The residential sector has been thriving, supported by factors like a rapidly growing middle class. This has seen an increase in disposable income, allowing more people to afford to buy their own homes. Owning a home is the ultimate dream for many, and affordable housing is the solution for those who cannot build for themselves due to varying factors. It helps that there's renewed focus on affordable housing from both public and private sectors. With that said, buying a house is exciting, but one should keep in mind that it is a long-term investment. The road to the dream is paved with many potential mistakes, but these can be avoided if the process is approached with caution.
Here are seven potential land mines first-time home-buyers should aim to sidestep.
As much as getting a piece of real estate within the 'right' address or neighbourhood is recommended, this should not be a priority. Many people lose sight of getting value for money just to own a house in a neighbourhood they'd want their friends to know about. To avoid the blind allure of crowd choices, list what your ideal home should be like, as well as the ideal location – but prioritise getting value for your money.
Many real estate agents sell property on the basis of a 'Government-promised' access road to the tarmac. Implementation of such infrastructure projects takes a considerable amount of time. Weigh if the benefits of the promise are worth the wait.
Unfortunately, some people choose where to live based on where people of their community or economic class tend to gravitate towards. Considering that the house you buy could end up being your lifetime residence, plan your purchase with what matters to you in mind. The important things could be proximity to your workplace, your family, or amenities like schools, hospitals and police stations.
Does your developer have a track record of quality finishes or finishing in time if you're buying off-plan? Make a point of visiting the developer's previous houses or apartments to assess the quality of work and maintenance of communal areas once the project is done. This will give you a clearer idea of the actual product and answer questions, such as whether the developer takes up the role of facilities management.
The devil is in the details. One should always keep in mind that there are other costs in addition to the buying price. These include legal fees, stamp duty, maintenance costs and service charges, which more often than not are largely dependent on the neighbourhood and type of project built. Ensure you understand how much other developments in the area cost, and whether the deal you're considering is too expensive or is in tandem with the market average.
What do you hope the size of your family will be in five years' time. Will you need to move into a bigger house? Will the children move out and leave you with a nearly empty five-bedroom house? Is it a house you can comfortably grow old in? These are important to think about. For instance, for a couple approaching retirement and whose children no longer need to live in their parents' house, would getting a three-bedroom villa with two domestic servants' quarters (DSQs) work better than a five-bedroom house? With the first option, the DSQs can be let out or used to accommodate guests.
When investing in a home, conduct thorough land-use due diligence for the area. What are the possibilities that the face of the area will change in the future? If it's a low-rise designated area, are the regulations strict or controlled enough? Are there upcoming high-rise buildings that have been approved? As a first-time buyer, chances are that you're more susceptible to hidden mistakes that could be financially and emotionally expensive. However, as tedious as the process can be, you must continuously educate yourself to remain in the know. Talking to real estate experts and reading research reports would help. Additionally, before parting with your money, ensure that you are financially stable to make the purchase. To avoid future financial constraints, budget and get your finances in order first and then identify a home based on the budget – not the other way round. For mortgage buyers, ensure you understand the size of mortgage you are eligible for from your financier. A mortgage is reliant on factors like the size of your income and the house deposit. More importantly, understand the repayment plan, which is also determined by your age and current interest rates.
'Agricultural land' or farm lands cannot be acquired by foreign individuals. 'Agricultural land' is usually owned by indigenous people. If purchase is made through a company – the majority of which must be Kenyan-owned – then it is allowed. The land will be bought under the company's name.
The first step to purchasing property in Kenya is to hire a real estate lawyer. A title search on the property is very important as many areas are not registered. Once property has been chosen and a price is agreed upon, the lawyer prepares a sale agreement as a conditional preliminary contract, signed by both parties. Upon execution, the buyer pays a deposit of 10% to 30% of the purchase price, which is usually refundable if the seller defaults on the transaction.
The lawyer submits the documents to the Lands Office to be able to register the transfer, including the original title held by the seller, clearance certificates, consent transfer and the form for valuation for stamp duty. At the same time, the buyer settles the remaining balance with the vendor. Taxes and lawyer fees is paid within 30 days from closing.
It is possible to purchase in Kenya without being in the country. One can assign a lawyer to go through the whole process on the buyer's behalf through a power of attorney.
Second, you will instinctively know it.
Right now you're probably wondering how you will know that you have found the right house if you don't sleep on it. What's wrong with sleeping on it? Everything is wrong with sleeping on it. Trust yourself. Don't second guess your own instincts. Your instincts will not steer you in the wrong direction.
Have you heard the phrase: shuffle your feet, lose your seat? Somebody else could buy your house out from under you while you're counting sheep. You're not the only home buyer looking for a house to buy with your specific criteria. You might not know it, but there are other home buyers with similar intentions looking at homes today in the very neighborhoods where you want to buy.
The last thing you want to hear your buyer's agent say is another buyer made an offer and it was accepted minutes before your offer was submitted. Happens all the time, too.
Unless you're buying a brand new home, there is not another home around the corner just like the home that now you can't buy. When you find that house, buy it.
You Want to Go Inside the HousePart of the excitement of looking at homes is not knowing which could be your new home when you pull up to the curb. Is it the one on the left, or does the house on the right strike your fancy? If it is the house on the right, and you like it better than the house on the left, that could be a sign. It means there is something about this house that appeals to you.
The House Embraces You the Moment You EnterWithin 3 seconds of entering the house, you will know whether it feels warm and comforting. Does it seem to speak to you? Does the house invite you to explore? Does it feel, well . . . right? Like home? Then it probably is.
You Don't Feel Funny in the BathroomSometimes buyers feel so uncomfortable near a bathroom that they won't walk into the room. They are afraid to let their feet touch that bathroom floor. They will stand outside, grab the door frame, and poke their heads in for a minute. If you can walk into the bathroom and feel compelled to open the shower door or stroke the vanity marble, this is your house.
You Are Possessive About the HouseMaybe your agent points out a flaw and says, "There is a stain in the kitchen sink," and you want to slap her face for saying something so mean about this house. You want to defend every flaw you see. If you even see the flaws, because right now, flaws do not matter.
You Begin to Envision Furniture ArrangementIf you walk into the master bedroom and immediately can envision your bed against a particular wall, this might be your house. If you find yourself thinking that the living room window is a perfect spot to put a tree come Christmas, you're already hooked.
You Can See Yourself Painting a Wall Your Favorite ColorPerhaps deep purple is not your favorite color. Maybe it's blue. Maybe you're thinking those purple walls in the kid's room would look better in a pale blue jean color. In fact, you might even know the name of the paint color you plan to use because you've been thumbing through Pottery Barn catalogs and this home looks just like those.
The House Fits Your Basic NeedsThe dynamics might not hit every bullet point on your list, but it meets the basic requirements. The house has the number of rooms and space you need. Maybe it doesn't have a garage, and in a flash of enlightenment you realize that buying a house with a garage is not important. Maybe you suddenly realize you could build a garage. Being flexible about which issues are deal-killers is a good quality.
You Want to Stop Looking at Other HomesAll of the other homes you've been looking at no longer appeal to you. The homes on that list you've been carrying around seem insignificant. Moreover, the homes you had previously rated a #8 have now fallen to a #2 rating. The homes you have seen pale in comparison. You would feel like a traitor to this home if you went to visit other homes. This is it.
You Can't Wait to Brag About This House to Your FriendsIt would not be unusual for you to snap a few photos and text message your best friend before you've finished touring the home. You feel excited. The excitement seems to manifest itself. You shoot more photographs. Suddenly your phone is in burst mode and before you realize it, you have hundreds of photos.
Organizing your pantry can be a relief for the home cook. Knowing where your go-to items are, and have a system in place to re-stock the pantry when necessary will help you out on many fronts: with being more organized at home, in planning meals, and with grocery shopping.
If you've been putting this task off for a while, I've got three really great reasons for you to finally tackle it this weekend. Spoiler alert: it will save you money, it will save you time, and it will teach you about your shopping, eating and cooking habits. This is valuable information when you're trying to budget and meal plan.
The first step in the pantry organization process (after deciding to get your kitchen pantry organized) is to declutter the pantry.
Commit to having a clutter-free pantry.
Why? It's just so much easier when you don't have to shuffle around clutter to get to the stuff you really need. You'll have less waste because less food will go bad, you'll save money because you won't buy duplicates, and you'll save time because getting dinner on the table is a lot faster when you can quickly find what you need.
Dust the pantry, starting with the highest shelf, and then wipe down each shelf one at a time. Be sure to cover the tops of doors and check the ceiling for cobwebs.
Those Harry & David gift bags are delightful to receive in the mail, but once I'm done eating the canned nuts, the scone mixes and bags of dried fruit tend to go stale in the back of my pantry. One way to combat this is to bake any mixes and give them right back to the person who gifted you in the first place.
Like the saffron example I shared or anything else that strikes your fancy walking through the grocery store. You may be thinking "I'd like the be the kind of person who eats anchovies more often." Again, only buy new/interesting items if you are committed to using them right away.
I never buy junk food because I don't think a bag of potato chips or a box of cookies would survive more than a few hours in my pantry without being devoured. But if you regularly buy junk food you may find bags of Lays potato chips about ¼ full of crumbs, some stale popcorn remnants, or broken cookie pieces.
When I used to move into new apartments each year, I would line things up in my pantry and kitchen cabinets by size and height. This makes sense on a visual level but doesn't exactly make for the best organizing scheme.
Arrange items in your pantry by group, not by size.
Not only will this look logical in your pantry, it makes sense for cooking, too.
I have a vinegar group which includes: champagne, apple cider, balsamic, rice wine. To that mix I've added white cooking wine, olive and grape oil, and an olive oil spray. The bottles vary in height and width, but now when I want to make a salad dressing, everything I need is occupying the same space in my pantry.
Then, arrange items at the right height in your pantry.
First, keep the items you use most regularly in your prime pantry real estate. This means the space between your shoulders and knees. It's easier to reach and easier to put back after use.
I recommend items you buy in bulk be stored in the bottom of the pantry (because these items are typically heavy), snacks be up top so you have to reach for them, and spices at eye-level.
Choosing the right pantry storage solutions is a biggie. I firmly believe you can properly store everything in your kitchen pantry without the aid of any storage solution. Too often people (including me!) reach for their credit card to solve a problem they could easily fix with extra 5 minutes to think it through and some elbow grease. That said, kitchen storage solutions do come in handy if you're for more space.


A rebranded digital presence, improve online revenue streams, and showcase the amazing work to promote this life-saving service.
Storytelling through videos, a new donations portal, an online shop (who can resist buying a carebear?), events management, a focus on recruitment, and a re-structured website for easy navigation.
A showcase of Lifeflight's incredible work, a jump in donations and purchases and successful re-engagement this not-for-profit's wide range of supporters.
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Chained Echoes Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Many indie games nowadays attempt to capture the essence of retro old school 16-bit titles, but only a few are able to truly shine and stand out. Matthias Linda's Japanese-inspired role playing game Chained Echoes not only pays immense homage to the games we played under the covers when we were kids, but also brilliantly embraces some modern mechanics while honoring old ones. Originally started as a Kickstarter back in 2019, this indie pixel turn based RPG created by a solo developer is finally releasing on all modern day platforms. I'll just say it now: Chained Echoes starts off very slow and quite confusing, but stick with it. You play as several different characters, with different backgrounds and motivations, in various parts of the game world. The characters fatefully cross paths in a narrative set piece that ultimately forms your starter party for the rest of the game. The game is set on the continent of Valandis, where a raging war ensues among three kingdoms, and super cool advanced mech battle robots and dragons exist in the same reality. Since you end up gathering a team of multiple characters, there isn't one central main one.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)
But I guess you can say the "main" main character is Glenn, a red haired boy adopted into a group of mercenaries who just happens to also be an excellent mech pilot. He is accompanied by his mentor and friend Kylian as they venture out to find the source for a weapon of mass destruction. The other four characters in your party of six include the sly but kind hearted thief Sienna, an undercover princess Lenne and her bodyguard Robb, and a noble lord Victor. Matthias Linda has created a live and thriving fantasy steampunk world here with an incredible backdrop for a narrative filled to the brim with lore. Don't worry, you'll meet tons of characters that you can recruit into your party as the narrative progresses. Gameplay plays out in stereotypical turn-based fashion, where your party members and enemies take turns whacking each other. A nifty visual timeline is available to you at the top right hand corner of the screen that shows you whose turn is next. The game markets itself as one that features no random battle encounters because enemies can be seen running around on the field. While this is true for the most part, there are still some moments where enemies may pop out of nowhere and gank you, which pretty much equates to a random encounter.
Fast paced turn-based battles.
Some of the attack animations during combat can get dragged out and repetitive, especially after hours of gameplay, with no option to skip or fast forward through them. A nice quality of life feature is that battles feature seamless transitions, which seems to have taken inspiration from Chrono Trigger. Your party's ultimate ability meter is also automatically filled when you enter a boss battle. Mech battles play out in similar fashion, with your mech suit containing its own unique set of moves and abilities. Even though Chained Echoes is inspired by many classic RPGs such as Xenogears and Suikoden 2, it introduces some outstanding elements that makes it stand out. The Overdrive System, which adds a unique flavor to combat, forces you to balance out which skills to use during battle. An overdrive meter that slides left or right on the top left corner of the screen dictates whether you get benefits or detriments to your party members. Keep the meter in the green zone and you get perks such as increased damage dealt, reduced damage taken, and reduced cost for skill usage. Drag it over to the red zone and your party will overheat, resulting in significantly increased damage taken. Think of it like a thermometer, where certain skills bring it up and others lower it down.House Party
This mechanic represents how synced your team is and intuitively drives you to not spam the same abilities over and over again. Another fascinating system that the game uses is the tag team mechanic, allowing you to switch out party members on the fly during battle without using up a turn. This essentially means that you can have up to eight party members, four active and four in reserve, to strategize with during combat, opening up endless combinations and synchronizations. You can't just swap any member out for another and instead must customize the formation of your team in the settings menu. The game also utilizes a "stagger" mechanic where an ally can get staggered by an enemy attack and be unable to move, forcing you to naturally switch them out for a reserve team member. Downed allies are automatically revived after the end of a combat scenario, as are all your health and stamina. This is a little surprising considering most turn based JRPGs don't function in this way, as this pretty much renders consumable items useless and makes the game less challenging. If I had to pick a genre of video game I couldn't live without, I'd probably have to choose turn-based RPGs. From Pokémon to Persona, these games have just been too big a part of my life to toss aside.
Tons of items to be looted, stolen or crafted.
It's not just the classics I'd miss though, this year some of my favourite games have had turn-based combat. Jack Move is the perfect JRPG for those who didn't have thirty hours to spare, Atelier Sophie 2 is the best game in a series well over twenty years old, and The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero finally brought a game to western audiences that was absolutely worth waiting for. It's been a fantastic year for people who love a good RPG, which makes it all the more impressive that Chained Echoes is far and away the best of the bunch. On the continent of Valandis, a peaceful life is all but unheard of. The three kingdoms that occupy this fantasy world have been battling for supremacy for so long that most people live their whole lives in these times of conflict. When a mysterious magical explosion kills thousands all at once during a crucial battle, the kingdoms finally take a break from fighting and an age of peace begins. With rulers and generals who are still desperate to wipe out their long term enemies though, it's hard to imagine the peace lasting long. Our main character Glenn is a mercenary, happy to fight for whichever kingdom that will have him with his band of buddies and hulking mech suit. At least that was the case until the day of the explosion.Halo The Master Chief Collection
You see it was actually Glenn who accidentally caused this devastating disaster, thanks to a mysterious crystal that it turns out is a weapon of mass destruction. The guilt of killing his friends alongside thousands of others is clearly taking its toll on Glenn, so he decides he needs to dedicate his life to finding and getting rid of the crystal once and for all. The story of Chained Echoes is frankly incredible, with believable characters, heart wrenching moments and relationships that are built throughout the epic adventure. Alongside Glenn you have a host of interesting allies like Lenne, a princess to one of the kingdoms who ditched the castle to see the world and is horrified by her brother's lust for war. There's also master thief Sierra who joins the gang to avoid capture from some baddies who she owes some cash, and ends up deciding that this cause is more important than a life of crime. Every single one of them has their own unique charm, and even the enemies you have to strike down have interesting backstories. Those enemies need striking down though, and that turn-based combat you know and love is the only way to do it. As you'd expect the four members of your team get to take turns swinging their weapons or using their skills on the enemy, but even from your first encounter the different abilities you can use make things interesting.
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Some characters have attacks that hit multiple enemies, others take advantage of the elements or apply hugely impactful buffs and nerfs. Each member of the team has a totally unique moveset that can be expanded and upgraded throughout the game, and because between every battle your health and tech points are restored you're incentivised to go all out every time. The most interesting aspect of combat though is the Overdrive meter. This is displayed at the top of the screen at all times and when you use an ability builds up. You want the meter to reach the green section in the middle because you'll deal way more damage and all your abilities will cost half the tech points, but if you keep raising it past that it'll go into the red and your party will take more damage and deal a pitiful amount back. To push the meter back down there are a few options at your disposal. You can defend, tag in one of your party members that's sitting this one out, or use an ability highlighted in yellow to push the meter in the opposite direction. Managing the Overdrive Meter adds an extra layer of complexity to the combat, and means you're not just using the same powerful abilities over and over again.
Between fights you'll have plenty of opportunity to level up your party by using grimoire shards. Instead of gaining experience in battle, you're given these shards that provide your characters with a skill point and stat boosts at set points throughout the game (usually after boss fights). There are also Class Seals you can equip to raise certain stats and gain new abilities, and an in-depth weapon forging system that you can use to make your swords stronger by putting fuseable crystals in them. There's no shortage of ways to make the team stronger, and before long you'll be taking on enemy soldiers and wild wolves with ease. No matter how much you level up, you won't be as powerful as a mech suit makes you. It takes many many hours to finally get access to your mech suits, and when you do combat is shaken up yet again. Firstly all the numbers are bigger (dealing thousands of damage at a time after thinking hitting for eighty is reasonable) but the Overdrive meter works differently too. To keep in the green this time you need to switch gears, because doing so makes all your abilities push the meter in a different direction. Shifting gears also means you'll take and deal different amounts of damage, so there's a lot to think about in this different style of combat.
It sounds complex, but they introduce mech combat at the perfect moment when you're starting to feel like you've mastered everything. When you aren't spending every moment of Chained Echoes killing everything that crosses your path, you'll probably be exploring the vast environments. Each new area you reach feels really open, and is full of nooks and crannies to explore. You're rewarded for doing so as well, thanks to the reward board that gives you handy items and even levels up for completing various goals. Finding all the chests in an area, beating up powerful optional boss monsters and digging up treasure in the ground where arrows meet will all net you rewards, and really incentivise exploring the gorgeous locales. You can probably tell that I'm a bit in love with Chained Echoes, but it just does everything right. The pace of the game is extraordinary, with no random encounters to worry about, a movement speed on the overworld that feels perfect and fast travel if you want to go back to old places. Even combat is lightning fast, with no lengthy animations to worry about and no need to worry about going into a menu to heal between fights.Sacred Valley Switch NSP
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JJC Professor earns Nationally Certified Teacher of Music credential
11 months ago By Gabriella Remillard
Yukiko Fujimura, a professor at Joliet Junior College, has become the first JJC teacher to earn a national certificate in music. Fujimura has been awarded the National Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) credential. She got the award on the base of her compliance with five essential areas to teach music.
The Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) has awarded the NCTM credential to Fujimura. The certification program of the MTNA aims to improve professionalism in the field of music teaching. Fujimura will get an opportunity to grow in terms of teaching music through this NCTM credential. Fujimura said, "I am now very involved with the Illinois state chapter of MTNA."
Fujimura has been nominated to co-chair a music competition at the state level. She also needs to renew her certificate each year. The renewal of the certificate is required to ensure that she is involved in professional development, education, and leadership opportunities. Fujimura started her music career as a toddler in Kanagawa, Japan as she is a native of there. She got her bachelor's degree in Piano from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
Fujimura got her doctorate degree in piano from Ball State University. She belongs to a musical family as her mother is a pianist and her father plays the cello. She started learning music from her parents when she was 3 years old. She said, "I always knew I wanted to become a musician." She has been teaching music at JJC since 2018.
According to her, she is enjoying teaching at JJC as the students and staff of the college are dedicated. She always gives great pieces of advice to her students. She said, "Listen to great music often and develop your ears." She advises her students to practice as much as they can. The development of a technique is important in the field of music, according to her. She added, "Practicing only gets harder once you are out of school."
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Nazism And World War II
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party almost died one
morning in 1919. It numbered only a few dozen grumblers' it had no
organization and no political ideas. But many among the middle class
admired the Nazis' muscular opposition to the Social Democrats. And
the Nazis themes of patriotism and militarism drew highly emotional
responses from people who could not forget Germany's prewar imperial
grandeur.
In the national elections of September 1930, the Nazis garnered
nearly 6.5 million votes and became second only to the Social
Democrats as the most popular party in Germany. In Northeim, where in
1928 Nazi candidates had received 123 votes, they now polled 1,742, a
respectable 28 percent of the total. The nationwide success drew even
faster… in just three years, party membership would rise from about
100,000 to almost a million, and the number of local branches would
increase tenfold. The new members included working-class people,
farmers, and middle-class professionals. They were both better
educated and younger then the Old Fighters, who had been the backbone
of the party during its first decade. The Nazis now presented
themselves as the party of the young, the strong, and the pure, in
opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly, the weak, and
the dissolute. Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As
a young boy, he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high
school, he moved to Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance
to join Vienna academy of fine arts.
When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a
Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature
of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war
and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many
prejudices, including a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was
a product of his times… for many Austrians and Germans were
prejudiced against the Jews.
In Hitler's case the prejudice had become maniacal it was a
dominant force in his private and political personalities.
Anti-Semitism was not a policy for Adolf Hitler–it was religion. And
in the Germany of the 1920s, stunned by defeat, and the ravages of the
Versailles treaty, it was not hard for a leader to convince millions
that one element of the nation's society was responsible for most of
the evils heaped upon it. The fact is that Hitler's anti-Semitism was
self-inflicted obstacle to his political success. The Jews, like other
Germans, were shocked by the discovery that the war had not been
fought to a ezdstill, as they were led to believe in November 1918,
but that Germany had , in fact, been defeated and was to be treated as
a vanquished country. Had Hitler not embarked on his policy of
disestablishing the Jews as Germans, and later of exterminating them
in Europe, he could have counted on their loyalty. There is no reason
to believe anything else. On the evening of November 8, 1923, Wyuke
Vavaruab State Cinnussuiber Gustav Rutter von Kahr was making a
political speech in Munich's sprawling B?rgerbr?ukeller, some 600
Nazis and right-wing sympathizers surrounded the beer hall. Hitler
burst into the building and leaped onto a table, brandishing a
revolver and firing a shot into the ceiling. ?The National
Revolution,? he cried, ?has begun!? At that point, informed that
fighting had broken out in another part of the city, Hitler rushed to
that scene. His prisoners were allowed to leave, and they talked about
organizing defenses against the Nazi coup. Hitler was of course
furious. And he was far from finished. At about 11 o'clock on the
morning of November 9–the anniversary of the founding of the German
Republic in 1919–3,000 Hitler partisans again gathered outside the
B?rgerbr?ukeller.
To this day, no one knows who fired the first shot. But a shot
rang out, and it was followed by fusillades from both sides. Hermann
G?ring fell wounded in the thigh and both legs. Hitler flattened
himself against the pavement; he was unhurt. General Ludenorff
continued to march stolidly toward the police line, which parted to
let him pass through (he was later arrested, tried and acquitted).
Behind him, 16 Nazis and three policemen lay sprawled dead among the
many wounded. The next year, R?hm and his band joined forces with the
fledgling National Socialist Party in Adolf Hitler's Munich Beer Hall
Putsch.
Himmler took part in that uprising, but he played such a minor
role that he escaped arrest. The R?hm-Hitler alliance survived the
Putsch, and ?hm's 1,500-man band grew into the Sturmabteilung, the SA,
Hitler's brown-shirted private army, that bullied the Communists and
Democrats. Hitler recruited a handful of men to act as his bodyguards
and protect him from Communist toughs, other rivals, and even the S.A.
if it got out of hand. This tiny group was the embryonic SS.
In 1933, after the Nazi Party had taken power in Germany,
increasing trouble with the SA made a showdown inevitable. As German
Chancellor, the F?hrer could no longer afford to tolerate the
disruptive Brownshirts; under the ambitious R?hm, the SA had grown to
be an organization of three million men, and its unpredictable
activities prevented Hitler from consolidating his shaky control of
the Reich. He had to dispose of the SA to hold the support of his
industrial backers, to satisfy party leaders jealous of the SA's
power, and most important, to win the allegiance of the conservative
Army generals. Under pressure from all sides, and enraged by an SA
plot against him that Heydrich had conveniently uncovered, Hitler
turned the SS loose to purge its parent organization.
They were too uncontrollable even for Hitler. They went about
their business of terrorizing Jews with no mercy. But that is not what
bothered Hitler, since the SA was so big, (3 million in 1933) and so
out of control, Hitler sent his trusty comrade Josef Dietrich,
commander of a SS bodyguard regiment to murder the leaders of the SA.
The killings went on for two days and nights and took a tool of
perhaps 200 ?enemies o the state.? It was quite enough to reduce the
SA to impotence, and it brought the F?hrer immediate returns. The
dying President of the Reich, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg,
congratulated Hitler on crushing the troublesome SA, and the Army
generals concluding that Hitler was now their pawn–swore personal
loyalty to him. In April 1933, scarcely three months after Adolf
Hitler took power in Germany, the Nazis issued a degree, ordering the
compulsory retirement of ?non-Aryans? from the civil service. This
edict, petty in itself, was the first spark in what was to become the
Holocaust, one of the most ghastly episodes in the modern history of
mankind. Before he campaign against the Jews was halted by the defeat
of Germany, something like 11 million people had been slaughtered in
the name of Nazi racial purity.
The Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust. Millions of
Russians, Poles, gypsies and other ?subhumans? were also murdered. But
Jews were the favored targets–first and foremost. It took the Nazis
some time to work up to the full fury of their endeavor. In the years
following 1933, the Jews were systematically deprived by law of their
civil rights, of their jobs and property. Violence and brutality
became a part of their everyday lives. Their places of worship were
defiled, their windows smashed, their stores ransacked. Old men and
young were pummeled and clubbed and stomped to death by Nazi jack
boots. Jewish women were accosted and ravaged, in broad daylight, on
main thoroughfares.
Some Jews fled Germany. But most, with a kind of stubborn belief
in God and Fatherland, sought to weather the Nazi terror. It was
forlorn hope. In 1939, after Hitler's conquest of Poland, the Nazis
cast aside all restraint. Jews in their millions were now herded into
concentration camps, there to starve and perish as slave laborers.
Other millions were driven into dismal ghettos, which served as
holding pens until the Nazis got around to disposing of them.
The mass killings began in 1941, with the German invasion of the
Soviet Union. Nazi murder squads followed behind the Wehrmacht
enthusiastically slaying Jews and other conquered peoples. Month by
month the horrors escalated. First tens of thousands, then hundreds of
thousands of people were led off to remote fields and forest to be
slaughtered by SS guns. Assembly-line death camps were established in
Poland and train loads of Jews were collected from all over occupied
Europe and sent to their doom.
At some of the camps, the Nazis took pains to disguise their
intentions until the last moment. At others, the arriving Jews saw
scenes beyond comprehension. ?Corpses were strewn all over the road,?
recalled one survivor. ?Starving human skeletons stumbled toward us.
They fell right down in front of our eyes and lay there gasping out
their last breath.? What had begun as a mean little edict against
Jewish civil servants was now ending the death six million Jews,
Poles, gypsies, Russians, and other ?sub-humans? Uncounted thousands
of Jews and other hapless concentration-camp inmates were used as
guinea pigs in a wide range of medical and scientific experiments,
most of them of little value. Victims were infected with typhus to see
how different geographical groups reacted; to no one's surprise, all
groups perished swiftly. Fluids from diseased animals were injected
into humans to observe the effect. Prisoners were forced to exist on
sea water to see how long castaways might survive. Gynecology was an
area of interest. Various methods of sterilization were practiced–by
massive X-ray, by irritants and drugs, by surgery without benefit of
anesthetic. As techniques were perfected, it was determined that a
doctor with 10 assiezts could sterilize 1,000 women per day.
The ?experimental people? were also used by Nazi doctors who
needed practice performing various operations. One doctor at Auschwitz
perfected his amputation technique on live prisoners. After he had
finished, his maimed patients were sent off to the gas chamber. A few
Jews who had studied medicine were allowed to live if they assisted
the SS doctors. ?I cut the flesh of healthy young girls,? recalled a
Jewish physician who survived at terrible cost. ?I immersed the bodies
of dwarfs and cripples in calcium chloride (to preserve them), or had
them boiled so the carefully prepared skeletons might safely reach the
Third Reich's museums to justify, for future generations, the
destruction of an entire race. I could never erase these memories from
my mind.?
But the best killing machine were the ?shower baths? of death.
After their arrival at a death camp, the Jews who had been chosen to
die at once were told that they were to have a shower. Filthy by their
long, miserable journey, they sometimes applauded the announcement.
Countless Jews and other victims went peacefully to the shower
rooms–which were gas chambers in disguise.
In the anterooms to the gas chambers, many of the doomed people
found nothing amiss. At Auschwitz, signs in several languages said,
?Bath and Disinfectant,? and inside the chambers other signs
admonished, ?Don't forget your soap and towel.? Unsuspecting victims
cooperated willingly. ?They got out of their clothes so routinely,?
Said a Sobibor survivor. ?What could be more natural??
In time, rumors about the death camps spread, and underground
newspapers in the Warsaw ghetto even ran reports that told of the gas
chambers and the crematoriums. But many people did not believe the
storied, and those who did were helpless in any case. Facing the guns
of the SS guards, they could only hope and pray to survive. As one
Jewish leader put it, ?We must be patient and a miracle will occur.?
There were no miracles. The victims, naked and bewildered, were shoved
into a line. Their guards ordered them forward, and flogged those who
hung back. The doors to the gas chambers were locked behind them. It
was all over quickly.
The war came home to Germany. Scarcely had Hitler recovered from
the shock of the July 20 bombing when he was faced with the loss of
France and Belgium and of great conquests in the East. Enemy troops in
overwhelming numbers were converging on the Reich. By the middle of
August 1944, the Russian summer offensives, beginning June 10 and
unrolling one after another, had brought the Red Army to the
border of East Prussia, bottled up fifty German divisions in the
Baltic region, penetrated to Vyborg in Finland, destroyed Army Group
Center and brought an advance on this front of four hundred miles in
six weeks to the Vistula opposite Warsaw, while in the south a new
attack which began on August 20 resulted in the conquest of Rumania by
the end of the month and with it the Ploesti oil fields, the only
major source of natural oil for the German armies. On August 26
Bulgaria formally withdrew from the war and the Germans began to
hastily clear out of that country. In September Finland gave up and
turned on the German troops which refused to evacuate its territory.
In the West, France was liberated quickly. In General Patton, the
commander of the newly formed U.S. Third Army, the Americans had found
a tank general with the dash and flair of Rommel in Africa. After the
capture of Avranches on July 30, he had left Brittany to wither on the
vine and begun a great sweep around the German armies in Normandy,
moving southeast to Orleans on the Loire and then due east toward the
Seine south of Paris. By August 23 the Seine was reached southeast and
northwest of the capital, and two days later the great city, the glory
of France, was liberated after four years of German occupation when
General Jacques Leclerc's French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th
Infantry Division broke into it and found that French resiezce units
were largely in control.
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Citizen development is a business trend that encourages employees to experiment with low-code no-code software development platforms.
Citizen development is a disruptive approach to digital transformation and organizational innovation, where teams are empowered to turn ideas into applications using no-code/low-code technology.
What is Citizen Developer?
A citizen developer is a user who creates new business applications for consumption by others using development and runtime environments sanctioned by corporate IT. In the past, end-user application development has typically been limited to single-user or workgroup solutions built with tools like Microsoft Excel and Access. However, today, end users can build departmental, enterprise and even public applications using shared services, fourth-generation language (4GL)-style development platforms and cloud computing services.
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— Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft
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Replacing the usual spinach with kale and cutting the carbs from this "lasagna" makes a favorite vegetarian dinner even healthier.
Replacing the usual spinach with kale and cutting the carbs from this "lasagna" makes a favorite vegetarian dinner even healthier.
In a large grill pan add some olive oil to medium heat. Add the baby kale and cook that down. Should take about 5 minutes. Stir occasionally . If need, add a bit of water to steam it, so the kale can wilt. When down place aside to cool.
Next, place some paper towels in a large dish next to your stove; when you cook the veggies, transfer them to the paper towels to drain all that moisture.
In the same large grill pan on medium-high heat add about 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add zucchini, and portabella mushroom, and cook until softened, about 2 minutes per side. Set aside.
Evenly coat the bottom of a baking dish with some olive oil and about half of the crushed tomato sauce. Evenly layer some of the Zucchini strips than add the ricotta mix, then mushrooms, Asiago cheese and crushed tomatoes; repeat. For final layer, reverse the asiago cheese and crushed tomatoes layers so that the cheese is on top.
Bake in the oven until lasagna is hot and the cheese melted, about 30 minutes.
Let cool slightly, cut into pieces, and enjoy!
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Hepatitis B virus and pregnancy
Silvia Sookoian
January-December 2007, 4(1):12-23
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is very common, with over 350 million chronically infected people worldwide. This review plans to answer some key questions regarding hepatitis B infection during pregnancy, in order to provide healthcare professionals with updated information on the current knowledge in this field. The focus is on the following topics: the main risk factors associated with vertical transmission of HBV in pregnant women who are chronically infected, the influence of pregnancy on HBV viral load, and the effect of pregnancy on the clinical course of chronic hepatitis B. Some recommendations have also been made that may be effective in decreasing the vertical transmission rates of chronic viral hepatitis.
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Recent advances in Hepatitis B vaccination
Kazimierz Madalinski
Hepatitis B virus is a microorganism formed in the excess of surface antigen which is devoid of nucleic acid. Surface antigen of HBV was from the beginning the natural candidate for the vaccine which was thus produced by isolation of plasma HBsAg and later substituted by recombinant protein(s). The Extended Program of Immunization was beneficial for the reduction of HBV incidence in the populations of many participating countries. It is further postulated that HCC incidence in the world was also reduced at least in the portion caused by hepatitis B virus. Persistence of anti-HBV immunity was first measured by quantitative anti-HBs assay determined at 1 month post vaccination cycle, and then at different time points, even up to 12-15 years. The frontier of 10 IU/L (mIU/ml) is a mark of sustained immunity. However, cellular immunity studies revealed that this kind of response is very important in the defense against the virus and may last longer than the detectable antibodies. It was shown that 'full' surface vaccines, i.e. preS+S, may give stronger immunity and are good even for neonates. The next generation vaccines are DNA-based and plant-based HBV vaccines. This last category raises many hopes and with sufficient immunogenicity could ensure the most comfortable route of administration.
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Study on awareness about Hepatitis B viral infection in coastal Eastern India
Bijay Misra, Chittaranjan Panda, Haribhakti Seba Das, Kinshuk Chandra Nayak, Shivaram Prasad Singh
Background: Hepatitis B is a major health problem in India. To prevent transmission and progression of the disease in the community, proper community awareness about the disease, including prevention, is necessary. Our objective was to study the awareness amongst the general population about hepatitis B virus, including knowledge regarding vaccine. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in Department of Gastroenterology of SCB Medical College. The patients attending the OPD and their attendants were subjected to a questionnaire about different aspects of hepatitis B. Binary logistic regression analysis (SPSS 16) was employed to assess the statistical importance of the observations. Results: In all, 682 individuals (65% patients, 35% non-patients) were studied; 78% were males while 22% were females. Majority were in the age group of 31-40 years. 65% hailed from rural area; 65% were poor. About half of the subjects attended state run medical centers for medical attention; only 17% preferred medical colleges. Awareness about the disease and the vaccine among the subjects was 38% and 32%, respectively. 50% of those who were aware had no knowledge about route of transmission, infectivity, or importance of vaccination. Educated individuals were more aware about hepatitis B vaccine (P < 0.05). Those who read newspaper and listened to radio were more aware about hepatitis B (P < 0.05), and its vaccine (P < 0.05). The percentage of vaccination was 20% among study subjects, but in 30%, their children were vaccinated. The common reason for non-vaccination was lack of awareness (50%); of them, 60% blamed government/doctors/media for their ignorance. Majority (56%) received the vaccine from government hospitals or health centers. Only (10%) obtained vaccination from private centers. Reasons cited for non-vaccination included ignorance (50%), carelessness (12%), high cost (10%), and nonavailability (6%). Source of information regarding hepatitis B included television (75%), newspapers (55%), and radio (26%). Conclusions: Only about one-third of the population in coastal Eastern India are aware about hepatitis B and its vaccine. Less than a third of the population are vaccinated for hepatitis B. The educated, especially those who read newspapers and listened to radio, were more aware about the disease/vaccine. The government health agencies and physicians should work together to educate the masses about hepatitis B and its vaccine.
Management of lamivudine resistance: An overview
Pietro Lampertico, Mauro Vigano, Massimo Colombo
In the nineties, lamivudine (LMV) was the first nucleoside analog to be marketed for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). Following the advent of LMV, the management of patients with chronic hepatitis B, particularly those with advanced liver disease was markedly improved, with a substantial reduction in the rates of liver-related complications and mortality. In the face of excellent safety profile records of the drug, hepatologists had to face for the first time the issue of high rates of HBV resistance to therapy as the result of years of treatment of large cohorts of patients in the West and East. Initially considered no more than a virological problem, LMV resistance was later recognized to be a relevant clinical issue whose management requires specific therapeutic strategies. New, more active oral analogs have been marketed since, and new agents are to appear in the market scenario in the near future; however, LMV is still the number one prescribed anti-HBV agent worldwide for the treatment of chronic HBV patients, due to its limited cost, excellent safety and well predicted resistance profile.
Chronic delta hepatitis: An overview
Cihan Yurdaydin
Delta hepatitis or hepatitis D leads to acute and chronic liver disease in humans. The causative agent, the hepatitis delta virus (HDV), is a defective virus which leads to hepatitis in humans in the presence of the hepatitis B virus. This helper function of HBV is required for transmission and propagation of HDV infection but not for replication. HDV RNA replication occurs through the double-rolling circle model and does not possess a reverse transcription step. Hepatitis D-induced liver disease is immune-mediated and occurs either as co-infection of both viruses or as superinfection of a hepatitis B carrier with hepatitis D. Based on a sequence variation of 19-38%, to date seven genotypes of HDV have been described. HDV infection has declined significantly in many endemic areas in the last decades, however, due to migration to industrialized countries, this decline appears to have reached a plateau in western countries. The clinical course of delta hepatitis in general is associated with rapid progression. Delta hepatitis may be an additional risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. The only established management for delta hepatitis consists of treatment with interferon for a period of at least one year. For those unresponsive to interferon treatment and patients with advanced disease new therapies are an urgent need. Such therapies may be on the horizon but translation of bench work to clinical practice is required.
Hepatitis B vaccine induced HBsAg positivity
Shivaram Prasad Singh
Hepatitis B vaccine can induce transient hepatitis B surface antigen positivity not only in adult hemodialysis patients but also in normal adults and children. Hence hepatitis B vaccinees may be mistaken for confirmed hepatitis B surface antigen-positive carrier. Hence blood donors should not donate blood in this early post-vaccination period and renal dialysis patients should not be screened for hepatitis B surface antigen for at least 21 to 28 days after hepatitis B vaccination. These guidelines could prevent individuals in the early post-inoculation period from being erroneously labeled as having hepatitis B viral infection.
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Nutritional management of acute and chronic liver disease
Neeraj Saraf
January-December 2008, 5(1):117-133
Malnutrition is prevalent in all forms of liver diseases. A number of factors contribute to malnutrition in patients with hepatic failure. Early diagnosis of malnutrition is essential to allow appropriate treatment, since malnutrition is an important predictor of complications of liver disease and mortality. Disease-specific nutritional therapy should be considered for acute liver failure, sepsis, transplantation, and encephalopathy. This article provides an overview of the nutritional management of acute and chronic liver disease and discusses the need for further intervention studies before appropriate rational treatment guidelines can be formulated.
Flares on and off therapy during chronic HBV infection: Pathogenesis, significance and management
Deepak N Amarapurkar
Approximately 400 million people worldwide are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Chronic infection with HBV can lead to progressive liver diseases including cirrhosis, liver failure, and hepatocellular carcinoma. During treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients, flares of inflammatory activity are a well known phenomenon. Flares can be life threatening but have also been associated with virological response. While, interferon induced flares have been attributed to the stimulatory effect of IFN, and may precede HBeAg seroconversion, Lamivudine related flares are seen during treatment and after withdrawal of lamivudine, which are probably caused by reoccurrence of HBV replication, and have been associated with decompensation of liver disease. These flares play an important role in the treatment with Peg-IFN α-2b alone or in combination with lamivudine, and patients with pre-existing cirrhosis are at greater risk for experiencing a flare. Furthermore, host induced flares but not virus induced flares may herald a response to therapy. For optimisation of treatment, it is necessary to understand the virological and immunological mechanisms which induce the specific flare patterns. This article reviews the pathogenesis, significance and management of flares encountered during and after cessation of treatment of patients with chronic HBV infection.
Prophylaxis and treatment of Hepatitis B in immunocompromised patients
Alfredo Marzano, Andrea Marengo, Pietro Lampertico
The literature on hepatitis B virus (HBV) in immunocompromised patients is heterogeneous and refers mainly to the pre-antivirals era. Today a rational approach to the problem of hepatitis B in these patients provides for: a) the evaluation of HBV markers and of liver condition in all subjects starting immunosuppressive therapies (baseline), b) the treatment with antivirals (therapy) of active carriers, c) the pre-emptive use of antivirals (prophylaxis) in inactive carriers, especially if they are undergoing immunosuppressive therapies judged to be at high risk, d) the biochemical and HBsAg monitoring (or universal prophylaxis, in case of high risk immunosuppression) in subjects with markers of previous contact with HBV (HBsAg-negative and antiHBc-positive), in order to prevent reverse seroconversion. Moreover it is suggested a strict adherence to the criteria of allocation based on the virological characteristics of both recipients and donors in the general setting of transplants, and in liver transplantation the universal prophylaxis with nucleos(t)ides analogues (frequently combined with specific anti-HBV immunoglobulins) in HBsAg-positive candidates and in HBsAg-negative recipients of antiHBc-positive grafts should be adopted.
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New York-based retailers said they plan to cut back expansion plans and renegotiate store leases as the economic slowdown has cut into same-store sales.
Tiffany & Co. said it plans to reduce the number of new store openings in 2009, as the jewelry retailer's same-store sales during the third quarter fell 14 percent in the U.S., and 6 percent in its nine New York stores. Sales at the company's flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street fell 5 percent during the quarter, but a whopping 17 percent in October.
Tiffany said worldwide sales fell 1 percent to $618.2 million during the third quarter, and the company is now projecting full-year earnings of $2.30 to $2.50 a share, based on annual sales that are expected to be flat or down by as much as 2 percent, worldwide.
Prior to the stock market diving in September, Tiffany was among several luxury retailers benefitting from the weak U.S. dollar, which attracted millions of free-spending foreign visitors.
In October 2007, Tiffany announced plans for a major expansion in the U.S., with plans to more than double the number of stores to 170 over a 10-year period, by opening eight to 12 locations per year. The company now plans to open five U.S. stores in 2009.
Cushman & Wakefield recently predicted that retail rents will come under pressure during the next three quarters, as additional space comes back onto the market.
New York-based bookseller Barnes & Noble said it will cut the number of new store openings to 15 in 2009, from between 20 and 25. The chain said same-store sales fell 7.4 percent during the third quarter, compared with its prior forecast of a "low single-digit" decrease.
Barnes & Noble now expects same-store sales to fall between 6 percent and 9 percent in the fourth quarter. The company operates a total of 728 Barnes & Noble stores and 71 B. Dalton stores.
"This year we've renegotiated 77 leases that are coming due and I can tell you almost each and every one of them [will be] be paying less rent in the out years than we were currently paying," said Barnes & Noble COO Mitchell Klipper, during a third-quarter conference call.
He declined to give specific numbers, but said during the call that the bookseller had planned to negotiate very short-term renewals on leases, in order to gain more flexibility. For example, on a 10-year lease, the chain would have an option of 2 to 5 years.
Within the past year, Barnes & Noble decided not to renew its 41,700-square- foot-space at 675 Sixth Avenue and 21st Street, which it leased for 15 years.
Saks said same-store sales fell 11.5 percent in the third quarter, adding that the Manhattan flagship store did only slightly better than the company average. The retailer plans to complete the previously announced shutdown of its Club Libby Lu outlets. Officials said they would not hesitate to close underperforming stores if conditions called for it. Saks operates 53 Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide.


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Q: Measuring Li-ion battery manage to get a number in mAh How can a circuit functioning to measure Li-ion or else type battery manage to get its mAh capacity, how is this circuit's method ?
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Known it from a reviewer fed into an e-commerce site I forget (likely China's)

A: You can't know capacity unless you measure a charge or discharge cycle and measure the current and voltage of the cell. It's also good to know the chemistry of the cell.
One way is to fully charge the cell and then discharge it and measure how much power it takes to discharge the cell to it's low point
If you know the chemistry you may be able to get by with just voltage.

A: Rated capacity is given for slow constant current in 20H defined as 1C. But often users expect the same capacity for 20C or a 1h CC discharge. Peukert's Law defines a way to estimate the loss of capacity but the data-sheet guaranteed new specs are best bet. Avoiding full discharge extends the life cycle charges. In many cases using 90% to 50% extends cycles by about 10x according to Batteryuniverity.com

A: This short NIST article describes the history and 2019 redefinition of the SI unit relationships between Ampere and Coulomb:
https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/ampere-introduction

In November 2018, however, the redefinition of the ampere ― along with three other SI base units: the kilogram (mass), kelvin (temperature) and mole (amount of substance) ― was approved. Starting on May 20, 2019, the ampere is based on a fundamental physical constant: the elementary charge (e), which is the amount of electric charge in a single electron (negative) or proton (positive).

The ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge in motion per unit time ― that is, electric current. But the quantity of electric charge by itself, whether in motion or not, is expressed by another SI unit, the coulomb (C). One coulomb is equal to about 6.241E+18 electric charges (e). One ampere is the current in which one coulomb of charge travels across a given point in 1 second.

The battery stores some of its internal electric charge in a high energy state in the chemical potential. The State of Charge (SoC) refers to how much of these energetic Coulombs are available to develop electrical power and therefore perform electrical work. If one could accurately measure SoC it would be like a fuel gauge. But due to the nature of chemical energy storage the fuel gauge is always some sort of estimate of the SoC in a particular battery even if the SoC is measured using special devices known as Coulomb Counters.
This five page article describes basic methods to infer SoC using voltage sampling with knowledge of discharge curves and/or to use coulomb counter devices which integrate current over time to count coulombs during charge or discharge of a battery:
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/technical-articles/P356_EN-SOC.pdf
Type this into Google search bar "1 ampere-hour in coulombs". The result given: 1 = 3,600. Mathematically the current I = dq/dt and the amount of charge q associated with the process is the integral of the differential equation dq = Idt.
The coulomb counter is an effort to solve the integral in a measurement device and to infer something about the SoC based on the measurement which still assumes something about the chemistry, initial conditions, and perhaps also the operating history of the particular battery.
This article describes how a coulomb counter in a battery management system can "get confused" about SoC:
https://www.digikey.com/en/blog/count-those-coulombs-for-lithium-battery-fitness
The author infers that the coulomb counter in his electronic device may lose track of the correct SoC and then needs to re-learn some information via proper calibration procedure (deep discharge and full recharge).

A: Earlier answers appear to be answering the question of "how much capacity would a fully-charged battery have?".
The image you've added to your question makes it look like, instead, your question is "how much capacity is left in this particular battery at this particular time?".
To answer that, you'll need to know the battery's discharge curve for the particular current being drawn from it.  (This can be plotted by fully charging it, then discharging it at the current level in question, as @voltage-spike said.  But you have to do that in preparation.)  With that plot, you can measure the voltage on the battery under the load, match it to a point on the discharge curve, and look at how much time is left before the battery's voltage will drop below your particular load's minimum usable voltage.
Then you multiply those values together (if the units are milliamps and hours), to get the mAh remaining.
The measurement device that's in the photo you posted is likely getting its mAh number from some rules of thumb for the minimum usable voltages of various devices, and the discharge curves at various load levels.  That is, it's probably not exact, though it's probably relatively close.

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Established by the AARP Foundation and the Women's Leadership Circle, the Women's Scholarship Program gives a helping hand to women over 40. The scholarships, ranging from $500 to $5,000, provides much-needed resources to enable women who might not otherwise be able to afford educational opportunities.
For more information, visit the AARP Foundation website.
Modest Needs is an online grant-giving organization for individuals who are unable to work or are temporarily out of work. Grants are given in small amounts, from $1 to $1,000, for financial needs such as rent or utility bills. Visit the Modest Needs website.
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Change / transformation Communication Leadership
Podcast: Taking the 'numb' out of numbers: A better way to communicate financial information
"Stories constitute the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal." – Dr. Howard Gardner, professor, Harvard University
This week's "Future-Proof" guest is Peter Margaritis, a fellow podcaster, a CPA, an author, and a thought leader with the Business Learning Institute.
Peter's message is this: One of the most important roles that accounting and finance professionals will play going forward is that of storyteller – of competently communicating financial information, of telling the stories behind the numbers in a way that creates shared understanding, communicates value, and entertains.
And he's written a new book with tips on how to do that: Taking out Numb Out of Numbers: Explaining and Presenting Financial Information with Confidence and Clarity.
Plus, he's a standup comic and a student of improv (is there anything this guy doesn't do?), and there's a good bit of comedy embedded in his book. It turns out good financial communicators learn to do all of the things good comedians do – like controlling their anxieties, crafting their stories, and connecting with their audiences.
And because we're living in a time when machines are doing more and more of our transactional work, our value lies in our ability to add insights to the data – to tell the stories behind the numbers and help our clients make sense of it all.
In this conversation, we cover:
The parallels between comedy and finance, and how those similarities can bring the numbers to life.
How to use stories to illustrate how we solve problems.
How you can stop using PowerPoint as a crutch.
How to develop a future-ready mindset.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/futureready/MASTER_-_FP_019_-_Peter_Margaritis.mp3
How "hearables" will change our jobs Our guest on Episode 17 was Rick Richardson, a tech futurist of sorts, and we talked about the technology trends that CPAs really need to watch – the ones with the most traction, so to speak.
Rick says one of the big trends to watch is voice-enabled technology, the stuff that makes it possible for us to search online or otherwise get stuff done just by using our voices. And thanks to devices like Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod, this technology has been gaining traction. Just .03 percent of the population had one of these devices in 2014, but last year, that number had grown to 16 percent. By 2023, experts predict that 63 percent of U.S. homes will have a device that like.
Voice will quickly take a place at the center of everything we do, so it's no surprise that the big tech players – i.e. Amazon, Apple, and Google – are working on some high-priority projects that Fast Company reporter Peter Burrows is calling "hearables"– wearable technology that centers on speech and speech recognition.
In "The future is ear: Why "hearables" are finally tech's next big thing," Burrows writes, "All three – Amazon, Apple and Google – are working on products that combine the utility of the hearing aid with the entertainment value of a pair of high-end headphones, and potentially much more. Since all three have announced plans to get into health care, they could easily add fitness and health monitoring sensors for everything from counting steps to measuring oxygen saturation.
"And while it may take years to happen, none want to be left behind should it become possible to create a general purpose, in-ear computer that allows consumers to leave their phone in the desk drawer."
That type of interaction with our devices will be way less conspicuous than looking down at a screen all time – and it will be way safer to use when, say, driving.
But that's only the start. Experts say these devices will be able to detect more than just voices. They could potentially tell which direction you're facing – what you're looking at, in other words – and deliver ads to you based on what you're seeing.
Burrows points out that "a Cambridge, UK-based startup called Audio Analytic is already licensing the ability for a device to recognize the sound of a window breaking or a baby crying. At this rate, it won't be long before Amazon can send ads for Robitussin when it hears you cough."
Creepy? Yeah, maybe.
But there's no denying we're taking steps down this path, and it's going to be interesting to see how the way we interact with our devices evolves over time.
Richardson says he believes typing on a keyword will eventually go the way of DOS. Remember disk operating systems? Yeah, I barely remember them myself.
So what does that have to do with this episode?
Well, pretty much every major shift in technology is going to impact how we collect and communicate financial information. We need to understand these trends and stay ahead of them if we're going to successfully work with machines to do our jobs more effectively.
Learn more at PeterMargaritis.com.
Listen to Change Your Mindset (and subscribe on iTunes)
Connect with Peter: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube
Read: Taking out Numb Out of Numbers: Explaining and Presenting Financial Information with Confidence and Clarity
Read: Improv Is No Joke: Using Improvisation to Create Positive Results in Leadership and Life
Listen: Episode 70: Annie Conderacci: Facilitating Growth and Positive Change with Improvv


I'm still making pins. I believe these next six pins mark something like 50 or so pins I've designed. I still don't consider myself a designer, but I am having fun making pins. Doge? In our internet meme riddled existence, Doge is as quirky as anything out there, but the best part is it's a Shiba and appeals to everyone. I've heard little kids say, "Doge" and that always surprises me.
Here's the ramen package that should exist in America. Hell with the Oriental or Original Flavor. A package of ramen should have Tonkotsu flavor straight-out-the-bag!
Boba Friends. Taro and Matcha for life. You can be from different sets but still be on the same team.
Ikura Sushi, tasty as always. It's a guilty pleasure.
Ebi sushi, as standard as they come.
Tamago sushi. It takes skill to make this in those mini pans. This one is typically eaten last.
We have these at Giant Robot Store and also now on Etsy! Find us where you're comfortable!


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The main aim of the interlaboratory comparison studies on typing of Salmonella is to evaluate the performance of the NRLsNational Reference Laboratories -Salmonella for their ability to identify serovars of Salmonella enterica. The typing studies are organised in collaboration with the British national Health Protection Agency (HPA, London). The strains for serotyping are obtained from the collection of the Dutch National Reference Centre, also situated at the RIVMRijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu. Strains for phagetyping come from the HPA collection. You will find detailed protocols and examples of blank test reports per study below. For the reports of the different studies see Publications.


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An almond present (, , , , ) is a small present traditionally given in some Nordic countries to the person who gets the whole almond put in the rice pudding served for Christmas. It is a common Scandinavian tradition for many families, and especially for families with children.

In Denmark, this tradition has been known since the 16th century. The custom with the almond in the porridge has similarities to the king cake custom of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season.

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Grace exists to honor God by inspiring people to find and follow Jesus in the greater Minneapolis area.
Our Purpose is to honor God by inspiring people to find and follow Jesus.
Our vision is to be a culturally relevant, biblically rooted church, that takes risks to make new followers of Jesus, develop them into radical, devoted, & loving servants, who care for those in need, both here & around the world, while starting reproducing new churches.
WE BELIEVE in one living and true God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
WE BELIEVE that all persons are sinners and are accountable to God, but that those who repent and trust in Jesus Christ as their Savior become children of God by the Holy Spirit.
WE BELIEVE in the universal church, a spiritual body of which Christ is the Head and all regenerated persons are members.
WE BELIEVE that the local church is to be a group of believers in Christ, baptized on a credible profession of faith, and associated in worship, fellowship and the task of sharing Christ with a lost world.
WE BELIEVE in an appropriate Christian lifestyle, religious liberty, voluntary cooperation for the promotion of the cause of Christ, the return of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the body and the final judgment of all persons.


is there any other mappings for the ddj sx for traktor.
Wasnt it made to be a serato controller?
Yeah lol i was hoping it would work good with traktor but it doesnt maybe there might be some better mappings down the road?
Aren't Pioneer making one for Traktor, DDJ-TX or something like that?
If they do im buying it for sure!
Same and selling this sx right away!
Have you tried using the Serato that came with it?


Zaman's new website is live!
Our new website is now live and, we must say, we're pretty proud of it!
Zaman Branding has served as brand guardian to many celebrated companies across the UAE and Qatar over the past 16yrs, through which we've seen the branding toolbox evolve. Today we are happy to see brands – small & large, govt & private – move beyond having a website for the sake of ticking off a checklist to really adopting a more strategic thought process and the same judiciousness applied to other communication platforms.
For Zaman's revamped website our objective is to keep the design simple and intuitive; providing useful information for the end user – our clients and prospects. All this is further enhanced with clean creative visuals that deliver a pleasant digital experience.
Over the next couple of days we'll also be integrating our blog, through which visitors can still stay updated on what were working on and things that have inspired us.
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Bells Christmas Music includes a selection of Xmas Carols and Songs for all ages with chords and lyrics you can play along with on a variety of musical instruments.
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We include chord charts for right and left handed guitarists along with a Chord Transposer for any key changes that might be required. The song may not suit your voice range or you may find it easier to play chords in a different key... especially useful for beginners.
The chord charts are fairly comprehensive and are viewed in a natural playing position for both right and left handers. Most charts have the guitar neck aligned vertically (pointing towards the ceiling), where in actual fact it should be horizontal - the way it is meant to be played, making our charts much easier to read.
Make sure to check out our selection of Christmas Carols and Songs with easy chords - ideally suited for beginners. It's a long page that will keep you singing and playing for hours!
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Those enticing handbags, jackets, sofas and armchairs we view as we walk through the mall are normally made from genuine leather. Every car interior covets the new leather smell we all love. But, where is it that this leather comes from? Of course, we know most are from pigs, cows, snakes, buffalo, kangaroos and even some from fish and ostriches. Leather products are sought after and the global market for the plethora of leather applications is gargantuan. A digital publication of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estimates the leather industry to be around $200 billion annually. Footwear is the largest seller and worth about $47 billion while gloves come in next at $12.3 billion. But did we ever think about the negative impact these products might have on our health?
Leather tanning is a big industry business in Bangladesh. About 90% of the country's leather was tanned in Hazaribagh in 2015 and 2016 to the tune of about $1.5 billion in leather and leather goods. These tanneries have dumped about 5.8 million gallons of untreated liquid waste into the Buriganga River that included scraps of hide, flesh, surfectants, chromium III and ammonium sulphate. This river was once the main source of drinking water and has become so polluted now that it is widely regarded as unsafe for human consumption.
The chromium has been associated with several negative effects for both human health and the environment as it can easily oxidize to chromium VI that is a suspected carcinogen. This causes acute and chronic damage to the aquatic environment. Chickens are fed tannery scraps as a staple and most people there eat an average of 250 grams of chicken per day and ingest 4X the amounts of chromium deemed healthy.
Human health is adversely affected by tanning toxins and dyes where studies have linked them to nasal, testicular and bladder cancers. These have all been linked by studies to the dyes or solvents used during the leather finishing process. Later lung and pancreatic cancers began to be reported in association with leather dust and tanning.
Most consumers have no way of knowing where the leather in their products come from. Some designers and retailers refuse to purchase from tanneries where human rights are violated because of the age of the workers, conditions and chemicals used for processing. The fashion industry should have a moral responsibility as well as the consumers towards the use of leather products. Even those dog chews that we buy for the pet we love like our children can be toxic. It does keep their teeth strong and some have meat or protein in them, but it is a by-product of the leather industry. Dyes and highly toxic chemicals are used to make these chewy toys and then they are often painted with titanium dioxide to make them a pale, uniform color. Testing might reveal substances like lead, arsenic, mercury and formaldehyde. These can cause digestive issues, including diarrhea and even become a choking hazard or cause dangerous blockages in the esophagus or digestive tract.
Giving up leather as part of our wardrobe is an individual choice, but do consider the environmental issues before making a decision as the process of tanning leather is incredibly toxic. Try turning to vegetable, tree-bark or other natural tanning alternatives. The finished product isn't as stable or supple as the chemically generated methods, but much safer. Synthetically tanned leather might be another method of choice. Even fabrics as cork, wood, linen, hemp, cotton, bamboo and ultrasuede are good alternatives. The chemical Chromium VI has been labeled a known human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, the World Health Organization and IARC and has become strictly regulated.


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Remarkable Jewish artist
June 27, 2015 by J-Wire News Service
The National Gallery in Canberra will screen a remarkable film featuring Jewish American artist Jon Imber.
The film's director Richard Kane will "attend" the Canberra screening on Wednesday through Skype and will participate in a Q&A following the film.
Jon Imber
From the Boston Globe's front page April 24, 2014:
"This beautiful film … takes the wind out of you…. (it's) about more than the legacy of a painter. (Director) Kane … gets over Imber's infectious passion for painting … with an urgency and elan that are a pleasure to watch. … in the end … this was a film … about love." "Director Richard Kane's bittersweet and deeply moving film," Maine Sunday Telegram, March 30, 2014. In the summer of 2012, painter Jon Imber was diagnosed with a fatal degenerative disease, ALS. Imber's Left Hand tells the story of this artist's courageous and often darkly humorous response to such a sentence. The film traces his adaptations, from switching from painting with his right hand to his left, and then to both hands as the condition progresses. Adversity only makes him more determined to paint, and paint he does: more than 100 portraits in a three-month span.
In the film we first encounter Imber in his Somerville, MA studio. He and his partner, painter Jill Hoy, analyze a self-portrait and talk about the anxiety to come. The painting becomes an unsettling metaphor of Jon's psychological journey living into his dying through his art.
In one scene, while reviewing family photos, he comes across a picture of himself at nine at a family Seder. Hoy says it's his Judaism that's at the root of who he is. "How so?" Imber asks, to which Hoy replies, "Your delivery, your responsibility, your search your quest for the integrity of what you do. There's a very deep root there."
The way in which Imber carries on against the greatest of odds is at the heart of this portrait. Especially moving is how members of his Maine community rally to his support, dropping by to give his atrophied hands a massage or bring a dish, as he invites them to have their portrait painted. A spry 93-year-old is told by Imber that he will paint him "au naturel". "Does that mean I have to take everything off?" he replies. The session becomes an exercise in Borscht Belt humor as Imber tells him he will do something radical
— paint a portrait series of naked 90 year olds! In the end, Imber's Left Hand is a testament to the life-giving force that is art and the ability of two people and their community to face an uncertain future with passion and resolve.
"A masterpiece of intimacy in the face of tragedy, 'Jon Imber's Left Hand' is an extraordinary accomplishment in film. It is the eulogizing of the creative force and artistic life of one of America's leading painters – in his own vibrant voice," Daniel Kany, Maine Sunday Telegram, March 30, 2014
IMBERS LEFT HAND (USA, 2014, 76 mins, 18+)
Wednesday 01 July, 6.30pm, doors open 5.45 pm
Australian premiere of the moving tribute to painting and life as an artist battles a deadly illness. Followed by Skype Q&A with director Richard Kane.
Venue: James O Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery Australia, Canberra
Tickets: $16, $14 concession, $12 NGA members Pay bar and snacks available
For further information including film trailer and booking visit:
http://nga.gov.au/WinterFilmSeries/
Tags: jon imber, national gallery
Jan-08 10:50am SBS World Movies: Fanny's Journey
After being separated from her parents, Fanny, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and a group of eight children attempt to escape from Nazi-occupied France. Read more
Jan-29 8:30pm SBS – World Movies: Septembers of Shiraz
This is the story, based on true events, of a secular Jewish family caught up in the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 – and their heroic journey to overcome and ultimately escape from the deadly tyranny that swept their country and threatened to extinguish their lives at every turn. Read more
Jan-30 12:35am SBS-World Movies: Sobibor
This film tells the story of the heroism of Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. Read more
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Adele Teases 'Oh My God' Music Video, Announces Premiere Date
By Shakiel Mahjouri. 6 Jan 2022 1:38 PM
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Oh goodness, Adele has a new music video on the way.
Adele announced on Thursday that her official music video for "Oh My God" will premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 12. The 15-time Grammy winner shared a 15-second teaser for the song.
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"Rested and Re-Set!" Adele captioned the post. "Feeling ready for 2022, there's so much coming, I'm excited for you all to see it
"Oh My God" is the fourth single from Adele's chart-dominating fourth studio album, 30. The song, which incorporates more R&B and dance-pop elements than most of the album's other tracks, charted top 5 in more than five countries, including the U.K. and U.S.
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