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Our purpose is not to hinder the physiological processes of the organism. Ours is a holistic approach. An approach that encourages the ristoring of the physical balance, by facing the causes as efficiently as possible and by ensuring a fast relief of all the symptoms.

Eyes and ears

The eye, a complex and delicate organ designated for the mechanism of vision by means of structures that make it optically equivalent to a camera. It transforms light in information that reaches the brain in the form of electrical impulses. When we look at an object, the light coming from it enters our eyes and passes through a number of natural lenses – the cornea, the crystalline lens and the vitreous body, equivalent to the camera lens – , and is then focused on the retina (the “photographic film”).

The complexity and diversity of elements that contribute to its functionality make it particularly delicate; if one then considers that the organ interacts with the external world, it is clear how vulnerable it can be to aggressions of different kinds (bacterial, viral, atmospheric, foreign bodies, etc.). The retina relays information to the brain by sending electrical impulses through a biological cable: the optic nerve.

The protective function is taken care of by conjunctiva, eyelids and related glands. The conjunctive is a thin, transparent mucosa covering the front surface of the eye and the inner walls of the eyelids; its defensive function of the cornea is made possible not only thanks to a purely mechanical action (through a homogeneous distribution of the tear fluid), but also owing to the secretion of antibodies (IgA and IgG) and to substances with an antibacterial action (lysozyme). The eyelids, with their movements, contribute to adjust the quantity of light entering the eye, protecting it from too intensive illumination. They spread the tear film on the conjunctiva, allowing it to be constantly moistened and preventing dehydration. The gland system is mainly in charge of producing the tear film so as to obtain the right balance between the aqueous and lipidic components of tear fluid, thereby avoiding a too rapid evaporation which would expose the eye to dryness.

At times, the eye is not sufficiently equipped to protect itself from microbial, physical and chemical agents, allergens, foreign bodies, etc.; several problems can therefore arise, according to the variables and to the part of the eye involved.

The ear is the hearing organ and can be divided into 3 parts:

  • the outer ear, consisting in the earcup and ear canal, which collects the sound waves;
  • the middle ear, formed by the tympanic cavity and tympanic membrane, auditory bones (hammer, anvil and stirrup) and by the Eustachean tube, receives the vibrations produced by the sound waves and conveys them to the inner ear;
  • the inner ear, comprising the labyrinth, formed by the vestibular system regulating the sense of balance and by the cochlea, sensorineural hearing organ, conveys the stimuli of vibrations to the brain and it is where the sense of balance is located.

This anatomical district is also sometimes prone to problems of different types, from the build-up of earwax to painful otitis media.

It is therefore vital to have effective natural remedies available to successfully treat the different affections, each with an approach targeted to eradicate the cause of the problem, using suitable means considering the specific anatomical district involved.

Chalazion is a chronic inflammation of the eyelids, involving a swelling due to the obstruction of the Meibomian gland. This disorder is often associated with chronic blepharitis.

If orifices of the glands along the eyelid margin are blocked, sebaceous secretion spreads across the inner part of the eyelid, causing the typical swelling. This situation can occur as a consequence of the chronicisation of an internal stye. In fact, Chalazion can initially be confused with stye. After a few days, the acute inflammation calms down but a roundish, painless mass on the eyelid become gradually bigger. The mass can also be found in the lower eyelid close to the inner corner of the eye: in this case chronic dacryiocystitis must be excluded (inflammation of the lacrimal sac).

Treatment of Chalazion with conventional medicine

In case of Chalazion, conventional medicine prescribes ophthalmic ointments based on antibiotics or cortisone; if, however, the swelling does not regress within a few days, it is possible to resort to small infiltrations of cortisone or, in more serious cases, to surgical removal.

However, as is well known, the use/abuse of medicines with antibiotic action is not recommended unless strictly necessary, principally due to the risk of developing bacterial resistance and for potential sensitization. Cortisone-based medicines, instead, are contraindicated because of their immunosuppressant activity and therefore weaken the natural defenses of the eye, already undermined by Chalazion itself. Hence, to avoid the use of ophthalmic ointments, infiltrations of cortisone or even surgical intervention, application of compresses is more ueful, so as to reduce inflammation and congestion of the area. Nature can once more be of valuable help, in formulations of solutions that prove ideal for eye compresses.

Nature can help you solve the problem of Chalazion

A natural and effective approach

Chalazion is a chronic inflammation of the eyelids, due to the obstruction of Meibomian glands, often associated with chronic blepharitis.

Nature can once again be of great help, with the combination of essential plant constituents featuring an anti-inflammatory action, together with Grapefruit Seed Extract, thereby simultaneously ensuring antimicrobial protection.

GSE and Chalazion

Efficacy of Grapefruit Seed Extract as a broad spectrum antimicrobial has been proven by Laboratories and Institutes worldwide. Numerous testimonies confirm its validity and in terms of both efficacy and speed of action it remains unrivalled in nature. Moroever, given its being harmless and highly selective, it does not bear a significant impact on physiological flora, unlike conventional antibiotics.

GSE therefore represents an essential element to prevent that Chalazion, by causing an alternation of the eyeball’s physiology (obstructed Meibomian glands cause poorer lacrimation and poorer lubrication of the eyeball, as a consequence), may develop into an infectious process, owing to the environmental pathogens attacking the eye.

For the above-mentioned considerations, in association with specific plant extracts with marked decongestant and anti-inflammatory properties, GSE in solutions for ophthalmic use enables the following actions:

direct and specific action at the level of eyelids and eye contour, with an antimicrobial, decongestant, analgesic, antipruriginous and markedly anti-inflammatory action.

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Grapefruit Seed Extract: as already highlighted, results obtained regarding the efficacy of Grapefruit Extract as an antimicrobial confirm GSE as the ideal remedy for this specific eye affection. Synergy of specific plant extracts, featuring decongestant and soothing properties, make the formulation effective and safe to use.

Calendula (distilled water): belonging to the family of Asteraceae, it is rich in triterpene derivatives, mainly responsible for its marked anti-inflammatory and decongestant properties. Other constituents are carotenoids, numerous resins, flavonoids, polysaccharides and mucilages, markedly bioadhesive on the skin and mucosae and contributing for this reason to the plant’s health properties. The most significant actions carried out are: anti-inflammatory, anti-reddening, immunomodulating, antimicrobial, cicatrizing, analgesic, lenitive and decongestant.

Nymphaea: parts used for officinal purposes are flowers and rhizome, both rich in alkaloids (nymphein and nymphalin), gallic acid, tannic acid and mucilages. Applied on skin and mucosae, it is very useful for the treatment of irritative and inflammatory types of dermatological affections. Health properties of Nymphaea on the skin are attributable to high concentration levels of gallic and tannic acids, capable of considerably reducing erythema, itching, oedema, while exerting a marked anti-inflammatory action in general. Nymphein and Nymphalin alkaloids, instead, convey the analgesic and sedative properties of the plant. Moreover, thanks to its mucilages, Nymphaea acts as an emollient and enables considerable increase of cutaneous hydration.

Elderberry: parts mostly employed for external use are its flowers, extremely rich in chemical constituents, among which mucilages play a key role, with their marked emollient and lenitive action, and flavonoids (kaempferol, astragalin, rutin, quercetin, isoquercetin, iperoside) due to their anti-inflammatory action. In phytotherapy, preparations are obtained using active constituents from Elderberry flower extracts, for ophthalmic applications in case of eye affections of different kinds.

Altea: a plant belonging to the family of Malvaceae, featuring marked anti-inflammatory, emollient, calming, lenitive, decongestant and antipruriginous properties. In phytotherapy, the part mostly used is the root, extremely rich in mucilages and responsible for the beneficial effects on mucosae and skin. For external use, it is very effective in the treatment of eye inflammation owing to its marked anti-reddening and antipruriginous effect.

All the above-mentioned ingredients, artfully blended in a specific solution for the eyelids and eye contour, can be conveyed in practical, mask-shaped eye compresses in non-woven fabric.

The association of the above-described ingredients, essential to ensure a definitive approach against Chalazion, can be further supported by specific remedies indicated for:

  • Local, synergic action aimed at providing an effective solution of eye affections: a solution based on GSE, distilled water of Euphrasia, Chamomile and Calendula, together with Hydroxyethylcellulose, in eyedrops.
  • Systemic action aimed at contrasting microbial infections and supporting the organism’s defensive system: for adults, GSE, Echinacea purpurea, Rhodiola, Uncaria and Melaleuca alternifolia in swallowable tablets; for children, GSE, Echinacea purpurea, Rhodiola, Uncaria and Morinda citrifolia (Noni), preferably in the drinkable version.

A rebalancing action of the intestinal flora and simultaneous reinforcement of the organism’s natural defences: for adults, single use vials with measuring cap based on probiotics (B. bifidum, L. acidophilus, L. bulgaricus), fructo-oligosaccharides, GSE, Uncaria and Morinda citrifolia (Noni); for children, single use vials with patented cap, based on probiotics (B. infantis, B. longum, L. Rhamnosus), fructo-oligosaccharides, GSE, Astragalus and Uncaria tomentosa.


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Team bonding… really? Isn’t that just a waste of time? You can hear your team cry, “Just let us get to work!”

Hey, don’t shout. We hear you, but team bonding games can be entertaining, promote collaboration and even improve productivity. Games help develop relationships between people who otherwise wouldn’t say one word to each other. A little fun goes a long way to creating a more productive and friendly environment, so try these 10 super fun team building games and systematically destroy unhappiness at your office.

Related: 20 Icebreakers to Make Your Next Meeting Fun

1. Start an Office Game Show

Admit it. When you have a day off, you promise yourself you’ll be productive, but all you end up doing is watching daytime TV. It’s okay. That stuff is addictive and fun. Hey, maybe you could bring some of that wholesome entertainment into work.

Think about it, why not break the office into two teams and have them compete like on Family Feud? If you’re really ambitious, you can prepare by surveying the office with a series of silly questions, collect the responses and see which team comes up with most correct answers.

2. Mad Libs

Everyone loves Mad Libs. You know, those dull stories with select nouns, adverbs and adjectives removed. Ask the team to fill in the blanks and then read the story afterwards. It’s never short of absurd and often very funny. Nothing brings people together faster than laughter.

3. Go Team!

There are lots of team building activities that use competition and teamwork to accelerate the bonding process. Start a touch-football league or go bowling. Get smaller teams together and have them build and race go-carts. Create an expedition to climb K2. It doesn’t matter, let the team members choose the sport or activity they like. Who knows, they might even continue doing it after their work is done.

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4. Rap Battle

Biggie Smalls isn’t dead; he’s living in the hearts of your team members. OK maybe not, but I bet your team can at least participate in a rhyming game.

Have them form a circle, and turn on a background beat on YouTube, or better yet have a talented team member beatbox. Then, each person in the circle comes up with a line for a rap song. The next person in the circle has to come up with another line that rhymes with the one before it. If you can’t think of a line, you’re out. Eventually you’ll be left with two rappers. One will be crowned champ, the other doused in mom’s spaghetti.

The pressure of the performance and the improv nature of the game is sure to get the blood and the laughter flowing. Some team members might feel a little vulnerable, but letting your guard down is a great way to cement bonds between coworkers.

5. Board Games

You see, back in the dark ages, before digital technology armed people with videogames, there were these things called board games, like Monopoly, Risk and Chutes and Ladders. Okay, that last one is for little kids, but board games have gotten more sophisticated and challenging.

Board games aren’t for everyone, but if your team has tape holding together their eye-wear and argues loudly about the best Star Wars movie, then playing board games is probably a good route for team bonding.

There is all manner of games that require strategic thinking and cooperation, and not all of them pit members of the team against one another. There are board games, such as Hoopla or Pandemic, where everyone works together as a team.

Related: The 9 Best Leadership Games for Skill Development

6. Exquisite Corpse

The Surrealists came up with this game almost 100 years ago, but it remains one of the funniest things you can do with three people and a piece of paper. First, break up the team into groups of three. Then hand out a piece of paper and a pen or pencil to each group.

Next, fold the paper into thirds and assign each group either the head and shoulders, torso, or legs and feet. The first person draws the head, the next the torso, and the last the legs. The trick is to hide the previous drawing by folding the paper, so no one can see what the other person drew.

The big reveal is always strange and often hilarious. You don’t have to know how to draw to participate, in fact, that might make the final image even better.

7. Laser Tag

What better way to exorcise your blood lust than to go on a totally harmless rampage? Enter laser tag. You just pay for the team to play, break them up into two or more groups and set them loose. It’s not only a good teamwork game, but it also helps relieve stress after a tough stretch of work.

What, there’s no laser tag near you and you don’t want to spend the money and the team doesn’t want to spend their free time mixing with their coworkers? Okay, don’t worry, just buy a couple of Nerf guns and have a lunchtime duel or a morning office battle to let off steam and have some fun.

8. Music Soothes the Soul

What is a rock band other than a group of individuals working together towards a single goal? To play music with any group involves active listening and teamwork. Everyone needs to pull their own weight. Try it at your office and the result will be beautiful music, or maybe just fun-fueled noise.

Probably a lot of people on your team play an instrument, and the rest of them can sing to some extent. If they can’t do either, then they can always dance! Rent a practice space or just use the office. If there’s someone who is just not at all musical, have them run the tape recorder, create flyers for the jam sessions or just be a groupie. No, wait, scratch that last one.

9. Have a Party

While it’s a good policy to celebrate the end of a successful project, why stop there? Often the best way to get people to work well together is to get them feeling comfortable with one another. What’s more casual than a party? Office parties can often be stressful, so work to make this one relaxed and about getting to know people. Go to a pizzeria or have food brought in. Let people play their favorite songs. Keep it low-key and just have fun.

10. Let the People Decide

Rather than enforce fun, like some facist Richard Simmons, give the team ownership of the process. What would they like to do? Get everyone talking. Have them take turns. Give one week to each person to lead the fun brigade. This engages the team, makes everyone feel important and will probably elicit some pretty wild suggestions.

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What would you do if demand for several of your cloud services doubled overnight?

That sounds like an interesting hypothetical question for a planning session. Or a Google interview question. But it's what happened to Microsoft in March, as the pandemic took hold of Europe and the U.S. after devastating China earlier in the year.

  • Now that demand has stabilized, Microsoft released several details Tuesday about the technical steps it took to deal with the surge in demand, which almost doubled across several of its key services including Teams, Virtual Desktop, and Xbox Live during one week in early March.

Some of the details are fascinating. In a video, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explained how the company moved traffic around the globe and rewrote code to tweak the way some of its applications consume computing resources, all in just a few weeks.

  • For example, Microsoft turned off the little "your co-worker is typing" and read receipt notifications for Teams users in peak-demand regions, reducing the CPU capacity required to process those functions by 30% and returning that capacity to Azure customers.
  • The company also pleaded with local ISPs and video-game publishers to delay the release of game updates over Xbox Live until after business hours, freeing up computing capacity that could also be returned to Azure customers.

Microsoft also made a number of changes to its networking strategy, as people left their office parks, with local-area networks and better internet connections, and started working from home, putting a strain on wider-area networks.

  • Azure relies on four undersea cables between the U.S. and Europe to handle traffic traveling across the pond, and to increase capacity on one of those cables it "borrowed" some advanced networking equipment from another Azure region to quickly upgrade that connection.
  • It moved some Xbox Live activity from China and Europe back to the U.S. in order to free up Azure capacity for business customers in those regions.
  • Engineers quickly built a time-based system for managing traffic between regions, which automatically balanced the surges in traffic as people in one region woke up and started working while people in other regions were off the clock.

It also relied on the tried-and-true method of building capacity: buying all the servers it could get its hands on.

  • During its last earnings call, Microsoft cited supply-chain delays from hard-hit server manufacturing regions in China during January as another part of the scaling problem.
  • The trouble with upgrading amid the pandemic, though, was that installing new hardware required people, who had to figure out how to quickly upgrade racks of servers while staying six feet apart from each other.
  • Still, Azure added 12 new so-called "edge sites," essentially mini-datacenters that serve as entry points into the broader Azure network in parts of the world far from actual Azure data centers.

The experience validated a few modern application design philosophies. Microsoft now plans to shift Teams from virtual machines to containers, for instance, and said it found it easier to quickly scale and adjust because several Azure applications were designed around microservices.

Still, it's worth noting that Microsoft was the lone company among the Big Three cloud providers to endure this type of crunch during the first half of the year, and that it was already struggling with Azure capacity long before most people had heard of COVID-19.

  • The company deserves credit for quickly reacting to an unprecedented event, but if AWS and Google faced similar challenges this year, they kept it quiet.

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What was your first tech job?

After completing my Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA, I got my first tech job in 2008 at a network performance startup in Santa Clara called Packet Design. The recession quickly caught up and I was laid off just two months in. It turned out to be a great thing as it forced me to think about what I really wanted to do and I ended up focusing on starting ThousandEyes.

What's the best piece of advice you could give to someone starting their first tech job?

Pick an area that you are passionate about and then find a company that speaks to you and whose mission you can get behind, rather than taking the highest paying job. Learn about what people in other departments do and how everything comes together.

Mac or PC?

I used to favor Linux but nowadays you will typically find me on a Mac since I can still use the terminal to do the things that I was used to on Linux, while still being able to benefit from the overall Mac OS experience. PCs have come a long way, though, and there are some very cool laptops that make me consider switching every now and then.

What was the biggest reason for the success of cloud computing over the past decade?

Ultimately I think the reason cloud has been so successful is that it allows for a focus on core competencies. If you are building a messaging app, you don't have to spend months building a data center, or if you are a startup focusing on acquiring customers, you don't have to spend days or weeks setting up [customer relationship management] — all you need is a browser.

What will be the biggest challenge for cloud computing over the coming decade?

In one of our first offices in San Francisco, where the lights would automatically turn off at 7 p.m. to conserve electricity, we automated the procedure using a script and Twilio to automatically dial a number and enter a code to turn them back on. Then one day the lights went off and we found out that our script was fine, but that Twilio was impacted by an Amazon outage on the East Coast. Our lights in our own office were out because of an outage on the other side of the country. The lesson learned? That the biggest challenge in cloud computing is the exponential amount of increased dependencies between different parties to and from the cloud, a lot of which people don't understand. That means more things will break in ways that are difficult to expect and, when they do, it will create massive disruptions similar to the impact felt every time Amazon suffers an outage.

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What is a Prepreg in PCB Manufacturing?

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As simple as it is, a prepreg is nothing but an insulation layer. Prepreg is a dielectric material that is sandwiched between two cores or between a core and a copper foil in a PCB, to provide the required insulation. You can call it a binding material as well. It either binds two cores or a core and a copper foil.

If you can imagine a hamburger, prepreg is the slice of cheese placed between the bread and the ham. The bread and ham can either be a core or a copper foil. Now I am sure I got your attention.

I would like to tell you something interesting about prepregs. Prepregs are special dielectric materials that can be modified to our needs. By the combination of certain additives and catalysts, under a chemical process, a specific section of a prepreg can be transformed into a conductive region. This is called selective conductivity. This phenomenon finds its purpose while drilling holes into the prepregs for connecting the top and the bottom layers. However, the rest of the part of the prepreg remains to be an insulator and protects the circuit board from short circuit which is its basic functionality.

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Years of immense research and development have been undergone for the selection of the right prepreg material. Factors like thermal and mechanical compatibility of a material must be considered to accommodate the PCB requirements.

How are prepregs made?

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Prepreg, as the name suggests, is a glass fibre weave/cloth impregnated with a resin bonding agent. The glass fibres are interwoven to form a glass fabric. This glass fibre weave is partially dried to form a B-stage material. All prepregs are B-stage materials. During the manufacturing process of prepreg, it is important to follow the grain direction of the material being used since it allows the material to be modified as per requirement. The number of warp and fill counts determine the amount of resin the glass fabric can retain.

Glass woven prepreg

A glass fibre weave

There are different types of prepregs that are incorporated in PCBs depending on the thickness and other requirements. Prepregs are available in Standard Resin (SR), Medium Resin (MR), and High Resin (HR) depending on the resin content they hold. The more resin content they hold, the more expensive they get. Here’s a table for your better understanding:

Prepreg thickness and styles

The difference between Prepreg and Core

People often get confused between prepregs and cores due to their similarities. Allow me to clarify it for you. The core is a product of prepreg and lamination. It is more rigid compared to the prepreg. The core is made up of a fiberglass-epoxy laminate which meets the FR4 (Flame Retardant) grade with copper on either side. The core is usually manufactured by a core manufacturer and the company is liable for any faults in the material that might hinder the operation of a PCB. Whereas prepregs, as described earlier, are also made of the same material like the core but are partially dried without lamination and aren’t rigid like the core. I hope this disposes of the ambiguity.

Now, the thickness of the PCB depends on the type of prepregs used. It must be noted that the required thickness can be achieved by a combination of prepreg plies. If you are wondering what plies are, they are nothing but thin sheets of prepregs placed on top of one another. This helps in achieving the desired thickness of the PCB.

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Other than PCBs, prepregs find their applications in aerospace components, automotive parts, A/C ducting, machinery, tooling, honeycomb and foam panels, and many more.

In conclusion, prepregs are insulators that glue together cores and copper foils and assist in the manufacture of a robust PCB.

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King of the Hammers, possibly known as the hardest off-road race in the United States. Hammer Town USA is centralized in the vast wastelands of the Mojave Desert. A week-long event where tens of thousands of enthusiasts come to watch high horsepower desert racing meet rock racing in the steep canyons known as “The Hammers”.

Proving Grounds Racing set route to Sothern California with their sights set on the 2019 KOH event. This will be the 4th year the team has set out to battle the elements, machine, man, and mother nature in getting the car to the finish. Countless hours of prep, work, late nights, long hours, wrenching, grinding, welding, tuning, fabricating, design, and so much more goes into this event. When all is said and done, the shop light shuts off for the last time. It’s time to go racing.

Getting to the lakebed early means time to prerun, see the course, and work race strategy with course markers and lines to make. It also gave us an opportunity to tune in our new Fox Shocks we installed on the car for this season. Fox has come on board to our program with making our car faster, smoother, and more competitive for this season.

Tweaking the car, tuning the shocks, and dialing in the small details is what makes these machines capable of handling the elements of the brutal course and getting the car across the finish line.

We qualified this year in Power Hour being one of the faster guys in the line-up. The car was ready, and we had preran the qualifying course the morning of to set our lines and feel the course out. The car was smooth through the rhythm section. The handling was great, the Fox shocks and Rock Krawler suspension were dialed. We were on a mission to qualify in the front of the pack and keep the dust and the congestion of the 140 plus drivers on the course. With fresh BFGoodrich tires and Dirty Life Wheels, we carved the course for a 7th place starting order for our race day.

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Brisk 30-degree temps filled the air with the smell of race fuel as we line up for the long day ahead. Energy was high as our Daystar Jeep LJ readied for the long grueling day. Every 30 seconds pairs of cars were off the line. With a green flag we were off the line for lap 1, 92 miles of desert.

Daystar crew was set up at pit 1 and with a quick check, we were off at mile 17, then again at mile 75 where with another rolling check, we were off to complete lap one. The car was fast, and all the energy of the team was high as we were gaining on the top 5th position in our class.

Lap 2 we passed many teams in the desert sections before the rocks. Picking them off one by one we headed into Clawhammer. Taking a bonus line to get around traffic, we found ourselves on our side. With codriver Josh Maldonado out of the car, we made quick work of getting back on all fours with our Warn winch and VooDoo Offroad rope. Heading back to pick up time we ran into Justin Hall stuck on course needing assistance. We pulled him off with our VooDoo Soft shackles and Factor55 Flat link and made an agreement to help each other through the traffic in the canyons.

Down wrecking ball, down Chocolate Thunder, up Her Problem, and out to Bolderdash when we started running into steering issues. Once we got into Highway 19/20 we had lost all power steering to the right. In doing so we had to manually steer the car which caused us a flat on the steep waterfall pass. We tried to see what we could do to fix the steering issue while we changed the flat but didn’t seem like we had equipment, tools, or parts to do so. Being a timed race, stopping long to fix the car can ultimately take us out of the running or timing out. We had to manpower the car struggling into each canyon one after another nursing the issue to make it to the next. We worked our way out of Highway 19/20 and down Aftershock headed back out to the desert to the next canyon. We were on a roll making our way across the course. As the sun started to set, the finish line was in sight. 9 grueling hours in the car fighting our way through every mile, canyon, and overcoming obstacles. We crossed the finish line!

When the dust settled, and time assessed we landed a top 10 finish for the 2019 King of the Hammers Every Man Challenge. Finishing 9th in our class for the first race of the season sets our pace for the national points this season for Ultra4. As we prep, rebuild, and ready our car and team for our next race, we set our eyes on Prairie City, just outside of Sacramento California. We will see you there!

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Your first step will be looking at your own policies to see if you’re covered.  An insurance agent and your available paperwork should be able to enlighten you as to whether or not the coverage you have on your owned vehicle transfers to anything you rent.  You’re going to want to ask about policies on things like the vehicle being stolen and whether you’re covered for towing and other applicable charges.

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From Brooklyn to the Caribbean to Africa, Marshall describes the places she has called home and the people she has loved in Triangular Road.

Your book is framed by two journeys across the Atlantic. It begins with your trip to Paris with Langston Hughes and ends with your trip to Africa. What's the significance for you of these two journeys?

Well, the first journey with Langston Hughes was very important because when I started really seriously reading, he served as a kind of guide, because his two books about traveling—The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander—those two books that I came to in my early teens gave me the sense that I wanted to be very much that kind of person who moved around the world.

It's clear that your parents' native Barbados fueled your imagination, but it must have also had a very strong emotional charge when you first got there.

It did indeed, because [Barbadian] friends of my family, especially my mother and her friends, they were extraordinary storytellers first of all, and they came from this place that seemed such a mystery to me, because of the way they talked, with that West Indian accent, and the stories they told about living under British rule and being forced to learn these long British recitations and so on. And yet they had created a language of their own through the West Indian patois.

You pepper your work with West Indian expressions. Did the patois influence the cadence of your writing?

Yes, because there was something so poetic and daring about what my mother and her friends were doing with language—I knew that the way they spoke English was very different from the English that I spoke in school, but it was so full of color, it was so full of their own authority that I had a sense that they were on to something.

I was struck by your use of the Jewish image of “sitting shiva” to describe the sea mourning for Africans who died during the Middle Passage.

It was an interesting area in Brooklyn where I grew up. There were the Scotch-Irish, there were the Jews, and there were the West Indians, and there were also black Americans. The West Indians did not mix with others, but at school it was a wider world. [Among Jews] when someone dies, the relatives sit shiva—they just mourn for a long, long time. In the West Indies, that sea roars in, there's almost a cry that it sends out, and I just thought that the image of sitting shiva for the dead was one that I wanted to use to see if I could convey how traumatic it was for me.


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The Dawning of the Age of Ebooks

In today's Wall Street Journal, L. Gordon Crovitz writes about the promise ebooks and ebook readers like the Amazon Kindle hold for the future of books ("The Digital Future of Books"). Ebook readers may well reverse the current trend toward shorter periods of time people spend reading these days because ebooks can be accessed instantly anywhere. Imagine any book at your fingertips whenever you want. It is truly historic.

Crovitz quotes Jeff Gomez and his book Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age:
It's not about the page versus the's about the screen doing a dozen things the page can't do.
And I think that is a point lost on some loud librarians who just don't get it, and write anti-ebook articles that appear on the cover of American Libraries, and can't understand the historic changes ebooks herald in the way we read--and think. Amazingly, I see nothing at all about ebook readers (and almost nothing about ebooks themselves) on the program for this year's SLA annual library conference in Seattle.

Crovitz credits Aristotle as the first to explain that how we communicate alters what we communicate. Ebooks will fundamentally alter the nature of modern communication.

It's great to see some people comprehend what ebooks are all about, that they are here to stay, and they will be a central and an integral part of communication over the next century. The trend toward ebooks has already started with science, technology, and reference books. The rest will follow. One hundred years in the future, in the year 2108, they'll have a fun time hypothesizing why some groups of people fought against all this.

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Questions Abound Over Delay Of Sexual Misconduct Accusation Against Judge Kavanaugh

Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination is likely to be held up a little longer, as President Donald Trump said he is willing to accept "a little delay," to go through the process of hearing everyone out.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, recently made the committee aware of a letter she received months ago from Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges Kavanaugh forced himself on her sexually at a high school party in the 1980s.

Kavanaugh denies her was at the party and believes Ford is mistaking him for someone else.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell questioned why Feinstein withheld this allegation until the last moment before the vote on Kavanaugh's nomination:

President Trump is defending Kavanaugh, calling him one of the finest people he has known. Trump also questioned why the allegation was hidden away until now if it was considered an honest charge:
Democrats are under intense pressure from radicals on the far left to derail the Kavanaugh nomination. He is a conservative and would replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered more of a moderate, thereby shifting the high court to the political right.

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Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder affecting millions and mostly women. It is physically and emotionally distressing. Those with the condition experience widespread chronic muscle pain. Research has shown that individuals with fibromyalgia could have a lower threshold for pain. This can come from injury, emotional distress, or abnormal levels of substances/chemicals in the brain and spine linked to pain sensitivity. One of the most common treatments is chiropractic medicine.

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Common symptoms/conditions individuals report:

  • Chronic fatigue syndrome
  • Irritable bladder
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Migraines
  • Sleep disorders
  • Restless legs syndrome
  • TMJ or Temporomandibular joint disorder
  • Raynaud’s Syndrome – a rare blood vessel disorder causing the toes and hands to feel cold or numb.

Doctors are still trying to figure out the relationship between these conditions and fibromyalgia.

Doctors have yet to determine the exact cause, however, research is ongoing and beginning to shed light on the condition. Some possible causes include:

  • Abnormalities in the endocrine system
  • Abnormalities in the autonomic nervous system
  • Genetics
  • Muscle tissue abnormalities
  • Abnormal blood flow

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As research has discovered many conditions/disorders do not have one cause but rather, several factors that impact the probability of developing the condition.

It has become one of the most common chronic pain conditions. 1 in 50 Americans are dealing with fibromyalgia. The condition can be difficult to diagnose, and, because of its chronic nature, it can linger for months and even years. Typically it causes pain throughout the body and creates areas that become tender to the slightest touch. There are both traditional and alternative treatments available.

Traditional approaches to manage the pain:

  • Anti-inflammatory’s
  • Over-the-counter pain relievers
  • Sleep medications
  • Muscle relaxants

Fibromyalgia medications include:

  • Lyrica – pregabalin, which is a nerve pain medication
  • Cymbalta – duloxetine hydrochloride, which is an antidepressant that can also help manage pain
  • Savella – milnacipran HCI, which is an antidepressant and nerve pain medicine

The type of treatment depends on the symptoms. For example, a doctor could prescribe an antidepressant to reduce pain and depression. If stress, anxiety, and trouble sleeping are presenting, a therapeutic exercise program could be the answer. Individuals prefer natural remedies/therapies instead of more medications like vitamin therapy, acupuncture, and meditation.

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Other treatment options include alternative treatments like:

A doctor will usually recommend you see a physical therapist, chiropractor, and possibly psychologist to work on the mental and emotional toll.

Chiropractic medicine benefits

Pain is reduced

The most common issue is constant and consistent pain, which can affect the entire body for weeks and even months. Individuals realize that chiropractic helps restore overall health and aids the body to heal itself. Adjustments to the spine bring alignment and balance back to the body. Also incorporated is soft tissue work that can relieve and reduce painful pressure/trigger points and decrease pain in tender spots.

Range of motion is increased

Chiropractic medicine also adjusts the body’s joints and helps loosen them up. This increases the range of motion and allows the individual to move more freely and easily. Depending on how long the individual has been dealing with the condition, it can take a few treatments to achieve optimal results, so it does take a commitment from the individual patient. However, in the long run, it is well worth the time.

Sleep is improved

The pain associated with fibromyalgia often affects an individual’s ability to sleep well. Being unable to sleep normally will leave you exhausted, foggy, unable to accomplish things and irritable to downright angry. A chiropractor’s ability to loosen the body’s joints, massage tender points, and kickstart the body’s self-healing mechanisms means individuals with this condition can enjoy deep sleep, and stay asleep.

Complements other therapies

Medicines/treatments/therapies can counteract with each other, or get mixed up and cause side effects. Chiropractic medicine can be utilized in combination with medications/treatments, either traditional or natural. Individuals diagnosed with this condition should speak to their chiropractor about the different treatments available. Customized treatment programs are created case-by-case and are tailored to the specific needs of that individual. Remember there is not a one-stop solution.

Empowers the individual

Individuals that have to deal with painful, chronic conditions can exhaust themselves with the varying treatment options and can feel as if they have no control over the situation. This causes stress, anxiety, and depression, which works against achieving overall wellness. With chiropractic, individuals are more in charge of their treatment plan, which leads to an optimistic outlook in their recovery.

Chiropractic medicine treats not only the symptoms of fibromyalgia but attempts to get to the root cause to alleviate the condition or to activate the body’s self-healing response. Patients that commit will see the benefits along with reduced pain, better mobility, and sound sleep.

The best benefit is being able to take control of the circumstances and playing a vital role in the managing of an individual’s well-being. Understand that there are options available for fibromyalgia pain management. If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, don’t go it alone. Dr. Alex Jimenez is passionate about helping those who are injured or struggling with a condition get relief. Contact us today to schedule an appointment.

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Council holds two regular meetings each month, the Ordinary Council meeting is held on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the Bungendore chambers and the Planning and Strategy Committee meeting is held on the second Wednesday of the month in the Queanbeyan chambers.

View or download meeting documents for Council meetings of Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council. If you would like the meeting documents from previous meetings of the former Queanbeyan and Palerang Councils please call us on 1300 735 025 or email council@qprc.nsw.gov.au.

We have been recording meetings since December 2016. These recordings can be viewed at webcast.qprc.nsw.gov.au (link is external).

Public involvement at Council meetings

In light of COVID-19, Council meetings are being held remotely and are closed to the public. However, we are accepting the online submission of written presentations. Should you wish to make a presentation to the Council meeting on any item on the agenda, including this development proposal, you can do so by 12noon on the day of the meeting at: www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Council/Council-business/Public-involvement-at-Council-meetings#section-2

2020 meeting dates - all meetings commence at 5.30pm

Planning & Strategy Committee meeting
Queanbeyan Chambers

Ordinary meeting
Bungendore Chambers
Wednesday 12 August Wednesday 26 August
Wednesday 9 September Wednesday 23 September
Wednesday 14 October Wednesday 28 October
Wednesday 11 November Wednesday 25 November
No meeting in December  Wednesday 16 December


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  1. Talent Management Solutions – A Strategic Approach

    CIPD research tells us that only 8% of HR professionals are satisfied with the way they deal with talent management and yet talent attraction, development and retention is high on the agenda of most progressive HR professionals.

    One of the challenges for HR Directors is establishing a talent management solution which gives real, progressive data on attracting, developing and retaining the best talent in a cost effective manner. Until now measuring the very things that make people good at their job, ie, the things they enjoy doing, have not been measurable in any robust or non-subjective way so making a business case for introducing development plans can be a tough call for even the best of HR Directors. Faced with measurable business cases from finance, sales and marketing, IT and operations HR initiatives can often fall under the radar due largely to a lack of measurability. Aspects that are measurable are often administrative by nature – holiday records, salary pay scales, overtime hours and so on. But what of those that aren’t perceived to be measurable? These often fall into the ‘pink and fluffy’ category simply because measurement has been a challenge. Making a business case is difficult and measuring the success of any development initiative can be a challenge.

    So what if HR professionals were in a position to measure on an individual, team and organisational basis, 175 aspects of business success such as –

    • Ability to take initiative
    • Optimism
    • Ability to analyse pitfalls
    • Inclination to experiment
    • Inclination to take risks
    • Interpersonal skills
    • Ability to influence
    • Frankness
    • Diplomacy
    • Desire for self-improvement
    • Levels of self-acceptance

    What if they can measure such traits in relation to specific roles, organisational and/or team values, behavioural competencies, benchmarking excellent performance, maintaining a talent pipeline, succession planning, career development and placing graduate/wp-contentrentice talent? How different would Board meetings be if HR could produce statistics to support business cases for development in specific areas and to measure the success of such initiatives.

    The Harrison Assessment Talent Management System can do just this and here is how.

    • The central driver of the HATS system is the SmartQuestionnaire™ – the result of over 20 years of research by Dr Dan Harrison into what makes people successful at work. Its focus on working preferences makes it much easier to interpret and more flexible than other assessments.
    • HATS records all in one place the working preferences, ie the success factors over and above qualifications and experience, of the entire workforce as well as any prospective employees. It does this by completion of a robust and accurate SmartQuestionnaire™ and provides a fresh and up-to-date pipeline of talent.
    • HATS has over 6,500 job profiles on the system against which to measure the suitability factors of prospective candidates for a role. These are flexible and can be designed for the organisation’s individual and specific requirements. Including suitability factors as well as eligibility factors for a role will increase the predictive success rate from 40-45% using just eligibility factors to nearer 90-95%. Many organisations will pay an external talent seeker an average of 15-20% of salary to fill some roles – a high price to pay for only a 40-45% success rate! One HR Director told me recently that to find 12 young graduates for their graduate training scheme cost a total of £100,000.
    • There is a range of reports to use for development for individuals and their managers as well as teams.
    • Employees can be encouraged to take responsibility for their own career development through the talent readiness part of the system.
    • The data drawn from the system puts HR in an excellent position to build a business case for development for individuals, teams and/or groups and the results of such development are now clearly measurable – no more guess work or subjective reasoning – just clear and accurate data pushing HR talent solution initiatives up the list of Board level priorities.

    HATS is designed for maximum customer effectiveness

    There is no license fee and installation is quick and cost effective – training and consultancy packages are available from Quadrant 1 International on 0800 689 3761 – a much better investment than a license fee.

    A typical package may include –

    • Installation of system and 6 days consultancy spread throughout the to be used for training up to 6 people to use the system, support with campaign designs, benchmarking exercises and/or cultural measurement, setting up the talent readiness system, consultancy on dissecting the data to support business cases as appropriate.
    • Design 6 job specific suitability profiles for recruitment campaigns and/or talent readiness programme
    • 1,000 HATS units – enough to fully profile 166 managers or measure 1,000 people against a baseline profile. More can be added as and when required.
    • After the first year customers can choose to continue with consultancy from Quadrant 1 but by this time customers are generally self-sufficient and the only cost then is in purchasing additional units.

    After the first year customers can choose to continue with consultancy from Quadrant 1 but by this time customers are generally self-sufficient and the only cost then is in purchasing additional units.


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Important: If you are using any FTP Program, be sure you are uploading to the correct directory and that your home page is called index.html.  Otherwise, you won't be able to view your pages after you upload them.  If you can go "up" a directory when you log in using FTP, go up as far as you can and then into the /web folder.

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Queen's Choir

More than 40 children sing in our Yr 5/6 choir.   We rehearse before school on Tuesday mornings [08.05 for a prompt 08.10 start, please could children NOT arrive before 0800] and any child in Yrs 5 & 6 can join - there are no auditions. We sing classical and popular music in two - sometimes even three - parts.   As well as school concerts, the choir is increasingly asked to perform locally.  Singalong - for Yr 3/4 - rehearses straight after the Yr 5/6 choir on Tuesdays.  There's also an occasional Yr 2 choir which sings at special events such as the Richmond May Fair and the Christmas Sparkle evening in Kew Village.