title: My little career

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I’ve had a lot of friends ask me how I got into nursing. I had a lot of friends ask me if I was SURE this is something I wanted to do (as I was not accepted one semester to the BYU nursing program, and then went though 5 semesters of GRUELING nursing school).
It started in High School. I enjoyed science but I didn’t want to be a doctor or a scientist, as I knew my ultimate goal would be motherhood. Nursing seemed like a smart career path, and unlike today, it wasn’t a popular choice for most high school seniors (except in Utah — a TON of friends wanted to be nurses, but dropped out when they realized the requirements at college). I remember a late night talk in which an aunt of mine just asked, “Hilary you don’t really seem like a caring person” (and yes, she may have said it nicer, but it didn’t sound any nicer to my ears) “are you sure this is what you want to do?”
I have learned something in the almost NINE years (can you believe that?) that I have been a nurse. Nursing takes a special kind of caring. You can’t be the type that will break down in tears when you pull a bandaid off your child. I became jaded as I stuck child after child in my first job in a pediatrician’s office. Let’s just say we gave LOTS of shots.
If I wasn’t as strong of a person, I probably wouldn’t have made it through the 3 years that I worked in a nursing home, and then moved on to hospice.
And now, on a daily basis (at least on the days that I work) my caring hand has to take a sharp tone with doctors who perhaps don’t take the patient’s interest as their own. My caring hand has brought life back to babies hearts as their bodies are welcomed to our air-breathing world.
I have learned that caring comes in many forms. Humor, empathy, telling the truth instead of softening it for fear of reactions.
I am so grateful for my job choice and it’s amazing that even though I didn’t, perhaps, fit the mold I sure fit the bill.


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shelf: finance

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Use your registration number or your tyre size to search our stock for the right tyre for your car, 4x4 or SUV. We have access to a vast stock of budget, mid-range and premium tyres.
Once you’ve added your tyres to your shopping basket you can add any of our additional services.
Choose your fitting date/time and confirm your contact details and you're done. You only pay when the work is done and you're happy with it.
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Windmill Garage is a local tyre supply and fitting centre serving Honiton and the surrounding area.
Offering personal service and local knowledge along with an excellent range of tyre brands to suit all pockets and vehicles.
We are the sole & exclusive supplier of Fulda Tyres in Honiton
We display the tyre label ratings so you can see how the tyre performs in the wet, rolling resistance, noise rating and noise in decibels so you can choose which tyre suits your needs.
You can use this website to book your tyres or pop in and see us if you’re not sure what you want and would like some advice.
Windmill Garage prides ourselves on offering you the best range of tyre brands and we stock all of the major premium brands, along with some quality tyres from brands such as: Bridgestone tyres, Continental tyres, Dunlop tyres, Fulda tyres, Goodyear tyres, Michelin tyres, Pirelli tyres.
Every tyre will have the tyre label ratings shown so you can see how the tyre performs in the wet, the rolling resistance and the noise rating (noise in decibels) to help you understand how well the tyres will perform to your needs.
Tyres are the only part of your vehicle that link you and your car to the road, so having the right amount of tread depth on your tyres is vital.
The legal limit of a tyre tread depth is 1.6mm. The less tread you have on your tyres, the longer your stopping distance is… bare that in mind when you’re driving.
The tyres on your car will wear quicker the less tread depth you have, so it’s really important you check them regularly so you remain safe on the road.
Making sure your vehicle is in top condition. Start by using our online booking form.
We offer a choice of essential car care services with full and interim servicing.
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Nearly 400 students with COVID-19 in DCS schools last week
There was a marked increase in the number of new coronavirus positive cases among DeSoto County Schools (DCS) students in the first report since the Christmas break and the return to classes.
The report issued Monday can also be considered reflective of the marked rise in the number of cases around the state of Mississippi and in the nation, along with students being away from school, possibly traveling away from home for the holidays.
The report showed a total of 389 new cases of COVID-19 among DCS students in the school week ending Jan. 7. The figure compares to just 40 new cases for the week ending Dec. 17.
The district also showed 94 students were placed in COVID-19 quarantine for the week ending Jan. 7, compared to 90 for the week ending Dec. 17, when students left for Christmas break.
DeSoto Central High School was the attendance center with the most number of new COVID-19 cases in the week ending Jan. 7. DeSoto Central also had the most students in quarantine at 25.
Southaven High School was next in cases with 26, DeSoto Central Middle had 24 new cases and Southaven Intermediate reported 23 youngsters with coronavirus. Olive Branch High School reported 22 cases.
After DeSoto Central High School with 25 quarantines, Pleasant Hill Elementary was next 13 new quarantines.
Coronavirus was also active among staff members and teachers with 129 school staffers having contracted the virus during the past week.
The complete report is shown below and is also found on the DeSoto County Schools official website.


shelf: home-craft

title: Gambit and g2 secures playoffs spot iem cologne

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Gambit esports and G2 esports secure their spot in IEM Cologne playoffs. Gambit beat NIP 2-1 in upper bracket round 2 matchup of Group A, whereas G2 beat BIG 2-1 to move on to round 3 of upper bracket of Group A. Both these team secured a top 2 finish in their Group, which means they are qualified in playoffs.
G2 and Gambit will now face each other in the Group A upper bracket round 3 matchup. The winner will be 1 seed from group A and will directly be placed in semi-finals of playoffs. Whereas the loser will be number 2 seed and will face the number 3 seed of group B in quarterfinals.
Gambit vs G2 preview - IEM Cologne
After and amazing run in this season gambit secured world #1 rank, but there were many doubts and questions regarding their LAN performance. Gambit had secured their title as the King of Online era but fans and critiques were having their doubts on LAN as the roster had very less LAN experience. Gambit proved all of them wrong and became the first team to reach playoffs of IEM Cologne.
On the other hand G2 had a pretty inconsistence season so far. But they are looking pretty good so far in this tournament. It is the first LAN event for this new G2 roster.
Gambit had dominated G2 so far in 2021 as they won all their matchups against them but all of those games were online. G2 will now have a chance to show their LAN experience and win this series against Gambit.
They will face each other on 11th July. Game will be live streamed on Twitch on official channel of ESL_CSGO.


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title: Historical heritage keeper award open for nominations

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HELENA — The Montana Historical Center is now looking to the community once again to nominate people, and organizations, for their Historical Heritage Keeper Awards.
In order to qualify, The Montana Historical Society is seeking those who show exemplary commitment to identifying and preserving Montana's historical and cultural heritage.
The individual nominee must have demonstrated a commitment to a significant Montana history project, or have identified and preserved objects and property of significance to Montana's history and culture.
Organizations also must have a record of preserving, and promoting Montana's historical and cultural heritage.
All nominees must show a commitment to Montana’s historical and cultural preservation beyond the requirements of professional employment, or an organization’s specific goals and objectives. Evaluations will focus on the significance and impact of the overall work in enhancing, promoting, and stimulating public interest in a specific aspect of Montana history and culture.
Areas of interest can include historic building and landscape preservation; sustained historical and cultural research and publication; fine art history and preservation; and efforts to promote and educate future generations on the historical and cultural legacy of all Montanans.
The individuals must be alive, and organizations must be currently active.
The Montana Heritage Guardian Award is not an annual award.
Up to two people, or organizations, will be honored by the MHS board of trustees for the award.
The deadline for nominations is April 1.
For more information on the Historical Heritage Keeper Award and to apply, the Heritage Keeper Nomination Form is on the Montana Historical Society Website.


tier: polar

shelf: civic-law

title: Cbp temporarily halt vehicular traffic veterans international bridge 0

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Brownsville Port of Entry would like to advise the traveling public of the temporary stoppage of vehicular traffic at Veterans International Bridge the morning of Sept. 11, during the 21st Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony to honor the 9/11 attack victims and the availability of alternate crossing locations via the Gateway International Bridge and the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge.
“We would like the traveling public to know that CBP will continue to process vehicular traffic at the two alternate crossing locations, Gateway International Bridge and the Brownsville and Matamoros International bridge to ensure continuity of operations and traffic flow during the temporary traffic halt at Veterans International Bridge during the remembrance ceremony,” said Port Director Tater Ortiz, Port of Brownsville.
On Sunday, September 11, 2022, at approximately 7:00 a.m., CBP, will temporarily halt all vehicular and commercial bus traffic at Veterans International Bridge in order to host the 9/11 ceremony. Vehicular traffic is expected to resume at 8:00 a.m. CBP encourages the traveling public to make any and all necessary arrangements to cross prior to 6:45 a.m. if they are planning to use the Veterans International Bridge that morning. CBP reminds the public that they may also utilize the Los Indios International Bridge as an alternate route to avoid heavy traffic.
CBP would like to remind the traveling public the importance of obtaining and utilizing their radio frequency identification documents (RFID)-equipped travel documents such as U.S. passport cards and the newer versions (i.e., since 2011) of the border crossing card and resident alien card, to utilize the Ready Lanes and for travelers to have their entry documents ready as they approach the booth to facilitate their processing.
Members of the traveling public can monitor Border Wait Times. They may also obtain the BWT app on their smartphone via Apple App Store and Google Play so that they can observe the wait times and make an informed decision on which bridge to use. These wait times are updated on an hourly basis.
Also to avoid any potential delays or fines due to travelers bringing prohibited/restricted agricultural items, CBP encourages travelers to declare all agricultural items to a CBP officer upon arrival and before making their journey to consult the Know Before You Go guide.


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title: Capacity Fast Calculator

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Capacity Fast Calculator
Long Cycle Life
Wide Temperature Range
Self-discharge is higher at 100% state of charge (SOC) compared to 70% SOC.
Ufine's custom low-temperature batteries can be used for -40°C to 55°C operation, catering to diverse outdoor scenarios.
Battery Capacity Testing
Before shipment, each lithium battery undergoes meticulous testing to validate voltage, current, and other essential parameters, ensuring consistency and reliability in performance.
We use A-grade batteries, eco-friendly, safe and no droplet, energy-saving and environmentally friendly, economical and durable.
The battery is designed for use in various applications, including but not limited to beauty device medical device, Led lighting, 3C digital, pet toys, massage device.
1. Mechanical Characteristics
Cell 401430 PCM Yes NTC No Weight appr. 3.5g Configuration 1S1P -
2. Electrical Specification
Capacity 120mAh Nominal Voltage 3.7V Energy 0.444Wh Internal Resistance less than 250mΩ Max. Charge Voltage 4.2V Discharge Cut Off 2.4V Max. Charge Current 120mA Max. Discharge Current 120mA Standard Charge Current 24mA Standard Discharge Current 24mA Charging Temperature 0℃ to 45℃ Discharging Temperature -20℃ to 60℃ Storage Temp.Range 1 year at -20℃ to +30℃ 3 mos. at -20℃ to +45℃ 1 mo. at -20℃ to +60℃ Cycle life 100 cycles ≥92% 300 cycles ≥88% 500 cycles ≥80% -
3. Cell protection
Overcharge Detection 4.28V ±25mV (700 to 1300msec delay, release 4.2V ±50mV) Overdischarge Detection 2.4V ±100mV (40 to 120msec. delay, release 3.0V ±100mV) Overcurrent Detection 2.5A to 4.5A (5 to 10msec. delay) Short protection Yes
Lipo Battery Cell Capacity Fast Calculator
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The capacity calculated by this tool is only an approximate value. If you need an accurate assessment, please contact our professional engineers.
3.7 V 120mAh Lithium Ion Battery Application
Lithium Polymer Battery For Alarm Clock
Start your day reliably with our lithium batteries designed for alarm clocks. Resistant to varying temperatures, these batteries ensure your alarm clock functions consistently,even during colder weather, guaranteeing you wake up on time. Their high energy density means fewer battery changes, offering peace of mind for uninterrupted mornings.
Lithium Polymer Battery For Remote Control
Our lithium batteries for remote controls provide extended longevity due to their high energy density, reducing the frequency of replacements. With low self-discharge rates, these batteries maintain power even during extended periods of remote inactivity.
Lithium Polymer Battery For Forehead Thermometer
Specifically crafted for forehead thermometers, our lithium batteries ensure accuracy and reliability with high energy density and exceptional low-temperature resistance. Consistent performance guarantees precise temperature readings for essential healthcare monitoring. Their adaptable designs seamlessly integrate into various thermometer models, ensuring uninterrupted functionality.
Lithium Polymer Battery For Makeup Mirror
Engineered for makeup mirrors, our lithium batteries ensure long-lasting power with their high energy density, perfect for daily beauty routines. Their stable and dependable performance supports uninterrupted use, ensuring flawless beauty regimens. Moreover, these batteries' versatile shapes effortlessly accommodate various mirror designs, providing reliable and enduring power for consistent usage.
Lithium Polymer Battery For Glucose Meter
Our lithium batteries for glucose meters excel in high energy density, ensuring prolonged and consistent power for accurate readings. Their exceptional low-temperature resistance guarantees reliable performance in various environmental conditions, crucial for uninterrupted usage in healthcare settings. With customizable shapes, these batteries seamlessly integrate into different glucose meter designs, providing reliable and customizable power solutions for diabetic patients.
The Complete Guide For 3.7 V 120mAh Lithium Ion Battery
A 3.7 V 120mAh lithium-ion battery serves as a crucial power source for various electronic devices. This guide delves into its components, functionalities, and best practices for optimal use.
Part 1. Advantages and Applications
The 3.7 V 120mAh lithium-ion battery boasts lightweight construction and high energy density, making it ideal for portable devices like smartphones, GPS systems, and handheld gaming consoles. Its rechargeable nature contributes to cost-effectiveness and reduced environmental impact. This battery type finds extensive use in medical devices, ensuring consistent and reliable power for critical equipment.
Part 2. Technical Specifications
Understanding the technical specifications is essential. The 3.7 V rating indicates its nominal voltage, while the 120mAh capacity determines its charge-holding capability. This battery's discharge rate influences how quickly it can deliver power to a device. Charging requirements vary, with compatibility across multiple charging systems, emphasizing the importance of using the right charger to avoid damage or reduced battery lifespan.
Part 3. Safety and Handling
Proper handling and safety precautions are paramount. Lithium-ion batteries are sensitive to temperature extremes and improper charging, which can lead to overheating or even explosion. Certified batteries with protective circuitry offer safeguards against overcharging, over-discharging, and short circuits. Storing batteries in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight helps maintain their health and performance.
Part 4. Maintenance and Longevity
To extend battery life, adhere to recommended usage practices. Avoid complete discharges, which strain the battery, and opt for partial charges instead. Regularly update device firmware or software to ensure optimized battery performance. Keeping batteries at around 50% charge during long-term storage prevents degradation.
Part 5. Buying Guide and Recommendations
For reliable and customized solutions, consider sourcing your 120mAh 3.7 V lithium-ion batteries from Ufine custom battery. Our commitment to quality assurance and tailored battery solutions ensures dependable performance for your specific needs.
Are lithium polymer batteries a fire hazard?
Lithium polymer batteries have the potential to catch fire or swell if mishandled, damaged, overcharged, or exposed to extreme conditions. Proper care, handling, and charging significantly reduce the risk of hazards. -
How do you keep a lithium polymer battery healthy?
To maintain the health of a lithium polymer battery, avoid overcharging or deep discharging, store it at moderate temperatures, use compatible chargers designed for the battery, and periodically exercise the battery by charging and discharging it. -
Are lithium polymer batteries safe for air travel?
Airlines often have specific guidelines for carrying lithium batteries, such as limitations on the number of spare batteries or whether they should be carried in carry-on baggage rather than checked luggage. It's essential to adhere to airline regulations when traveling with lithium polymer batteries. -
How long does it take to fully charge a lithium battery?
Charging time depends on the battery's capacity and the charger's current. For example, if the battery capacity is 4000mAh and the charger current is 2500mA, charging time = 4000mAh / 2500mA = 1.6 hours. -
How long do lithium batteries last?
Our lithium battery cycle life is more than 500 times. The lifespan of a lithium battery depends on various factors, such as usage patterns, charging and discharging conditions, and overall maintenance. -
Can lithium batteries be customized for specific applications?
Yes, lithium batteries can be customized to meet specific requirements. This includes customizing the battery capacity, voltage, size, shape, and other parameters to suit the application's needs. Capacity: 20mAh~12000mAh, Voltage: 3.2 V~48 V.
High Energy Density
It stores large amounts of energy in a smaller and lighter package
Longer Cycle Life
Withstands extensive charge and discharge cycles
Maintains power longer when not in use
Minimizes the risk of accidents and ensures safe operation
About Lithium Battery Industry News


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- A new system called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now being beta-tested on Google Chrome.
- It lets servers start sessions with specific browsers, creating unique keys stored securely on devices.
- These keys replace or supplement cookies and are refreshed out-of-band to maintain security.
Google Chrome has just announced that it’s taking its combat against cookie theft even further. A new system called DBSC, short for Device Bound Session Credentials, is now being beta-tested for Google Accounts with plans to extend to Workspace & Cloud.
In short, the DBSC web capability links authentication sessions to devices, making stolen cookies useless. It lets servers start sessions with browsers, creating secure keys on devices. These keys replace cookies and are refreshed to maintain security, and it will be an open web standard.
And from this, DBSC prevents user tracking and doesn’t reveal device details. Chrome will support it for desktop users and align its availability with cookie changes, and you can follow the work on this capability on its GitHub page.
“DBSC doesn’t leak any meaningful information about the device beyond the fact that the browser thinks it can offer some type of secure storage. The only information sent to the server is the per-session public key which the server uses to certify proof of key possession later,” Google reassures.
Cookies make browsing easier but are often targeted by malware for stealing, giving attackers access to accounts without triggering security. The announcement came as Chrome is phasing out third-party cookies in the third quarter of 2024. Popular browsers like Microsoft Edge have also followed suit.


shelf: health

title: Nurse kissing 2

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Nurse Kissing 2 is a game with a great entertainment genre that you cannot miss. This is an online game you can fully experience in the computer browser of your mobile phone. The first thing you need to do in this game is that you are taken care of by a beautiful nurse. Then you and the nurse have feelings for each other.
Let's make sweet kisses in this love. but one unfortunate thing is that there will be people traveling around the hospital and other patients. So how can you kiss the nurse and avoid eye contact? This depends on your skills. Observe and be quick. If you meet people around you reflexes quickly to return to the original state. How many missions of the game can you overcome?
Let's have fun and relax with an extremely great challenge comfortably do the things you want in this game. Enjoy sweet moments with your love. Make everything a secret and don't let anyone find out. If anyone finds you will have to stop the game. Do you feel the mission of this game is extremely perfect? Enjoy the great game Nurse Kissing 2 at https://kizigames.games/ even more. What if you shared this game with your friends?
Let's invite your friends to join us right now to the game to have the opportunity to enjoy the sweet love with the beautiful nurse. If the game leaves you with a passion, let's explore adding a few other similar interesting game genres such as Ice Cream Inc and Teenage Celebrity Rivalry
Instruction to play
Use the mouse to be able to conquer the missions given by the game.


title: Qualia wins best digital mortgage product 2020 fintech breakthrough award

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San Francisco, California, March 11, 2020 – Qualia, the leading digital real estate closing company, today announced that Qualia Post, which streamlines the lender’s transactions during the closing and post-closing process has been selected as the winner of the “Best Digital Mortgage Product” award by FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market today.
Qualia Post, automates the collection of trailing documents, creating a streamlined process that saves valuable time for lenders. Additionally, Post makes it easier for all those involved in the post-closing transaction, particularly lenders and title companies, to collaborate more efficiently.
“The entire mortgage and home loan process is ripe for disruption and Qualia Post is a true ‘breakthrough’ product that tackles the difficult task of improving and streamlining the closing and post-closing process for lenders,” said James Johnson, Managing Director, FinTech Breakthrough. “Qualia Post automates the process so that document requests take place without delay and are exchanged the same way each time, using a secure, cloud-based portal. Their tech is creating uber-efficiency for all parties involved, including helping build better relationships between lenders and title companies. Their platform makes Qualia Post the stand-out winner when it comes to ‘Best Digital Mortgage Product’ and we congratulate the company on their well-deserved 2020 FinTech Breakthrough Award.”
The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognize the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Banking, Personal Finance, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. The 2020 FinTech Breakthrough Award program attracted more than 3,750 nominations from across the globe.
“The exchange of post-closing trailing documents is an excellent use case for automation because the process is time-intensive, repetitive, and prone to human error,” said Nate Baker, co-founder and CEO of Qualia. “While most real estate technology companies are focused on the beginning of the home buying process, we are committed to making the historically complicated closing process easier from start to finish. We are extremely pleased to have FinTech Breakthrough recognize our unique approach and ‘breakthrough’ technology.”
Qualia Post integrates with a lender’s Loan Origination Systems (LOS). Once funding is complete and the signed closing documents are ready, Post requests the trailing documents from title companies. Title companies then log into a simple, secure interface to share documents, which automatically flows back into the documents section of the lender’s LOS. Upon transfer, Post notifies the post-closing team that trailing documents are ready for review. As an added service component, Qualia representatives follow up with title companies that do not fulfill their document requests in a timely manner.
Along with eliminating the hours of effort involved in coordinating numerous post-closing processes with a variety of title partners, lenders using Qualia Post have reported reducing time per transaction in the post-closing stage by 25 percent. Qualia’s team of top software engineers, real estate professionals, and user experience experts are improving how real estate is transacted, streamlining the closing experience, removing stress from home buying, and making the process transparent and secure.
For more information, please visit https://blog.qualia.com/.
Qualia is a digital real estate closing technology company that provides the infrastructure to streamline the home closing experience. The company offers a suite of products that brings together homebuyers and sellers, lenders, title & escrow agents and real estate agents onto one secure shared platform. Qualia was founded in 2015 by Forbes 30 Under 30 Award recipients Nate Baker, Joel Gottsegen and Lucas Hansen. Since launching, the company has been named an ALTA Elite Provider, grown to over 250 employees, and recognized with the Great Place to Work Certification. The company is a leader in industry security and was the first technology company to join the Coalition to Stop Real Estate Wire Fraud. Qualia is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has offices in Austin, TX. For more information on Qualia, visit www.qualia.com.
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for technology innovation and leadership, the FinTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Financial Technologies and Services companies and products. The FinTech Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of FinTech companies and products in categories including Payments, Personal Finance, Wealth Management, Fraud Protection, Banking, Lending, RegTech, InsurTech and more. For more information visit FinTechBreakthrough.com.


title: Welcome and "Becoming Beside Ourselves"

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Welcome and "Becoming Beside Ourselves"
Welcome to the website accompaniment for Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. We hope to make the site a place for spirited exchanges, information sharing about matters relevant to electronic literature, and a growing resource for teachers and students interested in electronic literature. I hope that visitors will share their experiences, draw attention to works relevant to the topic, and speculate on theoretical matters as well.
To initiate the discussion, I would like to comment on Brian Rotman’s forthcoming book, “Becoming Beside Ourselves.” Rotman is interested in changes of subjectivity accompanying different media regimes. Starting from orality, he traces the importance of gesture to speech (unsurprisingly) and (more surprising) to writing as well. Drawing on recent work in brain physiology, he argues that articulation begins in gesticulation, thus assigning to gesture a fundamental role in human communication. The “lettered self” that emerges from the regime of writing (from handwriting to word processing) partakes of what Rotman sees as the disembodied nature of writing. This is an area of his thesis that could benefit from revision, for he does not take into account the kinds of embodiments that writing has assumed (the development of fonts, spacings, paragraphs, and so forth, on which Johanna Drucker and others have written so eloquently) or the implications of moving, for example, from the hand to the typewriter to the computer (a la Kittler). Nevertheless, the progression he traces takes a fascinating turn when he comes to computational regime, where he associates electronic textuality with dispersed subjectivities and flexible assemblages. A unique contribution is his discussion of disembodiment in mathematics (an idea he developed at length in Ad Infinitum), where the actions performed theoretically by the mathematical imperative (“draw a line”) are now theorized in terms of media ecologies. Altogether, this text makes a strong contribution in its speculative engagements, its wide-ranging expertise, and its careful working-out of ideas. Highly recommended for anyone interested in media theory, media change, and gesticulation in relation to different media forms.


title: How to mix your own soil

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We’ve been talking a lot about gardening here lately, and for good reason — hello Spring! From garden designs to getting your yard ready and breaking down exactly what you should grow, none of these is really possible without the proper nutrient dense SOIL. When it comes to soil it is definitely not a one size fits all case, and when it comes to living a self-sufficient lifestyle you need good soil and you definitely want to be able to mix it yourself. Luckily, G has a lot of experience trying out different varieties in all kinds of different growing situations, and today she is sharing all of her tips and tricks for How To Mix Your Own Soil.
This particular soil blend is perfect for all the plants you grow in containers. There is really nothing worse than working so hard to create the perfect potted plant only have it die later, which can often times happen due to the use of inadequate soil.
How To Mix Your Own Soil:
Container Plants Need Special Attention
Traditional garden soil doesn’t give container plants enough aeration and water, but you can easily adapt it to work for containers.
The main thing you will need is an ingredient to separate the soil particles that will create air channels throughout the soil, allowing it to breathe and preventing root rot.
Many people use peat moss, but because of the environmental issues associated with harvesting it, it is better to use an alternative like rotted sawdust or humus, which can be purchased at garden-supply stores.
Some will also recommend vermiculite or perlite, but these too are controversial and probably not local to your area, so avoid them if possible.
G’s Homemade All-Purpose Container Soil Mix:
- 4 parts multipurpose potting soil
- 1 part rotted sawdust or humus
- 2 parts composted fine bark
- 1 handful (per pot) of a slow-release fertilizer such as powdered sea kelp or fish manure
**Good to Know
If the all-purpose potting soil that you purchase contains slow-release fertilizer, you won’t need to add any before 8 weeks pass. After that, you will have to add fertilizer yourself.


title: Debra messing honored at israel film festival luncheon lets support artists who dare to tell the truth

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Members of the Jewish film community gathered at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on June 6 for a luncheon in advance of the 2025 Israel Film Festival.
That the fest’s executive director Meir Fenigstein has a background in rock music — he played drums in ’70s band Kaveret — is fitting considering that his appeal to Hollywood’s Jewish community sometimes sounds like a broken record.
“The sponsorship luncheon serves to acknowledge the tremendous financial support of its benefactors as well as its individual and corporate sponsors, without whom the Festival would not exist,” said Fenigstein of the IFF’s goal: “to bring the best of Israeli culture and movies to Los Angeles audiences.”
There’s urgency to his appeal every year, but since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, which has resulted in a surge in antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world, support for Israel’s film and television endeavors has been waning, with Israeli filmmakers increasingly shut out of major competitions.
Debra Messing, the Emmy-winning actress who executive-produced the documentary October H8TE – The Fight for the Soul of America (chronicling the alarming rise of antisemitism on college campuses), echoed these thoughts in her acceptance of the 2025 IFF Achievement In Film And Television Award. “The work you’ve done, Meir, in creating a space where Israeli stories can be seen and heard, especially now, is not just important. It is urgent,” she said following an introduction by podcast host Jonah Platt. “Especially now, when so many Israeli films are being denied entry into festivals or pulled from platforms — it’s more vital than ever that we support Israeli filmmakers; that we watch their work and help amplify their art. Because they are telling stories that matter. Stories of resilience, innovation, survival, family and identity.”
Joining the effort was Beverly Hills Mayor Sharona Nazarian, who shared her reflections on cultural diplomacy and recognized the festival with a proclamation from the City of Beverly Hills. Many Beverly Hills residents and businesses have supported and participated in this important cultural event over the years, she noted.
Also recognized was Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance and a two-time Oscar winner, with the 2025 IFF Humanitarian Award. He regaled the luncheon attendees with stories of Elizabeth Taylor, peppering in Yiddish-isms to their delight.
But laughs aside, Messing encapsulated the moment in her moving remarks. “The blood thirsty contempt, the gas-lighting, the lying. It has been crushing. Exhausting,” she said. “But through it all, I’ve also seen the extraordinary power of our community. The way we show up for each other. The way we lead with love, always looking for the light. We are still here. And we are louder, prouder, and more unified than ever. … Let’s keep making room for stories that matter. Let’s support artists who dare to tell the truth. And let’s keep standing together — with dignity, with strength, and with hope for a better tomorrow.”
The 37th annual Israel Film Festival is scheduled for Nov. 5 – 20 in Los Angeles.


title: 1355

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The judge responsible for the case of Yves Nawfal’s murder issued Wednesday an indictment recommending the death penalty for six people suspected of involvement in the crime, judicial sources said.
Judge Peter Germanos issued an indictment against the three detained suspects Charbel G. Khalil, Charbel C. Khalil, Juliano Saadeh, and three fugitive members of the Khalil family named Christian, Elie and Mario.
The source said that 23 people have been indicted in the case, including 13 who are already in custody and 10 that are yet to be apprehended.
Germanos recommended the death penalty for six, and sentences ranging from three to 20 years for the others, the source explained. The judge referred the case to the Criminal Court in Baabda.
Nawfal’s family visited Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi earlier Wednesday and Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk Tuesday. Both ministers vowed to follow up on the case.
Charbel G. Khalil and Saadeh are considered the main partners in the crime. In a video shared on social media before Khalil and Saadeh's arrest two weeks ago, the two were seen standing in front of the Kfar Debian police station, near the crime scene, announcing that they would hand themselves in.
In the video, they also claimed that their intention was not to kill Nawfal, and said they did not know him in person.
The crime took place earlier this month when Nawfal was celebrating his birthday at a pub in Kfar Debian.
The incident started out as a fistfight between Nawfal and a group of men over an offhand comment made to a woman.
Kesrouan MP Farid Haykal Khazen, who had received Khalil and Saadeh at his house to convince them to turn themselves in, later raged against the judiciary for "rendering tens of families homeless" by arresting a large number of suspects.
In a news conference Saturday, he criticized Judge Germanos and called for him to be replaced with someone “more credible."


title: J.crci.2006.10.002

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The electrical and magnetic properties of molecular crystals have been studied extensively in the past three decades, and various molecule-based conductors, superconductors and magnetic materials have been synthesized to date [1,2]. Heterocyclic thiazyl radicals possess unique chemical and physical properties . They can be regarded as being on the borderline between organic and inorganic materials. They are chemically stable, in contrast to the instability of most organic radicals, so that they do not need protection groups on their molecular skeletons. This brings about a close packing in the solid state. Their molecular skeletons exhibit a large electronic polarization, leaving, respectively, a positive and a negative polarized charge on sulfur and nitrogen. These charges form short intermolecular and interatomic S⋯N contacts. Thiazyl radical solids always involve a multi-dimensional network consisting of face-to-face π–π overlaps and side-by-side S⋯N contacts. They have a strong spin–lattice interaction; a small lattice modification brings about a significant change in their magnetism, reflecting the fact that the SOMO (singly occupied molecular orbital) has a phase change between bonded sulfur and nitrogen. These interesting characteristics are believed to provide them with their unique solid-state physical properties.
2 Room-temperature magnetic bistability in TTTA
2.1 Magnetic properties
1,3,5-Trithia-2,4,6-triazapentalenyl (abbreviated as TTTA) was synthesized by Wolmershäuser and Johann in 1989 . Recently, it was found that TTTA exhibits a first-order phase transition with a surprisingly wide thermal hysteresis loop at around room temperature [5,6]. Fig. 1(a) depicts the temperature dependence of the paramagnetic susceptibilities χp for a polycrystalline sample of TTTA. The bold arrow in this figure indicates the value of χp for the virgin sample just after sublimation crystallization. As the sample was cooled from room temperature, χp showed a slight decrease. At Tc↓ = 230 K, χp began to decrease rapidly, becoming zero at 170 K; TTTA is intrinsically diamagnetic at low temperatures. When the sample was heated from a low temperature, a diamagnetic-to-paramagnetic transition was found at Tc↑ = 305 K, indicating the large hysteresis loop. Since this loop goes through room temperature (290 K), TTTA is regarded as a magnetically-bistable material at room temperature. There was little change in the shape of the loop even after repeats of this thermal cycle.
The temperature-variable X-band EPR experiments indicated the phase transition of TTTA at ca. 200 K and 310 K upon cooling and heating, respectively [6,7]. Fig. 1(b) compares the single-crystal EPR signals for the two phases at 300 K. The spectrum of the HT phase reveals an intense absorption, in contrast to the weak signal of the LT phase. The g-factor of the HT phase signal is , which is typical for thiazyl radicals. Since EPR is highly sensitive to the spin state of organic radicals, the two phases of TTTA can be very easily distinguished by EPR, rather than SQUID measurements.
2.2 Crystal structures
TTTA exhibited a significant difference between the crystal structures of the HT and LT phases [5–7]. The structure of the HT phase consisted of a polar 1D stacking column, in which the molecules were related by translational relations with a constant interval. This stacking column was surrounded by six neighboring columns with very short S⋯N and S⋯S contacts. By contrast, TTTA exhibited a strong dimerization along the stacking direction in the crystal structure of the LT phase. This radical dimerization must be responsible for the diamagnetic properties of the LT phase. Fig. 2 shows a schematic comparing the nearest-neighbor intermolecular arrangements in the two phases. It was notable that the molecules had an eclipsed overlap in the LT phase, in contrast to a shifted overlap in the HT phase. More specifically, the molecular planes in the LT-phase dimer were not parallel; the distance between the –S–N–S– moieties was shorter by ca. 0.09 Å than that between the –N–S–N– moieties, probably reflecting a bonding interaction between the unpaired electrons which were concentrated on the –S–N–S– moieties. This suggests that bond formation is the main driving force of this phase transition.
We believe that there is a competition between the exchange and electrostatic interactions (see Fig. 2). The exchange interaction favors an eclipsed overlap, such as that found in the LT phase, because this structure maximizes the intermolecular overlap between the SOMOs. However, this is the most disadvantageous structure from the viewpoint of electrostatic energy because it includes intermolecular and interatomic contacts between polarized charges of the same sign, namely Sδ+⋯Sδ+ and Nδ−⋯Nδ−. It is presumably this competition that causes the drastic phase transitions in the thiazyl radical family.
2.3 Phase control by pressure and light irradiation
The effects of quasi-hydrostatic pressures on TTTA were studied to control the magnetic bistability; the temperature dependence of χp of TTTA was studied under 0.38, 0.75, and 1.5 GPa . TTTA was found to undergo a sharp diamagnetic–paramagnetic transition even under pressure, with a significant shift in the transition temperature. The pressure dependences of Tc↑ and Tc↓ are shown in Fig. 3. Both Tc↑ and Tc↓ increased significantly with increasing pressure. Thus, the bistable range shifted toward higher temperatures. Although room temperature (290 K) is just below Tc↑ at ambient pressure, it falls in the center of the hysteresis loop at 0.75 GPa. That is, room-temperature bistability can be stabilized by pressure. The two solid curves in Fig. 3 are only eye guides, but the gradients at the ambient pressure are estimated to be roughly ⅆTc↓/ⅆp = 45 ± 20 K GPa−1 and ⅆTc↑/ⅆp = 20 ± 10 K GPa−1. The theoretical value of ⅆTc/ⅆp is given by the Clapeyron equation, ⅆp/ⅆTc = ΔS/ΔV = ΔH/(TcΔV), where ΔV is the volume change, though this equation is valid only under thermal equilibrium. The enthalpy changes for the transitions in TTTA were obtained by DSC measurements [6,7]. The difference between the unit cell volumes of the two phases is 3.4 Å3 at room temperature [5–7]. Since the unit cell contains four molecules, the volume difference is ΔVRT = 3.4NA/4 Å3 mol−1, where NA is Avogadro's constant. The theoretical value for ⅆTc/ⅆp at p = 0 GPa can be estimated as 60 K GPa−1 under the assumption that ΔV = ΔVRT. The agreement between the theoretical and experimental values is fairly good (the same order of magnitude), and the equation can explain the shift toward higher transition temperatures with increasing pressure.
The phase control of TTTA was also achieved using photoirradiation . There is a very clear chromism between the crystal surfaces of the two phases under a polarized microscope, namely between red–purple in the HT phase and yellow–green in the LT phase. The photo-induced transition from the diamagnetic LT phase to the paramagnetic HT phase was observed after a single-shot (6 ns pulse) irradiation at 2.64 eV at 296 K. In addition, a clear threshold was identified in the dependence of the LT-to-HT conversion efficiency on the excitation photon density. This strongly indicated that the observed phenomenon was not a thermal effect, but a photo-induced phase transition .
2.4 Charge doping
The electrical properties of TTTA were examined. The conductivity for the HT phase was 10−8 Ω−1 cm−1, with an activation energy of 0.33 eV under a vacuum. The conductivity for the LT phase was two orders of magnitude lower. The HT phase was found to be an insulator despite its three-dimensional network structure free of radical dimerization, where each molecule has one unpaired electron. Thus, it is highly possible that the HT phase can be regarded as a Mott insulator, in which strong on-site electron–electron repulsion results in electron localization.
The carrier doping on the HT phase of TTTA was carried out with I2 vapor. The conductivity was quickly enhanced by four or five orders of magnitude, saturating after 10 h. The saturation was presumably due to a breakup of the crystal structure caused by penetration of the dopant. Since the doped material was very air-sensitive, we could not carry out further characterization. It was clearly demonstrated, however, that hole doping of the HT phase of TTTA brought about significant enhancement of the conductivity.
3 Complex phase transitions in BDTA: spin-gap, antiferromagnetic ordering and double melting
3.1 Diamagnetic–paramagnetic phase transition
1,3,2-Benzodithiazolyl (abbreviated as BDTA) was synthesized by Wolmershäuser et al. in 1984 . Awere et al. reported its crystal structure: it consists of a centrosymmetric dimer, where the dimer units form a two-dimensional network with short S⋯S contacts . This is very similar to the structure of the κ-modification of BEDT–TTF2·X compounds (BEDT–TTF = bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathia-fulvalene, X = Cu(NCS)2, etc.), which are known as organic superconductors whose critical temperatures exceed 10 K . Awere et al. also reported that BDTA was diamagnetic at least below room temperature because of strong antiferromagnetic interactions in its structure . In this section, we will describe the complex phase transitions in BDTA, which are characterized by interplay among the diamagnetic spin-gap phase, paramagnetic phase, antiferromagnetic ordered phase and liquid phase .
Fig. 4 depicts the temperature dependence of χp for BDTA above room temperature (open circles). BDTA was diamagnetic at room temperature due to its dimerized structure . Upon heating, however, BDTA exhibited a first-order phase transition to a paramagnetic high-temperature phase at 346 K , though the structure of this phase has not yet been identified. In the cooling process, a paramagnetic-to-diamagnetic transition was observed at 320 K, which was associated with the hysteresis of 26 K. This value is much smaller than that of TTTA, but still larger than the others in typical molecular solids. It should be noted that this transition could be observed only for the aged BDTA samples, which were subjected to repeated thermal cycles over the 2–365 K range. These cycles facilitated the phase transition, probably due to an increase in the concentration of lattice defects. Thus, fresh samples always exhibited superheating and supercooling, as will be described in the next section.
3.2 Superheating and supercooling
The most characteristic feature of BDTA is the occurrence of superheating and supercooling on the phase transition above room temperature. The magnetic behavior in these non-equilibrium processes is shown in Fig. 4 as gray circles. Fig. 5 depicts the Gibbs free energy for BDTA determined by magnetic measurements and visual observation. In this figure, L and MO denote the liquid and antiferromagnetic ordered phases, respectively. The intersection between the LT and HT curves indicates the diamagnetic–paramagnetic phase transition at 346 K. Upon further heating of the superheated LT phase, the material melted at 360 K once, but the liquid immediately solidified into the HT phase even upon heating. This is because the free energies decrease in the order LT > L > HT in the 360–364 K range. Upon heating, the LT phase relaxes into the HT phase through the L phase at 360 K. At 364 K, the solid BDTA in the HT phase exhibited a second melting. This process has been called double melting, and has been observed, for example, in molecular crystals and organic polymers .
Supercooling of the HT phase also occurred (see Fig. 4), and further cooling resulted in antiferromagnetic ordering at 11 K. The temperature dependence of χp for the supercooled HT phase followed the Curie–Weiss law. Below 15 K, χp showed a small anomaly with a rather abrupt change at around 11 K, suggesting antiferromagnetic ordering. The temperature dependence of the heat capacity cp exhibited a λ-shaped anomaly at 11 K, supporting the antiferromagnetic ordering at this temperature. The HT phase transforms into the MO phase below 11 K, as indicated in Fig. 5. The structures of the HT and MO phases must be nearly the same. Thus, it is thought that the crystal structures for the spin-gap state and the antiferromagnetic ordered state are switched at the phase transition at 346 K.
The complicated temperature dependence of the magnetic behavior of BDTA was clearly explained in terms of the cooperation between the double melting, solid-state phase transition and magnetic ordering, in which the HT, LT, L, and MO phases interplayed. Alternative relationships between the spin-gap state and the antiferromagnetic ordered state have been reported in low-dimensional magnetic materials, such as spin-Peierls compounds  and copper-oxide high-Tc superconductors . While the competition between the two states occurs on the identical crystal structure in these materials, BDTA forms two states with different crystal structures that are linked at the structural phase transition.
4 Ferromagnetic interactions in molecular compounds of thiazyl radicals
4.1 Ferromagnetic coordination polymer in TTTA·[Cu(hfac)2]
Thiazyl radicals are useful as building blocks for supramolecular materials; they can operate as a ligand to various metal ions and as a donor to various acceptors. A 1:1 molecular compound, TTTA·[Cu(hfac)2] (Cu(hfac)2 = bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)-copper(II)), was obtained by the reaction of stoichiometric amounts of the components in a heptane solution under a nitrogen atmosphere . The crystal structure is shown in Fig. 6, in which the CF3 groups of Cu(hfac)2 are omitted. TTTA molecules occupy the axial positions of the elongated octahedral around the Cu(II) ion, and bridge the distance between the Cu(II) ions, resulting in an infinite zigzag chain along the b axis. While Rawson et al. have reported the mono-, di-, and tri-metallic coordination compounds of 1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl radicals , TTTA·[Cu(hfac)2] is the first coordination polymer made of thiazyl radicals. While various nitronylnitroxides  and polynitroxyl radicals  are known to act as a bidentate bridging ligand and to form polymeric coordination compounds, the structure of TTTA·[Cu(hfac)2] clearly indicates that the polycyclic thiazyl radicals have a similar chemical capability. As shown in Fig. 6, the Cu(II) ion is sandwiched between two TTTA molecules, labeled A and B, at distances of 2.342 and 2.478 Å from the Cu(II) ion. The former distance is shorter by more than 0.1 Å. The molecular plane of TTTAA is nearly orthogonal to the plane defined by the four hfac oxygen atoms, while that of TTTAB is significantly tilted.
The χpT value for TTTA·[Cu(hfac)2] increases with decreasing temperature down to ca. 30 K, indicating a ferromagnetic coupling. After passing through a maximum at this temperature, χpT shows an abrupt decrease, suggesting a weak antiferromagnetic coupling between the ferromagnetic units. The ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions can be ascribed to the interactions on the sides A and B, respectively. The ferromagnetic coupling constant was calculated as J/kB = 5.1 K. This is stronger than those in the axial coordination compounds of Cu(hfac)2 and nitroxyl radicals , presumably because the energy level of the SOMO of TTTA is closer to those of the d orbitals of Cu(II).
4.2 Ferromagnetism in BBDTA salts driven by evaporation of crystal solvent
Benzo[1,2-d:4,5-d′]bis[1,3,2]dithiazole (abbreviated as BBDTA) was initially reported independently by Wolmershäuser et al. and by Wudl et al. [21,22]. Wolmershäuser reported the crystal structure and the 57Fe Mössbauer spectra of the radical cation salt BBDTA·Fe(III)Cl4·CH3CN . In this crystal, BBDTA forms a ladder-type structure through which the FeCl4 anions are weakly linked. Mössbauer spectroscopy indicated antiferromagnetic ordering of the Fe3+ magnetic moments below 6.6 K. In the following section, we describe the bulk ferromagnetism in BBDTA salts driven by evaporation of the crystal solvent.
BBDTA·GaCl4·CH3CN was prepared by the reaction of BBDTA·Cl and GaCl3 . The structure of BBDTA·GaCl4·CH3CN was found to consist of a face-to-face radical dimer, with half of the unit being crystallographically independent. The crystal solvent, CH3CN, occupied the space beside BBDTA, coordinating with the sulfur atom. These dimers were stacked via short S⋯N contacts, forming a ladder-type structure. Between the ladders, there was a rather short S⋯S contact, resulting in a 2D network parallel to the ab plane. The GaCl4 anions were located between the ladder layers.
As shown by the closed circles in Fig. 7, the χpT values for BBDTA·GaCl4·CH3CN are nearly zero in the whole temperature range . This nonmagnetic property can be ascribed to a strong antiferromagnetic interaction in the dimer. However, we observed a dramatic change in the bulk magnetic properties after evaporation of the crystal solvent. The open circles in Fig. 7 show the magnetic data for a sample in which 75% of the CH3CN was removed by evacuation for 96 h. The material exhibited paramagnetism, in remarkable contrast to the nonmagnetic properties of the solvated form. As the temperature decreased, χpT increased gradually, which is indicative of ferromagnetism. The inset in Fig. 7 shows the temperature dependence of the ac susceptibilities (χ′: in-plane; χ″: out-of-plane) for the same sample. The plots of χ″ show an anomaly below 6.7 K with a rapid increase in χ, indicating ferromagnetic ordering. The isothermal magnetization curve at 2 K for this sample indicated that the material obtained was a soft magnet. BBDTA·FeCl4·CH3COCH3 exhibited similar solvation effects: it showed ferrimagnetic ordering at TN = 44 K upon evaporation of the volatile crystal solvent, acetone .
The crystal growth of the solvent-free BBDTA·GaCl4 was also successful . The crystals were prepared by recrystallization from a 1:1 mixed solvent of trimethylacetonitrile and dichloromethane at −23 °C. In the recrystallization, mixtures of at least three polymorphs of solvent-free BBDTA·GaCl4, labeled α (plates), β (needles), and γ (blocks), were obtained. The γ-phase, consisting of a 1D zigzag chain of BBDTA, exhibited a ferromagnetic transition at 7.0 K, suggesting that the desolvated material obtained from BBDTA·GaCl4·CH3CN would be in the γ-phase.
4.3 Possible supramolecular superexchange mechanism in BDTA·[Ni(mnt)2]
We prepared BDTA·[Ni(mnt)2] ([Ni(mnt)2] = bis(maleonitriledithiolate)-nickel(II)) by the reaction of BDTA·Cl and n-Bu4N·[Ni(mnt)2] in a 1:1 mixed solvent of dry MeCN and EtOH . In this salt, BDTA is in a +1 state; BDTA is an S = 0 counter-cation for the S = 1/2 [Ni(mnt)2]− anion. The structure of BDTA·[Ni(mnt)2] consists of alternating stacking chains of BDTA and [Ni(mnt)2] along the crystallographic b axis (the side view is depicted in Fig. 8). Two neighboring stacking columns are connected by a short contact between BDTA and [Ni(mnt)2]; the dithiazole ring of BDTA is “tweezed” by the two nitrile groups of [Ni(mnt)2] in a lock-and-key structure. The intermolecular and interatomic S⋯N distances are 3.199 and 3.302 Å.
The magnetic measurements indicated coexistence of a ferromagnetic interaction and a weak antiferromagnetic interaction between the ferromagnetic units. A possible pathway of ferromagnetic coupling is D+A− stacking along the b axis. This implies superexchange ferromagnetic coupling between S = 1/2 [Ni(mnt)2] molecules through the nonmagnetic BDTA molecule. BDTA and [Ni(mnt)2] form a lock-and-key type contact, in which a nearly orthogonal overlap is expected. In this case, the SOMO of BDTA can be regarded as a node of the wave function for the magnetic orbital of the supramolecular species, BDTA·[Ni(mnt)2], such that the sum of the atomic spin densities on BDTA should be negative. The gray arrows in Fig. 8 indicate a possible spin alignment, which could explain the ferromagnetic coupling. This may be regarded as a supramolecular superexchange or an expanded McConnel's Type I mechanism .
We have described our recent work on thiazyl radicals and related materials. In Sections 2 and 3, we described the diamagnetic–paramagnetic phase transitions in TTTA and BDTA, and their novel solid-state properties, such as room-temperature magnetic bistability, photo-induced phase transition, supercooling and superheating. Research on bistability has become a new branch in molecular magnetism [5,6,29,30]. In Section 4, thiazyl radicals were shown to operate as building blocks for supramolecular materials, in which ferromagnetic interactions and magnetic ordering were achieved at rather high temperatures.
This article includes the results of the collaborations with Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Kazuya Saito, Michio Sorai, Masashi Takahashi, Masuo Takeda, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Hiroshi Okamoto, and Tamotsu Inabe. The authors are thankful for their kind support and fruitful discussions. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan.


title: Video compressor app for android

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With modern smartphones capable of recording High-Resolution videos such as 4K, one small downside is that these videos can take a lot of space on your mobile. And, if you want to send these HQ videos to your friends and family, it’ll take a lot of time and bandwidth to do so. WhatsApp and E-mails generally have a size limit for videos (for WhatsApp, it’s 16 MB and for Gmail, it is 25 MB), and therefore video compressing apps come in handy. We tested more than a dozen video compressor App for Android (it’s funny that most of them are called video compressor) and finally select the best 5 for you.
Pro Tip: To send media file larger than 16 MB without trimming through WhatsApp, sent it as a document. The maximum allowed file size for the document is 100 MB.
Best Video Compressor Without Losing Quality
1. Video Transcoder
You wish to compress videos on your Android but are wary of ads? Video Transcoder is an app that is open-source and Ad-free but this is just a useless perk if it doesn’t get the job done. Video Transcoder is a minimal app that focuses on giving you a better experience in the compression. You begin with selecting a video to compress and it shows you all the parameters that you can tweak. You can change the container, codec, FPS, Resolution, Bitrate, and audio. The encoding process barely takes time and saves the files to internal memory.
On a related note, if you want to compress videos on the computer, we recommend using — Handbrake. It’s free, cross-platform and one of the best video compressors out there. We use it quite often to compress video for our YouTube channel.
Install Video Transcoder (free)
2. Video Compress – Clean up space on your Phone
The next app has a ridiculously long name but it works rather well. It is designed to compress video files on your phone to save precious storage. Video Compress claims of compressing the video size up to 80% without any quality loss which is somewhat true.
The app doesn’t have a fancy interface, it lists all the folders with videos. You can select a video file and then the app proceeds to prompt you to enter the resolution and speed for the updated file. You can select an acceptable resolution which would decide the size of the file. It has three modes for adjusting the bitrate of the output file Slow, Medium, and Fast. The fast method offers lower compression and slowest, highest. The output files are automatically saved to the app folder and you can then choose to keep the original or delete the files.
I tested the app on a video of 121 MB and selecting a slow compression rate and minimum resolution. It compressed the video to just 3MB which is excellent but the quality was just unbearable. I tried with a medium compression level and it was very good. Although, the compressed videos are intangible during a high-speed chase scene but watchable. The app is free on the Play Store, check it out.
Install Video Compress (Android)
3. Video Compress
This is another video compressing app with a generic name. But keeping the name aside, it does has a nice UI and integrate well with social networking websites.
When the app is launched, it shows your sub-folders in which all your videos are, along with the size of that particular sub-folders. From there you can select the video you want to compress, and then you can tinker with the settings.
The app is ad supported which can be removed by an in-app purchase.
Install Video Compress
This app has been made by the same people over at VideoShow video editor app, which boasts of having more than 100 million downloads, and has many features such as trimming videos, compressing videos, renaming etc.
When you launch the app, you can choose to ‘Trim and Compress’, and then you can choose the video you want to compress off of the sub-folders. After you have selected the video, then you can choose the resolution you want the video to be compressed into. While you’re compressing, you can also choose to trim the video on-the-fly if you wish to.
5. Video Dieter 2
Video Dieter 2 has a nice interface and is a feature-rich application. You can set the video quality and resolution, and it also has quick sharing options for the compressed videos.
When you boot the app for the first time, it shows you the videos you have already converted (if any), and then you can select videos you want to compress via your library. From there you can select the video resolution and quality you want your video to be converted into. The compression is quick and doesn’t take as much time compared to other apps on the list.
Install Video Dieter 2
Best Video Compressor App For Android
Any of the above applications will get your job done, but you should keep in mind that compressing, trimming or converting videos on any Android smartphone takes a long time, and it’s the same way even on High-End PCs. Also, the more you compress your video, the more quality you lose.
If you have to select one app to get your job done, then go for Video Compress or Video Dieter 2. Both have a nice interface and work well. You can manually select many options and even the size, as well as the resolution you want your compressed video to be.
Like we said earlier, most email and instant messaging client have 25 MB maximum file size restriction. So, a better way to share huge file is, to upload the video on cloud storage like — Dropbox or Google Photo (unlimited storage) and then share the public link of that video.
Which video compressor App for Android do you use? Let us know in the comments.
Also Read: Compress bulk photos without losing quality


title: Another date rush boy in trouble for soliciting ghc 200 from ruth

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Ruth has been one of the controversial female participants in the Date Rush program. Almost all of the single young men who have been on the program have rejected her whilst she has also had reasons to bounce some of the males.
Her prime aim on the show is to find a suitable partner for a compatible future but the opposite has been the case.
In the African traditional settings, men are supposed to support women financially. There are a few circumstances where ladies take the responsibility of supporting their spouses financially.
For a man to hit the private message of a lady to solicit for money is rare but this is the drama that has happened among the many stories on the date rush reunion show.
One of the young men who appeared on the TV3 Date rush show is currently in trouble for hitting the private message of Ruth, who was also on the show to solicit for GHC 200. In the reunion edition of the program on Sunday, June 20, 2021, Ruth who has still not had a date on the show indicated that even though she is still single, some men on the program have been asking her on a date.
She indicates that one of the guys whose name was given as Nana Kwesi sent her a direct message and tried to swindle her of GHC 200 under the presence that his mother was seriously sick in the hospital. She indicates that the modus operandi of the young man to solicit money from her did not work because she was smarter. Ruth, who has been on the program for many occasions revealed that she is a nurse and was able to draw out the difference.
She indicates that health workers will always attend to emergencies to stable the conditions before asking for money and that made her believe the young man was only trying to outsmart her.
“Some of the date rush men even came to my DM to ask for money. One of them said the mother was in the hospital in an emergency and wanted me to give him GHC 200. He told me he had about GHC 120 and wanted me to add up. I told him to show me the hospital his mother was admitted to so that I will go there myself an settle the bills. I later realized he wanted to just solicit money from me. I think his name is Nana Kwesi”. Ruth indicated on the reunion program.
The night was full of drama as most of the date ended in tears. Another young man was accused by his partner of soliciting GHC 15 from her for transportation.


title: Must have 2016 real estate tools

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Investing in real estate is a time-consuming process that requires a lot of effort on your part. It's worth it if you do it right but in order to make a successful profit from real estate you need some assistance. A smart investor uses every tool available that will help make success more attainable. There are several good investment tools that can help, but here are a few of the top 2016 real estate investing tools for California hard money borrowers.
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Prepared by: Prof. Dr. Nor Haniza Sarmin, Mr. Ahmad Hilman Borhan, Ms. Norhaiza Daud and Ms. Nurhamizah Zul
A Virtual International Engagement (VIE) was held between Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Education Malaysia-Beijing. The Education section of the Embassy of Malaysia in China (EM Beijing) was formally established in Beijing, China in 2007. The functions of EM Beijing are to provide information about study in Malaysia to Chinese students and to be the information centre for those who study in Malaysia.
This VIE was chaired by UTM Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), Associate Professor Dr Mohd Ismid Md Said, accompanied by the Associate Director and managers from UTM International. EM Beijing was represented by its Director, Mr Abdul Aziz How Abdullah, and accompanied by Ts. Jason Choy Min Sheng, First Secretary, and Mr Li Deyu, Assistant Marketing Officer.
The international collaboration between UTM and education institutions in China has been very active. In fact, UTM has more than 60 agreements with impactful activities conducted between UTM and educational institutions in China in the past ten years. UTM has also very extensive self-branding in China. Furthermore, UTM is also very active in Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education (Erasmus+ CBHE aTM project) as the coordinator. This project involves European and Asian institutions, six of which are universities from China.
This virtual meeting focused on the matters of students from China in UTM. As for now, UTM students from the Republic of China are among the highest in UTM, with approximately 400 full-time students. This meeting has also discussed some strategies and initiatives to strengthen collaboration between Education Malaysia Beijing and UTM, increasing UTM visibility in China, as well as reaching more strategic partners in the field of academics and research from China.
UTM International welcomes visitors through our UTM Virtual International Engagement (VIE) session. You can make an appointment with us by filling out this form:- https://www.utm.my/international/vie-form/


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Shabbat meals, family gatherings and out-of-town weekend guests. That’s a way of life for Elana and Josh Kahane and family.
So, when the couple finally decided the time was right for a life-changing decision about a major update to their 1980s floor plan they had to decide – move or remodel?
“Moving was out of the question. We love our home, our neighbors and our neighborhood,” said Josh about their location at the end of a quiet cove in East Memphis close to their synagogue. “But our home just wasn’t conducive as a place for hosting large events and communal gatherings.”
So, what began about three years ago as a plan to remodel the outdated kitchen and expand the dining room became a total home gut job that was completed just in time – before the coronavirus shut down.
It started with a team of professionals who made it possible for the family to live on the property during the entire construction process. “Looking back, maybe we should have just moved,” joked Josh. “But, with the kids away at camp, it was a perfect opportunity to jumpstart recreating the entire upstairs children’s wing.”
The first item of business was hiring Lee Baum of Baum & Company to build a new guest wing for a second master bedroom and beautiful master bath – a perfect space for Elana and Josh to move into during the downstairs reno. The guest wing also houses their state-of-the-art stadium seating movie theater (with candy concession wall) and an additional upstairs laundry room. Next was the downstairs addition with construction of a new master bedroom suite, two new fireplaces, a welcoming sitting area, his and her closets by Inspired Closets, a bathroom with separate his and her showers and water closets, and special vestibule sitting area, “my favorite spot in the house to relax,” said Elana.
Once the master suite was complete, they closed off the middle of the house to tear down walls between the kitchen and surrounding rooms. Elana and Josh were able to move downstairs into the new master wing. In the newly constructed sunroom, they built a small kitchen so Elana could continue to cook family and Shabbat meals, something she often did in the “garage to accommodate the extra food preparations,” according to Karen Kassen of Kitchens Unlimited who designed the kitchen, dining, powder and family rooms.
“We removed walls, moved rooms, and took the whole area down to the cement,” said Karen, who worked with Tim Disalvo & Co. to create and reconfigure a perfectly functional kosher kitchen and dining room, laundry room, den, sunroom, back entrance and breakfast nook.
“When working with kosher kitchen owners, I let the client guide me to the level of separation for ovens, refrigeration, etc.,” explained Karen. “Elana and Josh wanted an open, modern plan with a high-gloss finish, an abundance of ovens, dishwashers and microwaves. The floor space was limited without moving into another area, so we utilized a huge 15-foot island to accommodate the ovens and microwaves. We raised the cabinets to the ceiling, added adjustable shelving and lowered the amount of space between the upper cabinets and the countertop.”
The couple wanted to keep the design sleek, contemporary and kid-friendly. The result is a modern design with functional elements including durable textured-laminate cabinet doors. The countertops sport a quartz/93% polymer mix that requires minimal maintenance. The backsplash is made of Caesar stone from Israel.
“Keeping the cabinets, flooring, backsplash and counters neutral, allowed the couple’s colorful art collection to pop,” said Karen.
In addition to four Wolf ovens, four dishwashers, two microwaves, separate Subzero fridge and freezers, and two eternity sinks, Josh was insistent – even though he doesn’t drink coffee – that the kitchen include a touchscreen coffee station that freshly brews all kinds of drinks and an easy-to-reach drawer for the kids to grab a cold beverage without having to open the fridge.
The dining room buffet was outfitted with four Wolf warming drawers so that Elana could have all the meals prepared before Shabbat and placed in convenient areas to keep warm and a built-in washing station made from a large piece of stone imported from Israel – all to allow minimal flow in and out of the kitchen.
Last but not least on the project list was the outdoor area. “We finished the kitchen and dining room areas just in time for Passover two years ago,” said Josh.
When the inside job was close to wrapping up, construction began outside with the help of Nature’s Path, who finished the job at Thanksgiving 2019 – just before COVID-19.
“We knew this area would be a hit in the spring, summer and fall,” said Josh. “But who knew that we’d be spending most of our Shabbats out here with friends and family in 2020 and in to 2021?”
The family is settled in and enjoying the indoors and most-often outdoors with family and friends. The upstairs guest wing is always open to out-of-town visitors and Shabbat guests and the movie theater has become a Saturday night favorite.
“But we are still not quite finished,” explained Elana, who is still searching for the perfect dining room table to fit the unique layout of the large L-shaped room.
“We couldn’t have asked for anything more from all of the terrific people who helped us through this journey including Lee Baum, Karen Kassen and the Kitchens Unlimited team, the Inspired Closets team, and the folks at Nature’s Path,” said Josh. “Our home is just what we wished for – functional, warm and welcoming.”


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Other Pop Riches Doing Us Proud in the US
While Lorde is New Zealand’s biggest success story at the moment, she’s far from all we have to offer in terms of pop riches. Billboard’s Andrew Unterberger looks at New Zealanders impressing stateside in recent years, including Kimbra, Willy Moon (both pictured), The Naked and Famous and The Phoenix Foundation.
Technically, Lorde isn’t the first New Zealand artist to top the Hot 100 in the United States, since musical eccentric Kimbra did so as a guest artist one year before on Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know.” Kimbra’s contributions to the “she-said” part of Gotye’s breakup classic remain easily her best-known work in the States, but her entire 2011 debut LP Vows is exceptional.
Probably the act besides Lorde to find the most success in America this decade would be the five-piece pop/rock outfit the Naked and Famous, who scored a pair of US alt-rock hits off debut LP Passive Me, Aggressive You in 2011 with “Young Blood” and “Punching in a Dream.”
And while The Phoenix Foundation aren’t exactly Top 40 megastars in New Zealand, they’re a rightfully acclaimed album artist, with their most recent, 2013’s Fandango. It’s well worth delving into the double album’s deeper cuts for some of the most atmospheric, immaculately produced and subtly alluring music of its kind from any country this decade.
Kids of 88, Broods, Ginny Blackmore, David Dallas, Mt Eden and Titanium are also mentioned.
Original article by Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, February 6, 2014.
Photo by Getty Images.


title: Well generate 6000mw of electricity by december power minister adelabu

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Nigeria is going to generate 6,000 megawatts of electricity before the end of this year.
Bayo Adelabu, Minister of Power
During his ministerial address in Abuja on Friday, while presenting achievements of his ministry since President Bola Tinubu assumed office on May 29, 2023, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said the country’s power generation rose to 5,000MW on May 3, 2024, being the first time in three years.
Adelabu vowed that power generation in Nigeria would hit 6,000MW before the end of this year, going by the improvements in the sector in the last year.
“On generation capacity, let me say that 5,000MW of power was achieved in May 2024 for the first time in three years. Precisely on May 3, 2024, we generated, transmitted and distributed 5,003.45MW of power.
“We all know where we were before now. But we rose to the occasion and changed the situation for the better, and our target is to achieve 6,000MW before the end of this year, which will be the first time in the history of Nigeria, and it will happen,” the minister stated.
He said there have been a series of infrastructural upgrades in the last year, pointing out that the ongoing Presidential Power Initiative was one of the programmes that ensured the improvement of power assets in Nigeria.
“In November 2023, President Tinubu and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz witnessed the signing of an accelerated performance agreement aimed at expediting the implementation of the Presidential Power Initiative to improve electricity supply in Nigeria.
“The implementation of the pilot phase has resulted in infrastructure improvement which includes additional grid evacuation capacity by 2,230MW and an additional 183MW to be commissioned by the end of June 2024, Adelabu stated.
He said the government was in the process of finalising contracts for Phase 1 of the Presidential Power Initiative.
“There is also the rehabilitation of 15 brownfield substations with an expected contract date of August 2024. There is the construction of 22 green field substations with an expected contract date of October 2024,” he said.
On metering, Adelabu said the presidential metering initiative had been scheduled to provide two million meters per annum for the next five years to improve the sector’s liquidity and limit estimated billing.


title: Iphone 8 latest news and update to sport a 2 700 mah l formed 2 cell battery pack will use a substrate like pcb mainboard body measures 4 7 inches

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The iPhone 8 will reportedly use a bigger battery that will permit it to have longer battery life.What makes this much greater is that the up and coming Apple flagship smartphone will be nearly as little as the iPhone 7 which measures 4.7 inches yet will have a battery practically as large as the one utilized by the iPhone 7 Plus.
As per Apple Insider, the iPhone 8 or possibly the iPhone X will probably sport a 2,700 mAh L-formed 2-cell battery pack.The iPhone 7 utilizes a 1,960 mAh battery while the iPhone 7 Plus has a 2,900 mAh battery. Famous Apple investigator Ming-Chi Kuo clarified the augmented battery in the fairly small package is supposedly made possible by the fact that the parts inside the gadget are smaller than what its antecedents utilized.
The smaller segments mean there is more space to use a bigger battery in this way giving the new iPhone better battery life. BGR noticed that the iPhone 8 will utilize a substrate-like PCB mainboard or a stacked logic board design permitting such feat to be conceivable.
Kuo also said that there will probably be no major breakthrough with regards to battery innovation in the following 3 to 5 years. With the stacked logic board outline, however, Apple will have the capacity to put as much battery inside a gadget. Up until this point, at last yet, the stacked SLP might be used on the iPhone 8.
The battery life of the iPhone 8 will also be better a result of the use of an OLED display. Truly, Kuo predicts that the new Apple handset's battery life will be superior to anything that of a 5.5-inch mobile phone that has a customary LCD display. Every one of these details in addition to the rumor that, at last, presenting wireless charging will certainly make the iPhone 8 perform extraordinary when on the road.


title: Leveraging oracle connection metadata functionality

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One little known feature of Oracle is connection metadata functionality. It might not sound as important as it actually is.
Here is a bit of a back story. When Oracle 10g came out one of the biggest features that it added was web-based Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) interface. For the first time in years developers and dbas got a web interface dashboard that finally shows what's going on inside the database. This one feature is a great breakthrough. Finally no need to download some cryptic looking scripts and trying to understand the multi-page reports to get a glimpse at the status of your database and which query just spiked the database load. Now with OEM finding what the query is is really easy (you might need to buy Oracle Performance pack to monitor vitals and performance information). So you know which query caused the spike. Do you know where that query is in your application code? Do you even know which of 10 different applications this one is coming from? You might have an idea based on table names to at least identify the application, and then you are very lucky if you can do that. A common way to solve this sort of query identity crisis is to start embedding comment information identifying where that query can be found in your code. But you already have a ton of applications written, having to go through every query to add this meta information is a ton of dev effort. What do you do?
With pecl oci8 1.4.0 release a couple of new functions were introduced that weren't available before. From changelog ( http://pecl.php.net/package-info.php?package=oci8&version=1.4.0 ):
1. Introduce connection attribute functions:
These set values that are visible/used by the database. They are useful for tracing, authentication and auditing.
So what can you do with all these new functions?
oci_set_client_info -> this is your application identification information. Something like App V1.2
oci_set_client_identifier -> as far as PHP manual explains it it's a possible application username that is logged into your applcation.
oci_set_module_name -> which module of your application is this related to
oci_set_action -> this one idenfies which action/function is performing this set of queries.
All these functions provide a lightweight way of attaching more information to your client connection without executing any more queries on the server. Actually this information is actually getting sent on next round-trip request to the server. So it's very lightweight. These functions are also great at providing tracing functionality that allows dbas to come back to developers and work with them on getting their application to be much better than before. It also makes things a lot easier to find in big or numerous applications within the enterprise. On server side this information can be queried from V$session view among other places. It will also show up in various places within the OEM interface. Also optionally tracing and logging can be turned on the server side based on some of specific identifiers set by your application. This would provide server-side tracing logs that would let you trace down problems you might be having with some pieces of your application.
Personally using these functions all over your code might be an overkill. It's also more of your own call of how much of it you want to integrate into your application. One thing I would at least recommend is to at least identify your application and/or possible module information and possibly the client identifier to see who is causing all the problems for you.


title: Us hospital goes offline after cyber attack

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A Chicago children’s hospital was forced to take its networks offline following an unspecified cyberattack. Lurie Children’s Hospital initially said it had suffered a network outage, causing it to limit access to its hospital records and communications, but days later, officials released a statement saying it took its networks down in response to a “cybersecurity matter.”
The shutdown affected phones, emails, and medical equipment linked to computer networks. The hospital remained operational, but a spokesperson said appointments, prescription history, and medical records were affected, causing difficulty for employees.
Pediatrician Dr. Andy Bernstein said staff had devised methods of “back-channeling” to improve communication, but a hospital statement emphasized the severity of the incident. “We are taking this very seriously, are investigating with the support of leading experts, and are working in collaboration with law enforcement agencies,” the statement read. The hospital established a call center for patients and their families who could not reach staff through the usual means.
A similar incident happened in Illinois over the summer when a cyberattack caused the St. Margaret’s Health facility to close its doors. It took months for the hospital, based in Spring Valley, Illinois, to get back on track after the incident, and vice president Linda Burt said this exacerbated problems already caused by the coronavirus pandemic and staffing costs.
The Illinois incident was described as a ransomware attack, when hackers lock down computer systems and demand payment to restore them. Software is available to warn of impending attacks, but this is expensive, and most hospitals do not have it installed. Linda Burt said small and rural hospitals are particularly vulnerable and are “fighting for survival” amid rising costs and “tight business margins.”
Hackers targeted a small 88-bed hospital in Idaho a month before the attack on St. Margaret’s. Doctors at Idaho Falls Community Hospital were forced to re-route ambulances to other facilities, and spokesperson Brian Ziel said staff were “working round the clock” to restore regular services and get computer networks back online.


title: Understanding accounting a beginners guide

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In the fast-paced digital era, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into bookkeeping is transforming the financial landscape for businesses everywhere. The allure of AI in bookkeeping lies in its promise to streamline operations, boost accuracy, and provide deeper financial insights. However, the path to integrating AI into bookkeeping systems is fraught with challenges. This blog post delves deep into these hurdles and offers strategic advice for businesses eager to harness the power of AI in their financial operations.
The Promise of AI in Bookkeeping
The integration of AI in bookkeeping opens a world where financial reports are generated with unprecedented speed and accuracy, where predictive analytics offer valuable insights into future financial trends, and where the automation of routine tasks frees up valuable time for strategic decision-making. This is the bright future promised by AI bookkeeping solutions, offering a beacon of efficiency and profitability for businesses willing to navigate the integration journey.
Another essential component of accounting is the income statement. This document shows how much revenue a company has earned over a period of time and the expenses incurred to generate that revenue. The bottom line of the income statement is the net income or profit, which indicates whether the company made money or not.
Cash flow statement is also crucial in accounting. It tracks the flow of cash in and out of the business, providing insights into liquidity and solvency. A positive cash flow indicates that the company is generating more cash than it’s spending, while a negative cash flow may signal financial trouble.
Understanding these basic accounting concepts is essential for anyone involved in running a business, whether you’re a business owner, manager, or investor. By keeping accurate financial records and interpreting financial statements, you can make better-informed decisions and steer your business towards success.
In summary, accounting is the language of business, and mastering its basics is key to financial literacy and success in the business world. With a solid understanding of concepts like balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow, you’ll be better equipped to navigate the financial landscape and achieve your business goals.


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NNHS juniors to take PSAT next Wednesday
On Wednesday Oct. 25 in the field house, all Naperville North juniors will take the PSAT/NMSQT, a College Board administered standardized test meant to prepare high school students for the SAT.
The PSAT/NMSQT, which stands for Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, also offers juniors an opportunity to earn National Merit Scholarships, which can aid in college funding.
According to Jeff Farson, NNHS director of student services, this year is the first that NNHS will administer the PSAT/NMSQT to all juniors, free of cost.
“In years past the PSAT was elective and kids had to pay for it,” Farson said.
According to NNHS testing coordinator Hannah Cox, the recent change will affect underclassmen as well.
“Instead of the PSAT 8/9 in the spring, all freshmen and sophomores will take what’s called the PSAT 10,” Cox said.
The district made this change in order to provide all juniors a chance to familiarize themselves with the format of the PSAT, which may benefit them when they take the SAT, according to Farson.
“The district believes that having all students have a practice opportunity that students are not financially responsible for… gives us an opportunity to make sure that we have addressed all kids,” Farson said.
Colleges do not consider PSAT scores in applications, however the PSAT serves as a valuable tool for students in preparing for the SAT, which all Illinois juniors are required to take due to state testing requirements, according to Cox.
High schoolers can use a variety of resources to prepare for the PSAT. According to Cox, preparation methods include free online resources, test booklets, and test prep classes. The best preparation arrangement, said Cox, depends on the student’s personal style of studying.
Taylor Woods, NNHS junior, who began preparing for the PSAT and SAT over the summer, believes PSAT preparation is a key part in doing well on the SAT.
“I think that (preparation) is important no matter what because even if you’re not really going for getting the National Merit Scholar, I think it’s important for you to do your best and to study so you kind of know what more you do need to study for the actual SAT,” Woods said.
Emily Welp is a senior at Naperville North High School and is returning for her second year on The North Star staff and her first year as features editor....


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Mold grows in warm and damp places. Since the bathroom and kitchen are a home’s most frequently used rooms, mold often grows here. Mold has numerous types and colors, causing severe health risks such as respiratory and allergic issues. The most notorious mold is black mold, known to be highly toxic. Whichever type of mold you are dealing with, you must treat the issue with the seriousness it deserves. If the mold has spread too much, Sarkinen Plumbing is a top-rated plumbing company that can help you deal with the issue.
But if the mold in your kitchen or bathroom is still at a level you can handle, here are some of the best ways to remove it.
How to Remove Mold
Bathroom mold seems self-explanatory as the bathroom has a lot of moisture. When you keep windows closed, and the house warm, ventilating the house is challenging in winter. By spring, mold can have developed in the kitchen due to the warmth and moisture.
The hotspots for mold in bathrooms include the shower, bathtub, and grout. In the kitchen, the mold grows in wet areas like the sink, behind appliances like dishwashers and washing machines, and underneath the sink. You can get rid of mold using natural or store-bought solutions. The best and most effective way is going natural, of which you have several options. Find out the comparison of Front Load Vs. Top Load Washers
Ammonia is very effective at mold elimination. Ammonia is alkaline and has pH levels between 22 and 13, higher than molds can tolerate. Mold thrives in pH levels below 7. Dilute a solution of ammonia to the water of 1:1. Using a spray bottle, spray on the mold and let sit for three to four hours, then clean and let dry.
Vinegar is an effective solution for removing mold; its mild acidity eliminates 82% of mold species. Cleaning vinegar contains acetic acid (6%) and is the best for mold removal. White vinegar consists of 5% acetic acid, works just as well and is widely available.
Mix white vinegar with water in a 2:1 ratio. Put the solution into a spray bottle and spray on the moldy areas. Let it sit between thirty minutes and an hour before scrubbing and wiping clean. Vinegar has a pungent smell, but it will disappear after a while. Vinegar kills mold on porous and non-porous surfaces, making it perfect for cleaning bathrooms and kitchens.
You probably know hydrogen peroxide for its use in wound disinfecting. However, hydrogen peroxide kills numerous microorganisms. It releases oxygen at a high rate. This release kills the mold via surface oxidation, breaking down its DNA and proteins. Use a spray bottle to apply hydrogen peroxide to the mold-infested surface. Let the mixture sit until the bubbling stops, around ten minutes. Scrub the surface and wipe it clean.
Sodium bicarbonate or baking soda also cleans mold effectively. Its pH ranges between 8 and 9, higher than the pH of 7 that mold thrives in. Make a paste of the ratio 1:1 with baking soda and water. Apply to the affected area and scrub. Mix a tablespoon of sodium bicarbonate in a cup of water. Use a spray bottle to spray onto the surface. Leave the mixture to dry.
How to Prevent Mold in Your Bathroom and Kitchen
You can prevent mold from growing back by doing several things:
Lower the Humidity Levels
Lower the humidity levels and ensure they do not go beyond 50%. Use a dehumidifier or your air con to achieve these levels. Buy a meter that will help you keep track of the humidity levels in your home.
Ventilate your kitchen with a range hood and use it when cooking to remove the humidity. If the weather allows it, open your windows when cooking.
Use Mold Inhibitors
Before you paint your home, add mold inhibitors. These inhibitors are available in any home improvement store.
Insulate your home correctly and ensure you weatherproof the windows. Check that your plumbing operates appropriately and has no leaks.
Wash Bathroom Mats and Shower Curtains
Wash your bathroom mats and dry them. Wash your shower curtains regularly, as mold tends to grow on them when they are constantly wet.
Bathrooms and kitchens are the worst hit when it comes to mold. The two rooms provide mold with the perfect environment to thrive. Mold is dangerous and leads to allergic reactions and respiratory issues. To remove mold, use natural methods, which are safe, cost-effective, and reliable.