personal health data and their potential to exacerbate racial and socioeconomic inequities.
To discuss these issues, host Nicol Turner-Lee is joined by Mark Hall, Jay Stanley and Emily Skahill. You can listen to the episode and subscribe to the TechTank podcast on Apple, Spotify, or Acast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Customer Reviews Great Podcast
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Tuesday, 21 September 2021
On 14 September 2021, the gas Transmission System Operators (TSOs) of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -Gasgrid Finland Oy, Elering AS, JSC Conexus Baltic Grid and AB Amber Grid - have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on promoting the development of green gases in the region.
Green gas predominantly refers to biomethane but can include other forms of renewable natural gas including synthetic methane, green hydrogen (an emerging renewable gas carrier) as well as biogas (an unrefined mix of biomethane and carbon dioxide).
In conjunction with the National Energy Climate Plans (NECPs) and the European Green Deal, the TSOs identified areas for cooperation, including research and development, when crafting the MoU.
Other areas considered in the MoU include regulations, harmonised standards (including Guarantees of Origin systems) and infrastructure.
The full press release can be found here (Elering).
Note, although strictly not a Baltic state, Finland is a party to this MoU. And while a MoU does not constitute a legally binding document, the news should send strong signals to biomethane players in the area.
Total biogas production in the MoU countries was close to 2 TWh in 2019, most of the biogas being used for electricity production. Biomethane production was under 200 GWh.
The numbers had decreased in recent times, particularly in Estonia and Latvia due to a decrease in the amount of state support for production, resulting in some plant closures. The MoU will highlight some of these worrying trends and focus future discussions on growing the industry.
Cooperation between the states as far as GOs and associated registers will likely be made easier with the European harmonising efforts of organisations such as the AIB (Association of Issuing Bodies) and ERGaR (European Renewable Gas Registry). ERGaR has already hosted roadmap talks for biomethane in Lithuania and Latvia this year.
Greenfact offers specific content on Green Gas Guarantees of Origin, as well as monitoring emerging markets. Contact us if you would like access, or more information.
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Premium Grade Essays offers nursing research assignment help at fair prices, within stipulated deadlines. We are dedicated to providing nursing students with nursing research assignment help that they can rely on.
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What is nursing research and how does it relate to nursing practice?
Nursing research is the body of work representing nursing knowledge. It can include:
1. quantitative studies (numbers and statistics)
2. qualitative studies (personal stories, observations)
3. systematic reviews (nurse-conducted literature reviews that attempt to identify the most relevant articles on a topic).
All nursing research supports or challenges existing nursing thought or theory. For example, if researchers find that giving women with heart failure ACE inhibitors will reduce symptoms of fluid retention without an increase in symptoms related to low blood pressure; this study would support current nursing practice guidelines which recommend these drugs as a first-line medication for this condition. However, if nursing research instead found that women who take ACE inhibitors were at a greater risk for kidney damage and hospitalization, nursing thought would shift away from commonly recommending these drugs as a first-line treatment.
As nursing professionals, we rely on nursing research to support our nursing practice. While the type of nursing research necessary to practice safely can vary by nursing specialty, all registered nurses maintain an awareness of new nursing studies so they can adapt their practices accordingly. Many factors go into deciding how much weight should be given to any one nursing study, including the source of funding (e.g., industry or non-profit), size of study population, statistical significance, rigor of methodology etc. One factor that is often considered the most important is whether other similar studies have been published and how consistent the nursing study findings are in comparison to that nursing research.
Nursing research can be used to:
1. answer a question
2. test a hypothesis
3. develop nursing theory
4. compare nursing interventions (e.g., what works best?)
5. explore new areas of nursing practice
6. spread existing nursing practice guidelines (ostensibly, if all nurses know about the evidence supporting best nursing practices such as handwashing, we will all be more likely to adhere).
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The basic unit of eukaryotic chromatin is the nucleosome, consisting of about 150 by of DNA wrapped around a protein core made of histone proteins. Nucleosomes position is modulated in vivo to regulate fundamental nuclear processes. To measure nucleosome positions on a genomic scale both theoretical and experimental approaches have been recently reported. We have developed a new method, Multi-Layer Model (MLM), for the analysis of nucleosome position data obtained with microarray-based approach. The MLM is a feature extraction method in which the input data is processed by a classifier to distinguish between several kinds of patterns. We applied our method to simulated-synthetic and experimental nucleosome position data and found that besides a high nucleosome recognition and a strong agreement with standard statistical methods, the MLM can identify distinct classes of nucleosomes, making it an important tool for the genome wide analysis of nucleosome position and function. In conclusion, the MLM allows a better representation of nucleosome position data and a significant reduction in computational time.
Lingua originale English pagine (da-a) 140-145 Numero di pagine 6 Rivista Genomics Volume 93 Stato di pubblicazione Published - 2009 All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes ???subjectarea.asjc.1300.1311???
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E Cigarette Health – Information that will help you STOP SMOKING
With the recent announcement of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new rules concerning e cigarette health, most are left wondering what the fuss is about. The FDA says it’s looking at the safety of electric cigarettes, which are ever more popular in both developed and developing countries. It’s discovered that electronic cigarettes contain nicotine, an extremely addictive stimulant, and also other harmful chemicals and tar. In line with the American Lung Association, electric cigarettes can be a particularly dangerous solution for those who smoke or have problems quitting. Electric cigarettes mimic the act of smoking, but without all the harmful toxins.
The new e cigarette health warning labels should be put into place before people start buying e-cigs. That means that smokers have to know exactly what they’re smoking. Not only do they have to know the ingredients, they must be in a position to know the difference between normal tobacco and a cigarette. The difference could be fatal. One in every three of cigarette users has already died from smoking.
The brand new e cigarette health warning labels will most likely include at least one word that is vitally important. It will have to state “caution” or “warnings.” The theory would be to communicate to smokers that there surely is a genuine problem with e cigarettes, and that if they use them repeatedly, they will be putting themselves at risk of serious disease. The consequences of e cigarette use mimic those of tobacco smoke, and the vapor doesn’t completely remove the chemicals and toxins in your system. If you don’t stay away from them, you may find yourself coughing up phlegm, hacking throat, choking by yourself phlegm and in some severe cases, death. Now that we’ve established what to look for, let’s talk about getting e cigarette health advice.
There are two main sources of information on e cigarette health. The first is the United States FDA, which regulates most consumer goods. They will have set some standards, but they haven’t set down any specific guidelines. You can find information about the very best products and the worst products, and concerning the frequency in which they should be used. To be able to make sure that you are not putting yourself at risk, then pay attention to the FDA.
The next source of e cigarette health advice may be the World Health Organization, WHO. The Would you have a lot of information, but it is always more generalized than the things that the FDA says. You can get factual statements about the ingredients in e-cigs, however the impact of nicotine Vape Shop and other chemicals on your health is normally not addressed. Because of this, the WHO is my personal source of e-carette health information.
As the FDA and WHO can give you good general e-cigarette health information, you’ll find nothing about individual ingredients that they are able to give you. That is why it is really very important to you to do your personal research. There is a lot of conflicting information out there, and you need to be in a position to separate the wheat from the chaff. Luckily, there is an easy way to do this.
Thanks to the internet, there are a variety of sites which have done research about each of the different e-cigs that you can buy. These sites will list all the chemicals and ingredients that you will probably find in the e-cigs, and the levels of those chemicals. By comparing these lists to the FDA and WHO’s lists of e-cigs which are allowed, you can quickly and easily determine which e-cigs you intend to avoid. Avoiding e-cigs containing harmful ingredients is the most important piece of e-cigarette health information you can obtain.
The final piece of information that you need to know about e-cigs is they are relatively safe. It’s true they might cause cancer, but that is clearly a disease that only affects the smoker. In fact, if you use your e cigarette every day, it is possible to slowly decrease your risk of getting cancer. By eliminating nicotine, you can also decrease your probability of developing anxiety, depression, along with other mental conditions. E-cigs are becoming more acceptable alternatively way to quit smoking, plus they provide a healthy alternative that many people find easier to quit than nicotine gum or patches. As long as you avoid dangerous e-cigs, you can significantly reduce the threat of your health, and you can breathe easy knowing that you’re making a healthy choice.
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If you’re writing for small children, pictures are essential because young kids can’t read. Sure their parents can read to them, but it’s ideal to have them start picking up books at a very young age and illustrations are essential to catch their interest.
On the other hand, pictures in an adult book are a mixed blessing. For the reader there is a curiosity factor. Most individuals will have an idea how various characters look but seeming them from the writer’s perspective can be interesting. On the other, it limits the readers’ imagination—not something most authors would consider optimal.
This discussion is around works of fiction. In non-fiction, they’re almost mandatory, particularly in the sciences where a concept likely needs some sort of visual representation for comprehension. Here, I’m including such things as graphs, diagrams, and spreadsheets under the generic category of picture.
Do illustrations cost a lot from a publisher’s perspective? In all probability, they cost more, but in these days of digital technology, it’s unlikely the difference is large. I took a sample of 20 graphic novels on Amazon compared to 20 text based and compared the average cost of a paperback between the two. The difference was only a few pennies suggesting factors outside of pictures drives pricing. It would be nice to compare production costs but those numbers aren’t available to me.
When publishing in e-format, there are a number of issues. Intuitively, e-books should be more welcoming of illustrations since printing costs aren’t an issue, however, bandwidth may be. Uploading a 256k Word document can take a while but it’s nothing compared to uploading 256k per page. I use Smashwords.com for publishing and they have an upload limit of 10 megabytes. I’ve never come close to exceeding that since my books are text only outside of the cover, but my ISP provides upload speeds of only 10% of downloading so even a few hundred K can take a while.
Attempting to upload and publish something close to 10 megabytes would be painful. Depending on the resolution of your images, total size can be a serious constraint. The good news is if you’re using Microsoft Word, right clicking on the illustration and choosing ‘compress’ can reduce the size by up to 80%. The bad news is, from my experience with Word, it has its own way of formatting pages and it may make some decisions you may not care for about where the pictures are located in the document.
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Unless you have artistic skill you will require someone to create the images for you. You might have someone in your family willing to take on the challenge for a few dollars or even for free. On the other hand, if you need to hire a professional, the cost is likely in the range of $90 to $120 per page; however, an online search yielded prices that were all over the map.
If you can make use of existing images, I found artwork on Tumblr priced as low as $13; however, you might have to perform an extensive search to find something close to what you want. In addition, since you’re planning to publish you need to ensure you’re purchasing the necessary rights as well as the picture. Some Tumblr artists accept commissions and the prices per picture I observed ranged from $25 on up but the artist was careful to stipulate a number of restrictions with respect to the background so from a practical point of view I think the cost would be much higher.
In general I prefer to stay away from illustrations. To even consider them, I’d want a publishing contract upfront because the cost far exceeds any revenue I’d likely receive from self-publishing. On the other hand, I might seriously consider tossing in a map or two for a fantasy book. That is something I could produce by myself so the only issue might be getting it where I wanted it in Word and then getting it through the publishers software in such a manner the end result didn’t look like a complete disaster. With so many online formats each with their own peculiarities, it can be hard enough getting text to format properly much less illustrations. Yes you need them for children’s books, no question about it. They’re also popular among young adults but it seems adults are far more focused on the story than any pictures so while I wouldn’t dismiss them out of hand, for me they’re a very low priority from both reader and author perspectives.
This guest post was contributed by Doug Lewars . Doug is not necessarily over the hill but he’s certainly approaching the summit. He enjoys writing, reading, fishing and sweets of all sorts. He has published fourteen books on Smashwords.com .
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Bulking tips for skinny guys
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The augustine grass provides 4 to 6.5 soil ph and required 5 to 7 hours of sunlight in the whole day for proper growth if the sunlight meets properly in the sandy location. Kikuyu is very hardy and will grow in some of the worst soil conditions including sandy soil.
So, if you plan on growing a lawn on your sandy soil, you should get familiar with a few of the best grass seed for sandy soils.
Best grass for sandy soil and shade. Ideal for both sun and shade but grows best in the shade. Are you suffering from the right type of grass seed that will grow on sandy soil? Our picks for best grass seed for sandy soil.
Requires 30% less water than other grass seeds. How do you grow grass in sandy soil and shade? This 7lb package of pennington smart seed sun and shade can cover up to 3,330 square feet.
This is a complicated task to find the right type of seed and the techniques to grow on sandy soil. Know the humidity and heat level the most challenging aspect of growing in sandy soil conditions is usually maintaining water and nutrients, but your new lawn can also be vulnerable to fungal diseases. And instead of spreading via an.
The best grass varieties that grow on sandy soils include tall fescue, zoysia, bermuda grass, bentgrass, and bahiagrass. Sandy soils have a quick water drainage and have difficulty retaining moisture. One way to treat sandy soil is to add a compost layer, which will help grass form a dense thatch layer that will keep it.
And not just sand, this grass is highly adaptive to various soil types including gravel, pebbles, beaches, etc. But remember, soil types, climate, and sun/shade exposure all play a part in how quickly a lawn will grow. Although bahia grass is not the first choice when it comes to the best grass seed for sandy soil, it is a great grass that does well in sandy soil.
Depending on the type, one blend might excel in difficult soil and have extreme tolerance against disease. If by best growing you mean the fastest growing grass then you’re probably looking at kikuyu, couch or sir walter buffalo. Zoysia grass and centipede grass are also decent shade grasses for southern climates, however, the more northern the lawn, the less these grasses will thrive in the shade.
Zoysia grass is hardy and grows well in sandy soils. Top 7 best grass seeds for sandy soils 2021 1. This grass for sandy soil is adapted well to drought conditions and doesn’t need much water to thrive.
However, some of the best grass seed for sandy soil, such as tall fescue and zoysia grass seed, can work well in this environment. Best grass seed for sandy soil: This is because of its deep root system and outstanding heat and drought tolerance.
Sandy soil increases the effects of drought because it drains water rapidly, making it more difficult to find a lawn grass that will survive dry conditions without regular irrigation. Sandy soil and drought are a tough combination, but one that is all too common in many parts of the country. You’ll first have to select a blend based on your region and then its qualities.
It requires a ph of 5.5 to 8.0, which usually is the ph of sandy soil. Moreover, bentgrass thrives well in cold and humid areas such as the northeastern part of the united states. A native prairie grass like june grass (koeleria macrantha), however.
With vigorous shallow roots that form a dense mat with its long narrow leaves, bentgrass is considered one of the best grass for sandy soil. If you have more seed after seeding, you can store the seed up to 2 years. Best grass seed for shade and poor soil.
As one of the best grass for sandy soil, bahia grass requires less water and does well in infertile and sandy land. Then you are in the right place. This unique type of eremochloa has an exceptionally shallow root structure.
Choosing the best grass seed for sandy soil is quite a challenging job. Below is a list of grass seeds considered to be the best for sandy soils.
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If we are honest, public schools in America have failed and failed miserably. We have gone from the best schools to indoctrination camps. The left has taken hold of education and ruined it just like everything else they touch.
The American education system has declined every year for the last 70 years without interruption. So, I can say without any reservations that the progressives who took over our educational system 70 years ago have been and continue to be the problem.
Intellectuals from the Frankfurt School in Germany were forced out by Adolph Hitler and received asylum in America. These educated people would settle at Columbia University, where they spread their Marxist ideology. And no matter what they call it, it is all the same thing in reality.
Fascism, communism, socialism, critical theory, and marxism all blur together and are not compatible with a free society in any way.
The term that sums them all up is collectivism.
Unfortunately, this also sums up what our education system has been operating under and why we now have a generation of ignorant children being used as political activists for the left.
This is not the kid’s fault but our fault, collectively. No pun intended. We have sat idle while communism continued to actively creep into every area of education to the point where they now openly force Marxists ideology down the throats of our kids.
Ideology can change society in a generation.
Students who were taught this anti-American ideology now occupy jobs and positions all over America.
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.” Thomas Sowell Who is Responsible for teaching and educating our children? Is it the state and government? Is it the teachers? Public schools? Or is it the parents of the child?
The parents have the primary responsibility to raise their children how they seem fit. But that doesn`t sit well for the communist agenda, and they continue to march to the beat of their own drum with total contempt for our laws and form of government. They are not our friends or fellow Americans but our sworn enemies who are destroying our nation year after year, right under our noses.
Government mandates that we send our kids to school, but they have turned education into a tool for political and social manipulation and control. And because of this, millions of Americans have chosen alternatives, including homeschooling their kids. Public schools were a mistake from the beginning, in my opinion, and homeschooling has always been a better way.
Parents could teach their kids values and teach them family business skills to learn a practical trade.
Public schools keep our kids for 12 years, then spit them out ignorant, unskilled, and unprepared for life.
And there is currently the talk of passing laws that will get your kids earlier. Adding 2 more years of indoctrination. If this happens, it will force all parents to place their child in pre-school and under the state-run education system even if they had planned to home school.
Then, if that weren`t enough, they teach them to hate our country and think communism is a good thing. Now, it is even worse with critical race theory that says all of America is racist and because of slavery, all whites are oppressors. Allowing our kids to be exposed to the poison of Marxism makes no sense and all the more so for Christian families. Using the “in the world but not of the world” is a misuse of scripture and ignores the fathers’ responsibility to “train up a child in the way he should go.”
Knowingly and willingly subjecting our kids to authority that undermines God and the family and our own country cannot be something we can support with scripture.
Anytime the federal government pushes its way into our private lives, disaster is sure to follow.
And to think that our country started with moral and Christian values as described by our nation’s first president.
“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” George Washington
If you send your kids to public school…
Staying informed of the content being taught is important. However, it will also likely give you high blood pressure when you find out what is going on.
I can tell you it is NOT an education to prepare these kids for productive and constructive life. We were kids once, and kids know nothing of life, history, and reality. Of course, they can sometimes think or plan all the way to the next weekend, but even that is rare.
So instead of teaching them to make our country and our kids great, they are pushing social justice and the false narrative that views the world only through the distorted lens of race. Educators know full well that it is their failed systems that have not educated students.
What is most shocking is that it has been done intentionally.
Who do you suppose controls the teacher’s unions who teach in public schools?
In 1995 the Marxists Democratic Socialists of America, under the motto of “revolution through indoctrination,” took over the AFL-CIO and placed communist John Sweeny as president. In addition, they took over all of the major labor unions in this country, including the NEA (National Education Association) and the AFT (American Federation of Teachers).
This is how they gained control over the democratic party and our education system. And this is why they both push anti-American ideology and marxism down our throats and are destroying our nation from the inside out.
“Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of race, class, and gender.” Thomas Sowell Who is Accountable for Education?
From the God who designed the family, He holds the fathers accountable for protecting, providing, and leading his family, including instruction in the word of God.
For believers, this is not some suggestion from God but what He expects from us. Learning scripture and being exposed to their creator and truth at an early age is the best chance these kids have. But, unfortunately, as we grow older, our hearts become hard and more resistant to the gospel.
Providing our kids with the sound doctrine of scripture not only leads them to salvation but helps them avoid evil and gives them principles, reasons, and purpose for living.
“Train up a child in the way he should go. And when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
And to allow communists to teach our kids hatred based on skin color and the radical political views of the left would have been unimaginable in the not-so-distant past.
And no one ever said training a child was easy.
It is far better to teach them young and be consistent not to have an out-of-control child who gets worse over time. Young children are like sponges, and they absorb everything around them either consciously or subconsciously.
Children are a gift that God has entrusted to us for a little while, and then they grow up and live their own lives.
The window for training a child is only open for a short time, and once it closes, our opportunity is gone. And to have a school system continually undermining the parent’s authority and our country’s moral laws and constitution are unacceptable. This generation of educators has lost all common and moral sense and has proven unworthy to babysit a pet fish.
I would move my family to another country before allowing my son to attend a public school in America today.
And while each family must decide for themselves, I urge you to read the content and find out what they are doing in schools today. It has changed drastically and is continuing to change without warning and in extreme ways.
‘To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.’ Theodore Roosevelt And what are they doing in public schools? Schools tell them they can choose their sex. give students access to condoms. (now a requirement beginning in 5th grade) Deny them any morality. Implement outrageous school policies which guarantee injustice. Show preferential treatment to minorities. Promote gay, lesbian, and transgender lifestyles. Show contempt and hatred towards anyone in history that was white. Allow the teachers union to protect teachers who do a poor job teaching to continue regardless of the consequences to the kids. Illegally discriminate against Christians when our constitution forbids it. Evolution is a fact when it is no more than a theory that has long since been proven non-factual and inaccurate. Ban students from praying or expressing any religious freedom unless it is non-christian. Indoctrinate kids with political bias and encourage them to speak out like activists and think the entire world revolves around them. (Kids need to hush, listen, and learn) Teach our kids that America is evil and deny them true, accurate history. Focus on things like Black history, which is by definition racist. Do we have a white history? Such hypocrisy! They major in creating more division and racism among children but do not teach the complete history of slavery or even come close. Now they are changing the history books to fit a political and dangerous doctrine of ignorance and hatred. They teach kids to hate their parents who have morals, values, faith, and a love for freedom and democracy. Just wait. It is coming. They are trying to erase all the lines between boys and girls because they feel that if girls cannot do everything just like a boy does, that is unfair (and probably racist too somehow. After all, to racist people, everything is racist.)
There is more, but none of it is good, and to keep going would take all day and make me feel worse than I already do.
Government Education?
Government is not to be our master but the protector of our rights.
Our founding fathers were nothing short of brilliant as well as brave and unselfish. They created a government that saw God as the one who gives man the rights to be free. They knew well what it was like to be under the control of a King without representation and the tyranny and lack of freedom it produced.
A man has the God-given right to protect himself, his family, and his property. With moral laws to protect us from the government, people have the opportunity to pursue their own happiness.
We also have the right and responsibility to teach our kids values and educate them based on our beliefs.
The constitution provided no special rights for anyone because that is not just or fair.
Prayer and bible reading were banned from public education, and there is no way to harmonize that with the constitution or bill of rights, yet judges managed to find a way.
We have a government-controlled Educational system that has failed to improve regardless of the money spent, the size of classes, or any other changes they have made. Prepared for What? Most American kids have been given over to a system that has consistently failed to educate them and prepare them for employment or life.
Students are told that they come from monkeys and are given condoms. After all, they cannot be expected to deny themselves any of life’s pleasures or learn self-control.
We forget or fail to realize that most of us have never experienced the level of pressure that kids today have to deal with. S ex, drugs, and propaganda surround kids today, and they are deprived of real education.
God’s clear commandments and warnings for violating spiritual laws are just as important to learn as the physical laws that govern the universe.
A few statistics on American Schools 50.6 million kids in public schools 3.3 million in charter schools 5,719,990 that attend private schools 1,755,223 kids homeschooled There are 130,930 K thru 12 schools in the United States (2017-18 NCES) with average sizes varying by location; City 589, suburbs 657, town 445, and rural schools average 362 students per school. From 2016-2017 America spent 708 billion dollars on education.
The Courts have aided our enemies and paved the way for what is taking place today in America’s public schools.
Over the last 100 years, liberal judges have changed our constitution to fit their own agenda instead of upholding and guarding it. And it was communists and atheists along with the freemasons who sued and defied our nation’s constitution.
“All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intentions for America and the World.” George Washington Think about it like this, Most of the constitution is clear and simple so that we all can understand it.
Yet these Supreme court Justices write pages worth of nonsense every time they try to make a point about a constitutional issue to justify defying it. As a result, they have become politicized and biased, ignoring the constitution in favor of political ideology.
The year 1962, when the Supreme Court ruled 6-1 against New York’s non-denominational prayer designed for kids to recite. (about the same time as the good old sexual revolution)
A year later, the practice of mandatory bible reading in Pennsylvania schools was challenged and reached the court along with other lawsuits for similar practices.
Practices that had been the normal standard in American Education reflected the general convictions held by most American Citizens and founders.
There is no separation of church and state in our constitution or bill of rights. That concept comes from and is a part of the atheist Russian government, not America.
People in America understood the value of education with included moral values. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” James Madison [No problem, the court’s will]
Many thought removing the bible and prayer from school meant separation of church and state and a safe, wholesome environment for all children to learn without feeling uncomfortable. And most Americans still think that the separation of church and state is in our constitution, but it is not. It was part of the Soviet Union’s laws and never ours.
The big change-history rewritten and false science embraced
President Woodrow Wilson, who had written a five-volume set of history books and had served as president of Princeton University, became the hero for the progressive movement. this democrat openly supported the KKK, including joining in their marches.
Wilson`s historical accounts purposely removed all blacks from history, previously understood and taught in schools. But, unfortunately, the progressives took over our educational system in the early 1900s and used President Wilsons’ inaccurate and racist propaganda as the new standard.
“Science of the day” is not real science being promoted, but rather it is academia using false science to support their own agenda.
Charles Darwin was a leading scientist whose claims became widely accepted and adopted. We all know the title of his most famous work, “origion of species.” However, that is not the full title.
This is the full title of his book;
“Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.” Favored races?
Oh yes, Darwin was very racist. After his origin of species book, Darwin produced a two-volume book entitled “the descent of man,” He goes into great detail on his view that the darker a person’s skin color, the less evolved that person was. And the lighter your skin color, the more evolved you are. Darwin went so far as to suggest removing all dark-skinned people from the continent until they had evolved further.
So, just follow the science? But, unfortunately, science does not apply to all of life, nor does it answer all of life’s questions. And liberal academia uses false science to rewrite history and fabricate a fake anti-god view of the earth and the human race.
This is what happens when we blindly follow the so-called “science And thanks to Woodrow Wilson and the radical progressives who were infiltrating American academia, the curriculum in American public schools took a drastic change for the worse.
” Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34 “It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.” George Washington
It would help if you had a great deal more faith to believe in the bad science they use to prove their case than you do to believe in Jesus.
But the debate is closed to keep God out and keep control over us.
The idea that they would shut out any debate of ideas and thoughts in the education system is outrageous, yet they have and are getting away with it. Our kids deserve better than this.
“[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.” Fisher Ames If we look back at our history…
it was never perfect but stood out in the world as a light for truth and freedom. In a world where slavery was normal for thousands of years and used by almost every group, this institution first became an issue of morality from white Christians in the 18th century.
America was the first nation ever to create laws banning the slave trade.
This country has been more prosperous than any other in history—the average American ranks at the top of the world in terms of wealth and living standards regardless of skin color or what country they came here from.
Capitalism works, elevating the entire population’s standard of living and not just a few at the very top as communist-run governments and their Satanic ideology ALWAYS brings about.
With the world’s strongest military, the likelihood of anyone standing toe to toe and defeating us was unlikely.
Unfortunately, people came here looking to change America by taking advantage of our freedoms to push their failed communist ideas within our universities. Originally, almost every university in America was evangelical, whose purpose was to train godly men and women for ministry.
Today, these same colleges are now hostile towards Christianity and anyone who disagrees with their communist, Marxist, and self-righteous agenda. Public Schools in America Are Getting Worse. It has now become anti-god, anti-common sense, and anti-morality.
Its aim is no longer to educate but indoctrinate students with Marxist ideology and racial hatred.
Public schools are playing social justice games, not treating all students the same, and at the same time advocating for equality of outcome. They ignore effort, talent, skill, and knowledge to take from person A and give it to B. I know communism looks so appealing on paper, but the problem is that it doesn’t work. How do I know? Because we have 20 plus examples in history that prove it doesn’t.
This government cannot even protect the borders, keep us out of debt, or be honest, and you think they can somehow create the perfect society where everyone is equal in every single way? If you do, please get some mental help because that is absurd.
Violence
By brainwashing our children, it seals up the future for communism without having to use violence.
But, here comes the violence anyway. It is a part of the very fabric of Satan and Marxism. Violence is more than just a means to an end but rather a characteristic and ongoing practice in communism. The outcry for a revolution is a way to justify the violence. Satan is a murderer, and so the desire to kill never goes away.
Do you think that Russia and China just rolled over and gave up their countries and history? However, the worker’s unions in Russia did stand up, form militias, and fight back.
But they were brutally destroyed and made examples of by the state who used their superior military. Wherever Communism has spread, violence accompanied it.
And who did Mao use in China to destroy freedom and tradition? The “wolf cubs” were young children indoctrinated with hatred by the communists and used to violently destroy the Chinese culture and history.
Communism is praised and promoted in our public schools and produces dramatic, negative consequences. Who are the real racists?
The real racists are the democratic party, BLM, Antifa, teachers’ unions, and the like, consumed with race.
Devoid any facts, data, history, or truth, they continue to push the narrative that white supremacy and systemic racism are the biggest threats to our country…That’s all good, except that these are false and unsupported claims anyone could make.
Is there racism? Of course, racism exists. Just turn on the t.v. and listen to all the racist politicians and minorities profiting from its fabrication. This country has been the world leader in removing discrimination from government and society.
You can never completely rid any country of racism.
We can only uphold the constitution and the moral laws we have. And as always, uncle sam reaches beyond what it should and has given special rights to people. That is the definition of racism, no matter the skin color of those involved.
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” George Washington What Do We Do about public schools in America?
The best thing to do would be to get your kids out of public schools and enroll them in a private school or homeschool them.
Kids who are believers face growing hostility and ridicule not only from students and teachers but from the content itself.
You may have to be the parent that the administration dreads seeing because you have been up to the school often to point out unacceptable, offensive, and oppressive actions by teachers and those in charge.
Do you Want Boys in the Girl’s Locker Room and Bathroom?
Suppose you have a daughter, then probably not.
There is no standard of right and wrong, so what you think is wrong really doesn’t matter anymore. Liberals with no filters of conscience whose sole aim is to make their preferences law are now controlling education.
You cannot trust the schools to do the right thing anymore, and you cannot trust them with the young, impressionable, and moldable minds of our most precious resource, our kids.
They will NOT be taught good moral values but will be indoctrinated with radical, liberal, and political ideology, which contradicts the US Constitution and democracy.
Final thoughts
If you are only 16 years old, it is understandable why you do not see what is happening. But for those who are older, we have witnessed firsthand the dumbing down of our education system. After kicking God out, how ya like it now?
I don`t care what programs you create or how much money you throw at them. This system broke the moment it turned its back on God and history.
We are waking up to a new woke America which operates on emotion, stereotyping, and blaming others. We can all be our own god, and there is no real authority. Ironically, this leads to the most oppressive authority where the state becomes a god.
But you do not have to take my word. Here are some other important videos so that you can see specific incidents and facts about what is going on and has been going on in our failed public school system:
Lecture from Hillsdale College Youtube Channel Story-Killers: #FoxNews- Youtube: More at Speakuptm.com Why America is lost but won`t be Found – Read Post God-Ordained the Home, Satan Attacks it – Read Post
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Deadly Mistake #1: Thinking you can’t afford it. Today, buying the home of your dreams is easier than ever before. Many people who thought that buying the home they wanted was simply out of their reach are now enjoying a new lifestyle in their very own new home. Buying a home is the smartest financial decision you will ever make. In fact, most American and Canadian homeowners would be financially broke at retirement if it weren’t forone saving grace –the equity in their home. Furthermore, mortgage rates are more flexible today than ever and tax allowances favor home ownership. Real estate values have always risen steadily. Of course, there are peaks and valleys, but the long-term trend is a consistent increase. This means that every month when you make a mortgage payment, the amount that you owe on the home goes down and the value typically increases. This owe less, worth more situation is called equitybuild-up and is the reason you can’t afford not to buy. Even if you have little money fora down payment orcredit problems, chances are that you can still buy that new home. It just comes down to knowing the right strategies, and working with the right people. See below. [Read more…]
Many of my clients express to me their concerns about tree roots, and with good reason; tree roots can cause all types of nasty problems that will eat away at your wallets. Tree roots can cause structure or walkways to heave or they can get into your pipes and cause drainage issues. So I guess the question now is how do we prevent this from happening?, and what do you do if it already is a problem? Well the answers are both the same which may include many methods some which can be as drastic as cutting down trees that are growing too close to the home or replacing damaged pipes. If that is not an option for you you can call a licensed plumber to inspect your pipes with a video camera and assess if there are any issues. A licensed plumber can snake and or cut any tree roots growing in your pipes. You can visit your local hardware store or plumbing supply shop and purchase a bottle of root killer, although I am not a big fan of these chemicals which are dangerous and manufacturer instructions must be followed carefully. You can also cut the foot of a stocking and fill it with rock salt, tie the end, and hang it in your toilet tank so that every time you flush the salt water will enter the plumbing pipes and kill the tree roots. But as always you should contact a professional before making any repairs to ensure proper repair & safety. For more helpful tips visit our website at www.stockshomeinspection.com
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A thermography inspection or infrared camera inspection is the latest thing in the inspection industry. Although it has been around for years it is now just starting to gain world wide popularity. Often times it is misconceived as being X-ray vision. Although it is not X-ray vision it is the closest thing on the market to it. In the hands of a trained certified infrared thermographer it can produce invaluable results. It can be used to detect leaks, missing or deficient insulation, overheating electrical components, heat/air loss and much more. It is a good idea to include a thermography/infrared camera inspection in your contingency clause. Without this state of the art technology in the hands of a certified infrared inspector your only getting half the inspection you deserve. We at Stocks Home Inspection are proud to announce that we are one of the few home inspection services in Michigan that’s not only qualified to offer this service, but is offering this service at an affordable rate!
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Termite. The very word strikes fear into the heart of a homeowner or prospective home buyer, and sours most real estate transactions. It is with good reason too, have you ever seen termites, they can make your skin crawl and your house fall. We all hear the stories, but are termites as bad as everyone says they are; yes & no. A mature colony of 60,000 subterranean termites will only eat about 2-4 feet of 2 by 4 wood a year. So it takes a while before any real damage to be visible. Now if you have an infestation of about 2-4 million, that’s a reason to be scared. Termites usually will never create a nest inside the home, usually they will just be there to gather food (wood/paper) to take back to the colony, which is underground close to the food source. The body of subterranean termites are very soft so the like damp areas, and cannot survive above ground in the dry air and heat. There are very effective ways to rid your home of them. The fastest and most effective way of killing them is the barrier system, termite poison is sprayed around the property killing all the termites, and preventing new ones from coming near. This method is most used especially when in the middle of a real
estate deal. The other method is the bait system, tubes or boxes with termite food (wood/paper) mixed with termite poison put into the ground. Termites will come gather the poison and take it back to the colony, this method is slow and is only effective once the termites find the tubes or boxes of poison. There are also some ways to protect your home from a termite invasion like, keeping all wood exterior parts away from direct contact with the ground, and keeping your foundation dry. So if you suspect termites, no need to fret, just contact a qualified termite inspector, or pest control expert, and I’m sure they will be happy to assist you.
Here are a few pest control company’s that can assist you and come out to your home and evaluate your homes condition & provide you with a free estimate
In the inspection industry they say we have to walk on a fine line and be objective as possible about what we tell our customers regarding the property they are planning on purchasing. It is said that you should not tell the customer to buy or not buy a property and to leave it up to them to decide. Plus you don’t want to piss off any realtors. Well I say isn’t that what we are hired by our clients for? If not us then who is more qualified to tell them. If I am hired to inspect a home and I find it to be in a unsafe awful condition I not only tell my clients to not buy, but to run as fast and a far away as possible, and thats why people call us. They know were not going to feed them any Crap. Buying a home is a serious decision, one that takes a lot of thought and money. Shouldn’t you get a straight forward honest answer from the professional you hired? I think so.
1. Recharge Fire extinguishers
2. Wax and buff wood floors 3. Professionally Clean curtains and drapes 4. Inspect and touch up interior paint 5. Inspect exposed plumbing areas for dampness 6. Perform seasonal pest control 7. Test for carbon monoxide 8. Make sure all windows and doors are sealed properly 9. Make sure home has adequate insulation (pipes, ducts, water heater) to insure there is no heat loss. 10. Make sure all outlets have covers with insulation covers as well, you would be surprised how much heat escapes through the outlets. 11. Make sure chimney & fireplace is clean and in working order. 12. Make sure furnace is operational and filter is clean
Asbestos is a greek word meaning inextinguishable. It has been identified as a carcinogen, a naturally occuring fibrous mineral found in certain types of rock formations throughout the world. Asbestos fibers are strong, won’t burn, resist corrosion, and insulates well. That’s why until 1978 it was the staple for architectural & construction applications. Asbestos is used in products such as cement siding, roof shingles, vinyl floors, ceiling tiles, textured paints, insulation, and more. Asbestos containing material in the home doesn’t necessarily pose a health risk. Asbestos is only dangerous when damaged, disturbed, or deteriorates over time. They release tiny fibers which become airborne and inhaled through the nose & mouth and then lodged into the lungs. According to the EPA ( Environmental Protection Agency) every year 3,300-12,000 people die from exposure to asbestos. If the asbestos material is in an area where renovations will not occur, the EPA suggest that it is best left alone. If your home was built prior to 1980, it is a good chance that your home or building contains some kind of asbestos material. You should contact a qualified asbestos abatement professional to evaluate. For more information on environmental health hazards please visit www.epa.gov
The answer to the question is probably. Most homes that I have come across during a home inspection seem to lack a splash block or leader at the end of the downspout to lead the water coming down the spout away from the foundation of the property. It may seem like no big deal now, but if your home has a faulty drainage system or missing leaders than your in for big trouble. One of the major problems to a home is water damage. When there is no device to lead the water away, what happens is that the water coming down the spout will just start to pool around the foundation wall. Over time your foundation wall will start to crack and deteriorate, and then you will have water coming into the home, and once that happens more problems will follow; mold, mildew, pest, and damage to your home, which will be very costly to repair. So if your one of the many who do not have a leader or splash block at the end of your downspouts, I recommend going to your local hardware store and purchasing one for each downspout. Also check to make sure that gutters and downspouts are functioning properly and not in need of repair or cleaning.
Check out these websites for more supplies for your home:
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It has never been more critical for your business to understand how to get the most out of your advertising budget.
But advertising on social media platforms can feel like a minefield and getting your strategy wrong can be very damaging to your business. Getting expert agency advice will show you where you should be spending your money and how that will convert to sales.
How does ad spend work and where do you start?
This really depends on what you have done before. Some businesses will have a really clear idea in mind, typically when you have previously worked with an agency as you will have more insight into how things work and the best way to do things. Others are starting from scratch and have no idea and no experience, either with an agency or attempting it for yourself.
Either way, phase one is key – this is setting objectives or the ‘digital plumbing’, making sure everything is tracking and set up correctly.
From an advertising perspective, an agency will usually look at the low hanging fruit and make small improvements that have a big impact, largely based on whatever you have been doing previously. A balanced and effective retargeting funnel can get them going with a couple of easy wins. From here, and once you’ve got a bit of a platform, an agency will be able to start to compare and contrast.
Diversification of spend
Diversification of spend is going to be one of the dominating topics throughout the decade. Facebook + Instagram and Google’s ad…
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$33,426 in 2002 has the same purchasing power as $35,098.23 in 2004. Over the 2 years this is a change of $1,672.23.
The average inflation rate of the dollar between 2002 and 2004 was 2.17% per year. The cumulative price increase of the dollar over this time was 5.00%.
The value of $33,426 from 2002 to 2004
So what does this data mean? It means that the prices in 2004 are 350.98 higher than the average prices since 2002. A dollar in 2004 can buy 95.24% of what it could buy in 2002.
These inflation figures use the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) consumer price index to calculate the value of $33,426 between 2002 and 2004.
The inflation rate for 2002 was 1.58%, while the inflation rate for 2004 was 2.66%. The 2004 inflation rate is higher than the average inflation rate of 2.22% per year between 2004 and 2021.
USD Inflation Since 1913
The chart below shows the inflation rate from 1913 when the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI) was first established.
The Buying Power of $33,426 in 2002
We can look at the buying power equivalent for $33,426 in 2002 to see how much you would need to adjust for in order to beat inflation. For 2002 to 2004, if you started with $33,426 in 2002, you would need to have $35,098.23 in 2002 to keep up with inflation rates.
So if we are saying that $33,426 is equivalent to $35,098.23 over time, you can see the core concept of inflation in action. The "real value" of a single dollar decreases over time. It will pay for fewer items at the store than it did previously.
In the chart below you can see how the value of the dollar is worth less over 2 years.
Value of $33,426 Over Time
In the table below we can see the value of the US Dollar over time. According to the BLS, each of these amounts are equivalent in terms of what that amount could purchase at the time.
Year Dollar Value Inflation Rate 2002 $33,426.00 1.58% 2003 $34,187.79 2.28% 2004 $35,098.23 2.66% US Dollar Inflation Conversion
If you're interested to see the effect of inflation on various 1950 amounts, the table below shows how much each amount would be worth today based on the price increase of 5.00%.
Initial Value Equivalent Value $1.00 in 2002 $1.05 in 2004 $5.00 in 2002 $5.25 in 2004 $10.00 in 2002 $10.50 in 2004 $50.00 in 2002 $52.50 in 2004 $100.00 in 2002 $105.00 in 2004 $500.00 in 2002 $525.01 in 2004 $1,000.00 in 2002 $1,050.03 in 2004 $5,000.00 in 2002 $5,250.14 in 2004 $10,000.00 in 2002 $10,500.28 in 2004 $50,000.00 in 2002 $52,501.39 in 2004 $100,000.00 in 2002 $105,002.78 in 2004 $500,000.00 in 2002 $525,013.90 in 2004 $1,000,000.00 in 2002 $1,050,027.79 in 2004 Calculate Inflation Rate for $33,426 from 2002 to 2004
To calculate the inflation rate of $33,426 from 2002 to 2004, we use the following formula:
$$\dfrac{ 2002\; USD\; value \times CPI\; in\; 2004 }{ CPI\; in\; 2002 } = 2004\; USD\; value $$
We then replace the variables with the historical CPI values. The CPI in 2002 was 179.9 and 188.9 in 2004.
$$\dfrac{ \$33,426 \times 188.9 }{ 179.9 } = \text{ \$35,098.23 } $$
$33,426 in 2002 has the same purchasing power as $35,098.23 in 2004.
To work out the total inflation rate for the 2 years between 2002 and 2004, we can use a different formula:
$$ \dfrac{\text{CPI in 2004 } - \text{ CPI in 2002 } }{\text{CPI in 2002 }} \times 100 = \text{Cumulative rate for 2 years} $$
Again, we can replace those variables with the correct Consumer Price Index values to work out the cumulativate rate:
$$ \dfrac{\text{ 188.9 } - \text{ 179.9 } }{\text{ 179.9 }} \times 100 = \text{ 5.00\% } $$
Inflation Rate Definition
The inflation rate is the percentage increase in the average level of prices of a basket of selected goods over time. It indicates a decrease in the purchasing power of currency and results in an increased consumer price index (CPI). Put simply, the inflation rate is the rate at which the general prices of consumer goods increases when the currency purchase power is falling.
The most common cause of inflation is an increase in the money supply, though it can be caused by many different circumstances and events. The value of the floating currency starts to decline when it becomes abundant. What this means is that the currency is not as scarce and, as a result, not as valuable.
By comparing a list of standard products (the CPI), the change in price over time will be measured by the inflation rate. The prices of products such as milk, bread, and gas will be tracked over time after they are grouped together. Inflation shows that the money used to buy these products is not worth as much as it used to be when there is an increase in these products’ prices over time.
The inflation rate is basically the rate at which money loses its value when compared to the basket of selected goods – which is a fixed set of consumer products and services that are valued on an annual basis.
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Tomorrow is December 12, or 12.12, and one of the power days of this month of December 2020. It’s a day to balance masculine and feminine energies, and of integration and completion. This energy is building up to the Great Conjunction, where Jupiter and Saturn meet up in the skies on 21.12, which also happens to be solstice. Although the energies are intense, and getting more so by the minute, this December month still feels like a bit of a respite in some ways from all the craziness we have been experiencing this year. I find that this time of year, some reflection and inward focus can be good, and in this year of 2020, even more so.
Despite the slowing down, partly due to the holidays and winter coming, but also forced by the lockdown that we still have in many parts of the planet, the energies of the skies, planets and numerological alignments are at an unprecedented level this month (and it’s my birthday month too!). It is all culminating in the Great Conjunction, where for the first time in 200 years, Jupiter and Saturn are meeting up in an air sign, more specifically, Aquarius. This can be seen as a gateway into the Age of Aquarius, and although we have been on our way there for a while, this alignment really solidifies it. Welcome to new earth!
Even though December 21 signifies the start of a new era, and may be a powerful day energetically, it doesn’t mean that everything will change overnight. The dimensional shift into a new earth is a slow one, and we will have plenty of time to prepare ourselves for it. What is happening in a nutshell is that we are awakening to who we truly are, which is multidimensional beings, who have come to this earth to experience life in the 3rd dimension. We have all also signed up to be here for this shift, that in time will open up to experiencing life in other dimensions. Life in the 3rd dimension can be heavy and traumatic at times, but as we move up to higher dimensions, love and unity will be the foundation for a new, magical way of life.
Dimensional levels can also be seen as vibrational, and the energies that are pouring into earth at these times, are lifting the earth and us human beings up into higher vibrations of love and peace. At this vibrational level, the heavy energies of pain and past trauma cannot persist, and so they are forced up to be cleared. This is in many ways the reason why we’ve had the challenges we’ve had this year, as those structures that are no longer serving us, have to fall. There are those who want to prevent humanity from shifting into higher dimensions, as our ignorance and pain have been their gain. However, their reign has ended, and in the months (and years) to come, this will become more and more apparent.
The old has to give way to the new, and as we collectively clear out all that which has been dysfunctional on our planet, we also need to do this individually. So for those who haven’t already cleared out and healed most of the trauma in their lives, will be forced to do so in the months and years ahead. Now I don’t say this to be negative or to scare you. However, I believe that it’s important to know this so that we can be prepared. And if you don’t feel like you’re in a state of love and peace instantly when December 21 comes around, that doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with you, or that you are missing out on anything. Healing and raising our vibrations take time, and we have that time. All is and will be well.
The good news are that life as we know it is over, and we’re heading into a beautiful new way of living! But to get there we need to heal ourselves, our planet and each other, and so the best way to prepare for new earth is to work on yourself, open up to love, and clear out all that stands in the way of that. How to best do that is individual, but in my next post I will share some of what has helped me in my own process the past few years, to open up to unprecedented levels of joy and love, so stay tuned for that.
With that, I’m signing off for now, but I wish you a peaceful December 12, and hope you take some time to balance and integrate your own energies on this powerful day, in whatever way feels right to you.
Sending you so much love & light,
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If you do an online search for sunroom design ideas, you’ll see a lot of furniture that’s typically used in a normal porch or patio area. But does that mean you can’t use furniture that’s been designed for use in a living room or other indoor sitting area? The short answer is: “that depends.” Here’s what you need to know before furnishing your new sunroom.
Materials Make the Difference
The biggest key to furnishing a sunroom is accounting for the fabrics and materials that can handle constant sun exposure. Many pieces of furniture end up tucked away in a living room, for example, and are expected to be exposed to relatively little direct sunlight. If your furniture is made of materials that don’t do well when exposed to sunlight—like silk, for example—using them in a sunroom is ill-advised, and can result in damage.
Consider Your Sunroom Design
One option for homeowners who want to use a specific piece of furniture in a sunroom is to consider shading it. There are several options for doing so, ranging from slip-covers to window treatments, but blocking some of the sunlight from reaching your furniture can help prolong its life. If you have an insulated sunroom that allows for year-round use, you can also have more confidence that any furniture inside will be better protected from the elements.
When you let TEMO Backyard Living install a factory-direct TEMO sunroom at your home, you can count on a product that will offer unmatched style and durability for decades to come. No matter what you want to use your sunroom for—or how you’d like to furnish it—we can get you started. Contact us today to learn more and schedule a consultation.
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CCTN Test Guide
The CCTN Test Summary
What: An exam for nurses looking to reinforce special knowledge and experience in the field of clinical transplants. Who: Licensed RN’s with a minimum of 24 months working experience are eligible to take the CCTN. Where: The CCTN is administered at over 170 testing sites across the U.S. When: The CCTN is offered Monday-Saturday, year-round. How: The CCTN exam tests individuals on knowledge and skills of transplant care. Type: Computerized. Why: CCTN certification credits an individual with the special experience and knowledge that is required for transplant care. Time: Three hours. Language: English. Preparation: Review courses and prep books will come in handy. Cost: $425
By Jessica McNally, Tests.com
The Certified Clinical Transplant Nurse (CCTN) exam, created by the American Board for Transplant Certification, tests an individual\'s understanding and skills in the field of transplant care. The CCTN certification indicates to the public that an individual possesses the abilities and knowledge necessary to providing quality care for both transplant donors and their recipients.
To be considered eligible to take the CCTN exam, a candidate is required to have completed a minimum of 24 months as a registered nurse, of which 12 months experience must be must have been spent in caring for solid organ transplant patients. Once certified, CCTN certification lasts for three years.
The Test
The CCTN exam consists of 175 multiple choice questions. 25 of these are counted as pretest questions, and 150 are officially scored. Test categories include:
Pre transplantation Care Post Transplantation Monitoring and Maintenance Pharmacological Therapeutics Professional Responsibilities Education and Discharge
Candidates receive score reports at the site of the examination, and successful candidates are awarded CCTN credential about 30-45 days after taking the exam.
Individuals who fail the exam on the first try are eligible to re-take the exam 90 days after their initial attempt.
Want additional help preparing for the CCTN? Check out our CCTN Directory to find helpful study aids.
Sources: abtc.net, http: /www.test-preparation.ca/nursing/cctn.html
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01 Oct The best of what we read, watched and listened to this week
Transitioning away from paid work can be a profound adjustment to make, particularly if, for whatever reason, you haven’t been able to prepare for it. This
piece about the idea of test driving retirement therefore sounded like an interesting approach to dealing with that. [7 min read]
With thousands of students heading off or back to their universities at this time of year, no doubt all of them are hoping for a better experience than last year.
This is probably not the best way to start then [1 min read]
As we get older many of us give some thought to the idea of ‘dying tidily’, particularly as the timing, like that of many things, can be hard to predict. The author of this article runs a class for people for whom that prediction is easier to help them address the associated issues. His mention of attendees saying that cemeteries didn’t mean much to them reminded me of a friend who died a couple of years ago. He chose to have his ashes distributed over Salisbury Plain by a field gun, which is probably a fairly uncommon manifestation of this.
CDs and Cemeteries [3 min read]
It won’t come as a surprise to many that some of the attendees at multi-day music events might dabble in recreational pharmaceuticals or that they occasionally avoid the provided toilet facilities but the result is an
environmental impact on the surrounding land and watercourses. [2 min read]
The last time we had a fuel shortage I was grateful for having acquired a couple of the type of fuel can that got the Wehrmacht almost to Moscow in 1941 but clearly some people are more willing to improvise with substitutes.
Good thing plastic isn’t dissolved by petrol. Oh, wait…. [0:42 video]
We hope you have a good weekend.
Charles and Rob
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A new wave of coronavirus is sweeping across Russia, with over 800 deaths a day, the highest death toll in the world and the highest mortality rate for Russia in the history of the epidemic. Meanwhile, thousands of Russians continue to receive «nothing» instead of vaccines with proven efficacy. Although EpiVacCorona has long been at the epicenter of a scandal (its effectiveness is highly questionable, and its developers have been accused of falsifying data), it has not yet been withdrawn from circulation.
According to officials, by early August over 1 million people in Russia had been vaccinated with the drug. Many of them became sick after vaccination and some even died from COVID. The Insider spoke with friends and relatives of the victims.
According to official data, over a million people have already been vaccinated with EpiVacCorona; this year Vector is planning to increase production to 5 million doses per month. Those who receive this vaccine expect to be protected against a severe form of the disease, but experts appear to have been right about its ineffectiveness and falsified trial results; at any rate, The Insider has already discovered quite a few cases where recipients of this vaccine have died from COVID-19.
«On July 2, my mom passed away,» Nadezhda Erofeeva from Irkutsk told The Insider. «She was 60 years old. She was going to visit her mother and decided to get vaccinated, signed up for Sputnik, but it turned out to be unavailable and she was given EpiVac. Soon she came down with COVID, the vaccination did not help, the disease was very severe, although my mother did not have any chronic diseases. She stayed home sick for 10 days and then spent 3 weeks in the ICU. The cause of death was acute respiratory failure, not some related complication».
Nadezhda is outraged that people are not being told about the ineffectiveness of EpiVac: «With this story, I do not want to agitate for anything or stir up a debate around an issue that is already sensitive. But I want to ask people to speak out. If we had gotten all the information in advance, before mom decided to get vaccinated, maybe her decision would have been different. My 82-year-old grandmother with a whole bunch of serious chronic ailments had a lighter form of the disease than my mom had with EpiVac. Who's going to answer for that now?»
Recently, the State Duma passed in the first reading a bill to include preventive vaccinations against coronavirus in the national vaccination calendar. These amendments would make COVID-19 vaccination de facto mandatory for teachers, doctors, social workers and some other professions. But in fact, many employers have already been forcing their employees to get a vaccine, threatening to fire them otherwise. Some workers do not wait for threats and decide to get vaccinated to avoid risking their jobs. The only problem is that while there are internationally published scientific papers and more or less reliable statistics on the effectiveness of Sputnik, no reliable data exists on the safety of EpiVac, let alone its effectiveness against COVID-19.
«My colleague Gennady Ruev, Associate Professor of the Information and Technology Department of Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, PhD in Physics and Mathematics and just a wonderful person died recently,» says Natalia. «He died from the severe effects of COVID, which he contracted a month after he got an EpiVacCorona vaccine. This raises a number of questions: is the Novosibirsk vaccine useless? Or is it harmful as well?»
«In April and May of this year, I vaccinated my disabled parents with EpiVac,» Irina told The Insider. «I was advised by my doctor that EpiVac is well tolerated at my age and does not cause any side effects. I googled and read stuff, and everywhere it is written that the vaccine is effective, it offers maximum protection against all strains and other nonsense. My sister (also vaccinated) brought COVID into our parents' home. Mom fell ill on July 28 and on July 29 we admitted her to a Covid hospital near Moscow with 10% lung damage. On August 7, mom passed away. The cause on the death certificate was cardiopulmonary failure coupled with coronary heart disease - and they gave us her body in a polyethylene bag like they do with the bodies of those who die of coronavirus. Dad got sick on July 31, we admitted him to a Covid hospital on August 2 with 10-to-15 percent lung damage. Dad passed away, too. What kind of protection is this if the first symptom is a colossal lung damage? Yes, I am told my parents were elderly (they were 73 years old), they had a lot of related diseases, but what the developers of the vaccine had promised was protection for the elderly! I've recovered from grief, and I'm overcome with the desire to get to the bottom of it. Were we merely unlucky or is EpiVac a scam?»
The cause on the death certificate was cardiopulmonary failure coupled with coronary heart disease — and they gave us her body in a polyethylene bag like they do with the bodies of those who die of coronavirus Tatiana from Irkutsk told The Insider a similar story: «My husband got two shots of EpiVacCorona at Polyclinic #4 in Irkutsk. We had been waiting for this particular vaccine, we had no doubts about its effectiveness. He got sick on June 11, had a CT scan which showed 35% lung damage in both lungs. He was admitted to the Shelekhov district hospital. His condition didn't improve. On the fourth day in the hospital, the CT scan showed 92% lung damage. He had been on a ventilator for the last three days. And in mid-July he passed away. He was 37 years old. He had no comorbidities.»
«I myself recommended EpiVacCorona to my husband. I trusted Vector,» says Tatiana. «I read it's easier to tolerate. And I believed that thanks to it, my husband would have a milder form of COVID. But alas. He spent a month in the ICU without any contact with his family. He left two children, who are 15 and 7 years old. As for me, I am undergoing treatment for breast cancer. He was my bedrock.»
In August, came the news about the death of the «Most» theater actor Yuri Ogulnik who was vaccinated with EpiVac (although he received only one dose). According to his daughter, Svetlana Bogdanova, her father was perfectly healthy before the infection: «Yes, yes, it's hard to believe, at the age of 76 he never took medicine, he was doing yoga and jumping around the stage (really jumping). Everyone who knew him admired him for his youthfulness, excellent skin, and healthy complexion.»
Also in August came the news that an entire family – the spouses Mikhail and Lali Kolesnikov and Lali's mother, grandmother Rita, - had died in the village of Khutor in the Krasnodar region. Their 12-year-old daughter became an orphan. All three victims had been vaccinated with EpiVacCorona; they went to Moscow to get the vaccine, as they believed that EpiVac had fewer side effects. They did have special reasons to be concerned about «side effects», as the couple (and according to other reports, Rita's grandmother) had diseases that required kidney dialysis. A relative told Bloknot.Krasnodar that «every one of them had a different cause of death in the death certificate, but COVID and lung damage were mentioned in all of them». A source in the public health agency told RIA Novosti that the couple and the wife's mother died after they were diagnosed with COVID-19, 10-12 days after getting their first dose of the EpiVac vaccine.
There are also those who have survived after experiencing the severe effects that the vaccine is supposed to prevent. Vitaly from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was vaccinated with EpiVacCorona in May and fell ill in July. He was hospitalized with 60% lung damage. «It took me a long time to decide to get vaccinated, but choosing a particular vaccine wasn't important to me at all. I took the shot that was in the clinic. It was EpiVacCorona,» Vitaly told V1.ru.
«On July 27, I was with my relatives at the dacha and one of them had a sudden fever. I calmed myself with the thought that I was vaccinated and in theory I was not likely to contract COVID. But after a couple of days, I got a fever. The doctor prescribed medication, but it only made me feel worse. It was hard to breathe, to walk, to sit, everything was difficult. I felt like I was dying. With a saturation of 84 and lung damage of over 60%, I was admitted to the regional hospital. The emergency rooms were full, I was on oxygen support for seven days, then another five days on therapy, I was discharged with a positive test, now I'm recovering at home.»
«I'll tell you my tragic story. My mother is 81 years old. She went for her vaccination to the longevity center in June, she had an individual appointment, minimal contact,» Eugenia posted in the «EpiVacCorona reviews» Telegram channel. «We wanted Sputnik. The doctor talked me into EpiVac. He said it was recommended for the elderly. I myself had already gotten a Sputnik. My reaction was strong, but bearable. Mom, herself a doctor, thought long and hard about EpiVac and finally agreed. The doctor sounded very convincing.
Mom had no contraindications. She had a fever with a temperature of 37 Celsius for one day, and that was it. Next, my mom and I read up on EpiVac and figured it out. And my mom refused the second injection, she demanded Sputnik. Her request was denied. Then she decided not to do anything at all. We had to revisit this issue in August because an eye surgery was coming up. Once again we saw the doctor. «You won't tolerate Sputnik, the first dose is the strongest, do a second EpiVac and go treat your eyes.» That's what he literally said. We did a second EpiVac on August 30th. They said the long gap between injections was no big deal. On September 4, my mom had a stomach bleed. 2 days in the hospital, 1 day in intensive care and Mom was gone. The diagnosis is COVID, viral pneumonia. We can't figure out what caused the bleeding. Her weakened body reacted that way. The hospital didn't do anything. They waited, and then they transported her, already unconscious, to the covid hospital.»
The hospital didn't do anything. They waited, and then they transported her, already unconscious, to the covid hospital
«Good afternoon. My husband and I were vaccinated with EpiVac, we had no choice at the time, but we had faith in Vector,» Tatiana posted in the same Telegram channel. «The second vaccination was on May 17. Then we tested for antibodies, my husband's were 0, mine were 2.06. I was told I had a great result. Now we're both sick with COVID. My husband got sick without antibodies in 4 days; I am staying in the First Infectious Disease Hospital in Novosibirsk with a severe form. Yesterday I suffered from a cytokine storm, almost gave up the ghost. «Thanks» to Vector for the miracle vaccine. One lung is completely damaged.»
Despite criticism of the vaccine from independent experts, it was promoted personally by Vladimir Putin (although he himself was vaccinated with Sputnik), and the developers of EpiVac continue to promote it as particularly recommended for the elderly and those with health problems, even though it is in these groups that mortality from COVID is particularly high. Hundreds of thousands of people who had faith in official claims and believed they had received protection from the coronavirus continue to put their lives in mortal danger.
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The Transformative Business Model
We usually associate an industry’s transformation with the adoption of a new technology. But although new technologies are often major factors, they have never transformed an industry on their own. What does achieve such a transformation is a business model that can link a new technology to an emerging market need.
MP3 technology is a classic case in point. Early MP3 devices represented an order-of-magnitude increase in capacity over magnetic tapes and CDs: Users could carry thousands of songs on a small device. But MP3 players revolutionized the audio devices market only after Apple coupled the iPod with iTunes in a new business model, swiftly moving music-recording sales from the physical to the virtual world.
What, exactly, enables a business model to deliver on a technology’s potential? To answer that question, we embarked on an in-depth analysis of 40 companies that had launched new business models in a variety of industries. Some succeeded in radically altering their industries; others looked promising but ultimately did not succeed. In this article we present the key takeaways from our research and suggest how they can help innovators transform industries.
Read full story: https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-transformative-business-model
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DMT is one of the most psychedelic compounds on Earth. Just 20 mg of N,N,DMT or its cousin, 5-MeO-DMT, is enough to teleport you to what could be thought of as an alternate dimension.
There are a few ways to use DMT. The most well-known is the shamanic formula from the Amazon called ayahuasca. This DMT-based preparation lasts up to 12 hours and requires a lot of preparation.
You can also smoke or vape DMT using a conventional pipe, dab rig, or bong for a powerful but short-lived DMT trip.
Here’s everything you need to know about smoking DMT. Always have a trip sitter nearby — never smoke DMT alone Follow the tried and tested rules of set, setting, and substance Always test your DMT with a drug testing reagent before you use it Take long, slow breaths to reduce the harshness of the smoke Hold your breath at the top for 20 or 30 seconds before you exhale Set an intention before you start, and take time to get into a good mindset Avoid burning the DMT directly — hold the lighter away from the DMT, so it vaporizes Always measure your dose with a precision scale — don’t eyeball your dose of DMT
A cold-start rig is considered the gold standard for smoking DMT. They share a similar design to a dab rig (hot rig) but allow the DMT to be added to the device before the heat is applied.
You then heat the device gradually until the DMT starts to vaporize without going overboard and burning. This prevents any unnecessary loss due to excess heat and offers a smoother, less cough-inducing hit.
The HAMMR rig is a good example of a cold-start rig optimized for DMT.
Measure your dose of DMT with a precision scale Place the DMT in the chamber of the cold-start device Begin heating the base of the chamber with a lighter or by turning on the device (electric cold-start devices) Once the DMT crystals start to bubble and vaporize, remove the heat Begin inhaling through the mouthpiece — slow and gradual inhalation is best Hold your breath as long as you can — hand the device to your trip sitter to move to a safe location
Dab rigs are designed to smoke cannabis concentrates but will work great for smoking DMT too.
Dab rigs are essentially just a bong with a special type of bowl called a “nail.” The design allows users to heat the nail directly using a torch lighter. The concentrates (or DMT) is then dropped on top of the hot nail, causing it to vaporize. The nail has a cup shape that prevents the contents from leaking all over the place when they melt.
The main benefit of using a dab rig to smoke DMT is that they’re super easy to use and are readily available at head shops. The downside is that you’re unable to gauge the exact amount of heat needed to vaporize the DMT, so some of the DMT will inevitably be lost through excess heat.
Pre-measure your dose using a precision scale Transfer your DMT dose to a small spoon to make it easier to drop into the rig later Prepare your dab rig by heating the nail with a torch lighter for 20 seconds Drop your dose onto the nail and immediately start pulling on the rig through the mouthpiece Inhale slowly and deeply, hold your breath Move your rig aside to avoid inadvertently destroying it while you begin to trip
Smoking DMT from a pipe is cheap and convenient but isn’t going to make your throat and lungs feel very great afterward.
You can use any pipe, but a glass freebase pipe is optimized for smoking-free base chemicals — including DMT.
Freebase pipes consist of a glass bulb with a mouthpiece coming off. You place the DMT crystals inside the glass bulb and heat the outside with a lighter. The glass heats up, gradually vaporizing the crystals, which are then inhaled. This method allows you to control the temperature to avoid overburning the DMT.
Conventional tobacco or weed pipes work too, but they’re far from perfect. When DMT crystals melt, it turns into a liquid which can spill through the pipe, wasting your DMT and causing the pipe to become “contaminated.” If you ever use the pipe again for something else, you may get an unexpected dose of DMT.
Measure your dose with a precision scale Place the DMT directly into the pipe Get your trip sitter to hold the lighter to the outside of the glass bulb until you see the DMT start to bubble Take a long, slow, deep breath through the mouthpiece Hold your breath as long as you can, and place the pipe in a safe location while you wait for the effects to kick in Repeat as many times as necessary Glass Vapor Genie —This pipe acts like a vaporizer through the use of a convection heating bowl Genius Pipe —This pipe has an innovative design that cools the smoke through a heat sink before it gets to your mouth Freebase Pipes —AKA “crack pipes” are designed specifically for smoking freebase compounds
This method involves mixing your DMT with some weed or another smokeable herb. This method has two advantages — it reduces the loss of DMT as it melts and leaks, and it helps smooth out the smoke, so it’s not so harsh on your throat.
You can use DMT and weed directly or swap the weed with another herb like mullein or raspberry leaf to improve the experience and reduce harshness.
Measure your dose of DMT using a precision scale Place a small dose of herb in the bottom of your bowl, leaving lots of room on top Sprinkle your dose of DMT evenly over the herb Cover the DMT with more herb to finish the sandwich Spark the bowl with a lighter and take a slow, gradual inhale; hold your breath when you get to the top Hand your pipe, bong, or whatever you’re using to your trip sitter to move it to a safe location
Alternatively, you can mix DMT in with a joint or cigarette for the same effect.
Changa is often referred to as “smokable ayahuasca.” It’s made by mixing ayahuasca vine (
Banisteriopsis caapi) with freebase DMT. The ayahuasca vine contains natural MAO inhibitors (harmala alkaloids) that help prevent the breakdown of DMT. This makes the experience last longer and hit harder than it does on its own. Here are some popular herbs people use to make changa: Ayahuasca vine —the primary MAO inhibitor Mullein —used to smooth out the harshness of the smoke Passionflower —gives the blend a nice relaxing feel Peppermint —adds flavor to the smoke Here’s how to prepare changa: Prepare your herbs by grinding them up with a coffee grinder Weigh the herbs using a scale Prepare 25% of the total weight of the herbs in DMT (1 gram of herbs means you should use 250 mg of DMT) Mix the DMT with some vodka (or other high-proof liquor) Coat the DMT-infused vodka over the herbs and allow them to air dry Once dried, changa is best used in a bong or pipe — start with 100 mg of changa and add more gradually
Vape pens are the best alternative to smoking. They’re easier to use and harder to accidentally break once the DMT starts to kick in.
You can buy DMT vape pens online in the form of pre-filled cartridges or standalone disposable vapes. You can also use a mesh pen or mod pen and use DMT freebase powder directly.
Some users prefer to make their own DMT-infused E-liquid and use that to refill the tank on a reusable vape pen.
There are a few key advantages of vaping DMT over smoking: Vape pens aren’t as harsh as smoking You can control your dose more easily Less DMT is wasted from overheating There are several downsides to vaping to be aware of as well: It’s easy to overuse vape pens You never know what’s inside the vape liquid unless you make it yourself Vapes have a higher potential for abuse They can be expensive
You don’t need a lot of DMT to induce a powerful psychedelic experience — just a few puffs from a vape pen or a single rip from a dab rig is enough to challenge the laws of special relativity.
The dose of DMT when smoking can be a bit tricky. Because of the wastage that can happen when smoking DMT in a dab rig, pipe, or joint, you may need to take slightly more than you would with a vape pen or cold-start rig.
Dosage range of DMT when smoking (take 20% less if vaping): 12–18 mg — light dose (best for novice users) 24–30 mg — moderate dose 36–60 mg — high dose >60 mg — ultra-high dose (not recommended)
A DMT breakthrough experience refers to any experience that takes you out of the Earthly realm. It’s here that people often report meeting with other entities (AKA DMT machine elves) or experience ego-death.
Getting to this point is relatively easy with DMT. Just 20 or 30 mg of DMT smoked is enough for most people to achieve a breakthrough experience.
The main limiting factor of breaking through is the smoke itself. DMT isn’t a smooth compound to smoke. It will inevitably cause the throat and lungs to feel harsh and hot. This causes people to cough in between tokes and limits the amount you can take in a single sitting.
The harshness of the hits are the main reasons why people will quit smoking DMT before they’re able to get to the breakthrough point.
There are some ways to avoid coughing and harshness. The main intervention is to take long, slow inhalations. Be patient, and don’t rush it. If you’re exhaling huge white plumes of smoke, you’re inhaling too fast and too hot. It’s better to take several tokes than to get the entire bowl finished in one hit.
Other measures to reduce the harshness include using innovative designs like the Genius Pipe, Vapor Genie, cold-start rigs, percolator bongs, or using vape pens instead.
DMT itself is quite safe. There has never been a reported death from overdosing on DMT. The physical effects of this substance are minimal.
However, during a breakthrough DMT experience, the user may temporarily lose control of their body. It’s in this state that physical harm becomes a real risk. This is why choosing a safe location and a trusted trip sitter are so crucial when using this substance.
Additionally, the act of smoking DMT can have physical side effects — particularly on the lungs and back of the throat.
Here are four steps you can take to reduce the potential for harm while using DMT.
DMT freebase comes in the form of white crystals or a fine white powder. There are a thousand other substances that look exactly like this.
Even if you purchased your DMT from a “trusted vendor” it could still be contaminated with other, more dangerous substances. Sometimes what you think is DMT is something entirely different.
Always test a sample of your DMT before you use it.
The best way to test DMT is to use a drug testing reagent such as the Ehrlich and Hofmann reagents. These reagents won’t tell you the potency of your sample, but they can help you confirm the crystals are an indole alkaloid and not something more dangerous like NBOMe substances, opiates, cathinones, PCP, or amphetamines.
Start by placing a small sample of your DMT on a ceramic plate. You only need a sample the size of a grain of sand.
You should always do at least two tests using different reagents to eliminate the chances of an error.
Place each sample on the place with lots of space in between them.
Place one drop of each reagent you want to test and wait for the color to change. Give each test about 3 minutes to complete before checking the color.
Here’s what you should expect for some of the common reagents when testing DMT: Ehrlich Reagent —Should turn purple Hofmann Reagent —Should turn yellow Mecke Reagent —Should turn brown (green = bad) Marquis Reagent —Should turn orange
Nobody should ever use DMT alone. The experience often leads to complete loss of body control for up to 20 minutes. It can also cause people to flail around — potentially leading to harm or property damage.
The role of the trip sitter is to watch over the psychonaut during the experience. They keep them safe and only intervene if something goes wrong.
The trip sitter also has the important job of holding the pipe or vape while the user is taking a hit.
You will likely need to take two or three hits from a pipe or vape to get a true breakthrough experience on DMT. By the second, and especially third hit, you will have very little control over what’s going on, and it’s easy to accidentally burn yourself with the lighter, break the pipe, or burn your hands on the hot glass.
The trip sitter should always hold the device while the psychonaut
receives the DMT.
It’s not a good idea to mix DMT with other drugs or alcohol. If you’ve been drinking or using other substances, it’s best to leave DMT for another time.
It’s critical that you’re in the right mindset when using DMT or the experience is more likely to cause harm than not.
The exception here could be a little bit of marijuana when following the sandwich method. A small amount of marijuana may help users remain calm during the experience — but only in people who already have a lot of experience with marijuana and know exactly how it’s going to affect them.
People who don’t smoke marijuana often may feel extra anxious with this combination.
Mindset is critical when using DMT. You should ever use this substance if you’re in a bad place or aren’t feeling completely open to the experience. Whatever you feel when you begin the DMT process will become expanded. It can make positive feelings even better, and it can make depressive feelings much worse.
DMT also has a habit of taking you down some roads you may not have wanted to go. Resisting it is only going to make things worse. You have to submit to the DMT and let it take you where it’s going to take you.
Start by meditating, listening to some relaxing music, or following some sort of ritual to get you in the right headspace before you start. Make yourself a nice cup of relaxing tea, do some yoga, or whatever else calms your mind and gets you into a good, mellow headspace.
There’s no right or wrong way to do this — just do whatever works best for you.
It’s also a good idea to set an intention before you start — what do you want to gain from the experience? Is there a particular problem you want to address or explore? Or are you just here to receive whatever the experience brings?
Make a note of it and consider doing some journaling to bring this intention to the top of mind during the experience.
There are a few ways to use DMT. The most common is to simply smoke it with a pipe, but you can also vape it or mix it with an MAO inhibitor and drink it (this is how ayahuasca works).
Smoking DMT provides the fastest onset of effects and has the shortest duration. Both N,N,DMT and 5-MeO-DMT can both be smoked for a powerful psychedelic effect.
DMT can be smoked with just about any method — pipes, bongs, or joints — but there are some clear winners.
The main issue with smoking DMT is the harshness of the hit, and the loss of DMT due to high heat. Therefore, the best techniques limit the heat levels of the DMT crystals and reduce the harshness of the hit. Water filtration, built-in heat sinks, and indirect heating are all methods that can prevent overburning.
Freebase pipes are the cheapest option, but cold-start dab rigs and vapes are the most efficient and smoothest options.
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Utahns are getting a mixed message when it comes to skiing resorts in the state.A new poll suggests the popularity of resorts in Utah has fallen below the national average in 2016.The survey, conducted by the Utahns for Utah, found that Utahns' perception of ski resorts has dropped from 77% in 2016 to 71% this year.This drop is statistically insignificant.The survey found that just 37% of Utahns s...
Posted February 10, 2018 05:01:25When you’re trying to protect your dog from snow, you don’t want to wear a mask that covers his face.
But, if you’re an experienced skier, you may have spotted a skier who is doing it right.
A video of a skiers face being covered by a ski-mask has gone viral on YouTube, and people are debating whether it’s a good idea.
It’s been going viral for a while, but skiers are taking the mask off to give their dogs a better ski-friendly winter environment.
This week, the International Ski Federation (ISF) announced a new safety rule that bans ski-masks with a “face mask.”
“It’s the right thing to do.
We think it is good for people’s safety,” said Michael Johnson, a spokesperson for the ISF.
“The fact that the ski-master is doing this and not the skiier is good.
We want to make sure people are safe.”
The rules come after several years of studies, which have shown the mask can save lives.
In 2015, the ISG released a report on its ski-safety recommendations for North America, which recommends that ski-mascots should be worn when skiing at a height of 30 meters.
But the organization said it’s not the best way to protect a dog’s head from being covered in snow.
“It is important to remember that it’s still your dog’s job to protect himself, and that’s what you’re doing when you wear a ski suit,” Johnson said.
“The reason it’s OK for your pet to be covered in ice is that it doesn’t cause you any problems.
But if you don, your dog will get hurt.”
The ISF also said that “a ski-face mask that allows you to see your dog while you’re skiing can reduce the chances of your dog getting frostbite or other injuries that can happen when your dog gets caught in a blizzard.”
The ISF says that skiers can go to the nearest ski shop to order a ski face mask, but that is not required.
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The story is about witchcraft accusations in Ghana. Basically, we want to know if Ghanaians believe witchcraft exist by finding out from people if they see, encounter or experience witchcraft activities.Research is conducted by visiting religious bodies such as churches, mosques and shrines to know their thoughts about witchcraft and how they detect hosts of this perceived power.
We find out usual actions taken against people who are accused of witchcraft. Based on our findings, we probe further to reveal the impact of this belief on the society.How are witches and wizards detected?Understanding why old men and women are often accused of witchcraft is important to us. A trip to Gambaga in the Northern region of Ghana to hear the stories of locals and inmates of the witch camp to answer most of these questions remains imperative. It’s our mission to visit schools and other communities to consistently educate them about this reality in society.
Fear of the Unknown is an insightful documentary that takes a look at the lives of inmates at the Gambaga witch camp in the Northern Region of Ghana. The documentary delves into the obvious questions surrounding the mystery of witch camps in Ghana.Delving into the minds of people living in this culture is one that brings to life the reason behind the existence of such beliefs from centuries till date.An eye-opening perspective in this documentary on mental health also gives a lot of meaning to the issue; interviewing professionals, religious and traditional leaders in a society where witchcraft accusations abound.
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Economy
Hortense Goulard
August 19, 2021
BRUSSELS — With the summer season just about to kick off, France's prime minister, Jean Castex, celebrated the reopening this past May of the Paris-Nice night train, a route that has been closed since 2017, by making the trip himself. It was a "symbolic" journey to highlight the rapid realization of the government's recovery plan, which includes pumping 100 million euros back into the country's network of night trains.
Castex, a notorious lover of railways, did not fail to highlight the "environmental dimension" of night-time rail travel. The initiative comes as a proposed climate law is being debated in the National Assembly. And even though his return to Paris by plane took away some of the strength of the publicity stunt, it did not detract from the new fervor of travelers — and railroad companies — for night trains.
France isn't the only European country embracing the revival. In Berlin, Brussels and Vienna too, powerful voices are being raised in defense of a mode of transportation that is incomparably more sustainable than air travel.
The rebound follows a long period of neglect. In the early 1980s, France had up to 550 stations served by several dozen night routes. But the government, faced with costs deemed too high, stopped financing them. The national rail company SNCF closed connections one after the other, and by 2020, there were only two left: one between Paris and Briançon, the other between Paris and Latour-de-Carol/Cerbère.
Across the continent, only a handful of central European countries kept a network worthy of the name. Austria in particular stands out in this regard, with a network of lines that connect to a multitude of destinations: Prague, Warsaw, Hamburg, Rome and even Kiev.
"I try not to fly in Europe. I take the train or the bus to go everywhere"
To get a sense of Austria's persistent love for a mode of transport that was said to have no future, last October I boarded a Nightjet train operated by the ÖBB, the Austrian national railway company. At the time I had no idea of the long winter quarantine to come. Departure at 6:04 p.m. from Brussels-Midi station, arrival at 8:27 a.m. at Wien Hauptbahnhof (Vienna's central station), after stops in Liège, Aachen, Cologne, Nuremberg, Passau and Linz. Unbeknownst to any of us, this was the last chance weekend before the borders were closed due to a new outbreak of COVID-19.
Night had already fallen on the Belgian capital when I approached the platform, under a fine and persistent rain, truly Brussels-like. At the entrance of the carriage, a couple speaking Russian and Austrian to their children tried to settle down. A controller lead me to my cabin, one of the train's most luxurious, with a real bed with sheets and an individual bathroom. As a sanitary precaution, I had the place to myself, although it can theoretically accommodate two people.
The cabin was new and comfortable and the bathroom well equipped with towels and shampoo, even if the hot water didn't seem to work. The welcome pack included a bottle of water, a mini-bottle of sparkling wine, cookies, slippers and earplugs. The dinner, served hot on a tray, at a reasonable price (less than 10 euros) was surprisingly good. A steward brought a menu to choose the breakfast, which comes included in the ticket price. Passengers can order it before going to bed, specifying their wake-up time.
After dropping off my luggage, I went out again to chat with other passengers — on such a trip, everyone has time. In the next cabin, a young Belgian couple, Flemings who live in Brussels, were on their way to a family reunion. They offered two arguments in favor of the night train: price and ecology. "I try not to fly in Europe. I take the train or the bus to go everywhere," said the young man, who then recalled a rail journey of several days in South Africa, between Johannesburg and Cape Town.
A little further on, two young Flemish women, who live in Ghent and Bruges, explained that they'd taken the train "on a whim." One worked in Vienna as a volunteer. The plan was to spend the weekend there. "The night train was cheaper than the plane," they said. Next to them, an Austrian woman who works at the European Parliament explained that she'd already taken this line, launched in February 2019, several times. It's "particularly convenient," she said, especially compared to the daytime train, which requires several changes.
Breakfast on the ÖBB Nightjet — Photo: @denisevandenbeemt via Instagram
It is not only the younger generation who are in favor of the night train for ecological reasons. A retired couple from Luxembourg, who went to Aachen to visit their son in Vienna, said that she'd be too afraid of an accident if they took the car. As for flying, "it's morally indefensible," said her husband, who speaks German with a strong Luxembourg accent. "I've never set foot on a plane in my life."
In Sweden, people even have a word for the guilt one feels about traveling by air: "flygskam." A little further down the line, a 20-year-old college student wasn't afraid to spend the night alone in a seating compartment. The night train "fit the schedule and the price is good," she said. She has a phobia of air travel, which she only takes as a last resort, she explained. And it's true that it's "not bad for the environment," the young woman added.
Fares vary according to the comfort category, and according to the number of reservations: The cheapest seats cost at least 29 euros. In the compartments with extended seats, but a minimal level of comfort, the ticket starts at 50 or 60 euros, while the most comfortable bunks are around 80 to 90 euros — 140 euros to be alone. The most luxurious cabin exceeds 170 euros per night, or even much more, depending on the route.
The Austrian company intends to take advantage of the public's renewed interest in night trains. "For the past three years, we have seen a strong demand for night travel," says spokesman Bernhard Rieder. In 2019, the ÖBB welcomed 1.5 million passengers on its Nightjets. "In good years, we don't necessarily lose money on night trains," he adds. "2019 was a very good year."
It was in 2015 that the operator decided to invest heavily in night routes. At the time, the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn (DB), had decided to close its remaining lines. "Our network was connected to Deutsche Bahn's, so we had to decide what to do. We could either keep our small, not very well-connected network, or we could expand it," says Rieder. "We had a very intense discussion and the management finally decided to operate a large part of Deutsche Bahn's lines, not all of them but the ones that fit our network."
To meet European climate objectives, it is therefore essential to encourage low-carbon means of transport.
The ÖBB now operates 19 night train routes. The latest, Brussels-Vienna, opened in January 2020. Next stop: Paris-Vienna this December.
The number of announcements has increased recently. In addition to Paris-Vienna, Zurich-Amsterdam should open at the end of the year, followed by Zurich-Rome in 2022, Berlin-Paris and Berlin-Brussels in 2023 and Zurich-Barcelona in 2024.
France is eager to get on board the trend as well. The government has announced the opening of two new lines before 2022: Jean Castex's Paris-Nice and Paris-Tarbes. He wants to initiate a debate in Parliament on the reopening of dozens of lines, which would not necessarily pass through the capital. One would allow travel from Brittany to the Côte d'Azur; another could link Metz and Strasbourg to Nice, Bordeaux or Barcelona.
Still, there are obstacles to how far France can go with the revival. "Given the major work to be done on the network, it will be complicated to open many other lines until 2025," Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said in an interview with
Le Parisien. Orders for new cars from Bombardier or Alstom could take years to complete — at a cost potentially exceeding 1 billion euros.
This investment is justified as part of the fight against climate change, night-train advocates insist. According to the European Environment Agency, transport accounts for a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union. And they are not decreasing, unlike those of electricity production and industry. To meet European climate objectives, it is therefore essential to encourage low-carbon means of transport.
Ademe has calculated that a passenger traveling in France in a TER over a distance of 900 km emits just under 5 kg of CO2. The same trip by plane emits about 207 kg (this last figure takes into account the "condensation trails' that form behind the planes and interact with other gases in the atmosphere). The carbon footprint of trains obviously varies depending on how electricity is produced in each country — nuclear in France; coal, gas and renewables in Germany. But the vast majority of rail journeys emit far less CO2 than the same journey by plane or car, according to the comparison site Ecopassenger.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex celebrates the reopening of the Paris-Nice night train — Photo: Panoramic/ZUMA
Night trains are particularly suitable for distances of 600 to 1,800 kilometers, i.e. for journeys between major European cities. "These trains are definitely not a niche," says Karima Delli, chairwoman of the European Parliament's Transport Committee. She pleads for a "real network of night trains' at the continental level.
For the moment, the European Commission is far from being so enthusiastic. It has already been trying for nearly 20 years to make rail networks inter-operable, with mixed results. Safety standards, for example, often differ from one country to another and represent an avoidable additional cost for companies.
To revive night trains, the public authorities must be involved, says Christophe Fanichet, who heads the SNCF's Passenger Division. Without subsidies, they are generally not profitable. Also, the number of passengers is limited, between 60 and 100 per train, rather than several hundred in daytime convoys, says Rieder, the ÖBB spokesman. And they require more staff, usually one employee per car — not counting breakfast or dinner costs.
To cope with these high costs, the Austrian operator has chosen to go upmarket. "In general, the compartment with bunks is filled very quickly," notes Rieder. But the company does not yet have enough cars of this type to meet the growing demand. This problem will soon be solved. In 2018, the ÖBB placed an order with Siemens for 13 new train sets. Total contract value: 1.5 billion euros. Delivery is scheduled for 2022.
The Austrian company wants to take advantage of this to modernize the image of its cars, with a new, more elegant design. Another new feature is the plan to launch tiny cabins, called "mini-suites."
"One of the strong demands of our customers is to have their own private space," explains Bernhard Rieder, the ÖBB spokesperson. These bunks, inspired by the capsule beds found in certain Japanese hotels, will meet this demand at a lower price than the classic cabins. But until it attracts more and wealthier customers, Rieder adds, the ÖBB's night train business is just about breaking — even in "very good years."
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Crunching the numbers of South Korea's personal and household debt offers a glimpse into what drives the win-or-die plot of the Netflix hit produced in the Asian country.
Yip Wing Sum
October 16, 2021
-Analysis- SEOUL — The South Korean series Squid Game has become the most viewed series on Netflix, watched by over 111 million viewers and counting. It has also generated a wave of debate online and off about its provocative message about contemporary life.
The plot follows the story of a desperate man in debt, who receives a mysterious invitation to play a game in which the contestants gamble their lives on six childhood games, with the winner awarded a prize of 45.6 billion won ($38 million)... while the losers face death.
It's a plot that many have noted is not quite as surreal as it sounds, a reflection of the reality of Korean society today mired in personal debt.
Seoul housing prices top London and New York
In the polished streets of downtown Seoul, one sees endless cards and coupons advertising loans scattered on the ground. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, as the demand for loans in South Korea has exploded, lax lending policies have led to a rapid increase in personal debt.
According to the South Korean Central Bank's "Monetary Credit Policy Report," household debt reached 105% of GDP in the first quarter of this year, equivalent to approximately $1.5 trillion at the end of March, with a major share tied up in home mortgages.
Average home loans are equivalent to 270% of annual income.
One reason behind the debts is the soaring housing prices. In Seoul, home to nearly half of the country's population, housing prices are now among the highest in the world. The price to income ratio (PIR), which weighs the average price of a home to the average annual household income, is 12.04 in Seoul, compared to 8.4 in San Francisco, 8.2 in London and 5.4 in New York.
According to the Korea Real Estate Commission, 42.1% of all home purchases in January 2021 were by young Koreans in their 20s and 30s. For those in their 30s, the average amount borrowed is equivalent to 270% of their annual income.
Playing the stock market
At the same time, the South Korean stock market is booming. The increased demand to buy stocks has led to an increase in other loans such as credit. The ratio for Korean shareholders conducting credit financing, i.e. borrowing from securities companies to secure stock holdings, had reached 21.4 trillion won ($17.7 billion), further increasing the indebtedness of households.
A 30-year-old Seoul office worker who bought stocks through various forms of borrowing was interviewed by Reuters this year, and said he was "very foolish not to take advantage of the rebound."
In addition to his 100 million won ($84,000) overdraft account, he also took out a 100 million won loan against his house in Seoul, and a 50 million won stock pledge. All of these demands on the stock market have further exacerbated the problem of household debt.
42.1% of all home purchases in January 2021 were by young Koreans in their 20s and 30s
Game of survival
In response to the accumulating financial risks, the Bank of Korea has restricted the release of loans and has announced its first interest rate hike in three years at the end of August.
But experts believe that even if banks cut loans or raise interest rates, those who need money will look for other ways to borrow, often turning to more costly institutions and mechanisms.
This all risks leading to what one can call a "debt trap," one loan piling on top of another. That brings us back to the plot of
Squid Game, "Either you live or I do." South Korean society has turned into a game of survival.
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When was the last time that you walked into a room and could tell the emotional energy? Have you ever caught someone else’s bad mood? What about positive energy? One of the things I hear from students fairly regularly is that they are empathic. Everyone, to some degree or another, has the ability to feel these energies. Depending on how you are exposed to them, some people have their energy detectors turned to a high degree. This is particularly true of people who have experienced trauma, as they are often on ‘high alert.’ The process of grounding, centering & shielding is a fundamental skill that we will be working on together. The goal is to give you the ability to connect with the earth, and the energies around you, align yourself and be able to tap into the calm of the earth, and create a volume knob for the energy around you, giving you the tools to accept or reject energy coming your way.
There are some considerable downsides to always being attuned to the energies of the places and people around you.When I was a kid, I had a very hard time transitioning between the Montessori school I went to that had a very calm and nurturing energy to the local public kindergarten which was loud, frenetic, high energy, and full of chaos. My parents ended up withdrawing me and I did not go back to that public school until over a year later when I had developed more skills in grounding, shielding, and meditation.
While it can be nice to be forewarned about your partner’s bad mood, or if your pet is in pain, letting that bad mood ruin your day, or feeling the pain of your child or pet as your own personal pain means that you are not equipped to actually help your partner, friend, child, pet etc. This is why it is important to regularly ground, center and develop healthy shields and boundaries.
Grounding is the first step in establishing your personal shields, because it allows you to shed energy that is not your own, and replace it with calm, healthy energy from the earth. It helps you from being influenced by other energy and allows you to refocus on yourself.
That process of refocusing, and coming in to your own personal power is what we refer to as centering. Connecting our minds to the power centers within ourselves. Aligning your mind and energy gives you the ability to focus that energy to do your will.
Using your personal energy, the energy from the earth, and your will is how you connect with and enforce your shields.
We keep coming back to ‘know thyself’ as an important theme in witchcraft.
If you go around picking up any and every energy that you come across, it will become very difficult to know who you are, and what your own will and motivations are. How do you know that you are in a bad mood because of things that are going on in your life, or if you are in a bad mood because you were in the same room as someone who was experiencing a bad mood? Having proper boundaries, regularly practicing grounding and centering, and maintaining a shield are all ways in which you discern the self from what is around you.
Often students who have a hard time with shielding, do because they are so concerned about tuning out from what is around them. They have become accustomed to constantly feeling the emotions of others, of places and spirt, and have a hard time willing themselves to tune that out. As you progress with your shielding you will learn to use an energetic volume knob, allowing you to block out what is not beneficial for you, but still be able to attune to those around you at will. Think about how much better it would be to know someone is unhappy but not to be unhappy yourself? To go into busy places and not be sapped from your personal energy by those around you?
A healthy shield does not have to be a complete sensory block on those intuitive tools. It does need to be something you can pull up to a full strength to prevent being bowled over by the energy and emotions of the world around you. Grounding, centering and shielding gives you tools to set boundaries for what you want to feel, experience, and be influenced by.
Stamp your feet and clap your hands
Find a comfortable position, preferably seated outdoors on the ground, but on the floor or an appropriately supportive chair is perfectly reasonable and find something that is comfortable for you.
Align your shoulders over your hips, and your head on your spine. Make sure your shoulders are down and back, and you are resting comfortably. Feel yourself balanced.
Take a deep breath in through your nose, hold for a moment, and let the air back out through your mouth.
Take another deep breath in, feel your stomach expand, the air filling your lungs, nourishing your body. Let the air out through pursed lips, pushing from your belly, releasing tension and negative energy as you do. Do this for an additional 3 breaths.
Visualize roots beginning to expand down from your spine
See your roots connecting down, into the ground, through the earth
Feel the earth, cool and moist around your roots
Feel your roots go down, around other roots, rocks, and the critters that live in the earth
down and down, connecting with the earths energies
as you feel your roots spread into the ground, take in a breath and begin to sing
“My roots go down, down into the earth, My roots go down, down into the ground, my roots go down, down into the ground, My roots go down.” -Modification of Sarah Pirtle’s song – view a performance of the original song:
Feel the energy of the earth enter your roots, traveling up and up
feel the energy traveling up the roots and up to the base of your spine
Feel the energy coming up through your spine, and entering your body,
the clean, bright energy of the earth moving through your spine, and out through your hips, your legs, and returning through your body back down into the ground.
Feel the energy of the earth coming up through your spine and through your ribs, pushing out anything negative and mingling with your breath. Feel the energy displacing anything negative and filling your body with its clean, bright connection with the earth’s energies. As you breathe in, feel that energy continuing to climb your spine, up and out through your shoulders, down your arms, and spilling out of your hands, returning down into the earth, creating a completed circuit.
Feel that energy flow up your spine and up through your head, up through your crown. Up and up creating a fountain above your head, raining down on the earth around you, and returning back down.
Feel the connection brighten when you breathe in, and dim slightly as you breathe out. Allow it to fill you and displace anything that is no longer serving you. Breathe in and out, feeling energized and completely connected with the earth.
Take a moment to thank the earth, for all that it does to support us, for sharing its energies with us, and for sustaining our lives. Then allow the energy to recede, back through your crown, back through your arms, leaving behind only the energy that will support you in your highest good.
Allow the energy to recede back down your spine, and back down into the earth, leaving behind enough energy to support you and your workings, but not overcharging. Allow all excess energy to return down to the earth. When you are feeling calm and energized visualize your roots returning back up through the earth, up and up, and returning to their home at the base of your spine, knowing your connection with the earth is always there.
Open your eyes and rejoin the physical world. Stamp your feet a few times, and clap your hands!
Grounding and Centering are often combined together into a singular exercise, but it is important to get a concept of centering outside of grounding techniques as well. That is what this exercise is for.
As you progress with this exercise, it will not take the same level of concentration. As you are more familiar with the process you can move from the longform to something much more simple. This is the form that I follow now when I connect to my center:
In I go to see my center
Following the path from my mentor
I feel my power within
pervading all under my skin
Light spinning and returning
illuminating but never burning
It swirls and moves, like a galaxy inside
My soul providing the gravity, it’s guide
This vision I hold in my mind:
My body and my soul are aligned
But for now:
Find a comfortable position, preferably standing outdoors with your feet shoulder width apart, your shoulders and hips aligned over your feet and your arms relaxed at your sides, but seated on the ground, on the floor or an appropriately supportive chair is perfectly reasonable– find something that is comfortable for you.
Take in a breath, and follow that breath inward, feeling it as it expands into your lungs. Release any additional tension you may be holding in your shoulders, in your belly, or in other parts of your body as you release your breath. Continue following this process, breathing in through your nose, following the breath, and releasing tension and negativity out through your mouth.
Allow your breathing to return to an automatic process, while your mind continues to remain inside. Visualize darkness while you feel for your place of balance, somewhere between your hips and your shoulders. Sway slightly back and forth until you feel where your center of gravity is. Feel it in the base of your lungs and between your heart and your groin. When you can feel this spot, envision Turing on the light.
With each breath, feel the light grow, filling your body. See the light radiating out from your center, radiating out to skim across your skin before returning back to that single point, somewhere between your heart and your belly button Push out anything you see where you may have a dark spot, or a blockage. Really feel yourself align, and the energy in your middle. Feel it in the way you are balanced, keeping that ball of energy centered around your center of gravity. Feel yourself full of that energy.
When you are ready to, open your eyes knowing you are aligned, connected and at one with yourself and your power. and ready to go on with your day. Re-center whenever you find yourself exhausted, grumpy, or feeling off-balance.
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Take a deep breath in through your nose, hold for a moment, and let the air back out through your mouth.
Take another deep breath in, feel your stomach expand, the air filling your lungs, nourishing your body. Let the air out through pursed lips, pushing from your belly, releasing tension and negative energy as you do.
Repeat this three times before allowing your attention to move away from your breathing, and resume a natural rhythm.
Close your eyes and hold out your hand.
Feel your stone in your hand. Feel the weight of it, feel its coolness or warmth, its texture, the smooth and rough points. Really feel the stone- does it have any points? Divots? Bumps? High points or low points?
Using your minds eye focus on your stone. Look at it as it catches light. What colors is it? How does it look in sunlight? In shade? In moonlight? Does it have any shine or sparkle or is it fully matte? How would you describe it to someone else?
How does your rock connect with the earth? Visualize where you found it. How did it come to be there? How is it connected with the earth? See yourself holding your rock and holding a connection with the earth through your rock.
Take a moment to simply spend time with your stone, enjoying its weight in your hand.
When you are ready, bring your focus back in, and feel your breathing in and out. Once you reconnect with your breathing, go ahead and open your eyes.
You should feel calm, centered, and balanced while connected with the world around you.
Shielding Exercises are best done after grounding and centering. You want to make sure you’re not keeping anything yucky inside with you in your shield, and it is good to be coming from a clear, energized, and centered place when connecting with your shields
Find a comfortable position, preferably standing outdoors with your feet shoulder width apart, your shoulders and hips aligned over your feet and your arms relaxed at your sides, but seated on the ground, on the floor or an appropriately supportive chair is perfectly reasonable– find something that is comfortable for you.
Hold your hands up at your shoulder height. Slowly push out until you start to feel resistance- this is where your natural boundaries are. Practice feeling this boundary. Does it feel solid, or amorphous. Do you find it in the same place each time, or does it tend to expand and contract between times that you are connecting with it?
When you connect your hands with this shield, visualize it as full of energy. Connect with your core, and start to layer energy into your shield, visualizing it beginning to glow and take a more physical form. Think about things you attribute safety and security to, and visualize your shield having the best attributes of those things. Visualize your shield repelling negative energy, repelling outside influences. See your barrier preventing these things, repelling them like a ball bouncing off, or some dark muck sliding off.
Thank your shields for protecting you. Thank the earth for providing the energy, and sustaining you. Thank the spirits of mirrors, of crystals, of rocks, of leaves, or whatever else you incorporate into your shielding to keep you safe. Thank any spirits, gods, or goddesses that help guide you in your work.
When you are ready, open your eyes, and know you are protected. Reinforce your shields whenever you think of it, sending a small spark to check and reinforce them at your will.
Class 5 Handouts:
Shielding
Tree Grounding
Stone Grounding and Centering
Witch Centering
Homework
Create a list of your beloved dead, as well as your spiritual ancestors (people who have impacted your thoughts, spiritual practice, theology, ethics, etc. who you may not actually be blood related to)
Bring in small (small enough to fit inside or attach or wrap around an egg) items that you associate with safety and protection or the feeling of being safe.
Bring in clean and empty egg shells if you happen to have them…
Be prepared for a slightly messy class (glue, paint, etc) in an outdoor space with no running water.
Do grounding and centering and shielding exercises, consider trying Ariel’s Grounding and Centering posted below.
Make a plan for what you want to add to the Altar for our Samhain ritual, and bring in anything you would like to use to dress the elemental candle, or ritual candle assigned to your role. I will bring some candles with me, as well as some essential oils and a few herbs so we have a place to start. If there is something in particular that you would like to include (especially if it is an herb or an oil) please give me 24hrs notice to make sure I have it or a suitable substitute with me.
Catchup on your reading 🙂 I promise the Charge of the Goddess and Aradia will be worth the time. There are some links below to explore if you are interested but it is not required.
Listen to this Grounding and Centering, and try to do it several times before we meet again. If you are interested in more from Ariel, consider signing up for the whole course. We will visit more of his work as we progress with the class. https://www.arielgatoga.com/awp
Books on grounding, centering and Shielding
The most famous book about Shielding is Psychic self defense by Dion Fortune – Personally I find it a bit challenging to work with.
My favorite book on shielding is “The Witches Shield” by Christopher Penzack
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During intense rains, every house with properly functioning gutters and downspouts looks well maintained, and that’s why they are known to be the unsung heroes of any house.
When gutters function properly, they work to protect the house against rains, which is not something that is easy to tackle for any construction. People say that properly maintained, good-quality gutters are expected to last for several years, but they certainly do not last for so long.
In a situation when gutters get clogged, homeowners need to look for gutter replacement options in order to avoid critical damage. Moreover, it’s always suggested to hire an expert person or professional gutter replacement company to do the replacement instead of trying something on your own.
Major Indications that Arises the Need for Gutter Replacement
Take a look at the below points, as these are some severe gutter symptoms that must be looked at for replacing gutters:
1. Peeling
It’s a known fact that malfunctioning gutters can destroy good paintwork. Property owners must look for exterior siding for any paint that gets bubbled up or peeled away because of moisture. Moreover, whenever any symptom is visible, the concerned gutter company must be consulted.
Also, there are chances of leaks if the paint peeling is happening a lot. In a situation where peeling extends more than the limit, then homeowners must seek serious, professional help and think about getting a proper replacement instead of gutter repair.
2. Mildews near Foundation
Gutters are installed to maintain the flow of water away from the home’s foundation. If homeowners observe water pools or mildew near the foundation then it can imply that the gutters have some issues and need repair or replacement.
Mildews can be caused by simple issues like clogs or by complex issues like defects in the gutter system. Rainwater can lead to foundation damage thereby calling for repairs. It is recommended to always choose professional help for gutter cleaning or replacement for your house.
3. Cracks
When cracks occur, they lead to leaks within the house, consequently damaging the fascia, roof, and other areas. Irrespective of the size of these cracks, they can harm the gutter system. Homeowners must walk around their house to look for cracking signs.
In case of such signs, homeowners must call for a team of gutter professionals who will inspect them. Their work includes assessing the gutters and deciding the best course of action that will be done, providing a detailed report of their research, and different options to solve the problem.
Homeowners must never ignore the signs of cracks and must immediately look for Gutter Companies that will do the gutter replacement thereby making the house stay in the best condition possible. Moreover, it gets very easy to limit issues’ occurrence if the gutters are regularly inspected.
Did you miss our previous article…
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The IRS also offers short-term payment plans if you think you can pay off your tax debts in 120 days or less and if the amount you owe is less than $US 100,000. The IRS typically calculates interest and penalties for tax arrears, even if you make a deal. A payment plan is an agreement with the IRS to pay the taxes you owe within a longer period of time. You should apply for a payment plan if you think you can pay your taxes in full within the extended period. If you qualify for a short-term payment plan, you are not responsible for any user fees. If you do not pay your taxes when they are due, this may lead to the sending of a notification of the federal tax deposit and/or an IRS tax action. See Publication 594, The IRS Collection Process PDF. If you are not eligible for a payment plan through the online payment tool, you can still pay in installments. If you owe less than $10,000 to the IRS, your payment plan is usually approved automatically as a “guaranteed” instalment payment agreement. You can qualify for an individual payment plan by going to IRS.gov/opa if you don`t meet the criteria for a guaranteed payment contract.
Taxpayers can qualify for this type of agreement if the balance owed to the IRS is less than or equal to $50,000. According to the IRS, individuals can make the full payment, they can agree to a short-term payment plan in 120 days or less, or they can agree to a long-term phased agreement to pay the tax debt in more than 120 days. . . .
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With the total value of global carbon markets having jumped 20% last year to a record $277 billion, the time is good for ag retail to invest in technology that will enable carbon credits at the farm level.
This was the message Bob Trogele, AMVAC® Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, sent in a recent presentation to the CoBank Agribusiness Executive Forum in San Diego, Calif., as well as in a subsequent article published by CropLife magazine.
He noted that some of the greatest challenges to implementing a practical carbon-credit market at the farm level are logistical: How do farmers measure, validate, record, and audit – that is, “MVRA” – their carbon management efforts without creating a nightmare of data management and paperwork?
This is where precision ag technology can play a big role.
For instance, SIMPAS® equipment, developed by AMVAC and powered by Trimble, provides a closed delivery system for prescriptive application of in-furrow products, dry and liquid, at planting. SmartCartridge® Containers deliver SIMPAS-applied Solutions (insecticides, nematicides, micronutrients, and biologicals) in RFID-tagged containers. And Ultimus™ technology platform provides data management to measure, validate, report, and audit. The result is an automatic electronic record of what was applied by whom, when, where, and at what rate.
Trogele noted furthermore that AMVAC has patents pending for use of blockchain technology which enhances the validity and credibility of application records that are an element of earning carbon credits for product applications. Because carbon credits are financial instruments that are awarded by a third party to farmers who will sell the credits to entities for use in off-setting that entity’s carbon footprint, all those involved in transactions associated with buying and selling carbon credits will benefit from the forensic quality accounting that results from the use of SmartCartridge RFID-tagged containers and Ultimus-enabled product applications.
In other words, Troegele said, AMVAC anticipates the documentation step necessary for farmers to earn carbon is soon to get considerably easier than most of them might imagine.
About AMVAC Corporation
AMVAC Corporation is a subsidiary of American Vanguard Corporation. American Vanguard Corporation is a diversified specialty and agricultural products company that develops and markets products for crop protection management, turf and ornamentals management, and public safety and animal health applications. American Vanguard is included on the Russell 2000® & Russell 3000® Indexes and the Standard & Poors Small Cap 600 Index.
The Company, from time to time, may discuss forward-looking information. Except for the historical information contained in this release, all forward-looking statements are estimates by the Company’s management and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ from management’s current expectations. Such factors include weather conditions, changes in regulatory policy and other risks as detailed from time-to-time in the Company’s SEC reports and filings. All forward-looking statements, if any, in this release represent the Company’s judgment as of the date of this release.
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TRAVEL CHANNEL TV personality and Argeo Hospitality CEO Anthony Melchiorri has made a career out of “fixing” troubled hotels, is now bringing his celebrity status to bear on Congress in a bid for more federal stimulus. The aid is needed to address a liquidity crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic Melchiorri said in a video statement.
In the video, Melchiorri explains the need for programs like as a second round of the Paycheck Protection Program, relief for those with commercial mortgage-backed security loans, access to the Main Street Lending Program for commercial real estate, and increased resources for the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. And members of Congress should remember, Melchiorri said in the video, hotels are not actually the giant corporations some people think.
“America’s hotels are small businesses. The majority are local businesses owned and operated by friends and neighbors in our communities,” said Melchiorri, host of Hotel Impossible and the Anthony Melchiorri Live podcast. “The economic fallout of this pandemic hit the hospitality industry hard. Without travelers, without heads in beds, there’s no cash in the register. The men and women I work with every day, like the hotel owners at AAHOA, are facing a dire financial crisis that threatens to shutter thousands of businesses across the country. Congress needs to do right by these small businesses and help preserve the millions of jobs they create.”
The pandemic’s effects on the travel and hospitality industries have put many hotels in financial peril, facing foreclosures or mass layoffs. Nearly half of respondents in a recent survey said they are at risk of losing their property. The hospitality industry has also lost more than 4.8 million jobs since the onset of the crisis in February.
Nearly 90 percent of hotels furloughed or laid off workers, and over one-third have not been able to hire back any employees. Forecasts from STR and CBRE Hotels Research say the industry will not return to full strength until 2023.
“Hotel owners and their employees need real relief, and they need it now,” said Cecil Staton, AAHOA president and CEO. “Our leaders in Washington must work together and create a stimulus package that addresses the reality facing hotel owners. Another round of PPP will help ensure employees can continue to be paid. Granting hoteliers greater flexibility with EIDL, access to the Main Street Lending Program, and CMBS relief will ensure that these businesses can come out on the other side of this crisis. People will travel again, and when they do, we want our hotels to welcome them into our communities once more.”
Congress currently debating the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools Act in the Republican controlled Senate and the Democrat controlled House’s Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act.
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Our solar lamps provide households with clean energy during day and night.
Before kerosene lamps were used, which are health-damaging especially for young and elder people.
Shops are also benefitting from the use of solar lamps.
A grandfather is reading a story by light.
The picture shows how effective and bright the small lamps are.
The solar home systems are produced and distributed by our partner in Ethiopia.
Summary
Total savings : One SHS with 2 LED-lamps saves about 0,25t CO₂, atmosfair does not take these savings into account; Technology transfer : Solar Home Systems with LED-lamps Local environment : No smoke emissions due to kerosene lamps anymore: Reduction of risks of respiratory diseases Further advantages : Creation of jobs for installation and maintenance of the solar-powered LED-lamps Project partners : fosera Ethiopia, fosera Germany, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Institute for Decentralized Electrification, Entrepreneurship and Education GmbH & Co. KG (id-eee) Unused potential of the sun
Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries according to the Human Development Index (HDI) and at the same time the most populous landlocked country in the world. Especially the rural areas are often densely populated. Nevertheless, they lack many necessities like nationwide power supply. Currently only 33 percent of the population is connected to the grid. Even though 96.2 percent of the urban population has a grid connection, the rural areas are much left behind with more than 73 percent lacking any access to electricity. [1] Therefore, many Ethiopians use kerosene lamps, which are incredibly inefficient, expensive and harmful for the climate and health.
On the other hand, Ethiopia is largely endowed with sunshine. Solar energy systems fit for household use are already partly available in the country. However, they are imported goods of inferior quality that often break down after a few months and thus threaten people’s trust in solar energy systems.
Quality meets efficiency and sustainability
The Solar Home System project, which is implemented by atmosfair together with the young company fosera Manufacturing in Ethiopia, strives to effectively counteract this problem. Together, the project partners provide households with high quality yet affordable solar systems. In contrary to many mobile solar lamps, fosera is producing fixed installations, which can be supplemented with up to four lamps. One Solar Home System with two lamps can save approximately 0.25 t per year in comparison to the usage of kerosene lamps. fosera implements sales in the rural areas of Ethiopia with already existing seller and retailer networks.
atmosfair provides the financial resources for the project, which fosera only has to pay back partially. In return, the company guarantees to produce and distribute Solar Home Systems at a low market price. Until today, more than 13.000 systems have been produced and sold.
Many families in Ethiopia are happy when they can come home in the evening and operate a light switch. They also have the opportunity to recharge their mobile phones, because for many Ethiopians these are an elementary tool on which they depend for example for mobile banking. A further benefit for the households is the reduction of smoke pollution and the money saved in the long term, as they can now refrain of the use of kerosene lamps.
Our partners
fosera Manufacturing was founded as a private company in 2014 in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia’s third largest city, where it has establishing a local assembly for the solar home systems. fosera can build on the technical and managerial knowhow of their holding company fosera Germany located near Ulm, Germany. Thomas Koepke is the general manager of fosera Ethiopia, and has worked for many years in the solar energy industry in Germany and Africa. Currently 15 employees work for fosera Ethiopia. The explicitly local approach of the production and assembly shall enable many younger Ethiopians to gain and utilize their competences in renewable energies, a job market of the future.
The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) provided funds for the project within the framework of the Energizing Development Programme, with which we had a mobile phone-based monitoring system and an online database developed. GIZ also provided financial support for the implementation of a total of 7 training courses for students and lecturers and 13 training courses for entrepreneurs in Ethiopia to help expand national knowledge and skills in solar technologies in Ethiopia.
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) commissioned two final theses on potential environmental hazards and possible disposal paths of modern accumulator systems as used in the project.
The Institute for Decentralized Electrification, Entrepreneurship and Education GmbH & Co. KG (id-eee) is a private institute for applied research and project management. Based on more than 30 years of professional experience in the field of photovoltaics, the founder and university professor Prof. Peter Adelmann, teaches lecturers and students of the University of Bahir Dar about photovoltaic technology and maintenance.
[1] World Bank (2018): https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/30102/129100-ESM-P156666-PUBLIC-MTF-Energy-Access-Country-Diagnostic-Report-Ethiopia-6-2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Your contact at atmosfair
Dr. Ute Werner
Project Manager
Chemist
+49 (0) 30 120 84 80 - 36
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Indeed, international organizations often correct to improve the quality of data in this sense. Gleeson, D., Lexchin, J., Labonté, R. et al. Analysis of the impact of trade and investment agreements on pharmaceutical policy: provisions, pathways and possible impacts. Global Health 15, 78 (2019). doi.org/10.1186/s12992-019‑0518‑2 When a country opens up to trade, the demand for and supply of goods and services changes in the economy. As a result, local markets react and prices change. This has repercussions on households, both as consumers and as employees. If you press the play key in the map, you may see changes over time. This shows that despite the important differences between countries, there is a common trend: in recent decades, openness to trade has increased in most countries.
The Judgment of the Court of Justice clarified that sustainable development is one of the EU‘s exclusive areas of competence in trade; However, it has also strengthened the role of national parliaments in the areas of external trade, where Member States retain common competences, namely in the settlement of disputes relating to non-direct investment and investment.…
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Yesterday's models can’t handle today's challenges. Learn more about actions CMOs can take to build a marketing function of the future.
Managing Director & Partner
New York
The digitization of the customer experience is unlocking fresh opportunities for marketers while also creating new challenges for chief marketing officers. Our expertise across the CMO agenda—coupled with our experience guiding the C-suite—helps marketing executives navigate their evolving roles.
As customers become more discerning, digitally savvy, and purpose-led, the chief marketing officer role is fast becoming more complex. Customers have high expectations for richer, more nuanced experiences. CMOs are on the hook to deliver—even as budget, staffing, and other constraints continue to tighten. Our CMO consulting experts help marketing executives master a blend of alchemy and analytics—from creativity, collaboration, and purpose to AI, measurement, and technology—so they can balance these demands and grow their influence.
Our industry-leading digital expertise helps address the full spectrum of CMO challenges, from the creative to the highly technical. We bring:
Our CMO consulting experts support chief marketing officers in their efforts to develop a coordinated and action-oriented CMO agenda that balances often-competing priorities to drive impact.
To thrive in their roles, marketing executives must translate their skills and expertise across the C-suite. CMOs and CIOs, for example, can unlock budgets and enhance investments in marketing talent, tools, and technology. CMOs and CEOs can work together to embed and nurture purpose across an organization while cementing loyalty among its customers. CMOs and COOs can build the systems and processes that support market leadership. CMOs and CFOs can collaborate to manage marketing as an investment for increasing returns.
We help CMOs foster C-suite collaboration—and establish a shared view of measurement that aligns marketing with business impact—so they can shift perceptions of the marketing organization from a cost center to a growth platform.
We support CMOs globally and across regions. Meet our global leadership.
BCG on Marketing, Sales, and Pricing
Customer expectations are rising—are you ready to meet them? Explore our latest insights and thought leadership.
Yesterday's models can’t handle today's challenges. Learn more about actions CMOs can take to build a marketing function of the future.
The COVID-19 crisis has caused unprecedented uncertainty and volatility, but CMOs can still set their organizations up for future success in the postpandemic era.
A good measurement system requires transparency, clarity, and ease of interpretation.
With e-commerce booming and privacy concerns growing, consumer brands are accelerating their online agendas.
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When we talk about home systems and appliances, we all know that nothing lasts forever. While it hurts to accept this, even our most essential appliances we depend on have a limited lifespan. No matter how expensive and durable they are, appliances are still prone to aging and normal wear and tear.
Most homeowners set aside a budget for routine home maintenance, but not all save up for unexpected replacements and repairs. This is where home repair insurance comes in that serves as safety nets when appliances break down.
Most people are familiar with home insurance that covers major incidents, such as hail and fire. But have you heard about home repair insurance? This type of insurance covers specific damages around the house that result in constant wear and tear. It commonly covers damages on indoor plumbing, mechanical items, wiring systems, appliances, and HVAC units.
If you’re planning to apply for home repair insurance, it’s important to learn what it means and how it can affect your finances as a homeowner.
What is home repair insurance?
Home repair insurance is an optional service agreement covering the cost of repairs and replacements for household appliances and systems. It serves as additional protection for essential home items that unexpectedly break down because of normal wear and tear.
Most of the coverage found in home repair insurance is not included in the standard homeowners’ insurance. As part of the policy, the insurance provider offers the client a network of trained and pre-screened contractors to conduct the repairs and replacements for the broken items. This will save homeowners a lot of time instead of searching for reputable contractors around the area.
Home repair insurance features various types of coverage. Insurance providers may offer three plans, including the electrical and plumbing, appliances, and a combination of both. Other providers may cover both systems and appliances, including base plans or a bigger coverage for premium plans.
Repair insurance can cover services for plumbing, electric appliances, HVAC systems, and utility lines, such as sewage, gas lines, electrical lines, and water pipes. A provider may also offer add-on coverage for those who want a customized protection plan. Additional coverage includes a pool and spa, central vacuum, additional HVAC system, water heater, extra fridge, and other additional appliances.
How much does a home repair insurance cost?
Generally, a home repair insurance plan ranges between $30 to $70 each month. But the monthly premium can be lower or higher based on some factors.
The size and location of the home will affect the insurance rate. Since providers cover many states, regulations and tax laws will drive the price lower or higher. Larger properties with an additional guest house may also incur a bigger monthly premium.
The service cost is a predetermined fee for the technician during repairs. The typical service cost is between $75 to $125. Some providers may offer other options, such as paying for a higher service cost to lower the monthly premium. The client may ask the provider if they charge for additional service costs if the issue persists.
Plans also include coverage caps, which refer to the amount the provider will pay for the covered items during the insurance term. If you went over the full cost of a repair or replacement, you need to pay the exceeding amount.
Insurance costs may also depend on the number of coverage exclusions. This refers to systems and appliances the provider will not cover. Pre-existing conditions and weather-related incidents aren’t usually included in most plans.
Do you need home repair insurance?
Applying for home repair insurance has its advantages and drawbacks. To know if you need home repair insurance, create a detailed inventory of your home systems and appliances, including their ages.
Compare the age of the most expensive appliances and systems to their average lifespan. Make sure to have complete records of previous purchases for each item. If most items are about to reach their maximum life expectancy, consider signing up for home repair insurance.
Otherwise, if the appliances and systems are still new, it’s best to put off the insurance. New houses usually include a one-year warranty for home systems, such as electrical and HVAC systems, while excluding household appliances.
Repairs, renovations, and improvements can be expensive, but investing in the efficiency of your home will outweigh these costs. Suppose you’re planning to apply for home repair insurance, research and ask for free quotes from reputable insurance firms to find the best coverage at affordable rates. A home repair insurance isn’t always worth the cost, so make sure to know it will affect your finances.
Meta title: Should You Apply for a Home Repair Insurance?
meta desc: Home repair insurance offers a solution for home systems and appliances that need proper fixing. Find out if applying for home repair insurance works for you.
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Hey to anyone reading this.
Last night I had an idea about starting a new thread about exercise especially walking. I am aware that walking is very beneficial for our mental, emotional and physical well being. And by actually doing it....well it can make a huge difference to how we cope with the storms that we face in life.
OK, I am not real good at disciplining myself to walk, and have to really push myself to do it. And sometimes it is even hard to leave this bedroom. Anyway I am not a beginner walker, as I have stuck to sort of a plan before. So I know that it does make me feel somewhat better. But I only stayed on the plan for a couple of months, then gave up.....for whatever reason. So here I am again wanting desperately to not fail this time.
So I guess this thread is for anyone that does walk, anyone that is struggling to walk because of depression or anxiety issues. And anyone else really......
I am unsure of the outcome of all this. But my ideas included: Sharing about things we have found out about exercise especially about walking. Writing down the reasons that one would chose to walk ( like something to help motivate). Being accountable in same way. Sharing about the places where we actually do walk, like the beach, gym, around the block, with the dog, out to the clothesline and back. And any other useful tips that could help others. So here we go......
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The coronavirus pandemic is making a comeback in Massachusetts.
Citing “disturbing trends” in infections and hospitalizations, Governor Charlie Baker this week announced the latest in a series of steps to combat the deadly virus.
Though the upcoming rollout of vaccines to protect people against the deadly disease offers a glimmer of hope, the initial amounts will be limited, and the winter months ahead are expected to be grim and harrowing, both in Massachusetts and nationally.
These seven charts paint a sobering picture of where we are in the current surge — and offer signs of where we might be heading.
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1. The number of cases reported per day
In this first chart, daily case totals reported by the state are shown since the beginning of the pandemic, along with seven-day averages. The chart shows a mountain of cases per day in the spring as a terrified state hunkered down at home, a decrease in cases to a low point around late June, and then a disturbing rise in cases again starting around late September.
In November, case counts started surpassing counts from the spring surge. In December, the increases accelerated. In recent days, the seven-day average has reached more than twice the highest seven-day average of the spring surge.
2. Hospitalizations
Hospitalizations and ICU admissions are on the rise, but the numbers have not yet reached the levels of the spring surge. One reason cited is a higher percentage among the infected of young people, who are less likely to become seriously ill. Still, the state is taking precautions. It has set up one field hospital and another is planned; it has also ordered hospitals to temporarily curtail elective procedures.
“The rate at which Massachusetts residents are getting infected — and the rate at which they are needing medical care — if all continues to move at this pace, is simply not sustainable over time, and our health care system will be put at risk,” Baker warned Tuesday.
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3. Deaths
Coronavirus deaths are also on the rise, but they have also not yet reached the spring levels. Doctors have theorized that lower fatality rates may reflect the higher percentage of young people among those infected, improved understanding of how to treat the illness, and less stress on hospital systems.
4. Three different positivity rates that Massachusetts highlights in its daily dashboard
Positivity rates are a closely watched indicator. The lowest line on the chart below is the positivity rate for testing at higher education institutions. In college testing programs, asymptomatic people can be tested repeatedly, which results in a low positivity rate. The line above it shows the rate of positive tests among all tests administered. The top line shows the rate of positive tests when the higher education testing is removed.
The latter two numbers have been marching higher this fall, with a few bumps on the way.
5. A fourth kind of positivity rate
This is the positivity rate among people tested for the first time. The metric is not featured by the state on its daily dashboard, but it can be calculated from data files released by the state. It is climbing.
6. Traces of the virus found in waste water at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s plant on Deer Island
Waste water at the treatment plant is being tested for copies of the virus as part of a pilot project. The hope is to pick up early signals of future rises in infections. Results are broken down into two groups: a northern section, which includes Boston, and a southern section. The levels took off in the fall. The levels recently reached higher levels than those recorded during the spring surge. Company officials estimate the numbers run four to 10 days ahead of case numbers.
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7. A model of the future
This chart shows the University of Massachusetts’ weekly ensemble model of where the pandemic could go next for Massachusetts. Researchers at the lab combine numerous models to glean their collective wisdom and project the future several weeks ahead, in this case up to Jan. 2.
The four-week model shows weekly confirmed and probable case counts are expected to keep rising beyond current levels, though the growth is expected to slow somewhat in the fourth week.
Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report.
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A cat and a snek did canoodle until the snek snuck up as a noodle. The cat jumped a mile, lost its hat in a pile of nope ropes and sunbathing doodles. Silly, yes? A cat and a Danger Doodle are no joke!
A Snek By Any Other Name Could Be a Danger Noodle
There are lots of silly names for snakes that let us know they could be trouble. A snek isn’t scary, but a Danger Noodle could raise the hair on the back of a cat’s hat. In Auburn, there is only one venomous snake, the Northern Pacific rattlesnake. All the other snakes are doodly noodly sneks.Continue…
At Bowman Veterinary Hospital, we understand that schedules can accidentally get overbooked, and urgent matters can arise. We truly value our longstanding position in the Auburn community and the strong connections we have built with our pet families. We are happy to accommodate you if your schedule changes, but it is important to contact us right away if you need to reschedule your pet’s appointment.Continue…
It is, paws down, safer to keep your cat indoors than allow them to roam the neighborhood, cross streets, and come into contact with other animals. In fact, a strictly indoor cat tends to have a longer lifespan than an indoor-outdoor cat because of the decreased risk of illness, injury, or death.
Despite the benefits to their safety and health, some indoor-only cats suffer from boredom and depression. A catio can provide exercise opportunities and enrichment activities that will make your indoor cat extra happy.Continue…
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Did you know that the shorter days of winter can impact your biochemistry? As the autumn days grow shorter and sunlight diminishes, you will want to be proactive about your health, especially if you live with sleep apnea. Making sure you get enough vitamin D boosts your serotonin production, which regulates your sleep-wake cycles. Lack of vitamin D from reduced sunlight can leave you feeling depressed, extra drowsy and craving carbs.
Then there is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), whereas the season changes, leaving you feeling moody, sleepy, and chronically hungry. It is because it lowers your sleep efficiency, especially the all-important slow-wave sleep. SAD treatment is available through white light therapy, medications to boost serotonin levels, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to guide thinking so you can cope with stress in healthy ways.
Winter Related Health Issues Headaches:Headaches often get worse whenever the weather gets rainy or humid from barometric pressure changes. Dietary Health:As the temperature plummets, your body craves high-calorie foods and warm, sweetened beverages. Consume nutritious foods like omega-3 fats from oily fish, walnuts, soybeans, and flaxseeds to support your health during the colder weather. Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and give your body the moisture it needs. Relaxation:Slow down and breathe with gentle yoga, meditation, or progressive muscle relaxation to get your energy moving in a good way and feel better. Mood:Monitor your mood, and watch out for depression and fatigue. Bundle up and spend time outside in the sunshine to soak up the sun. Open your blinds and curtains so you can bask in the natural light when indoors. Breathing:The changing weather also brings cold and flu season, making it harder to breathe and sleep, worsening any respiratory conditions and sleep disorders you already have, especially sleep apnea. Thriving During Winter With Sleep Apnea
If your winter climate causes drops in humidity levels, dry indoor air and smoky fireplaces make breathing worse. Forced air heating with a furnace can also expose you to dryer air and allergens (such as dust mites) that may trigger allergy symptoms. Humidify your home when possible, and cover your mouth when you are outside. Instead, breathe through your nose so you don’t dry out your airway or lungs.
Your Sleep Apnea in Winter
Breathing problems caused by sleep apnea tend to worsen during the colder months. During the winter months, patients experience more nighttime breathing stoppages in comparison to patients treated for sleep apnea during the warmer months. The AHI is the sum of the number of apneas (pauses in breathing) plus the number of hypopneas (periods of shallow breathing). It tracks how your disrupted breathing affects your oxygen levels (typically higher in the winter).
Experiencing a clogged nose, fever or sore throat can also make your snoring worse. So what can you do? Make sure your CPAP is as clean as possible during the colder, drier months, so be sure to clean it every day! For better indoor air quality, invest in a humidifier, even if your CPAP has a humidification setting.
If you end up with a cold or sinus issue and your nose is too stuffy to breathe, a full face mask may help. Cold air dries out your nasal passages, lessening the necessary mucus that otherwise helps keep germs out of your body. Keeping the air moist can help. Be sure your CPAP air is warm and moist, as well as the air in your bedroom.
If you have sleep apnea, winter is the time to reexamine your health so you can do everything you can to get the essential sleep your body needs to thrive. Please give our team a call if you have any questions or concerns about snoring or sleep disorders. We are always ready to help!
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What are the 4 types of variables. IV-independent variable, the one the researcher manipulates. DV- the dependent variable which is the one being measured. EV- extraneous variables which are variable other then the IV that could affect the DV. CV- confounding variables are variables other then the IV that have affected the DV.
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What are the different types of experiments? Laboratory experiments- they are carried out in a controlled environment eliminating EV and fully controlling the IV. Participants are often randomly allocated a condition removing bias, this allows for changes in the DV to be measured when caused by the IV. Field experiment- carried out in the real world where the IV id manipulated and the effect on the DV is measured. Natural experiments- you take advantage of naturally occurring IV and see its affect on DV. Quasi experiments are when a naturally occurring IV which is the differences between people such as age and see the effect on DV often used in situations when manipulating the IV is unethical.
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type of experiments evaluation, lab Lab experiments- +)easier to control EV and stop them from becoming CV +) Cause and effect for IV to DV is easy to establish. +) they can usually be replicated easily so they can be checked for reliability. -)Demand characteristics may occur -)Situation lacks mundane realism and ecological validity
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type of experiments evaluation, field +) More mundane realism and ecological validity. +)You can still establish cause and effect between IV and DV. +)less demand characteristics. -)less control over EV and so the research may be less valid. -) less control over who is taking part is the experiment (the sample) -)They may be difficult to replicate.
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So what are the choices? Would you like to end up under the healthcare professional’s knife for a breast implant or a breast augmentation technique? While surgery may give you the ‘best’ breasts they’re fraught with risks.
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Chemotherapy (sometimes just called “chemo”) is the use of drugs to kill or slow down the growth of cancer cells. It is most often used to treat cancer since cancer cells grow and multiply much more quickly than most cells in the body. Many different chemotherapy drugs are now available. Chemotherapy drugs can be used alone or in combination to treat a wide variety of cancers.
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Some owners look to save cash by acting as their own contractor, but an experienced home renovation contractor is price the price. They ought to know local building codes, be capable of pull all needed permits, and work with inspectors to ensure the construction meets native codes. unsecured personal mortgage that you use to cowl the costs of home upgrades or fixes. Lenders present these loans for as much as $a hundred,000 with charges typically between 6% and 36%. Unlike with bank cards or traces of credit, these loans are repaid in month-to-month installments, typically over a few years. Home improvement loans are unsecured private loans supplied by banks, credit unions and a number of on-line lenders.
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How to best diet book for vegetarians newcomers For Your Fat Lower Objectives and Food Opportunities Wellness Special design The Ketogenic diet finds a questionnaire of diet wherever big fats, ample protein and paid down carbs are consumed. Their function is clearly to strain your own body’s glycogen reserves such thus it engages fat and protein for energy. Your system then undergoes ketosis, which is often a true metabolic state by which your liver produces plenty of ketones finding an alternative energy for the brain. Get your custom keto diet plan This kind of diet is very common, with a wide variety of images presenting before and future effects available ethnic media.
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Several studies screen that individuals on an increased fat, compensated down carbohydrate diet burn off down down down fat at a quicker cost than individuals who’ve an elevated carbohydrate, zero fat diet. That is certainly caused by since decrease insulin levels owing to the paid off carbohydrate diet (keto), support to eradicate surplus water from the body. Throughout ketosis, you are message reduced quantities of starvation, which might be very helpful in controlling supplement absorption, providing over all fat loss. It has been seen that compensated down carbohydrate diet purposes in many cases are successful in lowering visceral fat, mainly presented in the abdominal cavity.
Logical Effectiveness
The ketones produced from the reduced carbohydrate diet are an greatly better method of getting power than glucose. Reports have suggested they have the ability to increase cognitive impairment and actually assistance with problems such as for instance for instance Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The high-fat diet aids to greatly help the sum total level of essential omega 3s and omega 6s which are essential for ideal head function. Furthermore, ketosis may increase mitochondria growth and adenosine triphosphate within the brain’s storage cells, ergo increasing psychological performance and clarity.
Reduced threat of Substantial Problem
A ketogenic diet might probably increase your own body’s security against numerous conditions. By reducing contamination, and increasing mitochondrial function, it might really support mitigate the power of experiencing an a few chronic diseases. Cancer cells frequently get abnormal mitochondria, which require an increased way to obtain glycogen. Ketosis allows common cells to have while eager the cancer cells, because they can not make the most of the ketones for energy since of their architectural mitochondria.
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Large human body worry significantly improves the ability of a few issues and is just a sum 1 reason behind deaths worldwide. A low-carb diet has been which can be a lot better than a low-fat diet in lowering human anatomy pressure. In fact, some state it’s very as successful as applying pills. That with the weight loss made from the ketogenic diet, may significantly raise aerobic wellness and function.
This has been identified by numerous studies in the sphere of diet government, that this kind of dieting could get an excellent effect all by yourself general health and bodily function. Provided you’ll find methods to put up the obtain a manage on, the e-mail handle facts are abundant. For those that have not had the oppertunity to reach a couple of effects from traditional methods, the keto process is actually such issue charge considering.
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As soon as you hear in relation to the ketogenic diet, the very first position you possibly contemplate is what can provide it time and energy to be the same as people say. The distinct alternative is, you might find enough advantages to boost your life.
Only what’s a ketogenic diet?
The keto strategy proposes a diet that’s compensated down on carbs, good on protein and full of fat. The idea is clearly to fine-tune normal absorption to manage to deliver the human body to the metabolic state called ketosis.
The body enters scenarios of ketosis when it no further has stores of glycogen sugar to power their energy needs. With sugar from so how, the human body does haven’t any variety but to touch their stores of fat to have by. The liver turns fat reserves into ketones showing to the body being an electric source. This is actually the reason the keto method is a wonderful way to correct reduce fat.
Keto Diet Benefits
Recently, the keto diet has become remarkably common as a result of wellness advantages such as for instance fat reduction and ending disease. The keto diet might be very helpful, but which means manner in which particularly does it obtain to make these benefits?
What’s the Keto Diet ?
It’s probably you’ve noticed treatment the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet. The keto diet retains carbohydrate degrees compensated down, but instead of ramping up the sum complete level of protein in your daily diet, the keto diet increases the sum full number of fat. A typical keto diet attempts for substances with 75% fat, 20% protein, and 5% carbohydrate. Eating a high-fat diet might probably but recommend ingesting healthy. Keto diet selection items and solutions often include seafood, beef, milk food, eggs, greens, and nuts.
How Does the Keto Diet Attain?
It might search counterintuitive that placing more fat to your everyday diet might cause fat loss. On average, your daily diet is full of sugars, which are damaged in to sugar, or blood glucose, for use as energy. As sugar enters the body, the body produces insulin to keep surplus sugar as fat. The more carbs, the more glucose. The more sugar, the more insulin, and the more insulin, the more fat.
The keto diet wants valuable benefit of the very most truth when your elements are high-fat and low-carbohydrate, there is sum insulin spike, and that one could maybe not increase your fat reserves. Instead, fat from diet and presented fat are ruined as a result of ketones (“keto” is small for “ketogenic” creating ketones). Like sugar, ketones can be utilized for power, maintaining the body running without increasing blood glucose or obtaining surplus fat. The benefits of the keto diet might be huge.
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Full, the keto diet is a superb approach to burn off off down down fat and eliminate weight. Eating less sugars suppresses starvation, and studies demonstrate that keto diet consumers eat less calories over all as a result of this. Applying fat for power may cause quick fat loss.
Decreased Individual individual structure Sugar and Insulin
Since carbohydrate absorption is restricted, body sugar and insulin degrees are lowered. This can be particularly required for those who have form 2 diabetes, which frequently causes an escalation of sugar in the bloodstream. The keto diet works extremely well to decrease or get rid of the requisite for diabetic insulin injections.
Reduced Triglycerides
Fat subunit molecules called triglycerides frequently move in your bloodstream. Large examples of triglycerides are an incredible likelihood factor in the development of center disease. In the keto diet , because fat is oftimes be burned for energy, the manner in which a few triglyceride molecules within your system reduces, reducing the ability of middle disease.
Increased Cholesterol
“Bad” (LDL) cholesterol is still still another likelihood section for center disease. An excessive amount of bad cholesterol in your body types in your arteries, decrease them and providing atherosclerosis, a questionnaire of center disease. The keto diet reduces poor cholesterol degrees while raising their training of “great” (HDL) cholesterol in your bod
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Unlike numerous diet purposes providing practitioners a fat reduction get and little otherwise, the keto diet comes with a few benefits.
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I’d like to generally share with you, weight loss could be the important thing intent behind the keto diet. It works as it yields the human body have a look into their fat reserves to energy their metabolism. Maybe it’s wonderful your can purchase better in the perform, however.
When the human body is deprived of carbs, it enters scenarios of ketosis. Individual individual anatomy sugar and insulin degrees fall when that happens. As the human body basins the ability in fat cells, they launch considerable levels of water, creating for top quality fat loss.
It takes the medial part down your starvation
The minute your everyday diet isn’t crucial on carbs, you’ll recognize that that you might probably not want equally as much food as before. Several people who’ll may possibly probably can can get on the keto diet might probably quickly constantly, and just digest at mealtimes. They’re certainly much less eager as before.
Increased quantity to concentrate
After you choose an average diet that models carbs into the individual human body, your head has to deal with the rise and fall in sugar levels occurring as a result. Unpredictable degrees of energy probably will let it be troublesome for your head to focus. With the keto diet , but, the ability present is regular and consistent. Intellectual efficiency will be a lot better prepared to put up focused.
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If you should be on an ordinary diet, the human body is clearly on the brink of operating out of energy. You must frequently digest and refuel. With a keto diet , but, the body basins their fat reserves, a perhaps not exactly unending energy source. Your body, then, usually takes regular levels of power through the whole day. The results is, you receive sensation far more energetic.
It may also allow you to battle diabetes
When you feel Form II diabetes, the human body techniques big examples of insulin. Because of the truth the keto diet wants surplus sugar from your own personal everyday diet, it will also help protected HbA1c issues, and other Form II diabetes.
You obtain increased quantities of good cholesterol
HDL cholesterol aids remove your own personal body’s poor cholesterol reserves. If you should be on keto, your triglyceride degrees decline and your HDL cholesterol levels rise.
You get greater human anatomy stress
If you ought to be on the keto diet , it reduces the body pressure. Many people on the keto diet learn they are able to conclusion applying human anatomy worry treatment altogether.
The keto diet may change a person’s life. It’s no arduous diet to get on, either. There are many of great ingredients for the keto diet. All it needs would be the determination to supply it a shot.
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How to best diet upset stomach novices For Your Fat Reduce Objectives and Food Possibilities Wellness Distinctive design The Ketogenic diet finds a questionnaire of diet wherever large fats, ample protein and compensated down sugars are consumed. Their function is obviously to stress your personal body’s glycogen reserves such therefore it engages fat and protein for energy. The human body then undergoes ketosis, which is really a actual metabolic state whereby your liver creates plenty of ketones finding an alternative energy for the brain. Get your custom keto diet approach This type of dieting is very common, with a wide selection of pictures offering before and subsequent effects available ethnic media.
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The Benefits of a Ketogenic Diet Fat Loss
Several reports monitor that persons on an increased fat, paid down carbohydrate diet burn off down down fat at a faster price than persons who’ve an elevated carbohydrate, zero fat diet. That is mainly because decrease insulin levels owing to the reduced carbohydrate diet (keto), help to eliminate surplus water from the body. All through ketosis, you are belief lowered levels of starvation, which might be very helpful in controlling complement consumption, giving overall fat loss. It has been observed that compensated down carbohydrate diet applications in many cases are efficient in lowering visceral fat, largely used in the abdominal cavity.
Logical Effectiveness
The ketones produced from the paid carbohydrate diet are an greatly better method of getting power than glucose. Studies have suggested they are able to raise cognitive impairment and really advice with issues such as for instance for instance Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The high-fat diet helps to help the sum overall quantity of required omega 3s and omega 6s which are essential for ideal head function. Moreover, ketosis can raise mitochondria growth and adenosine triphosphate within the brain’s storage cells, ergo raising mental effectiveness and clarity.
Declined danger of Substantial Problem
A ketogenic diet may probably improve your own personal body’s safety against numerous conditions. By lowering contamination, and raising mitochondrial purpose, it could actually help mitigate the power of encountering an a couple of chronic diseases. Cancer cells frequently get abnormal mitochondria, which need an elevated way to acquire glycogen. Ketosis allows common cells to get while hungry the cancer cells, since they can not take advantage of the ketones for energy because of their structural mitochondria.
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Big human anatomy worry somewhat raises the capability of a few problems and is a amount 1 reason for deaths worldwide. A low-carb diet has been which may be superior to a low-fat diet in reducing human body pressure. In reality, some state it’s really as effective as using pills. That with the weight loss made from the ketogenic diet, may considerably improve cardiovascular wellness and function.
This has been discovered by numerous reports in the sphere of diet government, that this kind of dieting could get an excellent impact all by yourself overall health and bodily function. Provided you will discover methods to put up the purchase a manage on, the email handle details are abundant. For those that have not had the oppertunity to accomplish a couple of benefits from traditional methods, the keto technique is in fact such situation cost considering.
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When you hear in relation to the ketogenic diet, the initial position you probably contemplate is what may give it time and energy to be exactly like individuals say. The obvious choice is, you might find enough advantages to boost your life.
Just what’s a ketogenic diet?
The keto method proposes a diet that is compensated down on sugars, fair on protein and high in fat. The idea is actually to fine-tune typical absorption to manage to deliver the body to the metabolic state named ketosis.
The body enters situations of ketosis when it no longer has shops of glycogen sugar to power their power needs. With sugar from so just how, the body does have no variety but to the touch their stores of fat to obtain by. The liver converts fat reserves directly into ketones showing to the body being an electrical source. This is actually the reason the keto method is a wonderful methods to resolve decrease fat.
Keto Diet Benefits
Lately, the keto diet is currently incredibly popular consequently of wellness advantages such as for instance fat reduction and ending disease. The keto diet may be very helpful, but which means way in which especially does it obtain to make these benefits?
What is the Keto Diet ?
It’s probably you’ve noticed period the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet. The keto diet keeps carbohydrate levels compensated down, but instead of ramping up the sum complete number of protein in your daily diet, the keto diet improves the sum total amount of fat. The average keto diet tries for substances with 75% fat, 20% protein, and 5% carbohydrate. Eating a high-fat diet may probably but suggest eating healthy. Keto diet selection products and services and solutions frequently include seafood, meat, dairy food, eggs, greens, and nuts.
How Does the Keto Diet Attain?
It could search counterintuitive that placing more fat to your everyday diet may cause fat loss. An average of, your everyday diet is high in sugars, which are destroyed directly into sugar, or blood sugar, for use as energy. As sugar enters the body, the human body provides insulin to store surplus sugar as fat. The more sugars, the more glucose. The more sugar, the more insulin, and the more insulin, the more fat.
The keto diet wants important gain of the very most most truth as soon as your components are high-fat and low-carbohydrate, there’s amount insulin spike, and that you might maybe not raise your fat reserves. Alternately, fat from diet and used fat are destroyed as a result of ketones (“keto” is little for “ketogenic” making ketones). Like sugar, ketones can be utilized for energy, maintaining the human body functioning without increasing body sugar or obtaining surplus fat. The benefits of the keto diet might be huge.
Fat Reduce
Total, the keto diet is a superb approach to burn off off down down fat and eliminate weight. Eating less carbs suppresses hunger, and studies demonstrate that keto diet clients digest less calories over all as a result of this. Applying fat for energy may cause quick fat loss.
Diminished Individual human anatomy Sugar and Insulin
Since carbohydrate consumption is restricted, body sugar and insulin levels are lowered. This can be exclusively required for folks who have kind 2 diabetes, which frequently triggers an escalation of sugar in the bloodstream. The keto diet works extremely well to lessen or eliminate the essential for diabetic insulin injections.
Reduced Triglycerides
Fat subunit molecules called triglycerides usually maneuver around in your bloodstream. Large examples of triglycerides are an amazing likelihood factor in the development of middle disease. In the keto diet , since fat is oftimes be burned for power, the method by which several triglyceride molecules within the body decreases, reducing the ability of middle disease.
Increased Cholesterol
“Bad” (LDL) cholesterol remains another likelihood part for middle disease. An excessive amount of bad cholesterol in your body forms in your arteries, reduction them and giving atherosclerosis, a questionnaire of center disease. The keto diet decreases bad cholesterol levels while raising their knowledge of “great” (HDL) cholesterol in your bod
7 benefits of the keto diet Reviews
Unlike numerous diet applications giving practitioners a weight reduction get and little usually, the keto diet includes a few benefits.
Fat decrease
I’d like to fairly share with you, weight loss might be the important thing intent behind the keto diet. It operates because it yields the human body have a glance at their fat reserves to energy their metabolism. It could be great your can purchase greater in the work, however.
When the human body is deprived of carbs, it enters cases of ketosis. Individual human structure sugar and insulin levels decline when that happens. As the body basins the ability in fat cells, they launch significant amounts of water, making for high quality fat loss.
It requires the medial portion down your starvation
The minute your daily diet is not necessary on carbs, you’ll realize that that you may perhaps not want just as much food as before. Several individuals who’ll might possibly may can get on the keto diet may possibly probably rapidly constantly, and just eat at mealtimes. They are undoubtedly much less starving as before.
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After you decide on an average diet that patterns sugars into the individual human body, your face has to cope with the increase and drop in sugar degrees that develops as a result. Unstable quantities of power may very well give it time to be burdensome for the mind to focus. With the keto diet , but, the energy provide is constant and consistent. Intellectual effectiveness will be a lot higher arranged to put up focused.
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If you should be on an ordinary diet, the human body is obviously on the verge of operating out of energy. You will have to often eat up and refuel. With a keto diet , but, the body basins their fat reserves, a perhaps not precisely unending energy source. The body, then, usually takes continuous degrees of energy through the entire day. The end result is, you acquire sensation much more energetic.
It will even allow you to struggle diabetes
When you feel Type II diabetes, the body procedures large quantities of insulin. Because of the fact the keto diet wants surplus sugar from your specific daily diet, it may also support protected HbA1c issues, and other Kind II diabetes.
You receive improved degrees of good cholesterol
HDL cholesterol products remove your own personal body’s bad cholesterol reserves. If you ought to be on keto, your triglyceride levels drop and your HDL cholesterol levels rise.
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If you ought to be on the keto diet , it decreases your body pressure. Several people on the keto diet learn they have the ability to conclusion using human anatomy stress medicine altogether.
The keto diet may change a person’s life. It’s no arduous diet to get on, either. You’ll find so many of good meals for the keto diet. All it needs will be the commitment to provide it a shot.
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Tweaking your bug out bag is a never-ending endeavor. The more you learn, the more you add and remove items, the goal is to make it more lightweight, more functional and more tuned to your unique situation and the disasters you’re prepping for.
Today we’re going to talk about some of the things you may not have considered before for your bug out bag, but given the wide variety of scenarios and real dangers that await you on your evacuation journey, it’s worth cross-checking this list to your existing BOB and your priorities.
#1. Nail Clippers
Nail clippers should be a part of anyone’s hygiene kit. Few preppers consider how long their nails will grow in a couple of weeks. Not only it’s unhygienic, but it’ll also annoy you.
Plus, consider many nail clippers have an additional 1 or 2 small knives in them, and that’s always useful.
#2. Binoculars
One of the problems you’re going to have as you move along to your bug out location is people. You want to know in advance whether an area is safe to move through, so a pair of suitable hunting binoculars are going to be useful, or you can opt for a monocular because it’s more compact and lightweight.
#3. A Respirator Mask
N95 or better yet, N99 respirator masks could be a lifesaver in an emergency. You don’t know the kind of air you’ll be forced to breathe, maybe you’re running away from a volcano, maybe there’s an airborne pathogen you want to avoid. Respirator masks are pretty cheap on Amazon, they are lightweight, so there’s no reason not to add one in your bug out bag.
Related: How to Choose a Proper Bug-Out Bag #4. A Pair of Small Scissors
Since multi-tools don’t have them, you should definitely add a pair in your backpack, for things such as cutting cloth or a bandage, and many more things. They’re also useful as puncturing devices.
#5. Sunscreen
If you ever hiked through the sun for a prolonged period of time, you know how detrimental this can be to your face and body. You can skip this if you don’t get burnt that easily and if you pack a bandana or a hat that can keep the sun away, but if you live in or near the desert, or if your skin is more sensitive, it would probably be a good idea to have it.
#6. Mosquito Net
Keeping insects at bay in the wild is going to be difficult. You can’t carry enough spray to last you several weeks, it’s going to be heavy. And when you finish it, then what?
A mosquito net will last you indefinitely provided you keep it intact.
#7. Floss
Not only is floss good for cleaning your teeth, but you can also use floss to tie things together, make traps for small game, and dozens of other uses.
Related: Best Brands of Prepper Bug Out Pants #8. Poncho
I have one in my BOB and it’s great because it replaces the need for a tarp and a jacket. It’s useful to keep you warm in chilly and windy conditions, and while not as big as a tarp, you can use it to sit on when you take a break. You can even use it to help make a shelter by blocking a side of the shelter that you either want windproof or to help trap the heat from your outdoor fire.
Wrap-Up!
I know this isn’t a long list, but keep in mind the point was to show you some of the items that are most often overlooked by preppers.
Do you have a bug out bag item you added after a few years and wished you had done so sooner? Tell us what it was in a quick comment below.
Originally posted 2019-06-19 01:00:13.
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Lockdowns Putting Downward Pressure on Melbourne Clearance Rates
Published 6:06 am 25 Aug 2021
The latest lockdowns have brought Melbourne’s auction clearance rates back to 2020 levels.
New data from CoreLogic has found that only 63.3 percent of capital city auctions held this week were successful – the lowest clearance rate seen since the height of the pandemic in July last year.
The rate is more than a 10 percent decrease from just one week ago, which saw 72.3 percent of auctions succeed.
2,106 homes were expected to head to auction, which was then revised down to 1,977. So far, 1,525 results have been collected to provide the 63.3 percent clearance rate.
Though not all capital cities experienced the same downtick in clearance rates, with Adelaide seeing a strong 87.1% preliminary clearance rate, and Sydney seeing an 81.7% preliminary clearance rate – despite the ongoing lockdowns.
Ultimately, the low clearance rates are due to Melbourne, who saw a 48.6% preliminary clearance rate – just barely above the rate seen at the same time last year (45%).
Source: Corelogic
In-person auctions and inspections have been banned amid Melbourne lockdowns, which is evidently taking a toll on clearance rates. Meanwhile, Sydneysiders are still able to attend inspections despite the ongoing lockdowns that were recently extended until September 30th.
“Clearly we are seeing a remarkably different outcome in auction results across Australia’s two largest auction markets which can be explained by the fact that properties can still be physically inspected in Sydney (although a private inspection is limited to one person at a time), but not in Melbourne. The divergence in the auction clearance rate tells the story about how important it is for prospective buyers to be able to physically inspect a property in order to make such a high commitment decision as buying a home,” said the CoreLogic report.
There were a total of 1,179 auctions scheduled this week in Melbourne, which was revised down to 1,067. Then, of the 792 results that have been collected, 49.9 percent of auctions were withdrawn, while 69.4 percent were sold prior to auction. This reflects the highest ‘sold prior’ rate since the last week of September 2020.
Source: Weekly Clearance Rate, Combined Capital Cities (CoreLogic)
All of Victoria is now in lockdown, which is currently scheduled to end on the 2nd of September at midnight. Until Melbourne lockdown restrictions subside, the auction clearance rates are likely to remain at a reduced level.
Moreover, if both Victoria and New South Wales continue to stay in lockdowns, the ensuing economic downturn could trigger Australia’s second recession since the pandemic began.
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My second grade students are an extremely loving, caring, and creative group! They keep each other laughing and consistently impress me with their leadership abilities. About ninety percent of my students are economically disadvantaged, with about seventy percent labeled “at risk of not graduating.” They are resilient, funny, and determined students who share a sense of curiosity and a love for learning. Our school is a cornerstone in our student’s small neighborhood and because of this our students share a strong sense of community.
My Project
The book bins will hold the books that students have selected to read for the week. This will enable each student to keep their books safe and allow for quick and easy access. It is important that they are able to store books because it ensures that students will not spend vital instructional time attempting to pick or locate their books. A big goal for second grade is to increase reading stamina and independence and the book bins will be an essential tool to meet these goals. The paper holders will be used to store activities for student centers. This will promote an organized and functional classroom environment that promotes growth and enthusiasm for learning.
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My students are from low socioeconomic status backgrounds and most receive free breakfast and lunch. Many of the students live in high-poverty areas. The obstacles my students face do not reflect on who they are and they do not let these obstacles bring them down.
My students have shaped me into the teacher I am today and I hope to return that favor to them everyday by providing them with a smile, with care, with love and with endless support.
Each year, I have greatly exceeded growth, not because of my students knowledge level, but because of the strong belief I have in my students. I am honored to be their teacher and watch them grow.
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I strongly believe children retain the most information and gain the most knowledge when the learning is worthy of their time. Through interactive binders, learning stations and hands-on lessons, it is my goal to integrate exploration, creativity, arts, and other learning strategies into the classroom. Providing my students with binders, colored paper and markers will allow them to focus on the content in an organized and fun way! Students will increase their organization skills by using the binders and dividers. In addition, the students will be using their creativity with foldables to help them learn the content and study! These supplies will really make a difference in for my classroom!
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24 Hour Emergency Plumbers in Orange Beach, AL 36561
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Don't use cleaning up chemicals to attempt to remove the clog if you have a stopped up drain. These severe chemicals can rust your steel pipelines leading to leakages and also busted pipelines gradually. Rather, stay with a plunger or take advantage of a pipes serpent to clear them.
certain to never ever leave any type of flammable fluids near your hot water heater. Specific liquids like gas, solvents, or adhesives are flammable, as well as if left also near to the hot water heater, can stir up. away from your hot water heater.
When your bathroom clogs and also a bettor will certainly not launch it, try a wardrobe auger. This device includes a handle that you revolve in order to feed a line right into the bathroom drain. When you eliminate the auger from the drain, the clog ought to come with it, unless it's past the length to which the auger can get to.
When dealing with a pipes concern that is outside the home, understand that all of it is not your own to repair. The city is accountable for part of this plumbing so do not do fixings on it unless it is yours. You could be held responsible for any kind of damages if the work is done poorly.
In order to keep your waste disposal unit in ideal working problem, run it regularly. Simply a straightforward seconds each day under cool water can keep it running tidy and smooth. Otherwise run routinely, your disposal could be at risk to deterioration that will ultimately make it inoperable.
Prior to starting a pipes task, see to it that you know where the shutoff valve for water home is, in addition to the valves for turning off individual frameworks like sinks, commodes, etc. By doing this, if something incorrect, you'll have the ability to quit the water flow.
To keep your drains moving freely and without gunk and buildup, pour a half mug of cooking soft drink complied with by a mug of white vinegar down each drainpipe as soon as a month. The frothing activity aids to press stuck compounds with the pipe, while the vinegar reduces the effects of odors. You can follow this solution with a kettle of boiling water for additional cleaning power.
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Rather, stick to a plunger or make usage of a plumbing snake to remove them.
When dealing with a plumbing problem that is outside the residence, comprehend that all of it is not your own to repair.
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Plumbers get their name from the Latin Plumbum, for "lead," since the ancient Romans used pipes made from lead. The term therefore refers to the metallic element out of which their main building material is made.
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xG is a term football experts like to use but talking to even quite experienced punters I am surprised how many don’t really understand it, so I thought a betting guide to xG is would be useful. xG is short for Expected Goals. Put simply, it is a statistical measure of how often a player or team should have scored in any particular situation. Please let me guide you through it, and explain how it can enable you to place more intelligent, winning bets. xG Explained
So if the ball hits the crossbar and drops to the feet of a player with the goalkeeper nowhere near and the player should be able to tap the ball into the back of an empty net, the xG might be 0.83. That means that in those circumstances you would expect a goal to be scored 83% of the time and 17% of the time you would expect the player to miss. Older readers will remember Andy Cole of Manchester United. Well, players like him account for the 17%.
However if a player hits the ball from 5 metres outside the box, the xG might only be 0.07, meaning that the player would expect to score only 7% of the times they attempt that shot.
How is xG useful for betting?
As we all know, a team can dominate a match and still end up losing. xG gives a statistical indication of how many goals a team ‘ought’ to have scored versus their actual performance. For example, on Sunday 3 October 2021 Bayern Munich lost 2-1 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt. Was that a fair result? The xG shows it might not have been. Bayern Munich’s xG in that game was 2.99 but Eintracht Frankfurt was only 0.74.
Over the course of a few games xG allows bettors to build up a picture of which teams are getting lucky and which are less fortunate. It also allows us to identify which players are masters of their art – in other words, they score a lot more goals than their xG would suggest – and those players who are just a bit crap and have lots of chances (high xG) but fail to score in those situations.
xG is useful for bettors because often the betting markets will over-react to the score line of one particular match or the results of the last three games that have been played by a team. This is called ‘recency bias’ and is one of the reasons why sports betting markets are often not as efficient as they should be.
What I look for is teams who have created lots of chances recently (high xG) but have not translated that into wins. You may think that this is a bad idea because it will have a negative effect on team morale and they may play worse as a result. But that is almost always priced into the betting odds already.
The players will know – because their coaches will have shown them the xG stats in training – that they have just been statistically unlucky and that over the course of a season they should even out (known as ‘reversion to the mean’). Obviously there will be teams who are just unlucky for a whole season but it doesn’t happen very often and you have to take the rough with the smooth as a bettor.
What other stats are useful?
Some bettors find that possession stats are useful, arguing that if a team controls the ball then they are more likely to score. I am less keen on possession as a stat for betting as I find that its usefulness is all dependent on the style of play of a team.
When Leicester won the Premier League in the 2015/16 season, they almost always had under 50% possession in their games and in some matches they had as little as 35%, even though they ended up winning those games. Some teams are very good at soaking up pressure and playing on the counter attack.
I personally think xG is a much more useful indicator of team performance in football because in my view it is all about creating chances rather than possession. However, I think possession can be useful to look at if a team’s possession stats change markedly from the norm, possibly because of a change in formation or injuries to some key players.
As such, I find it a useful ‘red flag’ to tell me to look more closely at a game to see if there is a betting angle than anything else.
These are the kind of statistics I look at before giving a prediction or tip in the Bundesliga or Premier League. You will find plenty of websites out there offering free tips and predictions, but then there are also people out there happy to read your horoscope. I prefer to stick to statistics, and my tips and predictions will continue to be based on facts.
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Save for later Print Download Share LinkedIn Twitter Brent is getting mixed signals from oil inventories. In OECD countries, where inventory data is transparent, history suggests stock levels must drain further to sustain a Brent price over $70 per barrel. Outside the OECD, where data transparency is lacking, stocks look like they will build going forward as China and India seek to replenish inventories and improve energy security. Meanwhile, Opec-plus continues to manage its supply to achieve further draws — even as it eases production cuts — supporting Brent at its current price over $75. This tightness keeps the path open for Brent to move higher. The market is dissecting several layers of inventory data and assumptions. Clearly visible is that OECD inventories are 155 million barrels below the 2016-19 average for crude and products combined. On the surface, that implies a tight market. But the relationship between OECD stock levels and OECD forward demand cover is a better gauge and suggests otherwise. In 2018, when Brent averaged $71.69/bbl, forward demand cover in the OECD was 59.4 days. It is now 61.7 days. To get to 2018 levels, the OECD alone must drain another 120 million bbl. Non-OECD stocks are non-transparent, especially for refined products. Energy Intelligence reckons that non-OECD tanks cover 54.5 days of forward demand cover. That is high from a historic perspective, but countries like China and India, the world’s largest and third-largest crude importers respectively, want to build even higher inventories as a cushion against supply disruptions.
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The rand is the official currency of South Africa, and was introduced in 1961. It’s also legal tender in Swaziland and Lesotho and accepted in Namibia. The South African rand tends to fluctuate greatly in response to domestic and global crises.
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Sub unit symbol:
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Canadian Dollar
Known as the “loonie” or the “funds,” the Canadian dollar is among the world’s most traded currencies. With its extreme sensitivity to movements in crude oil and other commodities, traders often use the Canadian dollar to speculate on these commodities. It’s also closely tied to the US economy and dollar.
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1 ZAR =
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0.0841Inverse: 11.8946
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1 ZAR =
0.0860Inverse: 11.6271
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1 ZAR =
0.1282Inverse: 7.7994
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The time for festivals is here, everyone’s favourite time to indulge in delicious sweets and delicacies that are an integral part of Indian festive celebrations. While giving in to your food cravings, it can be hard to maintain your diet and prioritise “staying active”, especially when you’re busy with the festivities, get-togethers and celebrations as these things can adversely affect your health and cause health issues.
The packed schedule of the Indian festive season might lead to a drop in overall physical fitness activities that could derail one’s long-term health goals. While you might find it difficult to find time to go to the gym for a workout, you can always cycle for the smallest of things like running for errands during the festive period. Moreover, cycling is a fun activity to enjoy with the entire family as everyone, from the eldest member to the youngest, enjoys cycling.
Here are some important tips that’ll help you stay fit for the festive season.
1. Take up Cycling or Continue your Cycling Routine
Try to ensure you continue your exercise training or cycling routines. If there are schedule constraints, you could opt for shorter but more vigorous workout routines. For instance, try short sprints when you go cycling or ride uphill to ensure you’re burning the same amount of calories. Maintain your daily physical activity by cycling early in the morning to keep your evenings free for social events.
2. #GoBiking to Burn the Calories in Advance
The festive season is around the corner and if you haven’t already taken up cycling as an activity to achieve your weight loss goals, it is a great way to get in shape for a guilt-free festive season. Biking would help build your fitness levels, muscle endurance and overall stamina and physical health. You could cycle more than your current routine to ensure you’ve burnt the extra calories in advance.
3. Hydration is the key
Drinking a lot of water is essential for maintaining your body, especially during hectic festive occasions. This can also satiate your appetite and therefore help you reduce the intake of calorie-heavy foods, be it sweets or fried dishes.
4. Eat Less More Often, and #GoBiking
Try to distribute your meals evenly throughout the day, and do not eat everything at once. Instead of having enormous meals, have smaller ones. In addition to distributing your meals, #GoBiking after you eat with your family and friends for leisure rides. This is a good way to bond with them and at the same time ensure you burn away the unwanted carbs and develop both your and their fitness.
5. Choose your treats wisely
Be selective in choosing the right festive treats, as overeating can aggravate health issues and chronic health diseases. Additionally, it would help if you chose something that would not make you feel guilty and therefore not strain your mental health. Keep in mind your desired food ingredients and stay prepared to compensate with extra physical activity.
Set cycling targets based on the calories and sweets you intake to even out the imbalance and continue to maintain your fitness levels by cycling with more intensity or for a longer duration.
So here are some things to keep in mind while ensuring you stay fit for the festive season coming ahead. Make sure you #GoBiking regularly and remain active to enjoy the best of the celebrations.
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"Matt brings a wealth of knowledge to any brief you give him, and his enthusiasm and commitment is evident in everything he does."
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What are the technologies set to change the workplace? We explore how existing jobs will be destroyed - and those that will be created. Why will this happen? And – importantly – how can we prepare ourselves for an exciting and very different Future of Work?
Here, we explore the big technologies and challenges facing our species. Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Future of Work and Climate Change. What should audiences be aware of and how can they live harmoniously and productively in a dramatically changing world?
We hear so much about how machines are taking over the world. Is that really the case? How can we future-ready ourselves and, importantly, prepare our children for a world so different to the one we inhabit now?
The future is less predictable than it has ever been, because the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up challenges in the connected worlds of health, politics, consumer needs and market uncertainty. There is opportunity, and we explore what this is and where it comes from.
Leaders of the future will need new skills and characteristics to propel them forward. That’s because organisations will look entirely different. In this keynote we explore new forms of organizational structure, why brute force analysis should be left to the machines and the human skills we need to develop as leaders and foster in others.
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His real interest lies at the intersection between technology and humanity. His positive outlook means he’s always looking for ways to fuse the best of what technology has to offer and how we humans flourish alongside. What you get from working with Matt:
Actionable advice: In addition to raising awareness of likely changes, Matt will always aim to provide practical insight on the actions you can take immediately and in the longer term. Support Communications: With a background in communication and marketing, Matt’s wider team at ModComms can develop collateral for wider sha Novel formats: Matt can recommend innovative formats to deliver his insights to your staff and customers. In the past, this has even included workshops in Virtual Reality.
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The Ten Commandments Explained
Whenever we hear discussion of the Ten Commandments in the public discourse, it usually isn't about the actual content of the commandments, but about whether or not a statue of them should be placed in a public — and often political — space. One example is the ongoing court case regarding the construction of a monument to the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state Capitol in Arkansas (via Arkansas Online).
In fact, many people may know more about these contested spaces than they do about the commandments that are emblazoned across them. Reuters reports that a 2007 poll found that Americans recalled the ingredients of a Big Mac more easily than they did the Ten Commandments. This is perhaps affected by the fact that God didn't have a good commercial copywriter, and that Moses apparently wasn't much of a speaker (via Exodus 4:10).
Although many people may struggle to remember their content, a 2019 YouGov America poll found that even a good number of non-religious people maintain that the Ten Commandments are "an important principle to live by." This is the Ten Commandments explained.
Law vs. gospel
Judaism maintains and seeks to follow to the letter the law given by the Torah and the Rabbinical interpretations found in the Talmud and Midrash. As explained in "Judaism as a Religious Legal System," this legal system is a significant part of Jewish identity. The journal article distinguishes how the Jewish legal system differs from the Christian views of the laws of the Torah: "a Christian cannot achieve salvation by works alone. For the Jew, however, observance of the law is central." This is at the crux of the dividing line between the two religions. Christians hold that Jesus, the fully divine, fully human son of God, fulfilled the law of God for us (via Matthew 5:17).
According to the article "Law and Gospel," by theologist John Frame, "The commands [the law in the Torah], typically, are not merely announcements of judgment, but God's gracious opportunities to repent of sin and believe in him [Jesus Christ]." Within a Christian framework — noting that there are nuances between denominations — the law of God is good and valuable, but it does not lead to salvation because of humanity's inability to follow it perfectly. Hence why the gospel of Jesus Christ (and not the law of God) is central to the Christian belief system (via Romans 8:1-8). So just as the Bible is divided between the Old and New Testaments, so are the belief systems of the Jewish and Christian communities.
No other gods
According to a YouGov America poll, "You shall have no other gods before me" is the commandment tied for second to last place in the level of importance for non-religious people. This is probably not surprising to anyone who is aware of the contemporary drop in the number of religious people in America and the rise of people who self-identify as atheists or agnostics (via Pew Research). Yet for religious people, this is perhaps the most essential commandment. Ligonier argues that this commandment is how "God reveals what it means for Him to be our God and for us to be His people. "The relationship built between God and his people is central to the context of the rest of the commandments. If we are part of God's people, then we understand the ways in which the other commandments break our relationship with God and, by extension, other people.
It is also good to note that the cosmos in which the Hebrews lived did not consist of just the Hebrew God and a bunch of fake idols, but that their world consisted of many gods who vied for the attention of the Hebrews. As Haaretz puts it, "the different scribes who wrote most of the biblical canon believed the incorporeal world was populated by a multitude of gods, but that the Hebrews should not worship any of these other deities, only Yahweh." So this commandment was an immanent call to a relationship with Yahweh.
No idols
The next commandment has much in common with the last in that it is based on worship turned away from God being unworthy: "You shall not make for yourself an idol."
Theology of Work defines this commandment as "Idols are gods of our own creation, gods that have nothing to them that did not originate with us, gods that we feel we control." Take for instance the golden calf that was made by the Hebrew people as they impatiently waited for Moses to come down from Mt. Sinai in Exodus. This was a man-made idol, which the Hebrews sought to worship. This golden calf is interpreted to be a revival of the Egyptian worship of Apis, a sacred bull deity, as explained by Britannica. When Moses arrived, he destroyed the idol in a fire, upset that the people had made "gods of gold."
Whether they are physical or not, idols are expressions of anything that we, as humans, think we have complete power and control over, like money or fame (via Theology of Work).
Within a Jewish context, these first two commandments fall in the same legal vein. There is not much division between worshipping gods and man-made images, and they both concentrate on the danger of being seduced away from God. Jewish Encyclopedia explains that "in the century between the return from the Exile and the termination of the Babylonian Talmud, the Jews were thoroughly weaned from all belief in idols, although superstition itself can never be wholly eradicated."
Do not take the lord's name in vain
It is common to hear this commandment used as a condemnation of cussing, which is a somewhat simple interpretation. There are a couple of ways this commandment could be understood. ReThink defines it as: "We are forbidden from taking the name of God (representing Him) in a manner that is wicked, worthless, or for our own gain." This interpretation could include television evangelists or cult leaders. Within Jewish belief, the "holiness of God's name was such that an offense against that name was considered a severe crime" (via Encyclopedia.com).
Another name for cussing is swearing and this is, perhaps, a better understanding of the commandment as a whole. Swearing has taken on a connotation of cussing, but when we are "swearing in" within a court context, we are saying that we are representing the truth, that our words are honest. Israel Bible Weekly puts it this way: "When the Bible proscribes taking the Lord's name in vain, it does not refer to saying 'God' as an exclamation or expletive; instead, it prohibits invoking the divine name in an oath, and then failing to fulfill that oath."
Keep Sabbath
In the YouGov America poll, keeping the Sabbath was the least important commandment for the non-religious. This is not at all surprising considering the rise of capitalist industry and the increasing segmenting of time into paid wage labor. As Abraham Heschel put it in "The Sabbath," "Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else." (via New Voices).
The Sabbath is a reminder of God's creation of the world and how he chose to rest on the seventh day according to the Torah. However, it also gives a chance for those who work for us and animals we utilize to rest as well (via My Jewish Learning). As New Voices argues, "Shabbat, then, is a means of defiance. It reminds us that we can be separate from the machinery of empire. We are loyal to our communities and to G-d, rather than the missions of capitalism and imperialism. Shabbat forcibly wrenches us from the timescape of capital and accumulation." The Sabbath provides an opportunity for rest in a world that consistently demands more of our labor, time, and attention.
Honor your mother and father
John Calvin, the Protestant reformer, wrote about honoring one's parents in volume 3 of "Harmony of the Law." He says that this commandment involves three elements, including giving due respect to parents, being obedient to parents, and that children should take care of their parents. While Calvin would definitely find critics within modern understandings of family dynamics, even he maintains that parents are not without sin and that in those spaces where they diverge from the word and wisdom of God, the child is free of obedience to them (via Christian Classics Ethereal Library).
What does it mean to honor your parents in an abusive situation? Bible Study Tools argues that "God certainly doesn't want us to remain in abusive situations. His compassionate heart for us aches when we suffer at the hands of injustice" but that it is important to follow this commandment even in difficult circumstances because it "teaches us to trust Him to ultimately defend and protect us." This is a hard thing to do for anyone who has been deeply hurt by their parents, but it remains important enough to be one of the Ten Commandments.
Do not murder
Most people agree that murdering people is wrong, and "Thou shalt not kill" remains the commandment that is most important to people across the board, religious or otherwise (via YouGov America). However, the debate around the translation of this commandment between "kill" and "murder" continues to this day (via Wilma A. Bailey), as do ethical questions around war and capital punishment that test the boundaries between these various interpretations.
Rabbi Marc Gellman states in the Chicago Tribune that "killing is taking a life. Murder is taking a life with no moral justification. Murder is morally wrong, but there is wide moral agreement (not complete agreement) that some forms of killing are morally just." According to Death Penalty Information Center, 59% of white Evangelicals support the death penalty and 52% of white mainline Protestants support it, while the numbers are significantly lower amongst Catholics and Jewish communities as well as non-white Protestants.
Yet there are a number of Christians and Jews who would argue that this commandment encompasses a wider understanding of what it means to take a life. Stanley Hauerwas, for instance, is a theologian and pacifist who sees the Christian life as one of nonviolence. "Jesus is a politic and it is a politic of the formation of people who live by non resistant love across time by establishing ways of surviving in a violent world by being non violent which is a very dangerous way to be," he says (via The Table).
Do not commit adultery
The Jewish Encyclopedia explains that Jewish law does not recognize a husband's infidelity as a crime, and it was "not until comparatively recent times that the woman was legally entitled to enforce her husband's faithfulness, and was given the right to demand a bill of divorce for his sexual immorality." Within Christian theology, Catholics and Reformed Protestants both considered adultery, regardless of its form, outside of marriage to be condemned by God (via Catechism of the Catholic Church and Calvin's Commentary on the Bible).
The commandement of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" does not run into much backlash outside of the more patriarchal rulings in Jewish law. Most people today appear to believe that marriage demands commitment, which seems to show itself in a growing number of people who either remain unmarried or cohabitate with their significant other instead of entering into a marriage contract (via Pew Research). One does not have to worry about adultery (in a purely literal sense) if one is not married.
Do not steal
Martin Luther states in his Larger Catechism that property "God wishes to have protected, and He has commanded that no one shall subtract from, or curtail, his neighbor's possessions. For to steal is nothing else than to get possession of another's property wrongfully, which briefly comprehends all kinds of advantage in all sorts of trade to the disadvantage of our neighbor."
The commandment "Thou shalt not steal" is generally accepted within wider society (via YouGov America). The U.S. has a strong understanding of the right to property, in that our property cannot be taken away by the government as well as limitations on eminent domain practices (via PBS). Yet, property becomes a complex concept within a wider capitalist structure.
Bradford Littlejohn dives into this assumed interpretation of the commandment when he states: "that most of the specifications of the eighth commandment in the Torah...aimed more to protect the "have-nots" (that is to say, the relatively impoverished) against the "haves". ...Whatever our protestations to the contrary, modern defences of private property generally have the tenor of a protection of the haves against the have-nots."
Do not bear false witness
Bearing false witness deals with lying about our neighbor or slandering their name or deceiving them in any way (via Matthew Henry Commentary). The commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" links in a way to not taking the Lord's name in vain, because just like we are not to speak wrongly and intentionally deceive others about God, we are not supposed to intentionally misreport the character of another person nor deceive them in any way.
Tablet addresses the issues that flow from bearing false witness, saying that "The Bible, foreseeing this possibility, imposes a fitting punishment on such conspiring witnesses: 'You shall do unto him as he conspired to do to his brother.' That is, someone who gives false testimony that could lead to the defendant's execution is himself executed." This is all good and fine until we look at witnesses who slander or cases that do not involve violence and death. It was in these spaces that Rabbis came up with appropriate verses of restitution for false accusers. They imposed 40 lashes for lying about the ineligibility for a man to become priest and fines for false witness that led to loss of money.
Theology of Work argues that the nuances of bearing false witness carry over into many aspects of modern life, including advertising, work gossip, and misleading employees, for instance.
Do not covet
John Calvin, the Protestant reformer, addressed the seeming superfluousness of this commandment after the last commandments discussed. Isn't stealing and adultery and false witness on some level coveting something of our neighbor's? He clears up this issues by saying, "Design, such as we have spoken of in the previous commandments, is a deliberate consent of the will, after passion has taken possession of the mind. Covetousness may exist without such deliberation and assent, when the mind is only stimulated and tickled by vain and perverse objects" (via Spurgeon.org).
In many ways, this is doing exactly what Jesus does in the New Testament when he states that not only do actions matter, but the very thoughts behind those actions, too, break the law of God, according to Matthew 5. This commandment, in many ways, seems to only make the obedience of the other commandments that much harder, because our control over our thoughts and desires is markedly more difficult.
Maimonides, the Jewish Medieval philosopher, states "Coveting leads to robbery. For if the owners do not desire to sell, despite a generous offer and much supplication, motivated by a desire for the item, a person may revert to robbery... And if the owner were to resist and attempt to save his property..., then the perpetrators may be moved to murder" (via Chabad.org). This understanding of coveting is essentially creating a boundary so that we do not cross into the realms of disobedience outlined in the other nine commandments.
The Ten Commandments vs. The Sermon on the Mount
While the Ten Commandments remain compelling in how believers use them to organize their lives and the moral stakes that are at hand, there is some contrast with part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Between Matthew 5 and 7, we find varying explications of interpersonal topics and how people of faith should live, such as expansion on the topic of adultery. In one way or another, within the Sermon on the Mount, subjects pertaining to the content of the Ten Commandments are discussed, yet the distinction between law and gospel is apparent, and it is clear that Jesus is not just repeating the commandments, but showing the underlying motivation behind them. Thinking Faith explains, "In other words, the commandment to love one's neighbour does not replace the Ten Commandments. It sums them up, observes them and explains their purpose: they are ways of expressing love for one's neighbour."
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supercooled rubberband airplane twist; catalyst carrier polymer Just like putting 300 turns of a rubberband airplane rubber band, supercooling it, and then watching the polymer counter rotate 300 times when supercooled; use this to make always fresh surface polymer blobs full of catalysts so the catalysts always rotate to freshness
If you've ever watched a cookie shake in a blender you
can
see visually how the particles stick up in the rotating
bolus
of semisolid ice cream for awhile then get
reincorporated
into the bulk. If there are sprinkles the sprinkles rotate
which are on top and most sticky-outy.
That couldbe possible with polymers, that is the
polymer
would have a memory-material urge to internally rotate
and push out, so if it were a rubber with catalyst
sprinkles,
acting as cooled rubber at room temperature the surface
would change which sprinkles were on top and outside.
Twisted rubber as a kind of metaphor and very near the
actual technology: if you take a condom, twist the
center
say 100 times it will rotate 100 times to reach
equilibrium
again, so again it may be possible to put a twist in a blob
of polymer, or 100+ circular twists that then resolves
(unwinds) itself if cooled down to super slowness by
rotating (and again, bringing new and different sprinkles
to
the top.)
So, you've got a plastic blob that spends 100 days, or
4000
days gradually untwisting from memory plastic rotaion
effects, one full time-delay rotation every 24 hours.
what
do you do with it? Change chemistry! Load it up with
catalysts and reactive chemical reagents of course as
"sprinkles".
Due to the autorefreshing of the surface the polymer
form
always presents fresh surface to the reaction liquid or
gas
so fresh reagent or catalyst always faces the other
reactants in solution or at gases. This has notable
benefit
at catalysts (and enzymes), this could make it so a
catalytic converter always has a fresh surface to remove
pollution. It could be used to make always-fresh surface
catalysts for the oil and gas refining industry or the
chemical process industries to make other chemicals in
bulk even more cheaply than they are made now.
The long lasting duration of auto-refresh self-stir
catalyst-
in-polymers could make it so the chemical process
industry
had to reload catalysts into continuous process reactors
much less often, maintaining and extending their
continuous, highly value effective non-batch continuous
mode.
It is even possible that this "always fresh sprinkles
outside
on top" effect makes it so already studied catalytic
chemicals that previously did not function long enough or
that "fouled" easily could be back in the running as
chemical catalysts. One advantage is that these other
catalysts may have preferred yield profiles, that is they
make 98% something instead of 80% something. Self-stir
polymer matrix for catalysts increases the number of
actual chemical catalyst unique chemicals available for
reactions. This also makes new cheaper catalytic
converter
(antipollution) materials possible, because the chemists
can design new catalysts around short-lifetime catalyst
chemistry which might use cheaper metals.
If you do not like supercooled twisty condom rubber as a
metaphor for the technology, there is a completely
different way to do it: abradable laser scored mica
sandwiche. Basically you coat mica with a catalyst, hold
all
the thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of
thousands of layers together with a central bolt, then
just
tumbling around the reaction vessel the mica abrades
and
disintegrates predictably, always exposing fresh catalyst
surface on the laminate shape. A laser scores the mica
sandwiches as the mica is produced (and of course pre-
use)
so it extra-predictably breaks down, also you don't have
to
use mica you can just use any predictable disintegration
from abrasion polymer as a sandwich layer.
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//If you do not like supercooled twisty condom rubber
// - its like
youre reading my mind
Aren't most catalytic converters made of things that don't like
to twist and untwist? Like platinum and metal?
I like the whole concept of adding little twisty stresses to
chemistry to see what happens. I say, add some convincing-
looking graphs and charts, and submit it to the Nobel
committee or somewhere where people with degrees, lab
coats, and test tubes hang out.
At the very least, make a nanoscopic rubber band airplane.
Is it possible to write this in plainer language?
"Extend availability/lifetime of chemically reactive
compounds
by incorporating them into stressed, folded or twisted inert
substrates. As the substrate rebounds, clean/unused
material exposed for reactions."
Is that about it? The bit about supercooling or laser etching
is
to make the substrate rebound take longer? And the bit
about
condoms is because, well, it's a beanangel posting?
Oh, the quoted part is for making it better, you may have
read an earlier version with that in it.
Basically, if you imagine the little sprinkles in the polymer
that contain the catalyst or reagent to be coated, like
vitamin E gelcaps then: Extend availability/lifetime of
chemically reactive compounds by [putting them in little
vitamin e capsules] or incorporating them into stressed,
folded or twisted inert gradual remotioning substrates.
[you can use millifiore technique to put stripes of catalyst
or reagent with a coating layer at a polymer blob] As the
substrate motionizes/untwists/rebounds, clean and
unused catalyst material or reagents are exposed for
reactions.
When I run the thought experiment with the twisted condom, the
inside and outside of the condom do not change places. But
the application proposed for this idea seems to require that
inside and outside should change places.
So we put down the condom and switch on the blender. Then
inside and outside do change places, but then the movement is
not driven by the unwinding elasticity of the substance being
stirred.
Myosin and Actin are the muscles molecular motor. Maybe twisting long fibres interlocks these molecules and when supplied with ATP they slowly walk out the twist. A lot of accurate molecular geometry to work out though.
This idea does sound like a material with a whole lot of those suction cup pop-up toys as molecules or a slowly unbinding velcro.
//slowly unbinding velcro// That's new to me and very
intriguing; the memory polymer velcro layer-sphere could
just detach at a predictable rate to release fresh
catalyst/fresh catalyst surface. Gradual-reveal velcro is a
little like the stack of mica coasted with catalyst though.
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I know this is off-the-wall starting comment, but let me make it stick!
Since I don't know where you are on your growth journey, I ned to address the situation where you are hiring entry level people for a short period of time. If a long-term career is not possible today in your business, how do you make working for you a good deal?
Well that is story we are going to tell.
INTRODUCTION
I picked the basketball coach for a reason because they live in a world where all of their talent is transitory. Even if you are Coach Krzyzewski at Duke, the top basketball team in college basketball who can recruit the top high school talent, you only have them for 4 years. That doesn't take into account the allure of a multimillion dollar NBA contract so at best you can count on is 2 years and yet he wins championships - how does that happen?
OBJECTIVE WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW
As we have discussed in previous shows, each generation brings a different set of skills, aspirations, and challenges to the workforce. Also we have the same challenge as everyone us - finding enough of the right people to operate and grow a business. The simple fact is nobody ha]s a nursery outback growing employees so we need to face the reality that good people are out there - just not working for you.
What are today's employment challenges?
How of this looks like a daunting task but let's reverse the mindset - what a great opportunity to employ them and help in the journey. It is here the fundamental premise of today's show will build on.
What if you built the reputation with the younger workforce and their parents you company is the place to start?
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO
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Study and interpret cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes. Psychologists investigate how people interact with the world around them. Many of these mental health professionals work to help struggling individuals function in their environments. This may entail a range of tasks such as discussing therapy options with patients and other individuals—like family members or treatment teams—as appropriate, or designing Individualized Educational Plans (IEPs) for school students.
Psychologists typically specialize in a particular area. Specialties include industrial-organizational (addressing issues in the workplace), counseling (helping clients handle distress and its causes), clinical (diagnosing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders), and research (performing controlled studies to identify behavioral/emotional patterns).
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To stand out from the crowd, you must highlight key contributions. You don’t have to be a professional resume writer to effectively tout your accomplishments in a way that will make employers take notice and call you in for an interview.
What’s the outlook for virtual or remote mental health careers? Discover if a role in teletherapy is right for you.
Check out our guide to the different types of mental health worker jobs including numerous mental health counselor specialties to consider.
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Business Wire India Ford Foundation, S&P Global, Hamilton Lane and Omidyar Network Collaborate with Premiere List of General Partners to Empower Inclusive Capitalism in the Private Markets Newly Formed Public Benefit Corporation to Provide Private Companies with a Holistic Solution that Includes Open Architecture for ESG Measurement, Data Collection & Benchmarking Today, Novata launched as an innovative new public benefit corporation and technology platform built to provide the private markets ecosystem, including private equity firms, with intuitive and effective Environmental, Social Good and Corporate Governance (ESG) measurement, data collection and benchmarking. Backed by a one-of-a-kind consortium, which includes the Ford Foundation, S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) and Omidyar Network, Novata has created an independent, unbiased and flexible open architecture platform for the private markets to more consistently report on relevant ESG data. Directly informed by the needs of general partners and limited partners, Novata is designed to offer a vetted ESG reporting framework built around 10 critical metrics that consistently appear across leading ESG methodologies and a secure technology platform that provides a clearer view of ESG impact.
“The majority of the world’s economic activity is driven by private companies. It is their approach to environmental and social impact which will ultimately accelerate the ideals of inclusive capitalism,” said Alex Friedman, Chief Executive Officer of Novata. “Our solution is unprecedented because it marks the first time that a group of non-profit and for-profit leaders in social justice, financial data and the private markets have joined forces to solve for the ESG fragmentation that has plagued the public markets."
Lorraine Spradley Wilson, Chief Impact Officer and Head of Methodology at Novata, added, "With a simple and effective methodology, a secure technology-enabled data repository and unbiased benchmarking tools, private companies will be able to better meet and anticipate evolving investor and societal priorities.”
Novata’s solution consists of three core elements:
A streamlined ESG reporting frameworkthat consolidates metrics which consistently appear across leading methodologies and may be immediately leveraged by any private company. A secure contributory databasewhere private companies can report against Novata’s framework, as well as other broadly used methodologies, and where owners and general partners control access to company data. Objective, data-driven benchmarkingagainst both private and public company peers, in addition to reporting tools to help private businesses gather key insights from their data and easily report to investors, regulators and other stakeholders.
Interest in ESG has been on the rise in the private markets, exemplified by private equity firms that are increasingly focused on effectively quantifying societal impact for investors. Yet ESG measurement remains challenging for the private markets, most of which is still in the early stages of quantifying sustainability and social impact. Novata is pioneering a mission-driven technology platform that will help private markets stakeholders—from private businesses, to lenders, suppliers and investors—avoid the fragmentation that has made effective and objective measurement of impact particularly challenging in the public markets, while also providing flexibility to meet business owners and general partners on their individual ESG pathways.
The following consortium members and founding partners serve as key advisors to Novata, helping ensure the solution continues to evolve as the private markets industry matures and expands.
“At the Ford Foundation, we are committed to supporting initiatives that enable meaningful progress toward a more inclusive form of capitalism,” said Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation. “Novata’s solutions give investors the ability to better allocate capital with more effective consideration of purpose, inclusiveness and sustainability. Their tools will be an essential part of creating an economy that works for all.” “The global economic transition to net zero will be realized through a truly collaborative and aligned approach across both the public and private markets,” said S&P Global CEO Doug Peterson. “S&P Global is proud to be investing in much-needed innovation in ESG transparency and benchmarking in the private markets through the creation of Novata. S&P Global powers the markets of the future, and the private markets represent an area where we can help add transparency and evidence to support their workflows. This investment represents a step forward in working with the private equity industry with a purpose-built solution that supports ESG disclosure for the private markets.” “Across the private markets, ESG is a complex problem that requires nuance to solve—it’s not one-size-fits-all,” said Erik Hirsch, Vice Chairman and Head of Strategic Initiatives at Hamilton Lane. “Novata is a neutral solution that allows private companies, including general partners, to collect and measure their data based on whatever metrics are most meaningful for them and their investors. At Hamilton Lane, we believe that best-in-class data and technology solutions will continue to drive the private markets forward, and we are excited to launch Novata alongside such an esteemed management team.” “Private companies and their investors are a growing part of our economy and have a critical role to play in contributing to a more inclusive and sustainable capitalism. We believe Novata provides a solution that will enable private companies, general partners and limited partners to better manage their impact on people and the planet,” said Mike Kubzansky, CEO at Omidyar Network.
Beta customers will have access to the Novata technology platform before the end of the year. Broader access is planned to be available in early 2022.
A range of leading private equity firms serve as advisors to the Novata consortium, including Bridgepoint, Clearlake Capital Group, Kohlberg & Co., KPS Capital Partners, Lindsay Goldberg, Summa Equity, Thomas H. Lee Partners and The Vistria Group. Additionally, several of Novata’s general partner advisors—The Vistria Group, Clearlake Capital Group and Kohlberg & Co.—have made investments in support of Novata, with all proceeds from such investments to be donated to nonprofits.
“We’ve experienced firsthand the critical need for a more integrated approach to measuring ESG, as well as the challenges that arise without a framework and appropriate tools tailor-made to meet the unique needs of private equity sponsors,” said José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital Group and the Clearlake Impact Initiative. “We are committed to the tenets of responsible investing and believe the private markets have a responsibility to better manage and track ESG performance to not only generate strong investment returns, but to also make a positive impact on society and its future.”
Novata has also worked with a range of limited partners to design its solutions, as ESG is an increasingly important focus for them.
“Private equity assets are a fast-growing part of the markets and global economy, having increased by more than 150% in the last decade alone,” said Scott M. Stringer, New York City Comptroller. “And private equity investors need reliable access to accurate, material and relevant ESG data, from climate change and diversity, to worker transitions and business accountability—all of which are critical components of truly inclusive capitalism that creates long-term value for our pension beneficiaries.”
To learn more about Novata, visit the website, where private companies and general partners can indicate their interest in being early Novata customers, and watch the launch video here. Follow Novata on LinkedIn to keep up with the company’s latest news and views.
About Novata
Novata is a public benefit corporation created to help private equity firms and private companies navigate the ESG landscape by providing relevant reporting metrics, a contributory database to store information, and tools for analysis and reporting to key stakeholders, including limited partners and regulators. Founded to empower the private markets in achieving a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism, Novata’s aim is to help the private markets avoid fragmentation of ESG standards. Novata was formed in partnership with the Ford Foundation, S&P Global, Hamilton Lane and Omidyar Network—with additional funding provided by its co-founders and independent chair—and is majority-controlled by mission-driven organizations and its employees. For more information, please visit https://www.novata.com/.
About the Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than 85 years it has worked with courageous people on the frontlines of social change worldwide, guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
About S&P Global
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets, offering ESG solutions, deep data and insights on critical business factors. We've been providing essential intelligence that unlocks opportunity, fosters growth and accelerates progress for more than 160 years. Our divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com.
About Hamilton Lane
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is a leading private markets investment management firm providing innovative solutions to sophisticated investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for 30 years, the firm currently employs approximately 475 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has $757 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $92 billion in discretionary assets and $665 billion in advisory assets, as of June 30, 2021. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane/.
About Omidyar Network
Established by philanthropists Pam and Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network is a social change venture that has committed more than $1 billion to innovative for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations since 2004. Omidyar Network works to reimagine critical systems and the ideas that govern them, and to build more inclusive and equitable societies in which individuals have the social, economic, and democratic power to thrive.
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As shown before three-dimensional simulations can predict the behavior of devices more accurately than two-dimensional ones. Nevertheless, today more than 95% of all device simulations are two-dimensional ones. One reason for this is the lack of adequate and affordable simulation tools. Another issue is to handle three-dimensional data and the high computational costs.
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5 Reasons Why You Need an Unwavering Belief in Yourself at WorkSep 24, 2021
How important is it to be able to make good decisions at work? More importantly, what do your actions say about you to your superiors in a work setting?
We don’t always think about these things, especially if we’re not in a position where it seems we make a lot of decisions. After all, if you’re not upper management or in charge, who cares?
You should. No matter where you are at work or what you're doing during the day, you’re going to be making all kinds of decisions, and if you don’t have an unwavering belief in yourself, it’s going to show. In fact, it’ll do a whole lot more than make you seem indecisive.
Don’t believe it? Let’s explore several reasons why you need an unwavering belief in yourself even at work.
You’ll Start Thinking Others are Better than You
It's natural when you experience self-doubt to feel as though others have more to contribute. This would be a terrible mistake, especially if you allow these feelings to keep you in the background, especially at meetings, networking opportunities, or even taking advantage of opportunities. There is a reason you are at the table--Act like it.
You’ll Stop Trying
If you don’t feel like your efforts have value or your decisions hold any merit, you’ll find yourself holding back instead of contributing to the conversation.
The downside? No one will ever hear your great ideas, meaning they’re missing out on something which could be wonderful. But even worse, your bosses will see your lack of effort as a lack of caring. This could affect you adversely when it comes time for a performance review.
You’ll Avoid Responsibility
Of course, you're not going to want to take on any leadership role if you don't trust yourself enough to lead others well. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior will keep you from a lot of career advancement.
You’ll Lose Creativity
When you lack self-belief, decision-making becomes complicated. Rather than go with what you might feel to be the best course of action, you'll do whatever everyone else says is best. This might seem an easy out, but you'll soon find it's impossible to be innovative when you do what's always been done before. Remember you are made in the image of God. He is the Creator, so you have creative gifts in you.
Failure Will Take You Out of the Game
What happens when you mess up? If you're already down on yourself, a disaster likely means the end. There's no point in trying again or doing anything differently. Unfortunately, this kind of attitude will eventually get you fired. You need to get up and keep going.
The good news is, by exploring unwavering self-belief, you’ll find it almost inevitable you’ll make good decisions, and all your actions will be exactly the right thing to do. A strong, confident person will go far in any industry, whether you're just starting or are already on your way to the top.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2017 | Volume
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A long-term evaluation of the quality of life after laparoscopic Nissen-Rossetti anti-reflux surgery
Giovanni Alemanno, Carlo Bergamini, Paolo Prosperi, Alessandro Bruscino, Ancuta Leahu, Riccardo Somigli, Jacopo Martellucci, Andrea Valeri
Department of Emergency, Emergency and Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
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Giovanni Alemanno Emergency and Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Florence Italy Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/0972-9941.205872 Background: The quality of life (QoL) has been suggested to be the most relevant parameter to assess and monitor the long-term outcome in patients who underwent surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Patients and Methods: A retrospective evaluation was conducted on patients who underwent Laparoscopic Nissen-Rossetti Fundoplication for GERD between January 1998 and December 2010. To evaluate the long-term results a telephone interview was made using the VISICK score and the GERD-health-related QoL (HRQL) questionnaire at 1, 3, 5 years and at the end of the study. If the questionnaires resulted unsatisfactory, a complete diagnostic revaluation was performed. Results: A total of 168 patients underwent laparoscopic surgery for GERD. When evaluated at the end of the study, the number of unsatisfied patients according to the VISICK score was significantly higher than the one obtained with the GERD-HRQL questionnaire. Conclusions: Many data suggest a possible recurrence of the symptoms after surgery in a long follow-up period. Our data seem to demonstrate a slight but significant trend in symptoms relapse after surgery. Considering the non-specific and specific nature of the two scores, VISICK and GERD HRQL, our result showed a significantly more relevant trend of symptoms relapse only for the non-specific ones. Such QoL scores seem to be important in selecting patients who need to be instrumentally examined. Consequently, our work proves that only a few patients out of the total number of followed up patients, are to be recalled to undergo instrumental examination.
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Mark Richards, Strategist and Fund Manager, Multi-Asset, looks at the outlook for growth in the US after a soft Q3, and addresses the equity market implications for higher commodity prices.
The third quarter of 2021 was a soft patch for growth in the US, but there are already signs of a pick up in activity (seen in footfall, use of public transit, airline/hotel bookings), while Delta cases of Covid are down a third from their peak in the US. This supports our view that the coming months should see a rebound in US growth; the September payroll print might come too early, but during Q4 we expect to see improved macro data.
Survey results are showing that consumer willingness to make big ticket purchases, such as a car or a house, has gone down as inflation rises. Our view is that higher prices are very much supply driven, though. Taking US autos as an example, inventories are at about 10% of a typical mid-cycle level but production is slated to go up in Q4, so we see the production bottleneck easing into Q1 2022.
Outside of the US, we’ve been focusing on Asian economies that might be small on a global scale but nevertheless play an important role in international supply chains. Vietnam and Thailand, for example, are now vaccinating at a faster rate than either the US or UK did in the spring and we think that will ease manufacturing supply chain issues into next year.
Commodity prices and energy are the big spanner in the works at the moment. Coal inventories in China are at a record low, and relative to output are at about 10%-20% of a normal mid-cycle level. The Chinese government are now encouraging banks to help fund energy and power generation companies, but that won’t do anything about the low level of coal inventories. The welcomed desire to move to greener sources of energy may have come too quick relative to the required behaviour changes and lack of investment in dirty energy sources. We think high commodity prices are here to stay, particular in gas, coal and oil. There has been a lack of investment in oil production for many years that is now coming to a head, with supply responses from US shale or OPEC+ likely to be in line with demand at best.
During the upcoming Q3 reporting season it will be interesting to hear how companies plan to pass through higher input costs. Up until mid-September survey data across consumer staples, retail and manufacturing showed high levels of management confidence that they could pass through higher costs, but that confidence is waning now.
On policy, it was clear from the last Federal Reserve meeting that they are determined to taper in November. If we’re right on the lifting activity in the US economy, at a time when inflation appears more resilient than some anticipated it would be, that could create a hawkish risk and push the discount rate for US growth equities up. Valuations may have already come down from their peak, but still sit above pre-Covid levels. That leads us to be marginally underweight on US equities, with an accompanying increase in appetite other developed market equities, as well as a stronger preference for long USD exposure that keeps us fairly reticent about emerging markets for now.
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Let's face it: The cost of living is kicking our butts. If you're wondering why you're having trouble getting ahead, it's because the game is rigged against you.
While wages have gone up over the past couple of decades, they haven't kept up with inflation. To add insult to injury, the cost of big-ticket purchases, like houses, cars and college degrees has increased
faster than the pace of inflation. In other words, the cost of everything is rising a lot faster than your salary is.
The government has a handy way to measure this â" a thing called the Consumer Price Index, which is essentially the price of common things we pay for all averaged together. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just compared prices in February 2021 to those of one year before, and found that grocery prices had increased by 3.5%!
In the big picture, the cost of living has essentially doubled over the past 30 years, according to a number of studies and this cost of living calculator from the American Institute for Economic Research.
Having trouble keeping up? We've got seven money moves you can start making today:
1. Cut Your Food Budget by Planning Ahead
Groceries are a huge part of the high cost of living, so they're a big target for savings. Try preparing for the week ahead with some meal planning.
This goes beyond just making a shopping list. Real meal planning helps you save money because it helps you use what you buy, preventing food â" and money â" waste. It also prevents you from spending extra cash on emergency lunches or late-night takeout.
First, figure out how many meals you're responsible for making every week. If it's just you, your answer might be 21: seven breakfasts, lunches and dinners. If you have a family, count meals per person â" a dinner for three people counts as three dinners, even if you all eat the same thing.
Now figure out how much food you'll need to buy to make it until your next grocery trip. If you buy the same items repeatedly, you know which ones to stock up on when they go on sale. Stocking up on sale items also helps you freeze meals for the future. If there's a way to buy in bulk and prep the foods you eat the most often, do it!
2. Get Paid Every Time You Buy Toilet Paper
No matter how strategic you are, groceries still account for a good chunk of your budget. Everybody's got to eat. You may as well earn a little money back while your groceries are being bagged up.
A free app called Fetch Rewards will reward you with gift cards just for buying toilet paper and more than 250 other items at the grocery store.
Here's how it works: After you've downloaded the app, just take a picture of your receipt showing you purchased an item from one of the brands listed in Fetch. For your efforts, you'll earn gift cards to places like Amazon or Walmart.
You can download the free Fetch Rewards app here to start getting free gift cards.
Over a million people already have, so they must be onto something.
3. Stop Overpaying for Stuff Online
With the cost of everything rising, you have to watch every penny. Wouldn't it be nice if you got an alert any time you're shopping on Amazon or Walmart.com and you're about to get ripped off?
That's exactly what this free service does.
Just add it to your browser for free, and before you check out, it'll check other websites, including Walmart, eBay and others to see if your item is available for cheaper. Plus, you can get coupon codes, set up price-drop alerts and even see the item's price history.
Let's say you're shopping for a new pair of shoes, and you assume you've found the best price. Here's when you'll get a pop up letting you know if that exact pair of shoes is available elsewhere for cheaper. If there are any available coupon codes, they'll also automatically be applied to your order.*
In the last year, this has saved people $160 million.
You can get started in just a few clicks to see if you're overpaying online.
4. Knock $540/Year From Your Car Insurance in Minutes
Every dollar counts here. Cutting necessary expenses can make a huge difference. So when's the last time you checked car insurance prices?
You should shop your options every six months or so â" it could save you some serious money. Let's be real, though. It's probably not the first thing you think about when you wake up. But it doesn't have to be.
A website called Insure.com makes it super easy to compare car insurance prices. All you have to do is enter your ZIP code and your age, and it'll show you your options.
Using Insure.com, people have saved an average of $540 a year.
Yup. That could be $500 back in your pocket just for taking a few minutes to look at your options.
5. Stop Paying Your Credit Card Company
Talk about the high cost of living: Credit card debt is the most expensive kind of debt, and your credit card company is just getting rich by ripping you off with high interest rates. But a website called AmOne can help you fight back.
If you owe your credit card companies $50,000 or less, AmOne will match you with a low-interest loan you can use to pay off every single one of your balances.
The benefit? You'll be left with one bill to pay each month. And because personal loans have lower interest rates (AmOne rates start at 2.49% APR), you'll get out of debt
that much faster. Plus: No credit card payment this month.
AmOne keeps your information confidential and secure, which is probably why after 20 years in business, it still has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
It takes two minutes to see if you qualify for up to $50,000 online. You do need to give AmOne a real phone number in order to qualify, but don't worry â" they won't spam you with phone calls.
6. Add $225 to Your Wallet Just for Watching the News
Keeping up with the cost of living is a little easier when you can add a little more income. For example:
It's been a historic time for news, and we're all constantly refreshing for the latest updates. You probably know more than one news-junkie who fancies themselves an expert in respiratory illness or a political mastermind.
And research companies want to pay you to keep watching. You could add up to $225 a month to your pocket by signing up for a free account with InboxDollars. They'll present you with short news clips to choose from every day, then ask you a few questions about them.
You just have to answer honestly, and InboxDollars will continue to pay you every month. This might sound too good to be true, but it's already paid its users more than $56 million.
It takes about one minute to sign up, and start getting paid to watch the news.
7. Leave Your Family up to $1M
Since the cost of living keeps rising, have you ever thought about how your family would manage without your income after you're gone?
How would they pay the bills? Send the kids through school? Now's a good time to start planning for the future by looking into a life insurance policy.
You're probably thinking:
I don't have the time or money for that. But your application can take minutes â" and you could leave your family up to $1 million with a company called Bestow. Rates for life insurance policies start at just $16 a month.
There's been a surge of interest in life insurance during the pandemic, as more Americans are realizing they probably need it. Also, more people are seeking out no-exam life insurance because they don't want to go to a doctor's office for an in-person exam. Companies like Bestow use algorithms instead of medical exams to evaluate applicants.
If you're under the age of 54 and want to get a fast life insurance quote without leaving your home, get a free quote from Bestow.
In summary, keeping up with the cost of living is tough. But following these seven steps can give you a leg up.
Mike Brassfield ( [email protected] ) is a senior writer at The Penny Hoarder. He, too, is struggling to keep up with the cost of living. *Capital One Shopping compensates us when you get the extension using the links provided. This was originally published on The Penny Hoarder, which helps millions of readers worldwide earn and save money by sharing unique job opportunities, personal stories, freebies and more. The Inc. 5000 ranked The Penny Hoarder as the fastest-growing private media company in the U.S. in 2017.
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Everyone understands the significance of carpet cleaning. However, few individuals are aware of the carpet pad underneath. The pad is the material beneath the carpet that provides a cushion between the feet and the floor, prevents the carpet from sliding across the floor, and eventually extends the carpet's lifespan.
You might question if carpet cleaners in Haddonfield clean the pad during your skilled carpet cleaning session.
Does Haddonfield Carpet Cleaning Clean the Pad?
The simple explanation is that carpet cleaners will not clean the pad, and they do the opposite and try to avoid soaking it.
It's critical to remember that carpet fibers can't absorb a lot of liquid or moisture. You may not know it, but most of the moisture is absorbed by the cushioning underneath.
One of the most distinguishing characteristics of carpet padding is that it is usually spongey. Because of this, the cushioning feels soft under the feet. This property, however, makes paddings extremely absorbent, which might be an issue. The cushioning absorbs water like a sponge and quickly becomes saturated. A Haddonfield carpet cleaner will avoid this as they know that mold can set in quickly.
Liquids that get trapped in the cushioning can be challenging to remove. Because the pad is sandwiched between the carpet and the floor, air circulation is limited. You can't just trust the liquid will evaporate from the padding.
You should expect the carpet padding to be moist for a few days after it has been drenched. The moisture trapped in the carpet pad might serve as a breeding ground for mold.
You can see why a Haddonfield carpet cleaner should minimize wetting the pad so your carpet will last longer without the chances of mold harming your family.
Majestic Carpet Cleaning Equipment
Our modern vehicle-mounted carpet cleaning equipment will effectively and efficiently clean your carpets. Rest confident that our cleaning procedure will penetrate the layers of your carpet fibers and thoroughly cleanse them without soaking the carpet backing. Our equipment can control the amount of water and moisture, ensuring that your carpet pad is not harmed.
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Amazon is investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging that the money paid by the company in legal fees has been funnelled into bribes by its legal representatives in India, The Morning Context reported on September 20.
Although Amazon did not comment on the specific allegations or the status of the investigation, a company spokesperson told MediaNama: “We have zero tolerance for corruption. We take allegations of improper actions seriously, investigate them fully, and take appropriate action.”
What is the whistleblower complaint about?
According to The Morning Context, the whistleblower’s complaint revolves around Vikas Chopra, an independent advocate who works with Amazon, who is alleged to have used legal fees paid to him to bribe government officials. Chopra has represented Amazon on legal matters for around three years and has worked with Rahul Sundaram, an Amazon in-house senior counsel who is also reportedly under investigation by the company and has been sent on leave, the report stated. Amazon is also asking questions of its other legal representatives in the country including AZB & Partners, the report added.
If the allegations of bribery are true, it would pose a significant problem for Amazon because such practices go against the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which is a US law that prohibits companies from paying bribes to foreign government officials to assist in running a business, the report stated.
CAIT calls for CBI investigation into the issue
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has written to the commerce ministry asking it to take “immediate cognisance of the sensational news regarding Amazon’s admission of bribery” and order a CBI probe into the issue.
Additionally, the confederation has requested the government to direct Amazon to suspend its e-commerce platform pending the CBI inquiry.
CAIT is also moving a representation to the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) demanding a probe into this issue, the letter stated.
Amazon faces CCI investigation and new e-commerce rules
After nearly a year of legal back and forth, the Supreme Court last month dismissed pleas by Amazon and Flipkart to stop the investigation by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into the alleged anti-competitive practices of the two e-commerce companies.
“Big companies wield a lot of power owing to large amounts of money with them, they are trying their best to maintain their free will in the e-commerce market. To hurt our small business and traders. And after a while, it causes harm to our consumers in the long term,” commerce minister Piyush Goyal said in response to the verdict.
The CCI’s probe against Amazon and Flipkart was ordered to investigate four alleged violations:
Exclusive launch of mobile phones Promoting preferred sellers on their websites Deep discounting practices Prioritising some seller listings over others
Even before the investigation resumed, the government on June 21 proposed amendments that give the existing Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 more teeth and address a lot of the concerns that the CCI is investigating. The proposed changes, which were made in response to repeated complaints against Amazon and Flipkart, include new rules to address abuse of FDI regulations, the establishment of a grievance redressal mechanism, new display and labelling criteria for foreign goods, the prohibition of flash sales, introduction of fallback liability, among other things.
The allegations of bribery only further tarnish the reputation of Amazon in the eyes of the government, making it harder for the company to seek leniency.
Also Read Who Will Fill The Void Left By Cloudtail On Amazon And Will Appario Face The Same Fate? Supreme Court Refuses To Stop CCI Probe Into Amazon And Flipkart, Gives Them Four Weeks To Respond To CCI’s Queries Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Amazon In Reliance–Future Retail Case, Upholds Singapore Emergency Arbitrator’s Award Govt Considering SEBI-Like Independent Regulatory Authority For E-Commerce Have something to add? Post your comment and gift someone a MediaNama subscription .
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Check out these growth shares that analysts rate highly…
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If you’re looking for some growth shares to add to your portfolio, then you might want to look at the ones below.
Here’s what you need to know about these highly rated ASX growth shares:
Kogan.com Ltd (ASX: KGN)
The first growth share to look at is Kogan. It is the ecommerce company behind the Kogan, Dick Smith online, and Mighty Ape brands. It also has a number of complementary businesses such as Kogan Mobile, Kogan Internet, and Kogan Money.
The last 12 months have been very mixed for Kogan. After smashing expectations with meteoric sales and profit growth this time last year, inventory issues undid a lot of this and are set to weigh heavily on its full year results in August.
While this is disappointing, it is worth remembering that these issues are only expected to be temporary. In light of this, investors may want to focus on its strong long term growth prospects thanks to its leading market position and the structural shift online.
Credit Suisse believes the weakness in the Kogan share price this year could be a buying opportunity. It currently has an outperform rating and $17.93 price target on its shares.
WiseTech Global Ltd (ASX: WTC)
Another ASX growth share to look at is WiseTech Global. It is the logistics solutions company behind the popular CargoWise One platform. This platform allows users to execute complex logistics transactions and manage freight operations from a single, easy to use platform.
It has been a very positive performer in FY 2021 despite the pandemic. For example, strong demand led to its first half revenue increasing 16% to $238.7 million and its EBITDA rising 43% to $62.5 million.
Pleasingly, management expects its second half performance to be just as strong and is guiding to full year revenue growth of 9% to 19% and EBITDA growth of 30% to 50%. And despite this growth, WiseTech Global’s revenue will still be only a fraction of the broader Supply Chain Management Expenditure market which is valued at US$15.2 billion.
Morgan Stanley is bullish on WiseTech Global. Its analysts currently have an overweight rating and $35.00 price target on its shares.
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Why Magellan, Origin, Piedmont Lithium, & WiseTech Global are dropping Motley Fool contributor James Mickleboro has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia’s parent company Motley Fool Holdings Inc. owns shares of and has recommended Kogan.com ltd and WiseTech Global. The Motley Fool Australia owns shares of and has recommended Kogan.com ltd and WiseTech Global. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Bruce Jackson.
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Despite phenomenal sales growth, JB Hi-Fi shares and those of other COVID-beneficiaries are likely to be more volatile in 2021. Here’s why.
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Wow.
It’s not every day that a category-killing retailer that’s been at the top of its game for more than a decade grows half-yearly profits by 80%!
Then again, 2020 wasn’t exactly an ordinary year.
And the profit growth for June–December was actually 86.2% if you don’t mind, off the back of a 23.7% increase in sales.
Online sales grew a phenomenal 162%.
And the share price?
At the time of writing, it was up 0.22%.
No, not 22%
Not 2.2%
Zero. Point. Two. Two. Per Cent.
The reason? Well,
JB Hi-Fi Limited (ASX: JBH) had released its sales numbers in mid-January.
And, short of an unexpected splurge in expenses, the market was right to extrapolate that strong sales growth into an even stronger jump in profits.
Still, I was a little surprised JB Hi-Fi shares didn’t move higher, given the company boosted its dividend by 81%.
To be fair, valuations are tough to calculate right now.
Companies are (thankfully) not giving guidance, because of the COVID uncertainty.
They’ll soon start to cycle on the beginnings of the COVID crisis, as we begin to compare February 2021 to February 2020, then March, April and so on.
Who knows what further lockdowns we might face?
How quickly we’re vaccinated, what variants we might face, and how long it takes until the country is effectively fully immunised?
How our consumer behaviours will – and won’t – change?
Moreover, for those retailers selling non-consumable products, how many more televisions, fridges, freezers and sofas can we actually buy?
Which is not to say I’ve turned bearish on those retailers’ businesses.
Yes, many of us will go back to the stores in larger numbers in 2021 than we did in 2020.
But many of us will continue to buy online, impressed with the ease, speed and convenience (and often cheaper prices).
That very uncertainty means there are a wide range of business outcomes for JB Hi-Fi and its ilk over the next 12–18 months.
And with it will likely come meaningful share price volatility as investors try to work out how much to pay for them.
The good news is that they don’t seem to be getting too carried away, today.
But what happens if (when?) these big retailers turn in slow growth or even sales declines in May, June or July?
It’s far from impossible; if your sales grew 20, 50 or 100% (as they did for some online retailers) last year, even if growth was flat this year, that’d be a helluva two-year jump.
And, as I wrote above, if you got your fill of new computers, desks and work-from-home supplies last year, you’re probably not going to be replacing it all in 2021.
Meaning that sales declines are in some cases, likely, and in almost all cases, possible.
Which, of course, the market should expect, and so it should take any such news in its stride.
Right?
Well, as I said, it should.
That doesn’t mean it will.
The problem is that, right now, we don’t know.
I own shares in some retail companies. I’m not selling any, and don’t have plans to (though, as ever, I reserve the right to, if circumstances change, and only in accordance with our staff trading policy if I do!).
I might even buy more shares in retail if the opportunity arises.
So this isn’t a warning or a suggestion to sell.
But it is a warning that I would be gobsmacked if share prices of COVID-beneficiaries aren’t more volatile than usual in 2021.
Volatility is, as I always like to say, the ‘ticket to the dance’.
It is to be endured because it can’t be avoided, but history suggests it’s worth putting up with for the returns that might just be on offer for share market investors.
As ever, knowing what you own, and why you own it, will stand you in good stead.
As will knowing that volatility will strike, often when you least expect it, and having a plan for how you’ll deal with it.
My tip: get used to the idea now so that, when it comes, you can shrug, curse it, but avoid doing anything silly.
Remember, investing should be long-term in nature. Think not about May, or even 2021.
Think about how your companies will be performing in 2024, 2026 and beyond…
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More reading Morgan Stanley: ASX earnings season is topping expectations How JB HiFi (ASX:JBH) shares became an ASX dividend powerhouse JB Hi-Fi (ASX:JBH) share price on watch after bumper profit and dividend growth What to expect from the JB Hi-Fi (ASX:JBH) half year result ASX retail shares show strong signs of resurgence Motley Fool contributor Scott Phillips has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Bruce Jackson.
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Last night's debate question about gun violence did little to clarify what the two candidates would do about gun control. Their responses disappointed many viewers, including Stephen Barton, a 22-year-old survivor of the Aurora movie theater shooting in Colorado. Barton issued a statement lauding the discussion over gun violence, but pointed to the lack of specifics in both candidates' responses.
"The demands of 270,000 Americans for President Obama and Governor Romney to address gun violence broke through during tonight’s debate. I am glad that a concerned citizen asked about guns — but sadly, there were no real answers,” Mr. Barton explained. “We are going to keep demanding a specific plan from both candidates to end gun violence.”
It was surprising to many that a question about gun violence would be raised in a national forum considering politicians have shied from either end of the gun control spectrum - the two stances of protecting the right for Americans to own guns or controlling, or as some are calling for, limiting, gun ownership. But with the constant news of mass shootings in 2012, moderator Candy Crowley chose an audience member's question about the issue of gun violence, asking what would be done to limit the availability of assault weapons and keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals.
President Obama immediately acknowledged the Aurora tragedy, citing his meeting with a mother who laid at the bedside of her her son, who had been shot in the Colorado movie theater. The President went on further to state that we should enforce the laws that are already in place, and called for "a comprehensive strategy" and "a broader conversation" to reduce gun violence.
Mitt Romney touched on a lot of topics in his response, but seemingly failed to answer the question. Echoing the President's response, Governor Romney started his response by promising "enormous efforts to enforce the gun laws that we have, and to change the culture of violence that we have." He then veered off to link education and home life to that culture of violence.
"Let me mention another thing. And that is parents. We need moms and dads, helping to raise kids. Wherever possible the -- the benefit of having two parents in the home, and that's not always possible. A lot of great single moms, single dads. But gosh, to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone, that's a great idea. Because if there's a two parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will -- will be able to achieve increase dramatically. So we can make changes in the way our culture works to help bring people away from violence and give them opportunity, and bring them in the American system."
After he finished implicating that having less single mothers is a way to reduce gun violence, Romney declared the "Fast and Furious" debacle was the nation's "greatest failure," as drug lords were able to obtain AK-47 type weapons. Candy Crowley pressed him on his history with the assault weapon ban, as she and President Obama recalled Romney signing an assault weapons ban before he officially changed his stance in September, when he met with the NRA's chief lobbyist. On September 17, two survivors of mass shootings, including Stephen Barton, and two relatives of the shooting victims, sent Romney a letter requesting an opportunity to ask the candidate questions about gun control laws. They wrote,
"Like most Americans, we strongly support the Second Amendment and the rights of law-abiding gun owners. And like most Americans, we believe out elected officials have a responsibility to do much more to keep guns out of the wrong hands."
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Albanian gas ambitions [Gas in Transition]
Albania’s ambitions to enhance the role of natural gas in its economy may finally be gaining traction, but in the face of growing opposition to the cleanest fossil fuel, it may be too early yet to say what – if any – progress might be made.
The small Balkan state relies heavily on hydroelectricity for its power, with more than 2,100 MW of dams in operation. And while this energy source certainly is clean, it can also be unreliable. Droughts in 2017 led the country to import as much as 80% of its power, at considerable expense.
Albania currently produces only minimal amounts of wind and solar energy, and the government is eager to scale these sectors up, to harness more of an estimated 7 GW of potential. There have been several recent milestones. The country held its first solar tender for a 100-MW facility last year, and launched the first tender for wind generation this summer. But solar and wind power will not provide the baseload capacity needed to offset fluctuating hydroelectric output.
The government has therefore turned to natural gas, but first Albania must develop the necessary infrastructure.
Signs of progress
Albania, one of the world's oldest oil producers, once produced a fair amount of gas of its own, with supply peaking at 1bn m
3 in the mid 1980s. It has since fallen to an almost negligible level, however. A relic of this period, the country has a domestic gas grid some 400 km in size, although some of it is now inoperable. The country has a 100-MW thermal power plant in the port of Vlora that can run on both gas and oil. But though completed back in 2009, it remains offline because of technical faults in its design.
Critically, Albania lacks any pipeline connections with its neighbours, let alone regasification capacity, to import gas. And for years, efforts to establish these links have floundered. As of late last year, though, Albania serves as a key gas transit route. The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) was declared ready to operate last November and began flowing gas across Albanian territory for onward delivery to Italy at the end of 2020.
Albania lacks the infrastructure to take any gas from TAP, and even if it did, the pipeline's 10bn m
3/year capacity is fully reserved by buyers in Italy, which have agreed to take 8bn m 3/yr, and in Bulgaria and Greece, which will each receive 1bn m 3/yr. Nevertheless, authorities in Tirana are hopeful that TAP's launch will help kickstart Albania's own gas programme.
The pipeline’s commissioning was followed by a preliminary agreement in March between Albania’s government, US oil major ExxonMobil and US LNG vessel operator Excelerate Energy to assess the construction of a regasification terminal. The proposed terminal would be sited in Vlora, and the partners agreed to study the recommissioning and potential expansion of the nearby Vlora power plant, as well as evaluate prospects for small-scale LNG supply. Small-scale LNG supply can be viewed as a favourable option in countries like Albania that lack a developed pipeline grid.
Results from the studies are expected in the third quarter of 2021, while the LNG import terminal itself could be up and running as early as 2023, pending an investment decision.
Then in July, Excelerate, Italian engineering group Snam and state-owned Albgaz agreed to co-operate on the potential building of a gas pipeline from the proposed Vlora terminal to other possible gas infrastructure in Albania. They will also look at developing underground gas storage.
Later that month, the consortium operating TAP agreed terms with Albania’s energy ministry on the development of a delivery point at Fier that would allow the country to access the pipeline’s gas. But the group did not disclose when it envisaged the facility’s completion, or at what cost.
Even so, Albanian prime minister Edi Rama proclaimed the agreement could pave the way for the country’s eventually transformation “practically into a net exporter of energy,” by “introducing gas as another component into the economic and social life of the country.”
It is unclear whether Albania could access any gas without TAP having to undergo an expansion. TAP this summer held a binding market test for potentially increasing the pipeline’s capacity to 14.4bn m
3/yr, 17.1bn m 3/yr or 20bn m 3/yr by as early as 2026. But no bids were received. And in any case, capacity was notably only offered at delivery points in Greece and Italy and not in Albania.
Meanwhile, public consultations were launched in June on the long-planned Ionian-Adriatic Pipeline (IAP), which would run from Fier in Albania through Montenegro and Bosnia to Croatia, where an LNG import terminal began operations at the start of this year. It is one of a number of pipelines either planned or under construction in the Balkans, aimed at uniting the region’s fragmented energy markets.
In Albania, IAP will form the backbone of the northern part of the Albanian gas transmission system, Dr Lorenc Gordani, energy expert at the Tirana Business University, tells
NGW. It will also facilitate gas supply to Kosovo through the proposed Alkogap pipeline, which has a projected cost of €215mn ($254mn). Golden age of gas
Gordani believes Albania’s focus on gas will support its industrial and general economic development, noting that the country’s low energy consumption per capita leaves significant room for growth. Gas will provide for this growth and help balance Albania’s volatile energy system, especially as more wind and solar projects are rolled out, he says.
“Developed countries have all gone through the golden phase of natural gas development, which, fortunately, Albania is now entering with the TAP project,” Gordani explains. Along with alternative supply options like US LNG, TAP’s gas would help ensure the reliability of the country’s energy system and complement other sources including wind and solar.
Albania’s government envisages 720 MW of operational gas-fired power generation by 2028, estimating that these plants will constitute 42% of the country’s total gas demand by the end of the decade. Besides the station in Vlora, Austrian firm IVI-COM has proposed building a 480-MW combined cycle gas turbine plant in Korca. Some 25% of demand will be in the services sector, while housing and industry will account for about 12%.
Gordani pointed to several reasons for Albania’s failure so far in developing a gas market. For one, the country’s power generation is dominated by handful of incumbents that limit competition, and reforms to bring the market in line with EU norms are incomplete. There is also a lack of sound and up-to-date studies, the expert notes. Albania’s National Gas Master Plan, for example, is now four years old and will have to be revised.
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Tuesday’s NEC meeting saw the Labour Party adopt new rules to restrict participation in its leadership contest. Presumably their intent was to assist anti-Corbyn forces by limiting the size of the pro-Crobyn selectorate.
But in doing so the NEC has made a fundamental strategic miscalculation. It has chosen to refight the leadership contest of summer 2015 instead of setting the stage anew for summer 2016.
To understand this, let’s first consider what the big changes actually are:
a freeze date of six months (meaning members who have joined since January can’t vote in the leadership contest) an increase in the supporter registration fee from £3 to £25 a registration window of just 48hrs from Monday for new supporters affiliate registration deadline of August 8 (meaning that you can join a trade union or socialist society like the Fabians and vote in the leadership contest)
Anti-Corbyn forces hope that these restrictions will prevent the participation of the near 150,000 new members that the Labour Party has added since 23 June alone.
This has presumably been done because the experience of last summer was that Corbyn won the full membership more narrowly then the registered supporters section, which he won overwhelmingly. Thus restricting these supporters makes for a closer race among members.
But such a logic, however undemocratic it may be, only holds if those new members are not able to find an alternative route into the franchise. Yet this is precisely what the affiliates route offers. As a consequence recently disenfranchised members can rejoin the leadership race by registering as an affiliate voter. Expect Unite to expand on its low cost membership scheme to allow exactly this to occur on a large scale.
In attempting to restrict voting but leaving the affiliates route open, the NEC has thus made it easier to recruit through affiliates and harder to do so without them.
In essence, this means new voters face higher barriers to entry. But the pro-Corbyn faction have significant numbers of voters who are probably willing to endure high barriers for their cause.
In contrast, the anti-Corbyn faction may have a larger potential pool of voters, but these voters are likely to be deterred by high barriers to entry. Previously, the message could simply have been: “Angry about Corbyn’s role in Brexit? Join Labour today.” Now this faction will have to say: “Angry about Corbyn’s role in Brexit? Join a trade union you may dislike or a socialist society you’ve never heard of.”
Pro-Corbyn supporters who have joined since January have both a strong pull factor (Corbyn) and a strong push factor (disenfranchisement). What’s more, their politics likely align with that of the Unite leadership, which offers them an easy, low cost means of voting in the contest.
Anti-Corbyn forces are now trying to shut the barn door after the horse has bolted by attempting to impose a freeze date on affiliates. But enforcing such a rule on affiliates may prove difficult.
Last summer Labour was consumed by the mass participation of pro-Corbyn supporters. His opponents could have responded by beefing up their own numbers through mass recruitment at as low an entry cost as possible. Such party might have actually reflected the Labour electorate at large.
But rather than out-recruiting the Corbynistas, the anti-Corbyn forces tried to win this fight using the rule book. Unfortunately for them, in leaving the affiliates door open, they may well have outsmarted themselves.
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What is scoliosis? Scoliosis is a sideways curve of the spine. Children and teens with scoliosis have an abnormal S-shaped or C-shaped curve of the spine. The curve can happen on either side of the spine and in different places in the spine. With treatment, observation, and follow-up with the doctor, most children and teens with scoliosis have normal, active lives.
What are growth plate injuries? The growth plate is the area of tissue near the ends of long bones in children and teens that determines what length and shape the bone will be once it is done growing. Each long bone— the thigh bone, the bones in the forearm, and the bones in the hands and fingers—has at least two growth plates, one at each end. Once your child has finished growing, the growth plates close and are replaced by solid bone. The growth plates are weak areas of your child’s growing skeleton, making it easier to injure them. Injuries
What is pemphigus? Pemphigus is a rare disease that causes blistering on many parts of the body, including the skin and the inside of the mouth, nose, throat, eyes, and genitals. In pemphigus, the immune system mistakenly attacks cells in the top layer of the skin.
What is scleroderma? Scleroderma is an autoimmune connective tissue and rheumatic disease that causes inflammation in the skin and other areas of the body. This inflammation leads to patches of tight, hard skin. Scleroderma involves many systems in your body. A connective tissue disease is one that affects tissues such as skin, tendons, and cartilage. There are two major types of scleroderma: Localized scleroderma only affects the skin and the structures directly under the skin. Systemic scleroderma, also called systemic sclerosis, affects many systems in the body. This is the more serious type of scleroderma and can damage your blood
What is osteopetrosis? Osteopetrosis is a rare disorder that causes bones to grow abnormally and become too dense. When this happens, bones can break easily. In addition, bones may be misshapen and large, causing other problems in the body, such as problems with: Seeing and hearing. Fighting infection. Controlling bleeding. Osteopetrosis is a genetic disease that a child inherits from their parents. The disorder may be mild to severe, and symptoms may show up early after birth or later in adulthood.
What is Behçet’s disease? Behçet’s disease can affect different parts of your body. If you have the disease, you probably have sores in the mouth or on the genitals (sex organs). More serious symptoms can include swelling, heat, redness, and pain in the eyes and other parts of the body. The disease is named after the doctor who first described it, Dr. Hulusi Behçet.
What are sports injuries? Sports injuries are injuries that happen when playing sports or exercising. There are two kinds of sports injuries: Acute injuries occur suddenly when playing or exercising. For example: Sprained ankles. Strained backs. Broken bones. Chronic injuries happen after you play a sport or exercise for a long time.
What is fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a long-lasting or chronic disorder that causes muscle pain and fatigue (feeling tired). If you have fibromyalgia, you have pain and tenderness throughout your body. Sometimes you may have two or more chronic pain conditions at the same time, such as: Chronic fatigue syndrome. Endometriosis. Irritable bowel syndrome. Interstitial cystitis. Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ). Vulvodynia.
What are sprains and strains? A sprain is an injury to a ligament (tissue that connects two or more bones at a joint). When a sprain happens, one or more ligaments is stretched or torn. A strain is an injury to a muscle or tendon (fibrous cords of tissue that connect muscle to bone). In a strain, a muscle or tendon is stretched or torn.
What is Paget’s disease? Paget’s disease of bone is a chronic (long-lasting) disorder that causes bones to grow larger and become weaker than normal. Usually only one or a few bones have the disease. Many people with Paget’s disease do not have symptoms. However, the bone changes can cause: Bone pain. Misshapen bones. Broken bones (fractures). Problems in the joints near the bones with the disease. With treatment, many people can: Manage their symptoms. Improve pain. Control the effects of the disease.
What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become weak and brittle. This increases your risk of broken bones (fractures). Osteoporosis is a “silent” disease because you may not have symptoms. You may not even know you have the disease until you break a bone. Breaks can occur in any bone but happen most often in: Hip bones. Vertebrae in the spine. Wrist. You can take steps to help prevent osteoporosis and broken bones by: Doing weight-bearing exercises, such as walking or dancing, and lifting weights. Not drinking too much alcohol. Quitting smoking, or not starting if
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What is rosacea? Rosacea (ro-ZAY-she-ah) is a long-term disease that causes reddened skin and pimples, usually on the face. It can also make skin thicker and cause eye problems.
What is scoliosis? Scoliosis is a sideways curve of the spine. Children and teens with scoliosis have an abnormal S-shaped or C-shaped curve of the spine. The curve can happen on either side of the spine and in different places in the spine. With treatment, observation, and follow-up with the doctor, most children and teens with scoliosis have normal, active lives.
What is reactive arthritis? Reactive arthritis is pain or swelling in a joint that is caused by an infection in your body. You may also have red, swollen eyes and a swollen urinary tract. These symptoms may occur alone, together, or not at all. Most people with reactive arthritis recover fully from the first flare of symptoms and can return to regular activities 2 to 6 months later. Some people will have long-term, mild arthritis. A few patients will have long-term, severe arthritis that is difficult to control with treatment and may cause joint damage.
What is bursitis? Bursitis is a common condition that causes swelling and pain around muscles and bones. Bursitis is the swelling of the bursa, a small, fluid-filled sac that acts as a cushion between a bone and other moving parts, such as muscles, tendons, or skin.
What is ichthyosis? Ichthyosis is a group of skin disorders. It leads to dry, itchy skin that appears scaly, rough, and red. The symptoms can range from mild to severe. Ichthyosis can affect only the skin, but sometimes the disease can affect internal organs, too.
What is epidermolysis bullosa? Epidermolysis bullosa is a group of rare diseases that cause fragile skin that leads to blisters and tearing. Tears, sores, and blisters in the skin happen when something rubs or bumps the skin. They can appear anywhere on the body. In severe cases, blisters may also develop inside the body. The symptoms of the disease usually begin at birth or during infancy and range from mild to severe.
What is Sjögren’s syndrome? Sjögren’s syndrome is a chronic (long-lasting) disorder that happens when the immune system attacks the glands that make moisture in the eyes, mouth, and other parts of the body. The main symptoms are dry eyes and mouth, but the disorder may affect other parts of the body. Many people with Sjogren’s syndrome say they feel tired often (fatigue). They also may have joint and muscle pain. In addition, the disease can damage the lungs, kidneys, and nervous system.
What are sports injuries? Sports injuries are injuries that happen when playing sports or exercising. There are two kinds of sports injuries: Acute injuries occur suddenly when playing or exercising. For example: Sprained ankles. Strained backs. Broken bones. Chronic injuries happen after you play a sport or exercise for a long time.
What are sprains and strains? A sprain is an injury to a ligament (tissue that connects two or more bones at a joint). When a sprain happens, one or more ligaments is stretched or torn. A strain is an injury to a muscle or tendon (fibrous cords of tissue that connect muscle to bone). In a strain, a muscle or tendon is stretched or torn.
What is spinal stenosis? Spinal stenosis happens when the spaces in the spine narrow and create pressure on the spinal cord and nerve roots. The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that comes out of the base of the brain and runs down the center of the spine. The nerve roots branch out from the cord. In spinal stenosis, the narrowing usually occurs over time.
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According to dictionary.com, “birding” is the identification and observation of wild birds in their natural habitat as a recreation; bird-watching. What better way to enjoy
birding than your own backyard (or front yard, or side yard)!
OnTheFeeder.com is dedicated to helping you become a better
backyard birder so you can bring nature up close.
My foundational articles share how to attract popular birds to your yard including the popular eastern bluebirds, northern cardinals, and woodpeckers, as well as the amazing but not as popular cedar waxwings and indigo buntings.
I also know once you start attracting wild birds to your yard questions will arise. I want to be your one-stop resource to answer your questions and guide you out of those concerns.
You’ll likely be wondering which is the best bird feeder to buy (or nesting box, or bird feeder pole system, or bird food, or outdoor web camera). You can trust me. I thoroughly analyze all of the products that I write about to
formulate my own decisions about performance and value (whether or not I recommend them) so you can feel confident before making a purchase. In many cases, I tried out the products as well.
Most of all I want to help you make the most of the serene, awe-inspiring hobby that is
backyard birding.
I’m just like you, a regular gal looking for inspiration in my life. I found it through backyard birding and hope you will too.
About Tammy
Hey Everyone! I’m Tammy Poppie, a lifelong Wisconsin native and backyard bird enthusiast! I’ve been enjoying birds in my backyard for more than 20 years – ever since my husband gave me a bird feeding system for Christmas. Initially, I had no clue what I was doing. I poured sunflower seed in the feeder, hung it out, and waited for them to come.
I wasn’t sure what to expect so was delighted (and a little shocked) when they actually started coming. All different sizes, colors, and personalities. Some were drab, others colorful, and some in between. I had no idea what kind they were so I started studying wild birds to identify what was visiting my yard.
Pretty soon I was intentionally trying to attract cardinals and Baltimore orioles while trying to discourage the non-native house sparrows.
Fast forward 20 years and I’ve had just about every bird visit my yard (at least those that live in the range of my home).
There’s nothing like the sound of birds, especially in early spring when you’ve had your fill of winter and just want warmer weather or seeing the first oriole of the season. To this day I’m in awe over these amazing creatures.
I created OnTheFeeder.com to share what I’ve learned about backyard birding so others can discover the beauty of nature up close.
When I’m not on my deck enjoying the chatter of my feathered friends you can find me somewhere in nature either hiking, biking, kayaking, or fishing.
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Coronavirus has ensured that working from home will remain a mainstay in our lives for the time being, in at least some capacity. After a long summer, there’s no better way to invigorate your back-to-work attitude than giving your home office a face lift. We have covered general home working space tips before, however more than a year into the pandemic, now is the time to experiment with specific styles.
The industrial style of interior design was borne of the modernist movement in the 20th century. Moving away from the excessive décor and frills of styles gone by, this new style placed importance upon ‘truth to materials’ – using construction materials and techniques as the decoration – as well as the concept of ‘form follows function’ – functionality dictating the way things look, ensuring efficiency.
Nurtured by the popularity of the adaptive reuse of industrial buildings – namely re-industrialised factories and warehouses, present especially in the ‘loft living’ phenomenon in 1970’s New York – we arrive at the present day, where this aesthetic remains popular in architecture and interiors alike.
Even if you don’t live in a lofty, vast-windowed mezzanine apartment in a former factory, with exposed air ducts and brickwork, you can still build an industrial feel into your home, whatever its style or period. And, being characterised by efficiency and productivity means this style is perfect for a home office.
Palette
A simple Pinterest or Instagram search for ‘industrial home office’ will reveal countless examples of this room archetype in this style, which verifies its appropriateness. One of the things these examples have in common include a neutral, natural colour palette – wood, metal, and plain textiles and walls.
While this palette is usually darker in tone, with dark-stained wood, moodier-hued metals and navy/black/gunmetal grey walls, a lighter neutral colour palette can easily be employed depending on your tastes and light requirements. This could be a pleasant deviation from the norm and may make your working from home experience a little more upbeat.
Why not try mixing these two tones; light walls and wooden elements with dark linear edging provided by bookshelves, table legs and accessories for structure and composition, or vice-versa: dark walls with light elements that appear to be luminous against a moody backdrop.
Furniture
The mainstays of a home office include a desk, chair and storage. These pieces are industrious by their very function, so the challenge is uniting these with the aesthetic described above.
Our top choices for industrial desks include those with wooden elements, like the Phoenix modern white computer desk and Chester oak corner desk. Desks with storage combined raise the functionality of the piece, for example the Chester desk with shelving and Oslo computer desk. Strong black or white profiles can help solidify your choice of darker or lighter scheme, such as the Vola and black gamer desk.
We have taken care of the very necessary comfort element of desk chairs, so it’s up to you to make your own personal aesthetic choices. This element is where you can add in a pop of colour or alternative material to personalise your industrial-inspired space – for example the Piper or Harper swivel chair in pink which combines strong, black-finished metal base with plush pink velvet upholstered seat. For a simpler form, the streamlined Isabella swivel chair promotes a more upright seat, enhancing awakeness, and in light grey velvet ensures a cool, calm and collected aesthetic.
The themes of colour and texture continue when choosing storage solutions – the Phantom oak storage cabinet has a pronounced wood grain finish and ample storage space for all your stationery and filing needs, where the Phoenix white bookshelf has a wood grain base and white finish for a brighter take on upright storage.
Accessories
The industrial aesthetic is further elevated by the accents and accessories present in the office. A home office, whether in its own dedicated room or a small area of a larger room, is mainly about function and productivity, and thus its best to avoid too much distracting décor.
A necessary facility that can be made more interesting is lighting; it’s present anyway, so it doesn't hurt to make it a feature in and of itself. The Morom pendant lamps and desk lamps come in white, black and wooden finish, to perfectly compliment your industrial office scheme.
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Earned Value Management
Earned Value is the most comprehensive trend analysis technique available to project managers. By using trend data, it is possible to forecast cost or schedule overruns early in a project.
Many IT projects have been declared too costly, too late and often don't work right. Applying appropriate management techniques can improve the situation.
Busted! Seven of the most common myths about Earned Value Management, which continues to be one of the best ways to manage almost any project.
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Earned Value (EV) is a management tool for tracking and communicating a project's status. Earned Value Management (EVM) will let you know the actual state of the project.
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Earned Value is a technique where the project plan, actual work and work completed value is monitored to see if a project is on track.
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Earned Value Management is a systematic project management process used to find variances in projects based on comparison of worked performed and work planned.
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Earned value is one of the most sophisticated and accurate methods for measuring and controlling project schedules and budgets.
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By Tammo T. Wilkens
This paper explores the three major questions regarding Earned Value: what, why and how? The purpose is to allay any fears the reader might have about applying this useful project management tool and to point the way to making it work.
Learn more with the Earned Value Management Tutorial from Tutorials Point.
Nothing of value comes without being earned. Michael Jordan
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Just one year ago, in September 2020,
Bitcoin passed the symbolic milestone of 100 million users on its network. Even then, this figure was an estimate of the number of Bitcoin users since, as you know, it is not possible to have an exact figure of the number of users on the network.
Bitcoin is a pseudonymous network where you can always know the number of active addresses. And you know that people can have several addresses on the network. Based on this and other data, some people have started to build models to estimate the number of users on the network.
As I write this, it is September 2021. The latest estimate is that there are 125 million users on the Bitcoin network. This is a nice growth over a year and is the result of the Bull Market that Bitcoin started in October 2020.
Despite this, you can see around you that a majority of people in the general public still don't like Bitcoin. I have friends who invest in the stock market, for example, and they still hate Bitcoin even though I spent a lot of time trying to get them to open their eyes to
this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
After thinking about it for a while, I have concluded that these staunch anti-Bitcoin people have 5 main reasons for not opening their eyes to this incredible monetary revolution.
They suffer from intellectual laziness
You must have already noticed that the number of people who do not seek to evolve and progress is incredibly large. These people complain about unpleasant situations, but when presented with a solution, they will say that it is too complicated for them.
Without even taking the time to understand things, these people decide not to make any effort. They suffer from intellectual laziness in my opinion.
This behavior is detrimental because these people will remain stuck in their comfort zone forever. A comfort zone that will become narrower and narrower as time goes by, whereas putting oneself at risk to discover new things is the only way to reach the growth zone.
To me,
the current monetary and financial system is the comfort zone, while Bitcoin is the growth zone. There is an initial effort to understand the why of Bitcoin, but once that effort is made, your life will be changed for the better forever. They do not understand the economy
The education system does everything to keep people in the dark about how money and the economy work. When you try to understand the current system, you are quickly told that it is very complex. You will ask 10 random economists for details, and you will probably get 10 different answers in the end.
Not seeking to go further on their own, many people are left in the dark about
the flaws in the current monetary and financial system that will lead to its collapse.
It is only a matter of time, unfortunately. By not understanding the problem with fiat money that can be printed in infinite quantities out of thin air, these people will obviously not be able to grasp the importance of hard money like Bitcoin for the future.
When you are presented with an incredible solution to a problem that is not a problem for you, you will certainly not be able to grasp it. So the first step is to understand the problem with the current system. Then you'll happily discover that Bitcoin addresses these problems in an incredibly ingenious way.
They think that what is only digital has no value
We live in a society where Baby Boomers and Generation X dominate the most important positions in the monetary and financial system. These people do not understand that the world is becoming digital at an incredible speed and that in twenty years or so, everything will be digital.
For these people from another time, something that is only digital like Bitcoin cannot have any value.
I often hear critics of Bitcoin tell me that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. I tell them that it is the same for the US dollar and any other fiat currency. You have to go back to the subjective conception of value to understand why Bitcoin has value.
Bitcoin is valuable because it is useful to over 125 million users. These users trust Bitcoin and have chosen to secure the fruits of their labor in its network. All this is voluntary and not forced.
In the current system, the US dollar and the euro are only valuable because governments force them on you. It is not a choice made by the people.
They believe things without even checking
Bitcoin's motto immediately shows that its system is a network of trust: "
Don't Trust, Verify".
Bitcoin pushes you to constantly check everything yourself. Bitcoin is an open and transparent system that anyone can check at any time. Install and run your own node on the network, then you will be able to be your own bank with Bitcoin.
Unfortunately, too many people believe things without checking. The problem is more serious when the lies are propagated by the people they consider trustworthy within the current system. I am talking about politicians, economists, and bankers.
These powerful people in the current system have been doing everything they can for several years to denigrate Bitcoin to the general public with clichés that have already been refuted hundreds of times. The problem is that the general public is more likely to remember the lies of these powerful people than the demonstrations made to dismantle all these clichés and other FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) messages.
This problem goes far beyond the Bitcoin system, but it is something that penalizes one from really seizing the Bitcoin opportunity.
They trust centralized authorities
This last reason why many people do not like Bitcoin is related to the previous one. A majority of people trust the centralized authorities. These people believe the powerful people at the head of the current system so much that they are ready to swallow all the lies without flinching.
It is quite terrible to observe when you have discovered the ugly truth, but that is how it is!
Many feel reassured by governments and banks, whereas the last decades have shown us time and again that it is no longer possible to have blind trust in these institutions. Yet this is what the current system established in 1971 requires.
Bitcoin is a major paradigm shift in that no one is asking you to take their word for it. The truth of Bitcoin is consolidated by the fact that it is verifiable at any time in a decentralized way by all its users.
The fact that there is a consensus gives incredible weight to this truth.
Final Thoughts
Bitcoin is an incredible monetary revolution that will change the world of the future for the better. An alternative system that will be used by more and more people in the years to come. Those who will be slowest to embrace this revolution are those who refuse to adapt to the changing world or are blinded by what the powerful people in the current system say.
For these people, I have only one thing to say: you must take your money future into your own hands. Only you can take care of the fruits of your labor. It takes some intellectual effort, but that's how you can get out of your comfort zone and into the growth zone that is Bitcoin.
Anyone who has done it has never regretted it.
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Last updated on September 17th, 2021
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Choosing the best weedkiller for your driveway and patio
Weeds can grow anywhere and everywhere. Not even a well-paved block paving driveway can resist weed growth. Here at Pyracantha, home and garden maintenance is our top priority and we simply can’t let weeds take over our paths, block paving and driveways.
So we set out to find the best solution to the weed problem. We found that some people have used salt to get rid of weeds yet the problem still persists. This method is really simple; dilute salt with water, add dish soap and spray over your drive. The challenge with this approach is that you will need a lot of salt (1kg of salt per 2L of water). This means if you have an extensive driveway, you can only do so much.
Some driveways are even laid with weed control fabric but weeds will always find a way to grow.
Whilst there might not be an absolute permanent solution to weed growth, weed killers have always proved effective, at least for several months. Some are good at destroying the weeds above the surface but the best weed killers for drives and paths eliminate weeds down to the root, making sure these unwanted plants never come back again.
Such is the power of the Roundup 5 Litre Fast Action Weedkiller Pump n Go Spray which happens to be our overall best weed killer for driveways for pure ease of use and effectiveness. Check it out below before we get to some of the other great alternatives, these include ready to use weedkillers as well as concentrates that you need to mix with water, which can be a more cost-effective way to treat a large area. Don’t forget weedkillers are always best applied with a garden sprayer rather than using a watering can, as this can actually be very wasteful.
BEST PICK BEST BUDGET PICK The top 6 weedkillers for driveways that we have included in our review Roundup 5 Litre Fast Action Weedkiller Pump n Go Sprayer – BEST PICK Resolva 5 Litre 24H Ready to Use Power Pump Weedkiller Deadfast Concentrated Weedkiller Sachets Elixir Gardens Gallup Glyphosate Commercial Strength Weedkiller – BEST PICK FOR LARGE DRIVES Roundup Ultra Weedkiller Concentrate Bottle – BEST ALL ROUND PICK Resolva Xtra Tough Concentrated Weedkiller – BEST BUDGET PICK BEST ALL-ROUND PICK BEST PICK FOR LARGE DRIVES Top 6 Weedkiller Reviews Ready to Use Weedkillers 1. Roundup 5 Litre Fast Action Weedkiller Pump n Go Spray BEST PICK
The Roundup 5 Litre Fast Action Weedkiller Pump n Go Spray is a popular product with avid gardeners and it caught our attention as well. This weedkiller has been formulated to kill weeds down to the root, inhibiting future growth for the most part. It is a multi-purpose herbicide that destroys annual and perennial weeds such as dandelions, nettles, docks, bindweed, thistles and ground elder.
The 5L option offers up to 10 minutes of continuous spraying, making the weedkiller a good choice for treating large areas up to 150m2, which Roundup claims to be the longest spray action compared to other ready to use weed killers on the market.
As the title suggests, the herbicide is fast-acting and results can be noticed within 2 days. Furthermore, you don’t have to chase your kids away from the treated area or lock yourselves indoors after treating your paths and drives. This herbicide is children and pet friendly, although you have to let it dry after application, once dry it’s safe.
The 5L container comes with an extendable lance and nozzle, designed to adjust from jet to spray for effective application. No need to buy a separate garden sprayer for the job.
Pros A fast acting weedkiller that gives results within 2 days. A good choice for treating large areas up to 150m2. Formulated to kill weeds completely from the leaves down to the root, so they dissappear for good. A multi-purpose weedkiller that eradicates annual and perennial weeds. Delivers up to 10 minutes of spray action from one touch, which is longer than the competition. Degrades naturally in the soil, thus will not harm the soil around your driveway. Equipped with an adjustable nozzle for convenient spraying. Has an extendable lance for easy application without bending too much. Cons Not effective on all kinds of weeds, such as woody and very tough weeds, for example horsetails, however, we didn’t find any weedkiller that can kill horsetails straight away. We suggest you try a weedkiller designed for brambles and keep treating several times and this should begin to have an impact. Our recommendation
The Roundup 5 Litre Fast Action Weedkiller Pump n Go Spray is a quality weedkiller that does a good job on paths, drives and patios. It acts fast on weeds and does not harm the soil so you can still plant around the borders if any of the excess spray lands on the borders. Remember it will still kill your plants if some spray lands on those.
Children and pets need not be excluded from sprayed areas because the herbicide is not harmful once dry, which is useful for busy families. The included lance, with adjustable nozzle, is a big plus and very handy for those looking for a weedkiller they can use on a large driveway but don’t want to have the hassle of mixing and pouring into a sprayer.
The only disappointment that we found with this weedkiller is that it doesn’t kill all kinds of weeds, mainly the toughest types such as woody weeds such as brambles and horsetails. For this reason, if you do want to kill brambles keep reading on to find a better solution. Otherwise, it’s a decent choice for the price and should be a great choice for the vast majority of people which is why we have awarded it our ‘Best Pick’.
Compare the best prices from available sellers below 2. Resolva 5 Litre 24H Ready to Use Power Pump Weedkiller
The Resolva 5 Litre 24H Ready to Use Power Pump Weedkiller is a great solution to weeds that infest large gardens (patios and driveways included). It is formulated to kill weeds down to the root so that these pesky plants don’t show up again for a long time. The product can treat an area of up to 200m2 and gardeners can witness results in a matter of just 24 hours but some weeds may take 2 days before showing results.
It comes ready to use in a 5L container just like the Roundup alternative, which means there is no need for diluting the liquid. You also have an option to choose from 1L, 3L and 5L containers. For instance, if you have a medium area, say 40m2, you will be good with the Resolva 3L weed killer.
The product comes with Reslova’s Power Sprayer that features a dual-action trigger for fast application and users can also benefit from 5 minutes of controllable spraying.
Pros Ready to use with included lance and treats 200m2. Delivers viable results within 24 hours. It kills weeds and roots, preventing them from coming back. Comes in 1L, 3L and 5L containers, so you can choose the ideal option for your job. Cons Some tougher weeds may not be effected. Our recommendation
The Resolva 5 Litre 24H Ready to Use Power Pump Weedkiller works as it should and is especially effective on dandelions. You can opt for the mini spray bottles to treat smaller areas but you’d be better off with the 5L for areas up to 200m2.
The product literally gives long-term results so you can have peace of mind and enjoy walking on good-looking paths and drives. Just like most ready to use weedkillers it will not be effective on weedy hard to kill weeds so you would be better off investing in a concentrate and mixing something stronger for brambles or similar.
Compare the best prices from available sellers below Concentrate Weed Killers 3. Deadfast Concentrated Weedkiller Sachets
This concentrated herbicide comes in individual sachets of varying sizes, which include 6, 12 and 18-piece sachets. One sachet treats an area of up 60 square metres. The one we have here is the 12 x 100ml Deadfast Concentrated Weedkiller Sachets and if you do the math, then you’ll know the size of the area you can treat (720 sq. meters) making it great for very large drives
It works by diluting the concentrate with water though you can still apply straight from the sachet to destroy stubborn woody weeds so would be good for killing horsetail by using straight from the sachet. It is a systematic weedkiller that contains ammonium salt of glyphosate. Once the herbicide is absorbed on unwanted plants, it is carried throughout the plant system by sap, down to the root where it starts to work. Effects are visible in 1-2 weeks so patience is needed with this one, but this is the price you pay for excellent results.
Please note that the Deadfast weedkiller is non-selective, so you should be careful not to kill desired plants when using it. However, it doesn’t have mercy for the likes of dandelions, brambles, chickweed, thistles, tumbleweed, crabgrass and orchard grass. The product is intended to kill weeds on patios, drives, paths and any other weed-infested place. The good thing is, is that it allows for sowing and replanting of desired plants if you spray borders to clear away the weeds before planting afresh.
The best time to use this concentrated weedkiller is between April and September. This is a time when weeds are actively growing and can absorb the weedkiller to the roots.
Pros Can be used mixed with water for the more common weeds or undiluted those stubborn and harder to kill weeds. Works on many kinds of weeds including tough woody weeds that most other ready to use weedkillers won’t even touch. Kills unwanted plants from the roots through systematic action, making sure they don’t grow again. Easy to use thanks to the supplied individual sachets for easy measuring. Fairly priced weedkiller meaning you can treat a very large area at a very affordable price. Cons Takes a long time to show results. Our recommendation
Well, if you have enough patience and want excellent results that will last, then the Deadfast Concentrated Weedkiller Sachets is your best match. 14 days is quite a long time to wait for a small investment to pay dividends, and that might be the major drawback of this product.
We still give the weedkiller marks for systematic action, which ensures the weed dies from the root. Overall, a good weedkiller at affordable pricing but be sure to use it when the weeds are actually growing for best results.
Compare the best prices from available sellers below 4. Elixir Gardens 2 litre Gallup Home & Garden Glyphosate Commercial Strength Weedkiller BEST PICK FOR LARGE DRIVES
Elixir Gardens claims that this weedkiller is the strongest that there is in the UK and we agree to a large extent. First of all, the Gallup Home & Garden Glyphosate Commercial Strength Weedkiller contains 360g/l glyphosate, which is the same formula found in professional-grade weedkillers. The impressive fact with this weedkiller is that it kills weeds in one application. It is effective on weeds such as docks, nettles, grasses, willowherb, bindweed and dandelions.
The 2L bottle treats up to 3332 sq.m although the use will depend on the size of the affected area. For instance, a litre can treat up to 0.5 of an acre for those treating really large areas. Make sure to dilute at 24ml of the concentrate per litre of water to get the best value.
It is a contact weedkiller that starts working the moment the chemical falls onto the unwanted plants. But, it is a non-selective type, so you must be extremely cautious during the application. The optimal time to use the weedkiller is between Spring and Autumn. It is also important to note that it only kills weeds that are actively growing and won’t be effective on germinating seedlings or dormant weeds. Also, the herbicide becomes inactivated on contact with soil and it does not leave residue, allowing for replanting after only 7 days.
Like any other harmful chemical, there are important things to keep in mind when using this herbicide. Make sure you apply it in dry, calm weather because elements such as rain and wind can transport the chemical to unwanted areas and harm other desired plants. In addition, you should avoid walking on applied areas including patio and paths until the weedkiller has dried. Any other precautions are listed on the product’s manual so make sure to read them.
Pros A strong herbicide containing 360g/l of glyphosate, which kills weeds effectively. The 2L bottle covers a relatively large area, thus offering good value for money. Elimiantes many weed varieties including grasses, docks, willowherb, dandelion and more. Inactivated upon contact with soil, thus allowing replanting to be done. Cons Slow results, which start to show within a few days but can be anywhere up to a month. Our recommendation
The Elixir Gardens Gallup Commercial Strength Weedkiller works on a variety of weeds but users must be patient to see results. Previous buyers have explained that it is more effective on tender plants than tougher ones but this is to be expected.
You should be a little careful when dealing with these product especially if you’ll be spraying near desired plants.
Overall this is an excellent and very popular weedkiller without the fancy marketing on the container, if you have a large area to treat this is an excellent choice and will give you good results.
Compare the best prices from available sellers below 5. Roundup Ultra Weedkiller Concentrate Bottle BEST ALL-ROUND PICK
The Roundup Ultra Weedkiller Concentrate Bottle contains a super-concentrated formula that makes it perfect for eliminating those tough weeds from our driveways, paths and patios. It actually does more than that, including clearing weeds around walls, fences, trees and shrubs.
The product is non-selective and has systematic action. That means it can kill every plant in its vicinity and it works by travelling through a plant’s transport system and killing every bit of it, above and below the ground. It is a good killer for controlling annual and deep-rooted perennial weeds which other weedkillers may not be as effective against. Use a garden sprayer to apply the herbicide to targeted areas. A watering can fitted with a fine hose can also do the trick but will probably not go as far.
Weeds such as brambles, nettles, Japanese knotweed, bracken, tree saplings and other woody weeds cannot stand the power of this weedkiller, meaning that if you have treated an area before only to see no effects, this is probably what you need. Yellowing of leaves and stems may appear within 48 hours after application though that is only the initial sign of the effect. The real action takes place on the inside, a process that ensures the weeds don’t come back for a long time.
It’s worth mentioning that Roundup Concentrate weed killer is degraded in soil by micro-organisms, therefore, replanting and sowing can be done after a few days. Make sure to keep children and pets out of treated areas until the herbicide dries as with all weedkillers.
Pros A great solution to killing deep-rooted perennial weeds and woodier weeds that other weedkillers have not be effective against. Can treat large areas of weeds. Gives quick results within 48 hours. Degrades in the soil to allow replanting and sowing. Ideal for use all around the garden including on patios, driveways, paths, walls and fences. Cons A bit more expensive than other weedkillers, but you get what you pay for with weedkillers. Our recommendation
The Roundup Ultra Weedkiller Concentrate Bottle is perfect for various weed killing tasks around the garden and it is quite effective, especially for those areas you have tried to treat and failed with other weedkillers.
It kills weeds on and below the ground, ensuring that they do not regrow again in a few weeks time.
We would say the Roundup Ultra WeedKiller is a good choice for use all around the garden and is especially good for thick woody weeds such as brambles.
Compare the best prices from available sellers below 6. Resolva Xtra Tough Concentrated Weedkiller BEST BUDGET PICK
The Resolva Xtra Tough Weedkiller comes in a small 200ml bottle but that’s enough to clear weeds around the home, drives, paths and pavings included. It kills tough weeds such as tougher grass, thistles, brambles and docks.
The product is formulated with a special IQ technology for superior performance. The technology enables the herbicide to target weeds from the roots and it works well on broad-leaved weeds including broad-leafed dock, cleavers, bracken, white clover, common thistle, scotch thistle and more.
It is a systematic herbicide, meaning it seeps its way into the foliage and down to the root system where it destroys the enzymes responsible for plant growth. This makes it a great choice for controlling deep-rooted weeds.
This herbicide needs to be diluted with water before application and a sprayer will definitely come in handy. The product is biodegradable so it does not prevent cultivation, especially when used on the farm. Note that rain can wash away this weedkiller, therefore, make sure to conduct this exercise in dry weather.
The ideal time to use the weedkiller is between early Spring and Autumn. Be careful not to spray onto desired plants and avoid using the weedkiller on lawns.
Pros It kills all types of weeds that grow on drives, block paving and paths. Utilises unique IQ technology to kill unwanted plants from the roots. Good for eradicating weeds in densely vegetated areas. A solid inexpensive solution to weed problems. Cons A bit slow to work. Our recommendation
The Resolva Xtra Tough Concentrated Weedkiller offers an inexpensive way to tackle all kinds of weeds. The IQ technology used in this product makes it perfect for killing weeds from the inside out, even those woody and tough weeds.
On the downside, this weedkiller takes days to show substantial results. We still recommend it for use on areas overridden with unwanted weeds if you could not buy the Roundup Ultra Weedkiller Concentrate we have just reviewed.
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Having pointed out our best pick above, the pressing issue that may exist amongst homeowners is how to arrive at their decision for the best weedkiller for their driveway. This review has been prepared with that in mind and below we have a comprehensive guide on how to choose the best weedkiller.
Understanding weeds
Weeds are wild plants that grow in unwanted places. That means we cannot generalise these plants. Plants that are considered weeds in a particular situation might not be looked at the same way in another situation, where they are actually wanted. The sad thing is that weeds grow naturally, so it can be hard to control them. Farmers encounter weeds on their farms and you can find them in your lawn, driveway and paths (the list goes on and on). These plants can literally survive in any situation and they can even outstrip vegetation wherever they grow. That is why it is important to get rid of weeds, so you are left with uniform vegetation in your garden as well as good-looking surfaces such as a beautiful weed-free driveway.
How do weeds affect plants?
Weeds compete with desired plants for sunlight, water and precious nutrients. In a farm situation, weeds can greatly reduce crop yields because they give food to pests that harm desired plants. They also can host plant bacteria, which can degrade the soil as well as cause root damage.
Some species are poisonous and others cause skin irritation to humans and animals in case of contact. Last but not least, weeds can affect the aesthetics of beautiful lawns and of course driveways and other hard surfaces.
Weedkillers
Also known as herbicides or weedicides, weedkillers are crucial tools for avid gardeners and homeowners. They work to eliminate unwanted plants and restrict their normal growth.
There are different types of weedkillers and they are specially formulated to kill different types of weeds. Many people face the challenge of choosing the right weedkiller to handle the weeds in their garden, paths or driveways. Fortunately, we are going to cover that next so you can have an easy job selecting your ideal product. Whether you want the best weedkiller for a block paved drive, the best weedkiller for paths, or even the best weedkiller for drives and paths, we will guide you.
For now, avoid pulling weeds by hand because they will certainly grow right back, especially as you often leave the roots in the ground and only remove the foliage.
Types of weed killers
There are many types of weeds. In this review, we will differentiate weedkillers by these two aspects; characteristic and application.
Weedkillers by characteristic
Here we have four different characteristics; selectivity, emergence, persistence and translocation.
Selectivity –weedkillers are either selective or non-selective. Selective weedkillers destroy weeds without causing harm to nearby grass and are often used on lawns, whilst the non-selective ones kill everything in their vicinity so care should be taken not to get any spray on plants, this is one of the reasons why you should not spray in windy conditions. Emergence –weedkillers can be pre-emergence or post-emergence. Pre-emergence weedicides are used for targeting germinating seedlings before they grow, while post-emergent products work on weeds that have started growing. Persistence –there are persistent weedkillers that destroy everything and prevent regrowth, and non-persistent that have no lasting effect on weed regrowth. Translocation –some herbicides travel through a weed’s internal system whilst breaking it down. Others destroy unwanted plants through contact. Weed Killers by application Residual weedkillers
Also known as soil acting herbicides, we would not advise using these weedkillers on your farm or in your garden as they sit in the soil for several months, inhibiting any form of growth from happening. Some of them can poison the soil and render it useless for cultivation. Avoid using these herbicides in areas that you intend to grow crops in the next two years or more.
However, those qualities make residual weedkillers the best options for driveways, paths, and block paving – areas that you don’t want to see weeds ever. And, if you are choosing a weedkiller for a driveway, consider one that contains glyphosate because this compound kills weeds from the leaves, branches and roots.
Selective weedkillers
As mentioned above, these herbicides only kill particular plants. Lawn weed killers are good examples. These target broad-leaved plants (such as dandelions, daisies and buttercups) whilst having no effect on narrow-leaved plants (grass). Another example is weed killers used in forestry, which kills the grass without harming young saplings.
Non-selective weedkillers
These kill severely anything in their way. As such, users must take great care when applying these herbicides to their gardens. One serious precaution is to never spray a non-selective weed killer in windy conditions as the chemicals will obviously spread to unwanted places. Be sure not to walk over any sprayed areas because your footwear can still disperse chemicals to foreign grounds and cause unwanted harm. If you are spraying in a congested area, make sure to cover your desired plants. Handle your knapsack sprayer and chemicals with care too.
Systematic weedkiller
Most weedkillers are systematic in how they work. They penetrate into a plant’s transport system and destroy every bit of it, thus rendering it useless down to the root.
Contact weedkiller
Contact herbicides kill any plants that they touch. These weed killers are absorbed by leaves via the stomata and the process happens during the day. As you can recall from biology, stomata are only open during the day when photosynthesis is taking place. Therefore, a contact weedkiller must be applied to target weeds in the light of day for it to be effective.
One major advantage of contact weedkillers is that they have no effect on the soil. Results are visible within 2 weeks and these herbicides are great for dealing with annual weeds. If you want to control perennial weeds, you will have to make 2 or 3 applications.
Choosing the best weedkiller for driveways
The type of weed for your garden is a consideration you need to make, but that’s not the end of it. Here are more pointers to help you arrive at the ideal herbicide for your garden:
Season of use
Some weedkillers work best in particular conditions. A weedkiller that should be used in summer may not be effective in winter. With that in mind, be sure to schedule your weed control beforehand and read the label to see when it is best to use the weed killer.
Product effectiveness
Whilst weedkiller containers have labels that suggest their effectiveness, customer reviews can usually tell the whole truth. Make a point to go through a few just to know how effective your desired product is. Amazon is great for this as there are usually lots of reviews to read through and some may have found a certain weedkiller good for a certain weed you might be having trouble killing.
Liquid vs granular herbicides
Do you prefer a liquid or granular weed killer?
Liquid herbicides are formulated to be applied via a sprayer. If you don’t have one already, make a point to check the best garden sprayers here. Make sure to spray your weedkiller evenly over the target area to increase effectiveness. As a matter of fact, liquid weedkillers work best when the weeds are actively growing, that is, between April and September. Liquid weedkillers still come in two kinds; ready-to-use out of the bottle and a concentrate that needs to be mixed with water before application. Avoid using liquid weedkillers on rainy days because rainfall will just wash away the chemicals and make the entire exercise useless. Granular weed killers are good for lawn application but we would not recommend these for killing weeds on driveways and paths. This is because they can be hard to reach targeted weeds and literally you will have to cover your entire driveway with granules for the exercise to be effective and this is simply not a good idea, the only reason we even mention this, is to warn against doing this.
That said, stick to liquid weedkillers for working on your driveways, paths and block paving. You can choose between ready-to-use herbicides and concentrate weedkillers. If you have a large driveway it may be much more cost-effective to buy a concentrate and mix your own.
Take a look at some of these examples below, we have found 6 different weedkillers which will be very effective on driveways to make choosing one much easier.
Final Conclusion
Weeds that grow on our driveways can be tough to control but specialised herbicides can help eliminate them and prevent regrowth. We want to believe that this in-depth review has informed you enough about choosing the best weedkiller for drives and paths.
In our opinion, the best weedkiller for driveways should target unwanted weeds without affecting desired plants and the soil. As you have seen, however, some weedkillers might need you to be in control to ensure things are in order. We hope you find a product that delivers satisfactory results.
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Micro milling process of CuZn37 brass is considered important due to applications in tool production for micro moulding and micro replication technology. The variations in material properties, work material adhesion to tool surfaces, burr formation, and tool wear result in loss of productivity. The deformed chip shapes together with localized temperature, plastic strain, and cutting forces during micro milling process can be predicted using finite element (FE) modeling and simulation. However, tool-workpiece engagement suffers from tool run-out affecting process performance in surface generation. This work provides experimental investigations on effects of tool run-out as well as process insight obtained from simulation of chip flow, with and without considering tool run-out. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) observation of the 3D chip shapes demonstrates ductile deformed surfaces together with localized serration behavior. FE simulations are utilized to investigate the effects of micro milling operation, cutting speed, and feed rate on forces, chip flow, and shapes. Predicted cutting forces and chip flow results from simulations are compared with force measurements, tool run-out, and chip morphology revealing reasonable agreements.
Original language English (US) Pages (from-to) 25-35 Number of pages 11 Journal International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Volume 100 Issue number 1-4 DOIs State Published - Jan 16 2019 All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes Software Mechanical Engineering Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Computer Science Applications Keywords Finite element method (FEM) Force Micro machining
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Learn the craft of woodturning in the one day workshop. Explore your creative side!
Listen, watch, learn and then practice the skills as Pádraig takes you through the step by step process from a ‘blank to bowl’.
The fruits of your labour will be your very own bowl that you have crafted from your own hands.
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Students will be supplied with all the necessary tools, equipment and materials.
A hearty dinner and refreshments are included.
Cost:£140 Rapid COVID-19 tests – known as Lateral Flow Device (LFD) tests
The use of LFD testing is important as an additional measure alongside the range of existing safety measures in place. It is important to remember that, even with a negative LFD test, continue to follow all other public health and safety measures in place.
It is strongly recommended that anyone participating in, or attending, any event should test themselves before they attend, and on days 2 and 8 after the event. The purpose of this testing is to identify any positive cases in advance of the event, and allow them to self-isolate. Post event testing will also help to identify any asymptomatic COVID-19 infections arising from the event, or social interactions that may occur before or after an organised event.
Rapid COVID-19 tests can be obtained by anyone who requires them, free of charge. Rapid test packs can be ordered online for free delivery to your home.
You can also order them for collection in a number of locations across NI:
If anyone has symptoms of COVID-19, they should self-isolate and book a PCR test immediately. Please do not attend events unless you receive a negative PCR test. PCR tests are available at testing sites across Northern Ireland and can be booked at: https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test.
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RV_ Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 How do you tell which masks are best and least expensive. Links in the article. My grandchildren, a grandson age 5 and a beautiful granddaughter aged 3 flew to Germany with my son and DIL, both BSRN nurses, she a Surgical ICU nurse, and my son a recovery room nurse. They took civil service positions, neither are military, at Landstuhl Army Medical center in Germany September 2020. Both children wore their masks, without their noses sticking out, and without whining or fighting them. If they can for a 12 hour flight I have no sympathy for spoiled three year olds in adult bodies throwing tantrums and saying NO! to everything asked of them. Scientific American - 30 September 2021 Excerpt: "High-quality respirators such as N95s and K95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren’t more people wearing them? A wealth of evidence has shown that wearing a face mask helps prevent people from spreading the virus that causes COVID, SARS-CoV-2, to others and from becoming sick themselves. But there has been less guidance from public health officials on what kind of masks provide the best protection. Early on in the pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization told the public not to wear N95 respirators, a type of mask that is made from high-tech synthetic fibers and provides a high level of protection against virus-laden airborne particles called aerosols. That was because there was then a shortage of such masks—and health care workers desperately needed them. At the same time, both agencies said there was little risk of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2. They recommended cloth masks or other homemade face coverings that can stop some relatively large virus-carrying droplets even as it became clear that SARS-CoV-2 commonly spreads through aerosols—and as the supply of better-quality masks increased. There is now a cornucopia of high-filtration respirator-style masks on the market, including N95s, Chinese-made KN95s and South Korean–made KF94s. They have been widely available and relatively affordable for months and provide better protection than cloth or surgical masks. Yet it was not until September 10 that the CDC finally updated its guidance to say the general public could wear N95s and other medical-grade masks now that they are in sufficient supply. Scientific American spoke with several experts on aerosol transmission—some of whom have tested various masks available on the market—and they agree that health authorities should strongly recommend people wear well-fitted, high-filtration masks. “A year ago we could say that we were concerned about shortages for health care workers, so we were telling people to make your cloth mask, and any mask is better than no mask,” says Linsey Marr, an environmental engineer and aerosol science expert at Virginia Tech. But given what scientists know now—especially with the virus’s highly transmissible Delta variant spreading and people spending more time indoors in schools, for example—“I think the CDC should be recommending high-performance masks for everyone when they’re in these risky indoor situations,” she says. What Makes a Good Mask? When it comes to mask effectiveness, the most important parameters are filtration, fit and comfort. Filtration generally refers to the percentage of particles the mask material blocks. For example, an N95 filters at least 95 percent of airborne particles. But that does little good if gaps around the mask let air in freely. A well-fitted mask should sit snugly against the face and over the chin, with no gaps around the nose or mouth. Comfort is also an extremely important metric: a mask does no good if people simply find it intolerable to wear. A good mask is “the most important defense we have” against COVID, says aerosol expert Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego. There are a number of national standards for respirator quality. The U.S. gold standard, N95s, are certified by the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). And the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets standards for how they have to fit people in work settings (such as in hospitals). But there is no official standard for N95 use by the general public. The European equivalent of the N95 is the FFP2 respirator, which filters at least 94 percent of particles. China has the KN95, and South Korea has the KF94. All provide excellent filtration, so it really comes down to which fits an individual best and is most comfortable. Which Masks are Best? In the absence of more specific guidance from health authorities such as the CDC as to which brands of respirators and other masks provide the best protection, some skilled amateurs have stepped in to fill the gap. Aaron Collins, aka “Mask Nerd,” is a mechanical engineer at Seagate Technology with a background in aerosol science. In his free time, he makes YouTube videos in which he tests and reviews high-filtration masks made by various manufacturers. Collins says he does not earn any money from mask manufacturers or his videos themselves—he considers them a service and wants them to be objective. Where to Find Legitimate Masks An issue with commercially available high-filtration masks is that they may not come from reputable suppliers. The CDC’s Web site warns that about 60 percent of KN95 respirators available in the U.S. are counterfeit. To find ones that are legitimate, Prather recommends the Web site Project N95. Masks can also be ordered directly from suppliers such as Bona Fide Masks, which sells KN95s made by Powecom. “That’s the one people swear by,” Prather says. They cost around $1 each. DemeTECH sells N95s for around $4 apiece, as well as other types of masks. Reusing Masks One reason people may be reluctant to use KN95s and similar masks is because they are usually considered disposable. But several experts say they can in fact be worn multiple times. “You can probably reuse it until it becomes visibly damaged or soiled,” Marr says. Collins’s amateur testing suggests mask can be used for up 40 hours with no decrease in their filtration efficacy (he recommends using them within six months of opening a package). The virus likely does not survive long on these masks, but it is not a bad idea to have a few in rotation, reusing one every three days or so, Collins says." More in the article written for the lay person with links: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-we-need-to-upgrade-our-face-masks-and-where-to-get-them/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=health&utm_content=link&utm_term=2021-10-04_featured-this-week&spMailingID=70703616&spUserID=NTAzMDg3NDk0MDIzS0&spJobID=2220354682&spReportId=MjIyMDM1NDY4MgS2 Hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zooarchaeologists and geneticists are exploring how wolves and domestic dogs have been humanity’s predator, prey, and partner.
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Patients and health care professionals should encourage their patients to disclose the nature of any native medicines they use and recognize the effects that these medicines may have on an underlying disease, in addition to their associated interactions with any prescribed drugs. Expand
Non-Acetolysed Pollen Analysis of Mad Honey from the Himalayas, Nepal
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Beekeeping practice started a long time ago in Nepal, and nowadays it is gaining momentum as a highly valued and income-generating activity for the local people of the Himalayan region. Five species… Expand
Mad Honey: Reflections on Sweetness, Death, and the Politics of Healthcare.
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The authors suggest that liberals think more analytically (more WEIRD) that conservatives that conservatives, while the reverse is true: Liberals think more emotionally (more POLITICAL) than conservatives, and so on. Expand
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Choosing to purchase wholesale Great White Tomatoes with a reputable wholesale supplier can really make the difference at harvest time. You need to select seeds which are well accepted for being naturally resistant to some of the most common tomato diseases. You also need tomatoes which will grow well even in various types of climates and soil conditions, which is very important for all kinds of gardens. In this article we look at some of the ways in which you can get wholesale Great White Tomatoes at discount prices.
There are many ways of getting wholesale great white tomatoes at discounted prices. One of the easiest and cheapest ways to stock up on these great varieties is to visit farmer's markets where you can get excellent deals on tomatoes. The great thing about these is that you can get many different varieties at one time. Many people sell off their surplus tomatoes at these events because they do not have enough of them. So visiting these markets can provide an excellent opportunity to stock up on different varieties at affordable prices.
Another way to save money when purchasing wholesale great white tomatoes is by going online. There are many websites which offer great variety and prices on these popular varieties of tomatoes. This can be a good idea for people who do not live near a large farm where they can regularly visit and purchase. Many online wholesalers offer fantastic prices for these popular varieties. These suppliers are able to buy these products from farmers at wholesale rates and then sell them off at lower prices than the farmers would sell them off individually.
If you are buying wholesale Great White Tomato seeds from a website, you will want to make sure that the website is fully protected from fraud. A lot of people will try and sell seeds online which they do not actually possess. There are many different varieties of these seeds which can be available in many different colors. So, if you are buying wholesale from a website, it is a good idea to look at the colors available and ensure that they are exactly what you want.
If you are looking for wholesale great white tomatoes, it is a good idea to compare the prices you are being quoted. There are many different Tomato seed companies which offer great prices. Many of these companies will even send these seeds through free shipping. It is a good idea to check out a few different companies before making a final decision on a particular seed company.
Many people love eating fresh tomatoes. And there are many different varieties of tomatoes available. Because of this, buying seeds is a great way to save money when growing your own tomatoes. Many companies offer different varieties at different prices, which means that you can easily choose the type of tomato you want. It is also possible to grow exotic varieties, which will taste far better than the tomatoes you usually eat.
Buying wholesale Great White Tomatoes can be a fantastic idea. There are many different varieties to choose from. If you are planning on growing tomatoes for consumption, then you will need to get varieties that are resistant to pests and diseases and can handle being indoors or outdoors. However, if you are looking for seeds for planting in home compost, you should check out the prices available for wholesale Great White Landatoes.
Most tomato plants will do well with a reasonable amount of space to grow in. However, if you want to grow vegetables for eating, you will probably want larger plants. There are also some plants that do well when planted in large soil pots. If you want to save money and get high quality produce, make sure you check out wholesale seeds. You can find a supplier who offers the best price on seeds and can offer you plenty of variety to choose from.
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Wholesale Rebellion Tomato Seeds
If you are looking for a great way to add some extra flavor to your diet, then consider wholesale Rebellion Tomato Seeds. These tomatoes are hardy, and can withstand some of the most extreme conditions on your plate. They are also very perishable, which makes them a good choice for making preserves and ketchup. They are a perfect addition to any pantry, and they do not dry out easily. What makes them even better is that they can be used in a variety of recipes.
The reason Wholesale Rebellion Tomato Seeds are so great is simply because these particular tomatoes are very hardy. They are also very juicy, which makes eating them repeatedly keep you coming back for more. Plus, the tomatoes actually produce an amazing amount of extra flavor with only one plant being planted. This is because the tomato varieties used in Wholesale Rebellion Grower Kits are specifically bred for this yield. It is not uncommon for a new hybrid tomato variety to have two or more generation in one family. This increases the yield exponentially, resulting in a yield that is nearly double what can be found in home gardens.
When purchasing Wholesale Resistance Tomato Seeds, make sure that you get a reputable company to deal with. There are a few things that you should watch out for. First, be wary of companies that offer you a large quantity for a small price. You should never buy a tomato a quantity less than 20 pounds. In addition, be wary of companies that provide seeds and then try to sell you plants. These are not the same thing.
The tomato that you can use to make preserves, ketchup, sauces, soups, pasta sauce and more should be from seedlings that come from good tomato gardens. Don't settle for seeds from a bad tomato garden. If you do, then the tomatoes won't produce the fruit quality that you are looking for. Tomatoes grown from seedlings in containers are best. When buying Wholesale Resistance Tomato Seeds, make sure they are certified by the National Organic Program.
Another tip for growing your own tomatoes is to find a place that has plenty of sunlight. As mentioned above, Wholesale Resistance Tomato Seeds are great, but it will take a lot more sun to help your plants grow. You want tomatoes that can handle direct sunlight to grow, so make sure to find a place with direct sunlight. The last thing you want is to start having problems with your plants because it's too hot!
Tomatoes don't really like being cold, so you want to make sure that your soil is fine, but it needs to be well-drained. A healthy soil is important to the growth of your tomato plants. So make sure you are working with a healthy soil. It would also help if you were to use organic soil. Non-organic soil won't work as well since chemicals and pesticides might get onto the fruits. Make sure you go organic with your seed.
When it comes to watering your tomato plants, just keep them moist. Watering them too much might cause them to get wilted which is not a good thing when trying to grow these tasty little tasty plants. You can water them once every few days or you can completely water your plants when the weather is dry. Either way you can't get the kind of crispiness that makes tomato plants so delicious.
Wholesale Rebellion Tomatoes truly are one of the greatest things to come along in a long time. These seeds can help you grow your tomato plants into great tasting berries that are sure to be loved. This is a great project to do with your children and they will love the fact that you are planting seeds for future tomatoes! Happy planting!
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Wholesale Super Sweet 100 Tomato Seeds
If you are new at home gardening, then you should consider buying wholesale Super Sweet 100 Tomato Seeds. These can be used to plant various types of Tomatoes in your garden. The seeds of this tomato variety are generally known to produce the best tasting and most nutritious tomatoes in the world. These seeds are not only used for commercial purposes but they are also useful for starting your own business with these seeds. These seeds are readily available and cheaper than the others too. Therefore, there is no reason to buy seeds that are expensive from stores and get cheated later.
These are easily available in various stores around the country. They are a good choice for starting a new business if you have a greenhouse for growing tomatoes in. However, there are certain things that should be kept in mind before purchasing them. You can choose any variety according to your requirements.
It is always recommended to first know the growing conditions of the variety that you wish to buy and plant. There are some varieties that do not grow well in heavy frost or extreme cold conditions. So, before purchasing you should check what kind of climate you will be dealing with during the time you plant them. This will help you to choose the kind of tomato seed that is best suited to your place.
Then make a list of diseases that this kind of tomato has to face during the growing season. This will make it easier for you to know what crops you should be growing in that area. As you know that different plants require different growing conditions and sometimes, even the same varieties of seeds may not grow in your location. So, it is important to buy those seeds that are meant for your specific part of the world.
Next thing that you need to look into is the health status of the plant that you are planning to purchase. You have to check for any damage on the stem, leaves, or even the petals. You also have to check if there are any broken or cracked areas that may affect your seedling growth. Most seeds that are used in home grown tomatoes are organic. So, before buying, you should make sure that the seeds you are buying are indeed organic.
It is best that you start off by growing your seeds indoors. This way you can make sure that they get adequate amount of sun all throughout their growing season. This will ensure that they are always healthy. However, if you live in a place that experience hard frost then it is advisable to store these seeds for later use. You can either keep them in an area where there is enough sunshine or you can cover them with a plastic bag.
Make sure that you have the proper seedling tools when buying these seeds. The most common tools you will find when buying seeds are drills, saws, gloves, sprayers, and buckets. These tools will make it easier for you to plant your tomatoes. Another important tool that is really important when growing seeds indoors is humidity meter. This tool will determine whether or not your seedlings are getting enough humidity inside their pots.
Growing your own tomatoes can be a fun activity. However, if you do not know much about plants then it is advisable to ask help from a professional who can guide you in planting these super sweet 100 tomato seeds. There are many things that you need to consider when growing seeds. You have to make sure that you have a good soil that is rich in nutrients. It is also important to make sure that you plant these seeds in the right place where they should be planted so that you will have an even planting.
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“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.”
–Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. That’s where the wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money.”
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Andrew Carnegie
Real estate is supposed to be a safe asset class. There are always more people in the world and those people all need to live somewhere and usually they would like to live in a nice home. It’s one of those fundamental human wants. Everyone wants to live somewhere nicer.
Investing in real estate is about as simple as it gets. You work and save as much money as you can until you have saved 10% – 20% of the price of a house. Then you borrow the other 80% – 90% from a bank or lender to buy it. Then the property has tenants which pay rent to live there which services your loans and hopefully pays it off.
Over time you pay interest to the bank on your loan while the rent earned slowly pays off the debt on the property. Over a long time frame like 30+ years of rent earned, the property will usually be fully owned and all debt paid off. Once the loan is paid off, the rent is your cashflow. Or you sell it, then whatever the growth is of the property value plus the rents earned minus the ownership and interest costs is how much money you made.
I like real estate because houses are so expensive that it concentrates the number of decisions that you can make. Regular people can’t afford to buy a lot of homes, you may only be able to afford a handful in your entire lifetime, even if you have a solid income. So it limits the number of possibilities and decisions you need to make to become successful.
There’s a great quote by Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway, “
I could make anyone a good investor. I would give them a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches–representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you’d punched through the card, you couldn’t make any more investments at all.”
Property naturally does this. In the stock market you could buy and sell a new stock every week, but you just can’t do that in real estate. Plus in Australia, returns from real estate have outpaced returns from the stock market. If you invested the same amount in property as shares, you ended up with a lot more if you chose property.
The reason is because of leverage. When you make a 10% payment and buy an asset with 90% borrowed money and that asset goes up by 10%. You haven’t made a 10% return, you’ve made a 100% return and doubled your money. That is the compounding power of leverage. If the property goes up 100%, then your return is 1000% and so on and so on.
Very few people use leverage to buy stocks, in fact it is not recommended to do this as fluctuations in stock price can widely influence returns and seemingly strong companies go bankrupt all the time. Plus margin calls exist where if the stock price ever dips below a certain point, which happens to stocks quite regularaly before rebounding, the lender automatically sells it all. But in property buying with leverage is the normal way that most people purchase. The system of banks lending money to people to buy a home is very normal.
In Australia the average growth rate of real estate is approximately 6% per year. If you purchased a property with a 10% down payment and 90% borrowed money, then while your gross returns are 6% per year, your cash on cash returns are something closer to 60% per year. That’s why Australia has such a wealthy middle class. By doing nothing but buying a house the average Australian has achieved a compound annual return on their capital better than the best investors in the world.
What drives property values? That is a super interesting question with a simple answer. Usually I don’t like using macroeconomics to try and think about investment decisions, but in real estate, values almost entirely rely on the macroeconomics of an area. All of real estate comes down to Supply and Demand.
If the population is growing faster than new houses are being built, then property values will increase. If population starts to leave an area and there are more houses than people, then property values decrease. And Australia’s population is basically always growing because it’s a desirable place to live. It doubles every 50 years.
Because houses take longer to build than it takes a person to move to an area, housing is always lagging population. Simplistically, a house might take 2 years to build and will be occupied by a family of 4 people. But a lot more than that might move to or leave an area in the same amount of time, competing up or down prices.
Why don’t governments just let developers build to increase the supply of houses to reduce prices? Isn’t affordable housing a public good and thereby a good motivation to do so?
Well if you ask developers, they say it’s because local Councils won’t approve their projects fast enough and put too many restrictions which add costs and take too much time. If you ask councils, they say it’s because of residents complaining too much about projects. There’s even an acronym for this, NIMBY’s which mean Not In My Backyard’s, a stereotype for contientious objectors. Residents who complain about developments. If you ask residents, they blame the developers who they say aren’t making quality housing.
It’s a vicious cycle where the developers blame council who blame residents who blame developers. So unlikely supply will significantly increase anytime soon. Which means that population growth is pretty likely to always be higher than housing and there will be a supply shortfall.
How much can you afford to spend? Well there’s a simple rule for that. You take your total household income per month. Then you divide by 3. Your monthly interest payments shouldn’t be more than that. Multiplying that number by 12 and dividing that number by whatever the interest rate is gives you the maximum you can afford to spend buying a property. Ideally most of that will be taken care of by the income from the property. But going above this 1/3 rule is how people end up going into more debt than they can handle.
That’s it. That’s all there is to know. The rest is just timing and choosing the right property. Some properties perform better than others and changes depending on the demographics of the area. So you can’t really talk about that at a high level. Timing on the other hand, you can.
Australian property goes in cycles that generally last about 7 – 10 years. It means every 7 – 10 years there is a boom, a correction and a crash. And you know when you’re in either because front page news will usually be talking about it. But it means that you always know what stage of the cycle you are in.
Most of the reasons for the downturn and crashes are psychological, politcal or financial, not strictly economical. Often they’re due to the levels of optimism and confidence people have in the market or country.
In 2019 there was a property downturn where values decreased almost 10%-20% because the opposition Labor government had a policy to remove the negative gearing tax write off. They didn’t win that election and the policy was never introduced. So the downturn largely happened for no reason, just because people were afraid of something that never occurred.
In 2011 property values similarly decreased by 10%-20% when Responsible Lending laws were introduced that increased the checks and requirements banks had to have to lend money to people. This was intended to reduce loans to people who may potentially be at risk or had low incomes but had a side effect where it significantly reduced most people’s borrowing bower. Borrowing less or not at all meant that less people, particularly first home buyers, were able to buy a house – reducing demand.
So what is the easiest strategy and how do you successfully do this?
Save money, everytime you find yourself in a downturn, try your best to buy a property. Hold onto it for 7-10 years till the next cycle and use the rent to pay down the loans and build up equity. Then when there is the next downturn, use the equity to buy another one. And so on and so on and keep doing this over the course of your life.
After a lifetime of 50 years you’ll have built up multiple properties and have a portfolio worth a fortune. You will have achieved a rate of return enviable by the greatest investors in the world. A path to earn millions of dollars by only making a few decisions over a lifetime. Time in the market is better than timing the market but sometimes you can do both.
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Son dakika UN rings alarm bell over child malnutrition in Ethiopia's Tigray region SonDakika-Haberleri.Net
The number of young children admitted to hospital suffering from severe malnutrition in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region has doubled this year over 2020, the UN has said, as escalating fighting threatens to further hamper the aid response.
"Some 18,600 children under the age of five in Tigray have been admitted for treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) from February to August this year compared to 8,900 in 2020, a 100 percent increase, according to UNICEF," the UN's humanitarian coordination office said on Thursday in its weekly situation report for the 11-month-old conflict in northern Ethiopia.
Malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women also "continues to be very high at about 63 per cent", the report said, while noting that only 897 aid trucks have reached the region of roughly 6 million people since mid-July –– about 14 percent of the estimated need.
Progress towards #ZeroHunger by 2030 is showing signs of stagnating, according to the newly published 2021 Global Hunger Index (GHI).— UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA) October 14, 2021
Conflict, climate change, and #COVID19 threaten to wipe out any progress that has been made against hunger in recent years. Tigray conflict
Tigray erupted in conflict last November after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops to topple the region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).
The 2019 Nobel Peace laureate said the move came in response to TPLF attacks on army camps and promised a swift victory.
But by late June the TPLF had regrouped and retaken most of the region including the regional capital Mekele.
Since then the region has been under a de facto humanitarian blockade, according to the UN, which estimates that hundreds of thousands face famine-like conditions.
The US has largely blamed Ethiopian government policies for the blockade, while the government has blamed TPLF incursions into neighbouring regions of Amhara and Afar.
Polio outbreak feared
In addition to food, the region is desperately short of medicines and medical equipment, something the UN has noted in several recent reports.
Thursday's edition said nine trucks carrying medicines remained stuck awaiting government approval in Afar, currently home to the only functioning land route into Tigray.
Polio vaccines are needed for 887,000 children and measles vaccines are needed for 790,000 children, the report said, adding that failure to administer the shots "will result in an outbreak".
Fighting ramps up
The dire warnings over the humanitarian situation came one week after humanitarian and rebel sources first cited signs of a fresh government offensive against the TPLF, including air and ground strikes.
On Wednesday humanitarian and rebel sources said fighting had resumed in Afar after a month-long lull.
TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda said its military objective was to "push back the offensive and go as far as it takes to break the siege on the people of Tigray."
Government officials have not confirmed the offensive.
However, on Thursday the military issued a statement accusing the TPLF of launching an offensive of its own in Amhara region, just south of Tigray.
"Apart from reversing the offensive launched by TPLF, the military will incapacitate the TPLF," the statement said, claiming to have already inflicted "heavy losses" against the rebels.
Much of northern Ethiopia is under a communications blackout and access for journalists is restricted, making battlefield claims difficult to independently verify.
The UN said on Thursday that reinforcements "by parties to the conflict" had been reported and that "areas along the border between Tigray and Amhara and Afar have seen clashes during the past week."
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Measure of productivity
Productivity is measured as unit of input per unit of output.
(e.g., employees per pound sold.) Productivity has two components, Efficiency and Effectiveness, and is the product of these two components. (See also Effectiveness, Efficiency, Productivity )
Example 1:
The CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. argues that there is a key advantage to print that will let print survive despite the growing digital world: the economic efficiency of print. If you're an advertiser trying to sell product, the measurement of the cost efficiency is the dollar of sales generated to the cost of advertising. For example, in TV advertising, you spend 19 cents for each $1 of sales. It's 15 cents for radio, and a little under 11 cents for online advertising, and that will come down. But for most print media, it ranges from 8 cents to 11 cents. And for Yellow Page directories, it's around 3.5 cents. As long as there are these powerful economic advantages, print is going to be in good shape. (Year 2001-SIC 2711)
Explanation: The cost of advertising per dollar of sales created varies across the alternative modes of advertising. Each has different productivity.
Example 2:
In 1979, Japan's auto makers could build a small car and ship it to the U.S. for $1500 less than Detroit's cost to produce a similar car. In 1983, the gap increased to $2500. By 1986, the gap was $1900. (Year 1986-SIC 3711)
Explanation: Japanese auto makers were far more productive than the U.S. manufacturers. Their total cost per car was substantially lower than that of the U.S. manufacturers.
Example 3:
Cooper surpassed all of its competitors in the number of tires it produced and sold per day per employee. Cooper's overall manufacturing productivity was the highest, with an average of 22.7 versus 18.8 for Goodyear. (Year 1991-SIC 3011)
Explanation: Cooper's productivity at the time was higher than Goodyear's. Cooper used fewer inputs (people) to produce its outputs (tires) than did its competition.
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If you are looking to enhance the size and shape of your butt, one of the go-to options is a Brazilian Butt Lift. However, some patients do not have the excess fat necessary for adequate butt enhancement through fat grafting. They may also be concerned that butt implants alone won't achieve their desired results.
A supercharged BBL uses butt implants and fat supergrafting to create a large and beautiful butt. The combination of implants and the butt fat transfer magic of a Brazilian Butt Lift can enhance your butt contours with greater precision than either type of butt enhancement alone. It provides more projection and more stable results long-term.
This procedure is often called the Istanbul Butt Lift, supercharged BBL, or composite butt augmentation.
Your supercharged Brazilian Butt Lift will begin with the implantation of silicone butt implants. This is the most significant difference between a regular BBL and a supercharged one.
The implants are made of cohesive silicone that mimics the weight and consistency of natural buttock muscle tissues. The incisions are made along natural creases in the buttocks to conceal scarring.
Liposuction involves removing unwanted fat from various areas of the body. The most popular target locations include the hips, thighs, back, and abdomen.
This procedure is performed by making small incisions over the targeted fat deposit. Then, a thin tube called a cannula is inserted into the area to suction out the fat.
Once your excess fat has been extracted via liposuction, it is decanted and purified. This device separates the desired fat cells from other extracted impurities.
Once your fat has been purified, it is ready for supergrafting (fat transfer around the butt implants).
Once your implants are in place and your fat is purified, Dr. Agullo will use supergrafting to enhance and contour your buttocks. This involves injecting fat into strategic locations around your butt implants.
This will help stabilize your implants and provide more natural and smooth butt contours. This process is similar to a more traditional BBL but requires more skill to work around the implant successfully.
Before your Istanbul Butt Lift, be sure that you are at your desired weight and that your weight is stable. Significant weight fluctuations can affect your results.
You should also consult with your doctor, plastic surgeon, and pharmacist to ensure that none of your medications, vitamins, or supplements will interfere with your procedure. Pay special attention to any blood-thinning medications, which may increase the risk of complications during and after surgery.
Your supercharged Brazilian Butt Lift cost will vary depending on the amount of fat enhancement you desire and the size and cost of your chosen buttock implants. In addition, the price of your butt enhancement surgery can vary depending on anesthesia, facility, and surgical fees.
Visit our plastic surgery pricing page for information about our fees. You will be provided with an exact personalized Istanbul Butt Lift quote after your consultation. achieve.
You should be able to return to work with accommodations within one or two weeks. Accommodations usually include the use of a specialty pillow provided by us to avoid placing weight on your buttocks. Alternatively, you may request a standing desk for a few weeks.
You can resume exercise and other activities after about four weeks as swelling subsides.
You should not experience pain during your procedure due to the general anesthesia. We will inject EXPAREL® to block the pain receptors for the first three days. You may experience mild to moderate discomfort in the first two weeks after your surgery. These symptoms can usually be treated with prescription medications and lifestyle changes until they fade.
You will see results immediately. Results will improve within two to six weeks as swelling subsides and excess fat is reabsorbed.
Final results may take up to six months to become visible as your fat cells settle into their new positions and the swelling from the liposuction sites subsides.
The results of a supercharged Brazilian Butt Lift are effectively permanent and more stable than a BBL alone. Your butt implant cannot leak (unlike breast implants), so there is no need to get them replaced. Likewise, the injected fat cells will continue to live in your buttocks and store fat there for the rest of your life.
However, just because your supercharged Brazilian Butt Lift results are generally permanent does not mean that your appearance will remain static. Aging, weight changes, and lifestyle choices can all affect the size and contours of your buttocks after your procedure.
All surgical procedures carry some degree of risk. However, these risks are minimal in the hands of an experienced board-certified plastic surgeon like Dr. Agullo.
Some potential risks may include the following:
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Walking down the side of the road seems, at first, safer than driving. As a pedestrian, the hazards of large vehicles should not endanger you. Unfortunately, sometimes, you must share the road with those vehicles. Sometimes, those vehicles fail to share the road with you. In a pedestrian accident with a vehicle, the pedestrian often comes out with significant, severe injuries, many of which can cause life-changing results.
Life After a Pedestrian Accident.
After a pedestrian accident, you may find yourself left with serious injuries that make it difficult to move forward with your life. You may suffer:
Spinal cord damage, including limited or even permanent paralysis Amputations Traumatic brain injuries Organ damage
Pedestrian accidents can leave you struggling with lifelong complications that transform your ability to do the things you have always done in the past: your ability to work, participate in leisure activities, and even care for yourself
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We know the costs add up quickly for injured pedestrians. While some things take some time, we don’t wait around. As soon as it’s possible, we’ll demand a fair settlement. Our experiences and commitment help us resolve your claim quickly.
We never settle for less than what you deserve. The Cost of Hiring an Atlanta Pedestrian Accident Attorney.
After a pedestrian accident, cost becomes a significant factor in many of your decisions. You do not want to miss out on any of the benefits of hiring an attorney, but you may worry that you cannot afford one.
At The Champion Firm, we are committed to helping our clients receive higher levels of compensation than they would receive on their own—even after they pay attorney fees. We accept personal injury cases on a contingent fee basis: our fee comes only as a portion of any compensation you receive. Not only that, we start with a free consultation, so we can discuss your claim and get to know the circumstances of your accident before diving into the claims process. That consultation can give you solid advice about how to proceed regardless of your injuries and your needs.
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Playing golf involves using a club to hit a small ball into a small hole located meters away from the player. Sounds easy, right?
Not so much. The truth is, golf is anything but simple. You see, you have to invest in a lot of equipment to ace your game. And while it may not be as physically demanding as some sports, hitting a golf ball properly requires repeatedly coordinating various muscle groups - not to mention the level of mental strain involved.
Social media is no different. It requires constant learning and staying updated with varying trends.
The last place we expected to learn about social media was on the links, but surprisingly, golf has taught us many skills that could be applied to work involving social media marketing.
Read on to learn the surprising lessons golf can teach you about social media:
Golf isn’t all about having the best golf club and the latest gadgets. They are only there to supplement your hard work. To hit the ball successfully, you have to perfect your golf stance first. Improve your posture, and you’re bound to improve your game, even with a mediocre swing.
Your legs are your foundation for a great golf stance. Your knees should be flexed, and your feet should be shoulder-width apart. Check your balance by making sure your weight is evenly spread between your toes and heels.
Similarly, you should have the same goal when approaching social media. It would be best to have your feet firmly positioned in one or two social media platforms to have a good foundation for your brand’s marketing and reach maximum engagement.
Investing your efforts and resources in the wrong platforms can exhaust your budget, especially if you use paid ads. You can’t build a successful brand on a weak foundation. You must have solid marketing if you’re going to have a strong brand.
Did you know that Tiger Woods started playing golf when he was two years old? Three years later, he was featured in the Golf Digest magazine, where his prowess was introduced to the world. And 14 years later, he played his first professional tournament in the prestigious Los Angeles Open. He became the youngest Masters champion ever at the age of 21.
Even the world’s greatest golfer took years of hustle and hard work to become a champion. Success doesn’t come overnight on your social media campaign or a new product announcement, either. They will take time to see results and demonstrate that your efforts are fruitful based on the work you’ve done.
Learning how to wait can be difficult, but you have to remember that it’s part of the whole process. You also need to exercise patience as you practice and learn to become a better social media marketer.
Playing golf with your colleagues will teach you so much about manners, character, and hard work - both on and off the greens, only if you let yourself be coachable.
You see, the best golfers are the ones who allow themselves to grow. They are the ones who always leave room for improvement, believing that there’s always something new to learn or improve.
When managing your social media accounts, make sure that you keep an open mind to your mentor’s professional insights, tips, and lessons. Be willing to listen and learn, accept criticisms, and be aggressive to learn - make a conscious effort to improve your social media skills and see your efforts advance too.
Golf is full of challenges, such as water hazards, weather conditions, new pin placements, or even a simple mis-hit that you need to make up for with your succeeding swings. Keeping an alert, focused mind can help you adjust to the challenges that may come your way.
In social media, if there’s anything that the current pandemic has taught us, it’s that a continuous flow of leads and engagements is never guaranteed. Therefore, as a digital marketer or social media manager, you have to be adaptable to unprecedented challenges, such as the ever-changing trends and tricky algorithm updates.
Now that you know golf involves hard work and challenges, it’s time to hone your skills. It’s important to remember that golf is not about how much time you spend in practice, but
how you practice that creates an impactful difference. So, before heading to the driving range, work on a practice plan.
Practicing consistently also rings true when you’re updating or changing your social media marketing strategy. When you notice something’s not working in your favor, adjust several factors. Your posts aren’t getting much traction? Come up with content ideas that your target audience can relate to. Is your unfollower rate decreasing? Maybe you’re posting too much irrelevant content.
Growth requires failure and learning from your mistakes, so make sure to regularly track and evaluate your performance to identify potential areas for improvement.
The more a golfer complains or worries about bad shots, the less capable and motivated he is of making up for the mis-hits. Each shot is unique on its own, but each mis-hit presents a chance of redemption. So, make sure to give yourself the right headspace before you hit a golf ball!
This concept is valuable in the life of a digital marketer. No matter how badly you mess up, may it be in the form of subpar customer service, a controversial post, or an ad that didn’t convert, there’s always an opportunity to bounce back.
At the end of the day, golf is just a game, and games are meant to be enjoyable. Learning the ropes of golf may be stressful, especially for those just starting out in the sport. Sure, it’s not an easy game, and we all can get competitive, but there’s no point in doing something if you don’t enjoy it. So, don’t forget to relax, take a breather, and enjoy the game!
Similarly, don’t stress too much when it comes to your social media efforts. In your attempt to grow your brand on the digital landscape, don’t forget to forge meaningful connections with your audience. After all, that’s the prime reason why social media platforms exist - to connect and form meaningful relationships.
It’s incredible how golf can teach us valuable lessons both on and off the course. Do you play golf? What’s the most relevant lesson you learned from this list?
Author Bio Jordan Fuller is a businessman, golf coach, and writer from Nebraska. He enjoys hitting the links, coaching golfers, and providing free professional golf advice and equipment reviews on his website, Golf Influence.
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Rail Report Riles Shippers
Long-standing grievances unresolved railways get three more years to mend ways By Alex Binkley True North Perspective
Business news stories rarely get much notice but the rocky relationship between the two main freight railways and their largest customers has set the stage for a tough balancing act for the Harper government.
Much of the shipper community has waited patiently for the last few years hopeful longstanding grievances about rail transportation might finally be acted on.
The Rail Service Review Panel, established by the Conservatives to buy time in solving the acrimonious dispute, issued an interim report in October and gave both sides a month to comment on its recommendations before it prepares a final report for the government.
For all the report’s authors did to try to strike a balance, their ears are probably burning at the response. It goes way too far, the railways squawked. Too slow and ineffectual, the shippers charged, frustrated at what they see as further delay in resolving the issue.
The report says CN and CP have a powerful market dominance over their customers and aren’t accountable for their performance. The Panel recommends the carriers be given at least two years to clean up their act or face regulations imposing more control over their operations.
“The railways and shippers often have differences of opinion because they come at issues from different perspectives. However, the panel was struck by how significant the gap is and how it is straining relationships, likely to the detriment of overall system performance. The panel sees this as a very important issue and recognizes that it will take time to build the trust and confidence that are essential to maintaining effective relationships.
“Many shippers suggest that more needs to be done to enhance their ability to deal with railway service concerns. The Panel concurs on this point.”
Bob Ballantyne, president of the Canadian Industrial Transportation Association, says shippers need stronger government protection to balance the bargaining power between the buyers and sellers. “The recommendations tell the railways to play nice or we'll force you to play nice some time in the future.”
Avrim Lazar, President and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada, wants immediate government action. “If the railways were serious about improving service they would have done so by now. Service is poor because there is no effective competition. A delay is simply unacceptable and a deep blow to resource communities in rural Canadathat depend on rail shipping. Why would the government want to give the railways another three years of virtual monopoly status, three more years to underserve and overcharge, and three more years o failing to adequately serve rural communities. The government needs to do its job now.”
Ron Bonnett, President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Canada’s largest farm organization, said, “The railways have historically fought off competitive measures such as open running rights and opposed regulations to maintain this monopoly.”
He renewed the call of many farm groups for tougher controls and a full review of the freight rates the railways can charge.
Richard Phillips, Executive Director of Grain Growers of Canada, said the panel simply lacked the courage to make meaningful recommendations. “We need legislative tools to ensure we have recourse to dealing with the railways including financial penalties for when they fail to perform.”
CN and CP both said there was no need for increased government regulation because they have developed service agreements with key customers in recent months and working on others. “These agreements focus on specific performance targets, clear service measures, and balanced accountability among supply chain participants within a commercial framework,” CN insisted.
CP said it has worked at improving the reliability of its service to customers. “As part of our efforts to continually improve supply chain performance and foster industry leading customer service, we have negotiated a number of service agreements with our key supply chain partners – including customers, ports and terminals.”
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You're a working professional who thinks differently about the idea of community. You know there must be a better way to create the kinds of spaces and places where people live. You'd like to see more sustainable initiatives in your own community or region, or you've been tasked with building a plan to make those initiatives happen.
The Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Community Development helps you build leadership, knowledge and practical experience. You'll discover an interdisciplinary approach to the social, ecological and economic implications of community change. You'll learn through class work, and apply your learning to a real-world project. In partnership with various municipalities, you will explore principles and practices of systems thinking, decision-making and planning. And by engaging in real, socially-relevant projects focused on community challenges, you'll build skills and networks that can take your career — and your community — forward.
1. High school diploma or Secondary school diploma
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Alla är olika och olika är bra : Idrott och hälsa lärares erfarenheter av anpassningar och bemötande av elever med diagnos inom autismspektrum
Sammanfattning: Several studies show that physical activity has positive effects for children with autism. Therefore, I chose to investigate the form of adaptions student in autism spectrum in the subject of sports and health and what conditions the physical education teachers have to create a favorable environment for student with autism. Through a qualitative research method with teachers in physical education and health, the material has been collected with semi structured interviews. The results show how teachers adapt teaching to student with autism spectrumdisorders. Physical education and health teachers work in different ways. The adaption can consist of preparation, the student’s special interests, structure, participation/involvement, andclarity in the teaching. Based on the discussion, all students are different and the teachers need to adapt the student’s needs.
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Job Profiles Career Prospects as a Psychologist (career profiles that can be pursued with the Master Degree) Health/Communication Psychologist Specialist A health/communication psychologist is someone who works to help others understand more about medical treatment, healthy lifestyle choices, disease prevention, and more. They focus primarily on strategic communication processes, the development of preventive campaigns, mediation, and managing processes that can have an overall impact on the health and wellbeing of the population. They typically work in hospitals, for governments, pharmaceutical companies, etc. HR Specialist A psychologist with a specialization in human resources —often referred to as an HR specialist—helps an employer find job candidates who are most qualified to meet the organization's needs. They recruit applicants, review resumes, conduct interviews, and perform background checks. They work on continuing the professional development of the employees. They work on employees’ career growth with training and development. They apply their knowledge on workplace behaviours and productivity in order to develop the business model, employee success and retention. They also work on the work environment and culture to build positive results. HR Consultant An HR consultant is usually responsible for ensuring an organisation’s capital serves the best interests of the company. The job duties/responsibilities of HR consultants often include: Advising management on the administration of human resources policies and procedures. Serving as internal consultants by analysing a company's current HR programs and recommending solutions. Developing, revising, and implementing HR policies Academic Researcher, Ph.D Researchers in academia conduct original academic research in the field of Psychology or other relevant related areas. PhD students typically carry out research projects towards a doctoral degree. They might be also involved in teaching support or teaching activities. Possible academic professional developments include roles such as post-doc researchers, assistant professors, lecturers, full professors and more. Career Prospects as a Clinical Psychologist and/or Psychotherapist Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist An occupation as a clinical psychologist or a psychotherapist is another important placement for our graduates. Clinical psychologists assess, diagnose and treat individuals experiencing psychological distress and mental illness. Psychotherapists assess, diagnose mental illness and psychological distress, perform also psychotherapy and develop treatment plans. Clinical psychologists and psychotherapists often work in hospitals, mental health clinics, and private practice. Becoming a Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist in Italy This Master degree grants the possibility to be enrolled in the internship and in the Italian National exam to become a licensed clinical psychologist in Italy (i.e., Ordine degli Psicologi, Esame di Stato). Furthermore, this Master Degree meets a requirement for admission to the Italian schools of psychotherapy. Becoming a Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist in Switzerland The Master Degree grants the possibility to access the mandatory full-time paid internship to become a licensed clinical psychologist in the health sector. The list of the clinical practices with the open positions for the internship is available on the website of the Dipartimento della sanità e della socialità, Divisione della salute pubblica (https://www4.ti.ch/dss/dsp/us/sportello/psicologi-e-psicoterapeuti-in-formazione/). After this training, you will be able to practice as a Clinical Psychologist in Switzerland and you can work at Hospitals/Clinics administering psychological tests. The Master Degree grants also the possibility to access the schools of psychotherapy in Switzerland. Becoming a Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist in all the European Countries The Master Programme has also been included in the EuroPSY circuit and is fully recognized in all European Countries.
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