Why Should You Book a Tours and Travel Company?


By Shalini Madhav

Monotonicity. The word itself is monotonous, but it accurately describes the mechanical nature of our mundane lives. You go to work, come back, eat, sleep and you repeat it again tomorrow like clockwork. Do you ever wonder how to break this routine? The answer is simple, travel. Seeing new places excites new feelings inside us, giving us new perspective towards existing things, thus overwriting the obsolete ones. But planning a travel itinerary is a hectic process and most of the times you worry about how to reach a destination instead of enjoying the journey to that destination. Then the best course of action is to employ a travel company to do your planning and then you are left to enjoy your journey and nothing else. But should you take the services of a travel company? If these thoughts are clouding your mind then, let me clear them for you and explain why you should opt for my suggestion.

1. Convenient

Since all the necessary reservations would be done for you beforehand, even before you reach your destination, you can skip the long queues and jump straight into the experience you booked to enjoy. It is always a good idea to reserve your time for experiences rather than waiting for that experience to happen eventually. Thus, it is hugely convenient and a time-saving option.

2. Deals

Tour and travel companies usually have good relations with hotels, restaurants, etc. and can provide you with fantastic deals over your reservations. This saves you a lot of money which you can spend on other things and exploit more fun out of your travel. We all love saving some cash and if you have the same mindset, you know what you have to do here.

3. Recommendations

A good tour and travel company tries to enhance your trip by recommending what else you should be doing besides your usual preplanned itinerary. We almost never know the hidden gems of the places we visit until and unless a local tells you about it. The company knows a lot about the travel they are planning for you and also recommends what you might as well be doing which many travelers may not know.

4. Timeline

Since your trip is organized by a third party, they can provide you with a timeline of your journey, explaining in detail beforehand what lies ahead on your path. Knowing what to do and when to do, helps us avoid any unprecedented situations and makes our trip go smoothly and we can enjoy to our fullest without worrying about a single thing.

5. Solutions to your problems

The last and the best advantage of employing tours and travel company is that you can address any problem which you encounter on your journey and you can rest assured that the problem will be solved as soon as possible. You will not be facing any problems on your own and everything can be handled by the company itself and instead, you can use up your own time on meaningful things like making memories.

So, are you pumped up with adrenaline and want to unleash your desire of wanderlust. Do you want to break your routine and explore the world out there waiting for you? If your answer is yes, book a trip with Las Vegas Tours Today and have an adventure of a lifetime.

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Interview With J Stewart Willis, Author of "Deadly Highway"


By Sheri Hoyte

J. Stewart Willis grew up in Alexandria, Virginia and went to the United States Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1958 and served for twenty-five years in the Army. During that time, he served in Taiwan and later in Vietnam as Signal Officer of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. During his Army career, he attended graduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earning an MS and PhD in Physics. He served as a Professor of Physics at the United States Military Academy for sixteen years before retiring from the Army in 1983. He next worked for TRW Inc. as a manager working on communications projects and the Department of Energy's Nuclear Waste Project at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. During this time, he lived in Rappahannock County, Virginia, where he has lived ever since. There he served as the elected mayor of Washington, Virginia (often referred to as "Little Washington") for nine years. He currently lives in Sperryville, Virginia with Charlie, his greyhound/borzoi cross.

Welcome back, Stewart. For new readers you can find my previous interview with J. Stewart Willis on his debut novel, Gestation Seven, at readerviews.com. Today we're going to talk about your latest book, Deadly Highway. What is this story about?

The story centers around the personnel at the east coast division of a major tech company who are preparing a proposal for a major contract for a highway to replace the Interstate Highway System. The contract will potentially be worth millions of dollars, and perhaps billions over many years, and will ensure the future of the company, as well as its new east coast vice president. As a result there is enormous pressure on the proposal manager and his internally competitive staff to win the bid. The book involves not only the development of the proposal, but also the competitive and cut-throat actions and interactions of the staff and their wives.

How did you come up with the idea for this book?

I try to write my books involving topics or approaches to topics which are not ordinarily addressed in novels. In my past, I worked for a tech company and was involved in the development of three proposals. Although my experiences developing those proposals were

constructive and friendly, the idea of a proposal development in a more acrimonious atmosphere seemed to provide the opportunity for the development of a novel. That atmosphere, far different from my own experience, is what I've portrayed in Deadly Highway.

Tell us about a couple of your more colorful characters. What motivates them?

Charlie Hendricks is a newly retired army colonel trying to establish himself in industry and competing with the more established employees at the tech company. He is a man who wants to be where the action is and is suffering to some extent in the atmosphere of paper pushing.

Linda Hendricks is a woman who has been an army wife for twenty years and has suffered through her husband being in Iraq and Afghanistan for three tours while she is raising two sons. In her frustration with what she views as a dull life, she has an affair which she comes to regret.

Bella Fortiano is the wife of a long-time employee of the tech company. Over the years, by sleeping with the proposal manager and supplying drugs to the manager's wife, she has protected and supported the position of her husband's position in the company. When she discovers Linda Hendricks's affair, she uses it to blackmail her husband's new competitor.

How do you create your characters? Are they inspired by real people?

Some of the characters are loosely based on some of the people I knew in the army and in industry as a starting point, but from there I went off with my imagination. Fortunately, I haven't really known any of them.

Which character do you relate to most and why?

Charlie Hendricks, because I retired from the army and went into industry.

What is it about corporate politics that inspires such creative plot lines?

The politics of the book are a little extreme, but I have known manages who were very competitive, along with their wives, in working on friendships with their bosses.

I was intrigued by some of the ideas your characters came up with for building a new highway system, especially some of the methods for guiding and controlling traffic using technology. Is this the realistic future?

I believe the concept of self-driving cars will govern the design of the highways of the future and hopefully, the software involved will allow overall control of the traffic on the highways to improve safety.

How extensive was your research for this novel, particularly as it relates to building a highway system?

Mostly I reviewed the government regulations associated with procurement. Self driving cars, of course, receive extensive discussion in the media which we all read.

What have you learned since writing your first book, Gestation Seven?

I think people want stronger characters. Gestation was about a young man overcome by circumstances and surviving in that atmosphere.

Being an author these days involves more than just writing great books - what are you doing to market yourself and your book and what's been your biggest challenge?

I have spent an incredible amount of money with "professional" marketers with little effect. I do book signings, but the impact is small. I also work Twitter and Facebook, but my contacts there are often other writers with the same problems I have. The whole process is competitive and difficult.

What do you love most about being a writer?

Hearing someone say they enjoyed my book.

Do you have a muse? How does he motivate you?

No. I've had ideas in my mind for years and am now trying to put them to paper.

Do you ever experience writer's block? If so, how do you get past it?

No. My books to date have followed what happens through time. As a result I just write what happens next.

What can you tell us about your writing process?

I have a few ideas to build around and then just sit down and write linearly to include those ideas.

What's next? Do you have another project in the works?

I am currently working on a book entitled "Three Degrees Fahrenheit, and Rising" set in the year 2087. At the time some of the coastal lowlands of the U.S. are flooded by a rising sea, people are moving inland, and jobs are hard to find.

Taking what you've learned with two novels under your belt, what advice can you give aspiring authors?

Since I haven't been very successful so far, I'm reluctant to give advice. I think I have written interesting books and have gotten good feedback on them. You need to get people to read your books. With the thousands of books out there that's difficult to do.

Do you have a website or blog (or both) where readers can learn more about you and your books?

My website is www.JStewartWillis.com.

How can readers connect with you on social media?

On Facebook:   J Stewart Willis

On Twitter: @jstewartwillis7

Is there anything else you'd like to add?

If you write, enjoy the writing. Be careful about spending money on marketing. The cost can eat you alive.

Interview by Sheri Hoyte for Reader View March 2018 http://www.readerviews.com.

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Novel Set During World War II at English Country Estate Wins Historical Fiction Award


By Tyler Tichelaar

Wickwythe Hall by Judithe Little is the kind of book I love, so I'm not at all surprised that it won First Place for Historical Fiction in this year's Reader Views Literary Awards. It's the perfect blend of history and interesting characters you come to care about. Right from the opening pages, the reader is caught up in the dilemma faced by Annelle, a young French woman who was orphaned with her two brothers and grew up in a convent. It's May 1940 and the Germans have just invaded France. Annelle has intended to become a nun, but now with her older brothers fighting in North Africa and the sisters at the convent wanting to pray rather than flee to safety, Annelle makes the split decision to flee south, hoping to reach North Africa and find her brothers. The reader witnesses Annelle's excruciating flight along the French roads, on her bicycle until it is damaged, and then on foot. Eventually, through a twist of events, she gets out of France, but rather than going to North Africa, she finds herself a refugee in England.

And that's just what happens in the opening chapter.

Once in England, Annelle finds herself working at Wickwythe Hall. The other servants are suspicious that she might be a spy, but all Annelle is concerned about is finding a way to communicate with her brothers. The large English country estate is owned by Tony and Mabry Springs. Tony is a landed British aristocrat, but Mabry is an American heiress who isn't as caught up in doing things the English way as her husband and those around her. Mabry is very concerned that the war will soon lead to an invasion of England, and she is doing everything she can to help the war effort, including taking in twenty-three children who are being sent to the country from London for their safety.

Tony and Mabry also have connections with important people, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill. One week, Churchill comes to visit and the house is turned into central command for the war effort. It is hard enough for Mabry and the staff to meet all of Churchill's idiosyncratic requests, but even harder for Mabry is that in Churchill's entourage is Reid Carr, a fellow American whose proposal of marriage she long ago refused.

Mabry's married life has not been perfect. She and Tony have tried many times to have children, always leading to miscarriages; as a result, they have grown apart. Now Mabry finds herself wondering whether Reid is still interested in her and whether she is still interested in him. He is flirtatious, pointing out that the Mabry he once knew would have been more willing to go swimming at night and do plenty of other things Mabry no longer has an inclination for.

But Reid is not really at Wickwythe Hall to flirt. President Roosevelt, unable to get Congress to back him in declaring war on Germany, has sent Reid to be his unofficial ambassador to keep him and Churchill informed of each other's activities. Once Mabry gets some inkling of Reid's purpose, she asks him if he can help Annelle find her brothers. This request results in a chain of events beyond what any of the characters can control.

What makes Wickwythe Hall such a wonderful novel is that the characters come to life in its pages. I became deeply enmeshed in their decisions and especially Mabry's temptations to break her marriage vows to be with Reid. The novel's conclusion is not what I would have expected, and yet it ends perfectly. The other great thing about this novel is that not only is it historically accurate but it teaches the reader new things about history. Operation Catapult, which I had never heard of before, becomes central to the novel. It concerns Churchill's efforts to keep the French fleet from becoming Hitler's property to be used against England. I won't say more about how Little works this historical event into the plot because it will ruin the novel's suspense.

I also appreciated the descriptions in the novel. I'm not big on a lot of description, but I think Judithe Little knows how to sprinkle in description as appropriate to give color without boring the reader. Some of her scenes are downright magical, such as of the orphans playing at Wickwythe Hall and descriptions of the landscape. In addition, Little's style rather reminded me of one of my other favorite English wartime novels, The Castle on the Hill by Elizabeth Goudge. Little knows how to reassure us of good in the world, while still giving us a realistic depiction of how frightening and stressful war can be, and how brave the English were in their opposition to Hitler.

All around, Wickwythe Hall will appeal to World War II history buffs, Anglophiles like myself, and anyone who loves a good love story about strong, realistic, and well-rounded characters. You'll find it hard to put down.

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Software Auditing Purpose


By Isha Rose

Software auditing is an independent examination of a software product or processes to assess compliance with specifications, standards, contractual agreements. A software Quality Assurance, where the software is audited for quality. Software auditing process are conducted for the purpose of making sure the business' software is properly working, meeting standard criteria, and legal. If any company's software meets in standard criteria, that means it has been verified that sufficient licenses have been obtained to cover the software that business is using.

Audit software helps to organize audit information so businesses can make coordinated decisions with a generalized idea of the company's financial statistics. Auditing software is also usually designed to speed auditing processes within an organization. Audit software includes; department to department audit Software, automation, fraud detection, audit exporting, data mining, and network security.

Centralized audit software helps to auditors create standards regarding audits, according to the master control, an audit management software system. Email notifications can be set up so that appropriate personnel and management can be alerted to problems discovered through the audits. Different companies have different needs and each company can have different email notification setups. Audit software is designed to automate many aspects of the auditing process so that time and company resources can be saved. Many types of auditing software allow auditors to focus on specific areas in the business so that the business can prioritize, according to software auditing. Auditor software often attempts to find abnormal data to determine if there is any fraud occurring within the according to audit software. Data extraction and analysis software takes data found in certain forms, such as statistics taken from the operation of software, and analyzes and summarizes this data. This process is called data mining. Some auditing programs are designed to assess network security also.

There are five steps include the software audit; initially determine which applications to be audited, then run a report on current usage with a usage tool, then check that report have created and determine the non-usage software, after this determine which users have not used the applications for more than 60 days, then determine by the usage report if the correct versions of the applications are being used. Finally install and run a report from a tool and establish the updated compliance figures. So a software audit is important because it is a cost-saving method for you to remove software you no longer use, and it can help you identify which programs you will need to reclaim in the future.

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Data Recovery: How to Recover From a Hard Drive Failure


By Loveleen Talwar

Context:
Unfortunately, most home users, and many business users, do not back up their systems. Moreover, many small businesses have older back-up procedures that are often ineffective for recovering files.

Of course, you can run down to your neighborhood electronics store and purchase a replacement drive for your computer, but what about your data on the failed hard drive? How important was it? Did you save it or back it up?

What to do:
If you need to recover data on the hard drive, the first thing to do is avoid trying to reboot or doing anything that involves the drive. Doing so can actually do more damage to your data.

The only irreversible data loss is caused by overwriting bits, physical damage to the drive platters or destruction of the magnetization of the platters, which seldom happens in the real world. In the majority of cases, the malfunction is caused by a damaged circuit board, failure of a mechanical component and crash of internal software system track or firmware.

In the case of actual hard drive failure, only a data recovery professional can get your data back. And the fact that you cannot access your data through your operating system does not necessarily mean that your data is lost.

As a "rule of thumb," if you hear a clicking sound emitting from your hard drive, or if the computer's S.M.A.R.T. function indicates an error during the boot process, something is wrong. You should immediately stop using the hard drive in order to avoid causing further damage and, potentially, rendering the information on the hard drive unrecoverable.

After receiving your failed hard drive, a data recovery specialist's first step will be to try and save an image of the damaged drive onto another drive. This image drive, not the actual damaged drive, is where the data recovery specialist will try to recover the lost data.

The next step in the imaging process is to determine if the hard-drive failure was an actual malfunction, a system corruption or a system track issue.

System corruption and system track issues are normally fixed by using a specialist's data recovery software. System corruption or system track recoveries do not require processing in a clean room environment.

Conclusion:
Unfortunately, damage to a drive's circuit board or failure of the head drives is not uncommon. In each of these failures, a data recovery specialist should work on the system only in a clean room environment. There, the specialist can substitute parts such as drive electronics, internal components, read/write arms, writing/reading heads, spindle motors or spindle bearings from a donor drive in order to gain access to the data on the failed hard drive. In most cases, the data recovery specialist is able to retrieve and return the lost data.

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11 Reasons Transportation Companies Must Buy Secondhand Shuttle Buses


By Charles Kaufman

From churches, and schools, to public transport, secondhand shuttle buses are in very high demand by many enterprises. Even entertainers and individual executives regularly prefer buying secondhand shuttle buses over new ones for various reasons.

Buying a secondhand bus is different from buying a used personal car or any other vehicle. Through research and preliminary thoughts are needed, there are many reasons why you should consider buying a used shuttle bus especially if you are in the transportation business. Below are eleven reasons to buy a secondhand bus.

11 Reasons Transportation Companies Must Buy Secondhand Shuttle Buses

1. Customization - Equipment's and Parts on a used bus can be easily added, changed, replaced or removed, whereas you do not have this option when you buy a new bus. For example, you can increase or decrease the number of passenger seats to add more luggage space or wheelchair capacity to your bus. Similarly, you can even add a lavatory and a wash basin if needed, with the right amount of money you can make any changes you want to a used bus.

2. Save Money - You will save a lot of money by buying used buses. A transportation company needs to make profit, and the best deal is to search for cheap and reliable buses. Purchasing used or secondhand shuttle bus is the best option and if you are searching for more than one bus, it is possible to find quality buses at a cheaper cost than buying brand new buses.

3. Reliability - If you would like an affordable bus that will offer services for a long time, go for secondhand buses. Used shuttle buses simply last longer than new buses. This means you can save money and expect a good service life from these buses.

4. Clean Auto Check Report - When buying a secondhand vehicle, you might need to obtain some reports concerning it. It is possible to get that even before purchasing the vehicle. Some of the information you can obtain include previous owners, previous status, accident, repairs, mileage validation and law history among many others. Even though the history report may not help to identify all concerns, easy access to such information brings peace of mind when purchasing the vehicle.

5. Road Tested - Used shuttle buses are road tested and certified ready to hit the road. Most secondhand buses are sold by airport transport companies who prefer new ones for foreigners. This means you can find a quality shuttle bus for your transportation business.

6. Overall Deal - Your budget of buying a transportation bus can purchase more secondhand shuttle buses than brand new ones. The overall deal is great and you can quickly expand your transportation business with pre-owned buses.

7. Low Registration Fee - Registration fee for most vehicles is based on its price. Since shuttle buses that have already been used are cheaper, it means you will pay low registration costs. Cheaper buses mean cheaper fees. So, you can also save on registration costs as well.

8. Cheaper Insurance - The insurance of any vehicle is determined by its value. Since you will buy the bus at a lower cost, it means you will pay cheaper insurance rates. This is also beneficial to your company since you might be acquiring many busses.

9. Lower Depreciation - New buses typically drop by more than 11 percent once they hit the road. Also, during the first year, the bus will lose more than 30 percent of its value. But this is not the case with secondhand buses. The depreciation is already low, and you get the best value for your money.

10. Drive a Better Bus at Low Price - For people who have purchased used buses in the past; they can confirm that it is possible to find a comfortable bus for transportation business at an affordable price. No matter the model of the bus you need, you can find one at secondhand dealers.

11. Storage Capacity - For transportation companies, storage capacity is essential when buying any bus, whether old or new. When buying a secondhand shuttle, it is possible to find one that meets your storage requirements, the seats can be increased or decreased as per your specific requirements. There are many cheap buses that can transport any kind of baggage.

Final word

Buying a used shuttle bus is no longer riskier than before. Today, there are many secondhand buses that are affordable and are far much better than new ones. By obtaining the bus history/Auto Check report, you can easily tell vital details about the past of the bus. In addition, the report guarantees that you are investing your money in a worthy asset.

So, whether you are adding a fleet of transportation buses, or planning to start a transportation company, buying secondhand shuttle buses is the best option.

If you still have questions on how a used shuttle bus can benefit your transportation business then feel free to call us today at 844-612-7122 or see our inventory of more than 40 used shuttle buses for sale here http://www.GetAnyBus.com

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Finding The Best Repairing Services For Apple Products


By Michael Clark

There are various Apple specialists in the market today and everyone claims to be the most skilled and having a superior knowledge than the others. We realize that in that group of repair specialists, there are a few specialists of Apple brand who can repair your iPhone, iPad or Mac PCs.

However, it's important to hire only professional, skilled, and experienced specialists, since there can be some unskilled people who can ruin your device instead of repairing it.

All in all, how would you guarantee that your iPhone, iPad or Mac PC has arrived in the experienced hands of the best Apple products service provider?

To start with, it is suggested to take your iPad, iPhone or your Mac PC to an approved Apple centre if the device is still under warranty time. If you don't know about the addresses of approved Apple centres in your city, then use the internet to locate their centre. The web will list down all the approved Apple centres in your city, and you can choose one that you find the closets in your home or office.

In any case, if your iPhone or the iPad`s warranty time has lapsed or the device is encountering an issue that isn't secured by the warranty, at that point, you ought to consider getting it repaired by a specialist.

You ought to be cautious while picking who will repair your Mac PCs, iPad, or iPhone. Find out about their reputation, whether they are genuine repairers or not, and discover how dependable they are. You also need to make sure that you have info about for how long they have been repairing Apple products, what their past clients say in regards to their services, and a lot more things.

Such info will enable you to make the correct choice and guarantee that you give your costly Apple device in the hands of exceedingly experienced and skilful individual.

Ensure that you visit the service centre on your own and discover how skilful, learned, and experienced the specialists are. Keep in mind that the specialists ought to be learned, fully prepared, and with proper certifications. For instance, you'll be relieved to see an authentic certificate of approval that showcases the eligibility of the repairman. On the other hand, an inexperienced person can make the condition of your Apple gadget worse.

In conclusion, consider getting your Apple device repaired from an authentic Mac service centre that offers, at least a month's warranty for their services. This implies you are secured for no less than 30 days, and if your iPhone or iPad builds up a similar issue after repair, you can take it back and get the issue resolved without extra costs.

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Top 7 E-Commerce Website Design Trends of 2018


By Pratap Ranjan Singh

As evident by the numbers, the e-commerce market has grown tremendously over the years. Moreover, it is a fast-growing market with faster changing trends, which one needs to adapt to fetch the maximum results.

E-commerce, that once started with the sale of a handful of products, now encompasses each and every product imaginable. From books to electrical equipment's - everything can be purchased online. Until a few years, back e-commerce was something that was conducted using laptops and desktop, but the past few years have seen an increase in the use of mobile devices to make a purchase from e-commerce sites. This has made it necessary for online businesses to have a mobile-friendly version of their site, as a result of which mobile friendly-commerce website development is on the rise. Besides the use of mobile sites, there has also been a rapid increase in the use of mobile apps. All these factors have contributed to e-commerce becoming a major part of the retail landscape.

With the growing importance of e-commerce, let us have a look at the top 7 e-commerce website design trends for this year.

Mobile-friendly design

Considering how important mobile devices have become, it is not a surprise that a mobile-friendly website design is one of the most important e-commerce trends this year. As stated above, the rise in m-commerce has made it critical for business owners to come up with a responsive design to their site. A responsive design adapts to different mobile devices and eliminates the need to develop x no. of designs for x no. of mobile devices.

Use of templates

In the year 2014, Google launched its "Material Design" motif, which is a template used for developing Android Apps. An increasing number of e-commerce websites are now using the same design principles that "Material Design" is based on. Using the "Material Design" motif doesn't mean that your website will be identical to others, as there is a lot of scope for customization.

Efficient loading and layout

Efficient loading and layout of the site especially in the case of mobile devices should be a major concern among developers. This means that when a user opens the website, that what is important should load first. In the case of e-commerce websites, it is product-listing. So, instead of loading 100 products on one page, developers should focus on loading 10 products per page, and load subsequent sets of 10 if the user scrolls down further. One should note that e-commerce websites that load easily on mobile will appeal more to the users rather than the ones that take a lot of time to load.

Use of hamburger menus

Another trend this year would be the increase in the use of hamburger menus. Hamburger menus are typically defined by three horizontal lines, and they offer a convenient way to hide or reveal the menu, as necessary. This essential feature of the hamburger menu makes the site easier to navigate. The easier it is to navigate the site, the more appealing it is to the users.

Cinemographs

This year will also see an increased use of cinematographers on e-commerce websites. Cinematographers is a midway point between an animated GIF and a static image. It usually consists of an image with animated text over it, although in some cases a part of the image may itself be animated. Cinematographers are easier to load on mobile as compared to gifs. This is because when a series of GIF's are added to a page, the data requirement or the load time goes up significantly.

Adaptation

Websites adapting to different devices is no news, but in the future websites may adapt to the user themselves. For instance, as per the age or the web activity of the user, the website will be able to show some elements more prominently than the others. In other words, the website would be able to re-order itself.

The elements of the site would also shift either to the left or to the right depending on whether the user is left-handed or right-handed. For people who are color-blind, the site may also alter its color-palette.

Use of grid layout

The use of grids in e-commerce websites is one of the simplest yet effective forms of design. Grids use the available space efficiently and are also easy to navigate. A growing trend this year would be e-commerce sites adopting the grid layout but removing the borders, thus allowing the grid to blend into the rest of the page.

Keeping these top 7 trends in mind, it is about time you begin the exciting journey of your e-commerce website development.

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Any-To-Any Integration: Don't Buy an Integration Tool Without This Functionality


By Prince L Kumar

Any-to-any integration is a key functionality which any modern day integration technology needs to offer. It is a core capability which helps in getting data from partner systems at the right time in the right place. It helps companies in navigating through complex and costly IT environment. Yesterday's iPaaS integration systems don't provision this smart functionality. It is a unique capability to transform any source data format with source data format. That's why choosing an integration solution without this capability can be a costly mistake.

Enterprises are buying integration solutions to combine new and old systems and simplify their IT environment. However they are recklessly embracing new technologies without evaluating the integration functionalities. Combining a highly convoluted legacy IT environment where a mix of cloud and on premise applications are running in parallel is not possible without any-to-any integration. Here are some benefits that you get with the tool.

Makes You Easier to Do Business With: Plays a critical role in smoothing electronic data interchange with partners and clients. Leverages a no-code self service integration approach that reduces customer data on-boarding by 70%.

Puts IT in a Governance Role: Provides a central platform where IT assumes a governance role and business users can handle operational load. Allows IT to focus on other important roles. IT teams can focus on building integration and business users can build integrations faster.

Optimizes Resources and Lowers Cost: Delivers faster go to market capabilities that accelerate time to revenue. Drives down operational cost by 80% and increases profit margins by 20%. Less coding means less cost involved and improved time to revenue. Businesses can transact documents faster and lower the cost involved significantly.

Foundational support to IT: Scales to address pervasive integration needs. The enterprise class integration solution handles any-to-any integration scenarios. It performs polyglot programming for combining systems. This means businesses can transact structured, unstructured files with top most integrity.

Faster Data Deployment and Safer Data Exchange: Provides secure, end-to-end encrypted environment for all data that is transferred and exchanged between partners. Pre-built application connectors ensure secure electronic data interchange across hybrid IT environments.

Many businesses are haphazardly adopting integration technologies for consolidating business systems, connecting with partners, and driving business forward. The motive remains maximizing business benefits and staying ahead of the competition. However, after squandering huge money on integration tech they are failing to make the most out of their  integration technologies. Unfortunately, many organizations have little understanding to the integration technologies and most of them are making wrong choices.

Prince is a Technocrat at Adeptia who has credible skills in the area of database automation, data validation, exception handling and back-end data integration. His expertise resides in his ability to quickly diagnosing the roadblocks to mission-critical IT initiatives and generating a need-based response. Leveraging his in-depth knowledge with a wide spectrum of software, i.e., ESB integration, Data Integration, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business-to-business (B2B) Integration, and Business Process Management (BPM) Prince has helped many reputed client in accomplishing their business goals.

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Mobile App Development Trends in 2018


By Bhatt Digant

After a successful 2017, the mobile app industry is all set to take up and meet challenges in 2018. The mobile development scenario is on the way to maturing and becoming more user- friendly. It aims at integration of business needs and technical issues.

Mobile Application Performance Manager

Experience in the last year reveals that though the app market has performed well, there are less number of apps downloads per user. Developers are now looking at apps that engage and satisfy users and also encourage regular use of their apps. The aim is to make them technically sound and simultaneously increase the demand for use.

Blockchain technology

The sudden and meteoric rise in use of Bitcoins has fueled interest in mobile blockchain technology. Developers are ready to latch on to this interest. Their only concern would be to determine the benefits of using the new technology to replace the old SQL database for individual apps.

Machine Learning

Apple's Core ML Library has introduced built-in ML models. This gives developers a convenient way to include ML technology in iOS apps. in 2018 app developers are expected to leverage this advantage.

Chatbots

Chatbots were launched in 2016. They created messaging platforms using the bot to be used on websites. This year these bots are set to expand their domain to mobiles. Developers find it easy to use chatbots. They neither have to learn new interface nor do they need to develop native apps that need regular updating.

Android Instant App

This new entrant is likely to become a favorite this year. It needs no installation and is compatible with all OS. The possibility of embedding it in Google search engines acts as added advantage.

Optimized Mobile Page

Google AMP makes web browsing on mobiles faster. Domains are using AMP to reach and engage more users. More and more apps are expected to convert to AMP to leverage advantage.

5G is on its way

5G is ready to deliver speed. It will work up to sixty times faster than the present 4G technology. This new network is to roll out slowly with the USA based service providers taking the lead.

Return of the Cloud

2018 will see cloud-based apps rise to a whopping 89%. Cloud storage is secure. It clears space on devices and does not eat into device memory making it a preferred storage for private and commercial use. Mobile Backend as a Service allows for data to move back and forth from cloud to device easily, conveniently and fast.

Wearables will continue to grow this year. Security concerns will be a part of app development as more and more transactions are performed using mobiles. Developers will be engaged in developing more and more on-demand apps as their usage increases and startups begin to look at these as a means of reaching customers. Virtual reality and Augmented Reality apps will see an increase in demand and will drive the field of mobile app development.

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Top 5 Issues Keeping Food Processing Industries Up at Night


By Arjun N

The Indian food industry is considered to be a sunrise sector because of its large potential for growth and socio-economic impact. It is estimated as a $258 Billion industry with about 8% growth annually with a potential to reach $482 billion by 2020 with large investment in food processing, technical innovation and infrastructure for agriculture sector. India could well become the food basket of the world. With the second largest arable land in the world, India is the largest producer of milk, pulses, sugarcane and tea in the world and the second largest producer of wheat, rice, fruits and vegetables. Indian agriculture being the primary supporter caters to around 60% of the population for their livelihood and contributes to 17% of the GDP. Below are some issues keeping the food processing industry up at night.

1. Preservation of raw food is also a major concern for the industry. In goods such as diary, fruits & vegetables, meat processing, a little contamination can lead to destruction of the lot of raw materials making it highly risky. The industries would have to be staffed around the clock to be able to keep tabs on the raw materials, preventing them from spoiling and infestation.

2. Hygiene - Absence of Hygiene cannot only contaminate the raw materials but can also make the finished product toxic. Also, hygiene does not play a role just in the raw material but also in the processing. Installing the correct facilities for staff to ensure proper personal hygiene is met, also contributes towards meeting food safety requirements.

3. Toxin Removal - Food processing facilities rely on the use of potentially dangerous chemicals for sanitation and pest control. Because of this attention has to be applied to reduce the risk of accidental environmental contamination during the food processing cycle, failing which it can make the food toxic. Establish cleaning and disinfection programmes to ensure the correct hygiene standards are met and reduce the risk of a foodborne illness outbreak.

4. Technology and Automation - The Indian food processing industry is mainly made up of smallscale and unorganised players. A lack of innovation in this sector leads the industry to make use of the same old techniques and hence, very little margin for improvement in yield. This is hindering the progress the industry should be making, leading to more manual labour to achieve their results and consumes more process time which can be reduced through implementation of technology. Implementing automation can decrease the process time in certain processes like in mincing or liquefaction.

5. Increased Competition - Organic Products are getting a good boost in the market today, and food processing industries are known to deplete nutrition off the food products. Hence, adding nutrition or preserving the nutrition in the food products has become a necessity. With increasing competition, the Food processing industries are always busy in discovering innovative ways to keep up in the market like using macerated fruits as a sweetener in order to make the food healthier.

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Marrowstone Point Light and the "Triangle of Fire"


By Katy Beacher

About October 1 1888 a lens lantern with a red light was mounted on a pole to mark the eastern entrance to Port Townsend Bay. In 1892 the Lighthouse board recommended a large fog bell be installed to warn of the sharp turn in the course when entering for leaving Puget Sound. $3,500 was allocated by Congress on March 3 1893 and a one and one half story six-room keepers house with a fog bell tower was built and put into operation on April 7, 1896. The huge 1,200 pound bell would strike twice every fifteen seconds during periods of fog or low visibility.

Seventy-year-old former sea captain Osmore H Morgan was the first keeper. He had spent the prior fourteen years as head keeper at the New Dungeness Lighthouse. His daughter, Nettie Race took over after his passing in 1907. A few months later Axel Rustad was appointed keeper and he and wife Karen took over. They stayed for ten years raising four sons in the keepers quarters. The only water for the family was rain water collected and stored in a 5,000-gallon redwood tank which was located in a shed behind the house.

In July 1903 the North Pacific, a side wheel steamer struck Craven Rock off Marrowstone Point in a dense fog. The steamer had 14 passengers aboard who were taken to shore by lifeboats and the tug boat C. B. Smith. Lighthouse keeper Morgan fed and sheltered them until they were taken aboard the steamer Mainlander which had run aground on Marrowstone Point that same morning but was afloat again at high tide. The North Pacific was a total loss as it sank in deep water.

In 1907 construction of Fort Flagler was completed. Fort Flagler joined with the guns at Fort Casey on Admiralty Head and the guns at Fort Worden near Point Wilson to form a "Triangle of Fire" to prevent enemy vessels from entering Puget Sound

Dense fog caused another mishap in August 1908. The 502-foot-long armored cruiser USS Colorado ran aground on Liplip Point the southeast tip of Marrowstone Island. This incident cast light on the need for more navigational aids in Puget Sound. On October 22, 1913 Congress appropriated $30,000 for improvements.

Marrowstone Point received a new fog signal and light in 1914. An experimental acetylene gun was installed in a wooden building thirteen yards northeast of the bell tower and took the place of the fog bell. Mariners were asked to report the efficiency of the gun to the lighthouse inspector in Portland.

A new acetylene gun was installed atop a concrete structure just two months later. At the same time, the light was changed from a fixed red to a quick two red flashes every six seconds. The acetylene fog gun was the first of its kind to be used in the United States.

Several improvements were made over the years until 1962 when it was automated. In 1972 the Coast Guard transferred the property to the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be used as a research facility. The keepers house is now used as a guest house for scientists who visit the Marrowstone Marine Field Station.

Still standing at the waters edge are the structure that held the light and fog signal and the light tower. The flashing white light is still functioning but the fog signal is no longer being used. The station is now being used as a marine ecosystem health and marine fish health research facility.

Fort Flagler is now Fort Flagler State Park. A military museum is located in the park. The Marrowstone Point Light is visible from the park's beach but it is not open to the public.

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Things to Do on the Island on a Vacation


By Achal Mehrotra

An island is any smaller area of land that is surrounded by water on its sides. It is a place where you can spend the quality time with your family and friends under nature. It is the perfect choice for your vacation when you are looking for a family trip, romantic getaway or a nature vacation.

An island is popular because of its amazing view and pleasant climatic conditions. It offers all the modern conveniences that an individual strives for while on a holiday. One can find a variety of comfortable places to stay like hotels, inns, private guest cottages, etc. on the area.

Things you can do while on an Island

An island offers several fun activities and diversions off and on-the-beach both. One can happily spend their quality time by involving themselves in various activities.

� Nature tours

There are water bikes and Segways on rent for people who love to have adventures. One can enjoy on-the-beach tours of the island while having fun with water sports. Go out with your partner to have the view of the island on water vehicles and make your vacation much more exciting.

� Relaxing beaches

Not everybody wants those adventurous activities. For all the lazy people out there, they have beach mats and chairs to relax while having the sunbath in an amazing view. After that, have your lunch and dinner at the fancy restaurants that are there to serve you on the beach itself.

� Off the beach tours

Beside the beach, one can have a tour of the place and explore it with the scooters and bikes on rent. Shopping is one of the options women can go for. The place would have a lot of beautiful shops and galleries filled with unique and antique things. Remember, there is no cluster of malls rather there are beautiful shops to have your shopping done appropriately.

� Others

For the people who want some sort of activities that are similar to their regular life, they can go for golfing, tennis, badminton, cinema, etc. The popular island offers such activities. Also, if you don't want to go out of your hotels, you can try these activities at your hotels only without going out.

All in all, there is something for everyone to satisfy themselves and there is a surety that you would not be able to stop yourself from visiting an isle again and will make some very beautiful memories to be cherished for the whole of your life.

Make a plan out of your hectic schedules and offices and visit some island. Pamper yourself, and have the best time of your life with your partner, family, and friends at some Island.

Remember you will not get such activities on a deserted island. On a deserted island, you will have to explore the things yourself without any help. But, if you don't want to go for any experiments, popular islands are the best option for you where you can get all the conveniences while enjoying yourselves.

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What Is Clinical Research?


By Chris Benson

Device and drug testing commences with laboratory research that can encompass years of experiments on animals and on human cells. If the primary laboratory research turns out to be successful, then the researchers send the information to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for consent for the continuation of the research and testing on humans.

Once the drug and device has been approved, human testing of the experimental drug and the devices can commence and typically takes place in four different stages. Every phase is considered as separate trials and after the completion of the specific phases, the investigators have to turn in their data from FDA prior to continuing to the next phase.

Procedure of human clinical trails

Phase I studies

The phase 1 studies evaluate the safety of the drug or the device. This primary phase of testing can take up to multiple months to finish, normally encompasses a small number of healthy volunteers mainly from 20 to 100 people. The people are paid for participating in the phase. The whole study is designed to determine the impact of the device or the drug on humans including how it is taken in, metabolised and then excreted. This phase of study also investigates side effects, if any, which might occur when the number of doses is increased. More than 65% of the experimental drugs have to undergo this phase of testing.

Phase II studies

The second phase of study tests the efficacy of the device or the drug. This second phase of study can last up to several months or up to two years and includes multiple patients. Most of the second phase of studies are unsystematic trials where a group of patients is divided into two, first group of the patients get the experimental drug while the second half of the whole group gets a standard treatment or a placebo. Often this phase is blinded which signifies that neither the researcher nor the patient is aware of which group received the experimental drug. This permits the investigators to offer pharmaceutical company and the FDA comparative details about the relative safety and effectiveness of the fairly new drug. One third of the experimental drugs successfully finish both the initial phases of the studies.

Phase III studies

This phase of study includes unsystematic as well as blind testing in multiple hundreds to thousands of patients. This broad scale testing that can last upto multiple years offer the FDA and the pharmaceutical company a detailed comprehension of the effectiveness of the drug or the device, the perks and the range possible adverse reaction of the drug or device. More than 70 to 90% of the drugs that make it to this phase are able to complete the requirement of the testing of this phase. Once the third phase has been completed, the pharmaceutical company can make a request to the FDA to approve the marketing of the drug or device.

Phase IV studies

The study of the fourth stage is known as the post-marketing surveillance trails that are conducted after the device or the drug has been approved for sale to the consumers. The pharmaceutical companies have multiple objectives at this stage, such as:

Compare the new drug with the drugs that already exist in the market.

Monitor the long term effectiveness of the drug as well as its impact on the life of the patient.

Determine the cost effectiveness of the drug therapy with the traditional as well as new therapies.

The fourth phase of studies can result in the device or the drug being taken off from the market or restrictions being placed on its use depending upon the outcome that it can produce in the market.

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The Only Level Playing Field in Investing - Options


By David Jones

I learned options late in life, accidentally, trawling the pages of the ancient magazine Exchange and Mart in 1995. A full page article showed how an options trader could work from home, (actually in bed) using prices from the BBC's teletext, back in the day. A lot has changed, but options have been around for centuries-pre-dating shares, being used for pricing ships' cargoes. In the 1980s options became exchange traded, and fortunes were made. Warren Buffett is a keen options trader, Nassim Taleb was the most prolific. They are not idiots and neither are you if you have read thus far.

Investing is the word we use for a trade that went wrong! Investing is mostly passive and requires you to be right and/or to tuck your stocks away for decades. With markets hitting new highs and valuations stretched, you have to realise the stock market cannot keep going up. If you are happy with paltry dividends and the certainty that your stock will at some point in the future be worth half what it is today, then read no further. QE is no longer on the table and that is all that has separated stocks from realistic valuations.

So what are options all about? In our world we only trade the FTSE100 options. Why? Because the entire index is unlikely to get arrested for fraud/sexual harassment/bogus accounting/toxic products, and all the other nasties that can destroy a company's rep in a heartbeat. So FTSE is the underlying on which our derivatives are based. Options are the right to buy or sell the underlying (at �10 per point cash settled) but NOT the obligation. In the same way as insurance companies collect premiums, however, options can be sold. Did you ever see a poor insurance company? When you get it right, selling options can bring you a monthly income stream of a comfortable 2% per month, consistently. Nothing else comes close.

So who are the buyers of options if everybody sells them? Well that is the biggest part of education, and the reason I have traded profitably since 1999. Yes I have had failures, and panics- but I made nice profits in February while the market dropped 10%, despite being a bit dim! I learned about options from an expensive course and from much of the free training on the internet. A while ago I met a like-minded options trader, he runs the website to which I contribute every week, with a real trade, and general tittle tattle about our world. It's utterly mind-blowing when you start to understand options and the endless combinations, and 20 or so strategies that we use. I love options trading and I want to reach those with a pot of cash who seek income, and a sensible method with risk management, but who don't know where to start. We are not just about newbies though-there are insights for all. And... we don't want your money. http://optionsinvesting.co.uk
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Michel Foucault


By Martin Hahn

Michel Foucault, (born October fifteen, 1926, Poitiers, France - died June twenty five, 1984, Paris), French philosopher as well as historian, one of probably the most important and debatable scholars of the post World War II period.

The son as well as grandson of a doctor, Michel Foucault was created to a solidly bourgeois household. He resisted what he regarded as the provincialism of the upbringing of his and the native country of his, and the career of his was marked by regular sojourns abroad. A notable but at times erratic pupil, Foucault received entry at the age of twenty to the �cole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Paris in 1946. There he studied philosophy and psychology, adopted and then abandoned communism, as well as established a good reputation as a sedulous, amazing, and eccentric pupil.

After graduating in 1952, Foucault started a career marked by continual movement, both professionally and intellectually. He taught at the Faculty of Lille, then wasted 5 years (1955 60) working as a cultural attache at Uppsala, Sweden; Warsaw, Poland; and Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany). Foucault defended the doctoral dissertation of his at the ENS in 1961. Circulated under the title Folie et deraison: histoire de la folie � l'�ge classique ("Madness and Unreason: A History of Madness in the Classical Age"). It won critical praise but had a limited audience. (An abridged version was translated into English and published in 1965 as Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.)

His other early monographs, written while he taught at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France (1960-66), had much the same fate. Not until the look of Les Mots et les choses (Things" and "words; Eng. trans. The Order of Things) in 1966 did Foucault start attracting large notice as one of probably the most unique and debatable thinkers of his days. He decided to view his developing ideas from a distance - at the Faculty of Tunis in Tunisia (1966-68) - and was still in Tunis when student riots erupted in Paris of the spring of 1968.

In 1969 he published L'Archeologie du savoir (The Archaeology of Knowledge). In 1970, after a short tenure as director of the philosophy department at the Faculty of Paris, Vincennes, he was given a chair in the history of systems of thought at the Coll�ge de France, France's most prestigious post secondary institution. The appointment granted Foucault the chance to conduct intense research.

Between 1971 as well as 1984 Foucault wrote a few works, like Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison (1975; Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison), a monograph on the growth of the contemporary prison; 3 volumes of a record of Western sexuality; in addition to countless essays. Foucault continued traveling widely, and also as his status grew he spent lengthy periods in Brazil, Canada, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

He became especially connected to Berkeley, California, and the San Francisco Bay area and became a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of California at Berkeley for a few years. Foucault died of a septicemia typical of Aids in 1984, the fourth volume of the history of sexuality however incomplete.

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What to Do After LTCG?


By Aryan Dev

The equity market has become more volatile since the announcement of long-term capital gain (LTCG) in budget 2018. The basic reason may not be the imposition of LTCG, but the global volatility which increased in the last fortnight and has contributed to heightened volatility in the Indian market.

Such volatility has caused much anxiety among investors and they are not sure what to do with their investments that will help them maximize their gains and minimize the tax burden. Although in doing investment focus should be upon making profit not on reducing tax. One can reduce the impact of tax but it is not possible to nullify the tax after a certain increase in income.

We believe there is not much to worry about for at least for retail investors. This is because of the 'grandfathering' clause attached to this announcement. According to which all your gains accrued till January 31, 2018 will remain tax-free. After that all the profits till the amount of Rs. 1 lakh will remain tax-free. That is for FY18, only the profit earned between February 1 and 31st March will be taxed.

If you are having large corpus invested in mutual funds, of say more than Rs. 1 crore, then definitely, you might have to pay some tax even if your invested amount is up by 1 per cent.

From FY19 onwards you need to pay LTCG on all the gains exceeding Rs. 1 lakh, if you hold your investments beyond 12 months. For the shorter duration of holdings, you have to anyhow pay short-term capital gain tax at a rate of 15 per cent.

We believe there is a silver lining to this introduction to LTCG. First of all, it is not as bad as being perceived by investors, especially to retail investors. Our back of envelope calculation shows that you are liable to pay tax only if you invest at least Rs. 60,000 every month and you earn on an average yearly return of 12 per cent. Although 12 per cent is realistic return, Rs. 60,000 is a very high amount for a retail investor.

Moreover, if you keep on booking profit on your investments after every one year (not exceeding Rs. 1 lakh) and rebalance your portfolio to align with your investment objective, we do not see LTCG a burden or dampener in your investment returns. Therefore, instead of waiting for a period where your investment objective or certain corpus for which you have been investing matures, you need to tactfully keep on booking profit regularly and rebalance your portfolio and achieve your financial goal.

Happy investing!

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How Apps Are Helping Busy Moms in Easy Cooking


By Rob Stephen

Cooking recipes app are the next big step in the mobile market in personal utility space and are perhaps one of the most profitable ideas for the startups. Smartphones, iPhones and tablets are now the perfect devices instead of handbooks for working Moms to get recipes, great preparations with photos, how-to-do videos on the go! Apps offering these are sure to transform the kitchen experience into an interactive and quirky experience. But, how to make an intriguing recipe application that is sure to serve Mothers with the best kind of cooking help? Here's the secret success recipe for creating a perfect cooking application for appreneurs willing to join the bandwagon of mobile apps business.

#1 Deciding the type of recipes

Breakfast or Brunch, Dinner or Lunch? Provide Moms with recipes for all with search options. Once you are ready to make an app, incorporate easy and quick recipes for all types of meals. They can search from hundreds of recipes and preparations provided under different categories with a few taps. This seems a lot more convenient for someone who is new in cooking than going through a book.

#2 Recipes according to ingredients

Your app must have a comprehensive list of cooking ingredients to give users with a quick comparison of what they got at the table and what not. This way they can search for only those recipes that can be prepared with selected recipes.

#3 Grocery lists and shopping feature

Link your app to a grocery shopping cart so that Moms can buy food ingredients, veggies and everything else when they run out with one tap. Moreover, help them to create lists of their everyday essentials, set reminders, place order of exhausted items and pay for them online.

#4 Recipes as per moods

As said, cooking is never a cakewalk for Moms, especially when they have to prepare delicacies for their families or kids according to their moods, occasions or taste buds. Thus, create your app with different cooking modes and cuisines like Continental, Italian, Chinese, Thai so that Moms could explore and experiment with new dishes every day.

#5 Text instructions & Videos

A cooking app is incomplete without high-quality content i.e. video guides, photo-wise instructions, tutorials, cooking tips, etc. that make the process of cooking more fast, simple and also interesting for the Moms.

#6 Social sharing option

Provide your culinary app with social sharing option so that users can not learn cooking but also share recipes, photos of their culinary experiments with social friends and induce others to use the app too. This way you can get other busy Moms to know about your app and use it for refining their cooking skills.

Want to step into the mobile app market? You can have a great road ahead with a cooking app! The unique features and huge opportunities for creating varied types of recipes are no doubt major attraction of amateurs cooks or busy Moms. It gives them an extremely comfortable option to learn cooking, prepare dishes or do experiments with their culinary skills.

Rob Stephen is a hardworking and experienced developer at Envertis, a leader in mobile app development in Australia that crafts mobile applications for different businesses, distinct purposes and for eCommerce and gaming. He is an avid traveller, a writer and music lover. You can follow more of his writings on the    Facebook page.

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Bhimashankar Temple - 6th Jyotirlinga of Shiva


By Juhi Mateen

Bhimashankar is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas of Shiva. In this age of the internet and omnipresent Wikipedia/Google, getting general information about Jyotirlingas and the concomitant legends is an easy task. It's the same hackneyed information churned out by others. What matters most is the perspective of a visitor or a devotee who has seen and imbibed the (divine) spirit first hand. And that makes the difference and takes away the cherry.

Lord Shiva is the Adi Deva (oldest deity) of the Hindus. According to Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University, R C Zehmer, 'It's not a hyperbole or an exaggeration but a fact that Indian mythology is replete with innumerable legends and exploits of Shiva.' Rigved (Not Rigveda; this is an erroneous orthography given and popularised by the Brits) had the reference to Shiva nearly 5500 years ago. The readers might recall that in B R Chopra's Mahabharat, Bhishma used to say, 'Mahadev ki saugandh' (I swear by Mahadev). And Mahabharat is believed to be 3000-3500-year-old.

Pilgrims living near Poona/Bombay have an easy access to Bhimashankar. It takes around 3-4 hours to reach there from Pune.

It's cradled in Sahyadri Mountain Range. The scenic beauty of the place adds to divinity. According to Garud Puran, 'Pratasthe dwadasham jyotirlingam darshanam apariharya iti ashtavinayakam paridoshat' (If one visits a Jyotirlingam, he/she should visit all just like one must visit all eight Ganesha abodes).

According to 'Hindu Dharmsthal Soochi' (the list of Hindu Pilgrim Centres) that appeared in now defunct 'Dharmyug' in 1978, there're 73 cardinal pilgrim spots for Hindus. Twelve Jyotirlingas and Ashtvinayak are among them.

The writer of this piece visited Bhimashankar in 2007. It used to be lush green. It's still quite verdant but somewhere with the passage of time, this place now appears to be a bit commercial like Shani Shingnapur and Shirdi.

It's believed that each Jyotirlinga grants a specific wish of the devotee. And why on earth do we all visit temples and pilgrim centres? Don't we go there to beg (for alms)? Anyway, Bhimashankar is associated with wealth. If you want wealth, go there and pray to the Lord. He'll grant your wealth-wish! So easy!

I saw one very famous Bollywood actor at Bhimashankar and was told that he had been visiting this Jyotirliga for last 12 years regularly. Needless to say, he's stinking rich. He may have been praying to the deity to acquire more wealth as this has no end. To quote Urdu poet Asadullah Khan Ghalib, 'There're legions of wishes and one can die for each wish/I died many a time, yet that wasn't enough'.

One can stay here overnight. Villagers and the priests make affordable arrangements for the stay. There're tolerably good eateries where one can have snacks and even full-fledged meals (this is a rather new addition).    Bhimashankar temple darshan timings are 4:30 am to 9:30 pm.

Those who visit Poona, also visit Bhimashankar (provided they're Hindus!).

I read somewhere that shooting is prohibited at all 12 Jyotirlingas. But I've seen Bhimashankar in quite a few Hindi movies. There was a documentary on it that was shown on Doordarshan way back in 1976. Akashvani, Poona used to give information on Bhimashankar and other shrines near Poona on every Wednesday. It's been stopped.

All in all, a good place for people with a spiritual bent of mind.

Booking Darshan of various religious places across India is complicated and exhaustive task. Our aim is to introduce darshan timings to simplify this tasks for devotees planning their spiritual journey to temples like Shirdi, Rameshwaram,Tirupati, Sabrimala, Butati Dham etc. We explain timings of temples like   Grishneshwar temple timings in simplest form for guidance.

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The Beginners' Guide To Manufacturing A Wire Harness In Mexico


By Morris Raymond

If you are in an industry that relies on machinery, maintenance of this equipment is no small task. The machinery relies on refined internal mechanisms, but maintenance can be fairly straight-forward thanks to wire harnesses. The wire harness has brought about a revolution for industries needing a tidy solution to what can be a maddening chaos of cables & wires. When you think about a wire harness, though, Mexico isn't usually the first place that comes to mind.

Located south of the United States, Mexico has made its impact in the manufacturing world. They're only second to Canada (our northern neighbor) in energy trade with the U.S., have established regional distinctions within the country based on product manufacturing over the last two decades, and unlike other Latin American countries, Mexico has seen a large rise in their manufacturing sector since 1980.

Manufacturers stateside have benefited from having Mexico as a partner because it has allowed them to expand their geographic reach to customers in need of products. The proximity has been pivotal in allaying customer concerns regarding budget or production dates.

But having an international manufacturing partner can have drawbacks, and if a company isn't careful to avoid certain pitfalls, the ability to be successful will be negatively impacted.

Here is a basic guide to wire harness manufacturing in Mexico:

Language Barriers - Working with Mexico means a need to communicate in Spanish. Even if the representative operating between the stateside-based manufacturer & its Mexico-based facility can readily communicate, it is imperative that a difference in language doesn't become a major problem. This is especially important when it comes to industry terminology.

Pre-Approval of Specs & Requesting Samples - It is vital that all specifications are approved at all points in the process just to be sure everyone is on the same page (e.g., weights & measurements in either metric or imperial increments). Also, as often as possible, it is key to obtain production samples in case there is a need to address any issues.

Parent Company in the States - It's important that a company seeking wire harness builds works with a manufacturer whose parent-company is based in the U.S.. This helps ensure that the builds have been done under the same guidelines & compliance regulations required in the U.S.. Considering the billions of dollars that U.S. companies have invested into the development of Mexico's manufacturing sectors, this usually isn't too big an obstacle.

Budget - Manufacturing budgets can sometimes forget to factor in the cost that may come with shipping materials either back to the ordering customer for approval or if there is a need for a final product to go elsewhere. Mexico is close, but poor budget management can still be a cause for delays.

Production Dates - Manufacturers that establish facilities in Mexico do so because there is greater proximity to customers. Two of Mexico's most prominent regions in this endeavor are the Border Region & Central Mexico ("el bajio"). This actually leads to a quicker turnaround of materials being delivered on-time or even ahead of schedule.

Remember that f you're working with a well-established harness & assemblies manufacturer based in the United States with a facility based in Mexico, the wire harness that Mexico can produce will be of incredible value, excellent quality, and will meet all of your necessary build requisite standards.

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Conservatism Is the New Counter-Culture


By Randell Stroud

When people say I have "values", what are they talking about? "Values" are the principles in which we hold dear. Values are characteristics that we hold admirable in ourselves and others. When someone says they have "religious" values, it usually means that they have a more "conservative" or "traditional" view towards reality. Doing their best to abstain from alcohol, encourage men to be leaders of their families, abstain from homosexual behavior, act in a pious manner, etc... When someone says they are very "liberal" or have "liberal values", it usually means that the opposite, that conservative values are not necessarily important or in some cases, even undesirable.

In recent history, especially in western nations,there is a rise in "non-belief". Anarchism (no belief in government), MGTOW or Asexualism (No belief in romantic relationships), Atheism (No belief in god), Apolitical (No belief in any political ideology), Vegan (No belief in eating meat)... as time goes on, we are believing in fewer and fewer long held traditions. We are becoming a society of hedonists. "Anything goes so long as you aren't murdering or stealing." As a Libertarian, I actually share the sentiment to a certain degree. I don't believe the government should regulate behaviors that do not cause direct victims. People should be free to make choices for themselves. I don't think the government should lock people up for putting drugs in their body or engaging in transgenderism. People should have a free choice.

However, my problem comes when such behavior becomes endorsed as "positive". We have reaches a tipping point between "acceptance" and "endorsement". Just because I think all drugs should be decriminalized and treated as a health issue, doesn't mean I endorse the behavior. Just because I don't think transgendered people be discriminated against, doesn't mean that I will encourage my son or daughter to get a sex change operation. Our western values of "open mindedness" and acceptance have been perverted into the endorsement of any and all behaviors.

We now have television shows endorsing the idea of same-sex parents raising a child, transgendered super-heroes whereas commercials and other media often portray straight males as being "idiotic" or "bumbling" idiots. A TV ad showing a woman kicking a man in the testicles will be seen as humorous, whereas a TV ad showing a man shoving a woman will be seen as "abuse".

We live an age where "conservatism" is the new counter-culture. Being a conservative is "edgy", "risque", and "bold". Even just 10 or 20 years ago, being a conservative was considered a normal affair, especially in southern states. Now, if you aren't shouting "white privilege", "Hashtag #metoo", then people will consider you a "bigot" or racist.

Many people even consider band-aides to be racist these days because the skin tone of these products caters to white-Americans. Is it racist as a business owner to create a product that appeals to a larger economic demographic? Would it make economic sense to sell african-american hair-care products in an Asian country like China?

We live in a society where conservatives are just one accusation away from being obliterated in society. "Racist", "Bigot", "MeToo", "Womanizer".

While I agree that a society that is "too" conservative will become totalitarian and restrictive, I also agree that a society that is "too" liberal will also become totalitarian and restrictive. The extreme left and the extreme right are destroying our great nation. The paper-thin skinned liberals and the hateful prudes of the conservatives are giving the rest of us bad names!

We shouldn't be so quick to belittle our traditions that have served humanity for thousands of years, yet we should also be sane enough to realize that certain aspects need to be a bit more relaxed. It appears that our society is having trouble finding that sweet middle-ground. Regardless, I never thought I'd see the day when it was considered rebellious to be "conservative".

"If you are not a liberal at age 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the age of 35, you have no brain". - Winston Churchill

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A Proposed Apology For You, Steven Smith and David Warner


By Steve Wickham

Presuming Steven Smith and David Warner, as captain and vice-captain respectively, are those who are solely accountable for cheating, apart from Cameron Bancroft, this is a model apology they could make.

This is using the PeaceWise Seven 'A' Apology:

With our diabolical actions, we have hurt our team, our country, our fans. We have also hurt cricket. Because of our positions at the top of our beloved sport, our actions have affected potentially every single fan across the world. There is no corner of the cricketing globe that won't be shocked about our actions.

Our actions, purely and simply, reflect that we were prepared to do anything to win. Yes, we were prepared to cheat. It does not matter in our mind what other players and countries have ever done as far as cheating is concerned. We accept that we have cheated. It is as simple as that.

We met together during a break in play and deliberately planned to act in a way that is against the rules of our great game. We conspired to do that. We worked out how we might not be detected. We believed we could get away with it, otherwise we would not have done it. We tampered with the ball and we should never have done it, let alone considered it. It was and always will be wrong.

We wish to acknowledge the vast pain we have caused so many millions of fans who are angry and disgusted. We acknowledge your hurt. You all deserve not to feel that way. We cannot imagine how it must feel, but we are deeply sorry for the pain we have caused you all.

Of course, we accept whatever consequences come our way, and we would like to add, that due to the stupidity of our actions, and the seriousness of our offence, we want you to know that we are choosing to retire from international cricket, effective immediately. This means this is our last Test match. We feel like we have disgraced our great game and ourselves so much, that we want you, the paying public, to decide whether or not, and when, we should play on. If you are silent and wish to accept our retirements, we respect that, and will move on with our lives, accepting the consequences of our actions.

Whenever we walk onto the field from now on, for our state and club teams, we promise that from now on we will be of exemplary behaviour, related to both respect for the rules and regard for the players. We will never do anything related to cheating ever again.

We recognise that we have no right to be forgiven for what we have done. But if you could find it in your hearts to forgive our reprehensible actions, we would be ever grateful. Our aim from this day forward is to do everything we can to redeem the trust we have lost.

We are so desperately sorry for what we have done, and for the premeditated thinking and gravely foolish decision that was made.

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This is the sort of apology that I think all Australians are after, firstly, and the whole cricketing world, secondly. It is an apology that is needed.

What on earth were they thinking?

And we, the Australian cricketing public, want to know the whole sordid story.

Is there anything you, the reader, would add to make the apology better?

PS. As the author of this article, I want to say that I am a David Warner fan, that he was my favourite cricketer and has been since 2009 when he broke through into the National team, and Steve Smith wasn't far behind him in my estimation. I myself would personally want them to play on, but I'm not sure how they can now.

Steve Wickham holds Degrees in Science, Divinity (2), and Counselling. Steve writes at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com.au/ and http://tribework.blogspot.com.au/

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Why A Cinema Brewery Is The Answer To Where Should We Go For Dinner


By Morris Raymond

Every week, my wife and I decide to take time to treat ourselves to a date night, and this can include everything from miniature golf, visiting a local museum, or trying out a new restaurant. It's a lot of fun, and we each get a kick out of it, but for some reason, as open to new things as we are, we've never considered the possibility of enjoying a date night at a cinema brewery.

It would make a lot of sense. Both of us enjoy a good beer every so often, and we like watching movies. Why wouldn't a cinema brewery make the short list of places to check out? Well, truth be told, we're creatures of habit. Our date night environments, though different every week, are still very familiar. As such, for us, going to the movies means buying a big tub of popcorn and a massive soft drink to enjoy while watching the screen for the next two hours.

You know, the more I think about it, the more I realize that a cinema brewery is actually the answer to much more than just where my wife and I should go for dinner. For instance, when it comes to the brewery part of things, our local cinema brewery makes its own beer in-house, with the whole operation visible from the lobby. We can actually see where our beer comes from. Moreover, master brewers run things and aim at creating unique beers. I'll admit that our youth was not full of discerning behavior when it came to drinking brewskis. Now, my wife and I enjoy a well-crafted, flavorful beer in moderation.

When it comes to food, we are big fans of big flavor, local ingredients, freshness, and quality. Our cinema brewery decided long ago that the usual movie food fare like popcorn and boxes of candy needed to be revamped. Now, we can have a stellar meal that checks off all of the important boxes in terms of preparation and satisfaction. What's even cooler is that we can enjoy this amazing food, and the killer beer, while watching a movie! It's perhaps here that our local cinema brewery has really made a case for itself.

Over the years, my wife found herself unhappy with the quality of movie theaters near us. Even though I was OK with things, I knew she was not content, and this meant being very particular about which theaters we frequented. Things have changed though because our cinema brewery has upped the ante with a tremendous sound system, very comfortable seating akin to what feels like home furniture, and we can now have a server interact with us during a movie. It's a perfect merging of a restaurant & your local watering hole.

I think that date night will be different from now on. Including a cinema brewery into the rotation of places to spend time together is more than just a place to have dinner. An improved movie-watching experience, better food, on-site beer brewing, and even gathering area that let's you still take in a great meal & drink without needing a movie ticket are all perfect reason why a cinema brewery may be the right place for you, too.

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Three Ways To Find The Best Olive Oil For Cooking


By Morris Raymond

Nowadays, many people fancy themselves to be artisan chefs, using their kitchens not for food preparation but for culinary art. For these home chefs, one of the first ingredients they dive into headfirst is olive oil, and almost no stone is left unturned in their quest to find the best olive oil for cooking.

The problem they run into is debating whether it is OK to actually cook with olive oil. There is one school of thought that says that heat will destroy the integrity, and that no one should cook with it. Others believe It has been around for thousands of years, and for the countries of origin, cooking with olive oil is as natural as can be. The net result of this disagreement is a home chef that is completely unsure of what to think. All they wanted to do was make awesome food.

Let's make it easy. In short, yes, you can cook using olive oil, but you have to be smart about how you use it. Moreover, you have to brush up on a little knowledge to make the most educated call on what you're going to bring into your kitchen.

Here is a little help on how to choose the best olive oil for cooking in your home:

Know Where The Oil is From - It's important to read the labels so that you know where is coming from. As a basic rule of thumb, you want there to be as little time that goes by between harvest, processing, and bottling. The longer the oil has to travel or go through steps before getting into a bottle can mean degradation of the product, and that is never a good thing.

Harvest Dating - Some years ago, beer manufacturers decided that it was unfair for their product to be judged as being "skunky" simply because a store put out old product. As a way to help the consumer, they decided to add dates to the packaging so that people could see when the beer was "born", thereby giving consumers a better chance of avoiding old beer. Still others go so far as to remove the product from store shelves. In the name of freshness, look for harvest dates on bottles of olive oil. Keep in mind that the contents don't age like wine, so knowing a harvest date will give you a chance to know just how long the contents have been sitting.

Keep It Local - As with most things, there is a movement to support local businesses by buying their products. There is greater transparency in the transaction, and you get to know where you products come from. The same goes for olive oil. The U.S. has slowly become a big player on the market, with professional chefs taking notice & requesting domestic product in their kitchen. For the home chef looking to buy a quality cooking ingredient, support local business, and be on the cutting edge of culinary development, this is a no-brainer.

The best olive oil for cooking doesn't have to break the bank or travel very far. With a little knowledge & a willingness to do some research, you'll find exactly what you need.

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