For me, fitness is not just going to the gym to look a certain way, it's about progress and productivity. Think of it this way: the time we spend at work time takes up 8 hours (at least, who are we kidding) of our day, 40 hours a week–that's 1,680 hours a year. We have to work on projects across teams and multi-task every day, and while we experience those little victories when we finish a project, it's rare to see your own individual accomplishment right in front of you, clear as day. Having the opportunity to visualize progress is extremely beneficial when maintaining a healthy mental state. A gym habit helps make that progress and those accomplishments obvious, which is something to celebrate.
Lifting weights is a game of progress. We all start somewhere—whether it's with 5 lb dumbbells or 90 lbs on the quad machine–there's always room for growth. The feeling I get when moving up in weight is one of satisfaction and pride. This shows me that I can do something I once thought was impossible. Hard work and dedication allows you to push past a previous barrier. Even if I do nothing else for the whole day but sit on my couch and watch Netflix, I'll still feel accomplished—I overcame something difficult that day, for no-one else but myself.
Recently, I started an 8 week fitness challenge that includes tough workouts 5 days a week (mostly weight lifting with cardio twice a week), and an If It Fits Your Macros approach to meals. Macros are a new thing for me–I used to eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted—mostly fruits, veggies, grains, and the occasional carbohydrate attack (helloooo, pasta). Now, my way of eating has changed.
After calculating my macros, I have to fill the exact number my plan allows: 179g of carbs, 44g of fat, and a whopping 120g of protein. I don't eat meat, eggs, or dairy, so that high protein count has been a huge challenge. To overcome it, I bought a digital food scale which I use to weigh all of my meals and snacks to the gram. I track everything I eat in My Fitness Pal, which helps me make sure I hit my macros every day.
If this sounds like the most horrible, why-in-the-world-would-you-do-this-to-yourself regimen, I can assure you, it's better than you think. The If It Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) style of eating is actually awesome. I can eat whatever I want—Oreos, macaroni, fruit, tacos, sushi, you name it– as long as I know exactly how many macronutrients are in my meal, and if it fits into my overall daily goal. Sure, it can be hard at times, but usually it feels like I'm eating a ton, and my energy and ability to progress at the gym has been better than ever, which means my mental clarity and focus has been better too!
There will always be days when I want to give up and say forget it, stay in bed, curl up with some mint chocolate chip ice-cream (my favorite!) and watch Clueless (also, favorite). I remind myself that I'm doing this challenge to push myself both mentally and physically, and therefore see results in all aspects of my life.
Lucky for me, this challenge comes with a Facebook group full of over one thousand women doing the same program as I am, as well as an enormous Instagram community, held together by the challenge hashtag, #khwinterchallenge16. I even made an Instagram account dedicated to my progress over the next eight weeks! This community supports each other when it gets tough by offering advice and anecdotes, helping one another calculate foods, and checking each other's form on tricky exercises. This community of women from all around the world has been nothing short of a delight, supporting me and pushing me to be my very best self.
As this challenge continues and eventually ends, I'll have learned so much more about fitness and nutrition, and I can't wait to see what the next opportunity will be.
What's your fitness routine? How do you make progress and push yourself regularly?
This, and you, are awesome. I have a vegan friend who really likes this automated meal planner website called https://www.eatthismuch.com. It can generate a week's worth of recipes and shopping lists given dietary restrictions and macro targets. I am not disciplined enough to follow through with its suggestions, but maybe someone like you with vegan executive functioning superpowers might find it helpful.


Our region is in desperate need for new and innovative transportation and transit solutions. Traffic is our number one detractor for improving our quality of life, as well as being a drain on the economy and a hazard to the environment. We need to get more people out of their cars even as our population continues to grow and industry continues to expand.
Building the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) and the Purple Line will be a huge step in helping to achieve this aim. The CCT is a critical link between UpCounty Montgomery and the Shady Grove Metro Station, and is the linchpin in spurring hundreds of millions of dollars in new science and technology development in the Great Seneca Science Corridor. The Purple Line is a vital link between east and west county that will help to take thousands of cars off of the road and provide a mass transit alternative between Bethesda, Silver Spring, and College Park. Montgomery County delegates have been working diligently to secure dedicated funding for the WMATA Metro.
BRT (bus rapid transit) is one way we are looking to improve public transit in the region. These dedicated lines will reduce traffic congestion, speed up commute times, and reduce emissions.In 2016, Montgomery County was awarded a $10 million federal TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant toward the Route 29 project by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Maryland State and Montgomery County governments will work with those at the federal level to develop this innovative line. We are also looking at ways to improve the Brunswick line of the MARC train.
When it comes to our transit woes, I am in favor of an "all of the above" approach to solutions. There is no one perfect solution, but rather a combination of systems and plans that will help improve quality of life, while also supporting multiple industries and providing as little disruption to day-to-day life as possible.


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So the exact same senior CIA official and CIA-NSA contractor involved in providing the seed-funding for Google have been concurrently considering the role of data-mining for counter-terrorism purposes, and have been creating concepts for tools really advanced by DARPA.
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Eisenhower memorial criticism all around
Eisenhower Memorial architect Frank Gehry
Responding to the latest changes (more background here) to the proposed Eisenhower Memorial, the Eisenhower family thanked the Memorial Commission and architect Frank Gehry for the revisions, but still expressed reservations about parts of the design:
"From our perspective, many of the changes that Gehry Partners made to the design concept are positive and welcomed," the family said–but added that more time is needed to break an impasse over the metal scrims.
"Not only are they the most expensive element of the Gehry design, they are also the most vulnerable to urban conditions…" the family said. "This one-of-a-kind experimental technology, which serves as the memorial's backdrop, is impractical and unnecessary."
The family said it won't support a design that uses the metal scrims, doubting how long they would last. Susan Eisenhower, Ike's granddaughter, said her family is not endorsing the design.
[…] In an interview, Susan Eisenhower said adding statues would draw attention to the 34th president's accomplishments. Other elements are innovative for today–namely the woven metal–but aren't designed for the ages, she said.
"It's America's memorial and our gift to future generations," she said. "If this doesn't get completed in my lifetime, I'm OK with that as long as we've got the right process in place."
Joining the family's unrest with the proposed design is a growing number of Executive officials and Congressional lawmakers, including Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who recently emphasized the need for the Commission to create a proposal approved by Eisenhower's family, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), who sits on the Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who announced that he would also withhold his support as a voting member of the National Capital Planning Commission–a committee that must approve the design in order for it to go forward.
As criticism of the proposed memorial has grown, so too have attacks on the critics. Writing in the Architectural Record about the Program's recent event on memorials, Ben Adler characterized the monument's critics as simply conservative "curmudgeons" who will "always revile Modernism for both ideological and aesthetic reasons."
Responding to Adler in the same journal, the Program's Cheryl Miller writes:
Adler cites in evidence of his argument Gary Schmitt's critique of Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Yet, in his opening remarks, Schmitt praised the memorial's design as "quite striking and artistically coherent," while arguing that "as a memorial, it failed the basic task of memorializing the virtues and sacrifices made by those who had served and died in that war." This is clearly not a statement against Modernism as a style, but rather a criticism of Lin's decision to make the nation's grief and regret the central message of the memorial. (Roger Scruton, the other panelist who discussed the Vietnam Memorial, also tempered his criticism with praise, noting that "it has a power to it.")
Further complicating the "conservative curmudgeon" line, panelist Michael J. Lewis, a professor of architecture at Williams College, has publicly praised Lin's design for its "sublime abstraction" while tweaking the more traditional Frederick Hart "Fighting Men" sculpture for its literalness. Certainly, no one on the panel would agree with the hyperbolic statement that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is, in Adler's words, "a contemptible failure."
Adler expresses befuddlement that the panel would criticize the classically inspired National World War II Memorial. "The irony…is that even when these curmudgeons get what they want, they remain unhappy," he writes. But none of the panelists subscribe to the simple-minded notion that classical design a good memorial makes. Instead, the panelists offered a much more nuanced take on why memorials fail or succeed—one in which the "Classicism-vs.-Modernism" battle was largely irrelevant.
For example, Diana Schaub's remarks (recently reprinted in The Weekly Standard) only briefly alluded to the controversies over the Martin Luther King and Dwight Eisenhower memorials before offering a thoughtful history of the Lincoln Memorial and its 1876 precursor, The Freedmen's Monument. Schaub argued that The Freedmen's Monument has been largely forgotten in favor of the Lincoln Memorial because, in "missing the element of black dignity and equality," it "spoke to the past as an expression of gratitude, but not to the future as a model for emulation."
In defending architectural Modernism, Adler falls into the very trap he warns against. We agree with panelist Bruce Cole that "a Modernist architect could create the proportion, order, stability, and balance needed to make an effective memorial." (This was no empty concession as Cole went on to cite specific examples, including the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme and the Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center.) But just because something is "bold and different" doesn't make it a good memorial.
Readers may disagree with the panelists about the merits of Gehry's design, but we encourage them to judge their arguments for themselves and watch the panel online.
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The subject of why directors so often feel the urge to mouth the words as they conduct, and why it is a good idea to overcome this urge is a subject I have visited before. And I don't need to say very much more than I did last time, so this will be a rather short post. But there was a communal penny-drop moment at the LABBS Directors Weekend back in July on this topic which I thought it worth sharing with you.
It was in one of the coaching sessions - three directors, half a chorus and a coach working together for 45 mins on helping the directors develop more effective technique. Often the directors wanted to work on how to become more expressive and communicative in their gestures, and often the answer was to do less at a full-body level so that the nuances of finger and facial expression weren't constantly competing with other body parts for attention.
And into this mix, one of the wonderful singers from the White Rosettes gave the feedback that she found she had more freedom to contribute to the music when the director stopped mouthing the words. She felt more personally involved in the music at both an emotional and a vocal level.
This was a very motivating bit of information for the director. It can be hard (!!) to change our habits, especially when those habits are rooted in our own deep commitments to feeling the music. But to learn that those habits are actually making our singers feel inhibited - well, that gives a good reason to work on that bit of technique. To stop mouthing the words thus becomes an expression of trust in the chorus to use their own hearts and brains, a recognition that the director doesn't have to do everything.
And possibly that's one of the reasons it's so hard - it's not just about the mouth, it's about the relationship. But if we relinquish some of that control, we are rewarded with a more genuinely communicative interaction between director and singers, and a freer, more resonant, and more meaningful choral sound.
The implication, Liz, is that we (I) mouth the words to support the chorus, as if we don't trust them to know the lyrics.
In my case I don't think that's true. I try very hard not to mouth the words (except, maybe to emphasise a vowel shape or something) but find myself doing it anyway about 50% of the time. I think it's because the song is 'playing' in my head and I have myself sung it during the learning process. Obviously, as a man, I have limited multitasking ability and with everything else going on in my head while I direct, that bit goes on to autopilot.
Also, what are your thoughts on the observation that lots of top directors mouth the words at least some of the time?
I think it is deeper than not trusting the singers to know the lyrics - at least in the case of the dynamic that informed this post. It was more a case of the director wanting to *do* all the music, so mouthing the words was part of a general tendency to over-direct. The trust issue was more about expression - letting the chorus sing, and accepting their contribution to the music, rather than imposing the director's vision with the singers as merely their 'instrument'.
I get the point about directors having started out as singers, too, though, both in the general sense of their musical careers, and the specificity of singing as part of the process of learning the music, which is of course essential. But part of the director's role is, having lived the music from the singers' perspective, to step out of that role in order to step into the role of guiding ear.
I'd add that it's not a specifically masculine multitasking issue at stake here - one of the big challenges for all directors is that merely doing what we do takes the full surface of our attention, and there isn't much headspace left to self-monitor our habits and mannerisms, whether good or bad. Which is why we need to develop practice strategies to address them, rather than just hoping for our good intentions to prevail over autopilot in the heat of rehearsal!
Oddly, I mouth the words much less in performance than I do in rehearsal. Maybe a case of trying too hard and over directing in rehearsal.
I take your point about assuming that because Jim Henry does something I can do it too!
Fantastic blogs Liz. Thank you.
I totally agree about mouthing the words. And would add that often parts will not have the same text at the same time which can make it even more confusing. However in my work with amateurs/beginners the performances are 'off-book', and choir members consistently feedback that they absolutely want/need me to mouth the words. Whether they could manage without it or not isn't relevant because it makes them feel more secure - and therefore more comfortable and able to give more to their performance. On the occasions that I do work with choirs who perform from scores I just have to remember not to do it! You are so right, it easily becomes a habit!
I think there is a useful distinction to make here between beginner and amateur singers. For those to whom everything is new and unfamiliar, then I'd agree that indulging the request for help with words may be helpful while they find their feet.
But for those who have some experience, the fact that they are performing from memory isn't a reason to ask you to do their work for them. I note that the event that gave rise to this post was in a genre that works predominantly off-book - indeed, could usefully (in my view) engage with the paper rather more than it often does!
Of course, just asking people to go cold turkey when they have developed the bad habit of relying on their director mouthing words would create more anxiety and insecurity than you'd want people to feel. But there are ways to wean people off this, just as there are ways to wean people off clinging to the sheet music when you want them to perform from memory.
You are right, and I am going to think about weaning strategies for existing choirs, and not start it with new choirs - except possibly at the start of verses when they may need a prompt!


A self-styled grammar vigilante has been correcting rogue apostrophes on a city's signs – for the last THIRTEEN years.
By day the anonymous crusader is a highly-qualified professional with his secret known only to a handful of close family and friends.
The vigilante – dubbed grammar's answer to Banksy – started his quest when he corrected a shop sign for 'Amy's Nail's' – removing the second apostrophe.
Since then he has put a stop to dozens of other rogue apostrophes around the city – including a hairdressers, estate agents and garages.
The man told BBC News: "I'm a grammar vigilante. I do take it to heart – I think it's a cause worth pursuing.
"I've been doing it for quite a lot of years now.
The vigilante takes care to make his corrections fit in – using the same typeface and colour as the original signs where necessary.
He affixes a sticker to cover or add the punctuation mark with his 'apostrophiser' – a device on a long pole.
One of his most recent corrections was to Cambridge Motors garage in the shadow of HMP Bristol where an errant apostrophe in Motor's had annoyed him for years.
It was successfully changed under cover of darkness – and garage Chris Knight didn't even spot it the following day.
Mr Knight, who has owned Cambridge Motors for 30 years, said: "I thank him for what he's done.
The vigilante denied he was breaking the law and said: "I think you can do it without causing too much offence, and being discreet in how you do it.
"I have felt extremely nervous. My heart has been thumping. I've got to make sure it's technically right.
Another recent correction was at Tux & Tails in Bristol's Gloucester Road where he corrected "gentlemans outfitters" to gentleman's outfitters.
Shop director Jason Singh, 42, said he hadn't noticed the original grammatical error or the change.
He said: "I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I will not be taking any further action.
"I have mixed feelings over it really. He could have let me know before doing it, which would have been more professional.
A documentary on the man called 'The Apostrophiser' will be broadcast tonight on BBC Radio Four.


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Govt bans pornographic contents on internet
Published On: September 23, 2018 11:30 AM NPT By: Republica | @RepublicaNepal
KATHMANDU, Sept 23: The government has issued a circular to all telecommunication and internet service providers to ban the propagation and dissemination of pornographic and sexual contents through any medium.
Issuing a statement on Friday evening, the Ministry of Information and Communications said that it decided to ban pornographic contents in line with Article 121 of the Criminal Code Act 2017 which has forbidden the exchange, publication and broadcasting of pornographic, sexual and vulgar contents.
The ministry informed that it decided to announce the ban after noticing that easy access to such vulgar contents through social networking sites had started disturbing social harmony in the country.
The ministry maintained that promotion of pornographic contents has been abetting sexual violence and encouraging aberration in the society.
The ministry has also requested all telecommunication service providers, internet service providers, operators of social networking sites and users to strictly prohibit sharing, publication and broadcasting of sexual and vulgar contents through the means of internet and electronic devices.
Porn ban draws mixed reaction
The ban on pornographic sites has drawn mixed reaction from the general public. While some believe that the ban is a good step taken by the government to address the increasing cases of rape, others think that the ban will have no effect on the increasing trend of rape cases. The internet frenzy population has taken to the social media to express their opinions on the government's decision to ban internet sites that contain pornographic and sexual contents.
Former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai lauded the government for taking a strong step to minimize sexual violence in Nepal. On Saturday evening, Bhattarai tweeted, "The ban on porn sites is a good and necessary step to put an end to the deep-rooted social anomalies and sexual assaults in the Nepali society."
However, a Twitter handler Thakur KC has claimed that it is very illogical of the government to prohibit dissemination of porn since it is very important for the youths to get to know more about the physical changes they go through during puberty. He tweeted, "It is natural for youths to get more concerned about physical changes going on in their bodies and the bodies of the member of the opposite sex."
Medical student Sulav Karki claimed that even though the ban on pornographic and sexual content is commendable, the government needs to put extra efforts to reduce rape cases.
"It is a total fantasy that the ban will help in reducing rape cases, especially in the rural areas. Much more needs to be done especially in the part of investigation and enforcing punishments," he tweeted.
Similarly, Information Technology executive Tikaram Belbase claimed that the government needs to focus more on disseminating sex education rather than banning pornographic sites.
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I would be interested in trading for it. Do I have something on the trade list that you can use? Please let me know. Thanks, Tony.
Couple of deals made, anyone else?
I am interested in the Flaherty.....what kind of value does it have?
Nice card, I just don't think I have anything unusual or nice in a Rickey. But good luck as it is nice card.
Didn't see any in this lot. If I find some in some of my other stuff I will send you a PM. Thanks, Tony.
Do you have any relics or autos? Rookie cards? Depending on what it is, I will even consider base of Cardinals.
St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs goodies would be preferred. Thanks and let me know, Tony.
Let me know what you have and let me know what you are looking for. Thanks, Tony.


In the every 3rd weekend schedule the child lives with one parent and visits the other parent every 3rd weekend.
This is how it looks in the calendar.
The basic every 3rd weekend schedule gives one parent a little more then 85% of the time with the child and the other parent a little less then 15%.
You can customize the every 3rd weekend schedule so it works better for you. Here are some example schedules with different changes you can make.
Change the times of the weekend visit. Here the weekend starts at 10:00 am on Friday and goes to noon on Monday.
Shift the days of the weekend visit. Here the weekend visit starts at 12:00 pm on Thursday and ends at 5:00 pm on Sunday.
Add visits during the week. Here there is a weekly midweek visit on Wednesday afternoon.
Add overnight visits during the week. Here when the parent doesn't have the weekend with the child they have a Thursday overnight visit (the weekend also starts on Thursday for consistency).
Include 3rd party time when the child isn't with either parent. Here is a schedule that shows when the child is in school. Showing 3rd party time will probably change the timeshare percentages of the parents.
You can use a visitation timeshare calculator as you look at options for your schedule. This allows you to explore different schedules and see the amount of time each parent has with each one.
This schedule works well for parents who live far away from each other.
This schedule can work for a child who needs a single residence and a lot of consistency.
This schedule is simple and easy to remember.
This schedule can work around different types of employment schedules.
This schedule can work for high conflict situations.
One parent has substantially more time with the child and this can cause fighting about the schedule.
The child goes a long time between visits with the parent who has every 3rd weekend.
The parent who only has weekend time doesn't participate in the weekday routine with the child.
The parent who only has weekend time may not know what's going on with the child in school or other activities.
This schedule can conflict with weekend activities like the child's sporting events.


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Science 101: How a Chain Reaction Works in a U.S. Nuclear Reactor
Paul Rebstock
Senior Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineer
The primary active ingredient in nuclear reactor fuel is a particular variety, or "isotope," of uranium, called U235. U235 is relatively rare — only about 0.7% of uranium as it exists in nature is U235. Uranium must be enriched to contain about 5% U235 to function properly as fuel for a U.S. commercial nuclear power plant.
U235 has 92 protons and 143 neutrons. Protons and neutrons are some of the almost unimaginably tiny particles that make up the nucleus of an atom — see Science 101 Blog #1. All other isotopes of uranium also have 92 protons, but different isotopes have slightly different numbers of neutrons.
Uranium is a radioactive element. Uranium atoms break apart, or disintegrate, into smaller atoms, releasing energy and a few leftover neutrons in the process. This happens very slowly for U235. If you have some U235 today, in about 700 million years you will have only half as much. You will have the remaining U235, plus the smaller atoms. The energy released will have gone into the environment too slowly to be noticed, and the extra neutrons will have been absorbed by other atoms.
While this happens very slowly, the disintegration of each individual atom happens very quickly, and the fragments are ejected at a very high speed. Those high-speed fragments are the source of the heat generated by the reactor. Under the right man-made conditions, the number of U235 atoms that disintegrate each second can be increased.
When a U235 atom disintegrates, it releases some neutrons. Some of those neutrons can be made to interact with other U235 atoms, causing them to disintegrate as well. Those "target" atoms release more neutrons when they disintegrate, and then those neutrons interact with still other U235 atoms, and so on. This is called a "chain reaction." This process does not work well for other isotopes of uranium, which is why the uranium needs to be enriched in U235 for use as nuclear fuel.
Most of the energy released when a U235 atom disintegrates is in the form of kinetic energy — the energy of physical motion. The fragments of the disintegrated atom collide with nearby atoms and set them vibrating. That vibration constitutes heat. The fuel rods get hot as the reaction progresses. The faster the chain reaction — that is, the larger the number of U235 atoms that disintegrate each second — the faster energy is released and the hotter the fuel rods become.
The uranium in a U.S. commercial nuclear reactor is thoroughly mixed with neutral material and formed into pellets about half inch wide and three-quarters of an inch long. The pellets are stacked tightly in metal tubes, forming "fuel rods" that are several feet long. Each fuel rod is just wide enough to hold a single column of pellets. The fuel rods are sealed, to keep all of the radioactive materials inside. There are thousands of these fuel rods in a typical reactor. They contain around 60 tons of uranium – but only about three tons are U235. (The majority of the uranium in the reactor is in the form of the most abundant naturally occurring isotope of uranium, U238, which cannot sustain the fission process without the help of an elevated concentration of the isotope U235.)
The people in charge of the reactor can control the chain reaction by preventing some or all of the released neutrons from interacting with U235 atoms. The physical arrangement of the fuel rods, the low U235 concentration, and other design factors, also limit the number of neutrons that can interact with U235 atoms.
The heat generated by the chain reaction is used to make steam, and that steam powers specialized machinery that drives an electrical generator, generating electricity. Science 101 will look at how that works in more detail in a later issue.
The author has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Author ModeratorPosted on October 14, 2014 October 14, 2014 Categories Science 101Tags atoms, basic science, NRC, nuclear chain reaction, nuclear power
5 thoughts on "Science 101: How a Chain Reaction Works in a U.S. Nuclear Reactor"
blackout says:
Aye Captain, the airborne monitoring also shows increased radiation readings after earthquakes 4 and larger in the Fukushima area. I have coined this the "Shake and Bake" effect of joustling the coriums. Admittedly, for me it is a tough one to model. But it should be modeled to determine risk and costs, as compared to the herculean task of "Lift and Seperate" the coriums. Especially important and in light of just week, Oak Ridge research proving beyond a doubt that elements can reorder themselves even in a solid matrix (like a mostly cooled corium) and that heavy elements in particular, like plutonium, are even betteer at moving in solids than lighter elements. Beside the gravity weight separation from beingin a pretty fluid state at the initial meltdown, and subsequent heavy element reordereding, what are the risks that a high enough mass of plutonium is shoved together with another mass pf mostly plutonium during a shake and bake earthquake, and the whole kit and kaboodle goes prompt critical sky high.
They are just beginning to understand some of this from the WIPP radiation explosion, but the risks from out of vessel coria are dramatically higher.
CaptD says:
I'd like to see the NRC post something about the spontaneous fissioning like those that are occurring at Fukushima, due to the corms interactions with ground/seawater water, which I call The Fuky Effect (which is the on-again, off-again fissioning of one of more of the corium(s), as they interact with water below Fukushima).
Good comment!
Thanks for your comment. We've revised the post to specify that fuel must be enriched for use in current U.S. commercial nuclear power plants. As for your other comment, yes, all Uranium isotopes decay (the definition of radioactive). I used "disintegrate" as a reasonable synonym for "fission" in this post, which was intentionally written at a middle-school level. For that reason, it does leave out some of the finer points that experts know.
Thomas B. Cochran says:
This piece contains an egregious error in the second sentence, "Uranium must be enriched to contain about 5% U235 to function properly as fuel for a nuclear power plant.". As most students of nuclear engineering surely know, reactors can be designed to operate successfully using natural uranium fuel, e.g, the first reactor built by Fermi, the early production reactors at Hanford and the CANDU reactors in Canada and elsewhere. The piece is also confusing in its reference to uranium being a "radioactive element" and references to "disintegration" in its failure to distinguish between radioactive decay, spontaneous fission and and the fission chain reaction in a reactor.
Who writes this stuff? Who at NRC reviews it before posting?
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Minimal requirements for sending emails with SalesAutopilot
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Because of the different rendering capabilities of e-mail clients your e-mail may be rendered differently in various clients. This can make it difficult for the readers to interpret the content. As marketers our goal is that our e-mails appear similarly in different clients.
One tool for testing the preview of an e-mail is to send it to different e-mail accounts. But this is not always possible (for example one computer can run only one Outlook version at a time, but the are other barriers).
The SalesAutopilot e-mail preview test could help you to see a preview of your e-mail in 48 variations of the most popular email clients, it provides code analysis and validation tools that help you get to the bottom of email rendering issues.
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In the left menu click the e-mail that you want to test. In the main frame click the "E-mail preview" link.
On the next screen select a delivery schedule by which you'll test the e-mail. It's important to choose a delivery schedule because the spam deliverability test needs a subject line and the sender's e-mail address. If you want to test the content of the e-mail only it's not necessary to select a delivery schedule. Press the "Start test" button to continue.
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Dana White: Georges St-Pierre won't get Khabib title fight because he broke his promise
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Jarrell Miller: Fury is The Popular One in UK Now, Not Joshua
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Anthony Joshua has promised Jarrell Miller he will "strip him of his soul" when he defends his world heavyweight titles as he responded to taunts from his US challenger he was a "posh" champion.
British boxer Joshua will fight in the United States for the first time when he defends his IBF, WBA, IBO and WBO crowns at Madison Square Garden in the challenger's home city of New York on 1 June.
It will be a clash between two unbeaten boxers, with Joshua boasting a record of 21 knockouts in 22 wins compared to Miller's mark of 23-0-1, with 20 KOs.
The pair had already held a testy press conference in New York last week, with Miller proclaiming Joshua a "fraud" and "a p***y".
Monday's event was relatively restrained until Miller suggested London's Joshua had had things "easy".
Miller, making mock snoring noises during Joshua's opening remarks, said: "The facial can't fight for him, the fans can't fight for him, he's not the popular one, all I hear is Tyson Fury now — he (Joshua) is a sucker."
Miller, alongside Joshua on a stage at a hotel near London's Heathrow Airport, said: "I've been hearing AJ's too posh, his nose is up here sometimes.
"For all the underdogs out there who are told they're not good enough, I'm proof that with one or two cheeseburgers and hard work and dedication you can go far."
Last week Brooklyn native Miller, a former kickboxer, was adamant he would stop Joshua in seven rounds, a claim he repeated on Monday.
"I don't need to think, I'll just get it done. You've got to go b***s to b***s. If I ever doubted myself I would not have made it this far," he said.
"The game plan's to stop him in seven rounds. You know how I feel about AJ, and my back-story and where I come from and where we're going."
After abandoning plans to fight again at Wembley on 13 April, Joshua is now trying to break in on the US market where Deontay Wilder, the WBC heavyweight champion and Fury have held sway since their controversial draw in Los Angeles in December.
The 29-year-old Joshua last fought in September at Wembley, stopping Russia's Alexander Povetkin in seven rounds.
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When exploring a new country one of the things we love most is trying the local cuisine and if possible do a cooking class.
Apart from the local street food and Warungs in Bali we wanted to prepare some of the most common dishes ourselves.
So we signed up for a cooking class in Bali.
Cooking classes are offered through all districts in Bali.
We decided to do a cooking class during our stay in Northern Bali, Lovina, at Warung Jegeg which is owned by Wayan, a super friendly and patient cook.
The cooking class in North Bali costs 350.000 IDR per person, which is not cheap for Indonesia but it was totally worth the experience and it was a private class.
Wayan offers her cooking classes at 2 different times.
The morning class (the one we chose) also includes a walk through the local market where we bought all the ingredients for our Balinese dishes.
Wayan explained all the different ingredients and what dish we need them for.
The morning class starts at 8 am and the meeting point is at Warung Jegeg.
When we arrived at the market it was already super busy.
All the restaurant owners and local families, as well as some tourists, were wandering through the small alleys.
The market offers everything a cook could need.
A huge variety of fruits and vegetables, some we had never seen before, self-made baskets, spices, and even brushes and jewelry were sold.
The most impressive was definitely seeing all the vegetable and fruit stands and how people were bargaining in front of them.
After we finished our tour at the local market, we drove back to Wayan's Warung and prepared everything we needed for the cooking class.
Wayan told us which ingredients we need for our menu and then we started unpacking, peeling, cutting and grinding.
She also explained which spice or kind of vegetable is important for the overall taste and answered all our questions patiently.
All our ingredients were nicely put together on a separate plate so we didn't mix the wrong ones together.
This also gave us a great overview on what belongs together and is relevant for the special taste of each dish.
The day we registered for the cooking class we had to choose from a big menu what kind of dishes we wanted to cook.
We chose the following 4 for our cooking class in Bali.
Ayam Kecap is chicken in a Balinese sweet sauce.
It has a sweet taste and is served with steamed rice.
This was definitely our favorite one!
So if you're in Northern Bali make sure you try it!
Mince chicken into small strips and fry until it's half cooked.
Chop the shallots, garlic and tomatoes and add 2 spoons of cooking oil.
Fry until fragrant and add sweet soy sauce, sugar, salt, ginger, anise, chicken, oyster sauce and 4 spoons of water.
The second Balinese dish we cooked was Tempe Bumbu Manis.
As the name already reveals, it's made out of tempeh, peanuts, a little chili and sweet soy sauce.
This is our second favorite one.
Slice the tempeh in very thin slices, deep fry them until golden and crispy.
Chop the garlic, onions, chilies and put them with two spoons of oil in the wok.
Add the other ingredients and stir until half done.
Add the salt, sweet soy sauce, sugar and mix it all together.
Finally add the dry tempeh stir again (you can add fried peanuts if you like them).
When we googled Beregedel most of the time we found recipes for fish cake.
The one we cooked were like potato nuggets – no fish at all!
For the nuggets we mainly used smashed potatoes a few different spices and herbs.
Chop the chilies, garlic and celery leaves.
Slice the potatoes into thin slices.
Deep fry the potatoes for 5 minutes (until half-cooked).
Mash both small and large chilies, garlic, salt and celery together to make a paste.
Add the half cooked potatoes and mash everything together.
Make small potato balls, about 3cm in diameter, and flatten them slightly in your hands.
Deep fry them in hot oil until they are golden brown.
A curry was the last dish we had chosen for our cooking class.
Kare Ayam is a chicken curry and it was really good.
We told Wayan that we don't want it too spicey (Julia can't eat that hot), so we only used a little chilli, but this dish usually is quite hot.
Boil the chicken and then tear it into small pieces (keep the water).
Heat the pan with cooking oil, add the mashed mixture and fry until fragrant.
Add one glass of water, the chicken, bay leaf and boil until all the flavors are infused in the chicken.
Add coconut milk and boil for another 3 minutes.
Every dish we prepared with Wayan was delicious!
We learned about ingredients, we hadn't known before, had a fun day in the kitchen and enjoyed delicious self-made meals.
Our favorites are definitely Ayam Kecap & Tempe Bumbu Manus Crispy.
We just couldn't get enough of the sweet sauce!
But we will definitely try all four of them at home.
Maybe we'll do a cooking class Bali style for family&friends.
What better event to tell them about our adventures in Bali than by sharing a Balinese menu.
Wayan told us that the 4 dishes we prepared are for 2 – 4 persons.
Our estimation: 4 – 6 persons (we were so full).
So either we are really small eaters or it was just too much.


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Fulham F.C. vs Sheffield United F.C. Prediction 20 December 2021
Tournament: EFL Championship
Location: Craven Cottage, London
On the next Monday, a match of the twenty-third round of the EFL Championship between Fulham and Sheffield United is announced.
After a spectacular 4:1 win against Barnsley, Fulham drew the next four meetings - with Derby (0:0), Preston (1:1), Bournemouth (1:1) and Blackpool (1:1). Despite a protracted streak of setbacks, the Cottages are still in the lead with 45 points with 51:18 scored-conceded statistics.
Last year's Premier League participants Sheffield United are now only thirteenth. In twenty-one games, they earned 29 points, complemented by a goal difference of 28:28. Moreover, the Blades completely corrected for misfires with Blackburn (1:3) and Coventry (0:0), beating Reading, 1:0, Bristol City, 2:0 and Cardiff, 3:2.
Fulham looks a little more appealing on paper, but the London team is not in optimal condition. As for us, Sheffield United have the strength to go home with at least a draw.
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I thought this had a lot of good insight for why my book, "backwards" started off with a lot of interest, then went quiet for a time and now, in the last few weeks, has generated a lot of interest--but from a variety of different pockets.
In the last year, millions of people have bought a copy of 50 Shades. Here's the thing: they didn't all do it at the same time.
Some people bought it when it was a self-published ebook. Others jumped in when word of mouth started to spread, enough that it became a bestseller. Most people, though, waited until it was on the bestseller list, in piles at the bookstore and the subject of positive and negative discussion and even parodies. And a few people are going to buy it two years from now, after everyone else who was willing to read it already has.
Another example: Just about all of the people who read this blog have read one of my books, and yet, just about no one who reads this blog has read my newest book yet (less than 2%, surely).
This is what almost always happens. Individuals choose a slot based on what sort of leadership or risk or followership behavior makes them happy right now. Early adopters and nerds like to go first. But some people are early when it comes to shoes, or to mystery novels, or records, while others adopt early when it comes to political ideas or restaurants.
Most of the time, most of us choose to be in the slot of mass. The masses wait to see the positive reviews, or they monitor the bestseller lists. The masses know they have plenty of time, that they'll get around to it when they get a chance, and mostly, they are driven by what their peers (the early adopters, the ones who keep track of this stuff) tell them. "Why waste time and money on the wrong thing," they argue, with some persuasion. So they wait for proof. Social proof or statistical proof.
The glitch in the system is that many marketers obsess only about the launch. They put their time and money and effort into the first week on sale, and then run to work on the next thing, when in fact, the mass market, those that choose to wait for more than, "it's new!" haven't decided to take the leap yet.
Perversely, marketers look at what typically happens after the launch and say, "it's not worth sticking with this, because stuff that doesn't take off right away rarely does." And the reason? Because it was abandoned by the marketers who introduced it and then ran off to play with the next shiny object. It's self-fulfilling.
The fact is that almost all the profits of the record and book businesses come from the backlist, from Pink Floyd and Dr. Seuss. Apple sold almost all of its iPhones in the months after each launched, not the first day. Because that's what the market wanted. The exception that proves the rule: The Super Bowl only happens once a year, and it's just about the only time that everyone does everything at the same time.
I don't think the job of the marketer is to encourage people to jump from one chosen slot to another. I don't think it's worth the time or the energy to get someone who is comfortable with mass to suddenly turn into an early adopter, at least for today. Better, I think, to live in and work with and embrace your market, to go where they are, not to pressure them to change their habit.


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Lenovo Yoga 6 review | Laptop Mag
Today's best Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Gen 6) deals
Price: $749 (starting); $949 (reviewed at)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
GPU: AMD Radeon
RAM: 16GB
Display: 13.3-inch, 1080p
Battery: 12:34
Size: 12.1 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
Weight: 3 pounds
The Lenovo Yoga 6 is a great laptop to match with your cool denim outfit, but it also offers long battery life, solid performance and a clicky keyboard. All of that is wrapped up in a sweet $749 deal.
However, its 13.3-inch display is a little dim, and the Yoga 6 gets surprisingly warm for something that's not a gaming laptop. But overall, we really like the Yoga 6's design, performance and battery life, making it worthy to be one of the best laptops you can buy.
Lenovo Yoga 6 price and configuration
The Lenovo Yoga 6 comes with two configurations to choose from, but don't worry, both options are relatively affordable.
The base model starts at $749 (currently $599 on sale), and offers a 13.3-inch, 1080p touchscreen display with an AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processor, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD, and an AMD Radeon GPU. Those specs are pretty great for the price.
Bumping it up a level, you can opt for a slightly pricer version, which just so happens to be the model we reviewed. For $949 (currently $749 on sale), you can upgrade to an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD, and AMD Radeon GPU. Similar to the first configuration, this one also includes the 13.3-inch, 1080p touchscreen display.
Lenovo Yoga 6 design
Lenovo has a bold new approach to the laptop chassis, outfitting the Yoga 6 with an abyss blue fabric cover that looks and feels like a pair of denim jeans. Embedded in the top corner of the fabric is the "YOGA" logo, while the opposite bottom corner has the "Lenovo" emblem in a glossy chrome.
Lenovo Yoga 6 review (Image credit: Future)
The abyss blue continues into the interior portion of the laptop, with a smooth, blue deck and a decent sized keyboard that has top-firing speakers on either side. The side bezels surrounding the screen are small, while the top is just large enough to support the webcam, but that bottom bezel is a chunker.
Since it's a 2-in-1 laptop, you can fold the lid 90, 180 and 360 degrees, allowing you to put it in a tent or tablet mode, which is nice for folks that either just want to look at the display or want to do a bit of sketching.
At 12.1 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches and 3 pounds, the Yoga 6 is incredibly thin and light. However, the HP Pavilion Aero 13 (11.7 x 8.2 x 0.67 inches, 2.2 pounds), Asus Zenbook 13 (UX325) OLED (12 x 8 x 0.55, 2.5 pounds), and Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (12.1 x 8.8 x 0.6 inches, 2.8 pounds) were all thinner and lighter than the Yoga.
Lenovo Yoga 6 ports
The number of ports on the Lenovo Yoga 6 isn't the greatest. In total there are five ports, two of which are the same type.
Located on the left side is one USB Type-C port, which also is the charging port, a USB Type-A 3.2 port, and a headphone jack.
The right side features another USB Type-A 3.2 port and USB Type-C port, along with the power button.
Lenovo Yoga 6 display
The Yoga 6's 13.3-inch, 1080p touchscreen display is a little dim, so I can't really say I enjoyed watching dark scenes with the laptop, but overall the color quality is great.
Watching the trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, I noticed that the scenes taking place at night or in the dark were hard to see in a brightly lit room. Despite that, the color contrast on the Yoga 6 is absolutely beautiful. In the scene where Neo is in a city full of a green numeric code, the contrast of the colors popped against the nightly city scene.
The Yoga 6 covered 77.2% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, which just surpassed the premium laptop average (72%) and matched the Surface Laptop 4 (77%). However, it couldn't get past the Aero 13 (85%) and ZenBook 13 (98.2%).
At 276 nits of brightness, it's the lowest compared to the competitors, which doesn't come as a shock to me. Both the Surface Laptop 4 (349 nits) and Asus Zenbook 13 (368 nits) slid past the 310-nit premium laptop average, while Aero 13 peaked at 451 nits, kicking everyone's butt.
Lenovo Yoga 6 keyboard, touchpad, and touchscreen
What the Yoga 6 loses in portability, it makes up for with its decently spaced keyboard. Each press of the keys felt pleasantly clicky and offered enough feedback to satisfy me.
Lenovo Yoga 6 (Image credit: Future)
I hit 51 words per minute on the 10fastfingers.com typing test, which is just a couple below my 53-wpm average. The keys offer a nice bump every time I type on them, but I'm still getting used to the smaller deck since I usually use a 14-inch laptop.
I drew a little portrait of my kitty cat Moonlight with the Yoga 6's touchscreen display, and it felt really smooth and responsive.
The 2.5 x 4.1-inch touchpad is soft to the touch, but the clicks are a bit shallow. It was responsive with Windows 10 gestures like two-finger scrolling and three-finger tab switching.
Lenovo Yoga 6 audio
The Lenovo Yoga 6's top-firing speakers aren't very loud or well-balanced.
The opening guitar in Hazen's "This House" was bright and full, but the following vocals weren't as crisp as they could've been. Also, the drums were a little muddy when combined with the guitar, and since there's not a lot of bass, the percussion sounds more treble-heavy. The speakers just sound too shallow.
There's Dolby Atmos included with the Yoga 6, but no matter how much tweaking I did in the Music settings (which let you choose between detailed, balanced or warm), something always sounded a little off. There's also Movie, Game and Voice settings, too.
Lenovo Yoga 6 performance
With the Lenovo Yoga 6, you get an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor with 16GB of RAM, which didn't even flinch when I opened 38 Google Chrome tabs, three YouTube videos and Discord to all run at once.
On the Geekbench 5.4 benchmark, the Yoga 6 scored 5,514, which beat the premium laptop average (4,467). It also surpassed the ZenBook 13's Intel Core i7-1165G7 (5,428) and the Surface Laptop 4's Intel Core i7-1185G7 (4,829), but it couldn't get past the Aero 13's AMD Ryzen 7 5800U processor (5,876).
The Lenovo Yoga 6 transcoded a 4K video to 1080p in 12 minutes and 34 seconds on our HandBrake benchmark, which wins over the premium laptop average (16:06). It even beat the ZenBook 13 (16:50) and Surface Laptop 4 (17:01), but lost again to the Aero 13 (9:05).
Lenovo provides a 512GB SSD with a transfer rate of 406 megabytes per second, which isn't very fast, losing to the average premium laptop (796.5 MBps). The ZenBook 13's 512GB SSD (513 MBps), the Surface Laptop 4's 512GB SSD (563 MBps), and the Aero 13's 512GB SSD (503 MBps) all beat the Lenovo.
Lenovo Yoga 6 graphics
The Lenovo Yoga 6 is packing a simple, integrated AMD Radeon chip, but it still holds its own in certain games.
On Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm (Medium, 1080p) benchmark, the Yoga 6 averaged 46 frames per second, soaring above the 30-fps threshold. Rocking integrated Intel GPUs, the Aero 13 (26 fps), Surface Laptop 4 (30 fps), and ZenBook 13 (20 fps) couldn't make it past the 30-fps mark.
However, the Yoga 6 scored 3,002 on the 3DMark FireStrike synthetic benchmark test, which falls short of the Zenbook 13 (4,407), Aero 13 (3,182), and the Surface Laptop 4 netted a (5,089).
Lenovo Yoga 6 battery Life
There aren't any customizable battery options with the Lenovo Yoga 6, so what you buy is what you get, but you won't be disappointed.
The Yoga 6 comes with the 4-cell, 45 WH Lithium-ion polymer battery, and when surfing the web at 150 nits of brightness, our Laptop Mag Battery Test determined that the Yoga 6 could last for 12 hours and 34 minutes. It crushed the Surface Laptop 4 (10:46), ZenBook 13 (13:06) and Aero 13 (10:32).
Lenovo Yoga 6 webcam
The 720p webcam on the Lenovo Yoga 6 does not do a great job.
The 720p webcam is located in the top-center portion of the upper bezel. Immediately when opening up the camera, I was hit with haziness and blotchiness. The camera has no ability to focus whatsoever. With that being said, the haziness also affects the color in the picture, with most of my rosy skin fading out. Things like my lips, eyes, and hair color were barely distinguishable. However, it does feature a very small switch above the webcam that enables webcam privacy through a shutter.
Lenovo Yoga 6 heat
You know how you get really hot in jeans on a sunny day? I guess the same happened with the Yoga 6. The laptop got pretty hot, hitting 115 degrees Fahrenheit on the underside, which is far above our 95-degree comfort threshold. But it stayed on the cooler side with the touchpad, which got to 74 degrees, while the center of the keyboard got up to 94 degrees, both of which stayed below our comfort threshold. The laptop's hottest point was on the far rear underside, about 1.5 inches left of center, which reached a whopping 124 degrees. Ouch.
Lenovo Yoga 6 software and warranty
Most of what you'll need is packed all into the Lenovo Vantage app, which is where you can find the latest BIOS and driver updates, information about the Yoga 9i, and the system settings and warranty information. There is also another app called Active Pen, which allows you to customize the button controls.
Otherwise, you'll find some Windows 10 apps preinstalled, but nothing that's too out of the ordinary or annoying, since you can easily uninstall it.
The Yoga 6 also comes with the average 1-year limited warranty.
The Lenovo Yoga 6 is a wonderful laptop that not only looks good, but works well thanks to its AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, clicky keyboard and long battery life. However, if you don't like dim displays, and can't stand when laptops get hot, you might want something else.
Try looking at the HP Pavilion Aero 13, which is one of the lightest laptops around that offers a super bright display.
But overall, you won't find a laptop that looks as cool as the Yoga 6, and this one even flips.
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Q: Spring Batch - Don't write to file (or delete file) in case of any exception Is it possible to not write data to a file in case there are any exceptions present or what would be the best way to delete said file in case any errors occur?
I'm currently using a custom writer that extends the FlatFileItemWriter to write data, I encountered a problem in which a validation fails in my custom Processor and I throw a custom Exception and the step exit status is marked as FAILED as expected, however there is some partial data in the file that I'm writing to, as a requirement this file can't contain partial data, it should be all the data when there are no errors, in case there are any errors, be it in the Reader, Processor or Writer then the file should't be generated at all.
I can't skip or filter the record that fails validation, because any missing records in this file will be treated as deleted, which might not be the case.
So how can I make sure that any file that was being written to is Deleted in case of any error encountered in the step's process?
I found a solution that feels kind of hacky in which I implement StepExecutionListener in my writer and do the following:
this.errorDetected is just a flag in my writer that is set to true when any validation fails.
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Is this a good solution? Or would you recommend something better?
Thanks!

A: what about with 'noSkip', I used with database and worked fine
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The processor something like:
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}

}
And in the flow definition of the job create a clean up step
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France is one of the most popular countries to visit in Europe due to all the monuments and the beautiful places it has. People who want to travel and have good vacation days always think about France as one of the main options to go and enjoying good places on holidays. However, most of these people don't know some of the most beautiful places to visit in this wonderful country.
The Louvre's museum is one of the most important museums in the world. It is placed in the Louvre's palace and has the most beautiful works devoted to impressionism, fine arts, archeology, and decorative arts. It is visited by millions of tourists due to its amazing structure. If you want to know about this incredible place, and learning about art and human history, you should visit the Louvre's museum and have an unforgettable experience.
This amazing tower can't be forgotten. It's the most popular place in France and it must be visited by you if you are thinking about traveling to France this summer. It has 300 meters of height and it's visited by thousands of people every year. The Eiffel Tower is known for its majestic appearance and the number of beautiful lights that are seen throughout the city of Paris. When you visit the tower and reach the different levels of height you can see the beautiful view of Paris. Something incredible about this is that you can also enjoy a good meal when visiting the tower in one of its good restaurants that offer excellent typical dishes of the city.
You have been arranging this excursion for a long time. Everything has kept running as arranged… as of recently. Little Charlotte won't consider anything as nourishment until the point when it is pre-tried by the cast of Frozen. She won't eat, has a fit, and everybody is gazing.
Let it out, you have been fearing this minute from the earliest starting point of your outing. Wheedling has effectively ended up being useless. Relatives are starting to get disappointed and you are feeling defenseless and sad.
For guardians with youngsters who are awfully particular eaters, distressing mealtimes are a standard. What's more, the overwhelming fight proceeds until the point when their palates develop (don't stress, it will in the long run happen) and they begin tolerating general nutritious sustenance as nourishment. Be that as it may, amongst once in a while, here are tips to evade the making a scene at each mealtime, particularly amid the family trips.
Fussy eaters are for the most part hesitant to put new and new sustenance in their mouths at first. So don't be astounded in the event that they are not willing to contact anything new. Do some examination and planning before your trek. Take a stab at presenting some nearby kinds of your goal into your cooking so they can acquaint themselves with the flavor profile of the neighborhood food through the rehashed introduction.
Normally, kids are interested – so let them investigate the city as well! So let them pick an eatery now and again. Including them in this way improves the probability that they'll discover something that they'll appreciate. You can help by clarifying what decisions are accessible and giving them a short portrayal of the sorts of sustenance on the menu. You may even be enjoyably astonished by the result!
Normally before traveling, an individual is supposed to discuss travel plans with their healthcare provider at least 6 to 8 weeks before the travel. Travel vaccinations are categorized into three: routine required and recommended. Whichever the case, you should not take for granted these vaccinations to avoid facing health issues in the new location. For example, it has been classified as a requirement when traveling to tropical South America and the sub-Saharan Africa to be vaccinated for yellow fever, a deadly viral infection that can cause death. Take the vaccination approximately 2 months before travel and not less than that so that to allow your body to create proper immunity. Conditions which may be rare in your country or state due to immunity in the general population may be more common in other countries.
The holidays are close, and you are probably thinking about where in the world you could visit and spend some excellent days with your family or your partner. Below we show you a small list with several of the best places in the world to vacation this summer.
At 3,600 meters above sea level, is the spectacular salt desert is the largest in the world, has approximately 16,000 square kilometers. A paradise that you can confuse with the sky, the Salar de Uyuni is considered one of the most beautiful places that can be found in the world.
This beautiful salt is surrounded by mountains, a thin layer of water covers part of the surface of the same, producing reflections of peaks, clouds, and mirages.
The summer is here! Learn a few summer travel tips that will aid your traveling experience perhaps for a vacation to tourist places or road trips; you can't be tired of learning new things.
The winter months are characterized by busy times even at the airport because obviously, the winter is such a good time to hit the vacation grounds or to hit the roads. Whether you would be traveling by road or air you need the summer travel tips.
A lot of people travel in the summer, so you really have to be smart to avoid crowds. Plan to travel in the early morning or late night where there are fewer crowds. Moreover, traveling around this time will save you some money because tickets are priced less during this period. And if you can travel on off-peak days like Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Grenada is one of those germs that not many tourists are considered going to. However, this is a beautiful island that will surprise you around every corner. The one thing that are preventing people from visiting this island is the fact that they are afraid that they are going to be bored during their stay. That there aren't any places that you can visit and fun things that you can do. This isn't true. There are many things that you can do and places that you can visit when you are visiting this beautiful island.