12/6/2023 0 Comments Avon rec center ice skatingAvon is a safe, vibrant community for active families. Pets and/or animals are not allowed within the Recreation Center with the exception of those assisting persons with disabilities. Note: Swimming, wading, ice fishing, and ice skating are not allowed on any of the Town lakes or ponds.University Hospitals Avon Health Center Graphic. ![]()
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12/6/2023 0 Comments Active listening scenariosPeoples attention span differs, others tend to be distracted easily whilst others can focus on the conversation. Attention- Being a good listener, requires being able to pay attention.When we respect those around us, we tend to look beyond our thoughts and become better listeners. When learning to be an active listener starts by being respectful towards what others say and understanding that we all can learn something new and valuable from others over and above what we may believe or feel. Attitude is defined as a feeling of emotion that comes from understanding that we must be respectful towards what others say about a fact or state. Attitude- the first step to being a good active listener is to have the right attitude. ![]() The following are active listening skills (adapted from an article by Vantage circle ): People tend to gravitate toward active listeners because they feel valued and respected when talking with them. Active listening is an essential part of creating positive relationships at work. Being able to understand what your coworkers are saying and then providing useful feedback is a crucial element of being a team player.Īccording to Glassdoor, through active listening, you may strengthen interoffice connections and improve communication by demonstrating to your coworkers that you are genuinely listening to what they have to say. Active listening involves concentrating on what is being said unlike just passively hearing what the next person is saying. Listening is not the same as hearing, you could be hearing someone speak but it does not necessarily mean you are listening. It requires patience and commitment for one to acquire this skill. It is a skill that is developed over time and can be difficult to master. Related: How To Overcome Communication Barriers at Work | Five StrategiesĪctive listening is a skill that can be developed and acquired through practice. By committing and learning active listening skills, leaders can become effective listeners and over time become better leaders. ![]() For some the skill may come naturally for others it is a skill that can be obtained through practice. ![]() According to Nixaly (2020), active listening is the ability to listen with complete attention and an engaged mind and body. It involves understanding and grasping what the other person is saying, concentrating on their thoughts rather than your thoughts, especially when conducting remote communications.Ī good active listener makes the other person feel heard and valued. It goes beyond just listening, it involves paying attention to what someone is saying. And also how active listening brings changes in peoples attitudes toward themselves and others shaping their basic values and personal philosophy.Īctive listening is a crucial communication skill. They indicate how clinical and research evidence clearly shows it as one of the most effective agents for individual personality change and group development. Rogers and Farson define active listening as an important way to bring about changes in people. The term Active Listening was created in 1957 by two psychologists (Carl Rogers and Richard Farson). 12/6/2023 0 Comments Best charities to donate to africaWorking with a variety of organizations from across the continent –government ministries, NGOs, charities and multi-national corporations- ALA seeks out daring young leaders and offers them not only two years of training, but a lifetime of guidance. The END Fund strategy relies on proven therapies that often cost less than 50 cents per person per year.Īfrican Leadership Academy hopes to foster lasting peace and prosperity in Africa by developing and connecting the continent’s future leaders. Why it works: NTDs have devastating consequences but it’s surprisingly inexpensive to curtail their damaging effects. The END Fund tackles the five most prevalent NTDs: intestinal worms, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, and river blindness – all of which can be treated by relatively inexpensive medicines donated by pharmaceutical companies and distributed by national administration programs. The END Fund fights neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases that thrive in conditions of rural poverty, where children and adults do not have access to clean water and basic sanitation. (To learn more about Foundation Source, check out Penta’s article, “ Help for Philanthropists.”) They’ve been hand-picked by Page Snow, the chief philanthropic officer of Foundation Source, a Connecticut-based philanthropic advisor and partner to 1,110 private foundations across the country. That caveat aside, here are five effective Africa-focused charities that smartly get the job done. So don’t overlook some of the many “worthy” charities out there that don’t have the cold metrics to document all their results. The charity is pursuing worthy causes, in other words, but given its vast reach and scope, results are hard to measure. The African Medical and Research Foundation ( AMREF) operates, for example, in seven different African nations its multi-pronged approach tackles everything from maternal health to medical research. ![]() ![]() But, before we start, be aware that “effective” philanthropy is usually defined as having achieved “results.” That’s fine, but “effective” is not the same thing as “worthy.” If you’re going to use hard evidence of results as your only yardstick for measuring philanthropic success, charities with more intangible but nevertheless still important goals will probably not make the cut. Here is a list of five philanthropic organizations successfully making inroads in Africa –and why. Page Snow, the chief philanthropic officer of Foundation Source named the END Fund one of the five best philanthropic organizations working in Africa, in a post on Barron’s Penta Daily. 12/5/2023 0 Comments Air compressor for body shopHow do we know that the Apache can service the demand while running at a 94 percent duty cycle and a B5 can service this demand while running at an 83 percent duty-cycle? The Apache A5 rotary screw air compressor delivers 16 SCFM of compressed air and would meet the 15 SCFM demand while running at a 94 percent duty cycle.Īlternatively, a B5 rotary screw compressor, which delivers 18 SCFM of compressed air would meet the demand while running at an 83 percent duty cycle. This results in 15 SCFM, meaning we need a rotary screw air compressor that can deliver at least this amount of compressed air at a maximum 100 percent duty cycle. In terms of rotary screw air compressors, which have a 100 percent maximum duty cycle, we will divide 15 SCFM by the number 1.0, which represents a 100 percent duty cycle in decimal format. We’re going to show you a simple calculation that will let you know how to size air compressors with different duty-cycles to a given compressed air demand need, in this case, 15 SCFM. It’s an unlikely circumstance in real-life, but suitable for our purposes of explanation. For illustrative purposes, let’s assume that 15 SCFM is the absolute maximum compressed air demand ever needed by this repair shop. The compressed air demand is estimated to be approximately 15 SCFM. Let’s see what this means in terms of sizing and selecting an appropriate type of air compressor using the example of an auto repair shop with two bays and three technicians. Keep in mind these ratings refer to an eight-hour day. ![]() Rotary screw air compressors have a 100 percent duty-cycle and can run continuously 24/7, while pressure-lubricated heavy duty industrial piston air compressors have approximately an 80 percent maximum duty-cycle, needing to cycle off 20 percent of the time, and splash-lubricated industrial air compressors have approximately a 60 percent maximum duty-cycle, needing to cycle-off 40 percent of the time. This highlight's another important point to remember: Selecting an air compressor with a duty-cycle rating appropriate for your compressed air usage is critical.ĭifferent types of air compressors have different duty cycles. Just like compressed air tools and their activities have use-factors, the proportion of time a tool is used versus the time it isn’t, air compressors have duty-cycles, the proportion of time the air compressor can operate without the risk of overheating and sustaining excessive wear, versus the time the air compressor needs to stop and cool down, before it resumes again. ![]() What do you use your compressed air for? Or how do you use your compressed air in a typical day?
12/5/2023 0 Comments Building blocks of dna and rna![]() The artificial synthesis of DNA and RNA - for example in the "PCR" technique that underlies COVID-19 tests - amounts to a vast global business, but depends on enzymes that are relatively fragile and thus have many limitations. He notes that the work may also have broad practical applications. "Now that we understand better how a primordial chemistry could have made the first RNAs and DNAs, we can start using it on mixes of ribonucleoside and deoxynucleoside building blocks to see what chimeric molecules are formed - and whether they can self-replicate and evolve," Krishnamurthy says. "We found, to our surprise, that using DAP to react with deoxynucleosides works better when the deoxynucleosides are not all the same but are instead mixes of different DNA 'letters' such as A and T, or G and C, like real DNA," says first author Eddy Jiménez, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the Krishnamurthy lab. The new study shows that DAP under similar conditions could have done the same for DNA. Moreover, in 2017 they reported that the organic compound DAP could have played the crucial role of modifying ribonucleosides and stringing them together into the first RNA strands. ![]() The chemists also have shown in widely cited papers in the past few years that the simple ribonucleoside and deoxynucleoside building blocks, of RNA and DNA respectively, could have arisen under very similar chemical conditions on the early Earth. Krishnamurthy and colleagues have shown in recent studies that "chimeric" molecular strands that are part DNA and part RNA may have been able to get around this problem, because they can template complementary strands in a less-sticky way that permits them to separate relatively easily. ![]() Modern organisms make enzymes that can force twinned strands of RNA - or DNA - to go their separate ways, thus enabling replication, but it is unclear how this could have been done in a world where enzymes didn't yet exist. If the new strand can detach from the template strand, and, by the same process, start templating other new strands, then it has achieved the feat of self-replication that underlies life.īut while RNA strands may be good at templating complementary strands, they are not so good at separating from these strands. Krishnamurthy and others have doubted the RNA World hypothesis in part because RNA molecules may simply have been too "sticky" to serve as the first self-replicators.Ī strand of RNA can attract other individual RNA building blocks, which stick to it to form a sort of mirror-image strand - each building block in the new strand binding to its complementary building block on the original, "template" strand. The finding also nudges the field of origin-of-life chemistry away from the hypothesis that has dominated it in recent decades: The "RNA World" hypothesis posits that the first replicators were RNA-based, and that DNA arose only later as a product of RNA life forms. "This finding is an important step toward the development of a detailed chemical model of how the first life forms originated on Earth," says study senior author Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, PhD, associate professor of chemistry at Scripps Research. ![]() In particular, it paves the way for more extensive studies of how self-replicating DNA-RNA mixes could have evolved and spread on the primordial Earth and ultimately seeded the more mature biology of modern organisms. The discovery may also lead to new practical applications in chemistry and biology, but its main significance is that it addresses the age-old question of how life on Earth first arose. The finding is the latest in a series of discoveries, over the past several years, pointing to the possibility that DNA and its close chemical cousin RNA arose together as products of similar chemical reactions, and that the first self-replicating molecules - the first life forms on Earth - were mixes of the two. In a study published in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, they demonstrated that a simple compound called diamidophosphate (DAP), which was plausibly present on Earth before life arose, could have chemically knitted together tiny DNA building blocks called deoxynucleosides into strands of primordial DNA. 12/5/2023 0 Comments Crab game jeff![]()
12/5/2023 0 Comments 19 crimes wine near me![]() ![]() Young can then be seen turning the wheel of the car as the officer next to her window continues to urge her to exit the vehicle. “Get out of the f**king car,” the officer standing in front of the car says, his gun drawn and his left hand braced on the hood of the car, the video shows.įormer Ohio police officer indicted in death of Donovan LewisĪt one point, Young is heard saying, “You gonna shoot me?” Police previously said a grocery store employee had notified officers that a woman who had stolen bottles of alcohol was in a car parked outside the store. “I didn’t steal sh*t,” Young can be heard saying as the two argue back and forth with her window ajar. “They said you stole something….get out of the car,” the officer at the window says, telling Young not to leave. The originally released body camera video shows an officer approaching Young’s driver’s side window outside the Kroger and repeatedly telling her to get out of the car.Ī second officer, who is also wearing a body camera, then steps in front of the sedan. Young’s family and Walton have called for the officer who shot Young to be fired and criminally charged.īody camera video captures audio of police encounter “But we’re simply complying with our promise of transparency and our obligation to release public records as required by state law.” “We recognize that these (surveillance) videos will create more discussion and even anger by people who have passionate feelings for or against the officer’s actions,” the chief said. On Friday, Blendon Township Chief of Police John Belford said the shooting was a “tragic situation for everyone,” He said he assumed the officer believed he could not get out of the way of the vehicle quickly enough. “I understand why it could be justified but, again, I don’t make that decision,” Steel told reporters last week, referring to the shooting. Ta'kiya Young Courtesy Walton + Brown, LLP A weapon is also a 2,000-pound vehicle that somebody puts in gear and is driving at you.” The officers were victims of assault as the car moved, according to a police news release last week.īrian Steel, executive vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge #9, said after the initial body camera release, “A weapon is not just a firearm. The videos blur the faces of the two officers and their names have been redacted because of state law that affords victims the right to keep personally identifying information confidential, police said. The fact that an unarmed woman was shot unjustifiably, then dragged from her car and handcuffed after being shot should shock the conscience of everyone who watches the newly released video footage,” Walton said.Īuthorities on Friday also released longer versions of the body camera footage from the two officers involved. “What is clear is that petty theft does not justify murder and comply or die is not the rule of law in this country. Video from a Kroger surveillance camera shows a black car parked in a handicap spot as officers arrive. “What we witness on the video footage released today is more evidence of murder, a lack of urgency in providing trained medical care to a clearly pregnant and wounded woman,” the attorney for Young’s family, Sean Walton, said Friday in a statement to CNN. Young, who died at a hospital, was pregnant and the fetus did not survive, the Franklin County Coroner’s Office previously said. The video ends with the officers chasing after the car which has moved out of view of the camera. The vehicle then appears to slowly move forward. She is approached by two officers with one in front of the vehicle. Young is seen exiting the store and getting into the driver’s seat of a black Lexus parked in a handicap spot. Surveillance footage from outside of the store shows a different angle of the encounter with police. Young stands in line at the cash register before leaving with two other women, the video shows.Īlarms went off as the women exited the store, police said. Ohio police release video of fatal police shooting of pregnant 21-year-old Ta'Kiya Young Newly released police body camera footage shows a police officer firing seconds after a pregnant woman started driving slowly as he was in front of her car, after she was accused of shoplifting at an Ohio store.īlendon Township Ohio Police released the body camera video from two officers, including the officer that fired his weapon at Ta'kiya Young, who was pregnant at the time, and later died in the hospital. Portions of this image have been blurred by Blendon Township Police Department. 12/5/2023 0 Comments Betternet unlimitedThe UK server gave us a download speed of 32 Mbps and an upload speed of 20.1 Mbps.Īlthough our test indicates that the speed was quite good, if you were using the free service, you would not be able to do much because of the 500 MB data restriction. We started with testing the United States servers, which gave us a download speed of 40.33 Mbps and an upload speed of 15.43 Mbps. ![]() Our speed without the VPN was 60.84 Mbps download and 39.84 Mbps upload. However, the speed we experienced while testing the VPN for Netflix and the like made it difficult for us to watch the content because we were constantly having buffering problems and couldn't stream in HD. With the paid plan, things are very different because it successfully unblocks Disney Plus, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and BBC iPlayer. In our tests, it was unable to access Disney+ or Netflix US. The free version of Betternet, which grants access to only the US server, does not work as a streaming VPN. ![]() ![]() It’s also billed as a torrenting VPN, but because it lacks a kill switch, it’s risky to use it while torrenting because you run the risk of disclosing your real IP address.īetternet has apps for both mobile and desktop (Image credit: Betternet) Streaming But, at least in our own tests, this wasn’t the case. The company’s support team claims it’s a VPN for China. In future, we would like to see the developers add additional protocols like Wireguard or OpenVPN. The service uses the industry-standard AES-256-bit encryption to encrypt your traffic and uses the Catapult Hydra protocol. However, this doesn't make up for the lack of fundamental security tools such as a VPN kill switch. Although all of this might sound good, we would prefer that a service provider who has faced numerous accusations and controversies go so far as to invite an independent auditor that would back up their claims.īetternet has split tunnelling, which is useful if you want to remain anonymous online while streaming a show. The privacy policy also states unequivocally that it cannot share any personally identifiable information with ad networks or government agencies because it lacks it. They also claim that their VPN servers are secure because the infrastructure where they are hosted does not require that they collect any data regarding what customers are doing with the VPN. They claim that all of these are logged for service monitoring, support, and marketing purposes.Īdditionally, they claim that they won't log or otherwise keep track of your VPN browsing activity along with your device identifiers, IP addresses, or other identifiers. A research report found that the Android version contained tracking libraries and malware, but Betternet never made a public statement about this.Īccording to Aura product privacy, the VPN records the bandwidth used, the length of the VPN session, the domains that customers access on an anonymous basis, and then device hashes. Another controversy arose in 2016, over Betternet’s mobile VPN app. An Aura spokesperson refuted this claim by stating that Rezazadeh neither works for nor is connected to the VPN. However, the group hasn't had the best run in recent years due to a lot of controversy surrounding the majority of their VPNs.įor instance, it was alleged that Hamid Rezazadeh, son of Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, owned the Betternet VPN. Remember we said Betternet VPN is owned by its parent company Aura? Well, all of Aura's VPN products adhere to the same privacy and logging policies. It is quite disappointing that there is no option for anonymous payment in the list of the VPN'S payment optionsīetternet does not record your activities online in any way that can be tied back to you though it does record some information such as your IP address when you connect (Image credit: Betternet) Privacy & encryption In contrast to the free trial, which has numerous restrictions, the Betternet premium plan gives you access to all of their servers, allows you to connect 10 devices at once, and includes a 45-day money-back guarantee.īetternet only accepts payments through the Play Store, iTunes, or a credit or debit card, which severely limits your options for making purchases. We thought this was quite expensive for a VPN that doesn’t come with a lot of features. The monthly plan costs $12.99, while the yearly plan is $7.99 a month, billed annually at $95.88. However, to use the free trial, you must provide your credit card information, keep in mind to remove it before the 7-day mark if you don't want the service provider to bill you. ![]() If you want to go beyond the restrictions of using the free service, Betternet VPN has monthly and annual subscriptions, as well as the option to try the premium service for one week. 12/5/2023 0 Comments Decluttering your phone![]() To Do (Notes, Reminders, Trello, Evernotes).Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Linkd in, Pinterest, Instagram).Shopping (Google Express, Amazon, Etsy, Overstock).Music (Pandora, Spotify, iTunes Store, Shazam).Videos (Videos, YouTube, Podcasts, Funimate).Photos (Photos, Camera+, Picasa, Flickr and Photo Editor-).Messages (WhatsApp, Messenger, Google Voice, Skype, LINE, Facetime).These are some of the most commonly used folders. Once you have all of them together, it’s much easier to decide which one goes and which one stays. Often the apps in the same category have overlapping functions. The reason you group your apps into folders is to help you visualize how many apps you have under one category. On iPhone, touch and hold any app on until it jiggles, then drag an app onto another app to create a folder. ![]() Group apps into folders (similar to gathering all items under the same category according to the KonMari method). You don’t always have to backup twice, but an external hard-drive or an online cloud is a great investment because it allows you to free up space on your desktop so it can operate more efficiently. This is particularly important for really valuable files. When you complete the cleanse, you can then save a new backup and delete the old one.īackup your photos, videos and other files on your desktop and repeat on your external hard-drive or online cloud. So before you start deleting, BACKUP your valuable files like photos and videos. Everything in the book can be applied to digital items except for one main difference – unlike a physical household item where you can retrieve it from the donation pile if you change your mind last minute once you delete a file on your phone, it’s gone permanently (unless you set up an automatic backup that regularly backs up your files to the cloud). I will show you later how you can set up your phone to minimize this.īefore I embarked on this digital cleanse, I reviewed all the main points in Kondo Marie’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. My Messages app came in second place because it was storing all the message history. Bear in mind that the app itself, its data, and its cache all contribute to the total space used by the app. ![]() There you will find a breakdown of all the used memory on your phone. You can check your available storage by going into Settings – General – Usage – Manage Storage on your iPhone or Settings – Storage on your Android. It’s a daunting task, but I figured, if I could clean out my house, I could do anything! I decided to tackle my smart phone first since it’s something I use everyday and it’s always running out of memory storage.ĭecluttering your phone will speed up your phone and help your batteries last longer. After decluttering my entire house according to Kondo Marie’s method, it’s time to apply her philosophy to the digital “stuff” stored in my computer, phone and tablet. 12/4/2023 0 Comments Construction simulator 2015 pc ita![]() In the “Players” list, you will see the other players in your active online game, as well as their respective experience levels and current experience points. The final step will be to click “Start Online Game.” A maximum of four people can participate in a game, i.e. ![]() Set the number of additional players you wish to have. In order to open a game, you will have to determine whether you wish to open a public game (visible to all players) or a private game (players must enter a password). Your companions in the game will not go home empty handed – they will also have their share of money and experience credited to their profiles. This way, you can much more quickly accumulate money and experience, and advance more quickly in the game. You are the boss, and your companions are your employees. Your current career progress will be used for all of the players in the game – everyone will be able to use the machines that you have already unlocked. Go into the game and select “Online.” Here you can create (host) your own game. You will need to set up a profile and start a career, as well as successfully complete the tutorial at the beginning. Follow the steps to activate the product and enter your product key at the end.Īfterwards, Construction Simulator 2015 will automatically be downloaded and installed.Click on the heading “Games” and then the subheading “Activate a Product in Steam…”.In order to activate your game in Steam, please do the following: Please follow the Steam setup prompts and be sure to set up a Steam account. The Steam client is available free of charge at the following website: You will need to download a Steam client to set up an account. If you do not yet have a Steam account, you can set one up for free. If you have already completed this step, then the main program installation will start automatically. Follow the instructions in the program, and be sure to set up a free Steam account. If you do not already have Steam installed on your PC and have purchased the box version of the game, then the Steam installation will start automatically. We strongly recommend to allow the installation, otherwise the game will not get enough RAM! Apple PC minimum:Ĭonstruction Simulator 2015 requires an installed Steam client. This tool, called "3GB Switch", is automatically offered for installation when you install the game. Please note that the 4 GB RAM also applies if you have a 32-bit operating system! In order to allocate enough RAM to the game on 32-bit operating systems, you need a special tool that allows access to the complete RAM. DX9 compatible graphics card with 2GB+ RAM (Geforce GTX 660 or better | ATI Radeon HD 68xx, 77xx or better).3 GHz or better dual or quad-core processor.DX9 compatible graphics card with 1 GB VRAM (Geforce 400 series or better | ATI Radeon HD 57xx or better). |
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