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College Costs That Can Creep Up On You
Whether you are early in the college prep and search process or are sorting between acceptances and financial aid awards, there are some college costs that you should be aware of that, without planning, can become unpleasant surprises. While colleges have become more predictable when it comes to managing the costs—tuition and fees, room and board—that you see on a term bill, other costs are not so easily predictable.
When comparing colleges, look for their Total Cost of Attendance on their Web sites. Some schools, Colorado State University being one example, do a good job at explaining college costs. Others provide you with information if you use their Net Price Calculators. Some of these estimates are admittedly guesses. As that Colorado State University page will show you, costs can depend on your year in college, chosen major, living situation and personal lifestyle.
Within direct charges at a state university, the ones that you see on the bill, be careful to check tuition and fees not only for a freshman, but also for students who are juniors and seniors in the individual colleges. It is quite common for a state university to assess higher tuition and fees for students enrolled in their business school, college of engineering and health science programs. The University of Pittsburgh, among schools that are popular where I live in New Jersey, follows this practice as do Rutgers-New Brunswick, Penn State and Temple, among others. Most colleges have held tuition and fee increases below four percent per year. However, the "bump" may be higher after a student declares a major. It might even exceed the additional $1,000 that s/he may borrow from the Federal Direct Student Loan program to cover college costs.
The costs of books will be an unpleasant surprise, especially for families who are sending their first child to college. High schools never ask their students to pay for books, lab expenses or software. They also received discounts per book that individual college students are unlikely to get. You will get all sorts of advice to buy used, buy digital or rent books. For some classes, especially those where you are never likely to highlight the book or use it for another class, those options will work fine. But some courses, especially in accounting, math and sciences. use the same book over more than one semester. For those books, buy new, and let your student make all the notes they need inside or outside of them. The same is true for lab supplies and software.
Transportation estimates will not be the same from school to school, even among colleges that are located in the same state. They will reflect the geography of the student body. A school with a residential campus that draws most of its student body from their state or close neighbors is likely to provide low estimates for transportation costs for travel home or around the community. It is also likely that a residential school will try to discourage freshmen from bringing cars to campus, possibly not allow them at all. Expenses for a car on campus are not considered essential by any residential college, unless a student is a commuter who lives with family. Commuters who attend schools in cities might also need to consider mass transit fares in their college costs. High school students in New York, for example, can purchase discount passes for mass transit at their schools. College students in these cities cannot.
Food costs may appear to go down after the first year when students elect to purchase a less expensive meal plan or have no meal plan at all. That may work fine for those who know how to cook or opt to eat foods that are not the best alternatives to proteins such as meat, fish or poultry. Here is one suggestion. Take your monthly food bill, divide it by the number of people in your family, then multiply that number by ten for the number of months in a college year. Then add any allowance that you might have given your children over those same ten months for meals and others things that they buy on their own. That might be a more reliable estimate for food over the course of an academic year than your college will provide. It could be less than the costs of a meal plan, or maybe more.
It's not always easy, and its never fun, for a student to manage college costs, especially after they have earned some credits towards a degree and have their direction set on a major. But as you begin your search or choose between a very short list of schools, you can consider these four costs before you deposit.
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Colorado Rockies backup outfielder Andrew Brown has elected free agency over an assignment to the minors. Baseball America editor Matt Eddy reported the move on Twitter.
Brown appeared in 46 games as an outfielder and pinch-hitter for the Rockies in 2012, posting a line of .232/.302/.429. In 57 games over two seasons with the Rockies and St. Louis Cardinals, he has a line of .224/.284/.396. He was claimed off waivers from the Cardinals last offseason. St. Louis drafted Brown in the 18th round of the 2007 draft.
Brown only played in 11 games in 2011 with the Cardinals while spending most of the season in Triple-A, where he made the Pacific Coast League All-Star team that season. He proved versatile while in the minors, playing all three outfield positions plus second base while posting an impressive .284/.382/.501 line with 20 homers. He's yet to be given a full-time opportunity to translate those numbers in the big leagues, and has now opted to choose his next chance rather than go back to the minors.

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In a sense, my work is haunted by space, actual and metaphorical, remembered and constructed. My photographs grew out of the need I felt to document actual spaces, especially the space of my childhood. At a certain point, I realized that in order to go forward as an artist, it was necessary to return physically to my childhood home in Morocco and to document this world which I had left in a physical sense, but of course, never fully in any deeper, more psychological sense. In order to understand the woman I had become, I needed to re-encounter the child I once was. I needed to return to the culture of my childhood if I wanted to understand my unfolding relation to the "converging territories" of my present life. This culture, and the space of my childhood within it, was defined for me by specific domestic spaces, ones that still exist, but are in the process of slowly deteriorating. So I embarked on a project to photograph these physical spaces before they were lost, and in doing so, to see the role they played in shaping the metaphorical space of my childhood.
It is obvious that while my photographs are expressions of my own personal history, they can also be taken as reflections on the life of Arab women in general. There are continuities, of course, within Arab culture, but I am uncomfortable thinking of myself as a representative of all Arab women. Art can only come from the heart of an individual artist, and I am much too aware of the range of traditions and laws among the different Arab nations to presume to speak for everyone. My work documents my own experience growing up as an Arab woman within Islamic culture seen now from a very different perspective. It is the story of my quest to find my own voice, the unique voice of an artist, not an attempt to present myself as a victim, which would deprive me of the very complexity I wish to express.
These photographs have led me to a greater understanding of the importance of architectural space in Islamic culture. Traditionally, the presence of men has defined public spaces: the streets, the meeting places, the places of work. Women, on the other hand, have been confined to private spaces, the architecture of the home. Physical thresholds define cultural ones, hidden hierarchies dictate patterns of habitation. Thus crossing a permissible, cultural threshold into prohibited "space" in the metaphorical sense, can result in literal confinement in an actual space. Many Arab women today may feel the space of confinement to be a more psychological one, but its origins are, I think, embedded in architecture itself. In my photographs, I am constraining the women within space and also confining them to their "proper" place, a place bounded by walls and controlled by men. The henna painted on their bodies corresponds to the elaborate pattern of the tiles. The women then, become literal odalisques (odalisque, from the Turkish, means to belong to a place).
But my work reaches beyond Islamic culture to invoke the Western fascination, as expressed in painting, with the odalisque, the veil, and, of course, the harem. Here is another way in which my work cannot be read simply as a critique of Arab culture. Images of the harem and the odalisque still penetrate the present and I use the Arab female body to disrupt that tradition. I want the viewer to become aware of Orientalism as a projection of the sexual fantasies of Western male artists––in other words as a voyeuristic tradition.
It is not only the West that has been prevented from seeing Arab culture accurately. How people in the Arab world see themselves has also been affected by the distorted lens of Orientalism. There is some evidence that the Orientalist perspective has had an impact on the actual lives of Arab men and women, and especially that the rules for Arab women became much stricter as a result of Western influence. When the West portrays Eastern women as sexual victims and Eastern men as depraved, the effect is to emasculate Eastern men, and to challenge the traditional values of honor and family. So Arab men feel the need to be even more protective of Arab women, preventing them from being targets of fantasy by veiling them. The veil protects them from the gaze of Orientalism. While we'll probably never know whether the return to the veil and the rules that accompany it is a response to Western influence or merely coincidental, it is hard to believe there is no relationship. In a sense what the West did was to erase the boundaries of public and private; in part the Arab world responded by re-instating those boundaries in a way that would be clear and visible. Within the veil, an Arab woman has a private space.
I want to stress that I do not intend my work simply as a critique of either culture, Arab or Western. I am going further than mere critique to a more active, even subversive, engagement with cultural patterns, in order to get beyond stereotypes and convey my own experience as an Arab woman. In employing calligraphic writing, I am practicing a sacred Islamic art that is usually inaccessible to women. To apply this writing in henna, an adornment worn and applied only by women, adds a further subversive twist. Thus the henna/calligraphy can be seen as both a veil and as an expressive statement. Yet the two are not so much in opposition as interwoven. The "veil" of decoration and concealment has not been rejected but instead has been integrated with the expressive intention of calligraphy. Although it is calligraphy that is usually associated with "meaning" (as opposed to "mere" decoration), in the visual medium of my photographs, the "veil" of henna in fact enhances the expressivity of the images.
By the same token, the male art of calligraphy has been brought into a world of female experience from which it has traditionally been excluded. Also, by choosing to use a number of women, I subvert their imposed silence. These women "speak" through the language of femininity to each other and to the house of their confinement, just as my photographs have enabled me to speak. Through these images I am able to suggest the complexity of Arab female identity – as I have known it--and the tension between hierarchy and fluidity at the heart of Arab culture.
By reclaiming the rich tradition of calligraphy and interweaving it with the traditionally female art of henna, I have been able to express, and yet, in another sense, dissolve the contradictions I have encountered in my culture: between hierarchy and fluidity, between public and private space, between the richness and the confining aspects of Islamic traditions.
As an artist now living in the West, I have become aware of another space, besides the house of my girlhood, an interior space, one of "converging territories." I will always carry that house within me, but my current life has added other dimensions. There is the very different space I inhabit in the West, a space of independence and mobility. It is from there that I can return to the landscape of my childhood in Morocco, and consider these spaces with detachment and new understanding. When I look at these spaces now, I see the two cultures that have shaped me and which are distorted when looked at through the "Orientalist" lens of the West. This new perspective has led me in my most recent photographs to situate my subjects in a non-specific space, one which no longer identifies itself as a particular house in Morocco, but rather the multivalent space of their/HER own imagination and making. In these images, the text is partly autobiographical. Here I speak of my thoughts and experiences directly, both as a woman caught somewhere between past and present, as well as between "East" and "West," and also as an artist, exploring the language in which to "speak" from this uncertain space. But in the absence of any specificity of place, the text itself becomes the world of the subjects – their thoughts, speech, work, clothing, shelter, and nomadic home. This text is of course incomplete. It involves the viewer as well as the writer in a continual process of reading and revising, of losing and finding its multiple and discontinuous threads. Similarly, figures of the women in the photographs can only be gathered and informed by multiple visual readings. As you can see, the Orientalist tradition is more directly called forth, and played with, in my most recent photographs than in earlier ones. But again, this is only a matter of emphasis, yet another layer in the palimpsest of readings I hope to evoke in the viewer. Ultimately, I wish for my work to be as vividly present and yet as elusive as "woman" herself -- not simply because she is veiled or turns away – but because she is still in progress.
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CCCB President writes to the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops following Hurricane Harvey
Your Eminence,
Everyone in Canada has been following with great concern the news reports of the devastating flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey to the City of Houston and your Archdiocese, as well as throughout Southeast Texas and parts of Louisiana.
Please be assured of the fraternal concern and prayers of the Bishops in our country for all the victims of this natural disaster, for the emergency response personnel, and for those working to help those affected so they may soon recover and resume their normal lives. Our hearts and prayers are especially with those whose lives have been lost and with their families and loved ones.
May Our Lord bring comfort and healing to all.
Fraternally in Christ,
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On the horizon, from the left, stand Bowfell; Scafell with Esk Pike in front of it; Scafell Pike; Great End; the gap of Esk Hause; Red Pike; Great Gable; Scoat Fell; Green Gable and Pillar. Smaller version of this picture.
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You know all the time we were doing these arguments and I'm participating, every once in a while, someone would say," how come you're in this?" And I said," you people are short-sighted," I said," Number 1, if we do succeed," I said," you're going to do it for all Asians, - I said, back in those days I used the term "Orientals", I says - if I can't tell a Korean from a Japanese, from a Chinese and none of you can either, then how are the Caucasians gonna be able to tell? They're won't be able to tell either." I says," you're going to do it for the Japanese Americans, but in the end you're going to do it for all Asians. That's number 1, and that's why I'm here." I says," I look like you, no one could tell the difference and so when it gets done, it's gonna be for everybody. It's gonna be the thing that's gonna liberates us."
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You may be comparing yourself with others and feeling you are not good enough. You may feel unsettled and by focusing so much on your plans and the detail you may feel overwhelmed. It may help to just focus on holding up your end of the deal, in your own way, in your own time, just being yourself. Don't be frightened of feelings. We all have to face responsibilities sooner or later.
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Dr J. Christian Fox, a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at UC Irvine, is a self-professed "Sono-Evangelist."
During a recent lecture at Newport Beach Central Library, Dr. Fox and three physicians from UC Irvine Health shared how technology is shaping their field of practice. With ultrasound machines getting smaller and smaller, Fox said, he envisions hand-held ultrasound machines in the pocket of every doctor's white coat.
"Ultrasound can be a bit of an art to perform," Fox said. "It takes quite a bit of training and time to make these machines sing to you. Everything from eyeballs to ankles, and all the organs in between, can be seen in much better resolution and a lot more accurately than the physical examination can ever dream of."
Ultrasound imaging uses sound waves to visualize organs and other tissues in the body. Fox said his medical students can use the machines for 30 patient applications that can be done at the bedside. But reading ultrasound images takes a special skill, so the UCI medical school has built ultrasound training into the curriculum. It's also working on an ultrasound suite to allow medical students and visiting physicians to practice. Fox said ultrasound care could cut down physicians' use of CT scans – a series of X-ray images taken together to visualize the inside of the body which can add up to a lot of radiation over time, he notes.
"If the answer can come from sound waves and not X-rays, we should not be ashamed to reach for ultrasound first."
You can read the full article at http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ultrasound-663156-technology-medical.html
To get a deeper dive into how Dr. Fox see's ultrasound and how medical schools are training the next generation of phyisicans to use point-of-care ultrasound tools, check out the video below. Students at UCI receive more than 50 hours of hands-on ultrasound training, starting the first week of their first year at medical school. This education is continued for two years allowing students to experience the benefits of ultrasound both as a diagnostic tool and a learning tool.
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No need to stealth camp tonight because there are no cops in this town. I learned about the city park from the bartender, Linda at the only bar in Irene. She used to work for the city council, specifically for the parks and she said there's no one that will bother me here. I'm sitting under the pavilion, I have outlets to charge my electronics and there is a fully functioning bathroom with running water and toilet paper right next to me.
I am in paradise. It's great to meet new people and stay with them but, sometimes a night to myself is exactly what I need. Well, today I got the best of both worlds. Riding down the steep hill into town, I came upon the Irene Bar and Grill. The place was completely empty except for Linda who was taking care of Belinda and David. They're an incredibly nice couple just passing through Irene to go to their camper for the weekend.
The 3 of them had so many questions about my trip and for anyone wondering if I get tired of answering the same questions all the time, I do not. If I can inspire one person to go out and do something out of the ordinary, all my efforts on this trip will have been worth it. Anyway, David and Belinda decided to pay for my lunch before they headed out – yet another act of kindness I hope to pay forwars one of these days. Shortly after they left, the bar started to fill up with locals.
Boy, they could practically smell that I wasn't from the area, they could just tell something was different. All really warm, friendly people just trying to pass the time on a Friday afternoon. I knew if I didn't leave soon, I would've speent all night there or I would've gotten in the van with Big Earl and Matt, a couple other outsiders (not as outside as me) headed a couple towns over to play some music at another bar. So, here I am at the park around the corner, my wet clothes hanging on my makeshift clothesline and the rest of my stuff spread out on the picnic tablea in the pavilion, just trying to get caught up with documenting this ridiculous trip.


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Watch for Adopt-a-Highway volunteers
Motorists are asked to be alert for Wisconsin's Adopt-a-Highway volunteers who are busy collecting a winter's worth of trash and recyclables along state highways. Last year, Wisconsin's 2,864 Adopt-a-Highway groups collected 180 tons of trash and recyclables. County highway crews gather the bagged materials for proper disposal.
"Wisconsin's Adopt-a-Highway volunteers provide a tremendous service to taxpayers by helping keep our roadsides looking attractive for both state residents and tourists," said Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Secretary Dave Ross. "We ask drivers to be cautious and alert anytime they approach roadside workers."
Of the 11,800 miles of state highway in Wisconsin, about 4,000 miles (about one-third of the system) are still available for adoption, meaning there's plenty of room for interested volunteers. Groups interested in adopting a state highway segment can find more information on the WisDOT website.
Adopt-a-Highway workers are asked to clean-up their assigned two-mile state highway segment at least three times per year. WisDOT furnishes safety vests, highway worker signs, a safety training video, trash bags, and two permanent signs identifying the group. Each group must provide one adult supervisor for every five or six volunteers. Groups do not work in dangerous areas like medians, bridges or steep slopes.


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Last Updated on October 3, 2020 by Anjum
The end of year 2019 brought with it a virus unlike any other the world has seen before. The Virus called Corona Virus or COVID-19 turned out to be a disaster for almost everyone in the world. People soon realized that this is not just a seasonal virus, but something far more sinister and dangerous than that. It started from Mainland China and soon took over the entire world.
Fast forward a few months and Year 2020 is still fighting and struggling with this deadly and highly contagious virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared it as a Pandemic.
Corona Virus has affected almost every aspect of life. As with all the things, businesses all over the world have also been greatly impacted by COVID-19. One of the most affected Business industries from Corona Virus is Tourism Industry.
People stopped travelling due to the risk of getting infected. In fact when the Virus was at its peak, almost all major airports of the world came to a halt. They either closed or minimized their operations. This is an unprecedented situation and has never been seen before.
As the world is coming to terms with the Virus and we know a little more about it. Slowly the airports are recovering their operations while taking every bit of precautions they can to minimize the risk of spreading the Corona Virus.
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Governments of almost all the countries are continuously monitoring the situation closely. Decisions on imposing and lifting the ban on entry from other countries is been taken on a daily basis.
Moreover, people themselves are not comfortable to take such a huge risk of travelling and risking to contract this virus. Specially at airports and flights where the risk of getting infected with the Corona Virus (COVID-19) are the highest.
However, Scientists and Pharmaceutical companies are trying their best with the resources they have and with the research they have done to develop a Vaccine. A vaccine that is effective in giving people immunity from COVID 19. By the looks of it, we might soon hear some good news regarding the development of the Vaccine.
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When the Vaccine is developed and is available for the masses, the tourism industry will go up once again. People will go out and travel to their favorite destinations. People have waited enough at their homes during Lock Downs and isolations. They want out and once the vaccine is launched, Travelling is the first thing that they are going to do.
There will also be a rise in Travelling once the COVID-19 curve is flatten and cases start to decrease globally but that could be a lot riskier as compared to travelling after the vaccine is developed and ready to be utilized.
Nevertheless, before planning any travelling, there will be a few things that you need to take care of to insure risk free travelling.
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There are certain things that we will have to do and consider in order to minimize the risk of catching COVID-19 when travelling from now on. Following points should be folowed in order to safely travel during and after COVID-19:
Even before the arrival of Corona Virus , Taking a Travel insurance was vital as it basically covers all your unforeseen expenses. There are various plans that the travelers can select based on their needs. Things to look out for in a travel insurance plan are:
- Medical Benefits – These will include accidental medical expenses, Emergency Dental Care, Medical Evacuation in case of Emergency etc.
- Personal Accidental Benefits – These will include coverage in case of accidental death or Permanent disability in case of any accident.
- Travel Inconvenience Benefits – These will include Baggage Loss, Baggage Delay, Flight Delay, Passport Loss, Credit Card Loss, Trip cancellation or curtailment and Personal Liability in case of Third Party Property Damage etc.
Make sure when you are selecting a plan, that you select one with the COVID-19 coverage as well. That means that in case you contract the virus during your trip, your medical expenses will be covered by your insurance. This is one of the top considerations to safely travel during and after COVID-19.
When selecting a Travel Insurance Plan, make sure to check out for the following:
- Deductibles – A deductible is a charge that the insured person has to pay by himself in case of any claim. Anything above that will be covered by Insurance. So make sure you select a plan with low deductible. For example, lets suppose you select a plan with USD 100 deductible and you fall ill and need medical care on your trip. You go to the hospital and the total bill ends up being USD 500. Now because your deductible is USD 100 you will have to pay USD 100 and the Insurance Company will pay the USD 400 balance to the hospital.
- Total Coverage – This is the maximum amount your insurance coverage is for. The higher the number the better it is.
- Pre-Existing Medical Problems – Many Travel Insurance Plans do not cover the risk against the medical diseases that are pre-existing. Make sure you select a plan that covers Pre-Existing Medical Problems.
- Number of Days – Travel Insurance is based on number of days. So select the plan that best suits the number of days you are planning a trip for. This will save you some money.
- Family Plans – Many Travel Insurance Plans also include Family Plans. That means if your family is travelling with you then your spouse and any kid under 18 years of age will also be covered under the same plan. This will save you a lot of money.
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The first and foremost thing we need to do as soon as the vaccine comes out and as soon as it becomes available to us is to get ourselves and our family vaccinated.
A vaccine for COVID-19 is what the world is waiting for. That is the need of the hour. Hence, before you plan your travels, make sure you and your family members take the shot. Make sure to collect the vaccine certificate and keep it safely with you. You should be carrying it along where ever you travel. Everywhere you will go you will need to show the proof of vaccination before they let you in. Administration of all the Tourist spots will want to ensure the safety of all and will want you to co-operate with them.
Not only will it save you the time and hassle but you will also be helping others by showing the certificate as quickly as you can and saving all of the tourists the excruciating waiting time.
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3. MAINTAIN SOPs (STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE) TO SAFELY TRAVEL DURING AND AFTER COVID-19
Following the SOPs should be a priority even if you and your family have taken the vaccine shot. Coming out of a pandemic would be an achievement and it should not be taken lightly right after it.
For a good amount of time, even after COVID-19 is over, you should follow all the standard operating procedures and respect for the safety of everyone to get the 'normal' world back. We have already been through so much and after this pandemic comes to end, it is the responsibility of everybody to keep this world safe. Hence, there are a few things that should be followed:
a – WASH YOUR HANDS REGULARLY
Washing your hands regularly has to be the priority number 1 whenever we are travelling from now on. There are so many germs waiting to pounce on us. From Airport Trolleys to Elevators to Escalators to public washrooms, wherever you will go for travelling you will find these in your way and they will be full of harmful germs. So, in order to minimize the risk of getting infected, washing your hands regularly will be essential.
b – MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE
It is a well know fact that COVID 19 is extremely contagious, and though research suggests that it is not airborne, it will still spread through people being too close to each other. Avoiding Crowded places should be the way to move forward if you want to keep yourself safe while travelling.
Until the vaccine is ready, Social distancing is the answer to travelling safe and hence, even after COVID-19 ends, this rule of maintaining social distancing and avoiding extremely crowded places must be followed to avoid any new risks.
c – SANITIZE, SANITIZE AND SANITIZE
Sanitizing our hands to get rid of the germs has become an essential part of our daily lives since the spread of the virus. A tiny bottle of Hand Sanitizer in our pockets has become the new norm. Whenever you touch something that you think is not free of germs, you just take out the hand sanitizer and clean your hands of all the germs.
From now on, whenever you plan to travel, a pocket hand sanitizer should be a must carry item where ever you go. On many occasions you will have to touch and come into contact with things that are highly at risk of carrying germs on them. The likes of door handles, hotel furniture, taxi doors and there's a huge list of many more things all carry germs invisible to the naked eye.
Since, you want to make sure that your travel during and after COVID-19 is risk free, keeping a pocket hand sanitizer with you and using it time and again will save you from not only Corona Virus but from all the seasonal viruses that can hamper your tour. Regular Sanitizing will give you the peace of mind and you will get to enjoy your trip risk free.
d – WEAR A MASK
There is a very high percent chance that wearing a mask will protect you from catching the Corona Virus. Wearing a mask not only saves you from the flu but other people also feel safe in your vicinity and hence your trip becomes all the better.
Travelling means going out in public and that means exposing yourself to the Virus but if you are wearing a mask than chances are that you will not catch the virus provided you are wearing the mask properly. Many people are not comfortable wearing the mask and they tend to put the mask on their chins or take their nose out to breathe but that is not the right way to wear the mask and it makes the whole exercise a total waste.
Wearing a mask when travelling will give you that added peace of mind that you wouldn't have without it. Make sure you keep enough masks with you if you are taking the disposable ones as there might be a shortage of masks where you are going or they might be expensive. Furthermore, it would give you the confidence to enjoy and fulfil everything on your trip in a much better way without having much doubts in your mind.
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One of the things that will become mandatory is the checking of COVID-19 Test Results at the airports. Believe it or not but this rule is here to stay. So, get yourself tested before travelling as it is a mandatory requirement for most of the airports from now on.
Each country has a separate SOP that they follow when it comes to the COVID-19 tests. Some will want the test to be done anywhere in the last 96 hours before the flight whereas some will want the test validity to be in the last 48 hours. Make sure to check your respective destination country rule before going for a test.
This goes without saying that if the results are negative, only then you will be allowed to travel otherwise you will not be allowed to go. Hence, get yourselves and your family tested for Corona Virus. Present the reports at the airports to proceed with the travel plan. Even some of the tourists places will want to check your test result. The likes of Theme Parks, Cruises etc. will all want to check your test results before letting you in. Make sure you keep the results with you at all times.
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Whether you are travelling alone or with family, whether it is a leisure trip or a business trip, you are most likely to visit your destination city in your spare time.
Due to the COVID-19 SOPs involved with all the tourist spots from now on, one of the changes that the tour companies, restaurants, clubs, theme parks, cruises, dinner arenas, spas and many more such places would want to bring would be to take lesser crowd in. All these places will limit the number of guests and will be taking less people in. This means longer waiting times for people who will buy the tickets at the destination. It will be frustrating for you to waste your precious time waiting for your turn to buy the ticket.
Make sure you book everything in Advance to save yourself the hassle over there. Booking in advance will also save you the time and money as early booking usually means better rates. Further, booking in advance would also ensure that you take the tour on your preferred date and not alter your tour once you go there and find out that the tour is full for the day.
Planning a well scheduled trip beforehand might not be everyone's choice, but due to these unusual circumstances, the tour companies would definitely want to take all the precautions possible to avoid any kind of unneeded situations. Therefore, book everything in advance before leaving to enjoy the trip to the fullest and feel safe.
Corona Virus has shaken up the entire World. People cannot wait to come out of this pandemic situation. The travelling industry, from airlines, to hotels, to the tour companies to even malls, every single entity is badly affected because of this unprecedented situation. Once this is all over, travelling will start again the way it used to be. Even if we think everything is back to normal, we need to follow some basic ground rules if we are to enjoy travelling like before and keep ourselves safe. It is not very difficult to follow these few steps. In fact following these steps will give you the peace of mind. It will let you have the time of your life.
The Tourism industry will continue to suffer until they can make sure that people can safely travel during and after COVID-19. People also need to understand if they are to safely travel during this COVID-19 Pandemic then they need to follow the SOPs. Unless the Tourism industry and tourists both don't follow what is required to once again kick start the industry it won't be possible to safely travel during COVID-19.
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Eterlands is a name that, out of nowhere, left many players intrigued and interested in seeing more of this MOBA game that tries to stir up the genre. We tried to uncover a bit of the mystery and spoke with the Eterlands team. Here is what we found out.
The Eterlands trailer just took all of us by surprise. How did you see player feedback and do you feel that now you have the responsibility to deliver a high quality game or many players will be disappointed?
True that this is a huge responsibility, but we think it is pretty much the same in case of every new game on the market. Not providing 100%, or misleading people waiting for Eterlands is completely unacceptable for us. If this happened we wouldn't disappoint just gamers but we would disappoint ourselves as well. Not giving the best that is possible would make this whole project meaningless. Our main aim is to provide a well structured and enjoyable gameplay which is true to every promise we made.
Is Eterlands running on a proprietary engine? How difficult was it for you to create all the dynamic effects and have them influence gameplay, such as snow slowing down characters?
Many new inventions and continuous development needed for the dynamic gameplay and the ever changing environment. We dreamed a world where environmental effects would influence gamers which true was a hard task to achieve. We have spent many many working hours developing the gameplay and now we are confident that all is working sweetly.
Is Eterlands going to be a regular MOBA (with the lanes) or will you take a different approach to the arenas?
Eterlands would keep the regular lane dominant structure in order to provide clearer and easy to follow gameplay for every gamer. This said, there will be the option to tweak the structure and customize some parts. We have managed to develop a game where for example a classical three lane structure could be turned into a crater dotted, fallen trees covered battlefield by the end of the game.
The first trailer shows a warrior chopping down a tree and dragging it. What will be the use of this tree?
We would like to keep some things as secret but can tell you that certain characters would benefit from using different elements of the game.
What kind of heroes, or Eternals as they are called will we be able to choose? So far we've only seen a kind of warrior, can you give us any more examples? And how many do you plan to have when the game enters beta?
There will be many fantasy heroes to choose from. The palette would go from the ones using sheer force to the ones using powerful magic only. Don't just expect human beings though but many mystical species. Currently the warrior and a fire magician are the only characters available for checking however a female character is being finalised just now. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with an exact number, but rest assured there will be plenty to choose from when the Beta version is released.
The MOBA genre is very crowded and many games tend to fail after just a few months. Aren't you afraid of the big names such as Dota 2 and LoL and do you feel you have a real chance against them?
It is not our purpose to compete with the big names but to humbly widen the scope of MOBA games on the market and bring some fresh ideas to what the famous and popular games have to offer. We ourselves are big MOBA fans as well and think Eterlands is a kind of tribute to the most famous MOBAs. Our aim is to expand the boundaries of MOBA gaming by keeping the enjoyable and well structured gameplay.
When can we expect the first beta?
We do not have an exact date just yet, however if everything goes according to plans the Beta version would launch in the first half of 2015.
Anything else you would like to say to our readers?
We find it absolutely vital to listen to what gamers have to say. For us the sense of true gaming experience is the most important of all therefore we continuously listen to every feedback which could improve Eterlands even further.
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New York manufacturing activity slows sharply in July
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Washington – Manufacturing in New York state grew for a second month in July but at a much slower pace, as new orders and shipments both slipped.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday that its Empire State manufacturing index dropped to 9.8 from 19.8 in June. Any reading above zero signals expansion.
July's drop comes after the index reached a two-year high in June. Still, the reading is at a mostly healthy level. While the index measures sentiment among New York firms, it is closely followed by economists because it provides an early read on factory output nationwide.
A measure of new orders dropped to 13.3 from 18.1, while a gauge of shipments dropped to 10.5 from 22.3. Hiring also slowed sharply. Manufacturers in the state are optimistic about business conditions over the next six months, but that optimism fell a bit this month.
U.S. factories have been mostly expanding since the fall, though at a modest pace with only limited hiring. Nationwide, manufacturing output climbed 0.2 per cent in June, after falling in May. And a private survey earlier this month found that factory activity in June reached a nearly three-year high.
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There is a distinct buzz around blockchain at the moment.
But so often, when I speak to people from the mining community, they say that they're interested in the topic but don't know much about it. There is a shortage of information on what blockchain actually is and how it will affect the way we mine.
In a bid to end that shortage, I turned to Nathan Williams, CEO and founder of Minespider. His company has developed the first open protocol for blockchain use in mining, and recently landed a contract to help Volkswagen ensure traceability in its lead supply chain.
If anyone could answer my questions, it was Nathan…
How widespread is the use of blockchain in mineral supply-chains currently? Is it more prevalent in certain commodities or amongst certain mining companies?
In the past few years the concept has become increasingly prominent. Right now, most mining companies are aware of the potential of blockchain for mineral provenance and traceability, though so far it has been only small-scale pilots that have been run.
The primary use of blockchain in mining at present seems to be in guaranteeing that conflict minerals do not enter the supply chain, but what other advantages can its use bring for companies?
Yes, that's right. The first cases we are going to see are for mineral provenance – being able to attach the story of where the material comes from to the shipments of physical material, as well as different paperwork management systems, payment systems and other ways to increase efficiency in the mineral supply-chain.
Going forward, there is a lot that can be done with smart contracts and blockchain. We can use a smart contract to incentivise reporting of incidents of child labour, or environmental violations for example. We can create more efficient multi-stakeholder groups with smart-contract governance to help with international mining oversight.
By creating rules-based incentives that aren't governed by any single entity, we open up a large and creative field for applying governance and policy to the mineral supply chain, and do not need to be limited to conflict mineral traceability.
How will the use of blockchain in mining affect the way we actually extract, process and ship minerals? What physical steps are required as part of the tracking process?
The changes will depend on the size of the mining operation, the material being extracted and the specific concerns for the supply chain in question.
In general, we can think of the blockchain as a way of creating digital 'certificates' that cannot be faked or duplicated and are rated to a certain mass of material at the point of extraction. This can be done completely separately from the mining process by an observer (during pilots this will undoubtedly be the case), or integrated directly into the workflow by using IoT-enabled devices and RFID tags, but the principle remains the same: when material is transported, it is identified at the beginning point and at the end, with the identifier linking the material to the digital certificate on the blockchain.
When the material is smelted, refined, or processed into components, then the certificates of the inputs are all linked to the new output, allowing the next player in the supply chain to know who provided the source materials for the metal or component they are purchasing.
What kind of systems must a mining company have in place in order to implement tracking via blockchain and ensure a smooth flow of data within the supply chain?
Minespider is a protocol and designed to be very flexible on this matter. In the simplest case, it can be run with a browser, a printer and a QR code scanner, but is designed to be capable of syncing up with existing data collection devices and ERP systems.
Tell us your team's story and how you developed the Minespider Protocol
We got started in 2017, right when blockchain was entering the public eye. My previous company was a chemical regulatory software platform called Subvise, and so I was aware of compliance issues and the potential for emerging technology to address them.
Around that time in early 2017, there was an article in the Washington Post explaining how a number of electronics companies that had done so much work on mineral supply-chain due diligence were concerned that the newly-elected US administration would roll back Dodd-Frank 1502, the regulation pertaining to conflict minerals. This is what prompted us to look into the issue.
We spent the best part of a year talking to the industry, regulators, and NGOs, asking what efforts to secure the mineral supply-chain had been tried, what worked, what didn't, and what the unintended consequences were. Our original design was born out of those discussions.
We specifically were aiming for a protocol that would:
- Run on a public blockchain, with the potential for decentralised governance to avoid that one company would get a monopoly on the mineral supply-chain;
- Would be able to attach certifications and due diligence data to specific shipments of material. This would allow companies to really know what is going on in their supply chain, and who they actually receive material from; and
- Spread the cost away from the mines and provide a positive incentive to participate in the system as a responsible supplier
We raised our first funding round and built up the team by mid-2018, and are now launching our first projects.
What data security issues can the use of blockchain throw up and how does the Minespider protocol mitigate them?
The biggest one is the balance between transparency and privacy. Supply-chain data is sensitive, and not everyone needs to know everything, but it is important that we have a level of transparency that gives everyone confidence that their materials were sourced in responsible ways. We do this by creating a data 'certificate' which consists of three parts:
- Data you want visible to everyone downstream from you in the supply chain, such as certificates and licenses;
- Data you want visible only to your customer, and would like to prove has not been altered, such as bills of sale; and
- Links to the 'visible' information to all of the suppliers before you in the supply chain.
This certificate is in a database but is linked to a record on the blockchain which stores the unique identifier as well as how much metal they have purchased or have produced, along with the grade. This allows the digital certificate to be valid for the shipment and keep a record of its journey through the supply chain.
Even though the data certificates are stored publicly, they use a nested encryption that ensures that only the data owner can read the certificate; I often describe it as a Russian doll, or an onion.
The certificate is encrypted with the public key of the data owner, starting at the mine. Each member of the supply chain is able to decrypt the 'visible' layer of information from the suppliers before them, add their own certifications and due diligence information, and then re-encrypt the certificate with the public key of their customer, and so on. This means that even though the certificate is stored in a very public way, only the data owner can read it.
We feel this was the right approach because of the international nature of mineral supply-chains. If you give access to regulators… which ones? Best to have the data be self-sovereign, and then regulators can request it as needed from companies.
The biggest data security issues are always going to be the humans involved with the system, like any other data system. It's easier to request data than to hack it.
What kind of reaction have you seen from both miners and end users since introducing the protocol?
There has been a steady increase in interest since we started in 2017, and I think audit fatigue is one of the strongest reasons for this. Downstream manufacturers want to protect their brand and be compliant so they will audit the smelters they find in their supply chain to make sure they are responsible.
This means a smelter who is trying to be responsible can be audited multiple times a year by various downstream brands who do not share data. Simply by putting this data on the blockchain and including it in mineral shipments, we can significantly reduce the time and cost burden placed on these mineral sources.
What's next for Minespider? Are there any new features that you are looking to add?
In the near future, our focus is on traceability and on demonstrating that this can be done on a public blockchain and at scale.
We will be announcing more pilots and projects in the coming months that will focus on shared learnings and multi-stakeholder governance, as well as how to take what we have learned for large players and applying it to small-scale and artisanal miners to ensure they have continued access to global mineral markets.
We also have a few applications in other industries that are building solutions and DApps on the Minespider protocol. One of them is called ChemChain, which is tracking hazardous chemicals.
How do you see blockchain helping to shape the mining industry of the future?
Going forward there is a lot of room for creativity, and traceability is just the tip of the iceberg. At minimum, we should expect the raw materials that go into the products we purchase to come attached to the story of where they came from and under what conditions they were produced.
Blockchain technology makes it a very realistic and reasonable expectation for the future of mining.


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Zoo Tycoon Party -6yr- Eat Like An Okapi
Christie in San Bernardino, CA, USA
July 2006
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My son was turning 6 and wanted a Zoo Tycoon birthday party. (Zoo Tycoon is a computer game and he loves it).
For food, I had the kids make their own pizzas. I pre-made the crusts using a mix, and then had sauce, cheese, and toppings for the kids to choose from. I called it Grizzly Bear Pizza. I had one kid coming with Celiac's disease, so except for the pizza crust (he got his very own special one), everything at the party was gluten free. Hormel makes gluten free pepperoni and meat products. We also had Flamingo fruit salad. I chose the red/pink fruits (watermelon, strawberries, red grapes, etc) and put little flamingo picks in the salad.
We also served lion lemonade. This yummy concoction was lemonade (you could use a frozen concentrate), some frozen lemon yogurt (just take the regular container of lemon yogurt and put it in the freezer, and lemon-lime soda. I blended the lemonade with the frozen lemon yogurt. I used a large punch bowl and had to blend it in batches. I used about one and one half pitchers of lemonade and 10 regular sized (8 oz) forzen lemon yogurts. After blending those together in batches, I added about 1/2 of a 2 liter bottle of lemon lime soda. It was a little work, but this was worth it. Everybody loved the lion lemonade. (This comes out white, but I added a little yellow food coloring to make it yellow like a lion. You could keep it white and call it polar bear punch instead).
For games, I had the kids wrap each other in toilet paper and black streamers to make zebras. I took pictures of each child as a zebra, and later I will e-mail or give the picture to parents. The kids played pin the trunk on the elephant. I painted a cartoon-y trunkless elephant and made several trunks (just big thick J shapes). We played pass the penguin, which was just hot potato with a stuffed penguin. We used Christmas music as the music because it was supposed to be a cold penguin exhibit (Let it Snow, Winter Wonderland, etc.) That was funny because the party was in July, but the kids liked it and got the point.
We played a game I called "Eat L:ke an Okapi." My son's favorite animal is an okapi, so I showed the kids pictures of an okapi (I got them off the Google Images), and showed them how an okapi has a long tongue to eat with. I had strings hanging that had four pretzels tied to them, each about 4 inches apart (we used the gluten free pretzels, which taste just like regular pretzels, so the picky eaters didn't know the difference). The kids had to eat all four pretzels on their strings without using hands. After a while, the kids cheated and used hands, but they had fun and that game was really a hoot. If you were really ambitious, you could take green tissue paper and twist it onto the strings to make them look like jungle vinse (the tissue paper representing the leaves every so often). I didn't do that because I didn't think of it until later, but it would have made a nice decoration. We also had a pinata. There are many different animal shapes out there.
For the craft, I had white stuffed animals I bought at the dollar store, and we tie dyed them. You could also tie dye shirts instead. For the shirts, I think I would say, "Animals have fur to protect them. Which ones wear the prettiest fur? Cheetas, maybe? Zebras have interesting stripes. Well, you don't have a fur coat, but today you are going to make something pretty for you to wear." If you tie dye, you will probably want to have trash bags that you cut a head hole in, to protect the party clothes. We used four colors, and we just used the dye at the grocery store. I think 3 or four colors is a good number. Because it is so hot here in July, we left the stuffed animals outside and they were almost dry by the time the kids were going home. Still, we put each one in a plastic grocery bag to take home.
I made the (gluten free) cake into the shape of a croc. I used two packages of Kinnikinnik chocolate cake mix and put them into a bundt pan ( I had a little left over for four cupcakes). Then, when the cake was finished baking and cooled, I cut the bundt into thirds. I arranged the thirds to make a wavy S pattern, instead of a circle. I trimmed a little over here and there to make the pointy croc head and tail. I used the trimmings for feet and eyes. Then, I frosted the whole thing in green frosting (Pillsbury is gluten free if you don't want to make your own). I saved out a little white for the eyes and teeth.
I got the party favors from Oriental Trading. We used the animal print foam visors, the juncle animal cups, animal print ball point pens, jungle animal stickers, and animal stampers. The kids got to wesr the visors, and the other items I put inside the cups along with some candy. The kids had a great time and, except for the food, it really wasn't a lot of prep work. This whole party took about 2 or 2 1/2 hours, but if you have a really big crowd, you might plan for 3 hours.
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As the founder and executive chairman of JMI, the world's leading motorsports marketing agency, co-owner of United Autosports and recently named non-executive chairman of Motorsport.com, Zak Brown has his pulse on a variety of elements within the sport.
The former professional driver, and avid historic racer, caught up with Sportscar365 for a wide-ranging discussion, including United Autosports' move to LMP3 in the European Le Mans Series, the team's goals, as well as his view on the health of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
What was the inspiration for United Autosports' entry into the LMP3 ranks?
"We want to get to Le Mans. At the end of the day, that's the goal. I think the series is great. Gerard [Neveu, ELMS CEO] and the whole leadership of it is very good. I think the rules are now stabilized and makes sense for where we can go for the next five years.
"I think the cars are great. The budgets are good value for money. We're running two cars and have four of the six drivers signed.
"We've done British GT for five or six years. The GT cars, I think, are getting too expensive now to race. it costs a lot of money. Ours was tired.
"We're still running our Audi and it's an unbelievable car. But if we're going to be competitive, we needed to buy a new car, so it was time to hit the reset button.
"We'll still run the Audi in the British GT Cup and I'll run it in the Le Mans support race, which I'm very excited about.
"I'm excited about it. The team is in good shape. It's a healthy business. I'm not having to fund it as much as I once was."
What do you think of the LMP3 platform as a whole?
"I think it's great. I hope they bring them to the [U.S.] eventually. I know the test they did at Watkins Glen didn't go that well. It wasn't on the softer tires, it was detuned, it just came from another race track, a guy crashed it, etc.
"So I don't think that was representative to how good the series and cars are. So I hope one of these days they'll at least be allowed at Daytona or something like that where there's more room for cars. Because I'd bring my cars here if they were eligible."
What are the team's goals for the ELMS season this year?
"Winning races. The championship will be what the championship will be. I'd like to see us bringing home some hardware. We were quickest in the first official test. There were 11 cars there. I think we'll have a car to be competitive.
"I know the four [confirmed] drivers are excellent. Now we have to make sure we get the final two drivers to complete the lineup."
Is there a desire for you to get back to professional driving?
"I want to get back in but I want the team to be about United and do my historic stuff. I've really wanted to do Le Mans, personally. Eventually [it will happen] because I miss it. I need to get on a diet and work on my fitness a little if I'm going to take it seriously."
From your business perspective, where do you see WEC right now from an exposure standpoint?
"I think they're doing a lot of the right things. I like what they're doing. They're digitally savvy. Their TV programs are improving. To me, getting P1 to where more people can play, I think that needs to be worked on. I think the GT classes are stunning, with Ford's arrival.
"I think P1 is great but I'd like to see one or two other manufacturers and I'd like to see P1 have the ability for a privateer to be successful in.
"It's a bit like Formula One, where if you're not a manufacturer team, forget it. It would be nice to go back to where you could buy a Porsche 962 and get a chance of being successful."
Do you think WEC could ever get close to the current-day success of F1?
"Sports car racing was as big as F1 back in the day. It's got a long way to go to catch it. It's two totally different types of racing so I don't think it's an either or. I think it can get much more popular than it is today and I think it's on it's way.
"I think the relationship with the FIA is good. It's a shame the F1 [race in Baku] and Le Mans conflicts. I thought that was a great story last year with [Nico] Hulkenberg. It probably benefitted both series. It was great for the spectators as well.
"I'd like to see more of that. But you know these F1 teams, a lot of them won't let their drivers compete. If you had guys like Lewis Hamilton doing [Le Mans], it would be mega."


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If your dog is prone to running off when unleashed in an open space, and sometimes a little tricky to track down. A new GPS tracking system designed for pets has been launched which might be able to help you keep a remote check on your dog via your smartphone.
The goal of the Tagg system isn't just to find a lost dog, the Tagg system has been designed to help you not to lose them in the first place, allowing you to see where your dog is and be notified if he or she wanders a little too far from home.
A lightweight GPS tracking device attaches to their collar and lets you locate and track your dog using a computer or smartphone. Watch the video after the jump to see the Tagg Pet GPS tracker in action.
The systems allows you to setup Tagg zones, or a "geofence" for your dog. Once the tracker is fitted to your dogs collar you are then notified by texts when your dog leaves the Tagg zone. Email are also sent from the system when the batteries are running low.
The Tagg Pet GPS tracker costs $200 a year and more tags are available for $139.99 a year. more information is available from the Tagg website.
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The defense community in Maryland is an R&D powerhouse.
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This invention relates generally to a new class of chemoselective polymer materials. In particular, the invention relates to linear polycarbosilane compounds for use in various analytical applications involving sorbent polymer materials, including chromatoghraphy, chemical trapping, analyte collection, and chemical sensor applications. These polymers have pendant and terminal aryl, alkyl, alkenyl, and alkynyl groups that are functionalized with halogen substituted alcohol or phenol groups, having the general structure: wherein n is an integer greater than 1;wherein at least one of R1 and R2 is a linear or branched arm having at least one group independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, and aryl groups, or combinations thereof, and having at least one halogen substituted alcohol or phenol groups attached thereto;wherein any said R1 and R2 aryl groups are attached to said [Si—X—]n either directly or through a short hydrocarbon chain;wherein any remaining said R1 or R2 group is a hydrocarbon or carbosilane group;wherein X is a polymer component selected from the group consisting of alkylene, alkenylene, alkynylene, arylene groups, and combinations thereof; andwherein Z1 and Z2 are end groups independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkyl silanes, aryl silanes, hydroxyl, silicon hydride, alkoxides, phenols, halogen substituted alcohols, halogen substituted phenols, organosilyl, and combinations thereof. These polymeric materials are primarily designed to sorb hydrogen bond basic analytes such as organophosphonate esters (nerve agents and precursors) and nitro-substituted compounds (explosives).


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Mom has been trying to get video of the girls playing on the floor. The girls?? Not helping:
Monday, February 18, 2019
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Mom has been trying to get video of the girls playing on the floor. The girls?? Not helping:
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Of course, they won't play if someone is watching. I have to say, I love the picture of the Clydedales. Have a good day.ReplyDelete
Daiquiri is such a cutie! Love that racing stripe on her back!ReplyDelete
Da Boyz are nutso over spring toys...that is, until they find a catnip stuffed toy, or a water bottle top...
Rule #23 : stop anything cute or worth a picture when the pawparazzi are around. PurrsReplyDelete
Nope, not gonna play when the mom bean is paying attenshun. MOL!ReplyDelete
It reminds me of the Warner Brothers cartoon about the Vaudeville frog who doesn't do anything, so long as people are watching...ReplyDelete
Ha! We usually stop whatever we're doing when mom hits the video button!ReplyDelete
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Thatcher
I don't like to play while my human is filming me because she puts too much effort into the camera and not enough attention to the toy!ReplyDelete
Oh, you have that problem too? :-)ReplyDelete
The old, "Look! There's a camera! We have to stop what we're doing!" trick!ReplyDelete


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With COVID-19 activity rising across the state, Gov. Jay Inslee and health care leaders are urging those who haven't received a vaccine for the disease to get their shots as Washington sees a slight decline in the rate of daily doses.
During a press conference Thursday, April 22, the governor expressed concern over data showing the beginning of a "fourth surge" of COVID-19 hitting the state for both cases and hospitalizations. The governor said rates in younger populations were rising faster than older ones, and variants of the virus are overtaking the original strain for most prevalent varieties of COVID-19, which in some cases are more transmissible.
Daniel Getz, chief medical officer for Providence Sacred Heart and Providence Holy Family in Spokane, said the hospitals have seen a "steady and worrisome climb" in COVID-19 patients, with more hospitalizations, and in some cases deaths, among younger populations. He said vaccination clinics that the hospital has put on have seen a number of unfilled spots, adding that efforts by hospitals to reach out to 16 and 17-year-old youths has proven "disappointing" in the number who have received their doses.
"Being younger does not guarantee you from getting this disease and having a poor outcome," Getz said, noting those age groups might be engaging in riskier behavior such as large, unmasked gatherings indoors.
Acknowledging COVID-19 is more fatal in older populations, Inslee said younger individuals are being hospitalized "with very significant illness, sometimes with very prolonged illnesses for months."
The state has seen an overall decrease in the number of vaccines administered daily. Inslee said the state is administering close to 60,000 doses a day in Washington, slightly lower than the 62,000 a day that was the case last week.
Inslee said the "modest slowdown" was not a shock, as it was expected the individuals most eager to receive the vaccine would be among the first to receive it.
Lacy Fehrenbach, deputy secretary for COVID-19 response for the Washington State Department of Health, said the state has already seen the impact on COVID-19 activity.
"While we are seeing an increase in cases and increase in hospitalizations, the slope of increase is not as steep as what we saw in November," Fehrenbach said.
Inslee said by the end of the week there will have been 5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Washington state, and more than half of the state's adult population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.
"Really the COVID vaccine is the tool that solves the pandemic, but until we have broad vaccination, it's critical that we continue to mask and social distance," Getz said.
He said another activity surge would be a hit to the state's health care system, which is still recovering from the last wave of the disease.
"I never dreamed we would get to a point where we have the key to solving this (pandemic) and we would be slow to recovery because people are scared of taking something that's been clearly shown using science — and administered hundreds of millions of times — to be safe," Getz said.
"Being on the fence is too dangerous of a position right now," Inslee said, urging those with questions about their vaccine to talk with a medical professional.
"Sit down with your doctor and discuss the merits and safety of the vaccine, the potential complications and risks," Getz said.


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DOOGEE, a new Chinese smartphone manufacturer, has been producing some great budget Android smartphones since quite a lot of months now. So we decided to take a look at two of its highly popular phones and see how they stand against each other. We are talking about the DOOGEE Y100X and the DOOGEE Y100 Plus. Though both the phones come from the same family, they have some major differences.
The DOOGEE Y100X gets a 5-inch HD OGS display with 2.5D curved glass and Gorilla Glass on top. The phone runs Android 5.0 and is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MTK6582 process. It gets 1GB of RAM and 8GB of inbuilt storage. There's a 13MP camera at the back with LED flash, and a 5MP camera at the front that also gets an LED flash. The 3G-enabled DOOGEE Y100X gets an almost bezel-less design and comes with the volume rocker at the back.
Meanwhile, the bigger DOOGEE Y100 Plus comes with a 5.5-inch HD IPS OGS screen with Gorilla Glass and 2.5D curved glass on top. Under the hood is a 64-bit MTK6753 quad-core processor clocked at 1.0GHz, and the phone features 2GB RAM with 16GB of onboard memory. The 13MP/5MP cameras both get an LED flash and offer great clicks. The phone gets Android 5.1 pre-installed and supports 4G connectivity.
If you don't care about 4G connectivity and want a good phone that is not more than 5-inches big, then the DOOGEE Y100X is perfect for you. But if you care for more RAM, more screen size, better front camera, and 4G connectivity, then you should lay your hands on the DOOGEE Y100 Plus for sure.
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South Africa will have to forget about last Wednesday's historic win against Sri Lanka as they prepare to face favourites New Zealand in the semi-finals in Auckland on Tuesday.
The Proteas produced a complete performance in the quarter-finals, but will have to put that out of their minds as they gear up to face one of the co-hosts and a team who have just humiliated the West Indies in their own quarter-final clash on Saturday.
AB de Villiers and his men are aware that they haven't won anything yet, so they need to stay grounded as they build up towards Tuesday.
New Zealand were the team who ended South Africa's hopes at the previous World Cup, when they eliminated the Proteas in the quarter-finals.
But Kyle Abbott is unfazed: 'We have had success against New Zealand in the past. We beat them last year in an away series, so I don't really think it will make a difference for us. The key thing for us is to reset from Wednesday night and to focus on how we prepare for the game.'
Abbott and rest of the fast bowlers, Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, were the unsung heroes against Sri Lanka where they built and kept up the pressure in the first 10 overs with some quality fast bowling after De Villiers lost the toss.
They took early wickets, which meant the Sri Lankan batsmen had to take their chances against the spinners Imran Tahir and JP Duminy.
'I have been fortunate enough that I have taken the new-ball my whole life, even at domestic level,' Abbott said.
'Even though we are at international level and at a World Cup it's not a new thing for me. It's been more a case of keeping my emotions in check. It's been an emotional couple of weeks, it's a huge honour and a privilege playing here, it's something I have aspired towards for ages. The challenge for me is trying not to get too excited for a game.'
Abbott has been at the back of the pecking order behind Vernon Philander, but has come in with dominant performances every time he has been given an opportunity.
'It's quite a hard space to be in,' he admitted. 'Especially if the team is on a roll and there aren't many changes and you are just sort of waiting. That's the hard thing about it but it's also quite exciting. You can get a gap and you look like a hero, so yes it can be difficult.
'I've gotten a way around it, I make sure that I'm prepared for every game as if I'm going to play so it's just a case of mentally switching on and going through your processes. You just have to wing it and go with it.'
South Africa are not expected to make major changes to the team who beat Sri Lanka, so it would be surprising if Abbott were to make way for Vernon Philander, especially since Quinton de Kock found some sort of form in the quarter-final chase.


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LGBTQ+ Pregnancy
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Foster Care – Alternative for Gay and Lesbian Couples
Finding proper foster parents for the many children living in state custody is an on-going battle. ... read more »
Legal Issues of Gay and Lesbian Pregnancy
When Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son in 1993, she was appalled by the decision of the court system. ... read more »
Gay and Lesbian Parenting – Second Parent Adoption
Second parent adoption is the legal term for the second adoption of a biological child or adopted child by a same sex partner. According to law, states have the right to honor or deny second parent adoption. ... read more »
Legal Issues With Same Sex Couples and Adoption
Adoption was unknown at common law and therefore in the United States it required statutory authorization. The first adoption statute was not enacted until 1851, in Massachusetts. ... read more »
Traveling with a Baby For Gays and Lesbians
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How to Find a Doctor For Gays And Lesbian Pregnancy
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The Air Up There
by Chris Wisniewski
Dir. Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, NEON
Initially, you might notice the hanging socks. They appear in the foreground of Parasite's opening shot, dangling from a ceiling fixture. As the image remains static your attentions might turn to the activity outside, above on street level, visible through a window. The director and co-writer, Bong Joon-ho, uses the shot to show us a random alleyway in Seoul, somewhere up over this shabby room in which we find ourselves, decorated as it is with dirty socks. The camera then moves down to the living space of the Kim family as they grapple with the day's newest indignity—their upstairs neighbors have password protected their WiFi. The Kims aren't connected. Their only option is to seek higher ground, to raise their phones to the ceiling, past the putrid socks and over the toilet that sits perched on a pedestal. Looking for a signal that will connect them from their cramped living space—we can only imagine how it might smell—they scramble to reach the world above.
Though he's been inconsistent, Bong is an indisputably brilliant filmmaker who specializes in socially engaged genre pictures that package trenchant, biting critique as thrilling entertainment. So it is with Parasite, his audacious, funny, and upsetting new movie. Here, he uses his opening sequence to tell us everything we need to know about what he is about to do. The Kims are desperate and destitute, part of the substrata of Korean economic and social life. Shortly after they lose their signal, a cloud of fumigation smoke wafts into the apartment. Their apartment is infested with bugs, so the treatment might help remediate one problem. Still, what must it do to a person to breathe that gas, which infiltrates the Kims' living space with no warning?
The movie uses the initial play between the Kims' subterranean existence and the world above to introduce a metaphor Bong will turn over, mine, invert, and reprise repeatedly throughout its two-hour running time. Bong makes it clear from the film's opening minutes that this is a movie about class. But what that means—and how that plays out through the Kims' efforts to achieve a higher station—is never settled, perhaps, until the last shot. Just as Lee Chang-dong's Burning overtly delved into issues of inequality, alienation, masculinity, and violence as they are experienced in contemporary Korean life without seeming too allegorical or on the nose, Parasite traffics in the same concepts with a narrative and aesthetic invention that makes ideas that might otherwise seem telegraphed feel decipherable only upon contemplation of it as a complete, fully realized work.
Parasite may be Bong's most successful and unexpected film since Mother. This is not intended as empty praise, but rather an explanation for why it would do a reader a disservice to give away too many of the movie's storytelling pleasures through synopsis. As it opens, the Kims earn cash by freelancing for a local pizza chain assembling boxes. Scrounging for every penny, the Kims' teenage son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik) lowers himself to haggling with the restaurant's manager for a permanent post. This doesn't satisfy his ambitions. Subsequently, when Ki-woo is offered a professional opportunity through a friend that requires a bit of personal misrepresentation, he quickly rationalizes away the dishonesty it entails. As Ki-woo explains to his father, Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho), justifying his initially forgery, he sees the manipulation he engages in less as a lie than an acceleration—representing himself as having attained a certain status that he'll reach eventually, though he hasn't yet. In other words, he may be lying about where he is, but not who he is. Possibly, though, he is also lying to himself.
With this act of fraud, Ki-woo wedges his way into the lives of the Parks, a wealthy Seoul family that is no more emotionally stable than the Kims despite their comparative privilege. Handsome Dong-ik (Lee Sun-kyun) has earned a fortune, but his kind, naïve wife Yeon-kyo (Jo Yeo-jeong) moves through life at such a level of remove and disaffection that her maid (a wonderful Lee Jeong-eun) needs to clap in her face to get her attention. Their two children are faring no better: their teenage daughter engages neither with her studies nor her surroundings, instead fixating on Ki-woo as a romantic interest; their young son, meanwhile, harbors trauma from an early age that he expresses through an obsession with Native Americans and a distressing art practice that his mother actually celebrates. The Parks are Bong's foil for the Kims, the upstairs to their downstairs. Yet while it is clear why the Kims might want their home and their things, it is less evident that their lives deserve envy.
Seeing in the Parks an opportunity for social ascendency, Ki-woo takes advantage of every opportunity his new employers give him to infiltrate their lives. His initial success sets off a series of events through which Ki-taek, as well as his sister, Ki-jung (Park So-dam) and mother, Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin), similarly insinuate themselves into advantageous situations with this wealthy family under false pretenses. Deftly, Bong never invites judgment of the Kims, nor does he provide space for judgment of the Parks. By assuming an authorly impartiality, Bong brings the ideas his movie teases out to the fore. We aren't asked to take a position on the Kims' decision making. Instead, we're forced to grapple with why they do what they do and what it tells us about the urgent issues with which the movie engages. It would be much easier to valorize the Kims as class warriors or demonize them as liars. Bong does neither. "It is so metaphorical," Ki-woo exclaims of a gift given to him by a friend. It's a joke, because Bong knows that we are thinking the same thing about his movie. His brilliance lies in making us realize that we never quite have full access to the metaphor. We know we should be reading the film as a study of irreconcilable social division and its effect, but we are never told how to read it.
So: who is the parasite? What is the malady? The movie gives ample evidence for arguing that the rich feed off the labor of the poor, that they exploit and judge those who do the real work that makes their lives possible. It also largely aligns itself with the other perspective, presenting the Kims and the other working-class characters that populate the movie as living off the largesse of the wealthy. If the Kims' almost subhuman status wasn't clear in the early fumigation sequence, at one point, Bong actually reduces them to scurrying across a floor in the middle of the night like cockroaches. But, is this meant to make us see them as parasitic, or to critique this notion? The narrative turns in Parasite's second half give evidence for both readings.
Co-written by Bong and Han Jin Won and swiftly paced by editor Yang Jinmo, Parasite may be Bong's most elegant contraption yet. Its first half unfolds as an elaborate, funny, and constantly surprising setup. In its second half, it careens with agonizing inexorability, over a twenty-four-hour period, toward a reckoning. Minute to minute, this makes for a delightfully fun watch, a master-class in genre filmmaking. Don't be fooled. As the Kims' dangerous gambit unfolds, every major character does something that is morally repugnant, with shocking consequence. Parasite is a deadly serious movie, and by the time he ends it, with a melancholic image that deliberately evokes his opening, Bong reveals he has more sinister designs on his characters—and his viewers—than it initially appears. Like any potent virus—or, perhaps, like the foul odor of dirty socks hanging from a ceiling fixture (as Ki-woo would say, "It's so metaphorical!")—Parasite's effect lingers.


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How To Design A Dwelling Web page That Converts
It has been a couple of years since we re-designed the current logged-out homepage at , so we asked ourselves whether we may better serve people touchdown at Khan Academy's entrance door. Actually, I am in the middle of redesigning our firm's website, so I will rethink the homepage a bit. The simplest possibility is to make use of the Wix ADI (Synthetic Design Intelligence) website builder which is able to guide you thru a sequence of questions before robotically creating a site for you. On this fast video course, Paul Boag , founder of UK web design company Headscape, will share his secret to getting settlement on homepage content material: the Consumer Consideration Level Train.
Because the browser does acknowledge the small print of the reader's display (window measurement, font size relative to window etc.) the browser can make person-specific format adjustments to fluid layouts, but not mounted-width layouts. Attractive internet design has at all times performed a key position in profitable online sales and advertising. FreshBooks makes use of buyer testimonials on the homepage to inform real-world tales of why to make use of the product. Due to this fact, as a rule of thumb, make certain the design is clean and easy to navigate. Because of this, it is vital as a company you perceive what the targets of your website are, together with that of the homepage, and then design it accordingly, not allowing for pointless distractions.
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Skills: 2.5D Parallax Animations, Video + Audio Editing, Colour Grading, Photo Processing
This video piece was created for the Vancouver Economic Commission as part of a project that sought to brand the False Creek Flats through business engagement. This video animation piece was one of the four key components to the multimedia platform. Each of these components served to tell a different story in regards to the False Creek Flats.
1. 2.5D Parallax Animation = The historical development and value of the False Creek Flats
2. Infographics & Video Interviews = The present day outlook of the Flats both from the government and local business perspective
3. Motiongraphic Video = The future of the Flats, how it can be developed to create a sustainable and greener future for the city.
4. Mailchimp & Engagement Tools = Used to encourage residents of the Flats to engage with each other and the government to create a common dream.
This project was successfully delivered to the Vancouver Economic Commission and has been carried on by the VEC as the main platform in which the community can engage with each other on. In addition, it has set a precedent within the VEC in terms of the potential for a multimedia platform and it's power to reach people.
All photographs were sourced from the City of Vancouver Archives and then processed with Photoshop and After Effects.


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Disturbing the Peace: Cultural Narratives and Reparations
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Scott, Jesse James
Parks, Sheri L.
Disturbing the Peace: Cultural Narratives and Reparations African Americans' pursuit of reparations began in the eighteenth century and continues in the present. At the twilight of the twentieth century, African American slavery and reparations for that experience became a controversial topic in popular and public discourse. Inevitably, the conversation turned to economics, specifically monetary compensation. Responding to this now-global controversy, Nigerian scholar Chinweizu observed that reparations are not primarily about money. Instead, he insists, reparations are about psychological repairs, institutional repairs, educational repairs, self-made repairs, repairs of all types. Drawing on Chinweizu's conception of reparations, "Disturbing the Peace: Cultural Narratives and Reparations" examines Toni Morrison's Beloved, Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying, Sidney Lumet's The Wiz, Spike Lee's Get on the Bus, and Marc Forster's Monster's Ball as cultural narratives that illuminate the pitfalls of pursuing reparations that are restricted to the legal arena. While this dissertation responds to a historical-political project, I do not offer these cultural narratives as political instruction on how to pursue reparations. Rather, this project examines how individuals and communities within these cultural narratives pursue reparations outside of the legal arena. Despite popular representations of the pursuit of reparations as being primarily about money, I argue that the pursuit of reparations is also a narrative pursuit that disturbs the highly imagined peace of national unity. As such, investigating cultural narratives for the ways in which they engage and revise popular notions of reparations encourages a more expansive approach to identifying and repairing racial injuries for individuals and communities. Narrative does more than calculate debts; it reminds individuals of what they owe both to themselves and to the communities they inhabit, reminds them that their lives and their histories are more than notations in slave ledgers, and reminds them that they are, first and foremost, human beings. Against this legal history, the cultural narratives under consideration in "Disturbing the Peace" suggest, as does Chinweizu, that reparations depend on communities' willingness and/or ability to initiate self-made repairs.