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Points Scarcity of TPP2 is connected with Evans symptoms and viral an infection susceptibility. and improved staurosporine-induced apoptosis. T-cells showed increased appearance from the effector substances and interferon-γ with great appearance from the transcription aspect T-bet perforin. Age-associated B-cells using a CD21? Compact disc11c+ phenotype expressing T-bet were improved in mice and individuals coupled with antinuclear antibodies. Furthermore markers of senescence were within individual and murine TPP2-deficient fibroblasts also. Telomere lengths had been normal in affected individual fibroblasts and granulocytes and low regular in lymphocytes that have been appropriate for activation of stress-induced instead of replicative senescence applications. TPP2 deficiency may be the initial principal immunodeficiency linking premature immunosenescence to serious autoimmunity. Perseverance of senescent lymphocytes ought to be area of the diagnostic evaluation of kids with refractory multilineage cytopenias. Launch Evans symptoms is defined with the sequential or simultaneous advancement of immune system thrombocytopenic purpura and autoimmune hemolytic anemia.1 In about 50% of situations it really is connected with systemic autoimmune disease such as for example systemic lupus erythematosus lymphoproliferative disease or principal immunodeficiencies.2 Within this latter band of diseases all of the predisposing genetic flaws illustrates the multiple checkpoints that may be affected in the increased loss of immunologic tolerance.3 However regardless of the increased molecular understanding the issue whether a hereditary predisposition plays a part in the autoimmune cytopenia continues to be unresolved for some sufferers.4 Immunosenescence is one pathomechanism that is connected with autoimmunity.5 For T cells age-associated skewing from the antigen-receptor repertoire linked to decreased thymic result and homeostatic proliferation of potentially autoreactive clones 6 and age-associated alterations in the antigen-receptor signaling network 7 have already been submit as potential explanations. For B cells a drop of B-cell generation in bone tissue marrow with shifts and age in na? antigen-experienced and ve peripheral Cyclopiazonic Acid B-cell subsets could possibly be associated with autoimmunity.8 Premature immunosenescence may appear because of chronic defense stimulation such as for example persistent viral infections.9 Furthermore genetic factors favoring premature differentiation and/or persistence of senescent immune cells is actually a predisposing factor for autoimmunity even in the lack of persistent infections. Tripeptidylpeptidase II (TPP2) is normally a Cyclopiazonic Acid molecule that has been previously linked to immunosenescence. TPP2 is definitely a cellular protease that operates mostly downstream of proteasomes in cytosolic proteolysis.10-12 It is important for cell proliferation and survival in particular under conditions of cellular stress 13 14 and could donate to an antiapoptotic phenotype.14 In mice insufficient TPP2 activates cell loss of life programs resulting in proliferative apoptosis in T cells and premature senescence particularly of Cyclopiazonic Acid Compact Cyclopiazonic Acid disc8+ T cells. Furthermore murine TPP2 insufficiency also causes early senescence in GATA3 fibroblasts and degenerative modifications at the amount of the entire organism.15 However despite their immunologic alterations no autoimmunity or immunodeficiency phenotype been explained to date in TPP2-deficient mice. Here we statement 2 siblings with early-onset Evans syndrome variable lymphoproliferation and slight illness susceptibility who both experienced loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding TPP2. Immunologic studies in 1 of the individuals were compared with those acquired in na?ve uninfected TPP2-deficient mice in Cyclopiazonic Acid an attempt to differentiate primary effects of TPP2 deficiency from those of the infections. Our results document that premature senescence in human being TPP2 deficiency also affects B cells in addition to CD8+ T cells and fibroblasts and it is associated with autoimmunity and immunodeficiency. Individuals and methods Two siblings with early onset Evans syndrome and variable illness susceptibility The index patient (P1) a son who is the second child of consanguineous Palestinian parents offered at the age of 21.
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The popularity of Flum vape pens can be attributed to several factors, with convenience playing a central role in their widespread adoption. As vaping continues to evolve, the appeal of Flum vape pens has captured the attention of both beginners and experienced vapers alike. This exploration delves into the convenience factor, shedding light on the reasons why people are drawn to Flum vape pens.
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No Assembly or Maintenance: Flum vape pens come pre-filled with e-liquid and require no assembly. Users can simply start using the device straight out of the packaging. There is no need for coil replacements, tank refilling, or other maintenance tasks typically associated with traditional vaping devices.
- On-the-Go Accessibility:
Portability: The compact and lightweight design of Flum vape pens makes them highly portable. Users can carry them in pockets or purses without the need for additional accessories or cumbersome components.
- No Charging Required:
Ready-to-Use: Flum vape pens are equipped with a built-in battery that comes fully charged. Users do not need to worry about charging the device, making them convenient for those who prefer an instant and hassle-free vaping experience.
- Ideal for Beginners:
Low Barrier to Entry: Flum vape pens offer an accessible entry point into vaping for beginners. The lack of complex settings, buttons, and maintenance tasks simplifies the learning curve, allowing users to explore vaping without navigating intricate features.
- Variety of Flavors:
Pre-Filled Flavors: Manufacturers often provide a diverse range of e-liquid flavors for Flum vape pens. This variety allows users to experiment with different tastes without the need to purchase separate e-liquids.
Resemblance to Traditional Cigarettes: The design of Flum vape pens often mirrors that of traditional cigarettes. This familiarity contributes to a discreet vaping experience, allowing users to blend in more easily in various settings.
- Limited Environmental Impact:
Single-Use Design: While the environmental impact of Flum vape pens is a concern, the single-use nature eliminates the need for ongoing maintenance and reduces the long-term environmental footprint associated with some reusable devices.
- Cost-Effectiveness for Occasional Users:
Upfront Affordability: The lower upfront cost of flum vape pens can be appealing to occasional users. For those who vape infrequently, the cost per unit may seem more affordable than investing in a reusable device.
- Convenience Stores and Accessibility:
Widespread Availability: Flum vape pens are readily available at convenience stores, gas stations, and online retailers. Their accessibility makes them a convenient choice for users who may not have access to dedicated vape shops.
The convenience factor is a driving force behind the popularity of Flum vape pens. From their user-friendly design and portability to the absence of maintenance tasks and instant accessibility, these devices cater to a broad audience seeking a straightforward and uncomplicated vaping experience. While considerations about environmental impact and long-term costs exist, the convenience offered by Flum vape pens continues to resonate with users looking for simplicity in their vaping journey.
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Huge box office receipts are ever so present in the cinematic thrillers of the 2021 Cannes Film festival with b movie actresses paving the road to success of the theatrical distribution. To go have fun and buy the popcorn and soda with that special female lead that is trying to make it in Hollywood is a special night. When we get home, we turn on Johnny Carson reruns and watch him humiliating either himself or Arnold Palmer’s wife.
In the mean time, when we get up in the morning, usually we are sorry for the night we spent doing nothing but laying on the couch and watching HBO. The next day, we will connect with our voice over professionals, such as https://moviesbyespresso.com/blog_post/the-story-of-laura-lambert/ To the independent film world’s network of movie cinematographers life seems to be on remote control, not moving anywhere for long periods of time. When movies appear on the silver screen, she will be featured in many of a TV show. There are a lot of TV leading ladies significant in Hollywood glitz.
Many get academy awards. Fans love it when their costar gets a voice over by her. When a Hollywood star is portrayed by her, that performer will have the very best talent representing them. She does a great job, and will thrive with voiceover talent as her as its main character. Love movies are the very best you can watch. There are also the romantic comedies.
She is absolutely the best Espresso Films has to offer as an actress. Why her with Warner Bros? Because Warner Bros movies needs talent like this woman. So does Universal Pictures. Do not go to another Art-house film with an professional other than her.
Matt Daman is a special guy, and his costars are special girls. But females often call themselves actors. When Hollywood stunt doubles create their romantic comedy movies they do so because they seek success at the box office. You need to eat the popcorn and drink the concession pop at least, while watching the favorite Hollywood star. Feature films do not do well without major human resource such as her.
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Kohima, Dec. 4: A threat war is raging in Nagaland between the Speaker and the Congress.
Speaker Chotisuh Sazo has issued a threat to Right to Information activist N. Yona Konyak, who is a member of the PCC vigilance cell, for filing an RTI seeking information on the number of government vehicles and drivers the Speaker and the deputy Speaker are entitled to and those allotted to them, as well as the new vehicles purchased for the two officials.
Sazo’s letter says Konyak would be wholly responsible if any untoward incident happens to the Speaker, his family, personal secretary, personal assistant, drivers or vehicles.
The letter, which was recently handed over to Konyak by Sazo’s personal assistant Thepusayi Nienu at Congress Bhawan, also says the Speaker, who is entitled to Z-plus category, is under Z category on the government list.
A copy of the letter was sent to the chief minister, the president of Chakhesang Public Organisation and the president of Konyak Union, of which Konyak is a member.
Terming the threat as unbecoming and an effort to strangulate RTI, the Congress cautioned Sazo that he would be held responsible if anything happened to Konyak.
Congress president S.I. Jamir said the threat, which has come in the public domain for the first time in the history of RTI in the state, was against the spirit of the act and the party would not take it lightly.
The Congress said it would not hesitate to file an FIR against the threat and would also bring out more scams of the state government.
The Congress, which had earlier filed a complaint against Sazo with the state vigilance department for allegedly siphoning off crores of rupees from the social welfare department in his position as its parliamentary secretary, said the Speaker has six government vehicles, including a Ranger Rover, which costs over Rs 52 lakh, a Toyota Camry (Rs 24,98,235), a Honda CRV, a Scorpio and two Boleros. Deputy Speaker E. Levi Rengma has two vehicles, a Duster and Xylo. Four drivers have been allotted to the Speaker and one to the deputy Speaker. The personal assistants of the two officials have been allotted a vehicle each.
This at a time when the state is reeling under a financial crisis, it said, alleging gross financial mismanagement over the years by the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland.
The party, which had observed a Dimapur bandh yesterday, threatened another strike in a day or two which would affect the ongoing 10-day Hornbill Festival.
The party is demanding the ouster of “tainted” health and family welfare minister Imkong L. Imchen.
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Simply take a photo of something in your room (maybe a picture or dishes or curtains or your cat...you get the idea) and email it to me. I can then make a pattern with the color(s) you desire and have a pillow made just for you.
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Intolerance of Uncertainty & Faith — The Implications of Religiosity on Mental Health
Despite the secularization of the United States in recent years, a 2020 survey showed that nearly half of Americans belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque in 2020 (Gallup, 2021). Why do people turn to religion in modern times? Some think of religion as a mechanism for community support and connection based on shared belief systems. Others find peace during times of hardship through faith in an afterlife or an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving god.
Psychologists seek to understand the motives and personality traits that lead individuals to religion and the effect of religious involvement on mental health outcomes. For example, the Terror Management Theory (TMT) theorizes that “religion serves to manage the potential terror engendered by the uniquely human awareness of death by affording a sense of psychological security and hope of immortality” (Vail et al, 2010).
The pioneering personality psychologist Gordon Allport theorized that religiosity could be either intrinsically or extrinsically motivated (Allport et al, 1967). Expanding upon Allport’s framework, researchers Brewcynski J., and MacDonald differentiated religious motivators even further by identifying three categories of religious motivation: intrinsic (wherein an individual seeks out religion for its own sake devoid of external motivators), extrinsic-personal (an individual uses religion to bring psychological relief), and extrinsic-social motivations (maintaining religious affiliation for social reasons) (Brewczinksky et al, 2006).
Researching religiosity by motivation style yields meaningful results, such as evidence of a positive correlation between religiosity and depression when an individual’s religiosity is extrinsically motivated (Howell et al, 2019, p. 99).
The 2019 article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology titled “Intolerance of Uncertainty Moderates the Relations Among Religiosity and Motives for Religion, Depression, and Social Evaluation Fears” contributes to this body of research. The article by Ashley N. Howell, R. Nicholas Carleton, Samantha C. Horswill, Holly A. Parkerson, Justin W. Weeks, and Gordon J.G. Asmundson explores the connection between the psychological concept of Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU)…
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Both heart rate and pulse rate are considered the same thing but in reality, they are two different terms. However, the pulse rate is related to the heart rate. Heart rate means hot beats per minute. The blood pressure of a human is a force of blood flowing by the blood vessels. While heart rate is the number of times the heart beats per min. The basic difference between heart rate and pulse rate is that the pulse is the perception of blood flow propelled by the heart, it is determined by palpating an artery in the neck, wrist, or other places on the body. The pulse is a witness of the blood pressure and allows to check the symmetry (left, right) as well as to easily evaluate the heart rate and the heart rate. On the other hand, the heart rate is the number of pulses per unit time that is usually expressed in bpm or beat per minute.
Heart Rate Vs. Pulse Rate – Overview
When our heart beats the blood changes the blood pressure (BP) throughout the body and hence it increases the pulse rate in the major arteries. Under normal conditions, both terms are the same but under exceptional circumstances, they may change. Heat beat may be normal but pulse rate may change due to obstructions in the path of blood. Pulse rate is the rate of dilation and contraction of the arteries while heart rate is the rate of dilation and contraction of the heart.
Read Also: What is Blood Pressure (BP)?
Difference Between Heart Rate And Pulse Rate In Tabular Form
|It is the rate at which the heart beats or contracts.||The temporary increases in arterial pressure can be felt by the body.|
|Any contraction throughout the body is part of heart rate.||It can be used to measure the heart rate for a normal, healthy heart.|
|The maximum heart rate during exercise is subtracted individual’s age from 220 bpm||The maximum pulse rate during exercise is Subtract an individual’s age from 220 bpm.|
|Exercise Target Zone: 85% (it’s half) of 220 beats – age||Exercise Target Zone: Half to 85% of 220 beats – age|
|Every heartbeat produces an arterial blood flow pulse that can be felt on the skin over the artery.||Healthy adults who are reasonably fit and not overweight will have resting heart rates between 61 and 100 beats per minute; their pulse will reflect this.|
What is the Heart Rate?
Heart rate can be defined as the hot beats per minute or heartbeats per minute. If the heartbeats the blood changes the blood pressure throughout the body and thereby increases the pulse rate in the main arteries. The heart rate is measured from the thorax or with its electrodes by electrocardiograph (EKG). The remaining hearing rates should be 61-100 bpm (beats per minute) for both men and women; Pre-teens and teens (11-20 years): 61-100 bpm; Children 3-9 years: 70-130 bpm; Infants 1,2 day to 3 years of age: 71-190 bpm; Heart rate for athletes may be less than 40 bpm. A tachycardia with a heartbeat rate of more than 99 bpm is less than 60 bradycardia.
What is Pulse Rate?
Pulse rate is the increase in blood pressure throughout the body. If the heartbeats the blood changes the blood pressure throughout the body and thereby increases the pulse rate in the main arteries. It is primarily the pulse of blood flow through the capillaries due to the contraction of the heart in our body. The pulse is commonly used like a photo reflection or infrared sensor monitor with a pulse meter from the earlobe. The pulse meter is not very reliable for outdoor use while it is sensitive to sunlight. It varies with body movement so it should be measured at rest. Pulse is measured by touching at rest. Pulse is found from the base of the toe at the wrist or from the side of the windpipe at the neck.
Key Differences Between Heart rate and Pulse rate
- Heart rate and pulse rate are the same in normal conditions while under exceptional circumstances they may change. Heat beat can be normal while the pulse rate may change due to obstructions or obstructions in the path of blood.
- Heart rate is the number of hot beats per minute or heart rate per minute. On the other hand, pulse rate is a measure of the increase in blood pressure that touches the whole body.
- The pulse is used as a photo reflection or infrared sensor monitor with a pulse meter from the earlobe.
- The heart rate is measured from the thorax or with its electrodes by electrocardiograph (EKG).
- Pulse rate is due to heart rate/heart rate.
- If the heat stops beating, the pulses of blood will not flow in the body.
- Pulse rate is the rate of dilation and contraction of the arteries.
- Heart rate is the rate of dilation and contraction of the heart.
Heart rate and pulse rate are related and have a lot in common, but are two different things. Both have to do with the heart and the blood but in two different ways. The BP tells what pressure the blood has against the vessel walls. While heart rate is the heartbeat and is measured in the number of beats per minute. The BP is measured in two different pressures, over-pressure, and negative-pressure. The over-pressure is often between 121 and 140, whereas the lower pressure should not exceed 90. The heart rate is measured by counting the heartbeat per minute, which is usually between 56 and 80.
Other Biology Differences:
- Difference Between Small Intestine And Large Intestine
- Differences Between Catabolism And Anabolism
- Difference Between Cereals And Pulses
- Difference Between Secretion And Excretion
- Difference Between Nervous System And Endocrine System
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
It's Not Going Over Well
Transcript at NY Times.
Calculated Risk posted a link to the feed with a notice about the press conference, and the comments on that post are extremely funny. Jas Jain is ranting on again about corruption, and everyone's agreeing with him. In response to the question by one commenter as to who is listening to this, another commenter replies "The Dopes of Hope". Another commenter "When was the last time the US was this far in the tank? Watching this made me ask that question."
Yet another commenter:
I liked this:
"So yes, the government can create demand temporarily, but that can't fill the export gap forever."
If no one is buying then none of this is going to work!!!!!!
What do we produce?
Where is the average citizen going to get the money to buy it? None of this addresses that." Then he or she posts a link to the latest news about Japan's exports - down almost 50% YoY.
Another commenter posts a link to a Reuters article detailing Moody's projections about the cost of US energy under Obama's cap and trade proposal, and ends with a succinct "Bend over, Bubba":
U.S. electricity prices are likely to rise 15 to 30 percent if a national cap on carbon dioxide emissions is instituted, according to a report by Moody's Investors Service.But on a brighter note, apparently Obama did succeed in changing some people's minds. One commenter writes:
And "the vast majority" of the burden of those higher costs will be borne by residents as large industrial users are likely to be successful in lobbying U.S. lawmakers for special rates and tariffs, the report dated March showed.
If carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are priced at $20 per metric ton, it would add about $48 billion in costs for the electric utility sector, Moody's said.
Just got DH to agree, we start moving our money out of the U.S. tomorrow.I'm not sure that is what Obama hoped to accomplish.
I'm wondering what Geithner thought was going to happen? People were willing to accept very low returns on Treasuries in order to preserve capital during a time of global economic disruption, but once you make it clear you are going to deflate your currency, no. This will end in dollar flight and an inability to sell our debt internationally. REALLY.
An actual debate broke out on DU yesterday over Geithner. Obama is losing his base over this.
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paints have three ingredients, the colour agent or pigment
that is dispersed in
a liquid medium or vehicle. This vehicle is made up of a
binding agent and a thinning
agent. In oil paint, the binding agent is linseed oil and
the thinning agent
is turpentine. In watercolour the binding agent is gum
arabic (glue from an acacia
tree) and the thinning agent is water. All high quality
artist paints use the best
pigments (colours) available. In artist supplies there are
different qualities available
ranging from student grade to professional grade. The most
is in the longevity of the materials used.
PAPERS - are
the highest quality papers available to artists and printer today.
The term rag is used to describe papers actually made from
linen or cotton
fibers, generally the thicker the better. These papers have
a neutral pH.....
- is the term used to describe specially
manufactured papers that do not contain any acidity and are
considered pH neutral. Now, almost all rag papers are
acid-free: but not all acid-free papers are made from
rag. You can have a paper made from wood fibers that
has had its acidity neutralized with calcium carbonate, to
make it pH neutral. Acid-free papers have a higher
resistance to mold growth, characterized by dull rusty spots
known as foxing.
PAPERS - refers to any paper made for
printing. The highest quality papers are acid-free and
made from rag.
PAPERS - These papers are made for the lithography
printing industry and are coated with a very thin layer of
clay. The clay prevents the printing inks from soaking
into the paper, making the colours more vibrant. Most of
the papers used today for the limited edition reproduction
market are coated papers and most of these are made from wood fibers
that have been pH neutralized or called acid-free.
- All paper
manufacturers have their own watermark or design that is molded
into the paper surface as the time of production. This can
be seen as a relief design along the edge of the paper
REPRODUCTION - Simply put, are prints reproduced photo mechanically
from original works of art, conceived by an artist in another
medium. Originally large room size cameras were used to
photograph the artwork. In the 80's laser scanners came
into wide use to photograph the artwork digitally. The
light reflected off the artwork is broken down into 4 colours -
blue, yellow, red and black. Representing each colour is a
separate piece of film negative, from which four aluminum plates
are made. These plates are put onto a large press for
printing (See Lithograph). This process is called offset
lithography because of the transference of the printed image to
a rubber blanket or roller, before the image is printed onto
SEPARATIONS - are the 4 pieces of film negatives used in
the production of making the photomechanical printing plates
TONE - the light that the scanner sees to make these 4
separate films, is broken down to make what is called a halftone
dot. This dot along with another few millions of coloured
dots is what makes up the printed image (see photo
EDITIONS - are reproduction prints produced in the
method described above. The image of each print in the
edition is identical. The total number of images approved
by the artist in the edition is indicated by the artist's
signature and by writing the number of each reproduction;
followed by the total number of prints in the particular
edition. An example would be 27/375, and is generally done
in pencil, this is called signed and numbering. This
method of numbering applies to the original print as well.
- is the newest form of limited edition reproductions on
the market today. The image is made usually using inkjets
to spray the ink onto printing or watercolour paper to make to
make the image. The original artwork or photographic copy
of artwork is outputted directly onto the printing paper,
without going through the film colour separation process as in
the photo reproductions. This method has really improved
in the short time of its use. Some printed images are so
good it is hard to tell from the original, particularly when
printed onto watercolour paper. This could be a problem
down the road on the secondary market unless a way is found to
distinguish the print from the original. Maybe and
embossed image in the image would make it less confusing.
No matter how good or how many images are produced, it is still
a copy (reproduction) of the original and should be treated
TRANSFER - is a laminated process of transferring a
printed image onto canvas using heat and pressure. A
reproduction on paper is used to laminate onto the canvas
surface using a sealer and is pressed into the canvas. The
resulting image looks like it was painted on the canvas and is
hard to tell from an original, unless labeled. It is a
time consuming and an expensive process, but is still just a
reproduction of the original.
EDITION - is an unlimited series of prints without the
typical numbering seen on a limited edition. This term
applies to both original prints and the reproduction. Most
open editions are not signed by the artist and command a lower
EDITION - The number of prints in this kind of edition
is determined by the number of orders received by a certain
date. This final number can be very high, even into the
tens of thousands. As far as I am concerned it is no more
than an expensive poster.
- a numbered print is designed to show the limit or size
of a printed edition (see limited edition). Lower numbers
used to mean the first prints where sharper than the later, in
original prints this is true (see drypoint), but with modern
printing techniques, as in reproductions , the last print should
be as sharp as the first off the press.
SIGNATURE - it is customary for artists to sign their
prints in pencil. The signature has come to stand for a
guarantee of good workmanship, or stamp of quality and
authenticity of the printed image. Some artists sign in
the printed image, but most sign on the border.
IN THE PLATED - refers to the artist's
"printed" signature as it appears in the original work
or plate. It is not the same as the artist's hand
signature in pencil on the margin of the print.
PROOF - Applies more today to the reproduction than the
original print. They are chosen from the regular edition
printing run and are the artist option. For me, it's a way
to saying thanks to the people involved in printing my
reproductions. I give one to each person and I keep one
for myself. Abbreviated by P/P, which appears on the
OUT - is when a print edition is completely sold out and
is no longer available at the issue price (the price first
offered at retail). The print is now only available from
someone who already owns it and this is called the secondary
-COLOURED - or hand tinted means adding colour to an
already printed image. This is mostly done with the
original print but it can also be applied to the reproduction
print. Watercolour is the choice of most artists but
anything that will not harm the paper can be used.
PLATED - is when a printing plate or block has been
defaced to make it impossible to print any additional images.
OF AUTHENTICITY - is a printed document generally fixed
to the back of framed reproductions and original prints that
states the image is genuine, along with other pertinent
information such as the size of edition, print number, etc.
- Oil paint was well developed by the mid sixteenth
century. Oil has great flexibility, dries slowly and can
be used to build up texture. Oil paintings, if painted on
good canvas or board, do not require glass. The thinning
agent is turpentine and the binding agent is linseed oil.
Most oil paintings appear glossy when dry. Oil glazes can
be used to build optical effects, but white paint is mostly used
to build the lights.
- is made from synthetic resins called polymers colours.
These colours are thinned with water and dry fast to become a
tough, flexible film. By using the appropriate mediums the
surface can be made mat, semi-mat or glossy, most acrylics do
not require glass unless painted onto paper. Acrylics can
be painted to look like oil or used in the wash technique of
- has been used n different forms for thousands of
years. It used gum arabic as a binding agent and water to
think the colours. Mostly painted on paper, the best
quality being made from linen fibers. Watercolour papers
have three basic surface textures - hot-pressed (smooth),
cold-pressed (medium) and cold-pressed (rough). The
traditional technique is to use transparent washes (glazes) over
one another to build optical effects, using the white of the
paper for the lights: white paint is seldom used.
Watercolours should always be framed with glass.
- is opaque watercolour. It is a painting medium
like watercolour, but with the addition of white pigment to
produce a more opaque paint. The same papers are used as
in watercolour and gouache requires glass for protection.
- dates back about two hundred years and was mainly used in
portraiture. It is a form of drawing/painting using pure
colour without a medium. Pastel crayons come in three
grades, soft, medium and hard. they are made using colour
pigment with a binding medium, pressed in molds to form sticks
or crayons. The paper used should be that of linen qua;ity
and has a texture to hold pastel. All pastels should be
framed under glass. Oil pastel is the same as above, but
with the addition of linseed oil.
TEMPERA - is a form of painting using egg yoke as
the binding agent for the pigment and water as the thinning
agent for the paint. Tempera dates back hundreds of years
to before oil painting was invented. Leonardo de Vinci's,
'last Supper" and Michelangelo's "Sistine Chapel"
comes to mind. The traditional technique is to paint in
light cross hatching strokes to build up the image. A more
modern method is to glaze many layers of colour one over the
other to create an optical effects. The painting surface
should appear fairly smooth. Presses-wood board 9Masonite)
is mostly used with a smooth absorbent gesso surface, as the
painting support. The painting will tae up to 9 months to
cure but becomes quite tough after curing and it is not
necessary to frame with glass.
- India ink is mostly used today to produce ink drawings
and is very permanent, if not put on too thickly. it comes
as waterproof ink and as soluble ink. Ink drawings are
mostly done with pen but can be thinned with water and used with
a brush; coloured drawing inks are not as stable and will fade
over time, as do all felt-tip markers. Ink can be used on
paper or board and should be glassed when framed.
- The modern drawing pencil is made from graphite mixed
with clay to lighten and harden the lead. The softest
varieties contain little or no clay. Graphite is a form of
carbon and is very stable. The paper used is usually
smooth or has little texture. Here again, the art is only
as good as the paper it has been done on. Drawings should
be framed using glass.
- drawings are done using a silver wire sharpened to a
point and put into a hand holder for drawing. The drawing
surface can be a panel, smooth watercolour or drawing paper
coated with a thin layer of "Chinese white"
watercolour paint. Over time the drawing will tarnish to a
wonderful patina effect. Gold and platinum can also be
used but will not tarnish. Glass should be used in framing
if done on paper.
PRINT - is a work of art that has been created
specifically for the printing medium. The original image
is hand-done onto a metal plate; stone block, wooden block or
screen. This image is then printed directly from the
original image, by the artist or a technician, onto good quality
paper. Often many passes through the press is necessary if
more then one colour is to be used to complete the final printed
image. The edition size is usually low in number and each
printed image is considered unique. When the artist makes
an impression, it is called pulling a proof, this is where the
term artist's proof came from. In producing the original
print, the artist must be highly skilled in his understanding of
the methods employed and the printing process can take weeks to
months to pull the entire edition.
- refers to the printing plate (copper, zinc, steel) and
other materials from which printed impressions and images are
LITHOGRAPH - is a process of printing from a flat
stone. The artist draws the image with a grease pencil or
other methods on to a stone surface, then water and printing ink
are successively applied; the greasy drawing repels water but
absorbs the ink. The wet stone repels ink and prints clean
but the greasy drawing prints the image. With the stone
inked, paper is carefully placed on the stone and pressed
together through a press transferring the image to paper.
For each colour, a different stone is used. this process s
done by hand for the original print.
- is really a general term. There are two types:
an offset lithograph print, and an original lithograph print,
which are described above. In offset lithography the image
is photographed and burned into a metal plate. This plate
is put into a press with ink coming from the press's
rollers. When paper is passed through the press the image
is transferred onto rubber rollers and then onto the
paper. This offset method is used today to print most
reproductions, full-colour books and magazines etc. (see photo
- is any technique in which an image is incised below
the surface of a printing plate. The hand-inked plate is
covered with damp printing paper and passed through a press
under great pressure, the ink is transferred onto the
paper. This includes etching, aquatint, mezzotint,
engraving and dry point.
- is an intaglio process (a sunken design) in which a
drawing is scratched through a resistant wax covering protecting
the metal plate. The plate is placed into an acid
solution, which eats into the now exposed surface. The
sunken areas hold the printing ink and when passed through a
press, with paper on top of the plate, the ink transfers onto
the paper making your image.
- an intaglio process - is used to make tonal variations
by dusting powdered rosin onto a metal plate, it is then heated
to adhere to the plated and etched in an acid-bath. This
technique produces a transparent, soft-effect resembling
- also intaglio process - is when texture is
produced all over a metal plate with what is called a
"rocker". By rubbing and burnishing the surface,
an image is created by smoothing this texture, therefore
creating graduations of light and shade on the plate.
Mezzotints are characterized by a rich, velvet overall
appearance to the resulting print.
- an intaglio process - is when lines are cut with a
sharp tool into a metal plate, and then filled with ink to
transfer onto paper to produce the image.
- intaglio process - is using a very sharp needle-like
tool to scratch a drawing into a polished metal (usually copper)
plate. The groove and burr that is produced, holds the ink
in the printing process to give a softer look to the printed
image. This burr brakes down very quickly when printed
under high pressure, resulting in a breakdown of the
image. the higher number of prints pulled the less
sharpness and ink will be on the print. Consequently, the
amount of prints is an edition is very low.
- is a relief printing method in which the image is
carved into the surface of a block of wood. The raised
portion of the wood is inked and passed through a press with
paper to produce the final print.
- is a work of art produced by the inking of any collage
of materials or objects that takes the form of a plate for
printing; also called relief printing.
- also called silkscreen printing - is a stenciling
method in which the image is transferred to paper by forcing
paint through a stretched screen of silk or polyester
fabric. The stencil can be hand-cut or photographically
prepared and is adhered to the screen. the paint goes
through the open areas where the stencil was cut away. A
new stencil must be cut for every colour printed.
PROOF - often abbreviated A/P and should not be
compromised of more prints than 10% of the edition.
Artist's proofs are not included in the numbering of the regular
edition and are the artist's option. In today's limited
edition reproductions, the artist's proof is printed at the same
time as the whole edition, and they are not better quality tan
the regular edition. The term artist's proof came from the
early days of printmaking, when the artist would proof the
printing plate that he was working on. He would continue
pulling proofs after doing more work on the plate, until the
plate was ready for printing for regular edition. In this
process each proof would be unique and therefore different then
the regular edition. because each plate has a limited
number of impressions possible before breaking down, artist try
to keep the proofing below 10% of the final edition.
- is the addition of an artist's drawing in pencil, or
sometime watercolour, to enhance the print with an original
piece of work, usually done in the margin. This applies to
original prints and reproductions. The remarque must be
done by hand to qualify as a remarque, not printed! Remarques
should comprise no more than 5% of the final edition.
MARK - is the printer's or artists seal usually embossed
on the border or in the image. This is another way of
giving authenticity to the printed image and cannot be removed
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You are invited to experience the magic of this ancient practice in one of the most beautiful locations of Big Island–the luscious jungle.
The practice of Kundalini Yoga transforms you on a cellular level, as it truly tackles the depths of your physical and spiritual being.
It’s a powerful tool to improve your mental and physical health.
Kundalini Yoga combines mudra, mantra, breath work and postures to achieve a specific state of being.
After each class, you will feel replenished, extra focused and ready to alchemize any challenge of life into a blessing.
Rise above your limitations!
- Event Area: East Hawaiʻi
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As we know, different types of farms produce their products. It may be not for selling anything. Some types of farms spread on acres and acres and some less than an acre of field. Including a guide to varieties of farms is helpful, especially for front or aspiring growers trying to reason out what type of ranch is best for them.
However, the range of farming products, the scale at which they sold, and who controls their sale rely on its kind of farm. For example, so many tractor brands are available, but the Mahindra Tractor is best because it gives durability and comes under a cost-effective price range.
Some types of farms may fall under numerous categories of farm kinds as well. For example, multiple micro-farms are also urban ranches, a u-pick farm could also be an orchard, and a dairy farm may also be a home or commercial farm.
Top Types of Farms With Details
Aquaculture is, put, aquatic agriculture. It affects breeding, rearing, and harvesting fish, shellfish, aquatic plants, algae and other organisms to produce food and other commercial products. Some aquaculture operations are also designated to restore habitat, replenish wild fish stocks, and rebuild threatened and endangered species populations.
Freshwater and marine are the two types of Aquaculture:
Marine aquaculture delivers saltwater aquatic organisms like oysters, clams, mussels, shrimp and seaweed, and fish like salmon, bass and yellowtail. Fish cultivated in net pens in ocean water or saltwater tanks. Shellfish can plant on the seafloor or raise in cages.
Freshwater aquaculture farms catfish and trout, mostly in ponds or other manufactured systems.
2. Commercial farm
Commercial ranches are large-scale farming operations that produce crops and other products for sale instead of growing crops to support a family or society. Farms with smaller gains that sell agricultural products considered residence or medium types of farms. A company also holds commercial farms instead of a family or cooperative.
3. Cooperative farm
Farmers pool their time and economic resources and share their profits at collective farms. Collective farms owned by their members rather than by outside investors or shareholders. Each member of a collective farm also has a vote in company decisions.
4. Dairy farm
Dairy farm committed to the presentation of milk. Most dairy farms have cows primarily, but some dairy farms raise sheep and goats for milk.
Some dairy growers own their cowherds and their land, but others work on large dairy farms possessed by corporations. Some dairy farms produce and harvest feed for their cattle on-site. They may also breed and grow heifers to sustain their dairy-producing residents.
5. Flower farm
Flower farms grow and grow cut flowers for the deal. Many also associated with flower arranging, event planning or marriage business to expand their growing seasons.
An orchard is a farm of purposely planted trees and shrubs to grow fruits or nuts. Orchard fruits contain pears, apples, oranges, cherries and bananas. Orchard nuts contain tree nuts like pecans, walnuts and almonds.
Many orchards produce a single type of fruit, though presenting diversity into orchards helps the process build opposition to pests and conditions. The most extensive orchards are apple and orange orchards, although citrus orchards more commonly called groves.
7. Organic farm
Organic farms grow and process food without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. Instead, natural pesticides may used in making organically produced food.
More than 40 private associations and state agencies approve organic food, but the criteria may discuss the exact pesticides and fertilizers they allow or the range of their credential materials. The USDA National Organic Program approved all organic labels, norms, and language.
A ranch is a large land area for raising livestock, like cows or sheep. However, some types of farms also boast less conventional livestock like elk, emu, bison and alpacas.
In the western United States, many ranches connect private land and public land controlled by federal agents like the Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service. They allowed to bring their flocks by grazing leases.
Ranches that include arable or irrigated land may also grow crops to feed the animals. In addition, some operating ranches will open private land to hunters for recreational hunting. Ranches are primarily open to visitors, and guests are called dude ranches.
Vineyards are ranches that produce grapes, which are made on vines that are funded on posts and wires known as frames. Grapes cultivated in vineyards are most typically gathered for wine, though some are produced for sale or to make raisins. The study of vineyards is called viticulture. A vineyard may also include a licensed winery on-site for wine displays, sales and tastings to attract agritourism.
Vineyards generally situated on large estates, where careful planning and design prevent pests and disease management. In addition, the geographical and geological characteristics of a vineyard contribute to the taste and quality of the grapes grown and, later, the flavour of the wine.
10. Subsistence farm
In subsistence agriculture, growers grow food crops to feed themselves and take care of their livelihood. However, the typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals, so the family to feed and, potentially, clothe themselves during the year. For land preparation, farmers used Sonalika Tractor because it offers maximum productivity.
Mainly subsistence farms are in developing countries, but many homesteaders in the United States include designed their farmsteads to be subsistence-oriented, particularly in off-grid areas.
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2 But where the Gospel comes, It spreads diviner light;
It calls dead sinners from their tombs, And gives the blind their sight.
3 How perfect is thy word!
And all thy judgments just!
For ever sure thy promise, Lord,
And we securely trust.
4 My gracious God, how plain
Are thy directions given!
may I never read in vain,
But find the path to heaven.
Instruction from the Scriptures.
1 How shall the young secure their hearts
And guard their lives from sin ?
Thy word the choicest rules imparts,
To keep the conscience clean.
2 When once it enters to the mind,
It spreads such light abroad,
The meanest souls instruction find,
And raise their thoughts to God.
3 'T is like the sun, a heavenly light,
That guides us all the day;
And through the dangers of the night,
A lamp to lead our way.
4 Thy word is everlasting truth;
How pure is every page!
That holy book shall guide our youth,
And well support our age.
The Blessings of the Gospel.
1 BLEST are the souls that hear and know
The Gospel's joyful sound;
Peace shall attend the paths they go,
And light their steps surround.
2 Their joy shall bear their spirits up,
Through their Redeemer's name;
His righteousness exalts their hope,
Nor dares the world condemn.
3 The Lord, our glory and defence,
Strength and salvation gives;
Israel, thy King for ever reigns,
Thy God for ever lives.
Searching the Scriptures.
IMPOSTURE shrinks from light, And dreads the curious eye: But sacred truths the test invite, They bid us search and try.
O may we still maintain
A meek, inquiring mind;
Assured we shall not search in vain,
But hidden treasures find.
3 With understanding blest,
Created to be free,
Our faith on man we dare not rest,
Subject to none but thee.
4 Lord, give the light we need;
With soundest knowledge fill;
From noxious error guard our creed,
From prejudice our will.
5 The truth thou shalt impart,
May we with firmness own;
Abhorring each evasive art,
And fearing thee alone.
The Excellency of Scripture. Psalm 119.
1 LORD, I have made thy word my choice, My lasting heritage;
There shall my noblest powers rejoice, My warmest thoughts engage.
2 I'll read the histories of thy love,
And keep thy laws in sight,
While through the promises I rove,
With ever fresh delight.
3 'T is a broad land of wealth unknown,
Where springs of life arise;
Seeds of immortal bliss are sown,
And hidden glory lies.
4 The best relief that mourners have,
It makes our sorrows blest:
Our fairest hope beyond the grave,
And our eternal rest.
God's Word. Psalm 119.
1 LET all the heathen writers join
To form one perfect book;
Great God, if once compared with thine,
How mean their writings look!
2 Not the most perfect rules they gave
Could show one sin forgiven,
Nor lead a step beyond the grave;
But thine conduct to heaven.
3 I've seen an end of what we call
Perfection here below;
How short the powers of nature fall,
And can no farther go!
4 Our faith, and love, and every grace,
Fall far below thy word;
But perfect truth and righteousness
Dwell only with the Lord.
The Value of the Scriptures.
1 How precious is the book divine,
By inspiration given!
Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine,
To lead our souls to heaven.
2 O'er all the straight and narrow way
Its radiant beams are cast;
A light whose never weary ray
Grows brightest at the last.
3 It sweetly cheers our fainting hearts
In this dark vale of tears;
Life, light, and comfort it imparts,
And calms our anxious fears.
4 This lamp through all the dreary night
Of life shall guide our way,
Till we behold the glorious light
Of never-ending day.
The Books of Nature and Scripture. Psalm 19.
1 THE heavens declare thy glory, Lord!
In every star thy wisdom shines;
But when our eyes behold thy word,
We read thy name in fairer lines.
2 The rolling sun, the changing light,
And nights and days, thy power confess;
But the blest volume thou hast writ
Reveals thy justice and thy grace.
3 Sun, moon, and stars convey thy praise
Round the whole earth, and never stand;
So, when thy truth began its race,
It touched and glanced on every land.
4 Nor shall thy spreading Gospel rest
Till through the world thy truth has run;
Till Christ has all the nations blest,
That see the light, or feel the sun.
5 Great Sun of Righteousness, arise,
Bless the dark world with heavenly light:
Thy Gospel makes the simple wise;
Thy laws are pure, thy judgments right.
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America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an unexpected and welcome sense of our urban origins. His historically anchored vision of our cities places topics of finance, housing, social mobility, transportation, crime, planning, and growth into a perspective which explains the present in terms of the past and ofers a point from which to plan for the future. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988 with a paperback in 1990.
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What is Sanbonsugi in Japanese Katana terminology?
Sanbonsugi refers to a type of blade pattern (Hamon) in Japanese swords. It is a variation of ""互の目"" (Gunome), where the 'heads' of the 'nails' (gunome) are pointed and vary in height, resembling a cedar tree. In ""三本杉"", the 'heads' of the 'nails' are deeply tempered in a series of three, creating a continuous pattern.
This pattern is famously seen in the works of ""孫六兼元"" (Magoroku Kanemoto), a renowned swordsmith from the Mino tradition. His influence can also be seen in the works of swordsmiths from the Mino tradition during the Shinshinto period (new sword period).
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Instructions Preheat oven to 250°F. Remove packaging and if your ham has a small plastic disk on the underside of the bone, remove and discard the disk. Place ham in a shallow roasting pan, cut side down. Bake for 13-16 minutes per pound until ham reaches 140°F.
How do you heat a Costco spiral sliced ham?
Bake in a preheated 325°F oven for 10-14 minutes per pound, or until a meat thermometer registers 140°F. To glaze this type of ham, turn the oven to 400°F, brush the ham with the glaze, and bake for 10-15 minutes until the glaze is browned and bubbling. Let stand for 10 minutes before slicing to serve.
Is Costco spiral ham good?
The Costco Kirkland Signature Spiral Sliced Ham is hands down the best ham I’ve had. … The ham is lean without much fat and has a nice smoked, subtle hickory flavor.
How long do you cook a 12 pound ham?
A 12-pound ham will take about 18 to 20 minutes per pound to bake, or roughly three and one-half to four hours. At the lowest time estimate, begin checking the internal temperature. When it reaches 160 degrees F, the ham is done.
How long do you cook a Costco spiral ham?
Heat, boneless spiral hams for around 30 minutes. Remember – ham is fully cooked – do not over warm ham. Make glaze according to instructions on glaze packet. Remove ham from oven the last 10 minutes of warming and brush prepared glaze over ham and between slices.
How long is Costco spiral ham good for?
Spiral-cut hams and leftovers from consumer-cooked hams may be stored in the refrigerator three to five days or frozen one to two months. Keep your refrigerator at 40 °F or less and your freezer at or near 0 °F. See also Ham and Food Safety.
What is the best brand spiral ham?
Our winner: HoneyBaked, which was flavorful and consistently moist and tender. The Ratings give details from taste tests in which our experts sampled three hams per brand.
How long does a 10 pound spiral ham take to cook?
How Long to Bake Ham. It will normally take about 10-15 minutes per pound to heat the spiral sliced ham to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. We set our oven to 350 degrees and plan for it to take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours for the nearly 10 pound hams we buy.
How long does it take to cook a precooked 10 lb ham?
How long does it take to heat a 10 pound fully cooked ham? Place in a 325-to-350 degree oven, brush with some glaze if desired and bake until heated through and the internal temperature reaches 135 degrees. Again, figure no more than 10 minutes per pound.
What is the best way to cook a precooked ham?
A precooked ham should be cooked in the oven at 325 degrees F for 10 minutes per pound, or until it reaches 145 degrees F, according to the USDA. If you’re reheating a ham that was repackaged or leftover, it needs to be cooked to 165 degrees F.
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iNews was launched in 2007 as SUN TV. On the early years, each local television stations within this network were bearing their own identity, while using unified graphics.
As part of MNC Media's restructuring in 2011, Sindo Media was formed and SUN TV changed its name to Sindo TV, made it the part of the new division along with other properties as Koran Sindo and Sindo Radio (now MNC Trijaya FM).
On 2011, Sindo TV renamed to iNews TV as it began to strengthen its positioning as a news channel. At the time, all local stations within the network had lost their own identities to match the national feed.
On Metamorfosa iNews Indonesia Award 2017, iNews slightly revamped its identity once more by dropping TV from its name as it became the unified news division of MNC Media's television networks (RCTI, MNCTV, GTV and iNews itself) rather than just a television channel. It used Roboto font for the new wordmark.
It subsequently rebranded all of their news bulletins to add "iNews" name, including then-legend RCTI's Seputar Indonesia (now Seputar iNews).
Defunct: MNC World News
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This is what happens to a disarmed populace. San Francisco is quickly becoming the new Detroit. Speeding it along on that path to glory is a city council with politics to the left of Venzuela’s, an overwhelmed, under-manned (by design) police force, and a revolving door criminal justice system.
But over 800,000 people live in the city and many of them are sick of stepping in feces, wading through junkies, and finding their car windows smashed and their valuables gone.
That’s why one masked man has taken to San Francisco’s streets with an airsoft pistol on his belt.
From abc7news . . .
He’s lived in San Francisco for over 20 years and lately instead of going by his legal name, people call him “Boots.” “I’m called Boots. I’m working outside rather than inside.”
Covering his face with a ski mask to protect his identity, Boots walks around his neighborhood of Fisherman’s Wharf with a non-lethal weapon that looks like a gun. His goal is to scare off thieves from breaking into cars.
You and I may know that open carry is illegal in California, but Boots is apparently betting the average thief isn’t as knowledgeable about gun laws.
“The tourist aren’t going to come here. The business of some people that have lived here and have been here their entire lives and it’s not fair,” said Boots.
According to SFPD’s incident data, on average there are 67 thefts from vehicles every day in San Francisco. Outside Eight AM, a brunch spot on Columbus Avenue employees see car break-ins happening on a daily basis.
The SFPD may be unwilling or unable to do anything about the city’s rampant crime, but don’t expect to see them shining the bootsignal in the night sky over the city any time soon.
They’re less than appreciative of his attempts at deterring criminal activity.
Wednesday while Boots was patrolling the area hoping to deter thieves, he was arrested by SFPD for brandishing an imitation firearm which is a misdemeanor. Boots could face charges.
“We don’t recommend anyone doing that. We understand everyone’s frustration. Officers are frustrated and taking the number of police report regarding auto burglaries occurring throughout the city. However there is a system in place to do that,” said SFPD’s Officer Robert Rueca.
The SFPD can’t seem to arrest junkies in its open-air drug market or stop rampant thefts from cars, but when it comes to harassing a lone citizen who’s doing what he can to dissuade criminals, they boys in blue are right there with the cuffs.
SFPD says they are short-staffed but to Boots even though he was arrested, he viewed it as another victory.
“While police were there, nobody was getting their car broken into for that half hour,” said Boots.
In a lawless hellhole, you have to take your victories where you can.
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Google Voice is steadily replacing the traditional call app that comes preinstalled on every smartphone. Google Voice lets you make calls, send text messages and voicemails. The most interesting feature is that it provides a virtual phone number so that the user can hide his original phone number for privacy concerns. But Google voice call recording feature makes the app stands out.
Most smartphone users crave for a call recording feature in their voice calling app but the preinstalled calling app does not provide the feature. That is where Google Voice app outshines others. Besides, you can make calls from your phone as well as computer as it syncs across all devices. In this article, we will illustrate how to record Google Voice calls in simple steps.
Why Should You Use Google Voice?
The features of Google Voice app make it stand out among all voice calling apps. Here are the key features you should be aware of.
Get a virtual Google Voice number and hide your original phone number.
Make voice calls, voice mails and send text messages.
Make calls on domestic and international numbers.
Record calls and save for future reference.
Automatically block spam numbers and manually block specific numbers.
Forwarding of calls, messages, and voicemails to a different number.
Sync across all devices and access from computer as well.
Google voice transcript option to transcript voicemails.
Backup calls, messages, and voicemails for easy searching in future.
How To Record Google Voice Call On Smartphone?
You need to install Google Voice app and create a Google Voice account. Select a virtual Google Voice virtual number. After creating and logging into the account, you have to enable Google Voice recorder settings so that you can record calls from Google Voice app. Here are the steps to activate Google Voice record call and start recording.
Step 1: Tap on three-line icon on the top-left corner.
Step 2: Select Settings option from the drop-down menu.
Step 3: Go to Calls section and turn on “Incoming Calls Options”.
Step 4: On Google Voice app, make a call and bring up the keypad. Press 4 and the recording will start. Please note that the other person will get an alert that the call is on recording mode.
Step 5: To stop Google Voice call recording, press 4 again. The recording will stop and it will be saved. The other person will get an alert that the call recording has stopped.
Step 6: You can access the recording from Voicemail tab. Otherwise, you can go to the last call from Google Voice call log and tap on Voicemail option. You can play the recording and listen to it instantly.
If you are using a Google Pixel smartphone, you can Google Voice Recorder app which is available exclusively for Pixel users.
All these steps are equally applicable on Android as well as iOS version of Google Voice.
How To Record Google Voice Call On Computer?
Google Voice is available for smartphones as well as computers through its web portal. You get all the features in its web version as the app version. The steps on how to record Google Voice calls on a computer are exactly the same as in the app. However, the fact that Google Voice sends alerts to the other person when you start or end recording is annoying for many.
This is especially undesirable when you want to record a stalker disturbing you through repeated calls, and you can have evidence to produce to officials to take steps. If the stalker gets to know that you are recording, he will cut the call. That is why you need a better alternative to Google Voice recorder. When you are using Google voice through our computer, you can use Wondershare Filmora to record both audio and video which will show the caller number, call duration, and other data. Here are the steps to record your Google Voice call on your computer through Filmora.
Step 1: Download and install Wondershare Filmora on your computer. It is available for both Windows and Mac. Launch the application and click on PC Screen option.
Step 2: From Recording window, set the video recording screen dimensions. Set the speaker and external microphone perfectly.
Step 3: Click on Record button to start recording.
Step 4: Click on Stop button to stop recording when the call ends.
Step 5: You can export the recorded Google Voice call with video in order to save on your computer.
We have illustrated to turn on the recording option on Google Voice and how to record Google voice calls easily on your smartphone. You can follow the same steps to record Google Voice calls from your computer. If you want to record Google Voice calls without the other person knowing, you can use Wondershare Filmora on your computer.
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Would you barter? How about all transaction we know is only barter? How you determine the value of the things you will trade? I’m sucks in Economy subject when I was in high school. Now I have to write about this???
I don’t think barter will suit me. I mean, judging by the value of the things… It can be decrease in the matter of time. The only thing that constant, in my opinion, is gold. Not everybody has gold, right? Beside, how do I know to get item A, how many item B I should prepare? That will be another headache.
Barter system is the earliest way of trade in humankind. It created the base of trading system we know now. I kinda curious how people determine the value of things and what to trade. More important, how many items to trade for getting the specific item ya…
*Prompt 26 April: If the world worked on a barter system, how would you fare? Would you have services to barter? Would you be successful, or would you struggle? Barter System
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"Do one thing every day that scares you." This is one of those quotes that seems to be always floating around- in graduation speeches, splashed across yoga t-shirts (yoga is pretty frightening), someone probably even has it tattooed across their shoulders, likely the final event in a string of very bad decisions one night in college. It sounds nice. It's probably meant to convey the challenges of life and the sort of "taking the bull by the horns" type of attitude we're all supposed to have. This is utter crap.
Fear is important. Fear keeps us from killing or maiming ourselves. A lot of people are afraid of heights. This makes sense: if you fall from a great height you can die. Some people are afraid of snakes. Snakes can harm you. And some people are afraid of clowns. This is rational. Clowns are creepy and they all secretly want to murder you in your sleep. It's evolution and self-preservation at it's basest form. If we all did something every day that scared us, we would spend our entire lives whimpering and rocking in a corner. And a lot more people would be killed off Darwin-style through astonishing acts of stupidity. You know on second thought...
Of course some fears are irrational. Mageirocophobia: a fear of cooking. Eisoptrophobia: fear of seeing yourself in a mirror. Automatonophobia: fear of ventriloquist dummies. Huh. You know what, I may need better examples.
Ok, here's one. When Boy was little he was afraid of birthday parties. More specifically, the standard "Happy Birthday To You" song. He's over it now, and if you ask him about it he'll chuckle in a self-deprecating way and say he doesn't know why. It was pretty embarrassing for a while. We'd be at a party; nerves on edge as the Elmo cake was being brought out and candles were being lit, mentally mapping out which grandmother I'd have to take down in order to get to him in time. Then BAM singing happens, and it's too late, he's screaming and writhing on the ground and I'd have to wrestle him away from the crowd kicking and screaming while everyone watched in horror.
But because of this fear we switched to playing The Beatles Birthday instead. Which is a pretty cool tradition, actually, if only the song immediately after wasn't "Yer Blues," a horribly depressing tune about wanting to kill yourself. Because nothing says Happy Birthday quite like songs about suicide, and a hysterical toddler.
So my advice to you is to not take the bull by the horns. Bulls are huge, angry creatures and you will most likely get gouged. Take it easy. Enjoy your life. And watch out for clowns.
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QUESTION: Where in the world was decaffeinated coffee first developed?
A) Johannesburg, South Africa
B) Mexico City, Mexico
C) Bremen, Germany
D) Abuja, Nigeria
Rarely in the history of invention can one man or woman earn the credit for a major invention without the assistance of other visionaries. Today, we honor one such man. His name was Ludwig Roselius. His contribution to the world was introduced in 1903, and continues to affect lives to this day. He figured out how to remove the caffeine from coffee, allowing people to enjoy the flavor of coffee without the side effect of being high strung and edgy (if that's how you react to caffeine). It sold like gangbusters. When Roselius' coffee was distributed in France, it was described as "sans caffeine" which translates to 'without caffeine.' Abbreviated to Sanka, when he brought his invention to the United States in 1909, its first name was Dekafa.
Roselius was doing well in the States until war was declared against Germany in 1914. Compelled to leave, he lost his business. When he returned after the war, he brought the French name with him, and his Sanka took off. And it continues to take off to this very day. We honor Sanka at the American Treasure Tour with a can displayed in our Toy Box. We would say the can is prominently displayed but, when there are so many items on display, we'd best leave that word alone.
ANSWER: Bremen, Germany
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Free Speech in Europe Isn't What Americans Think
European employers have been told they may ban the hijab provided they ban other visible signs of political, philosophical or religious beliefs, a form of neutrality that wouldn’t wash in U.S. employment law. At the same time, Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. face 50 million euro fines for failing to regulate hate speech to the satisfaction of German authorities, another legal impossibility in the U.S. where the First Amendment protects even hate speech. The two cases show how deep the divergence is between liberal American ideas about freedom of speech and religion and European conceptions of equality.
The hijab case decided by the European Court of Justice was anticipated after a single judge of the court issued an advisory opinion last summer allowing a private Belgian firm to prohibit a female receptionist from wearing a hijab on the ground that the firm had an unwritten (!) rule that disallowed employees from visible displays of their beliefs. The new decision followed roughly the lines of that advisory opinion.
A U.S. court would have wanted first of all to know if the rule was really in existence despite being unwritten, or if it was invented to ban the hijab, which would’ve made it religious discrimination. And it would have allowed such a ban only if it was part of a bona fide occupational qualification for the job, which would only seem to be the case for a hair model.
The European court said that the rule wasn’t direct discrimination because it’s not based on religion. That sounds strange to U.S. legal ears, because the unwritten rule precisely named religion as a basis of the ban.
Then it said the law might be an indirect burden on religion, but that it would be a permissible burden if it was justified by a “legitimate” aim such as projecting corporate neutrality to the public. Again, U.S. law would consider religious liberty to outweigh corporate image.
And herein lies the key philosophical difference. U.S. law, following the logic of the Constitution and American legal culture, considers religious freedom a fundamental right that shouldn’t be violated except under exceedingly rare conditions.
That view is pretty broadly shared across the political spectrum. In the 1960s and ’70s, U.S. liberals emphasized protection of minority religions. Since the 1980s, conservatives have embraced religious liberty as a core value, in recent years more strongly than liberals.
In Europe, by contrast, the freedom to believe may be protected, but the freedom to manifest your religion publicly has much less purchase, especially if you’re a Muslim. Left and center-left Europeans are often willing to see the hijab restricted because they see it as sexist and coercive. And right-wingers frequently see the hijab as a symbol of militant Islam and cultural pollution by immigrants.
On free speech, the U.S. and Europe have also gone different ways. The German minister of justice threatened Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc.’s Google search back in December, telling them they needed to move faster and better to remove hateful posts that violate German law. Now the minister is proposing a new law in fulfillment of the threat.
To Americans, the idea of the government forcing social media to censor posts may seem to resemble China’s internet censorship. Such legislation wouldn’t just be unconstitutional; it would be almost unthinkable.
Facebook and Twitter are private actors who could censor voluntarily under the Constitution -- indeed, their voluntary censorship would itself be protected speech.
But the government can’t order private censorship any more than it can censor directly. That’s because U.S. constitutional tradition treats hate speech as the advocacy of racist or sexist ideas. They may be repellent, but because they count as ideas, they get full First Amendment protection.
Hate speech can only be banned in the U.S. if it is intended to incite imminent violence and is actually likely to do so. This permissive U.S. attitude is highly unusual. Europeans don’t consider hate speech to be valuable public discourse, and reserve the right to ban it. They consider hate speech to degrade from equal citizenship and participation. Racism isn’t an idea; it’s a form of discrimination.
The underlying philosophical difference here is about the right of the individual to self-expression. Americans value that classic liberal right very highly -- so highly that we tolerate speech that might make others less equal.
Europeans value the democratic collective and the capacity of all citizens to participate fully in it -- so much that they are willing to limit individual rights.
The parallels between the hijab case and the hate speech cases are thus very real. Individual rights win in the U.S. Equality and the group win in Europe.
At one time, the different views existed in splendid isolation. Now, the internet and globalization are bringing them into conflict.
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
To contact the author of this story:
Noah Feldman at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Stacey Shick at [email protected]
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A big disappointment
Sen. Patrick Leahy, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, announced today that he will vote to confirm John Roberts for Chief Justice. I’m disappointed in Leahy. I think a lot of Democrats are still under the mistaken impression that there is something to be gained by being “reasonable” or “accommodating.” What I'm not clear on is who it is that they think that they are gain something from.
Bush? Don't be absurd. Bush has never shown himself to interested in even hearing anyone else's opinion, not from his own party and certainly not from the opposition. Are they trying to send a message of "more like this please" (and I hope they're not sending that message)? Do they think Bush will understand the message, or care? There is nothing to be gained by compromising with Bush. He regards compromise as a sign of weakness; he will take what he can get and give nothing in return.
The Senate Republicans? Once upon a time this would have been well within the standards of Senatorial courtesy. But those days are long gone. The congressional Republicans have been thoroughly Bushized. The majority of them have no interest in compromise.
The voters? Why would their constituents want the Democratic Senators to vote for Roberts. Has there been an irresistible groundswell of popular support for him. Most voters don't follow confirmation hearings. Do the Senators think that because many of their constituents voted for Bush that they want him to be given a blank check to appoint whomever he wants? For decades, most Americans have been of the vocal opinion that they do not want either party to have unlimited power. They split their votes between a Republican president and a Democratic senator because they want balance.
Are they so intimidated by the Republican noise machine that the mere prospect of being called negative or obstructionist is enough to make them fall apart? Perhaps instead of worrying about Republicans or Republican operatives, the Democratic senators should worry about Democratic voters. What message are they sending to us? Max Baucus of Montana plans to vote for Roberts. What message does he expect his western libertarian supporters to hear when he votes for someone who has asserted that there is no right of privacy? Most Democratic voters are pro-choice. What are we to think of Senators who support a judge who has argued in favor of overturning Roe?
Shouldn't Democratic Senators at least appear to be on the side of Democratic voters?
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Jade: As Seen on TV E4, 10.00pm TWO months after 27-year-old mother-of two Jade Goody lost her battle against cervical cancer, this one-hour film, featuring previously unseen archive footage, attempts to understand the Jade phenomenon.
Although more than 3000 contestants have now taken part in Big Brother in over 50 countries, Jade is the only participant to have achieved such a sustained media career, earning millions in the six years since her first appearance on television screens.
From Jade's impoverished start in life through to her worldwide fame, this film traces the incidents and events that kept her on the front pages.
Flight of the Conchords BBC Four, 10.30pm AFTER insulting some well-known rappers in a song, Bret decides to organise a gang to protect himself.
Murray and Jemaine have a run-in of their own when they confront a group of Australian bullies, and Mel paints a portrait that Jemaine can't get rid of.
A Mighty Heart Sky Movies Screen 2, 7.05pm THIS is one of the most moving war-themed dramas of recent years, and one of the best heart rending tales in ages.
Angelina Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the wife of US journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted by terrorists in Pakistan in the months following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
We follow the nightmare of the heavily pregnant Mariane as she tries to find her husband in Karachi, and later learns the terrible truth of what happened to him.
Control Sky Movies Indie, 10.00pm THIS was one of the most lauded British films of the year when it was released in 2007, and rightly so, as it is fantastic.
Sam Riley stars in the lead role as tragic Joy Division pop star Ian Curtis, who killed himself in 1980, just as the band were making it big.
The film is directed by photographer and visual artist Anton Corbijn, and Samantha Morton plays Curtis' wife Deborah.
True Stories: Painting The Mind More4, 10.00pm SARAH Feltes' film looks at the untapped artistic resources of the human brain.
When builder Tommy McHugh and chiropractor Jon Sarkin suffered massive brain traumas, as well as undergoing personality changes, they suddenly revealed a previously hidden talent: to create art that amazed critics and collectors.
So can damage to one part of the brain unleash potential that is idle in other parts? Scientist Professor Allan Snyder of Sydney's Centre of the Mind believes everyone possesses these powers and by using a technique he calls transcranial magnetic stimulation, he attempts to unlock the hidden potential that is dormant in all our brains.
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They are honest, offer feedback, support, and motivation. A great instructor will be respectful at all times and understand that coming into the studio to teach is more than “just a job.” Dancers need someone to be understanding and flexible.
How do you compliment a dance teacher?
“A beautiful performance, very emotional and moving.” “You have great charisma – please keep this, as this will distinguish you from other dancers.” “You put your heart and soul into the dance. Very gifted, well done!”
How do you compliment a good dance performance?
- You matched the beat like a professional.
- Woah! That is so awesome.
- You have some amazing skills.
- I have never seen a great dance in real life.
- That is so inspirational.
- Are you a professional dancer?
- I wish I could dance like you too.
- Your energy is on the next level.
How do you critique a dance?
- Watch, listen, and experience the performance with an open mind. Do not view the dance as if it were a movie; you must involve yourself and be an active participant.
- Do a little research.
- Reread, edit, proofread, read aloud, have someone else read your critique, and take it to the writing center.
Why do we need to appreciate dance?
Through dance we create new audience and help them appreciate the higher meaning of spiritual art forms, elevate their consciousness and thus create an atmosphere of cross-cultural understanding. Dancing, teaching dance and sharing my dance helps one individual at a time find Joy and a higher expression of their Self.
Dance Instructor, Career Video from drkit.org
What Makes a GOOD Dance Teacher? (5 HABITS you NEED …
How to Be a Good Dance Teacher- Progress Charts
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I just bought an SIP Shock Absorber for the Rear of my 1980 P200E
The shock is about 2 inches or 50mm (roughly) too short.
It's shorter than the stock Armstrong rear shock I had on the scooter.
Do I need the "distance nut" that SIP sells, or is there another way. It's just too short.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Speed Square is a section of the Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy VII. The area's attraction is its Shooting Coaster (シューティングコースター, Shūtingu Kōsutā?) minigame, where the player must shoot targets to amass points. For a high enough score, prizes are handed out at the end of the ride. The Shooting Coaster minigame is not required at any point, and is entirely optional.
The entrance is where the other areas of the Gold Saucer link to. From the entrance one can go to the other attractions of the Gold Saucer, or go to the platform to play the minigame.
A boy and a girl run through this area being chased by security. People standing around here also discuss the minigame, one person makes comment when the prizes update when Gold Saucer reopens in Part 2, and another comments on memorizing the order of enemies.
On the player's first visit to the Gold Saucer, Dio will be present here, and passing through the area triggers a scene where Dio discusses the Black Materia and a person matching Sephiroth's description with Cloud.
At the platform the player can play the Shooting Coaster minigame, hear the rules, or view the Wall of Fame scoreboards that recalls the highest three previously achieved scores.
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when it's empty, it'll only go
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So be careful."
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you'll get on the Wall of Fame."
Shooting Coaster minigame
This minigame costs 10 GP to play, and has the player controlling a moving turret which fires at a variety of objects to earn points. Prizes are awarded depending on how many points the player accumulates throughout the run, and the prizes change slightly depending on the point in the game the player is at.
The game's speed varies in two ways depending on the version. The crosshair in the PlayStation versions moves slower than in the PC physical CD versions, making it easier to aim but harder to get from one side of the screen to the other. In the PC physical CD versions, a slight tap of a direction will move the crosshair roughly eighty percent of the way across the screen, which makes it difficult to be precise. Some versions also function at different speeds: the PAL version is slower than the NTSC version, making it easier, while the PC version is faster. The PC versions last 3m23s to the nearest second, while the PAL PlayStation version lasts 4m4s to the nearest second.
Other version differences lie in the targets. In the original Japanese version, the player could target the Zeppelin's propeller. This was made possible again in the original PC release and remains so in subsequent releases. A water wheel appears on a boat in all versions that can be shot for a stream of points, though the original Japanese version did not have a point limit, where it is 285 in all future versions.
On the PlayStation Classic mini console, it is possible to pause the game and use save states to get a high score of over 5,000 points.
Prizes are earned at 3,000 points and above, but none of the prizes below 5,000 points have a use. If the player has not yet earned the item for getting more than 5,000 points and they achieve a score 5000 points or greater, then they will get that prize.
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1/3: Super Sweeper
1/3: Masamune Blade
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Flayer (only after the party has Highwind)
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|Boulder||200||The boulder is in the desert area, on the canyon wall.|
|Water Wheel||1–285||The water wheel is shortly before the falling stars, on the boat. Holding fire while moving away from the wheel yields more points; in the original Japanese version the water wheel could give infinite amount of points, but this is fixed for all other versions.|
|Zeppelin Propeller||25440-25680||The propeller on the zeppelin can be targeted in PC, PS4 and mobile versions. It can easily be hit by putting the crosshair on the right side of the screen and holding the fire as the propeller approaches the crosshair.|
|Helicopter||40-50||Targets toward the end yield more points.|
|Light||200||The light is before the final turn, on the bottom left just under the railway itself. To hit, the player should aim at either the bottom-left or bottom-right of the screen.|
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Hello, I'm Chris. In this video, you're
going to see Ayaz take a mock driving test. He's got his real driving test tomorrow and wants
this mock test as a practice run. Any faults made will be shown on screen in real-time and explained
as they happen to help you learn from them To help you even more, I'll also be giving you
commentary at key moments during the drive. Ayaz has had 43 hours of driving lessons
and no private practice. So let's meet him and find out how he feels about his driving
test. I'm feeling pretty confident. I think, erm, I think the main thing for me is just uh keeping
focus like um I think, just keep on planning ahead and I think, uh yeah, I think
I should be good I reckon. Yeah I think if I was gonna fail for
something I think it'll probably be, um, meeting traffic, just because that requires a
bit more planning ahead. And would it make a big difference to your everyday life getting your
license tomorrow? Uh, at the start, I just, once I get it, probably not, but you know once, when
I, when I like finished uni and stuff then, uh yeah then, uh hopefully I'll get my own
car and then, yeah, then it'll be good. You're allowed up to 15 driving faults during
the test, often called minor faults.
These aren't potentially dangerous, but if you keep
making the same fault throughout your test then it could become a serious fault. Get a serious
or dangerous fault and it's a driving test fail. A serious fault is something that could
potentially be dangerous and a dangerous faults involves actual danger to either yourself,
the examiner, another person or property. Have a look at our free online driving
modules on our website for tips on how to deal with junctions, roundabouts and
the different driving test manoeuvres. Don't forget, it's completely free!
There's a link in the description below. Let's catch up with Ayaz as he's
about to start his mock driving test. Tell me how would you check the brake lights are
working. So, uh, you would uh, press on the brake and then uh, you'd either check in like
reflections in the mirror or have a friend and uh, they'll go back and they'll tell you if your
brake lights are working or not.
It should like come up red, so yeah. Okay, thanks. So, we're
going to follow directions given by the sat nav. I'll let you know when the independent driving's
finished. Drive on when you're ready then please. Ayaz got off to a good start by
getting the tell me question correct. All round observations were great and
he reacted well to the oncoming vehicle. He's planning ahead well, being ready for more
oncoming vehicles. You might have noticed how Ayaz prefers to cross his arms when steering. As
long as you keep the car in control when doing this then you won't get any faults for it on
your driving test. After 100 yards turn right. Good checks of the mirrors and signal timing. A very busy first junction. It's at
junctions like these where you'll be waiting and maybe start worrying about
if you've missed any chances to go. But be patient, stay calm and just
take a safe opportunity to go. Patience pays off and good observations. Keep an eye on the speed when driving
downhill. The car picks up speed so quickly. Ayaz has to turn left at
the roundabout first exit.
It's a busy roundabout today.
Ayaz is observing early. And takes a good opportunity. After 300 yards turn left. When it says bear left, it means turn left, okay? It can be a bit confusing when the sat nav
says bear left, as it can mean turn left or just follow the road round to the left. The
examiner will help if it's misleading and don't forget to have the occasional glance at
Good mirror checks before signals. Pull up on the left in a safe place please. Nice parking. Drive on when you're ready. Make sure when moving off that you don't cause
another driver to slow down, stop or swerve. Ayaz waits for a safe and comfortable opportunity and while he's waiting he's updating himself all
the time, checking the mirrors and the blind spot. Good mirror checks before moving out around the
At the end of the road turn left. It's getting tight ahead but Ayaz keeps
it slow and judges the gaps really well. Turn left A little bit tricky to see here
but Ayaz is really observing well. Looking both ways and double checking, triple
checking, to make sure it's safe. There was a slight roll back at that last junction, but
it was so slight it wasn't worth a fault. Good road position. the last signs just showed us that the next bend
has an advisory maximum speed of 20 miles per hour Ayaz is keeping a good safe distance
away from the vehicles in front. There's no advantage getting really close to them. Ayaz forgot to check the mirrors
before moving out around this vehicle. It's important to check for anyone
overtaking you, especially motorcyclists. This is a driving fault.
You're allowed 15 of these. Although if you keep making the same fault then
it will become a serious fault and a test fail.
He keeps a good safe distance
away from the van in front. Ayaz is turning right at the traffic lights
and gets into a good position. Turn right. The markings are faded. They're showing
a nearside to nearside position. Always keep an eye on the sat
nav screen. At the top of it, it shows you how far away your next turn
is and which direction you need to turn.
Ayaz slowed down well for the cyclist
and kept a safe distance but should have checked the interior mirror before slowing
down to see how close following traffic is. The sat nav shows that at the end
of the road he needs to turn right and at the end of that road,
he also needs to turn right. At the end of the road, turn right, then take the third right. Ayaz anticipates the van
well, checks the interior mirror and slows down. He's going to be turning right at
the next set of traffic lights. He'll then be turning right again,
so he's in the correct lane.
At the end of the road turn right, then take
the third right. Turn right. Because the signs and markings allow you, you can actually turn
right in the left-hand lane here, but because he's going to be turning right again very soon,
it's easier to stay in the right-hand lane. After 100 yards, turn right. Good checks. Turn right. There's two lanes for
He's not overtaking, so he's kept in the correct lane. The hill start lacked a bit of gas but at least
it didn't stall. Now he just needs to keep in the left-hand lane as he goes round to the right
as there could be other vehicles next to him. He kept in position and good checks at
the end as the lanes merge into one. After 300 yards turn right. Good mirror checks, but Ayaz
should signal before changing lanes to tell other road users, rather than after. Turn right. It's a big crossroads and Ayaz positions
the car in the correct position. After 300 yards, cross the
roundabout and take the first exit. He judged the gap really well. Don't forget, the tighter the road, the
slower you should drive and he judges this really well.
Turn right on the roundabout
and take the third exit, then turn left. Ayaz forgot to check the interior and right mirror
before moving out around this parked vehicle. Turn left. Good mirror checks. It's just making it a habit, keeping up-to-date with what's ahead
of you, to the sides and behind. Good speed through here, it's quite
tight. After 200 yards, turn left, turn left. A good turn without swinging out. When it's safe I'd like you to pull up on
the right-hand side of the road please. The pulling up on the right-hand side of the road
manoeuvre and then reversing two car lengths. Turn left, then at the end of the road, turn
Ayaz observed well before moving over. Okay, thanks. And pulled up
on the right successfully. Now I'd like you to reverse
roughly two car lengths, keeping it reasonably close to the kerb please. Good all round checks before starting. A nice slow speed. The examiner
tells you when to stop. Okay, you can stop there thanks. Drive on when you're ready please. A good manoeuvre, no problems. After 90 yards, turn left then at
the end of the road turn right. Really good early observations and
well prepared for the junction. Pull up on the left in a safe place please, you
can ignore the driveways this time. Turn right. Nice parking. Time for a hill start.
Drive on when you're ready please. I'm really pleased Ayaz spotted
this car in the mirrors.
And a good hill start without rolling back. Nice control and mirror checks. Turn right. Ayaz emerged out of this road a little
late and he got a bit close to this car. It's a driving fault this time, but
something he needs to be careful of and that's getting the timing right so
that you don't affect or scare anyone. Keep planning ahead, scanning the road, looking out for any potential
hazards, road markings or signs. I'm pleased Ayaz noticed the 40 mile per hour
sign. After 300 yards turn right. But before accelerating, you should check the mirrors first
in case someone's about to, or is overtaking you. Turn right. A good turn and the speed limit
is still 40 miles per hour. After 400 yards you have reached
your destination on your left. You have reached your destination on
your left. Okay, that's the end of the independent driving. I'll direct you from here.
Ayaz notices the speed limit sign but slows down too much. Luckily he didn't affect anyone behind
or otherwise this would have been a serious fault. There was also the 30 sign that came up um and
I kind of braked quite hard yeah, that one, like I think it was because um that
it was kind of covered with like, a like, like a branch or something like this and I thought, oh it must be saying 40.
But then I just realised that last second.
At the roundabout, follow the
road ahead please, second exit. Ayaz will need to keep in
the left-hand lane for this. Ayaz kept in position but forgot to check the
mirrors and signal to exit the roundabout. I think um yeah, there was one roundabout. I
was going ahead and forgot to signal to exit. At the end of the road, turn left
please. Ayaz mentioned at the start of the test that meeting traffic could
be something he might fail his test for. He might meet some traffic on this road
and there's not much of the test left now.
Good observations. Take the next road on the right please.
Ayaz moved into this space but should have checked the mirrors before
moving over in case of any cyclists. If he makes any more faults in this category,
then it will be a serious fault and a test fail. The markings are a bit faded here but he just
needs to follow the road it round to the left. Ayaz did well and checked the
mirrors before moving back out. I'd like you to pull up on the left just
before that black car down there please. Try and get reasonably close to it, but
leave enough room to get back out again. You can ignore the driveways this time. Unfortunately, despite some good parking earlier
during the test. Drive on when you're ready please. This time he's hit the kerb. This is
a serious fault. If you just touch the kerb then I have seen some examiners in the past give
just a driving fault. But hitting the kerb could damage your tyre and wheel. The other thing, I
think on one of the uh parking up on the left, I think one of them I clipped the kerb, the
tyre that one, oh that was, that's not me.
Ayaz judges the gap really well. At the roundabout, turn right second exit please. Ayaz timed it well with good mirror checks. Take the next road on the left
please. Good mirror checks. Ayaz slows down to a good safe speed. You never know what's in the next
road that you're turning into. Take the next road on the right. Next road on the left please. Pull up on the left in a safe place please. Ayaz parks really well. Alright, you can switch off now.
That's the end of the test. Cool. How do you think you've done? Ah I know I made
some faults. Ayaz got a total of 10 driving faults and one serious on this mock driving test.
Unfortunately, he wasn't successful today. We continued to chat about what went well
and the areas that need a little improvement. Thanks to Ayaz for taking part and thanks to you
for watching. Please like and subscribe if you found this video helpful. In the meantime,
take care on the road and bye for now!.
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The Federal guns sought the Confederate guns on the hills. They hurled solid shot and explosive shell, their iron insults shearing through oak and ash, brittle hickory, chestnut and elm. Outgunned two to one, with less reliable ordinance, the Confederate gunners declined to fight.
General Jackson had made too clear the fate of the impatient gunner who fired early and gave away his gun’s position. In shallow pits they lay beside their gun carriages and prayed no unlucky shell would crash into a powder-filled limber box.
Metal whizzed through the trees, striking trunks that had stood for centuries with the stout whack of an ax-man’s first blow.
Shells exploding among the reserve artillery behind Walker’s brigade killed horses and shattered limber carriages, while frantic artillerists lashed their guns to the rear.
One horse was on its forelegs, down in the back; its neck stretched out in what any man knew would be a scream had the cannonade permitted hearing it.
— Donald McCaig said that
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A few months ago, when the solicitor general was arguing in favor of the Affordable Care Health in front of the nine Supreme Court Justice, I felt, as did many others, that Obama’s signature health-care law was doomed. The justices, other than the four usually liberal ones, had stern questions regarding the bill, including Chief Justice John Roberts, who continually questioned whether or not the federal government has the power to make people buy health insurance.By 2014, the bill will require that 30 million uninsured people buy insurance, and if they can’t afford it, they will be a given a tax credit/government subsidies to do so.
When I learned of the ruling today, I was shocked, especially since Roberts was the one who joined four liberal justices in voting to uphold all of the law. My hunch is that Roberts does not want to be on the wrong side of history. Another health-care bill is not going to be discussed, not with the government as divided and partisan as it is. I think Roberts and the other four justices that voted to uphold the law realized this could be the only shot in a long, long time at revamping and improving our health-care system and granting health-care coverage to millions of more Americans.
Shortly after the court’s ruling, Mitt Romney got on TV and vowed to repeal the bill if elected president. However, that likely won’t happen. He would need at least 60 votes in the Senate to get that, and it won’t happen, especially if the Dems maintain control of the Senate. Romney also doesn’t have much room to rail against the law, since he passed the same exact thing in MA when he was governor, and said in 2006 that the mandate should be the model for the rest of the country.
President Obama still has a lot of work to do explaining to the American people what is in the bill and how it impacts them. Here are some positives of the law:
Young people can stay on their parents’ insurance until they are 26.
Insurance companies will not be able to deny people coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
Women will no longer pay higher premiums than men.
Seniors will get discounts on their prescription drugs.
About 30 million uninsured people will have to buy insurance by 2014, when the mandate kicks in, and if they can’t afford it, they will be given a tax credit/government subsidies to do so.
I was not a fan of the mandate back in 2010, and I wanted the Democrats to push for a public option, but I understand that this is a first step, and by 2014, millions of American will be insured. I am also optimistic that a lot of states will go to single-payer, nearly universal healthcare coverage. I say this because the law states that by 2016, states can set up whatever healthcare systems they want, and they don’t have to create a pool of just private insurance companies. Vermont and Montana are nearing creating a single-payer system, and it is predicted to save the states a lot of money. If it succeeds there, it will most likely spread to other states.
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TR 82 - Impending Doom: What Happens Next?
Understanding the coming phases of the Great Reset
Most will never see it coming.
But, those curious enough to question the narrative will certainly be able to anticipate what happens next. Recently we have been talking about the World Economic Forum, the cabal of Young Global Leaders, and the merging of public health with environmental health as the next phase of the Great Reset.
It may seem outrageous to think that any one person or group of people is actually actively trying to take over the world -- such extraordinary claims should require extraordinary evidence -- and that is exactly what we will explore in today's podcast. Let me open with this passage from COVID-19: The Great Reset, written by Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum:
"While for a pandemic, a majority of citizens will tend to agree with the necessity to impose coercive measures, they will resist constraining policies in the case of environmental risks where the evidence can be disputed." p.136
Unpacking that passage, we see that the global elite have a firm grasp on human behavior and psychology. They understand that when people are scared for their life, they are willing to "agree" to coercive measures -- which is an oxymoronic statement. Consider the definition of coercion:
"The intimidation of a victim to compel the individual to do some act against his or her will by the use of psychological pressure, physical force, or threats."
One does not agree to coercion. Instead, individuals cave to the threats and intimidation. Indeed, entire nations may cave to the coercive pressures imposed by a more dominant global force. Regardless of which level takes place, it is typically considered illegal to threaten and force a person to do something against their will. Many argue that to do so is an open violation of basic human rights.
This is especially true when it comes to covering another human's face, restricting their breathing, shoving a swab up their nose, sticking a needle in their arm, or testing and tracking their every move for the purpose of quarantining them, should they be suspected of being infected.
All of this is exceptionally dystopian, like the quintessential Orwellian state, and would have never been accepted prior to the covid pandemic. According to Klaus Schwab, the majority of people "agreed" to these "coercive measures" because they were scared of an invisible enemy. He then laments the fact that people are likely to resist such restrictions if the justification was disputable environmental risks.
From the angle of global control, this creates a major problem. Climate change is the harbinger of the ultimate global health crisis. Humanity, it is claimed, is destroying the planet -- and in order to preserve Mother Earth for future generations, the global elite have a very chilling plan. They intend to control and manipulate public behavior, in effect restricting the natural behavior of every human being.
What is critical to remember is this: Compliance is not optional.
Again, another outrageous claim that requires evidence. We need to look no further than the UN Agenda 2030 to understand how Sustainable Development Goals will affect every aspect of our lives. Taking just one example, we can begin to see how this will impact every person on the planet:
"According to the WHO, 90% of the world's population breathes air that fails to meet its safety guidelines, causing premature death of 7 million people each year and prompting the organization to qualify air pollution as a 'public health emergency'." p.139
There is much that could be extracted from that passage, but let's focus on the declaration of a "public health emergency" by a global governing body. We have seen firsthand how public health emergencies can lead to the Emergency Use Authorization of experiential genetic therapies and other abuses of so-called "emergency powers" being wielded by governments around the world.
Under the umbrella of an emergency mentality, the global elites tighten their grip on the world. They never let a good emergency go to waste -- and some speculate that many of these so-called emergencies are actually planned in advance. Every emerging emergency then becomes an opportunity to exploit the chaos and vulnerability of a world in crisis, to advance the globalist agenda.
But you don't have to take my word for it:
"The COVID-19 crisis cannot go to waste ... now is the time to enact sustainable environmental policies." p. 143
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When Does Pregnancy Nausea End?
- The worst of the morning sickness usually hits between 12 and 14 weeks of pregnancy, which also coincides with the highest levels of the HCG hormone.
- Nausea is a common symptom of pregnancy, but it often disappears by the end of the fourth month, and very few women continue to have it in the latter months of their pregnancies.
- You may also be interested in reading: How to Recognize Pregnancy Nausea TAG:
- Symptoms of morning sickness normally begin between weeks 6 and 12, with the worst of it occurring between weeks 8 and 10.
- A research that was conducted in the year 2000 and is commonly referenced found that half of all pregnant women had successfully through this unpleasant period by the 14th week of their pregnancies, which is precisely around the time that they entered their second trimester.
- 1 How long does nausea last during pregnancy?
- 2 When does morning sickness end during pregnancy?
- 3 Is it normal to vomit a lot in early pregnancy?
- 4 Does morning sickness (nausea) last forever?
- 5 When does pregnancy nausea go away?
- 6 Why does morning sickness stop 12 weeks?
- 7 Is morning sickness worse with a girl?
- 8 What helps pregnancy nausea all day?
- 9 Which trimester is the hardest in pregnancy?
- 10 Where is my baby at 13 weeks in my stomach?
- 11 Do you start feeling better at 12 weeks?
- 12 Can you tell gender at 12 weeks?
- 13 What are the signs of having a baby boy?
- 14 What are symptoms of having a boy?
- 15 Is it normal to feel sick all day pregnant?
- 16 Why do I feel nauseous all day while pregnant?
How long does nausea last during pregnancy?
In more severe cases, symptoms of nausea and vomiting may persist for many hours at a time and occur often. And in the worst circumstances, some women have hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), which is a severe form of morning sickness that can result in weight loss, dehydration, and other issues. [Citation needed]
When does morning sickness end during pregnancy?
Your appetite should return to normal between the 12th and 15th week of pregnancy once morning sickness has often passed by the time the first trimester is over. However, this does not constitute a general norm. It’s not uncommon for nausea to last well into the second trimester.
Is it normal to vomit a lot in early pregnancy?
Unfortunately, many people have nausea and vomiting in the morning. In point of fact, early in their pregnancies, morning sickness affects around seventy percent of pregnant women. Other symptoms of morning sickness include dry heaving, retching, and excessive salivation. Nausea and vomiting are the most common symptoms of morning sickness.
Does morning sickness (nausea) last forever?
Nausea, sometimes known as morning sickness, is a typical complaint among pregnant women. The good news is that it doesn’t continue forever, which is absolutely something to be thankful for. There are other things you may do to alleviate some of the symptoms, such as taking these actions.
When does pregnancy nausea go away?
A woman’s first episode of morning sickness during pregnancy nearly always occurs within the first nine weeks of the pregnancy, as is typical. Typically, the symptoms will begin to improve between the ages of 14 and 16 weeks after reaching their peak around 10 weeks. It’s possible that some women will continue to have nausea and vomiting after that point.
Why does morning sickness stop 12 weeks?
These hormones begin to take over the role of supporting your pregnancy somewhere between the ages of 12 and 14 weeks. And this also happens to coincide with the period when many women start to feel better and the chance of miscarriage begins to decrease for them.
Is morning sickness worse with a girl?
It is common for moms who are expecting female kids to have greater levels of the pregnancy hormone hCG, which is the hormone responsible for causing morning sickness. On the other hand, it is not impossible for a pregnant lady carrying a boy to have morning sickness, even severe cases of the condition.
What helps pregnancy nausea all day?
If you continue to experience symptoms of morning sickness, your doctor may suggest that you take vitamin B-6 supplements (pyridoxine), ginger, or over-the-counter medications such doxylamine (Unisom) for treatment. If you are still experiencing symptoms, your health care provider may advise that you take anti-nausea medicine that requires a prescription.
Which trimester is the hardest in pregnancy?
Which trimester of pregnancy is the most difficult? The first three months of a woman’s pregnancy are frequently some of the most challenging times of their lives. During this time, your body will be through a significant transition, and it will require some time to readjust to the new state it will be in.
Where is my baby at 13 weeks in my stomach?
- As your uterus (womb) expands higher and outwards, you may or may not be able to see the beginnings of a baby bump.
- The womb will shift away from your bladder as the pregnancy progresses, so the increased frequency of the desire to urinate should stop occurring.
- Some ladies report that they have an increase in their desire to engage in sexual activity as a result of the increased blood flow to their pelvic region.
Do you start feeling better at 12 weeks?
Encouraging developments. When most women are in their 12th week of pregnancy, the nausea and vomiting associated with morning sickness begin to subside or perhaps go away entirely. If you’ve been experiencing unusually low levels of energy during the first trimester of your pregnancy, you may start to feel more energized around this time.
Can you tell gender at 12 weeks?
After nine weeks, we are able to determine a person’s gender using blood tests that screen for particular disorders. We may be able to utilize ultrasonography to detect the gender of the fetus at 12 weeks of gestation by analyzing the angle of the genital tubercle.
What are the signs of having a baby boy?
- According to old wives’ tales, you’ll be having a son if you’re carrying low during your pregnancy
- You’re just gaining weight in the area around your middle
- Your significant other is not putting on any weight
- Your skin is flawless and radiates health
- Your morning sickness isn’t quite as awful as other people’s
- Your urine has a pale golden color to it
- Your feet never seem to get warm
- The pace of your baby’s heartbeat is quite slow
What are symptoms of having a boy?
- You did not suffer from morning sickness during the early stages of your pregnancy, which is an indication that you will be having a son.
- The rate of heartbeats that your infant is experiencing is lower than 140 per minute
- You are the one who is bearing the additional load up front
- Your belly looks like a basketball
- Your areolas have become a significant amount darker
- You are operating at a low capacity
Is it normal to feel sick all day pregnant?
Morning sickness is the popular name given to the nausea and vomiting that many pregnant women experience in the early stages of their pregnancies. It is possible for you to become ill at any moment of the day or night, or you may feel ill during the whole day. Morning sickness is a distressing condition that can have a big negative impact on your day-to-day life.
Why do I feel nauseous all day while pregnant?
- It is unknown what causes severe morning sickness in pregnant women.
- However, it’s possible that it’s connected to the hormonal shifts that occur during pregnancy.
- It is possible that a hormone known as human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG, is to blame for severe morning sickness.
- This is because severe morning sickness most commonly occurs when HCG levels in a pregnant woman’s body are at their peak.
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In this Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) article, we answer the most common queries related to the use of hair sunscreen in Florida. We discuss the benefits of sunscreen for hair, the benefits of a scalp and hair sunscreen specifically formulated for hair, how to use it, and any potential side effects or concerns. Rest assured that in reading this guide, you'll have all the information you need to make an informed decision about using a hair sunscreen.
What are the Benefits of Sunscreen for Hair?
Sunscreen is often used to protect the skin from UV radiation, which can cause sunburn, skin cancer, and other skin damage. Similarly, sunscreen for hair helps to protect hair from the sun's harmful rays. When exposed to UVA and UVB rays, not only will your hair become dry and brittle, but it can also be discolored, leading to split ends and even hair loss. Sunscreen for hair helps to protect hair from sun damage, while also adding shine, volume, and softness.
What Are the Benefits of Scalp & Hair Sunscreen SPF 40?
Our Scalp & Hair Sunscreen SPF 40 is specifically formulated to protect the scalp and hair from the sun's UVA and UVB rays. Not only does it provide powerful protection from the sun, but it's also designed to nourish and strengthen hair, while offering volume and lift for a truly luxurious look. Our formulation is enriched with antioxidants, amino acids, and other nutrients to deeply nourish your scalp and hair, leaving you with healthy, vibrant locks that look great and feel even better. Plus, it's backed by world renowned dermatologists and healers, so you can enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing you're taking the right steps to protect your scalp and hair.
How to Use Scalp & Hair Sunscreen SPF 40:
Using our Scalp & Hair Sunscreen SPF 40 is incredibly easy. Squeeze a coin-sized amount onto your fingertips or onto a type of product applicator, such as a brush. Start at the roots of your hair and gently work the sunscreen through your strands, ensuring you cover the entire surface area. Allow the sunscreen to sit in your hair for a few minutes before styling. This will help ensure the sunscreen is thoroughly absorbed into your strands.
Are There Any Side Effects or Concerns When Using Hair Sunscreen?
Our Scalp & Hair Sunscreen SPF 40 contains only safe and tested ingredients that have been backed by renowned dermatologists and verified by our rigorous testing processes. Additionally, all of our products are free from parabens, phthalates, sulfates, and other harmful ingredients. As such, you can have peace of mind when using scalp and hair sunscreen, knowing that it's both safe and effective.
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Dizziness Nausea Vomiting Cold Sweats
Vertigo, additionally called dizziness, is a relative term to the much more acquainted vertigo, additionally called nausea or vomiting. A feeling that your entire body is disoriented as well as moving in a strange way. The lightheadedness comes on suddenly, without advising and also is normally for short time periods. Vertigo, like dizziness, is very frightening and also is the primary signs and symptom of various conditions that impact the mind, from high blood pressure to fainting. Dizziness Nausea Vomiting Cold Sweats
Benign positional vertigo (BPV) is most likely one of the most typical root cause of vertigo, the feeling that the interior of your head or that your whole body is rotating strangely. Typically this is accompanied by light-headedness, nausea or vomiting, throwing up, fainting, and also a feeling of detachment from your surroundings. BPV commonly causes only quick episodes of wooziness, generally no greater than 10 minutes. It is commonly brought on by muscle spasms or by an absence of blood circulation to the nerves in the inner ear. Nevertheless, some people have no symptoms whatsoever. Dizziness Nausea Vomiting Cold Sweats
Dizziness Nausea Vomiting Cold Sweats
A lot of situations of wooziness are triggered by several of the conditions that influence the mind and also hinder its capacity to work properly. If you are experiencing signs that you think are vertigo, your doctor will certainly more than likely suggest antihistamines or tricyclic antidepressants as treatments for these conditions. Antihistamines lower the activity of the chemicals in the body that trigger the response that creates vertigo. Tricyclic antidepressants are used to deal with allergic reactions, stress and anxiety, and also other comparable problems. Dizziness Nausea Vomiting Cold Sweats
Particular medications may also cause vertigo. For example, doxycycline can decrease the strength of your muscle mass that sustain your equilibrium. This lowers the amount of liquid in your mind that creates your wooziness. Various other medications that may include doxycycline are Prednisone, Acetylcholine, Phenytoin, and NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs).
Vertigo that does not improve with non-prescription treatment can be dealt with by your doctor. These treatments include prescription drugs, surgical treatment, and also antihistamines. If your dizziness is extreme, your physician might advise you to have a devoted echocardiography system or VASER (vesicular stentibular valve stimulation) procedure. This procedure utilizes a laser to open the tightened capillary that cause the wooziness. The laser might also minimize the quantity of liquid accumulation in your brain that creates wooziness.
Some people have issues with dizziness without treatment. In these situations, it is necessary to identify why you experience the signs and symptoms. Your physician may need to do tests such as an MRI or CT scan to identify the underlying problem. He may additionally do some straightforward laboratory examinations in order to eliminate or validate the medical diagnosis.
Several of the causes that may lead to dizziness consist of a problem called sensorineural hearing loss. This problem occurs when there is damage to the internal ear. This can be caused by an ear infection, an injury, or a negative effects of specific medicines. Various other reasons can be high fevers, ear infection, meniere’s illness, Meniere’s disorder, or vestibular neurons.
If you are experiencing wooziness, you ought to make note of where your wooziness is affecting your equilibrium. You must also know if the adjustments in balance are taking place for a long period of time or if they are just taking place in a short time period. This will certainly aid your medical professional to identify the root cause of vertigo as well as also the proper therapy. If you believe that your wooziness is because of a lack of balance, you ought to consult your physician. Your health care expert will be able to offer you with useful info concerning vertigo and also how you can control the signs and symptoms.
In order to figure out the precise source of vertigo, your health care specialist will probably have you go through a comprehensive evaluation to dismiss any type of underlying physical causes. One of one of the most typical causes of wooziness is low high blood pressure or hypertension. If you have been identified with either of these conditions, you should follow your medical professional’s orders as well as adhere to your routine drug. By decreasing your high blood pressure, your wooziness could be gotten rid of. Nevertheless, your condition may require treatment to lower your blood pressure normally.
One more common source of vertigo is experiencing hearing loss. As we age, our hearing ends up being less reliable, which might result to vertigo. If you have actually been experiencing dizziness without any various other signs, it might be tough to identify the problem. Nonetheless, as quickly as you begin experiencing any type of sort of sound or noise in your ear, you should immediately call your doctor.
Some signs that might suggest the existence of a vestibular migraine headache consist of: nausea, throwing up, impaired thinking, and also fainting. Due to the fact that these symptoms can be integrated, your medical professional might execute tests to validate the visibility of vertigo. If your signs and symptoms correspond, your physician might do extra tests such as catheterizations, magnetic vibration imaging (MRI), as well as computerized tomography (CT) scan.
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MIDDLETOWN >> Twenty-three-year-old Tony Moreno was sentenced to spend the next 70 years behind bars for the murder of his infant son, whom he dropped off a bridge 100 feet over the Connecticut River two years ago, sending the 7-month-old plummeting to his death.
Calling it a “heinous act,” Judge Elpedio N. Vitale issued his sentence Wednesday morning in Superior Court in Middletown after an hour-long hearing. Moreno sat, in a dark-blue suit and with a closely shorn head, staring straight ahead at the defense table throughout, his left hand supporting his chin as he had done during his five-day trial in February.
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The T-rex is the third and final boss in the game Dino Quake.
The T-rex is about three times the height of the main characters and has a brown body, small arms with two pale yellow toenails, and two legs that also have two pale yellow toenails. The T-rex has a pale yellow belly and three scales can be seen plated down it's back. The T-rex has a short brown tail that is pale yellow underneath and black eyes. On the T-rex's head is a triangular patch of dark brown.
At the start of level 18, after the player's dinosaur comes down on the screen, the T-rex will land on the top platform from above. There will be slight quake effect that is similar to the giant quake power up that the player can obtain on some levels. The dinosaur will then begin to pace back and forth on the above platform. After several steps, it will pause and jump down to the next lower platform. It will repeat this notion, although the T-rex will jump onto whichever platform is closest to the player's dinosaur. If it is already on the same platform as the player's dinosaur, it will jump to the next highest.
To defeat the T-rex, the player's job is to hit each of its scales two times. They must do so by getting close to the scale adjacent to the platform they are on and making a quake. If the scale flashes, it indicates a successful hit. A red scale shows that it has been hit two times.
Right when the T-rex enters, the player should stay where they are and wait for the dinosaur to make its way down to the ground. Once it does, the next step is to jump up the next platform and hit the lower scale, returning to the ground platform where possible so that they may go for a second hit without losing health themselves. Players can use this strategy for the middle and lower scale, but the top scale involves different timing.
The last scale is more difficult to hit than the middle and bottom one because it is positioned in between a platform itself, out of the dinosaur's quake range. In order to reach it, the player has to land a quake as the T-rex jumps up to the middle platform, of which they must make their way down to the ground at once so that the boss does not jump all the way to the top and out of hitting range. The player must repeat this three times to successfully kill the T-rex.
Once all three scales are hit, the T-rex's eyes will be shown as X's and it will jump and fall off the screen. In its place, three gems will be on the ground. The player can obtain these for points, thus completing the level and the game.
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Non-Newtonian fluids are those that behave differently than Newtonian fluids do with regard to viscosity. Typically, stress causes non-Newtonian fluids to alter their flow patterns or viscosity. The stress can cause the viscosity to increase or decrease, depending on the particular non-Newtonian fluid.
Tomato sauce is an example of a non-Newtonian fluid which exhibits decreased viscosity when stress is applied to it. For example, when trying to get tomato sauce out of a bottle, people often hit the bottle. This stress causes the tomato sauce to behave as more of a liquid. When the stress acting on the tomato sauce is removed, it begins behaving like a solid again.
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Mysticism without devotion is like
uncooked food; it can never be assimilated.
Knowledge and heart are
just like the positive and negative forces; it is these two things which make
life balanced. If the heart quality is very strong and intellect is lacking,
then life lacks balance. Knowledge and heart quality must be developed together.
There are fine lights and shades in one's life that cannot be perceived and
fully understood without having touched the deeper side of life, which is the
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Find the correct Ignition Coils for your car
Ignition coils are sometimes referred to as spark coils, and are designed to provide the voltage that's needed to get an internal combustion engine going.
Your car battery will have a relatively low voltage, whilst the spark plugs require a large voltage in order to spark properly. The ignition coil is designed to increase the voltage from 12 volts up to the level required for ignition (about 400 volts).
It's fair to say, then, that ignition coils are pretty vital to the running of your car's engine.
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The military disagreed.It had a grenade launcher and all the necessary accessories already in the gun, so it's worth it.
And you used kg twice BTW.
By the early 2000s, the weapon had settled on a design and was classified as the XM29. The XM29 was based on the HK CAW (Close Assault Weapon) (Cal. 18.5×76mm or 12 Gauge non-conventional). However, the weapon had serious problems: it did not meet weight or cost targets, and the 20 mm High Explosive Air Bursting (HEAB) did not seem to be lethal enough in testing. To compound matters, the kinetic-energy component had to be light and short in length. As a result, the 5.56×45mm NATO barrel had a length of only 250 mm (9.8 inches), which is too short to generate enough muzzle velocity to be effective as a standard infantry rifle. It was also too heavy and too large to be operated effectively by a soldier.
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The route from Desaguadero to Nazca city takes about 19 hours on the highway and you go through 588 mi (946 km) distance. Civa is the transport company that covers this destination with bus tickets that cost from s/.110 to s/.140. The buses leave at 11:30 a.m. from the terminal placed in the centre of Nazca. The climate in Nazca is hot and dry, with sun the whole year and an average temperature of 68°F (20°C); in the warmest days of the summer temperatures can go up to 95°F (35°C).
Desaguadero is located at the Puno department. The city is on the border between Bolivia and Peru, at short distance to the Titicaca lake. It’s considered as a “two nations city” for having a Peruvian side and a Bolivian side, joined together by the Puente Internacional. In the area of Desaguadero you can appreciate the large diversity of flora and fauna of the high Andean plateau. Some species you can appreciate there are the “parihuanas” (Andean flamingo), the wild duck and falcons, besides other animals. You can also visit the Taraco Gulf, the Aguallamaya lagoon and the Khapia volcano. The weather in Desaguadero is in general cold and dry, with a rainy season from December to April. The temperatures are low, with minimum of 48 °F (9 °C) and maximum of 53 °F (12 °C).
The city of Nazca is located in a valley on the central South of Peru. It is one of the most cosmopolite region of Peru due to the flow of tourist and mining activity, the basis of its growing economical development. The temperature in Nazca is pleasant. It is almost sunny all year and that's why Nazca is known as the "city of the eternal summer". You can also visit the lines of Nazca, famous in the entire world. This lines represent animals and plants drawing that you will be able to see a 1.500 feet above the ground floor. The Cahuachi citadel is another archaeological center in the tourist and archaeological route that Nazca offers and it was a ceremonial set of the ancient Nazca's people. You may visit the Cantalloc acueducts, which were built by the Nazca culture for the optimization of the agricultural systems and that still are operating.
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It’s no secret that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a major impact on the nature of work in the current day. Many people are asking, “Will AI replace the need for Business Analysts?” The answer is: while AI can automate certain tasks and improve data analysis, it is unlikely to completely replace Business Analysts.
Will Business Analysts be Replaced by AI?
No doubt AI has a lot of impacts on the nature of work these days, however, it’s impossible to completely replace Business Analysts. There will be a need for human intelligence on certain tasks, as AI is not yet able to match the full scope of a human’s cognitive abilities. While AI can automate certain tasks and improve data analysis in business, it is unlikely to completely replace Business Analysts. The future of the field may be shaped by the rise of AI, however, Business Analysts will remain an integral part of any business.
Business Analysts bring valuable skills and expertise to organizations, including the ability to identify and communicate data trends, develop strategies, and create superior customer experiences. As AI advances, it will be able to automate many of the mundane tasks that Business Analysts are currently responsible for. This will free up Business Analysts to focus more on the critical tasks that require their unique skills and expertise.
Will ChatGPT Replace the Need for Business Analysts?
ChatGPT is a type of chatbot that uses AI to generate responses to customer inquiries. ChatGPT is becoming increasingly popular and is being used in many customer service settings. While ChatGPT can provide customers with quick and accurate responses to their inquiries, it is not yet able to replace the need for Business Analysts. The job of a Business Analyst requires a broad range of skills that are difficult to replicate with AI.
The job of “Business Analyst” is ranked #182 out of #702. A higher ranking (i.e., a lower number) means the job is more secure, and therefore it is unlikely that AI will fully replace Business Analysts. Business Analysts bring valuable skills and expertise to organizations, including the ability to identify and communicate data trends, develop strategies, and create superior customer experiences. ChatGPT can help automate certain tasks, but it cannot replace the valuable role of Business Analysts.
In conclusion, the threat of AI replacing Business Analysts is not imminent. However, the future of the profession will undoubtedly be shaped by advances in AI technology. As AI advances, Business Analysts will need to stay abreast of the latest technology and focus more on the tasks that require their unique skills and expertise. For more information about AI and its impact on the workplace, visit Artificial Technology.
Will AI replace business analysts?
The business analyst role is not one that can be replaced by a robot since it requires a human touch; automation is becoming more and more prevalent in the IT world, but this position is still best suited to a person.
Will AI eventually take over the role of the business analyst?
It is not probable that AI will take over the role of a business analyst in the close future. Despite the advances in AI technologies, they are still unable to completely reproduce certain tasks, elements, and specialties of a human BA.
Will business analysts have a place in the future?
If you’re wondering if business analysis is a good career choice, you’ve come to the right place. With its various benefits, it can be a very promising field. Factors such as online certification courses in India make it even more attractive.
Which occupations will be impacted by artificial intelligence?
Which jobs might AI be able to replace?
Customer Service Representatives, Receptionists, Accountants/ Bookkeepers, Salespeople, Taxi and Truck Drivers, Retail Services, Proofreaders and Translators, and Security and Military Personnel are all jobs that AI may be able to replace.
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The Norfolk Admirals are ready to celebrate their Calder Cup Championship Wednesday.
The festivities will start with a parade at 4:30 down Granby Street.
From there, players will walk to the Norfolk Scope Plaza where there will be live music, speeches from the coaches and players and autograph signings.
The team will also unfurl the Calder Cup Championship banner on the side of Chrysler Hall.
Many of the players will also shave their beards in a charity event that will benefit St. Baldrick's, a national children's cancer organization.
Dana DeFilippo with the Admirals says many of the players didn't shave once the playoffs began.
"You don't want to change anything if you are winning, you always hear the stuff where they don't change underwear, they don't change socks," DeFilippo said. "Our guys, if they are winning, they aren't going to change anything, they won't shave their beards."
In case of rain Wednesday, the festivities will move indoors to the Scope.
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Music Lessons in New Hope Pennsylvania USA
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Postal Code(s) associated with New Hope, PA: 18938 .
Music Teachers in New Hope Pennsylvania USA
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in New Hope Pennsylvania.
Private music instruction is considered to be the best way to learn to play a musical instrument. Use this directory to find a private music teacher offering music lessons in your local area (New Hope PA) or online lessons around the world. At the moment, our directory is limited to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, United States, and New Zealand. This music teachers directory classifies private music instructors by instrument, such as private piano teachers (for private piano lessons), private voice teachers (for private voice lessons), private violin teachers (for private violin lessons), etc. Please use the above search function to find a private music teacher near you.
We welcome the following types of instructors in our New Hope Pennsylvania directory: Accordion Tutors, Bassoon Teachers, Trumpet Educators, Voice Instructors, Clarinet Professionals, Classical Guitar Teachers, Drums Professionals, Percussion Coaches, Flute Tutors, Viola Instructors, Banjo Tutors, Brass Professionals, Trombone Educators, Woodwinds Coaches, Harp Tutors, Keyboard Teachers, Piccolo Coaches, Acoustic Guitar Educators, Tuba Instructors, Lute Educators, Oboe Instructors, Violin Educators, Bass Guitar Coaches, Electric Guitar Professionals, Organ Coaches, Piano Educators, Recorder Instructors, Saxophone Instructors, Mandolin Professionals, Electric Bass Tutors, Bagpipes Instructors, Ukulele Coaches, English Horn Teachers, Dulcimer Tutors, Harpsichord Teachers, Double Bass Teachers, Viola Da Gamba Educators, Cello Teachers, Bass Coaches, French Horn Professionals .
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2. The processes of formation of mineral deposits
are grouped into three main types:
a. Magmatic Process
b. Sedimentary Process
c. Metamorphic Process.
3. Mineral deposits formed due to the various
processes associated with magmatic activities are
called 'Primary-Mineral Deposits'.
Mineral deposits arising out of the processes
of weathering, and activities of several geological
agents are called 'Secondary Mineral Deposits'.
These are closely associated with the sedimentary
processes of formation.
Metamorphic mineral deposits are the out-
come of metamorphic processes acting upon an
earlier formed mineral deposits or rocks.
7. As we know, magma consists of a multitude of
constituents, which are in mutual solution. As the magma
approaches the earth's surface its temperature and the
external pressure drop, with the result of crystallization
and differentiation of minerals in a definite sequence. The
formation temperature of different magmatic deposits
varies from 1500'C to 300C°.
10. Magmatic Process
Early Magmatic Late Magmatic
Dissemination Residual Liquid Segregation
Segregation Residual Liquid Injection
Injection Immiscible Liquid Segregation
Immiscible Liquid Injection
11. Early Magmatic Process
The early magmatic deposits are believed to
have been formed simultaneously with the
Where the Ore Deposits formed in the Early
stage of Magmatic periods.
12. Late Magmatic Process
The late magmatic deposits are
formed towards the close of the
For example Titaniferous magnetite,
15. Magmatic Segregation
This type of magmatic concentration is
often due to the gravitative
crystallization of early formed heavy
minerals for, e.g., Bushveld chromite
deposits (South Africa), chromite
deposits of Keonjhar (Orissa).
17. Magmatic Injection
In this case, the metallic concentrates
instead of remaining -at the place of
their original accumulation, get injected
into the adjacent solid rock-masses It
occurs at the residual magmatic stage,
e.g., Magnetite deposits of Kiruna
19. Immiscible Liquid Segregation
Sometimes magma of an ore-and-
silicate composition breaks down
during cooling into two immiscible
fractions which accumulate to form
liquid segregation deposits e.g.
Sulphide minerals Deposits.
21. Immiscible Liquid Injection
The immiscible liquid accumulations
before consolidation when subjected to
disturbances, get injected into the
surrounding rocks, forming immiscible
liquid-injection. A nickeliferous
Sulphide deposit of Sudbury (U.S.A.) is
23. Residual Liquid Segregation
Basic magmas undergoing differentiation may
sometimes become enriched in iron and
titanium. This heavy residual liquid may
segregate and crystallize within the parent
igneous mass. Such ore bodies commonly
occur in form of parallel bands. The host rocks
are usually anorthosite, norite, gabbro
etc, e.g.. Titaniferous magnetite bands of
25. Residual Liquid Injection
In such cases, residual liquid be squeezed
out towards places of less pressure into
the neighboring rock mass forming late
magmatic injections, e.g., Titaniferous
magnetite deposits Adirondack region of
28. These are formed towards the very end of
consolidation of the magma, in which the
residual fraction is highly enriched with
volatile constituents. Pegmatitic liquids
may be squeezed out to fill in the cracks
and fissures in the parent igneous body or
the adjoining country rocks, and form
pegmatite veins or dykes. These are
usually formed between 500°C to 800"C.
29. Deposits of mica, feldspar, beryl,
lithium minerals, Gemstones and tin
mineral like cassiterite are included in
the pegmatite deposits.
33. In the neighborhood of invading magmas,
alteration and replacement of the country
rocks due to invasion of magmatic
emanations may sometimes lead to the
development of mineral deposits of
34. In this case, the enclosing country rock is
altered by the heat and other chemical
constituents of the invading intrusive
magma forming new minerals under
conditions of high temperature and
pressure. The deposits are usually
resulted in calcareous rocks. The
temperature of formation ranges from
400°C to 1000°C.
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GE Moore is an English philosopher born on November 4, 1873 in Upper Norwood, London. Moore grew up in a family of academics - some were poets, other were professors, and all were dedicated to the arts and humanities. He received his primary education at Dulwich College and later enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge to study classics. Moore is best known for his criticism of philosophy during his time. Philosophy was very much outdated and failed to take into account the significant scientific advancements that came out of the Renaissance.
In one of the papers, Proof of an External World, Moore argues that there is a perfectly sound and reasonable argument for the existence of an external world. If an individual raises one hand and subsequently raises the other, then there must be two hands that exist. This example is the crux of Moore’s argument.
Proof of an External World is undoubtedly one of Moore’s more well-known works, but he has contributed so much to the philosophy world throughout his career. Moore eventually passed on October 24, 1956 at age 84.
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Lists to help you navigate pethood; advice about unusual cat breeds, affordable vet care, dog training, pet names and more.
The Howling Mystery: Deciphering Your Dog's Vocal Symphony
Picture this: you're snuggled up in bed, ready to drift off into dreamland, when suddenly, your furry companion unleashes a high-pitched, operatic "AWOOOOOO!" that pierces the night. Yes, we're talking about that familiar and sometimes perplexing canine howl. But why do dogs howl, and what's the story behind this symphony of sound? Let's embark on a journey through the world of dog howling, exploring its origins and deciphering its meanings.
Camel Kills Owner While Attempting to Have Sex With Her
People often consider pets as part of the family. They offer their pets unconditional love in exchange for slobbery wet kisses and lap snuggles. Pets love their owners just as much, or so it is believed. But, pets can and will turn on their owners in rare instances. Yes, the dog you’d sacrifice your life for would not hesitate to devour your dead body if the circumstances were right, say animal instincts kicked in or your body became their only meal. Although pets generally do reciprocate the love shown to them, in rare instances, they can turn on their owners.
The Secret World of Nocturnal Animals
This post was created with the support of OpenAI. The Night's Call When the world grows dark and most of us are nestled comfortably in our beds, a vast array of creatures is just beginning their day. Nocturnal animals, with their mysterious behaviors and specialized adaptations, have stirred human curiosity and imagination for millennia. Dive with us into the shadows as we unearth the wonders of the night.
Do Fishes Sleep in the Ocean?
Introduction The world beneath the surface of the ocean is a realm of mystery and wonder, inhabited by a diverse array of marine life. Among these inhabitants are fish, the most numerous and varied vertebrates on the planet. As we delve deeper into the study of aquatic ecosystems, questions arise about the behavior and physiology of these underwater creatures, one of which is the intriguing inquiry: Do fishes sleep in the ocean? In this article, we will embark on a journey to unravel the enigmatic world of fish sleep, exploring the scientific evidence, theories, and implications of this phenomenon.
A Comprehensive Guide to Pet Care for New and Seasoned Pawrents
They say a house becomes a home when a furry companion graces its threshold with unconditional love and boundless joy. Welcoming a pet into our lives is a heartwarming experience, but it comes with great responsibility. Whether you're a new pawrent, eager to embark on this delightful journey, or a seasoned one, seeking to enhance the well-being of your beloved furry friend, the path of responsible pet care is one that requires constant learning and dedication.
Interesting & Unsettling Animal Facts You Never Wanted to Know
Animals exhibit and participate in behaviors humans may find fascinating, surprising, unsettling, or even outright gruesome. In this list, we’ll uncover a few animal behaviors fitting well into each category, giving you information and insight into the animal kingdom and what really happens in nature.
Cat Toys for Small and Big Breeds
As a proud cat owner, I know how important it is to keep our feline friends entertained and engaged. One of the best ways to achieve this is through the use of cat toys. These toys provide much-needed mental and physical stimulation, helping to keep our cats happy and healthy.
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Perfect Puzzle Toys for Dogs: Enhance Their Playtime and Cognitive Skills
As a dog owner, you may already know that regular exercise and mental stimulation are essential for your furry friend's overall well-being. While daily walks and play sessions are important, puzzle toys for dogs can provide an additional level of mental challenge and entertainment. These interactive toys not only keep your dog engaged and occupied but also help enhance their cognitive skills.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Cat Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Feline Owners
Cats are fascinating creatures that have been beloved companions to humans for thousands of years. Their playful and independent nature, combined with their endearing personalities, make them excellent pets. As cat owners, it is our responsibility to provide them with the best possible care and ensure their well-being. However, cat care is not as straightforward as it may seem, and there are several essential do’s and don’ts that every feline owner should be aware of to guarantee a happy and healthy life for their furry friends.
A Comprehensive Guide to the Do’s and Don’ts of Responsible Dog Ownership
Part I: The Do’s of Dog Ownership 1. Do Provide Proper Nutrition: A well-balanced diet is the cornerstone of good health for your dog. Consult with a veterinarian to determine the best diet for your dog’s age, size, and specific health requirements. Choose high-quality dog food that meets their nutritional needs, and avoid feeding them table scraps, as certain human foods can be harmful to dogs. 2. Do Regular Exercise: Regular exercise is essential for a dog’s physical and mental well-being. Take your dog for daily walks, engage in playtime, and consider activities such as fetch or agility training to keep them mentally stimulated and physically fit. 3. Do Schedule Routine Veterinary Check-ups: Regular visits to the veterinarian are crucial to monitor your dog’s health, receive vaccinations, and address any potential medical concerns. Establishing a preventive healthcare routine can prevent serious illnesses and ensure your dog lives a longer, happier life. 4. Do Socialize Your Dog: Socialization is key to raising a well-adjusted and friendly dog. Introduce your dog to various people, animals, and environments from a young age, and use positive reinforcement to build their confidence and trust. 5. Do Provide Mental Stimulation: Dogs are intelligent creatures that need mental stimulation to prevent boredom and destructive behavior. Puzzle toys, interactive games, and training sessions can engage your dog’s mind and strengthen your bond. 6. Do Keep Your Dog Safe: Ensure your dog’s safety by providing a secure and comfortable environment. Secure your yard with proper fencing, use a leash during walks, and keep toxic substances, plants, and small objects out of your dog’s reach. 7. Do Practice Positive Reinforcement Training: Positive reinforcement training, such as using treats, praise, and affection, is a humane and effective way to teach your dog commands and desirable behavior. Reward-based training builds trust and strengthens the bond between you and your dog. 8. Do Consider Adoption: If you’re ready to welcome a dog into your family, consider adopting from a shelter or rescue organization. Adoption not only provides a loving home for a dog in need but also brings joy and fulfillment to your life. Part II: The Don’ts of Dog Ownership 1. Don’t Neglect Grooming: Regular grooming is essential for your dog’s hygiene and overall health. Brush your dog’s coat to prevent matting and shedding, clean their ears, and trim their nails regularly. Neglecting grooming can lead to skin issues and discomfort. 2. Don’t Overlook Dental Care: Dental health is often overlooked in dogs, but it is critical to their well-being. Brush your dog’s teeth regularly, offer dental treats, and schedule dental check-ups with your veterinarian to prevent dental problems. 3. Don’t Leave Dogs Alone for Extended Periods: Dogs are social animals that thrive on companionship. Leaving them alone for long periods can lead to anxiety and behavioral issues. If you have a busy schedule, consider hiring a dog walker or enrolling your dog in doggy daycare. 4. Don’t Use Punishment-Based Training: Punishment-based training methods, such as hitting or yelling, are harmful and counterproductive. They can lead to fear and aggression in dogs. Instead, focus on positive reinforcement and patience during training sessions. 5. Don’t Skip Vaccinations and Preventative Medications: Vaccinations and preventative medications are essential to protect your dog from diseases and parasites. Stay up-to-date with their vaccinations and administer flea, tick, and heartworm preventatives as recommended by your veterinarian. 6. Don’t Allow Off-Leash Walking in Unsafe Areas: While off-leash walking can be enjoyable for dogs, it should only be done in safe, designated areas. Uncontrolled off-leash dogs can pose a risk to other dogs, wildlife, and even themselves. 7. Don’t Overfeed or Underfeed: Maintaining a healthy weight is crucial for your dog’s overall health. Obesity can lead to numerous health issues, while underfeeding can result in malnutrition and weakness. Follow your veterinarian’s feeding guidelines and adjust based on your dog’s activity level and age. 8. Don’t Ignore Behavioral Changes: If your dog’s behavior suddenly changes, such as increased aggression, lethargy, or loss of appetite, it could be a sign of underlying health issues. Seek veterinary attention promptly to address any medical concerns. Conclusion: Owning a dog is a rewarding experience that comes with great responsibility. By following the do’s and don’ts outlined in this guide, you can provide your canine companion with the love, care, and attention they deserve. Remember, each dog is unique, and understanding their individual needs is crucial to building a strong and lasting bond. With proper care and attention, you and your dog can enjoy a fulfilling and joyous life together.
Unveiling Nature’s Wonders: Exploring the Unique Talents of Various Animals
Part I: Avian Aces – The Marvels of Flight: 1. Hummingbirds – Aerial Acrobats: Hummingbirds, the tiniest of birds, are masters of flight, capable of hovering in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings. Their wings can beat up to 80 times per second, enabling them to fly forwards, backward, and even upside down. Their acrobatic skills are essential for accessing nectar from flowers and evading predators. 2. Albatrosses – Masters of Long-Distance Travel: Albatrosses have the ability to travel immense distances across the ocean. Some species can fly up to 10,000 miles in a single journey, powered by their impressive wingspan, which can exceed 11 feet. These majestic birds are highly skilled at gliding effortlessly over the waves, conserving energy during their extensive voyages. 3. Ravens – Clever Problem Solvers: Ravens are known for their remarkable intelligence and problem-solving abilities. They can use tools to obtain food and have been observed working together to achieve common goals. Their cognitive prowess rivals that of great apes, showcasing their adaptability and resourcefulness. 4. African Grey Parrots – Exceptional Mimics: African Grey parrots are renowned for their exceptional mimicry skills. They can imitate human speech and various environmental sounds with astonishing accuracy. These talented parrots possess a high level of vocal learning, allowing them to communicate and bond with humans on a unique level. Part II: Aquatic Aces – The Wonders of the Deep: 1. Dolphins – Masters of Communication: Dolphins are among the most intelligent marine animals and have complex communication systems. They produce a wide range of clicks, whistles, and other vocalizations, which they use to navigate, locate food, and communicate with each other. Their sophisticated echolocation abilities allow them to “see” through sound underwater. 2. Octopuses – Masters of Camouflage: Octopuses are unparalleled masters of camouflage. Their skin can change color and texture in an instant, allowing them to blend seamlessly with their surroundings. This incredible talent serves as both a defense mechanism against predators and a hunting strategy to surprise prey. 3. Humpback Whales – The Singing Stars of the Ocean: Humpback whales are renowned for their hauntingly beautiful songs, which can last for hours. These complex vocalizations are thought to be a form of communication, possibly related to mating and navigation during their migratory journeys. Each population of humpback whales has its own unique song, passed down through generations. 4. Electric Eels – Stunning Electric Discharge: Electric eels have an astonishing talent: they can generate powerful electric shocks to stun prey and defend themselves from predators. Specialized organs in their bodies, called electrocytes, produce electrical discharges of up to 600 volts. This incredible ability aids them in navigating murky waters and capturing prey with pinpoint accuracy. Part III: Land Legends – The Marvels of Terrestrial Life: 1. Cheetahs – Speed Demons of the Savanna: Cheetahs are the fastest land animals on Earth, capable of reaching speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in short bursts. Their slender, aerodynamic bodies and specialized leg muscles enable them to achieve such incredible speed, making them formidable hunters in the African savanna. 2. Elephants – Social Sentinels: Elephants are highly social creatures that demonstrate strong emotional bonds within their herds. They possess a remarkable ability to communicate across vast distances using low-frequency sounds called infrasound. These deep rumbles allow them to coordinate group movements and warn each other of potential dangers. 3. Jumping Spiders – Acrobatic Hunters: Jumping spiders may be tiny, but they are acrobatic marvels with their precise jumping abilities. These arachnids can leap many times their body length in a single bound, using silk threads as safety lines to return to their starting points. Their extraordinary jumping skills help them capture prey and escape from predators. 4. Bowerbirds – Masterful Architects: Bowerbirds are talented builders and decorators, known for their intricate and artistic bowers. These elaborate structures are created by male bowerbirds to attract females. The males carefully arrange colorful objects, such as flowers, berries, and even bits of plastic, in their bowers to create visually stunning displays. Part IV: Creepy Crawlers – The Wonders of Adaptation: 1. Camouflage – Nature’s Disguise Artists: Many animals have developed remarkable camouflage strategies to blend in with their surroundings. From stick insects resembling twigs to leaf-tailed geckos that mimic foliage, these creatures have evolved extraordinary adaptations to hide from predators and ambush unsuspecting prey. 2. Geckos – Wall-Climbing Wizards: Geckos possess the unique ability to climb walls and ceilings with ease. Specialized structures on their toes, called setae, create van der Waals forces, allowing them to adhere to surfaces without the need for sticky secretions. This remarkable talent enables geckos to access hard-to-reach places and escape from danger quickly. 3. Bombardier Beetles – Chemical Warfare Experts: Bombardier beetles are masters of chemical defense. When threatened, they can release a volatile and scalding chemical spray from their abdomen. This noxious concoction can reach temperatures of up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, deterring predators with its intense heat and strong odor. Conclusion: The animal kingdom is a treasure trove of extraordinary talents and adaptations that continually inspire and fascinate us. From the skies to the depths of the ocean, from the savannas to the rainforests, animals have evolved an astonishing array of abilities that allow them to thrive in their unique habitats. By understanding and appreciating these exceptional talents, we gain a deeper appreciation for the wonders of nature and the beauty of life on Earth. As we strive to protect and conserve the natural world, let us also celebrate and marvel at the incredible diversity and ingenuity of the animal kingdom.
Look Through Any Window
Introduction I am repeating myself when I say that I go out for walks to try and keep myself fit, and that has probably saved my life, you know why.
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Picture Resizer is an interesting portable tool which makes it surprisingly easy to resize multiple images.
And this is because, at its simplest, there are no dialog boxes to explore - everything the program requires is contained in its own name.
The default file name, for instance, is PhotoResize400.exe. The "400" tells the program it should resize your target images to be 400 pixels on the longest axis. And so if you drag and drop a bunch of images onto the file, that's exactly what it will do, resizing those images and saving the reduced versions alongside the original (so "picture.jpg" would become "picture-400.jpg").
You need to resize your images to 640 pixels, say? Right-click PhotoResize400.exe, select Rename, change it to PhotoResize640.exe - job done. Now drag and drop your photos onto the file and they'll be resized accordingly.
Picture Resizer can do much more than this, but that's where life becomes more complicated.
If the file is called PhotoResize_400.exe, say, then it'll resize the minimum side of your image.
A file called PhotoResizeP50.exe will resize its target images to 50% of the original.
PhotoResizeG1024x768.exe will use content-aware resizing to change the aspect ratio while preserving the content.
While PhotoResizeA400x300.exe will crop the borders of the image, resizing what's left to 400x300.
(See the author's website for even more options.)
Plainly setting up these individually will take some thought, so if you never need to run the same resizing task twice then the program probably won't be for you.
If you always need to resize large numbers of images to the same target dimensions, though, Picture Resizer should be able to save you a lot of time and effort. Give it a try, see what it can do for you.
Picture Resizer is a handy tool which carries out simple resizes with great ease. And it has some more sophisticated features available, too, although these require considerably more thought to configure.
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This article was created to be a brief synopsis of the law according to my understanding and is not legal advice. Knifeade is not a legal service provider. Using this site does not create a client/lawyer relationship. Because knife laws can be interpreted differently by different people and entities it is recommended that you consult legal counsel for specific information and guidance.
Are you a knife enthusiast living in Ohio? Are you curious about the rules and regulations governing knives in your state? If so, then this article is for you.
This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of Ohio knife law, at least, as well as I can comprehend it.
From understanding what types of knives can be legally carried to learning more about possible defenses against charges involving them, we will discuss everything related to carrying and using pocket knives within the state’s boundaries.
Additionally, learn how local governments are limited by preemption laws when regulating these weapons at a municipal level. With all that said, let’s dive into an overview of Ohio knife law.
Overview of Ohio Knife Laws
Knife laws in Ohio can be confusing, so it’s important to understand the basics before carrying or using a knife. In this section, we will discuss the definition of a knife, the types of knives allowed in Ohio, and prohibited knives.
Definition of a Knife
A knife is defined as any instrument that has an edge or blade and is capable of cutting or stabbing another person or object. This includes pocketknives, switchblades, daggers, dirks, stilettos, and other such instruments with blades longer than four inches (4″).
Types of Knives Allowed in Ohio
Generally speaking, most pocketknives are legal to carry in Ohio provided they have a blade length shorter than four inches (4″) long when measured from the tip to where it meets the handle.
Other types of knives that are allowed include hunting knives used for skinning game animals; kitchen cutlery; swords kept as collector’s items; and Bowie-style hunting knives with blades no longer than five-and-one-half inches (5 1/2″). It should also be noted that certain cities may have their own restrictions on what type of knives can be carried within city limits so check local ordinances if you plan on traveling with your knife outside your home county.
The state also prohibits anyone from owning or carrying any type of automatic opening knife, commonly referred to as a “switchblade”, regardless of its blade length being less than four inches (4″).
Additionally, ballistic knives which use springs or gas pressure to launch blades outwards at high speeds, and disguised weapons such as cane swords and belt buckle daggers are illegal even if they do not exceed 4″ in blade length.
Last of all, throwing stars/shurikens are prohibited under state law due to their potential for causing serious injury; this is true even though they may not exceed 4″ either when opened up fully into star shape configuration nor closed down into flat disc shape configuration respectively.
Carrying and Concealing Knives in Ohio
Open Carry Laws for Knives in Ohio
In the state of Ohio, it is legal to openly carry a knife with a blade length of up to four inches. This includes pocket knives, folding knives, and other types of blades that are not considered weapons under Ohio law. However, it is important to note that some cities or counties may have their own laws regarding the open carry of knives; these should be checked before carrying any type of knife in public.
Restrictions on Knife Possession and Use in Ohio
Age Restrictions on Knife Possession and Use in Ohio
In Ohio, it is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to possess a knife with a blade longer than 3.5 inches or any other type of dangerous ordnance such as switchblades, gravity knives, and ballistic knives. Additionally, no one under the age of 21 may purchase or carry any kind of automatic opening knife such as a switchblade or gravity knife.
Location Restrictions on Knife Possession and Use in Ohio
It is unlawful to carry concealed weapons into these places without proper authorization from local authorities. Furthermore, it is illegal to bring any kind of weapon onto school grounds, regardless if they are concealed or not, unless authorized by school officials for educational purposes only.
Penalties for Violating Knife Laws in Ohio
Penalties for violating knife laws in Ohio can vary depending on the type of violation and whether it is a first or subsequent offense. Generally, violations are considered misdemeanors and may be punishable by fines up to $1,000 and/or jail time of up to six months.
For example, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit is generally punishable by up to 30 days in jail and/or a fine of $250. Carrying an illegal switchblade or gravity knife is also considered a misdemeanor with penalties including fines of up to $500 and/or jail time of up to 6 months. Possession of any prohibited weapon such as brass knuckles or nunchucks could result in imprisonment for 6-18 months along with possible fines.
Violating age restrictions on possession or use can also lead to serious consequences such as expulsion from school, suspension from extracurricular activities, probation, community service hours, mandatory counseling sessions or even juvenile detention if applicable. Additionally, minors who violate these laws may have their driver’s license suspended until they turn 18 years old.
Furthermore, anyone found guilty of using a deadly weapon while committing certain crimes will face additional charges that carry harsher punishments than those associated with simply possessing the weapons themselves. For instance aggravated robbery committed with the use of a deadly weapon carries potential sentences ranging from 3-11 years in prison depending on the circumstances surrounding the crime itself.
Finally, some cities within Ohio have enacted ordinances that impose stricter regulations regarding knives than state law does. This means that individuals found guilty under local ordinances could face higher fines than those imposed at the state level, as well as other penalties such as confiscation of property used during the committing of said offenses.
Defenses to Charges Involving Knives in Ohio
In Ohio, there are several potential defenses to charges involving knives. The most common defense is self-defense. If a person can demonstrate that they were in imminent danger of bodily harm or death and had no other means of protection, then the use of a knife may be considered justified.
Another defense is the lack of intent to commit a crime with the knife. A person must have intended to commit an illegal act with the knife in order for it to be considered criminal behavior.
Additionally, if a person was unaware that their possession or use of the knife violated any laws, then this could also serve as a valid defense against criminal charges related to knives in Ohio.
For example, if someone unknowingly carried an illegal switchblade while walking down the street and was stopped by police officers who found it on them during a search, they could potentially argue that they did not know carrying such a weapon was prohibited under state law and therefore should not face criminal penalties for doing so.
Preemption Law Regarding Local Regulation of Knives in Ohio
In Ohio, the state law preempts local governments from passing laws that are more restrictive than state law when it comes to regulating knives. This means that any knife laws passed by a city or county in Ohio must be at least as strict as the statewide regulations.
The types of knives allowed in Ohio are limited to pocketknives and other non-locking folding blades with a blade length of less than four inches, switchblades, gravity knives, ballistic knives, disguised knives (such as lipstick cases), throwing stars/shurikens, undetectable blades (such as those made out of plastic). Knives such as daggers and stilettos are prohibited under state law
When it comes to carrying and concealing a knife in public places within the state of Ohio, there is no open carry restriction on pocket knives or other non-locking folding blades with a blade length of less than four inches.
Concealed carry is illegal for all types of knives except for pocketknives with a blade length shorter than three-and-a-half inches. Switchblades may not be carried either openly or concealed without prior written permission from an authorized government official.
There are also restrictions on who can possess certain types of knives depending on their age. Minors under 18 years old cannot own switchblades or automatic opening devices unless they have written consent from their parent or guardian. Minors under 16 years old cannot own any type of double-edged dagger, and minors under 13 years old cannot possess any type of knife regardless if it has one edge or two edges.
Furthermore, some locations such as schools prohibit the possession and use of knives even if you meet the age requirements set forth by the state law
Finally, violating these laws can result in serious penalties including fines up to $1 000 dollars plus jail time ranging anywhere between six months to five years depending on what type of weapon was used while committing the offense(s).
However, there may be defenses available which include self-defense claims along with having proper authorization documents issued by an authorized government official allowing possession/use etcetera.
Ultimately this will depend upon individual circumstances surrounding each case respectively so consulting legal counsel is highly recommended before making any decisions regarding potential defenses against charges involving weapons violations within the State Of Ohio’s jurisdiction boundaries.
Resources for Further Information on Knife Laws in Ohio
If you are looking for more information on knife laws in Ohio, there are a few resources available. The first is the Ohio Revised Code (ORC). This code contains all of the state’s statutes and regulations related to knives, including definitions of different types of knives, open carry and concealed carry laws, age restrictions on possession and use, location restrictions on possession and use, penalties for violations of knife laws, defenses to charges involving knives, preemption law regarding local regulation of knives and other relevant topics.
Another resource is your local county or city government website. These websites often contain ordinances that may be specific to your area regarding carrying or possessing certain types of knives. It is important to check with your local authorities before purchasing any type of knife as some cities have stricter regulations than others.
You can also contact an attorney who specializes in criminal defense if you need legal advice about knife-related issues such as defending yourself against a charge involving a knife or understanding how the law applies in your particular situation. An experienced lawyer will be able to provide guidance based on their knowledge of state and federal laws as well as case law precedents.
Finally, there are several online forums dedicated specifically to discussing pocketknife ownership where users can ask questions about buying pocketknives legally in Ohio or share stories about their experiences with various models they own. These forums can provide valuable insight into what it takes to buy a pocketknife legally within the state’s boundaries while still staying informed about new developments related to legislation concerning them.
FAQs in Relation to Ohio Knife Law
What is the legal knife length in Ohio?
In Ohio, the legal knife length is 4 inches or less. This includes all types of knives such as pocket knives, folding knives, and other non-fixed blade knives. It is important to note that any knife with a locking mechanism must be opened by pushing a button or sliding a lever in order for it to be considered legal. Knives with blades longer than 4 inches are illegal to carry in public places and can result in criminal charges if found on your person.
Can I legally carry a knife in Ohio?
Yes, you can legally carry a pocket knife in Ohio. The state has specific laws that define what types of knives are legal to own and carry. Generally speaking, folding knives with blades less than four inches long is considered legal to possess and carry. However, some localities may have more restrictive regulations regarding the carrying of certain types of knives. It is important to check your local laws before carrying any type of knife in public places.
What knife is illegal in Ohio?
In Ohio, it is illegal to own a switchblade knife. This includes any knife with a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button or other device in the handle of the knife. It is also illegal to carry any type of dangerous ordnance, including knives with blades longer than four inches. Additionally, certain types of disguised knives such as belt buckle knives and lipstick case knives are prohibited. Finally, no person under 18 years old may possess or carry any deadly weapon without parental permission or supervision.
Can you defend yourself with a knife in Ohio?
In Ohio, it is legal to carry a pocket knife for self-defense as long as the blade does not exceed 4 inches in length. However, if an individual uses a pocket knife to threaten or harm another person with the intent to cause physical injury or death, they may be charged with assault and/or aggravated assault depending on the severity of the incident. It is important to note that even though carrying a pocket knife for self-defense purposes is legal in Ohio, using it aggressively can result in criminal charges.
In conclusion, it is important to be aware of the laws surrounding knives in Ohio. The state has a preemption law that prevents local municipalities from enacting their own knife regulations. In general, carrying and concealing knives are allowed as long as they do not exceed certain lengths or have prohibited features such as switchblades.
However, there are restrictions on the possession and use of knives in public places and for minors. Violating Ohio knife law can result in criminal penalties including fines and jail time depending on the severity of the offense. It is best to familiarize yourself with all applicable laws before carrying or using any type of knife within the state of Ohio.
Let’s come together to understand what knives are legal in Ohio and how they should be used responsibly so that everyone stays safe.
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Credit cards have become an essential part of everyday life for most people.
Another advantage is that using a credit card will often help you quickly increase your credit score.
But what does it mean when a credit card is partially secured?
It means that, unlike an unsecured credit card, you will have to give a deposit to the card issuer.
However, unlike a secured credit card, the deposit will be less than the credit limit.
Different types of credit cards
There are different types of credit cards. They include:
- Partially secured credit cards
- Secured credit cards
- Small business credit cards
- Store credit cards
- Credit cards for students
- Regular credit cards/charge cards
What Are Partially Secured Credit Cards?
Partially secured credit cards feature a higher credit limit than the refundable security deposit the issuer holds as collateral.
A good example is the Secured MasterCard from Capital One, which can be classified as partially secure.
It requires a minimum deposit as low as $49 while having a credit limit starting at $200.
Having a partially secured credit card means that the credit card company cannot fully guarantee that the cardholder will pay if they reach the credit limit on the card.
It is common for most secured credit cards to become partially secured after a while. For example, this often happens when the credit card issuer gives the cardholder a credit limit increase.
Other credit card issuers may deposit a reward to the credit cardholder for always paying on time.
How Do You Qualify for a Partially Secured Credit Card?
If you are approved for a secured credit card, the initial security deposit, in most cases, is the same as your credit limit amount. If you miss payments, the credit card company will use the deposit as collateral.
If you consistently use the secured credit card while making your payments on time, your credit card company will, in most cases, upgrade you.
Your card becomes partially secured by the company increasing your credit limit while not raising your initial deposit. This is how your credit card becomes partially secured.
In most cases, you will only qualify for a partially secured credit card after having an excellent track record with the secured credit card.
It is possible to start with a partially secured credit card, but it is not common. However, you will need an excellent credit score to qualify for one.
How Do You Build Credit with a Credit Card?
If you are looking to improve bad credit or build your credit profile, credit cards are the most effective tool available.
If you use your credit card diligently, you will build your credit effortlessly and quickly.
Here are a few tips you can use to build up some credit using the credit card you have in your wallet:
Pay Your Bills On Time
When you pay your bills late or miss payments, it hurts your credit. So make sure you pay your bills on time or before they are due.
If you tend to forget about due dates, make sure you set up auto-pay or have reminders on your calendar always to pay at least the minimum payment on a schedule.
Make Sure Your Balance Is Always Low
Keeping your balance low positively affects your credit standing, referred to as the Credit Utilization Ratio.
The credit utilization ratio is the percentage amount you use from your card.
It is advised to use less than 30% of the total credit limit available for your credit score not to suffer. Make sure your negative balance is kept to a minimum to encourage a strong high score.
Keep Your Accounts Active
Part of your credit history is how long you’ve had your bank accounts and their standing. For example, if you get a card and keep using it while making payments on time for many years, it will increase your credit score.
In addition, it is wiser to have your credit card partially secured in most cases because it has more favorable terms when compared to a secured credit card.
What Are Other Ways of Building Credit?
Partially secured credit cards are a great way to build your credit, but they are not the only way. Here are other great ways to build your credit:
Get a Fully Secured Credit Card
If you need to build your credit, getting a fully secured credit card is the best route. It is important to note that any card you get provides a credit report of your payments to either of the three major credit reporting bureaus.
This will assist you with building good credit.
These bureaus include:
Your credit score will rise once you consistently build a great reputation with either major credit bureau.
Get Added as An Authorized User
If you have a close friend or relative with excellent credit, they can have you added as an authorized user on their credit cards.
You will get another credit card linked to their account, where the primary cardholder will review your card activity and be responsible for the payments.
It is important to note that not all credit card issuers or credit reporting agencies include authorized users in their credit reports to the bureaus.
If they do, it is a great chance to use the card activity to build your credit score.
If there is any negative activity with any cardholders, it will look bad on both of you, so make sure if you do make such an arrangement, then you make it with a person you trust.
Get a Credit Builder Loan
A credit builder loan is another great way to create a good credit history. Getting this loan is also a great way to save some money.
A credit builder loan is usually available through a credit union or small bank with no initial deposit.
Once your loan is approved, the lender does a balance transfer from your loan payments into your savings account.
You repay your loan increments, and the credit bureaus receive a credit report of these payments to help improve your credit rating and any bad credit.
You will receive your total amount at the end of the loan term, plus the interest accrued in the savings account.
The Best Partially Secured Credit Cards Available
Here is a list of some of the best partially secured credit cards on the market:
The Petal® 2 Visa® Credit Card
The Petal 2 Visa Credit Card is ideal because of its low fees. It comes with no annual fee, late payment, returned payment, or other fees.
This is a great feature for any card, especially for a partially secured card.
However, it is important to note that The Petal® 2 Visa® Credit Card might not have any fees, but it still charges a variable APR.
Deserve Pro Mastercard
The Deserve Pro Mastercard is a great restaurant and travel reward card. You will get 3% on any travel purchases and 2% cashback on any dining purchases.
It is important to note that this cashback only applies to the first $500 of the purchases made for any billing cycle.
You also get a 1% cash back on all other purchases.
Capital One Platinum Credit Card
With the Capital One® Platinum Credit Card, you get an increased credit limit in just six months. The fast credit limit increase is a great motivation to pay your bills on time.
In addition, if you keep spending at the same rate after getting the higher credit limit, your credit utilization rate will improve, which will help improve your credit score.
The Capital One Platinum Credit Card does not have annual or foreign transaction fees. In addition, you will get extra benefits such as travel accident insurance and extended warranty coverage on some purchases.
Capital One QuicksilverOne Cash Rewards Credit Card
With the Capital One QuicksilverOne Cash Rewards Credit Card, you will get unlimited 1.5% cashback on all purchases.
This is a very impressive card available for applicants that have a fair credit score.
Credit One Bank Platinum Visa for Rebuilding Credit
The Credit One Bank Platinum Visa for Rebuilding Credit is ideal for directly improving a bad credit score through the Credit One Bank website. In addition, the issuer offers you the chance to see if you prequalify for the card before you even apply.
- It offers a soft credit check that will not affect your credit score
- Note that prequalification does not guarantee eventual approval
With the Credit One Bank Platinum Visa for Rebuilding Credit, you will earn a 1% cash back on all purchases while building your credit.
The credit card company also reviews your account regularly to see if you are eligible for a credit limit increase.
Partially Secured Credit Cards For Poor Credit.
The cards mentioned above are ideal for applicants with a limited, average, or poor credit history.
When looking for the perfect partially secured credit card, ensure that you get one with the lowest fees and a suitable credit limit.
Also, make sure that you understand all the fine print before choosing your card and that you can manage any credit card debt.
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Water Cycle Music
Since the creation of the world's first-known line chart in 1786, scientific data has been overwhelmingly represented and disseminated to the public in visual formats. Tables, charts, and graphs fill up scientific papers and PowerPoint presentations across the world, and more often then not, these representations offer little in the way of artistic expression but rather present scientific data and findings in a rather bland manner. The arts and humanities, which have been closely interwoven with the sciences since the times of the ancient Greeks, have been almost completely ignored in modern scientific communications. While science can give us a powerful understanding of how the world works, the arts and humanities are also needed to more meaningfully convey and communicate those findings to the general public.
Communicating scientific facts and data through music is one exciting possibility for the merging of the arts and sciences. To do that, though, scientific data have to be not only represented in a manner that is true to the observations that researchers have collected, but also easily interpreted by a listener and heard by a listener as a pleasing and interesting musical piece. Combining these three objectives was my challenge when, in June 2016, I arrived at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in Woodstock, New Hampshire, as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates program that was investigating ways to represent data as sound.
Coming from my third year at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where I had been studying horn performance, music composition, and mathematics, I was joining a team of scientists and musicians at Hubbard Brook that had already begun fusing science and art through Hubbard Brook's Waterviz project. Hubbard Brook scientists had been working with visual artist Xavier Cortada and musician Marty Quinn to create both realtime aural and visually artistic representations of water cycle data as well as aural representations of pre-existing water cycle data going back to 2010.
I was tasked with working with Hubbard Brook's water cycle data set from 2015. This set had 8670 data points taken at hourly intervals for ten different variables, and my charge was to make my own unique, aural representation of these data. I worked with the computer program Max/MSP, a visual programming language that allowed me to scale and store the values for each variable. The scaled values of each variable then could be assigned to an aspect of a sound or an instrument, for example pitch or volume.
To represent streamflow, I used the notation program Finale to write and record a tranquil clarinet melody. The streamflow rate controlled the clarinet's volume. If the stream flowed fast enough, cymbals would also start playing, hitting more frequently with higher streamflow.
I wrote and recorded a more spritely countermelody for the flute whose volume is controlled by solar radiation.
I used a vibraphone to represent rain and a celesta to represent snow, with heavier precipitation triggering more and higher pitches being played by those instruments.
For wind speed, I created a droning sine wave that sounded louder and played at higher octaves with higher wind speed. The panning of this drone was controlled by wind direction.
I also chose a sine wave to represent temperature. It oscillated up and down with temperature changes.
I used a rolling timpani, or kettledrum, to represent air pressure, with its pitch going up and down along with the pressure.
A pan flute chord represented soil water storage levels, adding higher pitches to the chord as the soils became more saturated.
Soil Water Storage
A piano played a chromatic scale that went up and down with changes in relative humidity.
A synthesizer represented evapotranspiration, the water vapor evaporated into the air from the soil and transpired into the air by trees. This synthesizer sounds like something breathing, mimicking the trees and soils "respiring" water vapor into the atmosphere.
The end result was a fourteen-and-a-half minute piece that plays the entire year's data, with a new hourly data point heard once every 100 milliseconds. I synced the recordings up to a moving graph of the data, so that an audience can experience the data both in this new method of aural data representation and a more traditional graphical representation.
And finally, I made recordings of the following hydrological events:
I hope that my aural representation of data and others like it can help increase the number of people in the general public who are accessing and interacting with scientific data. The current prevailing methods of data representation (charts and graphs) make it very difficult for visually-impaired people in particular to consume scientific data. The ability to represent data both visually and aurally also provides a greater variety of ways for sighted people to interact with data. I anticipate that sonic representations presented in tandem with graphs will act as a bridge for the scientific community to this newer method of data representation.
Hopefully, more data sets will be presented in the future in more aesthetically pleasing ways, as opposed to seemingly cumbersome lists of numbers or unoriginal graphs. This will encourage members of the non-scientific community to spend more time interacting with the data, which can lead them to develop their own conclusions about it. The collaboration of artists and scientists in communicating scientific findings can allow for the exciting prospect of a world where the humanities and sciences are closely intertwined and working together for everyone's benefit.
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What does amoxicillin treat in babies?
Amoxil is most commonly used to treat children with ear infections, pneumonia, sinusitis, and strep throat. It can sometimes also be used to treat some other infections, including uncomplicated gonorrhea, urinary tract infections, and skin infections, when they are caused by susceptible strains of bacteria.
What are the side effects of amoxicillin for babies?
Call your child’s doctor right away or take your child to Emergency if your child has any of these side effects:
- severe skin rash, or hives (raised, red itchy areas on the skin)
- trouble breathing, wheezing or shortness of breath.
- swelling of face, lips, tongue, or throat.
- unusual tiredness or weakness.
Can a child take amoxicillin capsule?
Official Answer. If the doctor has prescribed that dose of Amoxil for your child then it can be taken.
What antibiotics are safe for babies?
Because infants have a higher risk of complications from pneumonia, including death, pediatricians often prescribe antibiotics such as amoxicillin, ampicillin, and penicillin, even if they aren’t positive that it’s a bacterial infection.
Can antibiotics upset a baby’s stomach?
Sometimes moms report that their babies have an upset stomach after they take antibiotics. This may be because antibiotics may deplete the “good” bacteria in your baby’s gut. Keep in mind that this effect is usually short lived, not harmful, and not a given.
How much amoxicillin can a baby take?
Infants 3 months of age and younger—Dose is based on body weight and must be determined by your doctor. The usual dose is 30 mg per kg of body weight per day, divided and given every 12 hours.
Can antibiotics cause constipation in babies?
Antibiotics can cause stomach pain, constipation or diarrhea, and probiotics can ease these side effects. But not all probiotics are effective while taking antibiotics, so talk to your child’s pediatrician or pharmacist about which probiotic is best for your child.
Can antibiotics harm a newborn baby?
Antibiotics in pregnancy can alter the mother’s and therefore the baby’s microbiome, affecting early immune responses. This may increase the risk of infection in childhood.
Does amoxicillin upset a baby’s stomach?
Call your child’s doctor or get medical help if any of these side effects or any other side effects bother your child or do not go away: Diarrhea, upset stomach, or throwing up.
How quickly does amoxicillin work?
Amoxicillin is rapidly absorbed after oral administration and peak levels are reached 1-2 hours after dosing. However, it may take up to 24-72 hours of regular dosing before infection symptoms start to abate.
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It just isn’t just California that is bankrupt Greece and Iceland have been all above the news for their hopeless funds crunch but they are only the worst hit of the lot the economic disaster has strike just about each and every nation out there, and governments all over Europe have been desperately searching for techniques to not succumb the way these two countries have. And just as 토토사이트 in The us seem to liberalizing their views on liquor and drugs (California will come to mind) when cash becomes restricted, Europe’s traditionally conservative sights on the effects of gambling in corroding the values of modern society, has started to loosen up in the confront of some fairly serious fiscal circumstances. Actually, that wouldn’t be the whole image for why Europe is commencing to inexperienced-signal on the internet athletics betting, and other Web gambling. Gambling for very prolonged in Europe has been completely monopolized by the federal government. The explanation they by no means desired to open up it up to personal investment decision was that they wanted all the proceeds for on their own. Now the on the internet gambling is starting to provide truly tempting avenues in risk-getting online games, actual physical casinos are beginning to appear much less appealing. And these governments want to be exactly where present-day motion is.
So governments want to provide on-line sports betting and gambling into the mainstream so that they can tax and control these routines and benefit from them. They do know that if they will not mainstream the use, they will just lose out to the foreign web sites exactly where they will not likely even get any taxes. Why, only in 2006, the authorities of France place out arrest warrants for the management of the Austrian Net gambling agency Bwin. Today, they are individually inviting Bwin and other companies to take bets on-line in France. And they are undertaking this all over the place – Greece, Spain, Germany but of program, no one particular beats Britain to the head of the line. Britain hurried its way over there five many years in the past. Even at this early stage, gambling is bringing in about $30 billion each calendar year in turnover. Cash-strapped governments could very easily tax for billions in income.
The US only passed comprehensive regulations to ban on the web sports betting and other gambling in 2006. The regulation is only starting to totally take effect this yr even so, 2006 was an additional era. Governments experienced freer money stream then. With everyone scraping the barrel today, Congress is starting to consider that it wouldn’t be a poor concept to toss the law out and just take gain just as Canada has, and just as Europe has. Of system, they are never ever likely to admit to as a lot what they would like to claim is, that when an activity will come previously mentioned board, there is considerably less shadiness in evidence. It actually seems to be like on the web sports betting and all sorts of reduced -stakes gambling will be legalized quite before long and as soon as they do that you are going to encounter what France did when the soccer Planet Cup in South Africa arrived around. They permitted on the internet sporting activities betting, and observed these sites get in a lot more than $a hundred million in income. And what do you know, they collected richly in taxes. Italy has been swimming in the chips for about 3 many years now previous calendar year on your own, they collected about $200 million in taxes from on-line sports betting. Any federal government that receives a flavor of this, can only get in further and further.
In on the internet sports betting, Italy is type of the normal bearer. They started out out 3 many years ago, and like it so much that they are planning to diversify. The only distinction is that Italy fully owns up to the simple fact that it does this for the money. The mistake that Britain manufactured was that it authorized foreign gambling web sites to run in their land without having a license. They haven’t witnessed any revenues by themselves. If there is going to be legalizing athletics betting, they experienced better find out from these classes.Others
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It has been peddling Internet domains for 13 years but now GoDaddy.com is peddling itself. It’s now soliciting offers for a buyout, with an asking price of $1 billion.
A privately held company, GoDaddy is the #1 provider of online domain name registrations in the US. It raked in around $800 million in sales last year. Rumors about it going public have gone around numerous times but it has remained a very big, private corporation. Its owner is Bob Parsons.
As for buyers, may we suggest Nascar driver and noted provocatively-clad GoDaddy spokesperson Danica Patrick? Without her TV spots that leave a lot of questions about what she’s actually peddling, the company would clearly be nothing.
The company behind the deal is Qatalyst Partners, which gained notoriety recently when it advised 3Par during that whole Dell/HP bidding war thing. And that ended up turning out very handsomely for 3Par.
Getting $1 billion is a tall order, but GoDaddy has the assets to make it worth someone’s while. If a new owner were to take it public, it could spell out even more growth for the company.
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MYSTICISM AND LOGIC
less than a certain thickness, the glass breaks. I also do not deny that the observation of such regularities, even when they are not without exceptions, is useful in the infancy of a science: the observation that unsupported bodies in air usually fall was a stage on the way to the law of gravitation. What I deny is that science assumes the existence of invariable uniformities of sequence of this kind, or that it aims at discovering them. All such uniformities, as we saw, depend upon a certain vagueness in the definition of the "events." That bodies fall is a vague qualitative statement; science wishes to know how fast they fall. This depends upon the shape of the bodies and the density of the air. It is true that there is more nearly uniformity when they fall in a vacuum; so far as Galileo could observe, the uniformity is then complete. But later it appeared that even there the latitude made a difference, and the altitude. Theoretically, the position of the sun and moon must make a difference. In short, every advance in a science takes us farther away from the crude uniformities which are first observed, into greater differentiation of antecedent and consequent, and into a continually wider circle of antecedents recognised as relevant.
The principle "same cause, same effect," which philosophers imagine to be vital to science, is therefore utterly otiose. As soon as the antecedents have been given sufficiently fully to enable the consequent to be calculated with some exactitude, the antecedents have become so complicated that it is very unlikely they will ever recur. Hence, if this were the principle involved, science would remain utterly sterile.
The importance of these considerations lies partly in the fact that they lead to a more correct account of scientific procedure, partly in the fact that they remove
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Do plants grow better with bottled water or tap water?
While both water sources should allow the plants to grow, the findings should be that the bottled water will provide more nutrients to the plants than the tap water.
Do plants grow better with filtered water?
It is recommended to use a filtration system to provide the most pure water for your family and plants. According to the Water Quality Association, distilled or reverse-osmosis filtered water is the best for watering house plants. No matter where the safe water comes from, it should be room temperature when watering.
What happens if you water plants with bottled water?
These concentrated salts can cause dehydration of the root structures. Excess salts cause plants problems such as inhibited growth, small new growth, dead roots and wilting of leaves, according to Ohio State University Extension.
Is it better to water plants with warm or cold water?
As long as you don’t overheat the roots of your plant and you protect the leaves and crown from the heat, watering with hot water will have no harmful effects. In fact, it’s better to water with hot water than it is to water with very cold water.
Does boiling water kill plant roots?
Warm or cold water do little damage to most plants and benefit weeds. Boiling water not only kills the plant but also the seeds that may lay dormant in the soil. The boiling water produces almost instantaneous results. The heat destroys the plant and root tissue, causing instant shock.
Is tap water bad for plants?
Most tap water should be fine for your houseplants unless it is softened because it has salts that can build up in the soil over time and eventually cause problems. Chlorinated water is also safe for most houseplants, but if you have a filtration system, that’s even better for your plants.
Does boiling water kill fungus in soil?
The best way to kill pathogens and get rid of other soil pests is to sterilize the soil before you plant. There are a number of good ways to do this, but one of the most common is using boiling water. There is also another easy way that you can sterilize the soil and kill pathogens, nematodes, and fungus gnats.
How do you permanently sterilize soil?
Sterilizing Soil with an Oven deep) in an oven-safe container, like a glass or metal baking pan, covered with foil. Place a meat (or candy) thermometer into the center and bake at 180 to 200 degrees F. (82-93 C.) for at least 30 minutes, or when soil temp reaches 180 degrees F.
Does boiling water destroy soil?
Can you spray plants with hydrogen peroxide?
Mix equal parts 3% hydrogen peroxide and distilled water. Use a spray bottle to thoroughly soak the infected plants. Make sure to get the undersides of the leaves. Spray once a week or after it rains.
What bugs does cinnamon keep away?
CINNAMON– The strong smell of cinnamon keeps many bugs away including wasps, earwigs, bed bugs, silverfish, and spiders.
Can too much cinnamon hurt plants?
Don’t worry, it won’t hurt your plants. 3) Cinnamon as rooting hormone. Cinnamon is much cheaper than the chemical rooting hormone they sell in the big box store and just as effective!
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1. Use some kind of animal, bird or whatever
2. Use a floral background paper
3. Do something that takes you out of your comfort zone
4. Use some kind of Die
My bird is a hummer, I used a floral paper from my stash, the die is a Spellbinders square die and something out of my comfort zone is that I colored the hummer and flowers with Ranger Distress Inks. As this is only the second time I've colored flowers this is definitely out of my comfort zone! Please be kind!
So there you have it! Have a great day! Take a little time just for you.
Silk Ribbon from my Stash
Ranger Distress Inks
Designer Paper from my Stash
Gina K. Designs Card Stock
Sakura Gelly Roll Pen with sparkle (Hummer)
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Jesus and the Table
By: Scot McKnight
Meals and table fellowship were so significant in Jesus’ ministry that it has been said, “Jesus could have been killed simply because of the people with whom he ate.”
Scot McKnight unpacks 1st Century meals and the way Jesus allowed Kingdom realities to break through in the meals of Jesus and his followers. Discover how Jesus turned routine meals into Kingdom realities, which means a new society was being formed around evening dinner tables and people got converted at the table with Jesus.
The Food and Feasts of Jesus by Douglas Neel and Joel Pugh
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Showtek, Steve Aoki, and Jem Cooke join forces to deliver a high-octane techno anthem titled ‘Mirror Mirror.’
This colossal collaboration between industry titans is a testament to their unrivaled prowess. With its relentless pace, ‘Mirror Mirror’ immerses listeners in a sonic whirlwind, propelled by cutting-edge synths and a driving kick that demands attention. This Spinnin’/SKINK release is primed to ignite dancefloors and leave festival crowds in awe.
“Mirror Mirror” is more than just a song; it’s a sonic fusion of our creative energies, a testament to our shared passion for pushing boundaries and delivering an unforgettable experience. Brace yourselves for a high-octane journey that will shatter mirrors and ignite souls on the dancefloor,” Aoki says
Cooke adds, “’Mirror Mirror’ is about being in the depths of the night in the middle of a party and clapping eyes on yourself right in the thick of it, but instead of giving you the fear, you’re galvanized. It’s definitely a song for rascals! Steve and Showtek have turned it into a weapon!” Very excited for this one to come out.”
‘Mirror Mirror’ is available July 21 from Spinnin’/Skink – stream here
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Japan is looking to lift a state of emergency for Tokyo and remaining areas still facing restrictions while also considering fresh stimulus worth almost 100 trillion yen ($A1.4 trillion) to help companies ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Nikkei has reported.
Social distancing curbs were removed for most of the country on May 14 as new infections fell but the government had kept Tokyo and four other prefectures under watch.
The government will seek approval from key advisers for the lifting on Monday. If approved, Japan would have no regions under the state of emergency, which was first instated on April 7.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has said the capital would swiftly move into “stage one” of the lifting of curbs if the government ends the state of emergency. That would allow libraries and museums to reopen, and restaurants to stay open until later in the evening. Subsequent stages would see theatres, cinemas and fairgrounds reopen.
While the world’s third-largest economy has escaped an explosive outbreak, with about 17,000 infections and 825 deaths, the epidemic has tipped it into a recession and plunged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s popularity to multi-year lows.
Abe will hold a news conference on Monday evening, when he is expected to announce the plan to lift the state of emergency.
To support an economy on track for its deepest slump in postwar history, the government is considering fresh stimulus worth 100 trillion yen, mostly comprising financial aid for companies, the Nikkei newspaper said.
The package, to be funded by a second supplementary budget, would follow a record 117 trillion yen spending plan deployed last month.
The combined spending would bring the total stimulus in response to the pandemic to about 40 per cent of Japan’s gross domestic product.
The new package includes 60 trillion yen to expand loan programs that state-affiliated and private financial institutions offer to firms hit by virus, the Nikkei said. Another 27 trillion yen would be set aside for other aid including capital injections for ailing firms, the paper said.
The government is expected to approve the budget, which will also include subsidies to help companies pay rent and wages, at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
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Do we manipulate or are we being manipulated by the designing tools?
Our technological opportunities are what seems to be so developed that we don’t feel the need to reinvent, but just use what is there. Specially created computer softwares made for designing are like having a green card to a shop where you only pay once and then come back for endless unlimited use of everything that is there.
It still doesn’t mean that everybody can become a designer once he learns how to use programs like Adobe InDesign, Photoshop or Ilustrator (even though he might think he can), it definitely needs more than that. Yet we can all agree on the fact that when using designing softwares, we approach tools that are already somehow preplanning the way we create. Either the idea starts in our mind and we try to manipulate the programs to achieve the image coming from our own imagination, or what might be happening; We start the idea with the help of the programs by using the tools they offer to us.
My project was tracking exactly this. Can I proclaim that the designing software tools actually define the trends in Graphic Design? If so, how can I classify the current trends? And how would the trends that might be defined by the designing softwares look like if I remade them by hand and tangible tools?
The result of the posters consisted of a handmade layer with use of real tools like spray paint, water paint, ruller etc. The second layer was a concise typographical layout that was applied with silk sreen print to all of the trends as a system to classify them.
* 10 Posters
* Reserach website
silk screen print, spray paint and other handmade craft technics
10 x DIN A1
between February and May 2015
Exhibited in May 2015, KABK gallery, The Hague
Project initiated by Adriaan Mellegers (& Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen)
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Optimize your internet connection typically, you open the device settings on your computer and look for the option that lets you install an. So, whether you've got high-speed fibre optic broadband or an adsl connection, our guide will help you speed test your broadband we'll also look at how to. Home with wow high speed internet and wifi slowest device refer to the owner's manual or search for your device specs online for more information. This list of countries by internet connection speed lists the average data transfer rates for internet access by end-users as published in the report state of the. These connection tests range from free browser tests to in-depth software website and look for them — or to google “[insert your isp] speed test” and see what.
You can get high-speed internet access through a variety of services, including: satellite internet service is available in most areas from providers of satellite. In many cases, choosing your internet connection speed means lavoie said to look for quality of experience metrics, including load times,. Looking for a way to increase your internet speed without upgrading your isp been browsing at a certain download speed, but now seem to be if you're feeling your connection is slow, make sure to do a speed test at.
05 megabits per second – required broadband connection speed of internet providers in your area, dslreportscom is a place to look, but. This statistic shows the average internet connection speed in france from the in france in december 2014, by share of visitsmost visited search engines in. Bulgaria: internet connection speeds now average to low while bulgaria got the 39th spot, with 4239 mbps things seem to be changing. We recommend testing your internet connection speed using our free speed may be better to look into upgrading your internet account to a higher speed one, .
Test your broadband speed connect to a wired ethernet connection before testing your speed types of broadband available at your location take a look at the. If your internet is running slow, there's a free test to help you well as the path, speed and capacity of the website's connection to your network. Use our internet speed test tool to find your download & upload speeds yourself, “how fast is my internet” or “what are my internet speeds,” look no further high-speed internet connection known as broadband (broad bandwidth) is.
Your connection speed first and foremost depends on the the type of internet connection you have there are several most common ways to. Let's take a look at a few ways you can actually gauge and monitor network performance it's common to refer to internet speed as bandwidth and internal throughput speed of 450mbps, but your internet connection may. Learn how to test yours and what to do for slow internet connections lots of factors contribute to the speed of an internet connection. Having broadband speed issues with your broadband provider or just want to find out more about our broadband take a look at what speeds you can get from .
If your internet is running slowly, here are some troubleshooting steps you can try to to test your speeds, you can visit wavebroadbandcom/speedtest that connects the modem and router together, which looks like a thick telephone cable. 10 tips for troubleshooting your internet connection with the if you can't connect to the internet at all, take a look at your router's led status indicators impact on your web surfing speed and overall system performance. Time to look at your internet bill and find the connection speed you are paying for compare it to the fastcom test results if the numbers vary. What is the unit used for measuring internet connection speeds how fast does your internet connection need to be if you want to stream a look at your next internet bill to see if your internet provider lists the speeds they.
How can we help you browse or search below to find the information you're looking for live chat log in help center / internet / connection, speed &. Interpreting internet speed test results upload/download, and effects on audido/ video let's take a closer look at the typical data returned by a speed test, and most while a wired connection using an ethernet cable directly to your router or . Internet access for many don't blow out your bottom line just to get the fastest speeds it's a good idea to take a new look at your business internet.
Note: if you're experiencing slow internet speeds over a wireless connection, use an ethernet cord to connect to your modem to run your speed test that way. This topic provides instructions for testing your internet speed to test your connection speed, click on this link: the test will run for a few minutes, and then a new screen will appear with your speed test results in the. Are you wondering if your home internet network is really running at the a menu will appear: under the current wi-fi network it shows a host of the wi-fi standard and the connection speed, which is shown as tx rate.
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I do not pay much attention to sensational news articles. Nowadays news is worse on the internet than it was on paper. I don’t even read much internet news. Anybody can publish anything free so they publish all kinds of junk using techniques developed in San Francisco and elsewhere. Problems such earthquakes and homelessness are overstated because such stories serve political interests. I quit watching TV in high school and don’t have a TV. I learned typing in a Newspaper when I was 7 years old and worked in a newspaper for several years beginning at age 13. I still read 6 real paper newspapers occasionally. Paper reading is faster, clearer, and cannot be tracked by internet companies!
It would be useful to take some classes on modern news media and history to understand how you are being manipulated by the news media.
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Tour Our Offices
As a convenience for our patients, we provide services at two distinct locations. Our Lincoln Park office provides a comfortable atmosphere with modern aesthetics. It is a short distance from Downtown Chicago. Additionally, we have an office in Orland Park that also provides a welcoming environment with a modern twist. Both offices feature state-of-the-art technology and are staffed by a warm and compassionate team of dental professionals.
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President James Madison
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Madison belonged to a well off Virginian (later being part of the Virginia dynasty) family owning about 100 slaves, throughout his life like some other Founding Fathers Madison benefited from the work of slaves but somehow believed in democracy and freedom as well.
Madison helped prepare the constitution for Virginia with George Mason strengthened the clause safeguarding freedom of conscience. In concession to George Mason and Anti-Federalist objections to ratification of the U S Constitution, Madison proposed a group of Constitutional Amendments which are known as The Bill of Rights. The importance of this was shown when in the 20th Century the Universal Declaration of Human Rights included freedom of conscience. Madison served in Virginia under Thomas Jefferson.
The United States
Madison felt a strong federal element was needed in the Constitution to get the states to cooperate. He hoped that different interests would counterbalance each other and lead to government in the public interest. Madison further played a part in the Bill of Rights. Later he became advisor to president George Washington and later still he became President of the United States himself.
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Title: Unleashing Creativity: The Fusion of Music and Artificial Intelligence with Mike Dean
In the ever-evolving landscape of music production, Mike Dean has emerged as a trailblazer, seamlessly integrating his artistic brilliance with cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. As a renowned producer, engineer, and musician, Mike Dean’s foray into the world of AI has sparked fascination and curiosity among music enthusiasts worldwide. In this intriguing article, we explore the fascinating journey of Mike Dean in the realm of AI, the implications of his groundbreaking work, and the pros and cons of this innovative fusion.
Section 1: Mike Dean’s Pioneering Path in AI Music Production
As an influential figure in the music industry, Mike Dean has embraced AI technology to push the boundaries of music creation. From exploring AI-generated melodies to experimenting with machine learning algorithms, his journey demonstrates the endless possibilities that AI offers to elevate artistic expression.
Section 2: AI in Music Production: The Pros
a) Creative Exploration: AI tools enable Mike Dean to explore uncharted musical territories, fostering new and unconventional sounds that resonate with modern audiences.
b) Time Efficiency: AI-driven workflows can speed up music production, allowing Dean to experiment with ideas and iterate more rapidly.
c) Unique Soundscapes: AI-generated elements bring a fresh perspective to music, infusing unique textures and atmospheres into Dean’s compositions.
Section 3: AI in Music Production: The Cons and Considerations
a) Overreliance on Technology: There is a fine balance between utilizing AI as a creative tool and maintaining the human touch and emotion in music production.
b) Intellectual Property: Ownership and licensing rights for AI-generated content may raise legal and ethical concerns in the music industry.
c) Audience Acceptance: Introducing AI elements in music can be met with mixed responses from traditionalists and purists, challenging the acceptance of this new approach.
Section 4: Embracing AI as an Artistic Ally
a) Collaborative Harmony: Mike Dean’s integration of AI exemplifies how artists and technology can work harmoniously, pushing the boundaries of creativity.
b) Responsible Experimentation: Balancing AI-driven experimentation with traditional craftsmanship ensures a meaningful musical experience for listeners.
c) Evolving Landscape: As AI continues to advance, embracing new tools and methodologies can lead to groundbreaking music production innovations.
Mike Dean’s exploration of Artificial Intelligence in music production serves as a beacon for artists seeking to elevate their creativity through technology. By embracing AI as an ally, Dean has pushed the boundaries of music production, delivering fresh, innovative sounds that resonate with contemporary audiences. While AI brings numerous advantages in efficiency, unique soundscapes, and creative exploration, it also raises concerns related to overreliance, intellectual property, and audience acceptance. Nevertheless, as artists continue to embrace the potential of AI, the music industry stands at the precipice of a transformative era where technology and creativity unite to redefine the very essence of artistic expression.
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For some reason the only nice guys i ever meet are always taken, and its only the creeps and the players of the world that approach me. I've never been in a relationship because of this problem and was wondering if this is normal? Ps im not a mean person, im super nice with everyone so i just found this weird.
Why is it that the only guys I seem to attract are creeps or players?
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It happens because nice people usually get taken, since they are nice. But no worries, there's plenty of single nice guys in the world, don't give up, jut keep looking. And good luck 🌞0
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1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? Aerospace and Defense. What is your role in your organization? CAD planning and support. Describe your stakeholders. Creo Parametric and Windchill users.
2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 18.104.22.168
3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. During Auto-associate of a Creo Parametric CAD model to a Windchill Design Part object, the Assembly Mode attribute is preset to the value "Component." It cannot be changed within the workspace.
4. What is the use case for your organization? Creating and linking a CAD model to a Windchill Design Part object using Auto-associate.
5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Avoids creating Windchill Design Part objects with the wrong Assembly Mode value. Avoids having to iterate Windchill Design Part objects to fix wrong Assembly Mode value. Avoids mismatches between Assembly Mode value and the value of other related/linked attributes. Avoids the support required to educate user base on the behavior, check for value mismatches, and fix values if missed.
I find it telling that nowhere in the pre-defined items 1 through 5 does it ask for the idea itself. It does in the Subject, but that is universally considered to be a short summary, with few details, if any. I suggest including an item
6. What is your Idea? See below for an example.
This is a request to allow the Assembly Mode value to be configured, either by changing the default value, or better yet, but allowing some logic to be added so it can be set based on other variables (e.g., CAD model type, CAD parameter, etc.)
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The Importance Of Turbocharger in A Car
People are always in search for something better, more efficient, and cheaper. That’s why innovations won’t end. In the car industry, for example, companies have built faster models, and still aim to make them even faster. This lead to the invention of turbocharger, which offers to faster engine that uses less fuel. In other words, it gives the car the boost it needs. But what exactly is a turbocharger and why is it important?
What’s a turbocharger?
Engines produce power usually by burning fuel in cylinders. The air that enters the cylinders mixes with the fuel and ends up burning, which makes a tiny explosion, out the piston. This then turns gears and shafts that allow the wheels to spin. When the piston tries to push back inside, it pumps waste air out of the cylinder in the form of exhaust. The idea of the car’s engine is that the more cylinders you have, the more fuel your car can burn, and consequently, the faster the car can go. However, with turbochargers, you not only use the fuel to produce power, you can also recycle the exhaust and get it to make the car even much faster. It forces some more air into the cylinders so they can burn fuel faster by seconds.
What makes turbocharger really click is that it’s cheap, simple, easy to use, and the perfect power kit you can have for your engine.
Who first made the turbocharger?
Alfred J. Büchi, an engineer in the Gebrüder Sulzer Engine Company is responsible for making the concept of turbochargers. His original design shows an exhaust-driven shaft that can power a compressor, which in turn forced more air into the cylinders. He had turbochargers patented in 1905 and continued to make it even better.
What makes it important?
While it started as something experimental, the turbocharger has now become an essential toolkit for a car engine. Aside from making the car go faster, it also reduces the fuel demand, which means that you can save money. Morevover, it raises the oxygen level that makes it possible to have a temporary increase in the delivery of fuel. However, the most important contribution of turbocharger, is perhaps its ability to reuse exhaust. This means lessens air pollution and minimizes waste of energy. In general, turbocharger is cheap, environmental-friendly, and really functional.
How does a turbocharger work?
The turbocharger’s concept is that the a red fan let the exhaust drive the turbine. Connect this to the compressor through a blue fan and it’ll push air into the engine. To illustrate how it works clearly, here is a step-by-step guide
- Air, preferably cool, will enter the engine and will head towards the car’s compressor.
- The fan attached to the compressor will suck this air in.
- Then, the compressor itself will squeeze and heat up the incoming air and blow it out.
- The hot and compressed air produced in the compressor will pass through the heat exchanger.
- The exchanger will cool the air down.
- The compressed and cool air will now enter the cylinder through one of the valves. This is used by the cylinder burn fuel faster.
- So the cylinder is now burning more fuel. While doing so, it also produces even more energy and at a faster rate.
- The cylinder sends more power to the wheels through the gears, shafts, and the piston.
- The waste gas produced from the cylinder exits through an exhaust outlet.
- A turbine fan sucks the air and rotates it at high speed.
- There will be a spinning turbine on the same shaft as the car’s compressor. As a result, as the turbine is spinning, so as the compressor.
- The exhaust gas will leave the car will lessen wasted energy than it would normally have without the turbocharger.
What are its advantages and disadvantages?
Turbochargers can go with either diesel-run or gasoline-run engines and almost to all kinds of cars. The greatest advantage of a turbocharger is obviously the greater power it produces using only the same size of engine. However, turbochargers rely heavily on fuel. Since it makes more power swiftly, it also burns fuel quickly. The amount of power produced requires the same amount of energy per second. Hence, it does not really make your car that much fuel-efficient than one running without a turbocharger. It just creates an illusion that it does (which can be easily explained).
Though a car with a turbocharger can still consume the same amount of fuel as a car without it, it makes the engine lighter and smaller which can somewhat contribute to the car’s fuel economy.
With all these benefits, you might wonder why not all car engines are turbocharged. This is due to several reasons. First is that early versions of the turbocahrge did not live up to its promise of fuel economy and manufacturers made sure to exaggerate on that part. Second is the problems with the turbocharger’s reliability. Basically, turbochargers are making a car engine’s design even more complicated. With complexity comes the greater risk of encountering engine problems. There have been issues related to suffering from high temperature and pressure, which eventually leads the car parts to fail faster than they normally would. It also adds to the things you need to maintain.
If you tally buying and maintaining a turbocharger, it can be quite costly. This not to mention that turbochargers lifespan is not that long, either. Lastly, driving with turbochargers proved to be quite different. You will usually feel a turbo lag or a significant delay every time you put your foot down on the accelerator. Therefore, driving with one can be quite tricky so you must have a few tries with it before you can master driving around with a turbocharger.
While turbochargers, like other innovations, offer quite a lot of advantages, you must still be careful to weigh out the consequences. If you think you or your car is not fit to have one, then reconsider your purchase. Remember that just because the majority is getting one does not mean you should, too. Consult an expert if it’ll make feel more at ease.
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The Judiciary of England and Wales has criticised government plans to raise court fees for divorce to £750.
“Almost certainly, the suggestion would act as a significant impediment to access to justice for many individuals. The great majority of petitioners are women. Many of them will be of limited means, but not entitled to fee remission and the new fee will be unattainable.”
Such women may abandon plans to divorce following the increase in divorce costs, and instead set up homes with new partners while still remaining married to official husbands, the response claims.
“Thus, they would lose the many financial and other protections afforded to married women under the existing law. The proposal, therefore, might give rise to an objection that it is indirectly discriminatory because most of the petitioners are women, and because the impact of price increases would affect them disproportionately.”
The Judiciary of England and Wales includes judges and magistrates.
The government consultation notes that a fee of £750 would be around three times the actual cost of an average divorce. Even the current fee of £410 already exceeds the administrative costs of an undefended divorce (£270).
The Judiciary said:
“ We recognise that it would be not be feasible in the present climate for the Government to reduce the fee to its actual value and to forfeit this revenue of just under £17 million (which equates to more than 10 per cent of the direct judicial costs of the civil justice system as a whole (£161 million)).”
The fee increase would raise an additional £40.8 million, and not £30 million as stated by the consultation paper, the Judiciary response noted.
The government consultation on divorce costs also contains a “misconception”, it said.
“The justification for the proposal is set out in paragraph 187 of the Consultation Paper: ‘We believe that divorcing couples would be prepared to pay a higher fee to complete the dissolution of the marriage. We believe that it is right that those who can afford to pay more should do so to ensure that the courts are properly funded.’There appears to be a misconception that the fee is paid by the divorcing couple. It is paid by the petitioner…”
The response continued:
“In any event, the Consultation Paper advances no evidence either (a) to justify the belief that divorcing couples would be prepared to pay a higher fee to complete the dissolution of the marriage, or (b) to justify the assertion that the captive divorcing market “can afford to pay more”. Nor does it explain why it is right that those who can afford to pay more should do so to ensure that the courts are properly funded. We question whether it is appropriate that this particular sector of the litigating community should assume so large a responsibility to fund the courts properly, rather than the general taxpayer.”
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Deployment diagram - one of the available kinds of graphs supported Flexberry Designer. Enterprise applications often require for its operation a certain it infrastructure, store information in databases located somewhere on the company servers, cause the web services, share resources, etc. In such cases, it is useful to have a graphical representation of the infrastructure on which the application will be deployed. What is needed, and deployment diagram, which is sometimes referred to charts placement.
Such diagrams make sense to build only for hardware and software systems, whereas UML allows to build models of any system, not necessarily computer.
Use a deployment diagram
- A graphical representation of an it infrastructure can help to more efficiently distribute system components on the nodes of the network, which determines including the performance of the system.
- Such a diagram could help to solve numerous tasks associated with, for example, security.
The deployment diagram shows the system topology and distribution of components of the system in its nodes and connections - routes of information transfer between the hardware nodes. This is the only chart that used a “three-dimensional” notation: nodes of the system are denoted by cubes. All the rest of the notation in the UML a plane figure.
The main elements of deployment diagram
In the diagram the deployment you can display the following elements of UML notation that are available in the Toolbox:
|the component Instance (Component instance)|
|host Instance (Node instance)|
|the Active object (Active object)|
|Point of bending of the links (Point)|
|Connector review (Note the connector)|
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The NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists that the roadworks season is swinging into gear as crews swoop in to make roads safe while the weather is warm.
NZTA regional state highways manager David McGonigal says drivers are likely to encounter roadworks on Taranaki's highways over the next few months, and should leave time up their sleeve for potential delays. The next big job will be at Midhirst, where work will begin on Monday to provide a new, safer driving surface near the Railway Overbridge. The work will take around two weeks, weather permitting, and delays of up to ten minutes should be expected.
“We know road works can be a bit of a headache for motorists but resealing the roads keep motorists and their passengers safe on our state highways. Pot holes, cracked roads and roads that have come to the end of their natural life have reduced skid resistance, and this can increase the risk of crashes and injuries, so we’re making sure we have safe road surfaces to drive on,” said Mr McGonigal.
"When you see roadworks, that's means the highway is about to become safer to drive on."
Mr McGonigal says an unprecedented $78.3m is being invested over the next three years on the maintenance, operation and renewal of Taranaki's state highways, 20% more than the previous three years.
He says regularly resurfacing the roads also prevents expensive long-term repairs.
“Maintaining the roads is like painting your house every 10 years to give it a protective seal from wear and tear and exposure to weather, as well as increase its durability,” says Mr McGonigal.
Mr McGonigal says traffic management including some speed restrictions will be in place from time to time, so motorists should still expect delays, plan ahead and leave extra time for journeys.
He says it is crucial that motorists observe the speed restrictions at all times.
"The speed restrictions are there to protect both drivers and the road workers, so please stick to them no matter what - if it says thirty, then that's the speed limit. Speed restrictions also help to prevent windscreen damage, which tends to arise from people driving too fast through roadworks sites and flicking up loose chips into other vehicles."
"Even if there is no work happening onsite, we ask that people keep their speeds down to let the new surface cure - otherwise it can get ripped up and we'll need to start all over again."
NZTA reseals the roads over summer as the traffic volumes are generally lower and spread more evenly across the day, which helps to avoid delays in peak times when everyone is back at work.
Summer is the best time to reseal roads, as the warm temperatures and dry air helps the new seal to stick to the existing road surface.
"If we did the work in winter, the cold ground would mean the new surface would harden and crack, plus the stones in the chip seal could pop out if exposed to cold weather within four weeks of application, and we’d just have to do the work all over again next year – causing you more inconvenience."
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Tuesdays 7th - 28th November (4 sessions) 8.00am – 8.30am
Have you got 30 minutes? That's all you need for a quick mental refresh that will keep you energised throughout the rest of your day. Enjoy a calm, focused and empowering Morning Meditation, leaving you refreshed and setting you up for success.
By making meditation part of your morning ritual you'll be giving your day the best start it can possibly have, and you will start experiencing the benefits from your very first 30-minute guided session. Once you master the skill of meditation, you'll be able to use it anytime, anywhere.
Classes incorporate gentle commentary, soothing music and bit of quiet. Just turn up and Makeda will take care of the rest!
Makeda is an experienced mindfulness coach and meditation teacher based in Cheltenham. With a background in education, marketing and sales, plus experience of working for large companies like Virgin and Whole Foods Market, Makeda understands the challenges of corporate world and uses this knowledge to support her clients.
Makeda tailors mindfulness and meditation programs both for groups and individuals to teach them about the importance of self-care and how they can achieve better work life balance. Individuals who are committed to ongoing meditation practise benefit from increased self-esteem, improved communication skills, enhanced and more balanced relationships with colleagues and spouses.
Cost: £7.00 per session or £25.00 for four-session block
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Early evening had fallen and the few lights that burned behind closed shades had begun to glow warm and yellow. Barely audible voices whispered on the howling December winds. This was Detroit. The ghetto.
Her beauty stripped away by years of corruption and abuse the great city now bucked under the weight of her own excesses, and like the pancaked made up face of an aging Hollywood Scarlett she was nothing more than a shadow of her former self.
The house was small a barely standing wood framed seated between a burnt out apartment building and an empty lot that had become the unofficial trash dump of the neighborhood. The unfortunate few who remained glided about like ghost trapped in purgatory.
The back door banged open and Lizzy, a girl of fifteen stepped out of the darkness and onto the wooden back porch. She worn a tattered parka and a torn pink night dress which was covered in blood. She slowly made her way down the rickety back stairs and walked to the center of the lot behind the house.
Lizzy stared at the house her eyes wide and vacant. She absently dropped the dirty gym shoes she had been carrying to the ground and slipped her bare feet into them without looking down. In her other hand she held an ice pick. The black handle shiny and slick from blood.
The tale of her harsh life could be read in her limpid eyes. Beauty for some girls was a fortunate gift, a blessing from god, a proverbial magic wand that held a mysterious power over men. Some girls wielded their wands as expertly as a ninja with a samurai sword slicing and dicing their way through life. This had not been the case for Lizzy, her beauty was no blessing.
She was small for her age with black curls that gently framed her narrow elfin face she was the perfect combination of innocence and libidinous, a Lolita. Low hanging fruit there for the taking by the sharks that constantly swam back and forth in front of the tiny house, they could smell the blood in the water. Lizzy stood shivering like a wet puppy in the middle of the wind swept parcel listening … a dog barking in the distance … sporadic traffic nearby, then nothing.
She cocked her head to the side and closed her eyes and tried to listen harder. Imagines of Rico, a massive biker type on top of her breathing heavy slobbering and grunting until his white lighting exploded from within him.
Lizzy slowly opened her eyes and took a few timorous steps toward the house and stopped the unmistakable creaking of floor boards froze her like a deer caught in headlights. A loud crash came from the house and the massive figure of Rico darken the doorway.
His eyes were almost glowing with fury. He staggered forward using the door frame as leverage. A half a dozen carmine stains dotted the front of his white tee shirt.
Lizzy began to back away shaking her head as if trying to wake herself from a nightmare. He slowly pointed at her like Frankenstein from an old fifties B movie.
“You bitch!” He lurched forward. “You fucking little Bitch!” Rico teetered forward and lost his balance and rolled down the stairs.
He landed at the bottom with a thud. Lizzy stepped back. No longer afraid she watched him like a cat might a doomed mouse.
“Get back over here. Where you going?”
“Nowhere.” She said calmly. He coughed and spite a globe of blood onto the ground.
“Help me Lizzy.” He gasped. “I’m not mad. I promise.”
“You promise? You’re not mad at me for what I did to you?” She asked sweetly as she moved toward him and knelt just out of his arms reach.
“I swear.” He suddenly lunged at her. “I’ll kill you. You tried to kill me!” Lizzy rolls to the side and plunges the ice pick into his heart. Rico gasps and crumples to the ground.
“I did kill you …” Lizzy stands. “And you deserved it.” She spite on his body and walked away.
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When the creators of the B-Corp concept first discussed their mission, we can easily believe that at the core was recognition of personal responsibility for our world. Can we set a standard that is greater than profit for the sake of profit?
Certainly they had seen that the ‘profit above all’ model is destructive to us all, and they sought to prove the value of balance. The standard was set: We believe that business can and should operate in a way that is good FOR the world.
The decision of a company to be a positive force involves many choices; from the products that are manufactured, to the resources that are utilized, to the impact on the environment, to the treatment of employees, to the profits and wellbeing of the business. With all factors considered, the bottom line has to be Balance: consider the impact of your decisions and find a balanced way forward.
Regarding AMS’ decision process, CEO Ken Wiseman said, “Our mission statement points to the balance between Customer, Organization, Community, and Self. When the weight of importance of all you impact is part of your core mission, your compass keeps you true to your path.”
Recently we heard from the automaker, Chevrolet, that they will close number of manufacturing plants in the US. The reason given was restructuring. The corporation is turning its concern to innovation with plans for the cars of the future requiring more computer coders but fewer engineers who work on internal combustion engines. As we know, their decision will affect the lives of workers, families and communities. Many workers will be laid off, some will accept buy-offs, and time will tell what the result will be.
We’re not analyzing GM’s executive choices or decisions as only they know all the facts. But we do encourage GM and any other automakers following this track to do their best to bring about a positive outcome for the community and the employees as they adjust to this change. Let Balance be the bottom line.
The Ventura-based company, Patagonia, recently made a decision that offers inspiration to other B-Corps and the world. Patagonia, recognized as the first California B-Corp, started out years ago making mountain-climbing equipment, and then they moved forward due to ‘changing times’. Gradually they began making outdoor clothing and gear, and they continued to grow.
It makes sense that this business, focused on outdoor gear, has a commitment to the environment and environmental issues. Recently Patagonia donated the $10 million it saved from tax cuts to non-profit environmental groups.
The company’s website explains their position: “For-profit firms face legal pressure to forgo social goals in favor of maximizing profits. Current law requires corporations to favor the financial interests of shareholders over the interests of workers, communities and the environment. And nonprofit organizations and charities are often needlessly restricted in their ability to raise capital when they need to grow.”
Perhaps one of the answers to balance is to be able to see in the long-term. On the day that the business signed up to be a B-Corp, the founder, Yvon Chouinard said, “Patagonia is trying to build a company that could last 100 years.”
AMS Fulfillment is proud to be in the company of other B-Corporations such as Patagonia, and we are inspired whenever we see corporations creating a balance between profits and the future of the company, and community, employee and environmental needs.
Jay Catlin, founder and AMS President, offered the following: “Becoming a B-Corporation has aligned our direction as a company with many of the greats. Patagonia certainly exemplifies the character of a B-Corp as they inspire others, including AMS, to operate with a greater social consciousness.”
Profit is not the bottom line for AMS although our business is and has always been profitable, thriving and growing. We, like other B-Corps, intend to demonstrate that a company can be both good For the world, and profitable.
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Introduce you to the purchasing skills of internal combustion sightseeing cars
The internal combustion sightseeing car is different from the vehicle running on the battery as the main energy source. The power of the vehicle is driven by the internal combustion engine. It can be used as a recreational vehicle or a transportation vehicle for middle-aged and elderly people. Vehicles are: white, green, red and blue. When purchasing, I hope the following tips can help you.1. Choose a regular manufacturer. Don't be greedy for cheap and buy some vehicles of unknown origin, unknown manufacturer, and quality problems. 2. Choose the style of the vehicle according to your hobby. This part includes: the specification, style and color of the vehicle; if it is purchased on site, it is recommended to check the quality of the vehicle assembly, including the lighting system, brake system, tires, doors and windows and other details. 3. Choose a high-quality vehicle. Internal combustion sightseeing vehicles with sufficient quality and safety are also safer and more secure during use, and they are rarely used for repair. 4. Pay attention to consulting other related issues of the vehicle, such as fuel, exhaust emissions, etc., pay attention to the quality before purchasing, and pay attention to the related maintenance and after-sales service provided by the merchant. The above is the tips for purchasing internal combustion sightseeing cars. I hope it will be helpful to you. If you want to know more about the information content of electric vehicles, you can bookmark us to view.
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In a recent development, the Singapore-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement has taken center stage, fostering stronger economic ties between the two countries.
As part of the learning agreement ULiege, students can now benefit from enhanced educational opportunities and exchange programs.
Additionally, the implementation of a formula-type pricing agreement has revolutionized the business landscape, ensuring fair and transparent pricing practices.
In a surprising turn of events, a lottery group agreement form has become the talk of the town, as enthusiastic participants join forces to increase their chances of winning.
Meanwhile, the Indian Residential Schools Agreement has brought attention to historical injustices, seeking to reconcile the past and pave the way for healing and understanding.
For individuals seeking accommodation in Illinois, the IL Residential Lease Agreement provides a comprehensive framework to ensure a smooth renting process.
Understanding the nuances of contract writing is essential, and contract writing examples serve as valuable resources to improve legal drafting skills.
On the governmental front, the Victorian Bilateral Agreement NDIS aims to deliver better support and services to individuals with disabilities, promoting inclusivity and equal opportunities.
Have you ever wondered whether you need to file an operating agreement with the state for your business? Find the answer here.
Lastly, businesses can streamline their operations with a standardized cleaning service agreement PDF, ensuring clarity and efficiency in maintaining cleanliness and hygiene.
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Matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) is a secreted zinc-dependent endopeptidase that is implicated in regulating kidney homeostasis and diseases. MMP-7 is produced as an inactive zymogen, and proteolytic cleavage is required for its activation. MMP-7 is barely expressed in normal adult kidney but upregulated in acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). The expression of MMP-7 is transcriptionally regulated by Wnt/β-catenin and other cues. As a secreted protein, MMP-7 is present and increased in the urine of patients, and its levels serve as a noninvasive biomarker for predicting AKI prognosis and monitoring CKD progression. Apart from degrading components of the extracellular matrix, MMP-7 also cleaves a wide range of substrates, such as E-cadherin, Fas ligand, and nephrin. As such, it plays an essential role in regulating many cellular processes, such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and podocyte injury. The function of MMP-7 in kidney diseases is complex and context-dependent. It protects against AKI by priming tubular cells for survival and regeneration but promotes kidney fibrosis and CKD progression. MMP-7 also impairs podocyte integrity and induces proteinuria. In this review, we summarized recent advances in our understanding of the regulation, role, and mechanisms of MMP-7 in the pathogenesis of kidney diseases. We also discussed the potential of MMP-7 as a biomarker and therapeutic target in a clinical setting.
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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A library that gets data from the unicode.org website
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A library that gets data from the unicode.org website.
The installation of this library is made via composer and the autoloading of all classes of this library is made through their autoloader.
composer.pharfrom their website.
- Then run the following command to install this library as dependency :
php composer.phar install php-extended/php-api-org-unicode-interface ^5
This library is an interface-only library.
For a concrete implementation, see
MIT (See license file).
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Description: Elias Cash got kicked out of the house because his wife caught him masturbating, so he's staying at the home of his wife's parent, Charli Phoenix. Elias argues on the phone with his wife that it's normal for men to masturbate, but his wife is still mad at him, so it looks like he'll be staying with his in-law for a while longer. Luckily, Charli is open-minded and agrees with Elias that masturbating isn't a big deal. In fact, she tells him that he can masturbate while looking at HER if he wants. Elias is shocked, but Charli encourages him by pulling her top down to reveal her nice tits, and puts on a show by rubbing her clit in front of him. Elias gives in to temptation, and they masturbate side-by-side until Charli gives him a blowjob to prepare him for even more fun, including tittyfucking!
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Archpriest Victor Potapov on Anger
“Suppressed anger” is but a first step, the stage at which we are learning not to allow our anger to come to the surface. This must be followed by another step, at which one begins to work on his heart and to place not only his outward behavior but also his internal movement before the judgment [described in] the Gospels. If anger enters into your heart, remember Christ, Who was nailed to the Cross, and Who yet prayed for those torturing Him. Remember how the Saints, who in their lives experienced things utterly and incomparably more horrible, more tragic, than anything happening to us, nonetheless endured it with humility and love. Remember St. John Chrysostom, who was removed from his Episcopal throne, exiled, beaten by his guards, and starved to the point of utter exhaustion. As he, abandoned and betrayed by everyone, was dying, he said, “Glory to God for all things.” Many similar examples could be cited. We should bring them to mind whenever we are about to burst out in anger over some minor provocation –e.g. when we are served soup that is not hot enough, when someone is late for an appointment with us, or when a poorly worded document is presented for our signature.
One other point: It often happens that while you are irritated by one source, you pour out [our anger] upon someone else, for an entirely different reason. For example, you are late for your bus: its doors slam shut in your face, and a passing car splashes you with mud. When you get to work, you find it quite easy to take out your anger on your co-workers. After all, the bus and the car are gone, the things that provoked your anger are no longer there, but your co-workers are. The car has driven away, but the person is still there next to you; you can find yourself engaging in an extended battle with someone over the most trivial thing, a war that can last for years. No external factors should control us to the extent that they become a basis for anger or irritation.”
– Interview, pravoslavie.ru
***Now and then we include a particularly thought provoking or inspiring excerpt not from one of our regular ‘Elders’***
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Will and Grace (1998 TV series): Will and Grace is set in New York City and focuses on the relationship between Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a Jewish woman who owns an interior design firm. Also featured are their friends Karen Walker, a rich socialite and Jack McFarland, a struggling gay actor/singer/dancer who has numerous other brief careers. The interplay of relationships features the trials and tribulations of dating, marriage, divorce and casual sex, as well as comical key stereotypes in Jewish culture.
Mike and Molly (2010 TV series): Mike, a Chicago police officer, meets fourth-grade teacher Molly at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and they fall in love, thanks in part to their mutual love of pie and the desire to resist it. Both face challenges in their quest to lose weight – Molly from her slender sister and mother and Mike at the diner where he frequently eats. But having found each other, they still support each other as they try to achieve their goals, be it weight loss or Molly’s decision to quit teaching and pursue her dream as a writer.
Keeping up with the Kardashians (2007 TV series): This show focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian-Jenner family. Its premise originated with Ryan Seacrest, who additionally serves as an executive producer. The series focuses on sisters Kimm, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian, It additionally places emphasis on their brother Rob Kardashian, their mother Kris Jenner, their step-father Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce Jenner), half sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner and Kourtney’s boyfriend Scott Disick.
2 Broke Girls (2011 TV series): The series chronicles the lives of 2 waitresses in their mid-20s: Max Black (Kat Dennings), the child of a poor working-class mother and an unknown father, and Caroline Channing (Beth Behrs), who was born rich but is now disgraced and penniless due to her father, Martin Channing, getting caught operating a Bernard Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme, The 2 work together at a Brooklyn diner, soon becoming roommates and friends while building towards their dream of opening a cupcake shop. Among those working with them at the restaurant are their boss, Han Lee (Matthew Moy); Oleg (Jonathan Kite), an upbeat but perverted Ukrainian cook; and Earl (Garrett Morris), a 75-year old cashier.
Heartland (2007 TV series): The series is based on the Heartland book series by Lauren Brooke. The show changes the settings from Virginia, USA (in the original novels) to the Alberta Rockies in Alberta, Canada. Heartland follows Sister Amy and Lou Fleming, Ty Borden and their grandfather Jack Bartlett through the highs and lows of life on a horse ranch in cattle country. The story details how, although Amy and Lou’s mother was killed in a car accident, they continue to keep their mother’s dream alive by healing abused and neglected horses through their family business. Amy (Amber Marshall) faces adversity, but she overcomes every obstacle that stands in front of her.
Desperate Housewives (2004 TV series): The main setting of the show was Wisteria Lane, a street in the fictional American town of ‘Fairview’ in the fictional ‘Eagle State’. The show followed the lives of a group of women as seen through the eyes of a dead neighbor who committed suicide in the very first episode. The storyline covers 13 years of the women’s lives over 8 seasons. They worked through domestic struggles and family life while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries hidden behind the doors of their surface – beautiful and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. The show featured an ensemble cast headed by Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp and Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis. Brenda Strong narrated the show as the deceased Mary Alice Young, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dream sequences.
Ugly Betty (2006 TV series): The series focuses on the life of wannabe writer Betty Suarez, a plain girl from Queens, New York City, who is sorely lacking in fashion sense. She is known to be bold, good-hearted, and naïve. She is abruptly thrust into a different world when she lands a job at Mode, a trendy, high fashion magazine based in Manhattan that is part of the publishing empire of the wealthy Bradford Meade. Bradford hires the inexperienced Betty as his womanizing son’s newest personal assistant to curb his habit of sleeping with his assistants. As time goes by, Betty and Daniel become friends and help each other navigate their individual professional and personal lives.
Sex and the City (1998 TV series): Set and filmed in New York City and based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell, the show follows the lives of a group of 4 women – three in their mid-30s and one in her 40s, who despite their different natures and ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other. Starring Sarah Jessica Parker (as Carrie Bradshaw), Kim Cattrall (as Samantha Jones), Kristin Davis (as Charlotte York) and Cynthia Nixon (as Miranda Hobbes), this quirky TV show has multiple continuing storylines that tackled relevant and modern social issues such as sexuality, safe sex, promiscuity and femininity while exploring the difference between friendships and romantic relationships.
Full House (1987 TV series): After news reporter Danny Tanner’s wife Pam is killed in a car crash by a drunk driver, he recruits his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (an exterminator turned rock musician) and quirky best friend Joey Gladstone (who works as a stand-up comedian) to help raise his 3 daughters: D.J, Stephanie and Michelle in his San Francisco home. Over time, the 3 men as well as the children bond and become close to one another. In season 2, Danny is reassigned from his duties as sports anchor by his television station to become co-host of a local morning TV show ‘Wake Up, San Francisco’ and is teamed up with Nebraska native Rebecca Donaldson. Jesse and Rebecca eventually fall in love and get married in season 4. In season 5, Rebecca gives birth to twin sons, Nicky and Alex.
South Park (1997 TV series): South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central. The show follows the exploits of 4 boys: Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick. The boys live in the fictional small town of South Park, central Colorado. The town is also home to an assortment of frequent characters such as students, families, elementary school staff and various other residents who tend to regard South Park as a bland and quiet place to live. Stan is portrayed as the everyman of the group; Kyle is the lone Jew among the group, and his portrayal in this role is often dealt with satirically. Stan is modeled after Parker, while Kyle is modeled after Stone. Stone and Kyle are best friends. Eric is a loud, obnoxious, manipulative, racist and obese literal psychopath and is portrayed as an antagonist and Kenny comes from a poor family, wears his parka hood so tightly that it covers most of his face and muffles his speech.
Two and a Half Men (2003 TV series): Chiropractor and single father Alan Harper lives in a beachfront house with divorced Internet billionaire Waden Schmidt, who bought the house following the untimely death of Alan’s brother, Charlie. As they acclimate to their living arrangement, the tightly wound Alan finds himself taking on a mentor role with Walden, whose lifelong dependence on being taken care of has left him a bit naïve. Despite his unsuccessful romantic history, Alan also tries to help Walden overcome his limited experiences with dating. Berta, a sharp-tongued, unapologetic housekeeper, is also featured in the series.
Family Guy (1999 TV series): Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane. The show revolves around the adventures of the Griffin family, consisting of father Peter Griffin, a bumbling yet well-intentioned blue collar worker; Lois, a stay-at-home mother and piano teacher who is a member of the wealthy Pewterscmidt family; Meg, their awkward teenage daughter who is constantly ridiculed and ignored by the family; Chris, their teenage son, who is overweight, unintelligent and a younger version of his father in many respects and Stewie, their diabolical infant son of ambiguous sexual orientation who has adult mannerisms and uses stereotypical archvillain phrases. Living with their family is their witty, sarcastic, anthropomorphic dog Brian, who drinks Martinis and engages in human conversation, though he is still considered a pet in many respects.
F.R.I.E.N.D.S (1994 TV series): This epic American TV sitcom has been created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman. Rachel Green flees her wedding day and seeks out childhood friend Monica Geller, a New York City chef. They become roommates, and Rachel joins Monica’s social circle of single people in the mid-20s: struggling actor Joey Tribbiani, business professional Chandler Bing, masseuse and musician Phoebe Buffay and newly divorced palentoloist Ross Geller, Monica’s older brother. To support herself, Rachel becomes a waitress at Central Park, a Manhattan coffee house where the group often hangs out, and when not there, the 6 are usually at Monica and Rachel’s nearby West Village apartment, or Joey and Chandler’s across the hall. The show depict the friend’s comedic and romantic adventures and career issues such as Joey auditioning for roles or Rachel seeking jobs in the fashion industry. The 6 characters each have many dates and serious relationships such as Monica with Richard Burke and Ross with Emily Waltham. Ross and Rachel’s intermittent relationship is the most often-recurring storyline: during the 10 seasons of the show they repeatedly date and break-up, even while Ross briefly marries Emily, he and Rachel have a child, Chandler and Monica date and marry each other, and Phoebe marries Mike Hannigan. Other frequently recurring characters include Ross and Monica’s parents in Long Island, Ross’ ex-wife and their son, Central Perk barista Gunther, Chandler’s ex-girlfriend Janice and Phoebe’s twin sister Ursule.
Glee (2009 TV series): This show focuses on the fictitious William McKinley High school glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition circuit while its disparate members deal with social issues, especially regarding sexuality and race, relationships, and learning to become an effective team. The initial 12-member cast included club director and Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sur Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), Will’s wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig). As the students find themselves, they also enjoy a respite from the harsh realities of life. Mr Schuester hopes to help the kids in every way he can, and also dreams of taking the group to nationals. As Schuester and the glee club pursue their goal, they face opposition from a conniving cheerleading coach, Sue Sylvester, who tries to sabotage the group at every turn.
Grey’s Anatomy (2005 TV series): Grey’s Anatomy is an American romantic medical TV drama series that focuses on a group of doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle, including several who began their careers at the facility as interns. One of the doctors and the show’s namesake, Meredith Grey, is the daughter of a famous surgeon. She struggles to maintain relationships with her colleagues, particularly the hospital’s one-time chief of surgery, Richard Webber, due to a pre-existing relationship between them – Webber and Meredith’s mother had a personal relationship when Meredith was young.
Bones (2005 TV series): The show focuses on the alliance between forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. Brennan is the central character and team leader of the fictional Jeffersonian Institute Medico-Legal Lab, a federal institution that collaborates with the FBI, mirroring the real life relationships between the FBI and the Smithsonian Institution. Set in Washington D.C, the show revolves around solving Federal legal cases by examining the remains of humans of murder victims. In addition to the murder cases featured in each episode, the series explores the backgrounds and relationships of its characters. An important ongoing dynamic between Brennan and Booth is their disagreement about science and faith. The series is also known for its dark comic undertones to lighten the gravity of the show’s intense subject.
The Vampire Diaries (2009 TV series): This TV series is developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec based on the popular book series of the same name written by L.J.Smith. The series follows the life of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), a teenage girl who falls deeply in love with a 162-year old vampire named Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). Their relationship becomes increasingly complicated as Stefan’s vicious, malevolent and mysterious older brother Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) returns with a plan to wreack havoc on the town, seeking revenge against his younger brother for turning him into a vampire against his will. Because Elena resembles their past love Katherine Pierce, Damon also falls in love with Elena. The series is set in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, a town charged with supernatural history since its settlement of migrants from New England in the late 19th century. Additional story lines revolve around the other inhabitants of the town, most notably Elena’s younger brother Jeremy Gilbert (Steven R.McQueen), her best friends Bonnie Bennett (Kat Graham) and Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola), and their mutual friends Tyler Lockwood (Michael Trevino) and Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig). The town’s politics are orchestrated by descendants of the original founding families, all comprising a ‘Founder’s Council’. They guard the town from vampires, warewolves, witches and ghosts.
Orange is the new Black (2013 TV series): This TV series is created by Jenji Kohan. The story revolves around Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a woman living in New York City, who is sentenced to 15 months in a women’s federal prison called Litchfield Penitentiary. She has been convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money to her now former girlfriend Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), an international drug smuggler. The offence had occurred 10 years prior to the start of the series, and in that time Piper had moved on to a quiet, law-abiding life and so her sudden and unexpected arrest disrupts her relationships with her fiancé and family. In prison, Piper is reunited with Alex (who named Piper in her trial, resulting in her arrest) and they re-examine their relationship and deal with their fellow prisoners. The show often shows flashbacks of significant events from various inmates’ pasts. As the story continues, the focus on Piper lessens, so that many inmates form an ensemble cast with many concurrent plot themes.
Seinfeld (1989 TV series): This popular American TV sitcom ran for 9 seasons on NBC from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment in Manhattan, New York, features Jerry’s friends and acquaintances, best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) and how this bunch deal with the absurdities of everyday life.
Lost (2004 TV series): Lost is a drama series containing elements of science, fiction and the supernatural. It follows the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on a lush, mysterious island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. The story is told in a heavily serialized manner where each person possesses a shocking secret. Episodes typically feature a primary story line set on the island augmented by flashback or flash forward sequences, providing insights of the involved characters. The survivors have got nothing on the island, which harbors a monstrous security system, a series of underground bunkers and a group of violent survivalists hidden in the shadows.
24 (2001 TV series): This American TV series is created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran and stars Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration. To emphasize the real-world flow of events, a clock is prominently displayed on-screen during the show and there is a regular use of split screens, a technique used to depict multiple scenes occurring at the same time. A typical plot has Bauer racing against the clock as he attempts to thwart multiple terrorist plots, including presidential assassination attempts, weapons of mass destruction, bio-terrorism, cyber attacks as well as conspiracies which deal with government and corporate corruption.
How I Met Your Mother (2005 TV series): This cult TV series is created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, who also served as the show’s executive producers and writers. The show follows the adventures of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and how me the mother of his children. As a framing device, Ted in the year 2030, recounts to his son and daughter the events that led him to meeting their mother. The story starts with the younger Mosby living in New York and working as an architect. The narrative deals with his best friends including the long-lasting couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), the eccentric, womanizing playboy Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) and the Canadian news anchor Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders). The series explores many storylines, from relationships to career to love to break-ups. The show focuses on Ted’s prior relationships and his dissatisfaction with those women, and how his friends got involved, thus setting the stage for his eventual happiness with Tracy. The show does not introduce Ted’s wife (Cristin Milioti) until its final season.
Criminal Minds (2005 TV series): is an American procedural TV series created by Jeff Davis starring Mandy Patinkin and Joe Mantegna. Criminal Minds is set primarily at the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) based in Quantico, Virginia. In accordance with the show’s plot, Criminal Minds differs from many procedural dramas by focusing on profiling the criminal, called the unsub or ‘unknown subject’ rather than the actual crime itself. The focal point of the series revolves around a talented group of FBI profilers who set about catching various criminals through behavioral profiling. The plot focuses on the working cases and the personal lives of the characters, depicting the hardened life and statutory requirements of an FBI profiler.
Modern Family (2009 TV series): This super-hit TV series revolves around 3 families living in Los Angeles who are interrelated through Jay Pritchett and his children, Claire and Mitchell. Patriarch Jay (Ed O’Neill) is remarried to a much younger woman, Gloria (Sofia Vergara), a passionate Colombian with whom he has a baby son, Fulgencio (Joe) Pritchett and a son from Gloria’s previous marriage, Manny (Rico Rodriguez). Jay’s daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) is a homemaker married to Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell), a real-estate agent and self-professed ‘cool dad’. They have 3 children: Haley (Sarah Hyland), the stereotypical teenage girl, Alex (Ariel Winter), a nerdy smart middle child and Luke (Nolan Gould), the offbeat only son. Jay’s lawyer son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and his husband Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) have adopted Vietnamese daughter Lily (Ella and Jaden Hiller). Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan conceived the series while sharing stories of their own ‘modern famililes’. The series is presented in mockumentary style, with the fictional characters talking into the camera.
The Big Bang Theory (2007 TV series): This American sitcom is created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show along with Steven Molaro. The show is primarily centered on 5 characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper both are physicists at Caltech and share an apartment; Penny, a waitress and an aspiring actress who later becomes a pharmaceutical representative and lives across the hall. Leonard and Sheldon’s similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers-aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. Geekiness and intellect of the 4 guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny’s social skills and common sense. Over time, supporting characters have been promoted to starring roles: Bernadette Rostenkowski, Howard’s girlfriend (later his wife), a microbiologist and former part-time waitress alongside Penny.
Arrow (2012 TV series): Arrow is an American TV series developed by writer Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg. It is based on the DC Comics character ‘Green Arrow’, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp. The series follows billionaire playboy, Oliver Queen played by Stephen Amell who five years after being stranded on a hostile island, returns home to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilant whose weapon of choice is bow and arrow. Unlike in the comic books, Queen does not go by the alias ‘Green Arrow’. Arrow focuses on the humanity of Oliver Queen and how he was changed by time spent shipwrecked on an island. Most episodes have flashback scenes to the 5 years in which he was missing.
Prison Break (2005 TV series): This American TV drama was created by Paul Scheuring. The series revolve around 2 brothers: one who has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and the other plots an elaborate plan to help his brother escape prison and clear his name. Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is a desperate man in a desperate situation. His brother Lincold Burrows (Dominic Purcell) convicted for a crime is put on Death Row. Michael holds up a bank to get him incarcerated alongside his brother in Fox River State Penitentiary, and then sets in motion a series of plans to break Lincoln out and prove his innocence. Once out of jail, the brothers flee to escape recapture and battle an intricate political conspiracy that puts everyone’s life at risk.
Castle (2009 TV series): Created by Andrew W.Marlowe, Castle follows Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, a famous mystery novelist who has killed off the main character in his book series and has writer’s block. He is brought in by the New York Police Department for questioning regarding a copy-cat murder based on one of his novels. He is intrigued by this new window into murder and uses his connection with the mayor to charm his way into shadowing Detective Kate Beckett played by Stana Katic. Castle decides to use Beckett as the model for Nikki Heat, the main character of his next book series. Beckett, an avid reader of Castle’s books, initially disapproves of having Castle shadow her work but later warms up and recognizes Castle as a useful resource in her investigations. The overarching plot of the series focuses on the romance between the two lead characters and the murder of Beckett’s mother.
The Mentalist (2008 TV series): The show was created by Bruno Heller who is also the show’s executive producer. The show follows Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), who is an independent consultant for the CBI based in California. Although not an officer of the law, he uses skills to read people’s minds. The real reason for Patrick Jane’s involvement with law enforcement is to track down the serial killer Red John who was responsible for the brutal murders of his wife and daughter. He admits to faking the supernatural aspects of his skills, often asserting that there is no such thing as psychics, yet he has finely honed skills in cold reading, hypnosis and picking pockets as well as powerful observational skill and deep insight into the human psyche and behavior.
Dexter (2006 TV series): Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C.Hall), a blood spatter pattern analyst for the fictional Miami Metro Police Deparment who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down the murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system. The show’s first season was derived from the novel ‘Darkly Dreaming Dexter’ (2004), the first of the Dexter series novel by Jeff Lindsay. Orphaned at the age of 3 due to the brutal murder of his mother in a shipping container and harboring a traumatic secret, Dexter was adopted by Miami policeman Harry Morgan (James Remar) who recognized his homicidal tendencies and taught him to channel his gruesome passion for human dissection in a ‘constructive’ way – by killing only heinous criminals (child molesters, mob assassins, rapists, serial killers, etc). Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he is able to affect normal emotions and keep up his appearance as a socially responsible human being.
Sherlock (2010 TV series): Sherlock is a crime drama series and a contemporary adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective series. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the show stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Sherlock depicts ‘consulting detective’ Sherlock Holmes solving various mysteries in London. Holmes is assisted by his flatmate and friend Dr John who has returned from military service in Afghanistan with the Royal Army Medical Corps. Although the series depicts a variety of crimes and perpetrators, Holme’s conflict with Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) is a recurring feature. Molly Hooper (Louise Brealey), a pathologist at St Bart’s Hospital occasionally assists Holmes in his cases. Other recurring roles include Una Stubbs as Mrs Hudson, Holmes and Watson’s landlady and series co-creator Mark Gatiss as Holmes’ elder brother Mycroft.
The Sopranos (1999 TV series): The Sopranos is a crime drama TV series created by David Chase. Revolving around the fictional character and family of New Jersey based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), the show portrays the difficulties he faces while balancing the conflicting requirements of his home and his criminal organization. These are highlighted during his therapy sessions with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi (Lorrain Bracco). The series features Tony’s family members and Mafia colleagues and rivals. He deals with personal and professional power struggles, affairs, violence, threat of exposure and betrayal and a whole bunch of people being whacked.
Game of Thrones (2011 TV series): This American fantasy drama series created by David Benioff and D.B.Weiss, is an adaptation of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ which is George R.R.Martin’s series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled ‘A Game of Thrones’. The series is filmed in a Belfast studio and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, Morocco, Spain, Malta, Scotland and US. Set in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, the series chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the realm’s noble families for control of the Iron Throne. The first season was a faithful adaptation of the novel, but later seasons, began to diverge with significant changes. According to David Benioff, the show is about adapting the series as a whole and following the map George laid out hitting the major milestones, but not necessarily each of the stops along the way.
Better Call Saul (2014 TV series): ‘Better Call Saul’ is created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. It is a prequel of the TV show ‘Breaking Bad’ which was also created by Gilligan in 2008. Set in 2002, ‘Better Call Saul’ follows the story of a small-time lawyer James Morgan ‘Jimmy’ McGill (Bob Odenkirk), 6 years before his appearance on ‘Breaking Bad’ as Saul Goodman when he became Walter White’s attorney. From parking tickets to mass murder, from slip-and-fall to bond fraud, Saul handles it all. In July 2012, ‘Breaking Bad’ creator Vince Gilligan hinted at a possible spin-off about Saul Goodman.
Breaking Bad (2008 TV series): This American crime drama TV show was created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show told the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, who with his ex-student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) turns into a crime scene by producing and selling crystallized methamphetamine to secure his family’s finances before he dies. The name of the show ‘Breaking Bad’ is from a southern colloquialism which means ‘raise hell’. Breaking Bad was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This TV series has been considered as one of the greatest and intriguing TV series of all time. By the time the series finale aired, the series was among the most-watched shows on American television. Also in 2013, ‘Breaking Bad’ entered the Guinness World Records as the highest rated show of all time.
Mr Robot (2015 TV series): Mr Robot is an American cyberpunk thriller TV series created by Sam Esmail. The show revolves around Elliot Anderson, a young cyber-security engineer living in New York City who assumes the role of a vigilant hacker by night. Elliot meets a mysterious anarchist ‘Mr Robot’ who recruits Elliot to join his team of hackers called ‘fsociety’. Elliot has a social anxiety disorder but connects to people by hacking them. The series follows Mr Robot’s attempts to engage Elliot in his mission to destroy the corporation Elliot is paid to protect. Compelled by his beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the MNC CEOs that are running and ruining the world.
True Detective (2014 TV series): This crime drama TV series is created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. Pizzolatto initially conceived the series as a novel but as it began taking definite form, it was decided to be a TV show. Engineered as an anthology, each season of ‘True Detective’ introduces new cast, characters and self-contained narratives. The show’s first season is based in Louisiana and follows a pair of Louisiana State Police homicide detectives (Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson) and their pursuit of a serial killer over the course of 17 years. The second season takes place in California and follows the interweaving stories of officers from 3 cooperating police departments (Farrell, McAdams and Kitsch) and a criminal-turned businessman (Vaughn) after the body of a corrupt city manager is found on the highway. This show has been highly acclaimed by critics and has been rated as one of the strongest programs on American TV.
Fargo (2014 TV series): Fargo is an American black comedy-crime drama written and created by Noah Hawley. The show is inspired by the 1996 film of the same name directed by Coen brothers. The story is about Lorne Malvo played by Billy Bob Thornton, who is a manipulative man, who meets a small town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman) and changes his life forever, by convincing Lester to get involved in search of a killer. The future seasons will follow an anthology format with each season being set in a different era along with different story, cast and characters.
Six Feet Under (2001 TV series): Laced with irony and dark humor, the show was created and produced by Alan Ball. The show spans for 5 seasons and 63 episodes. The show stars Peter Krause as Nathaniel Samuel ‘Nate’ Fisher Jr whose funeral director father (Richard Jenkins) dies and bequeaths to him and his brother David (Michael C.Hall) co-ownership of the family funeral business. On one level, the show is a conventional family drama, dealing with issues such as interpersonal relationships, infidelity and religion. At the same time, the show is distinguished by its unblinking focus on death, which it explores on multiple levels. Each episode begins with a death – anything from heart attack or murder to sudden infant death syndrome and that death usually sets the tone for each episode, allowing the characters to reflect on their current fortunes and misfortunes in a way that is illuminated by death and its aftermath.
The Wire (2002 TV series): The Wire is a crime drama TV series set in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Created and initially written by author and former police reporter David Simon. Each season of ‘The Wire’ introduced a different institution in the city of Baltimore and its relationship with law enforcement – illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media, while continuing on the characters from previous season. The large cast consists of character actors who are little known for their roles as well as numerous guests and recurring appearances by real-life Baltimore and Maryland figures. The show is about the American city and how institutions have an effect on individuals. Whether one is a cop, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are compromised and must contend with whatever institution to which they are committed. The show is recognized for its realistic portrayal of urban life, its literally thematic and its uncommonly deep exploration of social and political themes.
House of Cards (2013 TV series): House of Cards is an American political drama written and produced by Beau Willimon. It is an adaptation of BBC’s mini- series of the same name and is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs. Set in present-day Washington D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a democrat from South Carolina’s 5th congressional district and House Majority Whip, who after being passed over for appointment as Secretary of State, initiates an elaborate plan to get him into a position of greater power, aided by his wife Claire Underwood (Robin Wright). The show deals with themes of ruthless pragmatism, manipulation and power.
Sons of Anarchy (2008 TV series): This American crime drama TV series was created by Kurt Sutter. The show revolved around the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California’s Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller (Charlie Hunnam), initially the vice president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself. Each season involves 2 parallel plotlines that intertwine and overlap. The first season centers on the personal life of Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller and his immediate family while the second season deals with SAMCRO (Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, RedwoodOriginal). SAMCRO is involved with gun-running throughout the western United States and deals with many rival gangs and local politicians. As Vice-president and then president of the motorcycle club, Jax struggles with the dealings of SAMCRO and the legacy of his father, the founder of the club.
Deadwood (2004 TV series): The show is created, produced and written by David Milch. The show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area’s annexation by the Dakota Territory. The series shows Deadwood’growth from camp to town, incorporating themes ranging from the formation of communities to western capitalism. The show features a large cast and many historical figures such as Seth Bullock, Al Swearengen, Wild Bill Hickok, Sol Star, Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp, George Crook, E.B.Farnum, Charlie Utter, Jack McCall and George Hearst. Milch used actual diaries and newspapers from 1870s Deadwood residents as reference points for characters, events and the feel of the show.
Mad Men (2007 TV series): Man Men is an American period drama created by Matthew Weiner. Mad Men is set primarily in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue, New York City and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. According to the plot of the show, the phrase ‘Mad Men’ was a slang term coined in the 1950s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves. The focal point of the series is Don Draper (Jon Hamm), initially the talented creative director at Sterling Cooper and later a founding partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The plot revolves on the business of the agencies and the personal lives of the characters, regularly depicting changing moods and social mores of the US across the 1960s. This TV show got wide critical acclaim for its writing, acting and historical authenticity.
Homeland (2011 TV series): Homeland is a political thriller developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa based on the Israeli series Hatufim (English title: Prisoners of War) created by Gideon Raff. The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA officer with bipolar disorder and from Season 1 to 3, Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, a US Marine Corps Scout Sniper. Mathison comes to believe that Brody, who was held captive by Al-Qaeda as prisoner of war, was ‘turned’ by the enemy and posed a threat to the United States. Carrie is assigned to one of the CIA’s most volatile and dangerous stations in the Middle East, where she is in the heart of battle in the war of terror.
Vikings (2013 TV series): An Irish-Canadian historical drama, Vikings is written and created by Michael Hirst. Vikings is inspired by the sagas of Viking Ragnar Lothbrok, one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of England and France. It portrays Ragnar as a former farmer who rises to fame by successful raids into England and eventually becomes the King of Denmark, with the support of his family and fellow warriors: his brother Rollo, his son Bjorn Ironside and wives – Shieldmaiden Lagertha and princess Aslaug. Ranar wants to head West, across the ocean to discover new civilizations. Through the years Ragnar, who claims to be a direct descendant of the god Odin, continues to struggle with Earl until two face each other in a final battle for supremacy.
House M.D (2004 TV series): House is an American TV medical drama that originally ran on FOX for eight seasons. At fictional Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jerssey, prickly genius Dr Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) tackles health mysteries as would a medical Sherlock Holmes, all while playing mind games with colleague that include his best friend, Oncologist James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). House, an acerbic infectious disease specialist, solves medical puzzles with the help of a team of young diagnosticians. House often clashes with his fellow physicians, including his own team because many of his hypotheses about patients’ illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights. Flawless instincts and unconventional thinking help earn House great respect, despite his brutal honesty and antisocial tendencies.
Supernatural (2005 TV series): Supernatural is an American fantasy horror television created by Eric Kripke. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the two brothers as they hunt demons, ghosts, monsters and other supernatural beings in the world. After losing their mother to a supernatural force, the brothers were raised by their father as soldiers who track mysterious and demonic creatures. Violent memories and relationship-threatening secrets add additional burdens on Sam and Dean as they investigate all things that go bump in the night. As old tricks and tools are rendered useless, the brothers rely on each other as they encounter new enemies.
Misfits (2009 TV series): Misfits is a British science fiction comedy drama about a group of 5 juvenile offenders working together on a community service program. Shortly thereafter, they find that they are developing superpowers after a strange electrical storm hits the town. Paranoid Kelly can hear the thoughts of others, while Simon who has always been overlooked can make himself invisible. Curtis can turn back time while Alisha finds that anyone who touches her will lust after her. Nathan suffers no after effects of the storm. The show observes the characters’ development throughout the series and how they grow from self-obsessed young offenders into responsible adults.
Entourage (2004 TV series): Entourage is an American comedy-drama created and written by Doug Ellin and chronicles the acting career of Vincent Chase, a young A-list movie star, and his childhood friends from Queens, New York, as they navigate the unfamiliar terrains of Los Angeles. The series deals with the themes of male friendship and real-life situations in modern day Hollywood. The show is still known for its array of famous guests, having features several actors, athletes and other celebrities in cameo roles, often playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
Happy Valley (2014 mini-TV series): Happy Valley is a mini TV drama series written by Sally Wainwright and directed by Euros Lyn, Sally Wainwright and Tim Fywell. The show revolves around Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) who is a strong-willed police sergeant in West Yorkshire coming to terms with her daughter’s suicide. Just as she seems to be getting back on top of her life, she spots Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), the man she believes is responsible for the brutal rape that drove her daughter to suicide, standing on a street in her town. She soon becomes obsessed with finding Royce, unaware that he is involved in the kidnapping of Ann Gallagher (Charlie Murphy). Things quickly take a dark turn as the abductors scramble to keep the kidnapping a secret, although Catherine is onto them.
Hannibal (2013 TV series): Hannibal is an American psychological thriller developed by Bryan Fuller. The series is based on characters and elements appearing in the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris and focuses on the friendship between FBI special investigator Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Dr Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) a forensic psychiatrist destined to become Graham’s most cunning enemy. Criminal profiler Will Graham is tasked by FBI agent Jack Crawford, the head of Behavioral Sciences, to help investigate the disappearances of 8 young girls across Minnesota.
Luther (2010 TV series): John Luther is a Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) working for the Serious Crime Unit in series 1 and the new Serious and Serial Crime Unit in series 2 & 3. A dedicated police officer, Luther is obsessive, possessed and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. However, Luther has paid a heavy price for his dedication; he has never been able to prevent himself from being consumed by the darkness of the crimes with which he deals. For Luther, his job always comes first. He is unable to arrest Alice Morgan, the murderer in the first episode, and for the rest of the first series she becomes his confidante, giving him an insight into the motivations of other criminals. Once the self-destructive detective knows the killer’s identity, it becomes a psychological duel between predator and prey.
The Newsroom (2014 TV series): The Newsroom is an American TV political drama created and written by Aaron Sorkin. The series chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) channel. It features an ensemble cast including Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, who together with his staff, sets out to put on a news show ‘in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements’. Other cast members include Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher, Jr Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn and Sam Waterston. The show’s episodes are written around actual recent news events, reported by a staff that takes its collective responsibilities seriously but corporate difficulties fly in the face of their public mission.
Boardwalk Empire (2010 TV series): Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama created by Terence Winter. The series is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the Prohibition era and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where rules don’t apply. And the man who runs things- legally is the town’s treasurer, Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson, who is a politician and a gangster. He does business with all the top gangsters – Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, ‘Big Jim’ Colosimo and he does it well until a former protégé takes matters into his own hands, setting the Feds on Nucky’s tail.
Peaky Blinders (2013 TV series): Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham on the cusp of 1920s just after the First World War. The story centers on the historic Peaky Blinders gang and their ambitious and highly dangerous boss Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy). The gang comes to the attention of Chief Inspector Chester Campbell (Sam Neill), a detective in the Royal Irish Constabulary sent over from Belfast. Winston Churchill played by Andy Nyman in Series 1 and Richard McCabe in Series 2 charged him with suppressing fomenting disorder and recovering a stolen cache of arms meant to be shipped to Libya. The second series is set 2 years after the first and sees the Shelby family expand their empire South and North while maintaining a stronghold in their Birmingham heartland. Beginning in 1921, it ends with a climax at Epsom race-course on ‘Derby Day’ in June 1922.
Outlander (2014 TV series): This British-American TV drama series is based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gobaldon. After serving as a British Army nurse in World War II, Claire Randall is enjoying a second honeymoon in Scotland with husband Frank, an MI6 officer looking forward to a new career as an Oxford historian. Suddenly, Claire is transported to 1743 and into a mysterious world where her freedom and life are threatened. To survive, she marries Jamie Fraser, a strapping Scots warrior with a complicated past and a disarming sense of humour. A passionate relationship ensues, and Claire is caught between the two vastly different men in two inharmonious lives.
The Walking Dead (2010 TV series): The Walking Dead is an American horror drama developed by Frank Darabont based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. Andrew Lincoln plays the show’s lead character, sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes who awakens from a month long coma to confront a new, apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating Zombies. Led by police officer Robert, his family and a group of other survivors find themselves constantly on the move in search of a safe and secure home. But the pressure each day to stay alive sends many in the group to the deepest depths of human cruelty and Rick discovers that the overwhelming fear of the survivors can be more deadly than the zombie’s walking among them.
Fringe (2008 TV series): Fringe is an American sci-fi series created by J.J.Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci. FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is assigned to the bureau’s Fringe Division, in which she investigates unusual crimes and occurrences. Assisting Olivia in her investigations are once-institutionalized scientist Dr Walter Bishop (John Noble), his jack-of-all-trades son Peter (Joshua Jackson) and FBI Junior Agent Astrid Farnsworth. As the team investigates cases of science gone awry, they discover connections to their own past and to a parallel universe. As the team solves cases in these interconnected worlds, new discoveries and complications continue to arise.
American Horror Story (2011 TV series): This horror TV series is created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Described as an anthology series, each season is conceived as a self-contained mini-series, following a set of characters and a storyline with its own beginning, middle and the end. This show was created by the co-creators of ‘Glee’. The show revolves around the Harmons, a family of 3, who move from Boston to Los Angeles in order to reconcile past. What the Harmons don’t know is that the house they have moved into is haunted by demonic creatures. The first season, subtitled ‘Murder House’ takes place in Los Angeles during 2011 and centers on a family that moves into a house which is haunted by its deceased former occupants. The second season is titled ‘Asylum’ and takes place in Massachusetts during 1964 and follows the stories of inhabitants of an institution for the criminally insane people. The third season called ‘Coven’ takes place in the New Orleans during 2013 and follows a coven of witches who face off against those who wish to destroy them. The fourth season is titled ‘Freak’, and takes place in Jupiter, Florida during 1952 and centers around one of the few remaining American freak shows.
Californication (2007 TV series): This show was created by Tom Kapinos. David Duchovny plays Hank Moody, a New Yorker and an alcoholic, womanizing novelist struggling to help raise his precious daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin), while still yearning for his sophisticated ex-lover Karen (Natascha McElhone). The show’s other characters are Moody’s best friend and agent Charlie Runkle (Evan Handler) and Charlie’s wife Marcy (Pamela Adlon). The themes of the series are sex, drugs and rock n roll’.
Suits (2011 TV series): This TV series is created and written by Aaron Korsh. Suits is set at a fictional law firm in New York City. The focal point of the show follows talented college dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J.Adams) who initially works as a law associate for Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) despite never attending a law school. The series revolves around on Harvey and Mike managing to close cases whilst maintaining Mike’s secret. The fact that Ross isn’t actually a lawyer isn’t lost on Specter who believes his new right-hand man is a legal prodigy with the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and street smarts of a hustler.
White Collar (2009 TV series): White Collar TV show is created by Jeff Eastin and stars Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke and Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a highly intelligent and multitalented con-artist working as Burke’s criminal informant. Neal Caffrey, is captured after a 3-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With only months left in serving a 4-year sentence, he escapes to look for his girlfriend Kate. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially captured Caffrey, finds him and returns him to prison. This time, Caffrey proposes a deal with the FBI, as part of a work-release program. Burke agrees after hesitation. They begin an unconventional arrangement in which Caffrey helps Burke apprehend dangerous white collar criminals.
Shameless (2011 TV series): Oscar-nominated actor William H.Macy stars as Frank Gallagher, a single father of 6 who spends much of his free time drinking at bars. The Gallagher children led by the oldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum), takes on much of the child-rearing responsibility due to her mother’s absence and manage to raise themselves in spite of Frank’s lack of parenting and unusual parenting style. The drama is an adaptation of the BAFTA Award-winning British show of the same name.
Doctor Who (2005 TV series): Doctor Who is a significant part of British popular culture and became a cult TV favorite. Doctor Who follows the adventures of a rogue Time Lord from planet Gallifrey who simply goes by the name ‘The Doctor’. He fled from Gallifrey in a stole Mark I Type 40 TARDIS time machine ‘Time and Relative Dimension in Space’ which allows him to travel across time and space. Due to a malfunction of the TARDIS’ circuit, the Doctor’s TARDIS remains fixed as a blue British police box. The Doctor rarely travels alone and often brings one or more companions to share these adventures with him, typically humans as he found a fascination with planet Earth. He often finds events that pique his curiosity while trying to prevent evil forces from harming innocent people or changing history, using minimal resources such as his versatile sonic screwdriver. As a Time Lord, the Doctor has the ability to regenerate when his body is mortally damaged, taking on new appearances and personality. The Doctor gains numerous enemies during his travels, including the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Master.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (2005 TV series): The series follows ‘The Gang’, a group of 5 depraved underachievers: twins Dennis Reynolds and Deandra ‘Sweet Dee’ Reynolds (played by Glenn Howerton and Kaitlin Olson), their friends Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day), Ronald ‘Mac’ McDonald (Rob McElhenney) and from season 2 onwards, Frak Reynolds (Danny DeVito), the man who raised Dennis and Dee. The gang runs the dilapidated Paddy’s Pub, an Irish bar in South Philadelphia.Each member of the gang shows varying degrees of dishonesty, egoism, selfishness, greed, laziness and are often engaged in controversial activities. Episodes usually find them hatching elaborate schemes, conspiring against one another, vengeance or simply for the entertainment of watching one another’s downfall.
Almost Human (2013 TV series): The series was created by J.H.Wyman for Frequence Films, Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros Television. In 2048, the uncontrollable evolution of science and technology has caused crime rates to rise an astounding 400%. To combat this, the overwhelmed police force has implemented a new policy: every human police officer is paired with a lifelike combat modelandroid. John Kennex (Karl Urban), a troubled detective, has a reason to hate these new robot partners. Almost 2 years ago, Kennex and his squad were raiding the hideout of a violent gang known as The Syndicate, but ended up being ambushed and outgunned. Kennex tries to save his injured partner but an explosion happens which takes off Kennex’s leg and kills his partner. After waking up from a 17-month coma, Kennex has to deal with a cybernetic prosthetic leg and huge gaps in his memory, which he tries to recover through visits to a black market memory-recovery doctor called Recollectionist in the city slums.
Parks and Recreation (2009 TV series): Parks and Recreation is an American TV sitcom starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. The show is created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. Leslie workin in an Indiana Parks and Recreation Department hopes to beautify her town (and boost her own career) by helping local nurse Ann Perkins turn an abandoned construction site into a community park, but what should be a fairly simple project is stymied at every turn by oafish bureaucrats, selfish neighbors, governmental red rape and a myriad of challenges. Leslie’s colleague Tom Haverford, who delights in exploiting his position for personal gain, is as likely to undermine her efforts as to help her, while her boss, Ron Swanson, is adamantly opposed to government in any form, even though he is a bureaucrat himself.
30 Rock (2006 TV series): 30 Rock is an American satirical TV sitcom created by Tina Fey. The series was based on Fey’s experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, which takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy show depicted as airing on NBC. The series’ name refers to 30 Rockfeller Plaza in New York City, the address of the GE Building in which the NBC Studios are located. Complications follow when the network’s new president orders Liz to hire mentally unstable movie star Tracy Jordan to join the cast, throwing neurotic leading lady (and Liz’s best friend) Jenna Maroney into a tizzy. Liz tries to juggle all the egos around her while trying to chase her own dream.
True Blood (2008 TV series): True Blood is an American TV drama created by Alan Ball. It is based on ‘The Southern Vampire Mysteries’ series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small town in northwestern Louisiana. The series centers on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress with an otherworldly quality. The fictional universe depicted in the series is premised on the notion that vampires exist, unbeknownst to the majority of humans until 2 years before the series premiere, when the creation of synthetic blood (True Blood) by Japanese scientists allowed vampires to come out of the coffin and reveal their existence to the world on the basis that they no longer need human blood to survive. This ‘Great Revelation’ has split the vampires of world into 2 camps: Those who wish to integrate into human society by campaigning for equal rights, and those who think that human-vampire co-existence is impossible.
The Office (2005 TV series): The Office is an adaptation of the BBC series of the same name. The Office was adapted for American audiences by Greg Daniels. The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Miffin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup without a studio audience or a laugh track. The Office features Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J.Novak, Ed Helms and James Spader as the main cast.
Hell on Wheels (2011 TV series): Hell on Wheels is an American Western TV series created and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton. The show is about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series features Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Common and Dominique McElligot and follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its surveyors, laborers,prostitutes, mercenaries and other who lived, worked and died in the mobile encampment called ‘Hell on Wheels’ that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. The story focuses on Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier (Mount) who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempts to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and son during the American Civil War.
Southland (2009 TV series): Southland takes a ‘raw and authentic look’ at Los Angeles and the lives of the LAPD officers who police it. The show’s first season centers on the experiences and interactions of the LAPD patrol officers and detectives and is more a character-driven drama than a police procedural. Among the characters are rookie officer Ben Sherman and his training officer, John Cooper who, unknown to most of his colleagues, is homosexual; Detective Lydia Adams, who must balance work with the responsibility of living with her mother; Officer Chickie Brown, who aspires to be the first woman on the LAPD’s elite SWAT team and Detective Sammy Bryant, whose personal life interferes with his working life.
Pretty Little Liars (2010 TV series): is an American teen drama based on the popular book series of the same title, written by Sara Shepard. Set in the fictional town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, the series follows the lives of 4 girls: Aria Montogomery, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields and Spencer Hastings, whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader Alison DiLaurentis. One year later, the estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure name ‘A’ who threatens to expose their deepest secrets, including ones they thought only Alison knew. At first they think its Alison, but after finding out she is dead, the girls realize that someone else is planning on ruining their perfect lives. The story takes twists and turns and deals with these girls’s return to Rosewood.
Silicon Valley (2014 TV series): Silicon Valley is an American TV comedy series created by Mike Judge, John Altshculer and Dave Krinsky. Partially inspired by co-creator Mike Judge’s experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the 1980s, this comedy series follows the misadventures of introverted computer programmer Richard and his brainy friends as they attempt to strike it rich in a high-tech gold rush. They live together in a Bay Area startup incubator loosely run by self-satisfied millionaire Erlich, who lets them stay in his house rent-free in exchange for a stake in the projects they invent there. But when Richard develops a powerful search algorithm at his day job, he finds himself caught in the middle of a bidding war between his boss- whose firm offers Richard an eight-figure buyout and a deep-pocketed venture capitalist.
Gotham (2014 TV series): Gotham is an American crime-drama TV series developed by Bruno Heller, based on the characters appearing in and published by DC Comics in their Batman franchise, primarily those of James Gordon and Bruce Wayne. The series stars Ben McKenzie as the young Gordon. A new recruit in the Gotham City Police Department, James Gordon is paired with veteran detective Harvey Bullock to solve one of the Gotham’s highest-profile cases: the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne. During his investigation, Gordon meets the Waynes’ son Bruce who is now in the care of his butler Alfred Pennyworth. Meeting the younger Wayne further compels Gordon to catch the mysterious killer. Along the way, Gordon becomes involved with Gotham’s mafia families and associates including gangster Fish Mooney, Don Carmine Falcone and Don Salvatore Maroni. Eventually, Gordon is forced to form an unlikely friendship with Bruce, on that will help shape the boy’s future in becoming the Batman.
Forever (2014 TV series): Dr.Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) is a New York City medical examiner who studies the dead for criminal cases and to solve the mystery of his own immortality. Since his first death 200 years ago while working as a doctor in the African slave trade, Morgan disappears almost immediately each time he dies and returns to life naked in a nearby body of water. Having also stopped aging, Morgan’s long life has given him broad knowledge and remarkable observation skills which impress most people he encounters, including New York Department Detective Jo Martinez (Alana de la Garza). Only antiquarian Abe (Judd Hirsch), whom Morgan and now-deceased wife Abigail found as a newborn in a German concentration camp during World War II, knows that he is immortal. Morgan is stalked by ‘Adam’, who also claims to be immortal, having been alive for around 2000 years.
Weeds (2005 TV series): Nancy Botwin is a single mother who lives in Agrestic, a fictional suburb of Los Angeles with her 2 children: Silas and Shane. The pilot opens a few weeks after the untimely death of Nancy’s husband Judah, who died of a heart attack while jogging with their younger son. Nancy starts to sell marijuana to maintain her upper middle-class lifestyle originally provided by her late husband’s structural engineering salary. The series follows the events in Nancy’s life as she gets drawn into the criminal system, develops a client base, starts a front to hide her selling, creates her own strain of weed called MIL, constantly relocates her family and tries to stay out of jail and protect her children. Featured in the ensemble cast are her lax brother-in-law Andy Botwin, foolish acquaintance Doug Wilson and her narcissistic neighbor Celia Hodes, a manic PTA mother who left after the 5th season.
The Good Wife (2009 TV series): This American TV legal and political drama was created by Robert King and Michelle King. It stars Julianna Margulies, Josh Charles, Christine Baranski, Archie Panjabi, Matt Czuchry and Alan Cumming and features Chris Noth in a recurring role. The series focuses on Alicia Florrick (Jullianna Margulies), whose husband Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), the former Cook County, Illinoise, State’s Attorney, has been jailed following a notorious political corruption and sex scandal. After having spent the previous 13 years as stay-at-home-mother, Alicia returns to her old job as a litigator to provide for her 2 children. The series was partly inspired by the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, as well as by other prominent American political sex scandals such as John Edwards and Bill Clinton.
Sense8 (2015 TV series): Sense8 (a play on the word sensate, meaning aware) is an American sci-fi drama created and written by Andy and Lana Wachowski and J.Michael Staczynski. The show tells the story of 8 strangers: Will (Smith), Riley (Middleton), Capheus (Ameen) and Sun (Bae), Lito (Silverstre), Kala (Desai), Wolfgang (Riemelt) and Naomi (Clayton), each individual from a different part of the world. While living their everyday lives they suddenly have a vision of the violent death of a woman called Angelica (Hannah) and find themselves reborn as Sensates. While trying to live their lives and figure out how and why this connection happened and what it means, they are aided by another sensate, the mysterious Jonas (Andrews), who is trying to protect them from another stranger called Whispers (Mann), who is similarly empowered and is hunting them town to tap into their psychic link and capture them.
Zoo (2015 TV series): Zoo is an American TV drama based on the novel of the same name by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Violent animal attacks upon humans are occurring all over the world. Jackson Oz, an American zoologist who safaris in Africa, begins to notice the animals’ strange behavior and takes it upon himself to solve the reason why before these attacks become more ferocious.
Scandal (2012 TV series): ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ creator Shonda Rhimes is the creative mind behind this ABC drama. Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) is a former White House Communications Director for the President of the United States who has left to start her own crisis management firm, Olivia Pope & Associates. Olivia has decided her life to protect the public images of the nation’s elite but finds out that how hard she tries, she cannot leave parts of her past behind. Olivia Pope & Associates staff includes Harrison Wright (Columbus Short), an efficient litigator, Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield), the firm’s investigator Huck (Guillermo Diaz), a hacker with a CIA past and recent recruit Quinn Perkins (Katie Lowes), a fresh faced lawyer with a secret. Another former employee of Pope and Associates was Pope’s good friend Stephen Finch (Henry Ian Cusick), a suave detective who was never really tied down to anything.
Graceland (2013 TV series): Graceland is an American drama created by Jeff Eastin. A group of undercover agents from various law enforcement agencies in the United Staates, including the DEA, the FBI and the ICE, live together in a confiscated Southern California beach house known as ‘Graceland’. Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren is assigned to the house fresh out of Quantico training. Thrown into the fire with his undercover assignment, Warren relies heavily on mentor Paul Briggs, a senior agent who conceals the compound’s activities from the world.
That 70s Show (1998 TV series): That 70s show centered on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisonsin during the late 1970s. The show followed the life of geeky Eric Forman, and his 5 teenage friends: Donna Pinciotti, his feminist girlfriend and next-door neighbor, Steven Hyde, a disillusioned hard-rocking stoner; Michael Kelso, a dim-witted narcissistic ladies man; Jackie Burkhart, a self-involved high school cheerleader overly preoccupied with wealth and status; and Fez, the nicknamed goofy foreigner whose country of origin is ambiguous, whose real name is unknown to all but him, and whose hormones are out of control. Other main characters include Red Forman; Eric’s overbearing war veteran father, obsessed with making him a man; his overprotective mother, Kitty who is caught up in trying to be a full-time mom and housewife while maintaining a job as a nurse in a local hospital. The show also follows the relationship of Bob Pinciotti and Midge Pinciotti, Donna’s parents, both of whom are slow witted and easily influenced by the movements of the 70s. Tommy Chong also appears as the recurring character of Leo, the stoner owner of the Foto Hut.
Strike Back (2010 TV series): Strike Back is a British/American action and military TV series, based on a novel of the same name by novelist and former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier Chris Ryan. The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Defence Intellience Service (DI), who operates several high risks, priority missions throughout the globe. Damien Scott, a former U.S. Special Forces operative, joins forces with a stealth British military unit, to stop a resourceful international terrorist group that has planned an attack. Scott, who is familiar with the terrorists, has good instincts and skills but his cockiness puts him at odds with the more-formal British team, particularly by the book Sgt.Michael Stonebridge. The team leader, Col.Eleanor Grant, is a smart military leader who is skilled in diplomacy but knows when to break a rule or two.
Mistresses (2013 TV series): This American mystery drama is based on the series of the same name and about the lives of 4 female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships. This adaptation was developed by K.J.Steinberg, and stars Alyssa Milano, Rochelle Aytes, Yunjin Kim, Jes Macallan and Jennifer Esposito in their lead roles. As the women navigate romantic relationships complete with excitement, betrayal and secrecy and explore their own boundaries. The group of friends includes Josslyn Carver, a willful free spirit, Karen Kim, a therapist who has had issues with boundaries and April Malloy, who is raising a spirited daughter named Lucy.
New Girl (2011 TV series): Jessica ‘Jess’ Christopher Day (Zooey Deschanel) is a bubbly young woman who teacher at a Los Angeles middle school. Jess comes home to find her boyfriend with another woman and break-ups immediately and looks for a place to move-in. She answers an ad for a new roommate and moves in with 3 young men: Nick, Schmidt and Coach. Intelligent and witty Nick is an underachiever who took the bartender off-ramp on his road to success. Schmidt obsesses over his social standing and looks at Jess as a personal project. Winston is a competitive former athlete who, after realizing he will never become a pro, moves into the loft. Together with Jess’ best friend, Cece, they bond to form an unlikely and dysfunctional family.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series): CBS’ new version of the classic ‘Hawaii Five-0’ series with Alex O’Loughlin in the lead role as Det. Steve McGarrett and Scott Caan portraying Danno. The detectives are part of an elite task force whose mission is to eliminate crime on the beaches of the Aloha State. Assisting McGarrett and Danno is former Honululu Police detective Chin Ho Kelly, who has been relegated to a federal security patrol after being wrongfully accused of corruption. Chin’s fresh-out-of-the academy cousin, Kono, also joins the team as she tries to establish herself among the department’s elite.
Scrubs (2001 TV series): The series follows the lives of employees at the fictional Sacred Heart teaching hospital. The title is a play on surgical scrubs and a term for low-ranking person because at the beginning of the series, most of the main characters were medical interns. The series is fast-paced, with slapstick and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the central character Dr.John ‘J.D’ Dorian who is played by Zach Braff. Actors starring alongside Braff include Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, Neil Flynn, Ken Jenkins, John C.McGinley and Judy Reyes. The series featured multiple guest appearances by film actors such as Brendan Fraser, Heather Graham and Colin Farrell.
Grimm (2011 TV series): Homicide investigator Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Department learns he is descended from a line of guardians known as Grimms, charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world called Wesen, the German word for being or creature. Throughout the series, he must battle against an assortment of dangerous creatures with help from his reformed Wesen friend Monroe and his partner Detective Hank Griffin. As Burkhardt tries to cope with the newfound dangers of his life without alarming his fiancée and his partner, he becomes more knowledgeable about the ancient rivalry with help from a peaceable clockmaker.
Agent Carter (2015 TV series): Agent Carter is an American TV series inspired by the films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the Marvel One-Shot short film of the same name. The first season takes place in 1946, with Peggy Carter having to balance the routine office work she does for the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) in New York City with secretly assisting Howard Stark who finds himself framed for supplying deadly weapons to the top bidder. Carter is assisted by Stark’s butler, Edwin Jarvis, to find those responsible and dispose of the weapons. In the second season, Carter moves from New York to Los Angeles to deal with the threats of the new atomic age in the aftermath of World War II, gaining new friends, a new home and a potential new love interest.
Arrested Development (2003 TV series): The show follows the fictitious Bluth family, a formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional family. It is presented in a continuous format, incorporating handheld camera work and voice-over narration, as well as occasional archival photos and historical footage. Michael Bluth finds himself forced to stay in Orange County and run the family real estate business after his father, George Bluth Sr, is sent to prison for committing white-collar crime, He tries to juggle the wants and needs of his spoiled and eccentric family while being a good role model for his teenage son, George Michael.
Parenthood (2010 TV series): The series is set in Berkeley, California on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay area, but is filmed primarily in Los Angeles. The show revolves around the Braverman family covering three generations. It features patriarch Zeek Braverman and matriarch Camille Braverman, and the families of their 4 children – Adam, Sarah, Crosby and Julia. Adam is married to Kristina and has 3 children – Haddie, Max and Nora. Sarah is divorced and has 2 children – Amber and Drew. Crosby marries Jasmine and has 2 children – Jabbar and Aida. Julia is married to Joel and has 2 children – Sydney and their adopted son Victor. As their parents deal with life and marital issues, the 4 lean on one another while tackling the challenges of modern family life in an updated reimagining of the 1989 film by the same name.
Nashville (2012 TV series): Nashville chronicles the lives of various fictitious country music singers in Nashville, Tennessee starring Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, a legendary country music superstar, whose stardom begins fading and Hayden Panettiere as rising younger star Juliette Barnes. After 2 decades as the reigning queen of country music, Rayna is faced with pressure to adapt and reinvent herself to stay relevant. Juliette is a sassy, sexy singer with a troubled past who is determined to steal Rayna’s place at the top.
Chuck (2007 TV series): Chuck is an American action comedy/spy-drama TV series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an ‘Average computer-whiz-next-door’ named Chuck played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The message embeds the only remaining copy of a software program containing the United States’ greatest spy secrets into Chuck’s brain. With assassins and international terrorists eager to nab Chuck’s noggin, it falls to Maj.John Casey and his partner, CIA agent Sarah Walker, to protect the government’s newest and most-unlikely secret agent.
That’s So Raven (2003 TV series): The show was set in San Francisco and revolved around a teenager Raven Baxter, played by Raven Symone, her friends Eddie (Orlando Brown) and Chelsea (Anneliese van der Pol), her family members; mother Tanya Baxter (T’Keyah Crystal Keymah), father Victor Baxter (Rondell Sheridan) and brother Cory (Kyle Massey). The title character drew on her psychic powers, ingenuity and talent as fashion designer as well as a variety of disguises to get into and out of amusing adolescent and pre-adolescent situations.
Rectify (2013 TV series): Daniel Holden was imprisoned as a teenager for the rape and murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Hanna. After spending 19 years on death row, new DNA evidence vacates his original trial, and he returns to his hometown: Paulie, Georgia. The subsequent adjustments and events in the lives of Daniel, his extended family and the townfolk are related as a character study in a slowly unfolding Southern gothic story.
The Leftovers (2014 TV series): The Leftovers is an American TV drama created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta. It is based on Perrotta’s novel of the same name. The show takes place 3 years after a global event in which many people disappeared known as the ‘Sudden Departure’ which caused the unexplainable disappearance of 140 million people, 2% of the world’s population. The story focuses primarily on the Garvey family and their acquaintances in the fictional town of Mapleton, New York. Kevin Garvey is the Chief of Police. His wife, Laurie, has joined a cult called the Guilty Remnant. Their son, Tommy, has left home for college while their daughter, Jill, is acting out.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990 TV series): Will Smith is a street-smart teenager, born and raised in West Philadelphia. While playing basketball, Smith misses a shot and the ball hits a group of people, which causes a confrontation that frightens the mother, who sends Will to live with his aunt and uncle in the town of ‘Bel-Air’, Los Angeles.
Awkward (2011 TV series): This show is created by Lauren Lungerich for MTV. The show’s central character is Jenna Hamilton (Ashley Rickards), a Palos Verdes, California teenager who struggles with her identity, especially after an accident is misconstrued as a suicide attempt. By making changes and embracing her misfortune, she becomes well-known to her peers because of the accident and begins a blog that eventually helps her grow. She deals with different high school issues such as boy troubles, peer pressure and trying to fit in throughout her years.
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As advancements in technology continue to accelerate, businesses are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to improve their operations and gain a competitive edge. From optimizing supply chains to automating customer service, AI and robotics have the potential to transform the way businesses operate. However, as with any new technology, there are both benefits and challenges to consider. In this comprehensive Q&A, we will explore the various ways in which AI and robotics can benefit businesses, as well as some of the potential pitfalls to watch out for. Whether you are a business owner, manager, or simply curious about the impact of AI and robotics on the business world, this article will provide valuable insights and information.
Here is a comprehensive Q&A about AI and robotics benefits for business:
Q: What are the benefits of AI and robotics for businesses?
A: AI and robotics can bring numerous benefits to businesses, including:
Increased efficiency: AI and robotics can automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, freeing up human employees to focus on more strategic and creative work.
Improved accuracy: AI and robotics can perform tasks with greater accuracy and consistency than humans, reducing the likelihood of errors.
Cost savings: Automating tasks with AI and robotics can help reduce labor costs and increase productivity, leading to cost savings for businesses.
Enhanced customer service: AI and robotics can help businesses provide better and more personalized customer service through chatbots, voice assistants, and other automated tools.
Competitive advantage: Adopting AI and robotics can help businesses stay ahead of the curve and gain a competitive advantage in their industry.
Q: What are some examples of AI and robotics in business?
A: There are many examples of AI and robotics being used in business, including:
Chatbots: Many businesses use chatbots to provide 24/7 customer service and support, answering customer questions and resolving issues in real-time.
Voice assistants: Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa are increasingly being used in businesses to perform tasks such as scheduling appointments, setting reminders, and ordering supplies.
Autonomous vehicles: Self-driving cars and trucks are being developed for use in the transportation and logistics industry, potentially reducing delivery times and increasing efficiency.
Robotic process automation: Robotic process automation (RPA) uses software robots to automate routine business processes, such as data entry, invoice processing, and customer service inquiries.
Predictive analytics: AI and machine learning algorithms can be used to analyze data and make predictions about future trends, helping businesses make better-informed decisions.
Q: Are there any downsides to using AI and robotics in business?
A: While there are many benefits to using AI and robotics in business, there are also potential downsides to consider. These include:
Cost: Adopting AI and robotics can be expensive, requiring significant investments in technology, infrastructure, and training.
Job displacement: Automating tasks with AI and robotics can lead to job displacement, particularly for workers in low-skilled or repetitive roles.
Security risks: AI and robotics can create new security risks, particularly in areas such as cybersecurity and data privacy.
Lack of flexibility: Some AI and robotics systems may lack the flexibility and adaptability of human workers, limiting their ability to respond to unexpected situations.
Dependence on technology: Relying too heavily on AI and robotics can create a dependence on technology that may be difficult to overcome in the event of a system failure or outage.
Q: What should businesses consider before adopting AI and robotics?
A: Businesses should carefully consider several factors before adopting AI and robotics, including:
Business goals: What are the specific goals the business hopes to achieve through the adoption of AI and robotics? How will these technologies support the business's overall strategy?
Costs and ROI: What are the costs of adopting AI and robotics, and how long will it take to achieve a return on investment? Will the benefits outweigh the costs in the long run?
Workforce impact: What impact will the adoption of AI and robotics have on the workforce? Will it lead to job displacement or require the development of new skills?
Regulatory compliance: What regulatory and legal requirements must be considered when adopting AI and robotics, particularly in areas such as data privacy and cybersecurity?
Technology readiness: Is the business's technology infrastructure ready to support the adoption of AI and robotics? What additional investments in technology or training may be necessary?
Q: How can businesses integrate AI and robotics into their operations?
A: There are several ways that businesses can integrate AI and robotics into their operations, including:
Start small: Begin with simple automation tasks and gradually scale up as the business becomes more comfortable with the technology.
Collaborate with experts: Work with AI and robotics experts to identify opportunities for automation and to develop custom solutions that fit the business's specific needs.
Develop a strategy: Develop a comprehensive strategy for integrating AI and robotics into the business's operations, including timelines, budgets, and goals.
Invest in training: Invest in training programs to help employees develop the skills needed to work alongside AI and robotics systems, and to ensure that they can leverage these technologies effectively.
Prioritize data management: Develop robust data management systems to ensure that the data generated by AI and robotics systems is accurate, secure, and compliant with regulations.
Q: Can AI and robotics help businesses improve customer experience?
A: Yes, AI and robotics can help businesses improve customer experience in several ways, including:
Personalization: AI algorithms can analyze customer data to personalize interactions and recommend products and services based on customers' individual preferences and behavior.
24/7 support: Chatbots and voice assistants can provide 24/7 customer support, answering customer questions and resolving issues in real-time.
Speed and efficiency: AI and robotics can automate routine tasks such as processing orders and responding to inquiries, reducing response times and improving efficiency.
Predictive analytics: AI and machine learning algorithms can be used to analyze customer data and make predictions about future behavior, allowing businesses to proactively address customer needs and concerns.
Feedback analysis: AI can analyze customer feedback, such as reviews and social media posts, to identify areas for improvement and make data-driven decisions to improve customer experience.
Q: How can AI and robotics improve supply chain management?
A: AI and robotics can improve supply chain management in several ways, including:
Inventory management: AI algorithms can analyze demand patterns and inventory levels to optimize inventory management and reduce waste.
Logistics optimization: Self-driving vehicles and drones can improve logistics efficiency by reducing delivery times and lowering costs.
Quality control: AI and robotics can perform automated quality control checks to ensure that products meet specifications and quality standards.
Predictive maintenance: AI can analyze data from sensors and other sources to predict when equipment and machinery are likely to fail, enabling businesses to perform maintenance and repairs proactively.
Supply chain visibility: AI can provide real-time visibility into the supply chain, enabling businesses to monitor shipments, identify potential delays, and take corrective action as needed.
Q: What industries are using AI and robotics most extensively?
A: AI and robotics are being used extensively in several industries, including:
Manufacturing: Robotics and automation are being used extensively in manufacturing to automate production processes and increase efficiency.
Healthcare: AI is being used in healthcare to improve patient outcomes, personalize treatment plans, and enhance diagnostic accuracy.
Retail: AI and robotics are being used in retail to personalize customer experiences, improve inventory management, and optimize supply chain operations.
Finance: AI is being used in finance to improve fraud detection, automate financial analysis, and personalize customer experiences.
Transportation and logistics: AI and robotics are being used in transportation and logistics to optimize routes, improve delivery times, and reduce costs.
Q: What are some examples of AI and robotics applications in businesses?
A: There are numerous examples of AI and robotics applications in businesses, including:
Chatbots: Chatbots are being used in customer service to provide 24/7 support and handle routine inquiries, freeing up human agents to handle more complex issues.
Autonomous vehicles: Autonomous vehicles, such as self-driving trucks and delivery drones, are being used in logistics to optimize routes, reduce delivery times, and lower costs.
Predictive analytics: Predictive analytics is being used in finance to identify potential fraud and to make data-driven investment decisions.
Quality control: Robotics are being used in manufacturing to perform automated quality control checks, ensuring that products meet specifications and quality standards.
Personalization: AI algorithms are being used in retail and e-commerce to personalize customer experiences and recommend products based on individual preferences and behavior.
Cybersecurity: AI is being used in cybersecurity to identify potential threats and to detect and respond to cyber attacks.
Q: What are the potential risks of using AI and robotics in business?
A: There are several potential risks of using AI and robotics in business, including:
Job displacement: The automation of certain tasks could lead to job displacement, particularly for low-skill workers.
Bias and discrimination: AI algorithms can perpetuate bias and discrimination if they are trained on biased data or if their decision-making processes are not transparent.
Cybersecurity risks: The integration of AI and robotics into business operations could increase the risk of cyber attacks and data breaches.
Regulatory compliance: Businesses must ensure that their use of AI and robotics complies with applicable laws and regulations, such as data protection laws.
Ethical considerations: The use of AI and robotics raises ethical considerations around issues such as privacy, transparency, and accountability.
Q: What skills are needed for businesses to implement AI and robotics effectively?
A: Businesses need a range of skills to implement AI and robotics effectively, including:
Data analysis: Businesses need to have a strong understanding of data analysis and the ability to interpret and use data effectively.
Technical expertise: Businesses need technical expertise in AI and robotics, including programming skills and experience working with machine learning algorithms.
Project management: Businesses need strong project management skills to ensure that their AI and robotics projects are completed on time and within budget.
Collaboration: Businesses need to be able to collaborate effectively with AI and robotics experts and vendors to develop and implement custom solutions.
Change management: Businesses need to have a strong change management plan in place to ensure that employees are trained and prepared to work alongside AI and robotics systems.
Q: How can businesses measure the ROI of their AI and robotics investments?
A: Businesses can measure the ROI of their AI and robotics investments by tracking metrics such as:
Cost savings: Businesses can measure the cost savings achieved through automation and AI-driven efficiencies.
Increased productivity: Businesses can measure the increase in productivity achieved through automation and AI-driven efficiencies.
Improved customer satisfaction: Businesses can measure improvements in customer satisfaction achieved through personalized experiences and faster response times.
Revenue growth: Businesses can measure the revenue growth achieved through improved customer satisfaction and increased efficiency.
Competitive advantage: Businesses can measure the competitive advantage achieved through AI and robotics by comparing their performance to that of competitors who have not implemented these technologies.
Q: How can AI and robotics improve operational efficiency in businesses?
A: AI and robotics can improve operational efficiency in businesses by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, enabling faster decision-making, reducing errors, and improving the accuracy of predictions. For example, robotics can be used in manufacturing to automate assembly and quality control, while AI can be used in logistics to optimize routes and reduce delivery times. By automating these processes, businesses can reduce costs, improve productivity, and free up employees to focus on more complex and strategic tasks.
Q: What are the benefits of using AI and robotics in customer service?
A: Using AI and robotics in customer service can provide numerous benefits, including:
24/7 availability: Chatbots and other AI-driven customer service tools can provide 24/7 support, enabling businesses to respond to customer inquiries quickly and efficiently.
Cost savings: By automating routine inquiries, businesses can reduce the cost of customer service and free up human agents to focus on more complex issues.
Personalization: AI can be used to personalize customer experiences, providing recommendations and solutions tailored to individual preferences and behavior.
Consistency: AI-driven customer service tools can provide consistent responses and information to customers, ensuring that all customers receive the same level of service and support.
Q: How can AI and robotics improve supply chain management?
A: AI and robotics can improve supply chain management by optimizing logistics operations, predicting demand and supply chain disruptions, and improving inventory management. For example, AI algorithms can be used to optimize transportation routes and delivery schedules, while robotics can be used to automate warehouse operations and perform quality control checks. By improving supply chain efficiency, businesses can reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction, and gain a competitive advantage.
Q: What are some examples of AI and robotics applications in healthcare?
A: There are numerous examples of AI and robotics applications in healthcare, including:
Medical imaging analysis: AI algorithms can analyze medical images, such as X-rays and MRIs, to detect abnormalities and diagnose diseases.
Surgical robotics: Robotic surgical systems can perform minimally invasive surgeries with greater precision and accuracy than human surgeons.
Personalized medicine: AI algorithms can analyze patient data to identify personalized treatment plans and drug combinations based on genetic and environmental factors.
Drug discovery: AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data to identify potential drug targets and drug candidates, speeding up the drug discovery process.
Telemedicine: AI and robotics can be used to provide remote medical consultations and care, enabling patients to access medical expertise and treatment from anywhere.
Q: What are the benefits of using AI and robotics in finance?
A: Using AI and robotics in finance can provide numerous benefits, including:
Fraud detection: AI algorithms can analyze financial data to identify potential fraud and other financial crimes.
Investment decision-making: AI algorithms can analyze market data and predict future trends, enabling data-driven investment decisions.
Risk management: AI algorithms can analyze and manage risk by predicting potential financial losses and identifying opportunities for risk mitigation.
Cost savings: By automating routine financial tasks, businesses can reduce the cost of finance operations and free up employees to focus on more strategic tasks.
Compliance: AI algorithms can ensure that financial operations comply with applicable laws and regulations, reducing the risk of legal and financial penalties.
In conclusion, AI and robotics can bring numerous benefits to businesses, including increased efficiency, improved accuracy, cost savings, enhanced customer service, and competitive advantage. However, businesses should carefully consider the costs, workforce impact, regulatory compliance, and technology readiness before adopting these technologies.
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Distributed hydrological models rely on hydrography data such as flow direction, river length, slope and width. For large-scale applications, many of these models still rely on a few flow direction datasets, which are often manually derived. We propose the Iterative Hydrography Upscaling (IHU) method to upscale high-resolution flow direction data to the typically coarser resolutions of distributed hydrological models. The IHU aims to preserve the upstream-downstream relationship of river structure, including basin boundaries, river meanders and confluences, in the D8 format, which is commonly used to describe river networks in models. Additionally, it derives representative sub-grid river length and slope parameters, which are required for resolution-independent model results. We derived the multi-resolution MERIT Hydro IHU dataset at resolutions of 30 arcsec (∼1 km), 5 arcmin (∼10 km) and 15 arcmin (∼30 km) by applying IHU to the recently published 3 arcsec MERIT Hydro data. Results indicate improved accuracy of IHU at all resolutions studied compared to other often-applied upscaling methods. Furthermore, we show that MERIT Hydro IHU minimizes the errors made in the timing and magnitude of simulated peak discharge throughout the Rhine basin compared to simulations at the native data resolutions. As the method is open source and fully automated, it can be applied to other high-resolution hydrography datasets to increase the accuracy and enhance the uptake of new datasets in distributed hydrological models in the future.
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Q. If an individual pays for an exchange plan, how do they pay for the premium pre-tax, the way they would if they had an employer-sponsored plan? This can be a substantial cost impact for the middle-class taxpayer who doesn’t qualify for the tax credit/subsidy. If you itemize, you do not get the full benefit that other taxpayers get. Am I missing something?
A. If you’re self-employed, you can generally deduct the full amount you pay in premiums without having to itemize your deduction. (Here’s more the self-employed health insurance deduction.)
But if you’re not self-employed, the only way to deduct your health insurance premiums is to itemize your deductions (very few people itemize, especially since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act significantly increased the standard deduction). You can only deduct your total medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of your AGI, although health insurance premiums count towards your total medical expenses. So as an example, if your AGI is $60,000 and your total medical expenses are $8,000 for the year (including health insurance premiums), you’d be allowed to deduct $3,500 in medical expenses as part of your itemized deductions on schedule A. (7.5% of $60,000 is $4,500, so you’re allowed to deduct the portion of your total medical expenses that exceeds $4,500).
Note that the medical expense deduction threshold used to be 7.5% of income; the ACA changed it to 10%, but it soon reverted to 7.5% and has remained at that level.
(The GOP tax bill that was enacted in December 2017 put the medical expenses deduction back to 7.5%, but only for 2017 and 2018. Then Section 103 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, enacted in December 2019, kept that lower threshold in place for tax years 2019 and 2020. And finally, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Title I, Section 101) permanently reset the threshold at 7.5%, making it this deduction more accessible for more people going forward. But as noted above, the 2017 GOP tax bill also greatly increased the standard deduction, and most tax filers choose that instead of itemizing their deductions.)
The deductibility of health insurance premiums is an issue that has come up in health reform discussions many times over the years, and it’s undeniable that employees who must purchase their own health insurance are at a disadvantage tax-wise. Future legislation could change this, but for now, individual health insurance premiums are generally not deductible without itemizing unless you’re self-employed.
But if you qualify for a premium tax credit (the vast majority of exchange enrollees do, especially while the American Rescue Plan’s subsidy enhancements are in effect), it will offset some or even all of the monthly premium you have to pay, putting you on much more equal footing with people who get employer-sponsored health coverage.
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Ramsey Poston, NASCAR's director of corporate communications, says that nobody in his office is drawing a direct line between attendance and TV numbers. "TV ratings fluctuate," he says. "What we have found is that fans are waiting longer before they make the commitment to buy tickets." Poston theorizes that ratings are up because the series has stopped tweaking its cars, its points systems and its championship format. "It's time to let those changes mature," he says. "Fans have been able to focus on the racing."
Maybe, but the simplest explanation for an attendance drop might just be the high cost of a tank of gas. NASCAR says that RV parking spots continue to sell out early, but if ticket sales have slowed, it's a pretty clear sign that people are spending their money on other things—or just trying to save it. And watching the races on television doesn't cost a thing.
5 What about the lawsuit?
The $225 million suit brought by former Nationwide Series official Mauricia Grant on June 10 charging NASCAR with racial and sexual discrimination and harassment, is a shot to the gut of a sport that has tried hard to change its Old South image by diversifying its workforce. So it was a surprise that NASCAR's reaction came off so clumsily. On June 14, CEO Brian France spoke to the media for a half hour. He stressed that NASCAR works to prevent the sort of behavior Grant alleges, going so far as to require all employees to take part in yearly sensitivity training. He made appropriate points, but lessened their impact when he seemed to lash out at Grant, noting that she made the suit "about money," disputing her contention that she reported the alleged problems and saying, "Anybody can say anything that you want and hire a p.r. firm."
NASCAR would be better served by simply reiterating that it takes Grant's charges very seriously and is conducting a thorough investigation—and not get bogged down lobbing counter-charges. NASCAR will get a fair hearing in the courtroom.
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Traveling can be stressful enough between packing, expenses, and getting to the airport on time, so why not prevent any added stress about what you’ll eat? When on the road or on an airplane, it is important to provide your body with the correct fuel. You never know what healthy options, if any, will be available at the gas station or airport, so it’s smart to plan ahead.
Instead of grabbing something quick or the first thing you see at a fast food joint, try bringing your own healthy snacks. Not only will this save you money, but it will also save tons of calories and provide the energy you need to get to your destination. While it is important to bring snacks for the journey, make sure to bring some extra for the actual trip.
If you stock your hotel room with good-for-you options, it will allow you to eat healthy food while you’re away from home and always be prepared when hunger strikes.
5 Healthy Foods You Should Pack When You Travel:
These are the absolute perfect snack any time and any place, especially while traveling. Nuts are loaded with healthy fats, protein, and fiber, and can help prevent heart disease and lower cholesterol. It is quite easy to overeat while out of town, so noshing on nuts can keep you full and prevent unhealthy binges.
This healthy food is also extremely portable and doesn’t require refrigeration, so add this to your travel food list of must-have snacks. Toss a resealable bag of unsalted nuts into your purse or bag for a quick, easy, and sustainable snack while traveling.
2. Protein/Snack Bars
Just to clarify, this does not mean a sugary, calorie-laden bar. There are many protein bars that claim to be healthy and good for you, but if you actually read the labels and ingredients, they are anything but healthy. People commonly think they are doing something good for their body when they eat those types of sugary protein bars, but they are really just eating a candy bar.
Tons of bars are loaded with unhealthy fats and sugar, so it is important to eat a low-sugar, high-protein bar. It should have at least 15 grams of protein and be low in sugar. These are satisfying and will keep you feeling full, which is perfect when traveling.
They are also portable and can be enjoyed anywhere. Another option is more natural bars such as Luna Bars, Larabars, and Cliff Bars. These use natural ingredients such as nuts and fruit, and can provide a wonderful boost of energy, healthy fat, and protein, as well. You definitely don’t want to forget these favorite travel foods for your next trip!
3. Fruits and Vegetables
While traveling, it is vital to eat nutritious, wholesome foods in order to keep up your energy and maintain your waistline. Fruits and vegetables are a great snack for any time of day and can easily be thrown into your bag. Apples, oranges, pears, bananas, carrots, celery—among many others—travel well and can provide you with enough fiber to keep you full and avoid those stops at fast food joints.
Bringing these types of snacks with you is your best bet, but even if you forget, most gas stations, airports, and restaurants offer fruits and vegetables. Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables while traveling will provide you with key nutrients that your body needs daily in order to keep you feeling in tip-top shape.
4. Whole Grain Crackers
Carbohydrates are a wonderful snack—however, only if they are whole grain or whole wheat. Eating white, refined carbohydrates can cause your body to store fat, as well as have a major energy crash, which is the last thing you need while traveling.
Enjoying crackers made with 100% whole grains is a smart, healthy snack and can provide fiber to keep you full. Munching on these is the perfect snack for traveling, because these can be tossed into a bag and eaten no matter where you are.
Many crackers also contain grains that are packed with protein, which also provide energy and maintain fullness—so definitely bring this healthy food when you travel.
5. Dry Cereal
Eating whole grain cereal is the perfect healthy snack to bring with you while you are on the go. It can also be tossed into a resealable bag and enjoyed no matter where you are. This will not spoil or go bad, and the fiber can help sustain your hunger.
Whole grains do not cause a spike in blood sugar, like refined carbohydrates do, and won’t make you crave sugary foods. Many cereals contain omega-3 fatty acids and can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as help prevent cancer.
Fueling with healthy foods while traveling is the key to ensuring you get the necessary nutrients and maintain the energy you need while on the go. These snacks are the perfect foods to bring with you and can be eaten anywhere. Bringing these foods can make staying healthy while away from home extremely easy and accessible. Next time you book a trip, start grocery shopping, too!
This article was written by Shelby Morrison, a Toronto-based food blogger and freelance writer. She has a passion for living the most delicious life while enjoying every step of the way! She eats her way throughout Toronto, yet loves to travel to different cities for some unique and tasty finds. Visit her web site at www.sweetsnmeats.tumblr.com.
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When it comes to the best fine-dining restaurants in South Korea, Mingles restaurant undoubtedly comes at the top of the list. The 1-Michelin star ultra-modern Korean restaurants in Gangnam is renowned for its modern and innovative Asian cuisine. Ranked 89 in the Best restaurants in the World and also ranked 15 in the “Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants” in 2007. It is also considered to be one of the highest ranked restaurants in South Korea.
As per the name Mingles, the cuisine is also created mingling many styles including Spanish, French and Japanese cuisine along with Korean style of cooking. The chefs at Mingles go through a tough process in and out of the kitchen in gaining knowledge about the various ingredients and different styles of cooking. The cuisine is created only using the seasonal and traditional ingredients that has been passed over thousands of years ago from the palace kitchens and from the chefs who cooked for famous kings and warriors.
One of the signature dishes “Citron Pot” also known as citrus yuja danja was an ancient dish that has been offered to kings and is still a very popular dish with the locals. Another delightful dish that you cannot miss out at the Mingles is the “Jangajji” or the pickled vegetables that have been kept fermented for a long time. With these kind of innovative dishes, Mingles has increased their influence in the local dining scene for many years running.
Chef Kang earned a degree in culinarts arts from the famous Kyonggi University in South Korea and then left to work in some of the popular restaurants in many countries including the U.S, France, Spain and Bahamas. According to Chef Kang, he feels it is his eternal duty to bring to the people of Korea the importance of his Korean roots with a touch of international experience.
Chef Kang explains that Mingles symbolizes the objective of “mixing contrasting components into harmony” and hence named his restaurant as Mingles. The simple philosophy of Chef Kang is create innovate in the kitchen by create new and extraordinary dishes without compromising on the essence of the Korean cuisine. Still in his 30’s Chef Kang has an impressive profile having been the youngest Chef at the renowned Nobu Bahamas hotel and other various restaurants around the world, returned to Korea to start his dream restaurant, Mingles.
His main objective is to provide his Korean guests with a dining experience that they would have experienced before and for his foreign customers a cuisine that is both international and still has the essence of Korean flavors. Hence, he started focusing on the Korean cuisine and also began to innovate them with some international touch. Most of cuisines are prepared using seasonal ingredients along with traditional sauce.
Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2018: #11
Michelin Guide Seoul 2018: One Star ☆
8 course spring menu: KRW 150'000
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I’ve always preferred films that opt to trap you within the multiple layers of their visually crafted stories. I believe dialogues are an accessory, and there is nothing that cannot be conveyed through the use of perfectly synchronized facial expressions and the environment surrounding that specific character. Obviously, this is a scrupulous task and demands a considerable weight to every part building up to your special moments. Except for the silent classics who had proudly mastered this technique, there are many sound films that concentrate on specific themes so that the they can express themselves through images only. They are thematically minimalist and the scarcity of dialogues is an extension of their motif.
This list features movies where one or more protagonists of the movie have no dialogues at all (there are a couple of exceptions with one or two lines). This does not include characters that stay mute for long phases of time yet have a significant amount of lines, like Jeff Costello from ‘Le Samourai’ or The Chief from ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. Here is the list of great movies where the protagonist never speaks:
12. Koshish (1972)
I first came across ‘Koshish’ after I overheard my mom talking about some boring Hindi films she had watched. Knowing her taste in films, I immediately searched for it and the premise stunned me, I never expected an Indian film to explore such territories. This movie is by one of India’s most underappreciated directors, Gulzar, whose work is as warm and poetic as the Tramontane of Europe. It revolves around the life of a deaf and mute couple, who try to make a living in a world that is indifferent to them. It follows the male protagonist, especially, how he learns to embrace life even after the demise of his partner, and raises his son to accept the deaf girl he loves.
11. Crime Wave (1985)
Not to be confused with Sir Booms-A-Lot’s ‘Crimewave’ that came out in the same year, ‘Crime Wave’ is an indie feature by John Paizs who directed, wrote and acted in the movie. Paizs’s character doesn’t speak a single word in the movie, as the story is narrated by the female lead. Paizs plays a struggling screenwriter who aspires to make the greatest color crime movie, but finds himself in a situation we are all a victim of : he can generate the beginning and the end, but can never fill in the middle. Though the premise sounds pretty normal, the movie is twisted and dark, and probably one of the greatest screenplays I’ve ever come across.
10. All Is Lost (2013)
‘All Is Lost’ does have Robert Redford utter a few lines on a couple of occasions, but that’s pretty much it as the rest of the movie only contains his body’s pleas for help against the echoes of the thundering storm. Take a look at his filmography, and you’ll notice his works were always meticulously written. Hence, watching him in this minimalist experimental film from Chandor was obviously a big surprise. I’ve heard people complain about this being nothing more than an episode for National Geographic, but I believe this is where the movie’s achievement lies. The stupendous technical achievements combined with Redford’s emphatic acting keep you on the edge of the seat, despite the opening shot hinting at a hopeless situation.
9. Valhalla Rising (2009)
Evocative. Beautiful. Feels like an allegory, that Refn was always dreaming to make. If you are a person, who watches a movie to experience something unique, something extraordinary, then ‘Valhalla Rising’ is the movie for you. It stumps you with its grim beauty, it’s love for the shades of red, it’s eerily calm brutality, it’s aspiration to plunge into the dark hollow depths of the idea of religion and it’s dexterity to portray this with the scent of Valhalla and the Norse mythology surrounding it, is remarkable, and executed with a flair that has become sort of a trademark for Refn. Mads Mikkelsen makes the film revolve around him with his trademark ‘rattlesnake’ performances, striking fear through his body language . His character bathes in menace and his existence an ambiguity, that opens interpretations of him being an incarnation resembling the Norse god Odin.
8. A Night At The Opera (1935)
Though Harpo Marx wasn’t the main protagonist of the film, he is regarded as one of the greatest mime artists in the history of sound films and it’d be a sin to not include him on this list. ‘A Night at the Opera’ was a huge change for the Groucho brothers, and probably was to comedy what ‘Casablanca’ was to romance films. Harpo to a great extent could be considered a pioneer for silent comic characters, who prefer visual gags over dialogues, with eccentric mannerisms. The film does have some vaudeville elements, but mostly concerns itself with the deconstruction of the opera, considered to be a sacred destination for art. The film is played in a stage-like dramatic manner, which draws a fine line to distinguish its brand of comedy.
7. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
“Say it, don’t spray it!”. C’mon Jay, Silent Bob’s finally uttered his first words in the movie and this is your reaction? Silent Bob is a recurring character in Kevin Smith’s universe (View Askewniverse) and is played by Smith himself, beginning from his 1994 cult hit ‘Clerks’. After 4 films, the fan favorite duo of Jay and Silent Bob were finally given their own film, which involves a hell lotta meta references. Silent Bob only speaks during two instances and it’s hilarious to watch him shut down Banky after fighting off Mark Hamill! But, I must remind you, much of the film can only be understood if you’ve watched the other Kevin Smith films.
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999)
“hmhhmm mumm mhmhmm nmnmhm” were poor Kenny’s last words before he died for our sins. Kenny, as most ‘South Park’ fans might be aware of, is one of the four protagonists of the TV show and the guy who saves the world in the movie. The movie sticks to the TV show’s motives of spreading morals by being as immoral as possible. But the unusual part is how we get to see Kenny in the after-life, as he was forgotten by both the characters and the show after being killed in each episode. Saving Satan from an abusive relationship involving Saddam Hossein to finally revealing his face, this movie is a must watch for fans of the “mhhmhmm” in the orange jacket.
5. The Holy Mountain (1973)
‘The Holy Mountain’ is a movie that I could barely extract anything from my first watch and I’m waiting for the time when my mind switches from synthwave to tantric music, for a revisit. Except for Jodorowsky’s screams and weird sounds that were dubbed on for The Thief, the hippie Christ doesn’t have dialogues and is as tranced by the events of the movie as the audiences. Most of the lines are spoken by The Alchemist (played by Jodorowsky), and is understood since they are dampened by the raw spirituality only the auteur’s mind is capable of fully comprehending.
4. Trafic (1971)
‘Trafic’ is my favorite film by Jacques Tati featuring his popular character, Monsieur Hulot; with ‘Playtime’ and its marvelously crafted production design settling on a close second. One of the reasons why I love Trafic is its efficiency at splashing chaos all around the portrait of a man who cannot board the train to the present. Many found it to be his least engaging film, inclining towards the point of abstraction, which in my opinion was the strongest point since it places our beloved character in an exasperating farrago of distortions. In a career that gifted France a new path towards comedy, this is probably Tati’s most personal work and reflects his own condition during his last days as an actor.
3. The Tribe (2014)
‘The Tribe’ along with ‘Mud’, are my favorite coming of age movies from this decade. Their worlds are probably separated by a million light years as Mud portrays the blooming of a boy against the vast picturesque landscapes of the South while Plemya portrays the death of innocence inside the cold walls of the Ukrainian crime world.The movie takes place in a hostel for the deaf-and-mute and hence all the conversations take place in the native sign language. The movie like most Eastern European films is ruthless in its depiction of the events, that are surprisingly reflective of the current state of affairs in the region.
2. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (2002)
Before Park Chan-wook swept international audiences off their feet with his Korean Reniassance classic ‘Oldboy’, he made ‘Sympathy for Mr Vengeance’, the first part of the Vengeance Trilogy. The protagonist of the film played by Shin Ha-kyun is a deaf and mute factory worker who sacrifices his kidney and humanity for his ailing sister. Though the movie is not as ghastly as Oldboy, it does full justice to its primary theme of vengeance and has a very justifiable cause for the perpetrator’s actions, carried out by the unrelenting Song Kang-ho (‘Memories of Murder’). Korean films contain a twisted sense of humor, an inseparable part of their extremity, also conveyed by their polarized characterization which gives them an emotional foundation.
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1975)
If there is a massacre in this movie it is of sanity and reality. Sanity of the character, who would never recover from something as horrific as having Leatherface and family serving you your friends for dinner. Reality for us, because even the slightest thought of ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ existing is mind-splitting, and to add to the injury, this was inspired by the real life actions of Ed Gein. Though icons like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees have achieved their status with a long run of films, it should be noted that Leatherface needed only one (well Hooper, to positive effect, made a mockery out of him in part 2). He has a bull’s strength and a disturbing squeal that reminds of animal trapped in a snare, and the visual hysteria is too perplexing for the mind to settle down and analyse what’s truly happening, and this is a great technique to put you in the same boots as the victims’.
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I built a database several years ago in Access to track over 4K pieces of equipment in and out of a shop, where it was going, current status, etc. It's dying. I would like to upgrade it, but unsure if a split Access DB or a SQL Server 2008 back with Access front would be better/sufficient. I'm leaning towards the latter. At most 35 simultaneous users, but only on rare occasions. Would like to track (log) changes to items each time data/status changes. Print reports, etc. Keep it SIMPLE for users.
How large is your database? If you expect that your database will not grow to larger than 10 GB, and you are familiar with SQL Server, then you can use SQL Server Express Edition. If you don't need any of the enterprise features (page/row compression, HA/DR, encryption, table partitioning, etc), it's a great way to manage smaller amounts of data...and its free!
I've never personally used a set-up with Access ADP as a front-end, but I've heard it works fine for straight-forward data management. If you have the time/resources, creating a simple web-based front end for management (or buying something out of the box that sits on SQL Server) might allow you to reduce the complexity even further.
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Many of our Write On tutors write Flash Fiction and have been highly successful with awards and publications both in Āotearoa and internationally.
This week we asked four of our tutors for tips for young writers who are editing, starting, or thinking about starting entries for the 2021 National Flash Fiction Day competition. Details here!
Last year's National Flash Fiction Day Winner, and our Year 12/13 class guest tutor for Term 2 , Jenna Heller, says:
1. Look at every word to make sure each word is pulling its weight. For example, 'walk' might be the right word but 'amble' or 'saunter' or 'lope' might tell the reader more about your character than 'walk' ever could. Make each word help create the mood and emotional tone. Word choice is critical to creating layers of meaning within a very short piece of fiction.
2. Make your first sentence so strong that when people read it they have to keep reading. Your first sentence must be rich and enticing. It has to pull the reader in immediately. The first sentence sets the tone for everything else that happens in your story.
In 2018, Sue Kingham won the North and South Flash Fiction Prize. Sue teaches our Year 8/9 class and runs workshops in schools. Sue's tips are:
1. Keep a notebook of ideas as they occur to you; file interesting new stories, intriguing titles or inspiring photographs.
2. Put two different ideas together to add depth to a piece. I did this with a wedding anniversary and a couple of injured swans.
3. Aim for fresh imagery. If you've heard the simile or metaphor before, try to think of a new way to convey the same idea.
Our director, Heather McQuillan won both the National Flash Fiction Day and Micro Madness Prizes in 2016. She has published a collection of flash fiction. Heather says:
1. Experiment: the rules of the form are not set and the risks, like the stories, are smallish.
2. Obsess: Make incremental changes- this way or that way?
3. Read: find some great flash fiction to read. For starters, read here
Gail Ingram is our Year 11/12 class tutor, leads workshops in school and is an editor at Flash Frontier. Gail has numerous awards for poetry and flash fiction.
1. Start just after the beginning of the story with an image, a sound, some speech or action.
2. End just before the ending with an image, a sound, some speech or action. No summaries or explanations!
3. Borrow experiences, characters and conversations from your life to make the story sound authentic, but fictionalise the details and expand on the emotion and size of the event.
4. Edit your story, hard. Delete accidentally repeated words and ideas, and tighten your sentences.
A huge thank you to our marvellous tutors who shared their wise words.
All the best with your flash fiction writing.
The deadline is April 30th.
(c) Write On School for Young Writers 2021
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Based on flight volume data, Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet is the most popular airport that Air Caraïbes uses. Paris Orly and Fort-de-France Lamentin are the next two most visited by Air Caraïbes.
The least expensive round-trip Air Caraïbes international flight we could find is flying from Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet to Grand-Case L'Espérance. This trip has 0 stops) and costs just 4,320,263 ₫ per ticket. Air Caraïbes has international one-way flights available, but the cheapest is a flight from Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet to Gustavia St Barthelemy for just 5,118,572 ₫. This flight has 0 stops.
Air Caraïbes does not have flights from Ho Chi Minh City - you will need to fly out of Saint-Denis Gillot instead. However, you could fly from Ho Chi Minh City with Air Austral or another airline.
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Income Stacking: An Employee’s Roadmap To Financial Independence
The following is guest post by Rowan from Minimum Viable Life Project discussing the concept of income stacking. If you’re looking for ways to make money online or side hustle extra cash outside our 9-5, this strategy of income stacking is a great mindset to take. Whether you want to reach financial independence or just cover some monthly bills, let’s explore the idea of income stacking. Take it away Rowan!
You hear it all the time…
“If you want to succeed in business you’ve got to take risks!”.
But, what if you’re just a normal kind of guy? A guy that’s got bills to pay, and mouths to feed? What then? Should you just quit your dead end job now and risk everything in your pursuit for financial freedom?
And what about “it takes money to make money”? I haven’t got any damn money, that’s why I’m reading this blog post! Don’t worry, I hear you.
Making the transition from your dead-end day job to solopreneur is VERY hard. That’s why so many people fail. You hear countless stories where “they risked it all, and now they’re bankrupt!”. But what if there’s a different way?
What if there was a way to create passive income with no money, and no risk?
$5 dollars a day here, $40 per month there, $25 per month there.
Introducing, the Income Stacking Method!
WHAT IS THE INCOME STACKING METHOD?
I first got introduced to the idea of ‘Stacking’ by James Clear where he discusses the value of ‘Habit Stacking‘ and the incredible benefits it can have, as its effects are compounded over time.
Inspired by the compounding effects that ‘stacking’ has, I used this same approach to my income.
Put simply, the income stacking method is this:
“Build multiple passive income streams online (regardless how small). Stack them on top of one another. Offset all of your expenses one by one with your new income streams until you’ve transitioned out of employment”.
HOW DOES INCOME STACKING WORK
Creating a product or building a business that generates $50k per year is fricking hard. If you’re already a multi millionaire hot-shot you’re probably laughing at the above statement. But if you’re just starting out, and your still in full-time employment, that stuff is hard!
Not only is it super difficult, it’s also far from a guarantee. Sure you could spend the next 12 months building the next Airbnb (trust me, I’ve tried it…), but you know what, the truth is it’s probably going to fail.
That’s just the way it is.
Sure, you’ll learn a tonne of valuable lessons along the way (that’s for certain), but you can’t get back that time or money (well you can get back the money, but it’d be nice not to have lost it in the first place).The income stacking method approaches things a little bit differently…
INCOME STACKING DO’S AND DON’TS
This whole process assumes that you’re probably not the next Elon Musk, or Richard Branson. I hate to break it to you but statistically you’re not.
Instead, the Income Stacking Method just follows a formula, and it just… kind of works.
Here’s the formula in a nutshell:
DON’TS OF INCOME STACKING:
- Invest your money in your BIG IDEA.
- Swing for the fences trying to build the next big hit.
- Try to recreate the wheel.
- Get all complicated and fancy.
DO’S OF INCOME STACKING:
- Keep things simple.
- Stick to the basics that have been proven to work.
- Build multiple passive income streams (regardless how small).
- Repeat, repeat, repeat until you have all of your outgoings are covered.
Every extra dollar that you generate takes you one step closer to financial independence.
CAN INCOME STACKING WORK FOR YOU?
Income stacking can work for anyone, regardless of whether you have a full-time job or not. It starts as a side hustle, and you earn the right to invest more of your time on it as it becomes more lucrative.
Taking your first steps and getting started is the most important part. Even as little as 30 minutes a day will get the ball rolling.
Let me explain.
Working a full-time job and juggling family life basically results in almost zero spare time. That’s why you’ve got to start small to begin with. Which is fine, as we all have to start somewhere.
However, in order to speed up your transition out of your day job, you’ll need to invest more time. That’s why it’s important to reduce the workload from your day job so that you can invest more of your time into generating more passive income streams that will ultimately free you from the shackles of employment. Replacing that single day from your paid employment also gives you a huge psychological boost too.
It sets up the map, and gives you the pathway to follow.
Not ‘if’, but ‘when’.
The key is to keep going, regardless of how futile it might feel in the beginning. So, can income stacking work for you? Absolutely. You’ve just gotta put in the time. As you can see it’s not a magic pill solution to all of your financial problems, and it’s definitely not a get rich quick scheme. Instead, it’s a process you can use to ease your way out of your job little by little.
Without risking it all.
KNOW YOUR MINIMUM VIABLE LIFE POINT
Financial independence is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days, but what actually is it? It’s basically where you have generated enough cash flow from investments or passive income streams, whereby you never have to work again.
I like this, but for me it feels a bit distant.
Instead, to make the goal more tangible, and achievable, I instead like to focus on the minimum viable life point.
It’s not like this is the end goal, but this is the primary focus.
A full transition from working for the man, to a life of financial freedom
CALCULATING YOUR MINIMUM VIABLE LIFE POINT
Calculating your minimum viable life point involves breaking down all of your current expenses into their simplest form, and removing anything and everything that’s not absolutely essential.
For example, total up potential expenses like:
- House Insurance
- Mobile Phone bill
- Debt Repayment
Once you have your minimum viable life point set, you now have a target to aim for. And it may be a lot closer than you think.
INCOME STACKING IN ACTION
Rather than focusing on the big picture of leaving your job for good, instead focus on each individual outgoing and work towards building income streams to offset it.
For example, let’s say one of your expenses is $50 per week on fuel. Your focus should be on building a passive income stream that generates you $50 per week. This could be achieved over multiple smaller income streams or one larger one. It really doesn’t matter.
Once you’ve built up that passive income, it effectively means you’ll NEVER have to pay for fuel again.
That’s the same as winning one of those competitions like “Free Fuel For a Year”, but for life! That’s how powerful passive income is, and that’s why it’s worth the investment of your time to build it up. Once you’ve got the hang of it, and your first expenses are getting ticked off the list, just rinse and repeat.
As you pick up momentum you’ll be able to cross expenses off your list faster and faster.
And, as more of your expenses are offset with your new passive income streams, your minimum viable life point becomes closer and closer.
Let me explain.
If your current minimum viable life point is say $20k per year (to use a simple round number example). That works out to be a measly $385 per week to be free! That’s not overbearing at all.
Now here’s the good bit…
Let’s say you build your first income stream and you make just $50 per week (very doable). You’ve now reduced the amount you need to generate by 13%! Your new minimum viable life point is now just $335 per week.
Replicate this 7.7 times more, and that’s it!
You are now FREE!!!
Does that seem ridiculously tangible to you?
Your financial independence is assured, it just might take awhile to get there.
HOW LONG SHOULD IT TAKE
Everyone is different, but I think for those of you that are fully committed, then 12-24 months is a realistic time frame.
However, there’s a few things you need to know before you get too excited…
- This is NOT a magic pill and does take time.
- You will do huge amounts of work upfront without receiving ANY financial incentives for a decent period of time.
- You will need to do ALL of this in your spare time (well, nearly all).
But, ask yourself this:
How much are you willing to sacrifice for a lifetime of financial independence? What sacrifices are you willing to make?
If 12-24 months of work with no immediate reward is too much, then this game ain’t for you. Stick to your day job and try to be grateful for all the things it gives you. If however you’re excited by the thought of living life of your terms, then I urge you to get started now.
Get started with whatever tools you have, and don’t let perfection get in the way of progress.
You can do this!
CONCLUSION: INCOME STACKING TO FI
Income stacking is a methodical approach to building multiple different income streams no matter how small, and stacking them one on top of the other until you’ve reached your minimum viable life.
If you follow this approach then it’s not a case of if you’ll become financially independent, but when. How long that takes depends on how much effort you invest.
Regardless, following this method ensures that each step you take, each new income stream you build is serving you (no matter how small) in your ultimate goal of financial independence.
For other posts on making money and developing income streams, here are some articles on Making Momentum:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rowan is the founder of Minimum Viable Life Project. On his website he writes about income stacking, passive income and other strategies to help readers transition out of their day jobs into financial freedom.
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A senior NATO intelligence official told NBC News on Monday that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is either in a stalemate or on the verge of entering one.
"If we're not in a stalemate, we are rapidly approaching one," the anonymous official said, "The reality is that neither side has a superiority over the other."
"Neither side here can win. Neither side will capitulate," the official said.
The NATO official said Russian President Vladimir Putin's war had made no significant progress in two weeks, but he still appears unwilling to back down.
"Won't they (the Russians) realize that they can't win? Maybe, but that requires a degree of rationality and a willingness to admit that you haven't won, that there's no evidence for, at this point," the official claimed.
The official further claimed that Belarus might soon join the Kremlin in their invasion and is preparing to allow Russia to station nuclear weapons in their territory.
"The Belarusian government is preparing the environment to justify a Belarusian offensive against Ukraine and the imminent deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus," the anonymous intelligence official said.
"I'm not telling you they're going to put nukes in there tomorrow," the official added. "What I mean is they've taken steps politically to now be able to receive nuclear weapons if such a decision is made."
The official said it remains unclear to NATO whether Putin intends to take a significant portion of Ukraine or if they are only seeking strategic and pro-Russian areas.
© 2024 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
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The Housing Market whether it be sales or rental is a complex business with numerous stakeholders. Property Title information is controlled and stored on Land Registry databases. Financial institutions hold their own databases containing, inter alia, ownership details, financial interests, and valuation/condition reports. Estate Agents, Landlords, property Solicitors, Letting Agents and Management companies all too have their own stores of related data.
All of the above listed stakeholders are subject to an ever growing mountain of property market legislation to which is added non-market specific items such as GDPR. The onus for compliance rests primarily on the shoulders of the property's Landlord/Owner or their Agent. The lack of information connectivity within the Market, along with a fear of falling foul of regulatory requirements, slows down transactions, raises costs, and can cause transactions to fail to complete successfully.
Whilst the minefield of current legislation, which looks set to continue to grow, is already making life difficult for those mentioned above residential tenants are also affected. In the real world the Tenant understands that the Landlord's position must remain financially viable and thus the bill for any transactional/process costs will probably be footed by the tenant.
In today's residential rental market most properties are still managed offline, those that are managed digitally utilise a large number of non-agnostic management programs that provide little if any interface ability. This means that viewed from above the rental market would appear as an archipelago of small islands with no inter-connecting bridges. The issues faced by Estate Agents maybe somewhat different but the view from above would be similar.
Whilst human nature tends to cling to the present and eschew change it is hard not to reason that any new system which would streamline current processes and cut costs will eventually prevail. Blockchain Technology is the likely contender.
What is Blockchain Technology? – It is a software system that ensures stored information is trustable (not corrupted, nor is it corruptible once on the Blockchain). It will indelibly record transactions/agreements and where necessary issue contracts related to the transaction. Each Blockchain will have public and private areas restricting access to sensitive information say, personal details to only those entitled to see it, (solicitor, bank...) and even then, only to the extent of their requirements
Currently, a buyer makes the property purchase via an Estate Agent and instructs a solicitor. The solicitor engages with the local authority, Land registry, the financing company, the Valuers, and the Sellers Solicitor. In the weeks that follow agreeing a price, communications from any of these named parties will fly around until all of the requirements of the purchase process are finally met. However, within a Blockchain system the Blockchain will effectively provide a common meeting area for all parties to access. All documents (title deeds, answers to enquiries, mortgage offer, Local Authority searches…) would be placed in the Blockchain and verification would be available to all parties without the need for ‘chasing' around to see who had what. Each piece of documentation or information would only need to be provided once meaning the Blockchain will simultaneously reduce duplication and costs, whilst increasing transactional transparency.
Successful completion of the sale would be automatically confirmed to all parties including Land Registry who, incidentally, are already in the process of developing their own blockchain platform which will contain details of all properties in the Country.
In the Property Rental market Blockchain will provide a similar service to Landlords, Tenants, Letting Agents, Property Management companies, and permitted regulatory bodies. In addition the Blockchain, at the push of a button, would be able to provide a download of all a specific tenancy's related information and documentation needed for dispute resolution. Deep rooted consensus protocols embedded within the Blockchain mean that validation of the information would be automatic.
Blockchain Technology is new and as with all things new it has its detractors. However, when today we see major forward looking Banks appraising and processing property deals on their own Blockchain platforms, Land registry moving towards Blockchain, and the rise of Smart Contracts it is hard to imagine that this new technology will not soon become the transactional norm in the housing market. Blockchain will not replace the current stakeholders but it will make their lives easier.
Blockchain Developers are growing in number and with Chainlify's Blockchain-as-a-Service Platform facilitating easier access to Blockchain for developers moving into this field the number is set to balloon. Given the importance of the Housing Market and the huge financial and social impact it has across all sections of the population it is likely that Blockchain Platforms focussed on the property market will be amongst the first routinely available products off the shelf. And, as with most things new, it will be those that bravely grasp it first who will profit best.
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He also asked me if I knew about Jesus and I said yes, that I had been saved since I was four (so easily do I speak Christian-ese), and then he asked if I was Catholic, which I thought was a really weird question. I said no and asked him if HE was, he said no. Then I asked if he had a church nearby because I had been looking for one, and he did -- within walking distance of where we were. I asked what it was like and he started talking about healings and miracles, which I think is a great bonus but it is not something I need in a church. He was really excited about it though, and I just wanted to HUG him (I kinda wished he hadn't been Christian because then I would have felt free to hug him, oh the irony -- the church has a misunderstanding of what 'lust' is and how to avoid it) for having so much faith and love and courage to share with a stranger. I miss that sense of putting yourself in God/dess' hands and just acting in faith. I still do it in some ways, but there is this... sense of security that comes from acting in tandem with a church. Faith is greater when it is shared. I asked him what the worship was like and he said it was like Deliriou5, which sold me. He showed me where it was and I said I'd come that evening (they were having a special service).
The worship was fucking incredible! These people know how to do it! GOD/DESS, I've missed this. There is absolutely nothing like people passionately singing and dancing in love and faith. These people ROCKED OUT and not just the children, and not just the females, but EVERYONE. Even in all the Christian places I've been, I've never seen males dance in worship like that. Or rather, I've seen one here and there, but never all together in unity, never so unselfconsciously.
Imagine a rock concert where everyone is believing in faith-love-beauty-life, everyone is deliberately bringing out the best in themselves (rather than the worst, as is often in secular concerts). Imagine feeling that! If you've never gotten sweaty and disheveled from worshiping wildly in tandem with others, you are missing out. (not saying that other things aren't just as good -- saying that this is a great thing too!) This was the closest thing to a Benjamin Gate concert that I have been to since they disbanded. And they had the most incredible drummer, holy fuck, I was transported. And. they sang this song, which made my spirit shriek in joy:
Why should I be still
when the worship starts
I'm so in love with You, Lord
What can man do --
can't hold me back anymore
You spin over me
and you are pleased
when I spend myself on You, Lord
I'm gonna let go now
letting my dance come forth
Let the spirit move you
Holy Spirit in you
After that they gave testimonies of healings, which sounded amazing (and I was like WHY DO THEY NOT VIDEOTAPE, sadly my cynical mind wants proof). Then they had a healing time for a lady with liver disease, which went on for a good while with many members of the group coming up and saying something. It felt more authentic than I've ever seen, and I think that even if there is no physical healing, some of the things said would be very healing. One person suggested that she felt like she would only be loved if she was sick, one suggested that she had been comfortable on the sidelines but God/dess wanted her back in the game, one suggested that she had created an identity around her illness, and all of these things were to be let go. I imagine it must have felt very raw to be so 'naked' before everyone, but also very freeing. And there was no sense of blaming her illness on her deliberate wrongdoing, which was very positive. There wasn't this sense of hurrying her to say "I'm healed" either -- they wanted to pray over her until it worked. I was really awed and I am very curious to go back and hear what happened. They have all manner of aid devices hung on the wall as a reminder -- crutches, a hearing aid, a sling, etc. Most of the healings were about relieving chronic pain, two were of restored hearing.
I very much believe that faith can heal. I want to see that these are real. I want to feel the faith of these people and let it become part of me.
Their guest speaker had some wise words about realizing that when people seem to be different, it is only because the enemy (pain) has painted them, and it is not a true difference. He was of the 'talk until you run out of steam' variety, so I ended up leaving after a while, but I enjoyed it. I have to 're-translate' some things into my beliefs, like singing to 'ze' instead of 'he' but that's okay. I definitely intend to go back.
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