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So don't be shy and post your applications right here in comments!
P.S.: No commercial software is allowed. Sorry, folks.
Take a look at my application, Droper.
It's a Qt4 application designed primarily for Symbian phones but could be ported easily to Maemo or MeeGo phones I guess.
* A main screen with two buttons; which perform similar – but different – actions.
* A menu which allows you to enable/disable/configure the various social media accounts.
* A progress bar after clicking one of the buttons.
* A results screen, showing you a summary of what's changed.
* Showing your contacts, and to whom they are mapped.
* A screen allowing you to map a contact to an existing account.
It's available in maemo extras.
I would be interested in getting improvement suggestions on it (apart from "use better graphics" – I am incapable of doing graphics design ;-).


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Former Ashland Bank Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud
December 20, 2017Travis Short0 Comments
On Monday, December 18, 2017, a former bank executive in Ashland admitted in federal court that he executed a 17-year scheme to defraud Town Square Bank of more than a million dollars. Martin Ross, 52, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud before United States District Court Judge Bunning. Ross admitted he developed and executed a scheme to defraud Town Square Bank, where he used to work, between May 2000 and July 2017, using fake names and documentation to obtain fraudulent loans. Over the past ten years, he obtained 15 loans, with an outstanding loss of $1,415,082. Ross was charged by way of information, waiving his right to indictment by a federal grand jury. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 16, 2018. Ross faces up to 30 years in prison and a maximum fine of $1,000,000.
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CALGARY – In a monumental decision, the NHL has reversed the "no-goal" call from the 2004 Stanley Cup Final, and officially awarded the Calgary Flames their second Stanley Cup in franchise history.
The debate has raged on for almost 15 years since the puck bounced off Martin Gelinas' skate into the pad of Nikolai Khabibulin about whether the puck fully crossed the line. Flames fans will assure you it did, and Lightning fans will… We couldn't find any to ask, but they will probably say it didn't?
Jarome Iginla announced his retirement earlier this afternoon, and will now retire a Stanley Cup Champion.
"This is something I have always dreamed of, to be a Stanley Cup Champion. While it's not exactly how I imagined it, it feels great and I am so happy to share this moment with my family and my [former] teammates," said Iginla when he heard the news.
Martin Gelinas now holds the record as the only player to ever score the series clinching goal in all four series.
In a day that started as a sad one for Flames fans, this news is certain to bring them joy, and cement Jarome Iginla's legacy as the best player to ever win a Stanley Cup 14 years after the fact.


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Big interview: TV presenter Charlie Webster on her near-death ordeal
Just two years ago TV presenter Charlie Webster was told she had just 24 hours to live after contracting malaria on a charity bike ride in Brazil. Still on the road to recovery, she's determined to make a difference, as Catherine Scott discovers.
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he distressing pictures of Charlie Webster in a coma hooked up to a life support machine in a Rio hospital battling for life are tough viewing. Just days earlier the television presenter was celebrating having cycled 3,000 miles across Brazil for the Jane Tomlinson appeal.
"We were euphoric. We went up to the statue of Christ the Redeemer and looked over Rio where I was due to be involved in presenting the Olympics in a few days," recalls Sheffield-born Charlie. "We all felt utterly exhausted and none of us ever wanted to see a bike again, but I also remember feeling how lucky I was to be there and said a prayer. I was so grateful for my life, a few days later I was told I was about to lose it."
Charlie, 35, had contracted a very rare form of malaria while riding in remote parts of Brazil which doctors in Rio struggled to diagnose, delaying vital treatment. "At first they thought I was just dehydrated but then I developed haemolytic syndrome – which meant both my kidneys failed and a severe form of e coli, they even thought I might have the zika virus. All they were doing was trying to keep me alive as my organs started to fail, rather than treat what turned out to be malaria."
Charlie was put into an induced coma as doctors tried to work out what was wrong with her and then, when they eventually tested for malaria, treat it. She later learnt that she'd had to be resuscitated and had been put on a life-support machine.
Her mum had flown out from Leeds to be with her daughter and although Charlie was in a coma she was aware of what was going on around her.
"I could hear them talking. I could hear them say I only had 24 hours to live. It was a living nightmare as I had no way of letting them know that I could hear them. But I was determined not to leave my mum as I knew it would break her heart if I died. They also told her that if I did survive I could be brain-damaged as the malaria had caused a haemorrhage in my brain and they didn't know what damage would have been caused."
Despite the dire prognosis doctors decided to treat Charlie with anti-malaria drugs, unsure whether she would respond. But she did.
After a month in hospital in Rio she was eventually flown back to the UK and to St James's Hospital in Leeds where she spent another month. She has sustained permanent damage to her kidneys and may need a transplant in the future. She has to be careful what she eats and can't touch alcohol again. But it wasn't just the physical scars that Charlie has been left with.
"I have struggled a lot psychologically. Being told you are going to die really messes with your head, I have flashbacks and problems sleeping and have been diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I know I am lucky to be alive but it has changed me and changed my life."
Doctors says if Charlie hadn't be so fit it is unlikely she would have survived, but she believes it is also the strength of her will which pulled her through. "I did not want to die and I was determined not to, but it was hard, it was absolutely exhausting."
After she left St James's she went to live with her mum in Leeds as she learnt to do many of the things she had taken for granted again. When she was eventually able to return to her flat in London it was an emotional experience.
"I had left it five months earlier, going on a massive adventure to Brazil and I came back a completely different person. I knew I had been given the gift of life but the reality of what had happened to me crashed down on me."
She admits that she probably went back to work too soon, which took further toll on her both physically and psychologically.
"I was so determined to try to get back to normal as soon as possible and working is my normal. Psychologically it was the right thing to do as I needed to get my confidence back but physically it was too soon. I have had to learn to take things slowly, which has never been my style," says Charlie who is no stranger to trauma. She has spoken openly in the past about being a victim of sexual abuse and also having experience of domestic violence. But she says coming back from malaria has been one of her biggest fights.
"I have had to learn to try not to be frustrated at myself and to know my boundaries and look after myself physically and mentally. I really believe in the strength of the mind as part of my survival and subsequent recovery."
In April this year Charlie reached a major milestone when she completed the London Marathon. "It was a huge achievement for me and I was very proud of myself, although it took me such a long time and I found it incredibly hard – it wasn't helped when I took a tumble not long after I'd started," she says. "I couldn't run it like I would have done before I contracted malaria but for me it was a massive achievement just to complete it. Because of the damage to my kidneys I have to take on a lot of fluids and keep refuelling.
"It was a bit frustrating though as people saw I had run the marathon and thought I was better – but I am not 100 per cent in fact I am still very much in the recovery period."
Earlier this year Charlie took the brave decision to visit Uganda – where malaria is rife – with the charity Malaria No More of which she is now become an ambassador. "I was nervous about going as it would be very dangerous for me to be exposed to malaria again – I don't think my body would have been able to cope – so I was in this boiling hot country wearing a jumper and completely covered up.
"I saw a woman while I was there who was dying from malaria, which was very hard to witness. She had a little baby and was about my age. I remember someone saying 'get out of the room' but I wasn't going anywhere. I knew how scared I was when I was in that position and I wasn't going to leave her."
Charlie is the process of setting up a foundation to help education about the risks from malaria. She is also writing a book, a form of memoir but also looking at the themes of hope and survival and the bond between a mother and her daughter. "When I was in the coma I could hear my mum's voice. If I hadn't heard her voice which made me determined not to die I don't think I would have survived."
She is in talks in America about more television work, although she is moving away from sports presenting. At the moment her passion is to try to do something about the malaria situation.
"I do believe that it is my responsibility to do something, to try to make a difference," she says. "I fought very hard to be alive and I am determined to make it count."


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Craig David set to rock Big Ben this New Year's Eve on BBC One
Craig David will be brightening up New Year's Eve on BBC One in a very special live concert as the multiple award-winning and critically acclaimed singer songwriter performs a selection of his smash hits and much more besides to welcome in 2020.
As a much loved and respected figure in British music culture, Craig is responsible for a string of global hits including Fill Me In, 7 Days, Heartline and Do You Miss Me Much and will be kicking things off on the big night as he is joined on stage at London's Central Hall Westminster by his legendary band.
As Big Ben strikes midnight, London's famous fireworks will light up the night sky over the River Thames with a spectacular display choreographed to a specially edited medley of music. After that, the action switches back inside Central Hall Westminster as Craig returns one more time with one of his globally renowned TS5 sets as the party continues.
Craig David says: "I can't think of a better way to see in the New Year and new decade than performing and celebrating with you all. It's going to be a night to remember!"
Jan Younghusband, Head of BBC Music TV Commissioning, says: "Craig is famous for his blistering live sets, so I'm thrilled that he will be ringing in New Year by performing live for BBC One viewers."
A limited number of tickets for the concert will go on sale on Thursday 28 November at 10am, visit bbc.co.uk/newyearseve for further details.
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Here is a horror story for you. A fire marshal goes to great lengths to put a specific piece of technology into a very complicated building. In the process the fire marshal suffers the consequences of fighting battles behind the scenes that cost him/her in terms of the working relationship with the building and development community.
Fast forward a couple of years later when a fire actually occurs in the occupancy and the very thing that he fought to achieve in the way of built-in fire protection is totally overlooked by the responding crews as they attempt to cope with the problem facing them.
If you think that this is a far-fetched tale, let me assure you that there is ample evidence to demonstrate that it has actually happened in the past and is likely to continue to occur in the future. One of the reasons for this phenomena is that many fire prevention bureaus have systematically removed fire from fire prevention by not getting their operational people closely engaged with the process of fire code development.
As far away as I am from you right now, I can already hear some of you muttering to yourself, "What the heck?" You might think that I have fallen over to the dark side and start to believe that fire suppression is more important than fire prevention. Or, worse yet, you think that I am getting ready to criticize fire prevention for ignoring the wishes of fire suppression. Well, stop muttering for just a few more paragraphs and continue following my line of reasoning.
One of the very real reasons that we attempt to put things into the fire code to mitigate against the risk is to benefit our suppression forces. In a previous column I have referred to the fact that the fire code provisions ranging all the way from property set backs (which equal exposure protection) and location of exits (which deals with rescue and evacuation) are as much a part of concern of the operational people as they are of the individuals writing and enforcing the fire code. Fire prevention is every bit as much about firefighter safety as it is about limiting damage.
But I am actually concerned about something a little different than that. What I am talking about is the process of plan checking, during which decisions made about how to approach a building, how to maneuver around it and how to gain access to it are influenced by operational implications. And where are our fire operations people during this discussion? They are over at the fire house.
Recently I was in a conversation with a fire prevention friend of mine who is extensively involved in plan check and he expressed a concern about the fact that more and more "alternatives" are being proposed regarding how to get access to the exterior of a building and there is no one developing the parameters from the operations division to evaluate whether or not the operations folks can cope with the solutions being offered.
As simple a thing as a turning radius of a fire truck can often bear heavily on the implications of plan check review process. And, of course, many fire agencies have dealt with the development of standards to deal with that one issue. But the list is much lengthier than that. I can recall once in my career having a rather extensive discussion with a developer for high-rise building over the size of an elevator. They had designed an elevator for the movement of people that would not allow a full-sized gurney to go into place to evacuate a medical aid victim from an upper floor.
As an operational BC at the time, I was involved in the discussions of what should be the minimum dimension of an elevator in this high rise, because the building was populated entirely by people who were over the age of 65. Granted, that was a long time ago and it probably has gone into the annals of contemporary wisdom to account for things like that. But what about the things that we are not looking out for right now?
There are a few potential strategies that we in the fire community could contemplate to change this. First and foremost perhaps we should adopt the idea of requiring that individuals entering the fire service spend some time in a fire prevention bureau. Back in the '50s and '60s and even as late as the mid '70s many fire departments embraced the idea that recruit firemen serving in their fire prevention bureaus learn a lot about construction and fire behavior. Unfortunately, as a practice it has faded away.
The second concept could be to continue to use the fire prevention bureau as one of the stepping stones of succession planning of an organization. To be real blunt about it, that is not a very popular strategy for the simple reason that it is an eight-hour workday and most firefighters do not like it. But six months in the bureau could change a person's perspective on what those code provisions really mean to the fire service.
In my conversation with my fire prevention compadre, I asked him how he overcomes this gap within his own department. His comment was that he had managed to make friends with several truly reasonable fire officers over "on the floor" and whenever a new problem was posed to him he would often go over and engage them in a dialogue about their observations, concerns and recommendations. In other words, he engaged in a little participative management in prevention.
Perhaps we should move a little further down the scale of adaptability and start putting seasoned fire officers onto the subcommittees within our planning development groups to look at the long-range implications of new construction and creative architecture. While our fire prevention people are away attending conferences rewriting the codes, somebody needs to keep their eye on the idea of being able to use the solution under crisis.
There are a lot of potential problems with all of these strategies and I know that. In my experience I have seen fire prevention continue to march to a different drummer in making code changes that result in some pretty expensive code requirements that may or may not make any sense to the operational fire service. I have simultaneously watched the operational side of the fire service turn a blind eye toward the development of the sophistication going into buildings almost to the point of endangering themselves when they are required to operate on emergencies.
The impact of many fire departments that are focusing most of their energy on responding to emergency medical aids may well be developing an information and competency gap that will cost our profession in the long run.
Lastly, fire departments should be doing everything they can to restore the concept of pre-planning into the day-to-day activities of fire departments. Prevention and pre-planning are dual ways of reducing the loss of life and property. One leads to the other. And vice-versa, putting prevention components into a building and then not sharing the expertise on how to use them is definitely not an appropriate course of action for a professional service.
The true legacy of the fire service included fire officers like John Damrell and his contemporaries of the late 1880s who focused a signifi¬cant amount of their energy and effort into improving the fire safety of their communities. The modern fire chief has a different plate – make that a platter – from which to act upon. It is in the best interest of the fire profession overall for both fire prevention and fire suppression to be arm and arm as we proceed down the path of developing the fire problem in the next century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ronny J. Coleman is president of the Fire and Emergency Television Network (FETN). He is the former California State Fire Marshal, past president of IAFC, and currently serves as chairman of Board of Trustees for the Com¬mission on Fire Accreditation, International and the NFPA Committee on Fire Protec¬tion in the Motion Picture and Television Industry. Coleman was honored as AFSA's 1989 Henry S. Parmelee Award recipient.
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Research collaboration: Flash Center for Computational Science is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner institutions.
Laser-Produced Magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Plasma Slabs in a 20 T Magnetic Field
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Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany (0)
IPSL Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics (LERMA), France (0)
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (0)
Sorbonne University, France (0)
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN HH), Romania (0)
Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI), France (0)
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Russia (0)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)
The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)
The root of stem cell regeneration
Mars's missing water may be locked in the planet's rocks
Finding new metallic glasses faster
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Meeting Minutes – November 2020
ADAMHS Board Meeting Room
Sgt Bethel, Ohio State Highway Patrol
Ron Bond, Farm Bureau
Nicole Dorsey, Tusc Co Health Dept
Bill Harding, Community Member
Kayli Luthy, OhioGuidestone- Youth Led Prevention Facilitator
Jeff Neidig, Mediwise Pharmacist
Beverly Pearch, Executive Director Big Brothers Big Sisters
Gerald Sanders, Community Member
Kathryn Secoy, Tusky Valley Youth
Diana Smith, Personal & Family Counseling Services
Robin Waltz, Executive Director United Way
Brock West, Youth Advisory Board
Angela White, Guest Speaker
Jeff Neidig called the Virtual meeting to order at 10:00 AM on Friday, November 6, 2020, with 16 members present. Bill made a motion to accept the October minutes and Diana seconded. The vote was unanimous.
Executive Committee:
Jeff reported that there was no meeting. Jodi and Kerry will be attending a learning opportunity through Prevention Action Alliance, an Advocacy Boot-Camp that will enhance our advocacy efforts and will deal with environmental changes at both the state and local levels.
Alcohol Committee:
Veronica reported that they rolled out the SAMHSA "Talk They Hear You" campaign and then did not meet this past month. Committee meeting date has been changed and they will now be meeting on the third Monday of each month at 3pm. Veronica sent information to Michaela requesting a press release be sent out in November/December to include how to talk to your kids about alcohol, using materials from the SAMHSA campaign.
Faith Based Efforts:
There is no report today from Pastor Larry. He will be stepping down as the chair, as he has taken a full-time job which will interfere with his ability to attend and coordinate meetings. He has recommended that we speak with one of the pastors that is active in one of the ministerial associations that he meets with. With Pastor Larry's recommendation, the Executive Committee will be meeting with identified pastor and discuss his interest and ability to serve as faith-based sector representative and chair of Faith-based Committee.
Marijuana Committee:
In Alex's absence, Diana reported that marijuana surveys were collected, even though there were significantly less than normally collected at county fair. She is currently working on the development of the marijuana committee brochure.
Media Committee:
In Michaela's absence, Diana reported that October press releases that went out included Project HOPE, the National DEA Takeback event and Red Ribbon Week. The Press releases going out in November include, Kayli as the new Youth Led Prevention Coordinator, Securing and Disposal of Prescription Drugs around the Holidays, and How to talk to you Kids about Alcohol. There will also be information on our website and will be pushed out on social media around mental health issues. Other media efforts include weekly podcasts and many of them will be focused around youth alcohol prevention, Rx prevention and dealing with stress around COVID holidays. There will be NO Media Committee immediately following today's meeting. It will be held at a later date.
Prescription Drug Committee:
Jeff reported that the Lock Box Project is continuing, and boxes are being distributed in the community. The committee did get good feedback on the criteria for use and dissemination. The court system, Adam Wilgus, and his probation officers reviewed the criteria list that Kristin had started on why to use boxes. Criteria checklist will act as a way to monitor the boxes to include the why and where they were distributed and will serve to collect data that can be used in applying for future grant opportunities. The committee is still working on the needle and syringe disposal project. Rachel is doing a lot of work on that effort and educating on what you can be done now. She is also working behind the scenes to identify ways/opportunities to educate the public around safe needle and syringe disposal. The committee was ready to present to Leadership Tuscarawas (LT) a project opportunity around over-the counter medications safety (reading labels, understanding labels, etc). Unfortunately, LT was supposed to start in October has been canceled, due to the pandemic. Therefore, the Rx Committee will continue to work on this issue without the assistance of LT project team. Diana reported that we have already handed out lock boxes out to Job & Family Services (JFS), Community Mental Health (CMH), and OhioGuidestone. Jodi is working with Juvenile Court to provide them boxes.
Tobacco Committee:
Vaping Task Force Updated Action Plan: Nicole reported that they are getting the updated action plan typed out and sent to the committee members for approval. Diana and Jodi just finished the training and are certified to train the trainers of Catch My Breath" Vaping Prevention program, the only evidenced based vaping prevention education program. Information on this program will be offered to all districts. Claymont schools have inquired about wanting to know more about program and implementation. Nicole explained that the committee is exploring the use of magnets & digital buttons for the schools. Since all students use Chromebooks, they would like to have buttons available on students' home screens so information and help services would always be visible to students and could link them to resources. It would be an easy and confidential way for students to reach out for help. Resources will include, "My Life, My Quit" for those who are addicted to tobacco products. Diana reported that the tobacco committee brochure that has been being developed by Niccole and Kelly is being proofed and will be sent to Josh for first draft, next week.
Youth:
Kayli reported good news. School groups are meeting, growing, planning and initiating efforts and initiatives. Kathryn Secoy from Tusky Valley was in attendance to see what it is like to be a youth sector representative for the YAB in the future. Brock West reported that they have been working with all the different schools finding out what they are focusing on this year. Tuscarawas Central Catholic (TCC) will be focusing on Mental Health. The have been doing a few activities in their Youth to Youth (Y2Y) to get familiar with the concept of mental health. A few weeks ago, they had their Red Ribbon Campaign in their school collecting money from a "jeans" day since normally they have to wear uniforms. He will get back to us on how much was collected. At YAB, they are currently making a video about the Sandy Hook promise that will be used in Newcomerstown school district. Other schools are making contributions to the video with small little clips and then will be showing and sharing the video. Kayli reported that Tusky Valley was also going to have a mental health focus and they would be having a "Spirit Week". Example: One day would be "Pajama Day" to remind kids to take care of their mental health and relax, unwind, destress. "Twin Day" to remind you to lean on your friends and being there for them to lean on you, as well. Claymont is working on tobacco prevention this month, as it is Tobacco Prevention month. They will be putting up some posters and have a school scavenger hunt that will provide an avenue to educate students on vaping/tobacco use. It is also homelessness and hunger prevention month, so they would like to do something for someone that is in need.
Jeff encouraged anyone not already plugged into a committee, to join one, as the committees need more active members.
Old Business:
Drug Take Back Day: The poundage collected from Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital- 183#; Trinity Twin City Hospital- 78# and Mercy Medical Center, is unknown as Sgt Bethel reported that the DEA picks them up directly from the State Highway Patrol. Since it goes to a different process, we have not been able to have a pound report. Sgt. Bethel is filling in today for Sgt. Bower and our new contact will be Lt. Laura Taylor. We will continue to have the permanent drug boxes throughout the county through the solid waste grant that was given many years ago. Through the sheriff's office we will continue to have the regional drug take back days, as well, to make sure we are getting the drugs out of their homes that are no longer in use. Diana reported that the Twin City take back amount was one of the highest that was collected from previous drug take backs. Even the Chief of Police reported that they were getting so many drugs there, that they had to upgrade their box. This shows that it is working in that area.
Project HOPE: The event at the courthouse was canceled at the last minute due to the pandemic and change to level red. However, some of the silhouettes were still placed at the courthouse, in front of the long voter line. One set had the total overdoses and deaths in the county up to October. It was very engaging. A realtor box was purchased and used to hold flyers on the effort and resources available in the county, and it was widely used. The Project Hope resource yard signs are still available if anyone would be willing to place signs.
New Business:
ADC Facebook Page: Promoting a letter to grandkids, etc., will send letters from Santa or one of the reindeers. It will come from Santa's Workshop.
Legislative Report: Jeff reported that Chris Lane, Kerry and Jodi will be meeting with the wholesale beer and wine association regarding social media advertising. House Bill 674.
Learning Session: Miles introduced Angela White from "Speak Out" Ohio. She spoke on self-harm and what it entails, how to recognize and when it becomes a problem. She is available for webinars, etc. by contacting her at speakoutohio19@gmail.com.
Bill Made a motion to adjourn. Meeting was adjourned at 11:25AM.
The next Board Meeting will be a virtual meeting on December 4th from 10:00-11:30 am.


The next step is to select a group of machines after that we must select the channels that correspond to the amount contained accelerometers on the body of the machine under test. Journal of Vibroengineering, Vol. The most frequently used vibration transducers are accelerometers. The purpose of the application is to compare the measured values to the limit values and the threshold levels:.
These experiments resulted in: The methodology for measuring and evaluating the vibration of the machines based on the ISO standard . Received 29 September ; received in revised form 23 November ; accepted 1 December ; published 30 December Virtual Instrumentation VI has been successfully used in the industry and the laboratories, for example in such researches .
Final text received or FDIS registered for formal approval. The standard has been defined ranges for the respective sio of machines. Vibration velocity measured in three orthogonal directions.
The general evaluation criteria, which are presented izo terms of both vibration magnitude and change of vibration, relate to both operational monitoring and acceptance testing. In each chart there are blocks showing frequency and amplitude. Methodology of measurement of the mechanical vibration 2. Many years of research, whose results and conclusions are contained in the standards give a good methodological tool to assess the state of machines. The ISO series permits the use of different measurement quantities and methods, provided that they are well-defined and their limitations are set out, so that the interpretation of the measurements is well-understood.
Then there are engines from 15 to 75 kW and kW machines.
Transducers are fixed and arranged in three directions in accordance with the X – Y – Z coordinate system on the test machine frame. The next step is to go to the charts. Take the smart route to manage medical device compliance. Limit levels are qualitatively different category. At present, it is possible to iao this standard for permanent on-line condition monitoring of machines because the standard is often used as the first criterion to defines the moment when it must enable more advanced diagnostic tools for understanding the sources of damage and is a convenient and reliable source of creation of a general trend line of run down the machine under test.
The user begins the work of the channel selection and determination of the group to which the test machine.
Each block performs a specific function according to which we convert the input signal into an output signal.
Monday to Friday – The VibroTest graphic user interface The Graphical User Interface is used as operator panel for the measurement and the evaluation of the vibration machine under test, according to ISO . In addition, modern measurement tools are often based on virtual instruments and apparatus. The first step is placing the block start, which is responsible for running the program. The program is created with the graphic symbols and the lines that connect the blocks.
NOTE 1 The evaluation criteria for different classes of machinery will be included in other parts of ISO when they become available. Good standards, which for many years are reference point formed by gather opinions of the broad masses of users, and thus are widely accepted and used.
Former standards like ISO The contributed to the development of all kinds of monitoring systems and diagnostic inference. The system for measuring and evaluating the vibration condition of the machine under test is a subsystem of diagnostic system of parameter of electrical machines and diesel engines on ships.
The second stage is software, who in an integrated manner converts the collected information. These standards have been revised by ISO For the velocity spectrum signal generated by the machine is integrated, and then processed by a Hanning window of time and displayed on the graph.
The four groups are distinguished machines that are divided into power and their size. Evaluation of machine vibration by measurements on non-rotating parts Kso sets in hydraulic power and pumping plants BS ISO Evaluation of machine vibration by measurements on non-rotating parts.
Machines that generate vibroacoustic processes are tested at every stage of their life cycle. Therefore, next to a table with maximum values, there are four indicators similar to LEDs that are to 108116-1 the user who is responsible for the condition of the tested machine. The limit values are a measure of symptoms associated with a type of used the physical phenomenon in this paper used the phenomenon of vibration for the timing of the transition to the state border the state of the object in which its further exploitation is not desirable for the technical or the economic reasons.
The last element 1016-1 this algorithm is the record of the data and the selection of a new program or exits isi application. Speed is the integral of the acceleration, and the whole of the speed gives displacement. However, the ISO series is also applicable to measurements made on other rotating elements if isl elements are found to be more suitable, provided that the guidelines are respected.
As part of the work on the basis of analysis of the literature and recommendations contained in the standard, there was developed algorithm based on the evaluation of the machines noises iiso the vibration signals.
There was a 1081-1 development of monitoring and diagnostic systems, from prototype that allowed to identify the current state of the machine, a commercial integrated hardware and software uniform measurement systems. The reliability of the research requires, to recall the precise equipment used for this research.
During calibration VibroTest system in laboratory condition, was established the measurement error. LabView is the environment in which programmed in a graphical language. The evaluation criteria relate only to the vibration produced by the machine itself and not the vibration transmitted to it from outside. Four states are distinguished, if the first condition iiso good that the program determines the color green, the next state is satisfactory. On the other hand, the standard 1816-1 is not enough, the current monitoring parameters contained in the standard requires to hold or construction of easily configurable system for measuring, analyzing and archiving.
The spectrum of the movement is shown in the chart. The third group consists of more than kW machines and motors with power above 75 kW, which satisfy the conditions of the rigid setting.
General view on components of the machines diagnostics system.


The oxytocin receptor, a gene known to influence mother-infant bonding, also plays a role in the ability to remember faces.
The finding has important implications for disorders in which social information processing is disrupted—like autism spectrum disorder—and may lead to new strategies for improving social cognition in several psychiatric disorders.
According to study author Larry Young, of the department of psychiatry at Emory University, this is the first study to demonstrate that variation in the oxytocin receptor gene influences face recognition skills.
He and colleagues point out the implication that oxytocin plays an important role in promoting our ability to recognize one another, yet about one-third of the population possesses only the genetic variant that negatively impacts that ability.
The new finding may help explain why a few people remember almost everyone they have met while others have difficulty recognizing members of their own family.
For the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers studied 198 families with a single autistic child because these families are known to show a wide range of variability in facial recognition skills. Two-thirds of the families were from the United Kingdom, and the remainder from Finland.
Researchers had previously found the oxytocin receptor is essential for olfactory-based social recognition in rodents, like mice and voles, and wondered whether the same gene could also be involved in human face recognition.
They examined the influence of subtle differences in oxytocin receptor gene structure on face memory competence in the parents, non-autistic siblings, and autistic child, and discovered a single change in the DNA of the oxytocin receptor had a big impact on face memory skills in the families.
This finding implies that oxytocin likely plays an important role more generally in social information processing, which is disrupted in disorders such as autism.
Additionally, this study is remarkable for its evolutionary aspect. Rodents use odors for social recognition while humans use visual facial cues.
This suggests an ancient conservation in genetic and neural architectures involved in social information processing that transcends the sensory modalities used from mouse to man.
Skuse credits Young's previous research that found mice with a mutated oxytocin receptor failed to recognize mice they previously encountered.
Researchers from University College London and University of Tampere in Finland contributed to the study, which was funded by grants from the US National Institute of Mental Health and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs as well as the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and National Alliance for Autism Research.


Join me on the EPIC journey as Billi J. Miller (City), meets Farmer, the man of her dreams and moves to the country. There she reignites her passion for photography and storytelling.
Farmwives in Profile is her first book set to launch on January 13, 2016. To learn more and to purchase your copy please visit: http://www.farmwivesbook.com/.
Look for Billi popping up on TV and online in the next few weeks!


Outside Tech meets Inside Politics.
If you understand what it means, you can quit right here.
But you'll miss the story. And the lesson.
With this episode, we start the complete presentation of our recent series on tech consulting. Two hours of drama in five easy episodes.
There's something for everyone. Good plot. A few jokes. Interesting characters. Goats, always a welcome addition. And a lesson, a lesson of our time: the lesson of what happens when outside tech meets in inside politics.
The preliminary episodes in which we set our stage.
You Really Want to Be a Consultant?
You've posted your qualifications, got yourself a business license and are ready to start a new career as an independent tech consultant.
What makes you think that you will succeed in a field where others have, well, not succeeded?
This fall, we're going to start a series that follows the crack How We Manage Stuff cast as they undertake an international consulting job in Northern Germany. You get a chance to see what works (and what doesn't) without exposing your own reputation to ridicule.
In this episode, we give you a preview of what the series will bring.
You've intended to read The Second Machine Age, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAffee but just haven't found the time. It's an important book, to be sure, and explains a lot about the future of work. But it's fat. And it's say on your Amazon wish list for what, three years?
This is how we can help. Sulley from our Policy Office and Maddie, our in house entrepreneur have carefully read the book (more or less) and present a detailed and careful summary for your edification. Remember, we read it so you don't have to.
Once computing was work. Hard work. Paper. Pencil. Nothing more.
Once, thousands of people calculated in mass computing labs. Now, they are generally forgotten.
This November, The National Institute of Standards and Technology has corrected our memory by honoring their chief computer from the 1930s, Gertrude Blanch. Blanch was the director of the Mathematical Tables Project, a WPA work relief effort that was once the largest computing office in the world.
Our cast adds their appreciation.
Was the Internet designed to withstand a nuclear attack? Common story. Is it true?
Rohit and Penelope Othmar explore the origins of the Internet when they review the book Imagineers of War by Sharon Weinberger, a book that discusses the history of ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency. The answer is not as straightforward as we might like.


I'm writing this blog as a mom of a 10 week old. I know, I know, I owe you a birth blog post and it's definitely coming. Just bear with me.
Lets start here first: The third and fourth trimester. Yes, there is such a thing. The fourth trimester is the first 12 weeks after giving birth. It's the time where your body is forming back to its original shape, where you mentally get used to being a new parent and where you spend as much time as you can with your little baby.
Because I chose to exclusively breastfeed, it was important to me to own a few comfortable and easy accessible pieces to feed my baby in. Clothes that aren't only easy to feed in, but are also free of nasty chemicals and are ethically produced. That's when I stumbled upon Francis and Henry.
^ This was my hospital bag. I made sure to pack a nightie that what easy to breastfeed in and would be easy to put on and take off, especially post-surgery (yep, I had a c-section). This nightie was perfect because it was really soft, stretchy and had the perfect length. As you can see in the image below, I popped it one right after surgery. I even dress it up now with a pair of jeans and just rock it as a long t-shirt, haha. It's just so comfy!


I'm from Kansas, and proud of it. I am therefore one of the select few products of public education in Kansas who studies evolution, and in particular the evolution of humans. For this reason, I follow events in Kansas very closely, although from a distance. The intelligent design movement in Kansas is well-organized, and has had considerable success in advancing its agenda.
Reuters reports on the new evolution hearings before the Kansas Board of Education.
The Kansas Board of Education has scheduled six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin on Thursday in the capitol Topeka. More than two dozen witnesses will give testimony and be subject to cross-examination, with the majority expected to argue against teaching evolution.
Many prominent U.S. scientific groups have denounced the debate as founded on fallacy and have promised to boycott the hearings, which opponents say are part of a larger nationwide effort by religious interests to gain control over government.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that KCFS calls on the entire science and science education community of Kansas to refuse to participate in the hearing proceedings. Science has its own validity and has made its position on these matters perfectly clear and unambiguous. ID and other forms of creationism arent science. The specific proposals in the minority report have been rejected by the writing committee and by the science community at large. The science community should not put itself in the position of participating in a rigged hearing where non-scientists will appear to sit in judgment and find science lacking. Science should not give the anti-evolution members of the board the veneer of respectability when they take their predictable action. Let the board take responsibility for its actions without dignifying those actions with the appearance of academic rigor.
On the other hand, the Board of Education is far from the most important audience for a public hearing. The people of Kansas deserve to know the importance of the decisions that are being made for them in Topeka. We cannot expect the voting public to read our websites or follow the issue closely. The best we can hope for is that people will read newspaper accounts of the hearings. To date, many of the major newspapers in Kansas have done a good job of presenting the point of view of mainstream biology. This editorial in the Wichita Eagle is a case in point.
But evolutionists must know this is a difficult battle. Nonspecialists who follow science have trouble finding good information about evolution. "Science-oriented" television ranges from good (but often wrong) accounts of recent fossil discoveries like the Flores hominids to programs about the search for Noah's ark or the Bimini roads as evidence for ancient Atlantis. There is no filter to tell what is generally right and what is complete garbage. A lot of scientists underestimate the extent to which sources like these are the core of many people's scientific knowledge. After 13 years in the classroom, I can attest that even for some of the most engaged students, real evolutionary theory is only one voice amid the noise of pseudoscience.
Kansas received a lot of bad press in 1999 over the debate about the science curriculum. This reputation was exploited by a recent book, What's the Matter with Kansas, focused on the issues of job loss and population loss in the Midwest and their interaction with religious and political conservatism. It seems clear that East Coast elites see Kansas as an uneducated backwater.
I think it is important to put this stereotype out to pasture. I'm a Kansan, and I'm not a rube. Nobody will make any headway with me as long as they begin with the attitude that they can teach me the error of my ways. Most scientists are not typically known for their ability to communicate tactfully. Pit an often haughty-sounding scientific establishment against a stubborn, independent-minded Midwesterner, and it is not hard to predict the result. The people of Kansas are far from alone in facing this issue: it has made news within the past year in Ohio, California, Georgia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and probably other parts of the country I haven't heard about.
The evidence for the evolution of life on Earth is overwhelming and convincing to any reasonable person. Even so, the evidence has weaknesses, which the ID movement has repeatedly pointed out with workmanlike precision. These weaknesses do not show that evolutionary theory is false; instead, they present cases of features or systems of natural organisms that are not yet well explained by evolutionary hypotheses. The ID movement proposes that an intelligent designer could explain these cases. While certainly this is true--an intelligent designer could explain anything--it does not mean that evolutionary theory cannot explain them, or that it will not. Science is an unfinished process. This is why we need to teach students to do science, because they will solve these problems in the future, along with others we have not yet found.
The "scientific establishment" is hardly a unified set of people. Most scientists are quite conservative when it comes to accepting established ideas, but prestige in science often comes from attacking those ideas. This makes the "establishment" more like a Hydra with many heads snapping at each other. It is easy for a concerted group to pick and choose the words of different scientists to make it appear that there is significant controversy over evolutionary theory where there is actually none. The misleading use of quotes and articles in this way has been documented by both the NCSE and by TalkDesign.org. But the point remains: scientists have often not been their own best advocates.
The task before us is far from a simple one. In my experience, my most engaged students reflexively believe that ID is wrong and shouldn't be part of science curricula. But they believe this because they perceive it to be a religious doctrine in disguise. With a little background, most students understand the religious intent behind ID theory and why it constitutes a violation of First Amendment rights.
It is much more difficult to get students to understand the logical reasons that ID is not science. When I present other issues to students that do not have hidden religious content, like the Aquatic Ape Theory, and ask them to find the logical weaknesses, they find it very challenging. Yet the fact that ID is not science is -- at least for the scientist -- by far the best reason not to teach it in science classes.
I give all the credit in the world to the tireless scientists defending the teaching of evolutionary theory today, and I am happy to do whatever part I can as well. In particular, the staff of NCSE and Eugenie Scott deserve accolades for their time and effort in speaking publicly and appearing in the media on the issue. They can use your support.
But so far the fire appears to be spreading. We need to find better ways to bring real evolutionary theory into schools. We need to find better ways to speak to people about biology and the history of people and life.
There is a reason that Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan both went to Dayton, Tennessee. The Kansas hearings may not be the right place to focus public attention on the problem. But I fear that the ID movement will continue to grow until the scientific establishment gets a voice as powerful as these.
If you are interested in finding out more about the Kansas hearings, or even in attending them, you should check out the Thoughts from Kansas blog, which gives some directions and contact information.
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We're saddened to learn that Bill Elander, former President & CEO of the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB, now Visit Anchorage) passed away on Friday, Aug. 28. After suffering a massive stroke a week earlier, Bill was home and in hospice care, surrounded by family. We'd like to extend our deepest condolences to his wife Lynn and their entire family.
Bill served as ACVB's CEO from 1988-2000, and is credited with creating Visit Anchorage as we now know it. Bill envisioned Anchorage as a conventions and meetings destination, and he turned that vision into a reality, working to ensure the success of the newly opened Egan Center and convention hotels by creating the sales and marketing capacity to fill them.
He was an institution unto himself during his tenure at ACVB. He was forceful, assertive, and direct; he was also caring and truly dedicated to the cause of improving and serving our community via a vibrant visitor economy. Those who worked directly with him use words like "tough" and "compassionate" in the same sentence.
He had a proud military career and served our country honorably as a military pilot and also as a POW during the last year of the Vietnam War.
His ability to find success in both military and destination marketing careers, to persevere in daunting circumstances, and to leave behind multiple legacies is an inspiring lesson for us all.
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Basically what I want to do is listen to a sockets input stream for new data.

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NASDAQ 100 Bearish Momentum With A 7% Slide In The Last 21 Sessions
(VIANEWS) – NASDAQ 100 (NDX) has been up by 7.3% for the last 21 sessions. At 10:10 EST on Thursday, 3 November, NASDAQ 100 (NDX) is $10,727.79.
Today's last reported volume for NASDAQ 100 is 213737553, 93.39% below its average volume of 3234450063.14.
Regarding NASDAQ 100's yearly highs and lows, it's 2.75% up from its 52-week low and 36.01% down from its 52-week high.
NASDAQ 100's last week, last month's, and last quarter's current intraday variation average was a negative 0.65%, a negative 0.13%, and a positive 1.53%, respectively.
NASDAQ 100's highest amplitude of average volatility was 2.24% (last week), 1.81% (last month), and 1.53% (last quarter), respectively.
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According to the stochastic oscillator, a useful indicator of overbought and oversold conditions, NASDAQ 100's is considered to be overbought (>=80).
According to MarketWatch on Tuesday, 1 November, "The stock, which was still inactive in the premarket, has tumbled 22.6% over the past three months while the S&P 500 has lost 6.0%."
According to FXStreet on Tuesday, 1 November, "Elsewhere, Wall Street printed the first daily loss in three but S&P 500 Futures print mild gains at the latest."
According to MarketWatch on Tuesday, 1 November, "Molson Coors shares are up 8.8% in 2022 compared to an 18.8% loss by the S&P 500 ."
According to MarketWatch on Tuesday, 1 November, "SoFi's stock has lost nearly two thirds of its value so far in 2022 as the S&P 500 has dropped 19%."
According to MarketWatch on Tuesday, 1 November, "Carvana shares have declined 96% over the past 12 months as the S&P 500 has lost 18%."
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The US government shutdown continues to drag on, so I decided to give an "on-the-ground" perspective.
Firstly, I know it is affecting some people. My brother-in-law hasn't worked in a month and I am sure he is going stir crazy.
However, I have not noticed a single difference. Several stories claim farmers are being hit hard by the shutdown, but I struggle to see how.
One politician said we needed the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to open, so we could get the loans. When I borrow money, I go to a bank.
And if I want to find out the price of cattle in Kansas, I can just go to the auction barn's website, I don't need the government report buried deep within the USDA website.
Our local Farm Service Agency office has good people working at it. They worked late to pay all of the soya bean farmers their welfare checks before the shutdown began.
If the government is still closed in April, I will miss out on some funding for a project to replace tillage land at risk of erosion with pasture and water tanks.
But here is a dirty secret: If the government is still closed, I will just go to go the bank to borrow my own money and do it anyway.
I'm principled but I'm also pragmatic. If I refuse the money it isn't going to keep the US from piling up more debt.
They will just give it to someone else for a different project to mine.
Even though the shutdown isn't affecting very many people in rural America, it doesn't mean that we don't find it incredibly stupid. Trump said he would welcome it – that was idiotic.
But what you probably don't see in Britain is that he has offered concessions to Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives and representative for most of San Francisco.
Trump cancelled her "troop visit" family vacation to Europe and she cancels his State of the Union speech.
While these two self-serving, egomaniac elitists fight like seven-year olds, at least they will leave us alone.
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By Madeline Barr on January 7, 2021
Separate assaults in southern Afghanistan left a minimum of 11 civilians and safety forces lifeless, officers mentioned Thursday, at the same time as Afghan negotiators had been in Qatar to renew talks with the Taliban geared toward discovering an finish to a long time of battle.
In southern Uruzgan province, a suicide automotive bomber detonated a car filled with explosives early Thursday close to a army base, killing six safety forces, mentioned a provincial council member who was not licensed to talk with the media.
Mohammad Karim Karimi, deputy head of the provincial council in Uruzgan, confirmed the assault on the army base in Tirin Kot, the provincial capital, however couldn't present a precise loss of life toll. He mentioned the explosion was so robust it despatched shock waves by means of the town.
In southern Helmand province, a minimum of 5 civilians had been killed and 5 others wounded in a suspected airstrike late Wednesday on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, based on Attaullah Afghan, head of the provincial council. He mentioned the casualties included youngsters and ladies.
Abdul Nabi Elham, provincial governor, mentioned officers had been investigating to find out whether or not the assault was an airstrike or another kind of assault.
Nobody instantly claimed duty for both assault.
An Afghan negotiating crew is in Qatar's capital of Doha to renew talks geared toward discovering an finish to a long time of relentless battle at the same time as violence has spiked throughout the nation. The stop-and-go talks come amid rising doubt over a US-Taliban peace deal brokered by outgoing President Donald Trump.
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Russian-born author Gary Shteyngart wins over readers and audiences with his blistering humor, his satirical takedowns of contemporary society, and his compassionate examination of modern love and loss. His latest novel, Our Country Friends, follows a group of friends isolating together for six months during the pandemic. "There cannot be a more relevant novel for our moment, certainly not one with such beauty of description, depth of feeling, and, as always, humor. Shteyngart has written an American comic Decameron, or, to be plain: a masterpiece," raves Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer. Shteyngart's novel Lake Success tells the tale of a modern American living as a member of the one percent who abandons everything to discover the "real America," and his other critically acclaimed and bestselling novels include Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook. His memoir Little Failure was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and speaks to the American immigrant story with heart, humor and biting wit. Shteyngart's novels frequent the "best of" lists, and he was named a Granta Best Young American Novelist and a New Yorker "Best Writer Under 40." Off the page, Shteyngart is a masterful storyteller recounting his life as a Lenin-loving, ratty-fur-overcoat-wearing child to his anxiety-attack-prone twenties in New York. As a speaker, Shteyngart explores what it means to be an immigrant, a son, an American, a grown-up, and a writer.
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The solar plexus chakra otherwise known as the Manipura chakra, the "dwelling place of jewels" or "the shining gem" in the Vedic tradition, is scientifically known as the celiac plexus.
The Solar Plexus is scientifically observed as a complex nerve network located in the abdomen. While spiritually, this nerve plexus center is seen as a spinning wheel, or a sacred disk of energy.
What is the Function of the Solar Plexus?
The solar plexus chakra is the energetic center within your body associated with willpower, self-worth, self-belief, self-discipline, and personal power.
When centered and in balance, it empowers you to express the authentic truth of your personality and identity.
Confidence, metabolism, effectiveness, and will power are all impacted by your solar plexus.
And interestingly, it is a commonly blocked chakra for many people.
The solar plexus chakra is located just below your rib cage, and about 2 inches above your navel.
The Solar Plexus chakra is one of seven chakras within the physical body, that together act as anchor points for the etheric energy (also sometimes called chi, qi, prana or life force energy).
What Causes Your Solar Plexus Chakra to become blocked?
It's easy for the solar plexus to become blocked because of the many overwhelming options life throws at you.
When you don't know what you want, when you're fearful of making wrong decisions, when you need input and buy-in from others to move forward, this chakra gets blocked.
Sometimes the symptoms of chakra blockage can be subtle, but not so much with the solar plexus chakra. It's often easy to see and tune into once you're aware. If you lack confidence, if you struggle to make things happen for yourself, if you feel like you're always being pushed around by others, if you're waiting for someone to offer you a leadership role, or if you're exhausted from always trying too hard, it's likely that your solar plexus is blocked.
You can also see when your personal power chakra is blocked if you generally feel unworthy, you constantly second guess yourself, you carry a strong sense of victimhood, and you feel powerless against the wants and needs of the people in your life.
An excess of energy in the solar plexus leads to overeating and general overindulgence in things. Laziness, a need to control, intolerance, and competition are more signs of an excess of energy in the solar plexus chakra.
An energetic deficiency in the solar plexus manifests as low body weight, lack of focus, and digestive problems like ulcers or indigestion.
Deficiencies in the solar plexus often mean that you struggle to represent yourself honestly. You may have difficulties knowing yourself and what you really want.
With a blocked or out of balanced solar plexus chakra, you're not able to define your will or direction and therefore procrastinate on major life decisions.
What Does A Balanced Solar Plexus Look Like?
A balanced solar plexus is also easy to identify.
When your solar plexus is balanced, you feel rooted in yourself, you have the fire to manifest what you want, to set healthy boundaries and you have a clear sense of self.
With a balanced solar plexus, you are able to control your emotional responses, you feel peace within yourself, you trust the direction that your life is heading in, and you're decisive and effective at reaching goals.
Physically your digestion is sound, your immune system is strong, and your overall health is vital without frequent illnesses or allergies.
With your solar plexus balanced, your relationship to power is also balanced. You don't feel the need to dominate others and you don't allow yourself to be dominated. This leads to the natural phenomena of assuming leadership roles.
Additional traits of a balanced solar plexus chakra include people tending to admire you for your positive self-esteem and your ability to speak your mind without being aggressive.
What's great is that your example naturally encourages others to do the same. Others see you as charismatic and love spending time with you when your chakras, and especially your solar plexus are clear and balanced.
Use visualization to energize the solar plexus area of your body. Imagine a vibrant yellow flower or yellow orb of light sitting just below your rib cage. Close your eyes, relax, and hold the visualization for five to ten minutes.
Sit in stillness for some time and invite your fear to show itself to you. Love the part of you that is afraid and allow the fears that arise from within you to simply be. Do a solar plexus chakra meditation, sit, and breathe, strive to tolerate whatever sensations arise, and then acknowledge them, love them and release them. This allows the fearful part of you to integrate with the whole.
Flowers like dandelions, daffodils, honeysuckle, chamomile, and black-eyed susans can help you to balance your solar plexus chakra. Meditate on these flowers, smell them, or look at pictures of them to tune into their healing properties.
Practice affirmations to balance your solar plexus chakra like: "I love and accept myself just as I am, I respect myself, I believe in myself, I am worthy of love, I can accomplish anything I desire, I can solve all problems that come up. I am capable. I am confident. I am assertive".
Laugh! Choose to laugh out loud for no reason, watch a funny cat video on youtube, a comedy show, or spend time with people you find to be funny. Not only does laughter make you feel good while elevating your vibration, it's fun, and it brings healing and balance to your solar plexus!
Invoke the help and presence of Archangel Uriel, the Archangel of the Sun and ask for angelic help balancing your solar plexus chakra. Relax, breathe, and focus inward to tune into the presence of Archangel Uriel, who when called upon will come in to assist you.
Drink peppermint, chamomile, dandelion, or ginger tea.
Do a yoga pose aimed at strengthening your core. Poses like warrior I, boat, or yogic leg lifts are great to balance your solar plexus, as are several rounds of sun salutations each day.
Keep stones and crystals either on your person (like jewelry), in your home and leave some in your workspace. Those most effective crystals for balancing your third chakra include amber, citrine, tigers eye, sunstone, yellow calcite, and yellow tourmaline.
Make an effort to dress and groom yourself well. Take a shower, get ready, style your hair and do your best to approach each day as being special by taking the time to nurture and care for yourself.
Eat healing solar plexus foods like sunflower seeds, bananas, organic corn, ginger, yellow squash, oats, yellow pears, lemons, lentils, sweet potatoes, and yellow peppers. Incorporate spices and herbs like cumin, mint, turmeric and chamomile into your cooking.
Set a goal that you've been putting off for some time, break it down into small steps, and give yourself a timeline for each. The idea is not to be rigid, but to get yourself moving and taking action towards something tangible. When you succeed, reward yourself.
Enjoy some alone time to relax and just be with yourself. Set aside a few minutes each day to sit still and tune in to your body and emotions. Alone time can be a great way to self soothe and balance your solar plexus chakra.
As with all the blocked chakras, dancing, yoga, and movement are fabulous ways to get your energy moving. Put on some music you love and dance around your living room or take a walk around the block to get your energy flowing.
Get some exercise, and push yourself a bit. Whether it's yoga, gym workouts, or outdoor adventure activities.
Citrusy essential oils like grapefruit, orange, or lemon are perfect to use to balance your solar plexus. Put them in a diffuser or dab them on your skin each day. Other solar plexus healing essential oils like ginger, black pepper, cinnamon, chamomile, juniper, yarrow, rosemary, palmarosa, and fennel are also effective.
Be spontaneous and try something new! This doesn't have to be anything big to start, even little new experiences like trying a new restaurant, going into a new shop, visiting a park you've never been to or checking out a local art exhibit can shake up the energy and bring healing to your solar plexus.
Spend time outdoors in the sunlight. Whatever the activity, try to do it while getting some sunshine. Meditation, yoga, reading, writing, or even just laying out…. Spending time outside in the sunshine will help to heal and balance your sacral chakra.
When faced with a major life decision, don't let yourself get overwhelmed by the big picture. Break things down into small steps. Go slow. Build up to your final decision over time, while being gentle with yourself during the process.
Look for opportunities to take on a leadership role. Perhaps at work, within the family, or in your community, take steps to be more confident and assertive yourself, and then use these qualities to lead and guide others in a positive way.
Listen to your intuition! Ignoring your gut feelings and intuitive nudges can cause all of your chakras, and especially your solar plexus to become blocked. An easy solution is to listen to your gut and start taking actions in accordance with your intuitive nudges.
Set a goal slightly beyond your comfort zone and allow yourself to reach for it. This kind of controlled risk-taking is a great way to strengthen the solar plexus chakra.
Really, all of your chakras work together to bring about a state of health and vitality.
Balancing your entire chakra system will help to resolve blockages or imbalances in any one chakra.
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FILE – Hayao Miyazaki arrives at the 6th annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Nov. 8, 2014. The Academy of Motion Pictures announced a temporary exhibition "Hayao Miyazaki" with over 300 objects exploring each of Miyazaki's animated films. The exhibition will open on April 30, 2021. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is finally opening its doors in Los Angeles in April with an exhibit celebrating the works of the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Envisioned as a journey through his six-decade career, it's the first of its kind in North America and will have over 300 objects on display, organizers said Thursday. Some have never been shown outside of Japan.
"Miyazaki's genius is his power of remembering what he sees," said Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki. "It is our hope that visitors will be able to experience the entire scope of Hayao Miyazaki's creative process through this exhibition."
Curator Jessica Niebel said she hopes that it will appeal to both the most avid Miyazaki fans and newcomers.
Visitors will enter the temporary exhibit, which is organized thematically into seven sections, following Mei, the four-year-old heroine of "My Neighbor Totoro," into the "Tree Tunnel" gallery. From there, they will emerge into the "Creating Characters" gallery featuring original character design drawings from films like "Kiki's Delivery Service" and "Princess Mononoke."
The next gallery, "Making Of," will highlight his collaboration with the late Isao Takahata, who co-founded Studio Ghibli, as well as his early works including the TV series "Heidi, Girl of the Alps" and his first feature "Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro," from 1979.
In "Creating Worlds," which is described as a space that "evokes Miyazaki's fantastical worlds," audiences can delve into the bathhouse from "Spirited Away" and the underwater world in "Ponyo," before taking a moment to pause in the "Sky View" installation which is touted as a highlight of the exhibit. The final two galleries are "Transformations," exploring character and setting metamorphosis, and the "Magical Forest."
There will also be an accompanying 256-page catalog with production materials from his early television work and his feature films and essays by the likes of "Inside Out" director Pete Docter. The museum will also organize film screenings in Japanese and English.
Museum director Bill Kramer said that this is a fitting way of opening their doors, "signifying the global scope of the Academy Museum."
Designed by architect Renzo Piano, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is located at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in the historic Saban Building and is currently set to open on April 30, 2021.
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MILAN (AP) — Italy's fashion chamber is opening on Friday the first Milan Fashion Week that won't have VIPS populating runway front rows, as the reality of Italy's persistent resurgence of the coronavirus has forced an all-virtual format for presenting menswear previews.
The National Fashion Chamber maintained a live element during the July and September fashion weeks in Milan. But after planning to stage live shows with guests during this round, Fendi, Etro and outdoor brand Kway announced their events will be livestreamed from behind closed doors.