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5 Easy to Use WordPress LightBox Plugins
Last updated on June 23rd, 2022 at 07:10 am
In this blog,We have shared the top 5 WordPress LightBox Plugins which is suitable for your website. as well we have explain, how you can used in WordPress.
To enhance the appearance of your WordPress blog or theme, you need to overlay it with some images from time to time. You will need to make use of the Lightbox script. This is a sequence of characters which overlays images on your existing web page or WordPress theme.
On the whole, Lightbox works on all major browsers and is comparatively simpler to install. It works by filling entire screens while at the same time dimming out the remaining portions of the web page. For it to be able to do this, it comprises a library of images and videos which may be appropriately selected in line with the current contents.
As the name suggests, this Lightbox plugin is simple indeed. Further to this, the plugin is also highly customizable and is hence simpler to tailor to your unique expectations. You will clearly see the options which are useful and necessary for customization clearly displayed on the ‘Appearance’ segment of the dashboard.
Some of the functionalities made possible by the plugin are activation of links, customization of the themes, institution of the mobile-optimized responsive themes, customizing animations, attaching extra add-ons, incorporation of image attachment links, and supporting the links in the widgets.
The plugin also possesses excellent keyboard navigation. With this navigation, it is possible for you to display media metadata such as caption, and description. Other than that, you will also enjoy the privilege of enabling the lightbox depending on the page type such as home, pages, and archives.
If you are intent on adding some minimal, high-performance and responsive jQuery lightbox to your WordPress website, this WP Featherlight is yours for the taking. In all, this plugin is basically a wrapper which encases the jQuery lightbox plugin.
Upon installing it, the plugin automatically displays all the standard WordPress images and galleries. These displays are contained in a simple and very small pop-up. For you to lightbox the galleries and images, you need to choose the ‘Media File.’ This shall choose where the thumbnails will eventually link.
Alternatively, you might as well choose the ‘Custom Link’ option to link directly to an image file. Such linking will have to work fairly even if the site is hosted on a foreign website. Moreover, the plugin allows you to lightbox iframes, Ajax contents, and the videos by incorporating data which is directly relevant to your contents.
Responsive Lightbox is so called because they enable users like you to generate galleries and view larger versions of your images, videos, and galleries in an overlay which is optimized for mobile gadgets. Its screens adjust appropriately to accommodate the sizes of the screens of the gadgets in use.
Generally speaking, this lightbox is powerful, but nonetheless easy-to-use gallery builder. It comprises some three beautiful basic gallery templates, namely grid, slider, and masonry. These are further complemented with some eight responsive lightbox scripts for your choosing and customization.
They jointly enable you to create galleries from the Media Library or post them to attached images. This is not to mention the drag-n-drop re-ordering of images, a gallery picker to insert the shortcodes, the media folders, iframe, content support, and the advanced pagination features.
Foo Box Image, just like the Responsive Lightbox, is yet another responsive script. This is to mean that it scales its images in such a way as to enable them to look and fill the screens better, and as perfect as can be.
Over and above this, it re-arranges the button controls to make them appear great, be it in the landscape or the portrait orientations of choice. The lightbox works well with many gallery plugins but is particularly great with the FooGallery Gallery WordPress Plugin.
This WordPress Video Lightbox plugin is the one to go for if you want to embed the videos on the web pages. It gives you the leeway to display all kinds of images and videos onto a lightbox overlay. What’s more? It also lets you view your images on the iPad and the iPhone pretty conveniently.
Upon installing the plugin, you may proceed to configure some options in order to customize the pop-up. You may access the settings menu easily from the dashboard ahead of you. These settings may allow you to enable the pretty Photo, alter the animation speeds, Autoplay slideshow, and determine your preferred opacity.
Other extra features and functionality you may undertake on this plugin are displays of the title, resizing of the image, expansion of the screen size, setting of the default width, and the labeling of the various parts and parameters of the images.
FooBox is the most stylish and premium WordPress lightbox plugin from FooPlugins. It has a social-friendly and modern display. Each lightbox comes with attached social icons. Hence, you can share all your images easily.
It can easily let the visitors engage with your brand messages. You can increase your leads while using a responsive and modern design.
FooBox can fit any screen size and is completely mobile responsive. It can scale images and rearrange buttons so that it perfectly fits on the phone. You can manage both landscape and portrait orientations.
It has built-in slideshows. Hence, you can view it easily in lightbox galleries. It supports the new editors of WordPress, Gutenberg. Hence, you can easily manage your gallery blocks and images. It can pick up the image caption automatically that is developed by Gutenberg.
This WordPress lightbox plugin is a great plugin that comes with a modern and friendly dashboard interface. It has plenty of interesting settings.
This plugin can easily add Lightbox to the images. It also works well on videos from Vimeo and YouTube. You can even design and customize your pop-up using WordPress Lightbox by Huge-IT. It can fit well with your purpose and website design.
With WordPress Lightbox by Huge-IT, you can watermark your images when it opens in the lightbox. It gives social share buttons. You get the full-screen option. Hence, you can enlarge the images on the screen entirely.
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An efficient WordPress lightbox plugin. It can allow you to develop a responsive and simple lightbox for the WordPress website.
Carousel by Jetpack has a clean and simple design that makes it faster to use. This plugin is super lightweight. It can turn the default gallery of WordPress into a page or post. Hence, your users can have a full-screen browsing experience.
- It will not affect the loading speed of your website
- It displays the images in the mosaic
- Can share the comments
- Display the metadata of the image in the lightbox
One of the best WordPress lightbox plugins started on this land. It offers aesthetic and flexible solutions to create huge variants of the lightbox popup.
Easy FancyBox can recognize the content automatically. It supports videos from prominent platforms. They are Google Maps, Vimeo, and YouTube. This WordPress lightbox plugin has multiple images. Hence, you can utilize it to develop a lightbox popup.
You can get more features in Easy FancyBox’s pro version. Some additional features are:-
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- Supports priority
- Compatibility with the Galleries of WordPress
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You can never hope to make your WordPress theme appear elegantly without the incorporation of these WordPress lightbox plugins. The challenge is hence on your part to take the next extra step to do so. Simply peruse the list above to find the one which is more likely to suit your unique needs and desires. What are you waiting for? Do take the first step right away! |
Borreliosis is the most common animal-to-human disease in Europe, North America and Asia. In recent years, Lyme disease has been regularly diagnosed in the Czech Republic from 4 to 5 thousand people. person per year. Read the answers to basic questions and gain a clear understanding of this often mythical disease.
What is Lyme disease?
Lyme borreliosis (also called Lyme borreliosis or Lyme disease) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borellia. The connection between the disease and this coiled bacterium has an interesting history. Lyme is a city in Connecticut, USA where children and adults since the 1960s have suffered from a strange illness that included joint problems, rashes, and chronic fatigue. Since it was not possible to establish the cause, the disease was named simply by the place of occurrence – Lyme disease. It was only in 1982 that Wilhelm Burgdorfer showed the connection between the problems of the city’s inhabitants and bacteria transmitted by ticks. In his honor, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease was named Borellia burgdorferi.
Will anyone get sick if they get infected with an infected tick?
Lyme borreliosis is very troubling for many people, so it is certainly worth mentioning that the disease occurs in only 5 out of 100 people who have had an infected tick. The chances of infection are slightly higher if we remove the tick later than 24 hours after sucking, but in most cases the body will prevent infection or the disease is completely invisible and without symptoms.
What are the symptoms of Lyme disease?
If Lyme disease occurs, the symptoms can be really varied, because the disease can affect almost any tissue of the body – skin, joints and muscles (swelling, pain, later arthritis), the nervous system (headaches, tics, muscle twitching, paralysis of certain parts body), less often the eyes (vision problems, double vision) or the heart (inflammation of the heart muscle). In the body, bacteria are spread through the blood and lymph. A typical early symptom, which is present in 80% of cases and warns the patient of the problem, is a spot on the skin at the site of the tick bite (or elsewhere on the body). The spot, or spot if you prefer, usually appears a few days after aspiration and is characterized by red edges and a white center, which is consistent with how Borrelia spreads out of the tissue at the injection site. The spot may resemble a target. Technically, this most famous skin symptom of Lyme disease is called erythema migrans. Lyme disease also presents with general symptoms such as malaise and extreme fatigue. At the first stage, it may resemble the flu, including a fever.
How is Lyme disease treated?
As we said, Lyme borreliosis is caused by bacteria and is therefore treated with antibiotics. Antibiotic treatment for borreliosis takes longer than we are used to, for example with common respiratory infections, usually 2 to 3 weeks. The drug of first choice is currently the tetracycline antibiotic doxycycline, the penicillin antibiotic amoxicillin, less often azithromycin. If the nervous system is affected, your doctor may recommend a medicine containing vitamin B to speed up regeneration. Of course, pain relievers (ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, etc.) can be used if needed. During antibiotic treatment, especially this long-term treatment, remember to take probiotics to minimize their side effects on the digestive tract. Dietary supplements may also be recommended. B vitamins and magnesium to support the nervous system. Food supplements intended to support immunity (oyster mushrooms, echinacea, nucleotides, etc.) are not used in borreliosis, because autoimmune reactions occur during the disease, and therefore stimulation of immunity in these cases is undesirable. If you are interested in taking nutritional supplements or over-the-counter medicines for Lyme disease, talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
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Can Lyme Disease Be Chronic?
Problems such as fatigue, decreased performance, and joint and muscle pain may persist after treatment. This condition is called postborreliosis syndrome. Repeated antibiotic treatment is not justified in this case. Treatment of these problems is symptomatic, pain relievers and sometimes psychotropic drugs are used, since in some patients the problems may have psychogenic causes.
How is Lyme disease diagnosed?
The doctor diagnoses borreliosis based on symptoms and laboratory tests that determine the presence of antibodies against borreliosis (IgM, IgG) in the blood. Antibodies begin to form only a few weeks after contact with an infected tick. There is also a home test for borreliosis. If we talk about testing for antibodies, it should be noted that their presence without clinical signs of the disease is not a reason for antibiotic treatment. From 5 to 10% of completely healthy people are positive.
Can I get Lyme disease from a mosquito or other stinging insect?
For example, it is unlikely that you will catch Lyme disease from a mosquito. Although Borrelia has also been found in complex animals other than ticks, transmission to humans has not been demonstrated. Experts believe that Borrelia in the body of other hosts do not have suitable conditions and survive in them only for a short time. |
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"Then's now with now's then in tense continuant."
- Finnegans Wake, pg. 598
Defending this painting against critics, Duchamp called it "an expression of time and space through the abstract presentation of motion." This all reminds me of Finnegans Wake, just like pretty much everything else I look at right now having been so immersed in the book for three months.
While still in his early 30s, Duchamp moved on from art to pursue an obsession with chess. I find this very intriguing. I've always enjoyed the part of Aleister Crowley's story about how he vigorously pursued becoming a grandmaster chessplayer until one day witnessing a room full of grandmasters and being so stunned at their quirkiness that he gave up that path for good. As he explains with humorous eloquence:
...I had hardly entered the room where the masters were playing when I was seized with what may justly be described as a mystical experience. I seemed to be looking on at the tournament from outside myself. I saw the masters --- one, shabby, snuffy and blear-eyed; another, in badly fitting would-be respectable shoddy; a third, a mere parody of humanity, and so on for the rest. These were the people to whose ranks I was seeking admission. "There, but for the grace of God, goes Aleister Crowley," I exclaimed to myself with disgust, and there and then I registered a vow never to play another serious game of chess. I perceived with praeternatural lucidity that I had not alighted on this planet with the object of playing chess.In the 1930s, while Joyce was finishing up Finnegans Wake, Marcel Duchamp reached what he believed to be the height of his chess ability and slowly stopped playing. Unlike Crowley though, he retained his reverence and passion for the game and became a chess journalist. He said some very insightful things about chess which I'd like to share here:
"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art—and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."It was The Rza, Abbott of the Wu-Tang Clan who first taught me about the depth of chess, pointing out (among other things) the importance of the number 64, there being 64 squares on a chess board as well as 64 different possible combinations of pieces that make up DNA, 64 hexagrams in the I-Ching and a few other such examples. Robert Anton Wilson discusses all of this in connection with Finnegans Wake in his spectacular book Coincidance (he's also got a short essay on chess in The Illuminati Papers that will make your head explode; and in another piece discusses it all in regards to the Law of Octaves).
"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. ... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists."
To finish off this wandering staircase of thought, there is actually a scene in Finnegans Wake filled with chess references. You'll notice it manages to tie back to Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. It's in the penultimate chapter, during the earliest morning hours, when Mom and Dad are awakened by their crying son and rush through the house to his bedroom. The mother pops up immediately and moves swiftly with groggy (naked) father trudging behind, Joyce describes their movements through the house as though they were pieces on a chess board:
"you should have seen how that smart sallowlass just hopped a nanny's gambit out of bunk like old mother Mesopotomac and in eight and eight sixtyfour she was off, door, knightlamp with her, billy's largelimbs prodgering after to queen's lead... Room to sink: stairs to sink behind room. Two pieces.
In the quicktime. The castle arkwright put in a chequered staircase certainly. It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double corner. Whist while and game.Make of that what you will.
What scenic artist!"
- FW pg. 559-560
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Tom Walley Australia-based Global Managing Director of Corporate Traveller, the flagship SME division of Flight Centre Travel Group, says: “The business travel industry is healthy and is already seeing some critical changes come through.
Premium fares have already dropped, and we can expect to see economy fares come down by mid-2024 as flight capacity from international carriers increases.
“We’re seeing travellers take advantage of being able to combine business and leisure travel. There’s also a real business focus on face-to-face meetings and collaboration, given the evidence that in-person meetings are the most productive way for businesses to operate. Overall, 2024 will bring good news for businesses that travel.”
- Based on his industry and market observations, emerging global trends and travel habits among Corporate Traveller customers, Tom shares his six forecasts for 2024:
1 Business travel remains a high priority despite economic impacts: Lower airfares in 2024 will open options for budget-conscious business flyers. Tom said while economic uncertainty posed concerns for any business, there would be a meeting point in the travel industry with falling travel costs.
A recent Corporate Traveller business survey found that 91 percent of SMEs would continue to travel regardless of economic pressures. Furthermore, an October 2023 survey by the Global Business Travel Association found about 70 per cent of corporate travel buyers expect to increase or maintain their travel budgets in 2024.
2 Premium international flight seats to drop further: Tom has observed business class seats to destinations such as London and New York reducing for the first time since the pandemic and has seen this firsthand in his own recent leisure and business travel, with costs ranging by up to 60 percent depending on the time of booking and flexibility.
He suggests utilising a travel management company – who can do the leg work for you and hunt down the best price – which is key to getting the best deal. As much as possible, Tom suggests being flexible with the dates and times that you fly – and with what airline you travel on.
3 International demand to continue into 2024, but seat capacity will soften prices. Flight Centre’s current Big Red Sale indicates that everyday prices will drop moving into next year.
Competition will begin driving international travel prices down as Chinese carriers made a strong return to Australian capital cities in the final quarter of 2023. All eight Chinese airlines that operated to Sydney pre-pandemic have now returned, with the final carrier, Sichuan Airlines, marking the milestone at the end of October 2023.
Further, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines both returned to Brisbane this month. Existing carriers are also increasing their capacities, with available seats up 25.6 per cent in September 2023 compared to the same time last year.
Tom predicts peak travel periods, such as the 2024 European and North American summer, will continue to bring about high demand, and suggests business travellers plan and book in advance if they are looking to travel popular routes throughout this period.
4 Regional business travel will sustain rapid growth. After recent Corporate Traveller research identified a 29 percent surge in regional travel bookings this year – with some routes having grown by more than 60 percent – Tom predicts regional travel will continue at these levels.
The fast-growing mining industry, including mining for critical minerals used for renewable energy infrastructure, is believed to be behind the boom: nine of the top 10 fastest-growing routes were in Queensland where there has been high investment in regional industries, such as mining and tourism.
5 Bleisure trips on the rise. Tom expects bleisure travel to continue to rise in 2024 as the world returns to normality, flight capacity continues to grow, and collaboration remains a priority.
As we see a fixation on productivity amidst economic pressures, organisations are looking to meet and gather face-to-face. Employees are taking advantage of increased business travel to extend their trip for joint leisure purposes.
Corporate Traveller’s own booking data found one, two, and three-day trips between May and October 2023 dropped by an average of 3.9 per cent year on year, while four, five, and six-day trips increased by an average of 4.6 per cent, year on year. Specifically, Corporate Traveller saw a 5.8 per cent growth in six-day trips. This trend is expected to carry into 2024.
6 Brisbane to take over Perth as the most popular destination for international business travel as Chinese carriers add capacity. In 2023, Corporate Traveller’s booking data showed that Perth saw a 34 percent growth in international business travel, compared with Melbourne and Sydney (each less than 10 percent growth), Brisbane (25 percent) and Adelaide (21 percent).
By mid-2024, Tom expects Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne’s growth rates to outpace Perth’s with the return of Chinese airlines. Sydney and Melbourne have made a full return to eight Chinese carriers and the Victorian Government has revealed it will see further flights added in September 2024. China Southern Airlines landed in Brisbane for the first time in four years on 18 November 2023, China Eastern Airlines returns from December 2023, and more carriers are expected in the new year.
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Dr. Dimitris Doulos, Associate Professor, Economics Department
Dr. Doulos received his Ph.D. degree from Wayne State University at Detroit in 1995. He taught Economics and Finance at the undergraduate and graduate level at Wayne State University from 1990 until 1996. He joined the Economics Department of the American College of Greece in 1996 where he teaches courses in the areas of macroeconomics, international economics and international finance. He has also engaged in business consulting and participated in EU-funded projects. His current research focuses in the area of international economics and finance. Dr. Doulos has published and presented papers on various international conferences on foreign direct investment, inflation dynamics, effectiveness of structural funds and external imbalances in the European Union. He served as Head of the Department of Economics and Social Studies from September 2008 until August 2009 and as Graduate Program Coordinator for the Master of Science in Finance program from 2009 until 2012.
Ms Katerina Kapernarakou, KATHIMERINI
Ms Katerina Kapernarakou has obtained deep knowledge in multifaceted communications with her long term experience in working for the oldest and most prestigious newspaper in Greece, KATHIMERINI covering the international finance and business affairs, globalization and sustainability issues, as well as working for magazines (interdisciplinary research/articles) and radio productions (news broadcasting, music broadcasting). Through her journalistic work, she is putting emphasis on promoting the women entrepreneurs and leaders; moreover, she is also attending international meetings and conferences on women’s entrepreneurship and she is having interviews with female leaders for the newspaper. She worked for the EU funded project ”Women innovators in Social Enterprises” and has acted as moderator on various events regarding sustainability and management. Additionally, she is actively involved in human rights/women’s rights, having served as Chair of the Greek Section of Amnesty International and Greece’s National Expert on issues of violence against women in the context of the European Observatory. |
3 Benefits of Geothermal HVAC in Summerville, SC
If you want to reduce the carbon footprint of your Summerville, SC home, you might think of wind and solar power. However, a geothermal heat pump can provide your home with HVAC services right underneath your feet. The following are three specific benefits that geothermal HVAC can offer you.
1. Fewer Repairs
All heat pumps use the same system for both heating and cooling. Fewer moving parts in the outdoor components means this system requires less maintenance.
The underground loop system can last several up to 50 years. All this adds up to fewer repairs while the system is part of your home. Your system should be able to go longer before you have to start replacing parts or installing something new.
2. Lower Monthly Bills
Geothermal HVAC technology can be a considerable upfront investment, but the lower operating costs should also mean serious savings over time. This system transfers heat without creating it or having to burn fuel.
The ground retains more heat than outdoor air in winter, and stays cooler in the summer. Using the ground as a heat source, you can use your geothermal heat pump when traditional heat pumps may need auxiliary heat. That means your monthly utility bills can stay low year-round.
3. Improved Indoor Air Quality
If you’re worried about your home’s indoor air quality, geothermal HVAC technology can help. Two prominent advantages are optimal dehumidification and air purification. A geothermal pump doesn’t need a constant influx of air from outdoors, so your exposure to external pollutants goes down.
Many different geothermal systems and arrangements are available if you want these benefits in your home. Installation can happen during new construction or as a retrofit for current homes. Consult AC Heating and Air Conditioning Services about the many geothermal systems you can have installed on your property.
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Very Rare 1930s MR10 Chair by
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
This is a rare, very early example of Mies van Der Rohe's MR10 cantilevered side chair or Freischwinger. The chair has significant distinguishing features that can be seen in the photographs as follows.
. A fully welded structure, the curved cross member under the seat being welded in place and not screwed in.
. A completely seamless, continuous, tubular frame with no visible joins to the tubular steel at all.
. Steel backing strips which hold the leather to the rear of the frame by screwing into to steel strips welded to the frame itself, rather than into the tubular uprights.
. Small hooks welded to the underside of the seat rails at the front, designed to prevent the leather seat sliding downwards over the curved leg fronts.
. The frame tapering slightly towards the rear, being widest (49cm) at the mid point of the front curved legs tapering to 47.5 at the rear of the seat, to a minimum width of 45 at the top of the chair.
These features are, each on their own, unusual and rare if not unique, and when combined in the single chair, lead us to believe that this is a very early example, perhaps some form of prototype and certainly of careful, costly manufacture by hand. The frame is however chrome plated rather than nickel plated, suggesting to us a time of manufacture two or three years after the very first chairs produced by Metallgewerbe Joseph Müller. Bamberg Metallwerkstätten, we believe, did produce chairs with chrome plating around this time. We are also aware that Bigler, Spichiger und Cie. AG (Bigla) produced Mies chairs at this time. We would date this chair to Ca. We cannot make a firm attribution to the manufacturer as we have not seen another example with the features present here and have not been able to access original design records. There is no makers label present as is to be expected with such an early production.
This is an original, early chair with replacement leather, which has been carefully chosen as it has an aged look to the white surface. This chair was one of a pair, the first, now sold had the original letather, this one had no leather present at all. It is in good used condition with no repairs or damage and with only the leather having been replaced |
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ACPS student promotion policies
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Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists, where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day.
That’s right, folks, the prodigal son of Missed Fists has returned. The incomparable Alexander K. Lee is on vacation this week, so who better to take up his mantle than his old running partner? Sadly there was no Fight Circus like event this week, but we’ve still got plenty of notable highlights to get to, so let’s do it.
(Big thanks as always to @Barrelelapierna for their weekly lists of the best KOs and submissions, and to @Grabaka_Hitman for uploading many of the clips you see here. Give them a follow and chip in on Patreon if you can.)
Nurtilek Jalynbekov vs. Esen Magomedov
The first fight of the evening over at Open Fighting Championships 22 delivered one of the most impressive finishes of the past week. Jalynbekov caught Magomedov with a nasty left hook that put him on skates, and then closed the show with a Suloev Stretch for good measure.
Now, some of you might be noticing that Jalynbekov came into this fight with a 5-1, while Magomedov had never fought before, and sure. You can focus on that if you want to be a joy-sucker. But here at Missed Fists, we like to stay positive, and I’m positive that was awesome, regardless of who it happened against.
You can watch the OFS 22 event for free on Youtube.
Jaime Londono vs. Edson Gatica
You know what else is awesome? This highlight-reel KO Jaime Londono delivered n Monterrey, Mexico, at Lux Fight League 25.
What I love about this KO is that he not only knocks the consciousness out of Gatica, he knocks the mouthpiece out as well. That’s always worth an extra bit of love, and couple that highlight with Londono’s 5-1 professional record with five finishes, he may be getting a call from somewhere bigger soon.
You can watch the entire Lux Fight League 25 event on UFC Fight Pass.
Braxton Smith vs. Edison Lopes
Speaking of getting the call, Braxton Smith got the call to step in for former UFC fighter Rashad Coulter on just two days notice over at Peak Fighting Championships 22, and he made the most of it.
It looks like Smith could knock down a building with that right hand, so it’s no surprise that the 44-year-old Lopes crumbled underneath it, as apparently Smith’s own body couldn’t withstand the shot either. Right after he KO, he held he arm as if something was broken, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true given the sheer power of that shot.
Smith lost his pro debut to Chase Sherman back in 2014 (!) but returned to the sport this year, and he’s now amassed 3 wins with three knockouts and a combined fight time of 4:17 seconds. A few more performances like that, and he too will find himself in the big show.
You can watch the full fight on Peak Fighting’s YouTube channel.
Valmir Galiev vs. Ivan Parshikov
Dmitry Nikulnikov vs. Pavel Sosedkov
Over in Russia, Valmir Galiev turned in one of the quickest KOs of the week, planting Ivan Parshikov in just 10 seconds at RCC: Intro 22.
Unlike some of the other quick KOs we see on here, Parshikov is a legitimate fighter who had an 8-2 professional record before running in Galiev. The win moved Galiev to 4-0-1 professionally (though his Tapology picture makes it appear that he has an extensive competition history), with that draw coming against the next fighter we’re celebrating this week, Dmitry Nikulnikov.
Nikulnikov heads up a section of Missed Fists I like to call, “So you like flying knees?”
Nikulnikov may have drawn with Galiev in his first professional fight, but he damn sure had no intention of being outdone by the man on the same fight card, running over Poor Pavel Sosedkov.
Fortunately, that was just the first of many flying knees this week.
Oliver Jiminez vs. Jose Lemus
If you enjoyed that knee, can I tempt you with the effort Oliver Jiminez, who scored his first professional win by knocking out Jose Lemus in the first round at Fury FC 67?
Although not quite the same caliber of flying knee as Nikulnikov’s, Jiminez still gets the finish started with a knee that puts Lemus in a world of hurt. Lemus did his best to fight through it, but unfortunately, the human body can only take so much, and Jiminez was able to turn off the lights, resulting in this week’s Humpty Dumpty award winner.
Desmond Manabat vs. David Loureiro
Eduardo Penha vs. Teague Vigil
But that’s not all in the flying knee category! The best of the bunch came courtesy of Desmond Manabat, who authored a truly sensational one against David Loureiro at Tuff-N-Uff 129, in Las Vegas.
After a long amateur career, Manabat had struggled to find success as a professional, losing his first two bouts by stoppage. But the featherweight hopeful was finally able to put one in the win column and do so in style.
Also on this card, and in a similar but different vein, Eduardo Penha absolutely styled all over Teague Vigil, making a half-dozen gorgeous grappling transitions before finally finishing the fight with an armlock, using his legs in the crucifix position.
Some beautiful grappling is on display here, and after Vigil finally taps, he looks almost relieved, the same way you would be if you were wrestling an anaconda for five minutes and someone finally came and pulled it off of you.
You can watch the full Tuff-N-Uff 129 on UFC Fight Pass.
Ismail Khan vs. Shirzad Azatullah
Flying knee KOs are all well and good, but sometimes all you want in life is a good old five-second KO. Fortunately, Ismail Khan has you covered, and in the Flogger Series flyweight championship fight, no less.
Damn. That’s quite a way to win your first title.
Khan had an extensive amateur career, going 13-1 before turning pro this year and by any metric it’s working out for him. The 20-year-old Pakistani fighter is now 3-0 professionally, with all of his winning coming by stoppage. At his age and with his resume, and finishing people that quickly at flyweight? I’m willing to bet he makes it onto our television screens in the not too distant future.
Well, folks, that’s it for this week. Thanks for bearing with me while I covered for AK. He should be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming.
What was the most memorable Missed Fists moment this week?
Nurtilek Jalynbekov’s Suloev Stretch
Jaime Londono’s Humpty Dumpty KO
Braxton Smith’s monster right hand
Valmir Galiev’s 10-second KO
Desmond Manabat’s flying knee
Eduardo Penha’s grappling clinic
Ismail Khan’s 5-second KO
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There is no exercise that works your abs more effectively and efficiently than the plank. All of your abdominal muscles (transverse, obliques and upper) have to work together to stabilize and support your entire body weight.
It also engages your glutes, shoulders, lats, arms and legs. Almost every muscle in your body is being toned and tightened when you perform this power move.
Get ready to flatten and tone your midsection in as little as 60 seconds with all the variations of this super pose.
Master the PlankBefore you try some of the more creative poses it's essential the you master the basic pose.
- Draw your navel towards your spine. Think about really pulling your belly up, no sagging!
- Don't overarch your back. You want your whole body from the top of your head to your ankles to be in a straight line.
- Engage your glutes. This will help you keep that straight line.
- Keep those angles at a 90 degree angle. This helps your entire body stack correctly.
- Don't collapse into your shoulders or let them rise towards your ears. Pulling your abs tighter will help you direct the hold to your core instead of your neck and upper shoulders.
- Keep your gaze about 6 inches in front of your face. This will keep your neck from straining.
Plank VariationsOnce you've mastered the basic plank, check out these fun and challenging takes on the basic movement:
Oblique Plank: Moving your legs while holding the plank increases the work your lower abs and obliques have to do, plus it gets your heart rate up burning a ton of calories.
Side Plank: Shifting the plank from one arm to two forces your obliques and lats to engage- say goodbye to love handles.
Mountain Climbers: Want to tone and tighten your abs while ramping up your heart rate? Try this fast paced ab move as a cardio interval between strength moves.
Exercise Ball Planks: Doing this balancing exercise on an unstable surface dramatically increases the challenge to your core by forcing it to tighten and lift to stabilize your body.
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Summer is here and many people might be planning camping trips, hikes, and of course…ROAD TRIPS! If you suffer from back or neck pain, you might feel anxious or worried about a flare up during a road trip. Travelling for you might be just a little more complicated and stressful than it is for the next person.
If your hurdle is back pain after extended driving, then these tips are for you:
Be careful getting in and out of your car. Not everyone can flop right in and start driving. You may have to use the technique of turning so that your back is to the seat, legs close to the car and sitting down on the seat. (Your legs will still be out of the car at this point) Then put your knees together, brace your abdomen and pivot your body as a whole making sure you are not twisting or hunching over. This is a good best practice for anyone with back pain.
Sit up straight in your car and make sure that your back is aligned against the back of your seat. For some people, this might mean adding extra support such as a specialized cushion or pillow. Check in with your chiropractor to see what could be helpful for you. Also, if you typically carry your wallet in your back pocket, take it out so that you’re sitting evenly across your seat.
Get up and move! Sitting for a long period of time in a single position will lead to stiffness and possibly a muscle spasm. To avoid this, plan for stops. It might take you a little while longer to get where you are going, but stopping to stretch and move around at regular intervals will stimulate circulation, allow you to stretch, and help ensure you have an enjoyable vacation.
Pack an ice pack and a small towel to wrap up the ice pack and apply to sore areas which will reduce inflammation and help you to continue on your journey. You can also purchase ice packs that get cold in an instant from most pharmacies in the first-aid section. If you find that heat soothes your muscles, then you can purchase heating pads that plug into your lighter. If your car has seat warmers, you might find that turning them on from time to time is helpful for you.
Use your cruise! If you have cruise control, it’s a good idea to use it on the highway. This will allow you to have more time with both feet on the floor and your knees at a right angle. Because it’s important to support your body from the bottom up, planting your feet on the firm surface of the floor will be helpful on a long road trip. |
With all the moving parts that must be handled in your move to a different state, your estate plan is likely the last thing on your mind. However, once the dust settles, you must carve out time to revisit these documents, especially your will. This is primarily because you cannot blindly assume that your new home state has estate laws that perfectly align with that of your former home state. Follow along to find out what happens to the validity of your will when you move states and how a proficient Putnam County wills attorney at The Law Office of Andres D. Gil, PLLC can help you in your update or rewrite.
What happens to the validity of my will when I move states?
To reiterate, your new home state may have estate laws that contrast that of your former home state, which may ultimately threaten the validity and enforceability of your will. As an example, say that you are moving to New York State, a state that requires two witnesses to be present at the signing of your will; along with requiring these witnesses to sign it themselves. However, say that you are hailing from Maine, one of the few states that does not require the signing of your will to be witnessed at all.
In another example, say that you are moving to New York State but the designated executor of your will is not. Well, New York does not allow for out-of-state executors. This is unless you assign a coexecutor of your will who is a New York State resident.
What other circumstances constitute an update or rewriting of my will?
Generally speaking, your estate plan should perfectly align with your current status in life. This is why it is typically recommended to update or rewrite your will after going through a significant life change. So besides making a move to another state, below are examples of when you should revisit your will:
- You have legally changed your name upon getting remarried; therefore prompting an update in your personal information within your life insurance policies and retirement accounts.
- You have welcomed new children, stepchildren, grandchildren, and stepgrandchildren into your family; therefore prompting an update in your beneficiary designations.
- You have gotten divorced or have been sadly widowed; therefore prompting an update in your beneficiary designations.
- You have lost trust in your appointed executor or have sadly outlived them; therefore prompting an update in your executor designations.
- You have inherited significant assets upon a loved one’s passing; therefore prompting an update in your assets distributions.
All in all, to ensure the validity and enforceability of your will, you must turn to a talented Putnam County estate planning attorney. So please get in touch with us at The Law Office of Andres D. Gil, PLLC as soon as you get a free chance. |
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Nellis AFB is ‘centerpiece’ for Air Force modernization Published April 14, 2021 By Christie Vanover, 57th Wing Public Affairs 57th Wing Public Affairs NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) -- Warfighters at Nellis Air Force Base are helping the Air Force build a more integrated and lethal force through Advanced Battle Management System development, the Air Force’s network solution to enable rapid decision-making that powers Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2. “A modern Air Force requires us to process and share data faster than a competitor, and that's what the Advanced Battle Management System is all about,” said Acting Secretary of the Air Force John P. Roth, during a visit to Nellis AFB March 25. “We like to talk about hardware and airplanes, and that’s all good; but for those assets to do what they will need to do five years from now and 10 years from now, we will have to manage data effectively. We will have to fuse data and get data from the sensor to the shooter in real time so that we can deal with the kinds of threats that we perceive in 2030 and beyond,” he continued. ABMS will allow the Air Force to transition its legacy command and control infrastructure into joint virtual systems that enable all equipment to communicate seamlessly, creating more agile and mobile warfighters. The Army and Navy are creating similar systems that will be integrated into JADC2, so all branches can share information and pass data. “The idea of JADC2 is to synchronize activities in all of the domains to create effects on the battlespace,” said Lt. Col. Kelii Chock, Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, Warfighter Integration Division chief. “Right now, we are not integrating those effects. We are more de-conflicting effects in time and space because of how the authorities of who can and can’t approve things laid out across the Department of Defense.” “JADC2 will drive organizational changes inside of all of the services,” he added. “It will drive changes on how we train our Airman and how the Army trains its Soldiers and the Navy trains its Sailors. It will address some personnel changes, and there will be some policy changes.” Leaders at Nellis AFB are working to develop and integrate ABMS technology and JADC2 tactics into the weapons school, operational test community and red flag exercises, so the force can review the systems and provide input. “As the home of the warfighter, Nellis (AFB) is the perfect place for new technology,” Chock said. “The U.S. Air Force Warfare Center has all of the Air Force’s warfighting domain expertise with respect to the weapons school and operational test community. Nellis (AFB) is a one-stop shop for collecting feedback.” The Nellis Campus includes a Shadow Operations Center, or ShOC-N, Virtual Test and Training Center and 12,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of land at the Nevada Test and Training Range. At the ShOC-N battle lab, software companies are working alongside military operators with live and recorded data from training exercises to develop viable ABMS technology. That technology will then be transferred to the VTTC where operators can run the programs in a simulator. Then, it will be incorporated into airplanes conducting training missions at the NTTR to feed the testing and validation loop. While visiting Nellis AFB, the acting secretary received briefings on the base’s JADC2 modernization efforts, including software development. “Most of the modernization discussion was about the kind of data support that the force is going to need in the future,” Roth said. “It is all about managing information technology, managing data, and investing in those kinds of capabilities as we go forward. “Nellis (AFB) is a centerpiece for the Department of the Air Force to be ready to fight tomorrow, if necessary. We hope not to, but we have to be ready. That’s our responsibility to the American people, and what Nellis (AFB) is doing plays a big part,” he added. |
In an effort to promote dental health care in Liberia, the Liberia Dental Therapy School situated in the compound of the ELWA has named Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor as Chief Patron.
The Liberia Dental Therapy School with an aim to develop a dental workforce and ensure greater access to dental care across the entire country, on Wednesday launched the Liberia Dental Therapy School through the Trinity Dental Clinic at the ELWA Hospital.
The school is expected to begin in September 2022 to run a formal two-year Dental Therapist training course, named the Liberia Dental Therapy School with the first four students, and anticipate graduating Eight Dental Therapy Practitioners (DTP) by July 2024.
Dr Stretton-Downes Principal Dental of the Trinity Dental clinic, ELWA Hospital, on behalf of the Liberia Dental Hospital has named VP Jewel Howard-Taylor as patron of the Liberia Dental Therapy School for her numerous roles and support to the ELWA family.
He said in Liberia, a country in West Africa with a population of five million people, there are currently only seven dentists registered with the Liberian Medical and Dental Council, so there is still a need for more dentists in Liberia.
“Liberia has no dental training facilities, and the acute shortage of dental workforce poses a serious public health problem so we will begin the program with our first four students and other students will join the programme in subsequent years.
“Upon graduation, graduates will have completed a 2-year diploma course, and be awarded certification by Cuttington University, a partner University in Liberia with academic support provided by Peninsula Dental School, University of Plymouth, UK,” he said.
“In the longer term, the aim of this programme is to provide training for a more significant number of students through the construction and equipping of a bespoke Therapist School building to meet the growing need for dental practitioners within Liberia. Funds are being sought to complete this aspect of the project
“They will also be licensed by the Liberia Medical and Dental Council to then return to their hometowns around Liberia. They will be fully equipped using Dental-supplied field kits. Clinically, they will not only have the full support of the clinic, but they will also be able to generate their own income as they continue to work with patients in the rural areas,” he added.
Jewel Howard-Taylor assures her full support to work with the school in an effort to train more dentists that will contribute greatly to the health sector of Liberia.
“The school when begin will help greatly to increase dentists in Liberia, so I will try my utmost best to reach out to concession companies in Liberia to see how they could help raise funds for the dental school as well that would one day benefit them as the school put out more dentists to serve humanity. And I see this as a private-public partnership with ELWA and we all can help raise the funds required to build the school,” she said. |
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The state of Texas continues to focus on keeping intoxicated drivers off the road. Consequently, the penalties for a DUI conviction are deliberately stiff. Even for a first-time offense, the driver will pay a fine of up to $2,000 and possibly spend three to 180 days behind bars. Many drivers find that one of the most onerous penalties is the loss of driving privileges, wondering how they will get to class, to work or just to the grocery store.
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Carbon Sciences, the developer of a breakthrough technology to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, today announced significant technology development breakthroughs that shorten the path to commercializing its CO2-to-Fuel technology.
Previously, the company had planned on developing a mini-pilot plant as the next scale up of its CO2-to-Fuel technology, where additional performance data would be obtained in order to design a full scale commercial pilot plant. However, recent breakthroughs in the nano-engineering of the biocatalyst, encouraging prototype performance results and molecular based computer modeling of the biocatalytic process have provided the development team with a direct path to full scale pilot design.
Dr. Naveed Aslam, the company’s CTO, explained, “Current state-of-the-art computer aided process engineering (CAPE) tools allow system designers to design industrial scale plants with a high degree of confidence, with respect to its real-world performance. However, CAPE tools require very good input data for the performance of proprietary processes, such as our biocatalytic CO2-to-Fuel process. In traditional chemical engineering, the performance data of a prototype, or bench top system, vary dramatically from that of the pilot plant. Therefore, engineers were required to build a medium scale, or mini-pilot plant, to fine-tune the process before gaining confidence in the performance of a full-scale design. Because our CO2-to-Fuel biocatalytic process is optimized as a nano-machine, its performance at a higher scale is very predictable. Recently, we have developed accurate low-level molecular models of our biocatalysts, based on prototype experiments, to drive the CAPE simulations of a full scale CO2-to-Fuel plant. We now believe that we can go straight from our prototype, to a CAPE tool, to a full scale pilot plant design for implementation by a strategic partner.”
Commenting on this exciting development, company president Byron Elton said, “This breakthrough saves us the time and the capital required to develop a mini-pilot plant. We are honored and fortunate to have Dr. Aslam, an expert in molecular modeling and CAPE tools, leading our development effort. We believe this will shorten our original go-to-market timeline by at least a year. The recent media coverage of Carbon Sciences, has resulted in partner inquires from all over the world. The interest in our proprietary CO2-to-Fuel technology is significant, and we look forward to working with qualified strategic partners in the near future.”
Carbon Sciences was featured in recent articles in USA Today, New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, as well as being recognized during a Congressional hearing on carbon recycling.
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Some parts of the airline industry are very “cloak-and-dagger,” but once in a while something rears its ugly head and seems like it could be a bad thing, if only you knew what the heck was going on. Such is the case now, as two of the largest airlines in the world, who also happen to be bitter rivals, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, abruptly ended their interline agreement on September 15.
Why would direct competitors have such a partnership in place, and what does it mean for the flying public?
In a nutshell…
Interline agreements between individual airlines essentially allow one to have access to the other, whether it’s for seats, checked baggage, or cargo. While not completely secret, airlines don’t usually trumpet these agreements, unlike codeshare service where they actively cooperate and promote the partnership.
Think of it as an uneasy detente, where the companies will cooperate with each other when it’s mutually beneficial, for trading favors, or in times of need.
For passengers, interline agreements really only come into play in three main areas:
- Checking bags through to another airline – if an itinerary involves multiple airlines, interlining baggage saves the passenger time and energy in not having to claim bags at the connecting airport and rechecking with the next airline; the baggage is just transferred directly to the receiving airline with no passenger involvement.
- Selling seats on another airline – perhaps an airline doesn’t serve a particular airport, but does fly to a competitor’s hub hereby; that airline would rather sell the passenger a ticket and split the revenue, instead of not selling the ticket at all.
- Re-accommodations – a subset of selling seats on another airline, carriers will sometimes assist their customers during “irregular operations” or IRROPS, such as severe delays or cancellations, by booking the passenger on another airline; the airlines would have a pre-negotiated rate in place for such transfers.
Up until recently, most of the major airlines had interline agreements with each other (with notable holdout Southwest, who interlines with no major carrier), giving customers additional flexibility in travel.
Now, American and Delta have called it quits. According to a company memo sent to frontline employees at American, while many airlines held a conference in April to negotiate new interline rates en masse, Delta decided to forge ahead by itself and deal with American directly. When a deal could not be reached, the airlines “mutually agreed to end” their interline agreement, effective September 15.
Some insiders have suggested that it was Delta who wanted higher rates, and American wasn’t willing to pay.
What this all means for the passenger…
As a result, the airlines will no longer have access to each other’s inventory, including during IRROPS, nor be able to transfer checked baggage over automatically.
Delta seems to be relying on their industry-leading performance figures to keep them out of potential delay and cancellation issues to begin with. American’s approach is in sheer numbers, indicating that they are relying not only on themselves as the world’s largest airline “with nine hubs and focus cities and 7,000 daily flights,” but also on the services of the world’s second-largest airline… United.
An interesting tidbit in that same memo from American:
“We also have options with our joint business and oneworld partners, plus we have an interline agreement with United, which has the second largest network, and many other airlines, such as Alaska Airlines.”
Mentioning your largest competitor in an internal memo as a “friendly” … that’s extraordinary.
Naturally, the carriers blame each other for the end of their relationship. American accuses Delta of demanding too high of a price, while Delta points to data showing that American places five times more passengers into Delta flights than vice versa.
Interestingly, this shift comes just after Virgin America’s CEO called for mandatory interlining to help keep smaller airlines competitive in a domestic market dominated by the Big 4.
American and Delta may very well figure out how to cooperate with each other again in the future, but for right now, it looks like they’ve parted ways, and it may be the passengers who bear the brunt of IRROPS. |
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I have written about ariocarpus before, but it has been a while, so some of you may not be familiar with this plant.
Fall is their blooming season, as you can see here. Ariocarpus retusus is not a plant you will find at the big box stores, but it is worth ferreting out at specialty cactus and succulent nurseries. It started out with these two blooms on October 14th, followed by another on the 17th:
and adding two more for a total of five on October 18th.
This ariocarpus is native to Mexico, but there are others that can be found in South and West Texas. Ariocarpus are pretty easy to keep, but they are slow growers and usually don’t bloom until they are ten years old or more. I have had this one since 2012, so it was obviously a few years old when I bought it. Conventional wisdom says to water in the summer, keep dry in the winter, but I water mine a little in the winter, especially when they are blooming. If you are ever in doubt, always err on the side of dry. Like all cactus, they need good drainage and a limestone-based growing medium.
This ariocarpus trigonus I have had since 2004 and it blooms every year and is blooming now with three flowers.
The first picture below is of the a. retusus; the second is the a. trigonus. Look closely and you will see that while they are similar in shape, there is a difference in the two plants. Blooms are also a bit different. All ariocarpus have no spines and while they are fleshy, that flesh is very hard. They are really quite interesting plants.
I have been told that some ariocarpus could be planted in the ground in my garden outside. I am not willing to risk it. After all, it’s a bit hotter in the winter in Mexico than it is here, and as long as it took me to get them to this size and stage, I am not willing to find out if they can make it through a Muleshoe winter. So mine are in the greenhouse for the winter, cozy and protected. But they will go outside when it warms up.
If you are looking for an unusual plant and have lots of patience and a sunny spot for it, ariocarpus might be just the plant to add to your collection. |
Global coal use is expected to reach a record high in 2023 as demand in emerging and developing economies remains strong, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.
The demand for coal is seen rising 1.4 percent in 2023, surpassing 8.5 billion tonnes for the first time as usage in India is expected to grow 8 percent and that in China up 5 percent due to rising electricity demand and weak hydropower output, IEA said in a report released on Friday.
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Coal is the largest energy-related source of the CO2 emissions responsible along with other greenhouse gases for global warming.
Half of the world’s coal use comes from China, the agency said, so the outlook for coal will be significantly affected in the coming years by the pace of clean energy deployment, weather conditions, and structural shifts in the Chinese economy.
Coal use is set to drop by about 20 percent this year in both the European Union and the United States, the report said.
The agency said it was difficult to forecast demand in Russia, currently the fourth-largest coal consumer, because of the continuing conflict in Ukraine.
But the IEA noted that overall coal use is not expected to drop until 2026, when the major expansion of renewable capacity in the next three years should help lower usage by 2.3 percent compared with 2023 levels, even with the absence of stronger clean energy policies.
Global consumption is forecast to remain well over 8 billion tonnes in 2026, the report said. To reach goals set by the Paris climate agreement – reached in 2015 by governments who agreed to phase out fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy in the second half of the century – the use of unabated coal would need to fall significantly faster, it added.
At the United Nations COP28 climate talks in Dubai this week, world leaders agreed to a deal that would, for the first time, push nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of climate change.
However, the agreement did not go so far as to seek a “phase-out” of fossil fuels, for which more than 100 nations had pleaded. Rather, it called for “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade”.
“The absence of explicit ‘phase-out’ language in the draft is significant, as it is a more measurable and definitive term, sending a strong message globally about a total shift away from fossil fuels,” Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at Climate Action Network International, told Al Jazeera.
“The current terminology – ‘transitioning away’ – is somewhat ambiguous and allows for varying interpretations.” |
Elongating the life of your iPhone's battery is a dream that every Apple device user has. With the rampant use of applications and phone functionalities, it is next to impossible to keep the battery for iPhone 6 powered through the whole day. But when you are too busy to sit next to a wall socket and wait for you phone to charge, a battery case can come in handy.
Battery cases are great for 2 reasons - they will increase the phone's battery life, and also keep it completely protected.
With the case frame of battery cases, they have a hard outer shell that keeps the phone protected from all sides and averts accidental dents and scratches, all the while charging your iPhone when necessary. This also reduces the cumbersome need to carry wires and chargers around with you!
Here's a list of some great battery cases for the iPhone 6. Alternately, you can also have a look at replacement battery for iPhone 6, incase you wish to change the original battery. |
No, it's not a joke, and it's not a Photoshop work: this really happened on a recently purchased, factory-new Glock.
What happened is that the round was fed, fired and ejected properly, but disengaged itself from the extractor and fell back inside the ejection window after tilting backwards, with an almost incredible degree of accuracy. And it didn't happen just once: the factory-new Glock pistol, just out of the gun shop, experienced several jammings of this kind when it was first taken to a gun range for "breaking-in".
We quickly found out the cause: a small metal fragment was stuck under the extractor, which thus lost grip on the spent cases prematurely. Once all the parts were disassembled, cleaned and properly reassembled, the pistol worked flawlessly. Nonetheless, that's a very peculiar kind of malfunction we had there!
American experts invented names and achronyms for all kind of gun-related malfunctions, yet there isn't one that suits this. That was definitely not an FTF ("Failure to Feed"), as the round were fed and fired properly, nor an FTE ("Failure to Extract) since, as a matter of fact, the case was extracted and ejected; nor it is a stovepipe malfunction − if it was, the case would be stuck vertically in the ejection window.
May you, ALL4SHOOTERS.COM readers and followers, invent a name for this kind of malfunction? Tell us about it, and about any peculiar kind of malfunction you may have experienced in your everyday shooters' lives! |
Spring is here, and it is the perfect time to think about getting your skin looking gorgeous! After all, you will be showing a lot more skin as the weather gets warmer. As you know, beauty starts from within. NeoCell is a premium quality collagen-based supplement line that creates beauty supplements to nourish our skin, hair and nails from the inside out.
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NeoCell Beauty Infusion is a powdered drink mix that delivers not only great taste but full day’s supply of essential beauty nutrients – NeoCell Collagen, hyaluronic acid, biotin, alpha lipoic acid and vitamin C. I enjoy mixing this powder into my bottled water, and giving it a shake to mix it. It is very refreshing and hydrating. I sip on it all throughout my day.
NeoCell Biotin Bursts – these delicious soft chews deliver 10,000 mcg if biotin in each chew – and a serving contains just 20 calories. They’re just the ticket to help hair, skin and nails. I love these delightful fruity chews! My hair has never been thicker and my nails are so strong!
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022 / by Dick Keenan
Why Waiting To Sell Your House Could Cost You a Small Fortune
Many homeowners who plan to sell in 2022 may think the wise thing to do is to wait for the spring buying market since historically about 40 percent of home sales occur between April and July. However, this year’s expected to be much different than the norm. Here are five reasons to list your house now rather than waiting until the spring.
1. Buyers Are Looking Right Now, and They’re Ready To Purchase
The ShowingTime Showing Index reports data from more than six million property showings scheduled across the country each month. In other words, it’s a gauge of how many buyers are out looking at homes at the current time.
The latest index, which covers November showings, reveals that buyers are still very active in the market. Comparing this November’s numbers to previous years, this graph shows that the index is higher than last year and much higher than the three years ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 / by Traci Pimentel
Weekly San Luis Obispo County Numbers are in, as well as the California Association of Realtors January 2021 Report and First American Title Company's Central Coast January 2021 Recap.
Tight inventory is making 2021 a great year to list a home! It's important to remember that the housing market today is not the same as the housing market during the 'Bubble Years'. Lower mortgage rates and rising incomes correspond with higher house prices, strong demand and low inventory.
Winter months tend to show slowing in the Real Estate industry year over year. Mortgage rates are beginning to inch up, however the FEDs have indicated they don't intend to raise the National rate anytime soon. For buyers, NOW is the time to take advantage of these historical low rates while they last!
Despite possible improvement on the supply side of the market as we approach the Spring Selling Season, upward pressure on prices are continuing to build up. With current inve ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 / by Traci Pimentel
Home values appreciated by about ten percent in 2020, and they’re forecast to appreciate by about five percent this year. This has some voicing concern that we may be in another housing bubble like the one we experienced a little over a decade ago. Here are three reasons why this market is totally different.
1. This time, housing supply is extremely limited
The price of any market item is determined by supply and demand. If supply is high and demand is low, prices normally decrease. If supply is low and demand is high, prices naturally increase.
In real estate, supply and demand are measured in “months’ supply of inventory,” which is based on the number of current homes for sale compared to the number of buyers in the market. The normal months’ supply of inventory for the market is about 6 months. Anything above that defines a buyers’ market, indicating prices will soften. Anything below that defines a sellers’ market in which prd ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 / by Traci Pimentel
San Luis Obispo County hasn't seen much change with New Listings hitting the market in comparison to the previous couple weeks. We did see a nearly 13% increase in properties going Pending. With more than 15% less properties sold this past week, the uptick of escrows opened, and no influx of inventory hitting the market, we're still very much in a Seller's Market.
A swell of buyers are looking to enter the market, keeping demand firm amidst the continued historically low interest rates. By the 4th quarter this year, experts are forecasting that refinance volume will decrease, largely because many will have already refinanced due to these low rates.
In 2020, median listing prices grew 13.3%, according to Realtor.com. Experts forecast prices will stay on this upward track.
Even if home prices rise as forecasted, that w ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020 / by Traci Pimentel
We've seen greater than a 50% drop in inventory since mid-October.
With so few homes on the market, buyers have been grasping at straws.
Interest rates are still hovering at an all time low. With an upcoming shift in Presidency and so much uncertainty with Covid-19 cases surging, home buyers want to take advantage of the low rates while they last.
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Fewer new sellers coming to the market while a greater than usual number of buyers continue to search for a home causes inventory to continue to evaporate. Historically, six m ... |
Simple Pasta Snowflakes
Pasta snowflakes are a fun and creative way to add a festive touch to any winter decor. These delicate and intricate decorations are made by using various types of pasta, such as macaroni, penne, and spaghetti, to create unique and beautiful snowflake shapes. The process of making pasta snowflakes is both simple and enjoyable, making it a perfect activity for kids and adults alike. They can be hung on a Christmas tree or used as a garland to add a festive touch to your home. The possibilities are endless with these beautiful and edible decorations.
- Uncooked pasta (MANY SHAPES: ROTELLE/WAGON WHEEL, SHELL, PENNE, PENNETTE, MACARONI, FUSILLI, ETC)
- White spray paint
- Ribbon or string
- Parchment paper (or waxed paper)
- Glue gun |
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Deploying a multisite CMS helps LWR raise awareness for global poverty
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) is an international non-governmental organization that tackles global poverty by helping people adapt to the challenges that threaten their livelihoods and well-being. LWR is renowned for its integrated approach to addressing global poverty and supporting communities and families during times of need regardless of race, religion, or nationality.
LWR engaged Alliance to develop an online ecosystem that would communicate with a broad audience and draw new visitors into the site to become engaged in their mission, donate, and shop.
Alliance worked with LWR to shape an online strategy that reflected its expanded worldwide footprint and accomplishments, by showcasing the organization’s mission and engaging visitors through valuable calls-to-action to support the work through donations and gifts.
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Interactive Volunteer Locator
LWR Ingathering is a local gathering of groups and volunteers that make and collect handmade Quilts and Kits to help areas in need worldwide. Alliance was tasked to help connect quilters with locations throughout the country that would help support their efforts and collect finished quilts. LWR also needed a tool that would reduce the amount of time they were spending maintaining the accuracy of the database.
Alliance built a new mobile-first interactive locator that allows admins to easily add and manage details for multiple locations with ease. The system also allows volunteers to manage multiple locations with ease and helps LWR significantly reduce maintenance while generating more engagement with its quilting community.
Alliance created an updated branding system for the website including new icons, graphics, and supporting elements. |
Third-party direct insurance
You are probably familiar with the basic WA car insurance. If another driver causes a collision which results in damage to your car, you can recover this from the other party's insurer. However, this may change next year. The Union of Insurers has announced that they expect to start with WA-direct next year. WA-direct ensures that insurers can directly handle the damage for their policyholders. But how does WA-direct insurance work?
How does WA-direct work?
Suppose an accident has taken place between you and another car. The other driver did not give you the right of way although he should have done so. As a result, you have a big dent in your car. You report the damage to your own insurer. Your insurer then compensates the damage and recovers it from the other party's insurer. This is called WA-direct, because the damage is settled directly.
Initially, WA-direct will only apply to situations involving two passenger cars. If the test proves successful after a year, it will be extended to other vehicles such as mopeds and motorbikes. Incidentally, you are not obliged to use WA-direct if your insurer offers it. You can also simply recover the damage from the third-party insurance of the other party. Ultimately, that insurer also remains responsible for the compensation after the direct insurer has recovered the damages.
The aim of WA-direct is to simplify the handling of claims by claiming directly from the insurer. It does not matter who is liable. The WA-direct insurance is primarily aimed at material damage.
The big difference with a normal Third Party Liability insurance is that you do not have to recover damages from the other party's insurer. After your insurer has assessed the damage and paid you compensation, recovery only takes place from the liable insurer. Currently, they already do this with hull insurance. Many insurers experience that this works more efficiently, especially because there are fewer discussions between insurers.
Benefits of WA-direct
There are a number of important advantages to WA-direct. Normally, in the event of damage, you are dependent on the other party's insurer. The biggest advantage is that you can always contact your own insurer. This means that you will receive your money faster and be able to have your car repaired sooner. The Union of Insurers says: "You know this insurer and you can reach them quickly and easily". WA-direct ensures a smoother claims settlement.
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With our online tool, you can easily compare different insurers to find the best car insurance. All you have to do is fill in some personal information, the license plate number, your claim-free years and the coverage you want. Then our comparer will do the rest! You will get an overview, in which you can compare the different insurers. This way you can easily find the right insurance for your car.
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Industry Veteran Joins WFG National Title
March 15, 2012
WFG National Title Insurance Co. has added Robert Opdycke as an agency sales representative in its southeast regional agency office in Virginia.
Opdycke will be charged with growing and maintaining WFG relationships with agencies in central and western Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. He comes to WFG National Title with 27 years of industry experience, most recently serving with one of the industry’s largest underwriters as vice president and account manager in its national commercial services division (Richmond Office), where he was a recipient of the President’s Award for Sales Excellence in 2002 and 2003. He began his career with Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. in 1985, where he served most recently as a manager in its national division (Richmond office). He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond, and is active in his community, having been a VP for the Association for the Study of Childhood Cancer; president for the James River Chapter of NACORE, and a member of the Kiwanis Club of Richmond.
“Bob knows this industry, and he knows our region,” said Thomas Klein, senior vice president, agency, southeast region. “More importantly, he knows the agents of the southeast, and what they need for success. We know he will be a stout ally for our independent agents, as well as a resource to them.”
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Do you use your mobile phone while driving? Maybe you only flick your eyes over to your mobile if it buzzes. Perhaps you pick your phone up while waiting at traffic lights. Lots of people seem to take videos of themselves driving, or of other people on the road. While these things might not seem particularly dangerous, they are against the law. New research by the RAC has found that only 36% of drivers are aware of the penalties they may face for using a mobile phone while driving.
The number of people who die in accidents caused by people using a mobile phone while driving is rising. Where 22 people died in 2015, 32 died in 2016. The growing popularity of apps such as snapchat might be behind this growth. Police believe that the real number of incidents caused by mobile phones may be much higher than reported, due to a lack of detailed investigations.
It is illegal to use your mobile phone while driving in almost any circumstances. Unless you are safely parked, or are calling an emergency number, it is against the law to use a mobile phone. If you are caught, you will receive a £200 fine and six penalty points on your licence. However, there is a real chance that you will have to go to court and pay up to £1,000 in many circumstances.
What Can be Done?
Very few people are aware of the penalties for using a mobile phone while driving. Fewer still know that the punishments are stiffer than they have previously been. However, 31% of people believe that the law doesn’t go far enough. Nearly a quarter of respondents to the RAC survey believed that even harsher policies should be put in place.
At Alternative Insurance Brokers, we specialise in finding the best possible deal for you on car insurance – whatever your history. Get in touch with us today for a quote – all we need is a few details on you, and on your driving experience. |
Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras/Brex
Launched in 2017, fintech credit card Brex is already chasing a $2bn valuation
Aimed at startup founders, Brex has quickly become a hot property in Silicon Valley.
Launched just 24 months ago by Brazilian entrepreneurs Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, Brex has soared in value.
The company emerged from Y Combinator and has raised a total of $282.1m from VC and debt funding, in October raising $125m from DST Global and Greenoaks Capital at a $1.1bn valuation.
Its pitch is a corporate credit card aimed at startups, without annual fees and without requiring a personal guarantee or security deposit.
By targeting a credit-hungry market of entrepreneurs—and by capitalising on Y Combinator’s network of startups as its first customers—Brex has quickly become a hot property in Silicon Valley, and star investor Kleiner Perkins is said to be one of the investors eyeing up the company.
If a startup’s cash falls below a certain level Brex shuts down their card. |
Esker Therapeutics Announces Name Change to Alumis and Completion of $200 Million Series B Financing to Advance Precision Medicines for Autoimmune Diseases
SAN FRANCISCO – Alumis, formerly Esker Therapeutics, a precision immunology company backed by Foresite Capital and incubated by Foresite Labs that is reimagining the discovery, development and treatment of autoimmune disorders, today announced the completion of a $200 million financing led by AyurMaya, an affiliate of Matrix Capital Management, and by a U.S.-based healthcare-focused fund. In conjunction with the financing, Alumis announced that Dr. Alan Colowick, managing director at Matrix, joined the company’s board of directors.
“We are thrilled to announce the completion of this financing with support from leading investors in our industry. These funds position us well to independently advance several precision immunology programs and potentially add additional assets to our pipeline,” said Martin Babler, president and chief executive officer of Alumis. “Since the company’s launch last year, we have been making progress advancing our lead program into the clinic, initiating several pipeline programs and leveraging insights from our analytics platform to inform both our clinical development plans and our discovery programs. Our team has expanded significantly in research, development and business development, and we are pleased to further strengthen our board of directors with industry veterans such as Alan Colowick. I look forward to collaborating with our team and board as we work to deliver precision therapies to patients in need.”
Proceeds from the financing will be used to continue to advance Alumis’ pipeline, led by ESK-001, a highly selective and potentially best in class TYK2 inhibitor with greater selectivity for TYK2 over JAK1 compared to current therapies in clinical development. ESK-001 is currently being developed for the treatment of psoriasis. Beyond ESK-001, Alumis is using its data analytics and research capabilities to build a pipeline from internal and external sources focused on delivering precision immunology therapies impacting the causal drivers of multiple autoimmune disease indications.
“Alumis’ unique approach of combining a novel precision analytics platform with deep experience in immunology pathophysiology and a proven track record of developing and commercializing novel drugs holds significant promise for the future treatment of patients with autoimmune disease,” said Dr. Colowick. “Alumis is a perfect fit for our mission to support world class teams focusing on addressing the most important unmet medical needs by leveraging the convergence of technology and biology. I am particularly excited to join the board of directors and to have the opportunity to work with Martin and his team again.”
"This is an exciting time for the team at Alumis and the patients with autoimmune diseases who are waiting for new therapies," said Jim Tananbaum, founder and CEO of Foresite Capital. "This additional financing will help Alumis develop a comprehensive data set for people suffering from autoimmunity driven by TYK2 and other development targets."
The company’s name change to Alumis (“alumer” for “lighten/enlightened” and “immunis” for “immunology”) is reflective of the transformation of the organization and overall vision to provide meaningful therapeutic solutions for people with autoimmune disease.
Alumis is a precision immunology company looking to eliminate the “all comer” approach that is seen with today’s treatments for people with autoimmune disease. Even with innovation of the last decade, many patients continue to cycle through the approved therapies while continuing to look for the right therapy to alleviate the impact of their disease without life-impacting side effects. Alumis leverages a precision analytics platform, powered by Foresite Labs, coupled with a team of experts with deep experience in precision medicine drug discovery, development and immunology, in order to create medicines that change the lives of people with autoimmune disease. For more information, please visit alumis.co.
About Foresite Labs
Foresite Labs incubates companies that will address some of our greatest unmet medical needs. Their experienced team of scientists, engineers, and operators believes that the tools of data science, when applied with scientific rigor, will greatly accelerate scientific discovery and the development of new products and services that benefit patients. Through its incubation platform, Foresite Labs is dismantling the barriers faced by visionary entrepreneurs and their companies as they seek to re-invent healthcare. For more information, visit www.foresitelabs.com.
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George Washington’s history with cherries will be honored this month, as 18 Alexandria restaurants will compete in this year’s GW Cherry Challenge.
The challenge, which is sponsored by George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, pits the restaurants against each other to create the best “cherry-oriented appetizer, entrée, beverage, or dessert,” according to the city.
The challenge ends at the city’s annual George Washington Birthday Parade in Old Town on President’s Day, Feb. 19.
“This unique event helps generate buzz for Alexandria restaurants, encourages chefs to get creative, and boosts customer traffic,” said Kristen Eastlick, GW Birthday Celebration committee member and chair of the event. “The #GWCherryChallenge lets us offer a tasteful event that keeps George Washington’s memory alive in his hometown. We’re thrilled that historic Mount Vernon has graciously sponsored this whimsical event.”
When George Washington turned six, he was caught red-handed chopping down his father’s cherry tree. Legend says that his father angrily asked him what happened, and the future president said: “I cannot tell a lie…I did cut it with my hatchet.”
Here’s how it works:
Diners—whether dine-in or take-out—will receive QR codes to vote electronically for their favorite cherry entries based on three criteria: taste, presentation, and creativity. Diners will rate each item from one to three cherries for a maximum score of 9 on each ballot. Point totals for each dish are divided by the number of ballots to get the average score. The highest average in each category wins.
- Bastille Brasserie & Bar
- BRABO Brasserie
- The Crazy Mason Milkshake Bar and Ice Cream Shop
- Dishes of India
- Don Taco
- Evening Star Café
- Jula’s on the Potomac
- Kiwi Pie Shop
- Lost Boy Cider
- Mae’s Market and Café
- Murphy’s Irish Pub
- River Bend Bistro
- Taqueria el Poblano
- The Italian Place
- The Light Horse Restaurant
- The Tasting Room
- Trattoria da Franco
- Whiskey & Oyster
Guests are also encouraged to share photos and descriptions of the cherry items on Instagram or X with the hashtag “#GWCherryChallenge” or by posting them to the George Washington Birthday Celebration’s Facebook page.
The Alexandria Police Department (APD) arrested Robert Walker, a 34-year-old D.C. resident, for a carjacking just a few blocks away from APD headquarters and striking a police vehicle. Police said…
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Dreaming of small-town charm with big-city convenience? Look no further than 7156 Main St in Clifton, Virginia! Nestled just 30 miles from the heart of Washington D.C., this picturesque property offers the best of both worlds.
Escape the hustle and bustle of the city to find tranquility in this quaint, historic town. With its tree-lined streets and friendly community atmosphere, Clifton is the perfect place to call home. Yet, with its close proximity to the nation’s capital, you’ll never be far from the excitement and opportunities of urban living.
Imagine weekends exploring local shops, dining at charming cafes, and enjoying outdoor adventures in nearby parks. Then, commute to D.C. for work or play, soaking in all the culture, entertainment, and career opportunities the city has to offer.
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After Union forces began occupying the Louisiana river parishes, thousands of escaped slaves flocked to them. The Federals, therefore, leased some plantations and put the freedmen to work growing cotton or other crops; the proceeds from the sale of the crops helped defray expenses for food, clothing, etc. Colored Troops were assigned to protect these plantations, releasing other troops to fight.
Confederates, determined to recapture some of these freedmen and destroy the crops, undertook an expedition from Gaines's Landing, Arkansas, to Lake Providence. The Federals had constructed a fort on an Indian mound to protect some of these leased plantations. The Rebels prepared to attack the fort on the 29th but decided to demand unconditional surrender first, which the Union forces accepted.
Later in the day, Confederate Colonel W.H. Parsons fought companies of the 1st Kansas Mounted Infantry. The Rebels then began burning and destroying the surrounding plantations, especially those that the Yankees leased.
By the next morning, U.S. Naval boats had landed the Mississippi Marine Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Alfred W. Ellet, at Goodrich's Landing. At dawn, he set out with Colonel William F. Wood's African American units to find the Rebels. Ellet's cavalry found the Confederates first and began skirmishing.
The fight became more intense as Ellet's other forces approached. Parsons eventually disengaged and fell back. Although the Confederates disrupted these operations, destroyed much property, and captured many supplies and weapons, the raid was a minor setback for the Union.
The Confederates could cause momentary disturbances, but they were unable to effect any lasting changes.
Location: East Carroll Parish
Campaign: Grant's Operations against Vicksburg (1863) next battle in campaign previous battle in campaign
Date(s): June 2930, 1863
Principal Commanders: Brigadier General Alfred W. Ellet [US]; Colonel William H. Parsons [CS]
Forces Engaged: Mississippi Marine Brigade, Brigade of 1st Arkansas Volunteers (African Descent) and 10th Louisiana (African Descent) [US]; 12th and 19th Texas cavalry Regiments, 15th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, Cameron's Louisiana Battery, and Ralston's Mississippi Battery [CS]
Estimated Casualties: Total unknown (US 120; CS unknown) |
The PS-415-HG-OEM Medical-Grade Power Strip supplies power to movable plug-connected components mounted to a rack, table or pedestal in operating rooms, patient-care vicinities, therapy rooms, imaging environments and administrative areas. Compliant with UL 1363A specifications, this 120V, 50/60 Hz power strip features a NEMA 5-15P-HG hospital-grade plug and four NEMA 5-15R-HG hospital-grade outlets.
The power strip is protected by a patented antimicrobial powder coating with EPA-registered and FDA-compliant silver ionic technology. The antimicrobial surface protection is 99.9 percent effective in inhibiting the growth of bacteria, such as C. diff and MRSA, and reducing the risk of HAIs in hospitals and other medical environments. The coating meets the requirements of JIS Z 2801:2000, an international standard for evaluating efficacy in antimicrobial products.
Two built-in resettable 15A circuit breakers control power to all outlets and protect the power strip against overloads. Switchless design prevents the unit from being accidentally shut off. The 15 ft. power cord provides ample reach to the power source.
Mounting tabs and flanges let you install the PS-415-HG-OEM on a wide variety of surfaces, such as IV poles, mobile carts, crash carts and mobile medical workstations. The all-metal housing ensures safety and is guaranteed to last a long time in demanding environments.
- Easy to mount on a variety of surfaces
- Exclusive, patented anti-microbial coating - 99.9% effective in inhibiting bacteria and viruses
- Includes 15 ft. cord with NEMA 5-15P-HG hospital-grade plug
- Features 4 NEMA 5-15R-HG hospital-grade outlets with optional locking outlet covers
- Complies with UL 1363A specifications
- Approved for use in patient-care vicinities when properly mounted
- Supplies power to movable plug-connected components mounted to IV poles, mobile carts, crash carts and mobile medical workstations in operating rooms and patient-care vicinities. |
Location: GA - Savannah
The International Recruiter is responsible for identifying highly qualified International candidates for the O’Grady Peyton International (OGPI) program by prescreening clinical experience, National Council's Licensure Examination (NCLEX), and English status and eligibility for US immigration to add high-quality clinicians to the OGPI pipeline ultimately impacting fill rate, revenue and profitability.
- Exceeds individual daily and weekly critical indicator goals to consistently grow the Clinician pipeline consistent with the expectations of the role.
- Plans a prospecting strategy according to market demand weekly using the Salesforce database to contact as many potential candidates as possible, via phone and email, to establish relationships and expand the sales network of qualified International clinicians.
- Updates the databases (Salesforce and ENTREE) in terms of accurate contact information, qualifications, and communications in order to engage candidates for clinical assessment for the OGPI program.
- Qualifies eligible candidates based on NCLEX passed and current English/current Visa screen.
- Consult with Clinicians on the current situations, probing for underlying agenda to measure the Clinician’s commitment.
- Qualify Clinician's likelihood to place in a timely manner according to immigration, licensure, availability, skill set, and potential fit in order to prioritize sales focus and determine for the highest probability of booking.
- Ensures that a contract and a copy of “The Code” is being sent to the Clinician and that the principles of the Code for the Ethical Recruitment of International Clinicians is upheld at all times throughout the recruitment process.
- Articulates plans of action that address Clinician’s career needs by educating on future opportunities, market conditions and realistic timelines in order to engage and demonstrate how OGPI can best meet their long term professional expectations.
- Creates urgency and gains Clinician’s secure commitment throughout entire sales process to enhance profile with accurate and relevant work history, education, skills, and reference information.
- Bachelor's Degree | Preferred
Minimum Work Experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- 3+ years of experience in a customer service/sales or recruiting role.
- Attention to Detail.
- Customer service.
- Production focused.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Excellent communication skills.
Our Core Values
Respect ● Passion ● Continuous Improvement ● Trust ● Customer Focus ● Innovation
At AMN Healthcare, our diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy is grounded in the belief that we should respect all voices, seek different perspectives, and succeed when we act together as a positive force for all of humanity. AMN Healthcare strives to foster a workplace of belonging where all team members can be their authentic selves, where we can apply our collective skills to innovate solutions that empower the future of care. AMN Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer.
Pay Rate: $20.25 - $25.25 Hourly
Final pay rate is dependent on experience, training, education, and location. |
Sometimes the most painful part of getting replacement windows in Murrieta, CA is creating a budget for the project. It’s a big investment and it can be hard to figure out where the money will come from or how much you can afford to spend. You can always talk to the professionals at the window company about how much, on average, new windows cost so you can start to form your own budget. Keep in mind that standard windows will cost the least and are still highly efficient. But anything you are able to upgrade or add can help your home even further. Here are some tips for creating that budget.
Check out your savings account and see what you can afford to spend from that stash. You don’t want to dip too far into emergency savings because you might need that money if something were to happen. But if you’ve been good about saving and you know you can get rid of some of it without hurting the family finances, decide how much and go from there. IT might be a range and that’s nice so you can work the windows into those parameters.
Perhaps you don’t have enough in savings to pay for the whole project and that’s okay. Think about your monthly budget and how much you have to spare each month. Then, you can work in financing with the window store or get a personal loan that you know you can afford to pay back at a certain rate each month. You can translate the bottom line window costs into a monthly payment with confidence.
Talk To Reputable Professionals
Of course you don’t want to go to so-called experts and ask them what your budget should look like. They might try to milk you for all you’re worth. But when you find professionals you can trust, it’s okay to ask them for advice, even where your budget is concerned. If you’ve never set up parameters for a window replacement project before, it makes sense that you might not know where to start and they can help you get things in order so you have a price point that you are comfortable with.
There are plenty of challenges to getting replacement windows in Murrieta, CA, but one of the first might be setting up a budget for the project in the first place. IF you need help with that step or any other, contact the professionals at Andy’s Glass & Window Company. You can call us at (951) 677-7421 and we can answer questions by phone or set up a time for you to come in for a free consultation. We’re happy to help from beginning to end and explain anything you need to know about the window industry, the pricing, ratings, and beyond. You are welcome to come by and visit our showroom to take a look at what we offer. We’re located at 25751 Jefferson Ave Murrieta, CA 92562 and we’re here to help. |
Providing students with hands-on training and workforce experience.
Angleton ISD’s Career and Technical Education Department’s vision is to support innovative CTE programs that prepare individuals to succeed in their education and careers and poise them to flourish in a global, dynamic economy through leadership, advocacy, and partnerships. We are dedicated to helping graduates prepare for a career field where they will earn a living wage that offers advancement and lifelong learning opportunities.
Career & Technology Education (CTE) has evolved from a limited number of vocational programs available at the turn of the 20th century into a broad system that encompasses a variety of challenging fields in diverse subject areas which are constantly evolving due to the changing global economy. Angleton ISD's CTE Department will ensure that all students have an appropriate public education available to them, emphasizing career and technical education designed to meet their career and college ready goals.
Angleton ISD Career and Technology provides:
- Opportunities for students to complete a coherent sequence of courses that lead to industry certifications
- Career pathways that link secondary and post- secondary education
- Development of internship opportunities for students
- Training and development through CTE programs that will give students skills to have a certification which greatly increases employability in high demand jobs
- By participating in CTE, junior high and high school students will develop competitive 21st century academic and technical skills.
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In the buzzing realm of wellness, antioxidants are praised for their powerful, age-defying effects on the skin and body. We hear the term “antioxidant” in abundance these days, knowing that the food and skin care products rich in these compounds is what we should be looking for. But do you ever ask yourself what antioxidants actually are, and what purpose they serve in achieving optimal health?
To make it simple, antioxidants are nature’s defensive armor. They are naturally occurring compounds found in many foods and plants, like your popular vitamin C (found in fruit) or your vitamin E (found in nuts and seeds). Their prime purpose is to protect your skin and body from environmental stressors such as sun, pollution and other harmful substances, also known as free radicals.
Antioxidants are also produced internally by our bodies, though not enough to neutralize the effects of free radicals. This is why it’s important to eat a diet rich with them to strengthen your natural defenses. Your skin is also the last organ to receive nutrients from your diet, so applying antioxidants to the skin topically is necessary for enhancing skin vibrancy.
While there are thousands of compounds in nature that act as antioxidants, the spotlight is on a remarkably effective one called astaxanthin, our newest infatuation. This high-performing, powerhouse antioxidant is the real deal when it comes to ultimate skin and body protection.
Where does it come from?
Astaxanthin is primarily found in the aquatic kingdom. In marine mammals, this includes krill, salmon, red trout, shrimp, crawfish, lobster and crabs. The richest source of this antioxidant however is found in Haematococcus pluvialis, a microalgae that produces more than 40 grams of astaxanthin for every 1 kilogram of dry biomass.
Astaxanthin is what gives salmon and crustacean species their rich pink color, as they feed upon astaxanthin-rich species in their diets. This compound is even added to commercial feed for farmed fish to enrich their coloring. Another fun fact: baby flamingos are born white, but because they eat a diet accompanied by this antioxidant, they turn pink as they grow. That’s right – astaxanthin is what turns flamingos pink!
Astaxanthin for the body
At a glance, astaxanthin is considered the most potent carotenoid antioxidant found in nature. It is broad-spectrum, demonstrating therapeutic qualities for eye, heart, brain and skeletal health, along with many other systems.
It has been concluded that carotenoids help protect the retina of the eye from oxidative damage. Astaxanthin supplementation can improve certain eye conditions like ARMD (age-related macular degeneration), glaucoma and inflammatory issues like retinitis, iritis, keratitis and so on.
Studies have shown an increase in HDL cholesterol (aka “the good” cholesterol) by 15 percent and a reduction of triglycerides by up to 25 percent in patients that consumed 12 mg of astaxanthin taken daily for several weeks. In another human clinical study, volunteers were given 6 mg of astaxanthin per day for ten days, showing an improvement in blood flow which has a positive effect on cardiovascular health.
Brain and cognitive health
Scientists consider this powerful antioxidant to be potent “brain food” and assert that it could hinder neurodegeneration like dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Joint and skeletal health
There have been testimonials of significant benefits from athletes who supplement with astaxanthin to increase endurance. In a Japanese study, scientists discovered decreased muscle inflammation in rats by more than 50 percent!
There are many notable clinical studies done on the powerful effects of astaxanthin and we encourage you to indulge in the the ever-growing research behind this amazing compound!
Astaxanthin for skin
When taken orally, astaxanthin essentially provides the same benefit when applied topically. Being one of the most potent antioxidants available, it provides protective armor against harmful elements that could otherwise deteriorate skin integrity overtime.
Studies have shown that astaxanthin is 65 times more powerful than vitamin C, 54 times more powerful than beta-carotene, and 14 times more powerful than vitamin E! What more could you ask from nature to help your skin delay the formation of fine lines and wrinkles?
In 2002, a Japanese study showed that women around the age of 40 who were given 2 mg of astaxanthin daily for 4 weeks showed major skin improvement: enhanced skin suppleness and firmness, reduced appearance of brown spots and uneven skin tone and an increase in overall skin moisture and hydration.
This ingredient has been incorporated into many expert formulated skin care products, which is why we decided to include a high-quality, algae source of it in our newest product: Probiotic Serum with Tremella.
Wataru Aoi, Yuji Naito, Kunihiro Sakuma, Masashi Kuchide, Harukuni Tokuda, Takashi Maoka, Shinya Toyokuni, Shigenori Oka, Masahiro Yasuhara, Toshikazu Yoshikawa. “Astaxanthin Limits Exercise-Induced Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Damage in Mice.” Published Online: 5 Jul 2004. https://doi.org/10.1089/152308603321223630
Hiromi Miyawaki, Jiro Takahashi,, Hiroki Tsukahara, and Isao Takehara. “Effects of Astaxanthin on Human Blood Rheology.” J Clin Biochem Nutr. 2008 Sep; 43(2): 69–74.
Bob Capelli, Heng Shao, PhD. “Astaxanthin & Cardiovascular Health”. BGG North America, Inc. 2016. White paper study.
Yoon H-S, Cho HH, Cho S, Lee S-R, Shin M-H, Chung JH. Supplementing with Dietary Astaxanthin Combined with Collagen Hydrolysate Improves Facial Elasticity and Decreases Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 and-12 Expression: A Comparative Study with Placebo. Journal of medicinal food.2014;17(7):810-816.
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Kumi Tominaga, Nobuko Hongo, Mayuko Fujishita, Yu Takahashi, and Yuki Adachi. “Protective effects of astaxanthin on skin deterioration.” J Clin Biochem Nutr. 2017 Jul; 61(1): 33–39.
“Astaxanthin & Key Carotenoids: Creating Leading Edge Eye Healthcare Formulations.” Dr Rudi E. Moerck. Link to presentation.
“Astaxanthin and eye health: the newest carotenoid dietary supplement solution..” The Free Library. 2008 Via Media Ltd. 24 Apr. 2018 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Astaxanthin+and+eye+health%3a+the+newest+carotenoid+dietary+supplement…-a0199464692
Podcast with Dr. Robert Corish “Astaxanthin, the World’s Strongest Antioxidant |
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Thanks for your support in the past days.
On the arrival of the New Year,Anxin has made a statement announcing three-day holiday(Jan1-3,2011)on New Year's day. Of course,there will be an operator on duty. If your business is urgent,please contact us by email.
Sorry for the Inconvenience during New Year's Day Holiday.
Wish every family a happy reunion!
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An MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, is an important tool for getting an accurate diagnosis. It shows the soft tissue inside and around an injured joint, which can more accurately determine the extent of an injury.
What to expect
A radiologist examines the films and typically provides the results to Dr. Bill Snyder within a day. Dr. Snyder reviews them with patients, allowing ample time for discussion and questions about the diagnosis.
What’s the difference between an MRI and X-RAY?
MRIs are non-invasive, and a technician places the injured knee or shoulder under a magnetic field for viewing, while the patient comfortable reclines. If you have a metal implant, such as a pacemaker, metallic chip, or surgical clip, or are pregnant, MRIs are discouraged.
X-rays are another type of viewing technology we utilize for diagnoses, but for bone injuries rather than soft tissue. We take great care to diagnose and treat all injuries in-office, safely and accurately, using MRI and X-ray technology.
We take care of you on-site, state certified Surgery Center. You don’t have to go to a hospital.
You will receive same-day service — walk in, walk out – no crutches, no overnight stays.
There is a comfortable waiting area for family & friends, complete with refreshments, snacks and DVD/ Satellite Entertainment Theatre.
We use minimally invasive surgical procedures that dramatically reduce your recovery time.
The same friendly, reliable staff is with you from consultation through rehabilitation.
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The practical solution for households who love home-cooked food that doesn't eat your time, the Indesit Aria IFW 6340 IX UK Oven in graphite offers 66L of cooking capacity, fan assistance, digital timer and great easy-cleaning technology. Giving you great results in just one turn, simplify your daily cooking with Turn&Cook - a clever function that automatically sets the cooking time and oven temperature for more than 80 everyday family recipes. Plus, there's no need to worry about over-cooking, as the oven will automatically turn itself off when the program is finished. From tasty pasta dishes to perfectly risen sponges, Turn&Cook is the ideal solution for busy families - just one turn, one hour and your favourite dishes are perfectly cooked and ready to eat.
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Ecommerce Marketplace Development | Multi Vendor Ecommerce
Don’t limit yourself to running a basic online store. Because, with few changes, you can upgrade your business and give scope to ecommerce marketplace development. Follow this blog to understand its benefits, business models, & how to create one. Also, you can learn why collaborating with a software agency like Appsierra can be the best choice.
Today, online businesses hold the golden key to the future of ecommerce. They are flexible, versatile, independent, and the perfect choice to run a profitable firm. But is the ecommerce platform or website the only option to manage vendors and customers?
NO! If you want to go big and have more control over the entire business facilitation, then “Ecommerce Marketplace Development” is the right path.
Yes, you just read that right. Ecommerce marketplace allows vendors to have better space and greater purchase deals. Not only this, but it also provides customers with numerous alternatives and lets them enjoy the best user experience with shopping. So, let’s start by learning what the marketplace is.
In what way can the ecommerce marketplace be defined?
The ecommerce marketplace is a hybrid platform where customers can find products of diverse brands from multiple vendors and shops showcasing together. Here, marketplace owners take care of all advertising and processing transactions. Whereas third-party vendors deal with manufacturing goods and shipping them to customers.
If you have more control over financial transactions, inventory management, discounts, and the delivery process, then you come under the marketplace. The best examples we have are Flipkart, Amazon, Etsy, etc. However, if your business just connects buyers and sellers with their independent prices, then it's an ecommerce platform like Shopify & Magento.
The global marketplace ecommerce development services revenue is forecasted to reach $27.1 trillion by 2027. Now, let’s explore more of its benefits in the next section.
List of benefits of ecommerce marketplace development
Usually, ecommerce marketplace development comes with many benefits and a better scope of expansion than normal ecommerce platforms. Let’s see some of them in detail:
Easy to set up
The building of a marketplace is comparatively easy if you have experience in this field. Also, owners need not invest heavily in stock acquisition. Because sellers will manage the inventory, you will have the authority to customize the framework and improve the overall shopping experience of users.
Another benefit is that ecommerce marketplace developers are cheap to hire. Also, you can save a lot of capital expenditure on physical stores and inventory storage for a B2C model. Not to mention, you can expand your multi-vendor marketplace using the same website as your base in the long run.
Variety of products
If you aim to invest in ecommerce marketplace development, then make sure it is a multi-vendor one. After COVID-19, the point of purchase worldwide started focusing on the Internet. And it has seen more rise, which will not reduce soon. Also, with a marketplace, selling a diverse range of products through a single website is easy.
With an ecommerce marketplace, you can have better control over the prices and discounts on every item. It’s transparent to both you and buyers, so there is less chance of disruptions. Not to mention how you can attract major user traffic frequently by giving out sales on special occasions. And even advertise banks during payment options.
So, these are some of the benefits you get when you build ecommerce development services. Further, let’s see its different types of business models in the next section.
What are the types of business models in the marketplace?
Usually, ecommerce seems like a simple business. But, in reality, it has a variety of business models and types. Here, anybody can sell to anyone, regardless of consumer or business. It’s possible in almost every sector if you either participate in a multi vendor ecommerce website development or choose a host. Today, let's take a look at several of the models:
In the business-to-consumer platform, many businesses sell products to customers. This one is common, and you can see it in your daily life. The best example of B2C ecommerce marketplace development is Amazon, which takes a commission rate from each seller’s sales as a fee to showcase their products.
Consumer-to-consumer platforms allow one customer to sell their new or old goods to another. In case of more competition for a single item, then the highest bidder in the auction will purchase. This marketplace takes a small percentage of money after each transaction.
This platform allows transactions between different businesses. For instance, we have an Alibaba website where manufacturers sell goods to masses around the world. At the same time, wholesalers can purchase from them. They charge a membership fee from their sellers.
This type of ecommerce marketplace development usually connects providers with customers in need of it. We have Zomato and Uber to set this criteria. They serve those who are requesting a service from them. Usually, this platform charges a commission for each payment.
These platforms host many types of products and services from a diverse range of sectors. You can shop for clothes and electrical goods like TVs from the same website that belongs to this category. Here, they generate money by taking commissions from sellers.
Just as the name implies, the sellers can share the availability of their goods, like rooms and houses, to rent on the platform. We have Airbnb and Trivago that showcase the prices to rent for travelers. Here, they charge a service fee from the providers on every booking.
Hybrid marketplaces are a combination of two or three business models. If we observe the examples, we can see Flipkart’s main purpose is the B2C marketplace. On the contrary, it also fulfills the criteria of C2C, B2B, and vertical types.
Here, all the mentioned types indicate the difference between user needs, transactions, and the purpose of their interaction. Now, let’s see the procedure for ecommerce marketplace development with detailed steps in the next section.
How can an online ecommerce marketplace be built?
By now, you would have a clear idea of the business model you want to adopt. But, to build an online marketplace, you need to follow this step-by-step information. So, in the end, you can create an outline for your marketplace without any issues. Take a quick look:
Define your concept
First, in ecommerce marketplace development, define your idea of the marketplace. Like what type of products and services you want to sell, who the target audience and sellers are, and what your platform’s specialty is. Then, thoroughly research to know your competitors and their flaws that you can fill.
Design a business model
After selecting your fundamental details, you can now focus on how you want to create an income source from third-party providers. It can be a transaction fee, subscription, or listing fee. But make sure that your pricing strategy is viable & better than competitors.
Think about features
Outline your features, themes, colors, logo, domain name, link, functionality, and other ecommerce platform needs. Then, think about free sign-ups, user profiles, inventory listings, payment getaways, and rating systems from both sellers and buyers.
You can either hire ecommerce marketplace development experts to build your marketplace from scratch or use prebuilt software. But make sure they serve your timeline & needs within the budget. Also, look for their experience in integrating payment processing applications.
Build the infrastructure and test
While building the features, check if they are performing as intended. Here, it’s better to recruit ecommerce development services with an expert team like Appsierra. Further, conduct thorough testing on payment, selection, recommendations, and other features.
Attract sellers and launch
Before launching, attract sellers to join your marketplace. Offer them incentives and less commission for a while. Then, together with the initial providers, you can launch the marketplace website & mobile applications on popular search engines like Google.
Advertise and endorse
Use marketing strategies and advertise your marketplace brand name on social media with paid ads and partnerships. Consequently, collect primary feedback from the users to understand the issues & glitches. Then, start working on the improvements for the update.
Scale and expand
As time passes, you will continuously invest in the development of the ecommerce marketplace as it gains fame and scope for growth. At this stage, you can expand your categories to other sectors. Induce a community and rewarding system to improve user experience and trust.
Remember, ecommerce marketplace development is a give-and-take trust process between buyers and sellers. At the same time, you need to provide the best features for both of them to invest in. So, it is better to partner up with an experienced company like Appsierra to do all the work for reduced prices.
Let Appsierra help you develop your ecommerce website!
Appsierra has good expertise in multi vendor ecommerce website development. We have automated tools, customized wireframes, and the best employees to build and handle the entire marketplace. If you look at our achievements, you will know our dedication and commitment to work. Therefore, merging with us means more advantages:
Increased efficiency and speed
If Appsierra is your ecommerce marketplace development partner, we focus on reducing the complexity of the system and promoting ease of use while designing features. Also, we introduce the newest processes with integrated AI/ML methodologies, including cutting-edge machine learning services, to increase the efficiency and speed of the application.
Better transaction process
We have a better tool stack to create smooth and effortless transaction getaway options for your customers. We will design the payment processing, set pricing policies as per your terms, and test them rigorously to showcase the best performance. Also, you can easily track the pending commissions from sellers.
We, as an ecommerce marketplace development partner, understand the need to satisfy both sellers and buyers on the same scale to stay afloat in the competition. That’s why we design personalized approaches by thoroughly researching your customer’s palette. Likewise, we take regular feedback from stakeholders to create new modifications.
Smart inventory and cloud storage
Your sellers might have the ultimate control over inventory management. But you can monitor their stock flow and storage charges to create better discounts for customers and profits for the business. Also, we provide an in-built cloud warehouse to store every transaction automatically and analyze the results.
Ecommerce marketplace development means establishing a large-scale business online with better profits, scope for growth, and a future-oriented business platform that is way better than others.
And you will have business until you have people. So, isn’t it a sweet deal to invest? However, you can place a better bet with the best outcome if you partner up with an outsourcing company like Appsierra.
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LONDON: Leaving the European Union without a proper divorce deal could ground airlines, stop hauliers from lugging goods to the world’s biggest trading bloc and even make headaches for pet owners who want to take their dogs on holiday, according to government documents.
With just six months to go until the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on March 29, Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that negotiations are at an impasse and that the EU must come up with new proposals on how to craft a divorce settlement.
Many business chiefs and investors fear politics could scupper an agreement, thrusting the world’s fifth largest economy into a “no-deal” Brexit that they say would spook financial markets and silt up the arteries of trade.
Britain, which has warned it could leave without a deal, published 25 technical notices on Monday covering everything from commercial road haulage and buying timber to airline regulations and taking pets abroad.
“If the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no agreement in place, UK and EU licensed airlines would lose the automatic right to operate air services between the UK and the EU without seeking advance permission,” the government said.
Overall, the government has published more than 65 such notices giving a glimpse of what a no-deal Brexit — the nightmare scenario for chief executives of most multinationals operating in Britain — would look like.
Amid warnings that trucks could stack up on both sides of the English Channel in the confusion of a no deal, Britain said it would seek to strike bilateral agreements with European countries to ensure hauliers would retain access.
The notices covered a vast swathe of the British economy, warning, for example, that labels on packaged food would have to be changed.
“Use of the term ‘EU’ in origin labelling would no longer be correct for food or ingredients from the UK,” the government said.
Honey producers would have to change their labels while EU countries might not accept British mineral water, the government said.
In the worse case scenario for pet owners, dogs, cats and even ferrets might need health certificates and rabies jabs. Travel plans would have to be discussed with a vet at least four months in advance before traveling to the EU.
That would mean someone wanting to take their pet to the EU on March 30, 2019, the day after Britain leaves the bloc, would have to discuss the trip with a vet before the end of November.
Without a deal, the UK would move from seamless trade with the rest of the EU to customs arrangements set by the World Trade Organization for external states with no preferential deals.
Brexiteers accept there is likely to be some short-term economic pain but say the government is trying to scare voters about the impact of a no-deal Brexit.
Britain, many Brexiteers say, will thrive in the longer term if cut loose from what they see as a doomed experiment in German-dominated unity and excessive debt-funded welfare spending. |
The readings for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time present the
conflict between the unredeemed within man and the wisdom of God. These
readings throw light on what is happening inside of each of us as we
open our hearts to God’s wisdom; it usually pinches!
In the first
reading, the voice of wisdom spells out what goes on in the heart of the
unjust. “Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he
sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the
law and charges us with violations of our training.”
words, the unjust say, “The just one’s words make us feel very
uncomfortable, therefore let us see whether his words be true; let us
find out what will happen to him. For if the just one be the son of God,
God will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes.”
will indeed defend the just one, but that doesn’t mean God will save
his life. Jesus was just, and God accepted His death as the ransom for
all. The martyrs testitfy with their blood that God saves the just from
In the second reading, James continues to
develop the contrast between the unredeemed in the human heart and the
wisdom that comes from above. Where jealousy and self-ambition exist
there is “disorder and every foul practice.”
On the other hand,
“The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle,
compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or
These readings are so timely. When we turn on the evening news, we can hardly say that we receive “the wisdom from above.”
of us should ask ourselves, “How much time do I spend daily listening
to the evening bad news compared to listening to the good news of the
word of God?” Listening just to the raw, unfiltered bad news may be
pleasing to my ego, but it is destructive to my relationship with God.
If it leads me to hold onto anger, I am importing darkness.
draw some egotistical comfort in thinking that I’m not as bad as
newsmakers, but that very endeavor leaves my spirit to languish. On the
other hand, when I spend quality time in reflecting on the wisdom that
comes from above, sometimes my soul is chastened with conviction because
the Holy Spirit, while showing me my sin, also makes forgiveness and
mercy so attractive. When I follow the Holy Spirit’s lead, my ego may be
thwarted but my spirit rejoices in the peace of God.
This is what
St. Benedict discovered for all of Europe. He taught people how to
meditate on God’s word and become true Christians. That’s the peace that
James offers us.
In the Gospel, we have a very dramatic case of applying the word of God to the unredeemed hearts of the apostles.
was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be
handed over to men and they will kill Him, and three days after His
death the Son of Man will rise.”
Jesus frankly tells His apostles
that He is going to Jerusalem to die. They don’t want to hear this, so
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Their best friend is on the way to His crucifixion, and the apostles are discussing who will inherit the spoils?
the word of God burns in our hearts, that’s when we know that we have
been had. That’s when we accept the invitation to mercy and a changed
way of life.
Shame, conviction, embarrassment, discomfort and
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trade in our compulsive behavior for God’s wisdom.
This leads us
to practice virtue. Forgiveness frees us from the chains of bondage and
enables us to participate in God’s mercy. Purity frees us from the
chains of lust and enables us to participate in the godly love of
others. I always encourage individuals who are enslaved with lust to
turn to Mary. If they are men, I encourage them to ask Mary to see all
women as beloved sisters of Jesus. This begets an immediate sea change
of perspective. If we love Jesus, we would never want to violate one of
The virtue of generosity sets us free from the
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of God. To be freed from the preoccupation of self-concern is truly a
liberating experience. Giving oneself away in loving service is
welcoming the kingdom of heaven into our hearts.
All of the above
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We carry within us the God of the universe, and yet so often
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The choice is ours. Today, the rest of my life can change
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NCO Saves Teens from Burning Vehicle
By NCO Journal
July 26, 2013
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The quick thinking of Staff Sgt. Michael Peters coupled with his Army training saved the lives of three teenagers trapped in a burning vehicle.
Peters, a trainer/mentor assigned to 2nd Battalion, 289 Field Artillery, 157th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East, and his wife, Debra Peters, were driving home from work July 19 at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, or CAJMTC, Ind., when they came upon a single-vehicle accident moments after it occurred.
The driver of the vehicle struck a tree head-on. A 15-year old passenger had exited the vehicle, but three other teens, ages 14, 16 and 18, were still inside.
When Peters and his wife stopped, two of the teens were pinned in the front of the vehicle, which was on fire. A third teen was unconscious in the back seat.
“We didn’t think about it; we just pulled over,” Michael Peters recalled. “Our thought was to clear the teens out before the vehicle was entirely engulfed (in flames).”
Peters immediately took charge of the situation, calling 911 and helping his wife get two of the teens out. A local police officer arrived in time to help pull the third injured teenager from the burning car. Worried about the flames, Peters moved all the teens to safety. Moments later, the vehicle was completely engulfed in flames.
Michael Peters, a recent graduate of the U.S. Army Combat Lifesavers Course, used his training to quickly assess the situation.
“I just did my A-B-C’s — airway, breathing, and circulation,” he said. “I could tell the driver had a broken femur. I kept him quiet by talking to him and let him know that help was on the way. I let him know that his buddies were being cared for by other people.”
“Staff Sergeant Peters just completed an iteration of medical training and happened to be in the right place at the right time to lend a hand,” said Maj. Arthur Rutnarak, executive officer with the 2-289th Field Artillery Battalion, 157th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East. “The 2-289th Field Artillery Battalion is honored to have Soldiers like Staff Sergeant Peters in their ranks, and we are proud he could support our local community in a time of need.”
Humble and modest about the situation, Micheal Peters insists any other Soldier in the same situation would have reacted in the same way.
“My Army training just kicked in,” said Michael Peters. “It wasn’t more than three minutes (after the teenagers were moved away) when the entire vehicle went up in flames. I just kept thinking, ‘what if we were (driving by) minutes too early, or too late.’ I’m glad my wife and I were there to help out.”
A 15-year Army veteran, Michael Peters has worked as an emergency medical technician in the past.
Debra Peters also remembered her basic life-saving training. She served nine years in the Army before getting out, and is now an administrative assistant for the Department of Public Works at CAJMTC.
“Once (Army training) is in you, it’s in you,” said Debra Peters. “I remembered to stay focused on the victims, stay calm and tried to get information from the teens to pass on to the first emergency responders.”
Johnson County Sherriff Doug Cox credited the Peters duo with saving three lives. He said anyone stuck in the vehicles would have perished.
Due to a head injury, one teen was air lifted to a nearby hospital where he is still hospitalized, but is in good condition. The other three were also transported to local hospitals, two with fractures and broken bones. Two of the three have been released and are recovering at home.
“I appreciate the Peters’ so much,” said Angela Egner, mother of injured teen, Austin, 15. “My son wouldn’t probably be here today if it weren’t for them. They are two angels sent by God to save those boys. I don’t think they can ever know how much I appreciate them.”
“When my parents told me what happened, I was so happy they were able to help,” said Michaela Peters, 15, Michael and Debra’s daughter. “I am proud to call them my parents.”
Michael Peters’ military leaders are also proud of their actions.
“With a combined total of 25 years of U.S. Army service between Staff Sergeant Peters and Mrs. Peters, their actions validate the epitome of the U.S. Army Soldier,” said Col. Brandt Deck, commander of the 157th Infantry Brigade, First Army Division East. “Relying upon their training, the Peters’ reacted positively, without fear or hesitation for their own safety and saved three young teenagers. The 157th Infantry Brigade could not be more proud of Staff Sergeant Peters and Mrs. Peters.”
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I got a chance to try out the Sterling Reflection at the Lumpy Waters Symposium in Oregon in 2019, and I remember my first paddle with it into the surf. Immediately, I felt that my surfing skills had been upgraded from intermediate to advanced. Timing the catching of the wave became quicker, and steering on top the wave became simpler. "Oh, I think right and the boat goes right, and left and the boat goes left!" This boat gave me a level of confidence is my abilities that I had never felt before or since. Plunging down the face of a six foot swell, suddenly didn't feel scary anymore. If Miami had a reasonable surfing conditions throughout the year, I would have bought the demo boat and taken it home with me. If I ever mover to a place like California or the Pacific Northwest, I will buy this boat. I wish my touring kayak had a button to transform into a Sterling reflection whenever I want to catch a wave.
The Reflection has sufficient cargo space both in the front and back hatches for short and medium expeditions. The front hatch is 10 inches wide and allows most drybags and gear to pass through with ease. The rear oval hatch is well suited to fit long objects such as tent poles. The day hatch behind the seat is 8 inches and suited for smaller items. The day hatch does share some space with the skegg box which can get in the way of things. One of the things I wish this kayak had is a front day catch in front of the cockpit to easily access items such as your phone, sunscreen a few snacks and other things you might want to grab on the go.
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This is not a fast boat that you will be using to cover long distances. If you don't have the skegg down the boat will wabble from side to side on the forward stroke, but once you put it down, it will not be a problem keeping up with a flotilla paddling along the coast.
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The Reflection is the ideal play boat. The boat has a lot of rocker and is almost like a double bow. It only takes an edge and a single stroke to turn 90 degrees and get you ready to catch a wave, and you can quickly accelerate to into the right position on top of the wave. You'll also find that the boat is very responsive to your stern rudder, and it only takes a slight edge to straighten yourself and hold on to the wave, or change direction. If you find yourself leaning into a foam pile, you can recover and continue to ride the wave with only a couple of strokes.
The YouTube Videos below from Reg Lake, Jay Howell, and Ut Naturen AS show people surfing a sterling reflection.
The kayak comes with a comfortable seat that can be molded and shaped to the paddler's preference. The thigh braces can also be fitted with extra padding for comfort, though I did not find that to be necessary.
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Not everyone can make it as a professional artist. Although some people believe artists are gifted and born with the talent, it takes much more than that to succeed. Just being able to draw well is not enough. There are other qualities that artists need in order to have successful art careers.
- Of course, the main quality of a successful artist is the ability to draw or paint. They need to have artistic talent, including an eye for color and design, and knowledge of the many types of art tools used. Skill is needed to draw objects and people exactly as they appear or to create works of art that people will enjoy and possibly purchase. An artist should include her best works of art in a portfolio that is kept with her at all t imes, so that when she comes across someone interested in her work, she has samples to demonstrate.
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- Communications skills are also important. Of course, visual communication is a big part of art—that is, being able to communicate and express your feelings through your artwork. However, oral communication is important as well if you’re using your artistic talent as a career, since you’ll need to be able to sell yourself. You’ll need to communicate with others to market your work. If you want to profit from your work, you’ll need to talk to and network with others to gain potential customers and make a sale.
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This appears to have been painted by the same hand as another portrait in the same collection. ‘Portrait of an Unknown Young Gentleman in a Grey Coat with a Green Collar’, by Mason Chamberlin the elder (1727–1787), was also given to the National Trust with the house as a hotel by Richard Broyd in 2008. https://bit.ly/35AefBe
Chamberlin had a penchant for painting young men as if their faces had been powdered and rouged, which gives their complexions a somewhat artificial quality, as in these examples in the collection of Fairfax House.
Could the sheet music and flute point to a likely sitter? Although the flute was very much a gentleman’s instrument around that time, Chamberlin painted Samuel Richardson with a pen and writing board, the architect Kenton Couse with a scale drawing and dividers, and the theologian Samuel Chandler with religious and classical texts, which implies that the objects in this picture might have constituted more than a pastime.
Someone in the circle of Karl Friedrich Abel or Johann Christian Bach? They were good friends of Gainsborough, who painted them both.
Did a search and Popped this up. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/mason-chamberlin-the-elder-r-a-1727-1787-port-3-c-p303otv0yn# . They claim it's by Chamberlin. I don't think so. Then Looked these over, on this site, https://www.artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:chamberlin-the-elder-mason-17271787. Obviously the first painting is Not by the Same Hand. Then compared this to them all. https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Portrait-of-a-Family--The-Man-Holding-a-/F9B6AA7EB9E799A6. This feels like the Chamberlin Paintings on the Art UK site. Sotheby's has this as "Attributed to Chamberlin," I don't think so folks, The Hands and The Dress aren't quite right. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/19th-century-british-and-continental-pictures-w05703/lot.10.html. This is at the Royal Academy. Which presumably means it's actually a Chamberlin. Notice the coat. Even in a Photograph you can feel it between your fingers. The hands are superb. The Bodies attitude and the facial expression are exceptional. The whole piece projects Educated Well To Do Man painted by an exceptional Portrait Artist. Here's another example of Chamberlin's skill. http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1271064. I Just don't see this Painting (The one in question) in Chamberlin's league. Maybe it was painted by one of his students.
Sorry, I forgot to Post the Link to the Dr Hunter portrait at the Royal Academy. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/portrait-of-dr-william-hunter-1. If you are trying to decide if a painting is by Chamberlin, I would use Dr. Hunter's portrait as a starting place. If your painting is not of that quality it probably isn't a Chamberlin.
For context and/or comparison, Gainsborough's portrait of William Wollaston with flute and sheet music:
His portrait with William Keable playing the flute:
And his portrait of the oboe virtuoso and composer Johann Christian Fischer, who also wrote for the flute:
Could the sitter possibly be a member of the Arne family?? Perhaps Michael Arne???
Looks like Tilly Kettle? It has that odd construction of the head that Ellis Waterhouse remarked upon. Compare, eg, portrait by Kettle of John Owen of Penrhos http://www.artnet.fr/artistes/tilly-kettle/portrait-of-john-owen-of-penrhos-three-quarter-nbF66GilISf2Pl2y5Xv-Ww2 His head-only portraits are similarly aggressively thrust up against the picture plane, and often with an attribute shoved into the foreground, as here
While this may not be by Chamberlin, I do not see Kettle as a more plausible attribution, even if he is not out of the question. It would be of interest to have a costume expert assign a date to this picture.
Marion- I had looked at Zoffany's portrait and thought that it was a man of about 40 years old-and I thought the sitter here is about 18 or 20 years old-and youths look much better before they get older, and Thomas had the money to pay for a portrait of his son- and I thought there were elements of similarity--I thought the noses were very similar-adjusting for the different angles-- anyway that was how I thought :-) .
This man has a dimpled chin, which the Zoffany portrait of Arne does not.
Is there an explanation somewhere for his hair? I can't tell if it's been cleaned away or someone has added some on at a later date. And it still doesn't feel like a Chamberlin.
I wonder if the artist could be Nathaniel Hone, the Elder, who painted the picture of the Hon. Edward Finch Hatton loading his rifle at Middlethorpe Hall? Apparently, he often used his son, John Camillus Hone in his work and there is a youthful image of him at the NPG called The Piping Boy. Could your portrait be him as a young man? (The NPG mezzotint is described as 'after Nathaniel Hone', however.)
Rosy, that is interesting, but the boy's prominent wide eyes do no match our portrait. Here is another painting of him by his father:
The NPG print, by the way, is described as "after Hone" because it is an engraving by someone else after Hone's painting, or a copy.
Chamberlin reportedly showed 50 portraits at the RA between 1769 and 1786, but most of the sitters are unnamed in the catalogues. If this picture is by him, the apparently unfinished painting of the hair might mean it was in progress when he died in early 1787. We need a costume expert to tell us if the dress and hair match that date.
I have another possibility to propose, Edward Penny (1714-91):
However, I still like Chamberlin.
The More Portraits from that time-frame I look at the More I Like Chamberlin, too. Maybe you hit the nail on the head its unfinished which is why it doesn't feel like a Chamberlin to me. Though everytime I look at another candidate it feels more and more like a Chamberlin. Any dating on the Coat yet>?
I'm afraid the dating of the hair and dress will have to come from someone else with greater knowledge in that area than mine.
The key period 'style' elements in the clothes in this portrait are the design of the wig and the dark brown velvet revers to the collar, with a striped yellowish striped fabric from the waistcoat beneath showing - including a buttonhole. This style reflects the more informal English tailored woollen, hunting dress-inspired style – seen in British portraits from c 1760 -70. Looking around at portraits would suggest a date of c 1765 for this portrait. I don't understand why there is talk about the hair being 'unfinished' nor why the sitter is being referred to as a 'boy.' ... a youngish man, but not a 'boy'.
Lou, the hair along the sitter's right hairline appears grey as opposed to brown, which may have been intentional but also suggested the possibility that it might have been left unfinished (though it might also be a cleaning or restoration effect). As for "boy," you must have misinterpreted the references to a picture of a boy by Nathaniel Hone made at the beginning of February, which did not refer to our man.
To my mind, the grey hair in the front and then the darker colour behind was to do with shadowing- as with the darkness on the lower part of the coat in this portrait.... but then I am not an art historian, so I will say no more.
There IS a possibility of a later date-see attachment; Charles Rousseau-Burney, late 1770s by Gainsborough (Met.NY) but I found far more similarly styled portraits in the 1760s.
Our fellow appears to have a crew cut on the top and half the right side of his head and then his hair goes long again. I've never been certain if the painter meant to portray a wig or that's actually the sitters real hair. Either way it looks unfinished or damaged by someone. If it was done in the 1760s then it probably is by Chamberlin.
Does Bendor Grosvenor, Group Leader for British 18th century portraits, have an opinion as to the artist here?
Not by Chamberlin. The identity of the artist is not obvious.
Marion's question, the first in this discussion, remains pertinent, "Could the sheet music and flute point to a likely sitter?" We should ask if the music is identifiable by an historian of music. Clearly the man was proud of it, whether as composer or performer.
What makes you dismiss Chamberlin as a possibility, Jacob?
Chamberlin's faces are more rugged and he rarely used an oval surround with attributes such as the music in this portrait.
Cotes's handling of paint is thicker and his poses varied and again he rarely used an oval surround, which was quite old-fashioned by the 1760s.
I know their styles intimately. Of course an artist's style varied to a degree according to circumstances. But without a document to the contrary it is my opinion that this portrait is not by either artist. Instead we are looking for someone rather more obscure, I suspect.
Jacinto - I don't know if you've found the artist. This doesn't look quite good enough to be Cotes in the '60s and it's also quite 'old-fashioned' for him - he doesn't normally use 'feigned ovals' for instance.
But maybe you've found the sitter. The first of your links to Portrait of a Gentleman (said to be Thomas Estcourt), looks very much like the sitter here. Same facial features (mouth, nose, chin, eyebrows etc) similar expression, pose and hair. And also holding a flute. Obviously the Marble Hill House portrait is of an man at least 10 (probably more) years older and 10 pounds heavier, but the likeness is remarkable.
But there is problem with the latter portrait as well. Because this can't be Thomas Estcourt - at least not this one:
because he would only have been 22 when Cotes died in 1770 and that is clearly an older man. Possibly the identification comes from the Batoni portrait linked to by that Wiki and dated to 1772. There's certainly a facial resemblance (though the Batoni is more flattering) and again the sitter is holding a flute. So if it's the same guy the other one can't be by Cotes. So rather than resolving things, this must just make them more confusing.
That'll teach me to refresh the page before posting, as I hadn't seen Jacob making the points about Cotes better than me, first.
Also I forgot the Parentheses Problem. Have a shortened form:
and a direct link to the Batoni:
Is there something written on the visible end of the flute at lower left? Can we get a close-up of that at the highest available resolution?
David, can we get a close-up of that at the highest available resolution of the visible end of the flute at lower left? There may be something written on it.
I'd like to see a close-up of the curved beige area in the lower right side of this work.
A close up of the music, in high resolution, would be useful. It might be possible to glean something from the music itself.
I had asked for a close-up of the visible end of the flute at lower left at the best available resolution, and Marcie had asked for such a close-up of the curved flat inner rim of the frame at lower right. |
Simon Bailey is the Chair of the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER), taking up the post in September 2021.
Simon Bailey was a police officer for 29 years, serving predominantly as a detective in King’s Lynn and Norwich.
Simon Bailey retired in June 2021 after 35 years' service as a police officer, the last eight as the Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary. He was the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection and oversaw the service response to violence and public protection.
As Child Protection Lead, Simon led Operation Hydrant, the national coordination centre for the non-recent sexual abuse of children in institutions and at the hands of persons in position of public prominence. He also led the service response to the threat of online harms and under his leadership UK policing has been recognised and acknowledged as the best in the world at targeting offenders.
Since retiring Simon has been building a portfolio of appointments focused on tackling, exploitation, abuse and vulnerability including the Chair of the Policing Institute for the East Region and Director of Strategic Engagement with the Child Rescue Coalition.
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What is B2B Data?
Ways to Build It & Ways to use it in Email Marketing Campaigns.
Table of Content
1. What is B2B Data?
2. How are B2B Email Data lists built?
3. What can you do with B2B Data?
4. What are the types of B2B Data points available?
5. Sources of B2B Data
6. How can Marketers or Salespeople build a Database?
7. Why outsourcing to a Data Research Company is better?
01. What is B2B Data?
Definition – B2B data is any form of information regarding companies and markets that helps in business processes and revenue generation. B2B data generally consists of a list or database of individual contacts with many data points that can be used for various sales and marketing activities. It is gathered from various public and private sources and can be applied to many business tasks, especially marketing and sales campaigns.
No matter what industry you are in, if you are a business selling a product or service to another business, you will need B2B data.
This b2b data is accessed in the form of a b2b email list is a list of email addresses. The list can also include phone numbers and other company details. These lists are essential for marketing, sales and business development teams during their outreach campaigns. These lists can be used for sending out email campaigns, as well as making cold calls.
Email lists can be built manually or organically, or they can be purchased from b2b data providers. Most data providers build and store databases, while few build custom databases from the ground up for each individual client project.
02. How are B2B Email Data lists built?
These lists are built through sourcing, validation, cleaning, refresh, and adding layers of business intelligence to it to help you build your list, know when is the right time to approach, what messaging to use for communication, and close deals faster.
Sourcing helps you gather data, validation helps you make sure the email addresses and phone numbers are valid, and lastly intelligence and insight give you market and competitor data that will help you enrich your marketing and sales pipeline.
03. Where are Marketing Databases most valuable in an organisation? Or What can you do with B2B Data?
Sales – Contact lists save a lot of time for Sales reps looking for the right prospects in their cold calling and emailing efforts.
Marketing – Marketers always need to build high quality email databases for marketing and sales campaigns. These email databases can target very specific or granular industry segments and even provide additional market intelligence that helps in targeting and reaching out to leads with the right message at the right time.
What can B2B Data Services be used for?
Depending on the data you hold for each contact, different communication channels can be used to deliver your message to them. For example, having just an email address gives sales reps the ability to contact only via email. However, obtaining a phone number and even social media accounts opens up the opportunity for multi-channel outreach which will increase the chances of connecting with your contacts.
Such activities can include creating your Ideal Customer Profile, lead generation, outbound sales, analytics, and more.
An email list or database is very important to your revenue success. It facilitates the process of prospecting, lead generation and outreach activities for sales and marketing teams. In other words, it helps you discover and target the right prospects and decision makers.
04. What are the types of B2B Data points available for building a B2B Email List or a Marketing Database?
Firmographic data is the different characteristics used to segment companies into groups. These can include information such as industry, company size and revenue.
Demographic data is descriptive data about the person you are targeting. You can use it to label and segment your data into areas such as age, gender, email ID, phone number, location, and skills.
Company data is the information on the companies or accounts you intend to target. It helps give you more insight into each account to help find who to target and how to target them better by either personalising your message or refining your proposal.
Contact data gives you information about the people at the company or account you want to connect with. The data will include data points such as contact name, job title (e.g. CEO, head of sales, director), Department (e.g. accounting, general management, marketing) and email address, phone number, Tenure, which refers to how long they have held the position.
Engagement data shows the interactions between your prospect and your company. This can show if they previously downloaded something from you, liked your post on social media, or the amount of time spent browsing your website. It can also be used to retarget those contacts who could have opened an email or clicked on your ad but did not act further on it.
Intent data is behavioural data based on insights captured through web usage. It identifies the user’s purchase intent to see if and when they are looking to purchase.
The data will tell you about the products or services they are researching about. Using internet trackers, intent data can be collected from those who visit your website or similar websites such as a competitor’s or comparison websites.
Technographic data refers to the different technologies (or technology stack) your target companies are using. These can include hardware, software, digital tools, platforms, etc.
With the number of technologies available rapidly increasing and being adopted by companies, understanding what technologies they are using can enable you to personalise your proposal in a way that is meaningful for them.
05. Sources of B2B Data
Primary research is a method used by researchers to collect data directly, rather than depending on data collected from previously done research.
Technically, they “own” the data. Primary research is carried out to solve a certain problem, which requires in-depth analysis. Businesses or organisations can themselves conduct primary research or can employ a third party to conduct research on their behalf.
Primary and Secondary research, through interaction with C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies, regarding their current performance, transactions in niche markets, and future launches.
Web based resources like business directories, industry commerce sites, country departmental sources, company annual reports, market reports, SEC filings, form 990, capital and private market data, magazines, publications and journals, trade shows, conferences etc.
06. How can Marketers or Salespeople build a b2b Database?
There are three main ways of sourcing b2b data.
Building an email list organically
This requires an organisation to create useful or educational content around their area of expertise. This builds trust in the minds of users and encourages them to share their email addresses through online forms, thus giving their consent to receive promotional emails. The disadvantage here is you’ll have to train a team in content marketing and have infrastructure available in-house. This requires a lot of time and resources.
Downloading from an online database
Small and mid sized businesses can use email finder tools and grow their email list. These methods are not very expensive and can be used under financial constraints, preventing the company from outsourcing their data collection. This is a quicker method, but comes with the downside of lack of accuracy and customisation. You will end up with a lot of email bounces in your marketing campaigns, and the risk of being marked as spam. Another downside is that databases can be pre built only for the most sought after industries like IT, real estate, banking and finance etc. There are many niche industries like oil and gas, infrastructure, renewable energy etc. that do not have high demand for data and hence pre built databases are not available.
Partnering with a data research company
In cases where organisations need custom company and contact data lists, partnering with data researchers is the best option. It guarantees customisation, accuracy and exclusivity. You will have GDPR compliant and SLA guaranteed data, along with single and double opt-in consent. Your CRM data will always be refreshed in real time. Some partner companies even tell you the date and time your data was last updated.
All this is possible because of the team of researchers available full time for your research project. They can even replace contacts that get stale during your email or cold call campaign.
This aspect of partnership in data research ensures the success of your email or cold call campaign, and gives you higher chances of achieving a 100% ROI on your campaign.
07. Why outsourcing to an Email Data Research Company is better than downloading from a pre-built database?
When choosing between downloading from an existing database or partnering with a data research company, the main consideration is how much accuracy and success rate your organisation expects from its marketing campaigns, what are your organisation’s long term expectations, and how much of a role does data play in your marketing, sales and business development efforts.
The biggest advantage of outsourcing B2B data is having professionals with a specific skill set do the job for you. Another reason why smart B2B businesses prefer commissioning a third-party firm is that this approach technically cuts costs. For example, you don’t have to invest in infrastructure, space, storage, and training your IT staff.
Speaking of cutting costs, don’t forget that you only hire the specialist firm for the duration of that particular project. So when their job is done, there won’t be extra costs to incur on your side.
Many data vendors may attract users by offering their downloadable lists at a low cost, since they are built for scale. But in the long run these lists turn out to be more expensive, as a lot of data turns out to be stale. Research partners charge for freshly sourced, exclusive data that is profitable in the long run. So there is a comparative cost benefit in the long run due to higher data accuracy, and not having to maintain a specialised team and infrastructure, which finally lowers the cost per lead.
What criteria should a company bear in mind before going in for a data partner or downloading from a database?
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To help relieve pain while sitting and to improve your sitting posture, make sure your hips and knees are at about a 90 degree angle. This is allows you to have good posture and distribute the weight evenly throughout your body.
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Biden Signals Support For Voting Rights
As Republicans in statehouses across the country introduce hundreds of bills raising barriers to vote, President Biden is issuing a new executive order signaling his administration's commitment to expanding, not shrinking, voting access and rights.
Among other things, the order directs federal agencies to put together plans to "promote voter registration and participation." It also directs the General Services Administration to put together a plan improving the accessibility and user experience of vote.gov. Federal agencies will also be ordered to examine how they can increase federal employees' voting access, or ability to take time off work to serve as poll workers.
The order appears to be more about signaling Biden's policy priorities than enacting major changes in federal voting rights policies.
Expansive new federal protections for voting rights would only come via a new voting rights bill. The House passed a broad voting measure last week. It would mandate automatic voter registration, bar state voter ID laws, and restore voting rights for felons, among other changes.
But the legislation, HR 1, appears blocked, for now, by Senate rules requiring support from 60 senators for bills to advance. Republicans in Congress are united in opposing the measure authored by Democrats. Former President Donald Trump's false claims of widespread voter fraud, while rejected by federal judge after federal judge, have further galvanized the Republican Party into pushing for more barriers in the voting process, including restrictions on early voting days, and more identification requirements for mail-in ballots, among other proposals in dozens of statehouses.
"Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have it counted," Biden will say in a prerecorded message that will be played on Sunday at a virtual gathering honoring the anniversary of the racist police attack on the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march led by John Lewis. "If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide," Biden will say. "Let more people vote."
Biden's message comes just days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a casethat would uphold restrictive voting laws in Arizona.
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ASQA | Spotlight On Student support, Chapter 4
Support during online delivery
Chapter 4 aims to help training providers to develop support during online delivery to maintain quality learning outcomes.
The move to online learning
There has been a notable increase of online delivery since 2020, highlighting the importance of providing additional support for students undertaking online training and assessment.
While the Standards do not outline the difference in support for online students, our Strategic Review into Online Learning confirmed that there are additional or different support needs for these students.
For example, in the second paper of the strategic review, we identified “screen fatigue” as an issue, where a student may disengage due to a lack of face to face contact. It can also lead to health issues such as blurred vision, headaches and muscular pain.
Successful learning online
To help your online students achieve success, you can:
- determine a student’s digital literacy skills before enrolment
- engage students by providing frequent communication channels.
Determining digital literacy skills at pre-enrolment
As well as determining the language, literacy and numeracy skills, you need to ensure an online student has sufficient digital literacy to succeed in an online environment.
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment's Digital Literacy Skills Framework gives clear direction on digital literacy requirements for a potential student. Like other language, literacy, numeracy and digital (LLND) assessments, it’s necessary to work out if any gaps can be resolved with little to no financial or time cost to students.
Ensuring online access
Besides digital literacy skills, you will need to ensure the student has the resources to access the online environment, such as a computer or a headset. They may also require alternative accessibility tools, such as video subtitles.
Student engagement through communication
Monitoring online progress
In chapter 3, we discussed the importance of monitoring a student’s engagement and progress. This is even more relevant for online students as they are not regularly observed in-person.
To prevent students from feeling isolated, we recommend:
- regular one-on-one communication between students and trainers
- providing digital communication methods for students to reach out to support staff and their course mates, such as an online chat portal or a monitored group email inbox.
There may be informal support services available to your students in their local community. This could be places like local libraries, peer groups or support network contacts.
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Early childhood interventions are believed to be a key step towards ending the cycle of poverty. This belief is based upon the large evidence base that demonstrates that good childhood development (measured in various ways) is highly predictive of a large variety of positive outcomes later in life. If we give children the emotional, social and cognitive support they need in their early years it is hoped that this will make a lasting improvement that persists for the rest of their lives and halt the transmission of negative social problems from one generation to the next.
However, high quality intervention studies are rare, making it difficult to know which type of approach will work (if any). The lack of research is unsurprising due to the fact that this kind of study is very hard to do well. They usually require a huge investment in time, money and effort. Furthermore, they involve a number of complex factors that might affect both the validity and applicability of the results, such as individual teaching style and child demographics.
This is what makes the recent study into the effectiveness of Tools of the Mind , an early intervention programme, by Drs Blair and Raver from New York University a particularly interesting research piece. They argue that children receiving the Tools of the Mind program showed a significant improvement in learning in comparison to children in typical kindergarten classrooms. Importantly, the authors claim that some of these benefits continue into the first grade, after the program had finished, and that many of these effects were stronger in high-poverty schools.
In this post, I will be putting Tools of the Mind to the test, loosely using Dorothy Bishop’s framework for identifying red flags in interventions (It’s a good read. For those interested see ). So, what is Tools of the Mind? Is it credible? How solid is the scientific evidence behind it? Does it really work and, if so, are the effects worth the effort and cost involved?
What is Tools of the Mind?
Tools of the Mind is an educational program, developed over 18 years and now used in prekindergartens and kindergartens across the USA and Canada. I will be focussing on the kindergarten program here (that’s ‘reception’ for the British). It is based on the Vygotskian approach: the idea that it is important to teach children to master ‘mental tools’ such as attention and emotion-regulation skills that promote intentional and self-regulated learning. This is expected to develop their executive functions, social and emotional competence at a greater rate. In practice, it involves 60 or more Vygotskian-based activities including activities that require children to create their own learning plans, reflect on their learning and work in pairs with a strong focus on intentional make-believe play tied to stories and literature. Tools of the Mind was named an exemplary education program by the International Bureau of Education at UNESCO in 2001. Maybe this sounds marvellous, but does it actually work?
Who is behind the program and what are their credentials?
The program has largely been developed by Drs Bodrova and Leong. Encouragingly, both appear to be experts in the field. Dr Elena Bodrova was, until recently, Principal Researcher at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, a non-profit, non-partisan education research and development corporation, and Dr Deborah Leong is the Professor Emerita of Psychology, Metropolitan State College of Denver. They’ve both written a number of papers, articles and books, and, to the best of my knowledge, have each authored 10 papers in peer review journals in topics related to the Tools of the Mind program. I can’t find any red flags here!
Is there credible science behind the program?
The program claims to improve academic achievement and socio-emotional skills through improving executive functions, and in particular, the ability to self- regulate. Executive functions encompass many different processes involved in the management of cognition and actions: the ability to pay attention to and remember relevant details, to plan, to solve problems strategically and to regulate emotions and behaviour successfully. If you thi
nk of your brain as an orchestra, executive functions would be the conductor, organizing many different instruments to play together as a coherent whole, bringing some in and fading others outand changing the pace and intensity of the music. Indeed, they seem to be involved in pretty much every higher-order cognitive process, calling into question whether the idea of executive functions is too vague and general a concept to be of any use and they are sometimes seen as a controversial topic amongst cognitive scientists.
Putting this issue aside for now, performance on tasks purporting to tap executive functions are excellent predictors of educational progress. More and more research is pointing to the development of these as being one of the most important domains in early childhood for positive short and long-term outcomes. The argument goes something like this: in the same way that a bad conductor is likely to produce dreadful music, no matter how excellent the individual musicians are, poor development of executive function is a very strong predictor of poor social and academic outcomes even if the rest of the cognitive system is well developed. Great claims are made about the extent to which these skills can be boosted by intervention. When you combine this with the fact that growing up in a deprived environment is frequently found to have a profound negative effect on executive functions, it seems a credible and good target for a program like Tools of The Mind.
The approach used to develop executive functions is based on the relatively well known and researched Vygotskian Approach. Unfortunately, I don’t have time and space to review this here but the Tools of the Mind website provides a lot of information on the science behind this.
Is there evidence that the intervention is effective from controlled trials?
Blair and Raver provide the first cluster randomized controlled study into the effectiveness of the Tools of the Mind curriculum in comparison to current practices in kindergartens. They looked at its effects on a range of different cognitive and academic skills. During the two year study, an impressive 795 children took part from 79 different classrooms and 29 schools. The schools were randomly assigned to either the control group who simply continued business as usual or the treatment group who received training to implement the Tools for the Mind programme in their schools. Children were tested in the first term of kindergarten, with follow up tests at a mean of 5 months and 1 year later. It’s questionable as to whether this can be considered an active control group, given that there may have been a potential bias for teachers receiving the new and novel Tools training to expect better results in comparison to those that continued as before, but overall I think this is quite a good study design.
They found that children in the Tools of the Mind classrooms were significantly better at keeping information in their working memory (effect size, ES = 0.14), maintaining attention in the face of distractions (ES = 0.12) and processing information (ES = 0.08) at the first follow up. This was accompanied by a greater rate in academic improvements in mathematics (ES = 0.13), vocabulary (ES not given) and reading (ES = 0.07), in comparison to the control classrooms (although this was only conventionally significant for mathematics). The faster rate of improvement in reading (Figure 1, ES = 0.14) and vocabulary (ES = 0.1) extended into the first grade, becoming significant, after the program had finished, suggesting that it has long term effects.
Most of the effects seen were stronger in high-poverty schools where more than 75% of the pupils are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. In particular, the effect of Tools of the Mind in comparison to the control group was significant in tests that measured the child’s ability to maintain attention despite emotionally arousing distractors (ES = 0.82), fluid IQ (the ability to solve problems in novel situations, ES = 0.46) and vocabulary (ES = 0.43) in high poverty schools.
Whilst this is the only study of the kindergarten program, it should be noted that both the National Institute for early education research (NIEER) and the Peabody research institute (PRI) have been investigating the pre-kindergarten program. Despite the fact that both studies have included only high-poverty classrooms (around 80%+ children receiving free or reduced price lunch) their results appear to have some substantial disagreements. In one study, NIEER compared 88 children in Tools classrooms with 122 children receiving the district’s balanced literacy curriculum. They found that by the end of the first year, children in the Tools classroom had significantly better classroom experiences, far fewer behavioural problems (an indicator of self-regulation) and some improvement in language performance, although not significant after correcting for multiple comparisons, in comparison to children in the control group. They found no improvement in reading or mathematics. In a subsequent study of the same program but with a slightly different sample (85 children in Tools, 62 in the control classrooms) they found that children in the Tools classrooms performed significantly better in tests of executive functions (stoop battery and flanker tasks) in comparison to children in the control classrooms and that this difference was greater, the more taxing the task.
In contrast, PRI have been conducting a much larger study comparing 498 pupils receiving the Tools curriculum with 379 pupils receiving a range of curricula that would normally be found in pre-school classrooms. They found that the Tools curriculum had no significant effect on direct assessments of achievement or executive function or any teacher ratings of language, executive function, or social behaviour by the end of pre-kindergarten in comparison to the control classrooms. Remarkably, when the children were assessed a year later at the end of kindergarten, they found that the comparison children that had received the normal curricula actually had significantly greater gains in achievement and executive function composite scores and on many of their subtests in comparison to those that received Tools of the Mind!
Are these effects worth the effort, time and cost involved?
Being subjective, this isn’t an easy question to answer. Note that the Tools curriculum can’t simply be taken off the shelf and implemented as other curricula might be: it requires about two years of teacher training including in-classroom coaching and a shift in the teacher’s role in the classroom. However, Blair and Raver appear to believe that: ‘teachers received typical levels of training and implemented the curriculum with materials that are well within the budget of the average kindergarten classroom. Information about the actual cost is difficult to find but in general sources place it at £5000 – £7000 per classroom, which seems reasonable [4, 5] and the materials required appear to be simple, inexpensive and readily available.
However, I think the key to answering this question is to consider the effect sizes produced by the program, the number of standard deviations between the mean score of the control and target groups. In general, the effect sizes found for the kindergarten version of Tools of the Mind in Blair and Raver’s study are relatively low: they all hover around the 0.1 mark, 5 months into the program. This is around half the average effect size for childhood interventions in 2006 found by Duncan et al. . In addition, whilst the effects in high poverty schools look much more promising, it should be noted that the confidence intervals are also much larger for these effects.
To get a feel for what this means, we can get a rough estimate for how this effect size translates into months of development. Bloom et al. found that children progress with an effect size of 1.52 in reading and 1.14 in maths over the first year of schooling. Averaging this and dividing by 12 gives as a rough expected progress estimate of 0.1 per month. This means that many of the effects of Tools of the Mind put children only one month ahead of children not receiving the program. However, when considering vocabulary in high poverty schools, for example, with an effect size of 0.46, this offers nearly 5 months advantage. Of course, this analysis is something of an oversimplification, but it provides a little context as to whether these effect sizes are meaningful.
How do these effect sizes compare to differences between children coming from disadvantaged and advantaged children? Whilst it is difficult to put numbers on these differences as many researchers use different measures of what counts as ‘advantaged’ and ‘disadvantaged’, in order to get an idea of this, I’ll compare the ES to a few studies that found differences within the usual range. I’ll steer clear of the issues in measuring something as vague of ‘executive functions’ and concentrate on one aspect of them, working memory. Noble et al found a difference of 0.31 SD between high and low SES children in the first year of school. Given that Tools of the Mind was found to improve working memory by 0.14, this would be the equivalent of closing half the income related gap. Vocabulary also shows promising results. A study comparing children receiving free school meals (FSM) and those that didn’t at the start of school found a gap of 0.62 SD between the groups . The 0.46 ES for vocabulary in high poverty schools would close this gap by three quarters. Unfortunately, they don’t report what this figure was in high poverty schools one year later, which would be a particularly interesting result. Reading and maths are less promising however. The same study found gaps of 0.69 for reading and 0.68 for mathematics between children receiving FSM and those that didn’t. The ES of 0.13 in maths and 0.14 in reading won’t have much effect on closing this gap, which is a shame, because arguably these are the more valuable educational skills.
In conclusion, Tools of the Mind appears to be a relatively well-grounded intervention program. A random controlled study showed that Tools of the Mind improved children’s executive functions and academic skills in comparison to normal kindergarten classrooms. Despite not being one of the most effective interventions available, the costs, effort and time required seem reasonable and the results suggest that some of the benefits of the program are long term. It holds particular potential for high poverty schools, where the effects of the program appear to go some way to closing income related achievement gaps. However, it is questionable whether the control group used can be considered a full active control and it would perhaps be better to see these results replicated in a study that used a similarly new and novel curriculum or simply used just part of the Tools curriculum as the control group. In addition, results from studies of the pre-kindergarten program by two highly distinguished research bodies are inconclusive with a large study indicating that children receiving Tools of The Mind were at a disadvantage in comparison to normal curricula at the start of school. With this in mind, and the fact that we only have one study investigating the kindergarten program, I would suggest that more research needs to be done to establish the overall effectiveness of this curriculum (and ideally to identify which aspects of the Tools have the greatest effect) before we can advocate it as an effective intervention for kindergarten classes in high poverty schools.
The full paper by Blair and Raver can be found here: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112393 |
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His name is Dr. Kelly Flanagan. He’s a clinical psychologist and father of three children. He’s also a blogger in which he published this profoundly empowering letter to his daughter on his blog UnTangled.
This is a must-read for all daughters out there.
Words From a Father to His Daughter (From the Makeup Aisle)
Dear Little One,
As I write this, I’m sitting in the makeup aisle of our local Target store. A friend recently texted me from a different makeup aisle and told me it felt like one of the most oppressive places in the world.
I wanted to find out what he meant. And now that I’m sitting here, I’m beginning to agree with him. Words have power, and the words on display in this aisle have a deep power. Words and phrases like:
Instant age rewind,
Choose your dream,
Nearly naked, and
When you have a daughter you start to realize she’s just as strong as everyone else in the house—a force to be reckoned with, a soul on fire with the same life and gifts and passions as any man.
But sitting in this store aisle, you also begin to realize most people won’t see her that way. They’ll see her as a pretty face and a body to enjoy. And they’ll tell her she has to look a certain way to have any worth or influence.
But words do have power and maybe, just maybe, the words of a father can begin to compete with the words of the world.
Maybe a father’s words can deliver his daughter through this gauntlet of institutionalized shame and into a deep, unshakeable sense of her own worthiness and beauty.
A father’s words aren’t different words, but they are words with a radically different meaning:
Brilliant strength. May your strength be not in your fingernails but in your heart. May you discern in your center who you are, and then may you fearfully but tenaciously live it out in the world.
Choose your dream. But not from a department store shelf. Find the still-quiet place within you. A real dream has been planted there. Discover what you want to do in the world. And when you have chosen, may you faithfully pursue it, with integrity and with hope.
Naked. The world wants you to take your clothes off. Please keep them on. But take your gloves off. Pull no punches. Say what is in your heart. Be vulnerable. Embrace risk. Love a world that barely knows what it means to love itself. Do so nakedly. Openly. With abandon.
Infallible. May you be constantly, infallibly aware that infallibility doesn’t exist. It’s an illusion created by people interested in your wallet. If you choose to seek perfection, may it be in an infallible grace—for yourself, and for everyone around you.
Age defying. Your skin will wrinkle and your youth will fade, but your soul is ageless. It will always know how to play and how to enjoy and how to revel in this one-chance life. May you always defiantly resist the aging of your spirit.
Flawless finish. Your finish has nothing to do with how your face looks today and everything to do with how your life looks on your last day. May your years be a preparation for that day. May you be aged by grace, may you grow in wisdom, and may your love become big enough to embrace all people. May your flawless finish be a peaceful embrace of the end and the unknown that follows, and may it thus be a gift to everyone who cherishes you.
Little One, you love everything pink and frilly and I will surely understand if someday makeup is important to you. But I pray three words will remain more important to you—the last three words you say every night, when I ask the question: “Where are you the most beautiful?” Three words so bright no concealer can cover them.
Where are you the most beautiful?
On the inside.
From my heart to yours,
(Source: Dr. Kelly Flanagan / UnTangled) |
Dipash Chowdhury, father of Atlantic City School Board member and Democratic Committee member Subrata Chowdhury, died on Tuesday, Nov. 28 in Bangladesh. Chowdhury, 82, was a renowned politician, social and religious philanthropist, and a brave Bangladesh freedom fighter in the Liberation War of 1971.
Chowdhury leaves to mourn his memory, his wife, two sons, two daughters, two daughters-in-law, three sons-in-law, 11 grandchildren, and other close relatives.
Proceeding him in death was one daughter.
Expressing their condolences were:
- Congressman Jeff Van Drew
- New Jersey State Senator Vincent J. Polistina
- Assemblyman Donald A. Guardian
- Assemblywoman Claire S. Swift
- Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small, Sr.
- Atlantic City Council President Aaron “Sporty” Randolph
- Councilman Anjum Zia
- Councilman Jesse O. Kurtz
- Councilman MD Hossain Morshed
- Councilman-at-large George Tibbitt
- Councilwoman-at-large Stephanie Marshall
- NAACP Atlantic City Chapter President and Atlantic City Council Vice President Kaleem Shabazz
- Superintendent of Atlantic City Public Schools Dr. La Quetta Small
- Atlantic County Democratic Committee Chairman Michael Suleiman
- Atlantic City Board of Education President Shay Steele
- Bangladesh Association of South Jersey President Mohammed Zahirul Islam
- Bangladesh Association of South Jersey Secretary Zakirul Islam
- Bangladesh Association of South Jersey Trustee Board President Abdur Rafiq
- Bangladesh Association of Atlantic County President Shahid Khan
- Bangladesh Association of Atlantic County Secretary Mohammed Suhel Ahmed
- President of America Bangladesh Press Club Rashed Ahmed |
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51 arrested in shooting protest that blocked I-94
Published 10:15 am Tuesday, November 17, 2015
By Matt Sepic
Minneapolis — Hundreds of people protesting the weekend shooting of a black man by a Minneapolis police officer brought traffic to a halt on Interstate 94 Monday night.
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Minnesota State Patrol Lt. Tiffani Schweigart says 43 adults and eight juveniles who refused multiple orders to disperse were arrested. She says those being arrested were cooperative and no use of force was required.
The northbound lanes of the highway were closed for about two and a half hours.
The action came just hours after Mayor Betsy Hodges requested a federal investigation into the shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark on Sunday. Police say he had been interfering with an ambulance crew who’d been called to a birthday party to aid Clark’s girlfriend.
The shooting sparked protests after some witnesses said he was handcuffed when he was shot. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the shooting, says preliminary indications are that Clark was not handcuffed.
Clark’s father, James Hill, said his son is “brain dead” and on life support.
The reaction from Black Lives Matter Minneapolis was swift. On Sunday hundreds of people marched several blocks down Plymouth Avenue North from the scene of the shooting to the Minneapolis Police Department’s 4th Precinct headquarters. They hoisted a banner over the entrance and set up a tent, saying they’d stay until their demands are met.
Then on Monday night, several hundred people gathered for another rally outside the police station. Adja Gildersleve with Black Lives Matter Minneapolis says Hodges’ call for a federal civil rights investigation is a good first step. But Gildersleve wants authorities to release any video of the incident that a security camera near the scene may have captured.
“It’s not good for them to be having the footage for this long. And so that’s a priority to us,” she said. “We would also like to see the officer indicted and prosecuted.”
Protesters made their way back down Plymouth Avenue and by 7 p.m. they were on the westbound lanes of I-94. With traffic on the busy interstate at a standstill, state troopers directed vehicles down a grassy embankment to an off-ramp.
Pam Klocek was driving home to Maple Grove when she got stuck in the traffic jam.
“I don’t have a problem with them (protesters),” she said. “I just think this is unsafe, and there’s a better way to do it. I don’t think this is smart. It puts a bigger divide between the communities.”
After the protesters had been on the highway for an hour, state troopers issued the first of several warnings. “Disperse immediately. You need to break up this assembly,” they warned.
Dozens did not heed the warning. Soon law enforcement officers outnumbered protesters and began arresting them one by one.
Some protesters said they’d return to the freeway and shut it down again until their all of their demands are met, one of which was an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Hodges said she had great confidence in investigations by the Minneapolis police and the BCA, but a justice department review would promote transparency and trust from the community. Police Chief Janee Harteau said she supports a federal investigation.
A spokesperson for the DOJ says it received Hodges’ request for an investigation and it’s under review. |
Ladies and gentlemen,
In Natalie Portman’s wonderful film, which we are about to see, there is a scene I found particularly moving.
The young Amos is being bullied at school. And he defends himself. Not, however, by fighting. Not with his fists. But by telling stories!
Storytelling becomes his means of survival.
And we all know, ladies and gentlemen, what immense powers of storytelling Amos Oz possesses.
It is our great pleasure that you are here with us today. Your father has given us many magnificent books and stories. I had the privilege of extolling his life’s work when he was awarded the Siegfried Lenz Prize in Hamburg the year before last. Please give him our best wishes!
When your father was a child, Ms Oz‑Salzberger, he had a clear idea of what he wanted to be when he grew up. He didn’t want to be a doctor, or a fireman, or a policeman. What he wanted to become was “a book”!
He described this desire in his “Tales of Love and Darkness”. The reason he gave for it was this: “People can be killed like ants. (...) But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf‑life in some corner of an out-of-the-way library somewhere.”
Amos Oz shows how important it is to tell stories and to listen to stories. To broaden our horizons, to understand ourselves and the world better. And, as the young Amos said, to stop us from disappearing, to help us remain.
But for this to be possible, Ms Galliner, we need places in which stories can be told!
The Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg is precisely such a place!
Just a few weeks ago, the Festival’s future was in doubt. Years of work were in jeopardy. I am glad that the Federal Foreign Office was able to step in and help with funding at the last minute.
You, Ms Galliner, are bringing stories to the screen, stories that make Jewish life visible and thereby ensure that it will stay. Stories about the darkest chapter of our past. Contemplative stories, sad stories. But also cheerful and absurd stories.
In the opening film, for example, the Middle East conflict is solved by a football match.
An excellent idea, if you ask me! If you want, I could instantly name a dozen international conflicts that we could gladly hand over to the footballers and rugby players of this world! It would save me a lot of work!
To conclude, let me mention another person who has given us many stories: Regina Ziegler, the co‑owner, together with her daughter Tanja, of this cinema. She was – most deservedly – awarded the Lola for her life’s work less than a fortnight ago. Congratulations!
Ladies and gentlemen, I know you did not come here to listen to the Foreign Minister. You came to see Natalie Portman’s film – and to immerse yourselves in the wonderful story it tells.
And so I will finish with one of my favourite Jewish quotes:
Speech is good, silence is even better.
Thank you very much! |
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The most populous country in the world and the leading economic power in terms of GDP is, for its own reasons, an attractive scenario for companies seeking to do business abroad. However, and although it has improved in recent years, the People’s Republic of China occupied, in 2019, the 46th place in the Doing Business ranking. With the entry of the new decade, to continue this line, China has approved a new policy to regulate in an integrated way the foreign investments, replacing several existing laws with effect from 1 January 2020.
In fact, this new Foreign Investment Law aims to produce a much more integrated framework on this important subject. It therefore replaces a number of existing and less coordinated rules: the PRC Law on Sino-foreign Equity Joint Ventures, the PRC Law on Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprise and the PRC Law on Sino-foreign Cooperative Joint Ventures,
These are some of the main advantages.
Intellectual Property (IP) protection
A traditional concern of foreign investors in China has been IP protection. This is to say, to what extent their IP rights will be secured and protected. The new regulation brings some certainty, as it mentions expressly that IP transfer cannot be forced by the Government administrative procedure.
Application of integrated treatment on the market entrance
The new rule stands that foreign investment in China will get pre-national treatment, which means the national treatment, in all aspects, will be given equally to the foreign investment, in general terms.
However, this will not apply if investment would fall into the Negative List issued by the State Council of China.
Simplification in the registration process
Prior methods, that required previous approval by the Ministry of Commerce and registration with the Administration of Industry and Commerce before a foreign investment could be permitted into China, are now simplified.
Furthermore, the investment Quota limitations of QFII and RQFII had been removed. Previously, China’s government always had strict rules on how foreign investors work in China’s capital market.
Those rules were established in 2002 and 2011, for qualified foreign investors only to open the capital and stock account. Within the quota limitation, both could invest in China’s capital market.
Quotes limitations are no longer coping with the new trends in the China capital market. Neither do they benefit bonds and stock investors in various channels. Figures showed that less of 2% A-share stock value was being hold within them.
All in all, the new regulation will provide better tools and framework for foreign investors in China, giving them more flexibility and adding transparency, helping the financing of their operations there. |
Chicken Chop Suey, a harmonious medley of tender chicken cubes, crisp vegetables, and a symphony of savoury sauces, promises a delightful culinary journey. This Asian-inspired stir-fry, characterized by its vibrant colours and bold flavours, captures the essence of a quick and easy homemade meal. As you embark on this gastronomic adventure, picture the sizzle of the pan, the aroma that fills your kitchen, and the satisfaction of creating a restaurant-worthy dish in the comfort of your home.
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Discover the joy of crafting Chicken Chop Suey, a versatile dish rooted in the heart of Asian cuisine. Beyond its simplicity, this recipe showcases the art of balancing flavours and textures. The marinated chicken, sautéed to perfection, combines with a colourful array of vegetables, beansprouts, and a luscious sauce. The result is a delightful stir-fry that dances on your taste buds, offering a perfect blend of crunch and tenderness. This dish caters to your craving for a quick and savoury meal and opens the door to experimenting with the rich tapestry of Asian culinary traditions.
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- Marinate the chicken with soda bicarb and soya sauce for at least 20 minutes to enhance tenderness.
- Stir-fry vegetables quickly to maintain their crunch and vibrant colours.
- Create a smooth paste with cornflour for a velvety sauce texture.
- Adjust salt, pepper, and sugar to your taste preference for a personalized flavour profile.
Originating from Asian culinary traditions, Chicken Chop Suey reflects the vibrant tapestry of flavours that define the region. This stir-fry, with its diverse ingredients and cooking techniques, mirrors the rich history and cultural significance of Asian cuisine. Enjoyed in various forms across different countries, it embodies the spirit of communal dining and the joy of sharing a delicious meal with loved ones.
Delight in Chicken Chop Suey immediately, pairing it with steamed rice or noodles. To store, refrigerate in an airtight container for up to two days, ensuring the flavours remain fresh and vibrant upon reheating.
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Packed with lean protein from chicken and colourful vegetables, Chicken Chop Suey offers a nutritious balance. This dish provides essential vitamins and minerals, creating a well-rounded and wholesome dining experience.
Chicken Chop Suey
- 250 g Chicken (cubed)
- 2 Onions (thick slices)
- 1 clove Garlic (sliced)
- 4-5 Beans
- 1 Carrot
- 200 g Beansprouts
- 4 tbsp Oil
- 3/4 tsp Soda Bicarb
- Soya Sauce (3 tsp + 4 tbsp)
- Cornflour (2 tsp + 2 tsp), for sauce
- 2 tsp Sugar (2 tsp)
- Ajinomoto (a pinch)
- Marinate chicken in a mix of soda bicarb, 3 tsp soya sauce, and 2 tsp water for 20 mins; then drain.
- Fry chicken in 4 tbsp oil for 4-5 mins; set aside.
- Sauté garlic, onions, beans, and carrots for 3 mins. Add beansprouts and fry.
- Combine vegetables with 2 tbsp soya sauce, sugar, 2 tsp cornflour, salt, pepper, and Ajinomoto. Let it stand for 10 mins.
- Return chicken and veggies to the pan.
- Make a paste with the remaining cornflour and water. Add to the mixture and bring to a boil.
- Serve hot.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
Is Chicken Chop Suey spicy?
Enjoy the mild heat of Chicken Chop Suey! Adjust the pepper quantity according to your spice preference for a personalized kick.
Can I substitute the chicken with tofu for a vegetarian version?
Absolutely! Swap chicken with firm tofu to create a delicious vegetarian Chop Suey. The tofu will absorb the flavours beautifully.
How do I keep the vegetables crunchy?
Quickly stir-fry the vegetables to retain their crunch. A brief sauté ensures they remain vibrant and maintain their enticing texture.
Can I prepare Chicken Chop Suey in advance?
While it’s best enjoyed fresh, you can prepare components in advance. Store the marinated chicken and chopped vegetables separately in the fridge, then quickly stir-fry when ready to serve.
What side dishes pair well with Chicken Chop Suey?
Enhance your meal by serving Chicken Chop Suey with steamed jasmine rice, fried rice, or noodles. Explore the diversity of Asian cuisine with complementary sides like Vegetable Spring Rolls or a refreshing Asian-inspired salad. |
Kids' declining vaccination rates open door for outbreaks
As the number of parents getting standard vaccines for their kids has fallen, health experts worry about possible outbreaks of disease.
By the numbers: The vaccine rates for MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis), polio and chicken pox for kindergarteners in the 2021-22 school year in Arkansas hovered between 91.3% and 92.5%, according to the latest report from the CDC.
- Past national vaccination rates have trended around 94-95% and are now around 93%.
- Those 2021-22 rates declined slightly from the year before, with polio inoculations falling by the largest margin — from 92.7% to 91.4%.
What they're saying: The drop-off can be attributed to a combination of factors, such as online misinformation regarding vaccines and health care disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Thompson, president and CEO at Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, tells Axios.
- Outbreaks of illnesses such as mumps and measles have been reported in communities with vaccination rates similar to Arkansas, and the downward trend in vaccinations is concerning, he said.
The big picture: Vaccine hesitancy is a national trend. A study released last week by the CDC found that vaccination rates nationwide dropped to 93% during the 2021-22 school year, down from 94% the year before.
State of play: Although the vaccines are required for kids to attend school, parents can claim exemptions for medical, religious or philosophical reasons.
- Of Arkansas' 735 exemptions in the 2020-21 academic year, 14 — or about 2% — were for medical reasons, per CDC data.
The bottom line: Thompson urged parents to make sure their kids are up to date on their shots.
- Thompson noted these are not new vaccines, and decades of data have shown they are extremely safe and effective.
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We may not like to admit it, but we still sometimes wonder how much someone likes us and if we are loved. Especially with first impressions. The researchers looked at which qualities elicited more sympathy for the first acquaintance. And ‘wanting’ isn’t that hard.
Research on First Impression Like
In their research, researchers Michael Dufner and Saska Krause explain that people quickly judge each other during an introduction process. According to them, the extent to which we like or like someone is an important factor in the development of a relationship. But now the question is: When do we love someone?
Their research found that two types of behavior lead to popularity on the first meeting:
- Agent behavior – Where one hopes to gain respect or admiration. You may identify as dominant or assertive behavior.
- General behavior – Someone trying to establish a trusting and supportive bond. You can recognize warm, welcoming and friendly behavior.
Fame or relationship and friendship
The researchers observed several introductory conversations and concluded two specific types of empathy.
- Popularity is the extent to which a person is liked by others.
- Individual desirability is the degree to which a person is particularly liked by a particular person.
According to the researchers, no one form of empathy is better than the other. This is because popularity indicates that one is socially accepted and respected in one’s group. Personal empathy can define relationships and friendships.
From the above findings, the researchers drew their conclusions. For example, it turns out that agentic behavior (trust and dominance) and communal behavior (warm and friendly) lead to popularity. But when it comes to personal sympathy (regarding the individual), often communal behavior is respected and considered ‘I love you’.
That’s a lot of material, but Travers summarizes the psychological findings again. Do you want to make a good first impression? According to researchers, keeping it simple is best. “Common behaviors like friendliness, helpfulness, or warmth have positive effects on being liked everywhere. Conversely, agentic behavior (dominance, impressing others) can backfire. So, be nice, and the outcome is often positive,” said Travers. Lying is not considered good manners. Do you already know this trick that allows you to identify a possible lie?
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