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Equipment management software tracks an organization's mechanical equipment, ensuring that upkeep and repairs are done on schedule and on budget.
Maintenance professionals constantly strive to reduce costs while increasing machine availability. Software helps organizations drive toward this goal by optimizing the preventive maintenance and work order process, as well as offering a way to break down historical data to uncover operational trends.
But with hundreds of products on the market, it can be a tall order to identify which ones meet your company's needs. With that in mind, we've written this buyer's guide to support managers in assessing their options as they navigate the landscape.
Here are the topics we'll cover:
Preventive maintenance is crucial to the success of any organization. Offline equipment produces nothing, slows project completion and can even result in a complete operational shutdown. Even worse, equipment malfunctions can be dangerous, leading to time-wasting (at best) or harmful (at worst) accidents.
Equipment tracking software is designed to optimize asset performance, ensuring that preventive tasks happens on schedule and that work orders are handled with maximum efficiency. Critical functions include:
More advanced maintenance management products like Bigfoot CMMS, Sprocket CMMS, eMaint X3 and Maintenance Connection may have a predictive maintenance feature, as well. This application predicts, based on past errors and physical symptoms (e.g., noise, vibration, temperature, corrosion, pressure) that a malfunction may be about to occur and alerts the user to the potential problem. This feature actually saved one company a million dollars in one day. Though most results aren't quite this dramatic, almost all users can attest that properly implemented equipment and machine maintenance software will improve asset performance, reduce costs and extend the lifetime of equipment.
Equipment maintenance tracking software are commonly used for fleets of vehicles (e.g., in the transportation, agriculture, landscaping and field service industries), as well as in manufacturing sites with heavy factory equipment.
Equipment maintenance software includes features designed to keep assets performing at peak capacity for as long as possible. These features include:
|Asset tracking
|To maintain equipment, organizations must be able to track them efficiently. Asset tracking features store important information, such as location, condition, costs, depreciation data, images and associated documentation. Users can quickly retrieve data by scanning barcodes or QR codes with a mobile device.
|Work orders
|The software also offers the ability to create, assign and edit work orders for planned or emergency maintenance tasks. These work orders can be viewed on a mobile device so that technicians can address them wherever they are.
|Preventive maintenance
|Preventive maintenance tasks often make up the majority of an organization's maintenance processes. Software can assist in scheduling these recurring tasks based on a calendar, and users can set up notifications when a PM is almost due. Over time, companies can reduce PMs to save money while also keeping assets healthy.
|Predictive maintenance
|Predictive maintenance goes a step further to help eliminate the need for emergency maintenance by monitoring the real-time condition of an asset and automatically generating a work order when readings indicate a potential failure. This reduces maintenance costs and prevents expensive machine downtime.
|Inventory management
|These maintenance tasks typically require the use of spare parts from a company's inventory. Software can track inventory volumes and help determine the optimal reorder levels so that parts are always available but carrying costs are kept to a minimum.
|Over time, the software will build up a wealth of historical maintenance data. Using reporting features, these data can reveal trends in downtime or costs. Maintenance managers can then determine the cause of the issue and make adjustments to improve asset availability.
Most buyers fall into one of the following categories:
Full-suite buyers. These buyers want seamless integration across systems. For example, a cable company may want a system that allows them to send the same information between their equipment management, field service, helpdesk and accounting departments. These buyers will want an enterprise asset management (EAM) system that simultaneously fills all these needs without re-entry or corruption of data. Products to consider include Infor EAM, Axxerion and Proteus.
Best-of-breed buyers. These buyers generally have more specific needs and want deeper functionality rather than full integration. A specialist will likely deliver a better solution than an EAM product in this instance. Consider collectiveFleet or Maintenance Connection.
Small business software buyers. Small business buyers usually go for products that are easy to use and implement and have lower up-front costs. They'll usually find their answer in cloud-based solutions that are less robust but still address all their primary needs. Web Work by Tero Counseling and TMT Fleet Maintenance provide solutions that are high quality without breaking the bank.
Mobile applications. Buyers working with fleets of vehicles will want to pay special attention to this one. Mobile apps can add value to a solution, since they enable users in the field to access orders, generate new work orders, track labor and inventory use and perform any number of other important tasks, all from their mobile device. It's becoming more common for floor managers in a factory setting to use tablet devices in this way, too.
Software as a Service (SaaS). Web-based software is becoming more popular. Especially given the growth of the mobile market, maintenance supervisors are beginning to appreciate the ease of use that comes with web-based systems, allowing them to be accessed from anywhere and requiring very little in the way of installation.
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The defining attribute of rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the presence of membrane-bound ribosomes along the cytoplasmic surface. These ribosomes synthesize proteins for concurrent translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum, whereas free ribosomes (those not attached to any membrane) synthesize the rest of the proteins encoded by the genome. As a growing protein is formed by a ribosome attached to the endoplasmic reticulum, it enters the lumen via a pore created by a protein resident in the organelle's membrane. During this process, the developing protein is folded into its characteristic three-dimensional structure. In certain specialized cell types, such as the pancreatic cells that emit insulin, these proteins are subsequently released in transport vesicles from endoplasmic reticulum exit sites, often traveling to the Golgi complex. Rough endoplasmic reticulum is not only important for the formation of secretory proteins, however. This region of the endoplasmic reticulum also generates proteins intended for use in membrane formation as well as phospholipids that are retained in the ER membrane.
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Journalists, members of Digital First Media and pretty much everyone else who wants to - are going to be taking part on the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday at noon, Eastern Time.
Today we are talking about emerging trends in journalism. From Facebook Signal to Virtual Reality to ad blockers and anything that's happening, including the rise of ad blocking. Let's get ahead of the curve. What are things to look forward? What should journalists keep an eye on? And what can journalists do in the meantime?
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Life in Christian County, Kentucky...
The old buildings of downtown Hopkinsville were looking good this August morning. Or maybe it was the sunshine of a cooler, less humid morning that looked good. I know it certainly felt good!
Many of the buildings along Main Street near the courthouse (above) are used as lawyers' offices. A few banks still have offices in the downtown area.
The Cherokee building (below, with red band at top) is some kind of professional office (I forget just what, might be accountants?) and the darker brick building beside it has been converted to apartments.
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Trying to set up a nice A4000D AOS4.1 FE classic system.
Recapped Amiga 4000D with ATX PSU, 16 MB fast, 2 MB chip, Kick 3.1
Mediator 4000Di MKiii 3,3 v
Bigramplus 256 MB
Highway USB
Voodoo3 3000
I installed it it with CF HDD and CDROM both on primary IDE. But now that it's installed I want a slimline CDROM that only works as master on a secundary IDE cable. I have an unbuffered IDE splitter: http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php ... rerid=4515 which implememts this logic: http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/4IDE and it works fine with IDEfix software in AOS3.9.
I don't get it to work.
After some more research it appears that in the "Sys:Kickstart/KickLayout-A4000" I had to remove the leading semicolon on the line:
"MODULE Kickstart/A1200/ATAPIismajik" But it appeared already to be uncommented. It doesn't matter whether I keep IDEfix commented or uncomment it in the startup-sequence, the CDROM on the second IDE doesn't work.
How do I proceed, can I simply install the AOS3.x version of IDEFIX?? Or do I have to get it to work differently. I believe a CDfilesystem is already installed with AOS4.1 out of the box right?


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Googling around I have found that Perl CPAN has the HTML::FromANSI module. Also, this module installs ansi2html which accepts input from stdin.
But I prefer the default output from ansi2html.sh from pixelbeat
Unfortunately the ls --color get properly converted to HTML but the git one not. No matter which script I use. Could it be bacause the color is defined in the config as color.ui=auto?
Yes! the problem would be that I have in the configuration color.ui=auto because explicitly having --color in the command make it work:


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Emma.rawlinson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
The Next Big Thing
We are a global company providing automated warehouse and logistics solutions (please see http://www.swisslog.com for further information). Our customer support department is launching an internal campaign to promote innovation. The campaign is called 'the next big thing' and the idea is that the innovation group involved will try to predict future solutions which our existing customers will want to adopt at their sites. We would like an attractive logo to promote excitement of this campaign internally.
The logo will be used for promoting 'The Next Big Thing' internally.
We would like the logo to promote creativity. It will be used as a tool to build excitement, enthusiasm and anticipation amongst the team and other colleagues.
The logo could include a visualization of:
> Game Changing Technology
> Imagination converted into money (e.g. an outline of an arrow made of transparent light bulbs slowly morphing into $$ signs)
> Feeling of physical motion
No Cartoons / clip art should be used.
Our corporate colours are red (Pantone 199U, RGB 225/0/30, CMYK 0/100/70/0) and grey (Pantone Cool Gray 7U, RGB 139/139/139, CMYK 0/0/0/50). Please feel free to experiment with other colours.
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Tie Guy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 493 designs submitted by 164 freelance designers.
Design a logo for a major web e-commerce company website. Guaranteed winner.
looking for a world class logo for our e-commerce neckwear site ties.com. The brand will sell designer neckwear similar to those found in major department stores. Looking for a logo to inspire consumer confidence that our product is top quality.
- design should be suitable for web and print
- web site colors are red, white, and black.
- simple, clean, confident
- added 06-10-08: please use a white background.
- added 06-10-08: Please try with and without the "neckties on the net" tagline
- design should avoid novelty look and feel
- avoid using a tie as the i in the word ties like wildties.com
- added 06-10-08. After receiving a lot of great entries, we have decided that we don't want to emphasize collars, shirts, bow ties, or silhouettes of men wearing ties.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Like many people abroad, Darly Johns of Australia was taken in by propaganda that showed dead and wounded Palestinian children, purportedly the victims of heartless Israeli aggression.
But when Johns decided to do something about the situation and come volunteer in "Palestine," she was greeted by a far different reality wherein local Arab children are actually the victims of child abuse from their own society.
In the following video, Johns tearfully recounts how she came to realize that many of the children whose pictures she had been presented as evidence of Israel's cruelty had in fact died while attacking Jewish men, women and children at the behest of their elders.
And if Johns' own words are not enough, the video includes clips of local Palestinian Arab children reciting precisely what they have been taught: a bloody hatred for the Jews and a deep desire not for peace, but for war and Israel's eventual demise.
The subtitles are all in French and Hebrew, so the following is a translation of most of the statements by the Arab children:
1:38 - [Announcer] Her uncle was a shahid (martyr) and went to paradise. He's now in heaven! [To the young girl] Your uncle?
1:45 - [Girl] He's in paradise.
2:42 - [Boy] We should show how our fighters resist. Like the young engineers Mohammed Sawimih and Abu Gnadl.
2:50 - [Interviewer] What did they do?
2:53 - [Boy] They are young engineers who set death traps. They blew up tanks of the Jews.
3:03 - They threw stones on the tanks. We went to see when they buried the shahids. And a tank arrived and we threw stones at it, and the soldiers fled.
3:22 - It's true that we are a small country, but we have young engineers who can make grenades and bombs to blow up the tanks and cause the [Israeli] soldiers to flee.
3:37 - [Boy] We don't want peace!! We don't want peace!! We want war! We don't want peace. We want to die like all the shahids in Jenin.
3:51 - [Interviewer] What chance is there for peace, if the children are educated to die? The youth do not forget those who died as shahids?
3:54 - [Boy] How can we forget them? We do not forget them. We do not forget the blood of the shahids. It is a shahid, he is with Allah. We do not forget him. We fight until we [also] die as shahids.
4:44 - [Boy] Allah willing we will have a future, and I will be just like Sheikh Mahmud. That is my future.
4:52 - [Interviewer] Who is this Sheikh Mahmud who you want to be like?
4:55 - [Boy] He was an engineer of planes and everything. He built bombs and sent shahids to blow up everything, buses and everything.
5:03 - [Interviewer] Do you see your future as a shahid?
5:06 - [Boy] No, that's not my future... [Interviewer] Then what is your future?
5:09 - Our future is for Israel to disappear. That is our future. That Israel will disappear, Allah willing.
Johns concludes the interview with the astute observation that the Palestinians "never had any other intention except to eliminate Israel."
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You're on holiday and, better still, you're on holiday - on Capri! The only thing you need to do now is relax and enjoy the beauty of this enchanting Italian island. Leave everything else to us...
Pleased to meet you
Let us know in advance which ferry or hydrofoil you will be travelling on and, when you arrive in the port of Capri, you'll find a Caesar Augustus representative waiting to greet you and drive you to the hotel in our shuttle bus or car. Likewise, we'll accompany you back to the port on the day of your departure.
Whilst the only way to reach the majority of hotels in the center of Capri is on foot, you can drive right up to the main entrance of Caesar Augustus.
Arrive in style
Choose our private transfer service and make your journey to Caesar Augustus stress free and fun:
- Helicopter: transfer by helicopter to Capri's heliport and by car to the hotel
- Private boat: meet and greet service at the airport, chauffeur driven car to the port of Naples, private motorboat to Capri and transfer by car to the hotel.
- Private car: meet and greet service at airport, chauffeur driven car to the port of Naples, hydrofoil boarding assistance, transfer by car from the port of Capri to the hotel.
Sandal Experience
Visit Anacapri's legendary sandal maker and have your own made-to-measure sandals created for you while you wait!
Organic Kitchen Experience
There's a reason the food served in La Terrazza di Lucullo tastes so good. Take a tour of Caesar's cliff top kitchen garden and find out for yourself!
Capri by boat
The best way to see Capri is from the sea! We'll organize an excursion for you aboard one of Capri's traditional fishing boats, sailing to all of the island's amazing sea caves, including the legendary Grotta Azzurra, and those secret inlets where, if you like, you can enjoy a secluded swim...
Found your sea legs? Extend your excursion and sail to the Amalfi Coast, where you'll be able to swim in the shadow of the islets of Li Galli before stepping onto dry land and taking a tour of Positano.
The Emperor's beach
Stay at Caesar Augustus and you'll be granted access to a reserved area on the "Bagni di Tiberio" beach, where holidaymakers get to swim amidst the ruins of one of the villas Emperor Tiberius built on the island of Capri!
Contact the concierge for details of prices and facilities
Tours and day trips: reasons to stay a bit longer
Settle in for a few more days at the Caesar Augustus and discover the beauty of the island with a boat tour along the coastline, a walk along the Trail of the Forts or a visit at Villa Jovis and Villa Lysis. You can also take unforgettable day trips from the island to explore stunning sights like the Pompeii Archaeological Park, the vibrant city of Naples and its world-class museums and unique "Naples Underground", the jewel-like villages of the Amalfi Coast, and Sorrento, birthplace of the famed Limoncello, a sweet liqueur made with local lemons.
To see all our suggested tours and day trips, download our brochure (7.6 MB)
For additional details and information, pleasse contact our concierge service
Explore some more!
Capri is so magical, you might easily spend every minute of every hour of every day of your vacation on the island. And yet, Capri provides a beautiful base from where to explore the other treasures in Italy's Campania region too...
Where to go:
Sorrento and Pompei
The hydrofoil journey from Capri to Sorrento lasts less than 30 minutes. From Sorrento, it will take you another 20 minutes (by car) to reach Pompei, where we can arrange for a private guide to show you around the site.
Before boarding the boat back to Capri, take a stroll through the historic center of Sorrento and pick up a souvenir or two in the town's famous craft shops.
20 minutes by hydrofoil + 20 minutes by car
Amalfi Coast
From Capri, Positano and the other picture-perfect towns dotted along the Amalfi Coast are all little more than a 30 minute boat ride away.
We can organize an excursion sailing aboard either a traditional "gozzo" or ultra-modern motor boat, and which includes a stop to see the Islets of Galli where, they say, the Sirens tried to seduce Ulysses, and tours of Positano and Amalfi.
30 minutes by private boat
Not ony is it steeped in historic, artistic and archaeological treasures, Naples is one of the most vibrant, exciting and gastronomically gifted cities in the whole of Italy too.
From Capri, it will take you just 50 minutes to sail to Naples. We'll be pleased to organize a private (and highly personalized) guided tour of the historic center of Naples for you, pizza included!
50 minutes by hydrofoil
And when the excursion is over? Return to Capri and relax in the breathtakingly beautiful Caesar Augustus...
"At Caesar Augustus luxury is as much about peace and tranquility as it is about precious textiles and artworks. It's about the elegant and, at the same time, wonderfully relaxed atmosphere which pervades each and every room. It's about the personalized hospitality, tailor-made to meet the needs of each and every guest. It's about the sensation of being at home, your own beautiful home on the island of Capri..."
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Wonder lubes come in all colours these days, promising ever longer service intervals but White Lightning Crystal Clear Grease is more interesting than most.
It's a clear, supposedly biodegradable formula designed to resist contamination, theoretically allowing easier diagnosis of component wear and doesn't transfer to other surfaces so that grimy tell-tale handprint on the kitchen light switch could become a distant memory. Better still, it's reckoned to be friendly to all surfaces including carbon fibre and rubberised seals- perfect for the entire fleet.
As might be expected, precise composition is a closely guarded secret but we can reveals it's a two part system with polymer base oils providing the friction reducing nourishment while an aluminium derived thickener ensures it stays put come hell or high water.
Unlike other synthetics, it emerges with a gel like consistency reminiscent of plumbers' mastic that mysteriously turns clear upon contact with the host components regardless of air temperature. Ours was the large squeezable tube with slimline spout allowing precise, controlled application to threaded components such as old fashioned crank bolts, cleats, bottle, mudguard and carrier screws and contact points, minimising wastage/cross contamination.
Nonetheless, I've been flooding pedal, headset and freehub bearings for the last word in buttery smoothness, ignoring the excess so as to monitor its true dirt phobic prowess over several weeks' mixed terrain service. From the outset, bearings feel notably slicker compared with traditional wet/ceramic type lubes, so go sparingly on seatposts and quill stems to prevent their incremental creep inside the frame as you ride.
A comparatively dry test period led me undertake some shallow river riding coupled with bouts of close range hosepipe torture testing. Subsequent strip downs suggests little short term impact although predictably jet-washing dispatched it within 90 seconds, so cross aficionados and other mud mariners should exercise similar levels of post-race caution.
Regular green lane/forest frolics through long grass and dusty trails haven't collected obvious signs of foreign bodies, while budget elastomer suspension bushes seem happy too. Being a synthetic, galvanic corrosion (where aluminium alloy/steel components chemically seize) seems highly improbable but I'm still inclined toward dressing Ti components in a dedicated prep where possible.
Groundbreaking grease with promising longevity, nice to use too
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Make and model: White Lightning Crystal Clear Grease
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"· A Different Kind of Bicycle Grease!
· Crystal Clear. Odourless. Non-Staining. Non-toxic. Biodegradable
· White Lightning has developed Crystal Grease for cyclists and mechanics who are simply unwilling to compromise on performance or ecology
· An aluminium-based thickening system makes Crystal Grease 100% water proof, perfect for wet weather road rides or stream crossings on a mountain bike"
Shows great potential and has thus far lived up to the hype, although only time will tell when it comes to rubberised seals/suspension components.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
· Premium hydro-treated base oils deliver smooth bearing lubrication and long-lasting durability
· Crystal Grease will not attack gaskets, seals or carbon fibre
· Crystal will not stain painted surfaces
· Crystal Grease allows mechanics to visually identify wear and contaminate particles
Very impressive to date.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Thus far white lightning Crystal has lived up to its hype being buttery smooth and easy applied without cross contamination woes. However, time will tell as to its neutrality around seals/similarly sophisticated polymers and I'd still wash hands thoroughly after use.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Easily applied, slick, clean and seemingly economical.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Nothing given the design brief.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
About the tester
Age: 38 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Igor's GSoC project, found in kdepimlibs/akonadi/tests/testrunner.
Documentation copied from kde-pim ML:
First you need create a configuration file in KStandDirs config resource type(try to use:kde4-config --path config , to find the path in my case the path is /usr/share/kde4/config) , the configuration file is a xml and look like: <config> -- xml root <kdehome>/home/igor/kde/installs/trunk </kdehome> --path to your kde home in my case is /home/igor/kde/installs/trunk <confighome> /home/igor/codes/kde/tests/test_akonadi/</confighome> --path to akonadi configuration, in my case /home/igor/codes/kde/tests/test_akonadi/ <datahome>/home/igor/codes/kde/tests/test_akonadi/data</datahome> --path to akonadi data <resource>akonadi_ical_resource</resource> -- load the akonadi ical resource <resource>akonadi_vcard_resource</resource> --load the akonadi vcard resource <item location="/path/to/file.vcf" collection="akonadi_vcard_resource_0"/> --load the file.vcf item to akonadi_vcard_resource_0 collection </config> --finish configuration After that you only needs to run the testrunner: %./akonaditest and it creates a shellscript file in your current directory called testenvironment.sh and you just need to run it. %source testenvironment.sh And right now you have a self contained Akonadi server. :> If you have any kind of problem, send me a mail.
In kdepim/akonadi/resources, fully featured resource that operates on a single XML file. File format is decribed in knut.xsd and follows closely the internal structure of Akonadi. New files can be created in eg. Akonadiconsole by creating a resource and specifying a non-existing file.
Second part of Igor's GSoC project, currently in playground/pim/akonaditest.
In kdepimlibs/akonadi/test, part of Robert's thesis.
Usable without installation, run with ctest/make test as usual.
Better coverage than the above, but require special test data from kdesupport/akonadi/server/src/storage to be applied before every run (destroys all existing data, so be careful). Needs porting to the Akonadi Testrunner.
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We always love to hear about great guitar players, especially when they are using our pickups! Our Japanese distributor, Zenbu Japan, recently informed us that the legendary Kazumi Watanabe has been spinning many of his burning jazz and fusion lines on a Collings SoCo, complete with Lollar Imperials!
Mr. Watanabe has been one of Japan's most important and influential guitarists (and composers) since the mid-seventies. He has played and recorded with many of the worlds greatest musicians, and received the prestigious Fumio Nanri Award in 1991. He has also been a visiting professor of music at Senzoku Gakuen College since 1996.
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Our Fitness Blog
The Amazing Facts of Weight loss vs Fat loss
Weight loss VS Fat loss
It is pretty common for people to want to know if they should be focused on fat loss or weight loss. Typically when people meet fitness goals, it is focused on weight loss. Conversely, people obviously tend to get very frustrated by weight gain.
Are you ready for the truth……
Are you sure…..
Well here it is….
Weight gain is not always a bad thing!
Now before you go out talking about how I told you that it is ok to gain weight, let me explain. Your weight is only one indicator in your fitness level and overall health condition. To get a true guage of where you are, based on weight alone can be very difficult.
More than once I have heard "Something's not working. I'm actually gaining weight."
And more than once, my response tends to be…"But didn't you already tell me that all of your clothes are getting too big?"
People tend to assume that just because the number on the scale doesn't go down, then they must not be seeing the results they want. People tend to get; so wrapped up in weight loss that they forget about many of the other aspects of getting fit. They fail to understand that they may not lose pounds because they are replacing fat with lean muscle.
Now let me clear up another thing….
You hear people say that muscle weighs more than fat…..
POP QUIZ …… which weighs more? A pound of fat…. or a pound on muscle?
Are you ready for this?? They both weigh a POUND. The truth is that muscle is more dense than fat, not heavier.
The way to get that slim, healthy, fit look that you want is not by losing weight. To see the results that most of us want to see, we have to lose body fat and build lean muscle. It is not uncommon to go down a couple of pants sizes and still add a pound or two. What you have done is decreased your body fat and gained lean muscle. In this case, gaining weight is a good thing.
It is ok to use the scale as an indicator if you like. Just don't use it as your only means of judging progress. There are multiple other factors to take in to account. If you want my advice, I say just throw the thing away! Judge by how you look, how you feel, and how your clothes fit.
So, should you focus on fat loss or weight loss? In my opinion, don't put all of your focus on either. Put your focus on being healthy! Get and keep a regular full body workout that continues to challenge you. Eat in a way that is nutritionally right, and let your body composition begin to take care of itself.


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Dupuytrens contracture is a painless thickening and tightening (contracture) of tissue beneath the skin on the palm of the hand and fingers.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
The cause is unknown. Family history of Dupuytrens contracture makes you more likely to develop this condition. It does not seem to be caused by occupation or from trauma.
The condition is more common after age 40. Men are affected more often than women. Risk factors are alcoholism, diabetes, and smoking.
One or both hands may be affected. The ring finger is affected most often, followed by the little, middle, and index fingers.
A small, painless nodule or lump develops in the tissue below the skin on the palm side of the hand. Over time, it thickens into a cord-like band.
It becomes difficult to extend or straighten the fingers. In severe cases, straightening them is impossible.
Signs and tests
The doctor will examine your hands. Diagnosis can usually be made from the telltale signs of Dupuytrens contracture. Other tests are rarely needed.
Your doctor may recommend exercises, warm water baths, or splints.
Surgery may be done to release the contracture. Normal movement of the fingers is usually restored by surgery followed by physical therapy exercises for the hand.
A newer treatment involves injecting a substance called collagenase into the scarred or fibrous tissue. Three injections are needed. You may have side effects such as swelling, pain, and itching. A more rare but severe side effect is rupture of the tendon.
Expectations (prognosis)
The disorder progresses at an unpredictable rate. Surgical treatment can usually restore normal movement to the fingers. The disease can recur following surgery in up to half of cases within 10 years.
Worsening of the contracture may result in deformity and loss of function of the hand.
There is a risk of injury to blood vessels and nerves during surgery.
Calling your healthcare provider
Call your healthcare provider if you have symptoms of this disorder.
Awareness of risk factors may allow early detection and treatment.


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An estimated 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger in the world. This is a critical issue of our time. The crisis in access to food by impoverished groups in the developing world highlights the negative effects of current food production and trade models. The conservation community has been pointing for some time to the negative impacts of the same drivers on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Food security in the long term needs appropriate management of the ecosystem services that directly and indirectly underpin people's access to adequate, nutritious food. These services are largely undervalued or ignored in planning and policy-making. At the same time the conservation community has paid little attention to its potential role in enhancing food security.
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- Is a Home Manager present during showings?No, Home Managers are not present during showings. Prospective buyers won't know that your home is even staged; it will simply look and feel like a homeowner lives in and loves the home. Everything is in its place and your home shows as well or better than it would if you still lived there.
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- How do Showhomes services benefit a Realtor?Showhomes helps homeowners and their Realtors sell vacant homes faster and for higher prices. In today's market, staging a home with a live-in Home Manager can steeply reduce the amount of time the home sits on the market and bring in offers far above what a homeowner would get if the home remained vacant. For a Realtor, this means less hassle, faster sale, higher commission and a happier homeowner.
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Thyroid hormones play an important role in the modulation of energy metabolism by regulating the rate of thermogenesis, i.e. the amount of heat produced to maintain the stable core temperature of the organism. Clinically, hypo- and hyperthyroidism are associated with major changes of thermoregulation and energy expenditure. While in rodents the ability of thyroid hormones in regulating the temperature and energy expenditure in response to changes of temperature is well known, its actual role in humans is poorly understood. We hypothesize that humans will respond to exposure to moderate cold by increasing the energy expenditure mediated by the thyroid hormones action and, at the same time, by decreasing the heat dispersion. This randomized, cross-over study is aimed to analyze the changes in the thyroid hormones, energy expenditure and stress hormones in response to exposure to mild changes in environmental temperature.
A total of 230 lean and overweight volunteers who are 18 years of age or older, following a two-day period of standardized diet, will be randomized to either a normal (75 (Infinite)F/24 (Infinite)C) or low-temperature (64 (Infinite)F/18 (Infinite)C) 12- or 24-hour stay in a temperature-controlled metabolic chamber. A standard meal will be provided after six hours of recording in studies performed during the daytime. After a two-day resting period the test will be then repeated at the second temperature. In order to visualize and quantify the metabolic activity of brown adipose tissue (BAT), twenty five lean study volunteers younger than 60 will be asked to undergo a 18-fluoro-deoxy-glucose PET-scan after each of the two 12-hour overnight stays in the metabolic chamber. In order to determine the impact of mitochondrial function on cold-stimulated BAT activity, a sub-group of volunteers who carry a mutation in the mitochondrial genes, succinate dehydrogenases, and age- and gender-matched control subjects, will undergo PET/CT scanning at the end of a 24-hour stay in the metabolic chamber at 18 (Infinite)C and 24 (Infinite)C.
The following parameters will be recorded and analyzed: Changes in skin and core temperature, heart rate and its variability, energy expenditure, changes in circulating thyroid hormones, ACTH, cortisol, and catecholamines. Changes in glucose uptake in relation to changes in energy expenditure will be measured by PET-scan.
The adipose tissue metabolism will be analyzed by microdialysis and study volunteers will be asked to undergo subcutaneous adipose tissue needle biopsy.
The data gathered from this study will provide a comprehensive insight into the mechanism(s) regulating the energy metabolism in response to mild cold. The results obtained from the proposed experiments might lead to the characterization of a population of subjects who are requiring excessive energy expenditure to prevent hypothermia upon cold exposure. Thus, we hypothesize that in a subset of subjects an exposure to mild cold will produce a negative energy balance ultimately facilitating weight loss.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|160 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Thyroid Hormones Homeostasis and Energy Metabolism Changes During Exposure to Cold Temperature in Humans
|Study Start Date :
|August 24, 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 12, 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 26, 2018
- Changes in energy expenditure and in thyroid hormone levels
- Changes in spontaneous physical activity and in thermic effect of food
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Age greater than or equal to18
- Written informed consent
- (for SDH study only: <60 years old, documented SDH mutation without clinical evidence of pheochromocytoma or biochemical evidence of excess of catecholamines. The assessment will be performed within the context of the 00-CH-0093 protocol, P.I. Karel Pacak).
- Hypo- or hyper-thyroid (history or TSH greater than 5.0 and less than 0.4 miU/L)
- Blood pressure greater than 140/90 mmHg or current antihypertensive therapy
- History of cardiovascular disease
- BMI less than or equal to 20 or greater than or equal to 35 Kg/m(2)
Diabetes mellitus (fasting serum glucose X greater than 126 mg/dL)
- Hypercholesterolemia (serum levels greater than or equal to 240 mg/dL), hypertriglyceridemia (plasma levels greater than or equal to 220 mg/dL) and/or use of antilipemic therapy
- Liver disease or ALT serum level greater than two fold the upper laboratory reference limit
- Iron deficiency (Ferritin less than 40 ng/mL males, and less than 20 ng/mL females)
- Renal insufficiency or estimated creatinine clearance less than or equal to 50 mL/min (MDRD equation)
- Claustrophobia
- History of illicit drug or alcohol abuse within the last 5 years; current use of drugs (by history) or alcohol (CAGE greater than 3)
- Psychiatric conditions or behavior that would be incompatible with safe and successful participation in this study
- Current use of medications/dietary supplements/alternative therapies known to alter thyroid function
- Current use of antiplatelet or anticoagulants
- Allergy to lidocaine
- Pregnancy/breastfeeding/hormonal contraception and childbirth within the last 24 months
- Perimenopausal (as self-described within two years from onset of amenorrhea or current complaints of hot flashes)
- Current smoker or user of tobacco products
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00521729
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Kong Y Chen, Ph.D.
|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00521729 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|August 28, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 11, 2019
|Last Verified:
|June 26, 2018
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Energy Expenditure
Healthy Volunteer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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The June P. Zintz Memorial Library of the Western New York Genealogical Society
Location: The collection is located in the Grosvenor Room of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library at Lafayette Square. The Society schedules a volunteer on duty at least once a week.
Society website: http://www.wnygs.org/
The Society maintains a growing library of over 3000 books, more than 700 rolls of microfilm, a number of periodicals and several card catalogs as a repository of genealogical information pertaining to the area and its early settlers. Primary interest is in the eight counties of Western New York: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming. However, there is much information on the remainder of New York State and New England, as well as most of the other states, many foreign countries and many families.
Among the Library's holdings are the following:
• Ancestor charts and family group sheets of members
• Atlases, Gazetteers
• Bible records
• Birth records
• Cemetery records
• Census records
• Church Records
• City directories
• Family History and Genealogy
• Foreign: Britain, Ireland, Germany etc., including Germans to America
• "How-to" books
• Local histories
• Marriage records
• Periodicals
• Vital Index of Early Western New York Families
The Michael Drabik Memorial Library of the Polish Genealogical Society of New York State
Location: The collection is located in the Grosvenor Room of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library at Lafayette Square.
Society website: http://www.pgsnys.org/
The Michael Drabik Memorial Library Collection was dedicated on August 9, 2008. The Polish Genealogical Society of New York State maintains this reference library of approximately 300 titles. The collection consists of materials pertaining to Poland and a variety of Polish American topics nation-wide. Many of the books are in Polish.
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It seems like we almost skipped springtime and already started our summer vacation!
These easter days are fabulous!(In the Netherlands we have two easter days, sunday and monday)
It is warm outside and
the garden is full of color and smelling wonderful.
Guess it's to lovely outside to do a lot of sewing or blogging.
However I did do a little sewing,
A new Dutch bag.
With a little keyhanger from Dutch ribbons.
All I need to do now is the strap, maybe tonight..
I decided to keep one bag for myself this spr..summer,
I love the birdbags and this one suits my clothes great!
And all the right things fit inside.
Now there is one bird bag left in the shop.
Now I'm off, taking my bike to the ice cream shop in our village!
Enjoy your day everyone,


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) - A $10,000 emerald is missing from the Asheville Museum of Science. Museum officials filed a police report in late January.
Authorities said there are no suspects and the emerald hasn't been returned.
"Recently, an emerald specimen from the AMOS collection was stolen and a police report was subsequently filed with the Asheville Police Department. There was no break-in, and to the best of our knowledge, nothing else was taken," AMOS officials said. "The AMOS gem and mineral collection has immeasurable historical significance, and the theft of the emerald is a sad loss."
Museum officials said they are working on measures to increase security in order to ensure the museum's collection remains intact.
Anyone with information about the missing gemstone is asked to call Asheville police.


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by Jim Harris
As we sat in the small but lush backyard of Brian Rudnick's East Highland Avenue home, he showed me some of the vegetables and flowers he was growing. He finds here an intersection of horticulture and politics.
"Environmentally, some good things are happening in city government," he said. "Did you know that Philadelphia is considered to be at the forefront of storm water management? The city is giving out free rain barrels to residents, because, in a "combined" system (storm water and sewer), too much rain runoff can cause sewage to overflow into the river.
"Free compost bins are also available from the city. Composting vegetable waste not only helps your garden, it reduces curbside trash, which saves the city money."
In addition to his own garden, Rudnick has worked with the beautification committee at the J.S. Jenks Elementary School, where he installed and maintained small garden areas.
It's that mix of public interest and involvement that spurred Rudnick to run, again, for Philadelphia City Council's 8th District.
He's up against Democratic nominee Cindy Bass. Local newspaper publisher Jim Foster was recently kicked off the 8th District ballot by a challenge Rudnick had filed. A judge found that Foster had included multiple signatures of people who were not registered to vote in the 8th District.
"I regret having to be the one to address these issues, but until we change the system, the burden of uncovering these deficiencies rests on the other candidates," Rudnick said about his challenge to Foster. "Notwithstanding my success in court, I am hoping Jim will join with me in opening one small crack in the Democratic party machine for which he has advocated so long and well."
Rudnick, 57, is a Northeast High grad, with a bachelor's and law degree from Penn, and a master's in information systems from Drexel.
He's lived in Philadelphia most of his life and in Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill for almost 20 years.
He shares his present home on Highland Avenue with his wife – a library coordinator for the city – a daughter, 15, and son, 13. Both kids attend Philadelphia public schools.
They also have an older daughter – a Central High grad – who is married and lives out of town.
Rudnick is a librarian at Orleans Technical Institute; a building trades school that is part of JEVS Human Services. He's also a video journalist and a homemaker.
"I consider myself lucky to have a job," he says. "That so many folks are out of work is a serious societal dysfunction."
He also once owned a bookstore and he practiced law for a number of years before deciding it was too adversarial, and moved on to information science.
"I'm a true believer in libraries," he says. "I've been a weekly reading tutor at Jenks for eight years. I was horrified when the Mayor tried to close 11 branches."
Rudnick's grandfather was Philadelphia Police Captain Henry H. Brown, who, Rudnick said, was always involved with charitable activities in the community. His father was a fabric wholesaler.
He said that both of his parents instilled in him a culture of being helpful.
"I don't see it as a chore," he said. "I care about people, especially those who are disadvantaged or discriminated against. As a boy growing up in Northeast Philadelphia, every time I got a haircut, I saw the death camp number tattooed on my barber Leon's forearm.
"As an attorney, I worked to restore individuals' disability benefits, I helped people get unemployment compensation and I aided single mothers in securing child support. I've also served as an election judge in my 9th Ward division and have been involved in mediation.
"Of course, you don't need to be a lawyer to serve on City Council, but I think a broad legal experience is important to the job. I love the law and look forward to using my knowledge and ability as a member of Philadelphia's legislative body."
On his council run, Rudnick says he hopes to bring that openness to help others to bear as their representative.
"The day I filed my petition papers at City Hall, I made the rounds to several council offices, introducing myself and asking questions. I admire council people who know their stuff and work hard. On the other hand, I've been in city council chambers and seen citizens testifying to empty chairs and only a handful of council people, either not listening or talking on their cell phones.
"As a councilman, I'll open a 'mini City Hall' office in the district where I'll be once a week to hear and resolve constituent concerns. It all starts with caring and responding.
"As to how I got involved in politics," he said, "in 2003, I was part of a community effort that resulted in the 'Stop for pedestrians in crosswalk' signs on Germantown Avenue. In correspondence sent to me from the Streets Department regarding the matter, traffic Engineer Charles Denny mistook me for someone who had constituents, so councilperson-like was my involvement. I started thinking maybe I could do more to help my community."
So the next chance he got, Rudnick entered the race as a Green Party candidate.
"In 2007, I ran for council, because I believed I could do a better job than the incumbent [Donna Reed Miller], I am entering the race this time, because I believe I can do a better job than the Democratic Party nominee.
"As a councilperson, it will be one of my top priorities to create jobs. There are just too many unfulfilled needs and too many talents not being used in our city. And as a parent of two public school children, it will be my personal and public priority to make sure that our schools get the funding that our children need and deserve."
"I want to show you something," he said, and he drove me to a plot of land in Wadsworth, teeming with vegetables and fruit trees.
"I found out that this place was being farmed by a retired SEPTA driver named Willie Ford," he said. "The lot had just been standing empty, so he decided to cultivate it. I did some research and found out that the land was owned by out-of-town people who were just sitting on it."
"Willie and I teamed up and made them an offer for the lot, but they turned it down. I then found out that they were years behind in their taxes on the property. I went to the city and was told that it could be years before officials could even address the case. Meanwhile, the deadbeat landlords are just stiffing the city. Why pass new taxes when you're not even collecting the old ones? It's not just about having laws, it's about seeing that they are enforced."
In a totally unscripted moment, as we turned an isolated corner at the garden, we came upon a man urinating. Rudnick winced.
"Oh that's just great," he said. "Do you have to do that here?"
The guy, a trash collector who had parked his truck nearby, said, "I tried to use the restroom at the gas station, but they told me it was for customers only."
"Oh really?" Rudnick's ire now shifted to the gas station operators. "That's terrible. And you, a workingman. That's not right. I'm sorry, sir."
Back again on Highland Avenue, we strolled along Rudnick's block.
"When you travel around your neighborhood," he said, "what do you see? I see flowers and birds, and I hear the cicadas. I've always loved nature. It's endlessly fascinating, and it's accessible to everyone."
I don't want to run as an independent. I want to be Green. When I lived downtown, I used to drive up here to take a walk. Eventually, I decided I didn't want to have to drive to take a walk, so I moved up here."
As we continued down the street, Rudnick pointed out who lived in each house and talked about his neighborhood.
"It's a very integrated community," he said, "A nice mix. We love it here."


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Mrs Aline Garel – All Breeds TICA judge, who hails from Quebec, Canada
Ms Adriana Kajon – All Breeds TICA judge, who hails from Alburquerque, New Mexico, US
Mr Bob Goltzer – All Breeds CFA judge, who hails from Florida, US
Ms Vickie Shields – All Breeds TICA judge, who hails from Alburquerque, New Mexico, US
Mr Johan Lamprecht – All Breeds SACC judge, who hails from Cape Town, South Africa
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Sola™ dive lights have a factory sealed body so you never need to worry about flooding. Control is accomplished with a magnetic slider on the top of the body. Slide forward or back to turn on. Hold forward or back to turn off. Rotate to lock. Smart Dashboard: Three indicator lights behind the bezel report battery status, output setting, and charge status; slide forward to increments the power levels.
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