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The following privacy notice outlines how Love All About Me Ltd collects, uses, protects and transfers your personal data. Love All About Me Ltd is a salon that provides services including nail treatments, facial treatments, waxing, eye and brow treatments, massages and spray tanning.
The data protection officer/data owner for the organisation is Carl Austin. You can contact the data protection officer/data owner by sending an email to
info@loveallaboutme.co.uk
or writing to Love All About Me Ltd, Unit 4 Berkeley Way, Worcester, WR4 9UP.
The personal data that we collect is:
Purpose and Legal Basis for Processing Your Data
Love All About Me Ltd takes your privacy seriously and we will never sell or rent your personal data to any third-party. Sharing of your data and direct marketing activities are only carried out with your express consent, which you are free to withdraw at any time.
We need to obtain and process your personal data to provide you with our products, services and treatments and to fulfill our business and legal obligations. We will never collect any personal information from you that we do not need or retain any data that is no longer necessary for the purposes specified in this notice. Where we request sensitive personal data from you (i.e. health or medical data), the reason(s) for the request will be clearly given along with the purposes of the processing. Explicit consent through a signature will always be required for us to obtain and process your health information.
Who is processing my data?
Love All About Me Ltd, Unit 4 Berkeley Way, Worcester, WR4 9UP/Unit 4a St Martins Quarter, Worcester WR1 2DD are the data controller and processes your personal information for the purposes laid out in this privacy notice.
Phorest, Anglesea Mills, 9 Anglesea Row, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 W5NE, Ireland, acts as data processor on behalf of Love All About Me Ltd and have access to personal information only in cases that customer support or troubleshooting is required by Love All About Me Ltd. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as permitted by applicable data protection laws. Similarly, limited amounts of data are shared with two other data processors:
E-mail marketing company Constant Contact, Inc., 1601 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA 02451 USA provides e-mail marketing services and has access only to client names and e-mail addresses where consent has been provided, for the purpose of sending e-mails to clients as instructed by Love All About Me Ltd.
Accountancy services to Love All About Me Ltd are provided by The Boss Partnership, Finance House, 6 Parkside Court, Greenhough Road, Lichfield, Staffs, WS13 7AU who have access only to those clients' names who have an All About Me membership as there is a regular, contracted financial transaction.
Your personal data is processed to:
Collect specific personal data (name, address, email, contact number, DOB) that is required to enter into a contract to sell a product or service.
Engage in communication with you including confirmation and reminders of appointments, and requests to cancel or change bookings.
Collect Health information to perform the agreed services appropriately, and potentially highlight areas that products and services may cause issues to clients because of their health.
Ensure a safe service and provide industry standard advice.
Select relevant offers, promotions and information for you.
Estimate the number of customers we have.
Hold personal data that is required by law or to respond to legal process.
Hold for insurance purposes.
Store customer records.
If your personal data is held by Love All About Me Ltd you hold particular rights over it. Where you have provided consent for us to contact you as part of our marketing services, you have the right to modify or withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe option accompanied with all of our direct marketing or by contacting the Love All About Me Ltd Data Officer. You also have the right:
To be informed of how your personal data will be used before it is collected.
To access your personal data personal data and to information on how your information is used after it has been gathered.
To have personal data corrected if it is incomplete, inaccurate or out-of-date.
To request the removal or deletion of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.
To restrict processing, to 'block' processing of your personal data.
To data portability, having your data moved, copied or transferred from Love All About Me Ltd to another organisation in an easily readable format.
To object to direct marketing from us.
Special categories of personal data collected
Health questions are asked in many of our consent forms to potentially highlight treatments that may have a negative effect on your health due to medication you are taking or a condition you have. Love All About Me Ltd asks for consent prior to gathering and processing this information. At any time after giving consent, you can withdraw you consent, subject to legal, insurance and contractual restrictions (see more on 'your rights as an individual'). Your privacy is very important to us and we only use this information for determining your suitability for the treatment.
Process of collection
Your personal data is collected when you provide it to us through Phorest software, our website, over the phone, in [insert salon name] salons, by email, social media, in writing or any other means by which you provide it to us. Information is stored using the Phorest software platform as well as some level of paper record keeping.
Love All About Me Ltd gives you access to information about your account and bookings through Phorest software, for the limited purpose of viewing and updating that information. You can of course request to withdraw your information at any time.
Love All About Me Ltd does not collect the personal data of children under the age of 13 without parental or guardian consent. If you believe that we hold any information from or about a child under age 13, please contact Love All About Me Ltd and if we cannot immediately obtain appropriate parental or guardian consent, we will remove the personal data from storage.
Your personal data is shared only with Phorest representatives in cases that customer support and troubleshooting is required for the salon. Love All About Me Ltd do not share your personal information with any third-party without your prior consent, other than those already disclosed in this privacy notice or as part of our legal obligations under the relevant data protection laws.
Use of Data Processors
Data processors are third parties who provide some elements of our business services for us. Where we use a third-party, we have strict agreements in place governing the processing of your personal data, on which no action can be taken without instruction from us. The third-parties with whom we work will never share or disclose your personal information and will hold it securely at all times.
Phorest
Love All About Me Ltd use software provided by Phorest to record your personal contact details so that we can communicate with you to remind you of appointments. We also record your personal information as relevant to the services you will potentially receive, including your age, gender, Doctor's details and details of any allergies and existing relevant medical conditions to ensure that our treatments are appropriate for you.
Here is a link to their Privacy Notice. https://www.phorest.com/privacy-notice
Love All About Me Ltd use e-mail marketing services by an organisation named Constant Contact to inform you of new products and special offers. Constant Contact holds only the data it needs to communicate with you, that being your name and e-mail address.
Here is a link to their Privacy Notice. https://www.endurance.com/privacy/privacy
The Boss Partnership
Love All About Me Ltd use Payroll and Accounts services as provided by The Boss Partnership. Sharing of client data is limited to names only of those clients subscribed to an All About Me membership, in the context of the fees generated from these memberships and their relevance to the financial accounts of Love All About Me Ltd.
Here is a link to their Privacy Notice.
http://www.thebosspartnership.co.uk/legal/privacy.php
Love All About Me Ltd retains your personal data for as long as necessary to provide you with our services as our client. Love All About Me Ltd are required under tax laws to keep your personal data for a minimum of 7 years. Health and Safety records will be retained for 10 years and where we have your consent for marketing purposes, we will retain the minimum required data until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive such information.
The criteria for which we would continue to process your personal information includes:· Where there is a legal basis,
obligation or legitimate interest to continuing processing your personal information· Where processing is necessary
for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Transfers of personal information
When your personal data is processed through Phorest software, all of it is held within the EU. Your information is processed by the Phorest software and stored in the Amazon Web Services cloud. During this process your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Consequences of not providing your personal information to Love All About Me Ltd
In the event that you want to purchase a product or service from Love All About Me Ltd certain personal information is required to enter into a contract with you. Love All About Me Ltd will not be able to enter into a contract with you to fulfill an attempt to
purchase a product or service if you do not provide your personal information.
As noted in this privacy statement, we are processing your personal data to comply with legal and statutory obligations and in the performance of a contract. You can always choose not to provide personal information; however, we will be unable to provide certain products,
services and treatments in these instances.
Safeguarding your Personal Data
Appropriate measures are taken to protect your personal data from access from unauthorized persons or inappropriate access, internal or external. Your connection to the Phorest system uses a HTTP Secure communication protocol and TLS security. This means all information passed to the Phorest system is encrypted during data input and transfer to the cloud. Any paper files recording your personal data are held in a locked filing cabinet or safe, which can only be accessed by authorised personnel in the salon. Employees are only assigned specific access rights and can only access the salon software with the PIN number assigned to them by the management of the salon.
In the occurrence that you want to make a complaint about how your personal data was gathered,
how it is being processed by Love All About Me Ltd (or third parties used by Love All About Me Ltd) or you are not satisfied about how a complaint has been handled, you retain the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority and Love All About Me Ltd and also the Love All About Me Ltd Data Protection Officer/ GDPR Owner.
Data Protection Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF+44 (0) 303 123 1113
Love All About Me Ltd Data Protection Officer/GDPR Owner
31 Sudbury, Worcester, WR1 2HT +44 (0)1905 700 740
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6th grade students dedicate four hours a week to Foundations Art, developing the vocabulary and tools to expressive themselves visually, musically and on stage.
In addition to our foundational and elective program, Billings puts on a Spring Musical every year. Our musical is an amazing experience that many student choose to participate in. Last year, students collaborated with each other and the faculty to write an original adaptation of the Odyssey set in modern day Seattle. Check out some pictures of the show!


I liked the type of work I did for the most part, meaning when I sold travel, but I did not like the long commute to work. The clientele was mostly membership based so I knew that those I was assisting were AAA members. The clientele was mostly those who were not computer friendly and tended to be older.
I enjoyed my time with them it just that when their game plan changed I was no longer a fit for them.
It is a good place to work if you like helping people and working on different types of vehicles. It is a very competitive place. You get to help people in distress.
A typical day at work for me was to ensure the information security of all of the endpoints and servers.
Management was a bit shaky. I went through several management changes in my tenure there.
The hardest part of my job was changing the security culture to progress with the times.
The most enjoyable part of my job is that I was doing what I was trained for and the people I worked with.
Work/life balance, benefits. bonuses, understanding from Management.
AAA is a good career.
I really enjoyed working at AAA. The most challenging part of the job, for me, was choosing what to say to the members. The atmosphere is great, not very "friendly" but cordial. I like all the perks, contests and raises.
Great environment, awesome supervisors, helpful.
Used to be a great place to work 5 years ago.
Change in culture and compensation has caused many agents to leave the company.
Management only cares about bottom line.
I really enjoyed it here. It was a great family atmosphere. Pay and benefits were excellent. I Recommend working here. It is a goo company for someone starting out.
It is good company. But it has some issues with the management team with my group. The manager of my team does not have knowledge about what we are doing. It might not be his fault, since we were re-organized and re-assigned to his team by his boss.
Typical Day at AAA was wonderful. Co-workers very nice and helpful, Supervisors are also helpful. Helping people and trying to find their location for a vehicle that needs a tire change,new battery or towed.
Friendly management and supervisors. Hard part of the job is taking calls in a high volume call center, with frustrated members on most calls. Anyone who works here needs to have patience with the members.
Nice place to work. People are nice...sups are nice....great benefits....vacation... you have a chance for advancement after year in your department. Lots of perks.
Very structured work environment. Very competitive sales. Hours are not flexible. Did not enjoy the culture of the staff. Learning opportunities, and travel opportunities were a positive.
The work was fast paced but the managers were amazing. The culture overall was a lot of fun at times. The scheduling was planned out by year which is fantastic for planning. The benefits were decent. Overtime was available at times for those who wanted it and work from home options are available. When the weather is bad you still have to get to work.
I loved working for AAA. It was fun, got a long with a lot of people there, some of the management was awesome.If it was not so far away from where I live now, I would go back to work for them.
fun, busy, everyone gets along like family.
renewing memberships was my every goal at AAA.
learned how to sell to a different demographic than my previous job.
I liked working at AAA. Both of my managers Nick M. and Zenda R. were awesome! I would come back if I ever needed a job. Great atmosphere. I believe there should be more training.
One of the things i liked about this job was the knowledge i learned about cars. The hardest part of this job was the traffic and the weather. I really liked helping members.
interesting that there is a very strong sales culture and expectations from management to sell ALL products car care; insurance; merchandise; credit cards.
Auto Club is a great company and household name. It has many different positions that people can advance in but the advancement is slow. Switching roles within the company is not much of a promotion but often a lateral move. Competition tends to pay more. Job security and benefits are ok.
slow advancement, pays less than competition.


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Six in the city: London's best running routes
Whether you're looking for a quick lunchtime workout or a lengthy jog to kill an entire morning, here are six must-run routes from Runner's Guide to London author Hayden Shearman
A runner pounds the pavements of London's Southbank Photo: Geoff Smith / Alamy
By Hayden Shearman
t's the week before the London Marathon, which means that runners across the country are either starting to regret that they didn't enter, or regret that they did.
Regardless of which camp you belong to, there are still a few days left to enjoy some miles of pavement pounding in the capital before the big event itself. Whether you're looking for a quick lunchtime workout, or you find yourself with a few hours to kill in central London, below are six must-run routes from my book Runner's Guide to London.
They all start and finish at Big Ben, which, if you happen to forget your watch, has the added bonus of being perfect for timing your run.
Runners pass Big Ben in Westminster at the British 10K London Run in 2013
1. The Princess Diana Run: 7.2mi
This is a way-marked route (look for the rose brass plates in the pavement) built in honour of the former Princess of Wales. It takes in the big four inner city parks of Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park and St James's Park. Perfect for the visiting runner who wants to nab selfies in front of the palaces and memorials.
Join the way-marked figure-of-eight course by running anti-clockwise around the lake in St James's Park (which is 500m west from Big Ben).
Thumbs Up: A fitting tribute to a woman who did a fair amount of jogging in London parks herself.
Thumbs Down: Can get super busy in the parks—avoid Hyde Park when there is a big event on.
Hayden Shearman on the Princess Diana run
2. Top of the Town: 7.7mi
This takes on some of the busiest streets on the planet, but if you can get there early in the morning, you'll be rewarded with a great run through the heart and soul of the city, up to one of it's best viewing spots.
Run to Trafalgar Square and then follow Charing Cross and Tottenham Court Roads north to reach Euston Road. Turn left to find Regent's Park and run through the park, on its eastern side. Cross the canal and head up to the top of Primrose Hill. Enjoy the panoramic view and jog back down through the western side of Regent's Park. Follow Portland Place then Regent Street back to Trafalgar Square and home to Westminster Palace.
Thumbs Up: Regent's Park will surely entice you back for another run.
Thumbs Down: Get the timing wrong with and you will barely be able to walk for the crowds, let alone bang out a Strava segment PB.
3. Tour of Southwark: 9.8mi
Venture south of the river by following the Thames Path on the South Bank all the way past Tower Bridge and through the Dickensian alleys and docks of Bermondsey. Leave the river at the King's Stairs Gardens, running south through the leafy avenues of Southwark Park. Connect east through Burgess Park and on to Kennington Park and eventually past The Oval to Vauxhall Bridge. Cross the Thames here and make your way back to the start.
Thumbs Up: Wonderful contrast from the busy South Bank to the peaceful parks.
Thumbs Down: Navigating your way on the streets between parks is tricky—take a smart phone and an Oyster card just in case.
The Tour of Southwark will take you past Mi6's imposing HQ at Vauxhall Bridge
4. Two Bridges: 3.4mi
This short riverside run, which utilises London's two iconic footbridges, is ideal for a lunchtime escape from the office.
Run north to either of the Golden Jubilee Bridges (they sit either side of the Hungerford Rail Bridge). Cross over to the South Bank and continue running east till you reach the Tate Modern. Take the Millennium Bridge back over to the north bank and follow the Thames Path back to your starting point.
Thumbs Up: The view from these bridges during a calm sunrise or sunset is unbelievably Instagram-able.
Thumbs Down: Don't get too distracted by the views because these are some of the busiest pavements in Britain.
5. A Canal and a River: 17.8mi
The lengthiest run on this list is also the most serene (although it's not recommended for marathoners in taper week due to the length of the route).
Head east along the north bank, following the Thames Path signs all the way to Limehouse Basin. Follow Regent's Canal north and then west to Little Venice and south to Paddington Station. Then follow the streets further south to Hyde Park and use the Royal Parks to connect back to your start point.
Thumbs Up: The canal is the single best way of escaping the hustle and bustle of the city.
Thumbs Down: There are still bikes to contend with in the narrow towpath tunnels—listen for their bells.
The canal makes for peaceful running
6. Westminster to Battersea Loop: 6.6mi
This run is a simple matter of following the Thames Path on the river's south bank all the way southwest to Battersea Park. At the far end of the park, cross to the north bank via the impressive Albert Bridge. Then follow the waterside pavement all the way home whilst admiring the vistas over the river to the monolithic Battersea Power Station and glitzy apartments.
Thumbs Up: Battersea Park is one of those perfect London parks that are hives of activity on a sunny day.
Thumbs Down: The diversion on the roads behind the power station isn't particularly pleasant.
Hayden Shearman is a running coach and author of the book Runner's Guide to London, which features over 120 runs throughout London—it's the perfect companion for any London runner. To order your copy please visit runnersguidetolondon.co.uk.
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Even so did Raffles disappoint the Old Boys in the evening as he had disappointed the school by day.
But I don't see how on the strength of that I could expert the old boy to adopt me.
At this foreshadowing of a desolate decease, the wicked old boy would whine and whimper, and would sit shaking himself into the lowest of low spirits, until such time as he could shake himself out of the house and shake another threepennyworth into himself.
Moreover it was her habit to shake her head at that wretched old boy whenever she caught his eye as he shivered and shook.
AMATEUR footballers spanning almost 70 years of football are planning a grand reunion to celebrate the history of Essemay Old Boys.
ALAN Fletcher's unbeaten 44 steered CCC to a 58-run victory over Eaga Old Boys in the Just Sport Cup.
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Although the dinner is well attended by 200-300 Old Boys each year, there are many former pupils of both schools who will be unaware of the association.
NOSTALGIA was in the air when 18 Old Boys of the former Middlesbrough High School who were evacuated to Teesdale during World War Two met for their annual reunion lunch at the Baltimore Hotel, Middlesbrough, on Saturday, September 24.
THE Annual Dinner for Old Boys of Holly Lodge Grammar School and James Watt Technical School in Smethwick takes place in May.
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The MBTA on Wednesday will run enhanced subway service throughout the day and provide additional capacity on certain commuter rail lines to accommodate the crowds expected to throng the city to celebrate the Boston Red Sox and their World Series win.
Subway services will operate at rush-hour levels from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. Wednesday also marks the celebration of Halloween, which will make commuter services especially busy, according to MBTA General Manager Luis Ramirez.
"Because the parade coincides with Halloween, we fully expect Wednesday to be a busy day in Boston and around the region," Ramirez said in a statement. "So, as a reminder, we're asking people to please stay informed of service information. We want everyone to have an enjoyable day, so please be safe, be respectful, and enjoy the special day on Wednesday."
According to the MBTA, approximately 200 Keolis and commuter rail personnel will be at key stations to assist with wayfinding, boarding, and schedule information. Bikes will not be allowed on any commuter rail trains.
The parade begins at 11 a.m. at Fenway Park and will run on city streets near the following subway stations: Hynes Convention Center, Copley, Arlington, Boylston, Park Street, Downtown Crossing, and Government Center.


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Valbuena: Champions League lured me to Lyon
Lyon completed the signing of Mathieu Valbuena, with the France international thrilled by the prospect of playing in the Champions League.
Mathieu Valbuena says the lure of playing UEFA Champions League football and making France's squad for Euro 2016 were the key reasons for his move to Lyon.
The diminutive winger moves to the Stade de Gerland on a three-year-deal for a €5million fee from Dynamo Moscow, bringing an end to his 12-month stay in Russia.
Valbuena is now setting his sights on winning major honours with the Ligue 1 side, as well as representing his country on home soil at the European Championship next year.
"I like the project here at Lyon, I don't regret my first year at Dynamo," he said.
"It is true that it was a football aim, with Lyon offering Champions League football, that made an impact on my decision. I am super happy to join them. In a career it is important to win titles. I will bring my experience with humility.
"I hope that we will spend some great times as a team here, I come here with a lot of personal aims. This was the most concrete offer. Lyon have a very good team, with great young talents, which played a role.
"Everybody dreams. I played Champions League with Marseille, Lyon can offer that to me now too. Euro 2016 is very important for me. The French national team, that's my motivation."
Valbuena previously spent eight years with Marseille, with whom he won the Ligue 1 title and three Coupe de la Ligue crowns.
The 30-year-old does not believe there is an issue that he has joined one of Marseille's main domestic rivals.
"We know very well that there is rivalry between Marseille and Lyon. That's football," he added.
"What I had at Marseille was extraordinary. Nobody can take that away from me. I have always been a professional. I have never hurt anyone. I know that in football things change. I have no regrets joining Lyon, the opposite.
"This was also a family choice. I didn't hesitate. It is true that I played for Marseille for eight years. Just because I played for Marseille, doesn't mean I can't play elsewhere."
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23 March 2019 / Data Analysis
Don't be fooled by the numbers on International Women's Day
Last year, International Women's Day saw both celebrations and protests. 8th of March is a time to look back at achievements in the stride for equal rights, but also to signal that we're not there yet.
Media will be releasing statistics-based items proving inequality persists. Most times, they will be right. But every now and then, you'll get the wrong idea, even if you're number-savvy. Let us prove it.
Do you analyse like Homer Simpson?
Go back in the 70s and picture yourself in a groovy outfit. Then, pick up a piece of data from the news. In 1973, University of California, Berkeley, admitted these numbers of men and women:
More men than women got to study at Berkeley, right? Wouldn't you have accused them of gender bias?
Homer Simpson would have. But then again, he doesn't know much about statistics. Luckily, a different Simpson had paved the way for correct analyses.
Bring in a statistics professor
The 6% difference is not a huge inequality gap, but, amongst the 70s feminist movements, Berkeley actually feared being sued for gender bias towards men.
They asked Peter Bickel, a statistics professor, to dive into the numbers. Surprisingly, he drew the opposite conclusion: looking at faculties separately, the bias seemed to be towards women.
In other words, he reached a paradox: a contradictory, and thus confusing, statement concerning interrelated elements. A paradox known by data-savvy people as the Simpson's paradox.
Simpson's paradox was not named after Homer Simpson
Simpson's paradox was named after Edward Hugh Simpson, British statistician, who described the paradox in 1951. He explained how a statistical trend that holds true for all subpopulations is reversed in the overall population.
In the Berkeley case, the paradox appeared when breaking down the group of applicants per faculty. Technical studies such as engineering and mathematics (Faculty A) traditionally accepted more applicants see the green bar below. Men preferred these studies.
English or Humanities (Faculty B) were harder to get in - see the red bar. These were the studies with more female applicants.
On average, more men got into Berkeley, because more went for Faculty A. But on faculty level, the university was actually admitting more women (97% versus 91%, respectively 33% versus 20%).
The difference in admission strictness was in statistic terms - the confounding factor in this analysis. It was an omitted variable with a significant effect.
Mind the aggregated data
We often hear that our society has a gender leadership problem. Recently, Forbes magazine published an article saying that more women than men have university degrees in the US, yet fewer reach higher management roles. It argued that men tend to express their ambition to lead more than women.
Knowing Simpson's paradox, you should dig deeper in such data. Is there a significant difference between the type of studies women and men graduate from, for example? Perhaps the issue does not come about on the work floor, but long before, with girls being socialized in studies with weaker professional prospects.
On the 8th of March, stay critical when reading the news.
We gathered these insights developing 5miles, a challenge-based methodology to help business professionals improve their data analysis and presentation skills.
Note. The figures in the images reflect the real trend but are fictitious for the scope of the analysis. See the full details in this article.
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Distillate of natural rose petals.
The Packing is so cute and handy, with Rose colour paper wrap. Easy Spray type Toner, and this toner looks like a plain water with very mild Rose smell. I am loving this smell very much. The Spray dispenser is so cute. I love FabIndia products, because they are against animal testing.
To be frank I have not noticed any miracle change after started using this Rose water. But it is very easy to use and easily get absorbed by skin than the other Toners. I am in love with this mild rose smell. But, I didn't find anything special in this toner as I have read so many good reviews about this Rose facial toner.
This Toner has no moisturizing property, and may not suitable for dry skin beauties. It helps to control oil secretion in my Facial skin. Actually according to my knowledge, Rose has good moisturizing property. But, I don't know why this rose facial toner has no moisturizing power. Dry skin beauties better stay away from this toner.
I am feeling instant freshness after spraying this toner on my face, and gives a cooling effect on my eyes especially. But, I didn't find this toner is better than my previous Rose water Toner banjara's Rose Water and it is pretty pricey too for a rose toner.
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This Rose facial toner has no Alcohol.
A mild Rose fragrance is a plus point for this toner.
Cute pack and Easy spray dispenser.
Suitable for oily skin beauties.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions hosted the fourth meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety (FCSS) held July 26, 2018, at the Executive Office Building's Indian Treaty Room in Washington. The session examined the topic, "Proactively Protecting Our Schools."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers opening remarks at a meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety. He's flanked by (l-r) Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen.
Joining the Attorney General were commission Chair, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and fellow members, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen.
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From a post on the PETSCII forums I found StarTTY.com. It looks to be a nice service that can turn any telnet capable machine into an information kiosk. One of the demos is on a TRS-80 Model 100. I know that'll perk some people up around here. A compact Mac with a serial line to another machine or some sort of ethernet (PDS or SCSI) connection or mab e an old PowerBook would make a nice RSS feed box. Do a picture frame hack on a PowerBook, and have it cycle in to the RSS feed if it gets an update or a t the push of a button, otherwise display pics. It might also be a good use for old B&W or greyscale PBs that wouldn't be candidates for a picture frame anyway. I do like that it'll work with anything that can get a telnet session going. That'll free it from being slaved to a local machine to provide the feed.
Thanks for the link, Jon!
Might be a good use for some low power old lappy, too!
That would be an awesome use for one of those old 486 pen computers, or a Newton, with a wireless card. Hell, you could probably do it with a PIC and an LCD.
Aaagh. "Lappy". Totally off-subject, but count me in with the majority British opinion on that word. Whenever I see someone use the word "lappy" I always wonder if the author typed it while sitting quietly in their nice clean nappy, sucking their sippy. Shortly before heading off to beddy with Mr. Teddy.
I like "Lappy," especially when Strong Bad says it.
A wireless Newton is already hooked up to StarTTY. So's a NeXTCube.
Yup, and that newton is mine!
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I found this in a link from another article
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-military-insight/despite-putins-swagger-russia-struggles-to-modernize-its-navy-idUSKCN1QA0U7
The unfinished husks of three guided-missile frigates that have languished for three years at a Baltic shipyard show that is easier said than done.
Earmarked for Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the frigates fell victim to sanctions imposed by Ukraine in 2014 after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula, prompting Kiev to ban the sale of the Ukrainian-made engines needed to propel them.
With Moscow unable to quickly build replacement engines for the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates, construction stopped. Russia is now cutting its losses and selling the three ships to India without engines.
The navy's problems stem largely, but not exclusively, from the Ukrainian sanctions. There are also problems, for different reasons, with new equipment for the army and air force.
I have long assume that anything projected with respect to the Russian navy may or may not have any resemblance to reality. When I was on another forum, I used to argue that when I see a ship commission or recommission, I will believe it. It looks like my arguments continue to hold. Now, I don't understand why in the course of a few years they cannot redevelop indigenous gas turbine manufacturing because they have the ability to manufacture aircraft engines. Only thing I can figure is the economy is incredibly ramshackle.
I just played a little game as well, I looked up the Admiral Nakhimov on Wiki. The article states that it is projected to return to the fleet in 2021 or 2022. I then went back on the history on Wiki and it 2014, it was projected to return to the fleet in 2018. If the ship ever enters service again, I will be shocked. Not impossible, but I say very unlikely.
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They actually got the Norwegian vessel raised
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The cost of the rescue operations so far is at least 640 million NOK, 73.8 million USD, according to the Defense Minister, so that's a low end estimate on two accounts.
The cost of building and stocking the ship being 4.3 billion NOK. It was valued at 1.8 billion NOK at the time of sinking.
And now starts the process of looking into repairing it. I don't know how cheaply you can do that, or if there's a significant difference in cost to getting it functional and to making it as good as it was. But I wouldn't be surprised if the total cost of rescue and repair ended up as more than 1.8 billion.
I'm wondering what the cost of only cleaning the site would've been. Maybe they had to remove it (in this way) anyway, unless it could've been sealed up or buried somehow.
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I didn't know where to post this so I thought this was as good as any.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross did a podcast/ interview called "How the Navy Failed it's Sailors" I thought it was good. I thought I would ask the question here as folks on this thread might know the navy much better then I. Is the Navy that understaffed or untrained? Is this just one person's opinion or reality.
I would post the podcast but everyone here has there own podcast app and should be able to find ithe with a Google search.
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Quote from: xenu on May 05, 2019, 09:21:33 AM
Fresh Air with Terry Gross did a podcast/ interview called "How the Navy Failed it's Sailors"
The fleet was short of sailors, and those it had were often poorly trained and worked to exhaustion.
He compiled data showing that the unrelenting demands on his ships and sailors were unsustainable.
I can confirm that part. Fatigue is a huge issue.
Amend and resubmit.
Why is it so hard to get people to join the Navy? I am not aware about recruitment issues with other branches of the military.
You mean currently? Probably because of the weak wifi on warships at sea.
Quote from: Noisy Rhysling on May 06, 2019, 07:52:08 AM
Just from the fresh air podcast on the Navy. It seems that the Navy has personal issue in recruitment.
With WiFi, the Navy should have a satellite system that would work. Well now that I think of it WiFi might be a security issue when at sea. I'm just guessing I'm not a navy guy.
I spent literally decades digitizing documents for the Naval History and Heritage Command. I could PDF an 800 page document in less than two hours. Then I'd spend a week or two converting it to HTML. The Navy wanted documents that could be downloaded with minimal bandwidth usage. Traffic to ships at sea is still limited, with "essential communications" coming first, of course.
Having said that I'm not current on the situation, I retired three years ago.
Quote from: 2397 on March 05, 2019, 03:41:13 AM
And now they're saying it would cost 12 billion NOK to fix it. Not sure how, partially because the article is behind a paywall.
Meant to post this a while back - About what happened in the 2016 military standoff with Iran
Recommend reading the whole article.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-keeps-talking-about-last-military-standoff-iran-what-really-happened-farsi-island-navy
In 2016, 10 sailors were captured by Iran. Trump is making it a political issue. Our investigation shows that it was a Navy failure, and the problems run deep.
Just before sunset on Jan. 12, 2016, 10 American sailors strayed into Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, a navigation error with potentially grave consequences. On their way to a spying mission, the Americans had set sail from Kuwait to Bahrain. It was a long-distance trek that some senior commanders in the Navy's 5th Fleet had warned they were neither equipped nor trained to execute.
Surrounded by four boats operated by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the U.S. sailors, in two small gunboats, surrendered rather than opening fire. The officer in charge of the mission later said he understood that had a firefight erupted, it could well have provoked a wider conflict and scuttled the controversial nuclear deal the two countries were poised to implement in mere days.
The Navy dialed up an elaborate rescue mission to free the sailors from tiny Farsi Island involving fighter jets and a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group. But the return of the sailors was ultimately secured peacefully. The nuclear deal went forward with the U.S. providing sanctions relief and unfreezing billions in Iranian assets in exchange for Tehran's promise to curb its nuclear ambitions.
President Donald Trump explicitly invoked the 2016 incident last week as he weighed actions against Iran amid rising tensions. Trump told Time magazine that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had mishandled the high-stakes confrontation, a mistake he would not make. "The only reason the sailors were let go is that we started making massive payments to them the following day," Trump said. "Otherwise the sailors would still be there."
But a ProPublica investigation makes clear that Trump's repeated claims about the captured sailors – Obama's weakness; that the money was improper – obscure the more troubling realities exposed by the Navy's 2016 debacle in the Persian Gulf. The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.
It was a good article. Thanks.


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Q: Open GUI of Mac applications of other user accounts I want to run multiple Microsoft Teams on Mac Os. Teams don't provide the functionality to add multiple organizations in the app, its web app is not that good. So tried various combinations to run multiple instances of the Teams app, and even tried copying the "Teams.app" in the Applications folder with another name. I got a script that can run an application multiple times, and create a script file for that but it didn't work. Then I created another user account on my Mac M1 Pro, and logged in to Teams with another organization, it ran smoothly but I have to switch accounts to access other things. Then I got a script => sudo -u <user-account> open /Applications/Microsoft\ Teams.app/Contents/MacOS/Teams, the command worked but only opened my current instance of the application and not the one of another user.
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I have to assume he was referring to saunas. That could explain his disdain for such establishments. I grew up a pretty radical fundamentalist Christian Church, and I know psychobabble when I hear it. Miskatonic University Lovecraft was inspired by the name of a real town in eastern Connecticut, Mystic. After all the first of the twele step is We admit we were powerless over young Earth creationism—that our lives have become unmanageable. I think the following quote is deomnstrably true: I can hear the meeting now: Accreditation agencies are certified by the US Department of Education.
That solves the question of who accredits the accreditors. I never knew that evolution had eastern and western branches. I just read bits a pieces of this and it sounds like any other paranoid religious psychobabble.
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Conquest or conversion?
IN THE HOT, STEAMY AIR of a mid-September day in 1899, William Henry Sheppard walked into the center of a burned and deserted village in the Belgian Congo. He was drawn there by news of atrocities committed by local Congolese against their fellow Africans, urged on by Belgian imperial authorities.
Near the village's stockade, the smell of decaying human flesh nearly knocked him over. Inside he discovered 81 severed human hands. The murderers had left them behind but had intended to deliver them to imperial officials as evidence that the natives had not complied with demands to produce rubber for sale in distant European and American markets.
Rubber profits
When he entered the Congo region in the 1880s as a missionary for the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Sheppard intended simply to bring the Gospel to those who had not yet heard of Christ's love and saving grace. But he and his fellow missionaries soon grew concerned that European governments and corporations were oppressing and exploiting native populations.
On that September day in 1899, when Sheppard surveyed the ruins of the village of Chinyama with one of the perpetrators of the massacre, M'lumba N'kusa, the missionary was astonished to hear the murderer say that his instructions had come from white imperial authorities. His superiors had reportedly said, "The state has sent you and you have to go by your instructions." If N'kusa had not complied, he might have been subject to the same fate.
Authorities in the Congo Free State had pledged, in a General Act signed in Berlin in 1885, to promote missionary efforts, suppress slavery, and do everything necessary to "educate the natives, and lead them to understand and appreciate the advantages of civilization."
On the ground, the story was much different. Rubber was the era's most profitable commodity, and King Leopold II of Belgium was a harsh ruler who ran the Congo as his own private source of income. His agents dispossessed native Congolese of their lands and imposed a harsh system of rubber production. When workers failed to meet their quotas, brutal imperial enforcers descended on villages and carried out whippings, mutilations, torture, and mass killings. Missionaries who raised objections were harassed and ultimately restricted or expelled. Sheppard himself became the target of a lawsuit.
Earlier in the 1800s, those who preceded Sheppard thought their calling to preach the Gospel to the nations could work in harmony with Western political, economic, and cultural institutions. They joined industrialists, corporate agents, diplomats, and soldiers in securing open markets for European and North American trade. Once these were established, they built medical clinics, schools, churches, and other modern facilities.
Charles Grant's career shows how the church made easy allies with powerful political and commercial figures. Grant left Scotland to serve in the British army in India in the 1760s, then became a superintendent with the East India Company. Eventually he was appointed to the board of directors and served intermittently as chairman. Grant experienced an adult conversion and became a chief advocate for the Christianization of India. As a director he encouraged Christian behavior among British military and commercial agents in India, and in his private life he sponsored the building of churches and the translation of Scripture into native languages.
"Fine servants"
Converting the native population and using them for economic purposes had been long entwined. In 1492, reflecting on the moment of first Spanish contact with the Arawaks (an indigenous tribe), Columbus noted the ease with which native Caribbean people could be converted to Christianity, and in the next breath, observed that "they would make fine servants. . . . With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." Roman Catholic missionaries joined Spanish officials as Spain built its empire. Roman Catholic parishes overlaid the administrative districts of New Spain by the turn of the seventeenth century.
Some Christians objected. Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas thought Spain had betrayed the Gospel by introducing the evil of slavery to the New World, writing of the native population: "Once they begin to learn of the Christian faith they become so keen to know more, to receive the Sacraments, and to worship God. . . . It was upon these gentle lambs, imbued by the Creator with all the qualities we have mentioned, that from the very first day they clapped eyes on them the Spanish fell like ravening wolves upon the fold."
Las Casas's objections aside, church and state worked together to convert the local population while simultaneously securing the obedience of native people to white European rule. Viceroys of New Spain were obligated to protect missionaries and support the work of the church, and Roman Catholic bishops and priests fulfilled state functions in the conquered lands. The church received grants of land and access to power in exchange for providing education and social services.
Gospel and trade
All the major European powers followed Portugal and Spain into the business of overseas expansion, especially as the industrial era dawned: Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. And as governments awakened to the commercial possibilities in foreign lands, so did mission agencies.
In Great Britain this happened quickly. By 1800 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (the Church of England's mission society) joined ranks with newer evangelically oriented agencies that carried the Gospel to Africa, Southeast Asia, China, and most importantly, India.
This was when Grant appeared on the scene. His military career and business leadership coincided with growing desires for reform among Anglican ministers and prominent lay leaders. Grant joined with William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, and others of the so-called Clapham Sect to lobby the British Parliament to abolish the slave trade, aware that British commercial practices often undermined the Gospel message of love, peace, and justice in Christ. In 1807 their efforts were rewarded with an act of Parliament that abolished the market for slaves.
Soul-searching
Grant's thoughts on slavery were just the beginning of soul-searching among missionaries about the human costs of empire. In China Dr. William Lockhart, a medical missionary with the London Missionary Society in the 1840s, criticized the opium trade as an impediment to evangelization. Eventually missionaries built popular support at home on the issue; the Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade was founded in 1874. Yet it could only issue ineffectual protests in the face of frenzied profit-taking by the East India Company and the British royal treasury well into the twentieth century.
For missionaries, the state's protection turned out to be a two-edged sword. On one hand, as the World Missionary Conference commissioners reported in 1910, "any tolerable Government, maintaining order and doing something to elevate the people under it, is a help, and a safeguard." In Indonesia the Dutch East India Company introduced missionaries from the Netherlands Missionary Society in 1812, and soon after the Kingdom of the Netherlands created a state church under royal authority, the Indische Kerk.
Arrangements like this gave Christianity legal, administrative, and financial support. European governments issued grants to missionary societies and to local churches to build hospitals, schools, and relief stations.
But there was a downside too. Indigenous people made negative associations between decadent European settlers and Christian faith. An American missionary lamented in 1889 that "falsehoods, deceptions, frauds, drunkenness, debauchery, and other great vices perpetrated among the heathen by those from Christian lands, do much to hinder the feeble efforts put forth to bring the world to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ."
Missionaries also grumbled about imperial officials favoring other faiths in an effort to seem neutral to local native leaders. In the Middle East, Church Missionary Society staff in the 1880s remarked that "the British Government practically prohibits aggressive work from fear of arousing Mohammedan fanaticism" and that "in order to show their impartiality as between Protestants and Roman Catholics, [officials] go to the other extreme and favour Mohammedans." Some missionary societies discovered that breaking away from state support improved their rate of success in converting new believers, recruiting native ministers, and expanding operations.
A growing distance
Missionaries became careful to distance themselves from imperial authorities and agents of corporations. Bishop W. M. Cameron of the Anglican Church of the Province of South Africa observed that his work was hampered by "the idea in the minds of many of the heathen natives that Christianity is a foreign religion, and that the missionaries are in some way or other officers of the British Government."
These hostilities boiled over in 1899 in China. Chinese nationalists attacked missionaries and foreign diplomats in an event known as the Boxer Rebellion. In one district alone armed gangs killed 136 Protestant missionaries and 47 Roman Catholic clergy and nuns. Eventually 20,000 foreign troops marched into China, scattering Chinese imperial troops and Boxers.
Such grim news prompted missionaries to rethink their cooperation with economic and political leaders in the developing world. By World War I many missionaries realized that the Gospel was at cross-purposes with European and North American commercial and military activities. They came to lament, with the commissioners of the World Missionary Conference in 1910, that "certain Missions have been in past time stalking-horses for European Powers bent on aggression." CH
By Jeffrey B. Webb
[Christian History originally published this article in Christian History Issue #104 in 2013]
Jeffrey B. Webb is professor of history at Huntington University and the author of Christianity and Exploring God in the Complete Idiot's Guide series.
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Guide to the Apocalypse
Series of 7 satirical illustrations for Boise Weekly depicting how to survive the end of the world.
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With the Mayan calendar end-of-the-world fears hitting fever pitch, Boise Weekly wanted to create a tongue in cheek guide to surviving the impending apocalypse. I was asked to illustrate each of the sections, which replaced the usual articles with survival pieces. I decided to mix elements from many types of doomsday scenarios, from robots and atomic bombs to aliens and zombies. I played these tropes against each other in a comical way, with the man and his son serving as the narrative link between all of the pieces as a play on Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." All in all, it was a very rewarding experience, and a hell of a lot of fun to work on.
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The Westpac Stadium in Wellington, with a seating capacity of 34,500 (which can be increased to 38,000 for major Test matches), was opened on 3 January, 2000.
Saturday's Test match will be the seventh between New Zealand and South Africa at the stadium and the Springboks are still winless there. Their record for the previous six Tests is: P: 6; L: 6; PF: 79; PA: 180; TF: 9; TA: 19; Average score: 13-30; Win%: 0%.
All six Tests were played in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship. In the very first Test match at this venue in 2002 the score was 20-41, which is the most points conceded by the Springboks at this ground.
South Africa's overall record in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship against New Zealand is: P: 47; W: 12; L: 35; PF: 881; PA: 1,358; TF: 80; TA: 142; Average score: 19-29. Win%: 26%.
South Africa's overall record against New Zealand is: P: 95; W: 35; L: 57; D: 3; PF: 1,482; PA: 1,945; TF: 143; TA: 212; Average score: 16-20. Win%: 37%.
New Zealand's biggest win against the Springboks was last year when the All Blacks won 57-0 in Albany. The Springboks' best win was on 30 June 1928, when they beat the All Blacks 17-0 in Durban – New Zealand's first Test on South African soil.
The referee is Nigel Owens of Wales. He was born on 18 June, 1971 in Mynyddcerrig, Carmarthenshire. His first Test was in 2005 when he refereed a Test between Japan and Ireland in Osaka.
Owens is the most experienced referee in the world with 83 Test match appearances to date. He has refereed in 16 Tests that involved South Africa previously, with the Springboks winning nine.
The two assistant referees are Pascal Gaüzère of France and Nic Berry of Australia, while Englishman Rowan Kitt is the television referee.


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Saksen-Hildburghausen, een van de Ernestijnse hertogdommen in het huidige Thüringen, heeft twee verschillende vlaggen gebruikt. De eerste vlag van het hertogdom was waarschijnlijk een driekleur in de kleuren rood, groen en wit. In 1815, na de napoleontische oorlogen en de oprichting van de Duitse Bond, nam het hertogdom een groen-witte tweekleur aan. Deze vlag bleef in gebruik tot Saksen-Hilburghausen als staat werd opgeheven bij de herindeling van de Ernestijnse hertogdommen in 1826.

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Despite blasting pharma for "getting away with murder" on multiple occasions, President Donald Trump is expected to pick a former pharmaceutical executive to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Bloomberg reports.
More than a month after Tom Price resigned as the nation's health secretary, Trump has put ex-Eli Lilly executive Alex Azar on the top of his list to replace him, according to several media reports. Azar's name was floated as a top candidate last month. At the time, Politico reported that FDA chief Scott Gottlieb and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma were out of the running.
Azar previously served at HHS for six years, two of them as deputy secretary during the George W. Bush administration. Most recently, he headed up Lilly's U.S. business; he left early this year as part of new CEO David Ricks' reorganization. He's been a member of the industry trade group BIO for four years, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Despite his credentials, Azar would join HHS from an industry that President Trump has harshly criticized on multiple occasions, both in office and during the campaign. During his transition period, the president said pharma was "getting away with murder," and reiterated that quote last month.
But critics have said the administration's actions have largely favored the industry. President Trump selected pharma's favored candidate to run the FDA, and some observers said a draft executive order to tackle drug prices from the administration would only raise them.
Now, having someone with an industry background in the top HHS job could be a positive for pharma as it navigates political issues such as pricing, intellectual property and the opioid epidemic.
Once believed to be under consideration for the HHS post, Gottlieb has said he believes he is "most effective" at the FDA. During his short time at the agency, he's been active in efforts to boost competition and provide some price relief even though the agency isn't in charge of drug pricing.
Continuing on that effort, Gottlieb this week said it's time to "end the shenanigans" of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies abuses that hinder the ability of generics companies to develop cheap copycats.
The issue has long frustrated some market watchers, who've noted that branded companies can limit the supply of drugs generics makers need to use in developing their own copies. Gottlieb said he's implementing changes at the agency to stop the abuse and that he's planning to work with supply chain companies to ensure that generics makers can get the supplies they need. He also plans to propose more moves in the coming weeks, he told an audience at the Federal Trade Commission.
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Tom Price stepped down from the HHS in late September amid a scandal over taxpayer-funded travel. Eric Hargan is currently running the agency as acting secretary.


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Heart rate variability, or HRV, is an exciting and relatively new measurement tool for use in athletics. Describing what it actually is would make most people's eyes glaze over, so in the interest of not putting you to sleep I'll keep it simple. HRV is not the measurement of the heart rate itself, which is what a standard heart rate monitor can tell you, but rather the variation in the interval from one beat to the next. In a recent study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, investigators wanted to know if it's a helpful measurement tool for combat athletes.
You might be wondering about the purpose of measuring HRV. It's obvious that the heart has the ability to respond to different situations. Recline a bit and relax, and your heart slows down. Exercise and it speeds up. But it's not just physical activity that changes your heart rate - stress does too. And heart rate isn't the only way the heart responds to physical or psychological stress.
The variability of heartbeat to heartbeat reflects the function of the nervous system. When different parts of the nervous system experience stress, they respond in different ways, which affects the way your heart works. HRV is a measurement of these changes.
Now that you understand what HRV is, you may want to know why there is a particular interest in it for combat sports. In this study the researchers looked at judo players for a specific reason. When you go into the gym and do a lift, you have a built-in measure of how much you've done. You count the reps, sets, and the weight you used. In sports like soccer, you can measure the distance covered. But when you engage in combat sports like judo, there's no simple way to measure the work done.
The researchers wanted to find out if HRV was a good measure of stress for judo. You can actually take the HRV of an athlete at any time, including the day after a training session, to tell how much stress they endured and how much they recovered. Indeed, in this study the researchers discovered HRV was a good measurement tool for combat athletes.They could even tell the difference between how hard the athletes had worked and the different phases of stress and recovery by using HRV.
HRV measuring devices are available now, and require no lab setting. You may even be able to find free online resources for HRV. However, the results may still be too confusing for most athletes or coaches. With more automation, HRV will be a tool that will become more readily available in the future.
Although the advantages are clear with sports in which the load is difficult to quantify, it seems that monitoring HRV may be helpful for any athlete. While many athletic endeavors may be easy enough to figure out in a lab setting, or by clever coaches, in the real world most athletes and coaches play it by ear and hope for the best. With a tool that determines the degree of stress and subsequent recovery an athlete has achieved, the future looks bright for HRV.
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