![]() In the photograph Paul and James Los Angles 1983, father and son are in a bubble bath and Paul hams up the scene of being sucked under the water with an open-mouthed scream, evocative of Edvard Munch. Many of McCartney’s family images depict Paul at play with their children. Linda McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, London, 1967. ![]() Whether it is the quality of the light or the openness of the faces, these images stand out as quintessentially Australian. This retrospective includes never before exhibited material, including photographs captured during the McCartney family’s Australian visits for the 1975 Wings and 1993 New World tours.įor local audiences, this provides a connection with images of down-time, press scrums and press conferences (including one with Norman Gunston), landmarks, crew, fans, sunsets and Greenpeace activists. It is widely reported he often joked that he ruined his wife’s career, but since her death in 1998, Paul has ensured her legacy with books and international retrospectives. In 1968, she became the first female photographer to shoot the cover of Rolling Stone with an acclaimed portrait of Eric Clapton.ĭespite her credentials, she was best known as Paul’s wife rather than an artist in her own right. She was named US Female Photographer of the Year in 1967. The show contains work across 30 years, from her earliest images of rock stars such as the Beatles and Janis Joplin in the 1960s, through to images of the everyday, self-portraits, experiments with form and commentary on causes dear to her heart, especially animal liberation.īefore meeting Paul McCartney in 1967, Linda Eastman (no relation to the Kodak-Eastman family) aleady enjoyed a successful career.
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![]() Bake the cake: Bake for 55 minutes to an hour.Prepare for baking: spread your pumpkin cake batter into the baking pan and top with crumble topping.Add the pumpkin: Beat for another 30 seconds, add in flour mixture and continue to beat on low until well combined.In a different bowl beat brown sugar, granulated sugar, butter, and eggs – on medium for 2 minutes, or until well combined. Create the cake: In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and salt and set aside.Make crumble topping: Combine rolled oats, flour, brown sugar – add in butter by using a pastry blender until pea sized, then stir in pecans.Preheat oven: To 350 degrees and grease a 9×13 inch baking pan with cooking spray or butter.Pumpkin pie spice – you can find this spice in the baking isle, or you can make your own using cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger!.Cinnamon – did you know it’s one of the healthiest spices on the planet?.Rolled oats – to help with that perfect crunch!.Dry ingredients – flour, baking soda, salt, granulated sugar, brown sugar.Wet ingredients – butter (melted please!), eggs.The idea of a crumb cake, is a type of coffee cake with a crumb topping – in our case, crunchy and topped with cinnamon, oats, brown sugar and pecans! It is known to be a specialty in Germany, they call it “ Streuselkuchen” – say that five times fast! There are so many variations of crumb cake, and ultimately I just couldn’t say no to the taste of pumpkin! Ingredients Needed To Make Pumpkin Crumb Cake ![]() ![]() This cake is loaded with pumpkin pie spice and has a perfectly finished crunchy topping! Not only that, but can we talk about the low calorie count? Yes, you heard me right – pumpkin is nutrient dense and is incredibly low in calories! And while there are plenty of pumpkin cake recipes floating around out there, I’m certain this will be a favorite! I love baking this time of year! Just kidding, I love baking all year around! It seems the craze for pumpkin continues and I think everyone should have a go to recipe on-hand! There is just something about the thought of pumpkin that makes you feel warm and cozy inside! Perfect to share with friends over a good cup of coffee! This Pumpkin Crumb Cake is here just in time for fall season! It’s deliciously moist and sweet with a perfect crunchy topping. ![]() If you are a Windows 8/8.1/10 operating system user than you are in luck because Microsoft has provided easier functions to restore Samsung laptop to factory settings. Method 2: Factory Reset Samsung Laptop from PC Settings After the factory reset process is finished, your Samsung laptop will be turned off automatically. You need to select the restore type that you want to perform and click on it.
![]() ![]() New data from a scientific "accident" has suggested that life may actually flash before our eyes as we die.Ī team of scientists set out to measure the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient who had developed epilepsy. For now, it seems that a flood of memories, a feeling of transcendence, and eventual bliss are one last gift the world gives us before we leave it for good.Scientists - who "accidentally" made the first ever recording of a dying brain - saw startling results. Research has not concluded why the brain does this. Countless studies have examined the religious significance of near-death experiences, drawing on survivors’ accounts of transcendental and blissful states at the moment before they die. In a 2019 study, researchers compared stories of near-death experiences with stories of drug experiences, finding that ketamine, LSD, and the hallucinogenic DMT yielded strong similarities. ![]() Previous research into this phenomenon was largely based on anecdotal evidence. Hieronymus Bosch, “Ascent of the Blessed” (1500–1504) (via Wikimedia Commons) Hieronymus Bosch’s painting “Ascent of the Blessed” (1500–1504) depicts bright, white light at the end of a tunnel, another experience reported in near-death experiences. In The Republic, Plato tells the story of a warrior who returns from death and recounts leaving his body. People have been describing this phenomenon for millennia. In the 1998 action film Armageddon, Bruce Willis’s character sees memories of his daughter and wife a moment before dying in outer space. In the 2001 film Vanilla Sky, the character played by Tom Cruise leaps from a building and as he’s falling, he sees his childhood, his parents, a dog, and the women he’s loved throughout the years his life. The trope is so solidified it’s joked about in cartoons, like Family Guy, and used in movies like Babe: Pig in the City (Babe flees from a dog about to kill him). These accounts cross cultures and religions. They have also reported a hallucinatory and meditative state and a sense of transcendence and bliss. Research into these experiences has reported intense memory recall and a panoramic review of one’s life. It comes back to us from people who have experienced near-death experiences, defined as when the brain has transitioned into preparing for death. ![]() This is the first time this has been proven in a human, although the concept looms large in our collective imagination. Similar brain oscillations occur during meditation and dreaming. It’s thought that these oscillatory patterns, and an increase in gamma waves, suggest memory recall (the gamma band decreases external interference, allowing for deep inward concentration like recalling memories). The EEG brain scan found an oscillatory brain wave pattern in which activity in the brain’s alpha, beta, and theta bands relatively decreased and activity in the gamma band relatively increased. “No healthy human is gonna go and have an EEG before they die, and in no sick patient are we going to know when they’re gonna die to record these signals.” “This is why it’s so rare, because you can’t plan this,” Ajmal Zemmar, one of the co-authors of the study, told Insider. When he unexpectedly died, the EEG machine kept running, providing the scientists a first-of-its-kind glimpse into the brain activity of a dying human. The scientists were originally conducting electroencephalography (EEG) scans on the patient to detect and treat seizures. The scan was conducted by an international team of 13 neuroscientists led by Raul Vicente of the University of Tartu in Estonia. The patient, whose name was kept private, suffered a heart attack, and due to his do-not-resuscitate status, the scientists were able to track his brain waves throughout the final moments of his life. ![]() Measuring, monitoring and publicly communicating on an annual basis on progress against the targets set, so that transparency and accountability on progress in driving change is evident.īPFI along with the three other trade associations ( Financial Services Ireland (FSI), Irish Funds and Insurance Ireland) will act as firms’ main point of contact.Targets and action plans will be integrated into our organisation’s goals and business priorities, which will also take account of any gender diversity legislation. Leadership and accountability for progress against this charter resides with the CEO and senior leadership team or a designated member of the team.Underpinning these commitments via a clearly documented action plan for gender balance and inclusivity.Setting and communicating stretch targets for the short and long term, recognising that each firm varies significantly in terms of business model and starting point on gender balance.Making a visible commitment to the advancement of women through the various management and board levels in order to achieve a greater gender balanced and inclusive working environment.What are organisations committing to under the Charter?Īs a signatory, organisations will be committing to: This will lead to greater diversity of thought, experience, and leadership styles in decision-making processes, for the economic benefit of the business and the wider community as a whole. Females continue to be underrepresented in revenue generating roles such as CEOs and head of business lines, of which 84% of roles were held by men as of December 2021 (no change on 2020).įostering and harnessing the talent and experience of all women in financial services is crucial in developing a strong pipeline of talent. Across the financial services sector the pronounced gender imbalance for board level applications is showing progress, with female applications for these positions increasing from 22% in 2020 to 28% in 2021. A Central Bank demographic analysis on Pre-Approval Controlled Function (PCF) roles within Regulated Firms published in March 2022 reports that from a low base, female applicants for PCF roles accounted for 31% of the total applicants in 2021 (up from 16% in 2012). While female representation in the general population of financial services firms tends to be equally balanced, significant differences emerge in the progression to more senior levels. While significant progress has been made, the reality is that gender gaps remain, including in financial services. Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of progressive societies and there is much research available which documents the benefits. Why the need for a Women in Finance Charter? ![]() The Charter, guidance note and templates were developed by industry to assist firms foster and harness the talent and experience of all women in financial services, which is crucial in developing a strong pipeline of talent. Led by industry and supported by the Government of Ireland, Ireland’s Women in Finance Charter underpins the financial services industry’s ambition to see increased participation of women at all levels, including junior, middle and senior management, leadership and board roles within financial services organisations based in Ireland. New survey reveals younger people more likely to invest in cryptocurrencies, invest online and use informal information sources when investing.Banking industry with support from MABS launch nationwide campaign for customers concerned about mortgage repayments due to cost of living pressures.BPFI welcomes report showing substantial progress in increasing proportion of women in senior roles in financial services firms.BPFI hosts industry briefing on digital euro following publication of European Commission legislative proposal.Almost 2,000 buyers approved in first year of First Home Scheme. ![]() Federation of International Banks in Ireland Members. ![]()
![]() And, most importantly, a positive workplace environment reduces stress in employees. Job satisfaction, collaboration, and work performance are all enhanced. A positive workplace culture improves teamwork, raises the morale, increases productivity and efficiency, and enhances retention of the workforce. What I have learned thus far since embarking in the working industry is Self-Reliance, interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills, commercial Awareness, maturity, teamwork, practical Skills, and self-confidence believing I can achieve anything. Throughout the day I completed various administrative duties as well, including answering phones, drafting documents and emails, I also provided strong customer service and resolved different issues such as CIR's. Lastly if you attend college, you don’t have many options for a work schedule as the company DOES NOT care or work around your school schedule.Ī typical day in my position I fulfilled several different tasks of assisting individuals in the Host Home Department. It’s an ok place to work however do not expect to always leave at the end of your shift and sometimes you will work 9-12days straight without a day off. Staff isn’t always friendly at all, you do have to watch out for coworkers mistakes (which can be blamed on you if you don’t catch the error fast enough). Also you will assist residents with personal hygiene and dressing if they’re incapable of doing those things for themselves. You will be cooking, cleaning, shopping, running errands for the house. You have to pass out medication which is very easy and common sense based. You’ll have to stay over and/or work doubles (16hrs) because staff always calls in and that leaves the person who should be getting off, to stay until someone can come to the home. Some house managers are ok but there are some that’s not friendly or professional. ![]() The residents in the group homes are lovely to work with if you like to help and care for people who may be physically or devevolpmentally disabled. ![]() KitchenAid's most popular mixer models have been within the Artisan series recently, and all of the attachments on this list work well with any Artisan stand mixer. The gadgets that are specifically designed to fit into what's known as the attachment socket of your stand mixer (which is covered by the silver cap at the very top of your mixer's tilting head) can reportedly be used with any model dating all the way back to 1937. Nearly all of attachments and accessories are designed to be used with any Kitchenaid. But a KitchenAid can do so much more than just whip through wet and dry ingredients with ease thanks to its highly precise line of attachments. Out of the box, these heritage lifelong mixers can do so much to revolutionize prep work on a daily basis - especially for bakers, who can elevate their finished baked goods a lot easier thanks to KitchenAid's deft precision. Think about what you like to cook or bake and then consider everyday needs in the kitchen and by the backyard grill.Any home cook will tell you that getting their hands on a KitchenAid stand mixer ( finally!) changed their life for the better. The stuff you’ll use every day for a variety of purposes, from pestles and mortars for crushing spices, to measuring cups and spoons for making pancakes or baking to spoons, tongs, spatulas and ladles for cooking and serving. Frequently asked questions about kitchen and cooking accessories What are the best utensils for cooking? Top off the whiskey or gin cocktail of your choice with a lemon or orange peel thanks to your vegetable peeler. Add some simple syrup that you made without reducing your liquid volume thanks to topping your pot off with a universal lid. Use that same squirt bottle to add a bit of citrus to cocktails whose ingredients you measured with graduated measuring beakers or measuring cups. Splash it with lemon from a convenient squeeze bottle that you quickly filled thanks to a time-saving citrus squeezer. Meanwhile, you can use a barbecue brush to lather your salmon with butter as it cooks on the grill. You’ll need a whisk to incorporate all the ingredients before placing in a double broiler atop a pot of heated water to gently cook the sauce. Then, for your sauce, you can use measuring spoons or a convenient digital kitchen scale to measure out the right amount of butter. While the salmon is sitting out and coming up to temperature, you’ll need a peeler and a kitchen knife to get your potatoes ready. To start, you’re going to want to crack some peppercorns in a mortar and pestle to season your salmon along with salt. Let’s say you’re cooking grilled salmon doused with a bernaise sauce and served with a side of roasted potatoes. Here’s a fun example to showcase just how a variety of cooking utensils and kitchen accessories could come into play for just one meal. Creative cooking starts with simple cooking tools ![]() From universal lids to double broiler inserts, steamers and pressure cookers, you’ll find ways to make everyday cooking steps more of a breeze. When you have to put a lid on it or put your sauces in hot water for a few moments, call upon smart cooking accessories that are here to make your life in the kitchen easier. Be exact in your quantities of flour, sugar and milk with durable stainless steel measuring cups and spoons as well as lightweight kitchen scales before using mixing bowls with convenient features to help make baking prep easier. The IKEA kitchen utensil range is here to help with any move you need to make at your stove or kitchen island.Ĭall upon the right mixing and measuring tools when it’s time to bake a birthday cake for your little ones or a pie for the holidays. And always be ready to cool things down with ice trays and popsicle molds. Need to stir things up? Keep the sauce from sticking and the stew from burning with spoons and find all the other utensils you need to flip, turn or grab something from hot pans or the grill-or get them all at once with kitchen utensil sets. From food prep, to refining sauces, stirring stews, measuring ingredients and putting a lid on steamy pots, you’ll find all the kitchen tools to make great meals and scrumptious desserts.įind durable and convenient kitchen items such as mortars and pestles, mandolins, and cheese graters for dinner prep, as well as colanders and strainers to help you drain pasta water and refine sauces. Essential kitchen accessories and cooking utensilsīe prepared to take any request from the kids or to use up extra ingredients in fun, exciting new ways by having all the kitchen accessories and baking utensils on hand that any home chef could need. ![]() SHOULD YOU NEED TO CONTACT US FOR ANY REASON PLEASE DO SO DURING OFFICE HOURS. PLEASE NOTE OUR OFFICE HOURS ARE 10AM TIL 5PM Hawaii Standard Time. Honokohau Marina: 74-429 Kealakehe Pkwy, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740, Cancellation PolicyĪll changes or cancellations must be made before 48 hours of departure time. We offer guaranteed sightings or come again for FREE! Smithsonian Knowledge Encyclopedia Ocean Manta.png. The Manta Rays come close and perform summersaults underneath you while they eat the plankton that gets concentrated by the lights. The small volcanic island of Socorro sits around 600 kilometers (375 miles) off the west coast of Mexico’s Baja peninsula in the remote Revillagigedo Archipelago. The giant oceanic manta ray is a species of ray in the family Mobulidae. Gently float along while holding on to the buoyant raft and watch the Manta Rays perform a delicate dance within arms length of you. Head out into the Pacific Ocean off Kona to see the sunset over the water before diving in to enjoy swimming freely with Manta Rays in their underwater nighttime realm, an electric experience unlike anything else in the world.Īs we motor out from Honokohau Harbor in Kona, Hawaii to the Dive site (which is about 20-30 feet deep) our crew will go over some fun facts about our Manta Rays and other specific info you will need for your adventure.Īs the sun sets and it turns into night, the flashlights on your floating light raft comes on and the ocean is lit up electric green like the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz. Big Island Private Waterfall Helicopter Tourīig Island Private Waterfall Helicopter Tour.Waikoloa Dolphin Viewing & Turtle Snorkeling. This is helpful if you have an older and/or smaller form-factor computer that’s prone to overheating. Using the program’s temperature interface, you can see the current temps for your hard drive, CPU, graphics card, and other external devices.Įven better, SpeedFan allows for manual adjusting of fan speeds in most cases. It’s true that SpeedFan can actively monitor the rotation speeds of your computer’s case fans, but it can also tap into your system’s component temperatures as well. SpeedFan is similar to CPU-Z in that it has a much longer list of features than its name would suggest. CPU-Z can be downloaded as either an executable install or a portable zip file from CPUID’s website. ![]() Naturally, users who are already familiar with hardware abbreviations and lingo will get the most out of CPU-Z, but even the most casual of users can benefit from knowing what exactly is under their system’s hood. CPU-Z even goes the extra mile of displaying similar diagnostics information for a computer’s RAM, external graphics card, and motherboard. The application also includes more in-depth data like individual core speeds (if it’s a multi-core CPU), cache sizes, chipset details, and more. As its name infers, CPU-Z can help you monitor the performance of your computer’s central processing unit, but that’s just one of many roles it can fill.įor casual users, CPU-Z displays helpful information like the name of their computer’s CPU, the manufacturer, and other basic details. CPU-ZĬPU-Z is a freeware application developed and distributed by CPUID. Still, if you’re interested in knowing how your computer is holding up without physically opening the case, all of the following tools can help. All of the tools are free to download and install, though based on your particular setup, you may not need all of them. And if a problem does come up, being able to quickly pinpoint the cause of the problem right from your desktop can save you time and, in some cases, money.īelow, we’ve rounded up some of the most handy and easy-to-use digital tools for monitoring your PC’s performance and, if need be, diagnosing issues. You can donate by clicking here.Whether you’re an experienced PC repair technician or a casual PC gamer, it’s nice to know that everything is working as it should. If you really enjoy Sidebar Diagnostics, the author is accepting donations to cover the development costs. You can click on the icon in the System Tray or the Gear on the top right of the sidebar to enter Settings. Then just download, install and follow the prompts to get it setup. To get stared with Sidebar diagnostics head over the Releases section of the GitHub repository by clicking this link: Instead, you must double click the check box to uncheck it. Tip: Right now there is a bug which does not let you uncheck a network interface with a single mouse click. I don’t care to see the network performance of those adapters and I can hide them by removing the check next to them within Sidebar Settings on the Monitor tab. For example, I have one network card in my PC but there are a lot of virtual adapters registered on my system for virtual machines and other internal only interfaces. I personally like the ability to customize which monitors display on the sidebar. You can customize the placement on the sidebar on your screen, or even select which monitor it displays on if you have multiple monitors. The Sidebar Diagnostics utility is highly customizable. GPU (if your GPU is supported, my IGP was not) ![]() Fan Usage (if supported by your chipset).This free utility displays all of the important system performance stats on a sidebar with a simplistic design. ![]() ( ArcadeRenegade) on GitHub called Sidebar Diagnostics. ![]() Unfortunately, Microsoft pulled the feature from Windows due to “ serious vulnerabilities.” Picking up where Microsoft left off, a new utility was created by Ryan K. In Windows Vista Microsoft created sidebar gadgets that displayed useful performance information on the right side of your screen. Keeping an eye on your system performance is a must for any power user but using Task Manager or Resource Monitor can be inconvenient. Each day contains 24 hours and each hour contains 60 minutes. Days are conventionally identified using the Gregorian calendar, but Julian day numbers can also be used. UTC divides time into days, hours, minutes, and seconds. The International Space Station also uses UTC as a time standard.Īmateur radio operators often schedule their radio contacts in UTC, because transmissions on some frequencies can be picked up in many time zones. Weather forecasts and maps all use UTC to avoid confusion about time zones and daylight saving time. for flight plans and air traffic control. UTC is also the time standard used in aviation, e.g. For sub-microsecond precision, clients can obtain the time from satellite signals. If only milliseconds precision is needed, clients can obtain the current UTC from a number of official internet UTC servers. The Network Time Protocol (NTP), designed to synchronise the clocks of computers over the Internet, transmits time information from the UTC system. UTC is used in many Internet and World Wide Web standards. In 1995, the island nation of Kiribati moved those of its atolls in the Line Islands from UTC−10 to UTC+14 so that Kiribati would all be on the same day. The westernmost time zone uses UTC−12, being twelve hours behind UTC the easternmost time zone uses UTC+14, being fourteen hours ahead of UTC. Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, as in the list of time zones by UTC offset. The compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time (UT0, UT1, UT2, UT1R, etc.). English speakers originally proposed CUT (for "coordinated universal time"), while French speakers proposed TUC (for " temps universel coordonné"). This abbreviation comes as a result of the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union wanting to use the same abbreviation in all languages. The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. See the " Current number of leap seconds" section for the number of leap seconds inserted to date. Leap seconds are inserted as necessary to keep UTC within 0.9 seconds of the UT1 variant of universal time. The current version of UTC is defined by International Telecommunication Union Recommendation (ITU-R TF.460-6), Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions, and is based on International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the accumulated difference between TAI and time measured by Earth's rotation. The General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted a resolution to alter UTC with a new system that would eliminate leap seconds by 2035. ![]() This CCIR Recommendation 460 "stated that (a) carrier frequencies and time intervals should be maintained constant and should correspond to the definition of the SI second (b) step adjustments, when necessary, should be exactly 1 s to maintain approximate agreement with Universal Time (UT) and (c) standard signals should contain information on the difference between UTC and UT." This change also adopted leap seconds to simplify future adjustments. ![]() The system has been adjusted several times, including a brief period during which the time-coordination radio signals broadcast both UTC and "Stepped Atomic Time (SAT)" before a new UTC was adopted in 1970 and implemented in 1972. UTC was first officially adopted as CCIR Recommendation 374, Standard-Frequency and Time-Signal Emissions, in 1963, but the official abbreviation of UTC and the official English name of Coordinated Universal Time (along with the French equivalent) were not adopted until 1967. The coordination of time and frequency transmissions around the world began on 1 January 1960. ![]() It is effectively a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). It is within about one second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently used prime meridian) and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. For other uses, see UTC (disambiguation).Ĭoordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. For the time zone that lies between UTC−1 and UTC+1, see UTC+00:00. |
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