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This Week’s Best Bet:
There’s a trio of old and new classics due this week:
In “Heaven Can Wait” (1943), deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter through the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha (Gene Tierney) notwithstanding. Ernst Lubitsch’s “Heaven Can Wait,” nominated for Academy Awards for best picture and director, is an enduring classic that showcases his trademark blend of wit, urbanity, and grace. On DVD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection … Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of 1980s New York with her debut feature “Smithereens” (2012), the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren (Susan Berman) — a sparkplug in fishnets who lives dangerously downtown — moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up flyers for herself or hanging at the Peppermint Lounge, she’s getting involved with Paul (Brad Rijn), the nicest guy to ever live in a van next to the highway, and Eric (Richard Hell), an aloof rocker. Shot on 16 mm film that captures the grit and glam of the setting, with an alternately moody and frenetic soundtrack by the Feelies and others, “Smithereens” — the first independent American film to compete for the Palme d’Or — is an unfaded snapshot of a bygone era. On DVD and Blu-ray Disc from The Criterion Collection … In his 10th feature, “Tideland” (2005), Terry Gilliam adapted Mitch Cullin’s celebrated cult novel “Tideland”, a work he once described as “Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho through the eyes of Amélie.” To escape her unhappy life in a remote part of Texas, 9-year-old Jeliza-Rose dreams up an elaborate fantasy world. But the reality of having junkie parents — played by Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Tilly — and the influence of her eccentric neighbors begins to encroach, turning her daydreams ever darker. A rich slice of Southern Gothic blurring whimsical fantasy with unsettling reality, “Tideland” is among Gilliam’s most personal works — indeed, with its shifts between the amusing and the macabre, expressive camerawork and striking special effects, the film could be the very definition of Gilliamesque. On Blu-ray from Arrow Video.
Scream Factory has two great William Castle exploitation films on Blu-ray this week: In “The Tingler” (1959), Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers a parasitic creature that grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, the Tingler can be destroyed. If they don’t, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes the Tingler from a deaf mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious husband. Once captured, the Tingler escapes and runs amok in a crowded movie theater. Terror is loose, but can it be stopped? “The Tingler” is legendary horror director-producer William Castle’s magnum opus. After the success of “House on Haunted Hill,” Castle devised a new gimmick called “Percepto.” Participating theaters would wire seats so that random moviegoers would get a tangible electric shock during climactic moments in the film. Another novelty used to maximum effect is the short color sequence depicting blood pouring from a faucet and filling a bathtub. Castle went on to direct more cult classics like “Homicidal” and “13 Ghosts” and later produced the mainstream hit “Rosemary’s Baby.” Film legend Joan Crawford gives a terrific performance in the William Castle chiller “Strait-Jacket” (1964). Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, a woman who goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her 3-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death. She spends 20 years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she’s released, she moves in with her brother, Bill (Leif Erickson), his wife, Emily (Rochelle Hudson) and Carol (Diane Baker), her own daughter who is now 23. Her nightmare is over … or is it? When a spate of ax murders start occurring suddenly in the neighborhood, police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways.
From TV to Disc:
“Ash vs Evil Dead: Season 3” (2018) is a single disc with 10 episodes. Legendary horror icon Bruce Campbell stars in the truly insane, awe-inspiring, and gruesome final season of the hilarious, critically acclaimed, Starz series that follows-up the classic horror film “The Evil Dead.” Also stars Lucy Lawless, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo and newcomer Arielle Carver-O’Neill. Ash, who — having gone from urban legend to hometown hero — discovers that he has a daughter. And, when Kelly witnesses a massacre with Ruby’s fingerprints all over it, she returns to warn Ash and Pablo. On DVD, Blu-ray, from Lionsgate … “Blindspot: The Complete Third Season” (2017-18) is a four-disc set with 22 episodes. “Blindspot” tells the story of a mysterious woman (Jaimie Alexander) who is found in Times Square with her body completely covered in intricate, coded tattoos. With no memories of her past, she is clueless about her own identity. Dubbed Jane Doe, she is investigated by the FBI when they learn one of her mysterious tattoos bears the name of agent Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton). As the FBI investigates the complex treasure map of her body, an ever-widening web of conspiracy and corruption is revealed. Following the shocking second season finale, which revealed a new set of bioluminescent tattoos that mysteriously appeared on Jane Doe’s body, season three jumps forward two years as FBI Agent Kurt Weller finally tracks down Jane, who has been on the run. After the two discover her new hidden tattoos, Jane is forced to return to the FBI, where Weller, Jane and the rest of the team set out to solve these new puzzles and stop the dangerous conspiracies they reveal. The tattoos however, reveal the team’s darkest secrets. On DVD, Blu-ray, from Warner … “Blue Bloods: The Eighth Season” (2017) is a six-disc set with all 22 episodes. With an all-star cast including Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan and Will Estes, the Reagan family drama — about a multigenerational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement — continues. This season follows the Reagan family as they continue to follow every lead and work to overcome personal challenges within and outside of the work force. New York Police Commissioner Frank Reagan clashes with the new interim mayor and must defend the NYPD from a series of public scandals, while eldest son and seasoned detective Danny deals with the aftermath of a tragic accident and New York Assistant D.A. Erin Reagan reopens old cases and faces off with her ex-husband. The latest season includes guest appearances by Whoopi Goldberg, Ernie Hudson, Mimi Rogers and Lorraine Bracco. From CBS/Paramount … “Gotham: The Complete Fourth Season” (2017-18) includes all 22 episodes. Horror fills the streets as season four of Gotham witnesses the emergence of the criminal landscape for which Gotham City is best known while Bruce Wayne begins the path to vigilantism, showing signs of the caped crusader to come. Gotham City Police Department Captain Jim Gordon and Detective Harvey Bullock remain at the forefront of the fight against the most depraved and unhinged villains from Penguin to The Riddler and numerous others in between. In a five-disc DVD, four-disc Blu-ray, from Warner … “Hostages Season 2” (2016) is a three-disc set with all 12 episodes. In Season Two of the Israeli thriller, a SWAT officer has abducted the Prime Minister in order to save his wife’s life. Now he is under siege by the police force, including some of his best friends. He’s stuck with the Prime Minister in an abandoned Yeshiva building on the outskirts of Jerusalem. His wife’s medical condition is deteriorating, and he has to get out of there to save her life, but he has no plan of action, and every passing moment sinks him deeper into quicksand. Even if he manages to extricate them from the trouble they’re in, the real troubles await him outside. From Kino Lorber … “NCIS: The Fifteenth Season” (2017-18) is a six-disc set with all 24 episode. NCIS Special Agent Leroy Gibbs (Mark Harmon), a former Marine gunnery sergeant whose skills as an investigator are unmatched, leads the NCIS troupe. In this season, they continue to search the jungles of Paraguay for NCIS Special Agents Gibbs and McGee, while confronting cold cases, running secretive stings and chasing down kidnappers. From CBS/Paramount … “The Terror: The Complete First Season” (2018) is a three-disc set with all 10 episodes. Inspired by the true story of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition in the late 1800s as he ventured into uncharted territory in an attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. A desperate game of survival begins when the Royal Naval expedition faces starvation, mutiny, cannibalism, and a monstrous predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever. On DVD, Blu-ray, from Lionsgate … “The Walking Dead: The Complete Eighth Season” (2017-18) is a five-disc set with all 16 episodes. Together with the Hilltop and the Kingdom, Rick and the Alexandrians bring “All Out War” to Negan and his forces. The Saviors are larger, better equipped, and ruthless, but Rick and the unified communities are fighting for the promise of a brighter future. The battle lines are drawn as they launch into a kinetic, action-packed offensive. The eighth season bridges the stories between “The Walking Dead” and its spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead.” On DVD, Blu-ray, from Lionsgate.


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The actor Alec Baldwin fiercely insisted he was not to blame in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western being filmed in New Mexico, claiming that another person had accidentally placed a live round in the gun that went off in his grasp as he was rehearsing a scene.
“Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property,” Mr. Baldwin said in a television interview that was broadcast on Thursday night. “Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me.”
Mr. Baldwin made the comments in an emotional ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos, the first time that Mr. Baldwin has publicly given an account of what happened in October. The actor’s description of the episode may cast greater scrutiny on crew members and suppliers and the question of who was responsible for safeguarding firearms in the low-budget production.
In the interview, excerpts from which had been released on Wednesday, Mr. Baldwin also said that he did not pull the trigger of the gun he was practicing with on the set of “Rust” when it fired a live round.
“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them — never,” Mr. Baldwin said.
The fatal shooting took place on Oct. 21 near Santa Fe, N.M., on a movie set designed to be a church. Mr. Baldwin was practicing drawing an old-fashioned revolver that he had been told contained no live rounds when it suddenly fired, killing the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42, and wounding its director, Joel Souza, 48.
Mr. Baldwin said that he was stunned by what happened and that at least 45 minutes passed after the gun went off before he realized that it could have contained a live round.
What Happened on the Set of “Rust”
“I stood over her for 60 seconds as she just laid there kind of in shock,” Mr. Baldwin said.
The actor added that he did not cock the hammer of the gun, but pulled it back as far as he could and let it go in an action that might have set it off. “I let go of the hammer — bang, the gun goes off.”
Investigators are seeking to determine how a live round got into the gun that Mr. Baldwin was practicing with, why the crew members who inspected it on set failed to notice, and why the gun fired.
Mr. Baldwin’s contention that he had not pulled the trigger was supported by a lawyer for the film’s assistant director, Dave Halls, who had been standing near Mr. Baldwin inside the church set when the gun fired.
The lawyer, Lisa Torraco, told the ABC News show “Good Morning America” on Thursday that Mr. Halls had told her that “the entire time Baldwin had his finger outside the trigger guard, parallel to the barrel.” She said Mr. Halls had told her that “since Day 1, he thought it was a misfire.”
In the ABC interview, Mr. Baldwin also said he recalled that shortly before the shooting, Mr. Halls had told him, “This is a cold gun,” an industry term implying that firearm does not have live rounds and is safe to use.
“When he’s saying, ‘This is a cold gun,’ what he’s saying to everybody on the set is, ‘You can relax,’” Mr. Baldwin said.

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With the AUD/USD exchange rate at around $0.75, we were very concerned that our journey around the USA would eat up our budget in no time. Below is our financial spend on our USA trip between November 2016 and early January 2017.
Check out our articles on what we did during the 41 days after the TCS New York City Marathon:
- The costs are based upon a couple travelling together.
- We did not travel as part of an organised tour but as individual travelers.
- Not considered is the entry or exit transport into/out of the country.
Where We Travelled
Despite the fact that we arrived in San Francisco in late October 2016, our budget and actual spending calculations only started once the family returned home and Sandra and I started our minimalist journey on our own.
Travel Costs Summary Table
|Country: USA||USD per person per day|
|Total USD per person per day||$103.51|
We were in New York when we started this leg of our journey. Our airfare to return to the USA from Canada was paid for by air points. We also used air points getting out of the USA, and only paid taxes.
One of the reasons we stayed in North America after the TCS New York City Marathon was to experience New Year’s Eve in Times Square. The accommodation cost for six nights over the New Year period was USD639 and the cost of the tickets to Rosie O’Grady’s for New Year’s Eve was USD902 (not included in above). In hindsight, we didn’t get the personal value we sought in doing this experience. That said, we absolutely enjoyed ourselves.
Other Cost Summaries and Budgets
|Name||Website||Daily Amount Per Person - USD||Comments|
|Budget Your Trip||http://www.budgetyourtrip.com/united-states-of-america||$82.00||Travel style: Budget (Cheap)|
Feature photo by Aidan Bartos on Unsplash

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Is it faster to cycle? Or is it public transport?
The argument has been long and widespread and there are as many opinions as people arguing about it, but there is no need to continue no longer. The nice people from Find Property have used the data from TFL's (Transport From London) journey planner tool and come up with one of the coolest maps we've seen.
All you need to do is click on the map where you are and it will show you which areas will be faster to cycle to and which ones to commute using public transport.
The areas better suitable for cycling will be marked out in green while the pink areas are easier reached by transport. The considered transport includes buses, the Underground, the Overground, trams, walking (if the quickest way) and proper trains.
Find Property have gathered average working day peak time data from TFL using a cycling time of an average person. It's not a Boris Bike speed and neither is of a professional cyclist. What that means, you could be little faster or slower on your bike but this map should give you a pretty decent picture of where you stand in the London cycling world. To try the map for yourself, please follow this link.


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One of the best things about a night of restful sleep is that there’s nothing terribly memorable about it. Sure, you might remember turning out the light or flipping your pillow over a couple of times before you fell asleep. And maybe you woke up briefly once to use the bathroom or take a sip of water, but the next thing you know, it's morning, and you’re awake and ready to start your day.
On the other hand, what you remember about a night of restless sleep is likely a lot of things you’d like to forget: watching the red, snail-slow digits of your alarm clock, trying not to stress about the to-do list items bouncing around in your head, worrying that there must be something wrong with you because you can’t just relax and fall asleep already.
If the second scenario sounds a tad too familiar, rest assured: Experiencing some restlessness at night is normal. Whether it’s 30 minutes or even an hour of nighttime wakefulness on a semi-regular basis or the odd night of fitful sleep — restless sleep is not usually cause for alarm.
However, if persistent difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep leads to sleep deprivation and ongoing daytime sleepiness, it’s probably time to take a close look at your sleep environment and your sleep-wake behaviors. Because your daily habits — especially around light exposure and certain substances like caffeine and alcohol — affect your sleep more than you might think.
In this article, we’ll explore the symptoms and common causes of restless sleep as well as interventions and new habits that can help you get the sleep you need at night to have ample energy for your day.
There is no official clinical definition of restless sleep, but it's usually associated with things like difficulty falling asleep, frequent nighttime awakenings, a racing mind, or the feeling of being only half asleep throughout the night. To better understand restless sleep as a concept, let’s start by defining a few related terms.
Sleep latency refers to the time it takes you to fall asleep. Up to 30 minutes is usually considered normal.
Sleep efficiency (SE) is the amount of time you spend sleeping expressed as a percentage of the total time you spend in bed. SE is particularly useful in the diagnosis and treatment of insomnia. The SE of so-called "good sleepers" is generally 90% and above. For patients with insomnia, it’s less than 85%.
Sleep fragmentation is the result of repetitive short interruptions of sleep that can make you feel tired the next day. It increases the older we get. There are many potential causes — including interacting medications and certain diseases — but chief among them is a weakened bladder. Reducing fluid intake from the mid-evening onward can help, but it's not a cure-all.
Inefficient, highly fragmented sleep is no small thing. Studies show that in older adults — even when controlling for factors such as BMI, gender, race, history of smoking, frequency of exercise, medications, etc. — the lower an older individual’s sleep efficiency, the higher their mortality risk.
Generally speaking, restless sleep is most common among the elderly. As we age, we get less deep sleep with more nighttime awakenings. But restless sleep is also reported by teens and young adults. The teenage years come with a natural biological shift to a later sleep schedule, so it’s not unusual for adolescents to experience restless sleep when they try to go to bed early.
Depending on its severity and symptoms, restless sleep in younger children may be diagnosed as a pediatric sleep disorder called restless sleep disorder (RSD), which is often successfully treated with iron supplementation.
In adults, restless sleep could be a sign of a sleep disorder — sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or restless legs syndrome (RLS), for example — or an underlying condition like depression, an anxiety disorder, or another mental health issue. (Consult your doctor, a sleep specialist, or other health care provider if you suspect a sleep disorder.) Some medications — including certain antidepressants, steroids, and decongestants — can cause restless sleep as well.
But one of the most common causes of restless sleep is poor sleep hygiene.
Sleep hygiene refers to the upkeep of behaviors and habits that affect the way you sleep, and it's not just about a bedtime routine. Sleep hygiene starts the moment you open your eyes in the morning and involves everything from the timing of your light exposure and caffeine and alcohol consumption to your exercise habits and sleeping environment. Good sleep hygiene guidelines should revolve around your circadian rhythm.
Like an internal biological clock, your circadian rhythm dictates your ideal sleep and wake times, as well as the timing of your energy peaks and dips, during a roughly 24-hour period. Scheduling your day in accordance with your circadian rhythm is an important part of getting the sleep your body needs and keeping your sleep debt low.
Sleep debt is the amount of sleep you owe your body — as compared to the sleep your body needed — over the past 14 days. It’s the number that best predicts how you feel and perform on any given day. And as long as your sleep debt is below five hours, you can still feel good and perform at or near your best. (The RISE app automatically maps your circadian rhythm and helps you keep track of your sleep debt and your progress toward lowering it.)
But when you start to rack up more and more sleep debt because of restless sleep or other sleep disturbances, it won’t take long for its negative impacts to show up. In the short term, sleep debt causes cognitive impairment and will downgrade your attention span, reflexes, metabolism, and immune system. Over the long term, sleep debt increases the risk of weight gain/obesity, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, dementia, fertility problems, cancer, and other chronic diseases.
Clearly, restless sleep that leads to high sleep debt is more than just an annoyance, so let’s look at some common sleep hygiene issues and other circumstances that could be preventing you from getting the restful sleep your body needs.
Because busy lives and full schedules can make sleep issues hard to untangle, consider keeping a sleep journal to inspect influences on your sleep so you can spot patterns and connections. Getting to the bottom of what’s causing your restless sleep starts with asking the right questions.
The perfect sleeping environment is cool (65-68 degrees), dark, and quiet. Because light can disrupt your body’s natural production of the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin, a zero-light bedroom is best. So unplug your night lights and use blackout curtains or blinds and an eye mask.
Noise is also a no-go. Even if you subjectively think you’ve adapted to sleeping in a less-than-silent environment, objectively your sleep is probably suffering. To reduce ambient sounds from disrupting your sleep, use a white noise machine and earplugs.
What you experience as a sleep problem might more accurately be described as a light problem. Your circadian rhythm is heavily influenced by the cycle of light defined by the rising and setting of the sun, and the timing of your light exposure within each 24-hour cycle can have a big impact on your sleep.
Avoiding light — especially blue light and bright light— in the 90 minutes before bed will help maximize your body’s melatonin production. (A pair of blue-light blocking glasses can help, too.) And exposing yourself to light — preferably sunlight — soon after waking sends a signal to your brain to stop producing melatonin.
Your circadian rhythm thrives on consistency, so keeping a regular bedtime and wake time should be a top priority if you want to fill your nights with less restless sleep and more restorative sleep. Just be sure the sleep schedule you set allows you to get the hours of sleep your body needs. (The RISE app uses special algorithms and your recent sleep history data to automatically calculate your personal sleep need and give you an ideal bedtime and wake time based on your chronotype.)
Second only to light problems as an impediment to a good night’s sleep, mental stimulation problems often contribute to restless and insufficient sleep. To stay in the well-rested camp, schedule a nightly wind-down period to help you disconnect from the stress and busyness of the day. Read a chapter of a novel, take a warm bath or shower, meditate, or sip a cup of decaf tea.
The RISE app will tell you the perfect time for your nightly wind-down period and lets you schedule relaxation sessions and customize them with a selection of guides and recordings for relaxing sounds, progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, and autogenic training.
Alcohol does have sedative properties — though more akin to anesthesia than naturalistic sleep — but it is a very bad sleep aid because it disrupts normal sleep patterns. Alcohol-infused sleep is fragmented, meaning it’s not continuous but littered with brief awakenings. Alcohol is also a diuretic, so you're more likely to need to get up to urinate during the night. High consumption can also trigger snoring and sleepwalking, which both disrupt sleep, so it’s best to avoid alcoholic beverages 3-4 hours before bed.
A balanced diet and regular exercise are key for overall health and wellness, but food and exercise — as well as napping and caffeine — at the wrong time can disrupt sleep. Avoid caffeine 10 hours before bed, big meals three hours before bed, and exercise one hour before bed.
The best time to nap is during your afternoon dip, which you’ll find on your Energy Schedule in the RISE app. Napping later than that can make it harder to fall asleep that night. The app can remind you of the ideal cutoff times for meals, exercise, caffeine, and alcohol.
On an emotional level, there are definite upsides to sleeping in the same space as a pet. But pets can disrupt your sleep, especially if you're a lighter sleeper. Cats tend to be active at night, and dogs’ changing positions or sleep-barking can disturb your bed and your sleep. Pets with restless sleep themselves are more likely to make yours restless as well.
Sometimes dips in blood sugar can cause you to wake up in the middle of the night. If you think your restless sleep is caused by nocturnal hypoglycemia (most common among diabetics) — try a small snack before bed or talk to your doctor.
Unfortunately, restless sleep is one of the things you can expect when you’re expecting, and the third trimester is when sleep is usually the most disrupted.
A recent addition to the sleep disorder family, orthosomnia involves obsessing over the numbers given to us by our wearables and sleep technology, which can make sleep problems worse. This is one of the reasons we at Rise keep things simple and concise. We focus on sleep debt — not the time you spend in REM sleep or deep sleep, for example — as the only "score" that matters.
When we wake up during the night and can't fall back asleep, trying to force sleep to happen often backfires. That’s because we tend to not move our bodies as we concentrate on willing ourselves to sleep, which creates tension, pushing sleep further out of reach.
The most important and sometimes hardest thing to do in that situation is to not be stressed about it! The body's stress response will result in a spike of cortisol that can easily catapult you into a fully awake state.
If you wake up at night and can't fall back asleep within 20 minutes, the best strategy is to perform a sleep reset. Get out of bed and engage in a calming activity. Ultimately, sleep is about relaxation, so keep the lights low, and do something that distracts and relaxes you.
Read a book, listen to soft music, or meditate. Guided imagery exercises can help, too. By visualizing something pleasurable, the mind is able to focus on something other than restlessness, and the body remains calm, avoiding the release of stress hormones. And whatever you do, don’t lie down during the reset. Only when you start to feel sleepy again should you get back in bed.
Sleep resets don’t just help you get back to sleep, they also help prevent your brain from forming an association between your bed and wakefulness. It’s important to do what you can to nip poor sleep in the bud before it becomes chronic sleeplessness, in part caused by a fear of sleep — or fear that you won’t be able to sleep. After a certain point, cognitive behavioral treatment of insomnia (CBTI) may be required to de-condition the association between going to bed and poor sleep.
We all want to sleep soundly through the night, but the truth is, some amount of restlessness at night is normal. It’s also not unusual to wake in the middle of the night (usually about four hours into a roughly eight-hour sleep), as this is typically when the brain is transitioning from deep sleep to longer periods of REM sleep. Because the brain is more active during REM, it’s more likely you'll wake up during that time.
Waking up in the early hours of the morning is also common. The longer your sleep persists, the more the sleep pressure that helped you get to sleep has cleared. And as melatonin levels dip, the production starts up of hormones that help you wake.
You can also look at bodily movement during the night as a function of restlessness. It is quite normal and even beneficial to shift positions across the night. It helps maintain blood circulation and prevents numbness or pins and needles in the limbs, which may wake you up.
The average healthy adult sleeper moves their body around 50-60 times per night. In fact, we move around during all sleep stages except REM sleep, when the muscles are temporarily paralyzed. During the lighter stages of sleep, movements tend to only cause "mini arousals," which don't often wake you fully, so you can usually fall back asleep immediately.
On some nights, we’re not conscious of restless movements or mini arousals that happen during sleep. Other nights, restlessness can lead to fragmented sleep that can cause frustration and worry. But a couple nights of restlessness, especially if you have low sleep debt, shouldn't be worrisome. A benefit of keeping your sleep debt low (generally under five hours) is that it does give you more leeway when you have a few bad nights of sleep.
Similarly, the fact that your sleep debt — a reflection of how you feel today — is a measure of sleep deprivation over 14 days and not just last night is somewhat liberating. One night of restless sleep doesn't always mean you’ll have a lousy day.
At the end of the day, it’s important to remember that achieving healthy sleep is a lifelong practice. It’s good to take a long-term view on sleep health and being your best self, as it helps keep the occasional restless night in perspective.
However, if your bouts of sleeplessness last more than a month — causing excessive daytime sleepiness that affects your quality of life — it’s time to consult a sleep medicine doctor or find a sleep center. A sleep study and an official diagnosis will help determine the best treatment options for a sleep disorder or other medical condition.
The goal of living a life totally free from any sleep problems is probably not realistic. And at some point, most of us will experience restless sleep. But we can take comfort in the fact that as humans, biologically, we know how to sleep. Many sleep issues and disturbances are temporary and have an identifiable solution, and some will resolve themselves without much intervention.
And no matter what, good sleep hygiene is the surest path to more restful sleep. (The RISE app can send you reminders about your sleep-friendly habits.) You might be pleasantly surprised at how a few subtle lifestyle changes can help minimize restless sleep and maximize your daytime energy.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Arizona is prepared to lose about one-fifth of the water the state gets from the Colorado River in what could be the first federally declared shortage in the river that supplies millions of people in the U.S. West and Mexico, state officials said Thursday.
Arizona stands to lose more than any other state in the Colorado River basin that also takes in parts of Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Nevada and California. That’s because Arizona agreed long ago to be the first in line for cuts in exchange for federal funding for a canal system to deliver the water to Arizona’s major metropolitan areas.
The Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Central Arizona Project, which manages the canal system, said the anticipated reductions will be painful, but the state has prepared for decades for a shortage through conservation, water banking, partnerships and other efforts.
“It doesn’t make it any less painful. But at least we know what is coming,” said Ted Cooke, general manager of the Central Arizona Project.
Farmers in central Arizona’s Pinal County, who already have been fallowing land amid the ongoing drought and improving wells to pump groundwater in anticipation of the reductions, will bear the brunt of the cuts. Most farms there are family farms that are among the state’s top producers of livestock, dairy, cotton, barley, wheat and alfalfa.
In Pinal County, up to 40 percent of farmland that relies on Colorado River water could be fallowed over the next few years, said Stefanie Smallhouse, president of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation.
“That’s a big blow,” she said. “I can’t think of many other businesses that can take a 40 percent cut in their income within a few months and still be sustainable. When you farm, it’s not only a business, it’s your livelihood.”
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projected earlier this month that Lake Mead, which delivers water to Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico, will fall below 1,075 feet for the first time in June 2021. If the lake remains below that level in August when the bureau issues its official projection for 2022, Arizona and Nevada will lose water.
The two states already voluntarily have given up water under a separate drought contingency plan.
The voluntary and mandatory Tier 1 cuts mean Arizona will lose 18 percent of its Colorado River supply, or 512,000 acre-feet of water. The amount represents 30 percent of the water that goes to the Central Arizona Project and 8 percent of Arizona’s overall water supply.
Some of that water will be replaced through exchanges, transfers from cities to irrigation districts or through water that was stored in Lake Mead. The state, tribes and others also contributed financially to help develop groundwater infrastructure.


text: This ring is handmade in Thailand and one of a kind. A unique and natural green tourmaline crystal is situated atop a 14K gold embraced, twisted, crescent shape. An interesting note, Green Tourmaline crystals come in color shades from light lime to dark emerald green. The official name for Green is Verdelite. Sometimes the crystals form in/on Quartz Crystals. This tourmaline crystal is light green in color. A small, round Chrome Diopside stone accents the gold crescent design. Chrome Diopside is mined in Russia. All of this rests on a black rhodium band that is carved in a criss cross design. This ring is solid sterling silver and the accents of 14K gold and black rhodium have been placed on top. The ring is a size 9.75 and $78.00.

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The Israeli grandparents of Eitan, the 6-year-old boy who survived when a cable car cabin fell into the void in northern Italy last May and 14 people died, they are being investigated for kidnapping, after the child’s transfer to Israel, local media reported on Tuesday
The prosecutor’s office of Parma (north) investigates Shmuel Pelegha and his ex-wife, Etty, after last Saturday the grandfather transferred the little boy without consent on a private plane to Israel, where his maternal family lives, following the complaint from his paternal aunt who took care of him after the death of his parents and his brother in the accident.
“The Peleg family is holding Eitan like the Israeli army soldiers are imprisoned in Hamas prisons” and “they refuse to say where the child is,” said the paternal uncle, who launched “a call to intervene politicians”, in a case that could have diplomatic implications.
Italian Foreign Minister Lugi di Maio said Monday that Italian authorities are “doing checks to find out what happened and then act.”
“Little Eitan”, as he is known in Italy, where he became a symbol of hope after surviving the tragedy On May 23, she has been at the center of a custody battle for months, after her maternal family had claimed her from Israel.
The prosecution opened the investigation after the maternal grandfather, who had moved to Italy after the tragedy, did not deliver the child to his home at the scheduled time after a visit allowed by the judge.
The first investigations of the Pavia Police concluded that the grandfather and the minor had boarded a private flight in which the child was able to go up because he had his passport, which allowed expatriation, and later the confirmation of the landing of the plane in Israel came through diplomatic channels, according to the same sources.
“The news shocks everyone and causes us great concern. He was ripped from the family he grew up with, from the doctors who treat him, in a traumatic way that can destabilize him, “said Armando Simbari, one of the Italian family’s lawyers.
A tragedy that mourned a country
Italy was pending for weeks the evolution of the little Eitan, who after the accident was admitted to the Intensive Care unit of the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin (north) due to injuries before being transferred to the plant and start a psychological program after the tragedy that suffered.
On June 10, he was discharged and left with his aunt, after being informed of the death of his parents.
The Italian Justice investigates twelve people and two companies for the accident suffered by the minor’s family and the rest of the occupants of the cabin that fell into the void between the Alpine mountain of Mottarone and the town of Stresa on May 23.
All of them are accused of intentional multiple homicide, disaster due to negligence and disposal of tools to avoid work accidents, after the chief of operations of the cable car admitted that disabled the braking system, to avoid closing the installation, which caused the fall.


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Our late lunch/early dinner included the aforementioned C3PO Potato Salad, of course, as well as a casserole and a saucy onion dish. What were their names, you ask?
1 lb lean ground beef (uncooked)
6 oz beef stock or broth
One 10-ish oz can of cream of celery soup
One 14.5 oz can sliced carrots, drained
One 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes, not drained
2 oz (1/4 cup) Worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons dill relish
Instant white rice - fill one of the empty 14.5 oz cans as a measurement
1+ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Mix all of the ingredients EXCEPT for the cheddar cheese in a 2.5+ quart baking dish. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, stir well, then bake for another 15 minutes.
- Take the casserole from the oven and top with the shredded cheddar, place back in the oven and bake another 15 minutes or until cheese is melted (it should seriously be melted after 15 minutes though)
2-3 large white onions, sliced
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon butter
1 pinch red pepper flakes
1 cup ketchup
1 tablespoon water
- Add a couple tablespoons olive oil to a skillet (so that there is a thin layer on the bottom) and heat over medium-low. Add the onions, cover and let simmer for 7 minutes.
- Remove the cover, add the remaining ingredients and mix well. Replace cover and reduce the heat to low/simmer and continue to cook for 40 minutes.
I have to admit, I was a little unsure about the casserole and onion recipes especially, but I ended up being pleasantly surprised! Also, those two dishes along with the potato salad actually complemented each other very well :)
We continued our lightsaber game and came up with 6 that are definitely lost/ruined (Obi Wan's & Darth Maul's in Ep. I; Anakin's in Ep. II; Yoda's & Mace Windu's in Ep. III; Luke's in Ep. V), one that is almost lost (Anakin's at the beginning of Ep. II), one that is lost but picked up by someone else (Anakin's at the end of Ep. III), and one that may or may not have been lost and I suppose we'll never know (Obi Wan's in Ep. IV) ;) Let's just say we had fun keeping an eye out for them! Possibly almost as much fun as you just had reading this paragraph...haha...kidding. No, but really.
Anyway. So. we had one more dish to try and we used this one as a late night snack...and it was delicious! (Though part of that was likely the Wheat Thins Tuscan Herb Flatbread Crackers that we used to complement it...)
R2 CHOKE SPREAD
28 oz. quartered arthichoke hearts, *not marinated*
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup grated Parmesan Cheese
3 cloves garlic, minced
Paprika for garnish
- Add the artichoke hearts, mayo, Parmesan cheese and garlic to a food processor and combine until coarsely chopped.
- Pour into a lightly greased baking dish and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Sprinkle with the paprika and serve hot!
We did end up having a couple of interruptions to our marathon, which led to us not finishing until around 3 AM...ugh. But it was so nice to sit and watch Star Wars and reminisce all day, for sure. And hey, the cats enjoyed it too!

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A new poll of Americans churchgoers by Gallup found what appeals to them most is biblically-based sermons. Naturally, everyone thinks this speaks to the preeminence of their own method. And many of their points are well taken.
A more interesting (and helpful) discussion, though, is what we should do based on these findings. Should we focus primarily on service planning, pouring a higher percentage of the budget into lights, A/V equipment, and screens? Should pastors ditch their three-point, Keller-like outlines and start listening to more Andy Stanley?
Before coming to any conclusions, it would be wise to remember what these findings actually are. Gallup was polling American Christian churchgoers, and its focus was asking them what was most appealing to them about church. As stated already, their answer was the sermon. But there’s an inherent danger in reading statistics like these.
The danger is that we over-(or under) emphasize the findings. Yes, Americans like their biblical sermons (and praise God for that). But does that mean the sermon should be the church’s primary focus? Hardly.
I can think of two reasons why we should be careful in overemphasizing these results.
Two reasons we shouldn’t overemphasize these findings
First, the church’s primary mission is making disciples that reach the world for Christ. By that metric, the church in America is not doing so great. Mainline denominations are shrinking. The percentage of Nones is on the rise. The number of people who share Jesus with the people around them is abysmal. The same people who are going to church less and almost never share their faith really like sermons, but apparently those sermons alone aren’t enough to encourage them to do their part in fulfilling the Great Commission. (Yes, this is painting with a broad brush, but that’s what we’re talking about – polls and research showing popular opinion and statistics.)
Second, the church shouldn’t make decisions about its practices based solely on what appeals to people. By all means, we should be adapting the gospel message to each generation and context, but that doesn’t mean we tailor our approach simply based on what appeals to them. If the average churchgoer almost never shares Jesus in their life, then should we really be basing our strategy on what appeals to them? Ice cream appeals most to my three children, but I don’t make parenting decisions based on that alone. I know they need to learn moderation, how to be kind and loving, how to have self-control. Making decisions solely with their priorities in mind might get them to like me, but it’s not going to shape their character. If I want what’s best for them, then I’ll involve them in activities that might appeal far less, like obeying their mother when she asks them to clean their room. I’ll still take them to get ice cream as a treat, but it can’t be the primary way they’re being shaped.
But as I said, the danger isn’t only in overemphasizing the sermon’s appeal to churchgoers, but underemphasizing it as well. Here are two reasons why.
Two reasons we shouldn’t underemphasize these findings
First, if biblical sermons appeal most to churchgoers, then church-planters and pastors had better be paying attention. Many in the missional church stream already downplay the importance of the sermon, but to do so is a mistake when we know its appeal. Regardless of the sermon’s importance in their spiritual formation (and I think it plays a significant role), its appeal to Americans is undeniable. So if we want to reach our communities for Christ, then we better be working as hard as we can to handle the Word rightly and communicate its Truth in a compelling way. Otherwise, there won’t be very many people to disciple.
Second, if the sermon appeals most to churchgoers, then this is the time we know we have their attention. I can’t overemphasize the importance of this: we live in an attention economy. Attention is money, and the world is working around the clock to make sure they get it. If Americans find sermons the most appealing part of church, then we should leverage their attention while we have it. That means our discipleship initiatives, mission experiences, serving opportunities, and much much more need to be highlighted during sermons. If you want people in a small group, talk about your own experience with one in an illustration. To take this further, the sermon content shouldn’t be relegated to the 30-45 minutes on the weekend. If that content is what is most appealing to them, break it down into discussion guides or devotional reflections. Edit it down into bite-size YouTube clips and send them to your people. Repurpose the sermon to engage people more, and along the way we might just find they learn it better and apply it more.
There is great value in the kind of polls and findings put out by Gallup and Barna and others. But there is also great danger. The task of the church is to discern what they might tell us about reaching and teaching the world for Christ. After all, the numbers change, but the mission stays the same.


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With a capital gain of -8.71% for the last 12 months, Hill Top, 2575 has performed for property investments than its average annual 7.07% property growth over the last 5 years.
Comparing Hill Top,2575 ‘s 5year and quarterly average capital gain offered to property investors, it performed less well across the longer period
Property buyers and investors in Hill Top 2575 should be seeing an average reduction in asking price of around -7.44% . This means that Hill Top is holding prices well when compared to other suburbs in NSW.
Renters in Suburb are facing rents around $23400 per annum or $450 every week.

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(Host) Voters in Newfane face some weighty deliberations in addition to the usual local matters this year.
An article on the Town Meeting warning asks whether the town wants to impeach the president.
VPR’s Susan Keese reports:
(Keese) The article asks if the town should direct its Congressman to file articles of impeachment to remove George W. Bush from office.
It accuses the President of illegal use of torture and domestic spying. It charges that he misled U.S. citizens about Iraq’s ties to Al Quaeda and about weapons of mass destruction.
Newfane Selectboard member Dan DeWalt circulated the petition to get it on the warning.
(DeWalt) “It’s unlikely that Newfane’s little declaration is going to get the president impeached. But if we don’t do anything then we’re complicit in his action as far as I’m concerned. So by calling for impeachment — if it’s voted in Town Meeting — at least the town of Newfane is making a statement that we do not agree and that you are not doing this in our name.”
(Keese) DeWalt says he’s not aware of any other towns considering impeachment on Town Meeting Day.
But a Rockingham woman is gathering signatures for a special town meeting there to consider a similar resolution.
Meanwhile a spokesman for Representative Bernard Sanders says the Congressman has been trying to get the House to investigate administration policies.
Jeff Weaver is Sanders’ Washington Chief of Staff.
He says impeachment doesn’t make sense at this point.
(Weaver) “We haven’t done the investigations that we need to do to ascertain the facts that would support such a move… In addition to that, the Republicans who control the House and Senate also control that process, and if they’re not even willing to have a thorough and serious investigation into the administration’s conduct before and during the war, they’re certainly also not going to support articles of impeachment, so from that standpoint it’s not a very practical approach.”
(Keese) The Newfane resolution will be discussed at Town Meeting, prior to a floor vote.
For Vermont Public Radio, I’m Susan Keese.


Robotics for Kid Geniuses: Color Interior
FULL COLOR INTERIOR Edition.444 PAGES. A fantastic addition for CLASSROOM and SCHOOL libraries!A great gift for birthdays, holidays and awards!Whether you are an elementary student, college student teacher or hobbyist, this book is for you. This is not a hokey scaled-down kids book. The content is engaging, entertaining and incredibly advanced and detailed. Robotics for Kid Geniuses is written in a very unique and clever way like no other author has done before! It uses cute and intelligent kids to teach an advanced subject and turns a hard-to-understand topic into something that is so fun to learn that you won't be able to put the book down! This book is a compendium that is an authoritative bible for anyone wanting to build robots! You will learn about how robots are made from scratch, even if you don't know anything about electronics or coding. It starts with telling how the atom works, how electric current works and how to build circuits. It goes into great detail on how to install the Arduino IDE on every type of computer and gives complete details on what each pin and part of the Arduino does and how to use and connect to it. Then it works up to how to connect to and program the Arduino to build many different types of projects, including robot rovers. It shows you how to hook up the wires, IC chips, LED's, motors and other components and how to write C/C++ code. It tells you what tools and parts you need and how to find them inexpensively. You will learn how to use a multimeter and other tools, as well as learn all about powering your projects. It goes into great detail on batteries and how to step down the volts and power each component in your projects without having to spend a fortune. Lastly, there is a support website, https://www.y2kLeader.com where you can communicate with the author and ask questions, take online quizzes and copy codes that are listed in the book!


text: The Romanoff family, the developers of a proposed office tower near the High Line, has cut the size of the building at 437 West 13th Street in response to criticism from preservationists. The Romanoffs originally wanted to build a 215-foot, 12-story office building that extended over the High Line, but they have reduced that to a 201-foot building that will no longer extend over the park. The building will also no longer have the cellar that would have been constructed below the High Line. The Romanoffs had originally said that the High Line would increase their construction expenses, and they sought a variance to increase the building’s size in the hope of recouping a fair return from the property. The Board of Standards and Appeals will hold another hearing on the project in September.


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To request an extension, use North Carolina Form D-410 (Application for Extension for Filing Individual Income Tax Return). If you owe North Carolina tax, remember to make an extension payment with your request and submit Form D-410 by the original due date of your return (April 15). Your extension request can be filed and paid electronically via North Carolina’s Online Filing and Payment system: dornc.com/electronic/individuals
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Stateless children, parents & undocumented migration: An Indonesian pilot study
Leslie Butt (CAPI and Department of Anthropology) and Jessica Ball (Child and Youth Care) have received a two-year Insight Development Grant from SSHRC to carry out research in Southeast Asia on undocumented migrant families. The project, entitled Stateless Children, Parents and Undocumented Migration: An Indonesian Pilot Study, will form part of CAPI’s Migration and Mobility program. CAPI will help with the logistics of coordinating research activities in Indonesia and Malaysia among the Bugis migrant community who regularly travel between the two countries.
The research team, including geographer Harriot Beazley (USC, Australia), will explore how migrant parents who travel illegally understand the idea of citizenship for their children. The team will travel to Indonesia to interview Indonesian migrant parents who regularly work in Malaysia, often in disempowering and dangerous conditions. The team will investigate what options parents consider when they are faced with the expectation that they will register their children and conform to state expectations around citizenship and belonging, and what experiences of statelessness mean to them. This study will be carried out in 2014-2015, and is expected to lead to a full Insight grant application on the topic of parenting, migration, and citizenship in Southeast Asia.
The pilot project has received funding of $62,000 from SSHRC. CAPI and the University will also contribute funds to the project.
|Leslie Butt, PhD, Jessica Ball, PhD & Harriet Beazley, PhD||June 10, 2015|
|Pengambilan keputusan keluarga dalam pencatatan kelahiran di kalangan pekerja migran transnasional di Indonesia: Implikasi bagi kibijakan dan praktik pelaksanaannya (Indonesian Translation)||Leslie Butt, PhD, Jessica Ball, PhD & Harriet Beazley, PhD||June 10, 2015|
Leslie Butt, PhD, Jessica Ball, PhD & Harriet Beazley, PhD
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Preliminary Field Research Report, Lombok and Jakarta, May 2014
Jessica Ball, PhD, Leslie Butt, PhD & Harriet Beazley, PhD
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|Advancing Research on 'Stateless Children': Family Decision Making and Birth Registration among Transnational Migrants in the Asia-Pacific Region||Jessica Ball, PhD, Leslie Butt, PhD, Harriet Beazley, PhD & Natasha Fox, MA||Dec. 9, 2014|
|Migration, Mobility and Transnational Families: New Priorities in the Asia-Pacific||Leslie Butt, PhD||April 8, 2014|

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In a Ugandan prison for two murders he didn't commit, Henry is losing hope. He pleads with God for a sign. Jim, in California, finds himself saying a small yes to God, who brings their two lives together with momentous results.
Jim Gash, former Los Angeles lawyer and current president and CEO of Pepperdine University, tells the amazing story of how, after a series of God-orchestrated events, he finds himself in the heart of Africa defending a courageous Ugandan boy languishing in prison and wrongfully accused of two separate murders. Ultimately, their unlikely friendship and unrelenting persistence reforms Uganda's criminal justice system, leaving a lasting impact on hundreds of thousands of lives and revealing a relationship that supersedes circumstance, culture, and the walls we often hide behind. Jim and Henry's story, and the larger narrative of Ugandan criminal justice reform, was featured in a documentary by Revolution Pictures.


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The Burning Island: Jock Serong in conversation with Mirandi Riwoe
Byron Writers Festival in partnership with Lennox Art Board (LAB) invite you to join celebrated Australian storyteller Jock Serong and acclaimed writer Mirandi Riwoe for a lively discussion about Jock’s new novel The Burning Island.
Irresistible prose, unforgettable characters and magnificent, epic storytelling: The Burning Island delivers everything readers have come to expect from Jock Serong. It may be his most moving, compelling novel yet.
When: Friday 12 March, 6pm
Where: Lennox Cultural Centre, 1 Mackney Ln, Lennox Head
Tickets: $20 Members / $25 General + booking fee
Accessibility This event will be Auslan interpreted.
Health & Safety
This is a Covidsafe event, therefore we will be operating at restricted capacity with social distancing measures in place.
For the health & safety of all, signage & sanitising stations are set up throughout the venue.
We ask that you adhere to all Covid guidelines while attending the event.
Jock Serong was once a criminal lawyer. He’s since been the editor of Great Ocean Quarterly, and a regular writer in the surfing media and more generally in publications such as The Monthly, The Guardian, the SMH and the Australian Financial Review. His first novel, Quota, appeared in 2014, and since then his work has been awarded the Colin Roderick Prize, the Staunch Prize and an ACWA Ned Kelly. His current book, The Burning Island, is the second novel of a trilogy about the early history of Bass Strait’s Furneaux Islands. He’s in the late stages of a Creative Writing PhD based around his first historical novel, Preservation. More than anything, he likes to write about the sea.
About Mirandi Riwoe
Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella V and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer Stories. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).


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Public opinion has shifted in favor of requiring masks and face coverings in public amid spiking coronavirus cases and new public health guidelines across the United States.
A poll released Thursday by the The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 75% of those polled were “strongly” or “somewhat” in favor of requiring people to wear masks in public when around other people. Only 13% of respondents “strongly” or “somewhat” opposed such requirements.
The survey also found that a majority of both Democrats and Republicans agreed with mask requirements. Among Democrats, 89% said they were “strongly” or “somewhat” in favor while 59% of Republicans said the same. The poll results showed 95% of Democrats and 75% of Republicans said they wore masks when leaving the house.
The survey found that 81% of Americans were at least somewhat concerned that they or a family member could be infected with the coronavirus. An overwhelming 95% of Democrats surveyed said they were at least somewhat concerned, and 64% of Republicans said the same.
More than half of U.S. states have implemented mask requirements but the issue has become politicized over concerns about civil liberties and the efficiency of masks in preventing infections, CNBC reported. (RELATED: The 2020 Mask Debate: Here Are The Extreme Reactions To Mask Requirements)
Officials at the state and federal level have also expressed concern that continuing to implement restrictions in order to stop the virus from spreading could hamstring the economy, according to the Associated Press. The U.S. has nearly four million confirmed cases and more than 143,000 reported deaths, per to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center.
President Donald Trump appeared to endorse wearing masks as “patriotic” in a tweet Monday featuring a photo of himself wearing a mask.
We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance. There is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President! pic.twitter.com/iQOd1whktN
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2020
Trump also said the pandemic was going to “get worse before it gets better” in a statement at the White House on Monday, the Associated Press reported.
The poll surveyed 1,057 American adults via mail, email, telephone and field interviews between July 16-20. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percentage points.


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Conductor’s Club Member Links
Here’s where you can access the entire catalog of Conductor’s Club recordings… and plan a long weekend if you want to listen to everything. Actually, that might take more like several months!
As a Conductor’s Club member, you have access to every call recording going back to our first call in 2011. That’s a LOT of information. All files are MP3 audio files, with the exception of a few MP4 video files. After 2012, the file names include major content from the call.
Our weekly calls are uploaded and available within hours after each call.
Clicking on the link at the top of this page should give you instant access to our shared MediaFire folder for Conductor’s Club Studio Hotline Calls.
When working with a script during our Zoom Calls, please share your screen so everyone on the call can see what we’re working on.
I hope you find your Conductor’s Club membership helpful and productive. If there’s anything I can do to improve this Masters Class, please let me know.

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Category Archives: Inspirations
A beautiful Irish Blessing we share with each other and our children in family yoga classes. May the long time sun Shine upon you, All love surround you, And the pure light within you Guide your way on.
Blessing for a Mother-to-Be From Benedictus by John O’Donohue (Bantam Press, London 2007: pp.72-73) Nothing could have prepared Your heart to open like this. From beyond the skies and the stars This echo arrived inside you And started to pulse … Continue reading
“Like a Leaf”, Excerpted from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf … Continue reading
It’s true that we live in a harsh world, but it’s also true that gentleness invades that harshness with its own kind of beauty. We see it in the way a mother cradles a newborn baby, in the eyes of … Continue reading
When there is light in the soul there is beauty in the person. When there is beauty in the person there is harmony in the house. When there is harmony in the house there is order in the nation. When … Continue reading
“The practice of yoga is fundamentally an act of kindness toward oneself.” Judith Lasater

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The Fool Specifications
Help The Fool become a hero and save the beautiful princess from the jaws of a ferocious dragon.
Who said that only brave knights on white stallions can become Heroes? The Fool must save adorable princess Catherine from the jaws of a terrible dragon. Travel across the kingdom and explore different locations as you set off on an epic journey in this fun Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure game. Discover that a Hero lives in every one of us in The Fool.
Play as one of several different character types and explore a huge world.
Lead a band of freedom fighters in an epic struggle to save the galaxy.
Stop Morgana from defeating and slaying all the knights.

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1. The familial resemblance in casual blood pressure was studied in material derived from an ophthalmic population survey. The population consisted of 1078 individuals forming 373 families and 1410 pairs divided into groups with different relationships. In order to adjust for age, the difference between the logarithm of the systolic blood pressure and that of the value expected from a linear regression on age was used instead of the observed pressure.
2. There was no significant correlation between spouses. Children did not resemble their fathers at all. Sons and daughters were significantly correlated with their mothers. The resemblance between siblings was even greater and highly significant. The familial resemblance was not dependent on synchronized pressure readings or on a common household and was not related to the time available for cumulation of effects.
3. Together these findings formed a pattern strongly suggesting long-lasting maternal effects on the systolic blood pressure.


What Does An Alternator Regulator Do?
It supplies current to the rotating part of the alternator.
Simple alternators are originally electromechanical devices that switched the field current on and off to control the output voltage of a regulator.
Today’s alternator regulators are semiconductor based and the most sophisticated are controlled by embedded computer chips, and they are all externally mounted.
The Voltage Regulator:
It limits the maximum voltage in the electrical system.
- With regulators for the alternator system, voltage limiting is the means of controlling output.
- If the alternator was allowed to constantly produce all the power it could, system voltage would rise to a damaging level, the battery would overcharge, components would be damaged, and the alternator would soon overheat and burn out.
- Electronic voltage regulators have replaced the old vibrating point type regulator, and electronic regulators react even faster.
- With a modern electronic voltage regulator, the voltage at the system will be very consistent.
The battery serves as a big cushion in the system, which also smoothes out voltage levels. The battery prevents major and sudden voltage changes in the system.
It handles several jobs. Its first job is to distribute the high voltage from the coil to the correct cylinder.
- The distributor is the component that transfers the voltage from the ignition coil to the spark plugs. The distributor is driven by the engine's camshaft.
Modern Ignition Systems:
Newer ignition systems do not have distributors. They have multiple ignition coils, each dedicated to a spark plug or one ignition coil for two spark plugs. The Engine Control Unit (ECU) controls the ignition system.
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In the new TV show, the Loose Women panelist is introducing her family, sat next to husband Kieran Hayler.
Going through her five children, Katie first speaks about Dwight Yorke's son Harvey who was born with severe disabilities, and "happens to be king of the house".
She then adds: "Our second child is Junior, he's 12."
But Kieran cuts in: "No, he's 12 this year. He's 11."
And Katie laughs: "I told you I get them mixed up."
The former Celebrity Big Brother winner then goes on to talk about her daughter Princess - who she shares with Peter Andre - calling her a "mini, mini, mini me".
Next up is Jet, Kieran's son, who she seemingly also doesn't know the age of.
She says: "Then we've got Jet, who'll be three this year."
Kieran interjects again: "No, not three, four."
Again, an embarrassed Katie laughs: "Told you I'm useless!"
But she's then fine again, when she talks about her last child Bunny.
*Katie Price: My Crazy Life starts on Quest Red at 10pm on Monday 10 July


Public invited to share ideas on design of mental health crisis center
Douglas County residents are invited Tuesday and Wednesday to share ideas about what they want in a mental health crisis intervention center.
Treanor Architects and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will be hosts Tuesday and Wednesday of a charrette, or stakeholders meeting, designed to gather community input on the design of a crisis intervention center.
The Douglas County Commission and Bert Nash support building a crisis center to fill a gap in the continuum of services to residents living with mental illness in the county. It would provide local overnight or extended care options for those in a mental health crisis.
In December, the County Commission and Bert Nash signed a memorandum of understanding that would have the county pay for the construction of a crisis center on land Bert Nash owns north of the Community Health Facility and adjacent to the Sandra J. Shaw Community Health Park. Last month, the County Commission awarded a contract to Treanor Architects to design the facility.
Jeff Lane, of Treanor Architects, said the charrette would start with a day of activities from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday in conference rooms A, B and C on the second floor of the Bert Nash center, 200 Maine St. Mike Treanor, a principal with Treanor, and Bert Nash CEO David Johnson will kick off the charrette at noon with short presentations on the purpose of the crisis center.
Visitors would then be invited to visit stations to share ideas on the crisis center’s design, Lane said. The stations would include drawing tables so that people can sketch out floor plans and computers on which they can select and print out features from other facilities or undertake online searches for such features. There also would be writing stations at which visitors can explain their ideas, he said.
Visitors also will be invited to share ideas about other uses at the crisis center’s Second Street site, such as a place to view the community health park’s lake, a soccer field or ball field, Lane said. Although how much property will be available has not been fully determined, there would be space for such applications, he said.
The charrette will conclude with a noon luncheon on Wednesday at the same Bert Nash conference rooms, Lane said. Community members are invited to join in the search for consensus on the crisis center’s design based on trends that emerged from ideas shared Tuesday.
The County Commission has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Bert Nash to fund construction of the crisis intervention center on the Second Street site that Bert Nash owns. No financing mechanism has yet been proposed, and a price tag for the facility hasn’t been determined. It has been proposed the crisis intervention center will be part of a package that includes an expansion of the Douglas County Jail. County officials have provided a rough estimate of $30 million for the jail expansion.


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More is greater. More is “in addition.” If others see us less, we are probably doing more. When we are open to doing more, we receive more.
If we are willing to do more than expected, we’ll be compensated to do more than we do, because the more we do, the more we can do.
The more we share, the more we have. Then at some magical point, we do more with less work and we are just that, more.
Let us keep learning and yearning to be more and give more today.
What type of logic do we use when making decisions, even small decisions?
Is it emotion-based or value-based?
Emotion-based logic is making decisions based on how we feel, like I want that 2nd cookie or I don’t want to work out or I don’t want to study for an upcoming class.
Value-based logic is making decisions based on what is most important to us.
When we make value-based decisions we build trust within ourselves and change the relationship with our thoughts. We in turn are more effective. We are more confident that we can achieve our aspirations.
Let us make value-based decisions based on what we value most today.
What does average look like to us?
One way to get better is to live above our average.
Our average reflects who we are.
Maybe all we need to do is work to improve our average every day.
What if we reset our average to level up above where we want to be? I bet we would move ourselves up faster if we did.
Let us create a better average for ourselves today.
Our external worth is a reflection of our inner self-worth and how effectively we bring our unique gifts in service to others.
How we live is either fueling our worth or depleting it.
Our value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see our worth.
How we perceive our worth is the quality of relationship between our minds and emotions.
Let us feel “worth” while and let it be a reflection of our energy today.
It’s one thing to make a big deal about doing something for someone else and everyone knows about it.
It’s another to do something for someone who will never be able to reciprocate.
Kindness is backed up by silent actions and kind words.
Let us sow our seeds quietly and be an opportunity to be a blessing for someone less fortunate today!
What does it take to be tough enough to push us to keep going when we want to stop or persevere through hurdles and challenging situations? That one thing varies for each of us. Mostly likely it’s something that aligns with what we value most.
We may not know what we are capable of until we push ourselves to the maximum level with perseverance. That’s when we find our true depth.
Perseverance is power and pushing ourselves gives us the power.
There’s nothing better than pushing through what seems impossible and standing at the finish line looking back on our success.
Let us be tough and say “I can’t believe I did that” today.
It takes high energy and full participation to make an impact. It’s this level of enthusiasm that shows we are driven by full in, all out commitment.
Why would we want to give anything less?
We can tell a lot about ourselves and others by how we invest our time and the level of energy we give to it.
When we do it with meaning, purpose, high energy, and a ready to contribute attitude, the momentum takes hold, and nothing can stop us.
Let us create a whirlwind of “all in” commitment today.
People believe people that believe in themselves.
If we believe we are average, then average opportunities will come our way.
In whatever we desire to be, we must align ourselves with that being, then of course work like the dickens to be it. Nothing comes easy. Self-belief backed by hard work breeds success.
When we start treating ourselves like who we want to become, we teach people how to treat us.
When we believe in our worth, we find it more challenging to be around people that don’t value us.
Let us believe in ourselves and act like it today.
A spark of inspiration can ignite a fresh perspective or set a new direction in our lives. This spark comes from deep down inside and makes our mind shake with the excitement of new possibilities.
The key is to know what sparks us then use it to illuminate our day.
Our spark can be a flame that can change anything that comes our way. It inspires us to do extraordinary things and produce our best work.
Let our spark be on fire with inspirational activity today.
No one likes a bragger. At the same time, minimizing our success is preventing others from sharing in our success.
There is a time and a place to toot our own horn.
The key is to share it with those that support us, don’t feel threatened by us and are genuinely happy when we are successful.
If we are authentic and unpretentious, we have a greater chance for our message to be well received. When we emphasize the hard work that was put into achieving our success, others respect us more.
Let us speak of our success with gratitude and thank those that provide us with opportunities today.


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Student cooks mingle with the crowd in the George Brown foyer
The Promising future-chefs were out to impress with their eye-catching displays of appetizers. With so much selection it was really tough to choose what to nibble, especially when some were so very good that we had to have two of them…maybe three...ok finnnne, four.
Fresh spring rolls
Bison Carpaccio with Root Vegetables puree (thinly sliced Bison cured with Juniper berries)
The atrium was filled to the brim with hungry foodies who bustled from table to table. We fought our way through the crowd and ate and ate until we were completely stuffed (I’m talking after a large Thanksgiving meal full!). While we were buzzing around we had the pleasure to run into Chef John Higgins. We stopped to chat while tasting succulently sweet honey ginger chicken skewers. Between bites he told us how proud he was of all the students. And of course he should be. Almost every morsel that entered our mouths caused a reaction of “ooh”, “mmm” or “ohmygawd, you have to try this!”


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As my daughter prepares for her first year of middle school, I am having all sorts of feelings. There are moments when I am excited but anxious the next.
I want my daughter to enjoy and be successful in middle school. I have an opportunity to actively and positively guide and influence her experience.
Parenting older kids has a way of making parents feel as if they are alone. Research shows that parents of older kids are more stressed than parents of newborns!
Parenting middle schoolers isn't a time for us to separate but a time for us to unite.
As a result, I am writing this series not only as therapy for myself but to encourage and equip other parents of older kids.
Parents, we've experienced middle school as kids. This time around though, we get to experience it as adults. If you're like me, you may not be looking forward to it!
Have you thought about why you're not looking forward to this new life chapter?
I have and here's what's occupying my brain space as she enters middle school:
My middle school years weren't completely horrible but there were a thousand other places I would have rather been than there! Regardless of my experience, my daughter does not deserve to have my experiences laid upon her.
I must keep myself in check so that I don't live through her in order to correct my boring middle school years.
It's pretty easy to do, right?
I felt that if I wore the "right" clothes, had the "perfect" hairstyle, and laughed at the cruel jokes being made about someone else, I would have been accepted in middle school.
So glad there was no social media back then!
I never had an "open door policy" with my parents, so I am not sure how they felt about my growing need for independence or if they ever thought about how our relationship would develop as I became a teenager.
Whoa, I got issues and these issues can be a danger to her. My emotional scars are not her burden to bear, she's got a ton of emotions she's already dealing with.
I admit it, I can go overboard with trying to shield her from the meanness of growing up.
I've never thought of myself as a helicopter parent but over the past few years, I've been gaining altitude.
This is weird because this is not my first time at the rodeo, my son is 21! Having a daughter changes things, sorry if that doesn't fit the current feminist movement.
Regardless of boy or girl, it's still important for parents to not project our insecurities onto our children. By doing that, we set up a checklist that we judge them by. It has the potential to crush their spirits, teaching them to rely on other people's opinions rather than trusting their own judgment.
Here's how I am recovering:
Middle school represents a time of transition for both parent and child. All of the things occupying my brain space are normal, I can choose how I react to them. I cannot base my reaction on my middle school experiences because my daughter and I are two different people.
So, I am learning to embrace this time of change and am excited to see my daughter develop (one eyeroll at a time!) into the young lady she is meant to be.
What do you remember about your middle school experience?
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Per the order of MassDOT District 1 Bridge Engineer, the Town has barricaded a portion of the bridge on Mount Washington Road near Farm Lane to remove the live load from Beam One due to advanced deterioration. Removing Beam One from service allows the bridge to remain open with the same load carrying capacity as before. Though the roadway remains two lanes, it is narrower than it was. This bridge is scheduled for replacement as a part of the Mount Washington Road reconstruction project, though no timeline is known. Please proceed over the bridge with extreme caution.


DIY air conditioners may seem like a cheap way to beat the heat, but they aren’t perfect. This video puts two homemade versions to the test and compares them to real AC units.
In this video from the Consumer Reports YouTube channel, air conditioning specialist Chris Regan built two homemade AC units that cost around $30 to see how they actually perform. Over the span of an hour, both DIY units were only able to bring the testing room’s temperature down about three degrees. And half an hour of running, the temp began to rise back up. When they tested spot cooling with the DIY units, however, they found the air to be about 15 degrees cooler. So, best case scenario, you have to sit right next to your DIY AC to get any sort of benefit from it. A homemade unit is better than nothing, but you’ll be much better off with a real AC unit that can cool entire rooms and maintain the temperature.


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Windward Instruments announces Product Realignment
October 10, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business NewsWindward Instruments has announced a major product realignment which will effect retail divisions BellClocks.com and WindwardStore.com. OceanClocks.com will be unaffected by the move.
Out is Weems & Plath, and JDC USA.
Windward Instruments has discontinued sales of all Weems & Plath products effective 8/31/07. The company will continue to assist it's W&P customers through the end of 2007 should problems arise.
JDC instruments have been discontinued due to notice from JDC that there was no longer a U S Distributor. JDC may be re-included pending a new U S Distributor.
In are Brunton, Kestrel, and Speedtech Instruments.
Windward Instruments is currently adding products from these three manufacturers to it's offerings via a combination of it's retail divisions BellClocks.com and WindwardStore.com. The new products are being added to the company's advertising now, and should be fully available by the end of October.
Specific products to be offered to customers include the popular Brunton binoculars including both Echo and Epoch lines.
Kestrel Pocket Weather Meters and Weather Trackers from the Kestrel 2500 model and up will become available soon. No decision has been made regarding Kestrel accessories. Kestrel models below the 2500 will not be offered.
Speedtech Instruments will be offered, including the SM 18 Skymate, and SM28 Skymaster. The portable "Edge" family of pocket weather computers and forecasters will also be available.
In addition to these instruments, Windward will begin pre-order sales of the new Speedtech "Windmate" instruments by mid-December, 2007. Windmate instruments are scheduled to be available for sale beginning in late December, 2007.
For more information, contact Windward Instruments.


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In addition to the Pet Health Care Library, we have provided the following links to websites that provide some great information on a variety of topics related to veterinary medicine and pet health care. We will update this page frequently, and would love to hear your ideas on links that you would like to see us add to this page to share with other pet owners. Feel free to send us your favorites. If we like them, we will add them to our list!
- Choosing a new puppy Choosing a Kennel Club Breed Is now the right time for you to get a dog?
Here are some nice starter guide of things that you should consider when you are thinking about getting a puppy.
- Heartworm in Canada
How common is heartworm in Canada?
- Curious about diease prevalence in Canada for pets? Check out this up to date map. Diseases mapped include Leptospirosis, Heartworm, Ehrlichiosis, Anaplasmosis and Lyme disease.
- Behavior problems
Founded by Brian Kilcommons and Sharon Wilson, best-selling authors and recognized experts on animal training and behavior, this site is a terrific resource for advice on a variety of behavioral problems. If you want to learn more about feline housesoiling, barking dogs, aggression, or any other behavioral problem, check this one out!
- National Animal Poison Control Center
This is the website of the National Animal Poison Control Center. It includes a library, links to other sites, and phone numbers for the poison control center. Common poisonous plants are listed, as well as "people" foods to avoid giving your pet, and household products that are poisonous to pets.
- Rainbow Bridge
Anyone who has ever lost a pet should visit this wonderful site. It is a terrific tribute to our lost family members

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mattress hong kong and the mattress of an electric bed are two absolutely various components, which come with varied features. The comfort levels of these beds rely on the type of mattress and the individual preference of the end user. Preferences are based on well being challenges such as allergy issues, backaches, muscle aches, blood circulation and joint challenges.
An electric bed mattress combined with the suitable bed base can get rid of all sleeping difficulties and deliver and enhance the top quality of sleep expected by a person. Most people today check out electric beds on line to get an notion on the variety of bed bases on the marketplace. As for mattresses, memory foam is the preferred decision as it concentrates on the stress points and moulds itself to the body whilst the sleeper adjusts to different sleeping and resting positions. Memory foam mattresses are heat sensitive, which softens the bed and distributes the weight of the body evenly. The soothing properties of the memory foam advantage the physique with undisturbed sleep and a calm environment.
Electric bed mattresses are normally referred to as reflex mattresses, which are designed with flexibility that coordinates with the functions of the bed. These mattresses distribute air by way of its interior airflow channels preserving a cool temperature all through the evening. The structure of the mattress is designed to permit it to bend effortlessly to different positions and regain its original shape when returned back to the flat position.
The support provided by these mattresses depends on the depth of the interior structure. A deeper and greater level of depth is appropriate for folks will higher body mass index and vice versa. These mattresses also work well with folks possessing unique body weights sharing the exact same bed. It minimises the movement and uneven weight across the mattress and functions according to every individual position.
Reflex mattresses are specially formulated and have medically authorized hypoallergenic properties. There high shape retention and moisture resilient qualities make it achievable for the mattress to withstand heavy usage more than time with greater durability. Some of these mattresses come with massage units, which can be operated by means of a remote control device. The constructed in massage unit can be operated at a low voltage and can be adjusted employing the settings button. It comes with a specific snooze feature and pulse moderator. The vibrating pads, which come attached with the inner structure of the mattress, can be adjusted individually and separately.


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Why you need it
You need a financial plan if you answered ‘Yes’ to any of the below questions:
- Do you live paycheck-to-paycheck?
- Do you stress to manage credit cards and debt?
- Do you stress managing your bills?
- Have you unsuccessfully tried to build an emergency fund?
- Do you struggle to start saving for retirement?
- Are you planning to save for child education?
- Do you want to save for a major purchase?
- Do you plan to support elderly parents?
- Are you expecting to work for money in your retirement?
- Do you agree social security is not enough to support your retirement plans?
What to expect
Once you downloaded Wallio app on your Apple or Android device and completed all steps, our team of certified financial professionals will start working on your plan. We might ask you few clarifying questions over built into app chat to make sure we completely understand your situation and plan fits your unique needs. Once the plan is ready, we will share it with you over email. That is it, no calls, no appointments, no sale pitches, no strings attached.

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When choosing a suitable material for your construction or manufacturing project, there are many factors to consider. Two popular choices are aluminum and stainless steel, both known for their durability and strength.
While both materials have a lot of similarities, they also have some distinct differences. Let’s look at the difference between aluminum and stainless steel so you can make an informed decision.
Both aluminum and stainless steel are durable but possess different levels of strength. Aluminum is softer, making it less resistant to scratches or dents. Stainless steel, on the other hand, is harder and less malleable. It’s more resistant to scratches and abrasions, making it a popular choice for kitchens and other high-traffic areas.
One of the main differences between aluminum and stainless steel is how they react to corrosion. Aluminum is prone to oxidation and can quickly corrode when exposed to moisture. At the same time, stainless steel is naturally resistant to rust and corrosion, making it ideal for outdoor use or in areas frequently exposed to water or moisture.
Another difference between aluminum and stainless steel is their weight. Aluminum is a much lighter-weight material than steel, making it an ideal choice for applications where weight is a factor, such as in airplanes or boats. Stainless steel, on the other hand, is heavier and more durable, making it a better choice for structural or load-bearing applications.
The cost of materials is always a factor when deciding which one to choose. Aluminum is generally less costly than stainless steel, making it more accessible and affordable for various construction or manufacturing projects. Different steel versions like 430F stainless steel are more expensive than aluminum but provide better resistance to wear and tear.
The choice between aluminum and stainless steel depends on what you need for your specific project. Aluminum is an excellent choice for lightweight applications that require less strength or durability. On the other hand, stainless steel is ideal for applications where corrosion resistance and strength are critical, making it a popular choice for kitchens, marine applications, and structural projects. By understanding the differences between the two materials, you can make an informed decision and choose the right material for your project.
Wieland Diversified has a wide selection of aluminum and stainless steel products so that you can find the best material for your project. Contact us to learn more about our selection and get help with your next undertaking.


Hanna HI70300 pH & ORP Meter Storage Solution 500ml
Item Description: Hanna HI70300 pH & ORP Meter Storage Solution, 500ml
Use this product to keep your ORP & pH Meters running at optimum levels!
Proper electrode storage maximizes electrode performance and extends electrode life. The electrodes should not be stored in distilled water. The filling solution will be diluted and the electrode response will be slow. If using a refillable pH electrode, the fill hole should be covered overnight and during storage. The fill hole cover must be removed during calibration and measurement to ensure a uniform flow of electrode filling solution. The best way to store the electrode is to read the included manual.
Maintenance and cleaning: The electrode should be inspected weekly for scratches, cracks, or salt crystallization. Follow instructions and do not clean excessively. .
Rinsing between measurements: Rinsing prevents contamination by carryover on the electrodes. Tip: The electrode should be rinsed with deionized water or an aliquot of the next buffer or sample. Caution: the pH electrode glass bulb should not be wiped.
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