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Testing with EcoVisor F4 (Nitrate Tester, Dosimeter, EMF meter, TDS meter)
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 interface is available in 11 languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Turkish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Poland, Romanian!
The SOEKS EcoVisor F4 is a 4-in-1 testing device that is designed to:
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 - nitrate tester
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 performs express analysis of nitrate content in fresh fruit and vegetables. Nitrate content analysis is based on conductivity of alternating high-frequency current in the measured product (ionometry).
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 - dosimeter
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 defines radiation background level and identifies radioactive contaminated foods and construction supplies. The Ecotester can easily assess the level of radioactivity according to the power level of ion radiation (gamma radiation and beta particles flux).
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 - EMF meter
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 records the electromagnetic field in facilities, living areas and from domestic appliances. When electromagnetic fields are detecting, electric and magnetic field intensities evaluate.
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 - TDS meter
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 evaluates water quality. The analysis is based on measurement of high-frequency alternating current conductivity.
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 Specifications:
Name of specificationIndication
Nitrate Tester – Nitrate measurement
Scale range of possible nitrate content, mg/kgfrom 20 to 5 000
Temperature compensating, °СFrom 0 to 30
Measurement uncertainty, max± 12%
Dosimeter – Radiation measurement
Measurement unitsSievert Roentgen
Scale range of possible radiation background, mSv/hup to 1 000
Scale range of possible radiation background, mR/hup to 100 000
Registered gamma ray energy, eVfrom 0.1
Warning thresholds, mSv/h (mR/h)From 0.1 to 100 (from 10 to 10 000)
Warning threshold of accumulated dose, Sv (R) From 0.1 x 10-6 to 1 (from 10 x 10-6 to 100)
Time of accumulated dose, daysUp to 1 000
EMF meter – Electromagnetic Field measurement
Scale range of electric field frequency, hzFrom 20 to 2000
Scale range of magnetic field (magnetic induction) intensity crest value, A/m (meTl)From 0.08 to 20 (from 0.10 to 25)
Max. permissible relative measurement uncertainty of magnetic field intensity, %± 18%
Scale range of magnetic field intensity crest value, V/mFrom 10 to 5000
Max. permissible relative measurement uncertainty for electric field, %± 18%
TDS meter – Water quality measurement
Scale range ppm (mg/l)Up to 5000
Resolution ppm (mg/l)10
Temperature compensating, °СFrom 0 to 30
Measurement uncertainty, from full scale, %± 12%
General specifications
Operating time including hibernation, hoursUp to 24
Power supply2 of AAA batteries or accumulators
Power supply range, V2.0 – 3.5
Overall dimensions Height x Width x Thickness, max, mm147 x 54 x 21
Device mass (with power supply) , max, grs95
Battery charging current, max, mA300
Current from power supply or USB , max, mA500
Charger output voltage, VFrom 4.5 to 5.5
DisplayColor touchscreen TFT 320 x 240
Operating temperatures range, °СFrom -20 to +60
The Device SOEKS EcoVisor F4
Main parts of the device consist of:
Main parts of the device SOEKS EcoVisor F4
SOEKS EcoVisor F4
1. Micro USB slot for charging the accumulator.
2. Touchscreen for displaying information and menu navigation.
3. OK button for switching the device on/off, confirmation button.
4. LEFT button for menu navigation, return to previous menu when pressing for 2 seconds.
5. RIGHT button – menu navigation.
6. Measuring probe inserts in the product to measure nitrate content level.
7. Protective cap protects the probe.
Nitrate Measurement – Nitrate Tester EcoVisor F4
Nitrate Measurement - Nitrate Tester SOEKS EcoVisor F4
EcoVisor F4 – Nitrate Tester
Measurement of nitrate content level is based on the patented technology of a biobased product ionometry (Patent of invention № 23 90 767 Ionometry Method for biobased products and the device for its performance) and has been developed by the SOEKS company.
The technology is based on a specialized procedure method that puts high-frequency electric current through pulp.
Every plant contains ions of potassium, magnesium, ferrum (iron), cuprum, chlorine, plenty of organic acids and other elements in certain amounts that are necessary for proper growth.
The amount of every single element (ionic or molecular) is determined by bio organics of certain plant (it has a basic level of ion concentration) and by contents of water and soil where the plant grows.
People often use fertilization for efficient growth of plants. For instance, saline fertilizers such as nitrates and phosphates. As they break down and the plant easily absorbs these fertilizers.
As it spreads around the plant, saline ions (nitrates, phosphates and etc.) accumulate in different plant parts including fruits. This leads to higher amount of electrolytes and to higher electrical conductivity of fruit as well.
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 has mastered the measurement of nitrate ions content in fruits and vegetables. A percentage of these in fruit and vegetables is identified by an independent analysis method (potentiometric identification of nitrate content according to Russian National Standard (GOST) “Fruit and vegetables recycling products. Nitrate content identification”).
The result of express analysis is shown by the device in the form of nitrate ion concentration and its comparison to maximum permissible concentration for certain product. The device measures the nitrate concentration per kilogram of product netto. 200-300 mg of nitrates eaten within 24 hours is considered to be safe for an adult. If 600-700 mg is eaten within 24 hours, nitrates are considered toxic.
For instance, when measuring a beetroot, the device shows 1000 mg of nitrates per kg. According to the standard measurement, it is safe to only eat 200-300 mg of this beetroot without damaging your health.
When measuring a watermelon, the device shows 350 mg/kg. If a person eats 2 kg of watermelon, he or she will consume 700 mg (350 mg/kg x 2 kg) which is toxic.
One should also understand that the shown result is evaluative and cannot be compared to quantified chemical analysis at an advanced laboratory. That kind of analysis requires a lot of time and is not free. Nevertheless, the presence of such laboratory and qualified analytical chemist at home is impossible for the majority of people. The EcoVisor F4 is a like portable lab that allows you to avoid buying suspicious products. This will help protect yourself, your relatives and children from being exposed to these poisonous products.
The nitrate tester analysis takes only a few seconds. The only maintenance it requires is to change the battery or charge the accumulator just as you would your mobile phone.
Of course, you may ask yourself is there an increased electrical conductivity if a fruit or vegetable does not contain nitrate ions? This is possible. But will the consumer feel safer buying a product with increased amount of phosphates or any other ions instead of nitrates or when buying a product that is already going bad? One should not forget that basic electrical conductivity is determined for every single type of fresh fruit or vegetable. When a product goes bad, the content and concentration of organic acids change.
ATTENTION! We strongly do not recommend to measure nitrate content in liquids, chemically and heat-treated products, products that are not included in the device’s menu list. Received data will be misleading and uncertain.
Do not use SOEKS EcoVisor F4
Do not use EcoVisor F4
One should also remember that the device is designed for measuring products at a room temperature. Change of the product temperature can increase measurement uncertainty. This regards to products that have just been taken out of fridge or have been exposed to sun rays. In SOEKS EcoVisor F4 there is a function of thermal compensation, which is achieved by means of embedded temperature gauge in probe of the device. Thanks to software patches, when measuring you can get the same measurement result even when temperatures of measured products are different.
There are fruit and vegetables in the list of Nitrate tester, which contain air cavities (for instance, sweet pepper). When measuring such products, it is important not to insert the probe into the air cavity. When the probe is inserted into the air cavity, the measurement result will be misleading.
Radiation measurement – Dosimeter EcoVisor F4
Radiation measurement - Dosimeter SOEKS EcoVisor F4
EcoVisor F4 – Dosimeter
Some chemical elements (so called radioactive isotopes) contain unstable nucleus that decay into small elementary particles or quanta. Detachment of elementary particles or quanta is called radiation.
Radiation is ionizing, because it leads to atomic ionization of substance that is struck by radiation. Ionization is called the process of striking one or a few electrons out of atom. After that, nucleus and left electrons create a system that is positively charged and is called an ion.
Ionized atoms strongly differ from average nucleus. Ions destroy other molecules by breaking a bond between nucleuses. That is the reason why ionized radiation influence on human’s health is harmful.
Radiation influence on the human body is called irradiation. Irradiation transpierces any body tissues and ionizes their particles and molecules. This leads to creation of ionized nucleuses (ions or so-called free radicals) that destroy molecules and lead to inclusive death of tissue cells.
As it was said before, nuclear disintegration into elementary particles is accompanied by radiation of these particles. This radiation is divided into following types:
• Alpha decay (alpha particles) are inert helium nucleus, the most massive particles.
• Beta decay (beta particles) are electrons that move with an enormous speed. They are able to penetrate our body for a few centimeters.
• Gamma decay (gamma particles) consist of gamma ray quantum, which although are considered to be particles, represent at the same time electromagnetic radiation such as sunlight, radio waves and x-rays. Their differences consists only of a big energy that every gamma quantum carries. Gamma decay always spreads with the light velocity when other particles are not that speedy. In comparison with alpha and beta particles, you need more materials such as concrete or lead in order to protect yourself from gamma decay.
X-rays are electromagnetic radiation (just like gamma decay) but it has less energy. In everyday life, it is used only at medical institutions.
Neutron radiation is an uncharged particle streams (neutrons). It occurs only in nuclear reactors.
How different types of radiation penetrate into materials
The picture shows how different types of radiation penetrate into materials
Modern domestic dosimeters measure radiation in micro Sieverts per hour (mSv/h) and micro roentgen per hour (mcR/h).
The radiation dose absorbed by human’s body is measured in micro Sieverts and the radiation dose in the air at measurement spot is measured in micro roentgen.
To estimate the radiation influence on the human body, the concept of equivalent dose is used. Equivalent dose is an amount of energy absorbed by mass unit of biological tissue considering biological danger of this radiation type. The unit of measurement for equivalent dose is the Sievert (Sv).
To estimate the influence of gamma decay which are the most absorbed radiation type and give most impute to human exposure, the concept of air radiation dose is used. It has its own unit of measurement – roentgen (R).
There is no natural radiation background standard because radiation background depends on the region, district and amount of radioactive particles that are found in objects around. For instance, radiation background at highlands is always higher than at low land.
SOEKS EcoVisor F4 measures radiation in micro Sieverts per hour (mSv/h) and micro roentgen (mcR/h), where 0.01 mSv/h corresponds to 1 mcR/h according to biological radiation effect.
Natural radiation background usually ranges from 0.08 mSv/h till 0.18 mSv/h. Safe radiation background level for a human is considered to be up to 0.4 mSv/h (the 0.4 mSv/h exposure per hour).
When Level of Radiation is exceeded (more than 0.4 mSv/h), the recommended time of staying in an irradiation area is regressive. The Radiation Level amounts to 0.4 mSv/h, you can stay in the irradiation area for one hour. If the Radiation Level amounts to 0.8 mSv/h, you can stay in irradiation area for half an hour. Duration of stay in area with 1.6 mSv/h radiation amounts shouldn’t exceed 15 minutes and so on.
Electromagnetic Field Measurement – EMF meter EcoVisor F4
Electromagnetic Field Measurement - EMF meter SOEKS EcoVisor F4
EcoVisor F4 – EMF meter
Electromagnetic field (EM field) is a special form of matter which measures the interaction of charged particles. It represents interrelated alternating electric and magnetic fields. EM field spreads from one space point to another in form of electromagnetic progressive waves running from source.
EM field is created of particle charges. For example, in physics, students do experiments with ebonite electrification to demonstrate the electric field.
Magnetic field is created when electrical charges move through a conductor.
In order to characterize electric field strength, we use “electric field intensity” definition (mark sign – E, measurement unit – V/m (Volt per meter)). Magnetic strength is characterized by N magnetic field strength, measurement unit – A/m (Ampere per meter). When measuring very low and extremely low frequency, “magnetic density” definition is often used (mark sign – V, measurement unit – Tl (Tesla)).
Electromagnetic Field Influence on Human’s Health
Experimental Data of Russian and foreign research show that electromagnetic fields are highly bioactive and can negatively affect our health.
Many researches of EM field’s biological effect allow us to detect the most susceptible body systems: nervous, immune, endocrine and reproductive systems. These body systems are critical in our daily function.
EM fields influence water rich body organs mostly which are the eyes, brain, stomach and kidneys.
The following are symptoms of high EM field exposure can cause fatigue, irritability, sleep disorders, memory impairment and lack of attention.
The biological effect of EM fields tends to accumulate and can consequentially cause the degenerative process of the central nervous system, blood cancer (leukemia), encephaloma and endocrine system.
EM fields are especially dangerous for children, pregnant women, people with disorders of central nervous, the endocrine or cardiovascular system, allergic individuals and people with a compromised immune system.
Research has shown that the nervous system of the human body is the most sensitive to EM fields. When affected, it can cause serious malfunctions at the neuronal level, neural synapse and isolated neural structures. People who are in contact with electromagnetic fields, eventually face memory and higher nervous activity disorders.
Nowadays it is experimentally proven that electromagnetic fields negatively affect immunologic reactivity of body. Research data points to the fact that immunogenesis processes are violated and suppressed when being affected by electromagnetic fields.
When being affected by electromagnetic fields, changes in the pituitary adrenal system may occur. When being affected by electromagnetic fields, pituitary adrenal system is stimulated and therefore the amount of adrenalin in the blood rises and can trigger blood clotting. It is acknowledged that hypothalamus – pituitary – adrenal cortex system reacts on environmental interaction immediately and consistently.
Reproductive system disorders are usually connected with changes in its regulation within the nervous and neuroendocrine systems. This has been shown in research concerning the pituitary gonadotropic activity condition as it is affected by electromagnetic fields. Continuous EM field irradiation leads to lower pituitary activity.
Many scientists refer EM fields to teratogens that influence women’s health during pregnancy and fetus development. It is thought that electromagnetic fields can, for example, lead to physical defects of fetus. The fetus is very vulnerable at infancy during period of implantation and early organogenesis.
It is proven that fetus sensitivity to EM field is notably higher in mothers and may cause damage during it’s development. Results of epidemiological studies allow us to estimate that pregnant women who are in contact with electromagnetic field might suffer from premature birth. It might negatively affect fetus development and even cause congenital malfunctions of fetus.
Electromagnetic Field in Facilities
Electric field strength of 50 Hz commercial frequency in facilities (at 0.2 m distance from windows and walls, 0.5-1.8 m high from floor) should not exceed 500 V/m (kilovolt per meter).
Magnetic field strength of 50 Hz commercial frequency in facilities (at 0.2 m distance from windows and walls, 0.5-1.5 m high from floor) should not exceed 10 mcTl (microtesla).
Electric and magnetic fields of 50 Hz commercial frequency can be evaluated when domestic appliances are turned off and local lighting is turned on. The electric field is evaluated when ambient lighting is off and magnetic field is evaluated when ambient lighting is on.
Electromagnetic Field in Living Area
The electrical field of 50 Hz commercial frequency from overhead transmission lines and other objects on the territory of residential constructions should not exceed 1 kV/m (kilovolt per meter) 1.8 m high from ground.
The magnetic field strength of 50 Hz commercial frequency from overhead transmission lines and other objects on the territory of residential constructions should not exceed 25 mcTl (microtesla) 1.8 m high from ground.
Electromagnetic Field from Domestic Appliances
In home, domestic appliances are sources of electromagnetic exposure. A person should evaluate their effect at a distance 10 ± 0.1 cm while standing in front, behind and next to the object (except TV).
Electromagnetic field from TV with a diagonal less than 51 cm (20”) is measured at a distance of 50 ± 1 cm in front, behind and next to the TV. When screen diagonal is more than 51 cm, the EM field is measured the same way at a distance of 100 ± 1 cm. The device must be preliminarily turned on and work at least 20 minutes before measuring.
Electromagnetic Field from PC
The electrical field strength from PC ranging from 5 Hz to 2000 Hz should not exceed 25 V/m (volt per meter). The magnetic flux density from a PC ranging from 5 Hz to 2 KHz should not exceed 0.25 mcTl (microtesla).
Electromagnetic field is measured at 50 cm distance from the screen.
Water Measurement (Quality Evaluation) – TDS Meter EcoVisor F4
Water Measurement Quality Evaluation - TDS Meter SOEKS EcoVisor F4
EcoVisor F4 – TDS Meter
Water quality measurement is intended for quality evaluation of drinking water, as well as of water from treatment systems such as hydroponics, fish tanks, swimming pools, domestic appliances and from water wells.
The device measures the amount of solid particles that have been dissolved in water (TDS- total dissolved solids) per 1 million water particles – ppm (parts per million).
Among water particles, there is an enormous amount of dissolved water impurities in it. The main impurities are both inorganic salts (such as chlorides, sulfate bicarbonate of calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium) and a small amount of organic substances.
The amount of dissolved in water solid particles depends on natural environment and varies from region to region. In the city, water content is influenced by it’s industrial drainage, rainfall drainage, chlorination etc.
Solids dissolved in water determine our water quality and can affect our bodily functions.
Potassium and magnesium salts affect water hardness. High levels of these elements can worsen the water’s taste, smell, muddiness etc. Hard water negatively affects digestive system, hair and skin when we shower. It can also cause kidney diseases.
With the help of EcoVisor F4 now, it is possible to determine whether the water is suitable for drinking, domestic needs or if it requires purification.
EcoVisor F4 can be used for evaluation of water filter efficiency. In addition, EcoVisor F4 is used for reverse osmosis filter. Such filters have a few filtration levels. One of them is represented by reverse-osmosis membrane which stops water impurities that cannot be stopped by other filters. This membrane’s service life period depends on amount of impurities in stream water. If the membrane clogs, it can lead to its mechanical damage and the whole filtration system can break down.
EcoVisor F4 can measure the amount of solid particles entering and exiting the filtration system and record its indication. If the amount of salts when exiting has increased, it is time to wash and change the membrane.
In addition, EcoVisor F4 is used in aquaristics. The device can pick water with necessary amount of solids.
Moreover, EcoVisor F4 can be used when watering plants and flowers. Harsh water can negatively affect plants because it increases concentration of lime in the ground. As the result, the ground becomes alkaline and blocks the nutrition for the plants.
Water with high amount of solids is harmful for domestic appliances (washing machines, coffee machines, and irons with steam generator, kettles, dishwashers and boilers). In all of these devices, there is a heating spiral. The scale on the heating spiral can overheat and breakdown. The EcoVisor F4 can help to evaluate quality of water in domestic appliances and take precautions when using it in the future.
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Yarn Weight: Bulky
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Gauge: 11.0 to 13.0 sts = 4 inches
Needle Size: US 10 - 11 or 6 - 8mm
Hook Size: US K-10/12 to M-13 or 6.5-9 mm
Content: 100% Superwash Merino Wool
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We follow the Primary National Curriculum for Geography in England
Put simply, geography is about understanding the world by: comparing locations; investigating; researching different sources; writing and talking about places; asking and answering questions. Curiosity is the bedrock of how we teach Geography at Springbank - our pupils develop an understanding of the principles of both physical and human geography as they develop that all important fascination about the world and its people..
Discover more about our Geography Curriculum at Springbank below.
Geography is an opportunity to broaden pupils’ horizons and spark pupils’ curiosity about a diverse range of places and people. Great Geography teaching allows our pupils to develop a sense of place, an understanding of localities and regions as well as a global perspective. Pupils at Springbank will appreciate the world on both a local and a global scale as they explore human and physical geography as well as developing their understanding of different cultures.
We want children to understand how the world has changed over time, both in terms of physical processes but also how human interaction with our planet has impacted on our environments. Pupils will develop an awareness of the wider world and their place within it and be encouraged to take an active role to make our planet more sustainable. We want our children to become passionate about the planet and become actively involved in protecting the environment.
Our curriculum follows a clear progression of skills which is progressively more challenging through Years 1 to 6. Teachers make meaningful links between geography and other subjects, to ensure an interconnected approach to learning. They will also develop geographical skills such as collecting and analysing data, using maps, atlases, globes, aerial photographs and digital mapping.
Geography in the Early Years
The early learning goals at EYFS aim to guide your child onto make sense of their physical world and their community by exploring, observing, and finding out about people, places, technology and the environment. It may seem strange to think about your 4 or 5 year old child as a geographer. However, the years from birth to age five provide a first opportunity to see how your child interacts with their environment — and how the environment influences them.
Geography in Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Geographical vocabulary is a major focus in Years 1 and 2 as the children begin to develop an understanding of where they live and compare this to another local area and contrast it to somewhere outside of Europe. They will learn about weather patterns in the United Kingdom and hot and cold areas of the world. They will use ICT, world maps, atlases and globes, simple compass directions, aerial photographs and plans, as well as simple fieldwork and observational skills. Immersion is the key!
The curriculum content may appear daunting, but don’t panic
You are already an accomplished geographer! Your daily life constantly provides you with rich geographical experiences, information and understanding. You think and act geographically, often without realising it. It comes naturally … as you navigate your way around your home and neighbourhood; as you make sense of local and world news; as you respond to the weather forecast, as you decide on a holiday location and how to get there.
When out and about in your local area
Holidays are an ideal opportunity to compare the location
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0.141705 | <urn:uuid:53799722-5c5f-4c56-984c-aa57762dbd5e> | en | 0.961967 | Dec 2004 Dec 04 //////////The factory made a adapter plate for the manual tranny's in the Chevy powered 65/66's. How does the FOM automatic bolt to the back of the GM motor? Is the bellhousing special?, maybe a adapter plate from the GM bell housing to the FOM? What starter is used? What flex plate? Anyone know? Thanks, KM//////// ----------- Chevrolet style flexplate and starter on the McKinnon sixes and eights. It has to be a factory made special bellhousing as all the McKinnon eights and sixes I've removed had automatics and theres no adapter plate between the tranny BH and engine block.---- ---------- Checking the parts book, the adapter plate was only used on 194 cid six powered cars with the T-96 tranny.(inbetween bell housing and tranny). -------------- The early (66-70) Avanti II's used a Powershift with the 350 engine. It uses a special bell housing and Delco starter for the GM flexplate. ----- How does the TC mount to the flexplate? Is it different than the earlier engines? Or are the bolt patterns coincidentally the same? --------- Torque converter bolts to the flexplate ala GM. ----- It is my understanding that the G.M. to Borg Warner bellhousings were purchased from Checker. This goes for both stick and automatic. Starting in '65 Checker got away from the old Continental six and bought G.M. engines, as did Studebaker. While Checker built their own cars, mostly taxi cabs, they were also an O.E.M. supplier of bits and pieces for other makes. ------ That makes sense Keith, specially since they had to do it (the adaptations) in a hurry. ------------ So that makes me think of another question, Is it a Stude torque converter? or a GM, It'd be nice if it was a GM converter, you can get all kinds of HIGH stall converters for GM's ----------------- The '65-'66 Studebaker torque converter has no ring-gear welded to it. Otherwise it may be the same as the '64 and prior. The chevybaker torque converter does have the usual six bolt pads on the front side. Instead of the round flex plate used on the '64 and earlier, the '65-'66 used a common Chevrolet ring gear. The only difference being it had six more holes in it, to fasten it to the torque converter. At one time I bought a 283 out of an Impala, to use in my '65 Daytona. Since my old ring gear was void of teeth, I bolted both ring gears together so I could drill new holes in the good one. KK ---------------------- The 65/66 FOM was a different beast from the prior, so these were not "on hand". The sixes didn't use a model 8, but a model 35. They bought every tranny hooked to the GM engine. With all the adaption done, and with the eventual demise of the marque, why the FOM? Just seems illogical, but trying to figure out this one small thing is impossible at this late date. The PG was cheap to produce, and was as sorted out as it would ever be by this time. The lack of a low gear? Try every second gear start tranny. Just another question mark. ----------------------- Perhaps it was simply a good relationship with the supplier coupled with confidence in the transmission. ------------------------ I was thinking (very dangerous) that they might have been fufilling some contractual issues. Still it is one more head scratcher amongst a hugh list of head scratchers. I had no idea of the complexity of putting the GM stuff in the Stude car. Or maybe someone didn't want the final cars to turn a profit like they did. It seems to me the "bean counters" had their way, but the car defied them. Never count a Stude out. ------------------------- | https://studebaker-info.org/Tech/Text3/Stud_trans2GM_eng.txt | dclm-gs1-252345422 |
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Is Passiflora Quandrangularis Invasive?
The fruit of Passiflora Quandrangularis is consumed by birds that help to spread the seeds of the plant through their droppings. Because of this, the plant can become invasive in regions that are tropical and have regular rainfall. In some cases it can also be invasive in areas where there has been deforestation.
The roots of Passiflora Quandrangularis are thick and branched, allowing it to hold onto soil as it grows to a total height of around three meters. The thick root network also gives the plant a high tolerance for drought, allowing it to grow even in arid regions.
It is an aggressive plant and can spread rapidly over large areas. This can be problematic in that it may compete with other plants for resources, such as water or sunlight. It can also be a problem for humans, as the thick roots can penetrate the ground surface and damage fences or other structures.
Can Passiflora Quandrangularis be grown indoors?
The plant can be grown indoors, but it needs to be kept near a window in order to get sunlight. It is best to keep it outdoors for the summer, and then bring it indoors when the first frost is expected, or if you are in an area which does not have a long growing season.
Keep it in a location that is protected from wind and where there are no extreme temperatures, as this can cause damage to the leaves. It will need to be repotted every two years.
The plant needs to have soil with a pH between 5.5 and 7.5. It likes soil that is well draining, but it also needs a high water retention capacity. It prefers a soil with an organic content of around 30%. It can grow in sandy soil, but not in acidic or alkaline soils.
Does Passiflora Quandrangularis blooms?
It has several different varieties of flowers, so it will bloom throughout the year. The flowers are white and on a vine of six to ten feet long. It is common to see vibrant colors on the flower as well, including red, yellow, orange, or white. These colors help attract insects as pollinators.
The plant also attracts hummingbirds that help spread the seeds from the fruit among other bird species. The plant grows in full sunlight and is deciduous. It has heart shaped leaves that are dark green on the upper surface and silvery on the undersides. The leaves have small lobes, which can be seen when they are in leaf.
Passiflora Quandrangularis blooms in to white flowers that are 4–5 cm across with five petals, each of which is triangular and densely covered by fine hair-like plumes. The flowers are frequently tinged with yellow on the outside and red or purple inside, but there is a wide range of variation in this aspect.
The floral tube is around 3 cm long and the lower part of it is surrounded by five petals. Each flower has between five and eight stamens that are over 5 cm long. The flowers are grouped into panicles, with each panicle having up to 70 flowers on it. As they open in the morning, they close late in the day and remain closed during the night.
Is Passiflora Quandrangularis Evergreen?
The plant is deciduous and dies back during the winter. When it is undisturbed, it will grow back again the following spring. This can pose a problem in regions where there are heavy frosts, as it will not survive a hard frost, and hence should be kept out of areas that may be subject to this.
In warmer climates, the plant is evergreen and does not die back in the winter. It can tolerate temperatures between 15 and 20 °C (59–68 °F). It grows best when it is watered regularly, but its roots do not grow very far underground and can be damaged when it gets too much water.
Passiflora Quandrangularis is sensitive to frost and its roots can be damaged by a hard frost, although they will recover quickly when exposed to warm temperatures.
The plant is evergreen in tropical regions with a high annual rainfall. Other than this, it is difficult to tell whether or not the plant is evergreen as it has some leaves on it at all times of the year. If the plant does not have its normal number of leaves and does not get enough sunlight, then you know that it is deciduous.
Is Passiflora Quandrangularis poisonous to dogs?
The leaves of the plant are poisonous to dogs. It is important to dispose of all products containing this in the leaf when you have finished using them as they can be harmful to animals.
Also, it is very important that you wash your hands after coming into contact with plants containing such substances as they can cause skin irritation or cause vomiting and diarrhea if consumed.
The symptoms of Passiflora Quandrangularis poisoning in dogs will vary, but include vomiting, diarrhea and drooling. This can result in a loss of appetite, anorexia and a reduced activity level. If the plant is ingested by small dogs, it can cause severe vomiting or death.
What type of soil does Passiflora Quandrangularis need?
The plant prefers a soil with an organic content of around 30%. It can grow in sandy soil, but not in acidic or alkaline soils. It needs to have a good amount of nutrients and enough water.
It is important to keep the plant well watered. The soil should be kept damp, but not wet. Make sure that you drain the soil before overwatering it. Passiflora Quandrangularis will not tolerate waterlogged soil.
The plant needs a long growing season in order to grow well and will look better if it has ample light. In general, a warm, dry climate is ideal for the plant.
Is Passiflora Quandrangularis self-fertile?
Passiflora Quandrangularis is a self-fertile plant. That means that it can be grown from seeds and does not need pollination from another plant to set fruit. When the flowers have finished blooming and the fruit has formed, they all ripen at the same time. This helps to ensure that no one flower falls prey to insect attacks or other problems, as there will always be another flower nearby with which to pair up with.
Passiflora Quandrangularis can also be cross-pollinated by hummingbirds, if it is not self-fertile. If a hummingbird lands on the flower, pollen from one flower affects the other flowers near it.
Is Passiflora Quandrangularis an insect repellent?
The plant contains a chemical called limonene that is a natural insect repellent. This chemical is not only found in the leaves of the plant, but is also in its seeds, as well as its bark. The plant has also been known to repel flies and mosquitoes.
Passiflora Quandrangularis can repel some insects and insects prefer to avoid it rather than eat it. Passiflora Quandrangularis has a powerful scent, which is what it uses to repel insects.
The flower also has hairs on its leaves that act as quills and can cause the insect to be temporarily paralyzed. The scent is so potent that many people consider it bad-smelling, but this just adds to the effect of the plant.
How often should I water Passiflora Quandrangularis?
If the plant is well watered, it will not have trouble with drought. The soil should not be completely soggy, but it should still be moist enough for the roots to be at least partially submerged in water. If you do get a lot of rain, though, then a lot of water may get into the soil and cause root damage.
To avoid this, make sure that the plant has drainage holes at the bottom and sides of its pots or containers. Also, make sure that the soil is not packed too tightly into the pot and that it does not dry out in between watering.
How do I prune Passiflora Quandrangularis?
The plant does not need to be pruned regularly and should only be pruned if it shows signs of leaf damage. The plant does not need to be in a specific shape, just left in an aesthetically pleasing position. To maximize the display of flowers, the best time to prune is after you have picked all the fruit from the plant. Pruning is best done during the spring months when it is warm. The following are the steps to follow when pruning;
• Prune off damaged, brown or yellow leaves that have no chance of survival
• Cut the stems of flowers that have already finished blooming
• Remove dead and diseased wood
• If a stem is flowering, cut it back to a leaf that is still healthy and then remove one or two more leaves further up the stem (These will help to promote the growth of new branches)
• If a stem is not flowering, remove it and prune the leaves at the same time
• If you notice that your plant is growing too tall and you want to keep it small, then you can also prune off the main stem and allow the growth of new branches to develop. This should be done in order to keep the plant in the desired shape.
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Fireplace Dampers – Throat Dampers vs Top-Mount Dampers
An open damper is like an open windowFireplace dampers are an important component of your fireplace system and are often overlooked. Dampers serve the critical purpose of closing off the chimney when the fireplace is not in use. It’s an energy efficiency device, saving you money by preventing the loss of heat during the winter and preventing the loss of air conditioning during the summer. An open or missing damper is like an open window.
What is a Fireplace Damper?
In simple terms, a damper is a metal plate that closes the chimney flue. Homeowners often get the terms “damper” and “flue” mixed up. They’re very different but they work together. Simply stated, the damper is a metal plate; the flue is the pipe.
What is a Throat Damper?
Dampers come in different types and styles. Most dampers that are part of the original construction are called “throat dampers” because they’re located in the throat of the fireplace, above the firebox (where you make the fire) and below the smoke chamber and flue pipe. Throat dampers come in various styles–pivot hatchets, poker, rotary, spiral, vestal, Allied/Donley, and Majestic.
Examples of Throat Dampers Photo credit: Chimney Safety Institute of America
Different regions of the country have different kinds of dampers. Another interesting point is that many dampers on the East Coast are removable and replaceable. This makes it much easier for chimney sweeps to be able to do a thorough cleaning of the system, especially into the smoke shelf behind the damper, because they don’t have to fight around the damper plate.
Here in San Diego and most of the West Coast, dampers are not removable and replaceable. That means that once the damper is damaged beyond repair, the damper cannot be replaced in the throat of the chimney without tearing open the facade which would be cost-prohibitive. In that case, there’s another solution–a top-mount damper.
What is a Top-Mount Damper?
If a throat damper becomes damaged beyond repair and cannot be replaced, our industry has created a solution called a Top-Mount Damper, also known as a Top-Sealing Damper.
A bracket for a top sealing damper
The bracket that holds the chain on a top-mount damper
This damper is placed at the top of the chimney stack. Most of these types of dampers are operated by a cable that runs all the way down the flue pipe and into a bracket inside the firebox. To close the damper, you simply pull the chain down and lock it in the bracket. To open the damper, you unhook the cable from the bracket and it pops open at the top because it’s spring-activated.
Top-mount dampers come in different styles. Some of the top-mount dampers are referred to as “Ice breakers,” to be used in colder regions.
Heat loss from a chimney without a damper
Without a damper
A chimney with a top sealing damper
With a top-mount damper
Four advantages to Top-Mount Dampers:
* Top-Mount Dampers seal better which will save you money on utility bills. When the cable is pulled down, the damper plate seals against a rubber, silicone or rope gasket which gives it a tight seal. Throat dampers, on the other hand, never provide a complete seal, especially as they get older and the damper plate warps. Without the seal, there are gaps that allow heat loss during the winter. Top-mount dampers will increase energy efficiency in your home and save you money in heating during the winter and air conditioning during the summer.
* For cold climate areas, the top-mount dampers keep the warm air inside the flue, helping the draft and reducing the likelihood of smoke coming into the room.
* If you don’t have a chimney cap, rodents and birds can come down the chimney and enter the house. The top-mount damper closes the chimney at the top, making it impossible for critters to get in.
* Here in San Diego and other parts of Southern California, we have a serious problem with aggressive Africanized Bees. Bees like to build their hives in chimneys. With a typical throat damper, the bees have free access to build their hive in the flue. A chimney cap isn’t enough to prevent the bees from entering the flue. With a top-mount damper, the flue is completely closed off at the top, making it almost impossible for bees to enter the flue.
One caveat…
Top-mount dampers can only be installed on masonry chimneys with open fireplaces. They cannot be installed in prefab fireplaces, free-standing stoves or Rampart General Pre-Cast systems due to the U.L. listing. The top-mount dampers also cannot be installed with windcaps.
In addition, top-mount dampers cannot be installed for a fireplace that has artificial gas logs or a log lighter because the damper must be locked fully open.
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aOn June 12, 1962, guards at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary began their day with a startling discovery. Three inmates were missing from their cells. John Anglin, Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris survived. On their pillows, there were replicas of their heads made of papier-mâché, intended to disguise their absence and rid the guards of their scent.
What happened to them remains a mystery to this day.
John and Clarence Anglin, brothers from Donalsonville, Georgia, are sent to Alcatraz after a bank robbery in Columbia, Alabama. Frank Morris was previously imprisoned for a bank robbery and escaped and was sent to Alcatraz after he was Convicted of burglary. Investigators later theorized that the three men began planning their escape six months before it was revealed, beginning in December 1960.
When Alcatraz opened in 1934, it was seen as a “prison with maximum security, least privilege.” The prison, located on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, was intended to display a ruthless force on crime – According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)“to show a law-abiding audience that the federal government was serious about stopping rampant crime in the 1920s and 1930s.”
Alcatraz was intended for “prisoners who refused to comply with rules and regulations in other federal institutions, who were considered violent and dangerous, or who were considered an escape risk.” In BOP’s own words, it was “designed to be a prison system of the prison system”, where prisoners learned how to earn “perks” (such as “work, communication and visitation with family members, access to the prison library, recreational activities”) before they were sent to serve the rest of their sentences in another place.
So, how did brothers Anglin and Maurice manage to achieve this? According to the FBIThey loosened the vents in their cells, creating enough space to let them out. They then used an unguarded utility corridor as a “secret workshop” where they assembled the tools needed for their escape. These included, according to the bureau, homemade life-sustaining tools and a life raft made of 50 raincoats. (The men are believed to have found instructions on how to assemble temporary life-saving tools and a life raft in the magazines.) They also made a periscope-like instrument to keep watch on guards as they worked, wooden oars, and an inflating instrument. The raft. Using a network of tubes, the men climbed up and then opened the ventilator at the top of the building. They made fake latch using soap to disguise their preparations.
On the night of their escape, the men are believed to have left their cells, collected their supplies, and climbed to the roof. “Then, they touched the smokestack of the bakery at the back of the dungeon, climbed over the fence, crept onto the island’s northeast shore and launched their raft,” According to the FBI’s account.
Whether the men survived is a mystery that the FBI has not been able to solve.
(public domain)
No bodies were found. Over the years, purported evidence of the two men’s survival has surfaced, prompting discussions among investigators, experts, and Anglins’ relatives. In 1979, the FBI closed his case, acknowledging that its investigation, “which lasted for nearly two decades, was unable to determine whether the three men succeeded in escaping or died in the attempt.” The American infantry took over the investigation and have kept it open ever since.
Ken Widener, nephew of John and Clarence Anglin, is convinced that his uncles escaped and managed to get off the island. He and his brother David have conducted a number of media interviews over the years, sharing what they believe is evidence that their relatives made it out of California safely.
As a child, Widener, whose mother was Mary Angeline Widener’s sister to John and Clarence, used to hear the story of his uncle’s escape from Alcatraz. “It’s been a part of my life since I can remember,” he says. independent. “It was always something that was talked about at family reunions.”
In 2012, the case received renewed attention as the media celebrated the 50th anniversary of Anglins and Morris’ escape. That’s also when Widener decided to dig deeper into the case. In 2015, he and his brother David participated in a historic channel special where they unveiled what they say is a photo of John and Clarence Anglin, alive and well, in 1975.
(History Channel)
According to Leidner, the photo was taken by family friend Fred Breezy, who gave it to the Anglin family in 1992. “It stayed in my mom’s collection all that time,” he says, until he discovered it himself. In the history channel, a special titled Escape from Alcatraz: The Lost GuideKane and David Widener are shown giving evidence to investigators and seeing that their uncles built a new life as farmers in Brazil after their escape.
“I think it was a way of feeling like, OK, enough time has passed,” says Ken Widener. independent. “…I think it was a way for them to let the family know, ‘Hey, we made it, we’re fine, we haven’t slept, but we can’t go home.'” “
The photo has been the subject of intense commentary and speculation. It’s grainy – as might be expected in an older photo – and appears as two men in sunglasses looking toward the camera.
Michael W. Strid, a retired police sergeant and sketch artist for the Baltimore Police Department who now offers services as a forensic imaging expert, is featured in Escape from Alcatraz: The Lost Guide Analyzing the photo and comparing it with the photos of the three men’s detention, providing an encouraging assessment, saying that he sees “more [in the images] This is similar [to verified images of the men] From what I see it is different.”
Michael Dyke, a now retired U.S. Marine Corps Representative, has investigated the fate of Alcatraz fugitives for years. In 2016, he expressed doubts about the photo, saying ABC30 Some physical characteristics indicate that she does not depict the Anglin brothers. Though, he also said that it cannot be ruled out as a possible lead.
Now, Dyke is more specific. “After working on the case for 17 years, I think so [the three men] It is very likely that they did not survive the first night of their escape.” independent. “Since no body has been found, you can never say that one hundred percent, but based on all the evidence, it is likely that all three died that night and were swept into the ocean.”
Dyke says of the photo: “You can’t recognize the face on either. Because in order to do the facial recognition you have to see the eyes, the pupils, the corners of their mouths. And also the height of the ears on their heads.” He notes that the men in the photo have long hair and glasses. Sunshade and facial hair. This means there is no “valid way” to do a face comparison for either of the men, he says.
He adds that other elements that are unlikely to change over time can be examined, such as the length of the arms and fingers. “I have current photos of both Angén brothers showing their full body. They both have unusually long arms.” Both subjects in the Brazilian photo have short arms. When you take measurements on each of them, you can easily tell that the two men in the photo are not two Angels.”
Fred Breze died in 1998. In 2015, his widow Judith Breze told daily Mail That her husband “didn’t say anything to her [her] ever about the escape of these men from Alcatraz.”
“He showed me the picture because of the size of the anthill. I have no idea what the men in the picture are and Fred never talked about them.” “He said the photo was taken on his trip to Brazil.”
Ken Widener and his brother made another piece of what they consider evidence that their uncles lived. It’s an audio tape that Widener says their mother recorded while Prezi explains what happened to the Anglen brothers.
On the phone with Ken Widener, I asked him if he’d play part of the tape for me. He agrees, and within a few seconds, the audio is playing from the other end of the line. By Widener’s own admission, it’s hard to tell what the people on the tape are saying, because the recording is old – and listening to it over the phone probably wouldn’t help me. A clearer version aired on the History Channel – the same section I hear. “Nobody knows positively that they’re really alive, but me,” Prezi says in the tape.
Dyke says he has listened to the entire tape and sees inconsistencies in Prezi’s account. To him, much of Prezi’s account of events is “meaningless and exaggerated.”
Alcatraz was seen in San Francisco, California on October 9, 2015
(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)
Think about Alcatraz escaping long enough, and you’ll inevitably start wondering about the bodies. In the 60 years since the escape, no body has ever been found. If the men had drifted into the ocean, or if they had drowned, wouldn’t their remains float to the surface now?
Well, not necessarily. According to 2002 The New York Times Q&A (which was not specifically related to this Alcatraz escape but did share general information about what happens to human bodies in the water), “a body in cold water may never surface” because cold water slows down decomposition, thus releasing gases that cause bodies to rise to Surface.
In addition, Dyke says, marine life in the Bay Area and in the nearby ocean, which includes “crabs or other seafloor-dwelling organisms” [which] It usually makes holes in the body”, which also prevents the build-up of gases that would cause the body to float.
“Based on the tide charts from that evening, it was most likely washed away directly into the ocean,” Dyke adds. “If they had left half an hour earlier than today, or even an hour later in the day, their bodies might have been recovered.”
Recreation of the cell occupied by Alcatraz fugitive Frank Morris is seen at Alcatraz Federal Prison on July 2, 2003 in San Francisco Bay, California
(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
But, as Ken Widener wonders over the phone, if detectives are so convinced that the fugitives drowned, why not close the case? Why did the FBI release old photos of all three men?
“As long as the bodies are not found, there is still a possibility that they are both on the run and alive, even if the chance is very slim,” Dyck says. There are procedural reasons, too: As long as there is an active fugitive order for the three fugitives, the US Marshal’s Chamber will not close its case, he says, and “it is not standard practice to request that an order be dismissed without strong evidence ‘to support’ it”—such as finding remains or DNA evidence.
In 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the escape, US Marshal Don O’Keefe said Reuters The ongoing investigation “serves as a warning to fugitives that no matter what time, we will continue to search for you and bring you to justice” – language that suggests the service’s desire to send a message and display an image of perseverance, perhaps more than anything else. US Infantry Service said earlier It will continue to investigate the fate of the two men until they are arrested, proven dead, or presumed to have reached the age of ninety-nine. This would put the deadline for formally resolving the issue in 2030.
Ken Widener says he and his family can’t believe the Anglen brothers are still alive, but they escaped and later died. He believes that any future investigation should aim not to “find them alive, but to find their grave”.
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He is likeable, interesting, knowledgeable and full of great tips on how to get better.
I stumbled across these videos two years when seeking guidance on public speaking.
The lessons contained in these videos are relevent to interviewing.
1. How do you get people to engage with you? Have someone/something in common.
2. Be Interesting, have interesting things to say.
3. Tell stories.
4. What does it take to be great? PRACTICE.
5. Spend 3 mins every day for 10 days, record yourself and watch the progression from day 1 to day 10.
6. Experiement, see what works, dont stick to the brief, get out of your comfort zone. | https://theinterview.ca/great-tips-from-a-master/ | dclm-gs1-252435422 |
0.442179 | <urn:uuid:7163e74e-f8e0-4b7d-9795-6ff1704af9ad> | en | 0.925041 | Why is peppermint oil bad for babies?
Menthol, which is in peppermint oil, should not be inhaled by or applied to the face of an infant or small child because it may negatively affect their breathing.
Is peppermint oil safe to diffuse around babies?
Even diluted, oils can build up in your system if used frequently throughout the day. Don’t use peppermint oil on children less than 30 months old. Peppermint oil may increase the risk of seizures in younger children. Don’t use oils near a heat source.
Is smelling peppermint oil safe for babies?
Don’t use peppermint oil on children less than 30 months old. Peppermint used on children under 30 months of age can increase a risk for seizures. Don’t use oils near a heat source. Using essential oils near heat source can cause a fire.
Can inhaling peppermint oil be harmful?
Always consider children, pets, and pregnant women before using aromatherapy. If taken in very large doses, peppermint oil can be toxic. It contains a known toxic compound called pulegone.
What essential oils are bad for babies?
• eucalyptus.
• fennel.
• peppermint.
• rosemary.
• verbena.
• wintergreen.
Can breathing in essential oils be harmful?
“In fact, breathing in the particles released by the oils may actually trigger airway inflammation and asthma symptoms,” she says. “The strong odors emitted by essential oils may contain volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. VOCs are chemical gases that worsen air quality and can irritate the lungs.”
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Can babies eat peppermint?
When can babies eat mint? Fresh herbs like mint may be introduced as soon as baby is ready to start solids, which is generally around 6 months of age.
What happens if you inhale too much peppermint oil?
Is peppermint good for your lungs?
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0.027361 | <urn:uuid:7dc6eb74-ef89-4dc6-bcdd-44c9dd1198c4> | en | 0.947552 | WIW - 32 Phoenix Avenue Castleknock
Up a couple of weeks now. Haven’t bothered to view after the madness I saw at last two viewings in Castleknock. Heard there was queues out the door last Saturday. Seems better priced than Pecks Lane.
Offer accepted at €395. Castleknock market has taken off!
Last asking €349k
Offer accepted at 46,000 or 13% above asking.
I reckon unsuccessful bidders will begin bidding on this: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40669&p=704165&hilit=Pecks+lane#p704165
Current offer of 355 as far as I know.
Not on the PPR, what gives
I am also waiting on the price of a similar property in Castleknock…sold in February.Why is it taking so long?
Me too. Waiting on 11 phoenix court.
Guessing EA ineptitude.
Someone should tell the EA’s about this new addition to the job spec. :laughing:
Why would the EA submit the price? :unamused:
11 Phoenix Court sold for €376,501. Asking was €350k. Madness.
Those houses are absolutely tiny, someone really wanted location over all else and doesn’t mind living in a box.
They are 1,000 square feet. Is that tiny? There was also a relatively big back garden and side with it.
Yes they are tiny if compared to your standard CT McMansion but not if you compare to the average European property.
Roughly the same size as my 3 bed terrace, which is two proper bedrooms and a box. Not quite sure how they managed to fit in another bedroom.
Regardless, people seen to be willing to pay a premium for these houses. I’ve heard 32 Phoenix Avenue went for 395k. Smaller site than Phoenix Court and not as in near good condition.
I take it you are an EA in the area :slight_smile:
No but Castleknock is a very small place.
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0.018873 | <urn:uuid:d2a20a8f-d402-4a4d-a637-c7a42da86d3f> | en | 0.973582 | D30 Day 11: Favorite Adventure You Have Ran
Years ago I ran a homebrew campaign that I called “The Crystal of the Ebon Flame.” The campaign was of course based around the artifact of the same name, which I had seen in a First Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide. I just used the name, which I thought was really evocative, and created the details of the artifact myself. I set my campaign in the Forgotten Realms, and decided that this artifact had been crafted long ago by the gods Bane and Myrkul. It gave its wielder the power to command large numbers of undead and evil humanoids, and was able to unleash soul searing bolts of power at nearby foes. It had been designed primarily as a weapon of war.
I’ve always been very revisionist as a dungeon master, taking what I like from a setting and rewriting other things as I saw fit to tell my story. To this end I decided that the Crystal of the Ebon Flame was used by the forces of darkness during the fall of Myth Drannor. At the height of this conflict, the avatars of Bane, Myrkul, and Corellon Larethian, among others, were present on the field of battle. Corellon Larethian managed to strike the Crystal of the Ebon Flame with an arrow at a pivotal moment, sending it flying from it’s wielders hands and causing chaos to fall upon the ranks of the wicked. Myth Drannor was ultimately lost, but this respite from the awful power of the Ebon Flame was enough to allow the elves to rally and rout several of their enemies. Priests of Bane and Myrkul managed to spirit away their foul artifact to a temple fortress but the elves, too weak to mount an assault on this fortress, were nevertheless able to seal their enemies away in this fortress with powerful magics.
That was all developed much later than the first adventure. The game started as a one-off adventure with a few friends. The adventurers were sitting in a tavern (original, right?) when some local miners came in complaining that undead had begun to pour out of the new shafts they had opened up. The hearty adventurers rose to the challenge, driving the undead back and exploring the ancient worked passageways that the miners had uncovered. The passageways eventually led to a large door that was shielded by a powerful force that they were unable to breach. And that is where the adventure ended for awhile.
Eventually I picked the idea back up again, and fleshed out what this giant door was and why it was sealed (see above). The ensuing campaign lasted for several months, during which my party adventured from Coromyr, to Myth Drannor, to the Sea of Fallen Stars, racing the forces of the Zhentarim in an effort to prevent their foes from unlocking the magical door. The campaign culminated in a giant battle west of Tilverton, where a brave elf in our party paid the ultimate price to destroy the Crystal of the Ebon Flame forever by becoming a conduit between the Prime and Negative material planes so that the magic of the flame could be siphoned into the void.
All of this happened with none of the party members being higher than 8th level (A dwarven fighter named Gobo Stonebrow, the only character to survive from that first adventure all the way through to the end), proving that you don’t have to be a demi-god to save the world. I made a lot of the adventures up just a few steps ahead of the group, and always felt like I’d like to run it again someday, since it felt like a rough draft more than a polished campaign in some places. I doubt that will ever happen, though, since I’ve lost a lot of my notes from back then. My memories of those adventures are probably better than trying to relive them would be anyway.
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This idiom is used when one or more people learn new information that was meant khổng lồ stay hidden or unknown. It is often used when someone shares the secret information verbally, but it can also be used when the information is discovered in other ways.
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Origin of Let the cát Out of the Bag
The origin of this saying is disputed, but the most common explanation is that it came from a trick that was used in the past in English market places.
Apparently, at an earlier time in history, baby pigs were often sold at market. The seller would give the buyer the piglet in a bag. As a trick lớn save money, the seller would sometimes stick a mèo in the bag rather than a piglet. The buyer might not realize he had been cheated until the cat came out of the bag, và the trick was revealed.
Example of Let the cat Out of the Bag
Today, this phrase is most commonly used after a secret becomes known, & there’s no reason to hide it any more.
Here is an example conversation between family members, in which the child has been hiding a failing grade in his mathematics class.
Father: Hi, son. How was school today?
Son: Great! I’m getting really good grades in all my classes.
Mother: Really? Even in your math class?
Son: Yep! Especially in my math class.
Father: Son, your teacher called us today & told us you’re failing the math class. She let the mèo out of the bag. There’s no reason to lie any more.
Son: I’m sorry. I was just embarrassed & didn’t want khổng lồ tell you.
More Examples
Nets và Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark let the mèo out of the bag Thursday morning at the groundbreaking of the renovation of Nassau Coliseum, saying there would be a “major announcement” about professional basketball coming to the Coliseum in the future. –New York PostWhen you ask Amazon, they will simply reply “no comment” to lớn the rumors that they’re planning to xuất hiện 300 to lớn 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores. But is that because it’s not true or because the company isn’t ready lớn let the mèo out of the bag? When it opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, the process was kept very, very quiet. –LA Times
Pronunciation in American English
This idiom is generally heard in conversations rather than seen in writing. Therefore, it’s important khổng lồ realize how it is commonly pronounced.
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The two words “out of” often get blended together in speech. Once blended, this part of the phrase sounds like “outta.” The whole phrase together sounds like, “He let the cat outta the bag.”
Also, if you don’t know who told the secret, you can simply say, “The cat’s outta the bag.”
The idiom let the cat out of the bag is a great phrase khổng lồ use when you want to lớn let someone know that previously secret information is no longer a secret.
Let the cat out of the bag is a common saying that means lớn make a secret known.
Example: James was planning khổng lồ surprise his wife with a trip to lớn Japan, a place she’s been wanting to lớn visit. He was supposed lớn keep this a secret until next week, but he let the mèo out of the bag early because he was so excited và wanted her khổng lồ know.
Synonyms / Similar Phrases:
The Origin Of ‘Let The cát Out Of The Bag’
Where does this idiom come from? The origin of the phrase let the cat out of the bag is not certain; however, there are theories about how it originated:
One theory has to vị with merchants who were looking to make some coin by selling piglets.When a customer bought a young pig from them, the merchant would put it into a bag & give it to lớn them. However, the more dishonest merchants hadother plans in mind. While out of the customer’s view, these dishonest merchants would swap out the piglet with a cat. Why? Maybe pigs were more valuable, so by switching them, it saved money. Regardless, the customer, being none the wiser, would take the bag and go home. There, they would let the cát out of the bag and the merchant’s trick would be discovered.
Now, there are a few problems with this theory. For one, what if the customer immediately looked in the bag after the transaction? I guess the bag could have been tied at the đứng top to prevent that, but even so, the customer would eventually find the cat in their bag. Then wouldn’t they simply return lớn the merchant & complain? The merchant would ruin their reputation và business in no time!
2. The second theory has to do with a multi-tailed whip that was called a “cat o’ nine tails,” the shortened size being “the cat.” This whip was used for the physical punishment of sailors who broke certain rules (such as theft, I think). This whip, or “cat” was kept in a bag, perhaps lớn keep the leather from drying out. Anyway, if a time came for a sailor khổng lồ receive punishment, “the cat” was taken out of the bag, hence the phrase.
So those are two theories I’ve heard about this phrase’s origin. Keep in mind that they are merely theories and it’s possible the expression did not originate from either.
What about its earliest known appearance in print? The earliest I could find it used as an idiom is from The London Magazine, January 1760:
“We could have wished that the strange genious, tác giả of this piece, had not let the cát out of the bag; for it is such a mad, ranting, swearing, caterwauling pus*, that we fear no sober family will be troubled with her.”
This means that the phrase is at least over 250 years old.
Example Sentences
Was this supposed to lớn be a surprise for Jessica? I might have let the cát out of thebagwhen I spoke khổng lồ her earlier today.
Similar Example:
She spilled the beans & told him everything that happened.
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Tip: This phrase is related to animals, specifically, cats! If you want khổng lồ see others lượt thích it, we have a danh mục of mèo sayings on here that you can kiểm tra out. | https://thietkewebshop.vn/let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag/ | dclm-gs1-252545422 |
0.020975 | <urn:uuid:93d9d7f9-a65a-4019-951a-48d7a72e42ea> | en | 0.956711 | With communication improvements due to technology and an increase in medical facilities closing in rural areas, technology may be the best way to bridge the gaps between patients. However, unlike many other healthcare initiatives, we’re seeing change being led by the patients themselves. In situations like these, it’s best for organizations to take notice and leverage the advantages of these groups to the benefit of all.
Dubbed “smart health communities”, these groups can be related by geography or just connected over the internet. Each encourages community health—many members will have similar needs and goals. The idea behind smart health communities is not new, as plenty of organizations have promoted shared support for health in the past. However, the inclusion of technology opens new possibilities, especially for patients with rare diseases that would not otherwise be able to connect with others like them.
But why the explosion of success in these groups, especially in an era of inconsistent adoption rates for patient portals? In this can, the grassroots nature of these communities often appeals more for patients, particularly if they are brought in by friends or family. From there, these sorts of groups tend to snowball—the more members there are, the greater the value for an individual patient. And with the vast majority of patients owning a smartphone, engaging in these groups is more convenient than ever.
The structure of these communities can range from local health groups to massive organizations such as Weight Watchers. One of the biggest strengths of these groups is that they create further touchpoints to help patients think about their health. Oftentimes, the occasional visit to the doctor doesn’t do enough to create healthier lifestyles and lasting change.
This provides a new way for healthcare organizations to engage with patients. In this case, they should stay away from inserting themselves into what can often be a very personal space and instead focus on providing factual materials and resources to these organizations with the intent of ensuring that patients adhere to physician-approved care as often as possible. The challenge here is incorporating this with the usual patient care patterns that doctors go through. There’s an inevitable learning curve, and physician adoption rates may take a while to adjust to the demand for more information about these kinds of organizations.
Still, it’s a big opportunity for healthcare providers looking to promote community health and one that doesn’t even require their direct involvement. There’s no need to fix a system that isn’t broken, and providers can make a real difference by learning what communities their patients are a part of and working to build inroads with them. I expect to see more of these groups emerge for more specific patient populations for the benefit of those that might not be able to connect in person. | https://toddberner.com/digital-health-communities-a-force-for-better-care/ | dclm-gs1-252595422 |
0.125615 | <urn:uuid:e1976e25-26df-493c-b4dd-fe33b5a4993c> | en | 0.934425 | This article continues a new Prophecy Q/A series, where I do my best to answer questions from readers like you.
Have a question you would like answered? Email me here.
Q: Are there different levels of hell? If so, what are they and where in Scripture can I learn more?
Dr. Tony Evans likens hell to Alcatraz. Just as Alcatraz was a prison that held various levels of offenders and was located in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, hell will contain various levels of offenders, enduring various levels of punishment, who will be hopelessly stuck in the middle of the Lake of Fire.
Luke 12:48 and Luke 16:19-31 (the account of the rich man and Lazarus) are the primary passages indicating that there are different degrees of punishment for non-believers. These degrees of punishment may also be related to different sections of hell: the abyss, place of torment, etc.
One section, Tartarus, mentioned in 2 Peter 2:4, may be either a physical location or a spiritual, unseen realm. Some translations render it “lowest hell,” and 2 Peter 2:4 says that it is a place where certain demons are kept locked up—at least until the end times, when, eventually, death and hell will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and will stay locked away forever (Revelation 20:14).
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0.682931 | <urn:uuid:0d36c547-4d3f-436d-a52b-ba1f5ee922be> | en | 0.975566 | The Link Between Race And Mental Health
Our understanding of mental health has come a long way in the last decade. We are having more conversations about mental health and a lot of the stigma has been lifted. People feel more comfortable talking about their mental health and that means that we are more aware than ever about how common mental health issues are. However, there is still a long way to go and there are some difficult questions that still need to be answered.
One of the things that we don’t talk about enough is the role that race plays in mental health. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that your heritage and racial background has a big impact on your chances of developing a mental health issue, and this is a problem that needs to be addressed. So, how does race affect mental health?
The Impact Of Inequality
As much as we like to think that we live in a fair society, racial inequality is still a huge problem. Although awareness of racial inequality is growing, there is still a long way to go before these problems are addressed properly, and this can have a huge impact on mental health. Studies show that BAME citizens have a higher chance of being unemployed, more chance of being involved with the criminal justice system, and limited access to improved earnings. All of these inequalities feed into one another and create a situation where upward mobility is much harder.
These issues with inequality are directly linked to mental health because things like unemployment and financial problems are known to be a direct cause of poor mental health. Lower earnings and lack of job security also mean that BAME people are less likely to have good health insurance. This means that they are unable to access treatments like mental health medication or talking therapies, so their mental health issues are more likely to go untreated and become more severe.
There are groups that have been set up to address political and social inequalities and support the mental health of minority communities. The Latino Victory Project, for example, recently appointed Cynthia Telles, a mental health advocate and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine. However, a lot of work still needs to be done to remove racial inequalities and improve the mental health of BAME communities.
The Impact Of Racism
Racism is still prevalent in modern society and it is the cause of a lot of the racial inequalities that we see, and those inequalities feed into mental health issues. But structural racism isn’t the only issue that affects mental health and direct acts of racism can lead to mental health issues as well. Repeated incidents of racial abuse can lead to depression in many people and in circumstances where physical assault is involved, this can also trigger post-traumatic stress disorder. Some people may also experience anxiety due to the fear of being discriminated against because of their race.
Although we have made a lot of progress where mental health is concerned, it is important to consider the impact that race has on the likelihood of developing mental health conditions as well as the access to treatments. | https://uncustomary.org/the-link-between-race-and-mental-health/ | dclm-gs1-252695422 |
0.028864 | <urn:uuid:7c9a29f5-8375-47e0-953e-dfab5497f9d5> | en | 0.936841 | Introduction to hotel chains status and tricks to earn IHG Rewards Club status
What are the benefits of using loyalty programs for hotels?
Loyalty programs for hotel chains will give you the opportunity to earn points, similar to air miles. You can also earn a status with most hotel chains. So why get involved in these hotel programs?
The main reason to register to hotel loyalty programs is to earn points and use them to redeem free nights at hotels. If you manage to get a status, some hotel chains will offer you complimentary upgrades, free breakfast, lounge access and increased points earnings. Things will get interesting if you travel a lot for work and accumulate points you can use for leisure travel.
IHG Rewards Club is an example of a loyalty program for a hotel chain. The hotel chain contains several hotel brands such as Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza (Business oriented hotels), Intercontinental (Luxury hotel brand) and a few more brands.
IHG Rewards Club has 4 different Tiers. Club is the tier that is granted to you upon registration. Gold Elite will be earned after 10 nights or 10.000 Elite Qualifying Points (EQP), while 40 nights or 40.000 EQP is necessary to earn Platinum status. The highest tier, Spire Elite, can be earned after a whopping 75 nights or 75.000 EQP.
But why chase an IHG status? Depending on your status, you’ll be entitled for the following benefits:
Extra bonus points, room upgrades and late checkouts are the real main benefits for Spire and Platinum. IHG does not offer a lot to their highest tier members if you compare it to other hotel chains such as Hilton or Marriott. Those hotel chains offer free breakfast and lounge access to their members who stay 50 nights or more a year. However, you will understand why I first focus on IHG as first hotel status if you continue reading.
You may think that Spire Elite is out of reach, because you don’t sleep 75 nights at a hotel in one year. Good news for you, because when booking your hotel night, you can buy Bonus Packages for an increased price, which will be counted as EQP. This feature is unique to IHG and does not exist at other hotel chains.
But why would you pay more to reach Spire status every year for the fairly limited benefits? Well, there are different reasons for that. In 2018 I travelled a lot internationally and during the last quarter of 2018, I decided to buy Bonus point packages that gave me 5.000 and 10.000 EQPs. The reason I did this was to achieve Spire Elite. I then decided to enrol into a paid status that IHG has been offering for a while: Intercontinental Ambassador. This status costs you 40.000 IHG points or 200 USD each year and gives you exclusive benefits when staying at the Intercontinental brand. There is one secret that is unadvertised and makes the Ambassador status totally worth it if you achieved an IHG status: buying Ambassador will lock your IHG status as long as you keep the Ambassador status. This means that I managed to earn Spire Elite status only once with the help of bonus packages and that I will keep this status as long as I keep my Ambassador status active by paying 200 USD or 40.000 IHG points. I can enjoy the benefits as Spire Elite and Ambassador. Two for the price of one.
What is Intercontinental Ambassador status?
Ambassador status is a status that is earned by paying a fixed amount each year. In 2021, the status costs 40.000 IHG points or 200 USD and will give you some very interesting benefits during stays at the Intercontinental brand:
The room upgrade is a very nice benefit as it will grant you a bigger room or even a suite. The guaranteed late check out of 4 PM is one that is very important to me. If you’re on vacation you just don’t want to be kicked out of your room if you have a flight in the evening. Those little things all add up to a more relaxed way of travel. 20 USD credit for restaurant, (mini)bar is another nice extra.
The biggest benefit where you can manage to earn back your ‘invested’ 40.000 IHG points or 200 USD is the weekend certificate. This certificate allows you to book two nights for the price of one during the weekends (Friday to Sunday or Saturday to Monday). The complimentary weekend night is only eligible on the flexible rate and is booked through their Ambassador – Weekend Certificate Booking website. Therefore, if you usually book a flexible rate, you will save 50% which is basically one night free. If you usually book non-refundable rates, your savings will be more like 30%, as the non-refundable rate is always cheaper than the flexible rate. Booking a rate with breakfast and lounge access is the perfect way to get the best return of investment for your paid Ambassador status.
My complimentary afternoon tea in the lounge at the Intercontinental Hong Kong
How to earn more IHG points and how to spend them?
IHG offers different ways to earn extra IHG points. Every stay will earn you 10 IHG points per US dollar spent. IHG usually offers a promo every quarter. During the pandemic they haven’t offered much besides double points. Before the pandemic they used to have an offer named Accelerate on regular basis. You get certain tasks that will gain you extra points. If global travel starts resuming again as it used to be I am certain they will introduce Accelerate again.
Points can be redeemed for shopping, air miles and free nights at IHG hotels. The best value for your points is to redeem them for free nights. Take into account that points can only be used to book standard rooms. IHG points are valued at around 0,005 euro (or 0,5 cents). I recently had to book a last-minute airport hotel charging 100 euro a night. Thanks to my points balance I was able to book the room at the hotel for 16.000 IHG points. That’s a value of 0,625 cents per point I managed to get. Keep in mind that IHG points are easy to earn so they are prone to devaluation. IHG tends to increase their award booking prices. If you enter the game of points earning, you better follow the rule “Earn and burn“!
How do I join IHG Rewards Club?
That’s pretty straightforward. Read more about the loyalty program here.
How one hotel chain status opens the door to all hotel chains
One major benefit of holding a hotel chain status that hasn’t been discussed yet is the possibility to try and enjoy benefits from another hotel chain status. The secret: Status matches. A status match is a way to tell a hotel chain that you are a loyal customer for a certain hotel chain and that you are a potential client that might move his business to their hotel chain. This means that by showing proof of my Spire Elite IHG card to another hotel chain, I might be granted a matching status. It starts to get fun when you can status match with a status achieved through a status match! A website named is a great source to give you an idea which chain or airline matches your status.
All large hotel chains own a loyalty program. Some tend to be more generous as others. I will only discuss 2 hotel chains that are worth to mention and that offer a status match frequently.
Hilton Honors: has regular status match promo’s to Gold and Diamond status.
Diamond status gives you guaranteed lounge access (if available) and free breakfast for 2 (in EU and Asia) which are huge benefits compared to other chains. Pitfall: the majority of Hilton hotels are outdated.
Hilton Bali Resort upgraded to private villa with pool after a status match to Hilton Diamond status
Marriot Bonvoy: has regular status match promo’s up to Platinum status.
This chain has a lot to offer but the benefits you get as a status owner contain a lot exceptions. The chain has a lot of brands and each brand has their own rules. As a platinum member you sometimes get lounge access (if available) and breakfast. Sometimes you get bar credit instead of breakfast. The full list of benefits and its rules can be checked on the Marriott Bonvoy website.
Lounge access with complimentary food & drinks at the Marriott Hong Kong after status matching to Platinum
Whether it is worth to invest the time and money is something you have to decide yourself. If you travel frequently I strongly recommend to invest some time and investigate which loyalty program suits the most with your travel pattern.
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0.033677 | <urn:uuid:47ba94c2-8a68-4f74-acfd-34cd32794cbf> | en | 0.97219 | Falana Writes Buhari Again, Seeks Pardon For 70 Nigerian Soldiers Convicted For Mutiny
Human rights’ Lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has written President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to pardon 70 Nigerian soldiers convicted for mutiny.
The military authorities had arrested the soldiers in 2014, for failing to confront Boko Haram insurgents.
They were sentenced to life imprisonment, but their jail sentence was commuted to 10 years under the current administration.
However, Falana is asking Buhari to let the soldiers off the hook.
He explained to Buhari that at the trials, the only “offence” proved against the accused soldiers was that they had the temerity to demand for weapons to fight the well-armed terrorists.
He said, “In prosecuting the war on terror, the Federal Government deployed thousands of ill-equipped and ill-motivated members of the armed forces to the North East region to fight the well-armed insurgents from 2013-2014. Not a few of the soldiers who survived the deadly attacks from the insurgents deserted the army.
“But majority of the dedicated members of the armed forces decided to defend the country’s territorial integrity. They successfully defeated the Boko Haram sect and regained the areas which had been annexed by the terrorists. However, in the course of defending the country the patriotic troops demanded for arms and armament from the military authorities. Instead of attending to such legitimate demand, the military authorities accused scores of the soldiers of sabotaging the counter insurgency operations of the Federal Government and proceeded to set up courts-martial to try them for mutiny.
“We defended 58 soldiers while the remaining 12 were defended by other colleagues before the Courts-Martial which sat in Abuja. At the end of the trials in August and December 2014, the Courts-Martial jailed some of the soldiers and sentenced 70 others to death for mutiny. In convicting the 70 soldiers the Courts-Martial failed to appreciate that the demand for weapons by the soldiers was justified under section 179 of the Armed Forces Act, (Cap A20) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 which permits a soldier, rating or aircraftman to make a complaint to his commanding officer and that he shall not be penalized for having made a complaint so far as the complaint does not contravene any provisions of the Act.
“The Courts-Martial equally failed to consider the case of CPL Segun Oladele & 22 Ors. v. Nigerian Army (2003) 36 WRN 68; (2004) 6 NWLR (PT 868) 166 where the Court of Appeal had quashed the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on the appellants for protesting against the injustice meted out to them by the military authorities. Speaking for the Court, Aderemi JCA (as he then was) held that “Let it be said that members of the armed forces in this country have not denounced their membership of the Nigerian society and it seems to me that they cannot do so in a manner calculated to jettison the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution, the ground norm. The members of the armed forces are not excluded from the application of the provisions of the Fundamental Rights the likes of right to life, right to personal liberty, right to fair hearing, right to freedom from discrimination etc.”
“However, sequel to the representation made by our law firm in 2015 on behalf of the 70 convicts the death sentences passed on them were commuted to 10 years imprisonment by the military authorities. Shortly thereafter, the Presidential Panel on Arms Procurement confirmed that the huge fund earmarked for the purchase of arms and ammunition to prosecute the war on terror was criminally diverted by a coterie of unpatriotic military officers. Since the highly placed criminal elements who sabotaged the war on terror and exposed our country to eternal shame and ridicule have been identified and made to refund their loot the convicted soldiers ought to have been released from prison custody. But the convicts were made to spend the 10-year prison term. Notwithstanding the completion of their prison term the convicted soldiers ought to be granted pardon by Your Excellency.
“Basis of the request for presidential pardon for the 70 convicted soldiers. Having regards to the facts and circumstances of this case we are compelled to request Your Excellency to grant full and unconditional pardon to the 70 convicted soldiers pursuant to section 175 of the Constitution. The reasons for the request are as follows:
“Whereas the 70 soldiers were convicted and sentenced to death in August and December 2014 the then National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) announced at a public lecture delivered in London sometime in February 2015, that the arms and ammunition ordered by the Goodluck Jonathan administration would soon be delivered to the federal government. He claimed that some elements, whose identities he did not disclose were frustrating the nation’s efforts to get the critically needed equipment to prosecute the war on terror.
“During his pull out ceremony from the Nigerian Air Force, in July 2015, former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh who has since passed on, disclosed that the armed forces led by him lacked the equipment to prosecute the counter insurgency operations in the North East region.”
Falana noted that the Arms Procurement Panel instituted by Buhari had confirmed that the sum of $2.1 billion and N643 billion set aside for the purchase of equipment for the counter insurgency operations was diverted by some military officers and their civilian accomplices.
He said, “In view of the criminal diversion of the huge fund earmarked for acquiring military hardware for the defence of the nation the indicted military officers and their civilian collaborators ought to have been charged with mutiny, sabotage and other war crimes. But out of class solidarity, a few of the indicted military officers and civilians have been charged with the offence of money laundering at the Federal High Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
“A respected former army officer, Major-General Ishola Williams (rtd) once said that the convicted soldiers were right in disobeying orders that would have led to their untimely death. While indicting the military authorities for sending the troops to the war front without adequate weapons the General said that “Those playing politics with the lives of these soldiers who were being sent to commit suicide in the name of fatherland and they refused, have to be ashamed. The army’s top hierarchy is covering up its weaknesses by court-martialing these soldiers. The staff from the HQ (defence headquarters) and the generals are to blame.”
“In the same vein, Your Excellency had alluded to the injustice to which the convicted soldiers were subjected in an interview aired by the BBC Hausa service on December 28, 2015. On that occasion Your Excellency made a strong case for the convicts when you rightly observed that “The government at that time sent the soldiers to the battlefield without arms and ammunition to prosecute the war. That was what led some of them to mutiny. They were arrested and detained because of this.”
“After the conviction of the 70 soldiers another group of 3002 soldiers were accused of mutiny for equally demanding for weapons to fight the insurgents. As there were no facilities to try them the military authorities dismissed them from the Nigerian Army. However, following the representation made by us on their behalf, the 3002 dismissed soldiers have been recalled and reinstated. Since the dismissed 3002 soldiers and the 70 convicted soldiers were alleged to have committed the same “offence” they ought to be treated them in like manner.
“It is pertinent to inform Your Excellency that the Court of Appeal has upheld the appeal of 4 out of 70 convicts, discharged and acquitted them. The others who lost their appeal at the Court of Appeal have since taken the legal battle to the Supreme Court. Notwithstanding the pendency of the appeal at the apex court we urge Your Excellency to exercise your prerogative of mercy in favour of the entire 70 convicted soldiers.
“It is public knowledge that the Federal Government and some State Governments have recently granted pardon and rehabilitated hundreds of terrorists who had waged war against Nigeria and subjected unarmed citizens to egregious human rights abuse. The soldiers who were convicted of mutiny for demanding for weapons to fight such terrorist deserve to be granted pardon and rehabilitated by the Federal Government.
“In the light of the foregoing, we submit that since the armed forces were not equipped to defend the territorial integrity of the nation at the material time, the convicts did not commit mutiny or any other offence whatsoever in demanding for adequate weapons to fight the well armed insurgents. However, in line with the policy of Your Excellency’s Government to review the cases of the convicted soldiers the military authorities commutted the death sentences passed on them to 10-year imprisonment.
“Even though the convicted soldiers have since served the prison term in dehumanising conditions at the Kirikiri and Ikoyi correctional centres in Lagos State we are confident that Your Excellency will not hesitate to exercise your prerogative of mercy in their favour by granting them full pardon pursuant to section 175 of the Constitution.
“As we await Your Excellency’s favourable consideration of our request please accept the assurances of our highest esteem and professional regards.”
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A colleague of mine asked me what it would look like to implement some Agile project planning for a software team that works with a fairly ad-hoc management system now. I thought others could possibly benefit from this information so I am posting it here for all to see. What I am trying to picture is a way for an unstructured team to ease into a more disciplined approach to managing a software project.
Team Planning Meeting
We start the week with a team planning meeting. During this meeting we review all the outstanding tasks and select enough of them to fill one week of development for the entire team. This means that ALL tasks will need to be described adequately and have estimates. Since the customer will select which tasks should be added to the next week’s work, we will always be working on what is most important to the customer.
Daily Work
Each day the developers will take tasks from this week’s task list and complete them. We will track the completion during the week with a Burndown chart that shows how much work is left to complete by the end of the week. The burndown chart will be updated at least once each day in preparation for the daily stand-up meeting.
Emergent Tasks
There are three kinds of emergent tasks that the team should have a contingency plan to handle.
1. Emergency Fix (Show-stopper): If an emergency happens that needs to take priority over what is planned for the sprint and it cannot be worked-in (see High Priority) then the sprint must be abandoned while the team addresses the emergency and we will start a new sprint next week. All effort to avoid this case should be taken as it will create work that must be re-done in a later sprint.
2. High Priority Task (Needs to be done now): If a task comes in that is higher priority than those in the current sprint and it cannot wait until next week then the customer must remove tasks from the current sprint to make room for this task. If a task that has already begun work is removed it is likely that some or all of that work will need to be re-done at a later time. Again, we should attempt to avoid this case if possible but the impact can be minimized by removing only tasks that the team has not started working on yet.
3. New Task: If a new task comes in to the team then it should be detailed by the product owner (product owner or designee) and estimated by the development lead (lead developer or designee). It is the responsibility of the team to ensure that ALL new tasks that come in during the week are detailed and estimated prior to the next team meeting.
End of Sprint
At the end of each sprint the team will have a meeting where the developers/team members demonstrate the new features to everyone that the customer decides should attend the meeting. Additionally, we will review the burndown chart and declare how many tasks were completed. The declaration of completion gives us a simple metric that we can use for planning future sprints. Since all sprints are the same duration it is expected that the team will complete approximately the same number of tasks in each sprint. After some time, the empirical evidence of team performance will lead us to more and more accurate time estimations.
It is common for Agile teams to combine the End of Sprint meeting with the Team Planning Meeting. For example, we could schedule a meeting every Monday morning where we close the old sprint, take a ten minute break, and start the new sprint. This keeps the number of meetings to a minimum.
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Well first, I'm new here. My husband was recently diagnosed with ADD and he actually sent me articles off of the blog. I was shocked when I read them because it was like they had come straight out of my head. While I am happy that my husband is taking things seriously, and is experimenting with some meds (per his doctor's recommendations), I am still struggling with dealing with him.
Basically, we have been married a year and half (almost). While we were dating, I can only assume that he was hyperfocusing on me, because things were good. He always had a time management issue (which constantly caused problems at his job and with me), but I dealt with it the best I could. Two days before our wedding, he lost his job. Part of the reason was the fact that he had been consistently late, and this last time, he tried to cover it up, but got caught anyway. It was a major blow to him because he loved his job, and so I was very supportive at first. I tried to encourage him as he applied for other jobs, and was patient with the side jobs that he had to take to make ends meet. We actually lived apart for about 6 months before I was able to get a new job and we were able to move in together. That is where the trouble started, and its been down hill from there. I'm actually to the point that I'm seeing a counselor and am taking meds for depression because I could not cope with my husband anymore. The time management issues, the tuning out for our day-to-day life, the irresponsibility with finances; I'm about at my wits end. Its like I've been dealing with so long that I'm having trouble hanging on to see if he can get acclimated to the meds and some of the coping stradegies.
I will be the first to admit that he is trying but one issue remains the "pink elephant" in our relationship--our finances. Its already stressful that I'm the major breadwinner, and he is barely bringing in half of what we need to survive. His credit rating has taken a nose dive because we didn't have the money to make his bills. Now he's haggling with two different banks over some accounts that are in default. He has made a payment plan with one bank, but apparently no one took the time to put that information into their system because we get letters and phone calls daily. That only adds to my stress. The other bank offered to cut his debt in half if he could pay by a specific time; he put half of the money into his account, but then got a call from a collection agency before his deadline was up. The money in the account disappeared, and no one seems to know what's going on. I'm about to pull my hair out! He won't let me take over these accounts (I manage the rest of our bills and expenses) and so I constantly stress because I know he's not getting where he needs to be. Its very important that these accounts get cleared up because he won't be able to get a job in his field unless his credit score goes up. Which means that money will continue to be tight, and cause more stress... Its a deadly cycle.
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There are far more programming languages in the world than most people realize. The vast majority of them are just variations on other languages, or are only appropriate for very narrow use cases. As an aspiring programmer, you can ignore nearly all of them.
After nearly two decades of teaching and research experience, we feel that it’s very important to teach the right language at the right time. In the case of code2, there isn’t a better option on the market today. It’s free, cross-platform and powerful enough to give students a great introduction to computer science and programming. We’ve also designed our curriculum around this language, so that you’ll have all of your questions answered as you go through our courses.
We advise against learning code2 before completing our beginner courses, but if you’d like to do so anyway, we’ve included some resources below to help you get started.
This is the second post in a series of posts discussing how to write a good piece of software. Previously we discussed some of the qualities of a good piece of software. In this post I will discuss what goes into writing a good piece of software.
The first thing you need to know about writing software is that there are lots of ways to do it. The best way to write software is whatever way works for you. You should try all the different ways, figure out which ones work for you, and then stick with those methods until you find something better.
The second thing you need to know about writing software is that there are lots of opinions about how to write good software, but only one way to write good software: by writing lots of bad software and learning from your mistakes. Take comfort in the fact that if you are struggling or failing, you are in good company; everyone struggles and fails at some point.
If you’re writing a program and you think, “This is going to be really easy,” you should probably go back and make it harder.
Since the beginning of time, every programmer has finished a piece of code and said: “I know I’m missing something. I’ll come back later.” Then they go out for dinner or they take a walk. And while they’re out, they realize what was missing. Then they go back and fix it.
When you’re writing code, the most important thing is to know what you’re trying to accomplish. You should always be asking yourself: What am I trying to do?
When you see something that looks like it might be the thing you’re looking for, check it out by typing it in. Once you’ve seen how it works, it’s yours. You don’t have to remember where you found it, or even what it was called; if you need it again, odds are you can find it in five minutes on Google.
You learn best when someone else is trying to learn something from you. If your goal is to help yourself learn something, then teaching is often the best way to do that. When someone asks me a question about programming that I get stuck on-even if I know
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3. It’s a number that shows up in math a lot, and is therefore easy for humans to talk about.
4. You can do almost anything with a 32-bit number, so you don’t have to worry about running out of space for your variable names. The only thing you can’t do is address more than 4 billion bytes of memory, which sounded like a lot at the time and was probably plenty for anyone who would ever use this language.
5. It lets you get machine language-like efficiency without having to program in machine language. You could write self-modifying code if you wanted to, but you didn’t have to; you could write Fortran or LISP or Cobol instead and let the compiler figure out how to make it fast enough.
Though I have been programming for a long time, I still have much to learn. As mentioned before, the best way to learn programming is to write programs. In this section, I will start writing small programs in various languages to explore their features and differences.
I was introduced to C by my first supervisor at IBM. It is a powerful language, but is quite low-level and hence hard to use. It is worth learning C as a stepping stone to C++ (and Objective C), but you should try not to write any more code than necessary in C or C++.
Java was developed at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s and rapidly became popular as an alternative to C++ for writing client-side applications (applets). Java has since become more widely used for general software development. The most common version of Java is the one with which Google’s Android operating system (now the most common smartphone OS) is programmed.
Python is a very different language from Java (and C++). Python emphasizes readability and simplicity over efficiency or control over software components. Python can be used for anything from scripting web servers through analyzing data to building complex machine learning systems.
The best way to learn these languages is by doing example problems: trying things out
In the code I had written, I was using a variable that got declared in another file. That variable was not being set until after my code ran. So by separating out the first part of the code into its own function, it allowed the variable to get set before my code ran.
The second reason is a bit more complex, but also easier to understand. In JavaScript (and other languages), when you declare a variable, you have to specify where that variable will live. There are 3 places for your variables to live: Global Scope, Function Scope, and Block Scope. When you don’t specify where that variable lives, it will live in the global scope.
In this case, I was declaring that variable in an if statement within a loop. Now think about what happens when we execute this code: If the counter equals 0, then we create the new varible with a value of 0. Then our counter increments (to 1) and we go back through the loop again. This time we hit i==1 and since i is no longer equal to 0, we skip over creating that new variable…but if i had been equal to 0 again on that second iteration, it would have created another varible with the same name!
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Using social media to sell is the newest and possibly best way to increase your business’s sales revenues. But what is it exactly? It’s when you use social networks to find, connect with, understand, and nurture relationships to take people from sales prospects to customers, without the hard sell. It allows you to develop a meaningful relationship with potential customers so when they have a need, you’ll always be front and center in their mind.
If your business has a Facebook page, a LinkedIn profile, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat account, you’ve already started the process of engaging in social media selling. Now that you know what it is, you should start to leverage it to your advantage.
Here are 10 ways social selling can increase your small business revenue:
1. People are More Likely to Buy on Social Media
Using social media to sell can include having a native shop on the social media platform, “buy buttons”, and other ways that customers can buy from you without ever leaving the social media platform they’re on.
How does this benefit you? When people are browsing social media, they’re searching for entertainment of some sort. However, if they stumble across something they want or need, you can make it simple for them to stay right there on the social platform and buy it. They’ll be far more likely to think, “Hey, I need to do this while I’m thinking of it.” With a little effort beyond creating a post to promote your product, this can make it easy for them to make their purchase and move on.
Curvy Girl Lingerie does a great job with this. They share images of their products on Facebook, and beneath that, boxes with the product shown. When you click on the product, it gives you all the details: price, how many in stock, and sizes. The checkout takes place on their website, but by that point in the process, the customer is ready to buy. Hassle free strategies like these help promote products and drive sales for new and existing customers.
2. Your Reach is So Much Greater on Social Media
With your website, potential customers have to come to you. They either visit your site by typing in your URL, do a search, or click through an ad or link somewhere on the web.
Everyone is on social media though. You can pay for a sponsored post to promote your product before eyes that might not otherwise see you. Your followers and existing customers have the ability to share your posts with their friends, who can then share it with their friends and followers, and so on. Using evergreen content in these posts is important so it can reappear in the weeks, months, and even years to come. This can bring fresh eyes to old content so over time, you create momentum that makes it easier for you to increase sales volume with minimal effort.
3. Organic Connections with Customers Encourages Buying
Hard selling, cold calls, and other traditional methods are clearly sales-oriented. People know what you’re doing. This means if they’re not interested or feel pressured, they won’t buy. They’ll hedge and make vague promises, but never follow through.
Using social media to sell fosters organic connections and relationships. When someone feels they have a relationship with you, they feel like they know you. This gives them a sense of familiarity and over time, it encourages them to buy from you over someone else.
Tuckamore Custom Knives is a small, one-man business in Florida who effortlessly builds these relationships. Sharing details regarding work in progress, his home, family life, and offering raffles are his soft strategies at product promotion, whereas his quick and friendly responses to follower comments and messages build real relationships.
4. Private Communication Lends Intimacy
Intimacy might seem like an odd thing to want to cultivate in a business relationship, but it can actually help a lot. When existing customers can send a message directly to you through Facebook Messenger or Twitter Direct Messaging and get a personal response rather than a generic FAQ answer, it makes them feel like they matter and that they’re important to you. It’s a small thing that can make a big difference.
It also allows for a response time somewhere between immediate and whenever an email is read and responded to. For those who are perhaps too impatient to wait for an email, but too uncomfortable to pick up the phone, private messaging provides a way to communicate anxiety-free.
5. Build Relationships to be in Position Before They Need You
The problem with searching out leads is that by the time you find the client, they already need you. You’re starting behind the eight-ball as you try to build the relationship to make the sale.
Using online marketing and social media selling strategies allows you to reverse that and build the relationship before they know they need you. By the time the customer realizes they have a problem, you have a connection with them. This allows them to feel confident in purchasing from you, removing the burden to convince them to trust you.
6. Reduce Account /Contact Research Time
Have you ever noticed just how much information people share about themselves through social media? Whether they’re an individual sharing details about their personal life or a business sharing details about products and services, everyone’s using social media to connect.
There’s a ton of useful information about your target audience that you can access without ever having a real conversation with them. It might seem a little like stalking, but this allows you to cut down on the amount of time spent researching and contacting new accounts. It also ensures that those you do contact are more likely to be viable leads.
7. Improved Lead Conversion Rate
As mentioned in the previous section, the amount of information available through social media allows for an improved lead conversion rate. Since you can get to know your potential clients through their social media sharings, you can be more certain of their needs and be more direct with what you have to offer them. This gives you a better opportunity to sort through your leads and follow up with the most likely options first, increasing conversions and sales.
8. Shorter Sell Cycles
You know the sell cycle: find the lead, set the appointment, present your case, nullify their objections, and close the sale. Within the inbound sales methodology there are more involved steps that can help you better relate to your customers. Using social media to sell, especially for a small business, is a best practice to streamline your marketing process.
With more information being available on both sides of the potential sale, the process moves quicker – especially since the customer is already interested. This ultimately reduces the time spent trying to convince them to buy from you. Shorter sell cycles increases your sales volume because the faster you make a sale, the faster you can move to the next one.
9. Clients are Already Engaged in Social Buying
There was a time when people were hesitant to make a purchase online. They worried about being scammed, buying from a source that wasn’t legitimate, or having their credit card information stolen. While these concerns are still valid, most people have come to realize there are a number of ways they can avoid those issues and are open to buying online. Social buying takes place every day. This means if you’re not social selling, you’re missing out.
By selling through social media, you’re showing your existing and potential customers you’re current and relevant. By utilizing top new methods and trends, you will prove your company is growing. Customers want to work with thriving businesses, not those who ignore innovation.
10. Build Credibility
When you use social media and online marketing to make a sale you build your credibility. Many people use social media to check for reviews, endorsements, and testimonials before making a purchase from a small business or a new company they’ve never dealt with before.
Take a look at these websites: Things Remembered and Initial Outfitters. Both companies provide personalized gifts, but one has a rating of 3.3 while the other is at 4.5. Who are you going to do business with?
By leveraging your social media, you can ask customers to leave reviews and comments. It also gives you the ability to publicly (and politely) address poor reviews which show that you’re eager to work with your customers to ensure their satisfaction. These actions are what draw customers in.
11. Influencer Marketing
If you have someone else, especially a well-known (influential) individual repping your products or services, you’re more likely to get more attention and sales online. Influencer marketing is especially effective on social media platforms like Instagram. One of the reasons Instagram influencer marketing is so prevalent and successful is because of the power of hashtags. In fact, 7 in 10 hashtags are now brand related! Influencer marketing uses the power of positive reviews and brand awareness to make a statement. If a potential buyer sees and can hear about the positive association your business has with a specific influencer on social media, they’ll be more likely to buy.
Influencer marketing has seen tremendous success and isn’t slowing down any time soon! According to a study, in 2018, 78% of marketers used influencers to build brand awareness. And because of the increasing number of potential buyers going online and to social media to do product research before buying, having a well-known influencer associated with a brand pays off in a big way!
In Conclusion
Using social media to sell is simply good business. It takes very little time to set up, it’s easy to do, and can even be fun. It takes the pressure off while providing your existing and future customers with a way to feel more involved in your business.People who feel involved are more likely to want to see and be a part of your success – and to contribute to it by purchasing from you over your competition.
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Jim Baer [00:00:47] I'm excited to have Ryan Falvey here today, who is the co-founder and managing partner of Financial Venture Studio, and what's exciting about this episode is that while we've highlighted other industries, we have not highlighted fintech and looked at where the puck is going with respect to fintech. So, Ryan, welcome. And why don't you take a minute and tell us a little bit about your background and we'll go from there.
Ryan Falvey [00:01:12] Yeah. Thanks for having me here, Jim. Pleasure to be on the show. Yes, and I actually got my start in with what's now fintech, probably about 15 years ago. I started out working in background and startups and technology and started out working in emerging markets and spent the first five, six years of my career developing mobile banking and mobile payment platforms kind of all over the world. And I took a job in the US in mid 2012, 2013 and was working for a bank that was trying to a bunch of stuff in financial services. And I had assumed naively that the United States was pretty advanced as far as you know, payments infrastructure and how consumer financial services was
developing. And I was shocked just to see how far behind the eight ball the US is and really how much opportunity there was here to really rethink financial services by whole
cloth. And so started at investing, I ran an investment fund, was backed by JPMorgan Chase, called the Financial Solutions Lab, which was a partnership with the nonprofit, and did that from 2015 till 2018. And then I launched this business in early 2018 with my partner, Tyler Griffin, who was a founder of another fintech payments company that had been acquired. What we're really trying to do here is really create a home for the founders for building the future of financial services in this country. I think there's really a once in a multi-generational opportunity to rethink almost every element of the financial services industry. And so, we want to help founders who work in the forefront of that really accelerate their growth and take their business to the next level.
Jim Baer [00:02:33] We have spent some time on the Puck talking about things like cryptocurrency, for instance. And I know that you've looked at that space as well. Do you see fintech and cryptocurrencies kind of coming together as a big new part of where you see the puck going? Or is crypto not part of the future,
Ryan Falvey [00:02:51] I think it’s part of the future. They tend to kind of orbit around themselves, each other a little bit. I think historically and so I say till today, you see the biggest connection on the two where you often have strong technical teams will come around to work on something in the crypto space and then may often pivot away to work at something even more traditional fintech. I think with a lot of the innovations we're now seeing and more of that third generation of crypto, you're seeing more obvious connectivity points with the traditional financial services ecosystem. And I think that that will lead to more crossover between them. If you look at what Square has done, so PayPal's done Robin Hood incorporating crypto into their core offerings, it’s a great way to drive engagement and activity. So far, we haven't seen a lot of utility outside of that, mostly speculation or investment, but I think that that will evolve.
Jim Baer [00:03:38] So in terms of the companies that you're seeing and the changes that technology is bringing to FinTech, can you help us understand where you see FinTech evolving in the next few years?
Ryan Falvey [00:03:52] Yeah, I don't want to speak with too much hyperbole, but I think we're really in the midst of what I would describe as a once in a multigenerational transformation of financial services. Mostly the last two hundred years, the way banking and insurance has worked is, you were extremely well connected, you went out and bought or rented the most expensive piece of land in your town or city. You dragged some granite there and you put on a suit and tie and, as long as you followed the rules, you were able to get a license to be an oligopoly over a financial service in that area. And what's happened, really over the last decade, is you now have the ability, you know, that kind of nexus of competition has moved to the Internet. So, someone with a great design and new sense of thinking about product, which has been happening you know, since the advent of the mobile web, those people are coming up with kind of completely new ideas for financial services and are no longer constrained by physical barriers. And increasingly, consumers are looking for digital options. And so, what that's meant is you've seen a mass migration to the tune of tens of millions of consumers. First it was every year. Now, with probably a quarterly basis moving from physical financial services to digital financial services. It's leaving behind most of the banking infrastructure. Most of the, yeah, I think most insurance companies are going to be pretty heavily disrupted and creating new
multi-billion-dollar platforms kind of left and right. And many of these businesses are competing on a completely different set of rules than the traditional companies have. And I think it's a really exciting time for anyone who's using financial services, but certainly anyone is investing in this industry or building new businesses.
Jim Baer [00:05:26] So for someone like myself who has seen the evolution where we started with obviously going into banks, and then we add cash machines, and then we're seeing PayPal and we're seeing the Robinhood now, and then you've got online banking and Venmo and these different abilities to make payments and otherwise. You mentioned things like insurance, for instance, and other disruptive technologies coming in. Can you walk us through some of those, as you said, once in a century, disruptive technologies that some of us may not have been using? Like what about technologies that are just coming up that the younger people are starting to use, for instance, like in the area of insurance and health care? But that may not be as mainstream yet, but that you see peeking their heads, so to speak, that you see coming out in the next couple of years.
Ryan Falvey [00:06:13] Yeah, I think insurance would be a great example. We have in the last several months, we've had two companies go public in parts of the insurance market that most people probably never heard of. So, the title insurance industry, the company called DOMA to speak in those days title, which is really trying to rethink title insurance and has created a multibillion-dollar business here and in about five years in a market that I would venture a guess isn't home to many multibillion-dollar businesses. And then Hippo, which probably has a fraction of the homeowners insurance policies in this country, but probably commands a premium of the equity valuations in that industry. And these are two, I think, relatively sleepy industries where incumbents were taking advantage of your regulatory capture and pretty standardized product that was it was mostly sold through commissions and kickbacks and created a product that's actually better and actually does the same thing, which is cheaper than what the existing companies provide. And consumers are rewarding it by purchasing it and investors are rewarding it by giving it a premium valuation. I think on the consumer side, there's really no shortage of new products. I mean, the most well known as probably Chime, which I think at this point probably has about the fifth most customers of any financial service company in the country right now. And most of them are low to middle income consumers who were not only underserved by incumbents, but were actively discouraged from banking with them. And you now have a company that's come in there and really just found a way of creating a transparent product for them that they love and are using and telling their friends about. And again, investors are rewarding that. And when you have these companies that are able to raise billions of dollars at a time, I do think the incumbent should be aware of that. There are very few banks in this country that are capable of raising that kind of money. And so, when you have a series of startups kind of across the board coming at various angles, it's probably time to start paying attention.
Jim Baer [00:07:56] I hadn't followed the Chime story, for instance. Is that an online banking company? I mean what's Chime doing?
Ryan Falvey [00:08:02] Yes. Chime is essentially it's a debit card. It's just like a checking account. And you sign up online, they send you a debit card, just like you might get from Wells Fargo or JP Morgan. It has very few fees, really doesn't have any. It has really low risk of being an overdraft, which is a big deal for many consumers. It's just a simple, simple checking account, really. You know, there's a lot more of the product, I think, at the core. It's just really easy to understand a simple product gives you what you're looking for without really having to worry about some sort of hidden fee or something else in the background that might come in to get you, bite you.
Jim Baer [00:08:34] So using that as an example, like I mean, I don't know if you're familiar with the company Green Dot, which was also when people were buying debit cards, but they were buying them at convenience stores or gas stations or otherwise, and then they could reload them in an economy where a lot of people don't have access to traditional banking arrangements and, for instance, are unable to get a credit card, Green Dot with solving that particular challenge. Does Chime, in this online banking, is this the next evolution of the Green Dots of the world essentially?
Ryan Falvey [00:09:02] I think so. You know, Green Dot has increasingly shifted to become a payments platform that powers a lot of other players. So, Green Dot could be powering Chime. And I think this is kind of how I think about how these fields evolve is oftentimes will have something so Green Dot, that you point out, it's been around for, I think about 15 years now. And one of the first to really think about how to create a processor for prepaid cards before that. These were not particularly common and they were not particularly efficient. And so, the first iterations of Green Dot’s products, was, you know, powering a bunch of different prepaid cards that could have hung on local Wal-Mart or Target shelf. As you've seen the shift away from buying those products at your local Wal-Mart or Target to seeing it on the Internet and downloading on your phone. Green Dot has also shifted its business to enable that infrastructure to happen. This isn't what Chime is doing, it's to a degree derivative of the Green Dot business model. And the Green Dot has a bank now. And so they think about banking, I think, very differently than a conventional bank. They really think about banking many of fintech companies. | https://www.cmbginc.com/thepuckepisode32 | dclm-gs1-253115422 |
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Friday Morning Alberta Agriculture and Forestry Minister Devin Dreeshen announced via twitter that he had submitted his resignation papers to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, and Kenney accepted his resignation.
"This morning, I offered Premier Jason Kenney my resignation as minister of agriculture and forestry, and he has accepted," the tweet stated.
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Generator Set Over Temperature Protection Trip
Sep. 25, 2021
Generator sets are the last guarantee for the power supply in accidents of power plants. Each power plant has established a corresponding periodic test system. The test run time is generally 5-10 minutes, and it is generally considered that it is sufficient to verify whether the unit is in good standby. However, we know , After the power plant has a full stop accident of the auxiliary power bus, the load time of the generator set with the safety section will far exceed 5-10 minutes. Therefore, the key to prevent major accidents such as turbine burnout, bending of the main shaft, hydrogen leakage and explosion, etc. when the auxiliary power bus is fully stopped, not only depends on whether the generator set can be started and connected to the safety section load during the accident, but also depends on the generator set can it run reliably for a long time. The following analysis of a case of over-temperature protection action tripping after 19 minutes of load connected to the safety section of a generator set that we actually encountered in our work points out a hidden danger that may exist in the traditional regular test run of the generator set.
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The generator set tripped and the security section lost power. At this point, the unit has lost all factory AC power, relying on 220V DC bus to connect with part of the security load. Fortunately, it was timely judged that the point of failure was not in the factory system, and the 6KVA, section B power supply was quickly restored, otherwise the safety of the generator set would be extremely dangerous. After inspection, the generator set was under "over-temperature protection" action, the engine body temperature reached above 100°C, the water tank was boiling, and other parts were normal. During the connection with the safety section, the voltage and frequency output are stable. Finding the cause of the fault and preliminary analysis: In terms of capacity, the accident load of the safety section of Unit 11 is about 250A, which is far less than the rated current of the generator set 1433A. From the perspective of the management and maintenance of the generator set, since it was put into production, in addition to the normal inspection and maintenance, the generator set has been regularly started once a month (each time 10 minutes), and no serious abnormality has been found in the generator set. From the perspective of theoretical design and maintenance management, the generator set should be very reliable. But the actual situation is that the generator set tripped after only 19 minutes after the load of the safety section was connected. So what causes the generator set to trip after connecting to the safety section? Preliminarily judged by trial run that the thermostat is faulty: We have carried out detailed inspection and maintenance of the generator set. The inspection results found no abnormalities in the lubricating oil, fuel oil, battery, water level, water pump, ventilation, measuring point, control and protection circuit and other systems of the unit. 11:40-12:10, we conducted a no-load start-up test on the generator set.
Trial run situation: 10 minutes after starting, the unit has no abnormal operation, the water temperature is 68℃, but the cooling water temperature has continued to rise since then. When running for 30 minutes, it has reached 98°C (close to the trip temperature set value of 103°C), and there is still an upward trend, so the operation should be stopped immediately. Trial analysis: After careful inspection, it is found that the temperature of the return water pipe is abnormally low. Obviously, the high temperature water does not flow back to the water tank for cooling, and it is judged that the diesel engine cooling water circuit is faulty. The characteristics of the temperature-saving failure are: the temperature of the cooling water inside the internal combustion engine is too high, while the temperature of the water inside the radiator is low. At this time, the throttle can be removed (or replaced) from the internal combustion engine, and then the engine is started. If the internal combustion engine water temperature is normal, it can be determined that the throttle valve is invalid. If the water tank pipe is partially blocked, the internal combustion engine water will rise too fast. The manufacturer further determined that the diesel engine cooling water circuit throttle valve failed. Conclusion: In the event of an accident, it cannot be reliably used as a backup for the security section. It is preliminarily judged that the cooling water circuit caused by the failure of the thermostat has not established a circulation. After replacing the thermostat, it was normal for a test run for 50 minutes: On December 27, after the manufacturer was dismantled, it was found that the thermostat installed inside the body had a serious jam and malfunction. After replacing the thermostat, a continuous trial run was carried out again for about 50 minutes at 15:20-16:10.
Test run situation: The thermostat opens normally when the water temperature is 80°C in the 15th minute after starting, and the water temperature has been stable at around 82°C for 35 minutes after running, and the power output of the generator set is normal. Conclusion: After replacing the thermostat, the fault is eliminated, and it can be reliably used as a backup for the safety section. At the same time, the thermostatic valve was disassembled and it was found that the valve body was stuck and stuck, which further verified the malfunction of the thermostatic valve. Fault confirmation: the failure of the thermostat valve and the failure to open in time to establish a water cycle are the reasons for the over-temperature protection action of the generator set to trip in the event of an accident.
Although the diesel generator set conducts regular test work according to the system once a month, and has never found any serious abnormality. However, a trip did occur in an emergency situation at the scene. Afterwards, we have checked that the thermostat has a jam failure, so why didn't we find this hidden danger every time we tried to run it regularly? It is understood that at present, most of the generator sets of many manufacturers take 10 minutes to test regularly. In the past, it is generally believed that 10 minutes is enough to check whether the generator set is in good standby (that is, it can start normally, operate normally, and output qualified power). At the same time, because the load test of the generator set can only be arranged during the overhaul of the generator set, it can only be checked for its goodness by regular work. From the introduction of "Cooling Water Circuit and Throttle Valve" in this article, we know that the throttle valve will open automatically when the cooling water temperature reaches between 75°C and 85°C after the generator set is running. From the 50-minute test run of the water temperature control after replacing the thermostat, we will find that the opening time of the thermostat of the generator set is about 12-15 minutes after starting. The water temperature of the generator set is regularly tested for 10 minutes: each test runs for 10 minutes, the water temperature generally only rises to 70 ℃, and it is still rising, obviously not the opening temperature of the thermostat. In this way, even if we have strictly adhered to regular test runs for a year or more, the thermostat will never be opened: the thermostat soaked in antifreeze is in a long-term inactive state, and it is also prone to corrosion, Malfunctions such as jamming. That is to say: it is impossible to find the throttle valve for 10 minutes every time it is started.
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0.032442 | <urn:uuid:936b68c4-05ff-42bb-a5e9-378c9c3ba9dd> | en | 0.920365 | Is Bosnia-Herzegovina Next on Russia’s Radar?
Could the vulnerable Balkan state become Vladimir Putin’s next target?
Emir Hadzikadunovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina news, Bosnia and Herzegovina security, Republika Srpska news, Milorad Dodik, Russia Republika Srpska news, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Balkans news
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, March 2018 © Sun_Shine / Shutterstock
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised fears among many Bosnians that their vulnerable state could also become a target. Like Ukraine and Georgia, both now having suffered Russia’s military intervention, Bosnia and Herzegovina too has NATO membership aspirations that infuriate Moscow. In Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina‘s Serb-dominated entity that, like the breakaway regions of Donbas, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, is opposed to NATO, Vladimir Putin’s prospects are of the highest geopolitical value, namely securing a loyal proxy ready to do Moscow’s bidding.
The Russian president has already held numerous official consultations with Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, the latest one taking place in December 2021. During his second consecutive meeting with Putin in the midst of the 2014 Ukraine crisis, Dodik shared his unequivocal affiliation with Moscow, saying: “Naturally, there is no question that we support Russia. We may be a small and modest community, but our voice is loud.” As Russia’s current military intervention progressed in Ukraine, Dodik also spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about the “implementation of agreements” reached during the last meeting with Putin.
Putin’s Proxy in Bosnia
In the quarter of a century since the signing of the Dayton Accords, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been the site of occasional political crises but has never come close to military conflict. In recent months, however, Dodik has doubled down on his efforts to tear apart the postwar constitutional order of the country’s two constitutive entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. Emboldened by the resurrection of Russia’s power, he pressed ahead with his nationalist political agenda aimed at dismantling institutional arrangements that have gradually restored peace and security over the last 25 years. As a result, Dodik was blacklisted by the US government in January this year.
In December 2021, lawmakers loyal to Dodik advanced their secession bid and voted 49-3 in favor of starting a procedure for Republika Srpska to withdraw from central government mechanisms such as common defense, judiciary and intelligence, to name a few. They have also decided that within six months, the government in Banja Luka must recreate its own legislation governing such institutions.
To show it means business, Republika Srpska paraded paramilitary forces on January 9 in a nationalist celebration declared illegal by the constitutional court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; among the participants were the Night Wolves, a black-uniformed group of Russian nationalist pro-Kremlin bikers. On February 10, Republika Srpska’s national assembly adopted the draft version of a law to create a separate judicial system from the rest of the state. Regarding his future plans, Dodik said he won’t be daunted by opposition from the Western centers of power, suggesting that Moscow and Beijing will help if the West imposes sanctions.
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Notwithstanding Russia’s local proxy, fanning existing flames in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be a rational adventure from Putin’s viewpoint for additional reasons. First, Serbian and Turkish reactions could fit the wider Russian agenda if this trajectory with opposing power dyads within the Bosnian state takes a turning point.
Second, Putin is aware of the EU’s record of conflict management in ex-Yugoslavia, and Bosnia in particular, in the early 1990s. It failed miserably to secure the peace in the heart of Europe, when the EU was a rising star and Russia was at its weakest point. Third, extending the current EUFOR peace mission in Bosnia may be vetoed by Russia at the UN Security Council in November.
It is worth remembering that Bosnia and Herzegovina doesn’t have NATO’s Article 5 mutual defense guarantee to fall back on, and that President Joe Biden’s promise to defend every inch of NATO is meaningless for Sarajevo. Washington’s official position on protecting the parameters of the Dayton Agreement is as vague as its strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan.
Serbia and Turkey in the Bosnian Theater
President Putin has many good reasons to count on Serbia to exploit Bosnia and Herzegovina‘s internal weakness. Belgrade largely relies on Russian weaponry and strong nationalist sentiments with the secessionist movement in Republika Srpska. Serbia’s national defense strategy, officially promoted in late 2019, transcends national boundaries in its content, marking a shift from defensive sovereignty to a more offensive approach.
Serbia’s home minister, Aleksandar Vulin, the former defense minister who officially promoted this strategy, often exudes self-congratulatory confidence that the Western Balkans region is there for Serbia’s taking. At the ruling Serbian Progressive Party congress in July last year that took place a few months before the joint Serbian-Russian “Slavic Shield” military exercise, Vulin forcefully stated that “Creating the Serbian World, where the Serbs would live and be united, is the task of this generation of politicians.”
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Serbia has also accelerated military spending at a faster rate for several years now for no rational reason except regional supremacy. According to Global Fire Power, its current defense budget is almost twice that of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo combined. Serbia’s reliance on Russian and Chinese military support has also been reinforced. In 2019, it received donations of fighter jets, tanks and armored vehicles from Russia. In 2020, it bought CH92-A drones and FK-3 surface-to-air missiles from China and then purchased, at Putin’s suggestion, the Pantsir S-1 air defense system.
It is critical to understand why Serbia is arming so fast: From a realist perspective, its behavior could only become assertive, and more so if Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine succeeds.
Turkey is probably the second regional contender to be caught in the Bosnian fire for both domestic and external factors. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ankara has been projecting soft power throughout the Balkans, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, relying on historical, cultural and economic ties. Turkey has also actively participated in all three peacebuilding missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina: IFOR (1995-97), SFOR (1997-2004) and is currently among EUFOR’s 20 contributing countries.
However, in case of conflict, Ankara represents an imraportant geopolitical substitute should EUFOR abandon its commitments or if Russia vetoes its mandate at the Security Council. Western powers have for far too long watched from the sidelines and have practically allowed this trajectory with opposing power dyads within the Bosnian state to take root. Hence, Turkey won’t shy away from using its military clout in the region.
The conventional logic of Turkish enmity with Serbia sets Ankara and Moscow on a collision course because Vladimir Putin perceives Republika Srpska and Serbia as natural, historic and strategic allies. However, Russia would not necessarily oppose a Turkish role in the Balkans as long as Ankara’s move triggers some cracks within the Euro-Atlantic alliance. It also seems plausible for Turkey and Russia — historically perceived as brothers by the two confronting parties in the Bosnian theater — to test their mediating capacity modeled after the Astana format launched after the Russian and Turkish interventions in Syria.
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Given their animosity with Russia or Turkey, some European powers would expectedly oppose their interference in Bosnia and Herzegovina on geopolitical grounds, while the more liberal ones will raise ideological concerns. Speaking on the subject of the priorities of the French presidency of the EU that began on January 1, President Emmanuel Macron assessed that the Western Balkans “is going through new tensions today. History is coming back. Sometimes tragedy is coming back.”
Macron also insisted on the “very special responsibility” toward these countries in terms of fighting external interference. What Macron fears is that extra-regional actors like Russia or Turkey could fill the vacuum, in which case power relations would inevitably become subject to reconfiguration. This scenario is not unfeasible as Russia does not project power in the Balkans for the sake of challenging Turkish interests in the first place. Its prime goal is to replace the existing US-led liberal, institutional and rules-based order with a more anarchic, illiberal and multipolar structure that fits Russia’s image.
A Slippery Slope for the EU and US
At first sight, a local collision in Bosnia and Herzegovina would bear a striking resemblance to what transpired in Ukraine in 2013-14. Without full integration into the EU or NATO, Bosnia and Herzegovina is also a vulnerable target, just like Ukraine has proven to be. Bosnia and Herzegovina is also divided along similar geopolitical and domestic lines, between pro-NATO aspirations in Sarajevo and anti-NATO tendencies in Banja Luka.
However, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s instability is far more complex than the crisis in Ukraine for one structural reason: It is not in Russia’s near abroad but in the European underbelly, which presents both an opportunity and a threat for all opposing sides at the local, regional and international level.
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The EU has for some time failed to find a unified response to the Bosnian crisis, let alone taking concrete measures, except increasing EUFOR mission by an additional 500 troops. While some founding member states, including Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, urged sanctions against Milorad Dodik during a recent EU foreign ministers’ debate, newer members like Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia oppose them. In fact, some European populist leaders have been staunch supporters of the Russian proxy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic stated recently that he was against the EU imposing sanctions against Dodik, saying that “If someone from Croatia votes for those sanctions, for me they will be a traitor.” Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban offered €100 million ($110 million) in financial aid to Republika Srpska. Orban also opposed placing EU sanctions on Dodik, signaling an early warning that the EU, as a whole, may be unable to secure a peaceful Bosnia and Herzegovina, which again resonates with the EU’s poor historical record of conflict management in the region.
Hence, one should not exclude a possibility that EUFOR troops could be evacuated from Bosnia and Herzegovina one day altogether, much in the same way the Dutch UNPROFOR battalion was pulled from Srebrenica in July 1995, failing to prevent the Srebrenica genocide from taking place and making a mockery of UN resolutions on safe heavens. Should there be a prospect for this failure being repeated, the EU might decide to pass the buck on to Washington.
In that case, small-nation turmoil and squabbles among Balkan nations could transform into a great-power rivalry. Will President Biden accept that call given his unreadiness for direct confrontation with Moscow? The US would face a choice between realist logic, which is to revert European security to Europeans, or a more liberal and interventionist approach, which is to prevent Russia’s unchecked incursion toward NATO’s eastern border.
There is still time for the US to deflate Republika Srpska’s rebellion and put it back in the political arena. Former Bosnian presidency member Haris Silajdzic recently suggested placing a small NATO brigade in Brcko, the site of fierce battles during the wars of the 1990s, and a few battalions on the Bosnia and Herzegovina-Serbian border. If the US passes the buck back to the EU — which Russia and Serbia will celebrate — the West needs to fasten its seatbelts and brace for impact. More so than the war in Ukraine, a conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina has the capacity to trigger a regrettable European history.
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0.022336 | <urn:uuid:fb889158-0683-4bf8-a3c4-927b62cd9738> | en | 0.904161 | If you’re applying for a job position which requires complex problem solving skills and logical reasoning in fields like management consulting, finance or engineering, you will most likely have to take a diagrammatic reasoning or abstract reasoning test. This article will tell you all about the Savillle diagrammatic reasoning test – how to solve it and tips that will help you achieve a higher score.
A diagrammatic reasoning test basically measures a potential employee’s logical reasoning and problem solving skills. Some of the skills and abilities that you will be tested on are decision making skills, analytical ability, logical and abstract reasoning, problem solving skills and critical thinking ability.
The most common diagrammatic reasoning tests are designed by renowned test publishers like Saville Consulting and Cubiks. Even though both tests assess the logical ability of candidates during the recruitment process, each test has a distinct format. The Saville Diagrammatic Analysis assessment consists of 32 questions that must be completed within 24 minutes. The diagrammatic reasoning section in the Swift version is considerably shorter with time duration of 6 minutes.
On the other hand, the Cubiks diagrammatic reasoning test is entirely based on grouping rules. It presents two groups of similar symbols and requires candidates to analyze and decide whether a particular symbol belongs to group A, group B or neither group.
All You Must Know About the Savillle Diagrammatic Reasoning Test
The format of the Saville diagrammatic reasoning test is straightforward and easy to follow. The questions of the diagrammatic test are designed to assess one’s ability to understand and solve diagrammatic problems. Each section includes a panel and an illustration followed by a set of questions. The effect of different operators is described in the panel while the illustration shows the working of the operators. You must use the information present in the illustration and panel to solve the problems.
You will be asked to identify which of the options could be used to replace the missing input, process or output. The panel may fully or partially describe the effect of each operator. Certain operators will change the shape; some will change the size while others will change the shading from light to dark and vice versa in the input sequence. Specific operators duplicate, reorder or delete symbols. You should be able to complete each set consisting of four questions within 2 minutes.
The diagrammatic reasoning test is a highly effective tool for measuring a candidate’s cognitive ability. According to Hunter & Hunter, the diagrammatic reasoning test is fourteen times more effective at predicting job performance of potential employees as compared to an average selection interview. Top notch employers use diagrammatic tests during the recruitment process alongside interviews, references, application forms, academic results and other selection methods for it delivers the following results in the workplace.
– Reduced time to hire
– High organization performance
– Low employee turnover rate
– Improved employee retention rate
– Lower cost per hire
– Strong organizational commitment, engagement and loyalty
Success Tips for Solving the Saville Diagrammatic Reasoning Test
Here are some success tips for achieving high scores on the diagrammatic reasoning test.
Refine Your Diagrammatic Abilities
– Look at different diagrams in magazines and newspapers closely and try to interpret them.
– Study flowcharts of different procedures and processes. This will help you familiarize with the illustrations provided in the test.
– Solve various puzzles to improve your logic and reasoning skills.
– Learn to identify different types of relationships within diagrams.
– Create diagrams to show sequences of different events.
Before Taking the Test
– Study the preparation guide and follow the instructions accordingly.
– Get a good night’s sleep to avoid fatigue and anxiety during the session.
– Read each question carefully and ask for clarification if you don’t understand anything.
During The Assessment
– Do not waste time. If you find yourself stuck on a particular question or unsure which answer option to choose, move forward and solve that question later on.
– Try solving one set of questions within 2 minutes.
– Always seek feedback after the assessment. It will help you to focus and improve on your weak areas.
Evaluate Your Performance
Solve as many practice tests as you can to familiarize yourself with the pattern of the test. This will also help you evaluate your performance. Check your answers and determine how many questions you were able to answer accurately. If you were not able to solve the test within the stipulated time limit, try to speed up your work rate. If you finished the test on time but made a lot of mistakes, try focusing on the accuracy of your answers.
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0.136742 | <urn:uuid:884e031d-1a61-4567-9ddf-9044bc96587f> | en | 0.942166 | How chat platforms are using Machine Learning for content moderation?
More and more online services are using Machine Learning (ML), the method of data analysis that will automate the building of analytical mode.
How chat platforms are using Machine Learning for content moderation?
More and more online services nowadays are using Machine Learning (ML), the method of data analysis that will automate the building of analytical mode. Systems can surely learn from data, make decisions with very little human intervention, and even identify patterns. ML is the driving force behind such processes.
All those billions of people who are using the internet are generating just as much content in the form of videos, images, posts, and many more. While these users want to visit various platforms or retailers where they want to have a safe experience, the content has to be regulated. That’s when content moderation comes into the game, as it aims to remove abusive, explicit, harmful, and fake data.
How does it work?
The content queues and escalation rules for review systems based on ML will vary depending on the company, although they’ll generally include some AI moderation:
• Pre-moderation: AI will moderate the user content before posting, and the one that isn’t categorized as harmful will be made visible for the users. As there’s no such thing as perfection in life, it won’t be for AI as well. There will be content that has a high probability of being harmful or at least not business-friendly, and it will be removed. There’s also the possibility for the AI model to flag the content for human review if there are not enough clues to label it as harmful or not.
• Post-moderation: When users report harmful content, it will be used for review by AI or humans. If the review is done by AI, it will follow the same process described above.
There is plenty of harmful content out there on the vast world of the internet, and we’ll describe some of it below that will also undergo the content moderation process:
Nudity, Pornographic content
We can find sexually explicit content on so many corners of the internet. We all know why this type of content is harmful, especially for children. Artificial intelligence (AI) will usually detect this type of content easily through image processing methods.
Different platforms also have different ways of dealing with pornographic content – Instagram is one of the most strict platforms when it comes to such content, as it completely forbids it. Video chat platforms such as Omegle have been heavily using machine learning to detect and prevent bad actors in their platforms.
Abusive content
We all have a pretty good idea of what ‘abusive’ means, and in this case, it refers to that type of online behavior meant to offend someone or make the person feel bad, such as hate speech, cyber-aggression, cyber-bullying, and more.
Some of these online behaviors are certainly difficult to detect, but plenty of companies have invested a lot of effort to try to detect them automatically through intelligent programs.
Self-harm and suicide had been some of the outcomes of the victims of online abusive content, which led to a lot of pressure on social networks to do their best in banning such content. Image processing, social network analysis, and natural language processing are some of the ways to identify abusive content.
Fake and misleading content
Commonly known as ‘fake news’ , this is perhaps the most difficult type of content to identify and prohibit. Pretty much nobody can say for sure every time if a piece of information is correct or not, but that doesn’t mean that companies have to give up hope.
Some of the best chances are incorporating natural language processing, commonsense knowledge bases, and various reputation-based factors via social network analysis and stylistic elements of the content.
In general, the internet has improved the lives of many people, and we can’t imagine the world without it nowadays. The online realm is helping us have a job, a bank account, it found a spouse for many of us, and the long list of benefits could continue forever. But still, it also has a dark side, and we must think twice before making any move online.
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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: ShivanSpS on August 06, 2021, 09:49:06 am
Title: POF Specs for pof versión 2200
Post by: ShivanSpS on August 06, 2021, 09:49:06 am
Ok, i will to keep this as short as possible.
The Problem:
Pof editing programs have been not enforcing proper data padding and they even remove them, this started with modelview, :v: original pofs all come with proper padding that ensures there is no issues reading the pof data no matter the CPU arch. As it is now, the current, non-Volition pofs crash while loading on ARM32, this not longer happens on ARM64 as aarch64 fully supports unaligned access.
On top of that, the FSO SLDC system to accelerate shield collision detection uses unaligned access by design, what means that even if the pof somehow loads, if it has a SLDC chunk on it, FSO crashes on a shield impact if the cpu arch does not fully support unaligned access.
The Fix:
FSO version 21.4.0 already fixes the problems that causes the crashes by adding the proper padding to the BSP_data and converting the SLDC data at load, but this involves a addicional work to be done at load, the process is very, very fast and the loading time impact is almost 0 but this is where Pof Version #2200 comes into play.
POF v2200:
-Return to original :v: data specs
-The new SLC2 chunk for shield collision acceleration must be added
-SLDC must still be in file for backward FSO compatibility
The Original :v: data specs:
-The entire pof file size must be divisible by 4, that means that all data stored inside, on every POF and BSP chunks must be divisible by 4.
-On file read all pointer arithmetic must be divisible by 4, meaning you should never do a "pointer+17" to access any data. In those cases addicional padding is added to the trailing data, so instead of a "pointer+17", it is a "pointer+20".
-Null terminators are used as padding.
-BSP_Defpoints vertex_offset was the major cause of crashes on ARM32, it is also the only type of BSP chunks that can cause issues, proper padding must be enforced there.
-Same rule applies to strings stored in the chunks:
int string_lenght 23
char[23] "this is a turret name\0"
int string_lenght 24
char[24] "this is a turret name\0\0"
The SLC2 chunk:
SLC2 is nothing more than a exact copy of SLDC but using an int for the chunk type instead of a char, so the same shield collision tree must be writen twice, once with a char as the type for the regular SLDC chunk, and again with a int for the SLC2 chunk, both SLDC and SLC2 must be present on pof version 2200.
Conversion function example:
I writen a pof conversion function in C some time ago, the version that works properly is currently used on the VPC compressor, this is petty much a single pof alignment function (i regret to have written it as single function but, it works so...) | https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=ajvp0lked9vqs4vhalt79722io&action=printpage;topic=97715.0 | dclm-gs1-253515422 |
0.949989 | <urn:uuid:a404fa35-de0a-4678-9c0f-c8ade27a1df5> | en | 0.953369 | Why does aging change your skin? The reason is that life quite literally happens to you, and your skin is the primary barrier between you and the world. Women typically begin to show the first signs of aging in their mid-twenties, while men begin to show the first signs about five years later, only because they have thicker skin.
Aging happens due to two different kinds of influences: intrinsic and extrinsic. You can’t do much about intrinsic aging. It is caused by your genetics. Extrinsic aging is caused by factors that you can control. There are four major factors that cause extrinsic aging:
1. Sun damage
Excess ultraviolet radiation is the absolute worst thing you can expose your skin to if you want to keep it looking young. Ultraviolet radiation increases your risk of skin cancer and has a striking effect on aging. All you have to do to determine whether ultraviolet light has already aged you beyond how you would age without exposure is to compare the skin on a part of your body that gets a lot of sun, like your face or your arms, with a part that gets less sun like your abdomen or buttocks.
2. Smoking
Smoking constricts the blood vessels, which decreases blood supply to your skin. It also dehydrates your skin, increases free-radical damage, and has been linked to an increased risk of skin cancer.
3. Eating poorly
Did you know that poor dietary choices can make visible differences in your skin? Sugar in particular is a skin wrecker, as it causes aging by increasing inflammation and glycation.
4. Drinking too much alcohol
Excessive alcohol consumption causes your skin to age prematurely. Alcohol dehydrates your skin and causes some people to have a flushing reaction. Repeated flushing can result in a ruddy complexion caused by tiny broken blood vessels that show up as splotchy red patches all over your face.
The effects that these four factors have on skin are linked to free radicals. Free radicals are damaged oxygen molecules that are missing at least one electron. To remedy the problem, they attach to healthy cells and steal their electrons, damaging the cells or causing them to malfunction. This can cause all sorts of problems, from cell structure damage to DNA damage.
Free radicals are by products of the body’s various processes, like digestion, and they should be present in amounts the body can easily handle. However, when you add in extrinsic factors like UV exposure, smoking, a poor diet, alcohol, and the effects of toxins like pollution, pesticides, automobile exhaust, and environmental chemicals, and especially when you have more than one of these operating in the body at one time, free radicals can become too numerous and put your body in a state of oxidative stress that will cause visible damage.
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Relationships change and sometimes it's the hardest thing to deal with. The ever changing push and pull tug of what did i do to change this dynamic, could i have been a better version of myself? Could i have been a more patient self? Could i have acted more as the person they gravitate to. Then we realise, we are who we are. In life the people who love you are supposed to accept you for who you are, wether it suits them or not. Sometimes you may love the bones off someone and the next day, not like them so much, the reality is we are only human. It is not a crime to be you. There was a point where i had so many people consistently telling me there was something wrong with the way i was, who i was as a person, and then i looked with disgust as these people would try and imitate me. Or people who tear you down to friends and relatives, wait till everybody's gone, try and get close to you, then when their frustrated they can't you become the bad guy. Your suddenly the villain, which means they don't have to be accountable for anything. Here it is in a nutshell, we are all allowed choice. I believe in the simplicity of it all, sometimes in life you never know what people envy about you. From your looks, to your confidence, to your personality, whatever it is. It is their problem. If your willing to learn as you grow, adapt, be vulnerable, because life is the biggest teacher. Life will humble us, and bring you to your very knees. We are all learning and we are all growing, celebrate who you are, because you only live once.
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During patent prosecution, practitioners address the various rejections under different statutory sections one at a time. This makes sense since the different rejections stand on their own, and different arguments/rules apply. While sometimes there are overlapping issues, generally most examiners judiciously apply the grounds when they feel the facts warrant such application. However, from a strategic point of view, one can often learn a lot by considering the rejections together.
In particular, some examiners (e.g., those that tend to be more intent on rejecting applications no matter the facts) do not simply go through the claims and various statutory provisions and apply them independently. Rather, as an example, some examiners, upon realizing that their best prior art rejection is still missing certain explicit claim elements, go back and suddenly find that certain claim elements are unclear (112), unsupported (112), etc. In other words, it is generally not a coincidence when the very element a practitioner identifies as differentiating the cited art turns out to be aggressively attacked by the examiner for procedural, formality, and every other reason one can think of relating to clarity, support, indefiniteness, etc.
An example of this in the footwear arts is 15/223,048. The invention relates to Fitflops’ (TM) (see application for a method of molding a part of an insole or a sole of a shoe. The patent application provides for different densities which cause the user to wobble and thus constantly react so that muscle tone is increased.
Claim 16 is reproduced below. Among several issues on appeal, claim 16 was rejected based on a combination of references, but also under Section 112. According to the rejection, the coplanar features were unclear because the claim did not specify which portions of the sole are relied upon to define the portions that are planar with one another. Further, the examiner alleged that claim 16 was rejected because the figures of the application show that the portions of the toe/heel region are curved, and thus not planar with other regions. Further still, the examiner asserted the specification did not support the claimed coplanar features being present without a force being exerted.
However, the figures and specification were clear on the 112 issues. For example, the specification explained that the unitary sole 2 included three regions (4, 5, and 6) and the lower portion 2C of the sole included all there of those regions. And, the figures showed the sole without the force of a user’s foot.
So why all the fuss over these three sections being coplanar with one another when no force is applied? Because the examiner “interpreted” the claims, in view of the alleged lack of clarity, in a way that there are “no limitations within the claims requiring that each of the regions is substantially planar with each of the other regions.” This interpretation was, no doubt, driven by the fact that the cited prior art only taught the toe and arch regions being coplanar and the arch and heel regions being coplanar, but not all three being coplanar when there is no force exerted on the sole by a user.
In the end, on appeal the PTAB agreed that the claim elements were clear and not found in the cited art. However, had the examiner been able to convince the PTAB that any one of the issues created lack of clarity or support, then the rejection could have been maintained. One might guess that is precisely why some examiners take this approach when trying to maximize pressure on the applicant to give up or further amend.
Another example is related to Shoot-A-Way’s application for their basketball practice machine (15/419,760). The claims focused on how the controller controls ball ejection based on a location pattern entered by the user. Claim 1 on appeal is reproduced below:
1. A basketball practice machine for assisting a user to improve his or her basketball skills comprising:
a ball ejector configured to launch a series of basketballs to various positions on a basketball playing area;
an interface comprising a plurality of individually selectable locations arranged in a spaced angular pattern along a rendering of a basketball playing surface to correspond with the positions on said basketball playing area;
a sensor configured to count the number of made shots; and
a controller in electrical communication with the interface and the ejector;
wherein said controller is configured to receive selection data regarding the individually selectable locations directly and physically touched by the user and the order in which said individually selectable locations were touched, and transmit commands to said ball ejector based upon the selection data such that the ball ejector launches the series of basketballs to the positions on the basketball playing area corresponding to the individually selectable locations touched by the user in the order in which said individually selectable locations were touched.
The examiner could not find prior art that showed programming passes according to an order of selected locations corresponding to shooting locations on the playing surface. The examiner was relying on inherency in prior art that has a threadbare manual programming mode, but that gave no other details. Recognizing the weakness of the art, it should come as no surprise that those very limitations missing from the prior art turned out to be "unclear” and “improper” according to the examiner. Specifically, the examiner argued that the “individually selectable locations” was indefinite because it was “unclear what structure is encompassed by such language.” Further, the examiner argued that the “were touched” aspect was improper because it was in the past tense and
It is not readily apparent if the claims are presently capable of achieving the same result and that the claimed structure is capable of being touched. ‘[W]ere’ implies that the locations had been touched but not that they are currently capable of being touched.
Already, one can see that it is no coincidence that the very limitations related to novelty over the cited art just so happen to be unclear and indefinite.
So, be aware of the interplay among rejections. And when you see a certain limitation attacked in what seems to be an over-exuberant fashion, look hard because that limitations may very well be the key to differentiating the prior art.
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Rosh Hashanah - Facts, History, Traditions, Observance
Rosh Hashanah - From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Official name
ראש השנה
Also called
Jewish New Year
Feast of Trumpets
Observed by
Praying in synagogue, personal reflection, and hearing the shofar.
Start of first day of Tishrei
End of second day of Tishrei
1 Tishrei, 2 Tishrei
2020 date
Sunset, 18 September –
nightfall, 20 September[1]
2021 date
Sunset, 6 September –
nightfall, 8 September[1]
2022 date
Sunset, 25 September –
nightfall, 27 September[1]
2023 date
Sunset, 15 September –
nightfall, 17 September[1]
Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה), literally meaning "head [of] the year", is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (יוֹם תְּרוּעָה), literally "day of shouting or blasting", and is also more commonly known in English as the Feast of Trumpets. It is the first of the Jewish High Holy Days (יָמִים נוֹרָאִיםYamim Nora'im. "Days of Awe") specified by Leviticus 23:23–32 that occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere.
Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration that begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. In contrast to the ecclesiastical lunar new year on the first day of the first month Nisan, the spring Passover month which marks Israel's exodus from Egypt, Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the civil year, according to the teachings of Judaism, and is the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman according to the Hebrew Bible, and the inauguration of humanity's role in God's world.
Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a cleaned-out ram's horn), as prescribed in the Torah, following the prescription of the Hebrew Bible to "raise a noise" on Yom Teruah. Its rabbinical customs include attending synagogue services and reciting special liturgy about teshuva, as well as enjoying festive meals. Eating symbolic foods is now a tradition, such as apples dipped in honey, hoping to evoke a sweet new year.
"Rosh" is the Hebrew word for "head", "ha" is the definite article ("the"), and "shanah" means year. Thus "Rosh HaShanah" means 'head [of] the year', referring to the Jewish day of new year.[2][3]
The term "Rosh Hashanah" in its current meaning does not appear in the Torah. Leviticus 23:24 refers to the festival of the first day of the seventh month as zikhron teru'ah ("a memorial of blowing [of horns]"); it is also referred to in the same part of Leviticus as 'שַׁבַּת שַׁבָּתוֹן' (shabbat shabbaton) or ultimate Sabbath or meditative rest day, and a "holy day to God". These same words are commonly used in the Psalms to refer to the anointed days. Numbers 29:1 calls the festival yom teru'ah ("day of blowing [the horn]"). The term rosh hashanah appears once in the Bible (Ezekiel 40:1), where it has a different meaning: either generally the time of the "beginning of the year", or possibly a reference to Yom Kippur,[4] or to the month of Nisan.[5][6]
In the Jewish prayer-books (i.e., the Siddur and Machzor), Rosh Hashanah is also called Yom Hazikaron (the day of remembrance),[3] not to be confused with the modern Israeli remembrance day of the same name.
Rosh Hashanah marks the start of a new year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four "new year" observances that define various legal "years" for different purposes as explained in the Mishnah and Talmud).[3] It is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years, shmita and yovel years. Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of Man.[7]
The origin of the Hebrew New Year is connected to the beginning of the economic year in the agricultural societies of the ancient Near East.[8] The New Year was the beginning of the cycle of sowing, growth, and harvest; the harvest was marked by its own set of major agricultural festivals.[8] The Semites generally set the beginning of the new year in autumn, while other ancient civilizations chose spring for that purpose, such as the Persians or Greeks; the primary reason was agricultural in both cases, the time of sowing the seed and bringing in the harvest.[8]
In Jewish law, four major New Years are observed, each one marking a beginning of sorts. The lunar month Nisan (usually corresponding to the months March–April in the Gregorian calendar) is when a new year is added to the reign of Jewish kings, and it marks the start of the year for the three Jewish pilgrimages.[9] Its injunction is expressly stated in the Hebrew Bible: "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months" (Exo. 12:2). However, ordinary years, Sabbatical years, Jubilees, and dates inscribed on legal deeds and contracts are reckoned differently; such years begin on the first day of the lunar month Tishri (usually corresponding to the months September–October in the Gregorian calendar). Their injunction is expressly stated in the Hebrew Bible: "Three times in the year you shall keep a feast unto me… the feast of unleavened bread (Passover)… the feast of harvest (Shavuot)… and the feast of ingathering (Sukkot) which is at the departing of the year" (Exo. 23:14–16). "At the departing of the year" implies that the new year begins here.[10]
The reckoning of Tishri as the beginning of the Jewish year began with the early Egyptians and was preserved by the Hebrew nation,[11] being also alluded to in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 7:11) when describing the Great Deluge at the time of Noah. This began during the "second month" (Marheshvan) counting from Tishri, a view that has largely been accepted by the Sages of Israel.[12]
Religious significance[edit]
The Mishnah contains the second known reference to Rosh Hashanah as the "day of judgment" (Yom haDin).[13] In the Talmud tractate on Rosh Hashanah, it states that three books of account are opened on Rosh Hashanah, wherein the fate of the wicked, the righteous, and those of the intermediate class are recorded. The names of the righteous are immediately inscribed in the book of life and they are sealed "to live". The intermediate class is allowed a respite of ten days, until Yom Kippur, to reflect, repent and become righteous;[14] the wicked are "blotted out of the book of the living forever".[15]
Some midrashic descriptions depict God as sitting upon a throne, while books containing the deeds of all humanity are opened for review, and each person passes in front of Him for evaluation of his or her deeds.[16]
"The Holy One said, 'on Rosh Hashanah recite before Me [verses of] Sovereignty, Remembrance, and Shofar blasts (malchiyot, zichronot, shofrot): Sovereignty so that you should make Me your King; Remembrance so that your remembrance should rise up before Me. And through what? Through the Shofar.' (Rosh Hashanah 16a, 34b)"[17]
This is reflected in the prayers composed by classical rabbinic sages for Rosh Hashanah found in traditional Ashkenazi machzorim where the theme of the prayers is the "coronation" of God as King of the universe, in preparation for the acceptance of judgments that will follow on that day.
Shofar blowing[edit]
Main article: Shofar blowing
Jewish elder blowing the ram's horn (shofar)
Yemenite-style shofar
Shofar blowing for Rosh Hashana, Ashkenaz version
The best-known ritual of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from an animal horn. The shofar is blown at various points during the Rosh Hashanah prayers, with a total of 100 blasts on each day.[18]
While the blowing of the shofar is a Biblical statute, it is also a symbolic "wake-up call", stirring Jews to mend their ways and repent. The shofar blasts call out: "Sleepers, wake up from your slumber! Examine your ways and repent and remember your Creator."[19]
Prayer service[edit]
On Rosh Hashanah day, religious poems called piyyutim, are added to the regular services. A special prayer book, the mahzor (plural mahzorim), is used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.[20] A number of additions are made to the regular service, most notably an extended repetition of the Amidah prayer for both Shacharit and Mussaf. The Shofar is blown during Mussaf at several intervals.[21] (In many synagogues, even little children come and hear the Shofar being blown.) Biblical verses are recited at each point. According to the Mishnah, ten verses (each) are said regarding kingship, remembrance, and the shofar itself, each accompanied by the blowing of the shofar. A variety of piyyutim, medieval penitential prayers, are recited regarding themes of repentance. The Alenu prayer is recited during the repetition of the Mussaf Amidah.[22]
The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the announcement of Isaac's birth and his subsequent birth, see Genesis chapter 21, is part of the Torah readings in synagogues on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and the narrative of the sacrifice and binding of Isaac, see Genesis chapter 22, is read in synagogue on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
The Mussaf Amidah prayer on Rosh Hashanah is unique in that apart from the first and last three blessings, it contains three central blessings making a total of nine. These blessings are entitled "Malchuyot" (Kingship, and also includes the blessing for the holiness of the day as is in a normal Mussaf), "Zichronot" (Remembrance), and "Shofarot" (concerning the Shofar). Each section contains an introductory paragraph followed by selections of verses about the "topic". The verses are three from the Torah, three from the Ketuvim, three from the Nevi'im, and one more from the Torah. During the repetition of the Amidah, the Shofar is sounded (except on Shabbat) after the blessing that ends each section.[23] Recitation of these three blessings is first recorded in the Mishna,[24] though writings by Philo and possibly even Psalms 81 suggest that the blessings may have been recited on Rosh Hashanah even centuries earlier.[25]
Days before Rosh Hashanah[edit]
Rosh Hashanah is preceded by the month of Elul, during which Jews are supposed to begin a self-examination and repentance, a process that culminates in the ten days of the Yamim Nora'im, the Days of Awe, beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with the holiday of Yom Kippur.[26][27]
The shofar is traditionally blown each morning for the entire month of Elul, the month preceding Rosh Hashanah. The sound of the shofar is intended to awaken the listeners from their "slumbers" and alert them to the coming judgment.[28][26] The shofar is not blown on Shabbat.[29]
In the period leading up to Rosh Hashanah, penitential prayers called selichot, are recited. The Sephardic tradition is to start at the beginning of Elul, while the Ashkenazi practice is to start a few days before Rosh Hashanah.[26]
The day before Rosh Hashanah day is known as Erev Rosh Hashanah ("Rosh Hashanah eve").[30] It is the 29th day of the Hebrew month of Elul, ending at sundown, when Rosh Hashanah commences. Some communities perform Hatarat nedarim (a nullification of vows) after the morning prayer services.[31] Many Orthodox men immerse in a mikveh in honor of the coming day.[32]
Symbolic foods[edit]
Main article: Rosh Hashanah seder
Rosh Hashanah jams prepared by Libyan Jews
Traditional Rosh Hashanah foods: Apples dipped in honey, pomegranates, wine for kiddush
Rosh Hashanah meals usually include apples dipped in honey to symbolize a sweet new year.[33] Other foods with a symbolic meaning may be served, depending on local minhag ("custom"), such as the head of a fish (to symbolize the prayer "let us be the head and not the tail").[34]
Many communities hold a "Rosh Hashanah seder" during which blessings are recited over a variety of symbolic dishes.[35][36][37] The blessings have the incipit "Yehi ratzon", meaning "May it be Thy will." In many cases, the name of the food in Hebrew or Aramaic represents a play on words (a pun). The Yehi Ratzon platter may include apples (dipped in honey, baked or cooked as a compote called mansanada); dates; pomegranates; black-eyed peas; pumpkin-filled pastries called rodanchas; leek fritters called keftedes de prasa; beets; and a whole fish with the head intact. It is also common to eat stuffed vegetables called legumbres yaprakes.[38]
Some of the symbolic foods eaten are dates, black-eyed peas, leek, spinach and gourd, all of which are mentioned in the Talmud:[39] "Let a man be accustomed to eat on New Year's Day gourds (קרא), and fenugreek (רוביא),[40] leeks (כרתי), beet [leaves] (סילקא), and dates (תמרי)."
Pomegranates are used in many traditions, to symbolize being fruitful like the pomegranate with its many seeds.[41] The use of apples dipped in honey, symbolizing a sweet year, is a late medieval Ashkenazi addition, though it is now almost universally accepted. Typically, round challah bread is served, to symbolize the cycle of the year.[41][33] From ancient to quite modern age, lamb head or fish head were served. Nowadays, gefilte fish and lekach are commonly served by Ashkenazic Jews on this holiday. On the second night, new fruits are served to warrant the inclusion of the shehecheyanu blessing.[34]
Main article: Tashlikh
Hasidic Jews performing tashlikh on Rosh Hashanah, painting by Aleksander Gierymski, 1884
The ritual of tashlikh is performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah by Ashkenazic and most Sephardic Jews (but not by Spanish and Portuguese Jews or some Yemenites). Prayers are recited near natural flowing water, and one's sins are symbolically cast into the water. Many also have the custom to throw bread or pebbles into the water, to symbolize the "casting off" of sins. In some communities, if the first day of Rosh Hashanah occurs on Shabbat, tashlikh is postponed until the second day. The traditional service for tashlikh is recited individually and includes the prayer "Who is like unto you, O God...And You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea", and Biblical passages including Isaiah 11:9 ("They will not injure nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea") and Psalms 118:5–9, Psalms 121 and Psalms 130, as well as personal prayers. Though once considered a solemn individual tradition, it has become an increasingly social ceremony practiced in groups. Tashlikh can be performed any time until Hoshana Rabba, and some Hasidic communities perform Tashlikh on the day before Yom Kippur.[42]
The Hebrew common greeting on Rosh Hashanah is Shanah Tovah (Hebrew: שנה טובה; pronounced [ʃaˈna toˈva]), which translated from Hebrew means "[have a] good year".[43] Often Shanah Tovah Umetukah (Hebrew: שנה טובה ומתוקה), meaning "[have a] Good and Sweet Year", is used.[44] In Yiddish the greeting is אַ גוט יאָר "a gut yor" ("a good year") or אַ גוט געבענטשט יאָר "a gut gebentsht yor" ("a good blessed year").[43] The formal Sephardic greeting is Tizku Leshanim Rabbot ("may you merit many years"),[45] to which the answer is Ne'imot VeTovot ("pleasant and good ones").
A more formal greeting commonly used among religiously observant Jews is Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah (Hebrew: כְּתִיבָה וַחֲתִימָה טוֹבָה), which translates as "A good inscription and sealing [in the Book of Life]",[43] or L'shanah tovah tikatevu v'tichatemu meaning "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year".[44][46] After Rosh Hashanah ends, the greeting is changed to G'mar chatimah tovah (Hebrew: גמר חתימה טובה) meaning "A good final sealing", until Yom Kippur.[43] After Yom Kippur is over, until Hoshana Rabbah, as Sukkot ends, the greeting is Gmar Tov (Hebrew: גְּמָר טוֹב), "a good conclusion".[47]
In Karaite Judaism[edit]
Unlike the denominations of Rabbinical Judaism, Karaite Judaism believes the Jewish New Year starts with the first month and celebrates this holiday only as it is mentioned in the Torah, that is as a day of rejoicing and shouting.[48] Additionally, Karaites believe the adoption of the name "Rosh Hashanah" in place of Yom Teruah "is the result of pagan Babylonian influence upon the Jewish nation,[48] that began during the Babylonian exile with the adoption of the Babylonian month names instead of the numbering present in the Torah (Leviticus 23; Numbers 28).[48] Karaites allow no work on the day except what is needed to prepare food (Leviticus 23:23, 24).[49]
In Samaritanism[edit]
Samaritans preserve the biblical name of the holiday, Yom Teruah, and do not consider the day to be a New Year's day.[50]
Duration and timing[edit]
See also: Jewish and Israeli holidays 2000–2050
The Torah defines Rosh Hashanah as a one-day celebration, and since days in the Hebrew calendar begin at sundown, the beginning of Rosh Hashanah is at sundown at the end of 29 Elul. Since the time of the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE and the time of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, normative Jewish law appears to be that Rosh Hashanah is to be celebrated for two days, because of the difficulty of determining the date of the new moon.[4] Nonetheless, there is some evidence that Rosh Hashanah was celebrated on a single day in Israel as late as the thirteenth century CE.[51]
Orthodox and Conservative Judaism now generally observe Rosh Hashanah for the first two days of Tishrei, even in Israel where all other Jewish holidays dated from the new moon last only one day. The two days of Rosh Hashanah are said to constitute "Yoma Arichtah" (Aramaic: "one long day"). In Reform Judaism, while most congregations in North America observe only the first day of Rosh Hashanah, some follow the traditional two-day observance as a sign of solidarity with other Jews worldwide.[52] Karaite Jews, who do not recognize Rabbinic Jewish oral law and rely on their own understanding of the Torah, observe only one day on the first of Tishrei, since the second day is not mentioned in the Written Torah.[53]
Originally, the date of Rosh Hashanah was determined based on observation of the new moon ("molad"), and thus could fall out on any day of the week. However, around the third century CE, the Hebrew calendar was fixed, such that the first day of Rosh Hashanah never falls out on Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday.[54][55]
Rosh Hashanah occurs 163 days after the first day of Passover, and thus is usually (but not always) determined by the new moon closest to the autumnal equinox.
In terms of the Gregorian calendar, the earliest date on which Rosh Hashanah can fall is 5 September, as happened in 1842, 1861, 1899, and 2013. The latest Gregorian date that Rosh Hashanah can occur is 5 October, as happened in 1815, 1929, and 1967, and will happen again in 2043. After 2089, the differences between the Hebrew calendar and the Gregorian calendar will result in Rosh Hashanah falling no earlier than 6 September. Starting in 2214, the new latest date will be 6 October.[56]
Jewish Holidays And Celebrations
Jewish Holidays
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Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (Hebrew: ימים טובים, lit. 'Good Days', or singular יום טוב Yom Tov, in transliterated Hebrew [English: /ˈjɔːm ˈtɔːv, joʊm ˈtoʊv/]),[1] are holidays observed in Judaism and by Jews[Note 1] throughout the Hebrew calendar. They include religious, cultural and national elements, derived from three sources: biblical mitzvot ("commandments"); rabbinic mandates; Jewish history and the history of the State of Israel.
Jewish holidays occur on the same dates every year in the Hebrew calendar, but the dates vary in the Gregorian. This is because the Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar (based on the cycles of both the sun and moon), whereas the Gregorian is a solar calendar.
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CCIE salary varies by direction. In addition, CCIE has many different directions. After passing the CCIE, the specific salary has a lot to do with the direction you choose. For example, in a more basic direction such as routing and switching, although there is more demand, there will be more engineers, and the salary will be relatively less.
CCIE salary is related to the company and position. The level of salary is also related to the company you choose and the position you are engaged in. You know, after you get the CCIE, you will be faced with a wide range of choices, many positions, and there are many different positions to choose from. The vendor, Party B or Party A are all you can choose. Therefore, the CCIE salary range for different positions will also be relatively large, ranging from a few thousand a month to several hundred thousand a year.
For example, a manufacturer’s pre-sales engineer has an annual salary of about 14930 US dollars to 44770 US dollars and a manufacturer’s technical department manager has an annual salary of about 22390 US dollars to 74630 US dollars. To be a product manager, the annual salary may reach 44770 US dollars to 74630 US dollars. And for Party B, the pre-sales salary is about 14930 US dollars to 44770 US dollars, and the technical director can have about 37320 US dollars to 44770 US dollars; if it is Party A, the highest can get 14930 US dollars to 44770 US dollars every year.
Therefore, there are many factors that affect the salary level of CCIE, and they cannot be measured solely by certificates. Personal soft power is also very important. The soft power here mainly refers to the personal problem-solving ability, communication skills, emotional intelligence, etc., which will also affect personal promotion and salary increase to a certain extent.
In general, the salary of CCIE engineers is still considerable. But the focus is on personal ability and experience. The higher the ability and the more experience, the higher the salary will definitely be. As long as you look for the direction, find your own position, and constantly strive to improve your skills, the annual salary of hundreds of thousands is not a problem.
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0.055976 | <urn:uuid:18d15b83-e417-4c8f-8aea-03cdd2591bec> | en | 0.932407 | The results are in: sleep is the most important thing you can do for you health. Getting a good night’s rest can help you to focus better during the day, feel happier, and be more motivated. And not getting enough sleep increases your risk of heart disease, weight gain, and diabetes. So it seems pretty simple, right? You need to get enough sleep. So what, exactly, is keeping you up at night?
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Are You Always Tired?
Sometimes getting enough sleep isn’t always about how many hours your head spends on a pillow, especially if you constantly wake up feeling tired. More important than quantity — although quantity is important — is quality.
Does your partner complain about your snoring? Do you wake up in the morning with a headache? Sleep apnea/snoring-and-sleep-apnea-treatment’}}}} is a sleep disorder characterized by frequent pauses in the breathing cycle during sleep. If these pauses are above a certain threshold, they can begin to affect the body’s blood-oxygen level. When this happens, your brain sends a signal to your body to momentarily wake up to normalize oxygen levels. Chances are you won’t remember waking up, but your body does. This severely affects your sleep patterns and may be the reason you’re always feeling so tired.
Sleep apnea affects around 18 million Americans, and an estimated 80% of those people haven’t even been diagnosed.That means that sleep apnea is slowly killing millions of people — and they don’t even know it. Increased risk of stroke, diabetes, depression, high blood pressure, and heart disease means that sleep apnea effectively triples your risk of dying young.
Of course, treatment for sleep apnea can mitigate those risks, but even for those who are properly diagnosed and seek treatment, sleep apnea treatment isn’t always a pleasant experience.
Sleep Apnea Treatment Options
The most common first treatment doctors prescribe for sleep apnea is something called a CPAP device. CPAP stands for “continuous positive airway pressure.” The device is connected to a mask with a tube, and the sleep apnea sufferer wears the mask while they sleep. Although CPAP has been proven effective treatment for sleep apnea, it can be difficult to sleep in, especially if you easily feel claustrophobic. It can also be inconvenient for your partner.
If you’ve already been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and are searching for a treatment alternative, a sleep dentist can help.
We can provide an oral appliance, like a mouthguard, that holds your jaw in the proper position while you sleep. This will prevent your airway from being obstructed, giving you all the benefits of CPAP without the discomfort.
If you would like to learn whether you qualify for this convenient and simple snoring and sleep apnea treatment, please call (910) 392-6060 or email Kuzma Advanced Dentistry. | https://www.kuzmaadvanceddentistry.com/blog/stop-snoring-sleep-better-and-thrive/ | dclm-gs1-253785422 |
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The emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (now called the Islamic State, or IS) has clearly posed a threat to the West and the equilibrium it created in the Middle East. Unlike al-Qaeda, the Islamic State is not only a loose network of jihadist groups. IS has proclaimed itself a state and has the power to spread all over the Middle East. For Western countries this is particularly worrisome because of the weakness of Iraq and Afghanistan, two states where the United States-led policy of nation-building has failed.
In this light, to directly confront IS it would be necessary to remove the threat to the stability of the region and also to grant security to citizens of other religions. In the past weeks the US has taken many steps to build up consensus for a new military intervention in the Middle East, but problems have emerged. The role of regional actors is a key issue to be effective in the fight against IS.
The four most important actors in the region (Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran) have different postures and some of them, like Egypt and Turkey, remain ambivalent and skeptical about the creation of a new coalition. On the other side, Saudi Arabia is strongly pushing to create an international force and Iran affirms the need to have an effective strategy to defeat IS. For Iran, in particular, things seem difficult – especially because a new coalition would include all the old enemies of the Islamic Republic. The point is: will these actors be able to overcome their mutual distrust? It does not seem likely. But the common interest in removing a terrible threat to their security could bring them together. | https://www.longitude.it/article/ganging-up-on-the-islamic-state/ | dclm-gs1-253835422 |
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Have you ever wondered what your IQ level could be? Your intelligence is determined by how quickly you can analyse, think and act in difficult situations. You have various traits that make you an all-rounder-someone who is creative, smart and practical in real life. Quite interestingly, zodiac signs have the ability to regulate your qualities and help you understand perspectives of yourself that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to really know. In account of this, here listed down are some ways that let you know how intelligent you are, according to your zodiac sign.
You can acquire intelligence by having the ability to learn, and Aries is particularly good at that. You wish to learn new things although you may not always be adaptable towards changes in life. You like doing what you desire and that helps you be the best at whatever you do.
You are unique and talented in your own way. Your ruling planet, Venus is quite difficult to stop at anything because you are ever so curious. You love exploring and have a special way of covering your goals and ambitions.
You are mostly confused and have a twin-headed personality. You want to start with learning but in a unique and varied way. You are quite smart when you need to focus but you find it very difficult to reach the final point of completing your goals.
You are pure, confident and choose to listen to your heart. You have a very high emotionally intelligent quotient which helps you easily connect with people for your own benefit. You are intellectually blessed to reach the heights you desire. You have the luxuries to enjoy in life.
You are dominant and easily commit mistakes just because of your adamancy. But, you also tend to think practically and then act accordingly. Your spontaneity helps you to act swiftly and so, you look pretty intelligent to others.
You look up to others to make decisions as you’re intellectually weak. You may be critical or analytical but you’re slow in reacting to situations swiftly. You take time to decide. But sometimes you get so late that there’s ultimately no use for your intelligence.
You have a great intellect which is a boon from your ruling planet, Venus. You know your right or wrongs. You have a beautiful, creative side to achieve your goals with a luxurious style. Your intellect is your greatest strength.
Intelligence comes in inheritance and so, you are naturally born as an intellectual who has a strong reasoning power and also likes to preach and teach. You have a vast knowledge that you’re quite eager to share with everyone. The role of a teacher will suit you very well.
You have a great zeal for hard work and are temperamental. You can judge people and situations pretty well. You deserve all the success because you work very hard. You are the true definition of success achieved with intellect and diligence.
You are blessed with a balanced temperament. You have a business-like mindset which is a god-gift. You are usually one of the most successful ones because you take every step with caution, lots of thinking and smart moves.
You have the highest level of analytical intelligence. You are creative and judge accordingly. The ability to be creative, smart and connected is highly appreciated and your calm attitude lays an advantage to you in this aspect.
You are emotional and base your love on others before thinking about yourself first. You are emotionally mature and this is your biggest strength in terms of intellect. When you love and care for people without any foul intentions, it helps you to rise the ladder of kindness and recognition that eventually leads you to success. | https://www.manavjaitly.com/how-intelligent-is-your-zodiac-sign/ | dclm-gs1-253865422 |
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Top 10 Condenser Microphone
As well as the streaming becoming more and more popular so I want to spend some time to
write an article about the best USB condenser microphone for the streamers.
write an article about the best USB condenser microphone for the streamers. Although they
don’t want to cut the table mustard in competition with their best XLR mics, continual
development and refinement have led to a growth of some USB mics that make for worthy
Essentially, they have really evolved since a certain fashion, so we are starting to see them
used for more professional purposes, especially in the field of live podcasts. Of course, the main advantage they offer is the convenience of plug and play, which makes them ideal for microphones that record vocals on a computer and start quickly and easily in a small home studio setup.
When you want to choose a microphone, you have to know the range and specifications of
the microphone. And of course, when you decided to buy one, you also need to read some
buying guides that talk about the USB condenser mics.
View the best USB condenser microphone below
The Maono AU-GM31 is one of the best USB condenser mics for its omnidirectional polar
pattern. Thanks to their “Dia.10 capsules” technology they produce low noise and
omnidirectional. This Dia.10 capsules means that in general, the longer the microphone's
core, the better the pickup effect.
At present, there are only a few companies that can reach Dia.10 in the microphone industry,
and Maono is one of them. Making them fit for gaming, chatting, singing, podcast, interviews
and so on. This microphone have a very good design for pattern selection, quickly mute
+Power indication LED
+Maximum input S.P.L:110Db
Why We Liked It - It makes for a great entry-level mic provides a pretty decent sound without
distortion and has no sibilance even without a pop filter.
2.MAONO AU-903
The Maono AU-903 is a classical version of the original USB microphone AU-902 by Maono
designs. The newer models feature additional aspects but this Maono AU-903 also has its progenitor's abilities zero delays for real-time monitoring, and totally it is a bi-directional microphone.
The original Maono AU-902 has an optional cardioid pattern. The newer models of those
options is what allow you can pick up the voice omnidirectionally. This is great because we
get the exact same crystal clear audio of the high-quality recording capabilities for a lower
+Plug and play
+ Maximum sampling rate:192kHz/24 bit
+Microphone adjustable
Why We Liked It - The sound level is pretty good it picks up instruments really well and gives
users instant access to plug and play audio recording.
3.Rode NT-USB
The Rode NT-USB audio gear mic is a great side-address style microphone from Aussie
audio company Rode Microphones. It has 2 easy dials for simple control over monitoring
levels and mixing it couldn't be simpler to set up and comes with everything you need for
straight out of the box recording.
+ Compatible with all mainstream applications (windows & Mac based) including Apple iPad.
+ High-quality recording studio microphone with USB conveniences.
+ Comes with useful accessories including a storage pouch.
Why We Liked It - The Rode NT-USB USB mic is a competitively priced USB condenser
why microphone that offers some high end capabilities. It is an ideal option for use on
YouTube, Twitch, and other platforms for its zero latency features, but also records vocals
and instruments to a superb standard.
We also like it's forward thinking cross-platform capabilities. One of our favourite USB
amazon microphones on Earth.
4.Marantz Professional MPM-2000U
The Marantz professional USB Condenser Mic is the top of their current line of USB options
and provides exceptional audio production. Whilst a relatively new company, they are an in
Music brand own a variety of reputable brands that know a thing or two when it comes to
audio production, M-audio NuMark, and Alesis to name a few which should help put minds to
rest on reliability.
It has a pop filter but it doesn't appear to be of a superb quality. It works best in close
proximity as the range seems to be fairly limited muffling when you venture further away.
+ Good background noise rejection.
+ Good acoustics.
+ Range of accessories including shock mount.
Why We Liked It - The sound level is very good it picks up voice really well and gives users
instant access to plug and play audio recording.
5.Audio-Technica AT2020USB+
The Audio-Technica AT2020USB+ USB recording microphone has great latency and can be
monitored in time with its featured headphone audio jack like the RodeNT. It features a low
mass diaphragm for extended frequency.
Its low self-noise makes for reliable consistency and natural sound pick up with digital
recording software. You can control input levels on the mic for a better mix.
+ Easy direct to DAW recording.
+ Smooth extended frequency response.
+ Superior transiency response.
Why We Liked It - The Audio-Technica AT2020USB+ recording microphone is sensitive
enough to replicate a pristine representation of inputs but not so sensitive the background
noise interferes. It offers unbelievable sound for a reasonable price.
6.Samson Go Mic
The Samson Go Mic contains dual cardioid capsules which allow for typical front-facing side-
address cardioid pickups use or optional omnidirectional pattern. It provides an unimaginably
good sound for its stature and physique you should, however, keep expectations realistic.
+ Mac and PC compatible.
+ High-quality components and meticulous engineering.
+ Unbelievably compact (palm-sized).
+ Switchable pickup patterns.
+ Comes with Samson Sound Deck Noise Cancellation software.
Why We Liked It - Whilst your probably not going to produce a hit record with this Samson
Go Mic, you might find it incredibly useful tool to 'pen' down you next big song. Perfect for on
the fly recording and remarkably good for VOIP, the additional extras make for more bang for
your buck. Plus we should probably mention how cute and stylish this baby is!
7.BC Master
It provides adequate sound and tests well with voice recognition and discord voice chat. It
comes with a nice sturdy storage case which is always a sensible accessory. It really is good
practice to store your mic to prevent degradation from debris and shelter it from impacts,
which can have irreparable consequences.
+ Ideal for vocal recording, pod-casting, and YouTube video narration.
+ Cardioid polarity.
+ Under $30!
Why We Liked It - We included this in our reviews as another budget USB mic alternative in
live demo's it does a pretty impressive job, though we daresay it is more suitable for VOIP or
narration purposes.
8.Razer Seiren X
The Razer Seiren X houses a triple membrane diaphragm to enable users to pick between 4
polar patterns: Stereo, Cardioid, Bi-Directional, and omnidirectional in a similar manner to the
Blue Yeti.
It is a very sensitive mic which can actually pick up a whisper from 3 or 4 feet away. It makes
for the best USB streaming mic but is so entirely fit for purpose it won't do your singing
vocals any justice, this one is truly for the gamers out there.
+ Designed to elevate stream sound quality.
+ Zero latency monitoring.
+ Super-cardioid pick up pattern.
Why We Liked It - We like Razer have tried their hand at creating a their own product that
this is specifically aimed at live streaming use well it has been well thought out and features
super-cardioid polarity pattern to allow for switching what you care to pick-up. Check out the
Razer Seiren Elite for an alternative. .
9.FiFine Metal
The FiFine USB Mic itself has been manufactured with a built-in USB cable. Cables typically
wear close to their USB connectors from prolonged used and the natural wear and tear
plugging and unplugging them. So this could be a bonus.
+ It is ideal USB microphone for Podcasting, teamspeak,and video narration.
+ Cardioid polarity pattern.
+ No drivers for easy install.
Why We Liked It - The FiFine USB mic provides high sound quality and level of recording for
an unbeatable current price, no frills just cheap and cheerful plug and play production. A
definite contender for the best cheap USB mic.
10.Samson Meteor
The Samson Meteor mic has a dial for managing your monitoring volume levels and a mute
button. Features a smart LED that helps with the level setting as well. It is USB compatible
with a variety of OS including iOS and most DAW's it offers driver free rapid recording
solutions for the modern man.
+ Cardioid pickup pattern Condenser.
+ 16-bit, 44.1/48kHz
+ Fraction of the cost of close competitors.
Why We Liked It - The Samson Meteor mic makes for an affordable Blue Yeti alternative and
provides industry level audio capture fit for a range of uses from Skype and YouTube video
audio to voice recording and it's even a great mic for recording acoustic guitars and singing.
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What’s the most safe choice for sensitive teeth?
If you have actually sensitive teeth, utilizing a lightening toothpaste rather than strips or lights could be your safest choice. Locate one that is particularly formulated just for delicate teeth.
You could be fretted about lightening your teeth, thinking the active agents in tooth whitening systems might have an unfavorable result on phony teeth, but they will have little to no effect. Just as they will not damage a phony tooth though, they will deficient any kind of better. Primarily, as soon as a phony tooth remains in your mouth, what you have is what you get. It will certainly not change in color, lighter or darker. Groupon Teeth Whitening Charcoal
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Why are my teeth yellow?
The discoloration of teeth can be brought on by a fantastic lots of points. When you consume alcohol things like soda or merlot, the materials can seep into the enamel that is covering your tooth. One more usual offender is using tobacco items. Heavy enhancement of fluoride has actually been revealed to trigger yellow teeth in kids, yet keep in mind, a little is still a good thing.
How do stars obtain their teeth so white?
Celebs are recognized for having a really white, straight set of teeth. The reality is, they usually have a group of professionals who are paid to work with them. For day-to-day maintenance, they snack on crunchy vegetables to wipe spots off the enamel safeguarding their teeth.
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Max would find himself wandering around the town, wondering what to do next. With many of the shinobi gone along with many of the civilians, Kumogakure hadn’t felt quite the same. It just felt as though there was something missing. At least Senshi had still been in the village, but he had likely been busy. There were a lot of duties attached to the rank of Jounin, and Max understood that. So, finding something to do in town would be on his agenda today.
Max knew that he was going to need some more stuff, as his “new” white shirt had slowly been getting less and less so and more and more dirty. Well, the best way to get new things was to gather them from those that didn’t need them. So, Max would make his way to where he could always find exactly what he was looking for, the obituary files located in the kage’s offices. There was very rarely a problem with Max looking over this information, mostly because people were too busy with their own work. Besides, such knowledge really couldn’t harm anyone or the village.
Quickly scanning over the files, Max found one that stood out. He wasn’t entirely sure why, but Kumorasemasu Nara’s file was the one he decided to go to. Quickly locating the address, Max would return the file and make his way to the location, making sure to jot down the numbers on a piece of paper. The day had been a fairly cool one, Max would note as he headed over to the house of the now deceased Nara. The cool weather only made him recall how he now had no jacket, and as the metal of his limbs chilled there was minor discomfort where it had met flesh. Hopefully he would find a replacement to keep warm until the weather returned to a more favorable condition.
Looking down at the slip of paper, Max doesn’t take long to find the place. It wasn’t the largest place, but it was a great deal bigger than his own home had been. To be fair, that really didn’t take much though. The door had been locked, but that really didn’t matter. Max was rather good at getting into these places by now, and so he would use his tools and proceed to pick the lock. See, Max had been very good with his hands and had a strong understanding of mechanisms. This lock was no match for the boy. So he would pick the lock, and after that had been successful he would slip into the large abandoned home. It would have likely been considered a home that was underwhelming to most folks, especially one that had been home to a prominent clan family, but to the poor boy the house seemed like a mansion filled with all types of goodies.
Max was in need of some new clothes, and so he would head up to the bedrooms first and foremost. This was likely where he would find all of the stuff that he needed, and so the boy would start there and work his way outwards. As he walked up the creaking stairs, he noted that the place was eerily quiet, the only sounds that could be heard are the scratches of little mouse feet on the walls and ceilings. This place must have been abandoned for some time, but Max wouldn’t think about the details of that.
The room would then be on his left, the door still in fairly good condition all things considered. The boy would slide open the door, it also slowly creaking open. The place was in disrepair it had seemed… Maybe they need to oil some hinges?
The closets were fairly full of the clothes that the inhabitants weren’t able to take with them when they were… well likely forced out and dealt with accordingly. The boy would first find peruse the items in search of a light jacket, something to keep the chill off at least. He would find only a light vest, a greyish color and fairly worn as well. Max would immediately discard such an item. It didn’t look to be effective at all for protecting one from the elements. No, it seemed more like a fashion statement or and accessory, both of which Max cared little for. Functionality was key, and most of the time everything else was almost irrelevant.
As the boy would toss the jacket away, a strange sound peaked his interest. The clang of something hitting the wooden floor hard echoed through the quiet house, the boy shifting his head to the discarded vest. He would search the pockets, wondering what nifty thing he would find within. What hidden gems had awaited him in this treasure trove? He would feel something odd, and pull it out only to realize it was a small scroll case. Now what would that be doing in a place like this? The boy would pop the lid and pull out the scroll within. It had been a rather strange looking scroll, with a handful of jutsu’s on it that seemed to be handwritten in with several notes next to some hastily drawn diagrams. Many of the notations had been a tad difficult to read, but the diagrams looked to show hand seals. This must have been some type of jutsu scroll, but it kept referencing Shadow at various places. Silently flipping through his Jutsu Encyclopedia, he couldn’t find anything referencing these techniques. That meant one of two things: either they are high ranking jutsu that are not listed in the book, or they were jutsu’s that weren’t meant to be in the book. The handwritten notes and such made Max think that it might have been the latter. Maybe that Kumorasemasu guy was working on his own jutsu before he was… removed from his home. The boy would visualize the seals and practice the movements for only a brief moment, as he had other things to do.
As cool as the scroll had been, this was not what the boy had come here for, and so he would go back to looking for things he could use. He found a bunch of the traditional shinobi undershirts, along with a few nicer white shirts. He liked the look of himself in a clean white shirt, and since he hadn’t been doing a whole lot of… well gravedigging, he hadn’t stained them with the deathly smell that had been ingrained into his old jacket.
The boy, once finished here would continue from room to room, pocketing everything that he could that seemed to be of use to him. A few items of clothing here, a few neat trinkets that he thought of neat uses to mechanize into his puppets there. Nothing particularly valuable, though metal objects were prioritized.
As he was searching through the master bedroom though, he found a bookcase with several interesting tomes upon its shelves. One was titled "A Study of Kekkai Genkai and Their Connection to DNA" which of course caught the boys eye. Ever since learning that differing clans had various minor changes in their genetic coding the boy had been rather intrigued. He would peruse over the book for nearly and hour, jotting down notes on various bloodlines that he was familiar with, along with a few that he wasn't. Once he felt his notes were complete, he would set the book back on the shelf and continue rummaging through the houses clothes. After he felt he gathered enough, he would toss it in a bedsheet and wrap it up hobo style. He would then take another bedsheet and place a bunch of the clothes and such that he didn't want in it. This would be used for fuel for his fireplace, or maybe even fabric to use in a puppet.
On his way out of the house, the boy would notice one final item that brought an idea to his mind. He would walk over to a bear fur rug that was sitting on their floor gathering dust and pick it up. It was rather large and encumbering, but she would ball it up as best he could and walk out of the house, slowly but surely making his way back home.
He had a lot of new things to work on, especially that strange scroll he had found.
WC: 1400
Figuring out my Nara stuff (1/5)
Bear Fur (for a new puppet I had in mind, not an actual item. Just wanted some reason as to why I had a bear skin)
This book of BL stuff if I can - If not that is fine, but could I claim a bit more IC insight to a handful of clans: Uchiha, Hyuuga, Hozuki, Senju (The only one I wouldn't know about at all IC yet would be Senju)
Kobayashi Senshi <3
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Success in Tanzania offers Thailand a lesson in protecting endangered wildlife
THAILAND AND other countries can learn from Tanzania’s successful strategies in combating wildlife crime, experts say, noting how the East African nation has largely managed to reverse a worrisome trafficking trend and is protecting endangered animals.
Mbanjoko Peter Manyenga, commander of Tanzania’s Northern Zone Anti-poaching unit, told visiting reporters recently that years of struggle to suppress wildlife crime are now bearing fruit.
They focused on intensive investigations and strict enforcement of the law to bring the ringleaders of poaching and trafficking gangs to justice, closely collaborating with local communities.
Manyenga said his unit was duty-bound to keep wild animals safe from poachers and traffickers in the north of the country, which is home to two conservation areas deemed globally important.
How to save the animals
In the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park, he said, wildlife crime had decreased dramatically in recent years.
“Since we began taking strict measures to suppress poaching and trafficking, our performance has greatly improved. During the first five months of this year there were only 35 cases reported in the region and the populations of endangered animals are slowly rebounding,” Manyenga said.
“Although the wild animals are still not entirely safe and illegal poaching still occurs, we’ve noticed that most of the recent poaching was done by local people, hunting bush meat, while commercial hunting aimed at collecting animal parts is now rarely detected.”
Officials still face challenges, some stemming from insufficient resources and manpower to properly patrol the vast territory, others from people encroaching on conservation areas and coming into conflict with wild animals.
At the 2013 CITES Conference of Parties, Tanzania was including in the “gang of eight” countries where the illegal wildlife trade was worst. Now, though, its success in curbing wildlife crime is being praised and it’s held up as a role model for the other nations.
The other seven countries in the “group” were Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, China and Thailand.
Tanzania and its neighbours Kenya and Uganda, with their rich biodiversity and large elephant, rhinoceros, lion and pangolin populations are regarded as ground zero for a transnational wildlife trafficking network.
Rhino horn and elephant ivory command high prices on the black market in countries like China and Vietnam where they are shipped, giving poachers strong incentive to hunt the animals down. Pangolin scales are also highly valued in traditional Eastern medicine, while lions are illegally hunted as trophy game.
How to save the animals
Jafari Kideghesho of Tanzania’s Sokoine University of Agriculture wrote in a 2016 academic article about the damage being caused there.
The authorities’ ineffectiveness in protecting wildlife, inefficient law enforcement and corruption had dramatically decreased the country’s elephant population from 300,000 in 1987 to just 43,521 in 2013, he said.
Jennifer Talbot, Chief of Party for RTI International, which implements the USAID PROTECT project, is praising those same authorities for their impressive work in suppressing transnational wildlife criminals.
Talbot noted that the tactic of tracking down the masterminds behind the crime rings was working well.
Despite improvements in law enforcement still being needed, she said, all indicators show that Tanzania is now headed in the right direction, with pertinent agencies at every level working in unison to implement a national policy of tackling the illegal wildlife trade.
“The success story in Tanzania can be replicated elsewhere,” Talbot said. “Many African countries are already learning from Tanzania’s example and adapting these effective measures, so Thailand and Asean can also learn some lessons as well.” | https://www.nationmultimedia.com/international/30371617 | dclm-gs1-253985422 |
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Quotes from Los Angeles Rams Coach Sean McVay's conference call - January 16, 2019
Rams head coach spoke to the media on Wednesday, Jan. 16
Los Angeles Rams Head Coach Sean McVay - Conference Call with New Orleans Media - Wednesday, January 16, 2019
How did C.J. (Anderson) manage to integrate so quickly into what you all were doing out there with the run game?
"Yeah. You know, he has played in some systems similar before when he played under Coach (Gary) Kubiak's leadership. But I think he is just a great football player. Extremely smart player. Got a great natural feel as a runner really with a variety of different schemes. And then I think guys have done a nice job around him. But he's really such a smart player, but then he's also just got a great feel for the game. Got a great feel for congested areas where he could put his foot in the ground, work edges on people and then when he gets to the second and third level, does an excellent job of a leveling runs off and falling forward so that you can stay ahead of the chains. And I think that's been instrumental to some of the success that we've had running the football, specifically since he's been here."
And pairing him with Todd (Gurley), does that also help Todd out then where he doesn't have to be a guy who's carrying the ball 25 times a game?
"Yeah. You know, I think you always want to make sure that you're getting our guy Todd (Gurley) his work because he's such a special player that can do so many different things. But I don't think it hurts at all to be able to keep him as fresh as possible, especially, just getting back last week for the first time having played in about a month. And I thought those two did a great job complimenting each other. And certainly Todd's our guy, but I thought C.J. (Anderson) was a great change of pace to come in there and be able to do some really good things and hopefully we'll be able to do the same thing. But this is a great defense we're going against that is outstanding against the run."
You and Sean Payton both kind of cut your teeth on Jon Gruden. What were some of the biggest lessons that you took from that time with him?
"I just think the level of detail, the way to communicate and present, and then having an ownership on all 22. He really taught me to see the game from a 22-man perspective as opposed to just the specific position you might be working with. The amount of offense that he gets you exposed to helps you learn a variety of systems, not only in the run game from a concept standpoint, but also the pass game. But then also teaching you some of the intricacies of defensive roles and responsibilities. So, so much of what I have been fortunate to kind of have been exposed to, starts with the foundation that I learned under Coach Gruden."
Three of the four teams playing in championship games this weekend have had coaches who also serve as play-callers. What's the benefit to that in your mind and what are some of the challenges associated with doing that?
"Yeah. I think really for me I'm still getting used to calling plays. I mean, this is really just my fourth year doing it, so I don't think you ever stop learning. But I definitely am learning every time you get humbled every time you do it as well, because so many people are so good in this league. So many good players and good coaches, but it's just something that I've always done being around the offensive side of the ball, and when you've got an opportunity to call plays, you just absolutely love it. But that's where you lean on the people around you to help you with regards to some of the clock management. I haven't been perfect by any stretch of the imagination but I try to learn from the mistakes that I have made. And then you've got great people around you like John Fassel, like Wade Phillips and the Joe Barrys. Jedd Fisch does a great job to be able to help do some of those things situationally within the framework of a game. So it's a collaborative effort, but calling plays is something that I love and I really enjoy that element of it."
Sean Payton said earlier today that he doesn't believe it's an argument that Aaron Donald is the best defensive player in the league. As a head coach, why has it taken so long for a defensive player to win the MVP award in your opinion?
"I'm not really sure. That is for the voters to decide. I think a lot of it probably is predicated on just based on the nature of some of the statistical things that drive the excitement with when the ball's in your hands, whether you are a quarterback, running back. So I think you naturally get a few more opportunities, but you can't say enough good things about Aaron Donald and I sure am glad he's on our team. Easy. He's a great football player and even better person. And the way that he goes about his business every single day, and the way that he operates, you see why this guy's great."
You guys did a good job last week of shutting down Ezekiel Elliott. Obviously the Saints have two dynamic set of running backs here. How do you hope to replicate your success against Elliott against the Saints this time?
"Yeah. I think really just getting blocks up front, doing an outstanding job keeping our gap integrity and then tackling well. You know, I thought they did a great job. There were some different structures we were able to play. Certainly, we'll have to be able to mix it up against you guys this week because of the amount of ways that you can beat you. Not exclusively just running it, but any time you've got two elite players at the running back spot with Alvin (Kamara) and (Mark) Ingram, it presents a great challenge. And then the different personnel groupings – the way that coach (Sean) Payton mixes it up, you just know it's a great challenge and there's a reason why they're the 1 seed and they the best record in the league, and you've been playing at home for the conference championship."
What stands out about Terron Armstead as a player?
"I just think it's consistency. His consistency, his ability to compete in both phases, his strength. You know, you can see when guys rush in to him, he immediately shuts down movement and he's able to create removal at the point of attack in the run game. And you know, any time that you're trying to evaluate a player like that, you really just see him consistently play productive football down in and down out."
Was there anything from that first meeting that the Saints were able to do to limit Aaron Donald's big plays, sacks, tackles for loss that sort of thing?
"I think, you know, there's an element of in a lot of instances sometimes you're working towards him, sometimes you're not and a lot of ways still influence and affect the game in ways that don't show up on the stat sheet. But I also thought they did a great job of just changing up the launch point. The timing at which the ball came out. And then when you're able to have some success running and finishing drives in the red zone with touchdowns. But we know that that game, it was a while ago. It's a great reference point for us to learn from to try to learn from some of our mistakes that everybody made and we're looking forward to the challenge again on Sunday."
This may be something that does not apply to you at all, but how do you work around things like sleep schedules as a coach with late night film studies and that sort of thing? Do you have to just kind of manage operating on little sleep during the season? Do you have to try to fit it in where you can? How do handle that as a coach?
"Yeah. I mean we try to do a good job of being efficient with our time. You know, it's not necessarily about the amount of hours, but the efficiency at which you operate. So you know I try to be mindful of a few days out, especially, before the game trying to get eight hours of sleep. Maybe a little bit earlier in the week, I'd get a little bit less, but I'm naturally a pretty wired guy anyway, so I'm waking up sweating and tossing and turning anyways, but I try to get that sleep when I can."
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Last updated: Feb 05, 2022
The NPS calculator for India is based on the National Pension System (formerly known as the National Pension Scheme), which is a measure to provide a regular and stable source of income for Indian citizens after retirement.
This NPS calculator for India allows you to determine how much corpus you will have upon retirement and also calculate the NPS annuity. You will also be able to adjust the NPS interest rate to estimate your retirement savings and the associated tax benefit from NPS.
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What can I estimate using the NPS calculator for India?
The NPS return calculator helps you estimate your total retirement savings. You will also learn how to calculate your NPS corpus, which will enable you to plan for your retirement.
NPS is a systematic investment plan, in which you can choose to deposit a certain amount every month. Based on your monthly investment and the prevailing NPS interest rate, you will be able to estimate the total amount you're entitled to at the time of your retirement, using this NPS investment calculator.
As per the NPS guidelines, you will be able to withdraw up to 60% of your total corpus at the time of retirement, which will be subject to taxation. Furthermore, the remaining 40% must be invested in annuities, which you'll get back as a monthly pension amount over a specific duration chosen by you.
How do I use the NPS annuity calculator?
In order to use this NPS annuity calculator, you'll need to enter the following details:
1. Your investment per month towards the NPS savings plan;
2. Your age (to determine the duration of the investment until retirement); and
3. The expected rate of return from NPS.
When you enter these values, the NPS investment calculator will display the following:
• Your total invested amount;
• The interest earned; and
• The total maturity amount from the pension scheme.
In the NPS calculation for India's NPS scheme, the NPS calculation formula to calculate the maturity amount is based on compounded interest.
In the Annuity & Lump Sum section of the National Pension Scheme calculator, you would also be able to determine the lump sum amount you will get after retirement and the amount that you need to invest in annuity. This information will help in the calculation of pension after retirement.
Example calculation for the NPS pension calculator
Let's say you're 25 years of age, and invest ₹5000 per month in the NPS scheme.
In the NPS calculation for India, a reasonable estimate of the NPS interest rate is 10% (generally it varies between 9% and 12%).
From the NPS return calculator, you will be able to see that:
• You invested a total of ₹21,00,000 over 35 years (retirement age is considered to be 60 years);
• You earned an interest of ₹1,68,83,190;
• Your total maturity amount from the National Pension Scheme is calculated to be ₹1,89,83,190;
• The maximum lumpsum amount you can get after retirement is ₹1,13,89,914 (assuming the least annuity investment percentage of 40%); and
• The remaining amount of ₹75,93,276 must be invested in an annuity.
How is the NPS corpus calculated?
The final corpus of the NPS investment scheme is calculated using the formula:
A=P ((1 + R12)12N 1)R\huge A = \frac{P\ \cdot \ ( (1\ +\ \frac {R}{12})^{12N}\ -\ 1)}{R}
• A is the final maturity value;
• P is the monthly investment;
• R is the rate of interest per annum; and
• N is the no. of years of investment.
What is the NPS tax benefit?
The amount you invest in NPS is eligible for tax exemption for up to ₹1.5 Lakhs per year, under Section 80CCD(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961. An individual who has deposited any amount in their NPS account during the financial year is allowed to claim a deduction from their gross income limited to 10% of basic salary for salaried individuals and 20% of total gross income for self-employed individuals.
But to encourage investment in NPS, Section 80CCD(1B) of the Income-tax Act allows an additional deduction of ₹50,000 over and above the ₹1.5 Lakh limit.
Does the maturity amount vary between Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities?
Not at all! Most banks offer investment in NPS, and the maturity amount would stay the same, irrespective of your location. It primarily depends on the NPS interest rate, which generally varies between 9% and 12%.
What happens if I stop investing in NPS?
If you decide to discontinue your investment, your NPS account will be frozen. You can reactivate the account by depositing the minimum contribution required along with the penalty for inactivity.
Who is eligible for the NPS scheme?
To be eligible to invest in the NPS scheme, all the following criteria must be met -
• Anyone who has Indian citizenship;
• Is between 18-60 years old;
• Is employed by a corporate entity; and
• Is complying with the KYC norms.
What is the NPS interest rate?
The NPS interest rate is generally around 10% but can vary between 9% and 12%, depending on the chosen scheme. Schemes with a slightly higher risk provide better returns, while conservative plans provide slightly lower but stable returns.
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3 Highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show
The Consumer Electronics Show is an event for all those around the world who are passionate about the business of consumer technologies. This event garners some serious attention. With over 180,000 attendees between January 9-12, it was certainly a hotspot for many digital professionals.
As always, some products and services stood out in the crowd. Many vendors were trying to create unique and unusual displays that would be sure to peak the interest of CES attendees. Below are the 3 most talked about booths from the conference. Enjoy!
Weird and Unusual
One great way to stand out and get attention is to be alarmingly different from everything else. This was the main idea behind the booth for Psychasec, which featured bodies in bags and more that were encapsulated for all to see. The bodies of course were fake, but they still made quite a statement.
In reality, the booth was never supposed to be for Psychasec at all, because Psychasec does not exist. This booth was actually used as a promotion tactic for an upcoming Netflix show called “Altered Carbon”. The premise of the show is set roughly 300 in the future where technology has made it possible for bodies to be interchanged between humans, thus allowing people to evade death.
Google’s Giant Gumball Machine
As always, Google made quite a splash at this year’s CES conference. The search engine giant set its sights on highlighting its new Google Assistant. This form of artificial intelligence is designed to aid the user in over 1 million actions such as answering questions.
In order to get CES attendees to interact with the machine, Google reps would hand out a giant coin that when entered into the giant gumball machine, would activate the Google Assistant. According to Adweek, people lined up to ask the Google Assistant all sorts of questions like ““What sound does a hippopotamus make?” and “What is Picasso’s full name?”.
These interactions did not only provide participants with answers, but also with prizes. The gumball machine would spit out all sorts of items like security cameras, smart speakers, and gift cards. Adweek reported that Google planned to award 1,400 prizes each day of the show through its giant gumball machine.
Virtual Reality Boxing Match
As momentum continues to grow behind the topic of virtual reality, many companies are jumping on board. At CES, Floyd Mayweather debuted his own virtual reality experience. Mayweather performed a demonstration of his game, the “Mayweather Boxing & Fitness Virtual Reality Program”, which was very well received.
The boxing legend, who ended his career with a 50-0 record, was a hit with guests. Not only were they excited to see Mayweather in action, but they also seemed to really enjoy the product he was featuring. Adweek reports that the game will only be available through the Mayweather Boxing Club gyms for the initial release period.
Mayweather spoke of the experience in a short news conference by saying, ““This is just the beginning, introducing everyone to what we’re going to do in the future”. We here at Onimod Global are certainly excited to see what the future holds!
Digitally Transform Your Workspace
Digital marketing is an incredible line of work that is always changing. This profession is based on the innovative spirit of digital, which is translated into the way that digital marketers work every single day.
It can be very difficult to continually reinvent the work you are doing as a digital marketer if your workspace is behind the times. That is why we have put together a list of ways that you can digitally transform your workspace to keep yourself ahead of the competition. This list is based off of an article from AdWeek that can be read fully on their website.
Closer Connections
Many marketers today utilize tools like Go ToMeeting to carry out regularly scheduled conferences with clients or colleagues around the globe. These conference calls are very beneficial, but they do lack in some areas. For instance, you cannot see the individuals that you are talking to. AdWeek argues that this greatly inhibits the call and can even cause it to become a “waste of time”.
It is a bit premature to say that conference calls need to be exiled immediately, but there are technologies coming onto the scene that will allow for a more genuine connection with those communicating.
There is a lot of buzz that has recently been circulating around virtual reality and all of its incredible possibilities. AdWeek mentions a company named MiddleVr, which has already begun the process of developing virtual reality tools that can be utilized in the office. These tools will allow meetings to become much more close and personal, which is believed to positively impact the meeting outcomes.
G-Suite Jamboard
The importance of innovation in the digital marketing industry cannot be stressed enough. One of the techniques that allows digital marketing to be so dynamic is collective brainstorming. Gathering the ideas of many different peoples in many different places can produce incredible results.
This is precisely why the team at Google has put together a tool called Jamboard. Jamboard presents each user with the same visual of a whiteboard. This whiteboard can be written on by any user, and these writings will then be shown to every other user.
Jamboard uses a lot of the same basic ideas that are included in other Google products like Google Docs. The major advantage to using Google Docs is that it allows multiple users to edit the document at the same time while also showing all users any updates to the document. Jamboard will work similarly to Google Docs and will allow teams to collaborate and brainstorm much more effectively, no matter where they are located.
Video Advertising
AdWeek’s article also highlights the ongoing trend of video advertising. We here at Onimod Global have recognized the potential in the video advertising market, and recently put together a comprehensive article on the subject. To read our article, “Maximize the Potential of Your Social Video Marketing Strategy” please visit our blog by clicking HERE.
Organized Communication
Communication is key in any workspace. This is particularly true if your organization is trying to communicate in many ways all over the world. The best way to utilize every piece of information is to write it down and store it somewhere that all crucial members will have access at any given time.
Facebook is developing such a product. Workplace by Facebook is designed to “change the way you work”. The platform instantly updates as posts are made, which makes cross-channel communication simple and easy. The main objective of this tool is to allow users to instantly communicate and quickly turn their ideas into actions instead of delaying the process through conference calls, strategy meetings, etc. | https://www.onimodglobal.com/tag/virtual-reality/ | dclm-gs1-254085422 |
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Linux - Forgetting Exec
Today, I came across a bug where a Celery worker wasn’t gracefully shutting down, and it was causing some odd “Connection Refused” errors from requests within the task being run by the worker. It was also shutting down before it could send errors to Rollbar/Sentry for the team to know they need to address it.
This was happening because the entrypoint had a script that effectively did this:
echo "starting celery worker"
celery -A tasks worker
The problem with that entrypoint: it’s not using exec to run the child process. Without exec, it will not forward signals like SIGTERM to the process the entrypoint is waiting on. The Celery worker child process won’t know it needs to shut down gracefully if the SIGTERM is not forwarded to it.
The fixed example would look like this:
echo "starting celery worker"
exec celery -A tasks worker
Linux - Dig's +short Option
I learned Linux’s dig has a “+short” option that returns only the IP address for a hostname:
$ dig +short
Linux - Ping Not Showing Lost Packets
I was recently troubleshooting some packet loss with ping on linux, and I noticed by default ping won’t explicitly show lost packets:
$ ping x.x.x.x
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=18.1 ms
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=11 ttl=52 time=21.2 ms
(notice the skipped 8-10, those were lost packets)
To fix this, you can add run ping with -O:
$ ping -O x.x.x.x
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=11 ttl=52 time=19.0 ms
no answer yet for icmp_seq=12
no answer yet for icmp_seq=13
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=14 ttl=52 time=18.9 ms
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14 * * *
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For more info about why this is happening: Link
To improve this output, try adding -I (traceroute -I) to make it use ICMP ECHO instead of UDP for probes.
If you want better statistics about packet loss, you can also use a tool called mtr which combines traceroute and ping. If you’re on Ubuntu, you can install this with sudo apt-get install mtr.
Docker - WORKDIR Creates Directories
Which user do you think owns the src/ directory in this Dockerfile example?:
FROM alpine:3.13.2
RUN adduser -D wendy
USER wendy
COPY --chown=wendy . src/
The answer?: root
This happens because WORKDIR will create directories that don’t exist with the root user.
What if you wanted wendy to be the owner of that src/ directory?
You would need to COPY the src/ directory into place before setting it as the WORKDIR. For example:
FROM alpine:3.13.2
RUN adduser -D wendy
USER wendy
COPY --chown=wendy . src/
More info: Closed GitHub Issue & Docker Code
If you have an old computer with spare hard drives, it might be useful to use it to share files with computers on your network by turning it into a NAS (network attached storage). There are several popular DIY NAS options:
I ended up going with OpenMediaVault due to it being Debian based and super popular. To set it up, I followed this incredibly thorough guide: link
I had a few issues that caused it to stop working after restarting.
The first issue was related to the disk being encrypted. OpenMediaVault started in emergency mode due to being unable to access the encrypted disk. Emergency mode unfortunately doesn’t allow SSH access, which means you need to plug a monitor and keyboard into it. You have to make sure you have nofail in the options section of the lines of /etc/fstab starting with /dev/disk. You also need to add nonempty and remove x-systemd.requires=<disk> from the options section of the lines starting with /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid (for mergerfs). I’ve had to redo the removing x-systemd.requires part every time I apply settings from the web UI. More information about this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The second issue involved losing network adapter configuration after restarting. I had to run omv-firstaid and configure the network adapter with a static IP to resolve this. This may have something to do with an empty configuration from the web UI ovewriting the existing working configuration.
Docker - ufw rules ignored
I recently learned that docker will ignore ufw (uncomplicated firewall) rules by default. This means that it will still expose ports that are blocked by ufw.
The fix involved adding this to /etc/docker/daemon.json:
"iptables": false,
"ip6tables": false
Then I restarted the docker daemon with sudo systemctl restart docker.
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Raspberry Pi Zero Not Connecting to Unifi AP
I recently had a lot of trouble getting my Raspberry Pi Zero W 2 to connect to WiFi on my Ubiquiti Unifi AP AC Lite after a firmware upgrade to 5.43.46. It’s a 2.4Ghz-only device, and actually all of my 2.4Ghz-only devices wouldn’t connect.
Apparently something I did set a setting called PMF (Protected Management Frames) to “Required”, and the Pi Zero W 2 doesn’t support that. In theory, this setting should help prevent clients from getting disconnected through de-auth packets from an attacker. However, not all devices support this.
To fix the issue, you need to find the PMF setting under Settings -> Wifi -> <your network> -> Advanced -> Security and change it to “Optional”.
Fixing Memory Leaks In Popular Python Libraries
I was recently able to make a minimal example that reproduced a Celery memory leak. The memory leak would happen on the main Celery worker process that’s forked to make child processes, which makes the leak especially bad. Issue #4843 has been around for 3+ years and has 140+ comments, so this one has been causing a lot of problems for Celery users for a while.
The memory leak has been causing a lot of issues at my work too, and I was able to get some help resolving the issue during a work hackathon. My coworker Michael Lazar was able to find the root cause of the issue and make a pull request to fix it in py-amqp (a celery dependency when using RabbitMQ as a broker). The code with the issue was 10 years old!
Here’s what the bug looks like:
except OSError:
The problem occurs when socket.shutdown fails on an OSError and doesn’t proceed to socket.close to clean up the socket and allow garbage collection to release the memory used for it. The OSError on shutdown can occur when the remote side of the connection closes the connection first.
The fixed example (with separate try/except blocks):
except OSError:
except OSError:
I was able to make the same fix to a few other popular Python libraries too:
I also found another way to reduce memory usage of Connections in py-amqp and librabbitmq by changing how active channel IDs are stored.
Update 12/20: Hacker News user js2 pointed out that Python will automatically close the socket when all the references to the socket are gone.
Update 12/23: I got a pull request merged into Kombu with the same memory usage reduction fix I made to py-amqp and librabbitmq. I also opened another pull request to Kombu that should fix a memory leak issue when using Celery with Redis.
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More control over your settlement account
From today, we are rolling out an update to block direct payments into settlement accounts to ensure merchants continue to benefit from seamless reconciliation and reporting.
1 month ago • 1 min read
Why are we doing this?
When customers use Vyne to make a payment, some banks will retain the bank account and sort code details of your settlement account available for them to view in their banking app.
This would make it possible for them to bypass Vyne and send funds straight to your account.
This reduces your visibility of the transaction, adding more work to your plate to stay up to date. It’s our mission to make the entire payments process seamless, and this update ensures reporting and reconciliation remain this way.
What happens now?
If a customer tries to make a payment directly to your settlement account, it will be immediately returned to that customer. When the payment is returned to the customer, it will include the reference “REJECTED” on their bank statement. The payment will appear in your settlement account statement showing a rejected status.
Do we need to take any steps?
To avoid any disruptions when topping up your settlement account, you need to make sure the bank account listed in the portal matches the account making top ups. For merchants, you can check by clicking on Account and then Bank Account. For partners, this is under Merchants and then Bank Account. To add a different bank account, please contact support with proof of ownership.
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Captain Jahnke, who died Oct. 13 2001, was battling a high-rise fire with only three on most of the apparatus.
Some say if Jahnke had the extra men with him that day, he might have survived.
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NEVER FORGOTTEN: October 13, 2001
Houston Fire Department, Texas
Captain Jay Paul Jahnke Fire House 2 “B” Shift
Captain Jahnke and his engine company were dispatched to a report of a fire in a 40-story residential high-rise. Upon their arrival, Captain Jahnke reported a working fire on the fifth floor of the building and requested a second alarm. While Captain Jahnke’s driver attached lines to the building’s fire department connection, Captain Jahnke and his firefighter climbed the stairs to the fire floor.
Upon their arrival on the fire floor, Captain Jahnke and his firefighter were joined by the captain and firefighter from a ladder company. The four firefighters entered the fire occupancy and began to apply water to the fire. The two firefighters ran low on air and exited to change their cylinders, leaving the two captains to fight the fire. When the firefighters opened the stairway door to exit, conditions in the fire occupancy worsened dramatically. The captains decided to leave the apartment by following their hoseline but soon became separated.
Captain Jahnke became separated from the line and disoriented. The other captain was found in the stairwell by other firefighters and removed from the building. Captain Jahnke called for help on his portable radio. Firefighters responding to his request were guided to his location by the sound of his PASS device. Despite their efforts, Captain Jahnke died of asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation.
There are a number of Jahnke’s that serve the Houston Fire Department. The department’s training academy is named for Captain Jahnke’s uncle. Captain Jahnke was a highly respected officer, who was part of the Houston Medical Strike Team, Swift Water Rescue, and Haz Mat Certified. He also served as the Chief Safety Officer with Cy-Creek Volunteer Fire Department.
A full report on Captain Jahnke’s death may be downloaded from the Houston Fire Department:
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If you have a pool at home it is necessary to keep it in good condition. Your safety and health will depend on the quality of your pool. Many pool owners don’t know how to choose the correct sand filter size. However, you can take assistance from Poolking which offers a wide range of pool equipment. When you purchase an incorrect-sized filter it can lead to a lot of issues. No doubt choosing the correct size of pool equipment will help it function better.
Choose the Right Size of Filter
When you choose a sand filter it is best to match it with the size of the rest of the pool equipment. Many people believe that it is better to have a slightly bigger filter and they are not wrong. A large-sized filter will turn out to be more efficient, powerful, and affordable at the same time. You can measure the filter area to match up with the size of your pool. Additionally, it offers the following benefits:
· You can get longer filter cycles.
· Fine particles will remain inside fully.
· Filtration for the pool water will significantly improve.
· Water cleanup from the pool pump will become faster than usual.
· The filter medium is long-lasting.
The sand filters on the above and in-ground pools offer many such benefits for the pool owners. You can use a 30-inches tank that features 4.9 square feet. The overall surface area will hold up to 600 pounds of sand without any difficulty. If you have a small pool that has 20,000 gallons of water can have a 24 inches tank. If your budget is tight you don’t need to worry as they are available at a good price.
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How Much Water Does Your Pool Hold?
The first step in picking the right size of sand pool filter is to determine the size and flow rate of your pool. It is necessary to know how much water your pool can hold. If the water is moving at a variable speed the size of the sand filter should be big enough. The process will become relatively easier if the pool is rectangular. However, it can turn out to be more intricate if the layout of the pool is different. There are four different types of pool shapes that include rectangle, round, oval, and kidney. You need to use a simple formula and determine the size of the pool carefully.
1. Pool depth
No matter what the shape of your pool it is necessary to calculate the average depth before concluding. You can choose a filter depending on the depth of the pool. The most important step is to find the deepest area inside the pool. Another step is to find a shallow part and find the average by comparing them both.
2. Rectangular pools
If your pool is rectangular it is necessary to measure both length and width. The next step is to find the average and choose the filter size sq ft correctly. You can calculate the volume of water flows and make your purchases accordingly.
3. Round pools
If you have a round pool it is necessary to determine the overall surface of it. However, it may need more of a complex formula. You can use surface area along with the radius square to come up with the correct results. In the end, you can calculate the average depth of the pool and multiply it by the volume. If you are looking for water clarity a high-quality sand filter will do your work.
4. Oval pools
No doubt the oval pools can be a little challenging to handle. If you want to choose the right size of the filter, call an expert. They have the knowledge and expertise to let you know which size will be perfect for your pool. The first step is to measure the long and short diameters along with an average depth. This is how you can lead to the volume and get accurate results.
5. Kidney shaped pools
When it comes to kidney-shaped pools you will have to find the long and short widths along with the length. In the end, simply calculate the volume to get to a conclusion.
What Size Pump Will You Need for 10000 Gallon Above Ground Pool?
You can get a larger filter that will easily fit in the above-ground pools. Some of the best and most popular options for a 24 feet round pool will be a bigger pump. It must circulate 27,186 gallons per day without any difficulty.
If the swimming pool sand filter is oversized it can create some issues for the pool owners. However, if the pump is huge and the filter is small, it can lead to wear and tear. Similarly, a large filter with a small pump reduces the hard work to keep the pool’s water clean and hygienic.
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Steps to Measure the Sand Size Filter
Are you confused and can’t decide which pool filter size is good enough? You can start by turning the cubic feet into gallons and follow these steps below:
1. Gallons per minute
When you calculate the total capacity of your pool in gallons, calculate the gallons per minute. Many pool owners like to run their pool for around 8 hours or more. You need to determine how many gallons per minute are required for it.
2. Feet of head
If you like maintaining good water for the pool, it is necessary to get the correct filter. You need to consider both the piping between the pool and the pumps.
3. Choose your pump & filter size
The size of the pool filter is directly connected with the size of the pump. If the pump is too small it can cause a lot of problems. You can choose a bigger filter as it holds lesser risks. As compared to cartridge filters, sand filters turn out to be a better option.
If you are looking for a high-quality sand filter, checking out the collection at Poolking will be the best option. You can have clean and hygienic water by choosing the correct size of sand filter. These products are available at an affordable rate.
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0.079292 | <urn:uuid:366ec156-2250-4daa-8778-f2fe0322b3b5> | en | 0.960942 | 12 Trader Joe's Shopping Mistakes You Should Avoid at All Costs
Avoid these "no-nos" and make your next TJ's trip hassle-free and less expensive.
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Between the free samples, occasionally long lines, and rush to try new products, shopping at Trader Joe's is always an adventure. While the retailer is celebrated for its reasonable prices and inventive items, that doesn't mean shoppers can't fall into traps that may make their in-store experience tedious and more expensive. In fact, because the beloved California-based company has a penchant for constantly churning out tasty new products, it's easy to get distracted during shopping trips.
For example, how many times have you bought a shiny new offering only to discover once you get home that you don't actually like it? Luckily, you can avoid this mistake thanks to Trader Joe's flexible sampling policy.
In addition to offering a bevy of free samples near the back of most stores, TJ's employees are permitted to open any ready-to-eat items for customers to try upon request. In other words, if you're unsure about the new Pesto Rosso, you can try it before you toss it in your cart.
Another common mistake many Trader Joe's shoppers make is not stocking up on holiday items ahead of time. This can be especially detrimental to your holiday plans if you're unaware (or neglect to remember) that last-minute jaunts to Trader Joe's during the holidays are virtually out of the question. In addition to being shuttered on Thanksgiving Day each year, Trader Joe's is also closed on Christmas and New Year's Day, and has shortened hours on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
Trader Joe's Shopping Mistakes
01 of 12
You don't buy items from the Trader Joe's brand
The chain has its own in-house brand of foods, which offers everything from seasoning blends to boxed cake and cookie mixes, and everything in between.
Generally, Trader Joe's branded items tend to be (though aren't always) less expensive than name-brand counterparts. For example, Trader Joe's cheeses are almost always a bargain (shoutout to the 7-ounce block of Unexpected Cheddar for $3.99) as are the $1 single-serve Greek yogurts, which are less expensive than similar products from Fage and Chobani.
02 of 12
You don't take advantage of the liberal taste-test policy
While you can't walk into your neighborhood grocery store and sample anything you want, that kind of behavior is actually encouraged at Trader Joe's. TJ's employees have permission to open any ready-to-eat item in the store, which means you're able to taste test hundreds of products without buying them first. Not taking advantage of this policy when you see fit is a mistake that can end up costing you money. After all, who wants to discover they're not a truffle fan after settling down on the couch and opening a bag of TJ's Italian White Truffle Popcorn?
03 of 12
Or the free samples
Who doesn't love a free sample? Stores typically have a dedicated station near the back that cranks out little tastes of everything from Organic Naan Crackers to the new Truffle Cream Filled Gnocchi. If you're unsure about a new or existing product, head to the back of the store and see if you can score a free sample before you pull out your wallet.
04 of 12
You don't stock up on alcohol
Some, though not all, Trader Joe's locations have a nearby or adjoining Trader Joe's Wine Shop. While it may be tempting to turn your nose up at Two Buck Chuck and other TJ's wines, resist that urge! Not only is Trader Joe's wine often very affordable, but most of it actually has quite an impressive pedigree.
The TJ's Powers That Be have remained tight-lipped about exactly which California vineyards produce the brand's wine, but only because the booze sports a better price than that of many competitors, without sacrificing quality. "If we say who [the wine producers] are, and then we offer this great price, the other folks they do business with are going to want that same great price," Trader Joe's marketing director, Tara Miller, said on an episode of the Inside Trader Joe's podcast.
RELATED: 7 Wines Sommeliers Say You'll Love Drinking in Any Weather
05 of 12
You don't purchase seasonal items while you can
If you're a fan of seasonal Trader Joe's items such as Jingle Jangle and Pumpkin Pancake Mix, not stocking up on these favorites when you see them in-store is a big no-no. Due to their seasonality, many of these items are only available for weeks at a time, and when they run out, they're likely out of stock for the better part of a year. So, what are you waiting for?
06 of 12
You don't nab pantry staples
Yes, Trader Joe's is the home of the ever popular Mandarin Orange Chicken and Spanakopita, but the chain also sells plenty of pantry staples at prices that are hard to beat. Some of our favorites include olive oil, steamed lentils, and dried pasta, which TJ's sells for $0.99 per pound in a variety of shapes and sizes.
And if you want stock up on some spices or spice blends that you can't find everywhere else, TJ's is also a good bet. Customers consistently love items such as the Everything but the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend, the Green Goddess Seasoning Blend, and more.
07 of 12
You don't read the Fearless Flyer
If you want to know what's new at Trader Joe's, peruse the Fearless Flyer. These are published once a month and include special deals or promotions, which can be especially helpful for meal prep ideas or holiday shopping.
RELATED: 12 Tips and Secrets to Make the Most of Your Next Trader Joe's Trip
08 of 12
You forget your reusable grocery bags
It's totally normal to forget your reusable grocery bags at home every now and then, but try not to forget them when you're running out to Trader Joe's.
For starters, you'll pay 10 cents for every paper bag you end up using, and showing up without your own reusable bags means you won't be eligible to enter the Trader Joe's raffle.
Each week, TJ's rewards one customer with a $25 gift card, but in order to enter you need to bring your own shopping bag and spend at least $25.
09 of 12
You go bananas for bananas
Trader Joe's bananas are famously 19 cents each, but don't let that low price lull you into thinking that all TJ's produce prices are stellar. As it turns out, the bagged 365 Everyday Value brand spinach sold at Whole Foods is cheaper than similar spinach sold at Trader Joe's, while Honeycrisp apples from Kroger are less expensive than Honeycrisp apples from TJ's.
Additionally, even Trader Joe's employees have said the produce tends to be underwhelming when compared to other TJ's products. During a Reddit AMA with a TJ's employee, said employee was asked if there was a Trader Joe's product they wouldn't buy. While the team member clarified that they trusted "99 percent of [the] products," they did have one important caveat. "The 'iffy'-est is dry produce (namely tomatoes and stone fruit)—they tend to get moldy pretty quickly in the summer, but my store makes sure to check them constantly, and I still buy them (after a quick scan). It may be different at a store with lazier employees."
10 of 12
You make the trip when it's too crowded
There's nothing more frustrating than hitting up Trader Joe's when it's full and there's still a line of people waiting to get inside. This creates pressure while you're shopping and means you're more likely to forget items you need in favor of panicked impulse buys. And while it can be tricky to head into a Trader Joe's that's not bustling, employees have said that Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the best days to shop. The same is true for early in the morning, particularly during the week.
RELATED: 14 Phenomenal Trader Joe's Gifts to Grab While Grocery Shopping
11 of 12
You shop hungry
Shopping hungry is a faux pas no matter what supermarket you're headed to, but it can be especially dangerous at Trader Joe's. Whether you're tempted by the plethora of frozen dishes that can be made in minutes, or the array of new products, it's hard to walk out of a Trader Joe's without several items you had no intention of buying if you're there hungry. And don't even get us started on the irresistible snacks and sweets that are placed along the checkout line!
12 of 12
You don't do your holiday shopping ahead of time
If you plan on doing some or all of your holiday shopping at Trader Joe's, don't count on making any last-minute trips. For starters, Trader Joe's is closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day, and has limited hours on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. Additionally, many seasonal items have a limited stock and may sell out quickly, so it's best to purchase them shortly after they're released in order to avoid any holiday catastrophes.
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0.025221 | <urn:uuid:78703b62-e56c-42ac-9dfd-4fdae56585ae> | en | 0.978241 | The story of Slaughterhouse
Relicseed's second studio album "Slaughterhouse" is one of the turning points in the band's career as it developed new relationships, attracted attention, taught many lessons, and led to the first significant tours across the US and Europe.
Everything started with the band being picked up by a the underground rock’n’roll legend Lord Bishop Rocks. This giant, explosive, overly charismatic performer, yet unbelievably humble man rushed to the backstage of Fontaine Palace venue in Liepaja, Latvia after Relicseed’s performance on December 30, 2010 and offered a 100 gig touring deal across Europe along with the record deal. Mr. Bishop walked away leaving the jaw-dropped youngsters staring at him while living their “this happens only in movies” moment.
Lord Bishop
Lord Bishop. Photo by Fran Cea Photography
While negotiating the deal, the band’s frontman-manager and overall always overly excited character Edgars Rakovskis understood: if someone saw the band performing in Latvia singing in Latvian and got excited enough to strike a deal like that – it is a matter of time when someone offers a deal in America.
Edgars’ obsession with Metallica and especially James Hetfield’s riffing transformed into a different substance during 2011.
This year was the biggest band’s in the world 30th anniversary year and it was no doubt that something will happen in honor of that. When San Francisco thrash icons announced the series of celebration events and limited the attendance just for the club members… Relicseed just had to become a part of that. The fanclub forum was rumbling already before the huge announcement was made, but after that it all went to another level.
Where the wild things are
Schedule looked like this: Metallica would perform on December 5, 7, 9 and 10 at the Fillmore theatre; the fan organised happenings were planned to be tucked everywhere in between. The Bay Area was about to get packed with metalheads from all over the world from December 4-10, 2011, but there was a specific event which caught attention - “Metallibash: 3 Decades of Damage”. The concert was scheduled to happen at Kimo’s – the same small club where Metallica played their “surprise gig” back in 2002. So, Edgars reached out to the event host and agreed on the following: if the band is ready to travel across the world and play a show for free – the people are willing to welcome 4 Latvians to the party.
It is still hard to comprehend what really happened back then; it was unbelievable that someone in America believed the promise Edgars gave.
No one from the band had ever been to the States, no one knew how it is to play for a foreign audience… no one new nothing.
But four Latvian fellers appeared on the stage of Kimo’s in at a sold-out show and every single person in the audience somehow knew exactly what Relicseed was. While the details of this event remain undisclosed, the path to the biggest music market in the world was right and clear ahead of the four boys out of Latvia (which is not a state, by the way).
"Consider it ironic or just plain heavy ass dedication and wicked chops but the best Metallica inspired band in the world may just be halfway around the world. Relicseed from Latvia have landed.
Relicseed is the heaviest thing to drop in Eastern Europe since the Berlin wall. From loud and lovely Latvia, hit the lights and raise whatever flag you choose."
Inspired and motivated by this quote of the Lonn Friend, the band started gearing up for the next album recording. And it was clear that the process should happen in America. While someone would ask “why?!..” or label this idea as a “complete waste of money”, the decision was made and the search for the studio was the next challenge accepted.
In early 2011 the band got introduced to the late Bryan Carlstrom who run the Tranzformer Studios at the time. Bryan came to see Relicseed performing at the Key Club in Los Angeles on December 7, 2011 – the night before the Metallibash event in San Francisco. The engineer was impressed of what he saw, asked several questions and everyone agreed to meet in May of 2012.
While recouping and digesting the first USA experience, Relicseed started the pre-production process of the record. Countless hours in the guitarist at the time Karlis’ studio polished the music, but lyrically it was a huge confusion. The initial idea of translating Latvian songs into English failed miserably, however, one song in Latvian “Slaucējs Smalkjūtīgais” made it to the “Slaughterhouse” record as “Domestic Devil”. Several ideas were in the works but eventually Edgars left Latvia without finished lyrics for almost half of the songs.
In early 2012 the band went on a short tour around Germany, Netherlands and several other European countries what helped to pump up for the upcoming recording session. However, it was agreed that
these kind of shows (in basements with none or close to zero attendance) would be the last ones Relicseed should ever play and especially after recording THAT kind of album. If someone could have told at least half of the reality what fellers were about to face pretty soon.
Just weeks before the departure the band released a single “Brothers' Tears” - a song devoted to Tibet and Tibetans who chose the ultimate stance in the battle for independence and democracy - self-immolating. The song was a ballad, yet heavy enough to represent the direction the band was moving on to. Along with this recording, there were 3 more demos prepared and later presented to Carlstrom in a pre-recording meeting.
Got visas, eh!?
About 2 months prior to leaving Latvia a slightly unexpected situation occurred: in order to execute the plan of recording and releasing an album in America boys needed specific visas. This was brought to the attention during an interview at US Embassy in Latvia when the initial tourist visas guys applied for got denied. “Just bring us the right document needed for the visa and you will be allowed to do whatever you have to do”, said the consul at the time. So, what exactly is what is needed then?!.. Phone calls and emails back and forth with the US Embassy in Latvia and it became clear that
getting the necessary documents for the visa in less than 2 months is pretty much impossible.
It was not enough just to fill out an online form or to fill in some paperwork; a whole different level of proof and documentation needed to be presented to the US Immigration Department. This required a US attorney's involvement and A LOT of time and effort. Plane tickets were booked, the studio was booked, visas are not to be issued on time… However, it was impossible for Relicseed to stay home and miss this recording.
Thanks to the Metallibash organizer Edgars got in touch with a respectable attorney's office and started communicating. Needless to say, the amount of money needed right away in order to pull this off was unexpected and that became an issue Nr. 1 before anything else. Just another loan and boom! - the process was ready to be started. Starting with a phone call to make sure what exactly is needed and how to get it together, Edgars started gathering the pile of paperwork from all levels imaginable: fellow musician friends, musical institutions, some deputies etc. Everything was happening within hours, sometimes within minutes between multiple institutions and people on different continents. A total autopilot mode with one simple mission - to get the band in the studio.
Two weeks before the flight.
The petition (the main document of the visa application) was ready to be handed in, however, the usual review time for this document is 3-4 months. The fastest it can be reviewed is in 15 days for an additional cost.
Another loan... Transfer - done. The petition is handed in for the extra fast review.
5 days before the flight.
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, the petition got approved. Now there are just some final steps missing like arranging the visa interview and actually getting the visas in the passports. Usually, of course, these processes take a couple of weeks, however, in Relicseed's case it was a phone call and a couple of emails to get these four happy faces in front of the US council again.
Friday, April 20, visa interview - visas got approved. Monday, April 23, early morning at the US Embassy collecting the passports; the same day afternoon - boys are on the plane to the US. The recording is supposed to start on May 1.
“You're staying in my house!”
Having landed in NYC and cruised around the necessary tourist routes, Relicseed travelled to Allentown, Pennsylvania to perform at Strip Club Choppers Pa/Nj Biker fest - a small, cosy occasion where the band was invited and accommodated as some sort of international celebrities. There was still a ton of work needed to be done prior to the recording like finding a place to stay for a month. Needless to say, the boys had no clue where to stay after the gig (the rented van seemed big enough), however, it all changed within a blink of an eye when a charming, hippie looking woman with a can of beer approached:
Marybeth (MB). Photo from Relicseed archive
“Where ya guys stayin' tonight?!” Egdars started answering: “In the van…”
“OK, you're stayin' at my house, aaight?!”
Smiling, happy people all over the place, a lot of beer, motorcycles, loud music and a woman who cared about the band as they were her own children marked Relicseed's first couple of days in America. Lady's name was Marybeth or MB as everyone called her. She and the whole household acted as the band's visit was planned long time ago: fellers had a place to stay, rest, eat and everything was taken care of. The night after show ended on the next afternoon as everyone was too busy singing and playing “Stairway to heaven” and getting to know how the hell four “crazy ass latvians made it the States to record an album with Bryan Carlstrom?!” The environment and vibe of these days at MB's house inspired the song “Mary Beth” which Egdars wrote a couple weeks later in the studio. It was time to take off to LA.
The recording started on the still full-on autopilot mode while getting through, all the songs, demos, structuring everything and actually adjusting to the environment no one had ever experienced before. “How did we got here”, “what is going on” are just a few thoughts popping up in the head mixed with a heavy jetlag, multiple issues regarding stuff like accommodation, transportation etc., and, of course, the first phase of the recording process (drums) pretty much summed up the first week in the studio.
The drums were done in about three days and it was time to star recoding the guitars. Knowing the drill and being rehearsed well enough, string section nailed 3 songs in one day; at least the band thought this was done. However, the listening (which was the first thing to do every morning besides the coffee) on the next day went a little different as expected. Bryan played back all three songs the last one being “Surgeon” - the slowest and the most groovy piece on the record. A good pause, silence; someone from the band started to say something like “I think we should…” and Bryan quickly finished: “..we should redo this.”
Although the process itself was a regular work in the studio, everything was different. There was a reason for that - nothing was left without consideration to make it the best possible. It was much more about the feel and groove than about being super precise. That is why the “Surgeon” guitars, for instance, were re-recorded multiple times in order to achieve the swing that was missing in the first take.
During the second week everyone started to feel a little more relaxed and adjusted to each other as well as the extraordinary environment. A couple songs were already recorded, however, Bryan more and more started to use phrases like "you know what - you can do that better!", “just for the curiosity… let's do this again” and one of all time favorites -
“you know what?! I think this might sound more tight”.
No stone was left unturned; every note was analysed in a manner the boys had never experienced before and it felt like in a conservatoire. Every next day brought something new - be it a new arrangement or playing manner, or another re-recording of the guitar tracks. It was obvious that having an outside look on the material the band was used to produce by themselves was an important step forward. Subsequently, this approach led to a couple frustrations.
Obsession with the downstroke took its toll on Edgars' playing abilities and he ended up practicing the intro for over one hour straight in order to be able to play 12 bars. As embarrassing it was, the result sounded worth it.
The next trick was “Domestic Devil” - the only piece originally composed in Latvian but adapted to the record in English. Somehow the intro did not sound good enough as in the demos and was re-recorded more than twice. From this point forward all the rhythm guitars were recorded either by Karlis or Edgars only depending on the song as it was the only way to get the necessary tightness. Also, DD was the song Edgars started singing with and built the foundation for the next adventure -
blown voice.
In the beginning of the second week boys had to relocate to the Torrance city - home for the next couple of weeks. The floor of the one room apartment was just big enough for 4 exhausted guys enjoying their 10-12 hour workday routine. The band agreed with Bryan to take off at least one day a week, however, later this gap turned a little longer as Edgars lost ability to sing.
Around May 17 drums, bass and rhythm guitars as well as vocals for “Domestic Devil” were done. According to the schedule, it was 4 more days left to finish the record. It turned out not to be the brightest idea but Edgars wanted to sing “Serial Leader” next - probably the most brutal song on the album vocal wise. As the opening track of the record named “Slaughterhouse” it needed to make a statement, so, the decision to force vocal cords at the beginning of the singing phase (kind of) paid off. During the recording of these vocal tracks Edgars and Bryan developed the pattern of getting the best performance: every verse was sung three times automatically generating the overdubs as well as some backup options. This was the first time ever that the self taught singer started to realize what the so called growling singing technique is. Bryan stepped in with several arrangement as well as production ideas - the heaviest vocal parts where recorded using the tiny Gibson combo from the previous century.
The Gibson combo used in voice recordings. Photo from Relicseed archive.
Having nailed the “Serial” vocals, “Looney Tunes” seemed to be a great song to continue with. Not too high, yet intensive verses were the easiest part as Edgars had warmed up pretty good, however, the high chorus parts was the moment the singer's voice started to choke. This was one of the songs that was actually finished on the spot - the solo parts and lyrics were missing until a couple of days before they needed to be recorded. The main, as Bryan called it - “clever riff” - again was the part replayed and re-recorded multiple times, however, it was nothing compared to the middle breakdown part (around 3:30). Originally this thing was almost 2 times slower and was actually meant for a different song, but ended up in “Tunes” as a great fit. The band spent a significant amount of time getting the pattern together and it has always been one of the most fun parts to play live ever since.
By the end of the third week Edgars was almost unable to sing. The plan was to finish the record by May 20 and to warm up Sabaton at the Key Club on May 23.
The reality, though - 7 more songs to sing, no studio time (and money) left, a sold out gig to play in a couple of days.
The only thing left to do was simply do nothing - get a good rest, sleep as much as possible and avoid any stress. “Take all the time you need, rest your voice and let me know when you are ready to sing”, Bryan said and it was agreed to take the time off until May 25 at least.
Warming up Sabaton was the second time Relicseed appeared on the KeyClub stage. By this moment the reality of LA music scene started to become more clear and obvious:
no one cares who you are, where are you from and how much of a following do you have. As soon as you are ready to pay and your music does not suck entirely - you are able to have a spot on the stages of the Strip.
This is called a “pay to play” principle that most LA bands used as a great way to party on and off the stages they normally would never step on. For Relicseed it was a chance to start promoting the upcoming record and meet some new people. Practically everything worked according to the plan except the band leaving the stage on time.
Relicseed were given 25 minute gap including the load on and line check time. Plug in, check the signal and go - nothing too complicated. Right before the last song of the set the soundguy said something like “3 minutes” and the band decided to play the song as planned. It turned out that 3 minutes meant exactly 3 minutes and not a single second longer -
in the middle of the song the PA was turned off and two giant security guys quickly rushed the band off the stage.
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Luke 14: 25-33
Imagine you are scrolling through your favorite social media site
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And so, you take a closer look.
The first one says:
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because you are required to follow a man named Jesus
who is bringing about the reign of God here on earth.
This is a lifestyle, not a diet.
The second one declares:
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join your new family of Jesus-followers,
you may perish by a number of means,
usually being ridiculed and tortured first,
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death or countless other ways).
However, you will also be resurrected and
have eternal life at some point…
hopefully sooner rather than later.
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to meet people where they are,
and virtually all of those people are not
in your family or friend group.
You probably will not like most of them
because they are different than you;
but hey, won’t that be interesting?
And finally, the fourth one says:
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Instead, look around your town
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(compared to what you are used to),
especially in any of the above ways,
and ask them about Jesus.
That is a lot of fine print!
Our advertisement illustration is a bit ironic…or is it?
In our reading from the Gospel of Luke today,
Jesus explains to the crowds that were traveling with him
that they must come to discipleship
with their eyes wide open.
The demands he makes seem harsh—
hating your own family and your own life,
carrying your cross,
giving up your possessions—
and they are also crystal clear:
discipleship is dangerous.
It changes lives, communities, and the world.
The examples he uses about building a tower and
waging war are sobering considerations
for someone who is considering following Jesus.
This warning to really think about what you are doing
in joining the Jesus Movement
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In the early centuries of Christianity,
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to become part of a church community.
Oftentimes, catechumens
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would be required to have one to three years of instruction
before they could be baptized and participate in the Eucharist.
They understood that they
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that it limited both the types of jobs they could hold
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Imagine if you were a Christian soldier.
You could not swear allegiance to the Emperor
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A Christian sculptor could not make idols.
A teacher could not teach pagan myths and philosophies.
In a society,
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this was a difficult choice to make.
To make things even more difficult,
if you made the decision to change your manner of life,
you were then set on a path of instruction
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Could you imagine
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Maybe some of you want to leave early at the Peace,
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You have no idea what is about to happen.
You go to a room or a nearby water source
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You are asked to strip off your clothes,
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When you affirm that you do, the deacon dunks you.
You come up for air and are asked if you believe in God the Son.
You say yes; they dunk you again.
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The baptism finished,
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The whole congregation prays together,
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As time went on, you would receive further instruction
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In your years as a catechumen,
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Discipleship is a process, not an instant transformation.
Thankfully we are not alone in making it happen.
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he's got more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts photos of her globetrotting adventures. Her makeup is always impeccable, her clothes look straight off the runway. She sings, dances and models -- and none of it is real.
Rozy is a South Korean "virtual influencer," a digitally rendered human so realistic she is often mistaken for flesh and blood.
"Are you a real person?" one of her Instagram fans asks. "Are you an AI? Or a robot?"
According to the Seoul-based company that created her, Rozy is a blend of all three who straddles the real and virtual worlds.
She is "able to do everything that humans cannot ... in the most human-like form," Sidus Studio X says on its website.
That includes raking in profits for the company in the multibillion-dollar advertising and entertainment worlds.
Since her launch in 2020, Rozy has landed brand deals and sponsorships, strutted the runway in virtual fashion shows and even released two singles.
And she's not alone.
The "virtual human" industry is booming, and with it a whole new economy in which the influencers of the future are never-aging, scandal-free and digitally flawless -- sparking alarm among some in a country already obsessed with unobtainable beauty standards.
How virtual influencers work
The CGI (computer-generated imagery) technology behind Rozy isn't new. It is ubiquitous in today's entertainment industry, where artists use it to craft realistic nonhuman characters in movies, computer games and music videos.
But it has only recently been used to make influencers.
Sometimes, Sidus Studio X creates an image of Rozy from head to toe using the technology, an approach that works well for her Instagram images. Other times it superimposes her head onto the body of a human model -- when she models clothing, for instance.
An image of Lucy, the Korean virtual human used by Lotte Home Shopping.
South Korean retail brand Lotte Home Shopping created its virtual influencer -- Lucy, who has 78,000 Instagram followers -- with software usually used for video games.
Like their real-life counterparts, virtual influencers build a following through social media, where they post snapshots of their "lives" and interact with their fans. Rozy's account shows her "traveling" to Singapore and enjoying a glass of wine on a rooftop while her fans compliment her outfits.
Older generations might consider interacting with an artificial person somewhat odd. But experts say virtual influencers have struck a chord with younger Koreans, digital natives who spend much of their lives online.
Rozy followed her back, sometimes commenting on her posts, and a virtual friendship blossomed -- one that has endured even after Lee found out the truth.
"We communicated like friends and I felt comfortable with her -- so I don't think of her as an AI but a real friend," Lee said.
"I love Rozy's content," Lee added. "She's so pretty that I can't believe she's an AI."
A profitable business
Social media doesn't just enable virtual influencers to build a fanbase -- it's where the money rolls in.
Rozy's Instagram, for instance, is dotted with sponsored content where she advertises skincare and fashion products.
"Many big companies in Korea want to use Rozy as a model," said Baik Seung-yup, the CEO of Sidus Studio X. "This year, we expect to easily reach over two billion Korean won (about $1.52 million) in profit, just with Rozy."
He added that as Rozy grew more popular, the company landed more sponsorships from luxury brands such as Chanel and Hermes, as well as magazines and other media companies. Her ads have now appeared on television, and even in offline spaces like billboards and the sides of buses.
Lotte expects similar profits this year from Lucy, who has brought in advertising offers from financial and construction companies, according to Lee Bo-hyun, the director of Lotte Home Shopping's media business division.
The models are in high demand because they help brands reach younger consumers, experts say. Rozy's clients include a life insurance firm and a bank -- companies typically seen as old-fashioned. "But they say their image has become very young after working with Rozy," Baik said.
It also helps that, compared to some of their real-life counterparts, these new stars are low-maintenance.
It takes Lotte and Sidus Studio X between a few hours and a couple of days to create an image of their stars, and from two days to a few weeks for a video commercial. That's far less time and labor than is required to produce a commercial featuring real humans -- where weeks or months can be spent location scouting and preparing logistics such as lighting, hair and makeup, styling, catering and post-production editing.
And, perhaps just as important: virtual influencers never age, tire or invite controversy.
Lotte decided on a virtual influencer when considering how to maximize its "show hosts," said Lee.
Lotte Home Shopping hires human hosts to advertise products on TV -- but they "cost quite a lot," and "there will be changes when they age," Lee said. So, they came up with Lucy, who is "forever 29 years old."
"Lucy is not limited to time or space," he added. "She can appear anywhere. And there are no moral issues."
A question about beauty
South Korea isn't the only place to have embraced virtual influencers.
Among the world's most famous virtual influencers are Lil Miquela, created by the co-founders of an American tech startup, who has endorsed brands including Calvin Klein and Prada and has more than 3 million Instagram followers; Lu of Magalu, created by a Brazilian retail company, with nearly 6 million Instagram followers; and FNMeka, a rapper created by music company Factory New, with more than 10 million TikTok followers.
But there's one major difference, according to Lee Eun-hee, a professor at Inha University's Department of Consumer Science: virtual influencers in other countries tend to reflect a diversity of ethnic backgrounds and beauty ideals.
Virtual humans elsewhere have a "uniqueness," while "those in Korea are always made beautiful and pretty ... (reflecting) the values of each country," she added.
An image of Rozy, the virtual influencer developed by Sidus Studio X in South Korea.
And in South Korea -- often dubbed the "plastic surgery capital of the world" for its booming $10.7 billion industry -- there are concerns that virtual influencers could further fuel unrealistic beauty standards.
Younger Koreans have begun pushing back against these ideals in recent years, sparking a movement in 2018 dubbed "escaping the corset."
But ideas of what is popularly considered beautiful in the country remain narrow; for women, this usually means a petite figure with large eyes, a small face and pale, clear skin.
And these features are shared by most of the country's virtual influencers; Lucy has perfect skin, long glossy hair, a slender jaw and a perky nose. Rozy has full lips, long legs and a flat stomach peeking out under her crop tops.
Lee Eun-hee warned that virtual influencers like Rozy and Lucy could be making Korea's already demanding beauty standards even more unattainable -- and heightening the demand for plastic surgery or cosmetic products among women seeking to emulate them.
"Real women want to become like them, and men want to date people of the same appearance," she said.
The creators of Rozy and Lucy reject such criticism.
Lotte representative Lee Bo-hyun said they had tried to make Lucy more than just a "pretty image" by crafting an elaborate back story and personality. She studied industrial design, and works in car design. She posts about her job and interests, such as her love for animals and kimbap -- rice rolls wrapped in seaweed. In this way, "Lucy is striving to have a good influence in society," Lee said, adding: "She's giving a message to the public to 'do what you want to do according to your beliefs.'"
Baik, the Sidus Studio X CEO, said Rozy isn't what "anyone would call beautiful" and that the firm had deliberately tried to make her appearance unique and veer away from traditional Korean norms. He pointed to the freckles on her cheeks and her wide-set eyes.
"Rozy shows people the importance of inner confidence," he added. "There are other virtual humans that are so pretty ... but I made Rozy to show that you can still be beautiful (even without a conventionally attractive face)."
'Digital blackface'
But concerns go beyond Korean beauty standards. Elsewhere in the world there is debate over the ethics of marketing products to consumers who don't realize the models aren't human, as well as the risk of cultural appropriation when creating influencers of different ethnicities -- labeled by some as "digital blackface."
Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta, which has more than 200 virtual influencers on its platforms, has acknowledged the risks.
"Like any disruptive technology, synthetic media has the potential for both good and harm. Issues of representation, cultural appropriation and expressive liberty are already a growing concern," the company said in a blog post.
But one thing appears clear: the industry is here to stay. As interest in the digital world booms -- ranging from the metaverse and virtual reality technologies to digital currencies -- companies say virtual influencers are the next frontier.
Lotte is hoping Lucy will move from advertising to entertainment, perhaps by appearing in a television drama. The firm is also working on a virtual human that will appeal to shoppers in their 40s to 60s.
Sidus Studio X has big ambitions, too; Rozy will launch her own cosmetics brand in August, as well as an NFT (non-fungible token), and the firm hopes to create a virtual pop trio to take on the music charts.
Baik points out that most fans don't meet real celebrities in person, only seeing them on screens. So "there is no big difference between virtual humans and the real-life celebrities they like," he said.
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Selene is, in Greek Mythology, the Goddess of the Moon. But unlike Artemis (who is of the new generation), Selene is the Old Goddess who represents the moon star. This deity was very dear among ancient peoples.
Selene in Greek Mythology:
Selene, in Greek Mythology, is the Goddess of the Moon. She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and the sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn goddess Eos.
Selene and Artemis were also associated with Hecate and all three were considered moon and lunar goddesses, but only Selene was considered the personification of the Moon itself.
The masculine form of mene (men) was also the name of the Phrygian moon-god. The Greek Stoic philosopher Chrysippus interpreted Selene and Men as, respectively, the feminine and masculine aspects of the same god.
Participated in the fight against Typhon:
According to Nonnus' later account, when the gigantic monster Typhon besieged the heavens, he attacked the Moon Goddess, Selene also hurling bulls at her, though she managed to stay on her course, and ran towards her hissing like a viper. Selene fought the giant, locking horns with Typhon; afterwards, she carried many scars on her orb, reminiscent of her battle.
Moon Chariot:
Like her brother Helios, the God of the Sun, who drives his chariot of the sun across the sky every day, Selene, the Goddess of the Moon, is also said to drive a chariot across the skies.
The air, before quenched, shines with the light of her golden crown, and its rays shine bright, whenever the bright Selene, having bathed her beautiful body in the waters of the Ocean, donned her gleaming robes, and joined her strong neck, bright staff, he drives his long-haired horses at full speed, in the afternoon in the middle of the month: then his great orbit is full, and then his rays shine brighter as it increases.
The earliest known depiction of Selene driving a chariot adorns the interior of an early 5th century BC red-figure cup attributed to the Painter Brygos, showing Selene plunging her chariot, drawn by two winged horses, into the sea (Berlin Antikensammlung F 2293).
Cult of the Moon Goddess:
Lunar figures are found in Cretan rings and gemstones (perhaps indicating a Minoan cult of the Moon Goddess), but in addition to the role played by the moon itself in magic, folklore, and poetry, and despite the later worship of the Phrygian moon-god Men, there are it was relatively little worship of Selene.
Pausanias also described seeing two stone images in the market place of Elis, one of the sun and the other of the moon, from whose heads projected the rays of the sun and the horns of the crescent moon.
Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, and an Athenian festival called Pandia, generally considered a festival for Zeus, was perhaps celebrated on the full moon and may have been associated with Selene.
Selene was sometimes associated with childbirth, as it was believed that during the full moon women had the easiest jobs; The idea that Selene would also give women easy work paved the way for identification with Hera and with the Romans Juno and Lucina, three other goddesses of childbirth;
The Roman philosopher Cicero connected Selene's Roman counterpart Luna's to the birth goddess Lucina, both deriving from "light" (thus bringing the unborn child to light). And, according to a scholium on Theocritus, Pindar wrote that women in love prayed to Selene for help, as Euripides apparently did Phaedra, Selene's great-niece, in his lost play Hippolytus Veiled.
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How Can You Spice Up Your Sex Life With Your Partner?
Why spicing up your sex life is important
Knowledge on how you can spice up your sex life with your partner is very important. Spicing up your sex life can have a positive effect on your connection with your spouse as well as lead to a variety of positive health outcomes.
Sex is an aerobic activity, which implies that it can increase your heart health. A single passionate act of intimacy burns about 180 calories, which, is similar to approximately 20 minutes of moderate jogging.
Your mood can also be improved by engaging in sexual activity with your partner. Endorphins, the “feel-good” chemicals in your brain, are released when you have sexual activity.
The hormones that are released during sex may lessen levels of melancholy and anxiety as well as increase immune function. Having sexual activity on a regular basis with your spouse can not only help you sleep better, but it can also extend your life and safeguard your cognitive abilities.
Try any of these straightforward tactics to learn how you can spice up your sex life with your partner.
Techniques To Liven Up Your Sex Life
Try Talking About Sex
According to the findings of several studies, partners who have a healthy level of sexual communication are happier with their sexual life. If you and your partner are having problems in your sexual life, having an honest conversation about those problems could potentially enhance both your sexual life and your relationship.
The ability to talk openly with one another can help a couple build a better relationship and experience deeper sensations of closeness. In point of fact, being open and honest with your partner may result in an improvement in the overall happiness you feel with your relationship.
Try Outdoor Sex To Spice Things Up In The Bedroom
Having sex in public is a fantasy for many people. They enjoy it because there is always the risk of being caught. The risk of getting caught may also provide them with a particular thrill.
Exercise extreme caution due to the fact that every city and jurisdiction has its own rules on lewd conduct.
A helpful piece of advice for avoiding being seen by prospective onlookers is to wait until dusk and either wait in your vehicle or go to a remote location.
Try different penetration techniques
If you and your partner is okay with alternating between different activities, try different techniques during penetration. Think about pegging, which is something that a lot of people are into. It’s a totally safe method to explore your boundaries for using different sex toys with your spouse. There’s no risk involved.
However, to the fact that the prostate is a very sensitive location, this can also introduce them to a new type of sexual pleasure.
Spank that butt!
As long as you have express approval, spanking is yet another exciting and sexy way that people may add some twist into their bedroom setting without getting too “extreme.”
In Just make sure that you are spanking carefully by keeping to the fleshy regions of your partner’s body instead of hard bones or organs.
Try Anal Sex Play
Anal play does not need to be daunting in any circumstance. There are dozens of different ways to experiment with this with your partner. Some of them include using anal beads, little butt plugs, or strap-on dildos.
Oral sex on the anus, often known as rimming, is an option that does not have to involve any form of penetration.
Be honest with yourself about how you’re feeling.
Getting in touch with your feelings regarding sexual activity may liven up your sexual life. However, If you’re suffering painful sex or sexual anxiety, you need to consult a specialist.
This is especially important to keep in mind if you have any inkling that the traumatic experience may be the source of these responses. It doesn’t matter whether you go to a gynecologist, a nurse practitioner, a licensed therapist, or a professional counselor, whoever you see; you’re taking a step in the correct direction toward healing.
Then, talk to your spouse about the feelings you’re having, and come up with a game plan that involves sex that is calming and joyful for you.
Experiment with doing oral in an inverted position
It’s just an example of putting a novel twist on something you could do consistently. Simply turning it around adds a whole new element to the challenge. Make sure that you are experimenting with this new position in a safe manner while also keeping your comfort in mind.
Are you curious about the process? You might want to try laying down on the bed in a horizontal position, with your back against the wall and your head just barely hanging over the side. Then, your spouse will be able to meet your face with their genital, which will give you the opportunity to lick, suckle, play, and do everything else you want. When your partner’s genitals contact your lips at an angle, it will give them a fresh sensation.
This will spice up the sex life with your partner and enhance the experience for the both of you.
Play a game that has something to do with sex
A pastime that allows you to experience new sensations in your sexual life? Playing sex-related games aids in spicing things up, particularly ones that involve elements of spontaneity like dice or playing cards. Since there is some element of chance involved, you are still committed to whatever the conclusion may be.
They are also quite helpful in terms of communication. How? Well, “sex talk” can be awkward and weird, and games provide you the opportunity to bring up subjects or experiences that you would not have felt comfortable expressing if it weren’t for the natural conversation starters provided by the game.
Seize The initiative And Be In Control
Put yourself in control of your sexual life and communicate your desires to your partner by taking the wheel. It doesn’t matter if you tell them where you want to be kissed, touched, or hugged. This is all a means to assure that you receive the orgasms that you want, so long as you do it. When you could be the head coach of your own sexual life, there’s no reason to watch the action from the sidelines, is there?
Start with a straightforward script if you are unsure how or where to get started. Speak up and say ‘touch me here’ or ‘do this slower,’ and you will obtain the pleasure that you are looking for.
Not only does directing your partner help to ensure that you are truly enjoying fulfilling sex, but it also gives them the ability to repeat those actions the following time because they will know that those are the moves that you enjoy the most.
Incorporate pre-sex yoga.
If you and your spouse want to get in the correct headspace before engaging in sexual activity, you might want to try doing some pre-sex yoga together. People have a tendency to be more mindful when they are practicing yoga.
When you are in tune with yourself and you have a clear body and mind, that can translate into the bedroom. The practice of yoga can help you become more aware of your own body as well as the body of your partner, which, in turn, can make sexual activity more enjoyable for both of you.
Put On Some Lingerie For Extra Sexiness
Lingerie is becoming much more welcoming for people of all different body kinds. Humans are very visual beings. Thus, elevating the dress you’re wearing can add another layer of sensuality to your appearance and can improve the sexual attractiveness you exude to others.
Lingerie can even help you become much more confident with your own body, to have sex and be seen. Also, Lingerie can help you become more comfortable with your own body and boost your self-esteem. Do this and you will spice up your sex life with your partner.
Experiment with the temperature play
Temperature play should be incorporated into the bedroom setting. You should try traditional approaches such as picking an ice cube and gently sliding it up and down each other’s body.
You should also try blowing hot air over each other’s legs, arms, or necklines while taking deep breaths in and out.
In a nutshell, the different temperatures provide a unique physical sense to the act of having sex, one that you may not have had previously.
Rotate between your different places
When you’re having sex, you’re typically doing the same thing. Your go-to sex style is presumably something along the lines of a cowgirl, missionary, or doggy.
But try bringing in other moves that you wouldn’t ordinarily try. Some examples of these moves include having sex in a chair or the kitchen table.
Try Sex Toys!
Ask your spouse if they would be interested in utilizing some sex toys together with you. Doing that, you can spice up your sexual life with some buzzy spices. Sex toys are not intended to compete with or replace your spouse. Actually, they help you to enhance what you are already doing in the bedroom.
Incorporating a variety of sex experiences into your life is essential.
First things first, you need to do some study to figure out what kind of sexual toy could be most satisfying for both of you.
Then, when you and your partner are both in a healthy mental frame, you should tell them that you want to consider adding a few items to your sexual repertoire. You could also explain why you think certain toys, in particular, such as a butt plug or dildo, might add to the experience.
Try Sexting When Apart
Sending and receiving sexually explicit text messages is an excellent method to liven up your sexual life. You may try sending them messages such as, “I want you to do this to me when you get home” or “I can’t wait to touch you on this spot.”
Sexting is a technique to plan to have sex and to build up the anticipation before really having it. When they come home, there will already be excitement waiting for them.
When you increase the tension between the both of you throughout the day, you’ll surely get amped up. However, it also communicates to your partner that they are the focus of your affection.
Compile A Playlist of Sexy Songs
You might want to try making a fun playlist together (or each make your own separate one for double the fun). Fill it with songs that make the two of you feel empowered, comfortable, and, most importantly, turned on.
Mix in Some Food For Added Spice!
Licking hot sauce off your partner’s chest is one of the most fiery things you can do. You can also go the sugary approach by introducing whipped cream or strawberries into your sex play.
You may try feeding one another, licking the ingredients off each other, or even performing amusing phallic gestures with the food things.
Make it as joyful and lively as you desire it to be. This will surely spice up your sex life with your partner.
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the most in demand tech jobs
the most in demand tech jobs
GlobalGlobal – IT sphere is one of the most demanded all over the world. In addition to the fact that there is an eternal shortage of personnel, the salary is also above average. There are many in-demand tech jobs, but do you know which positions are the most in-demand?
It is well known in the tech recruiting industry that there are not enough candidates for many positions. There are many reasons. With the development of technology, more and more new vacancies appear every day. Advances that have been put into hyperdrive due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 so that businesses can continue to work from home around the world.
This article talks about the most in-demand technical positions and the benefits of working in these positions.
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Data Scientist
What does a data scientist do?
According to the 2022 DevSkiller Tech Talent Trends and Predictions ebook, data science was the fastest growing IT skill on the DevSkiller benchmark platform with a huge 295% year-on-year growth in popularity.
How much does a data scientist earn?
According to the 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Data Scientist with an average global salary of $63,216.
What’s interesting, however, is that most data scientists have less experience than other IT roles.
JavaScript Developer
What does a JavaScript developer do?
JavaScript is one of the most widely known programming languages in the world, used in both external and internal applications.
A JavaScript developer should have an in-depth knowledge of the entire JS language and the specific libraries and frameworks associated with it.
According to Indeed, the average salary for a JavaScript developer in the US is $113,318 per year.
DevOps Engineer
What does a DevOps engineer do?
The DevOps engineer position was created to bridge the gap between the software developer and the operations specialist. DevOps integrates the practices of software development and IT operations.
DevOps is the 4th highest paid tech job with an average global salary of $70,264.
Web Developer
What does a web developer do?
Web developers write the code that is the technological foundation of websites. A leading web developer may be familiar with various programming languages, in particular JavaScript, as well as various programs. Web developers are often divided into back-end (systems and structures), front-end (visuals and design), and full-stack (all elements).
The salary of a top web developer in the US is $130,015.
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Cloud Architect
What does a cloud architect do?
A cloud architect is responsible for maintaining a company’s cloud infrastructure. This includes choosing a cloud service provider, as well as managing and monitoring the cloud.
In the United States alone, the base salary of a cloud architect exceeds $100,000 per year. The average salary for a cloud engineer in the US, according to Glassdoor, is $150,435.
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If you have read the post on Magic Warfare, you should know that the battle between gods or altars is very serious and deadly. In this article, we will talk about how to break the magic of someone or make their god suddenly go powerless. When you understand, you will know how to avoid being busted too.
What Will Happen
When your magic is busted, then it means whatever you have done to others, or whatever you have been trying to resist, it will crush on you like lava pouring over your head. If your god is busted, then it will be powerless, which means any spiritual things can enter the statue or altar at that moment, and claim to be your god. If you are not on guard enough, or you don’t even know, then your altar or statue is taken oven and you are praying to Yin Gods mostly. The evils will take over, and they will scam you and destroy your life because their goal is to “consume” you.
How can it Happen
Keep in mind that the gods are there because of your FAITH. Read the post on Worshipping and Gods, it’s your faith that made it and it is your faith failed that killed it.
When two people are battling, the moment one side loses faith over their own gods, and they start to have doubt, or not believe it, then the magic in the god’s body will break. It’s very fragile, just like our heart feels. Once the trust and faith are lost, everything is done in a split second. It’s like love can be shattered in one second just because the promise is broken, trust is broken, faith is gone.
How to Defend Against it
If you are lucky enough to have a person who want to break your magic, they will start to attack you by verbally and/or doing anything to make you feel your religion is fake, it’s not real, your god doesn’t exist, you have nothing to back you up, you have no history, etc. Whatever they say, do, or try to influence you, it’s all pointing to the same direction which is to lose faith in your god and religion. Regardless of what religion it is, as long as you don’t get affected or impact by this, you won’t have any issue (yet).
However, we are humans, and we will be impacted, or even lose a battle. What to do instead of just saying “shut up” to them? There are three options:
1. Attack them back if you want, don’t have to be even fact-based, but if you want to fight, then attack them back the way they do to you or get creative and insult them and their belief back. This is a hard-to-hard war, who screams louder who win.
2. Boost your own side, go back to your god and keep doing your things to honor the gods, praise them, and do anything to BOOST your god’s energy. Do your magic, keep doing things and put faith in your god.
3. Even better, SACRIFICE. Put more energies into your god and your god will help you when you do #2. Put up more food, or even go hunting and fishing, go kill something for your god. Seriously, you can think about killing a deer or something big like a salmon and gift it to the gods (not for eating). After that your god has a big amount of energy input in one go, the attacks on the god will suddenly feel a big impact backfiring them too.
Here is a bonus, gather more powers from people around you with the same belief, team up and do prayers and such at the altar to boost it up. When more hearts group together, faith power will grow faster, and that’s what defend you against the bad guy’s attack.
What to Avoid or BAN
Never joke around your own gods, that is meaning that you are not serious about them, and you are disrespecting them. Never get emotional and most important “HEARTBROKEN”. Whenever something that hurt your feeling happen, that’s a heart attack, and your heart contains the faith power and connect to god. Once it is shattered and broken or even leaking, everything that links to it starts leaking energy and goes weak. The worse thing that can happen is during a battle time, one of your teammates just goes crazy and betray the team and escape or quit. That hurt your feeling, and it also hurt the god’s heart, then the magic will weaken or break. Make sure you don’t “kill your own people” during war and point the spearhead back at the friendly side. This is a common strategy from evils, they love to create internal wars and make people kill their own teammates. If you are one of them that experienced this, make sure you calm down and don’t act based on feeling. That’s the magic attack. Go put your feelings on the table and tell people that’s what you feel, then do all sorts of magic to kill that feeling off. That’s evil!
You are also not going to be stupid and doubt yourself, go to do some “fact check” to PROVE your religion and belief etc. That’s just stupid. A religion or god doesn’t even need any facts to be working or real, all you need is FAITH, and it could be even a new thing started by yourself like you believe in superman and worship him as a god. That’s totally real too. Someone call you fake, you tell them to try to attack you and see if it works. Then keep telling them how weak their god is because you are all fine and nothing is happening. Even your god has 1000 years of history, it still cannot put down a real person now, so it sucked. If they challenge you back then you tell them that your god doesn’t even want to waste time on this useless living being. It’s them who want to challenge, then they attack first if they have the power to.
Do you see the mindset? Fight back, don’t be losing already by doing a “fact check” on your own religious belief, that’s really stupid.
Okay, that’s enough for now!
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New technologies to increase energy efficiency in hotels
Good for the planet, reducing energy consumption decreases depletion of our natural resources and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s also (really) good for your hotel’s bottom line.
Concerned consumers increasingly expect “green” options, and hotels must become champions for climate mitigation to stay competitive in the market. The value of building efficiency goes beyond marketing as climbing energy costs cut into profitability. Energy represents the single fastest-growing operating cost in the lodging industry and EnergyStar estimates that the average hotel spends $2,196 per room on energy each year. Luckily, technological advances in lighting, heating, cooling, and building controls are simultaneously improving visitor satisfaction and comfort as well as energy efficiency. Here are just four options, but there are scores of other choices out there for the conscientious, cost-conscious, and everyone in between.
The low-hanging fruit of going green, retailers can switch to LEDs and get the same amount of light for less electricity/money. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, LEDs use up to 90% less energy than incandescent bulbs! These high-efficiency lights also last up to 25 times longer than traditional bulbs, which means lower maintenance costs. Manufacturers have recently developed a broad range of LED products available for indoor and outdoor use, and many options include built-in controls, such as timers, dimmers, and occupancy/motion sensors. More affordable than ever, these can be used in guestrooms, bathrooms, meeting spaces, hallways, elevators, lobbies, restaurants, and everywhere in between.
Traditional furnaces and boilers send a portion of the air they heat up the flue, wasting the energy that was used to heat that air. Today’s equipment utilizes a sealed combustion system so the furnace or boiler will bring outside air directly into the burner and release exhaust gases (combustion products) directly to the outside without the need for a draft hood or damper. In other words, these sealed-combustion units eliminate that waste. Combined with other improvements, new furnaces/boilers have an annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) of between 90% and 98.5%, which means the vast majority of the energy in the fuel becomes heat for the building. Only about 10% escapes up the flue or elsewhere. In comparison, older heating systems have an AFUE of just 56% to 70%. With that much improvement, upgrading to a high-efficiency boiler can potentially cut a hotel’s fuel bills in half!
Innovations in air-conditioning technology are making cooling units substantially more energy efficient. Developments in heat exchangers with fewer joints, variable stage fans, multi-stage and variable compressors, better refrigerant blends that absorb and release heat better (and also are more environmentally conscious), geothermal systems, ductless options, and economizers all reduce energy consumption while improving guest comfort.
Building automation systems are smarter than ever, and hotel owners/property managers can significantly reduce their energy bills by installing and properly maintaining one. A BAS manages the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security, and fire safety systems through one “brain” to optimize the overall performance of the building. Controllers take the data from sensors installed throughout the hotel (in air ducts, water valves, guestrooms, stairwells, etc.), decide how the building should respond, and send commands to the appropriate systems. These controls are designed to minimize energy waste and maximize operational performance by making subtle, yet cost-effective, adjustments based on data over time.
“We have made it our gold standard to incorporate BAS systems with all of our designs, no matter what type of building the project may be. Due to the impactful amount of energy saved vs. using conventional equipment controls, these systems have wonderfully short ROIs,” said Joseph Sigg, LEED AP, Refrigeration Engineering Department head at CoolSys Energy Design. “We have seen buildings save thousands of dollars every year by utilizing a BAS.”
Overall, scientific breakthroughs and technological advances in HVAC, lighting, and building automation are significantly and continuously improving the energy efficiency of properties around the world. The first step toward taking advantage of the latest and greatest systems available is to have a comprehensive energy audit performed by a qualified professional. Whether you own or run a small independent boutique hotel or world-class chain resort, now is the time to optimize your facility. Go green and save green this year.
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Casey Sky Noon is a Business Development Coordinator at CoolSys Energy Design, a full-service mechanical, electrical, plumbing, refrigeration, and fire-protection engineering firm. Championing climate mitigation and adaptation plans, she is especially interested in helping buildings become as energy efficient and environmentally conscious as possible while reducing operating costs and maximizing comfort.
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Why would humans have voices if not to use them: Is your voice recognizable? Probably, as it is now used for identification purposes. What if you are a singer? Will you allow an opera director to require that you sound like someone else?
Here I am: a pianist. My “voice” resides in my fingertips. To what extent is my playing responded to because my voice is unique? How often has it been rejected because it does not match other pianistic products (let’s not call those “voices.”) I was once advised by Miecyszlaw Horszowski that people would try to “fix” my voice. “Don’t let anybody change it.”
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Shambhala, which is a Sanskrit word meaning “place of peace” or “place of silence”, is a hidden paradise spoken of in ancient texts, including the Kalachakra Tantra and the ancient scriptures of the Zhang Zhung culture which predated Tibetan Buddhism in western Tibet. According to legend, it is a land where only the pure of heart can live, a place where love and wisdom reigns and where people are immune to suffering, want or old age.
Shambhala is said to be the land of a thousand names. It has been called the Forbidden Land, the Land of White Waters, Land of Radiant Spirits, Land of Living Fire, Land of the Living Gods and Land of Wonders. The Hindus call it Aryavartha (‘The Land of the Worthy Ones); the Chinese know it as Hsi Tien, the Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu; and to the Russian Old Believers, it is known as Belovoyde. But throughout Asia, it is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, Shamballa, or Shangri-la.
The legend of Shambhala is said to date back thousands of years, and reference to the mythical land can be found in various ancient texts. The Bön scriptures speak of a closely related land called Olmolungring. Hindu texts such as Vishnu Purana mention Shambhala as the birth place of Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu who will usher in a new Golden Age. The Buddhist myth of Shambhala is an adaptation of the earlier Hindu myth. However, the text in which Shambhala is first discussed extensively is the Kalachakra.
A Buddhist depiction of Shambhala from Sera Monastery (private collection). Image source.
The Prophecy of Shambhala
The concept of Shambhala plays an important role in Tibetan religious teachings, and has particular relevance in Tibetan mythology about the future. The Kalachakra prophesies the gradual deterioration of mankind as the ideology of materialism spreads over the earth. When the “barbarians” who follow this ideology are united under an evil king and think there is nothing left to conquer, the mists will lift to reveal the snowy mountains of Shambhala. The barbarians will attack Shambhala with a huge army equipped with terrible weapons. Then the king of Shambhala will emerge from Shambhala with a huge army to vanquish "dark forces" and usher in a worldwide Golden Age.
Though the Kālachakra prophesies a future war, this appears in conflict with the vows of Buddhist teachings that prohibit violence. This has led some theologians to interpret the war symbolically – the Kālachakra is not advocating violence against people but rather refers to the inner battle of the religious practitioner against inner demonic tendencies.
Shambhala’s hidden location
Over many centuries, numerous explorers and seekers of spiritual wisdom have embarked on expeditions and quests in search of the mythical paradise of Shambhala, and while many have claimed to have been there, no one has yet provided any evidence of its existence or been able to pinpoint its physical location on a map, however most references place Shambhala in the mountainous regions of Eurasia.
Ancient Zhang Zhung texts identify Shambhala with the Sutlej Valley in Punjab or Himachal Pradesh, India. Mongolians identify Shambhala with certain valleys of southern Siberia. In Altai folklore, Mount Belukha is believed to be the gateway to Shambhala. Modern Buddhist scholars seem to conclude that Shambhala is located in the higher reaches of the Himalayas in what is now called the Dhauladhar Mountains around Mcleodganj. Some legends say that the entrance to Shambhala is hidden inside a remote, abandoned monastery in Tibet, and guarded by beings known as the Shambhala Guardians. (Source)
A Description Of ‘Hollow Earth’ According To Ancient Tibetan Buddhism
Shambhala is round but depicted as an eight-petalled lotus blossom, which is a symbol of the heart Chakra (represented in the picture below).
Many ancient texts refer to ‘magical’ and ‘mythical’ lands, which is fascinating, particularly when you consider how much of the writings in ancient Buddhism, Vedic philosophy, or other Eastern traditions is being confirmed by modern day science. Quantum physics in particular has gained a lot of momentum recently. One great example is the conundrum of consciousness, which is directly correlated with quantum physics and goes hand in hand with other realms of existence. Perhaps this is why some of Nikola Tesla’s ideas were influenced by ancient Eastern philosophy. Not many people know this, but most of our pioneering scientists were also mystics, including Issac Newton, who studied alchemy, among other subjects.
This is precisely why we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss other possible knowledge that remains hidden within ancient texts, especially when evidence is increasingly proving the strength of the connection between ancient wisdom and modern day knowledge.
We are surprisingly and inexplicably selective about which parts of ancient writings we hold to be true, and which we dismiss as fantasy. We might take, for example, a description of ancient Greek society written by a philosopher living at the time, such as Plato or Socrates, at face value, yet when confronted with the same philosopher’s description of an advanced ancient civilization, find some excuse to ignore it. We can take Plato’s description of things that are believable to the mind and accept them as fact, but as soon as we are confronted with something outside our known experience, our minds shut down, even in the face of mounting evidence lending credibility to many of these ‘mythical’ stories.
To read more about Plato’s description of the Lost Kingdom of Atlantis, you can refer to this article.
Several ancient texts from various traditions mention beings from ‘another world’ that exist within our own. One such world, referenced in Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu traditions, is Shambhala, which is a hidden kingdom within our own planet, a place which we do not understand and is difficult to find.
It’s a “Spiritual” Place
According to the Dalai Lama at a speech he gave in 1985 during the Kalachakra Initiations:
This closely resembles descriptions of the spiritual principles that once guided Atlantis given by Plato and other scholars. According to Manly P. Hall, author, historian, and 33rd degree mason:
Before Atlantis sank, its spiritually illuminated Initiates, who realized that their land was doomed because it had departed from the Path of Light, withdrew from the ill fated continent. Carrying with them the sacred and secret doctrine, these Atlanteans established themselves in Egypt, where they became its first divine rulers. Nearly all the great cosmologic myths forming the foundation of the various sacred books of the world are based upon the Atlantean Mystery Rituals. (source)
And according to the modern theosophical tradition:
Sambhala, however, although no erudite Orientalist has yet succeeded in locating it geographically, is an actual land or district, the seat of the greatest brotherhood of spiritual adepts and their chiefs on earth today. From Sambhala at certain times in the history of the world, or more accurately of our own fifth root-race, come forth the messengers or envoys for spiritual and intellectual work among men.
Edwin Bernbaum, Ph.D., a lecturer, author, mountaineer, and scholar of comparative religion and mythology, writes that Shambhala is round but depicted as an eight-petalled lotus blossom, which is a symbol of the heart Chakra (left). He also makes it clear in his book, The Way To Shambhala, that the way is not clear. Shambhala is a physical place existing within the human realm, but it’s also a spiritual, even supernatural place, which many also believe exists within another dimension.
Michael Wood, a BBC journalist, based on his research describes it as a lost kingdom buried somewhere in the Himalayas, and writes about how the name Shambhala first appears in a text known as the Kalachakra tantra – or Wheel of Time teaching. This Kalachakra doctrine belongs to the highest level of Buddhist Mahayana teaching.
He writes that in Shambhala, the people live in peace and harmony, and are faithful to the principles of Buddhist. In this land, war, grief and sorrow were completely unknown. According to Michael, one commentator on the Kalachakra tantra puts it like this:
The land of Shambhala lies in a valley. It is only approachable through a ring of snow peaks like the petals of a lotus … At the centre is a nine-storey crystal mountain which stands over a sacred lake, and a palace adorned with lapis, coral, gems and pearls. Shambala is a kingdom where humanity’s wisdom is spared from the destructions and corruptions of time and history, ready to save the world in its hour of need. The prophecy of Shambala states that each of its 32 kings will rule for 100 years. As their reigns pass, conditions in the outside world will deteriorate. Men will become obsessed with war and pursue power for its own sake and materialism will triumph over all spiritual life. Eventually an evil tyrant will emerge to oppress the earth in a despotic reign of terror. But just when the world seems on the brink of total downfall and destruction, the mists will lift to reveal the icy mountains of Shambala. Then the 32nd king of Shambala, Rudra Cakrin, will lead a mighty army against the tyrant and his supporters and in a last great battle, they will be destroyed and peace restored. (source)(source)
Who Is Down There? What Evidence Do We Have?
Who really knows? Legends speak of those who have wandered to the land and never returned, or have died making the journey, while more recently, connections have been made with the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. You might not know this, but UFOs are commonly tracked on air and ground radar, while simultaneously watched by the pilots who are sent out to intercept them. Thousands of documents are available for public viewing, and hundreds of high ranking whistleblowers have shared their stories. If you would like to learn more about the UFO/ET phenomenon and see some of this evidence yourself, feel free to explore the exopolitcs section of our website. As former NASA astronaut and Princeton physics professor Dr. Brian O’Leary has said, “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.”
Based on my personal research into UFOs and extraterrestrials, which spans more than 10 years, stories of flying saucers coming in and out of the ocean are quite common. They are referred to as underwater submerged objects, and contactees, which today number in the millions, often speak of beings existing inside of our own planet — spiritual beings, ‘light beings’ of great intelligence.
In addition to these rumours, there are people who claim to have actually experienced this place. Admiral Richard Byrd, a high ranking officer in the United States Navy who received a medal of honour and was the very first man to fly over the South Pole, supposedly journeyed to the hollow Earth. Admiral Byrd also flew directly over the North Pole, writing that he saw an opening in the top. His diary describes his adventure into the opening, where he saw lakes, rivers, green vegetation, and more. He participated in many expeditions to the North Pole, with one being a government-backed program called operation Highjump. Organized by Admiral Byrd, its primary goal was to establish an Antarctic research base. He claims to have been greeted by a flying machine and this is when he first interacted with the beings that existed in a place that is known to many as “Agartha.” The beings told him they were concerned with the development of nuclear weapons and the overall well-being of the planet.
Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), a well known Russian explorer, also writes of Shambhala being located in the north. He travelled through Mongolia and China to the borders of Tibet, and says that, during a conversation with a Lama, he was told that the great “Shabmhala is far beyond the ocean. It is the mighty heavenly domain. It has nothing to do with our Earth. Only in some places, in the Far North, can you discern the resplendent rays of Shambhala.” He claimed the entrance was deep in the high mountains. The Lama also told Roerich:
Shambhala is ever vigilant in the cause of mankind: he sees all the events of earth in his ‘magic mirror’ and the might of his thought penetrates into far-off lands. Uncountable are the inhabitants of Shamhala. Numerous are the splendid new forces and achievements which are being prepared there for humanity. (Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala: In search of the new era, Rochester, VE: Inner Traditions, 1990)
Based on my research, if there is an entrance, it’s in Antarctica or deep within several mountain ranges, including the Himalayas. And one common theme about Shambhala is that its secrets are well guarded, and cannot be reached unless one is called there.
Want To Learn More?
My knowledge on Shambhala is next to nothing, and it’s hard to find credible sources for ancient stories such as these. A great place to start seems to be the work of Edwin Bernbaum. He’s certainly done his research, as mentioned in the Journal of The International Association of Buddhist Studies. That publication gives a description of his work, his book, and a few other links that can get you started. He has conducted research and published on a number of topics, including listing and microfilming rare Tibetan texts in the Himalayas, Tibetan myths and legends of hidden valleys, and myth and art along the Silk Route of western China.
What Do We Currently Know Of Earths Core?
Our current understanding about the makeup of Earth’s core is a theory, based on assumption that is taught as fact. The evidence for the composition of the Earth’s core is decent, however indirect. We have no means for directly sampling the deep interior of the Earth, humans (apparently, if they have we have not been privy to that information) have not been able to access that part of our planet. No one has ever ‘seen’ the inside of our planet, or any other planet for that matter. That being said, we do have instrumentation that can help us ‘see’ the unseen, but the theory of Earth’s core remains just that, a theory.
Again, perhaps the Hollow Earth idea is a dimensional thing, who really knows. Many great minds from the past up until the present day believe there to be something unconventional that lay beneath our feet. For example, Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician and physicist. He produced a large portion of modern mathematical terminology and notation, more specifically the notion of mathematical function. He is considered to be one the greatest mathematicians of all time, and has approximately one thousand publications. He believed the Earth was hollow as well as inhabited.
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0.328034 | <urn:uuid:baba676e-9584-4d61-a08e-6698e9204f6e> | en | 0.948449 | Hives: Causes, Effects, and Treatments
Published December 14th, 2021 by Chris Riley
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Medically Reviewed:
Dr. Angel Rivera
Updated Date: Jun 22nd, 2022
What are hives | Causes | Different types | Diagnosis | Treatment | Prevention
Hives, also known as urticaria, are a common skin condition that affects many people.
They can be uncomfortable, itchy, and even painful at times but they usually are harmless.
However, they can sometimes indicate an underlying medical condition or allergy.
In this article, we will discuss hives in detail so that you know what hives are, how to diagnose hives, how to treat hives, and tips for preventing hives from happening again.
What are hives?
Hives are a condition that causes an itchy rash.
The rash can be anywhere on the body, and it usually comes and goes quickly.
Hives often occur as a food allergy after you eat or drink something you are allergic to and also when you touch something you’re allergic to, but they can also be caused by stress, infection, or other factors.
The symptoms of hives are characterized by red, itchy bumps or welts that can look like small bubbles or patches.
They can also be accompanied by more serious symptoms such as swelling of the throat, shortness of breath, anxiety, and more.
Hives are most often caused by an allergic reaction to something you have come in contact with and their effects range from minor discomfort to life-threatening asthma attacks.
Treatment for hives will depend on the type you experience, with some hives treatments including antihistamines, steroid injections, topical corticosteroids, and more.
If left untreated hive symptoms could worsen over time which leads to chronic hives.
What causes hives?
There are many different causes for hives, but the most common is an allergic reaction.
When your body comes in contact with something you’re allergic to, it triggers the release of histamine which can cause a rash and this reaction is called contact dermatitis.
This chemical can cause hives symptoms like itching, swelling, and redness. Other causes of hives include stress, infection, sun exposure, and more.
The most common causes are as follows:
Over-the-counter medications and prescription drugs can both cause hives. Some of the most common are NSAIDS (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), antibiotics, and sulfa drugs.
Some foods are more likely to cause hives than others. These include shellfish, nuts, eggs, milk, and soy products.
Infection or environmental agent (chemicals)
Infections such as a cold or the flu can trigger hives, as well as exposure to certain environmental agents like pollen, pet dander, and latex.
Dermatographic urticaria
Also known as skin writing, this form of hives cause is rare and it’s triggered by pressure or trauma to the skin, which can lead to hives.
Red welts appear where the skin has been scratched, slapped, or stroked. This type of hives usually goes away on its own within an hour.
Pressure or delayed pressure
This form of hives cause is triggered by pressure on the skin, like when you sit for too long or wear tight shoes.
The reaction is usually delayed about 6 hours after the action can last up to 3 days.
The difference between this and dermatographic urticaria is that the welts do not appear soon after the action and the hives typically stay for longer.
Cholinergic or stress
Cholinergic or stress hives are triggered by adrenaline and can be brought on by physical or mental stress.
Symptoms include redness, itching, hives rash, and more.
The causes below are all cholinergic or stress-induced hives causes:
Cold-induced hives
This type of hives is caused by exposure to cold temperatures.
The hives usually start in one area and then spread out over the body. It can also cause a burning sensation.
Solar urticaria
This rare form of hives is caused by exposure to sunlight. Symptoms include red, itchy welts on areas that have been exposed to the sun.
This hives cause can last about an hour, once you are out of the exposure to the sun, or up to several days.
This form of hives is caused by coming into contact with cold or warm water. Symptoms include red, itchy welts on the skin appear after 1 to 15 minutes after exposure.
Exercise hives can be brought on by any type of exercise, but it is more common in people with allergies to certain foods. Symptoms include hives rash, itching, swelling in the throat or mouth.
What are the different forms of hives?
There are several different types of hives that we will break down below:
Allergic reactions
This is the most common type of hives and it’s caused by an allergic reaction to something you come in contact with.
This is the most serious form of hives and it can be a life-threatening allergic reaction. This type of hives is caused by a severe allergic reaction that lead to breathing difficulties, chest pain, dizziness, and more.
It’s caused by your immune system attacking healthy cells instead of harmful ones, which results in hives that come and go over time. It can be caused by autoimmune diseases like celiac disease, type I diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Chronic hives
Chronic hives, also called chronic urticaria, are hives that last longer than six weeks, which is the time it takes for hives to go away on their own. Chronic hives can be caused by stress, certain medications, or even an underlying health problem.
Nonallergic hives
This hives cause is much less common than hives that are caused by an allergic reaction. These hives can last for days or weeks at a time and it can be caused by medications releasing more histamine.
Dietary histamine poisoning
This form of hives is caused by eating spoiled fish. Symptoms include hives although it should be noted these hives do not have wheals, which is a red, swollen, mark on the skin.
This is a rare form of hives that is caused by pressure or trauma to the skin.
Temperature (heat)
This form of hives is induced by exposure to cold or hot temperatures, which can lead to hives rash and hives bumps.
This hives cause is triggered by an infection like the flu or a cold, which can lead to hives in areas that are affected. This form of hives can be induced by either a viral infection or bacterial infection.
How do you diagnose hives?
Doctors have several recourses when diagnosing hives. First, they will likely look at the affected area and this is usually enough for a diagnosis.
They also have the option to take a skin allergy test, where they see what allergens you are allergic to, or even a blood test to check for other illnesses.
The doctor will also determine if you are suffering from acute urticaria, also called acute hives, which disappears within 6 weeks, or chronic urticaria, also called chronic hives, which lasts longer than 6 weeks.
It is very important that if you are experiencing hives symptoms and they continue to get worse, we encourage you to visit your doctor, healthcare provider, or dermatologist as soon as possible because hives can develop into chronic hives.
How do you treat hives?
There are a few different hives treatments that your doctor may prescribe, which include antihistamines, corticosteroids, and other medications.
It is important to take the medication as prescribed and do not stop taking it without speaking with your doctor first.
Some hives treatments can cause side effects like drowsiness or weight gain. You can also avoid itching or even touching the area so as not to spread or worsen the hives.
An oatmeal bath is also an option, just be sure to NOT use hot water as it can exacerbate your condition.
Can hives be prevented?
There are a few hives prevention tips that we can provide. The first is to identify what your triggers are and try to avoid them if possible.
Secondly, always carry an EpiPen, which is a shot of epinephrine, or other epinephrine injection with you in case of anaphylaxis.
And finally, see your doctor if you have chronic hives so they can help you find the underlying cause and treat it.
Hives are a common skin condition that is often caused by an allergic reaction, but there are several different forms of hives including infection-induced hives, temperature-induced hives, and nonallergic hives.
Hives can be diagnosed through various methods including a physical examination and skin allergy testing or blood tests.
If the hives do not go away on their own, a doctor may prescribe an antihistamine or even an oatmeal bath to relieve your symptoms.
The best way to reduce and prevent your symptoms is to know which allergen triggers these reactions and avoid it.
Thank you for reading our article, if you have any more questions we recommend you talk to your doctor, healthcare provider, dermatologist, or pharmacist.
If you are experiencing these symptoms, we recommend you see a doctor for medical care.
If you are suffering from an anaphylactic reaction and are having difficulty breathing, please seek medical attention immediately as this is a medical emergency.
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Returning butane cans to the shop who sold them to you is the simplest method to get rid of them. Some stores may recycle old butane cans on behalf of their customers, but keep in mind that this isn’t always possible and can be costly.
Butane should be disposed of by emptying the can and recycling it. The procedure is as follows:
• Light the canister and allow it to burn until the gas is completely gone. You should never dispose of a butane can that still has gas inside, but presumably it’s virtually empty by now. You can move on to the following stage once the flames have died out.
• To remove the remaining gas, puncture the canister’s sidewall. You can use a screwdriver or a puncturing tool from a sports goods store to do this. If the tool slips, wear gloves to protect your hands. The canister will not explode as long as you are not standing near an open flame or other heat source.
• Take your nearly-empty or empty can to a hazardous waste recycling center in your area. There’s a risk your local recycling center won’t accept the can if it’s leaking, broken, or greater than 25 gallons. Take it to a hazardous waste disposal site if this is the case.
Butane cans, even empty ones, should not be thrown away. This is not only potentially harmful, but it might also result in fines or other consequences.
What can I do with empty fuel canisters?
Canisters for isobutane are made of painted steel with plastic valves. They can technically be recycled as mixed metal. Unfortunately, the procedure is more involved than simply dumping your used canister in the trash. Fuel canisters can only be recycled in places that accept mixed metal, and they can only be processed if they have been properly prepared. Here’s how you can recycle your gasoline canister:
• Check to see if the canister is completely empty. It’s preferable to burn the hydrocarbons than to release them, therefore use all of the gas for cooking. The Reactor stove is perhaps the best at using the last drop of fuel in the can of all the stoves on the market.
• If you suspect there might be some gas left, connect your stove, invert it, and open the valve to purge it. Any residual gas will be able to escape the canister this way. While doing this, make sure you’re not near any open flames or sources of sparks.
• When you’re certain the canister is empty, puncture it to ensure it passes recycling guidelines. This doesn’t require any special equipment; simply puncture it with a can opener or a sharp item such as a screwdriver or an ice axe. A saw should not be used since it can cause sparks, which will ignite any residual fuel. To meet mixed metal regulations, the valve does not need to be removed.
4. Place your canister in a location that accepts mixed metals.
The last step is the most difficult. Mixed metals are handled by a small number of curbside recycling programs, and even less recognize and recycle gasoline canisters. Before you put them in the recycle bin, check with your local recycling program. If you live near a metal recycling facility, you can always drop them off; these facilities nearly often accept mixed metals. If you’re unsure what to do, seek help from your local recycling authority.
Remember that just because your curbside program collects the canister doesn’t imply it will be recycled; many recyclable items are thrown away because they aren’t clearly labeled. If you are unsure, we recommend delivering your canisters to a metal recycling center. That is the most effective technique to ensure that your canisters are recycled.
How do I dispose of empty butane gas canisters UK?
The big gas companies own the great bulk of the gas cylinders in use in the United Kingdom today. The user pays a charge for the usage of these gas canisters, which are provided as part of a rental agreement. When you’re done with a canister of this sort, return it to the proprietors, who will perform a safety check before refilling it for the next user.
The gas provider will still arrange for collection if you’ve lost the original agreement or inherited the canisters in question, but you’ll forfeit any deposit you paid. The canisters will thereafter be disposed of by the gas companies using regulated techniques and at authorized trash disposal locations.
Can butane canisters explode?
Butane gas canisters are a fantastic way to fuel a stove or heating equipment while camping because they are inexpensive, easy to use, and lightweight. Gas canisters can build up pressure and explode if handled or stored incorrectly.
How do you dispose of butane cans UK?
What is the best way to dispose of gas canisters?
• Collection of household recyclables. Gas canisters should not be placed in your wheelie bin or in the bins at your household trash recycling center since they may explode if crushed.
How do you recycle butane gas cartridges?
• More than 80% of Australians live in areas where aerosols are collected for recycling.
• Aerosol cans that are empty and in good condition can be safely recycled with other metal packaging.
• Aerosols are manufactured of steel or aluminum, both of which are 100% recyclable in Australia.
• Remember to recycle aerosols from everywhere over the house, including the bathroom, kitchen, laundry, shed, and garage.
• If the aerosol can isn’t empty, dispose of it through your municipality’s hazardous waste program.
Butane aerosol cans or canisters, such as those used for camping, should not be recycled since any gas remaining in them is very combustible. It’s preferable to keep them out of the trash can and dispose of them at a local household chemical drop-off location.
How do you dispose of camping Gaz cylinders?
The first thing to look into is the recycling options provided by the canister manufacturer. Although it is most popular with big gas canisters, certain brands offer a return and reuse program in which you return the used canister for refilling and reuse by the manufacturer. The manufacturer should give you with instructions on how to prepare and return the used canister in this case.
Empty Remaining Gas
If you are unable to return the canister to the manufacturer, make certain that it is entirely empty and that no gas remains within before recycling it. For this, there are two main options.
The first step is to take your canister outside and connect it to your stove. If possible, light the flame and let any remaining gas burn off. If you’re having trouble lighting the flame but believe there’s still gas within, invert the canister and stove to purge any residual gas. Please keep in mind that inverting is only possible if you’re using a remote canister stove with the flame not immediately above the canister. Please review the options below for eliminating any residual gas from all other systems.
The Jetboil CrunchIt Recycling Tool is highly recommended for the second choice. A specially built tool on the CrunchIt allows you to simply vent away any residual gasoline. It’s best to perform this outside, away from any potential flames or sparks.
Mark Canister As Empty
The next step is to double-check that the canister is empty. There are a few options for this, but we prefer CrunchIt once again. After you’ve securely released the gas, use the tool to puncture a couple of holes in the canister swiftly and effortlessly. We suggest drilling at least three holes in the top of the canister and plainly printing “empty” on the side.
Recycle According To Local Authority Guidance
After you’ve double-checked that the canister is empty and punctured/marked, you’ll need to check your local recycling regulations. Typically, your local council’s website will contain specific guidelines for gas canisters, leaving you with two options. The first option is to take the canister to your local recycling center, where it will be properly recycled and disposed of. While some municipalities will allow you to place the canister in your regular mixed-metal recycling container, others will not (once it has been safely emptied and marked as such).
Can I store butane in my garage?
Butane should always be kept indoors. If applicable, it should be locked up and kept out of reach of small children and pets. Butane canisters can be stored in large drawers, cupboards, garages, closets, and utility storerooms due to their reduced size. Because butane cannot be stored in direct sunlight for long periods of time, the storage room should be dark and well shielded from the sun’s rays. Furthermore, the storage place should not be near an electrical outlet, a hot bulb, a stove, a toaster, or any other source of heat. Butane should never be kept in an automobile.
Can butane be frozen?
Portable stoves make cooking outside during the winter months much easier. This would need the usage of butane, but will it freeze in the winter? And, if it does, how will it be dealt with? We investigated what happens when butane is exposed to low temperatures and described our findings below.
Butane has a freezing point of -216.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-138 degrees Celsius), which means it will not freeze in normal cold temperatures. However, butane’s performance as a fuel can be harmed by the cold. Internal pressure retains it in a liquid condition, but vaporization when connected to a burner turns it into a gas. It has a hard time vaporizing when the temperature approaches the freezing point. As a result, the liquid does not convert into gas, resulting in a waste of heat.
Butane can be used in the winter as long as the temperature does not drop below freezing. In this piece, we’ll talk about how cold the temperature has to be for butane to freeze, as well as what you can do to avoid it. What should you do to keep butane in usable condition? Continue reading to learn more about these topics. | https://www.utilitysmarts.com/gas/butane/can-you-recycle-butane-cans/ | dclm-gs1-254635422 |
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Provincial Court of Alberta Pre-Trial Resolution
In January 2019, the Provincial Court Act was amended in an effort to streamline the procedures for dealing with civil claims. Under these new amendments, there are now four resolution tracks that an action may be screened into. A matter is screened into one of these four tracks if it is determined that the matter is not appropriate for mediation, or in the event that mediation of the matter was unsuccessful.
It is important to have an understanding of each resolution track so that you know what to expect after commencing a civil lawsuit in Provincial Court.
Binding Judicial Dispute Resolution (BJDR)
A BJDR can only proceed by consent of both parties. If one party declines to participate, the matter will be screened into another resolution track by the Court. The emphasis at a BJDR is on settlement. During a BJDR, the Judge may meet with the parties separately in order to facilitate a resolution of the matter at hand and will review copies of records and documents provided by both parties. If a settlement is reached, the settlement is then formalized by way of a Judge’s Order or a Written Settlement Agreement signed by both parties.
If a settlement is not reached, the Judge has the power to make a binding decision regarding settlement which cannot be appealed by either party or to recommend that the BJDR be terminated and the action proceeds to a pre-trial conference or trial instead. Since the decision of a Judge during a BJDR can be binding it is a good idea to seek legal representation or advice before attending a BJDR.
Pre-Trial Conference
The purpose of a Pre-Trial Conference (PTC) is to settle the action by way of agreement between the parties. Parties are required to exchange documents and records relevant to the action at least 14 days before the PTC. During the PTC, the presiding Judge may discuss the issues with each party in order to identify and simplify the issues at hand. The Judge may also make an order that pleadings in the action be amended, or in some cases struck out.
Typically, the Judge’s main purpose at PTC is to gauge how far apart the parties are in regards to reaching a settlement and to make orders which may help facilitate such a settlement, such as orders for document disclosure. If the parties cannot settle the action by way of agreement, the PTC Judge will set a trial date for the action.
Simplified Trial
A matter is usually screened into this resolution track if the Court determines that the issues at hand are less complex and that the trial would be short in length (usually two hours or less). Matters screened into this track usually do not proceed to a PTC first. In a Simplified Trial, the parties are required to file a document called a trial statement. The trial statement should be filed at least 14 days before the date of the simplified trial and served on each party at least 7 days before the simplified trial date. The trial statement must include a short summary of the facts and evidence that each party intends to present to the Court, as well as a summary showing how the amount claimed in the action has been calculated. All relevant documents that the party intends to rely on at trial must also be attached.
On the day of trial, the procedure is usually a little less formal than a general trial as the Judge has already had a chance to review the facts and evidence presented by each party. This means that a simplified trial is often much shorter in length and less complex than a general trial.
General Trial
Once an action is screened into the resolution track for a general trial, the parties will usually be required to attend a Pre-Trial Conference (PTC) before a trial date is set. If the matter is not settled at the PTC, the PTC Judge will make an order setting out the date and time allotted for the trial. General trials are much more formal than the other resolution tracks, and often require the use of witnesses or experts to give evidence on a matter. At the end of the trial, a judge may reserve their decision (give it at a later date), or make an immediate decision regarding the matter, and the relief sought.
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The average person wants to decision stand bys, unique through ice skating, tennis and / or each and every athletic wagering. You’re able to recognise that a popular organization should certainly triumph as well as most likely towards triumph people needs to check some of those the chances in the profit lines. Stand bys need upto a 58% possibility that you’ll profiting only to find they are able to even so lose money over the long haul. One of the many tips and hints I just sometimes usage is almost always to get smallish stand bys that might triumph and find outstanding underdog figures any time you develop a ice skating decision.
A second undesirable an important part of looking for most desired might be if most people remove a giant most desired of which, will happen always : typically the difficulty might be by means of triumph two to three in any row towards negate a decrease at the enormous most desired. The fact is, enormous stand bys can decline occasionally as opposed to it could seem. You can actually triumph very much along with them with the help of decreased the chances. And yet for anyone unfortunate melting away a couple show along with them, it will require an attractive very hard time and energy to triumph your finances spine.
Which means how to define typically the profiting underdogs?
While you are not sure what individuals towards decision, decision at the residential underdogs. It is recommended fantastic to look at the domestic underdog through ice skating whether they are actually using some divisional similar. Virtually all office adventures are actually troublesome not to mention residential k-9s make available benefits through MLB wagering. A second place to try MLB wagering is at typically the underdog right after they are actually heated. Whether they are actually shooting typically the sphere most certainly just as they are even so your dog they already have numerous benefits. You too can analyze specified lefty/righty matchups are some organization truly does most certainly as well as even so your dog through MLB wagering.
Despite wagering concerning most desired, a second fault bettors sometimes get might be wagering concerning parlay. Parlay offers you enticing amazing the chances best suited? Signs and symptoms wagering parlay can be described as great personal preference, sportsbooks what individuals make available these products are actually laughing by most people right behind his or her’s chair. Not surprisingly, wagering parlay can be described as a lot of perilous function as opposed to any variety of wagering specially when you’re not fantastic through wagering concerning singular decision. Your help and advice might be, excel at a singular decision, make sure they an identical turn a profit basically give consideration to using concerning parlay.
Bypassing such slipups on top of can assist you to pickup further captures not to mention take away numerous not needed losing trades by and large. But, most people for sure discover it’s not possible an adequate amount of mention a few keep clear of such slipups. Towards triumph reliably through MLB, you must know numerous specific ways which were basically utilized by MLB wagering not to mention truly adopt profiting ideas, units and / or elections with the help of commitments not to mention concentration.
Any time you purchase the ‘action pitcher’ decision, it again simply just methods a decision takes destination perhaps even whenever a a move in the getting started pitcher. Typically the ‘listed pitcher’ decision works out the alternative. A decision is only to reside that the ranked getting started pitcher for the duration of typically the decision sets out the game play. Whenever a a move through getting started pitchers, a decision might be canceled. This unique hassle-free methodology isn’t a enormous trick nevertheless it really have the ability to assist in take away numerous losing trades equity with the decision.
In some cases this unique performance are able to are most often virtually all much too convenient, should it in no way? It’s possible you’ll see some perennial powerhouse in relation to their ace rising against the Unhealthy Press Teddy bears not to mention his or her’s getting started pitcher, Adam Lambert. Most certainly you could be certainly no dummy! As an alternative for taking typically the vast chalk, most people verify there’s not a way that widely used group cannot triumph from 2 or more can run, not to mention take up typically the jog lines to elevate a profits. If perhaps it again are consistently this unique hassle-free.
Analysts assert, but, who this may not be the right prepare when ever using typically the runline. A few startlingly big variety of one-run adventures through Leading League Ice skating. As of this penning, perhaps even the premium matchups in your league need tried in any big share from one-run adventures.
You will discover following for ones 13 MLB matchups with the help of profiting data files, typically the share of a single jog advantages they are in the middle of. Keep in mind many quite possibly are not widely used for the purpose of most of some of those, nevertheless it really are able to even so present outstanding very idea of in what way very often typically the RL are able to exhausted most people, even in the event typically the organization captures that performance.
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0.709371 | <urn:uuid:19463320-86e8-4f42-9603-cdc38d7ebd72> | en | 0.768217 | React Component Sharing using Bit
Using Bit with React By Yuvraj Patil
In our projects, we use a lot of npm modules. These modules are created by some developers and we use them in our project. It avoids our time and energy to reinvent the wheel.
I liked this idea. I thought of creating some basic components and publishing it in such a way that anyone can use my components in their project just like they use the npm module.
I evaluated many solutions and found that Bit is the best fit for doing such things. Using Bit we can share our React component within a team or we can make it available for public use. Bit can be used for showing other aspects of components like documentation, test cases and dependencies of our React component.
I followed the steps below in order to make it work.
Setting up Bit
1. Create a Bit Account and create a collection over there. Prefer keeping collection type as public. Create a scope which we will need in upcoming steps.
2. Install BVM (Bit Version Manager)
npm i -g @teambit/bvm
3. Install Bit
bvm install
It would install the latest version of Bit.
4. Init Bit Harmony
bit init --harmony
It would create some bit setup files.
5. Customize setup
Open workspace.jsonc file and update the scope as per step 1.
Creating Component
1. Create React component
Create a reusable react component.
2. Add component
bit add src/components/<component_name>
3. View Component (optional)
bit show <component_name>
4. Tagging Components
bit tag --all
It would tag all the updated or newly added components.
5. Export Components
bit export
It would export all tagged components to the bit server.
Utilizing Component
1. Install dependencies
npm install bootstrap react-bootstrap
2. Set Registry of bit component
npm config set '@<username>:registry'
3. Install style component (if any)
npm install @<username>/<collection_name>.<style_component_name>
4. Install component
npm install @<username>/<collection_name>.<component_name>
5. Import component styles file in index.tsx(.jsx)
import @<username>/<collection_name>.<style_component>/<css_file>';
1. If we get any strange error, try using bit login and complete the login process.
Creating and sharing React components are very easy with Bit. It helps us to reuse react components in different projects.
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0.081384 | <urn:uuid:125e3de1-a543-40de-9ac8-47eb3b92ae0c> | en | 0.933181 | Close-quarters combat
Close-quarters combat (CQC) is a tactical concept that involves a physical confrontation between several combatants.[1] It can take place between military units, police/corrections officers and criminals, and in other similar scenarios. In warfare, it usually consists of small units or teams engaging the enemy with personal weapons at very short range, up to 100 meters, from proximity hand-to-hand combat to close-quarter target negotiation with short-range firearms. In the typical close-quarters–combat scenario, the attackers try a very fast, violent takeover of a vehicle or structure controlled by the defenders, who usually have no easy way to withdraw. Because enemies, hostages/civilians, and fellow operators can be closely intermingled, close-quarters combat demands a rapid assault and a precise application of lethal force. The operators need great proficiency with their weapons, and the ability to make split-second decisions in order to minimize accidental casualties.
Close-quarters combat (CQC)
ParenthoodDefendu, Jujutsu, Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, street fighting
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Criminals sometimes use close-quarters–combat techniques, such as in an armed robbery or jailbreak, but most of the terminology comes from training used to prepare soldiers, police/corrections officers, and other authorities. Therefore, much material relating to close-quarters combat is written from the perspective of the authorities who must break into the stronghold where the opposing force has barricaded itself. Typical examples would be commando operations behind enemy lines and hostage rescues.
Although there is considerable overlap, close-quarters combat is not synonymous with urban warfare, now sometimes known by the military acronyms MOUT (military operations in urban terrain), FIBUA (fighting in built-up areas) or OBUA (operations in built-up areas) in the western countries. Urban warfare is a much larger field, including logistics and the role of crew-served weapons like heavy machine guns, mortars, and mounted grenade launchers, as well as artillery, armor, and air support. In close-quarters combat, the emphasis is on small infantry units using light, compact weapons that one person can carry and use easily in tight spaces, such as carbines, submachine guns, shotguns, pistols, knives, and bayonets. As such, close-quarters combat is a tactical concept that forms a part of the strategic concept of urban warfare, but not every instance of close-quarters combat is necessarily urban warfare – for example, a jungle is potentially a stage for close-quarters combat.
The aim of his combat system was simply to be as brutally effective as possible. It was also a system, that, unlike traditional oriental martial arts that required years of intensive training, could be digested by recruits relatively quickly. The method incorporated training in point shooting and gun-combat techniques, as well as the effective use of more ad hoc weapons such as chairs or table legs.
During the Second World War, Fairbairn was brought back to Britain, and, after demonstrating the effectiveness of his techniques, was recruited to train the British commandos in his combat method. During this period, he expanded his 'Shanghai Method' into the 'Silent Killing Close Quarters Combat method' for military application. This became standard combat training for all British special operations personnel. He also designed the pioneering Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, which was adopted for use by British and American Special Forces. In 1942, he published a textbook for close-quarters combat training called Get Tough.[2]
Other combat systems designed for military combat were introduced elsewhere, including European Unifight, Chinese Sanshou, Soviet/Russian sambo, and the Israeli Kapap and Krav Maga. The prevalence and style of hand-to-hand combat training often changes based on perceived need. Elite units such as special forces and commando units tend to place a higher emphasis on hand-to-hand–combat training.
Principles of assault
Detailed planning
Methods of entry
Violence of action
Armies that often engage in urban warfare operation may train most of their infantry in basic CQC doctrine as it relates to common tasks such as building entry, clearing a room, and using concussion and other grenades.[4]
Police crisis response
Domestically, police crisis response teams (CRTs) are the primary groups to engage in CQC. Situations involving the potential for CQC generally involve extraordinary threats outside of conventional police capabilities, and thus CRTs are specifically organized, equipped, and trained to respond to these situations. These situations often require special tactics and techniques involving building entry and room-clearing procedures that are the hallmarks of CQC.
Police CQC doctrine is also specialized by unit type and mission. Riot control, corrections, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, and SWAT teams, for example, each have different goals but may make use of similar tactics and technology such as non-lethal force. A prison, for example, may have a squad which specializes in high-risk cell extractions, and psychiatric hospitals or wards often have similar specialized teams. Among the "less-lethal" tools and tactics central to police CQC are electroshock guns, pepper spray, riot shields and riot guns to fire tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets, or beanbag rounds. However, so-called "less-lethal" weapons can still inflict injuries that may result in death.
Private industry
Private corporations engaged in security or military operations overseas maintain internal CQC teams. For example, these teams might be responsible for responding to an incident at a facility operated by a government agency who has engaged the contractor's services. That team would then act as the Crisis Response Team (CRT) and "clear" the facility of threats or hostiles. In another example, a private military contractor might be employed to provide protection for high-ranking diplomats or military officers in war zones. For instance, the U.S. State Department employed such security teams in Iraq and these were equipped with close-quarter–battle equipment.[9] The private security firm SCG has a tactical training course conducted in Holly Springs, Mississippi, which integrated close-quarter battle training in the coursework, in addition to SWAT, hand-to-hand combat, and high threat protective operations, among others.[10] Blackwater also took training to a new level by privatizing it, emerging as a premier training facility with close-quarter combat as part of the menu for those seeking to outsource its training to meet specific mission requirements.[11] In actual operations, a Blackwater official likened the close-quarter skills of its team to the Roman Praetorian Guard in its readiness to fight and die.[9]
See also
1. "Overview". U.S. Marine Close Combat Fighting Handbook. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. 2011.
3. "History of Modern Self-Defence". Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
9. Fitzsimmons, Scott (2016). Private Security Companies during the Iraq War: Military Performance and the Use of Deadly Force. Oxon: Routledge. p. 43. ISBN 9781138844261.
10. Axelrod, Alan (2013). Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. ISBN 9781483364667.
11. Engbrecht, Shawn (2011). America's Covert Warriors: Inside the World of Private Military Contractors. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc. p. 87. ISBN 9781597972383.
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How Cryptocurrencies Can Help In Promoting Social Welfare And Charity
How Cryptocurrencies Can Help In Promoting Social Welfare And Charity
The intention behind the development of virtual currencies is to provide a more democratic payment system. People have more freedom over their money with cryptocurrencies. Initially, digital currencies were treated as investment options.
With wide acceptance and exposure, crypto coins are now used for various purposes such as making business transactions and paying bills. Moreover, cryptocurrencies can help non-profit organizations, charities, even for relief distribution, etc. Let’s see how cryptocurrencies can help in promoting social welfare and charity. Read here about the steps to buy bitcoin
Why cryptocurrencies Are Suitable for Non-Profits?
Cryptocurrencies are seen as a system that can help the underprivileged for income inequality, financial inclusion, and a better financial system. Here is the main reason why cryptos can help non-profits.
• Transparency: As the underlying technology blockchain provides a distributed public network for crypto donations, it is transparent to everyone. So there is less chance of manipulation or corruption of the money that is transferred for social purposes.
• Faster and Cost-effective: Blockchain technology is a peer to peer network, so there is no third party that can interfere in the transaction process. So the donations are relatively faster and cost-effective than traditional processes.
• Beneficial for the Non-profits: As there is no third party involved and the transaction fees are very less, so the recipient gets more money. Again, they can also get tax benefits as cryptos are considered non-cash donations.
• Becoming More Trustworthy: Initially, people are more skeptical about the security and safety of the crypto space. Today, cryptocurrencies are becoming more secure due to continuous development in the field. With the wide adoption, people are now building trust in cryptocurrencies. However, despite the wide acceptance and high-security, there will be some risks.
• Anonymous Donations: Many people want to donate anonymously, it is their personal choice. Earlier, people ask the non-profit organizations to keep their name secret from the public. Now, cryptocurrencies with the privacy features allow donors to donate anonymously.
• Global Donations Are Easier: With cryptocurrencies, anyone can donate internationally without paying any exchange fees or bank holdings. So it is very easy and simple to donate across the world.
How Can Non-Profits Accept Donations in Crypto?
Now let us understand how non-profit organizations can accept donations in cryptocurrencies.
• Choose a Good Platform: First of all, non-profit organizations need to choose a good platform for accepting donations. There are many cryptocurrency donation platforms but it is important to identify and opt for a well-known platform. Coinbase, BitPay, CharityNavigator are some of the popular crypto donation platforms.
• Hire a Financial Advisor: It is important to hire a professional financial advisor who can manage all the transactions in line with crypto and financial regulations. So don’t hire someone who doesn’t have any prior experience with cryptocurrencies. Hire a financial advisor who had dealt with cryptos previously.
• Connect With Other Non-Profits Who Accepted Donations in Cryptos: Connecting with other non-profit organizations can help to get some useful tips on how to accept donations securely. It can also give you to manage your crypto donations in a better way.
• Save like Securities: As the value of cryptocurrencies changes with time. You may hold them to increase their value and sell them when the value increases. For more information on how cryptocurrencies grow over time.
• Tax Laws: Knowing the tax laws for the donations are very important. As cryptocurrencies are considered as property by the IRS. So it is important to provide a thank you note with proper documentation for tax benefits.
Taking these steps can help charitable organizations to maintain safety for accepting donations in cryptocurrencies. Due to the decentralization nature of blockchain technology, it is easier to donate in cryptocurrencies. Moreover, cryptocurrencies also have a major role in the distribution of relief during natural calamity and disaster.
Final Words
With the wide adoption of cryptocurrencies, many non-profit organizations have come forward to accept donations in cryptocurrencies. Again, these organizations can also distribute funds to people in cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies can also be sent to the people who are in need through airdrop during a disaster. Due to this reason many foundations, charitable organizations, schools; museums are accepting donations in cryptocurrencies. If you are running a social welfare community or organization then adopt cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
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The unemployment rate in the United States is hovering around 9 percent. Employees are complaining that there are not enough job opportunities. Employers are complaining that there are not enough highly skilled job applicants. What gives?
A recent Wall Street Journal article cites the problem as the lack of employee training programs to initiate employees into new roles: “In other words, to get a job, you have to have that job already. It’s a Catch-22 situation for workers—and it’s hurting companies and the economy.”
Basically, employers expect employees to be ready to jump in and start a job at full capacity on day one. Employers expect a fully developed professional presence without any initiation or training period.
However, consider the article’s point that “only about 10% of the people in IT jobs during the Silicon Valley tech boom of the 1990s, for example, had IT-related degrees.” It used to be the norm that employers were prepared to train qualified job applicants to learn all of the skills necessary to complete their jobs, and that intelligent people were considered qualified for a wider range of jobs.
Today, the picture is a little different. Employers want specific advanced degrees in addition to specific skills. Prospective employees ought to have specific job qualifications and a professional presence, but it also helps to have a little bit of creativity. When we say creativity, we do not mean including unprofessional items on employee resumes to get the attention of hiring managers. Instead, applicants need to think creatively and express clearly how their skills and experiences uniquely fit the job they are applying for.
Yes, in order to get ahead in today’s economy, the answer is often not to blend in, especially for women. So how can you best find a job in today’s economy? By combining your professionalism in the workplace with individuality and creativity, you are already on your way. Here are a few tips to get you started.
1. Dress in a professional manner that expresses your commitment to professionalism in the workplace while simultaneously adding individual flair through accessories, such as a bold color or pattern in a shoe, tie, or scarf.
2. Think creatively about the skills and insights you have gained through your various work experience, volunteer experience, and life experience. Describe your unique talents and contributions in the cover letter of your job application, specifically anything that might make you stick out from a number of other applicants.
3. Emphasize your interest in learning new things and your ability to adapt to the specific job while creating new solutions to old problems. Challenging the status quo is important in times like these, and companies know they will benefit from employees who can do so while maintaining a professional presence.
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Stealth Sniper (Quickest Path to max damage)
Fallout 4 Sniper Build
So this build is designed for players who like to clear entire camps without once being heard, let alone seen. This build pretends that V.A.T.S doesn’t even exist. Therefore, it is highly effective w/o the system but makes no effort to include it until well into late game. Below I list the perks chosen for the first 25 levels, some are definitely optional (Lone Wanderer most notably). Try to find a hunting or combat rifle asap and mod it extensively.
3 2 3 3 5 7 5
02: Idiot Savant (taken immediately for its huge leveling benefits)
03: Rifleman I (obvious)
04: Ninja I (x2.5 sneak attack dmg)
05: Sneak I (to avoid detection indoors mainly)
06: Gun Nut I (necessity for all tinkerers)
07: Lone Wanderer I (I like the extra carry weight and hate having a follower alerting the enemies)
08: Bloody Mess I (+5% dmg on everything with everything, sign me the fuck up)
09: Rifleman II
10: Sneak II
11: Idiot Savant II (potential x5 exp gain!)
12: Sneak III (this is when I really noticed a drop in detection)
13: Gun Nut II (yay mods!)
14: Bloody Mess II (+10% dmg)
15: Scrapper I (one of my favorite perks, gives you screws and other useful materials for gun mods whenever you break down enemy weapons at a workshop)
16: Ninja II (x3 sneak attack dmg)
17: Lone Wanderer II
18: Rifleman III
19: Armorer/Hacker/Medic/Cap Collector (just pick w/e’s missing from your life in the wastelands)
20: Same as above (I suggest either getting 2 armorer or 2 cap collector perks as you will either start buying things much easier or you will have much cooler armor)
21: Mister Sandman I (Boosts dmg from silenced weapons which you will get at level 25)
22: Mister Sandman II (+30% dmg)
23: +1 INT (an INT of 1-5 returns the most XP gain from idiot savant as per the link above, but the Science Perk lets you fully deck out your guns and the slight XP drop is worth it IMO)
24: Science! I (allows recon scope attachment to your sniper, lets you track enemies and watch all their movements at the same time so you can pick them off one by one)
25: Gun Nut III (lets you add a silencer to your sniper, giving you a 30% boost to dmg output!)
All in all this build seeks to maximize one’s damage output as quickly as possible while simultaneously lowering one’s likelyhood of being detected. At this point the player has come very close to achieving both goals and they can branch out into whatever other perks they desire before picking up more “stealth sniper” perks in higher levels.
Fallout 4 Bobblehead
Almost all bobbleheads are useful but these 4 are particularily helpful for a stealthy sniper:
1. Sneak Bobblehead: 10% harder to detect
2. Intelligence Bobblehead: Can spare you a perk point at level 23 above
3. Luck Bobblehead: for access to the Better Criticals perk
1. Astoundingly Awesome Tales; The Starlet Sniper: 1 issue (+5% scoped weapon dmg)
2. Guns & Bullets: 10 issues (+5% critical dmg each)
3. US Covert Operations Manuals: 10 issues (each makes you “more difficult to detect while sneaking”)
Late Game Perks: These can be taken at any order you wish (level permitting) since they basically increase your damage to absurd amounts and you will by no means be struggling without any particular one.
26: Sneak IV
30: Mister Sandman III
31: Rifleman IV
31: Bloody Mess III (Save a perk between levels 27-30 so you can grab two perks at lvl 31)
33: Ninja III
38: Sneak V
40: Lone Wanderer III (+25% dmg when w/o a follower)
46: Rifleman V
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UK /ˈkɒpi/
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a document, file etc that is exactly like the original
Adjectives frequently used with copy
on paper: paper, print, printedPrinted copies of some parts of the map are on sale.electronic: backup, downloadable, electronicIf you are going to be away from your PC for a long period of time you can use a file manager program to make a backup copy elsewhere on your memory card.exact: exact, identical, perfectMake sure that users have an identical copy of the database.illegal: counterfeit, illegal, unauthorized, unlicensedIt is forbidden to make unauthorized copies of software that is stored on the servers.
Verbs frequently used with copy
get a copy: download, get, make, printHe made a copy of the letter and sent it off to his local MP.give a copy: attach, distribute, enclose, forward, sendAttach a copy of the medical certificate to this form.keep a copy: keep, saveAlways keep copies of any letters or court forms you send or receive.
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72 ANCIENT MUSIC OF IRELAND.however, inspired by a much less amiable predilection than any of the others, yet still infi -nitely sweet, lively, and harmonious.So many anecdotes have been related of Carolan, of his follies and foibles, and the good-hinnoured jokes played upon him by his associates, that it is unnecessary to heighten apicture already drawn in vivid colours. One anecdote only of this sort appears worthadding, as from the circumstantial nature of its details it effectually negatives the possibilityof Bumper Squire Jones, which has recently been claimed as an English tune, beingother than the legitimate and spontaneous offspring of Carolans own genius. The story isgiven on the authority of ONeill, who dictated it to the writer of his MS. Memoirs, at leastforty years ago. Carolan, when he came to the county of Antrim, used to resort to Money-glass, the residence of Thomas Morris Jones, Esq. When he was composing the music of thatcelebrated song, the paraphrase of which, by Baron Dawson, has immortalized the BumperSquire, lie was overheard by one Moore, the keeper of a tavern in the town of Antrim,where lie put up. Moore had a ready ear for music and played tolerably on the violin, sothat when Carolan, after completing his inimitable piece, came to him, boasting that he hadnow struck out a melody which he was sure would please the Squire, Moore was preparednot only to insist, like our English cotemporary, that the air was an old and common one,but actually to play it note for note upon the violin. This of course threw Carolan into anungovernable fury. 1-lowever, when his passion had spent itself, an explanation took place,and a drinking bout, the usual termination of such scenes, concluded the affair. When atCastle Arch dali too,a a similar trick was played upon him by Lyons, who stole his tune ofMrs. Archdall, during its composition, and to enhance his annoyance, assumed thecharacter of one Berreen, a strolling harper of mean abilities, the very mention of whosename was enough to excite Carolans bile. To render the deception more complete, Lyonsgot a humorous fellow, called MDermott, to mimic Berreens voice while he played Mrs.Archdall in the most wretched style on his harp. So great was Carolans rage, that heprotested he would never enter the door of Castle Archdall again, if Berreen were notimmediately put in the stocks. To the stocks accordingly they dragged, or pretended todrag MDermott, and the deception was continued until Carolan himself made the wag fainto resume his natural voice by belabouring him with his cane where he sat.A miniature representation of the bard is prefixed, taken from a portrait now in thepossession of Sir Henry Marsh, Baronet. The features are graceful and pleasing, and theexpression that of rapt attention to the melody which he draws from the harp.He lies buried at Kilronan, in the county of Westmeath, where his skull was formerlypreserved in a niche, like that of Grace OMalley, at Clare Island. He was unquestionablya great genius, both as a composer and a poet; but it is equally certain that he never excelledas a performer: this may be attributed to the fact, that he did not begin to learn the harp tillWhen Charles OConnor once asked Carolan, if he had been to visit Mr. Archdall? No, replied Carolan,hut I have been to visit a prince.( W*ilcer.)
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Edward Bunting
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Bunting - The Ancient Music of Ireland
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