![]() The RS includes power liftgate, remote start, roof rails, LED brake lights, 19-inch black aluminum wheels, heated front seats, dual zone automatic climate control, keyfob remote engine start, front and rear parking sensors, and leather steering wheel.The top-of-the-line Premier trim includes tilt down power mirrors, motion activated power liftgate, auto-dimming rear-view mirror, heated front seats, leather front and rear seats, 2 position memory for driver seat and exterior mirrors, wireless charging, ambient lighting, 8-inch infotainment, and Bose speaker system. The LT includes premium cloth 8-way power driver seat and deep-tinted windows. ![]() A blind spot monitor with rear cross-traffic alert is also available. ![]() The LT trim features HID headlights, steering wheel audio controls, a remote starter system and a power sunroof as optional equipment. Optional equipment on the LS trim includes deep-tinted glass, 8-way driver power seat and a leather wrapped steering wheel. Power windows, door locks, remote keyless entry, a tilt and telescoping steering wheel, as well as power mirrors and automatic headlamps round out the generous standards list. Standard equipment on all trims includes 17-inch painted aluminum wheels, Stabilitrak stability control, traction control, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes, 6 air bags, an anti-theft system, an XM satellite radio-ready system, Full automatic LED headlights, Bluetooth and OnStar with 4G LTE and Wi-Fi hotspot readiness. Storage areas are abundant and include an oversized glovebox, a closed storage bin in the instrument panel above the center stack and a closed storage bin under the center armrest that is large enough for a laptop computer. ![]() Front-wheel drive is the standard drivetrain, but all-wheel drive is available. ft., attached to a 6-speed automatic transmission it delivers 30 mpg on the highway. It exists on a shared platform with the GMC Terrain and Buick Envision.The Equinox has one engine, a 1.5L turbocharged 4-cylinder that makes an impressive 175 horsepower and 203 lb. The Chevrolet Equinox is an impressive contender in the compact crossover/SUV segment. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To get more opportunities in your career and walk the ramp for fashion weeks in Paris, Milan, and New York, you must master the skill of a perfect catwalk. While it may seem easy, a catwalk is far trickier to perfect. If you watch professional models walking the ramp, you’ll notice they have one thing in common-a walk streaming with confidence and a self-assuring posture. However, keep your focus balanced and feel confident and natural. Just like the focus of the camera's lens, keep your eye contact focused. Do not look around keep your eyes fixed on a point in front of you. Focus with Your Eyes : As you cannot smile or give any other expressions during a catwalk, the only way to exhibit your confidence on the ramp is through your eyes and eyebrows.Practice a straight face in front of the mirror before you’re ready for your catwalk. ![]() Remember, a model should not distract the audience from the collection they are wearing for the catwalk. Don’t keep your lips too light have a more natural look with your lips slightly parted.
![]() ![]() D., and a team of researchers at the National Institute of Health. About the Calculationsįormulas incorporated into this online calculator are based on a mathematical model developed by Kevin Dennis Hall, Ph. When you engage in muscle-strengthening activities, your body will increase the loss of fat over muscle. ![]() The potential loss of muscle mass is why exercising regularly and eating a balanced diet that includes sufficient protein when losing weight is essential. As muscle mass decreases, so does the number of calories you burn daily. Muscle mass is a significant contributor to BMR. People with higher initial body fat burn more fat from the energy imbalance versus muscle tissue than those with lower amounts of body fat. Muscle mass is also lost, depending on your initial body composition. Eating 3,500 fewer calories does not mean you're exclusively burning 3,500 calories worth of body fat. The 3500-kcal rule does not consider important factors such as the physiological changes that occur during weight loss. Despite this evidence, the rule continues to appear on many health-related websites. It is based on the assumption that body fat contains approximately 3,500 calories of energy per pound.Īccording to an article published by the International Journal of Obesity, the researchers explain that the 3500-kcal rule "grossly overestimates" actual weight loss and leads people to unrealistic expectations. This amounts to 3,500 fewer calories a week (7 days times 500 calories) and is sometimes referred to as the 3500-kcal rule. It is a myth that by eating 500 fewer calories a day, you will slowly lose a pound of weight a week. Do you lose a pound a week with a 500 calorie deficit? Weight gain occurs when you eat more calories than your TDEE, a calorie surplus, and the extra calories are stored as fat. Together, these three factors - BMR, physical activity, and digesting food - make up the total number of calories you burn in a day, known as your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE).Įating fewer calories than your TDEE, a calorie deficit, is necessary for weight loss. The last 5 to 10 percent of the daily caloric burn comes from digesting food. Physical activity can account for 20 to 30 percent of the daily caloric burn. The remaining caloric burn comes from physical activity, like going to the gym or simply moving around throughout the day. Most of the energy used by your body goes towards your BMR and can account for 60 to 75 percent of the daily caloric burn for the average adult. It's referred to as the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Your body continuously burns energy to perform life-sustaining functions such as breathing, keeping your heart beating, supporting the nervous system, circulation, and body temperature regulation. ![]() The weight loss associated with releasing 500 additional calories would have depended on several factors, including the percentage of energy released from fat vs. ![]() Your body would have broken down enough of its energy stores to release the 500 calories of extra energy needed for the day. To get the additional energy it needs, resulting in weight loss.įor instance, if yesterday you burned 2,000 calories but only took in 1,500 calories for the day, that's 500 fewer calories than your body required, putting it in a 500-calorie deficit. When in a calorie deficit, your body breaks down body fat and muscle A calorie deficit occurs when you consume fewer calories than the amount required to fuel yourīody's essential functions and daily activities. ![]() ![]() TeXworks includes an integrated PDF viewer, based on the Poppler library, so there is no need to switch to an external program such as Acrobat, xpdf, etc., to view the typeset output. With DVI at all, but can generally treat TeX as a system that goes directly from marked-up text files to ready-to-use PDF documents. Although it is possible to configure a processing path based on DVI, newcomers to the TeX world need not be concerned The normal TeXworks workflow is PDF-centric, using pdfTeX and XeTeX as typesetting engines and generating PDF documents as the defaultįormatted output. Qt also provides a rich application framework, facilitating the relatively rapid development of a usable product. The Qt toolkit was chosen for the quality of its cross-platform user interface capabilities, with native “look and feel” on each platform being a realistic target. To provide a similar experience across all systems, TeXworks is based on cross-platform, open source tools and libraries. It is deliberately modeled on Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop for Mac OS X, which is credited with a resurgence of TeX usage on the Mac platform. The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program (working environment) that will be available for all today's major desktop operating systems-in particular, MS Windows (7/8/8.1/10/11), typical GNU/Linux distros and other X11-based systems, as well as macOS. 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I traced it to a vigorous workout on the elliptical machine followed the next day by some strenuous yardwork. Because I developed costochondritis around the holidays, she asked if I’d recently lifted a turkey. Physical strain from repeated exercise or sudden exertionĪccording to my doctor it doesn’t take much to develop costochondritis from exertion.Infections, including respiratory tract infections or post-op infections.Other reasons for costochondritis include: If you live with a form of inflammatory arthritis, that may be all it takes for the costochondral joint to become inflamed. Don’t attempt to assess for yourself whether or not you may be having costochondritis, a heart attack, or something else. ![]() Moving the arm on the affected side will usually also cause pain.īut remember: Any time you experience chest pain, you should seek medical attention. Other clues it’s costochondritis: Pain is often exacerbated by upper body movement and deep breathing, even if it’s just reaching up into a high cupboard or blow-drying your hair (yes, again, I speak from experience). My doctor diagnosed my costochondritis by pressing on my chest, which hurt like hell. One tipoff that it’s not a cardiac event is that your chest is painful to the touch (something that doesn’t happen when you’re having a heart attack). Costochondritis often occurs on just one side and frequently on the left side, which is why it’s often mistaken as a symptom of a heart attack. The ribs and breastbone connect in seven different places and pain can occur at any of them or even at more than one location. The most common symptom of costochondritis is pain and tenderness in the chest that’s typically described as sharp, aching, or pressure-like. ![]() Though costochondritis can happen at any age, it is more common in people over 40 and, like inflammatory arthritis, it affects women more than men - 70 percent versus 30 percent. “When you have a condition that predisposes you to inflammation over multiple joints, you have increased susceptibility to developing it,” says Vinicius Domingues, MD, a rheumatologist in Daytona Beach, Florida, and medical advisor for CreakyJoints. According to one study, 30 percent of patients who went to the ER with chest pain had costochondritis.Ĭostochondritis and Arthritis: What’s the Link?Ĭostochondritis is not as common as inflammation in the joints of the hands, elbows, knees, or feet, but if you have inflammatory arthritis like rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, or psoriatic arthritis, you may also be more likely to get costochondritis. ![]() Turns out I’m far from the first person with costochondritis to show up in the ER thinking they might be having a heart attack. I speak from experience because costochondritis, an inflammation of the segments of cartilage - called costosternal joints - that connect the ribs to the breastbone, wasn’t even on my radar when I went to the emergency room late one recent night with pain and tightness in my chest. If you’re like me, you probably won’t have heard of costochondritis until you or someone you know is diagnosed with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Sierra's Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, protagonist Gabriel Knight meets Damballa while investigating a series of murders in New Orleans. In the Child's Play franchise, Damballa's name is used in the voodoo incantation by the main antagonist Chucky to transfer his soul into his Good Guy Doll host.Īn upcoming Roblox Series Damballa Risen was titled with inspiration of Child's Play franchise. Terror's House of Horrors features an unscrupulous jazz musician (Roy Castle) appropriating ritual music of a Dambalah ceremony.Ī 1981 short-story collection by African-American writer John Edgar Wideman is entitled Damballah. ![]() The song was later covered by Nina Simone in live performances.Ī segment in the Amicus 1964 portmanteau horror film Dr. Erzulie Freda is his lover, although, once again, she may be considered his wife in some societies.īahamian folk musician Exuma wrote and recorded the song "Dambala" for his 1970 self-titled album, in which he exhorts Dambala and God to punish slavers. When he manifests in the Petro rites it is Damballa La Flambo.ĭamballa's wife is Ayida-Weddo, although in some Vodou societies she is his sister, and in others Damballa himself after a different fashion. For example, as Damballa Tocan he is a spirit of the intellect. ĭamballa, like many other loa, is subdivided into different spirits who play different roles. However his offering par excellence is a white, uncooked egg on a mound of white flour. Offerings to him include milk, white foods and flowers, rice, coconut, orgeat syrup, and a perfume called lotion pompeia. Some peristyles maintain a basin full of water into which the possessed will plunge, to swim and cool off. His purity is such that it cannot be allowed to be exposed to impure or unclean things. A white sheet is laid down for him, and another waved over him to fan and cool him. When a serviteur is believed to be possessed by Damballa during a ceremony, he or she moves on the floor like a serpent. His very presence brings peace, and he represents a continuum which is "at once the ancient past and the assurance of the future." As a serpent, and due to his extreme age, he does not speak, but may whistle or make a soft, hissing sound. He is counted among the Rada loa.ĭamballa is seen as benevolent and patient, wise and kind, yet detached and removed from the trials and tribulations of daily, human life. Damballa is usually syncretized with either Saint Patrick or Moses. ![]() As a serpent, he moves between land and water, generating life, and through the earth, uniting the land with the waters below. By shedding the serpent skin, Damballa created all the waters on the earth. In others, being the first thing created by God, creation was undertaken through him. In those Vodou societies that view Damballa as the primordial creator, he created the cosmos by using his 7,000 coils to form the stars and the planets in the heavens and to shape the hills and valleys on earth. Damballa is said to be the Sky Father and the primordial creator of all life, or the first thing created by Gran Met. He is traditionally portrayed as a great white or black serpent, originating in the city of Wedo (Whydah or Ouidah) in modern-day Benin. They met, and intertwined again in the New World bringing the joy and beauty of their majesty.Damballah La Flambeau, by the Haitian artist Hector Hyppolite.ĭamballa, also spelled Damballah, Dambala, Dambalah, among other variations ( Haitian Creole: Danbala), is one of the most important of all loa, spirits in Haitian Voodoo and other African diaspora religious traditions such as Obeah. Aida traveled across the sky as wearing the crown of the rainbow. Damballa made the trip beneath the seas, the realm of the ancestors and deep wisdom. The serpents made the journey to the new world. War and strife made the possibility and the push of a new land a necessity. ![]() There came a time when that was no longer possible. They were lovers, intertwined souls, who danced their magick on the continent of Africa. In a time before time there were two serpents- a male and a female. For many devotees the Loa Damballa Wedo and Aida Wedo are the father and mother of the Vodou, or Voodoo, religion. Sacred stories traverse boundaries and limitations, and this story of two divine snakes is no exception. All rights reserved.Įven people who know very little about Haitian Vodou, seem to know the tale of the serpent and the rainbow. Damballa and Aida Wedo Veve, photo by Lilith Dorsey. ![]() ![]() If he is stumped, show him a picture of the flowers. Ask your child to name the species of this flower. The term can even refer to the flowering plants, even when not in bloom. And, they appear very different from other flowers. It means these flowers were not intentionally planted or seeded. As the name suggests, the wildflower is a flower growing in the wild. This coloring page displays the variety and beauty of America’s most popular wildflowers. Every ton of recycled paper saves around 17 trees. ![]() Tell him to switch off the lights, computers, and other electronic appliances and devices when not in use. As your child colors the page, explain to him how his actions can affect the planet and what they can do to reduce the global warming and carbon footprints. There is an island, yes you read that right, an island of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas. It may be hard for many people to believe, but the earth is really in a sad state. Can your child guess the species of the bird by looking at the diagram? 3. You can even teach your child to keep a bowl of water on the gallery, garden, or terrace, during the summers for the birds to drink. It seems that it’s summer, and the heat has got the better of the birds. This coloring page shows little birds satiating their thirst by drinking water from a bird bath. From the Andean condor, with a wingspan of 11 feet, to the tiny teeny hummingbird, weighing less than an ounce, birds come in all shapes and sizes. ![]() Our beautiful earth is home to thousand species of birds. Just ensure that your child uses bright and bold colors to bring these animals alive. Children can also draw a few birds or some of their favorite animals in the backdrop. This coloring page features the Alaskan Brown bear catching fish from a river and the bald eagle soaring high in the sky. ![]() Grizzly bears, wolves, mountain goats, survey the majesty of the Alaskan landscape, while the beluga whales, polar bears, and sea otters dot the sea. The raw and bold beauty of Alaska’s mountains, forests, mountains, sea, and valleys serves as the glorious backdrop for its wildlife. So, if you are a nature-lover who wants to inspire your little one with a dash of dazzling nature, why don’t you share our nature coloring pages with him? Let your child’s creativity go wild with Momjunction’s collection of coloring pages filled with plants, animals and other stunning splendors of nature. Nature provides us with all the resources that we need to live air to breathe, water to drink, land to stay, and food to eat. Nature and its magnificence convince the staunchest of contrarians that this claim is not so farcical. 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Shazam is the alter ego of Billy Batson, a boy who, by speaking the magic word “Shazam”, can transform himself into a costumed adult with the powers of superhuman strength, speed, flight, and other abilities. Beck and writer Bill Parker, and first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940), published by Fawcett Comics. ![]() Shazam, also known as Captain Marvel … was created in 1939 by artist C. Is there a particular reason for both big two publishers to have the name?įirstly, yes, there is a reason for why both Big Two publishers have the name – and it actually goes back to a third publisher! After that it’s actually a story of multiple lawsuits. Is there a particular reason for both big two publishers to have the name?Īlso, what big differences are there between Superman and Shazam? (I know practically nothing about Shazam other than he looks just like Supes). If I do a Google/Google Image search for “Captain Marvel,” I’ll get about a 50/50 split between Shazam (DC) and Captain Marvel (Marvel). I’m very new to the actual comic books themselves, but have a decent grasp so far…but on to my question. On December 3rd, 2014, /u/GypsyMonster asked the following on /r/DCcomics: ![]() ![]() ![]() With its compact size, it can neatly sit on your kitchen counter without eating much into your space. It is also free from chemicals and bacteria, so there is not a chance for bacteria to develop in the chamber. It is a perfect mix of convenience, versatility, and superior functionality with its large set of features.įirst off, the incubator comes in a sturdy body made with ABS plastic, which is not only durable but also easy to clean. ![]() This is one of the best poultry egg incubators in the market, especially for any beginner who is looking for premium quality and top-notch performance. The comparison table, in-depth individual product reviews, and a buying guide, in the end, contain all the ideal information you need to know before buying an egg incubator. Some of the features on which we based our research include egg capacity, size, power consumption, temperature, and material, among others. You can trust the products on our list to be among the best in the market, owing to the efforts we put in conducting research in terms of time and sources we used. Its durability, convenience, versatility, and exceptional performance set it apart. Our best pick was the HBlife Digital Fully Automatic Incubator. We reviewed 22 products and narrowed down to a list of 5 best egg incubators in the market. Luckily, we have made it easier for you by coming up with this guide. There is an astounding variation of brands and models of egg incubators in the market that choosing the best can be daunting. You will never get an incubator that hatches all the eggs every time, but some models hatch none every time. The best egg incubator will ensure your eggs get the right temperature, humidity, and turning. Usually, eggs can withstand abuse but not variations in the environment. Unless, of course, you have a broody hen ready to sit and hatch you some chicks. If eggs are more than just a breakfast staple for you, then you are familiar with the importance of owning an egg incubator for hatching chickens or other exotic birds. We may earn a commission through products purchased using links on this page. ![]() ![]() The financial reports created by a double entry system are extremely dependable for making decisions.The auditors will not accept a company's financial accounts if it fails to comply with this criteria. The usage of this system of bookkeeping is required by almost all accounting standards and laws around the world.Hence, owners, management, accountants, and other staff can easily discover information about a certain transaction or account when they need it. 7 / 10 How the 'railway mania' of the mid-19th century led to dodgy accounting and outright fraud. The double entry method is very systematic and follows certain rules and principles. A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping Episodes Episode guide.A business organization would not be able to compare its financial accounts to those of other companies without this method. The double entry system is the most advanced and practical method of keeping accounting records, and it is widely utilized by businesses all over the world.The History of Double Entry Bookkeeping Robert J Rutledge. The trial balance can also be used to determine the financial status of a business by generating a balance sheet and determining operating performance by preparing an income statement. the fact that each business transaction essentially brings two financial changes in business. This was a vast improvement from the abacus and early single. The modern double-entry bookkeeping system can be attributed to the 13 th and 14 th centuries when it started to become widely used by Italian merchants. The structure of two major forms of Chinese-style double-entry methods, Longmen Zhang. It examines the transition of single-entry to double-entry bookkeeping around the sixteenth century and the later developments. In this new system of bookkeeping, every credit to an account needed a corresponding debit from another account. Double-entry bookkeeping came into the picture by the late 15 th century to strike a balance. In fundamental accounting, debits are balanced by. The paper commences with a brief summation of ancient bookkeeping in China. Modern-Day System The Father of Bookkeeping. A trial balance can be generated using this system to check the arithmetical accuracy of all accounting entries of a business in a given period. History suggests that Double entry bookkeeping was first used by merchants in the Middle Ages. The concept of double-entry bookkeeping can date back to the Romans and early Medieval Middle Eastern civilizations, where simplified versions of the method can be found. Debit: A debit is an accounting entry that results in either an increase in assets or a decrease in liabilities on a companys balance sheet.It maintains a balance within the records, which aids in the detection of errors, omissions, and frauds. The two aspects of each transaction are recorded in the double entry system of bookkeeping. ![]() |
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