![]() While you may be permitted to walk from the front entrance to the office, you should avoid long walks and standing for long periods of time. The vena cava is one of two large veins that that return blood to your heart.ĭepending on the type of bed rest prescribed, your doctor may tell you to have someone else drive you to the office. Depending on your situation, you health care provider may tell you to lie on your left side so that your uterus does not put pressure on the vena cava. Women are advised to lie on their side during bed rest, usually on whichever side is most comfortable. Your doctor will be able to give you specific information about your medical condition and activity level.ĭo I have to lie on my side during bed rest? Working at a desk for less than one hour, but only if there is no stress and if help is available if needed (either on site or by phone) Standing for short periods of time in your home (no longer than ½ hour) Short walks in your home (no longer than ½ hour) If your doctor has advised you to rest most of the time, the following activity guidelines may apply to you. Some women must remain in bed or on a comfortable couch most of the time, while others may only need to slightly restrict their activity. This will depend on the reason your doctor has prescribed bed rest for you. Previous pregnancy complications -can include fetal loss, stillbirth, or premature birthĪ test or procedure that indicates a medical complicationĭo I have to stay in bed all day or can I move around? Multiple pregnancy -carrying two or more babies Incompetent cervix -a weak cervix that may open prematurelyĬervical effacement -thinning of the cervix Premature labor -labor that begins before the baby is considered full term Vaginal bleeding -may be due to placenta previa (low-lying placenta) or abruption placenta (premature separation of the placenta) Preeclampsia -a potentially dangerous condition that includes swelling, increased blood pressure, and protein in the urine Your doctor may advise bed rest for the following pregnancy complications: ![]() What are the most common reasons bed rest is prescribed? While a period of bed rest can interrupt your routine, it may be helpful in carrying your pregnancy to full term. ![]() If you have been prescribed bed rest, it means that your health care provider is concerned about a condition that may prevent you from carrying your baby to full term. Nearly 20 percent of pregnant women are prescribed some form of bed rest each year. Bed rest can mean literally resting in bed or just restricting your activity.
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![]() Claudio senses a powerful force in the Far East that is unconnected to either Jin or Kazuya. Heihachi makes a deal with Claudio Serafino, head of the powerful Sirius Marksmen organization, to help him expose his son, G Corporation head Kazuya Mishima, believing public opinion will shift in the Zaibatsu's favor if Kazuya's Devil Gene is revealed. Nina Williams leads the Zaibatsu in Jin's absence, attempting to locate him, but Heihachi Mishima takes advantage of the vacuum of power and forces Nina to work for him, regaining control of the Zaibatsu. The game's story is told from the perspective of a reporter whose wife and son are killed in the crossfire, leading him to begin writing an exposé on the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation. ![]() A sequel, Tekken 8, is in development.Īfter the events of Tekken 6, though Azazel was destroyed by Jin Kazama, the war between the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation continues to ravage the world. Tekken 7 was a critical and commercial success, selling over 10 million copies as of December 2022. Tekken 7 introduces several new elements to the fighting system such as Rage Arts and the Power Crush mechanic, making the game more beginner friendly than previous iterations in the series. Set shortly after the events of Tekken 6, the plot focuses on the events leading up to the final battle between martial artist Heihachi Mishima and his son, Kazuya. The home versions released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in June 2017 were based on Fated Retribution. An updated arcade version, Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, was released in July 2016, and features expanded content including new stages, costumes, items and characters. Tekken 7 was released to arcades in March 2015. It is the seventh main and ninth overall installment in the Tekken series. Tekken 7 ( 鉄拳7) is a fighting game developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Delivery was quick and setup was incredibly easy. In comparison to the set-in sleeve of a traditional fitting top, the armhole of the dropped shoulder design falls at the top of the arm. The item arrived exactly as expected and in perfect working order. The air relax has been integral in managing my lymphedema. It has been part of my weekly treatment in their office and now it is part of my daily routine at home. My physio therapist recommended purchasing a personal Air Relax. Since the day it arrived, I have use it at least 3 times a day. It also seems to help with improving range of motion on my bad ankle. My cold and numbed leg felt warm and toasty after just 15 minutes. Normatec Go, Normatec Arms and Normatec Hips are all one size. So all these inflation and deflation squeezes and forces blood flowing through out the legs. The Normatec 3 uses dynamic air compression to create a restorative massage that helps. There are programs you can choose for inflation sequence and order of various parts (foot/ ankle, calf, knee, thigh). The air pressure inflate the sock and it in turns squeeze my leg. This device is, in my view anyways, like a giant blood pressure arm cuff. The included instructions was basic but I have no problem performing most of the functions after reading it. I was literally start using it within 5 minutes. The devices was well protected but quite easy to removed from box and set up. I have never known anyone who use this type of device before but since my broken leg is always cold and numbed due to inactivity after the surgery I decided to give this a try. ![]() ![]() Absolutely love it and enthusiastically recommend Air Relax to everyone. Suitable for use with the following OMRON blood pressure monitors: M10-IT. I know for certain recovery is much faster. Replacement Comfort Cuff, suitable for use on arms with a circumference of 22-42cm. It’s a near daily occurrence and when I’m extra sore from either indoor/outdoor rock climbing or bodybuilding/weightlifting. My teen daughter took pics of me while laughing and happy for me to sleep so soundly. First time I used it I passed out down stairs in living room. Simple and easy to use right out of the box. ![]() Air Relax Accelerates Recovery and Deepest Sleep ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. 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In this respect, you could say that the game carries on in the traditions of the very best adventure games from a few decades ago - but it manages to do so in a way that feels undeniably fresh. There?s a great balance of plot, puzzle, and humour, and it does a good job of keeping you invested all the way to the very end. Most importantly, though, Tangle Tower is built around an excellent whodunit mystery that moves along at just the right pace. They generally make a lot of sense within the context of the game, rather than seeming to come out of nowhere, and they strike the right balance of being challenging without stopping the action dead. The puzzles are another huge plus in the game?s favour. ![]() This is emblematic of the entire game, since whenever Grimoire and Sally have to interview a suspect - this is a murder mystery, after all - the people they encounter also come alive thanks to a good script and, again, good voice acting. The two main characters, detectives Grimoire and Sally, banter constantly throughout the game, and they?re voiced by actors who give the characters…well, character. Take, for example, the writing and the voice acting. The rest of Tangle Tower may loosely follow what you?d expect from an adventure game, but all of it is so well done, it feels timeless, rather than being hopelessly indebted to the past. The colours, the style, the way it?s all presented - all of it feels like something that would come out today, rather than something that?s trying to recreate 1994. Tangle Tower?s aesthetic is hard to describe, but it?s clearly not indebted to the old LucasArts games in the way that other modern adventure games are. It takes all the usual pieces of those 30-year-old games - the snarky comments and offhand jokes, the clicking on everything to find clues, the puzzles that don?t always make a tonne of sense - and finds a way to make them seem fresh and new.Ī big part of the credit for that, I think, has to go to the game?s visuals. This is what makes Tangle Tower so surprising. That?s not the worst thing in the world, to be sure - the games from that era were pretty fun, and aping them has led to some decent results - but it doesn?t make for games that feel particularly fresh. Maybe it?s just because of the specific point & click adventure games I?ve played in the last couple of months, but it feels to me like the genre is stuck reliving the early to mid-?90s on an endless loop. Since the initial state is symmetric, all future states will be symmetric, which rules our creating a non-rotationally-symmetric smiley face. Richard Kennaway points out that for any pattern that attempts to solve the control question, we could consider the possibility that the randomly initialized region contains the same pattern rotated 180 degrees in the diagonally opposite corner, and is otherwise empty. Now there are actually some ways that we could get trivial negative answers to this question, so we need to refine things a bit to make sure that our phrasing points squarely at the spirit of the control question. The control question is: Can we use this small initial region to set up a pattern that will eventually determine the configuration of the whole system, to any reasonable degree of accuracy? Our goal is to pick an initial configuration for the controllable region in such a way that, after a large number of steps, the on/off configuration of the whole grid resembles a smiley face. The initial on/off configuration of the remaining cells will be chosen randomly. We are given power to control the initial on/off configuration of the cells in a square region that is a tiny fraction of the whole grid. To repeat that: we have a large grid of cells that will evolve over time according to the laws of Life. The control question is: Can this goal be accomplished? The cells outside the top-left corner will be initialized at random, and you do not get to see what their initial configuration is when you decide on the initial configuration for the top-left corner. Now suppose that I give you control of the initial on/off configuration of a region of size 10 20 by 10 20 in the top-left corner of this grid, and set you the goal of configuring things in that region so that after, say, 10 60 time steps the state of the whole grid will resemble, as closely as possible, a giant smiley face. Suppose that we are working with an instance of Life with a very large grid, say 10 30 rows by 10 30 columns. Take a look at this awesome video of a Universal Turing Machine operating within Life. It is possible to build logic gates and combine them together into a computer that can simulate any Turing machine, all by setting up a particular elaborate pattern of "on" and "off" cells that evolve over time according to the simple rules above. It turns out that these simple rules are rich enough to permit patterns that perform arbitrary computation. Over time, the cells switch between on and off according to a simple set of rules:Ī cell that is "on" and has fewer than two neighbors that are "on" switches to "off" at the next time stepĪ cell that is "on" and has greater than three neighbors that are "on" switches to "off" at the next time stepĪn cell that is "off" and has exactly three neighbors that are "on" switches to "on" at the next time step In Conway’s Game Life, which I will now refer to as just "Life", there is a two-dimensional grid of cells where each cell is either on or off. In this post I am going to discuss a celular autonoma known as Conway’s Game of Life: I propose the AI hypothesis, which is that any pattern that solves the control question does so, essentially, by being an AI. I argue that the permissibility or impermissibility of AI is a deep property of our physics. ![]() ![]() This question is then connected to questions of agency and AI, since one way to answer this question in the positive is by constructing an AI within Conway’s Game of Life. This post asks whether it is possible, in Conway’s Game of Life, to arrange for a certain game state to arise after a certain number of steps given control only of a small region of the initial game state. I welcome financial support to make further posts like this possible.Įpistemic status: I have been thinking about these ideas for years but still have not clarified them to my satisfaction. Financial status: This is independent research. ![]() This solution ensures maximum fidelity, thrilling dynamic contrast, and excellent signal-to-noise ratio. Bit-Perfect Volume Control and 2.1-Volt OutputĬobalt features the same ESS Sabre 9601 headphone amp and bit-perfect volume control that give DragonFly Red its unique combination of power and grip over the music. Successfully combating this noise is absolutely crucial to the preservation of the lowest-level musical details, particularly when it comes to high-res audio-and especially when applied to a portable-audio device such as DragonFly. ![]() In Cobalt, we've taken what we've learned from our recent research and development in noise dissipation to employ power-supply filtering specifically designed to dramatically reduce the increasingly prevalent noise from WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular signals. While the chips used in DragonFlys Black and Red are unbeatable for the price, the minimum-phase slow roll-off filter in the 9038 results in naturally expressive sound that is always emotionally engaging and never fatiguing-a beautiful combination of warmth and detail that we find equally exciting and soothing. Why the "Slow Roll.?"Ĭobalt employs ESS's new flagship ES9038Q2M DAC chip. Streamlength and monoClock are registered trademarks of Wavelength Audio, ltd. This superior clock enables DragonFly Cobalt to provide greater resolution and clarity than DACs with multiple clocks. Further, in Gordon's monoClock ® technology, a single ultra-low-jitter clock generated from the ESS ES9038Q2M DAC chip runs the ESS chip functions as well as all microcontroller functions. Like all previous DragonFly models, Cobalt uses Gordon Rankin's precedent-setting StreamLength ® asynchronous-transfer USB code. With its higher 2.1-volt output, DragonFly Red is compatible with a wider range of headphones, including power-hungry, low-efficiency models.ĪudioQuest, Gordon Rankin: A Beautiful Partnership DragonFly Black outputs 1.2 volts-enough power to successfully drive all preamplifier input circuits and a wide range of today’s efficient headphones. While DragonFly Black uses a high-quality headphone amp and analog volume control, DragonFly Red includes a more advanced ESS headphone amp and a bit-perfect digital volume control that resides on the 9016 DAC chip itself-a sophisticated implementation that gives Red a unique combination of power and grip over the music. The ESS 9010 DAC chip in Black and the higher-performance 9016 chip in Red employ minimum-phase filtering for naturally detailed sound. DragonFly Black, the most affordable model of the award-winning DragonFly family, has been praised by Darko.Audio as “the quintessential everyman hi-fi product,” while its more sophisticated sibling, DragonFly Red, combines significantly improved performance with still exceptional value. Lift the bars out of the baking dish, peel off the foil and cut into pieces. Have a holly jolly holiday season with festive peppermint desserts. If the white chocolate is still soft, place the baking dish in the freezer for a few minutes until set. Transfer the pan to a rack and let the bars cool completely. Pipe diagonal stripes on top of the white chocolate. Transfer to a small resealable plastic bag and snip a corner. Put the red candy melts in a small microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring, until melted. Let sit 2 minutes to soften, then spread into a thin layer with an offset spatula. Add the eggs into the mixing bowl and beat on medium speed until smooth, about 15 seconds. Bake until set and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes.Īs soon as the bars come out of the oven, top with the white chocolate chips in a single layer. Place the butter and sugars into the bowl of an electric mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, and beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Spread the dough in the baking dish, pressing it with your hands until flat and even. ![]() Beat in the flour mixture in two batches until just combined. Whisk together flour, baking soda and cream of tartar in a medium bowl. Add the egg and the vanilla extract until well mixed, about a minute. Beat in the egg, then beat in the food coloring and vanilla and peppermint extracts, scraping down the bowl as needed. Cream sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl. Beat the butter and sugars together for about 2 minutes with an electric mixer at medium speed, until completely mixed and light in color. Whisk the flour, salt and baking powder in a medium bowl.īeat the butter and sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. ![]() Line a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with foil, leaving an overhang on all sides. Store bark in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to 2 weeks. Remove foil from bottom then break bark into serving-sized pieces. Place pan in the refrigerator for 1 hour, or. Sprinkle crushed candy canes over the top. Sprinkle top with crushed candy canes then refrigerate for 1 hour until set. Spread melted chocolate over cookie crust and spread into an even layer. I also picked out a few things from their holiday shop, including these cute Williams Sonoma Peanuts™ Holiday Impression Cookie Cutters set (since all of you are obsessed with my last set of Peanuts cookie stamps) as well as the PEANUTS™ Holiday Platter. Using a spoon, drop white chocolate by dollops over dark chocolate then swirl the two together with a butter knife. In addition to using the peppermint bark for my holiday cookies, I also used the tin as the cookie box, making it so perfect to gift to family and friends. When Williams Sonoma Canada asked if I wanted to make a cookie inspired by their iconic bark, I immediately said yes (I said a polite yes in my email exchange with them but in my head, there were 10 exclamation marks following a YES in all caps). Yield: 36 cookies Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 13 MinTotal time: 23 MinThis chewy and soft holiday cookie is filled with peppermint bark and chocolate chips.Truly, it will be the best one on this years holiday platter Ingredients. ![]() 2 cups AP Flour - I have used 2 cups of AP Flour to make these cookies because these will have two layers. I don’t know why I haven’t incorporated into my holiday cookies because it seems like a natural fit. Ingredients used to make Peppermint Bark Shortbread Cookies. I’ve always enjoyed the peppermint bark as is but never have I used it as part of my holiday baking. That’s when I know that the holidays are here. It is full on singing - not just a subtle little melody, but a complete orchestra. When I walk into the Vancouver location of Williams Sonoma and see the pyramid of red and white tins, my heart sings. William Sonoma’s peppermint bark is at the top of that list for me. Every year around mid to late November little holiday signifiers start popping up - peppermint mochas start appearing on café menus, Christmas music start making its way into stores at the mall, and the iconic tins of peppermint bark make their annual appearance at my local Williams Sonoma store. And, before a child can form letters with ease and fluency, they need to achieve pre-writing lines such as strait lines, squares, triangles, X and diagonals. Line awareness and coloring– Another aspect of coloring is the line awareness to color within the lines. In order to color a whole shape or figure, distal mobility is needed.Īctivities to develop these skills include fine motor play, beading, tweezer use, working on a vertical surface can develop these skills. In order to color within the lines, visual motor skills are needed. ![]() In order to color in a shape, hand strength is needed. Previous experience with fine motor activities/fine motor skill developmentįine motor skills and coloring- In order to hold a crayon, children need to develop fine motor skills.Line awareness/visual perceptual skills.Precision to move the crayon with the fingers instead of the whole arm/wrist.Hand strength to move the crayon against a resistive surface.Arch development (for endurance to color in the object).There are several areas, or underlying skills that play an important role in coloring: Let’s take a look at the reasons why kids hate to color.Īll of these reasons why kids hate to color are related…and many times, it comes back to a need for developing hand strength and underlying skills. There are reasons for these difficulties, that make sense developmentally. Other times you come across kids that prefer markers over crayons. Many times, you see kids that refuse to color. How to teach coloring skillsĬoloring can be hard for kids. Specifically, you’ll want to use age-appropriate crayons for toddlers, based on developmental levels. Let’s go into age-appropriate specifics on how to teach coloring skills at each age and stage, from babies, to toddlers, to preschool, to Pre-K, to elementary aged children. It boosts confidence, develops understanding of cause and effect, and increases attention spans.Ĭoloring is also an important stage of child development, too.ĭid you know that drawing is also an integral part of many early childhood skills like pre-writing development, fine motor skills, and spatial reasoning? It’s the first time many of us express creativity and produce something we are proud of. Coloring develops hand strength, visual perceptual skills, and precision skills in grasp. There are many benefits to coloring as a tool for building skills. Coloring is such an important part of childhood and growing up. ![]() Our high-quality selection is all NSF, UL, NFPA and ETL approved. ![]() Unfortunately we do not have control over these cookies, in this case you should refer to the list of cookies on this page which provides further details. Buy factory-direct commercial exhaust hoods and fans from Hoodmart. We have taken steps to try to ensure that the cookies being used fit the descriptions used above and that the ‘Accept’ or ‘No thanks’ selection will honour your wishes but some third party cookies may still get downloaded. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Thanks to Home Connect, you can control the 200 series extractor via a compatible cooktop and change the colour of the. While the 200 series is 80 or 90 cm of clear glass. The stainless steel 400 series option offers dimmable illumination in 90 or 120 cm. 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The trucking industry has developed a strong relationship with President Donald Trump, who has made rolling back layers of regulatory oversight a top priority. A groundbreaking study by the Transportation Department more than a decade ago reported 13% of truck drivers involved in crashes that resulted in fatalities or injuries were fatigued at the time of the accidents. The NTSB has declared fatigue a “pervasive problem” in all forms of transportation and added reducing fatigue-related accidents to its 2019-2020 “most wanted list ” of safety improvements. The NTSB has declared fatigue a “pervasive problem” in all forms of transportation. Sixty of the truckers in these accidents were identified as “asleep or fatigued,” although the National Transportation Safety Board has said this type of driver impairment is likely underreported on police crash forms. There were 4,657 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in 2017, a 10% increase from the year before, according to a May report issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, an agency of the Transportation Department. She said the hours of service requirements, which permit truckers to drive up to 11 hours each day, are already “exceedingly liberal in our estimation.” ![]() “I think flexibility is a code word for deregulation,” said Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of insurance companies and consumer, public health and safety groups. ![]() They point to new government data that shows fatal crashes involving trucks weighing as much as 80,000 pounds have increased. Interest groups that represent motor carriers and truck drivers have lobbied for revisions they say would make the rigid “hours of service” rules more flexible.īut highway safety advocates are warning the contemplated changes would dangerously weaken the regulations, resulting in truckers putting in even longer days at a time when they say driver fatigue is such a serious problem. The Transportation Department is moving to relax the federal regulations that required Francois to pull over, a long sought goal of the trucking industry and a move that would highlight its influence with the Trump administration. “You don’t want even a one-minute violation,” said Francois, a 39-year-old Haitian immigrant, recalling his dilemma during a break at a truck stop in this small crossroads town southwest of Washington. Ten hours would have to pass before he could start driving again. So he parked and climbed into the sleeper berth in the back of the cab. Francois couldn’t leave the truck unattended. He’d reached the maximum number of hours in a day he’s allowed to be on duty. (AP) - Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania. |
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