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For example, a urinal with urinal target marker to reduce undesired splash. Another example would be file folders with a diagonal lines on their spines. If you put them together in the right order, it makes a consecutive line, which makes you want to place them in that order. Yet another example would be a deterrent, such as a mini torii (a Shinto shrine’s sacred gate) placed at a fence in the alley to ward off those who would otherwise leave waste in the area.
Dr. Matsumura entered the Osaka University Faculty of Engineering Science to study artificial intelligence and continued his research at The University of Tokyo. Currently, however, he teaches data analysis regarding company management at the Osaka University Graduate School of Economics.
In 2006, he hit on the idea of choosing Shikakeology as a research theme. While studying data analysis, he noticed that "most events in the world are not quantified.” He was looking for a new theme while thinking about different options, including totally changing his research theme.
At Tennoji Zoo (Tennoji-Ku, Osaka) he happened to find a telescope-like tube placed at a height of 1m, a device to encourage people to look inside. Looking through the tube, curious individuals found elephant dung there. Children were enjoying looking into it.
In addition to gathering examples of various gimmicks, Dr. Matsumura himself tries various gimmicks that he made. For example, he placed basketball hoop trashcans on the university campus and hand disinfectors shaped like lion heads at Tennoji Zoo in order to collect and verify data such as usage frequency.
Moreover, he plans a race called “Ebisu Otoko Erabi (Lucky Man Run.)” Based on Nishinomiya Shrine’s ritual “Kaimon Shinji Fukuotoko Erabi,” the annual race in which men compete by sprinting from the gate to the shrine’s main hall, together with the local shopping street, he plans “Ebisu Otoko Erabi" in which men run up the “Handai Slope,” the slope leading to the Toyonaka Campus. This is also a kind of gimmick to make the Handai Slope a landmark of Osaka University by making Handai Slope accessible to local people.
Last year, he published Shikakegaku—Hito wo Ugokasu Aidea no Tsukurikata [Shikakeology—Creating Ideas that Motivate People] (Toyo Keizai Inc.). Following this book, he plans to publish manga Shikakeology soon so that elementary school children can use it for independent study in their summer holidays. “I want kids to think about gimmicks using their sensibilities. If possible, I want to hold a contest. I hope they will become interested in study through the process of finding problems around them and thinking about gimmicks to solve them,” said Dr. Matsumura, searching for gimmicks for spreading Shikakeology.
1998 Graduated from the Department of Systems Engineering, School of Engineering Science, Osaka University.
2003 Completed doctoral program at the School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Doctor of Engineering).
2004 Lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. Current position as Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University from 2007.
2012-2013 Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.

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The Dolphins need to give Kilgore another a year because, frankly, they have nobody else. But an NFL official who spoke to the Dolphins said Miami is taking a wait-and-see approach with Kilgore, as far as whether he’s good enough to be here beyond 2019.
At 31, Kilgore is actually two years older than Pouncey. In terms of sticking on the roster, it helps that he’s a cheap, serviceable starter.
Kilgore has two years left on his contract, with a $2.2 million base salary in 2019 and a $3.0 million salary in 2020.
Pro Football Focus gave Kilgore a 52.9 grade for his four games last season, which would have ranked 31st of 38 centers if Kilgore had enough snaps to qualify. PFF gave Pouncey a 56.9 grade, which was 25th.
For all the concerns about Pouncey’s health, he has now played in all 16 games two consecutive seasons. And the Dolphins didn’t urgently need the cap room when they released him.
Kilgore said his injury was healed enough for him to have played in December if needed. But he couldn’t, because the Dolphins had placed him on injured reserve.
Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (14) says he is in peak off season form after a three-day voluntary minicamp at Baptist Health Training Facility at Nova Southeastern University on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
Kilgore is fortunate in that unlike Miami’s other lineman who was injured - Josh Sitton - he wasn’t released. But Sitton was more expensive than Kilgore. Sitton recently retired after Miami cut him.
▪ Dolphins defensive tackle Davon Godchaux, who’s 6-3 and 315 pounds, revealed the team has him working at nose tackle when Miami plays a 3-4 defense. But the Dolphins would like to add a natural 3-4 nose tackle in the draft process and recently brought Wisconsin’s 346-pound Olive Sagapola to team headquarters.
The Dolphins’ biggest defensive linemen are 325-pound Durval Queiroz Neto (a Brazilian player who will be an 11th player on Miami’s practice squad this season) and 323-pound Joey Mbu (a journeyman and former Alliance of American Football player).
Every AFC East team has been allocated one player as part of the expansion of the International Player Pathway program. They are ineligible to play in 2019.
Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores says he's living the dream as he speaks to the media before the start of a three-day voluntary minicamp at Baptist Health Training Facility at Nova Southeastern University on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
▪ The Dolphins have taken a liking to Southern Cal 6-1 cornerback Iman Marshall, a projected mid-round pick who also can play safety. He’s had private contact with Miami recently, a league source confirmed.
▪ We’ve broken and/or confirmed 21 of the Dolphins’ maximum permitted 30 pre-draft visits – which are never announced by the team - and two others have been reported elsewhere that haven’t been confirmed: Stanford receiver Trenton Irwin and Oregon defensive end/linebacker Jalen Jelks.
Jelks, who’s 6-5 and 256 pounds, moved from defensive end to linebacker in 2018 and his sack numbers fell from 7.0 to 3.5.
“You thought would go maybe a little higher when the season began but to me he didn’t produce the kind of year expected, ESPN’s Mel Kiper said. “You look at numbers and when you’re 6-5-and-a-half and you have the length he does, to me there’s an opportunity there to be a disruptor off the edge.
▪ The Dolphins last week called Wisconsin’s Micah Kapoi, who’s appealing to them because he can play every position on the offensive line. At 6-4 and 310 pounds, he played 48 games at Wisconsin, with starts at left guard and right guard.
▪ We hear Wyoming’s Niko Evans is among the running backs on Miami’s radar. He emerged as a prospect last year, averaging 6.5 per carry and rushing for 1325 yards, which was second in the Mountain West Conference.
Here’s my other Dolphins post from Tuesday’s first practice under Flores, with notes on Xavien Howard, Laremy Tunsil, injuries and more.
He thinks ‘best football’ still ahead of him. So how long will FitzMagic last?
A look at who some of the draft analysts would take if they were picking at No. 13 in the first round of the NFL Draft for the Miami Dolphins, including detailed analysis from NFL Network’s Charles Davis and expert Tony Pauline.

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Late in the afternoon of another busy, jam-packed day, Sandi Pressley hurries into her office, radiating energy and self-confidence. Like a charge of electricity, she energizes everyone around her. Quickly, she gives instructions to a team member, sits down at a small conference table and rapidly sorts through a stack of messages. (Putting them aside she looks, with her long, auburn hair swept up and back and blue eyes sparkling with enthusiasm, as fresh as if the day had just begun). She looks up and smiles a smile that comes easily and often.
This creed that Sandi Pressley lives by exemplifies her belief in her own success. Sandi, a master communicator, was selling advertising when several of her clients suggested she should try selling real estate. She took their advice and soon realized her passion for selling. “I chose to go into real estate because your success is directly related to the level of your drive and determination,” says Sandi.
She started her career with Presley Homes and then to Lee Welsh Real Estate. “I owe a lot of my success to the support I received from Lee Welsh.” She also co-owned an ERA franchise for over two years, sold it and in 1990 went to RECA Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate. Sandi was the top-producing broker for 10 years consecutively for the entire Better Homes & Gardens International Real Estate Network. Coldwell Banker Legacy purchased the RECA Better Homes and Garden franchise in 2000. Being a part of the largest brokerage in New Mexico, Sandi continues to soar to new heights locally as well as Internationally. She has continually achieved being one of the top 10 brokers in the entire World for Coldwell Banker. Her incredible drive and tenacity has earned her 40 years of recognition on both local and national levels. Since 1979 this nationally renowned REALTOR® has been a leader in the real estate industry. About 150 of Sandi’s 200 special recognition awards and plaques are displayed on her office walls.
In 2012, she sold 282 houses with an average sales price of $256,000.00 for a total of $72.4 million in production. One of her clients was so impressed with her volume of business, he took the time to calculate her sales. According to his figures, she had a transaction about every 32 hours, a feat few real estate brokers will ever accomplish. Sandi is proud to say that she works all price ranges and geographic areas.
Sandi thrives on competition – competition fueled by a seemingly unlimited amount of energy and positive thinking. “It takes more energy to be negative than positive,” she says. “When people are talking to me, they want to feel good about everything they’re doing,” Sandi explains. “It’s up to me to make them feel good and I do that by being positive about everything.
Self-assurance plays a large part in Sandi’s success. “Passion for what you do is crucial. I wake up every day loving what I do – looking forward to the challenges of the business. After 36 years in the business, I never thought once that I would rather be doing something else. I love what I do and I feel sincerely blessed that I found my niche. I thank God every day for the blessings he has bestowed on me. Without my spirituality and deep faith in God, I would not be who I am.” Sandi is able to enjoy her love for singing as a member of Sagebrush Community Church.
Sandi sets an example of determination with her “elbow grease” theory. “I’ll do whatever it takes to represent my client well. Clients deserve the best service and representation. They’re paying you well for what you do and they deserve the best expertise.” Giving back to the community is important to Sandi. She started her own foundation for needy school children named “Friends of APS” in 1994.
Helping Sandi achieve her goals is a team of seven assistants. They help her to do what she does best, work one-on-one with buyers and sellers. Sandi thinks clients must feel that her assistants are an extension of herself and should give them the same caring and attention she does. Her team works hard to achieve the number one team goal, which is customer loyalty.
If annual Olympic medals were given in the real estate industry for persistence and determination, Sandi Pressley could add many gold medals to her other awards.

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Different groups over the past several decades have brought up talks about Texas seceding from the U.S., but now with the recent 'brexit' vote in Britain, one group is once again pushing for secession.
According to YourBasin.com, the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) has ramped up talks of Texas leaving the United States, a 'Texit' in other words.
TNM President Daniel Miller said recently, "We believe that the best people to govern Texas are Texans not un-elected bureaucrats from Washington D.C."
The TNM has also sent a letter to Governor Greg Abbott to get on board with the movement as well.
Miller also said the move to secede is a legal move and is well established in our nation's history.
Would you be in favor of Texas seceding from the union? Let us know in the comments below.

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University research has identified a number of risk factors that appear to contribute to falls in the elderly population.
These factors include poor joint perception, tight muscles (particularly the hip and calf muscles), poor muscle strength and reaction time (particularly in the calf muscles) and a heavy reliance on the visual component of balance.
Our programs address all these factors and more to help the old chooks feel like spring chickens again and in the process significantly reduce the risk of falls and their consequences.

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text: It all began in 2007, I started with freelance photography on a small scale. I’ve always loved photography, but didn’t realize what an impact it had in our lives. I am a self-taught photographer and since 2007 I have worked hard to better myself and follow my dreams. I want to capture every special moment in a person’s life. Being able to experience so much emotion in my work, is what makes me happy. Recently I have completed various diplomas in Professional Photography and Smartphone Photography with distinction from an International College. A photograph is something so special, unique and something that can be kept forever, it's magical moments that lasts a life time. My photographic style is definitely pure and unique. We love a good ol’ natural photograph that conveys beautiful moments in true form. I can honestly say that we love what we do and that it is a passion and not a "job".

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just got me one of those.
I am unsure what the special quality of this lense is, so if any of you have some information (or images taken with this lens) I'd be gratefull.
The lense looks really good and the compur shutter works perfectly..
The only thing I can think of is the speed of this example. The Xenar is usually an f/4.5 lens of the Tessar type. You may want to count the reflections to see if it looks different.
I have a 150/3.5 Tessar of about the same age.
I don't condider it to be as sharp as the 4.5 version. Faster is not always better. Anyhoo, they're pretty uncommon to find from that era.
Try it out. It might be something special.
The Xenar Typ D is not a Tessar at all. They have been reperted to be triplets; mine, however, is a reverse Tessar where the rear cell has negative focal length.
sounds like I have to try it out soon!
The Xenar, calculated by A. W. Tronnier, was made as f/2.9, f/3.5, f/4.5 and f/5.5. The f/3.5 was aviable from 35mm up to 300m. Also some special Xenars where made like the f/4.5 enlarging Xenar, the f/4.5 aero-Xenar and the f/3.5 D (documentation) Xenar.
My first LF lens (on a Century Graphic Special) was a 4.7/135 Xenar.
I have a 1950's vintage Xenar 3.5/105 that came with my Centuy Graphic 23, it's a 'normal' 4/3 tessar. Good lens, very sharp and contrasty.
There was also the f2.8 five element Xenar. also known as the S-Xenar.
Looking at the serial number (if that's what the number on the shutter face is), it would appear I've recently purchased one with a similar vintage shutter. How did you find the images from it - looks like it will cover 10x8 quite nicely for some Macro. Images on GG looked just a few inches short of coverage at infinity (cannae take any photos just yet, bellows need a little repair work still - having to wait a little longer before I can afford a replacement). May get a chance to get some images on 5x4 this week if I'm allowed to. . . The rescue dog is taking her sweet time settling in, yet do do a full day without little toilet related incidents indoors though she is now atleast getting to the stage of going and sitting by the door to the garden. . .
is their something about the lens design in that kalalog?
I have a 210mm xenar f3.5 in barrel. It doesn't say type d, but it says D.R.P.a.(i'm not sure what that stands for) My other two f4.5 Xenars in barrel dont have the DRPa. Anyway I don't know if it's a type D. Nonetheless its really nice and sharp wide open. great for 4x5 inch wet plate portraits. Hope this helps.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Thanks to the kindness of a friend of a friend (who has form when it comes to distributing plant material …) I have several recycled recycling containers full of guaranteed slug-proof, bomb-proof, cold-weather-proof (he may live in England, but at considerably more height), but possibly not me-proof plants.
The slug-proofing shall be tested extensively, as I have discovered that plenty of places for slugs to hide + the removal of a large amount of vegetation = lots of very hungry slugs who then devour every tender little plant you try and establish in place of the weeds.
Proof perhaps that there’s no avoiding a glut of courgettes (and as I don’t like courgettes – and neither, apparently, does the rabbit, although it has spend the last few days demolishing a bed of cavolo nero – then just one courgette counts as a glut) even if you don’t plant any of the buggers.
Delicious recipes, possibly involving rabbit, appreciated.
Apologies for the lack of posting in recent days – I’ve been busy, but with the sort of routine boring things that don’t really generate much that is blogworthy,* even allowing for the very generous definition of ‘blogworthy’ used on this site.
When we moved, I carefully kept aside all the things I knew I was going to have to put my hands on in short order, while packing up all the things I wouldn’t need for aaaaages – ooh at least the end of August – into various boxes. This evening, I realised that almost a month has passed since we moved and it’s beginning to wear thin as an excuse. In short, the time had come and had to rootle through the unpacked boxes looking for things like the tin that used to live on the windowsill in the old sitting room with the duplicate receipt books in it (popup bookshop) not to mention the file of random correspondence and minutes (community council meeting) and bag of useful material for handing out at bicycle promotion events (bike breakfast) – oh and the large hairy spider (actually I was trying quite hard not to put a hand on that one it scuttled out of one of the boxes). And the fact that I don’t actually yet have anywhere to put all the stuff away into now that it’s unpacked suggests that my settled intention to be a bit more organised now that I have my own study may be something of a work in progress.
* I did consider writing a short disquisition on my new rotary dryer, taking into consideration its place in the class hierarchy vis-a-vis the washing line and the pulley rack – with a short detour into the signifiers inherent in the Belfast sink – but it would only make all of my English readers think less of me, while baffling all of the non Brits** who had no idea there could be a class-based component to laundry accessories.
** Any Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish readers would just roll their eyes.
And even on some of the leaves themselves.
All in all, not a plant you’d want to tangle with – but having cleared up one mystery, it only raised another: what the hell is it?
Thanks to the magic of Twitter, it would appear to be Aralia spinosa, or the Devil’s Walkingstick.
Today was supposed to be the last of our summer rides – and to describe the forecast as not looking promising would be an understatement. For a couple of days it was predicting ‘heavy showers’, but this morning – as I woke to the sound of rain on the skylight – it had settled on just heavy rain from ten in the morning onwards, and by mid morning it had thrown in a couple of yellow weather warnings for good measure. Contemplating the thought of cycling six miles in the pouring rain to spend twenty minutes waiting for people not to show up, followed by six (uphill) miles in the pouring rain home, undoubtedly with a headwind, I took up the other half’s offer of a lift into town with the Brompton, with the hope that nobody would show up for our advertised 11 mile ride.
By the time we were back on the road, the rain had briefly passed, the sun had almost come out, and I discovered a new route back to the house, by way of some lovely empty tiny roads. I’m still not sure it was exactly how I would have planned the afternoon – but it just goes to show that no day with a bike ride in it is ever entirely wasted.
I have been doing some weeding.
Actually, I will say one thing about the baffling landscaping of this garden: it’s blissfully easy to weed, at least the bits which have been refashioned as a scree slope. Anyone who has ever battled with creeping buttercup would relish being able to not just pull up a single clump, but have half a dozen more follow, attached by their runners, as easily as detaching a strip of velcro.
There’s plenty more clearing to be cracking on with – but I’m conscious of imperial overreach: there’s no point clearing out a bed if you haven’t anything to put into it. I’m not finding too many decent plants among the weeds – apparently the landscaping was done by the previous owners but one, and has since suffered a decade of neglect and death-by-hens – and I’m too tight to go and buy actual plants so I may have to start another batch of random perennials to get me started.
I did get a tour of the garden at the neighbouring farm, and the promise of a few offshoots in autumn, once things are dying down. They had the most amazing clumps houseleeks (‘deafy lugs’ around here apparently) growing on the steading wall, which must have been decades old. I wonder if anyone would notice a few going awol. Indeed, I’m beginning to cast covetous glances on any interesting plant I spy.
Particularly this morning when we had electricians round who made a bit of a production of backing their various vans into our drive – possibly not helped by having an audience of fascinated bovines.
Cows suffer from FOMO too, so the ones in the other field had to come over and have a look.
And a brazen few overcame their nervousness and came over and said hello. They have surprisingly rough tongues, cows.
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**PLEASE NOTE** Orders are expected to ship the week of August 13, 2018.
These diamond-shaped candies from the south of France known as Calisson have been a favorite of the French for centuries.
They are made with almonds and candied fruits ground together, spread atop a rice-paper base, and glazed with a white fondant icing. 18 calisson to a box.
Some trace the introduction of Calisson to Provence around the mid-15th century for the second wedding of King Rene de Anjou. Others suggest that the candy was not introduced in the modern form until the 16th century, as this was when almonds became an established crop in Provence.
Ingredients: almonds, candied melon (melon, glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, acidity corrector E330, preservative E220), icing sugar, glucose syrup, invert syrup, candying syrup, potato starch, water, bitter almonds, egg albumin, sunflower oil, aroma. May contain traces of other nuts.

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Binny Bansal, co-founder and COO said the warehouse was designed to provide easy access to e-commerce services for sellers, while providing faster and seamless services to customers.
India's biggest e-commerce company Flipkart on Friday opened its largest fulfilment centre here and plans to invest $500 million in a nationwide warehouse network.
Telangana's Finance Minister E. Rajender inaugurated Flipkart's largest fulfilment centre in the country at Gundla Pochampally on the city outskirts in the presence of Binny Bansal, co-founder and COO, Flipkart.
Spread over 2.2 lakh square feet and with a storage capacity of 5.89 lakh cubic feet, this is Flipkart's 17th warehouse in the country. The automated state-of-the-art fulfilment centre is expected to ship out 1.2 lakh items every day.
Equipped with a one-km-long conveyer belt, which is expected to reduce motion wastage by 75 per cent, the centre has automated sorters to separate shipments based on pin codes.
With 50 million products, Flipkart has 45 million registered users logging over 10 million daily shipments.


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H. Imai, S. Tani, and K. Sekine: Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams, Graph Theory and Computational Geometry, in H. Imai, W. F. Wong, and K. F. Loe, eds.,Advances in Computing Techniques: Algorithms, Databases and Parallel Processing, pp. 69-84, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995.
Advances in Computing Techniques: Algorithms, Database and Parallel Processing, World Scientific, Singapore, 1995.
N. Kojiro, K. Miura, H. Imai, and Y. Kambayashi: Performance Evaluation of Automatic Name Placement Functions for Geographical Database Systems, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, pp. 491-497, Tokyo, Apr. 1991.


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Lighting is the most important component of your indoor garden—without it, you can’t grow much more than fungi. Your choices for grow room lights used to be limited to low-cost fluorescent tubes that are effective only for raising seedlings and other small plants or expensive high-intensity lamps for plants that bear flowers or fruit. Innovation and new technology have made many more options available to you. Check out some of these developments in grow room lighting.
The EnviroGro FLT24 bank of four fluorescent tubes looks a lot like the old shop lights found in hardware stores. But the new T5 high-output (HO) bulbs provide higher luminosity (brighter light) and a wider spectrum of light than standard T12 tubes. With four T5 tubes, this unit puts out a total of 8,000 lumens, enough light to raise 8 to 10 leafy plants. At the same time, this fixture retains the qualities that have always made fluorescent lighting appealing to indoor growers: It stays cool, it’s easy to install (no electrical work needed), and it uses only a bit more power than other fluorescents.
LED lights are a new technology for indoor gardens. Incandescent bulbs—the kind used in most home fixtures and lamps—emit light when an electric current flows through a filament inside. Fluorescent bulbs shine when an electric current activates the gas inside the tube, causing it to glow. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) glow when the power passes through semiconductor material, which is like the transistors inside your computer. LEDs don’t get hot, as incandescent bulbs do, and they produce a wider spectrum of light than fluorescents. Wider spectrum lights are more like real sunshine, which helps your plants grow and produce more flowers or fruit. The TaoTronics 12W LED Plant Grow Light is a bulb you can use in any fixture, making it an inexpensive and simple way for small-scale indoor growers to get the benefits of LEDs.
The SolarStorm is an LED fixture that shines a wide spectrum of light from 88 separate emitters. If you’re raising plants for buds or fruit, California Lightworks SolarStorm 440 has a convenient switch that changes the lights from the wavelengths ideal for the vegetative stage to those best for flowering. The fixture is compact, covering a 3-foot-by-3-foot area of blooming plants. It’s easy to hook up, and its housing stays cool even when left on for long spells.
The red end of the light spectrum plays a critical role in flowering, and the 90W G8-90RR LED All Red UFO is focused solely on producing those wavelengths. You can’t use it alone, but it makes a great supplement to other types of lighting. It’s a simple fixture that you can just plug in and shine on a growing bed of up to 10 square feet.
High-intensity lights are still the best choice for serious growers who want to maximize their yields. But the fixtures for metal halide (best for vegetative growth) and high-pressure sodium (for flowering) lights need a ballast installed to prevent electrical problems, especially in homes. The iPower Digital Electronic Ballast increases the efficiency of high-intensity lights, and it eliminates the flickering caused by fluctuating electricity. It may also increase the lifespan of costly bulbs.


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Currently just one cat but I’m dying to get another dog and some goats.
I also rent a house on a dressage training facility so the horses know me as the apple-bearer.
Travel! I’m the youngest child of a diplomat so it was inevitable that I’d become a bit of a gypsy.
I volunteer for the zoo and thus get to scope and ultrasound some pretty remarkable creatures.
What I like most about VIN is how current it is. These days information is already out of date by the time it is printed and, on VIN, clinicians are always discussing the latest publications and ongoing studies that haven’t even reached publication yet. It’s really empowering to feel like you have a finger on the pulse of research and advances in the field.

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Kenya has turned to social media to save its ailing tourism industry, with the government calling on users of the interactive platforms to help steer the recovery of the industry.
The Ministry of East African Commission (EAC) Affairs, Commerce and Tourism has therefore set up a task force to start a campaign on some social media networks, targeted at the international community who have come to view Kenya as an unsafe place following recent terror attacks.
“To be considered, a user needs to send an expression of interest to participate in a breakfast meeting by the task-force next week accompanied by a brief write-up on ideas of how to boost Kenya’s tourism sector,” Kenya’s Daily Nation quoted Mr Donald Kipkorir, chairperson of the marketing and communications committee of the team as saying.
To say Kenya’s tourism industry has suffered a dip in fortunes is to be stating the obvious, as the government recently earmarked Sh900 million ($10 million) to revive the industry as Kenya’s coast returns to relative peace.
“In order to revive the tourism sector, the government this financial year has set aside Sh900 million for the implementation of the tourism recovery plan,” said Phyllis Kandie, Cabinet Secretary for EAC Affairs, Commerce and Tourism earlier in the month.
International warnings had months ago prompted the exit of the unnerved tour companies that evacuated clients from Mombasa, Kenya’s coastal tourist hub following terror attacks on Kenya’s coast. With the area deemed safe again by Kenyan authorities, a global PR and branding campaigns have been identified as the best ways to begin the revival of the sector, with social media chosen as a veritable tool to pass the message across to markets in Europe and the US, where majority of Kenyan tourists come from.
The task force will choose about 200 social media users to proclaim positive messages about Kenya via Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WatsApp, Blogs and other platforms with far-reaching effect.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has published the Commercial Pilot – Airplane Airman Certification Standards (ACS) document to communicate the aeronautical knowledge, risk management, and flight proficiency standards for the commercial pilot certification in the airplane category, single-engine land and sea; and multiengine land and sea classes. This ACS incorporates and supersedes FAA-S-8081-12C, Commercial Pilot Practical Test Standards (PTS) for Airplane.
• Safety Promotion in the form of ongoing engagement with both external stakeholders (e.g., the aviation training industry) and FAA policy divisions.
The FAA has developed this ACS and its associated guidance in collaboration with a diverse group of aviation training experts. The goal is to drive a systematic approach to all components of the airman certification system, including knowledge test question development and conduct of the practical test. The FAA acknowledges and appreciates the many hours that these aviation experts have contributed toward this goal. This level of collaboration, a hallmark of a robust safety culture, strengthens and enhances aviation safety at every level of the airman certification system.

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I'd rather you were not a celebrated actor. In that case, we could spend more time together.
Our head teacher treats us as if we were her own children, so all the students in our class think highly of her.
How I wish we students had more free time to relax ourselves! 我们学生多么希望有更多的自由时间放松自己!
I failed in the maths exam. How I wish I hadn't wasted so much time playing!
What a pity you can't go to the party. How I wish I could dance with you at the party!
It's time that you went to school.= It's time that you should go to school.
1. Although/Though I'm young, I already know what career I want to follow.
→Young as/though I am, I already know what career I want to follow.
2. Although/Though I respect him very much, I cannot agree with his idea.
3. Although/Though he is a child, he knows a lot of Chinese characters.
4. Although he tried, he couldn't solve the problem.
5. Although it is raining, I'm going out for a walk.
The roof fell before he had time to dash into the room to save his baby.
To my great disappointment, my favorite singer left the concert before I could have a word with her.
They walked about fifty miles to the west before they saw a village.
The workers worked day and night about three days before everything returned to normal.
He almost knocked me down before he knew it.
We had walked a long way before we found some water.
It was not long before…."不久，就……"
In case of fire, what should we do?
In case (that) John comes/should come, please tell him to wait.

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We hope you can join us for another fabulous evening of fellowship and fun at the CTK Progressive Dinner! This event contributes a significant percentage of funds to support Ladies Sodality, supporting faith and educational initiatives for the women in our community. The Progressive Dinner is a wonderful opportunity to meet new people in our parish community and connect with those you haven't seen during the cold winter days! All are welcome. Share this attachment with other parishioners and encourage new attendees!
We are seeking volunteers to host dinner, a cocktail party, or co-host desserts with the Gerhardts in the MRC. Please confirm what you are hosting (cocktail party or dinner) if you signed up already. If you've not hosted previously, pair up with someone and co-host. It is great fun!
Contact Liz Pratt @ pratt11307@gmail.com (314-956-5654).
Friday, March 8th and Friday, April 5th from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
One of the best bargains in town!
Please consider volunteering for our Fish Fries. It takes many hands to pull off this fantastic event. It’s so fun, you won’t even know you are working!
We need volunteers to help with set up, bartenders/MRC, registration, clean up, cooks/kitchen, bring/make desserts, servers/cafeteria, serve desserts, and more!
We have several shifts to choose from: set up crew from 2-4 pm, fish fry from 4-6 pm, fish fry from 6-8 pm and clean up crew from 7:30 pm – clean.
Attention all bakers, pastry chefs and people who just like desserts!
We need desserts - lots of them!
Please consider donating a baked good (or two - home made or store bought) for our upcoming fish fries. If you are able to provide a dessert, please drop off in the CKS cafeteria before 4pm the day of the fry. Please write “Fish Fry” on the outside of your container.
Christ the King’s Ladies’ Sodality is pleased to invite all women of the parish to a Lenten reflection on Monday, April 1 from 7-8pm. Spend an hour in quiet reflection and prayer in the peace of our church. Contact theresawiss64@gmail.com for more information.
On Wednesday, March 27 at 7pm, you are invited to a Taizé Prayer Service. Taizé Prayer is an elegant and simple service: short chants, often in Latin or other languages, are repeated over and over in the darkness. Brief scripture readings, Psalms, and other prayers are interspersed. An extended time of silence is kept. In less than an hour, it’s over. But the peaceful sense of wonder in God’s presence endures. We hope you will join us as part of your Lenten observances.
The Men’s Retreat will be rescheduled at another time.
Deacon Ray Kiely was honored for 25 years of service at our Parish Volunteer Appreciation Dinner on February 2, 2019. He is holding an icon of Christ the King that was presented to him.
$275.00 Curriculum & Technology Fee, if not being rolled into tuition, made out to Christ the King.


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As I mentioned before my trip, the Scrovegni Chapel (or Arena Chapel) was commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni in 1300 as a funerary church for his family. He hired Giotto di Bondone at the height of this artistic career to fresco the entire interior of the chapel with scenes from the lives of Mary and Jesus. Giotto was a talented and innovative artist who broke away from the Gothic style prevalent at the time. The Scrovegni Chapel is considered Giotto’s masterwork because of the completeness of the decoration and thoroughness of the composition. The Chapel also received a complete restoration several years ago to remove salts that were rising to the surface, to consolidate paint loss, and fix cracks and other structural damage to the chapel. It is brilliant thing to see!
I visited in the late morning so there was daylight filtering into the church nave. The red and orange robes had depth and weight. They were soft but with tangible volume and overall just gorgeous.
Giotto painted colors by simply varying the amount of pigment used rather than mixing in white or black pigments to darken or lighten. The fullness and movement of the robes comes from this subtle variation in tone of the pigment. It was masterfully executed by Giotto and expertly revealed by a very successful, modern restoration.
Looking at a lot of images of the chapel, the damage (even after restoration) appears too stark and the colors too dark. Sure a lot of this damage still exists but it is really not so pronounced in natural sunlight. In person, the colors breath and blend and soften. It’s as if a camera captures a single frame of something in motion. The photos really are no comparison for seeing the chapel in real life.
Art history teaches that Giotto was the artistic tipping point that ushered in the Renaissance. While the Byzantine-Gothic formula for depicting figures was starting to crack with his teacher Cimabue, it was Giotto who introduced naturalism back to the visuals arts. Analysis of Giotto’s work always points to the emotion in his figures, specifically anguish among the lamenting friends around the cross in the Scrovegni Chapel.
It’s hard not to appreciate the pain in this scene. Here are furrowed brows, tearful eyes, and twisted mouths which don’t appear in Italian Gothic or Byzantine of the previous century. It is very easy to point to these figures as an example of naturalism and human emotion to art, but I think this misses the true genius of Giotto. He was an artist of subtlety and nuance which was even more radical in an age when Saints held their murder weapons against a golden backdrop.
Standing in the Chapel itself, there was another even more dramatic panel that demonstrated a greater depth of human understanding. The massive artistic leap forward in the Scrovegni Chapel is a panel that demonstrates true insight into the human psyche: “Scenes from the Life of Christ – Washing of Feet”.
Thinking historically to the life of Jesus, one’s feet became incredibly dirty walking around. It was an act of hospitality and humility to wash the feet of others. Before the Passover meal in the Passion story, Jesus told his 12 disciples that he was going to hand-wash their feet.
In Giotto’s version, each figure react uniquely to this strange event. Two younger apostles stand to the left of Jesus with water jugs clearly helping the process along; you can just make out a faint smile on one of them. Behind and on the far left, a man with wild gray hair is untying his sandals enthusiastically while the men above him watch with worried expressions.
My favorite figures are right around Jesus. With Peter’s leg in hand, Jesus tries to reassure him. Yet even as he holds up his robe, Peter is literally scratching his head. There is confusion but willingness in his direct stare and furrowed brow. Behind them, the man in blue conceals his bare feet perhaps feeling unworthy or embarrassed and seems to be contemplating what his turn will mean. To his right, the man in purple looks anxiously away. His hands are wrapped in his robe as if to show that he does not want to and will not take off his sandals. Giotto has managed to convey a lot of the emotionally subtle and theologically complex elements in this scene. By comparison, painting someone crying now seems less impressive.
The other piece of “naturalism” that made me laugh was in “Scenes from the Life of Christ – Ascension”. Jesus is being taken up to Heaven surrounded in a brilliant halo, and the apostles below are raising their hands to protect their eyes from the light. What an incredibly intuitive detail! This is of course what a human would do in the presence of blinding light and demonstrates a big departure from the gold, semi-divine world of Gothic panel paintings.
It’s tough to have a favorite panel, but I definitely left the Scrovegni Chapel with a new appreciation for “Scenes from the Life of Christ – Resurrection.” Based on the Gospel of John, Jesus appears to women weeping at his tomb just after the resurrection. Mary Magdalene recognizes Jesus, calls out to him, and is told not to touch him because it is not yet time. It’s a strange exchange but has become popular in art as the “noli me tangere” or “touch me not” scene.
Giotto’s Mary is just incredible. Kneeling, she is almost completed concealed by her red robe. Her little face peers out followed by two jutting, almost disembodied pink arms. Unlike future noli me tangere Marys who will gesture gracefully for Jesus, Giotto’s Mary is really grasping with desperate, outstretched, and nearly straight arms. Her expression combines disbelief with a wondrous hope; her eyes are locked in on Jesus’s face.
Almost as much as Mary is reaching out, Jesus seems to be running away. I only really noticed this in front of the panel, but he is literally out of the frame. Jesus’ arm and the very top of his victory banner are cut off by the edge of the panel. The sharp angle of this right leg makes it look like Jesus is trying to get away – and fast! Even with the urgent getaway, there is a kindness in his face that reminds us of the underlying reunion actually occurring here.
Looking at the lay-out, this composition is a huge departure from Gothic art. The tense, non-physical interaction between Mary and Jesus only takes up a quarter of the image. They are balanced by sleeping soldier to the left and an empty blue sky above which takes up almost half the painting. It’s a daring lay-out that relegates the action to the corner and intensifies the fleetingness of this chance encounter. It was really exciting to experience this insight and enjoy this painting in person.
There are several other details that you only notice when you can walk around the images. For example, the halos are all painted over raised fresco ridges which is a Byzantine convention. This makes for an interesting juxtaposition of traditional art elements and Giotto’s innovative imagery. Alternatively, Judas’ halo loses the ridge and becomes just a painted dark saucer at the beginning of the Passion narrative images. I wonder if Giotto originally intended to remove Judas’ halo but for visual consistency it was added later, or if Giotto always expected to depict Judas with a waning halo leading to the Betrayal?
There are also mirrors set into the plaster of Jesus’ halo in the Last Judgement scene on the back wall. Imagine the sunlight hitting that every day and radiating out! I also really liked the goofy camels that look like donkeys in the Nativity and the fat peasants in the Wedding at Cana panel. Viewing the paintings at their real size you can also appreciate the Hieronymus Bosh-like demons torturing the damned in the Last Judgement which include one like monster that I can only describe as “Hell’s Armadillo”.
If you find yourself anywhere remotely near Padua, then it’s worth a side trip to visit the Scrovegni Chapel (aka the Arena Chapel). I thought Giotto’s frescoes were more impressive than the Sistine Chapel and the space more breathtaking than many of the greatest churches.
Just remember to book your tickets in advance and to stretch your neck out beforehand because you won’t look down for a second. And of course, consider getting at least two sessions because 15 minutes will most definitely not be enough time.
GAH! Your making me want to go back today!!! And smart of you booking back to back tickets–we did one in the day and special night session, so we didn’t have a few minutes alone with the masterpiece.
At least you got two visits, that’s great! 🙂 How was the light during the night visit? It was so beautiful with natural daylight. I worried that the spot-lights at night would make it look flat and the colors off like you see in most photos of the chapel.
Loved this vicarious visit, Christina. I so love Giotto and Cimabue. I wonder what the artists would make of the ‘“environmental equilibration” chamber and video introduction before passing through two air locks’. The passage of time in one space is truly incredible to contemplate.
Thanks Lesley! Some of the damage to the chapel was caused by careless human action when the front loggia and palazzo next to the chapel were torn down. Didn’t someone realize that that kind of vibration and heavy construction would crack the frescoes? I think Giotto probably thought it would last forever because of the permanence of the material. Scrovegni must have hoped it would last forever since it was his artistic offering to the church and his funerary chapel.
What a superb post, Christina. I liked it very much.
Thanks so much Covetotop! I’m glad you liked the post and am even more glad that you got to enjoy the chapel for yourself! (Even if it was only 15min., but now you know for next time.) I actually spent too much time exploring the side streets of Padua and sitting in the gorgeous Prato della Valle that I never made it to Caffè Pedrocchi. Clearly I am a cappuccino novice. 😉 That’s it, I have to go back to Padua soon!
Wow, I’d love to spend some time in the Scrovegi Chapel. I think I could probably spend a whole afternoon getting lost in the detail.
I will never forget my visit there. I was so glad to have brought my binoculars….in fact you really need them throughout Italy.
Wonderful post, Christina. I visited back in 1995 after studying the Scrovegni Chapel as part of my major coursework. My professor was really into Giotto, so we got lots of detailed explanations. It’s the kind of place one just has to see in person.
I’m glad you’ve visited! 🙂 It really is a place you have to see in person! It’s cool that you saw it before the restoration. In addition to meaning that you have to go back and see it now, it will be like having a whole new experience because it has changed so much.
There we go. A new item for my bucket list. Your description and photos have sparked my imagination! We study Noli Me Tangere in my History of Western Culture class, so I will be directing my students to your apt analysis of the chapel.


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One day in the year is especially important for each one of us, – the birthday day! So, on this day we get to choose how we want to celebrate.
This birthday girl decided she wanted to spend her special day with – dinosaurs (last year it was with the Hulk!), – and of course, with all of us at OC, …because sharing a birthday with great friends is the best gift of all!
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Exhibition calendar with currently 22 trade fairs from May 2019 in Basel. The most common types of trade fairs in Basel are Industry, Art and Laboratory Technology.
In addition to the current trade fairs, Sights & Attractions in Basel can also be visited.
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plump, juicy and lightly breaded chicken wings!
Favorite new bar in town and hands down the best wings in Scottsdale... maybe ever . The owner Eric truly cares about the customers and you can see that the staff does as well. Great environment, amazing food, cool people. Love this spot!
Amazing place to watch football! It has great TV set up, you can see all the games playing. Really cute set up and great drinks! I will definitely come back!
We loved Backyards! The food and service were both amazing... I had the wings which were fantastic. Highly recommend this restaurant to anyone, especially if you are looking to watch a game!
Great place to watch football - enough TVs and we found it very impressive that someone came over and asked us if there were specific games we wanted to watch.


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Audrey Lemmert is an organizational transformation expert with extensive experience in strategic planning and project execution for global, multicultural and digitally connected business environments. In managing diverse change management initiatives, Audrey has successfully aligned teams, departments, and geographies to ensure operational efficiency and organizational performance. Her past roles include transformation projects within the HR, Finance, Operations, and General Management functions at Anheuser-Busch InBev, Amalgamated Industries, and Plan International.
She currently leads global IT Employee Experience at L’Oréal. With her team, she completed a global change initiative in collaboration with Business, IT, HR and Communication departments to digitalize the workplace for 80 000 employees. This included raising the awareness and adoption of new tools, and introducing new collaborative ways of working.
Having lived in a number of countries across Western and Eastern Europe, Audrey has experience in implementing organizational transformation projects across different cultures, including long-term assignments in Hungary, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Belgium, and France. A native of South Africa, she holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD, an MBA from RSM Erasmus University, and a Bachelor degree from University of Cape Town.

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Nicolas de la Reynie gets his non-fictional historical due here as Paris’ first documented chief of police, in the reign of Louis XIV. Reynie literally cleaned up the town, installed street lights, and cracked down on crime. His reforming zeal was put to the test when the Sun King told him to investigate an appalling string of murders later known as the “Affair of the Poisons.” Reynie’s carefully documented inquiry reached from the slums all the way to the throne before Louis pulled the plug and ordered the files destroyed. Reynie obeyed, but kept copies. Come on, somebody, film this.
The third and final installment of Iles’ Natchez Burning trilogy focuses primarily on the trial of Dr. Tom Cage, who is accused of murdering his former nurse and lover. Meanwhile, the good doctor’s son Penn faces threats from all sides—his disgruntled half-brother, the ultra-racist Double Eagles, and the District Attorney, all of whom are out for revenge of some sort. With excitement at every turn, memorable new characters and a masterful climax, you couldn’t have asked for a more satisfying conclusion.


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I'd like to write a script to turn on Godmode then off then on again and again to avoid d/c while botting.
First, I'm trying to turn off Godmode after a period of time.
Why not use an external program for that?
I'm using Auto Click to check and uncheck but I have to leave my PC untouched.
You can re-write the script fairly easily, or use the lua functionality in CE to do this too.
It's a matter of getting the tick count and doing basic subtraction math, how much exactly have you tried before posting this question?
I read other scripts to learn how to increase a variable till it reaches the value I want it to stop.
I did re-write the AutoKey script so I can press 2 keys or more after some defined delay time.
All other scripts that I learnt from would call to another function or jump to another address, none of them would directly change the bytes written at the address.
That's the problem I got stuck with.
The CUserLocal::SetDamaged function only runs when you get hit, your kinda of limited depending on your creativity/knowledge to "delays" involving a counter.
There's a god mode out there that kevjuhtuh93 posted that should work what you want to do.
I can't find the script that kevjnuhtuh93 posted.
Based on your suggestion, I try to re-write the script so that Godmode is on for 10 times my char gets hit then Godmode off.
But it doesn't seem to work.
Can you tell me where I did wrong?
Pretty sure it was this.
Thanks for your help. I read the script but still can't figure out how to apply it to my script. Unfornately, the AoB for Blink Godmode is broken, I can't update the script for using.
C2 2C 00 6A FF? What?
Thanks @NewSprux2.0?. I just tested as you comment and it works.
I added 6A FF cause first time I tried I used only C2 2C 00 then my Maple crashed when I got hit.
I thought I need to write value to the last 2 bytes then I added 6A FF as original.

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I guess we all are products of our childhood. Most of who we are and what we become is formed by some mysterious process during our formative years. I’ve heard it said that 90% of your personality is set by the time you are five years old. That probably explains my love for sweets, my immature behaviour and my fear of authority figures. The last one might be a holdover from my hippie years.
I was told by my daughter in no uncertain terms that my use of the term “oriental” is racist. I find that hard to believe, but Maegan is seldom wrong about these things. I was brought up in an era that used racist terms to describe every race, nationality and even local differences were up for ridicule. I don’t feel that the terms were meant to be hateful. Well, not from me, I don’t hate anyone. I dislike politicians and stupid people, but that is pretty normal I think.
I don’t see how “oriental” can be racist. I use it to describe people who are from the Asian sub continent or The Orient as I came to know it. I should mention that Maegan told me the proper term is “Asian” when referring to people from the Orient. Does this mean that I am being racist when I call all of those people who live south of the 49th parallel “Americans”? They are actually citizens of the United States of America so I guess I am correct in calling them “Americans”. Should I call the Mexicans and my fellow Canadians “Americans” as well? I don’t know where the people of Panama would fit in, North or South. Speaking of South Americans, what should I call them?
I didn’t get into this conversation with Maegan because I see her too seldom to waste time arguing with her. Plus, she is pretty smart and would inevitably win any argument I might start. Even if I was right, I would be wrong.
Personally, I think that racism is more about intent than words. There have been a couple of racist incidents involving drunken passengers in cabs lately. There was racist intent being directed at the drivers and it is right that these passengers are being held accountable for their actions. The driver was just doing his job after all and if the passengers objected to riding in his cab they could have walked home. The insults were all basically “Go back to where you come from! You aren’t welcome in my country.” Which country is that, the one your ancestors were kicked out of somewhere in Europe? We are all from somewhere else, even the indigenous peoples came from Asia, maybe the Orient.
Perhaps our indigenous peoples are oriental. I wonder what Maegan would think of that?
I guess that the bottom line is that there are good people from every country and race. There are assholes that come from every country and race. What we need is somewhere else that we can send them just like our ancestors sent us “to explore new lands”. Mars seems to be far enough away so that they can’t come back to bother us for a century or two.
Let’s send all of the racists and bigots into space. We shouldn’t even give them a ship capable of a return trip. We don’t want the Martians sending them back where they came from.


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Tim Daly has taken on the screen from every angle. As an actor, he's morphed from frightening cult leader David Koresh in In the Line of Duty: Ambush at Waco to legendary astronaut Jim Lovell in From the Earth to the Moon, from a corrupt Army colonel opposite John Travolta in Basic to the voice of iconic superhero Superman in the animated series and animated feature. Most recently Daly appeared in several episodes of the award winning hit series The Sopranos as J.T., a scriptwriter in the grips of drug and gambling addiction. The role was created for the actor by David Chase, with whom Daly worked on his first series, Almost Grown.
While acting remains his truest passion, Daly has been actively producing and directing in recent years, the results of which have garnered him both a Peabody and a Humanitas Award for Showtime's Edge of America which opened the 2004 Sundance film festival. On the big screen his directorial debut, Bereft (co directed with acclaimed cinematographer Clark Mathis), premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and went on to screen at the Seattle Film Festival, the Hamptons Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival and the prestigious AFI Film Festival. Bereft is the story of a Vermont widow haunted by the memory of her husband and stars Vinessa Shaw, Marsha Mason, Edward Herrmann, Tim Blake Nelson and Michael C. Hall. Daly played a supporting role in the film, which was financed by Showtime Independent Features and produced through Daly's production company, Red House Entertainment.
Last year Daly starred in the critically acclaimed series The Nine, opposite Chi McBride, Kim Raver and Scott Wolfe. In 2001 he was nominated for a SAG Award for The Fugitive, in which he played Dr. Richard Kimble. He also starred in the telepic The Outsider, opposite Naomi Watts. He portrayed Dan White, the 1978 assassin who murdered San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the country's first openly gay politician, and Mayor George Moscone, in the drama Execution of Justice. In addition he served as executive producer on the project, which won the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
On the stage Daly has appeared on Broadway in Coastal Disturbances and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Other Off Broadway and regional credits include Henry Flamethrowa, The Glass Menagerie, Buried Child, The Exonerated and The Colorado Catechism, for which he received a Drama Logue Award.
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This toolkit aims to support infection prevention in schools, with a focus on gastrointestinal diseases, by assisting EU/EEA countries in their communication initiatives for disease prevention in school settings. It encourages the school community to take a series of preventive measures in order to avoid the spread of gastrointestinal infections and outbreaks. It provides practical information and easily adaptable template materials that communicators in Member States' health authorities, working together with school authorities, can use and adapt for developing their own communication initiatives, in line with national, regional or local strategies and needs. This toolkit is a prototype to be used in pilot interventions, and the draft communication toolkit will reviewed and updated based on piloting results.
Schools are ideal settings to encourage hand washing and other good hygiene practices which can contribute to children and staff learning effective ways to prevent infections. Schools involve a large part of the population who are often in close proximity to one another and are settings where diseases can spread quickly. Effective communication in school settings can help to educate not only students and staff about good hygiene practices and other strategies, but also parents and other community members. Healthy behaviours learned in schools can contribute to future health and well-being.
Gastrointestinal diseases, for example, are common, very contagious and can be severe. They are a significant cause of school absenteeism (both students and teachers). An outbreak can lead to school closures and cause major disruptions for all members of the school community. Actively engaging the whole school community in identifying ways to comply with existing hygiene regulations and/or develop new strategies and action plans for disease prevention can build resilience. An implementation handbook provided with this toolkit details further how a ‘whole school’ approach shall be considered in order to engage with school communities to promote health.
This toolkit contains materials that can be used in support of whole school approaches to preventing infectious diseases in schools. An implementation handbook introduces key considerations on how health authorities can engage with school communities in order to raise awareness, inform about and encourage the implementation of key preventive measures for disease prevention. A set of communication materials is also provided, in order to help make specific communication activities on good hygiene practices for gastrointestinal disease prevention easier, more effective and affordable. The materials target different audiences, as all those involved in the school community can benefit from learning health generating behaviours and skills and have a role to play in either encouraging, supporting or implementing preventive measures. This includes not only teachers and pupils, but also the school authorities, the staff (e.g. cleaning and canteen staff, school nurses), parents and caregivers, as well as related stakeholders such as national and regional health and school authorities, and the local community.
The toolkit includes an implementation handbook, a logo for communication activities, slogans, a list of key preventive measures, key messages, pictograms, prototype posters and powerpoint presentations.
A logo has been developed to give materials a common visual identity. It can be used, if desired, on communication materials such as posters, leaflets, information sheets, etc.
Building on these measures, a set of key messages is provided for key target audiences: school and health authorities, teachers and parents, children, and school staff. These key messages can be used when developing specific communication materials such as educational activities for pupils, leaflets, factsheets, etc.
The list functions as a ‘checklist’ for schools to ensure that key preventive measures are in place. The list also indicates which priority audiences should be addressed and what information regarding specific measures could be most helpful for these.
The aim of the presentations is to inform about and empower specific audiences on gastrointestinal diseases, how these are transmitted and how they can be prevented. The slides can be used for educational purposes, for example during meetings in the schools with relevant audiences. The speaker’s note provided with the slides offer additional information to support the presenter during the delivery of the information.
The posters can be used as provided or can also serve as inspiration for schools/teachers/students developing their own communication materials, as they show how messages on key preventive measures can be conveyed to specific target audiences in a creative way, combining images and texts.
Who do you want to address?
Public Health authorities at national, regional and/or local level.
Educational authorities at national, regional and/or local level.
The school community includes not only pupils, teachers, but also the school authorities, cleaning and canteen staff, school nurses, parents and care givers as well as local organisations involved in after-school activities. A ‘whole school’ approach acknowledges that the whole school community is involved in the practice of health promotion and therefore health is built into all aspects of life at school for those who learn and work there.
What type of materials do you want to develop?
The toolkit materials include an implementation handbook, as well as a set of communication materials in order to help making specific communication activities for gastrointestinal disease prevention easier, more effective and affordable.
How to adapt the materials?
Word files and PowerPoint presentations: this format can be used to facilitate translation in your language.
The toolkit is currently being piloted in three EU/EEA countries in order to assess its usability, adaptability and completeness. The results of this piloting will inform any needed revisions of the tools and content provided.
For further information and to send us feedback on the communication toolkit for prevention of gastrointestinal diseases, please contact info@ecdc.europa.eu.
The implementation handbook is one of the components of the ECDC communication toolkit to support infection prevention in schools, with a focus on gastrointestinal diseases. It supports the practical implementation of international guideline recommendations on prevention of gastrointestinal disease outbreaks in school settings, synthesised in the ECDC technical report on Prevention of norovirus infection in schools and childcare facilities.
When encouraging actions for prevention and control of infectious diseases in school settings, it is useful to follow a strategic process as outlined below. The implementation handbook builds on these steps and gives some practical examples to aid in effective implementation of actions.
1. Engage the various stakeholders with a whole school approach, taking into account considerations when addressing schools communities as described in the implementation handbook. With management leadership establish a project team.
2. Assess and define objectives. Gather information on the current situation in the school community in regard to practices and factors that may be affecting compliance (for example, with existing hygiene regulations), as well as perceptions and behaviours of the school community related to gastrointestinal disease prevention. Define the objectives of the programme based on the insights gathered through the collection of information and analysis of the situation.
3. Develop an action plan. Building on your assessment, agree on an action plan with the whole school community. Identify target groups, i.e. the specific groups to be addressed and engaged in specified activities. Outline measures that need to be implemented to enhance the capacities of the school community to prevent gastrointestinal infections and to respond to outbreaks. Set priorities and agree on a timeframe, discussing responsibilities, resources and specific tasks, ensuring ongoing consultation and feedback in the process.
4. Take action. Implement the activities for enhancing capacities of the school community to prevent and control infectious diseases. Raise awareness, motivate and support needed behavioural changes. Disseminate information, develop communication activities with messages tailored to different audiences and select the most appropriate channels to reach them.
5. Evaluate. Monitor the implementation process and after the programme measures have been completed evaluate the results. What changes in current behaviours and practices were made? Which specific communication activities were particularly successful? What improvements are needed in the future?
This toolkit and the prototype products are provided for information purposes only and should not be interpreted as official advice from ECDC. This material has been created under a contract. ECDC is the copyright owner of the material created under contract, unless otherwise specifically indicated. In accordance with the copyright policy of the Centre, free use of the material for non-commercial purposes, is allowed without need of prior authorization and as long as ECDC logo or reference is included. Please be aware that certain parts of the material are licensed under conditions to the ECDC and, therefore, the licensed material shall not be used outside the specific purpose of the campaign. If a private entity is involved in any way in organizing, sponsoring or supporting by any other means the campaign, please be aware that use of the material is allowed as long as the purpose of the event is non-commercial.
This technical report synthesises current international guideline recommendations and reviews findings related to the prevention and control of gastroenteritis outbreaks in schools and child care facilities.
In principle, everyone may be at risk for contracting foodborne, waterborne or zoonotic disease although some people are more at risk than others depending on pathogen-host interactions.
Norovirus cause gastrointestinal illness to humans. Norovirus infection can cause vomiting, diarrhoea, and stomach pain.
Escherichia coli (E.coli) are very common bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, and part of the normal bacterial flora.


text: Located in Subotica, Konstantin Lux has self-catering accommodations with a terrace and free WiFi. This apartment provides air-conditioned accommodations with a balcony. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher and an oven. There's a bathroom with free toiletries. Szeged is 27 miles from the apartment, while Mórahalom is 18 miles from the property.


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I have been around the block of the meditation world for a while. I started out with Zen, because it seemed to come closest to a philosophical rather than a religious approach. I checked out mindfulness, insight meditation and Tibetan Buddhism. I've done guided meditations, drumming journeys, breath work, kundalini yoga and pretty much everything in between. But the technique that had the most palpable effect on me is what may be described as "space meditation", and was made popular by the scientist Joe Dispenza.
Dispenza created a mediation sequence that is called the "Blessing of the Energy Centers". It is designed to bring the chakras back into balance, which leads not just to physical but also to emotional coherence. It is designed around imagining your body and energy centers in space, and it is narrated on top of very powerful, trance inducing music.
It is this simple method that brings the brain waves, which are usually out of balance if you live in the modern world, back into balance. When we suffer from anxiety or depression, and negative feelings like anger or guilt dominate the mind, our energy field is incoherent. It can manifest in physical symptoms like chronic tension or pain, fatigue and low energy, and more severe illness.
The body stores all our negative emotions, and becomes energetically imbalanced. Everything is energy - feelings, thoughts, physical movement. When our energy body is in harmony, our emotions are brought back to harmony as well. If you can make this meditation a part of your daily routine, with time you will feel a lot better.


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The Cantore Choir is an advanced choir for young people who have demonstrated a certain level of musicianship. This choir is generally entered after a period of training in the Prelude Choir, or by audition. Young people aged between 10 years and 20 years are welcome to audition for this group.
Cantore aims to develop the whole musician and to inspire young singers in their musical journey. Choristers enjoy a wide range of quality music that aims to broaden their musical knowledge and develop a rich musical appreciation. Repertoire includes many genres and styles of singing, both a cappella and accompanied, which includes folk, jazz, classical, spirituals, world music, and much more.
The program is a comprehensive and holistic approach to music education. Along with vocal production and performance skills, choristers study the language of music through Kodály-based teaching. Learning how to read and understand music is an important element that is incorporated into both rehearsal time and small group musicianship training. Sight-singing skills are fostered through the use of sol-fa and rhythm syllables.
The choir enjoys working with guest artists on various projects. In the past these have included choreography, creative movement, African drumming, improvisation and song-writing.
Many lifelong friendships are made in the Cantore Choir. It is a community of young people who are like-minded in their love of music and singing.


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Thank you for accepting everything about me even when you don't feel like it.
Thank you for making me believe that I'm deserved to be loved.
Thank you for willing to be with me for the rest of your life.


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• Responsible for maintaining the database and collection of Legionella strains from clinical and environmental sources.
• Uses FT-IR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy) technique applied to the differentiation of microorganisms.
• 2010-2012, Developed and participated of the Project “Legionella in Water of sport centers in the municipality of Lisbon” funded by the DGS (publication in preparation).
• 2007-2010 Participated in Project Associação Bandeira Azul da Europa (ABAE). Participating agencies: Environment Institute, National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge.
• 2007-2008, Developed and participated in the Project “Legionella in Ornamental Lakes and fountains”, funded by the DGS.


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Yay! I have surpassed my goal of exclusively breastfeeding Shern for 1 year!
Shern has been drinking mummy's milk for the first year of his life.
And of course he has also been munching on porridge, breads, cakes, biscuits and practically everything we eat as long as they are not too sweet or salty.
Due to my dwindling milk supply as mentioned in my previous post, the bottles of breastmilk in my freezer are now down to less than 50 bottles.
This is because I express only 1-2 bottles during the day but Shern drinks 2-3 bottles during the day. My freezer supply is going to dry up real soon.
Thankfully, he drinks from the bottle too. This gives me the freedom to go out and sometimes to leave Shern overnight to mum & ah-yee.
Many people are shocked when they know that I am still breastfeeding Shern. They are afraid that Shern does not have enough nutrition because breastmilk are diluted. Little do they know that breastmilk is the most nutritious milk for a baby!
Some were horrified because Shern is a boy and they commented that it is not nice for boys to suckle on mummy's breast.
Hey, Shern is still a baby. And babies usually have no distinctive memories of what they do until they are about 3 years old.
Anyway, I find breastfeeding the most natural thing in the world. And I like the bonding I share with Shern.
Usually Shern is a monster at home. But whenever Shern suckles, he calms down immediately and looks like the most angelic baby.
You can never see him this kuai except for the few minutes when he suckles my breast!
even got place to put ice cream now..
Hah? Boys shouldn't suckle? What sort of thinking is that?
Weird people with distorted minds.
Wendy...yes, usually the elders tell me that!


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Many individuals believe that having the ability to manage a house implies to just afford a lending payment. Home ownership, nonetheless, is much more than simply a monthly lending repayment. When determining to purchase a residence, there are a number of various monthly expenses, besides simply a loan payment, to account for as well as a few advantages that can aid make own a home extra cost effective.
One of the most important expense to be familiar with when purchasing a house is the home loan repayment. A home loan payment usually contains 4 components – Principal payment, Interest repayment, Property Tax repayment, and also Insurance policy repayment. These 4 components of a home mortgage define what is described as PITI (Principal, Rate Of Interest, Tax Obligation, and also Insurance Coverage).
The principal as well as interest repayment of your home mortgage are the parts of your mortgage payment that are paid to your rely on a month-to-month basis to repay your lending. Principal is the section of your month-to-month home loan payment that goes towards paying down your home loan. This part of your mortgage payment is what builds equity in your house while Interest is the section of your monthly mortgage repayment that is the cost that you pay to your financial institution for obtaining money. The quantity of rate of interest that you pay depends on your car loan’s exceptional balance and interest rate.
Property tax as well as insurance policy settlements are generally paid to the area and insurance companies separately. Although real estate tax and insurance settlements are not due on a monthly basis, some banks established an escrow account that collects 1/12th of your annual property tax and also insurance costs on a monthly basis. When an escrow account is set up, your bank pays the county tax enthusiast and your insurer in your place with the funds in the escrow account when they end up being due. If your lending does not have an escrow account, you need to make it a practice to put aside 1/12th of your yearly real estate tax as well as insurance premium every month to ensure that the worry will not be too much when the repayments end up being due. When planning for a house purchase, you ought to get in touch with the Matter Tax Collection Agency where you are looking for a residence to discover the property tax price of your community. Due to the fact that real estate tax can costs thousands of dollars a year, it is an expense that you can not neglect when preparing for your purchase. Preparation for an insurance policy settlement is less complicated. The typical guideline used by mortgage specialists to make up residential property insurance payments when pre-qualifying you for a home loan is to multiply the acquisition price of the house you are considering by 0.3% (0.003 ). This provides a conservative quote for your yearly residence insurance policy payment.
Private Mortgage Insurance policy, often described as PMI, is called for by several banks when you get a house with much less than 20% deposit. Exclusive Home Loan Insurance coverage is an insurance coverage that your financial institution purchases from a 3rd party to protect itself in the event that you can not make your month-to-month repayment and also default on your financing. Although this insurance coverage shields the bank, you as the customer are responsible to pay the month-to-month premium for the policy. The costs for this insurance plan differs depending upon your down payment amount. Typically, the premium for this policy lowers as your deposit strategies 20% of your house purchase rate.
There are many fantastic mortgage calculators on the internet that can assist you estimate PITI settlements. You can find a collection of these home mortgage calculators on the Resources web page of several trustworthy realty, financing, and also non-profit housing firms. There is even more to own a home finances, nonetheless, after that PITI. In the rest of this post, we will look at the ‘big picture’ by developing a capital analysis. This capital analysis will integrate PITI with your regular monthly budget as well as a few homeownership advantages to help you recognize if you can absolutely pay for having a residence.
Among one of the most essential pieces of preparation for a house purchase is to understand your month-to-month spending plan before purchasing a residence. This monthly budget ought to take into consideration common regular monthly costs such as grocery stores as well as gas but must likewise consider yearly expenses. As an example, if you pay $1,200 each year for auto insurance coverage, you must split this quantity by 12 and include the resulting $100 as component of your monthly expenditures. A month-to-month spending plan calculator can help you develop a thorough budget that includes your revenue too.
Own a home is not all costs however can also have a number of monetary advantages. The best economic take advantage of home ownership are the Federal tax obligation benefits that you can receive. Based on your home acquisition price, your property tax price, and your rate of interest, you can obtain hundreds of dollars each year back from the Federal government that can offset the expenses of having a home. An additional excellent means to offset the costs of owning your home is to take into consideration renting a part of your home or buying a multi-residential residential or commercial property. A multi-residential home, such as a duplex, permits you to reside in one unit while creating rental revenue from the various other device(s) to offset your regular monthly home mortgage expenditures.
The very best way to determine if you can genuinely pay for a house is to establish a cash flow analysis for every residence that you are considering. To make a capital evaluation, simply add up your month-to-month incomes including the income you get from job, any type of potential rental revenue, as well as tax benefits you will obtain from purchasing a house. Next, subtract your monthly costs consisting of the PITI of the details residence you want as well as the way of life expenses that you approximated in your budget. If your result is negative, after that the home that you are thinking about can lead you into monetary disaster. If, nonetheless, the outcome declares and you will have money left over each month, you will have to determine if this is enough cash to put away for a wet day and to help you build your savings to get ready for the following big investment.Learn more about Low Income housing in Delaware here.


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Students love Bingo and Dine Bingo is an effective and fun method for building Navajo Language vocabulary! Each Dine Bingo game includes 15 durable, laminated playing cards, 50 -word vocabulary deck, cardboard game tokens, master vocabulary chart, tray, and instructions, all inside a sturdy storage box.
Dine Bingo Food includes fifty familiar foods, colorfully-illustrated with Navajo Language vocabulary word below each picture. Each of the fifteen playing cards holds a unique set of foods. Foods represented include fruit (apple, banana, grapes, cherries, strawberries, & more), vegetables (carrot, broccoli, lettuse, corn, tomato, & more), grains (bread, crackers, cereal, popcorn & more), pinon nuts, cake, water, coffee, muttin stew, frybread and more!
Have fun and learn at the same time! Perfect for family fun, classroom, and community activities.


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Phyllis MacLennan received her B.A. in journalism at Hunter College and an M.S. degree in education from Hofstra University. The mother of three teen-age children, Mrs. MacLennan list her occupation as tree farming and her hobbies skiing, riding, skin diving, and flying. In addition, she has been writing for most of her life and has published many stories and articles in various magazines. She says of herself that she never stays long in one place. At present, however, she's living in Delaware, New Jersey.
This text is available under a Creative Commons License and may have been adapted from the Phyllis MacLennan bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

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» Home » Juicing FAQ » My apple juice turns brown, is it okay?
How do you deal with apples turning brown? When I cut them up I put them in lemon water, but they still turn brown coming through the juicer. Is this ok?
When an apple turns brown, it's just oxidation (being exposed to oxygen).
Rust is another example of oxidation, but slow oxidation. The apple, being more susceptible to oxygen goes brown a little faster. But it's natural and okay.
The apple and/or apple juice turning brown is a good illustration of why fresh juice should be drunk within 20 minutes of juicing. After 20 minutes, most of the enzymes and many of the vitamins begin to naturally go away or are at least, substantially reduced due to the oxidation.
While other vegetables or fruits may not go brown like the apples or apple juice, a similar thing is happening even if no visible signs.
You don't need to add lemon juice or soak the apples in lemon water before juicing though. As long as you cut the apple just before juicing, then that's fine. If you still want to add some lemon juice to the apple to help minimize the oxidation, then that's fine — it just seems like extra work to me!
The reason why the lemon juice and/or lemon water prevents the apple from going brown before you juice the vegetable is due to the fact lemon juice contains vitamin C — a known anti–oxidant. The vitamin C, therefore, helps to slow the rate of oxidation. The same can be done when making guacamole (an avocado type of sauce). Since avocados also begin to go rancid really fast once cut open and exposed to oxygen, adding some lemon juice to the guacamole helps prevent the avocados from spoiling due to oxidation. The lemon juice really makes a difference.
Although lemon juice or lemon water can help prevent oxidation before juicing, the reality is, the lemon water is only protecting the surface of the apple slice. Once you juice, you are exposing every cell of the apple to oxygen including those parts that are not protected by the anti–oxidant properties of the vitamin C. Thus the reason why you still see the apple juice turning brown slightly once juiced.
The apple juice turning brown all has to do with oxidation — being exposed to oxygen. A seed's shellor wall, a nut's shell or wall, a vegetable peel or fruit peel — these are all Mother Nature's way of protecting the nut, seed, fruit or vegetable from light, heat and/or oxygen. If you bruise an apple, then the apple will go brown even though the apple peel has not been cut or sliced open. The apple still goes brown once bruised because the cell walls have been broken, even though we cannot see it with our eyes, allowing oxygen to creep into the fruit leading to oxidation.
Off the topic a little, but still relating to oxidation — many peoplebuy oils for their health and this is great because we all needessential fatty acids. But all of the oils need to be cold processed (tominimize exposure to heat), packaged in opaque bottle (to protect fromthe light) and must have minimal oxygen exposure. Once opened, these oils can go rancid and must therefore bekept in the fridge. Yet, Mother Nature has protected all seeds and nutsfrom going rancid naturally. So while many people have oils, if you really want the freshness of oils, then it's worth considering eating seeds and nuts especially since not only do you get the oils, but all of the minerals too.


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In stark contrast to many other African holiday destinations, Uganda is a well watered, fertile land covered in dense forest and waterways. Gorilla Tracking in Uganda is a huge attraction and is the highlight of many safaris to this unique country.
"The Ugandan forests of Bwindi are home to the rarest and most majestic of all the apes, the mountain gorilla"
There are a number of National Parks in Uganda but the majority of them can be found in the Southern and North Western quadrants of the country. The best parks for Gorilla tracking are along the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Read more about Uganda's main National Parks from the links below.
We offer a number of set tours on our website but we also tailor-make safaris exactly to your specification. If you’re interested in seeing the beautiful land of Uganda and witnessing the awe-inspiring mountain gorilla in its natural environment of Bwindi National Park or you just want to find out more about Ugandan wildlife, we can help you. Call +44 (0)28 9073 6050 to speak to an expert who will create your perfect ugandan holiday, or alternatively complete our online form.
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These great Kenya AA beans come from the Kieni Wet Mill in Nyeri County. The AA designation is the highest grade on the coffee scale and is based on size, shape, and density. These beans are grown in the rich volcanic soil of Kenya. You can expect a sweet toffee taste with fresh fruit and citric acidity in this cup. All of our beans are roasted on the light to medium level to preserve distinct flavor, these are more towards the medium level to bring out some of the subtle flavor that a light roast doesn't capture.
We are really partial to Kenya beans and these certainly don't disappoint.


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AV-Comparatives, an independent testing organization, in February 2016 published its fifth annual IT Security Survey focusing on respondents’ attitudes to Internet security. In this survey of mainly IT professionals and enthusiasts, ESET® emerges as the second most popular option in both the desktop Windows and in the mobile device segment.
“AV-Comparatives’ annual Security Survey shows how essential the question of Internet security has become and how much attention users actually give to protecting themselves when browsing online. We are very pleased to see ESET products being placed so high in the survey,” comments Ignacio Sbampato, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at ESET.
When it comes to the most important aspects when choosing a security solution, respondents rank ‘Good detection rate of malicious files’ and ‘Low impact on system performance’ highest.
“ESET ranked as one of the most popular security solutions in our Annual Security Survey for the second time. We are happy that our tests correspond with the majority of the responses, moreover when 70% of respondents described themselves as security enthusiasts or professionals,” says Andreas Clementi, CEO at AV-Comparatives.
AV-Comparatives’ Security Survey also reveals that more than 96% of respondents protect their devices with a security solution and that just under two-thirds of those users pay for their solution.