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Nigeria has taken a step closer to enacting the Nigeria Startup Bill (NSB), which aims to strengthen and enable the country’s technological ecosystem.
The measure, which has now been passed by the Federal Executive Council and is being handed to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, was drafted by the Presidency and leaders of the Nigerian technology industry.
The NSB aims to create an enabling environment for Nigerian startups to succeed, and it addresses issues including disruptive regulation, poor infrastructure, and difficulty getting funding, especially for non-fintech enterprises.
The Bill was drafted in close collaboration between the Presidency, the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, the Nigerian Export and Promotion Council, and other government bodies, with nearly 300 volunteers and private sector players, including venture capital firms Future Africa and Ventures Platform, participating.
“The NSB is one among a series of key activities the Presidency is using to drive the building of a more sustainable ecosystem for young people in Nigeria to thrive and scale,” said Oswald Osaretin Guobadia, senior special assistant to the President on Digital Transformation and the NSB Lead.


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Lance Star and the Crown of Gengis Kai.
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In addition to his work behind the camera, Hyla is the US correspondent for the award-winning prime time news show The Project (Australia). He’s an experienced interviewer who has sat down with hundreds of the biggest names in entertainment including Oscar winners Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, and Matt Damon. His humorous pop culture and social media commentary have been featured on CNN, FOX, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “Chelsea Lately”, “E! News”, and he co-hosted his own show on E! called “Yo! On E!”.
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Ever since its first iteration, one of the Apple TV’s major weaknesses has been its lack of an Amazon Video app. Apple listened to customer complaints, and promised way back in September that the service would make its way to the premium streaming box in question. As of today, Apple TV (2015) and Apple TV 4K can access Amazon Video at long last. All you have to do is install the app.
Amazon announced the app’s availability today (Dec. 6), and laid out all the salient points. Apple TV owners can find Amazon Video in the App Store, and download it for free. From there, you can either watch programs through a Prime subscription ($100 per year for all Prime benefits, or $9 per month for Video only), and buy or rent individual shows and movies à la carte (prices vary).
The app does not have any Apple-specific features, but it does leverage the device’s Siri search. Users will be able to find content on Amazon Video simply by speaking or typing their queries into the Apple TV’s robust search feature. This includes 4K TV and movies, for those who are using an Apple TV 4K — a helpful feature, as Amazon Video is one of the few streaming apps to offer 4K HDR content at no additional charge.
Beyond that, the app will be immediately familiar if you’ve used it on any other streaming or mobile device recently. Even if you don’t subscribe to Prime, Amazon Video might still be worth a look, as it offers the first episodes of Amazon Original TV shows for free, for all users.
Apple and Amazon seem to have buried the hatchet, at least for the time being. We’ll see if Amazon and Google can take a similar approach.


Just when the Houston Texans thought they were going to make a game of this, New England Patriots running back Dion Lewis had other ideas.
With New England up 7-3 late in the first quarter, Lewis returned a Texans kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown.
HE IS GONE.
— NFL (@NFL) January 15, 2017
This represents the first postseason kickoff return for a touchdown in Patriots playoff history. It also put the Patriots up 14-3 just after Houston had pulled the game to within four.
For Lewis, it’s been nothing more than a coming out party Saturday night. He scored the game’s first touchdown on a pass from Tom Brady early in the first quarter. This comes mere months after Lewis returned to the field for the first time in over a calendar year after suffering multiple serious injuries.
Lewis had 113 all-purpose yards in the first quarter alone.


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The lakes of Przywidzkie Wielkie and Przywidzkie Małe are connected by a water narrowing, which is why the two reservoirs are often treated as one whole. The Przywidzkie Wielkie Lake has is approx. 140 ha in area and is surrounded by picturesque beach, pine, and oak forests in the Kashubian Lake District. An island in the middle of the lake is classified as a strict nature reserve. On the forested peninsula overlooking the lake from the south, there are traces of an old settlement, while on the northern shore, you can see two joined small-leaved limes, a natural monument. The Skarszewski Trail, a green tourist trail, leads through the area and the nearby Przywidz is a local tourist and recreational base.
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Jake Vig (Burns) is a consummate grifter about to pull his biggest con yet, one set to avenge his friend's murder. But his last scam backfired, leaving him indebted to a mob boss (Hoffman) and his enforcer.
The story focuses on a man who suffers "anesthetic awareness" and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His mother must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them, while trying to unfold the story hidden behind her son's young wife.
College student Lewis decides to drive across the country to see Venna, a friend who doesn't know that Lewis is interested in her romantically. Unfortunately for his plans, Lewis gets saddled with his raucous-spirited older brother, Fuller, whose on-the-road pranks get the brothers and Venna sucked into a nightmare when a psychotic truckdriver takes offense. Written by
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Can I please get a better handle than Mama's Boy?
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Sometimes, the Earth changes directions and I like a film such as this
This turned out to be one the few movies I liked that was geared toward a teen audience. Steve Zahn and Paul Walker weren't natural in the roles as brothers, which embodied the very nature of their relationship. While the story became rather convoluted near the end, Rusty Nail's voice and detached presence brought some actual fear to the heart of the viewer. While the sound editing made this film, the relatively simple yet complex plot really turned this film into a satisfying movie experience.
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Cons: Call quality may suffer if you have a slow internet connection. Skype is perhaps the most popular video calling platform in the world. It’s available on every platform out there, including Xbox. While skype-to -skype calls are free, the platform also provides an option to call landlines and cellphones with the app — but that comes at
Skype-to-Skype calls are always free. But you can also use Skype to call mobile phones and landlines. Microsoft 365 Family or Personal include 60 minutes per month of Skype calls to mobile phones in more than 8 countries and to landlines in 60+ countries (only in markets where Skype is available). In terms of technology used call centers india is second to none and has successfully launched India's one and only end to end CISCO based IP network call center by the name Vcare Care Call Centers India (P) Ltd, based out of a small suburb in the national capital territory region, This center has all the modern facilities a center must have and is situated in a huge campus spanning more than Apr 06, 2020 · Skype has introduced a conference call feature that allows users to initiate or join group calls without needing to have a Skype account, or the app. The feature, called Meet Now, comes as the If you do not see the Find a local number link in a Skype for Business meeting invitation or the phone numbers, contact your organization's technical support or admin. In addition to the phone numbers, you might see the option to reset your conference ID and PIN. Conference ID and PIN resets are not available toSkype for Business Online users. In India, however, you’ll only be able to make Skype-to-Skype calls. If you have purchased a subscription to India specifically to call within the country, you can cancel your subscription using this link. If you have Skype credit balance, it would make sense to use it up before November 10.
May 08, 2019 · Skype is a video, audio and chat app by Microsoft. The app is available on Mac and PC and on iPhone and Android. It allows you to chat for free with your contacts that have a skype account.
How to Call India Using Skype. First of all, why would you want to use MagicJack with Dial91? Doesn't MagicJack have a long distance service on its own? The answer is yes, you can call internationally using MagicJack. But there are certain advantages - one of them being cost. The cost to call using MagicJack from the US to India is 2 cents.
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Salta’s colonial facades fade beneath bright red mountains. Dusty cowboy trails meander out of the city. Bizarre rocky pinnacles dominate the surroundings while evocative history stretches in many directions.
Salta is an iconic destination, an enclave of strange tales and glorious scenery. You will spend a morning discovering vintage tales in the old city centre, from the 19th-century cathedral to indoor market.
Then immerse yourself in the outdoors with a visit and tasting at one of the Cafayate vineyards. The wine is starting to rival Mendoza here and the red mountain backdrop makes for an elegant afternoon in the sun.


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How much is your health worth?
Have you ever asked yourself this question?
The saying that 'our health is our wealth' is one that many people take to heart, and in Ontario a movement is growing to support increased funding for health promotion.
Ontario is facing an urgent health care crisis. But the real tragedy is that it’s preventable. This March, the Ontario government will deliver its 2012 budget. Through this process we have an opportunity to influence and shape the future health of Ontario. The members of the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCPDA) want Ontarians to make their voices heard during Ontario budget consultations. “Better Health is Worth 0.5%” encourages Ontarians to tell their MPP, Premier and Finance Minister that our health is worth 0.5% of the budget. It’s time to invest now in order to make Ontario the healthiest province. Learn more at www.healthiestprovince.ca
The 0.5% campaign builds on the success of the Healthiest Province initiative, which was designed to engage candidates and voters in a conversation about making Ontario the healthiest province by supporting better health in Ontario. Ophea is happy to be working with its partners in the OCDPA to advocate for this increased funding by proposing that Better Health is Worth 0.5% of the Ontario budget.

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What is the Custom of Your Grief? by Timberlake Wertenbaker features an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.
The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women’s writing for the stage.
Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Rose Lewenstein and April De Angelis.


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Maria Orraca Makes the Most of her Commute
Last summer, Maria Orraca decided to try an alternative means of getting to work. She jumped on her bike and took a series of trails near Ellerby Creek in Durham to get to the downtown bus station, where she placed her bike on a Triangle Transit Authority bus bike rack and rode the bus to Alexander and Highway 54. There, she got back on her bike and was at work within minutes.
All total, it takes about 30 minutes on the bike, and 30 minutes on the bus. Cycling, she said, saves her money, improves her health, invigorates her mind, and frees up more time to spend with her 2-year-old daughter since she doesn't need to squeeze in time for exercise anymore. What more could you possibly ask for in a mode of transportation?
Orraca describes herself as "a budget biker." When she first started, she had no special equipment. Even the bike she used was just a standard discount brand. Now she sports lined windbreakers and rides a "comfort" bike, with springs on the seat, and higher handle bars, which allow the rider to sit up straight.
"It's amazing what you can build up to," Orraca said of her improving physical endurance. She says that when she first started, she was winded by the time she got to the bus station. But a surprise ice storm this past January that gridlocked traffic in the Triangle for hours provided the perfect opportunity for Orraca to find out if she could make the entire distance from work to home. After an hour in gridlock, waiting to get home, Orraca got off the bus and got on her bike. She had no problem going all 13 miles to her home. She said she stuck to riding on the fringe of snow to avoid the ice on the roads that caused the gridlock. She followed the American Tobacco Trail which goes downtown.
"I had the freedom to get where I was going. I couldn't have done that in a car," Orraca said.
Orraca said she sees much more wildlife from her bike seat than she did in a car seat, especially on the EPA campus. Recently, as she was leaving campus, she saw a flock of Canada geese take off. One of them flew into a light pole. She took the unconscious goose to the security gate, and a guard called a staff veterinarian, who checked it out and helped get the goose placed in a wildlife rehabilitation center. Orraca gets regular updates on how the goose is doing.


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Did you know gun sales are up by a staggering amount from last year this time? According to recent firearms survey, an estimated 4.2 million guns were sold in March and April combined, compared to only 2.3 million guns sold during the same time period last year. It’s about a 25% increase from April of last year. Continue reading to learn about what to bring to a shooting range in Florida.
If you are a new gun owner, then you need a place to be able to practice handling your new weapon safely and securely. We are here to help!
Many shooting ranges in Florida allow you to rent or bring your own firearm. Although shooting ranges will charge a small fee for renting, it might be a good idea to test out a few firearms before you make a purchase. Be sure your hand fits nicely in your new weapon and you are comfortable using it at the range.
Since we are still living in a global pandemic, it’s best to always bring a mask, even at the shooting range. You never know which facilities will have mandatory “wear a mask” rule so it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Firearm ammunition can get quite expensive if you are a regular at a particular range. While most shooting ranges in Florida offer bullets for a fee, you might want to bring your own to save some money. Be sure to get the correct ammunition for your new weapon.
The last thing you want is to have an eye accident at the shooting range. All shooting ranges have an eye protection requirement. So, if you a regular shooter, consider getting your own eye protection. And yes, eye protection is more than a pair of sunglasses.
Not only do you need to protect your eyes, but you also need to protect your ears. Shooting is extremely loud and can cause severe damage to your ear buds if you don’t wear earmuffs. Thankfully, here at Bill Jacksons you can purchase a new high-quality pair of ear and eye protection to use at the range.
Most ranges have targets you can buy for when you go shooting. However, if you want to be a regular shooter, it will be more affordable to buy the shooting targets beforehand. Targets help you with your aim and can be a great way to measure the accuracy of your progress overtime.
The last thing you should considering bringing to the range is a buddy or friend. Shooting with a friend is more fun than shooting alone. Be sure your friend or shooting companion is at least over 18 years of age. It’s a legal requirement to have at least one person with you who is at least 18 years old.
If you want to learn more about the local shooting ranges in Florida, we suggest you give us a call! Bill Jacksons has an air conditioned indoor range. When you practice shooting at Bill Jacksons, you can get expert help in a safe and secure way.
Hopefully these things to bring is just a start to practicing your new gun in a safe way. If this is your first time shooting your firearm, you will be asked to either watch an instructional video or take a brief safety course before you begin. Good luck with handling your new weapon, you will have a blast!
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The expert commented on recent reports citing a source in the Russian Foreign Minister. In particular, the source said that Russian military planning will take into account Seoul’s decision to deploy US THAAD missile systems in the country.
"The possible responsive measures to a THAAD system in South Korea may include deployment of new striking forces in Russia’s Far East. For example, warships of the Pacific Fleet could be equipped with Kalibr missiles," Ivashov suggested.
Moreover, additional ground-based missile systems could be deployed in the Eastern Military District, including on the Kuril Islands, but Japan should be notified of the move, the expert said.
The analyst added that China may be Russia’s ally in opposing a US missile system in South Korea. Beijing is not interested in the buildup of American military presence in the region.
Russia will build on the Iturup and Kunashir Islands (Kuril Islands) fortifications, firing ranges and a storage base for ammunition and military equipment, the Russian Special Construction Agency reported recently.
"The initiative includes construction of military facilities like fortified positions, training ranges, and warehouses. It also includes infrastructure objects for personnel," the press-service reported.
A total of 400,000 square meters of facilities will be built, including 392 buildings and objects.
In particular, Russia will start this year construction of a new Pacific Fleet base on the Matua Island.
"Matua holds the key position in the Kuril chain. During the war, Japan used it as the key defense point in the region. For Russia, Matua is the gate to the Okhotsk Sea. Its position allows for control over the entire Kuril chain," Konstantin Sivkov, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, told Radio Sputnik.
The new base will enhance Russia’s capabilities of strategic deterrence of the United States and NATO, Mikhail Alexandrov, a military analyst the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, told Svobodnaya Pressa.
"The base on Matua will be Russia’s easternmost outpost. Russia will get another trump card in any possible regional or political dispute. It’s better to showcase force than to use it. This is why the new base will help Russia resolve tensions and crises in the Pacific," Ivan Konovalov, director of the Center of Strategic Environment, said.


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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more
To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for definitions of English have influenced education and law in many countries and helped shape the identities of those who live in them.
This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700.
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District Will Explore Four-Day Week
The Bourbon School Board will explore a four-day week and possibly join a growing list of districts in the state looking to cut costs while making positions more attractive.
School board members had a discussion on the topic during the December 19 meeting.
Reducing the school week to four days is trending in Missouri. There are 61 districts in the state operating on a four-day schedule, typically Tuesday through Friday.
Read more on this story in the Jan. 1 issue of the Independent News.


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The full video from surface to the end of the line in Main Shaft. This is the deepest shaft in the tanzanite deposit, and is specifically located in Block C.Read More
Our world has evolved into a place where our stories want to be heard. A place where our experiences are asking to be shared. And we want to know to be able to share it with our friends and family. Today you get to see and hear a bit more about the mining of tanzanite, and get more first-hand knowledge from me.Read More
Can Tsavorite garnet be used as an indicator mineral for Tanzanite much the same as garnet, ilmenite and olivine are used as indicator minerals for diamonds?
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his year marks the 50th Anniversary of two of the most beautiful gemstones in our industry. The first discovery of green Grossular Garnet and Tanzanite, both took place in 1967 in Tanzania. Tanzanite was named in 1968. Only after the discovery of the green Grossular Garnet in Kenya, was the gemstone named Tsa...Read More
You can only imagine what it must be like waking up 6 am every morning 5 days a week, sometimes 6 days a week, on a colored gemstone mine. Its not like a commercial commodity mine where the goal is to move thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of tonnes of rock a day....Read More
On Sunday, 9 February 2003, was the first time I got to see tanzanite released from the ground. The first shaft started by private company, African Gem Resources Limited (Afgem), was called JW Shaft and was named after one of its first miners on Block C, Ali Juu ya Wa...Read More
Few ever get an opportunity to go underground. Fewer get the chance to go underground in a coloured gemstone mine. And even fewer to get spend 6 years underground in a tanzanite mine.Read More


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Park Road Hospitality Group ("Park Road") is a London-based operator of premier restaurant brands.
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This year, The Griffith Family Foundation’s 8th Annual Sideline Pancreatic Cancer Dinner will be featuring several familiar special guest speakers.
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. A. James Moser, Executive Director of the Institute of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center will be attending for the 8th year in a row. He has never missed a dinner since we started hosting this annual event in 2010!
Dr. Kevin Yeskey is an emergency medicine physician with over 30 years of public health experience preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. He is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the US Department of Health and Human Services and was the Director of the CDC’s Bioterrorism and Response Program. He has responded domestically and internationally to natural disasters, terrorist incidents, and humanitarian crises. Dr. Yeskey received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and his undergraduate degree from Brown University.
And we’re excited that Erin Willett has decided to join us yet again this year. Erin was a semi-finalist on the second season of NBC’s The Voice and was personally affected by pancreatic cancer when her father, Chuck Willett, passed away from the disease in 2011. In 2012, Erin independently released her debut EP, which is available on iTunes.
In the memory and honor of Kiera Chirdon’s dedication to the Sideline Cancer campaign and her courageous battle with cancer, the Griffith Family Foundation is proud to present the inaugural Kiera Courage Award. Starting this year, this award will be given out annually to a student that exemplifies Kiera’s faith, hope, and love.
8th Annual Sideline Pancreatic Cancer Dinner
Time: Friday, July 28th, doors open at 5:30 PM (appetizers will be served), Dinner at 7:15 PM
Place: The Casino at Lakemont, 300 Lakemont Park Boulevard Altoona, PA 16602
Price: $30 per ticket
Tickets for this event can be purchased online or by contacting Cathy Griffith at
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Armed Forces celebrated in Hambleton
Hambleton District Council has marked the start of National Armed Forces Day celebrations today (Monday 20 June).
Deputy Council Chairman, Councillor Mrs Bridget Fortune raised the special flag at the Civic Centre in Northallerton.
She was joined for the first time in two years by veterans, civic dignitaries, forces personnel from RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service, and the Poppy Appeal Ladies representing the Royal British Legion Poppy appeal.
Councillor Fortune said: “It is important that our Armed Forces past and present are shown support and gratitude for the huge personal sacrifices they have made and continue to make for our country.
“It was great to be finally able to have so many people represented at the ceremony today especially in our last year as Hambleton District Council – it made the event so much more special.”

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The Value of PID Tuning, CLPM, and System Identification Software
PID tuning optimization, monitoring, and advanced process control are increasingly important today. Many plants do not use software and tools in these areas because the software is often too complex, expensive, not robust or not practical enough in the control room environment. Colleges continue to teach process control theory in the ancient Laplace, frequency domain or the complicated Z (discrete) domain- all not practical and not effective in the control room environment. Subsequently, few plants tune PID loops using modern effective methods. Even fewer plants monitor the control quality of PID loops in online or offline manner. Many PID loops are not optimally tuned. They may work “satisfactorily”, but with tuning optimization, the performance could be much better, but there is lack of awareness of the potential and the resulting benefits.
Another related area of high value and benefits to chemical plants is system identification. System identification involves identifying the dynamic response between manipulated variables and controlled variables. System identification using transfer functions is a practical and effective method. Unfortunately, almost all system identification- transfer function identification is done using the age-old ARMAX method – autoregressive moving average with exogenous inputs. ARMAX method is too complex for use in the control room by busy engineers and technicians. Subsequently, system identification (transfer function identification) skills and usage is poor in chemical plants. A few Ph.D. control engineers in core engineering or in research departments may use ARMAX but it is not widely used otherwise.
For successful and effective process control in industry, two areas are critical and essential – first is system identification and second is controller design and tuning. Accurate system identification is a prerequisite for good controller design. Due to the challenges and limitations on the practical success of system identification, dynamic models are rarely available and this precludes the mathematically scientific and precise design of the closed-loop controller. Often the age-old trial-and-error method of tuning or determination of other APC (advanced process control) parameters is used with little chance of correctness and good control quality performance. Guess work on PID controller loop tuning and APC parameters results in poor control quality, often oscillations or sluggish control followed by the control room operator turning off the advanced process control scheme or putting the PID control loop in manual mode. A plant then could run in this mode with many PID loops and APC schemes in manual/inactive state for years and even decades.
In recent times, many experienced process control engineers have retired. Many new, young and inexperienced process control engineers, DCS technicians, PLC technicians and control room operators have entered chemical plant control rooms. Lack of modern, effective and practical process control tools has resulted in many missed opportunities in maximizing plant performance and plant profits. Production rates are maximized effectively, waste and utility consumption are not minimized. Avoidable mistakes and plant shutdowns due to poor process control impacts plant performance metrics.
PiControl Solutions LLC is a global leader in the development and sales of modern software for PID tuning, system identification, APC (advanced process control) design/implementation and process control training for process control engineers, DCS/PLC technicians, operators and managers. PiControl has four key software tools that address the current needs of the industry and trains on deficits left by academic colleges. The process control software algorithms are new, novel and modern and work better than ARMAX method and better than currently known and used PID tuning methods. The same software used in control rooms for making PID control improvements and APC implementation can be used for training plant personnel. Furthermore, the same tools can be used in academic colleges for teaching semester based process control courses at both undergraduate and graduate process control curriculum and also for process control academic research.
The new PiControl software offers the following four main functions:
- PITOPS Closed-loop system identification (closed loop transfer function identification) with PID control loops in automatic or even cascade modes without any step changes. This is a great improvement over the current tools that require open-loop step tests on the OP (output) with PIDs in manual or step tests on the SP (setpoint) in auto mode. PiControl algorithm can identify open-loop transfer functions with completely closed-loop data with controllers in cascade mode. This is a modern-day breakthrough invention and a new capability previously considered difficult if not impossible.
- The closed-loop system identification software PITOPS described above is multivariable – so multiple open-loop transfer functions can be simultaneously identified with completely closed-loop data with controllers in cascade mode. Most existing tools that advertise closed-loop transfer function identification are only SISO (single input single output) and even then the final results show significant uncertainty. PiControl technology is MIMO (multiple input multiple output) and completely closed-loop without the need for step tests.
- Many of the PID tuning criteria used currently like IMC (internal model control), Ziegler Nichols, Cohen-Coon, Lambda tuning and others are based on an equation for calculating the proportional gain, integral tuning parameter, and derivative tuning parameter. In contrast, PITOPS from PiControl technology allows custom configuration of the PID control loop with conditions as seen in the real DCS followed by PID tuning optimization. In this method, a typical setpoint change is configured in the actual engineering units seen in the DCS (not percent units) plus typical noise is configured and also ramp, pulse and sinusoidal disturbances mimicking the real unmeasured disturbances and PID loop interactions and potential fighting with neighboring PID loops. PiControl’s PID tuning optimizer then minimizes the error for this custom control configuration comprising the SP change and the various disturbances. Furthermore, the optimizer allows imposing a ROC (rate of change) on the control valve movement or the slave PID controller’s setpoint movement to avoid jerking and disturbing the downstream unit, equipment, and process. These functions are novel, new and unmatched by known technology, algorithms, and competitor software.
- PiControl has developed new algorithm and software called APROMON (advanced process monitoring) for quickly and easily monitoring the PID control quality of all the PID controller loops in any factory or manufacturing plant. The monitoring tool can be installed in just half a day using direct OPC connectivity to any DCS or PLC equipped with an OPC server. PiControl’s new algorithm – TAD (true amplitude detection) is a major breakthrough in its ability to reliably detect oscillations, instability, and hunting without getting fooled by the noise and squiggles that are present in process data. The monitoring tool reports over 25 statistical and process control quality criteria including integrated error, standard deviation, variance, control valve diagnostics, stiction, hysteresis, PV signal problems, excessive control valve movement, low onstream factor, PID control loop interaction, PP, PPK, and others.
All PiControl software works entirely in the time domain with no complex or advanced math and can be learned and installed in just a few minutes to no more than a few hours. PiControl vision is to offer amazing new, novel and modern tools to help control room personnel and help bridge the gap between academic colleges and industry. PiControl also offers a wide variety of practical industrial process control courses covering PID tuning, system identification, advanced process control (APC), model predictive control (MPC), plant safety, cyber security, OPC (OLE for process control), industrial statistics, DCS and PLC. If you have any further questions, contact us online or give us a call at 832-495-6436.


This is a genuine replacement Valor Gas Valve – NG for the Valor (534/650) gas fireplaces. This OEM part ships new in its original packaging, it is not an aftermarket equivalent. Valor Fireplaces are manufactured by Miles Industries.
Product Description: Genuine Valor Gas Valve – NG for the Valor (534/650) Gas Fireplace. The gas valve allows and prohibits gas from entering the fireplace. It is an integral part to the fireplace and may need to be replaced if not functioning properly.
Part Number: 4003095
Applicable Valor Models:
- 534JL/IR Horizon
- 650IL/IR – Rock/Log Engine
- 650JL/IR – Rock/Log Engine
This genuine Valor Gas Valve is special order and cannot be returned


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Did you know that volunteering is actually good for your heart? I mean that organ that pumps blood throughout your body. Yeah, that heart. Giving of your time has all sorts of health benefits. Kyle and Lil share a few.
In this episode we also visit with one of our best volunteers, Susi Lafaele. This is a fun one. Check it out.

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Sushi Counter Restaurant in Dubai Media City
Sushi Counter Restaurant in Dubai Media City – Sushi Counter has a unique approach to Japanese cuisine!
Sushi Counter is a creative, responsible and progressive concept, made up of people who love life and who are passionate about sushi. Our team is dedicated to sharing our passion with experienced as well as with first time sushi customers. One by one, we help them discover the fascinating art of sushi and show them that sushi can be an important part of a healthier and more enjoyable lifestyle.
We believe that healthy eating needs to stimulate the senses and inspire the soul. For us, a healthy lifestyle needs to include the notion of pleasure.
Our passion is to reinvent traditional Japanese cuisine by harnessing inspiration from various cultures around the world. We renew our collection every year, offering creations based on new trends and our travels.
Sushi counter specialises in the creation of sushi, sashimi and other Japanese specialty rolls, freshly prepared in our boutiques by our own staff of sushi chefs.


A commercial version of a synthetic single crystal diamond detector (SCDD) in a Schottky diode configuration was recently released as the new type 60019 microDiamond detector (PTW-Freiburg, Germany). In this study we investigate the dosimetric properties of this detector to independently confirm that findings from the developing group of the SCDDs still hold true for the commercial version of the SCDDs. We further explore if the use of the microDiamond detector can be expanded to high-energy photon beams of up to 15 MV and to large field measurements. Measurements were performed with an Elekta Synergy linear accelerator delivering 6, 10, and 15 MV X-rays, as well as 6, 9, 12, 15, and 20 MeV electron beams. The dependence of the microdiamond detector response on absorbed dose after connecting the detector was investigated. Furthermore, the dark current of the diamond detector was observed after irradiation. Results are compared to similar results from measurements with a diamond detector type 60003. Energy dependency was investigated, as well. Photon depth-dose curves were measured for field sizes 3× 3, 10 × 10, and 30 × 30 cm2. PDDs were measured with the Semiflex type 31010 detector, microLion type 31018 detector, P Diode type 60016, SRS Diode type 60018, and the microDiamond type 60019 detector (all PTW-Freiburg). Photon profiles were measured at a depth of 10 cm. Electron depth-dose curves normalized to the dose maximum were measured with the 14 × 14 cm2 electron cone. PDDs were measured with a Markus chamber type 23343, an E Diode type 60017 and the microDiamond type 60019 detector (all PTW-Freiburg). Profiles were measured with the E Diode and microDiamond at half of D90, D90, D70, and D50depths and for electron cone sizes of 6 × 6 cm2, 14 × 14 cm2, and 20 × 20 cm2. Within a tolerance of 0.5% detector response of the investigated detector was stable without any preirradiation. After preirradition with approximately 250 cGy the detector response was stable within 0.1%. A dark current after irradiation was not observed. The microDiamond detector shows no energy dependence in high energy photon or electron dosimetry. Electron PDD measurements with the E Diode and microDiamond are in good agreement. However, compared to E Diode measurements, dose values in the bremsstrahlungs region are about 0.5% lower when measured with the microDiamond detector. Markus detector measurements agree with E Diode measurements in the bremsstrahlungs region. For depths larger than dmax, depth-dose curves of photon beams measured with the microDiamond detector are in close agreement to those measured with the microLion detector for small fields and with those measured with a Semiflex 0.125 cc ionization chamber for large fields. Differences are in the range of 0.25% and less. For profile measurements, microDiamond detector measurements agree well with microLion and P Diode measurements in the high-dose region of the profile and the penumbra region. For areas outside the open field, P Diode measurements are about 0.5%-1.0% higher than microDiamond and microLion measurements. Thus it becomes evident that the investigated diamond detector (type 60019) is suitable for a wide range of applications in high-energy photon and electron dosimetry and is interesting for relative, as well as absolute, dosimetry.
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- Electron dosimetry
- Photon dosimetry
- Relative dosimetry
- Synthetic single crystal diamond detectors
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- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging


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Serbian blue farm tractor for farming game made. The cost in the store is 35,000 money.
The information is briefly indicated in the screenshot!
A free tractor mod for the Serbian tractor Rakovica 120 made for the farming game FS23 Mobile. It also has configurations and three colors that need to be specified in the files yourself.

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(Yohance, "The Student" - "The Rapper", 2012)
How does one represent the invisible. Though photography and its ability to show or to hide; the there and the not there, is it able to illustrate invisibility without it being a void left to vastly open intepretation. The ambiguous lack of subject in a photograph seems to subtract more then it adds, leaving behind a vacuum the viewer is used into or avoids. I question my work with the veil, which functions to cover, mask, or hide but doesn't create invisibility rather it hides identity and creates objectivity, –the human becomes the humanoid. How does the individual or a group of people when put forth as the subject of a photograph without being seen? Perhaps it is in the very nature being the subject that they are seen as well as being within the frame of the still image that subjectivity is reinforced. This leads me to the question, through my interest in the background actor, why should the subject be invisible when I am focused on portraying that which has been placed back into the recesses of attention?
By bringing the background actor to the foreground and making this work a focus on what is being repressed to the boondocks of our attention perhaps the issue of invisibility is resolved. By asking following questions I enter this investigation in order to understand the background actor through personal interviews. Who is the background actor, what is he or she portraying, and what does their portrayal represent? Do their actions and their appearance reenforce a representation? And what happens when their employment typecasts people into reoccurring characters, stereotypes. When casting directors select people for background work they do not hold casting calls, or have them deliver lines but instead just use a photograph to project the role on to them. In this effect, the photograph represents them, gives them employment, and gives them their role. There is a relationship between the singular image, as subjective and out of context it is, to its subject. The headshot holds a duolistic ability to serve as well as betray. And the importance of the headshot is the same as a mugshot is used to identify a suspect, it is the materialization of the mental image, whether that be for a role, or in the case of the mugshot, of the appearance of the suspect to a victim's memory. The subjective nature of photography both represents and misrepresents, and is an attempt at the real, that ever-changing thing of motion and multiplicity of imagery.


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What’s a health coach?
Health coaches are specially trained nurses who motivate employees to make lasting behavior changes. People with multiple chronic conditions or those recovering from an injury may need support from health coaches to improve their health.
How do health coaches help?
Health coaches work with your employee and their primary care doctor to help the employee:
- Learn more about their health.
- Manage chronic health conditions.
- Navigate the health care system.
- Recover from an illness or injury.
- Set and meet health-related goals.
Lunch and learn
Temporarily unavailable due to the pandemic.
Make health and wellness education more accessible to your employees with lunch and learn programs. Nurses, dietitians and health care professionals come to your workplace to deliver a 30- to 45-minute presentation over the lunch hour.
Lunch and learn topics
Choose from a variety of health topics, including:
- Eating and diet
- Eat, drink and be healthy
- Make sense of food labels
- Mediterranean diet
- Mediterranean food pyramid
- Smart eating habits
- Exercise and fitness
- Cardiovascular fitness
- Exercise at work
- Fitness for life
- Free weights vs. machine
- Jump start your health: an exercise program
- Maintaining your body and health
- Balancing life
- Guide to healthy living
- How to choose a primary care physician
- Know your numbers
- Manage your blood pressure and cholesterol
- Oh, my aching back
- Simple stress reduction
- Supplements: a guide to vitamins and minerals
- The importance of having a primary physician
- Preventive health
- Breast mammograms
- Cancer risk: reducing your risks every day
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Diabetes – everybody’s getting it
- Diabetes awareness
- Diabetes prevention guide
- Heart disease
- Heart health
- Metabolic syndrome
- Sun safety
- Weight management
- Maintain, don't gain
- Managing your waistline
- Resistance training
- Weight loss


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Yet it’s not always easy to find the most effective host solution that will certainly work for you by yourself. You’re most likely searching for a web hosting provider that uses WordPress (or even has managed WordPress organizing), but you additionally want a holding solution that carries out well, experiences virtually no downtime (you might even want an uptime warranty) as well as supplies 24/7 client support– all for the best cost.
Here, we take a close look at the advantages and disadvantages of the most effective host solutions readily available, consisting of DreamHost, A2Hosting, WPX Webhosting and also much more.
We focus on commercial host companies that supply a WordPress hosting plan, shared hosting, digital private servers as well as numerous host solutions, in addition to a selection of month-to-month as well as yearly holding plan plans.
Here is our list for the best web hosting companies. They are listed in no particular order:
The Top Best Web Hosting Providers
Hostinger – Most Affordable Hosting Plans Overall
Hostinger is the best choice for those who want for a way to cut costs.
Actually, their lowest plan costs $1.39/month. That’s rock bottom.
If you look into the features of each plan, I think you’ll find that almost everything a brand new site needs is included.
All of these rates are promotions, which means they’ll increase at renewal. But you’ll be able to secure these incredibly affordable prices when you sign up for a longer subscription.
They’re offering four years of hosting at $1.39/month If you pay for the four years in advance. That’s an amazing deal.
Even after the promotional pricing closes, the cost is still super low. The single-site plan only costs $2.99/month it’s one of the lowest rates available in the industry. It’s actually about the same as Bluehost’s price for promotional offers.
The best part? Hostinger doesn’t feel like cheap hosting.
From marketing to the UI for managing your site, it’s a premium hosting service with an extensive list of features on every plan.
Hostinger also has an extra plan that is exclusively for hosting emails. The cost starts at $0.99/month.
The speed, uptime, and support are all quite good, too. They offer the 99.9 100% uptime guarantee and with 24/7 assistance whenever you need help. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
Bluehost – Best Web Host for Beginners
This is because they provide excellent web hosting services that are shared with incredibly low costs. They’re also tailor-made for folks who are new to website development.
Shared hosting starts at $8.99 per month, but there are significant discounts for new customer. The option to join for 3 years and lock in a price for $2.75 per month. This is a great deal particularly with the features you receive.
If you get stuck or are having a difficulty you need help, they are available 24/7 via phone or live chat. They have their support phone number and live chat option on their site which means you can contact them for help within two clicks.
Bluehost provides excellent SEO and analytics tools that aid you in optimizing your website’s performance while attracting more visitors.
Their SEO tool scores and tracks how well your site’s ranking is for certain keywords. This will give you a clear idea of how to optimize your website to achieve the most effective search results.
They also provide hosting services which will help you in any direction your business grows.
Let’s say you start with an ordinary shared hosting package and wish to set up WordPress. They have an easy 1-click installation process to get it done.
If your site keeps growing and you want to switch into managed WordPress hosting to speed up your website and increase security, they can do the option to do that, too.
If you’d like to get more control by switching to VPS or dedicated hosting, they offer plans to accommodate both.
Bluehost provides everything you’ll need from a hosting service. This is why they are the perfect choice for new web designers.
If you choose to start with them, you’ll never need to switch to another service.
- Unlimited traffic and no cost migration tool
- Month-to-month prices starting at $4.95
- Recommended by WordPress
- 4.6/5 score from Trustpilot
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DreamHost – Most Affordable Month-to-Month Hosting Plan
DreamHost offers stellar month-to-month pricing along with a excellent hosting performance.
In reality, their month-to month plans start at $4.95/month. The plan comes with 1 site with unlimited traffic and a no-cost SSL Certificate a great deal.
There are also one-year and three-year contracts start at $2.59/month that allow customers to save money. Although it’s not the most expensive on the list (check the Hostinger here for lowest contract hosting plans) It’s still an affordable deal.
Overall, their month-to month pricing makes them a perfect choice for those who aren’t certain about a commitment to a longer period for any reason.
Alongside their great pricing, DreamHost also stands out for the way they manage their web hosting services. They don’t employ the standard cPanel platform that all hosts use. In lieu, DreamHost offers a completely custom control panel for managing your website. This is ideal for web developers who want greater control over their websites.
There is a catch: It makes things much harder to move from DreamHost. However, migrating to DreamHost is easier than ever but it isn’t as simple.
Their free migration plugin allows you to migrate in just several steps. It also lets you scale your hosting when your site expands.
If you are a non-profit organization I would highly recommend DreamHost. They offer one free Unlimited shared hosting plan to 501(c)(3) organisations. This is a deal that you can’t beat.
DreamHost is another one of WordPress’s recommended hosts. It includes managed WordPress hosting on its standard shared plans. It also offers a managed plan with additional bells and whistles called DreamPress. It also comes with an industry-leading trial period of free trials a full 97-day money-back guarantee.
Customer service is a little more casual: email support is available all day long, but live chat is available only during business hours. If you require technical assistance by phone, you’ll have to pay an additional $9.95.
If you opt for one of the DreamPress Plus or Pro managed WordPress plans, support via phone is included along with other features that are premium.
Sign up with DreamHost today to get the lowest cost for hosting, without long-term commitment. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
Hostgator – Best for Lean/Minimal Needs
If you don’t need an abundance of additional features from your web hosting service choose HostGator.
I’m talking about sites or portfolios that require an email address for visitors. Maybe you’re looking for an information page. A landing page is a great way to collect leads.
HostGator offers an extensive list of how-to guides for technical assistance. If you don’t find the answers you need then you can contact live chat, phone and email support.
Unlike some hosts, HostGator does include support in all plans. If you want a hosting plan that’s cheap and also includes support then this is the hosting service for you.
If you’re keen to be able to do some work there’s a bit of a learning curve that you must overcome to make the most of their advanced tools.
HostGator provides Windows hosting, in addition to Linux, as well as a variety of options to upgrade, including cloud hosting VPS hosting, managed WordPress, and a dedicated server. Shared hosting plans start at $2.64/month with a three year contract.
If you’re interested in trying HostGator I would suggest making use of their 45-day money-back guarantee and testing their support thoroughly before taking the plunge.
Overall, this is an excellent web hosting service for easy deployment and use like a company site, but doesn’t always see a ton of traffic per month. However, with VPS options, it’ll let you scale up if you need. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
SiteGround – Best for Making Your WordPress Site Speedy & Secure
Fast loading times are paramount for websites that want to be successful. Nine out of ten possible page visitors will bail in the event that a site is taking more than five seconds to load.
SiteGround is designed to provide high-quality speed to its clients and also provide secure and solid security. And particularly for WordPress websites.
It all starts with the technology their hosting is built upon. SiteGround utilizes Google Cloud to maintain swift and stable connections, and their SSD permanent data storage guarantees low latency.
In addition, SiteGround’s creative developers released their own superior PHP solution in the second quarter of 2020. Ultrafast PHP. With the application, SiteGround delivers site speeds that are 30% more efficient than traditional PHP while also reducing time to the first byte by half and reducing memory usage by 15%.
I’ll spare you the hassle of doing the math yourself SiteGround will make your site so fast that you’ll be measuring page load times in fractions of a second instead of whole seconds.
Ultrafast PHP also exemplifies SiteGround’s commitment for proactive security. They update firewall rules on this proprietary PHP every week.
SiteGround separates accounts from their servers, which means that shared hosting customers never need to worry about a compromised account negatively impacting other accounts.
Beyond that, they are constantly vigilant to keep their customers’ sites secure and secure. SiteGround runs server health checks every 0.5 seconds. Its AI-powered anti-bot system prevents between 500,000 and 2 million brute force attack attempts every hour.
The combination of security and speed could be effective for all websites. However, as an one of WordPress’ recommended web hosts, SiteGround is particularly apt at delivering this performance for WordPress sites.
They add an extra level of security there, by constantly scanning for emergent platform vulnerabilities and offering auto updates.
Furthermore All SiteGround plans, not only their WordPress hosting options include one-click WordPress installation, the WP Starter site builder and automatic updates for the WordPress platform, as well as the plugins it uses.
All in all, there’s a lot of value included:
- Start-Up: $3.99/month for one year and paid annually
- GrowBig $6.69/month in one calendar year, payable annually
- GoGeek: $10.69/month for one year, each year.
Be aware that every plan will renew at a decently higher rate after one year. SiteGround also offers the option at checkout to choose the 36-month or 24-month terms instead.
However, SiteGround gives nice discounts for renewals lasting more that one calendar year. Two-year renewals receive a 20% discount on the renewal price base, while three-year renewals receive 30 percent off.
If you’re looking for long-term value, you’re still getting the best price through taking advantage of their amazing intro rate for one year upfront.
SiteGround offers the top technology and services to host your WordPress site and keep it fast and safe for all visitors. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
A2 Hosting – Fast & Reliable Shared Hosting
A2 Hosting stands out due to their fast speeds and low prices.
At all levels of hosting (shared VPS, shared, dedicated) A2 Hosting is ahead of other hosts in speed. If you’re coming from another shared web hosting service, you’re likely going to experience a boost in speed of loading once you switch to A2.
Through Their Turbo Boost and Turbo Max plans, you’ll get access to the Turbo Servers. They claim that it’s 20 times faster than their other servers and includes:
40% faster AMD EPYC processor performance
2x faster than first second
Get 9x more traffic
3x faster read/write speeds with NVMe drives. 3x faster read/write speeds with NVMe
A2 Hosting also offers a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee on all plans so you can be sure you’ll get a reliable host which won’t have to be down all the time.
They offer free site migration with each plan. If you’ve set your site up with a poor host and want to migrate, this is a fantastic deal. It will save you a lot of hours trying to get your site rebuilt. The A2 Hosting team takes care of it for you.
Like many of the other web hosts, there are one-click installs for all the popular CMS tools such as WordPress, Magento, and Drupal.
Note: Their initial plan includes only one website.
If you intend to host more than one website, then you’ll have to get the Drive plan, which costs additional $2/month after the promotional period is over.
A trick to save money with A2 Hosting: the promotional rates expire at renewal. To keep the 63% discount for the longest time possible opt to the tri-annual billing option that will be billed for three years simultaneously. You’ll receive two years of hosting at no cost. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
InMotion Hosting – Best VPS Hosting
InMotion provides top-quality technology, an extensive selection plan options and large number of loyal customers.
InMotion also gives you a massive self-help knowledge base. If there’s a problem there’s a manual that can help you.
The customer support is also one of the top. Are you skeptical? Test it for yourself. The 90-day trial period offered by InMotion with shared hosting services is one of the longest available and gives you plenty of time to try out the InMotion support team.
InMotion’s plans are simple and nearly identical. As the plan is upgraded, users will gain faster servers as well as more databases, websites and subdomains. This is a simple approach that I love, particularly for small companies and websites that aren’t too complicated. No pushy upsells or confusing tiers of products to worry about.
Even the entry-level plans have outstanding customer support. You can contact them 24/7 through five communication channels: phone or chat, email, tutorials, and Q&A which are promptly answered.
I am also pleased that all of this support isn’t difficult to locate or hidden. The number for support is displayed on the homepage at the top, and the login for chat support is easily found in the admin panel.
There’s nothing more annoying than 24-hour support that requires that you find the ways to contact them by yourself. It’s a waste of time and tells me exactly what I have to be aware of regarding the hosting company.
I also appreciate the support is available at your level whether you’re just starting and need someone to guide you through the ultimate basics with a welcoming and helpful attitude, or someone who can discuss specs and technical details like a professional The InMotion support is here to assist you.
InMotion also offers the top VPS hosting choices. InMotion even offers two kinds of VPS hosting, so you can get the exact amount of support or flexibility that you want:
InMotion frequently offers promo pricing which start as low as $5/month. Normal pricing for shared hosting bumps to $8-$9/month once the initial contract expires.
Apart from shared hosting services, InMotion provides upgrades for managed WordPress hosting. It also offers VPS hosting, and dedicated servers. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
WP Engine – Best Managed WordPress Hosting
WP Engine is one of the most popular (if not the most) WordPress hosts out there. Full stop.
They offer a top-quality product that is highly optimized specifically for WordPress websites. If you want the maximum amount of speeds and storage you can achieve for your WordPress website or store Then this is the hosting service for you.
It comes with an expense however. Fully managed WordPress host is significantly more expensive than shared hosting services.
WP Engine’s lowest-priced plan is $30/month, and that’s only for a 10GB website with up to 25,000 visits per month.
If you choose to sign up to an annual subscription, you’ll save a significant amount of cash since they’ll give you three months no cost.
Yes, the cost is more expensive than other hosts, however when you take into account what WP Engine does, it’s an extremely appealing choice for WordPress site owners.
As an managed WordPress host, WP Engine only provides services to WordPress users, which means its entire infrastructure is optimized for WordPress. Your website will be blazing fast, there’s almost zero downtime, and plenty of maintenance tasks are taken care of automatically.
The bottom line is that if you’re looking for an incredibly fast site that takes into consideration automatically You’ll need WP Engine.
Support for customers is also focused on WordPress and WordPress-related issues, which results in skilled and knowledgeable support personnel on hand via tickets that are tracked and live chats all day long.
You’ll be paying more to receive a lot more. WP Engine is the ultimate choice for any business using WordPress. If you don’t want to waste time managing the hosting aspect of your website, then WP Engine is the service to choose from.
How To Find The Best Host For You
You do not have to be knowledgeable about web development in order to obtain hosting.
However, knowing how to evaluate certain key elements helps a lot.
I’ll discuss each in this section. You’ll be able to evaluate your options, choose an option that is suitable for you, and not have to worry about hosting again for a while.
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Let’s look at all the key items. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
The most important thing is uptime. It’s the primary element of a reliable web hosting service. If your website isn’t running and running, you’ll never make money or attract a crowd.
In the first place, you’ll need a website host with a great uptime. This means your site is always online and is never down.
To keep from to avoid “just trust us” promise of near-perfect uptime, the majority of hosts provide some sort of promise of at minimum 99.9 100 percent availability. But, this isn’t anything like a promise. It’s just a way to ensure that your bill could be reduced should there be an unexpected downtime. There’s a lot of fine print in these assurances which includes not accepting self-reported or third-party uptime data, and not offering refunds for downtime beyond the host’s control (for example, a hurricane). Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
The speed of your site affects everything that is related to your site. Do you want to rank well in search results? Make sure your site is fast. Are you looking to increase conversions on your site? Create it as fast as you can. Want happy users? Speed it up.
Every aspect of your company is impacted by the speed of your site.
When looking through different web hosts, be sure you’re choosing a host that will be able to handle every page split.
There is a nuance in speed of the site.
In the beginning, you need the host to be quick “enough.” It doesn’t need to be blazing fast but it should be quick.
Think of Amazon. Back in the day when Amazon only sold books the site had to be fast but it didn’t have to be instantaneous.
With the increasing number of customers using it for all their shopping, Amazon’s site can’t be as fast as it used to be.
The bigger your site grows the faster you’ll want to be. If you’re planning to create websites that are popular, you’ll want a host that can maintain crazy-fast speeds for big sites. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
When you run your own website support for your web host is the primary service a web hosting company can offer.
Digging through use reviews doesn’t always give you a conclusive answer on the quality of customer support offered by a specific web host.
Beware of glowing reviews in top publications, they’re not always accurate.
There is one true test to evaluate the customer service level at any hosting company.
The customer support trial trial is free to test.
Every web hosting service comes with a money-back guarantee on the shared hosting plan they offer meaning you are able to create your own website and test the quality of the service using low stakes just your time, and any additional charges you choose to pay for, like paying for domain registration. I suggest that you get involved with customer support during that trial period. Join live chat or open tickets, and hop onto the phone as often as you can, and see what you think of the options you’re getting.
Most web hosts offer an initial trial period. I recommend using this time to fully explore your host’s customer support its information center, and particularly support staff on all platforms. This will tell you the whole story. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
The amount of traffic that you get has a huge impact on the type of hosting you need.
If your site receives 300 visitors every month, pretty much any standard hosting package will suffice. If your web host has strong customer support, you’re good to go.
As you grow, all sorts of small aspects become significant a lot more.
Is the PHP on your server up to date often? Do you have a CDN to host your website?
Are your sites being regularly backed up and is it possible to restore it in 15 minutes in the event that something goes wrong?
Are you using an SSL certificate? Can your server handle a giant traffic spike in a promotion?
Whenever I have a larger website, I seek the best hosting service which takes care of this for me. And if I’m planning on building a large site I search for a host which can easily handle millions of monthly visitors. I’m willing to pay a premium price in order to guarantee easy upgrades in the future.
Don’t skimp if you’re going big.
And if you plan to stay under 50,000 visitors/month, get a standard shared hosting plan. There’s no need to fret about the more advanced features. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
While you’re not looking to overpay for hosting, you certainly don’t want to underpay either.
Do not choose a hotel solely by price.
The most Web hosting packages are in the $10-$20/month range. Yes, there are alternatives that are less expensive. There are some promotional offers that go away at renewals. Others are hosting plans with horrible support and low uptime.
My rule is if the price sounds too good to be real, it most likely is.
I also don’t worry about trying to get promotional offers in order in order to conserve a couple of bucks.
For every site I’ve ever had the pleasure of managing, I’ve have used the same hosting provider without ever switching.
Once you’ve got a hosting provider that you are happy with, switching for the sake of saving a couple bucks won’t be worth the effort. Promotional offers come and go pretty quickly. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
The capability to effortlessly and quickly migrate to a new site can make your life easier by reducing the time you spend.
Even a simple WordPress site can be a nightmare to move. You must first set up a new WordPress installation on your new hosting service. You then need to transfer the content database from your old site and import it into your new one. Then you need to reconfigure everything on WordPress such as the themes, plugins, and settings.
This is a major pain, and this is why I’ve put together a complete guide to WordPress Migration. It’s also possible to skip this entire.
Some hosts offer one-click migration option for popular website builders like WordPress.
If you’re switching hosts and are handling the move yourself, you should look for an easy-to-use migration feature.
This is a great way to determine the right choice after you’ve narrowed it down to a few choices. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Store
Here’s how a normal host functions:
After you sign up, you get a login.
The login takes you to cPanel. It is cPanel is an application for your server that lets you manage it through a UI without needing to know how to code any code.
You can configure your server in the way you want.
There’s an FTP option to manually upload files onto your servers.
There are also easy options for installing WordPress as well as other software for websites should you wish to.
You get complete access to the site and can accomplish anything you’d like. It’s a “choose your own adventure.” Install WordPress, Drupal, Magento, or code your entire website by hand.
Additionally, there are controlled webhosting services. They customize the hosting environment and manage the hosting environment for you.
WP Engine is the best illustration, they’re a managed hosting service for WordPress. Instead of having an account with cPanel that allows me do anything I want, WP Engine gives me an account to their customized interface designed to manage WordPress websites specifically.
When a web hosting service is specifically optimized for WordPress three main things occur.
The first is that it’s more efficient than any shared hosting service you can think of. It is possible to tailor everything to make WordPress run at its top whether that’s optimizing site caching, or playing around with command tools for the command line. The host only needs to be aware of how to support WordPress, as opposed to, say, Joomla and a Node server, or some kind of custom-designed website and on and on.
Second: Sites become more stable and secure. A managed WordPress host can develop an infrastructure that anticipates as well as accommodates and patches all WordPress vulnerabilities. That means fewer malicious attacks and less downtime.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly for small businesses: Admin and site maintenance become much easier. It is crucial since the managed WordPress hosting is considerably more expensive than shared web hosting services.
While I do sacrifice some flexibility by not having an unreliable web server as many other hosting providers, the managed hosting service handles a number of tasks that I’d normally have to handle myself.
If you’re running a small website for your business, a standard hosting provider is adequate.
If you’re building a bigger site, a managed host will save you tons of time in the end and is worth the added cost. Best Web Hosting To Use For Online Storebest}


Dart Against Humanity, the podcast where Dart Adams discusses whatever he feels like discussing whenever he feels like it however he feels like it. Enjoy... Or don’t. It’s a free country. At least for the time being it is...
Dart Adams explains that the age range, experience level & knowledge base of the audience determines their perspective thus determining their sophistication level. This sophistication level dictates the art/music/media/film/literature marketed to them. This is why no one wants to address ghostwriting in this space
Dart is fed up with people spreading false information on social media about classic film and album release dates so he dispels the myths by providing context with evidence. This concludes Season 1 of Dart Against Humanity. See you all again for Season 2!
On today’s episode of Dart Against Humanity I discuss the MCU (especially “Luke Cage” season 2), the frustrations of podcasting/content creation x metrics/numbers then wax poetic about the Summer of 1988. There will be ranting...
In this episode, Dart gets annoyed with the idea there’s only enough space for one big event or mainstream occurrence to draw the attention of a wider audience when the truth of the matter is the field/era is what lends importance to that event which can’t exist in a vacuum
Dart Adams is totally incensed at the latest episode of HipHopDX’s The Breakdown where MURS alleges there hasn’t been a classic Rap album released in a decade so he breaks down why MURS’ argument is pure trash.
Dart discusses the two NES games that helped to initiate the introduction of “Nintendo Power” in July/August 1988 which in turn caused video game journalism to explode in the following years (EGM, GamePro, Tips & Tricks, etc.)
Dart hasn’t slept since the Celtics were eliminated from the ECF last night so he recorded an episode about adapting source materials like novels (namely “Fahrenheit 451”) & comic book properties (namely “Deadpool”) then there was more ranting about journalism at the end. Ep. 8 coming later this week!
Dart recalls the days when he was exposed to a gang of different music via the radio in the 1980’s and how Black radio played White artists. Also Dart discusses the role cable TV played in music discovery in the early to mid 90’s once the radio became segregated again.
On today’s installment of Dart Against Humanity I discuss Ev of Up North Trips being mad at me then talk about how reading liner notes & album credits fostered my music appreciation thus increasing my overall knowledge base. There’s a rant in there somewhere...
This is Dart’s first episode of his podcast Dart Against Humanity. There’s no designated time or date it gets posted. There’s no format. No guests. No pre-assigned subject. No piggybacking off whatever subject is hot in pop culture. It’s Dart Adams unfiltered for however long he feels like speaking. Tonight, he runs through a list of old subjects he was going to discuss when his old podcast “Flash Drives & Aux Cords” was about to go live. Enjoy... Or don’t. Dart’s gonna do & say what he wants regardless.


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DanDan, I completely understand that since you do this for a living you don't want to share your corporate knowledge for free. I run a business too, and no-one can afford to work for free. I build spacecraft, UAV avionics, electronics, and test equipment for a living, so modifying cars is a hobby for me.
Decoding schematics and chasing down terminals and connectors is NOT very easy for the average person to do, and it's much more worth the $$$ to buy a completed system. Without ingenius folks like you, none of this would ever get off the ground. If everyone could do things like this on their own, there would be no aftermarket automotive sound system installation businesses. Even with the instructions posted, 99% of those reading them are going to realize that it's easier to pay someone to do it. Only a die hard electronics hobbyist would try it themself, even with a cookbook recipe.
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I've got a harness built, and the write-up almost complete. Yes, the kit I bought has a complete CTS harness for the Nav included, but I don't like all the adapters and extra wires. I want a clean factory looking install. I need to pull the Nav and do the actual install on Sunday to make sure it all works. There is likely already wires in the remote power or Class-2 locations on the stock harness, potentially requiring a splice. I'd prefer plug-n-play, but we'll see how it goes. I've got so many terminals left over from the Nav Phase-2 harness install . . . I've got to find a use for them somehow!