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Battery solutions for asset tracking - Traxens use case
Real-time data require superior battery power for smart monitoring devices
Key benefits for Traxens
- Risk mitigation with a mature and proven technology
- Provide sustainable ROI for Traxens' customers
- Differentiation of Traxens' product and service to its end-users
Features of Saft's solution
- 30-year track record in primary lithium technology with unmatched reliability
- 7-year lifetime verified by a unique mathematical model that has been correlated with field results
- Unique value proposition able to withstand the toughest environments in worldwide multimodal transport
Saft batteries were one of the obvious choice to ensure the successful implementation of our smart container solution. Their performance, reliability and long lifetime are definitly a good match for the lifespan of the containers they help to track.
Michel Fallah President, TraxensWhat is the challenge for Traxens? Ensuring 24/7 visibility of shipping containers.
Lack of real-time, end-to-end visibility is a major issue in today's global supply chains. Missing data on a shipment's status can result in significant losses. Traxens is an expert in providing high-value data and services for the supply chain industry via an IoT sensor which, when fitted to normal ISO containers, turns «dumb» container into a «smart» container.
Known as the Traxens-Box, the transmitting device is permanently attached to the dry cargo container. The device assists in keeping cargo secure by providing data to registered customers such as a cargo's temperature, humidity, exposure to shocks and vibrations, as well as door opening and closing. Data is transferred to a cloud-based platform which is accessible in real time. To ensure an uninterrupted flow of this crucial data, Traxens needed a robust battery for its transmitting device. Knowing that a container's lifespan is approximately 10-14 years, it was a fundamental requirement that the battery life had to match that of the container as closely as possible.
What is the solution selected by Traxens?
Traxens selected, among others, Saft's LSH battery range for the mass deployment of smart shipping containers to drive down costs and optimize supply chain management for cargo operators. Saft's primary Li-SOCl2 series provide the ideal solution with excellent pulse capability enabling long-range communication, coupled with unmatched reliability in the field.
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In the US alone, more than 20 million people lose part of or all their vision from failure of retinas – the layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that reacts to light and sends messages to the brain that we're seeing something.
Until now, research has created crude versions of artificial retinas using hard materials. But now a doctoral student at Oxford University has created the first retina replica using water-based biological materials.
The student's team mixed light-sensitive proteins into a base of hydrogels, which are made from water. The protein molecules receive light and then, like pixels on a computer screen, send patterns of light up the optic nerve to the brain.
The new artificial retina is likely to be better tolerated by the eye's sensitive tissue than metal implants.
Animal trials are being planned.
TRENDPOST: The National Eye Institute predicts that retinal diseases, including degeneration caused by diabetes, will double in the US by 2050. Bioengineered means to restore sight will be a key growth area of research and investment.

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Top Tips to Build Your Brand As A Realtor
While investment in advertising and picture-perfect home staging helps, as a realtor, it's essential to know the basics of building your brand to continue improving your real estate expertise and grow client relationships. Whether you're a novice realtor struggling to generate new leads or looking to maintain an extensive client portfolio, understanding how to build your brand, strengthen client connections, and become an expert in your field is key to your success as a Realtor. In this blog, we'll highlight a few ways to build your brand as a Realtor.
Introduce Yourself and Build Your Brand
When you meet a new client, you want to immediately begin to build a relationship. Your clients will want to see you as a person they can trust. Therefore, lead with a personalized approach, catering your communication method to accommodate each client's specific requirements. Being an excellent listener and remaining empathetic towards their home needs will help earn their trust. If issues arise, always listen to their concerns, discuss ways to resolve them, and follow through on promises and actionable statements.
To keep new clients coming in, you should be regularly concepting new methods to communicate and market yourself. Utilizing social media and other technology is critical. However, for it to be effective, consider your target audience. Depending on your client's demographics, you should focus on different social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook to generate the most engagement for your target group.
Maintain Your Image and Invest In Your Community
Another critical aspect of building your brand is continuously investing in your community. For example, clients are more likely to connect with a Realtor that is involved in nonprofit organizations, volunteers, and attends local events within their community. Not only does this give you a chance to chat with past, present, and future clients, but attending events helps build your brand as a personable and community-first Realtor.
Additionally, clients that have had a positive experience working with you are more likely to refer you to a friend or family member! Therefore, maintaining the client-Realtor relationship is essential to building long-lasting connections.
Tip: Create a spreadsheet that tracks your client's birthdays, life events, and other milestones. Sending a quick birthday or holiday card shows you care and lets your client know you value the time you spent together.
Know What You Need to Know
One of the quickest ways to lose your client's trust is to show that you don't have the experience or expertise they expect you to have. Therefore, before you jump head first into real estate, you will need to learn the basics. Because the market is ever-changing and each client's wants and needs are unique, it's important always to remain up-to-date, knowledgeable of market trends, and continuously strive to be an expert in the field.
Whether you're an experienced Realtor or contemplating a career in real estate, consider joining an agency like RE/MAX SmartHub! At SmartHub, you will have the opportunity to work independently as a Realtor while accessing a large selection of market data, real estate resources, brand-building strategies, and more! Learn more about becoming an agent at RE/MAX SmartHub.


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New on Resy: St. Vincent, Chicken + Whiskey, Hawk 'n' Dove, and More
There's no question that D.C.'s food scene is electric, and goes well beyond the buttoned-up spots that routinely attract Washington's power players. Case in point: Capitol Hill types also frequent Hawk 'n' Dove, a neighborhood joint known for its pub grub. Politics not your thing? Venture outside the city to Pennyroyal Station in Mt. Rainier, Md., for comfort food like pulled pork biscuits and crabby deviled eggs.
In this latest edition of New on Resy, discover kimchi pork hash, some of the city's most succulent rotisserie chicken, Mexican and Salvadoran comfort food from a neighborhood stalwart, and so much more.


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The Lege This Week: "Another Watershed Moment"
The push for an omnibus reform package named after George Floyd underscores how outrage over his death changed local and state policy debates around policing.
Above: On Monday, June 8, 2020, local residents and alumni of Jack Yates High School take part in a candlelight vigil to honor George Floyd, in Houston. The "George Floyd Act" was scheduled to get its first hearing in the Texas Capitol on Thursday, March 25, 2021.
Welcome to the 87th Legislative Session. Since the last session came to a close in June 2019, Texas has been hit by an unrestrained pandemic and a crippling economic crisis—and now the fallout from deadly blackouts. Under unprecedented circumstances, lawmakers are faced with a number of urgent challenges. The Texas Observer is following along every step of the way.
Go here for last week's dispatch from the state Capitol.
What We're Following:
Jamail Amron called 911 the night of September 30, 2010, worried he was hyperventilating—a bad reaction to some cocaine he'd just taken. When paramedics arrived and tried talking Amron, 23, into the back of an ambulance, he told them he'd changed his mind and instead walked to a nearby Burger King drive-thru, knocked on the window, and asked for water. The worker who gave him a cup later testified in a court deposition that Amron had just crouched to the curb to sit and drink when Harris County constables sped into the parking lot. One jumped out of his car, yelling, "If you try to hurt me, I will not hesitate to knock the fuck out of you," before handcuffing Amron and pinning him to the ground.
The initial report from the Precinct 4 constable's office stated that Amron appeared to die in their custody from medical distress unrelated to any use of force. However, two witnesses saw an officer press his boot over Amron's nose and mouth for several minutes before he stopped breathing—pushing so hard, one of them said, "I could tell the arch of the neck was going flat along with the asphalt."
Last fall, after George Floyd's murder sparked outrage over police violence and calls for reform across the country, State Representative Senfronia Thompson, a Houston Democrat, invoked Amron's death to argue for state action to curb police abuses in a Houston Chronicle op-ed. "The similarities between the two cases, despite the decade between them, speak to the fact that the dual crises of police brutality against Black and brown people and the lack of accountability have been going on for years."
On Thursday, Thompson introduced House Bill 88, otherwise known as the George Floyd Act, a package of reforms that civil rights activists and victims of police violence have been pushing in Texas for years—including prohibiting chokeholds and restricting use of force, enacting a duty for officers to intervene when they see others using excessive force, and ending legal protections that often shield officers who maim or kill people.
The bill is also the latest attempt to curb arrests for fine-only offenses. And it would require corroborating the testimony of undercover officers before a drug bust, which reformers asked for after racist, trumped-up drug stings in Tulia became widely known more than two decades ago. That provision could have prevented not only the Tulia scandal but also a more recent one in Houston involving bogus drug cases that culminated in a fatal raid based on false information in 2019. Prosecutors have said that more than 150 drug cases brought by the Houston Police Department stretching back at least a decade may need to be overturned, including George Floyd's 2004 arrest by the disgraced officer at the heart of the recent bogus drug scandal who is now facing criminal charges.
Floyd's family and friends were among many who talked about the personal toll of police brutality while testifying in support of the bill at Thursday's hearing. "I've been unjustly done along with George Floyd, we've been stopped together, I know how they treat us," said Travis Cains, an old friend of Floyd's from his days living in Houston's Third Ward neighborhood. Barbara Coats, Jamail Amron's mother, urged lawmakers to pass the reforms because, "I never want any mother or father to feel the way I do, my prayer is that this never happens to anybody else."
The push by Texas Democrats to pass an omnibus police reform package this session underscores how outrage over Floyd's murder changed local policy debates around policing. Last year, after Austin police seriously injured several people who protested in the wake of Floyd's death, the city passed a plan to cut about a third of its $434 million police budget. In San Antonio, reformers secured a ballot proposition for the upcoming May election that could strip the city's police union of its negotiating power with the city.
The George Floyd Act faces opposition from police groups, several of which testified against the bill, and a larger conservative backlash to the growing calls for systemic changes to policing. Elsewhere inside the Capitol on Thursday, Republican lawmakers in the House State Affairs Committee presented a trio of bills aimed at punishing cities that reduce police spending—parroting Governor Greg Abbott, who has threatened a takeover of policing in Austin since the city cut its police budget last year.
Black lawmakers in Texas have called the George Floyd Act, many elements of which have also been filed as standalone bills, a top priority for the session. State Representative Ron Reynolds, a Fort Bend Democrat and co-author of the legislation, compared the moment after Floyd's killing to that following the heinous murder of Emmett Till in 1956, which helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement. "Something positive came out of his tragic death," Reynolds said on Thursday. "I believe this is another watershed moment in our country, and George Floyd's death is the catalyst."
What We're Reading:
Texas lawmakers slow-walking desperately needed electric grid reforms
As columnist Chris Tomlinson writes, everyone from Abbott down to the most junior state representative has promised new measures to ensure the grid never fails Texans again. But so far, we've seen more talk than action. And most of the action has been to provide cover to an energy industry that failed when we needed it most. / Houston Chronicle
After Atlanta and Colorado mass shootings, Texas GOP leaders double down on protecting gun owners
After the two latest mass shootings, Texas Republicans are doubling down on gun-owner rights—and against President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats who are renewing their push for gun-control reforms. "They are gonna come to get your guns," Abbott said at a GOP party function on Tuesday, the day after the mass shooting in Colorado. Texas lawmakers are in session for the first time since the state's own back-to-back mass shootings in 2019, which prompted Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick to acknowledge the need for potential reform to state gun laws. Now? Not so much. / Texas Tribune
Dan Patrick declares war on "green" Wall Street investors
As R.G. Ratcliffe writes, sticking it to the tree-huggers of New York in favor of the oil and gas industry may be good politics in most of Texas. But the theory of Patrick's bill—which would require the state's pension and education funds to divest from financial firms that are shifting away from fossil fuel—is that Texas can use its weight and the threat of pulling its assets from investors who "boycott" oil and gas to single-handedly force Wall Street to reverse course. But that theory just doesn't match with reality. / Texas Monthly
All Hat, No Cattle
The Texas Legislature is known for its outlandish members, ludicrous antics, and right-wing flare-ups. Here's your weekly dose.
State Representative Briscoe Cain's tenure as the new House Elections Committee chairman is off to a blundering start. On Thursday, Cain's committee held a hearing on House Bill 6, the GOP's sweeping "election integrity" legislation. Cain is the author of the bill, which cracks down on local election administrators' ability to expand voter access—as urban counties like Harris County did during the 2020 election with tremendous success—and further criminalizes violations of state voting laws, as well as adding a host of other new hurdles.
Democrats and voting-rights advocates alike have condemned the legislation, blasting it as yet another instance of Texas Republicans making it harder for people to vote. About 200 Texans showed up at the Capitol to testify before the committee. Many, including former Congressman Beto O'Rourke— traveled from hours away in order to sound off on the bill. They never got the chance.
Jessica González, a Dallas Democrat and the committee's vice chair, presided over the hearing as Cain laid out the bill—and struggled to answer questions from Democratic members because, he claimed, he hadn't fully read through his own bill. But when González tried to recognize state Representative Nicole Collier, a Dallas Democrat, to ask questions, Cain interjected and a brief standoff ensued.
"Vice Chair González, at this moment, you are not chairing this committee," Cain said as he blocked her attempts to let Collier speak. "I'm not recognizing anyone but a member of this committee at this time." Cain abruptly said the committee would recess for lunch, then return to hear witness testimony.
Collier is the chair of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus, which had previously requested permission to participate in the hearing because there are no Black members on the House Elections Committee.
After the recess, Cain returned to say that the hearing was over because as he rushed to break for lunch, he had failed to announce what time the committee would reconvene—a violation of House rules. That meant Cain (who calls himself a "Parliamentary guru" in his Twitter bio) would have to schedule a new hearing and start the process over again. "Even though I wish very much to continue today's hearing, the rules prevent me from doing so," he said. "Please forgive me for my error."
Ironically, Cain's bill isn't so forgiving of those who violate the rules—even by mistake. In addition to a slate of other new election crimes, his legislation would make it a felony if a person helps a voter with disabilities fill out their mail ballot with inaccurate information.


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6 Benefits of Botox You Might Not Have Heard Of
Many people view Botox injections as just a cosmetic treatment. However, while it will certainly help to eliminate wrinkles and fine lines, the benefits of Botox are much more than simply providing aesthetic improvement. If you are considering getting Botox and joining the millions of people around the world who benefit from it, here are some advantages to this treatment that you may not be aware of.
Treat Migraines and Headaches
If you experience a lot of persistent headaches, you may be surprised to hear that Botox can provide the relief that you need without having to take migraine medication and risk the side effects. Although it's still uncertain how exactly Botox works to improve the symptoms of migraines and headaches, many believe that it works by blocking sensory nerves that send pain signals to your brain along with relaxing the muscles that lead to tension headaches.
Reduce Overactive Bladder Symptoms
Dealing with an overactive bladder can cause a lot of disruption to your daily life with frequent trips to the bathroom and experiencing a sudden need to urinate a lot of the time. Botox can be injected into the bladder muscle where it can help to relieve these symptoms by blocking the nerves that trigger overactive bladder symptoms.
Treat Muscle Spasms
Originally, Botox was designed to reduce eye spasms before it became a popular cosmetic treatment. Botox is still often used today to reduce spasms in the eyes and face, and can also be used on other parts of the body where spasms might be causing frustration and discomfort. It can also be used to manage muscle stiffness and treat twitching in various parts of the body including the wrists, fingers, ankles, and elbows.
Treat Excessive Sweating
Excessive sweating can be a frustrating and embarrassing issue to deal with. Botox treatment can be used to help relieve the symptoms of excessive sweating, allowing you to enjoy your life without worrying about perspiration or trying to cover it up.
Regulates the Skin
A treatment from SDBotox.com will not only prevent fine lines and wrinkles but can also regulate and improve the condition of your skin in many other ways. Botox ensures that the health of your skin is maintained after the treatment, increasing skin softness, reducing redness and acne, and smoothing any lines or spots on the face. And, Botox also works from the inside out by providing moisture to the skin.
It is Fast, Affordable and Effective
As a treatment that can be used for a range of both cosmetic and medical reasons, Botox is a fast, affordable, and non-invasive option to consider. Depending on your reason for getting Botox, the results can appear within just a few weeks and will usually last for a minimum of three to four months. Whether you are looking to improve your appearance or reduce the symptoms of a health condition, Botox could be suitable for you.
Botox might be mainly associated with preventing wrinkles, but the truth is that this popular treatment has many more potential benefits.


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Bernardo Flores
170 pounds
Throws: Left
Age: 23
2018 SSS Top Prospect rank: 28
SSS rank among all left-handed starting pitchers in the system: 3
Flores spent his first season with USC as a reliever, but he was the Trojans swingman during his sophomore and junior seasons. After a respectable sophomore season, he struggled mightily in his junior year by posting a 6.70 ERA and 1.58 WHIP in 41 2⁄3 innings, allowing 50 hits and 16 walks while striking out 36. Despite the results, the White Sox did their due diligence and drafted him in the seventh round in 2016, signing him to a $200,000 bonus.
Flores finished 2016 with the AZL Sox and Great Falls, where he combined to post a nifty 3.46 ERA and 1.22 WHIP in 65 innings, allowing 67 hits (.270 OBA) and just 12 walks (4.5%) while fanning 52 hitters (19.6%). In 2017, Flores pitched a combined 118 1⁄3 innings for both Kannapolis and Winston-Salem, allowing just 116 hits (.257 OBA) and 32 walks (6.5%) while striking out 103 hitters (20.8%).
In 2018 with Winston-Salem and Birmingham, Flores combined to produce a 2.65 ERA and 1.19 WHIP over a career high 156 innings, ceding 154 hits (.261 OBA) and 31 walks (4.9%) while striking out 105 (16.5%).
Flores has been the model of consistency, despite the fact that his velocity has dropped from 96 mph to the low 90s. His repertoire includes an above-average changeup that still needs some refinement (righties hit .285 against him this year), a tight curveball, and an effective cutter. Flores is more pitcher than thrower, and with his ability to minimize walks (1.99 BB/9) and keep the ball down (1.49 GO/AO), he may be the closest thing to Mark Buehrle that the White Sox have in its vaunted system.
Though Flores split his time (and results) evenly between Winston-Salem and Birmingham last year, he returned to Birmingham for 2019 in part due to a logjam in Charlotte to begin the year. With the Barons, he's been a victim of the weak-hitting Birminghamers, going 2-5 in the early going but with a dazzling 2.70 ERA and 0.992 WHIP. It is absolutely not out of the question that, at least for a midsummer spot start, Flores bypasses Charlotte entirely for a major league debut in 2019.
Take a look!
Bernardo Flores. This is a way back field since Twitter keeps suggesting my location is the gift shop pic.twitter.com/YMXYUFdr3g
— James Fegan (@JRFegan) February 17, 2019
In place of the long list of Top 100 prospects with story links that usually resides here, just click the "South Side Sox Top 100" on our page, below the main stories, to access a list of every player so far profiled.
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Happy Monday, Seattle! This week is a big one, it's full of concerts, live music and much more. It's truly the perfect week to get out of your streaming comfort zone and do something new. Here are 10 of the best things to do in Seattle this week.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical Seattle
This December, you can enter a world of splendor, romance, glitz, and grandeur at Seattle's Paramount Theatre. Watch as bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows in the stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's revolutionary film. The show is directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers meaning you'll get an enchanting performance.
When: December 14th-January 23rd
Where: 911 Pine Street
Cost: $40+
Grab a drink at a beautiful lobby bar
If you're looking for a new place to grab drinks in Seattle this week, heading to a local hotel is a great choice. Many of our city's hotels have beautiful bars that also happen to be available to the public. Here are 5 of the swankiest hotel bars you can grab a drink at in Seattle.
See what's new on Netflix
Whether you like it or not, December is here. Plan out your month of streaming by checking out what's coming to a computer screen or TV near you in the new month.
Grab some delicious holiday treats
What's a better way to celebrate winter and the holiday season than with a tasty pastry? Luckily for you, Seattle has tons of great bakeries whether you want something sweet, savory, or totally unique.
Yung Gravy & bbno$
One of Tiktok's favorite artists Yung Gravy is taking over WAMU Theatre with fellow artist bbno$ this December. It's sure to be one of the most fun concerts you've been to in a while.
When: December 14th
Where: 800 Occidental Ave S
Cost: $43.50
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Azizi Gibson w/ ill Chris
If you can't make it to Snoop Dogg's Holidaze of Blaze then you should go see Azizi Gibson and ill Chris. The rappers will be taking over Madame Lou's for
When: December 16th
Where: 2505 1st Ave
Cost: $24+
Italian Dinner Series at Salt District
You don't need to hop on a plane to take your tastebuds to Italy, folks! Thanks to the beloved Salt District Italian Kitchen, you can now enjoy an immersive Italian experience that takes your palate to new heights.
Until January 14th, join Salt District for a delicious 4-course menu with optional wine pairings featuring a new Italian region each week. From Tuscany to Piedmont and plenty of places in between, you can expect a tasty adventure you won't soon forget.
When: Until January 14, 2023
Where: 1101 Alaskan Way, Seattle
Cost: $65 without wine pairings, $100 with wine pairings
Snoop Dogg's Holidaze of Blaze with T-Pain, Warren G, & Ying Yang Twin
With a lineup like this, it's an automatic yes. Have one of the most unforgettable holiday experiences and concerts of your entire life this December at the Tacoma Dome.
When: December 16th
Where: 2727 E D St, Tacoma, WA
Cost: $97
Go ice skating
Now that Halloween is behind us, you might just be looking to get more in the holiday or winter spirit. If that's the case, ice skating is a great option. We've highlighted some of the best rinks around the city for you to enjoy.
Candlelight Concerts Seattle
Candlelight Concerts have happened in over 100 cities around the world with more than 3 million attendees. For the Seattle series, there are 10 different concerts being offered with a selection of available dates. Hear renditions of your favorite artists like Radiohead, Taylor Swift, and Coldplay.
When: December 7th 2022-February 14th 2023
Where: Participating venues
Cost: $30+
Enjoy all of the things to do in Seattle, and have a great week!


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In fact, if you're like most people, you're frightened of wasting a ton of time and money (like you have been) on outdated and sometimes buggy technology like Clickfunnels.
The initial investment is higher as you're creating something new, but if you want to build a brand and sell a unique product, then sourcing from a manufacturer is the business model for you.
Once you've decided on a product to start selling online, you need to find a reliable supplier for that product.
You don't need a college or university degree but you have to be willing to work hard to learn how to become an online entrepreneur. Come up with an idea Evaluate your idea Decide how you will make money Setup a website Promote your website to get traffic and clients
Create and publish content on one or more platforms at once – while optimizing selected content for a particular platform, moderate and analyze engagement of your audience. Analytic tools provided on-hand will help improve the performance of your posts for the future.
Remote work is the new normal. Happeo connects and empowers remote teams to do their work in the best possible way so organizations can stay productive, even while working remotely.
Create beautiful infographics with this nifty web-based data and information visualization platform.
Formatting and stying your web pages is far more intuitive on GroovePages than ClickFunnels.
To make sure that you'll not lose track of what you have to do, you need to create a content marketing plan.
Again, we're not lawyers - if you have questions about what to do, please consult with a business lawyer! Take our advice with a grain of salt.
As a qualified commercial airline pilot I naturally have lots of time I can spend when away on trips. A few years ago my natural curiosity of learning new things got me into digital marketing.
For example, you can search for someone with a specific skill and find them instantly without having to post on job boards, conduct interviews, and do onboarding. If you're looking for an SEO content creator, you'll simply fill out that set of criteria and be instantly connected to someone who can fill that role.
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Gecko Board – Gecko Board is a customizable dashboard the displays key performance indicators in real time. While it has some limitations, the customer service is second to none and are eager to implement solutions and apply fixes where possible. Gecko Board is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to motivate a team – the key metrics can be displayed in real time so that targets can be reached. The application is easy to use and integrate, and the metrics can be displayed in TVs around the office.
This is the most convenient business if you have a hobby of playing a musical instrument. Music teachers train their students on playing musical instruments such as piano, guitar, keyboard, or violin. Also, they provide singing and voice training.
GrooveSell also features a powerful set of tools that lets you set flexible pricing structures that are unheard of on other platforms.
Because the monitoring software is installed on company computers, employees who object may have limited options beyond complaining or finding another job. Even if workers use their personal devices, their employer could still legally track their activity if they're using company email accounts, networks or servers.


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We spoke to young people from the Western Balkans about how their access to sexual and reproductive health and rights was affected by the COVID pandemic, and asked them about their vision for re-designing a more youth-friendly future in which young people can flourish.
Greis Osmani is a 23-year-old from Tirana, Albania. She is a medical student, peer educator and activist for young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Greis, describe your experience of access to SRHR* education, information and care before and during COVID.
Before the pandemic, I used to take part in a lot of workshops, projects and volunteer work in national NGOs. As a volunteer, especially with the Albanian Center for Population and Development (ACPD), I was trained in subjects like abortion stigma, gender equality and rights, contraceptive methods and sexuality education. I was well informed about other topics such as HIV/AIDS. The first year of the pandemic, the focus of the government and NGOs etc shifted more towards COVID and general health issues, not related to SRHR. Step by step, young people and the general public started getting used to online platforms, which gave us other opportunities to hold trainings online and carry on sharing safe information with other youth.
Did anything change for the better during the pandemic in terms of access to SRHR?
I believe it had pros and cons. First, we had to learn how to properly use new digital platforms and tools such as Zoom, Google Classroom and Meet, and add more interesting activities such as Murals and Quizzes. This made our online experience much more fun, aside from basic informative meetings, and we continue to use these platforms. Online platforms enable us to create a broader network of young people from different countries who connect more quickly, and for free, to share personal experiences as SRHR activists and empower one another. We are still learning and developing digital communication skills. We hope the moment will come when all young people feel comfortable using online tools, without facing a single barrier.
What was the biggest challenge for SRHR during the pandemic?
One of the biggest challenges I personally faced was the inability to express myself freely online and completely share personal experiences. Face-to-face meetings connect young people more with one another. One feels freer to talk with peers in person rather than share with those you may never meet in real life. It's hard to break the ice in digital meetings that make people feel uncomfortable speaking directly and opening up.
Also, it is very important that, as educators, the things we share in theory with other peers come to life in practical ways. For example, online we can't distribute free condoms, and it's harder to teach young people how to use them correctly.
What lessons should governments and professionals who work with youth learn from the pandemic about how to look after young people's health and wellbeing in a crisis?
They need to understand the realities of young people's access to SRHR, the gaps we face, our needs etc. They need to carry out more surveys to see how young people are coping with all the changes since the pandemic. They need to give us youngsters more opportunities to raise our voices, to engage in activities, to work as volunteers, to give us more hope for our future. It's extremely hard for a teenager to stay at home distancing him/herself from everyday life and joy. COVID-19 was devastating for young people and had a big impact on their perspectives on life and desire to do more. Mental health was affected. Young people need to be able to maintain a healthy life, to experience happiness, and to invest in their future to become good doctors, lawyers, engineers and so on, to build a better lifestyle. Social connections and communication are key to mental health - that's why creating safe platforms with adequate and necessary information for young people's needs is crucial for their well-being.
What is your number 1 recommendation on what is needed to make services more youth-friendly?
For services to be youth-friendly, it is crucial to build trust between young people and health professionals. Youth-friendly services are included in our primary health care package and are provided by other private institutions and NGOs such as ACPD through its own clinics. However, trust and communication need to be built.
The role of health mediators is also very important, especially if they are young themselves. This facilitates communication with youth as it is easier to share with someone your age; you feel more understood and can open up when the service is presented in a friendly way. It's also important to create positive environments where young people can engage with each other, for example reading or studying in groups to make it less hard for them to express their true selves. It makes a big difference when a young person finds a reliable service, and seeks help when they are feeling lost. So social workers and innovative communication methods in my opinion are the key.
Tell us about your experience as an activist for young people's health and rights!
My experience has been great. It started in high school taking part in a social experiment and then I got more interested in topics like human rights, comprehensive sexuality education and SRH. I have learned so much from people I met during my activism years, I feel like my public speaking skills have gotten better with time. I have found subjects like SRHR which I feel are close to me because I'm about to become a doctor next year and my contribution started long ago in young people's health. I'm constantly inspired by different projects to keep doing what I am doing now and create a stronger and empowered future for next generations here in my country Albania and beyond. I am happy that I have found role models in this journey of mine, I have heard speeches that are quotes for me to live by. I am grateful that there have been individuals that have pushed me to do better and engage more. I'm looking forward to the next chapters...
* SRHR = sexual and reproductive health and rights
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The FAQs of IWMWhether you own a small hobby farm or a large farming and ranching operation, controlling weeds can be a never-ending task. Determining which method of weed control to implement can seem somewhat elusive, especially when so many techniques and approaches exist. For many years, herbicides were the option of choice. Yet relying on herbicides alone has only resulted in more herbicide-resistant weeds. According to the International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds, 254 weed species are now herbicide-resistant; what's more, this survey determined that weeds are now resistant to 163 different herbicides. It goes without saying that herbicides, by themselves, are not the answer to sustainable, and effective, weed control. A more viable strategy is Integrated Weed Management (IWM). But what exactly is IWM? How does someone go about implementing this approach? And what are its benefits? Let's explore these questions and more. What Is IWM?According to the Integrated Weed Management (IWM) Resource Center, "IWM is an approach to managing weeds using multiple control tactics." These methods include mechanical, chemical, cultural, and biological techniques, combined together over the course of a growing season. The key to IWM is not relying too heavily on one method over another. That's why selecting specific weed species to target and then adjusting the timing of control methods and resources is so important. The initial and subsequent prevention of the spread of weeds and their seeds enhances the effectiveness of IWM. How Is IWM Implemented?IWM is not a "one and done" approach. Just as Integrated Pest Management involves a multi-step process that includes identifying the problem, assessing the severity of the issue, determining options, implementing the best strategy, assessing once again, and recording the results, IWM involves a number of stages that occur over the course of a given growing season. The first stage, which perhaps is obvious, is prevention. The goal of prevention is making certain that weed-seed-contaminated forage products do not leave the farm. Monitoring pastures for weed growth and reducing the potential movement of weed seeds from one location to the next, whether through livestock manure or farm equipment, can help lessen the spread of weeds. Additionally, establishing borders between fields and pastures can also limit exposure and spreading. Another stage involves cultural methods that maximize crop production during the growing season. Rotating crops, limiting bare ground (whether in rows or in pastures) to create better crop cover, and selecting those crops that will be most effective in competing against weeds are all ways a producer can culturally change his or her planting patterns to limit weed growth. Ultimately, if fewer weed species grow to maturity, fewer weed seeds will accumulate during the growing season. Once weeds begin to grow, chemical, mechanical, and biological methods become the third stage. As stated above, many weeds have become herbicide-resistant. However, using residual herbicides and applying the chemical according to specific rates and at specific weed growth times can boost the effectiveness of herbicide application. Rotating different herbicides and avoiding the application of two similar herbicides on the same site will also produce better results. In addition to chemical applications, organic methods, which include everything from tilling, mowing, and burning to hand pulling and seed collection, can help control weed growth and spreading. Intensive grazing by livestock trained to eat unwanted weeds can also weaken the weed plants, making them more susceptible to other IWM control methods. Why Is IWM Important?Aside from the fact that ag producers can no longer rely on herbicides alone to solve their weed woes, IWM gives producers more options for both controlling weeds and capitalizing on resources they already have. Organic producers can also find effective strategies to control weeds in their fields and gardens. What Are the Benefits of Using IWM?Just about any ag producer, big or small, can use IWM. By blending and incorporating IWM strategies into realistically-doable applications, producers can find an effective, ecologically-sound, and financially-viable solution that is suitable for nearly any agricultural operation. Because these options are also sustainable over the long-term, enhanced quality and production of the land, balanced resource stewardship, and an improved bottom line becomes more plausible. How Do I Get Started?Our project will use several of the methods described above. Our preventive measures already include keeping any infested hay on the farm and placing animals in a clean-out pen before locating them to a non-infested pasture. Biological methods will include intensive grazing with goats; chemical methods will include using varied rates of different herbicides. As the project moves forward, future blogs and newsletters will address how these methods are utilized in more detail. In our next post, we will describe the preparations we have made during the last few months to get ready for this year's growing season. Watch for the next post towards the end of this month and stay tuned through our social media sources. If you haven't already, please subscribe to our newsletter by following this link.
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Dr Toby Ord is the founder of an international organisation called Giving What We Can. This organization is dedicated to the fight against poverty in the developing world. Its members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to aid and to direct their giving to the organisations that have a demonstrated ability to use their incomes most efficiently. The impetus for the founding of the organization was provided by Dr Ord's early work in ethics. He subsequently undertook additional research into how his ethical ideas could be put into practice. The fruits both of this research and of related research by other Oxford philosophers appear on the organisation's website, where, through a combination of pure and applied philosophy, the ethical case for making the pledge is urged. The arguments advanced have proved to be extremely persuasive: many people have been moved by them, and to great effect. The organisation has over 326 members, from seventeen countries, who together have pledged to give over US $130,000,000 to charity.
In his article `How to be a Consequentialist About Everything', an early version of which was written in 2006, Dr Ord explored some issues about the fundamental nature and structure of consequentialism. This work convinced him that the most important objects of assessment, within a consequentialist framework, are not individual acts, but long-term commitments. He argued that, by prioritizing long-term commitments in this way, the consequentialist is able to bypass the somewhat arid preoccupation that consequentialists and other moral theorists have tended to have in the past with questions about which acts are impermissible, which merely permissible, which obligatory, and which supererogatory. Dr Ord also came to see that this in turn could have important practical repercussions. In particular, it helps us to see that a single long-term commitment to a cause not only avoids the burdens of continual one-off decision-making in pursuit of that cause, it is also more effective, since second-guessing about the effects of individual spending decisions is largely futile. It also gives us a better understanding than act-based consequentialism of what is wrong with not donating to charity: an act-based consequentialist will find it hard to single out any particular act of the non-donator as relevantly wrong.
While exploring these general structural issues, Dr Ord also considered some more specific questions that would later bear directly on the founding of the organisation Giving What We Can. He discovered powerful and compelling new arguments why those of us who enjoy a certain basic quality of life should give a significant proportion of our income to poor people in developing countries. Some of these arguments addressed hitherto unexplored questions about the phenomenology of moral conflict; some took the form of counterarguments to the less demanding theories of Richard Miller and Liam Murphy. This led him to the idea of setting an achievable public standard of giving away 10% of one's income. Such a standard, which is anticipated in the old practice of tithing, is both less demanding and more intuitive than various others that a consequentialist might be expected to set, which in turn means that it is more likely to be followed. It is less demanding in the sense that it creates a fixed allowance within which to live, free of the guilt and self-censure that accompanies a life that is a constant and frequently unsuccessful struggle to avoid luxuries. It is more intuitive in the sense that it chimes better with our pre-theoretical convictions about how we should live.
In 2009, during the early stages of his postdoctoral research fellowship, Dr Ord was inspired to carry out some of the more empirical research that would help him to convert his theoretical conclusions into something more practical. In the course of this research, he debunked various myths about aid, for example that it has no effect or is even counterproductive. He also came to acknowledge a significant moral imperative to donate to the most effective organisations, which led him to investigate the cost-effectiveness of various interventions. In 2012, he wrote an article, `The Moral Imperative Towards Cost-Effectiveness', in which he both argued for and clarified this imperative. He made comparisons between charities, and produced a list of charities that were particularly recommended for their cost-effectiveness. At around the same time, Andreas Mogensen provided additional relevant research in his article `Giving Without Sacrifice?', in which he explored connections between income, happiness, and giving, and argued that giving to charity is not only of benefit to the recipients but also, in a variety of unexpected ways, to the donors. The upshot is a set of powerfully interlocking arguments, some conceptual, some empirical, some a mixture, which between them present a forceful case for making the pledge that is the defining characteristic of Giving What We Can.
From 2006, Dr Ord acted as a research associate both for the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and for the Future of Humanity Institute. He has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the University of Oxford since 2009. Mr Mogensen has been a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford since 2010.
Dr Ord's personal website includes a link to `How to be a Consequentialist About Everything', an early version of which he presented at the International Society for Utilitarian Studies in 2008: http://www.amirrorclear.net/academic/papers/everything.pdf. This article is also one of his outputs for the University's REF submission [REF2 - N01].
The results of Dr Ord's subsequent empirical research in connection with the organisation, his article `The Moral Imperative Towards Cost-Effectiveness', and Mr Mogensen's article `Giving Without Sacrifice?', all appear on the organisation's website, which was created in November 2009 when the organisation was founded: http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/.
Of especial note are the pages `Our Research', `Myths About Aid', `Recommended Charities', and `Charity Comparisons' whose respective links are: http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/our-research; http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/resources/myths-about-aid.php; http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/resources/recommended-charities.php; http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/resources/charity-comparisons.php.
The research has been widely acknowledged and is very well respected. A quotation from Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton, which appears on the page `Our Research', bears witness to this: `The research behind Giving What We Can is outstanding. By combining the most important empirical research with novel methodological insights about the ethics of aid, it is changing the way we think about aid effectiveness, and providing the basis for well-grounded advice on donating to fight global poverty.'
There is further evidence for the quality of the research in the support given to the organisation by the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, by Balliol College Oxford, and by the Future of Humanity Institute, each recorded on the website. This support has included not only administrative help of various kinds, but the hosting of many events—including events for the public or the media—in which the ideas behind the organisation are explained.
In November 2009 Dr Ord founded the organisation Giving What We Can. This organisation is dedicated to the fight against poverty in the developing world. Its members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to aid and to direct their giving to the organisations that have a demonstrated ability to use their incomes most efficiently. The most significant impact of his research is the amount of money pledged by the 326 members of this organisation: over US $130,000,000. (One notable member is the philanthropist Dr Fred Mulder, who visited the organisation in 2013 and who was sufficiently impressed by the passion and energy of those working in it that he announced in a public lecture that very evening that he would donate £180,000 to the organisation, together with £80,000 over the next three years.) The money pledged has the potential to save lives. In fact, if we accept an estimate in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, the amount pledged is enough to save nearly 57,000 lives[i].
There is also a highly successful offshoot organisation called `80,000 hours', encouraging people to pursue careers that will enable them to become more effective altruists[ii]. This was created by graduate and undergraduate students in Oxford, but now has active support throughout the world: its Director of Careers Research, its Career Impact Assessor, and the person developing its on-line social network are all working in American universities. Not long after these two organisations had been established, they—along with two others, Effective Animal Activism and The Life You Can Save—were united to constitute the Centre for Effective Altruism[iii]. This Centre has been a registered charity since 2012 and is now supported by six full time team members, including staff and interns. Giving What We Can has itself now grown to the extent that it has chapters not only at Oxford but also at Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, UC San Diego, Warwick, Canberra, Switzerland, and Birmingham: these are local branches of the organisation working in areas where there is a high density of people interested in working together to promote its goals[iv].
Dr Ord provides ongoing advice on ethics and cost-effectiveness to Oxfam Great Britain, and consultation on cost-effective ways to fight disease to Oxford Analytica. He also wrote a chapter of a report for the Centre for Global Development, launched at the House of Lords in 2012, and has had talks with a special adviser to the Prime Minister, with the Secretary of State for International Development, and with the World Health Organisation[v]. In April 2013, he participated in a working group of the World Health Organisation tasked with writing a handbook on ethical advice for setting up universal coverage health systems in developing countries: this handbook will include a special emphasis in the cost-effectiveness that he advocates. That same month he also met representatives of the World Bank to discuss the possibility of the World Bank's undertaking a major project to set global priorities[vi]. Owen Barder, a senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development, said in an interview in 2012, `One thing I have learned working in this industry is that there is a tendency to [promote]... all these different good causes... [Dr Ord is] partly pushing against that... and saying that we need to focus much more on the things that have the biggest impact... Thank you for all you're doing to help people in the developing world'[vii].
In addition, Dr Ord's countless talks, presentations, and media performances have promoted the ideas behind Giving What We Can and encouraged reflection on these ideas[viii]. They include the following, each of which has reached out to an audience consisting at least partly of non-academics:
Dr Ord has also been interviewed on the ideas behind Giving What We Can by (among others) The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent on Sunday, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Financial Times, The Tablet, The Australian, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, The Herald Sun, The News Statesman, BBC (both television and radio, including an interview for `The Moral Maze' and an interview for `Breakfast') [ix], American Public Media, NBC, The World, Talk Sport, Fox News, and Sky News, all of which has drawn his ideas to the attention of the general public. One particularly high-profile endorsement of the organisation has been that of Professor Peter Singer in a talk at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference in Long Beach California in March 2013: this talk has been viewed over 320,000 times (there is a link to it on the front page of the organisation's website). In 2011 Dr Ord was included in an Independent on Sunday list of the top one hundred `outstanding examples of people who volunteer, care, educate, or do something special to make Britain a more contented, better-adjusted, and supportive place'[x].
[i] Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries is published by OUP (2nd edn, 2006). The estimate used to calculate the number of lives that can be saved occurs on p. 299.
[ii] The website for the offshoot organisation '80,000 hours' is: http://80000hours.org/.
[iii] The website for the parent charity The Centre for Effective Altruism is: http://home.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/.
[iv] There are links to the different chapters of Giving What We Can on the following page of the website: http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/getting-involved/local-chapters.php.
[v] The report for the Centre for Global Development can be found at: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1426240/, and the abstract for the moral case outlined in the report can be found at: http://www.cgdev.org/doc/full_text/priority_setting/1426241.html
[vi] Further details of Dr Ord's work with WHO and the World Bank can be found at: http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=695a077010b33dc140654bf3c&id=0f3c0cce5c&e=6e311f9ab9#Toby.
[vii] The interview with Owen Barder can be found at: http://developmentdrums.org/484/.
[viii] Further details of all the media presentations can be found at: http://givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/media-coverage Of especial note are:
[ix] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11950843, which was the most popular story for the day on the BBC website;
[x] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-happy-list-2011--the-100-2280696.html, which was in relation to Dr Ord's having been selected for The Independent's `Happy List: One Hundred People Who Make Britain a Better and Happier Place to Live'.


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Ethereum: Why investors should look beyond ETH's current formation
Disclaimer: The findings of the next evaluation are the only opinions of the author and shouldn't be thought of funding recommendation
- Lengthy and short-term ETH holders noticed positive aspects
- If BTC's bearish sentiment persists, ETH may discover new help at $1217.22 and $1166.83
Ethereum [ETH] witnessed a drop simply because it headed into the weekend. It misplaced the $1,300 psychological degree after Bitcoin [BTC] struggled to commerce above $17K. At press time, ETH was buying and selling at $1270.69 and will proceed on a downtrend all through the weekend based mostly on the technical evaluation indicators.
If the bearish momentum persists, ETH may discover new help ranges at $1,217.22 and $1,166.83.
Learn Ethereum's [ETH] value prediction 2023-2024
ETH fails to interrupt the $1306 resistance once more: Will bears take full management?
ETH has been working throughout the $1,239 – $1,378 vary throughout September and October. An upside breakout from the vary led ETH to pump by over 20%, reaching a excessive of $1,682.11 in early November. However the market crash pressured a downtrend that led to large value correction the final time ETH tried a rally.
At press time, ETH confronted important resistance on the 38.2% Fib degree, which additionally doubled as a bearish order block. Technical indicators advised that ETH may drop additional. The Relative Power Index (RSI) moved sideways and rested on the 50-neutral degree with a drop in thoughts. This confirmed that patrons' exhaustion may give sellers extra leverage.
Moreover, the On-Steadiness Quantity (OBV) additionally moved sideways after forming a delicate slope upwards. It confirmed an absence of great buying and selling volumes to again shopping for strain. Thus, shopping for strain might be undermined. Subsequently, ETH may head down and decide on new help ranges at $1,217.22 and $1,166.83.
Nevertheless, an intraday shut above $1306.06 will invalidate the above bearish bias. In such a case, ETH may set sail northwards regardless of quite a few obstacles towards the 100% and 78.6% Fib pocket ranges.
Quick and long-term ETH holders noticed income, however ….
Regardless of the latest bearish sentiment, ETH posted positive aspects to its quick and long-term holders. For instance, the 30-day Market Worth to Realized Worth (MVRV) was optimistic from 29 November. This confirmed that short-term ETH holders made income for the reason that finish of November.
Sadly, ETH noticed a destructive sentiment on the time of publication that might delay additional uptrend momentum. Thus, promoting strain might construct over the weekend and early subsequent week if BTC's sentiment stays bearish.
Nevertheless, if BTC regains $17K and maintains upward momentum, ETH's market construction can have a transparent bullish path. Subsequently, ETH buyers must be cautious and ideally make a transfer if the market path is far clearer.


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Blind River to Timmins
Goalie Patrick Boivin is on the move in a Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League trade that has been confirmed by Hockey News North.
Boivin, who has a 2003 birth date, has had his NOJHL rights traded from the Blind River Beavers to the Timmins Rock in a cash exchange.
Boivin, who is a local Blind River product, heads to Timmins after he and Beavers general manager and coach Kyle Brick had agreed to a mutual parting of ways.
Timmins general manager and coach Brandon Perry was quick to act on the opportunity to trade for the 5-foot-10, 178-pound Boivin. Perry knew of Boivin from a couple of years back when both were in the Great North Under 18 Hockey League; Perry as coach of the Timmins Majors and Boivin as a goalie with the arch-rival Kapuskasing Flyers.
"We are excited to bring in a goalie of Boivin's caliber, I have loved the way he plays since the Great North days, seeing him a lot of him when he was in Kap," Perry relayed to Hockey News North. "And now, we are fully confident in Patrick's abilities to make the Timmins Rock a contender again next season in the NOJHL."
To be sure, Boivin is coming off of a 2021-2022 NOJHL season in which he did good work for both the Espanola Express and Blind River. Between the Express and the Beavers, Boivin posted a 14-17-4 regular season record with a 3.38 goals against average, .902 save percentage and three shutouts. He also used his puck-moving abilities to record four assists from his goalie position.


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Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 to ship before the holidays
Microsoft's Windows Business Senior Vice President Bill Veghte delivered what may very well have been one of the more disappointing keynote addresses to TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles this morning, judging not only in terms of features but in pure speech quality. But one hour and fifteen minutes into the address, he answered the key question he called one of two "elephants in the room:"
"When are we going to ship? This is a question that I get a lot," Veghte said. "We're going for holiday and we're tracking very, very well for it."
The sentence triggered some audible murmuring in the audience, probably as attendees wondered just which holiday he was talking about. Assuming it's Christmas as the ship date for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (expected to be released in tandem), the news may very well have come as a disappointment to software partners in the audience who had been hoping for a faster ramp -- at least October -- to enable them time to get their own products and upgrades ready in time for what will be critical holiday sales this season.
Veghte also invoked the code-phrase "tracking well," which Vista veterans will recall Microsoft's marketers used in 2006 to camouflage the product's many delays -- for instance, saying the product is "tracking well for January" or "on track for January" instead of "delayed until January."
Minutes after Veghte made the announcement, Microsoft elaborated on Veghte's statement to the press: "Microsoft is announcing that the next version of its client operating system, Windows 7, will be available to customers in time for the holiday shopping season."
Though press sources had been instructed to expect Windows Mobile 6.5 related news during the keynote this morning, it was apparently not to be. There was clearly time to have mentioned WM 6.5, that Veghte consumed "introducing" features of Windows 7 that most everyone in the audience had already seen, such as the taskbar. In what appeared to be a transparent effort to fill space prior to Mark Russinovich's initial demonstration (the real reason why most attendees came to the keynote anyway), Veghte conjured metaphors on the fly. At one point, referring to four items in a slide that he realized too late were not the company's "four pillars," he said, "We have a lot in those buckets. And those areas are great. And we hear that those areas are not enough."
Russinovich saved the day, however, with some demos of Windows 7 features that not even testers during the last week had found yet, including tweaks to the AppLocker feature introduced during the first beta cycle. That feature enables group policy to manage what kind or class of application is allowed to run on client systems.
Veghte's other "elephant in the room" concerned application compatibility, but by the time he had addressed it, Russinovich had already dismissed it with adept demonstrations of features such as App-V -- a way to push installed applications from servers to clients using a virtualization envelope.


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Today, the currency pair is not so clear to analyze as there are many countries in the Eurozone that can affect the overall currency situation. In the near future, perhaps even today, we expect a Report on international economic and exchange rate policy. The source does not provide a credible time for publication and the report may be delayed for several days - the event will be marked as "Preliminary" until the report is issued. The impact on the market varies and depends mainly on which countries the report will accuse of currency manipulation.
The report provides a detailed overview of global exchange rate policies, economic conditions, and the actions of central banks and governments around the world. Most importantly, the report presents countries that the Treasury considers to be currency manipulators. Bearing in mind the description of the expected data, we can expect price fluctuations at any time. Personally, I still assume a price increase, but now with "trigger finger"


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Software Engineering And Software Program Management
Application project management software is an art and science of supervising and coping with software program projects. Often, it is also identified as application technological innovation or application venture progression. It is deemed an very important subwoofer-industry of project management software where by computer software assignments are made, managed, implemented and manipulated. The plans often extend to many institutions, but they're all influenced by a popular reason. This common objective is to develop a trustworthy, economical alternative for businesses. This useful performing style is what is called a software program "application" or "power service."
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A standard program challenge administrator provides the adhering to fundamental duties. SheOrHe will work well and handle the venture's aims. She is going to induce establishing a venture opportunity that tells undertaking executives with the items the work will make. SheOrHe are likewise responsible for your available choice of the encoding words(s) to be utilized, as well as for picking out the software suppliers and process integrators. The work supervisor will that plenty of assets are offered to all team members working in the challenge. SheAndHe will be linked to all selections associated with software program submission, all of which will watch over all cost and routine overcrowded quarrels.
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After the software program is tested and produced, the group completes a professional application dimensions evaluation. The scale evaluation determines the expense of creating the job. Software measurements approximation is often based on the approximation of the volume of tasks included, however, this could vary with respect to the sophistication of the endeavor engaged plus the process staying executed. Another way for estimating software program size is to apply the program sizing resource for the business. The instrument may be perform at the onset of every undertaking to discover the time period instructed to complete the job, and you can use it to create quotations determined by how long required to full all of the steps in it advancement approach.
Communicating is extremely important in software technological innovation. Groups active in the software program executive approach must be connecting typically to let responses to come out when variations are essential. Clubs may be connecting by way of collection mail, chitchat, or boards, or they may be conversing via teleconference, getting together with units, and video conferencing. Communicating enables affiliates in order to together to resolve challenges, and providing a design to make in.
Essentially the most popular issues challenged by project operators is determining functions and determining duties in line with retail needs. Task managers have to face the task of denoting who'll obtain the perform executed, who'll manage the project, what the spending budget will probably be and just how to make sure that all downline are involved in accomplishing this. These include regular challenges dealing with venture professionals today, plus they facial area these difficulties through the entire program development daily life-routine. Some information mill productive at managing the procedures and being sure that all associates are provided over the method. Other programs think it is hard to control the job and also the a variety of tasks and accountabilities connected with it. It may be hard for some corporations to establish just what exactly their requirements are in order to have all of the team members functioning to gratifying these requirements.
When software program project management, superior managing activities, as well as are generally considered, the caused solution is a booming undertaking. The secret's for each piece of the marvel to fit jointly appropriately and for them to perform with one another in order for the software program item grows to the buyer. Should they be not placed the right way, then your total alternative will probably don't succeed.
To ensure program project management, good quality operations activities, and needs to work and make it to the consumer, there needs to be great connection throughout the challenge existence-pattern, if a lot of the components of the problem are absent, or. Communication in between web developers and testers must be on-going and consistent. Test candidates can contact the web developers for a purchaser. This will likely make certain that the task runs as structured understanding that everyone involved is satisfied with the end result. If connection is bad, or if perhaps the conversation will not be frequent, the full team could be dissatisfied with all the results and this could an unfavorable end result. By managing the tasks needed and by governing the approach, software program engineering manages the full solution.
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Lord, today I choose to begin training my mind and renouncing thoughts of death for a total reformation of how I think. I surrender myself to You to be Your sacred, living sacrifice, and live in holiness, experiencing all that delights Your heart.
Lord, You know everything there is to know about me. You perceive every movement of my heart and soul, and You understand my every thought before it even enters my mind. You are so intimately aware of my every thought, and You read my heart like an open book. You know all the words I'm about to speak before I even start a sentence! You know every step I will take before my journey even begins. You have gone into my future to prepare the way, and in kindness you follow behind me to spare me from the harm of my past. With Your hand of love upon my life, You impart a blessing to me.
Today, I choose to fix my heart on Your promises, and I will be secure, feasting on Your faithfulness. God, You are my utmost delight and the pleasure of my life, and You will provide for me what I desire the most. I choose to give You the right to direct my life, and as I trust You along the way, I'll find that You pulled it off perfectly! In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
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By Melissa Richard, OD
Oct. 26, 2022
I'm always looking for ways to improve care for our patients and profitability for our practice. Here are a few improvements we made that changed the care our patients receive from us while allowing us to also become more profitable.
Purchased Automated Refraction System
I needed to furnish my second exam room, and wanted to try an automated phoropter. We were just returning at that point from the pandemic shutdown. I was excited because I could operate an automated refraction system from six feet away from the patient behind the phoropter. The patient could pull their mask down if the lenses were fogging up and we would still be socially distanced.
I met with my Marco representative for a practice analysis. He looked at my patient flow, current equipment and my EHR integration. He presented me with the best package at the time (fortunately for me there was a COVID special), but each OD needs to meet with their own reps to find what's best for them and their practice.
Editor's note: There are many automated refraction systems to choose from such companies as Topcon Healthcare, Visionix and Reichert, among other options.
I chose not to do another manual phoropter because the cost between the automated phoropter and the manual version was incremental considering the value gained with the automated version. It really cost me no time to implement the new system. My rep installed the equipment in the morning and it was up and running in the afternoon. It was easy to learn for both me as the refractionist and my techs as the screeners.
Patients are impressed with the technology of the automated refraction. They perceive they are getting a better, more thorough exam. We save time by not having to dial the patient's Rx into the phoropter and not having to transcribe the results after the refraction. It also eliminates transcription errors.
The best and most unexpected benefit of my automated refraction system is the button that allows me to show the patient their new refraction versus what is in their current glasses (or unaided, if they don't already wear glasses). Patients who ordinarily wouldn't purchase new glasses are now getting them because they got to see the difference with a press of a button in the exam room.
Results: We are seeing a 30 percent increase in patients updating their glasses due to this new technology. The time savings per patient is also helpful. It gives me time to discuss the newer treatments and services we offer.
Started Prescribing & Selling Contoured Prism Glasses
In November 2018, 2.5 years into my cold-start practice, we added the Neurolens measurement device to provide a solution to our patients' mostly undiagnosed binocular vision issues.
I wanted to differentiate my practice by providing a service and solution that could not be offered online or by the big-box stores.
I partnered with Neurolens and started what is now known as "The Neurolens Process." The first step was to start screening my patients with the Lifestyle Index, provided by Neurolens. This seven-question survey allows me to identify patients who may be suffering from digital vision syndrome or other underlying binocular vision issues. It can be done in the office or online prior to their exam.
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The second step was to add the Neurolens measurement device to my practice, and then to measure the symptomatic patients (according to the lifestyle index results) to find the patients who would benefit. The measurement takes 2-3 minutes and was incorporated into our pretesting protocol.
The last step is offering the solution, contoured prism glasses. We already have an optical in our practice, so I just had to open an account with the lab that makes Neurolens glasses.
The only cost was the cost of the measurement device. You must have the device in order to prescribe the lenses. I financed my device. With my financing, I had to sell two pairs of Neurolenses per month to make my payment. This did not include my frame profit or money I made on medical office visits for follow-ups. I have never had a problem selling more than two pairs a month, even though my practice was still pretty small when we first started selling them.
Patients are extremely impressed with the technology. Even if they aren't a candidate for the Neurolens themselves, they ask about the testing, why it was done and end up referring their friends, neighbors, or family members, to be tested. For those who are symptomatic, the testing results help me explain to the patient what is going on. It is difficult for someone to see that a patient with binocular vision issues is suffering because they don't look any different. The results of the Neurolens measurement device testing helps to validate these patients' symptoms, and they appreciate having a doctor who goes above and beyond to identify the problem.
These glasses are life-changing. Symptom relief is 80-90 percent for headaches, neck pain, discomfort with computer use, dizziness, light sensitivity and dry eye sensation. A recent study even shows that Neurolenses increases patients' reading speed and productivity.
Results: My profitability has gone up every month since adding Neurolens. These glasses now make up about 20 percent of my optical sales. The lenses are not covered by vision plans, so it is all self-pay. I also get many word-of-mouth referrals from patients wearing Neurolens glasses, which has helped me grow my patient base.
Added Oculoplastic Services
I hired an oculoplastic surgeon in May 2020, right after the two-month pandemic shutdown. We were talking about doing this before the shutdown, but with the pandemic, it got put on hold.
I wanted to be able to refer blepharoplasty surgery candidates in-house. With a growing practice, we are going to see more patients who want/need blepharoplasty. I also like being able to keep lid lesions and papillomas in house. Most of all, I was excited to offer aesthetic optometry services to my patients, such as Botox and fillers.
The oculoplastic surgeon already rotated through other offices. He wanted to expand into our area to serve an unmet need. We figured out a compensation package that worked for both of us. I purchased all of the instruments/equipment/consumables he needed using a list he provided (forceps, sutures, gauze, drapes, lidocaine, dexamethasone, autoclave, ice packs, etc). I also had to purchase the Botox and fillers to get us started.
I had to train my staff on how to work with him and prepare for his in-office procedures. I also had to train a staff member to do the prior authorizations for surgeries that were done at the surgery center. I had to learn how to do all the surgery billing. Luckily we already do a lot of medical billing, so the learning curve wasn't too steep.
I spent around $6,000 on initial supplies/instruments/etc. The pandemic shutdown gave me free time at home to search for the best pricing on what I needed to purchase. I found most things I needed on Amazon and Eye Care and Cure. I also realized I had to furnish my second exam room with a slit lamp and reclining exam chair. I went with a nice refurbished slit lamp and chair for that room. The reclining chair is perfect for the surgeon's in-office procedures.
Patients love that they can stay in-house for papillomas and lid lesions and for blepharoplasty consults. We keep information on Botox and fillers at the front desk, so everyone knows about the additional services we offer. Staff members have gotten Botox and fillers themselves, which also helps open up the conversation. Patients are happy to have procedures done here because they trust us with their eyes.
Results: There is so much demand in our office for our oculoplastic surgeon's services that we have increased his hours from two to four times per month. We take in an additional 10 percent in revenues each month from him being in the office just four half-days.
I recommend that other practices interested in adding oculoplastic services start slow, or plan ahead, so you can keep your surgeon's schedule busy.
Melissa Richard, OD, MS, is the owner of Spectrum Vision in Chalfont, Penn. To contact her: firstname.lastname@example.com


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