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Eindhoven University of Technology offers a master programme 'Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion'. This programme is supported by a plasma physics laboratory, 'PlasmaLab@ TU/e', consisting of 10 different plasma experiments ranging from breakdown in gases to diagnostics and techniques as used on large fusion experiments.
Target Group: The PlasmaLab@ TU/e aims at supplementing the education by hands-on experience and provides the students with a reality check of the theory learned. Moreover it will develop their experimental skills and creativity. The principal target group are students that follow master-level plasma courses, but the lab material can equally well be used for teaching at other levels: bachelor, high school students or outreach activities. Each of the 10 experiments is unique in order to optimise plasma physics coverage. Basic experiments include Langmuir probes and magnetic diagnostics.
Use and Access: The PlasmaLab@ TU/e is fully operational primarily as an educational facility for the plasma groups in the faculty of Applied Physics and for outreach activities. Also external users might access it, just ask about the possibilities. Moreover, 1-week hands-on PlasmaLab courses open to foreign students are organised.
Three of the experiments at PlasmaLab@ TU/e are co-funded by the the Fusenet Association:
Documentation on how the plasma course is organized can be found here (Fusenet members only).


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Tropical Garden
As you know, I love a yard design that brings multiple elements together. In the case of this landscape design, they have brought together a pool area and a garden. We will start with the pool and move out to the rest of the yard. The pool is conservative and accessible, and does not take away from the appeal of the garden area. The garden consists of lovely bushes and shrubs, and there are some great palm trees present that give us the tropical feel we are after with this design. This is a fun spot for the family, especially in the summer months.

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RK-07 3.5mm Jack 8 LED Lights Selfie Enhancing Flash LED Light Camera Flash Light For IOS Android Smartphone Camera
RK07 the more professional and sync retina flash(Retina Flash) for front camera
The facetime camera of Phone6s/6s Plus has been upgraded to 5MP. Even if there are no such flash light as many people guessed,the retina flash has been added.
That means Phone6s/6s Plus can flash 3x brighter at a short time.But that is just white color,and the screen works as the flash light.
Compare with phone6S/6S Plus, the old version phone 6S / 6 / 5S / 5C / 5 and all kinds of android phones do not contain the front camera flash.
RK07 selfie shooting using flash light can help save this problem.RK07 is constituted with 8 cold-warm light bulbs which use same design as the iPhone rear camera flash.
This design can make the pictures look more natural and beautiful.
8 strong light bulbs mixed the cold and warm light make the light more natural,(The screen flash of phone6S/6S plus shows the weak light,but our 8 bulbs flash can be used in darker areas)
Cold-warm light bulbs which imitate the natural light can mix the yellow and white light as a result,the shooting in night will be exceptional.
RK07 can be sync flash light. When you install the app,it can flash as the same time when using facetime camera.
3 kinds of brightness can be chose (strong,medium,weak),customer can slide the switch in the side to choose different brightness model according to different environment condition.
RK07 can save the flaw that many existed phones which do not built-in flash for facetime camera. Give best selfie to you.
RK07 can be an emergency desk lamp,flashlight and keyboard lamp.
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1*RK-07 3.5mm Jack Enhancing Flash LED Light
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Archive for October 2018
2018 Masters Research Dissertation Programme Winners Announced30 October 2018 - 11:38am
The winners of the CDRC's 2018 Masters Research Dissertation Programme were recently announced at the Data Analysts User Group (DUG) Conference. The CDRC-led programme provides the opportunity for students to work directly with an industrial partner and commercial datasets. This year, 20 students participated in the programme with the support of a range of partners, including Sainsbury's, Shop […]Read More
Inclusive and healthy mobility – new webpage launched19 October 2018 - 1:53pm
We have launched a new webpage for the ESRC-funded project 'Inclusive and Healthy Mobility: Understanding Trends in Concessionary Travel in the West Midlands'. The project analysed 400,000 anonymised concessionary passengers to understand the sharp decline in bus boardings in the West Midlands Combined Authority between 2011 and 2016. The webpage provides findings and evidence on […]Read More
CDRC co-hosts Data Analytics, Innovation and the Impact on Business and Society event at Senate House11 October 2018 - 3:59pm
As part of UCL's Impact Series the CDRC in partnership with UCL Innovation & Enterprise and the UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership organised a networking event at Senate House, University of London yesterday (10/10/18). The event titled 'Data analytics, innovation and the impact on business and society' sought to bring together academics and businesses in […]Read More
Web Archives: A Tool for Geographical Research?09 October 2018 - 11:48am
In this British Library blog article, Emmanouil Tranos and Christoph Stich from the University of Birmingham discuss their CDRC Innovation Fund project on exploring the evolution of the digital economy in the UK.Read More
CDRC and AGI host the first Geo+Data London event03 October 2018 - 2:39pm
The Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) in partnership with the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) hosted the first Geo+Data London event at University College London (UCL) on 2 October 2018. The seminar series is designed to bring together academia and industry in order to share and learn from experiences and best practices in the use […]Read More


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Often asked questions about preventing diabetes
- What is pre-diabetes? What are the USA warning signs of pre-diabetes? What glucose level is pre-diabetes?
- Causes of diabetes: Type 1, or Type 2?
- How to prevent yourself getting diabetes?
- Symptoms of Type 2 diabetes? Half a million adults in UK have Type 2 diabetes and don't know it [28].
- What does it mean when your blood sugar is borderline?
Check your own risk of getting Type 2 diabetes?
- Could children be usefully screened for their risks of getting type 1 diabetes? The USA NPR notes that some children are being screened for five autoantibodies in a research trial there. Having at least two of these antibodies has been shown to increase a person's risk of later developing type 1 diabetes.
In England those with 'pre-diabetes' have increased to 1 in 3 people. Half of those who are overweight and over 40 years old now have pre-diabetes [evidence no. 19]. If you have pre-diabetes, how can you use it to prevent you going on to get diabetes?
- NHS on symptoms & diagnosis of 'Gestational Diabetes' in pregnant women?
- If you have diabetes, how to stop you getting deadly diabetes complications? e.g. 3 out of every 4 of us with diabetes die from heart/stroke diseases.
Why does NHS say Weight important in preventing diabetes?
Simple NHS tips to lose weight?
12. How to get the best from your doctor/GP?
13. Where to get local help to quit smoking? Stop smoking options? Public Health England guidance, August 2018
14. How to ask your own health questions, by voice online?
15. Actions? If you take decisions using the answers to these questions, we recommend putting them into your draft personal health plan, for discussion with your doctor/GP.
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Mesothelioma disease is a rarest of all though in existence destroying several lives. This particular type of skin cancer generally takes place due to the regular or extreme exposure to asbestos minerals. Cancer that occurs within the organs of the human body, a lining of a metastatic layer on the lungs or the internal organs that slowly spreads throughout the body.
Cancer disease attacks the protective tissues or cells of the lungs or any internal organs. The common symptoms are the shortness of breath, chest pain, pneumonia or severe coughing. These are the symptoms may be similar to many other common diseases so sometimes it becomes difficult to detect this deadly disease.
How asbestos is responsible for cancer?
Chrysotile asbestos, naturally found mineral, fibril bundles that are from millimeters to centimeters mostly used mainly in industries. The physical appearance of chrysotile is similar to fingernails. White asbestos another name of chrysotile necessary in the manufacturing of gaskets and boiler seals for the insulated pipes and ducts.
Crocidolite which is known as blue asbestos mostly required for the insulation of pipes, spray of coatings and few in plastics.
Anthophyllite is also used in insulation but required in very less quantity. It is available in different colors it may be in white, grey and dull green, which is an important ingredient of constructions materials like cement, roofing and rubber.
Amphibole asbestos is the combination of the serpentine minerals and chrysotile with five other asbestos, which is necessary for the commercial uses. Specifically prolonged exposure to the asbestos minerals has affected the people to the chances of risks in carcinogenic attack to the human body.
Sources of asbestos
Sources of asbestos can enter the human body through air and water or food. Air is necessary for plants and human beings; the area with high density of the dead causing element asbestos makes life difficult to breathe safely.
Air: One of the common source to blame for such an effect on the human body. The harmful minerals of asbestos that flow through the dust and air, cause hazards. Since air can be a source of asbestos escaping from the disease can be difficult, as living being requires oxygen but the purity of this oxygen lessens by the chemicals and the minerals from the asbestos.
The production of different chemicals and products from the industrial areas passes through the air to the occupants and if regularly then, it can harm a large population or area inhaling the asbestos content air.
Food and water.
Survival is not possible without food and water. But what can anyone do? The food that we are eating or a glass of water can be poisonous because of the presence of the asbestos extracts or mineral contents.
How does asbestos affect water? Water cannot be avoided, so if somehow or other asbestos is present in water and regular intake can increase the chances of cancer. The water supply through the concrete pipelines or the water stored in the concrete made tanks can carry asbestos substances. Drinking waters for our homes passed by the pipelines and storages of high quantity water, in the water tanks.
In the case of food, asbestos on regular intake through food or drugs is also poisonous. Apart from it, the cosmetics that are in use by women the talc may have the chances of having asbestos minerals, tremolite but government has taken steps to remove the asbestos from cosmetic products as it is also in direct contact to the human skin.
Crayons colors for children with the asbestos content, tremolite was discovered in 2000 by the asbestos lab test though in trace amount but later they decided to stop using talc in their color crayons.
Talc with the asbestos content in it is in use for many human using purposes such as the cosmetic powders, crayons for children though less in amount but has the chances of striking the human health. Baby products also have the chances of having the asbestos contents.
Asbestos banned all around the world.
Asbestos has been a cause of destruction to the human nature that the health and welfare departments worldwide are bound to ban asbestos. However, the requirement of the asbestos fibers and minerals is almost on every commercial product but the harm that it is causing to the environment and the human health. Entire countries in the world except for few countries China, Russia, Brazil, India and United States use asbestos for commercial industries and productions.
- In 1970, the authority of clean air act has declared asbestos to cause hazards and as an air pollutant and therefore has ordered the EPA to regulate the uses of asbestos fibers along with the disposal of the extracts or waste products of the asbestos to reduce the health risks. Spray also contains asbestos minerals and the act of clean air act of 1970, has completely banned the spray products.
- Asbestos restricted by the toxic substances control act in 1976, on few conditions that the chemicals are safe in use.
- In the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 (AHERA) along with the EPA has ordered to inspect the school buildings and remove the asbestos from the school buildings that can be a cause of hazardous to the children.
- Finally, in the year 1980, the EPA has passed out the order to completely stop the use of asbestos due to the harmful effects of the products with the asbestos ingredients, entirely related the manufacturing of the products, banning the importing of the asbestos products along with the selling of the products, which contain asbestos.
However, the banning of asbestos did create difficulties in the industry's leading to the obligations since asbestos is required in commercial productions banning may stop the productions and at the same time large working classes to turn jobless.
Requirement of Asbestos
Asbestos awareness training arranged with the accreditations for accredited firms, for the people who work or deal in the production of asbestos fibers. In order to work with the asbestos products, one should be a license holder issued by the Maintenance Licence Holders. The asbestos fibers used should pass the asbestos laboratory test.
Mesothelioma dense population
America and its people have been found to be more affected by mesothelioma. An increase of the disease according to the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) records there is an increase of mesothelioma cases every year during 1989 to 2002, but an exception is seen in recent years a steady improvement is observed, according to the records after 2002 till today.
Mesothelioma disease if distinctively studied between ages and gender then, the older people above the age of 65 years are suffering from mesothelioma, mostly in men, while compared to women. People above 80 years of age, found to the highest record of suffering from a carcinogenic disease. In the records, the highest cases of this particular disease are from 1995 to 2014.
The high percentile of the mesothelioma affected countries are Alaska, new jersey, West Virginia and Washington. Places the intensity of the asbestos elements is high, which is affecting the population or the people of this area and so the law that allows for a compensation on the patients for suffering from this disease.
Mesothelioma affected people and law
The prolonged exposure to the asbestos in the factories and industries, the labors and workers have developed this disease, which is almost incurable. The treatment of cancer is expensive and long-term, so it becomes difficult for the patient and their family members to continue with the treatment of the disease.
The law impact has been beneficial to the sufferers with the compensations that can help in the treatment of cancer and supporting the family members.
So, if anyone of your beloved is suffering from mesothelioma, then you can contact the lawsuits for the compensation. Though it should be filed within the scheduled duration.
Asbestos is banned but people who are working under the circumstances, knowing the deadly results. In spite of banning, it is necessary and used in the production, involving workers and so the law has been passed to compensate the cancer patient and their family. Care is taken that the decision is taken on an emergency basis, as it is already known that the patients have a very limited life length and the fast treatment requirement.
Mesothelioma and asbestosis are a most commonly occurring disease because of asbestos. Harmful and hazardous that are life-threatening, so the precautions are taken to the further extent to reduce the cases mesothelioma. This disease occurs and requires about 10 to 20 years to turn into mesothelioma, affecting the protective tissue of the body. Toxins of the asbestos from the industrial uses or it may be the polluted air and food, no matter the occurrence of mesothelioma cases has reduced due to the consciousness of the diseases among the people but those who were in exposure to asbestos for a long time have the chances to grow this disease in the coming years.
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Andrea was born and raised in Red Deer, Alberta. In 2017, Andrea obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, where she achieved Dean's List standing. Andrea was called to the Alberta Bar in 2018 and she joined JSS Barristers as an associate in 2019.
While obtaining her law degree, Andrea clerked at the Provincial Court of Alberta, volunteered with Student Legal Assistance, and competed in the Alberta Court of Appeal Moot.
Before diving into her law adventures, Andrea obtained a Theatre Studies (Acting) diploma from Red Deer College and a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University. She went on to work as a journalist in Calgary for several years and was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for her role in the coverage of the 2013 Calgary Floods.
During her free time, Andrea enjoys traveling, dancing, playing squash, and going on hiking and camping adventures in the mountains with her husband and labradoodle dog.


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Sugar can be found in a huge number of food items, yet that doesn't suggest it really is wholesome. Natural sugars are generally great moderately, yet sugars which are put into foods could be too much for the body and therefore could lead to a wide array of medical issues. An individual who really wants to be healthier will probably need to stop eating additional sugar right away, but this might genuinely be a challenge for them to accomplish. They are going to need to think about a sugar detox diet in order to help them to stop eating just as much sugar as soon as possible.
A lot of folks will not quite possibly know precisely how much sugar they consume on a daily basis or even precisely what it is doing to their particular health. They usually equate sugar with food products such as candy or drinks such as soda, yet it really is in a lot more food products and refreshments. Actually, most processed foods include some level of sugar, even when the food will not be sweet whatsoever.
This means an individual is eating way more than they really should, even when they do not realize it. When they begin looking into every little thing that includes a lot of sugar, it could appear too much to handle to actually quit eating sugar. However, if perhaps they'll detox from the sugar, it's possible for an individual to quit eating sugar altogether.
If perhaps you would like to be healthier, check out precisely how much sugar you are consuming every day. Look at the packages of foods to be able to discover exactly how much you might be consuming and exactly how it is influencing your well being. If you'd like assistance to be able to stop eating a great deal of sugar, have a look at how to stop sugar cravings today.


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Olena Medvedieva - Century 21
Olena's driven personality along with her enthusiasm for Real Estate creates the energy needed to provide a high standard level of service for her clients. Integrity, enthusiasm, persistence and great negotiation skills are only, but a few of her professional attributes to her success in her career as a real estate sales consultant. She is well organised and prides herself on delivering clients a seven-star service. She is committed to going the extra mile for her clients. Olena is passionate about two things: people and property. A career in real estate is the perfect match for her. She thrives on being able to assist her buyers, to match them with the perfect property for them. Her commitment to her vendors is to achieve the best possible price for their property and communicate with them through every step of the process. Olena holds a Major Degree in Banking studied in Eastern-Europe - Ukraine, Odessa. Olena's strength also is in creativity and design, which makes her perfect for planing a cutting-edge marketing campaign that is more striking and stands out apart the rest. She is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English which gives her access to a wide network of buyers, based both locally and overseas and makes her highly effective in communicating and negotiating with people from all walks of life. Having lived in North Shore for the past 10 years, Olena has vast knowledge of the area better than she ever imagine possible, embracing the kiwi lifestyle and proud to be a part of the culture and local community of which she calls home now. In her spare time, Olena enjoys painting abstract art, spending time with her family and her two dogs exploring new bush walks and beaches. Get the best real estate service in the business who will go above and beyond your Real Estate needs - call Olena today for a no-obligations chat on how she can help you achieve your property goals.


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Historic Window Restoration Information from Bob Yapp
In the mid-1970s Bob Yapp was an apprentice to a German furniture designer and cabinetmaker. Soon afterward, he opened a business designing and building custom furniture and also bought his first house--a craftsman bungalow--to renovate. Since that time Bob has been involved in the restoration and rehabilitation of over 160 historic properties, many of them award winning.
In the 1980s Bob continued to restore homes and build furniture for clients from California to Chicago. His efforts in neighborhood revitalization of historic areas in the Midwest are renowned. Bob has been a historic property Realtor, owned a home inspection business and in 1991 was appointed the Housing Director for The Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation in Rock Island, Illinois. At Rock Island High School he started and taught a new voc-tech program to give students hands-on-experience in rehabbing historic homes. Bob, his wife Pat and their dogs George & Gracie live in Hannibal, Missouri. Their 1859 home is a brick Italianate located it the Central Park, National Historic District and is the headquarters for their school, The Belvedere School for Hands-On Preservation as well as The Belvedere Inn Bed & Breakfast.
Bob's media career began in 1980s as an architectural feature writer and weekly columnist with the Des Moines Register as The House Doctor. He has written and co-written many woodworking and preservation articles in national magazines including; Meredith Publishing's Wood Magazine and Renovation Style Magazine. Currently Bob writes and self-syndicates a monthly feature story on historic house restoration.
Soon after the Register column premiered he began a syndicated radio show also called The House Doctor. In 1996 Bob started production of the national, weekly PBS program, About Your House with Bob Yapp. Bob was executive producer, writer and host for this National Trust for Historic Preservation sponsored, 52 show series. Bob has a blog at his website, www.aboutyourhouse.org.
Since leaving PBS in 2001, Bob has dedicated himself to preservation education. In September 2002 Bob partnered with the Kentucky Heritage Council and the Pine Mountain Settlement School to found a hands-on training school to teach practical, cost effective restoration methodology. He has helped establish and taught at numerous preservation trades programs around the country in high schools and colleges. He is a regular instructor at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies. Bob also trains National Park Service preservation trades personnel, Methods and Materials for the Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Historic Structures. In addition to operating and teaching at The Belvedere School for Hands-On Preservation in Hannibal, he founded and taught The Historic Preservation Trades Program for at-risk students at Hannibal High School and the Samuel Plato Academy for Historic Preservation Trades in Louisville, Kentucky.
Bob is the president of Preservation Resources, Inc. (PRI). PRI is a multi-tiered historic preservation consulting firm specializing in: social policy; neighborhood revitalization; historic preservation commission training; hands-on field training for contractors and historic building owners; Main Street training; creation of how-to preservation materials for print and web based training; creation of historic preservation design guidelines and ordinances; development of specifications for historic preservation rehabilitation projects. In 2015 Bob restored all of the windows in the Cupola of George Washington's Mount Vernon Home in Virginia.
Bob travels America giving keynote speeches, conducting seminars and hands-on workshops on just about any subject having to do with historic preservation, housing and community. Bob is also a regular member of the Design Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. as well as a founding member of The National Window Preservation Standards Collaborative. Bob's first book, About Your House, was published by Bay Books in December 1997 and he is a co-author and co-editor of The National Window Preservation Standards published in 2013.
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Mike Nifong: Meltdown?; Confirmed: Announces resignation
I'm not in front of a TV at the moment, but readers are e-mailing that Mike Nifong is in tears and has announced his "intention to resign."
Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong says he will resign as the Durham County district attorney, regardless of the outcome of his ethics trial.
Nifong says many of the allegations against him are justified, but he says he's not a liar. He apologized to the lacrosse players who were charged and later declared innocent, and he says he was trying to do the right thing in the case.
Nifong made the announcement that he would resign as he took the stand in his own defense. The North Carolina State Bar has charged Nifong with violating rules governing professional conduct in his handling of the case.
The double murder of Otto Warmbier
June 20, 2017 09:15 PM by Michelle Malkin
The Duke rape case the MSM won't cover
June 29, 2009 11:38 AM by Michelle Malkin
Hoaxer Crystal Mangum, the Duke lacrosse accuser, pens memoir
October 24, 2008 08:03 AM by Michelle Malkin
Duke lacrosse players sue the university
February 21, 2008 12:00 PM by Michelle Malkin
Nifong: Disbarred
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I have just finished a small project but in terms of its relevance I believe I crossed another huge mental roadblock. This was my first web application I built in ASP.Net and it will be a major addition to my resume. There was a time I was unsure of my abilities as a programmer and cried about six years of my life all going down the drain. Those days are well past me but I still have miles to go before I work the dream job. Like the Chinese proverb which says a journey of a thousand miles begins in a single step I got to this point because I dared to venture out of my comfort zone. Every new project I get into I have treaded with trepidation initially but what I have learnt over the last one year is that God always rewards me if I work hard. Drawing a pale comparison to Edison who said he succesfully discovered six thousand ways not to light a bulb through each project I have coded away in the wrong directions, retraced my path, begun afresh and achieved results. That then is the essence of this blog...not the praise of some project manager but the jubiliation from your inner self you feel when all your hard work has materialised and the pride you feel in having accomplished the task. In these days programming has become an easy but still arduous task ...easy because of the volume of information you have at your fingertips from just a simple search on google and arduous because of the huge variety and diversity in selecting a particular language for coding and the jungle of literature available on each each aspect of programming. In the last 6 months stuff I have built has been used by ppl to chat, play quiz, automate some of the daily tasks they did and view and build reports for their work. I am still nowhere near feeling accomplished...I still fail in wht a programmer has to be good at... voluntarily learning new technologies, a solid technical mind and vision of the system to built and many more shortcomings. We are termed nerds by our peers for spending hours staring at a computer screen, we give yogis and new-age guru's a complex by how much of our mind we can train into focussing on the problem at hand...the world is today at our fingertip...Programmers of the World....Rise and Ye be Proud...What we do echoes in other people's lives and in eternity (a lift from gladiator).
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Comparison and review of the top web scraping cloud services and platforms where you can build and deploy web scrapers to collect web data. Platforms are compared based on the pricing, features and ease of…
Web scraping tools automate web-based data collection. These tools generally fall in the categories of tools that you install on your computer or in your computer's browser (Chrome or Firefox) and services that are designed to be self-service. Web scraping tools (free or paid) and self-service websites/applications can be a good choice if your data requirements are small, and the source websites aren't complicated.
However, if the websites you want to scrape are complicated or you need a lot of data from one or more sites, these tools do not scale well. The cost of these tools and services pales in comparison to the time and effort you require to implement scrapers using these tools and the complexity of maintaining and running these tools. For such cases, a full-service provider is a better and economical option.
In this post, we will first give a brief description of the tools and then quickly walk through how these tools work so that you can quickly evaluate if these work for you.
The best web scraping tools
- Web Scraper (Chrome Extension)
- Scrapy
- Data Scraper (Chrome Extension)
- Scraper (Chrome Extension)
- ParseHub
- OutWitHub
- FMiner
- Dexi.io
- Octoparse
- Web Harvey
- PySpider
- Apify SDK
- Content Grabber
- Mozenda
- Cheerio
Web Scraper
Web scraper, a standalone chrome extension, is a free and easy tool for extracting data from web pages. Using the extension you can create and test a sitemap to see how the website should be traversed and what data should be extracted. With the sitemaps, you can easily navigate the site the way you want and the data can be later exported as a CSV.
Download and add the extension to Chrome using the link here.
- How to Scrape Amazon BestSeller Listings using Web Scraper Chrome Extension
- How to scrape Historical Twitter Data
- How to scrape product data and prices from Walmart
Scrapy is an open source web scraping framework in Python used to build web scrapers. It gives you all the tools you need to efficiently extract data from websites, process them as you want, and store them in your preferred structure and format. One of its main advantages is that it's built on top of a Twisted asynchronous networking framework. If you have a large web scraping project and want to make it as efficient as possible with a lot of flexibility then you should definitely use Scrapy. It can also be used for a wide range of purposes, from data extraction and mining, monitoring and automated testing.
You can export data into JSON, CSV and XML formats. What stands out about Scrapy is its ease of use, detailed documentation, and active community. If you are familiar with Python you'll be up and running in just a couple of minutes. It runs on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows systems.
To learn how to scrape websites using Scrapy you can check out our tutorial:
Data Scraper
Data Scraper is a simple web scraping tool for extracting data from a single page into CSV and XSL data files. It is a personal browser extension that helps you transform data into a clean table format. You will need to install the plugin in a Google Chrome browser. The free version lets you scrape 500 pages per month, if you want to scrape more pages you have to upgrade to the paid plans.
Download the extension from the link here.
Scraper is a chrome extension for scraping simple web pages. It is easy to use and allows you to scrape a website's content and upload the results to Google Docs or Excel spreadsheets. It can extract data from tables and convert it into a structured format. You can download the extension from the link here.
ParseHub is a web-based scraping tool which is built to crawl single and multiple websites with the support for JavaScript, AJAX, cookies, sessions, and redirects. The application can analyze and grab data from websites and transform it into meaningful data. Parsehub uses machine learning technology to recognize the most complicated documents and generates the output file in JSON, CSV , Google Sheets or through API.
Parsehub is a desktop app available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users and works as a Firefox extension. The easy user-friendly web app can be built into the browser and has a well written documentation. It has all the advanced features like pagination, infinite scrolling pages, pop-ups, and navigation. You can even visualize the data from ParseHub into Tableau.
The free version has a limit of 5 projects with 200 pages per run. If you buy Parsehub paid subscription you can get 20 private projects with 10,000 pages per crawl and IP rotation.
OutwitHub is a data extractor built in a web browser. If you wish to use the software as an extension you have to download it from Firefox add-ons store. If you want to use the standalone application you just need to follow the instructions and run the application. OutwitHub can help you extract data from the web with no programming skills at all. It's great for harvesting data that might not be accessible.
OutwitHub is a free tool which is a great option if you need to scrape some data from the web quickly. With its automation features, it browses automatically through a series of web pages and performs extraction tasks. You can export the data into numerous formats (JSON, XLSX, SQL, HTML, CSV, etc.).
Dexi (formerly known as CloudScrape) supports data extraction from any website and requires no download. The software application provides different types of robots in order to scrape data – Crawlers, Extractors, Autobots, and Pipes. Extractor robots are the most advanced as it allows you to choose every action the robot needs to perform like clicking buttons and extracting screenshots.
The application offers anonymous proxies to hide your identity. Dexi.io also offers a number of integrations with third-party services. You can download the data directly to Box.net and Google Drive or export it as JSON or CSV formats. Dexi.io stores your data on its servers for 2 weeks before archiving it. If you need to scrape on a larger scale you can always get the paid version
Octoparse is a visual scraping tool that is easy to understand. Its point and click interface allows you to easily choose the fields you need to scrape from a website. Octoparse can handle both static and dynamic websites with AJAX, JavaScript, cookies and etc. The application also offers advanced cloud services which allows you to extract large amounts of data. You can export the scraped data in TXT, CSV, HTML or XLSX formats.
Octoparse's free version allows you to build up to 10 crawlers, but with the paid subscription plans you will get more features such as API and many anonymous IP proxies that will faster your extraction and fetch large volume of data in real time.
Web Harvey
WebHarvey's visual web scraper has an inbuilt browser that allows you to scrape data such as from web pages. It has a point to click interface which makes selecting elements easy. The advantage of this scraper is that you do not have to create any code. The data can be saved into CSV, JSON, XML files. It can also be stored in a SQL database. WebHarvey has a multi-level category scraping feature that can follow each level of category links and scrape data from listing pages.
The tool allows you to use regular expressions, offering more flexibility. You can set up proxy servers that will allow you to maintain a level of anonymity, by hiding your IP, while extracting data from websites.
PySpider is a web crawler written in Python. It supports Javascript pages and has a distributed architecture. This way you can have multiple crawlers. PySpider can store the data on a backend of your choosing such as MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, etc. You can use RabbitMQ, Beanstalk, and Redis as message queues.
One of the advantages of PySpider is the easy to use UI where you can edit scripts, monitor ongoing tasks and view results. The data can be saved into JSON and CSV formats. If you are working with a website-based user interface, PySpider is the Internet scrape to consider. It also supports AJAX heavy websites.
Apify is a Node.js library which is a lot like Scrapy positioning itself as a universal web scraping library in JavaScript, with support for Puppeteer, Cheerio and more.
With its unique features like RequestQueue and AutoscaledPool, you can start with several URLs and then recursively follow links to other pages and can run the scraping tasks at the maximum capacity of the system respectively. Its available data formats are JSON, JSONL, CSV, XML, XLSX or HTML and available selector CSS. It supports any type of website and has built-in support of Puppeteer.
The Apify SDK requires Node.js 8 or later.
Content Grabber
Content Grabber is a visual web scraping tool that has a point-to-click interface to choose elements easily. Its interface allows pagination, infinite scrolling pages, and pop-ups. In addition, it has AJAX/Javascript processing, captcha solution, allows the use of regular expressions, and IP rotation (using Nohodo). You can export data in CSV, XLSX, JSON, and PDF formats. Intermediate programming skills are needed to use this tool.
Mozenda is an enterprise cloud-based web-scraping platform. It has a point-to-click interface and a user-friendly UI. It has two parts – an application to build the data extraction project and a Web Console to run agents, organize results and export data. They also provide API access to fetch data and have inbuilt storage integrations like FTP, Amazon S3, Dropbox and more.
You can export data into CSV, XML, JSON or XLSX formats. Mozenda is good for handling large volumes of data. You will require more than basic coding skills to use this tool as it has a high learning curve.
Quick overview of how to use these tools
Web Scraper
After downloading the webscraper chrome extension you'll find it in developer tools and see a new toolbar added with the name 'Web Scraper'. Activate the tab and click on 'Create new sitemap', and then 'Create sitemap'. Sitemap is the Web Scraper extension name for a scraper. It is a sequence of rules for how to extract data by proceeding from one extraction to the next. We will set the start page as the cellphone category from Amazon.com and click 'Create Sitemap'. The GIF illustrates how to create a sitemap:
Navigating from root to category pages
Right now, we have the Web Scraper tool open at the _root with an empty list of child selectors
Click 'Add new selector'. We will add the selector that takes us from the main page to each category page. Let's give it the id category, with its type as link. We want to fetch multiple links from the root, so we will check the Multiple box below. The 'Select button' gives us a tool for visually selecting elements on the page to construct a CSS selector. 'Element Preview' highlights the elements on the page and 'Data Preview' pops up a sample of the data that would be extracted by the specified selector.
Click select on one of the category links and a specific CSS selector will be filled on the left of the selection tool. Click one of the other (unselected) links and the CSS selector should be adjusted to include it. Keep clicking on the remaining links until all of them are selected. The GIF below shows the whole process on how to add a selector to a sitemap:
A selector graph consists of a collection of selectors – the content to extract, elements within the page and a link to follow and continue the scraping. Each selector has a root (parent selector) defining the context in which the selector is to be applied. This is the visual representation of the final scraper (selector graph) for our Amazon Cellphone Scraper:
Here the root represents the starting URL, the main page for Amazon Cellphone. From there the scraper gets a link to each category page and for each category, it extracts a set of product elements. Each product element, extracts a single name, a single review, a single rating, and a single price. Since there are multiple pages we need the next element of the scraper to go into every page available.
Running the scraper
Click Sitemap to get a drop-down menu and click Scrape as shown below
The scrape pane gives us some options about how slowly Web Scraper should perform its scraping to avoid overloading the web server with requests and to give the web browser time to load pages. We are fine with the defaults, so click 'Start scraping'. A window will pop up, where the scraper is doing its browsing. After scraping the data you can download it by clicking the option 'Export data as CSV' or save it to a database.
Data Scraper
We'll show you how to extract data from Amazon.com using the data scraper chrome extension. First download the extension from the link here
Open the website that you need to extract data from. We'll scrape the product details of air conditioners under the appliance category from Amazon.com. Right-click on the web page and click on the option 'Get Similar (Data Miner)'. You'll see a list of saved templates on the left side. You can choose any one of them or create your own one and run the template.
To create your own template click on the option 'New Recipe' or choose from the generic templates under the option 'Public'.
Data Scraper is user-friendly as it will show you how to create your own template step by step. You'll get the output presented as a table:
Then press on download and extract the data as CSV/XSL format.
Scraper Chrome Extension
After downloading the extension open the website you need to highlight a part of the page that is similar to what to want to scrape. Right-click, and you'll see an option called 'Scrape similar'. The scraper console will open as a new window showing you the initial results, where you will see the scraped content in a table format.
The "Selector" section lets you change which page elements are scraped. You can specify the query as either a jQuery selector or in XPath.
You can export the table by clicking on 'Export to Google Docs" to download and save the content as a Google Spreadsheet or Excel. You may also customize the columns of the table and specify names for them if you would like. After making customizations, you must press on the "Scrape" button to update the results of the table.
All you need to do is enter the website you need to scrape and click on 'Start Project'. Then click on the '+' button to select a page or title. After selecting and naming all the fields you require, you will get a CSV/XLSX or JSON sample result.
Click on 'Get Data' and ParseHub will scrape the website and fetch your data. When the data is ready you will see CSV and JSON options to download your results.
We'll show you how to extract a table from Wikipedia using FMiner. We are going to use the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Football_League_Olympians. First download the application at the link http://www.fminer.com/download/
When you open the application, enter the URL and press the button 'Record' to record your actions. What we need to extract is the table of Olympic players.
To create the table, click on the '+' sign that says table. Then select each row by clicking on the option ' Target Select', you'll see one whole row selected from the table. In order to expand the whole table, click on the option 'Multiple Targets' – this will select the whole table. Once the whole table is highlighted you can now enter your new fields by clicking on '+' sign (shown in the image below).
After you have created the table click on 'Scrape'. You'll receive a notification that the scrape has finished. Just click on 'Export' to save the data as a CSV or XLS file.
To start, first, you have to sign up and create an account in dexi.io. It'll then take you to the app https://app.dexi.io/#/. When you get there you can start by clicking on 'Create New Robot'. It might take a while to get a hang of it, but there tutorials on how to create your first robot. If you need help you can check out their knowledge base.
Dexi.io has a simple user interface. All you need to do is choose the type of robot you need, enter the website you would like to extract data from and start building your scraper.
Even though these web scraping tools extract data from web pages with ease, they come with their limits. In the long run, programming is the best way to scrape data from the web as it provides more flexibility and attains better results.
If you aren't proficient with programming or your needs are complex, or you require large volumes of data to be scraped, there are great web scraping services that will suit your requirements to make the job easier for you.
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LASIK Using the Alcon Allegretto Wavefront-Guided Excimer Laser vs AMO Visx Wavefront-Guided Excimer Laser (LASIK)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01454843
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : October 19, 2011
Last Update Posted : March 18, 2020
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|Condition or disease
|Myopia Astigmatism
|Procedure: Wavefront-guided LASIK - Allegretto Procedure: Wavefront-guided LASIK - AMO
|Phase 4
The patients will have a comprehensive eye examination once they express an interest in the study. This includes a slit lamp examination of the front of the eye and a dilated fundoscopic examination of the back of the eye. if there is any pathology noted that would exclude the patient from the study, then we will inform the patient and make an appropriate referral. If the patient is deemed appropriate for the study after a comprehensive examination included computerized videokeratography, then they can be enrolled. The patient will undergo bilateral simultaneous eye surgery. Which eye is treated with a wavefront-guided excimer laser and which eye is treated with wavefront-optimized will be randomized so there is a 50% chance for either eye to receive one treatment. The patients will be seen on the day of surgery, post op day one, post op day 4-7, one month, three months, six months and one year. The patient will receive topical antibiotics in each eye for one week following the procedure. LASIK treated eyes will receive pred forte 1% ophthalmic drops for one week after treatment. All of this is within the usual and customary standard of care for the treatment of patients undergoing lasik surgery.
The research procedures are the least risky that can be performed consistent with sound research design.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Prospective Eye to Eye Comparison of LASIK Using the Alcon Allegretto Wavefront-Guided Excimer Laser Versus AMO Visx Wavefront-Guided Excimer Laser
|Actual Study Start Date :
|June 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|December 2021
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2021
Active Comparator: Wavefront-guided LASIK - Allegretto
Wavefront-guided LASIK using the Allegretto excimer laser.
Procedure: Wavefront-guided LASIK - Allegretto
Wavefront-guided LASIK using the Allegretto excimer laser for myopia.
Other Name: Alcon Wavelight Allegretto Eye-Q 400 Hz excimer laser
Active Comparator: Wavefront-guided LASIK - AMO
Wavefront-guided LASIK using AMO CustomVue excimer laser.
Procedure: Wavefront-guided LASIK - AMO
Wavefront-guided LASIK using the AMO CustomVue excimer laser for myopia.
Other Name: AMO Visx CustomVue S4 IR excimer laser
- Efficacy [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Efficacy measures uncorrected visual acuity following the LASIK surgery. We will record how many eyes see 20/40, 20/30, 20/25, 20/20, 20/16, 20/12.5 and 20/10 after the surgery without glasses or contact lenses. We are measuring how well patients see after the surgery without glasses or contact lenses.
- Low contrast visual acuity [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Measuring changes in best spectacle corrected low contrast visual acuity (5 and 25 percent).
- Higher order aberrations [ Time Frame: 1 year ]Measure changes in higher order aberrations.
- Safety [ Time Frame: One year ]Will will assess safety by measuring change in best spectacle corrected visual acuity. We will record the number of eyes that gain, lose or have no change in the best spectacle corrected visual acuity after the surgery. This is measured using snellen visual acuity charts. The ideal outcome would be that there were no loss of any lines of best spectacle corrected visual acuity and a high percentage of gains of lines of best spectacle corrected visual acuity.
- Predictability [ Time Frame: One year ]Percentage of eyes within +/- 0.5 diopters of the intended correction
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:
|21 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects age 21 and older with healthy eyes.
- Nearsightedness between -0.50 diopters and -7.00 diopters with or without astigmatism of up to 3.50 diopters.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects under the age of 21.
- Patients with excessively thin corneas.
- Patients with topographic evidence of keratoconus.
- Patients with ectatic eye disorders.
- Patients with autoimmune diseases.
- Patients who are pregnant or nursing.
- Patients must have similar levels of nearsightedness with or without astigmatism in each eye.
- They can not be more than 1.5 diopters of difference between eyes.
- Patients must have similar levels of astigmatism in each eye.
- They can not have more than 1.5 diopters of difference in nearsightedness or astigmatism between their two eyes.
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): NCT01454843
|United States, California
|Byers Eye Institute at Stanford
|Palo Alto, California, United States, 94303
|Principal Investigator:
|Edward E Manche, MD
|Stanford University
|Responsible Party:
|Edward E. Manche, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
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|First Posted:
|October 19, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 18, 2020
|Last Verified:
|March 2020
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Each month we delve deeper into subjects to find out more and bring you some useful snippets of advice!
So how do you keep children and adults entertained on your big day, and at what part of the day is it needed? This month we're looking at entertainment and asked a few of our trusted suppliers for their hints, advice and experience of entertaining both big and little people at a wedding.
First up, the grown ups!
We are incredibly proud to have not one, but two magic circle members on our directory, and we can totally vouch for them-they are incredible! Magic is an amazing form of entertainment and magicians take little or no set up time, they don't require a special stage or performance area and they are great at reading the room, ensuring the guests are kept entertained during the usual lull. They will ensure your guests are kept busy so you can relax and socialise without feeling the pressure to make sure everyone is happy!
First up is Andy Cole, of Andy Cole Magic, a professional magician and magic circle member based in the Cotswolds who covers the South West and abroad.
How long do you usually stay at a wedding?
This really depends on the number of guests and when they want the magic to happen I have performed at some lovely small intimate weddings with only 10 guests to weddings so grand with 300 guests where two magicians are required to get around all of the guests to ensure they get to see the magic. As a rule of thumb, I stay 1.5 to 2 hours although each wedding is different, my job is not only to entertaining guests but to work with the bride / wedding planner to ensure the magic happens at the right time, it's their day after all and I want to make sure I add that something a little extra.
What part of the day do you think entertainment works best?
From experience as mentioned above entertainment / magic during the Drinks Reception works the best, it's always seen as the 'low part' of the day, people get a little bored….. give them something to remember and talk about forever, look after your family and friends as they may have travelled a long way to be a part of you day, and they will remember the magic far more than the flavour of your wedding cake.
Funny things you've seen at a wedding.
I love how every wedding is different it's always exciting to see the venue, the set up and the meet the guests, I can now work out the level of 'Banter' as soon as I walk in the room.
I have seen a groom try to the classic pull the table cloth off a well-dressed table and fail with glasses and flowers smashing everywhere.
The bit you love the most about a wedding day.
Easy – seeing the guests reaction to the magic and knowing they have just witnessed the impossible, for me magic isn't about being the big man or making people look silly, that isn't magic it's about seeing people smile and knowing that for that split-second magic is real and I know it will be remembered and talked about for years to come.
'Do something you love, and you'll never work again' That's me!
Next up is the other magic circle member, Richard Parsons Gloucestershire Magician who also covers the South West (he's even been flown to Spain before to perform at a wedding!)
What are the main reasons couples book you?
Couples book me to entertain their guests and bring some energy and fun into their wedding day, particularly during those times when they are busy having their photographs taken, or in the afternoon lull after the meal.
What feedback have you had from couples who have booked you?
I'm very fortunate to get amazing feedback and I take a great pride in performing at each and every wedding. I'm always conscious that it is their special day and I do my best to ensure that the couple and their guests see some magic that is unforgettable. The words used most frequently in my testimonials are 'Mind Blowing' – that's good enough for me!
Why should couples hire a magician or book any entertainment for their guests?
There are several good reasons:
-Weddings in this country are usually quite long days. Most people get married somewhere between 12 and 2pm and the wedding doesn't usually finish till about 1am the next day so SOME kind of entertainment, even if it isn't magic, is really essential. It's about the experience...in a year's time, most of your guests will not remember what they ate at the meal, or what colour the chair covers were, but they WILL remember the entertainment, how they felt, and the music (DJ or band). So by providing entertainment for your guests you are ensuring that they have a great experience and enjoy themselves.
-Magic can also help provide your photographer with some great guest and reaction shots....many people do not like their photograph being taken but if your photographer captures these magical moments taking place you will have some amazing photographs of your guests enjoying themselves. I remember one of my brides at Manor by the Lake in Cheltenham recently saying that her elderly relative was very ill, and seeing the photo of him enjoying my magic really meant something to her. She could see he was happy.
-Icebreaker: The bride and groom will almost certainly know everyone at the wedding, however that doesn't mean their guests know each other. I always look for the guests that are standing on their own and ask them to join in with a group to watch some close up magic. This way close up magic brings strangers together and gives them a talking point even after I've left the group to entertain elsewhere in the reception.
-Magic also tends to suit ALL AGES and must be one of the few forms of entertainment that does. There can't be many things that will captivate a 7 year old and a 70 year old at exactly the same time!
What part of the day do you think entertainment works best?
I have been a full time professional magician for a few years and perform at nearly a hundred weddings a year so I have a vast amount of experience. For me the two best times for close up magic is either the drinks reception or early evening after the meal.
So what about the children? All of us at Whitewed HQ have children, and taking them to a wedding is lovely, but we have to admit, given the choice we'd quite like a bit if time to relax and not worry about keeping our little ones in check. We're all for entertaining children at weddings. Not only does it keep them happy away from boredom, it means their parents can have some time out and relax catching up with family and friends, which is one the best parts of wedding!
Amy Watts runs Big Day Little People and ensures the young ones are kept happy.
What age of children do you entertain at weddings?
Our packages will entertain children from as young as 1 up to around 11 years old. The dinky children will enjoy sittting inside a Teepee on the padded floor mat whilst playing with toys. Preschool and primary school age children will enjoy a range of activities such as dressing up, pretend tea parties, puzzles and games. They can let their imagination run wild with our masks, fairy wings, wands, capes, dinosaur tails and more! Not forgetting our colouring sheets and activity books when they are ready for some quiet time. Although teenagers may be 'too cool' to join in the fun, I know they secretly enjoy helping the little ones dress up!
What do children enjoy the most about your service?
They love having a little space that's just for them. Somewhere where it's ok for them to be noisy, take their shoes off and run round! Then later in the day when the party is in full swing and they're starting to get tired, it's somewhere they can sit or lay down quietly with a book and a blanket.
Why should couples hire a creche/child entertainment service?
As a parent at a wedding it can be quite stressful keeping your child/ren entertained and trying to prevent any tantrums or meltdowns. There's usually a few hours in between the ceremony until the wedding breakfast and then until the reception. Adults love this time to mingle, catch up with relatives and enjoy the surroundings. But for children these gaps can be a little boring.... and when children are bored they look for mischief. Therefore, if children are occupied and having fun, their parents will relax and enjoy themselves more!
The bit you love the most about a wedding day?
I love everything about a wedding! It's hard to choose just one thing......! As a bride, I loved seeing both sides of our families and friends being all together to share the day with us. As a guest, I love seeing how people put personal touches in to make it their own. From THE dress, welcome drinks, table names, colour scheme, entertainment, it all tells you so much about the bride and groom.
So there you have it, our professional guide on why and how you can keep everyone entertained at your wedding.
Happy planning,
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Watching the characters form as the pen flows across the page is more satisfying than seeing these words appear on my computer screen. Handy though emails are, there is no substitute for the writing and receiving of hand-written letters. It is an enduring provider of happiness.
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The act of writing engages your motor skills and your memory – both good cognitive skills to sharpen the mind. In a study conducted by the University of Washington, students who wrote their essays with pen and paper tended to write more, and faster, and in more complete sentences than those who used keyboards.
Apparently the act of handwriting itself stimulates a part of the brain called the Reticular Activating System, or RAS. The RAS acts as a filter for all the different stuff the brain is trying to process, helping you to concentrate, and one of the ways to trigger it is the physical act of writing.
Writing letters is good for you!
Aside from these practical benefits, for me there's an intimacy about a letter, an emotional power. I love the feel of the paper, the crisply folded sheets. The imprint left by the writer, the telltale character of their unique handwriting, the odd slip of the pen. I once received a letter from a friend who liked to smoke, and when I opened the envelope, I inhaled the unmistakable aroma of her clove cigarettes. This exotic fragrance had attached itself to the paper, and as I read her words, her physical presence momentarily entered the room.
I have a collection of letters from my grandmother, and my mother, who were both great letter-writers. These letters have become keepsakes, mementoes. Letters can have great power, and lasting influence. I don't see anyone printing off emails and framing them any time soon.
After I met the woman I would later marry, we wrote to each other. I sent her some flowers. She wrote to thank me. I then wrote back, and we continued our correspondence for a year, before she finally moved from Edinburgh and joined me in London. It was our courtship, if that's not a too preposterously archaic term. And it was conducted via letters.
It won't come as any surprise though that writing by hand is on the decline. A recent survey confirms this. Of the 2,000 people who took part, one in three hadn't written anything by hand in the previous six months. Nothing – not even a Post-it note. Because let's be honest, can we be bothered to write letters? Email is so much more convenient. Just the process of writing and posting this letter is a right palaver. Collecting the paper, the pens, the envelope, the stamp, walking to the postbox… blimey, in that time I could have written a dozen emails, ordered a multipack of hiking socks, booked a holiday, watched a YouTube clip of trawlers in high seas, renewed my parking permit. And not have left my desk.
In a mid-autumn festival at Nanjing University, staff suggested to the students that they handwrite a letter to their parents. It was the first time that any of them had ever done such a thing.
One mother wrote back to her daughter after she'd received her letter, saying it was the happiest day of her life.
So I urge you, make the effort. Take a stroll to the stationer's.
Gather the letter-writing paraphernalia. Order it online if you have to.
Go through your address book, and put pen to paper.
It will make someone happy.
Mainly you.
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Because the entertainment industry is broken on a fundamental level, leaving executives scrambling to find any semi-bankable IP they can grotesquely dig up from its grave and string-up back on the stage like some modern-day Edgar Allen Poe story because we're living through a landscape where Roseanne can come back exactly the same except the show is a little more racist now and pull in record-breaking numbers and Frasier—dear lord, Frasier—is being considered for a come-back…Warner Bros. TV is developing an Alf reboot, according to TV Line.
Alf—which ran for 99 episodes across 4 seasons on NBC from 1986 to 1990—followed the Tanner family, who takes in an Alien Life Form from the planet Melmac. Nicknamed ALF, the alien spent its time crackin' wise and slaughtering neighborhood cats with abandon. The original Tanner family was played by Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory, and various cats.
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Lot 314 (The Principal Contents of North Mymms Park - Two-Day Sale - DAY TWO, 18th April 2018)
A Florentine allegorical tapestry: spring,
early 17th century, after Alessandro Allori, with three figures singing by a fountain, a pool in the foreground and a table on the right in the open air beneath trees, with figures around seated and talking, in a broad auricular scrolled border with figures, animals, fruit and flowers centring on a smoking brazier,
13ft 3ins high 16ft wide (403 x 488cm)
Provenance: By repute the Pallavicino Family, by descent to Marchese Serra, Palazzo Verde, Genoa;
from whom purchased by J Pierpont Morgan and gifted to Walter Hayes Burns;
Christie's North Mymms Park, September 1979, lot 492.
Literature: Hermann Schmitz - 'Bildteppiche', Berlin, 1919, p. 318, pl. 157 and Heinrich Gobel - 'Wandteppiche, Part II', vol. I Leipzig, 1928, p. 389.
Sold for £74,000
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A Brussels court said Google Inc. violated copyright laws by publishing links to Belgian newspapers without permission and ordered the company to remove them, setting a precedent for future cases in Europe.
Google Inc., the owner of the world's most-used search engine, must pay €25,000 ($32,500) a day until it removes all Belgian news content, the Brussels Court of First Instance ruled today. There's "no exception" for Google in copyright law, the court said in the judgment. Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said the company would study the ruling before commenting. The case may restrict how Internet sites in Europe link to newspaper content.
Copiepresse, a group representing 17 French-and German-language newspapers including La Libre Belgique and Le Soir, had sued Google for copyright infringement, arguing the Mountain View, California-based company shouldn't be allowed to link to their newspaper content for free and without permission. "Google will have to reach a deal to make it worthwhile for newspapers to cooperate," David Hooper, a newspaper lawyer and partner at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain in London, said by telephone today. "There is a tendency for Google to use things for free and reach a deal later."
Bernard Magrez, a lawyer for Copiepresse, said the daily fine imposed against Google today is retroactive for 139 days to when the search engine was first asked to remove the content. Google shares traded at the equivalent of $457.57 at 11:08 a.m. in Frankfurt, down 72 cents, or 0.2%, from yesterday's close on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Google last year postponed plans for a Danish news site after newspapers complained. In 2005 French news agency Agence France-Presse sued Google for linking to its content for free. Copiepresse has also threatened legal action against Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. if they continue to use their stories. Google News was introduced in Belgium in January 2006, showing headlines, photos and the first few lines of news stories with links to the full articles on the newspapers' Web sites. The case is part of a global drive by newspaper publishers to force search engines to pay for using their stories and pictures. The newspapers sued in September and won a court order that forced Google to remove all links to their content, or face a €1 million daily fine.
Google said it complied while the editors maintain that some content is still on the system and that its fines have increased to millions of euros. Google also had to post the ruling on its Belgian Web site for five days or pay €500,000 a day. The company argues that using headlines and text fragments with links to newspaper Web sites on Google News is legal. The Belgian newspaper editors, including Francois Le Hodey, CEO of La Libre Belgique, say their content creates "colossal traffic" for search engines, which is profitable only for them. The Court of First Instance held a second hearing in the case November 24 to allow Google, which wasn't at the first session, to present its arguments.
"The whole process was restarted from scratch" with the new hearing, said Philippe Nothomb, head of legal affairs of Rossel et Cie., which owns Belgium's most-read French daily, Le Soir. This includes calculating the fines, he said in a telephone interview on January 29. A decision backing the court's first order would embolden other newspapers to start similar group litigation or use it as a negotiating tactic, Greg Sterling, an analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence, said before the ruling.
Google wouldn't have a product in the absence of this content. "Google is very fearful to open the floodgates to other parties asking for money and this decision may do that across the EU," Sterling, whose market-analysis firm is based in Oakland, California, said by telephone February 1. Copiepresse plans to target all search engines that offer similar services, its secretary-general Margaret Boribon said in a telephone interview last month. Yahoo, which received a formal notice from the group in January, won't be the last, said Boribon. Belgium's Flemish newspaper society didn't join the lawsuit, asking Google instead to remove the content of all its nine dailies, such as De Standaard, from its news service.
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Mr. President, I rise on a point of personal and collective privilege. Today, we celebrate the United Nation's Universal Children's Day. The month of November also marks the celebration of National Children's Month in accordance with Republic Act No. 10661 or the Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act.
This declaration commemorates the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989, and seeks to instill its significance in the Filipino consciousness. The Senate is not only called upon to celebrate this important event, but to maximize its powers of oversight to safeguard and protect the rights of all Filipino children, regardless of gender, status, background and circumstances.
Mr. President, bukod sa pagdiriwang, ngayon ay araw ng dakilang pag-gunita para sa mga batang inabuso, pinagkaitan ng magandang kinabukasan at ninakawan ng buhay.
Today, we remember 4-year old Althea Fhem Barbon who died from a gunshot wound as she went out to buy popcorn with her father who was a target of a buy-bust operation. Today, we remember 5-year old Danica Mae Garcia who was preparing to go to school when two motorcycle-riding men barged into their home and opened-fire at her grandfather hitting her in the head. Today, we remember 5-year old Francis Manosca who was sleeping with his mother and other siblings when a bullet intended for his father was fired through a closed window, killing him instead. Today, we remember 17-year old Kian Delos Santos who was captured on CCTV being dragged by the police and later found dead in a nearby vacant lot with several bullet wounds piercing his body. Today, we remember them and all the children and the youth who fell victims to extra judicial killings. May this remembrance come with a commitment to honor them by seeking justice for the violence that took them away from their loved ones, and robbed them of what may have been a fulfilling life.
Mr. President, today is a good day to be reminded of the state's responsibility to "provide special protection to children from all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty exploitation and discrimination and other conditions, prejudicial to their development."
The numbers yielded by the 2016 National Baseline Study on Violence Against Children conducted by the Council for the Welfare of Children, UNICEF, and other government and CSO partners paint a disturbing picture. Three in 5 Filipino children experience physical violence, with more than half of this happening where children should feel the safest, in their homes.
Sexual violence is experienced by 1 in every 5 Filipino children below the age of 18. As it victimizes both girls and boys, sexual violence chooses no gender. The age of sexual consent and the age of statutory rape in our country is a related concern. At 12 years old, ours is among the lowest in the world. This low level of legal protection presents greater risks to children for sexual exploitation and abuse.
The vulnerability of our LGBT children to all forms of violence should likewise be underscored. Not only are they subjected to physical and psychological violence, but almost one-third suffer from sexual violence. We also need to expand our understanding of the definition of child pornography to include, for instance livestreaming of sexual acts. Rapid technological advancements have abetted the rise of online violence. While we can take comfort that we have laws like the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009, the Anti-Trafficking Act of 2003, the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 lack of public awareness and the weak enforcement of these laws have rendered our children more vulnerable to sexual violence and cyber-bullying.
Mr. President, with these alarming realities of violence against children in our country, we need to ensure the implementation of the Philippine Plan of Action to End Violence against Children which seeks to address socio-economic risks by ensuring that economic policies have clear connections to reducing violence against children, promote a safe environment for our children, ensure that child protection systems are functional by exercising oversight powers and strengthen our justice system particularly our family courts so that victims of severe cases of violence are swiftly resolved in the best interest of the child.
Mr. President, and esteemed colleagues in the Senate, violence against children is all around us, happening in all spheres of their young life - at home, in school and the community, the workplace, in the digital environment, and in institutions. This exposure to violence is without regard to a child's gender, status, background and circumstances in our country. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse and online violence create lasting emotional and psychological scars, and victims may themselves later on become perpetrators of violence as a result of their experiences. The burden of violence to society comes at an immense cost in the form of additional expenses on health care, child welfare support services, as well as the increased costs to the criminal justice system when child victims are at an increased risk of becoming children in conflict with the law, among others. Our country loses when abused children are less able to contribute, and become unproductive members of their community.
Mr. President and honorable members of the Senate, let us act now, let us address these challenges, let us protect and empower all children to allow them to thrive as individuals who have rights and have the enormous potential as human beings. Let us not fail our children by protecting their welfare and well-being. Let us not fail the future of this nation.
Thank you.
Source: Senate of the Philippines