Saying That Black Lives Matter Doesn’t Mean That Other Lives Do Not
By Liz Schumer
As protests against racist police brutality sweep across the United States and spread around the globe, rallying cries of “Black Lives Matter” echo through our streets and our digital avenues. As we all digest the news and think about how to respond and participate at such a pivotal time, it’s important to recognize what Black Lives Matter really means — as well as why the phrase “All Lives Matter” is problematic.
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2020 Graduates look to Celebrate Online
Paint this picture. You’ve worked long and hard for 12 years of schooling. Late nights, early mornings, school projects, boring assemblies, ornery teachers, acne – all these things you’ve endured. Now it is time for you to close this chapter and open a new book to adulthood. Unfortunately because of a global pandemic, you are going to miss out on the Graduation Experience, DOH! (as Homer Simpson would say).
Thankfully, someone has invented a brand new concept that can help ease the pain that you are experiencing. You can have a party online with GradFan. This new platform allows a student to celebrate their milestone with a personalized page on their site. It is a novel idea. Friends and family can read about the things you will miss most about high school, read about your future plans, sign your virtual yearbook and even give you a give through their CashApp integration. It’s a wonder no one ever thought of this before.
Secure
Each GradFan site is setup on a secure page. All info transmitted on the site is encrypted through https. Each page has it’s own link which is not searchable so only those who you want to see will be able to view your info.
Shareable
When you get a GradFan site, you will receive a smartly designed, custom flyer. It has your name, link and your picture to make it super simple for your friends to participate in your celebration. The flyer is ready for print or sharing on all the popular networks. You could also share your custom link in your feed as easy as a YouTube video or meme.
Integrated with CashApp
One of the greatest parts of graduation is getting the gifts from your family and friends. Right now with the lock-down in place over much of the country, travel may be difficult. Now, your family and friends can send you a quick gift right from your GradFan site.
Setup is a breeze
It’s easy to set up. Just go to https://gradfan.com and click Get Yours to start. There is a fee of $125 at the time of this writing but they have sales from time to time. There is even a discount of $20 if you are referred by one of their referral partners.
Make the most of your company website
If you are doing business in 2020 then you know how important your online presence is. In order for customers to feel comfortable about purchasing your product or service, they like to familiar experience as on other sites. As you are building your site, you should consider these questions and ensure they are available.
What are other people saying
In this culture of rates and recommendations, you should definitely include positive testimonials on your website. AnointedAds.com has a good example of positive testimonials. You can either put the testimonials on yourself or you can embed them from a popular website like Yelp, Thumbtack or even Facebook. These reviews make you look like a reputable business. They lend credibility to your claims for your products and services. If you link them from other sources, they can be verified and can lead to even more archived testimonials. These will help the prospective customer know that you are committed to doing a great job and other people vouch for your company.
How does your product look
This is an easy one. Anyone who buys products wants to see how they look. But how do you provide a picture of your service? If it is a virtual product you can provide samples from your portfolio. If it is a tangible service, you can provide before/after shots. These are always effective. You should ensure the pictures are clear and in good resolution. However, they should not be too large if possible. Pictures over 1MB may load slowly depending on the client’s connection. Photos sized 100KB-200KB should be ideal.
What is included in your service
Services are not all the same. For example, HVAC companies abide by local standards and codes but they provide their services in their own unique way. Be sure to detail on your website the items included in your service. If you are a creative service provider, do you provide a prototype of the design before the final. Do you allow for revisions? How many? If you are a home re-modeler, do you guarantee your timelines? Do you have a warrantee on your work? Is there a possibility for monthly service/maintenance? All these general terms should be visible to help the client make the best informed decision. It is also a plus to have them listed on your site to reiterate them when you speak with the customer. They’ll have the ability to easily compare when they are looking for someone to hire.
Do you provide phone/chat support
Support is a biggie, especially for any monthly service. If a customer feels that you are there to answer questions, they can have peace of mind that if there is a problem, they have a resource for help. Listing a phone number is key (if you can handle the calls that may come in a timely fashion). Many companies with large volume customers only list an email for contact, unless they have a call center or auto-answer service to route calls. If you are not providing phone support, chat can be just as effective. In some cases it is even more effective. Live chat can provide a quick answer right when the customer is ready to make a decision. With most chat services, you can even set times when your staff is available. They can even leave a message if no one is ‘LIVE’ at their specific time.
Travelling in The Paradise
A lake is an area of variable size filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are a not part of the ocean, and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are also larger and deeper than ponds, though there are no official or scientific definitions. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams, which are usually flowing. Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams.
Natural lakes are generally found in mountainous areas, rift zones, and areas with ongoing glaciation. Other lakes are found in endorheic basins or along the courses of mature rivers. In some parts of the world there are many lakes because of chaotic drainage patterns left over from the last Ice Age. All lakes are temporary over geologic time scales, as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill out of the basin containing them.
There is considerable uncertainty about defining the difference between lakes and ponds, and no current internationally accepted definition of either term across scientific disciplines or political boundaries exists. For example, limnologists have defined lakes as water bodies which are simply a larger version of a pond, which can have wave action on the shoreline or where wind-induced turbulence plays a major role in mixing the water column.
None of these definitions completely excludes ponds and all are difficult to measure. For this reason, simple size-based definitions are increasingly used to separate ponds and lakes. One definition of lake is a body of water of 2 hectares or more in area; however, others have defined lakes as waterbodies of 5 hectares and above, or 8 hectares and above . Charles Elton, one of the founders of ecology, regarded lakes as waterbodies of 40 hectares or more.
The term lake is also used to describe a feature such as Lake Eyre, which is a dry basin most of the time but may become filled under seasonal conditions of heavy rainfall. In common usage, many lakes bear names ending with the word pond, and a lesser number of names ending with lake are in quasi-technical fact, ponds. One textbook illustrates this point with the following: “In Newfoundland, for example, almost every lake is called a pond, whereas in Wisconsin, almost every pond is called a lake.
Tips for travelling with an infant
Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements. An infant is the very young offspring of a human or other animal. When applied to humans, the term is usually considered synonymous with baby or bairn, but the latter is commonly applied to the young of any animal. When a human child learns to walk, the term toddler may be used instead.
The term infant is typically applied to young children between the ages of 1 month and 12 months; however, definitions may vary between birth and 1 year of age, or even between birth and 2 years of age. A newborn is an infant who is only hours, days, or up to a few weeks old. In medical contexts, newborn or neonate refers to an infant in the first 28 days after birth; the term applies to premature infants, postmature infants, and full term infants. Before birth, the term fetus is used. In the UK, infant is a term that can be applied to school children aged between four and seven. As a legal terminology, “infancy” continues from birth until age 18.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
-Saint Augustine
Authorities emphasize the importance of taking precautions to ensure travel safety. When traveling abroad, the odds favor a safe and incident-free trip, however, travelers can be subject to difficulties, crime and violence.
Some safety considerations include being aware of one’s surroundings, avoiding being the target of a crime, leaving copies of one’s passport and itinerary information with trusted people, obtaining medical insurance valid in the country being visited and registering with one’s national embassy when arriving in a foreign country. Many countries do not recognize drivers’ licenses from other countries; however most countries accept international driving permits. Automobile insurance policies issued in one’s own country are often invalid in foreign countries, and it is often a requirement to obtain temporary auto insurance valid in the country being visited. It is also advisable to become oriented with the driving rules and regulations of destination countries. Wearing a seat belt is highly advisable for safety reasons; many countries have penalties for violating seat belt laws.
The term infant is typically applied to young children between the ages of 1 month and 12 months; however, definitions may vary between birth and 1 year of age, or even between birth and 2 years of age. A newborn is an infant who is only hours, days, or up to a few weeks old. In medical contexts, newborn or neonate refers to an infant in the first 28 days after birth; the term applies to premature infants, postmature infants, and full term infants. Before birth, the term fetus is used. In the UK, infant is a term that can be applied to school children aged between four and seven. As a legal terminology, “infancy” continues from birth until age 18.
Best selection of kids spring wear
A uniform is a type of clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization’s activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in prisons. In some countries, some other officials also wear uniforms in their duties; such is the case of the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service or the French prefects. For some public groups, such as police, it is illegal for non members to wear the uniform. Other uniforms are trade dresses (such as the brown uniforms of UPS).
Workers sometimes wear uniforms or corporate clothing of one nature or another. Workers required to wear a uniform include retail workers, bank and post office workers, public security and health care workers, blue collar employees, personal trainers in health clubs, instructors in summer camps, lifeguards, janitors, public transit employees, towing and truck drivers, airline employees and holiday operators, and bar, restaurant and hotel employees. The use of uniforms by these organizations is often an effort in branding and developing a standard corporate image but also has important effects on the employees required to wear the uniform.
The term uniform may be misleading because employees are not always fully uniform in appearance and may not always wear attire provided by the organization, while still representing the organization in their attire. Academic work on organizational dress by Rafaeli & Pratt (1993) referred to uniformity (homogeneity) of dress as one dimension, and conspicuousness as a second .Employees all wearing black, for example, may appear conspicuous and thus represent the organization even though their attire is uniform only in the color of their appearance, not in its features. Pratt & Rafaeli, (1997) described struggles between employees and management about organizational dress as struggles about deeper meanings and identities that dress represents. And Pratt & Rafaeli (2001) described dress as one of the larger set of symbols and artifacts in organizations which coalesce into a communication grammar.
Yellow leaf beetle (Wide-ranging diversity)
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera. The word coleoptera is from the Greek κολεός, koleós, meaning “sheath”; and πτερόν, pterón, meaning “wing”, thus “sheathed wing”, because most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, the “elytra”, being hardened and thickened into a shell-like protection for the rear pair and the beetle’s abdomen. The order contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known animal life-forms. About 40% of all described insect species are beetles (about 400,000 species), and new species are discovered frequently. The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae (the weevils or snout beetles), also belongs to this order.
The diversity of beetles is very wide-ranging. They are found in almost all types of habitats, but are not known to occur in the sea or in the polar regions. They interact with their ecosystems in several ways. They often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are prey of various animals including birds and mammals. Certain species are agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata, the boll weevil Anthonomus grandis, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, and the mungbean or cowpea beetle Callosobruchus maculatus, while other species of beetles are important controls of agricultural pests. For example, beetles in the family Coccinellidae (“ladybirds” or “ladybugs”) consume aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops.
Species in the order Coleoptera are generally characterized by a particularly hard exoskeleton and hard forewings (elytra, singular elytron). These elytra distinguish beetles from most other insect species, except for a few species of Hemiptera. The beetle’s exoskeleton is made up of numerous plates called sclerites, separated by thin sutures. This design creates the armored defenses of the beetle while maintaining flexibility. The general anatomy of a beetle is quite uniform, although specific organs and appendages may vary greatly in appearance and function between the many families in the order. Like all insects, beetles’ bodies are divided into three sections: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. Coleopteran internal morphology is similar to other insects, although there are several examples of novelty. Such examples include species of water beetle which use air bubbles in order to dive under the water, and can remain submerged thanks to passive diffusion as oxygen moves from the water into the bubble.
Ton of resources and information.
A resource is a source or supply from which benefit is produced. Resources are two types based upon their availability they are renewable and non renewable resource s.Typically resources are materials, energy, services, staff, knowledge, or other assets that are transformed to produce benefit and in the process may be consumed or made unavailable. Benefits of resource utilization may include increased wealth or wants, proper functioning of a system, or enhanced well being. From a human perspective a natural resource is anything obtained from the environment to satisfy human needs and wants. From a broader biological or ecological perspective a resource satisfies the needs of a living organism (see biological resource).
The concept of resources has been applied in diverse realms, with respect to economics, biology and ecology, computer science, management, and human resources, and is linked to the concepts of competition, sustainability, conservation, and stewardship. In application within human society, commercial or non-commercial factors require resource allocation through resource management.
Resources have three main characteristics: utility, limited availability, and potential for depletion or consumption. Resources have been variously categorized as biotic versus abiotic, renewable versus non-renewable, and potential versus actual, along with more elaborate classification.
In economics a resource is defined as a service or other asset used to produce goods and services that meet human needs and wants.Economics itself has been defined as the study of how society manages its scarce resources. Classical economics recognizes three categories of resources, also referred to as factors of production: land, labour, and capital.Land includes all natural resources and is viewed as both the site of production and the source of raw materials. Labour or human resources consists of human effort provided in the creation of products, paid in wage. Capital consists of human-made goods or means of production (machinery, buildings, and other infrastructure) used in the production of other goods and services, paid in interest.In biology and ecology a resource is defined as a substance that is required by a living organism for normal growth, maintenance, and reproduction (see biological resource). The main essential resources for animals are food, water, and territory. For plants key resources include light, nutrients, water, and a place to grow. Resources,can be consumed by an organism and, as a result, become unavailable to other organisms. Competition for resources vary from complete symmetric (all individuals receive the same amount of resources, irrespective of their size) to perfectly size symmetric (all individuals exploit the same amount of resource per unit biomass) to absolutely size-asymmetric (the largest individuals exploit all the available resource). The degree of size asymmetry has major effects on the structure and diversity of ecological communities, e.g. in plant communities size-asymmetric competition for light has stronger effects on diversity compared with competition for soil resources.The degree of size asymmetry has major effects on the structure and diversity of ecological communities.
Wonderful City of Mikulov, Czech Republic
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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using
Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
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