#do you all even conceptualize that not all of your activities must be stored on some website on the cloud online???

[lindenforest]

i reiterate for like the third time that i do not treat it as shameful and dirty. things dont have to be shameful and dirty to keep them private! like, if you dont want to talk about your job on the internet, it doesnt actually mean you earn your living by trafficking babies! if you dont want to talk about an opinion on the internet, it doesnt mean youre actually ashamed of it, it just might mean youre not in the mood to have people argue with it about you or something!

(case in point. should have kept this private too. just wanted someone like me to see and know theyre not alone, i guess.)

would you demand to go through someones phone and say they must be hiding something bad or else theyd let you? hopefully, if youre a decent human being, no! same principle. why does privacy automatically equal dirty to you?

“my blog is blank because i have nothing to post” bestie reblog those fics you’ve been serial liking

[nanapandaz]

Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia

Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional, I can’t diagnose you. If you think you have a mental illness please reach out to your doctor or a mental health professional.

For schizophrenics like myself, some of the most stigmatized, and sensationalized symptoms are the positive ones, meaning delusions, hallucinations, and movement disorders to some extent. You see them in textbooks and in the media; seeing, hearing, smelling or feeling things that aren’t real. Believing strange ideas, and this is my own example, like that the alien government lizard people are coming after you. These draw the most attention from the public eye, and I can’t blame them, alien government lizard people is pretty out there. But what about the less talked about symptoms such as negative and cognitive symptoms? Well, this essay will examine the cognitive side of a schizophrenia diagnosis.

According to Columbia University (2016), “many people with [Schizophrenia] also have cognitive deficits, including problems with short- and long-term memory.” They go on to say that cognitive factors can be the most disabling for people, leading to difficulty holding down a job and maintaining social relationships. They don’t have many answers as to the cause or cure for memory problems. Sucks to be us I guess. I personally have a plethora of issues with memory, short term and long term. I find myself lost when the dialogue of TV shows gets even slightly complicated because I immediately forget what was said, maybe that’s just me but it takes a toll on my self-esteem when I can't follow slightly complicated dialogue. But anyway, back to memory. Apparently when a group of healthy controls were compared to a group with schizophrenia, the healthy group, unsurprisingly, did better at memory tasks. In fact the health control groups brains showed increased brain activity the tests got harder and decreased activity when it got easier while the people with schizophrenia showed significantly weaker activity across the board.

According to Bowie and Harvey (2006) cognitive symptoms are the central feature of schizophrenia. As well as that these impairments may even present before the emergence of positive symptoms. They also found that there were “moderate deficits in attention, verbal fluency, working memory, and processing speed, with superimposed severe deficits in declarative verbal memory and executive functioning.” What is executive functioning? Well to quote Goodman (2021), “[e]xecutive functioning skills help you get things done. These skills are controlled by an area of the brain called the frontal lobe.” Things executive functioning helps you do is “manage time, pay attention, switch focus, plan and organize, remember details, avoid saying or doing the wrong thing, do things based on your experience, and multitask” (Goodman, 2021).

I’ll cover some ways to deal with executive dysfunction in a later essay.

Most people with schizophrenia will show some kind of cognitive impairment, but the severity will vary across different people. One interesting thing about these cognitive impairments is that they will remain relatively stable over time. There are some different types of impairments that I will summarize.

General Intelligence

I take some offence at the description that all people with schizophrenia have lower IQ’s, I mean there are/were some very smart people with it, like John Nash, or the people Cernis, Vassos, Brebion, McKenna, Murray, David & MacCabe (2015) studied, finding that there is “a high-IQ variant of schizophrenia that is associated with markedly fewer negative symptoms than typical schizophrenia” However the science seems to be overwhelmingly favourable in the direction that people with it have lower IQ’s as a group. On the other hand, I don’t know what kind of people they picked for their healthy control group, because if they were all university grads then it’s not really fair. So take this with a grain of salt. While the tests say that we are as a group, less intelligent than the “general” population it doesn’t mean you specifically are not intelligent. We can be just as successful as anyone else.

Attention

This one is simple, people with schizophrenia have a deficit in their ability to maintain their attention, this occurs even before the first psychotic episode.

Working memory

I have a terrible working memory, bad enough for it to be considered a learning disability. However I’m not alone in this, many people with schizophrenia have some kind of dysfunction in working memory, and apparently specifically verbal working memory. Bowie and Harvey (2006) state that “Working memory can be conceptualized as the ability to maintain and manipulate informative stimuli.” This is in contrast to attention span, with working memory being more cognitively challenging and attention span being more simple. In working memory, “The information must be held online for processing, but does not necessarily transfer to long-term storage, unlike episodic memory” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006). And poor memory can even affect social and interpersonal relationships because of the inability to pay attention to “multiple streams of information” Bowie and Harvey, 2006).

Verbal fluency

People like us sometimes find it rather difficult to speak in a coherent fashion, I remember many instances where I’ve tried to speak only for word salad to spill out of my mouth, and the looks of confusion and worry on other peoples faces is just great, really what I wanted to happen, not embarrassing at all. This inability to speak is due to “poor storage of verbal information as well as inefficient retrieval of information from semantic network” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006). Furthermore, "information that is stored is not always retrieved as a result of this inability to properly access semantic networks” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006).

Verbal and learning memory

A main impairment of schizophrenia is the difficulty of retaining verbal information. From what I understand, recognition memory seems to be able to work well in most cases, but “the pattern of deficits in schizophrenia tends to be reduced rates of learning over multiple exposure trials and poor recall of learned information” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006). So basically it takes a while for us to learn something but once we do we have good recognition memory. Now, recognition memory is the ability to recall something when you’ve seen it before, so I think what happens is if you’re able to process the information into long term memory you’ll be able to recall when you encounter that information again. Maybe I’m totally wrong, I don’t know.

Executive functioning

Now most schizophrenics have difficulties with most of all of the processes involved with executive dysfunction. Bowie and Harvey (2006) say that “schizophrenia patients have trouble adapting to changes in the environment that require different behavioral responses” which is directly due to issues with executive dysfunction. Furthermore, this “inflexibility” is highly associated with what Bowie and Harvey call “occupational difficulties.” This makes sense, when someone can’t plan, practice self-care, engage in social and interpersonal matters or participate in community functions, it’s gonna take a toll on your work life.

Treatment

Atypical antipsychotics seem to be the best treatment for cognitive impairments, though the results are sorta weak, Bowie and Harvey (2006) admit that “they have had very limited, if any, success in producing cognitive improvements. However, the search for new compounds designed specifically for cognitive enhancement in schizophrenia continues to be a promising area for future research.”

However there is also behavioural treatments, but there isn’t a lot of research on this topic. On the other hand, what little research there is, is very promising. “These strategies include training on computerized tasks similar to existing cognitive tests, teaching new learning strategies, training on novel tasks, and/or performing tasks repetitively” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006).

In the end, it seems that a combination of medication and therapy is the key. On the other hand, research by Everding (2005) states that “memory problems in schizophrenia can indeed be reduced and suggests that helping people use the right memorization strategy is critical to success.” The right strategies seem to be to remember more ‘deeply’ or according to Jantzi, Mengi, Serfaty, et al., (2019) to engage in retrieval practice, also Antzi, Mengi, Serfaty, et al.’s (2019) study is “the first to demonstrate that retrieval practice is also superior to restudy in improving later recall in patients with schizophrenia presenting with episodic memory impairment.” This is great news for us because it presents a real way of improving our memories, which apparently most of us need.

REFERENCES

Study finds brain marker of poor memory in schizophrenia patients: possible key to understanding and treating cognitive symptoms of the disease, (2016). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/study-finds-brain-marker-poor-memory-schizophrenia-patients

Bowie, C. R., & Harvey, P. D. (2006). Cognitive deficits and functional outcome in schizophrenia. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2(4), 531–536. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2671937/

Černis ,E,. Vassos, E,. Brébion, G,. McKenna, PJ,. Murray, RM,. David, AS,. MacCabe, JH. (2015). Schizophrenia patients with high intelligence: A clinically distinct sub-type of schizophrenia? Eur Psychiatry. (5):628-32. Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25752725/

Gerry Everding (2005). Memory study shows brain function in schizophrenia can improve with support, holds promise for cognitive rehabilitation: need cues, memory aids. Washington University. Retrieved from https://source.wustl.edu/2005/07/memory-study-shows-brain-function-in-schizophrenia-can-improve-with-support-holds-promise-for-cognitive-rehabilitation/

Jantzi, C., Mengin, A., Serfaty, D. et al. (2019). Retrieval practice improves memory in patients with schizophrenia: new perspectives for cognitive remediation. BMC Psychiatry 19, 355. Retrieved from https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-019-2341-y#citeas

Goodman, B. (2021). Executive function and executive dysfunction disorders. WebMD. Retrieved from https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/executive-function

[hekatekun]

do u mind saying why u dislike the original denkimystery? im interested in your ver too!

hmm well tldr: im just a hater

On a more serious note, I don’t really like paranormal activity. I think it’s a boring genre typically executed for shock value, only there to let things happen to characters, and I find if the plot seems to prioritize spooky shit over these new character dynamics, I’m gonna get bored pretty quickly. I like denki conceptually, though I’m not familiar with twin peaks or inugami - which from what I gather are the 2 biggest inspos, but I find its narrative insanely uninteresting. I’d still wanna see what happens ofc but denki to me is like “What if [character] saw a ghost and got scared?�� and that‘s it. Also really dislike the “and they were 6 brothers separated at birth” schtick like I could just watch lindsay lohan play her own twin for that shit. But, again, denki isn’t bad I’m just very nitpicky.

If I were to draw blood from this stone, I would remove all supernatural elements and only make Ichimatsu and Todomatsu related (too lazy to look up their au names). The mystery creates a found family by accident, and given how they all seem to give Ichimatsu the most leeway in the show, it wouldn’t surprise me if they still found him oddly charming enough to wanna help. Also they’re just extremely bored villagers who wanna be nosy, let’s face it. Turn it into a House of Leaves by mzd situation (couldn’t recommend more but it’s not for the lighthearted whatsoever), where the real ghost haunting this house were the protagonists and the traumas they’ve stored in themselves across a lifetime of misfortune. Any supernatural elements are fictional, acting as distractions to their real world problems of midlife crises and failing relationships. Chasing ghosts under bedsheets to run from ghosts in their hearts, you know the drill.

Ichimatsu’s father disappears under mysterious circumstances in a deeply spiritual traditional village (presumably to do work as a historian), of course if the cops can’t figure it out, it must be a ghost! That’s what incredibly superstitious Ichimatsu would think, and what better way to avoid processing grief than to hunt some spirits? Better than a dude with a gun (or worse, leave it unsolved). As an only child with one parent, he’d follow in his footsteps, because he doesn’t really know what to do with himself besides what others might say (and the others do exactly as their fathers, too, no matter the au they depend on the will of another). Monkey see, monkey do - and cats too love joining in human activities to feel included. The mystery is ultimately a distraction.

If he were a historian in training in whatever metropolis, well, time to use this opportunity to sell everything here and move back to dad’s home village to investigate (hopefully his meager grad student funds can carry him through this gap year). “I’ve got nothing else better to do now that there’s nobody in this city I really care about.“ With the dad’s death, he’s contacted by his estranged brother who lived with their cafe-owner mom (they don’t all need a dayon dad sorry I hate that), who’s also passed away (a few years before the story), and Todomatsu decides to help Ichimatsu even though he thinks the ghost shit isn’t true whatsoever. But now they’re the only family they’ve got, and Todomatsu would take a weird brother over being alone again.

They both move into the dad’s old house (maintained all this time everytime he came back to do more field research) in Akatsuka and this becomes their base of operations (Todomatsu helps pay for shit by still running the cafe in the neighboring town). The others are quick to crash there on nights when they’re all dealing with the investigation (gossip. they are gossiping.), or just to drink and hangout. Jyushimatsu is presented as a bit of a villain, which I would wanna keep because it gives Ichimatsu someone with enough “spiritual cred” to investigate initially. But, well, turns out no this dude is just off his rocker, though maybe his kinda cultish family had silenced the professor? Let’s keep him around for now (aka another excuse to keep a friend and also this continues to go nowhere).

Denki to me can be about forging your own bonds and new families are made in the wake of loss. Denki can be about processing grief and that, yes, sometimes people really do die before their time, but life moves on even if it feels like it died with them.

[hedgewitchgarden]

In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum started promoting a new term: “carbon footprint.”  In a splashy ad campaign, the company unveiled the first of its many carbon footprint calculators as a way for individuals to measure how their daily actions—what they eat, where they work, how they heat their home—impact global warming.

BP did not adopt the footprint imagery by accident. In the 30 years prior to the carbon footprint campaign, polluting companies had been using advertising to link pollution and climate change to personal choices. These campaigns, most notably the long-running Keep America Beautiful campaign, imply that individuals, rather than corporations, bear the responsibility for change.

“It was done so intentionally,” says Susan Hassol, director of the nonprofit science outreach group Climate Communication. “It’s a deflection.”

The universal adoption of the term “carbon footprint” hasn’t just changed how we speak about climate change. It’s changed how we think about it. Climate change has become an individual problem, caused by our insatiable appetite for consumption, and therefore a war that must be waged on our dinner plates and gas tanks, a hero’s journey from consumer to conservationist.

Yet the reality is that the future of civilization is being decided at a political and corporate level that no individual can impact. Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. Fossil fuel giants are funding climate change skepticism while simultaneously lobbying for tens of billions of dollars in subsidies. Big corporate names like Costco and Netflix are loudly committing to reduce emissions but unable to set meaningful targets or put plans in place. The Trump administration rolled back more than 100 environmental rules and regulations.

The reality is that the future of civilization is being decided at a political and corporate level that no individual can impact.

The same way that you give your child a toy to play with so you can finish your task uninterrupted, everyday citizens are busy changing out lightbulbs and buying electric cars while the true cause of global warming continues uninterrupted: a civilization dependent on fossil fuels. As Mike Tidwell, the executive director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, wrote in a 2007 op-ed, “every time an activist or politician hectors the public to voluntarily reach for a new bulb or spend extra on a Prius, ExxonMobil heaves a big sigh of relief.” A complete paradigm shift is needed—both in the way we conceptualize our individual climate impact and in the ways we calculate the emission impacts of those ultimately responsible: corporations and governmental systems.

One of the challenges with the carbon footprint measurement is how few of the factors an individual controls. Most of us have limited options for where we live, how far we have to commute to get to work, what kind of energy is available to heat our homes, etc. If we don’t own our home (and more than 30% of Americans don’t), we may not be able to properly insulate or install high-efficiency appliances. One research report from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that roughly one third of a city dweller’s carbon footprint is determined by public transportation options and building infrastructure. “We build our cities this way,” Hassol says. “It’s system change that’s really needed so that people have better choices.”

The inadequacy of our carbon footprint as a driver of change is painfully highlighted when you look at single-use plastics. Much attention has been given to how much plastic Americans consume (35.3 million tons per year, enough to fill the 104 million-cubic-foot AT&T Stadium in Dallas every 16 hours) and how each individual should be changing their behavior to help combat this waste. Everywhere you look, there’s a campaign to recycle more, or use metal straws, or bring your own bag to the grocery store.

In contrast, there are no public campaigns about the fact that packaging, an area where consumer control is limited, is the top driver of plastic production by a significant margin. The emissions impact of plastic manufacturing itself is rarely mentioned, along with the fact that much of our recycling still ends up in landfills. Some of the poorest nations are left to deal with hundreds of thousands of tons of soft drink bottles. The plastics are often just incinerated, creating serious environmental and health consequences. It’s a question as to whose carbon footprint is making a deeper impact on the environment: the family whose lettuce comes sealed in plastic (and who pays, not only for the product, but also for the waste collection and management services), or the company that is continuing to package food products in plastic materials, and then opting out of responsibility for their disposal.

Even if we just wanted to measure individual impact on climate change, the carbon footprint falls painfully short: “The current concept of a carbon footprint is too narrowly drawn,” Hassol explains. “It’s only the things I’m actively using and doing in my personal life and it doesn’t draw on other actions that are perhaps more important in the big picture as far as addressing climate change.”

For example, the average American has a carbon footprint of 16 tons. The average individual footprint globally is 4 tons. But that calculation doesn’t include who you vote for, how you invest your money, who you work for (and how much you travel for work, versus for leisure), or how you talk about climate change and influence others to get involved. “All of that should be part of the way we conceptualize our impact,” Hassol says.

Instead of obsessing over a single metric, Cameron Brick, a social psychologist from the University of Amsterdam, says he urges people to have an ongoing and evolving conversation between themselves and their chosen lifestyle. “It’s not a single number, because anytime you pick a metric, then we will begin to game it,” he says. Instead, a minimal-carbon lifestyle is a process—one that involves community-building and continuing to make improvements over time, he says. “My lifestyle is not perfect either, but probably better each year.”

Hassol points out that one of the most important ways that an individual can impact emissions on a wider scale is also the hardest to calculate: social contagion. “When people do something, it affects others around them and their emissions,” she says.

Studies have shown that energy-related behaviors are heavily influenced by peer groups, even more than cost or convenience. A study in California showed that every time a solar panel was installed within a certain ZIP code, the probability of another installation in that area increased by 0.78%. Similarly, if you know somebody who has given up flying because of climate change, you are 50% more likely to also reduce your own air travel.

“Your individual footprint is not the full measure of your contribution because you’re encouraging other people through your personal actions,” explains Hassol. She recommends that people who want to do more should research community solar options and ways to buy into clean energy in their communities, and then publicize those options among their families, friends and social networks, in order to create that initial momentum for change.  

But what could system change look like? For starters, using measurements that actually hold the decision makers responsible for their emissions impacts, for the entire lifecycle of their product or service. That might look like Big Soda being held accountable not only for the manufacturing and transportation of their single-use plastics, but also for each and every bottle that ends up in somebody’s recycling bin (Coca-Cola is the top producer of plastic waste in the world). The shift also might look like emissions information being printed on product labels and unbiased regulatory bodies certifying the accuracy of corporate emissions reports.

On the policy level, interest in a carbon tax is growing. The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act was reintroduced in Congress this year (as Senate bill 984 and House Resolution 2238), and would force a temporary moratorium on virgin plastic production, require minimum recycled content, and ban some single-use plastic food service items. Many states already have some form of a producer responsibility program, where the producer of hard-to-dispose products such as paints, batteries, and other hazardous materials, must finance proper disposal. This creates an incentive to design reusable or less-toxic products.  

When we shift the focus from changing consumer behavior to changing producer behavior, we see where true change happens: in corporate boardrooms and among political leaders. The irony of the carbon footprint is that individual action does have the power to change the world, just not on the lightbulb and recycling level.

“This problem is too big to solve voluntarily one person at a time,” Hassol says. “We need to change the system and you have a role in changing that system.”

[daisyharrington]

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[freudycat]

i kant even.

I Kant believe that I’m doing Kant only after now. I feel like he’s one of the first philosophers that come to mind whenever I think of “old white men who think for a living”, and I’m only doing this now? S M H I’m disappointed in myself.

Anyways, so. Kant. He thinks that there are ~ two ~ types of “moral rules” that help determine how we interact with the world: the hypothetical imperative and the categorical imperative.

The hypothetical imperative comes from the thoughts that you might think of as “practical”; they are about the fulfillment or achievement of a desire that you have. For example, a hypothetical desire might be, “I want to go to the store for milk.”

On the other hand, the categorical imperative is purely from reason (as in, the only reason that we have to act on the categorical imperative is our own thinking mind). This reflects the thought that everybody was (probably) Kantstantly thinking during the Enlightenment: rEaSoN iS gReAt GuYzZ.

Kant says that the only way to act morally from desire is to not act morally at all? Which, OK. Fine. That makes so much sense wow. Instead, he says that we have to act from the moral duty to preserve the moral validity of action. The only way to do this is through following the categorical imperative. I guess there must be a sKant amount of people who want to play Would You Rather with him.

Random guy: So…would you rather pet a cat or a dog?

Kant: W E L L . What is the moral dUTY?????? We must follow the rAtIoNaLiTy!1!11!11!1

I guess that in the end, though, he’ll reach the right conclusion (somehow) that you should pet the cat, since obviously petting all cats is a moral duty that must always be fulfilled. :)

I digress. There are some different ways of determining the “categorical imperative”; “universalizability” and “not treating others as a means to an end” are the ones that make the most sense to me so those are the ones I’ll talk about. Me has small brain, don’t hate : (.

Universalizability basically means that you should only act according to maxims that are able to be universalizable. For example, if I murder someone, that means that I allow other people to murder me in the future. So, Kant says that this is bad since if I get murdered in the future, my own ability to murder will get limited. Another example is that if I say that I will pay back a loan but I don’t, then nobody would have to pay theirs back; thus, nobody would give out loans if they wouldn’t be paid back. As a result, universalizability can help rule out a lot of actions that we might consider “bad”.

Not treating others as an end basically means that Kant thinks that all people have infinite worth. He reaches this conclusion through reasoning that since people are able to ~ will actions ~ and thus imbue other objects with value, we are both capable of reason and able to conceptualize value. Thus, since we can confer value onto other things, we have value ourselves. For example, that means that we can’t manipulate other people or use them for our own purposes.

He also makes a distinction between two different types of duties: perfect duties and imperfect duties. A perfect duty is a positive obligation; for example, you have a perfect duty to not treat someone as a means to an end, or you have a perfect duty to always give chocolate to me : ). On the other hand, an imperfect duty is a negative obligation; you don’t have to actively do it, but you should still keep it in mind. For example, if you have the ability to, I don’t know, make chocolate really well, you don’t have to constantly work on that skill, but you should make sure that you maintain your skill (and give the end results to me… if you can’t tell, I’m really craving chocolate right now).

Anyways, thanks for reading! Hopefully, this post was more coherent than the last one * sweats *. 

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Intro: What you are about to hear is gonna make that booty work work work work.

Junior: Hello and welcome to the Kakos Industries corporate shareholder announcements. At Kakos Industries, we squeeze every last ounce of Evil out of every person on the planet, and then we feed it back to them in preparation of beginning the process again. My name is Junior and I am a consultant here at Kakos Industries. Perhaps the best consultant. Everyone’s favorite consultant. Just the other day, they took a poll and I came out as the number one consultant in the building. You see, it’s because I’m so smart. I have the intellect of dozens of ordinary humans, leading to emergent properties of thought that you cannot even imagine. I know of one other mind that might be able to fathom my depths, but she spends all of her time making crossword puzzles.

Things have been in a slight disarray around Kakos Industries recently for obvious reasons, but I have decided that it is my responsibility to make sure that our responsibilities to you, shareholders, are being met. You see, while many of our employees have experience podcasting, because everyone has a podcast, I have slightly more experience doing actual broadcast like this. I’ve interrupted Corin so many times that I technically have more on air experience than just about anyone. Combine that with my vast intellect, and I am the obvious choice, albeit self-appointed.

What are you trying to tell me, Soundman? Oh, I shouldn’t be here? And what about you? Should you be here? You should be cowering in your home overcome with grief and guilt.

Today, our broadcast is coming to you from a fancy new cellular device you should have received in the mail. This cellular device is the new Evilixia 7, coming to us from the collaboration between our Division of Distraction and DigInfoDox, a company that will give you anything for free as long as you tell it your darkest secrets. While this is very nearly the production model of the Evilixia 7, it is slightly different in that it is much cheaper, and many of the functions were removed or never added so that it would be a perfect vessel for this very transmission and nothing else. The broadcast, as you may have noticed, has come to you as a phone call you couldn’t ignore, and now you must hold the cellular device to your ear and pretend like you’re having a conversation so that those around you will not be in any danger of finding out about us here at Kakos Industries before they’re ready. Be sure to pepper in some uh-huhs and some for sures and some yes daddys to make it believable. If you happened to have answered this call on behalf of a shareholder, or because you’re a snooping jealous lover, then I am afraid I must tell you now that you will have some difficulty putting this device down before its self-destruct mechanism is activated at the end of the broadcast. To save your life, you must now do something extraordinarily Evil and selfish to become a shareholder before your doom. We’ll give you some time to get creative. It may help you to land on our new and noteworthy list.

Now, I do not believe we still have an Automobile Celebration every year, but just recently, there were a lot of you shareholders and a handful of our employees who showed up to the building in modified and incredibly fast vehicles to do donuts in the parking lot and generally cause a ruckus. It seems that some people miss this festival. I do not. I do not fit in automobiles. When I need to get places, I use a helicopter. If you have never gone to the grocery store in a helicopter, I can firmly recommend it.

The Festival of Darkness was a smashing success as always. This one was even darker than normal. We painted the walls of the basement ballroom with pigments that absorb all light. We took away your cell phones and digital devices. Those of you who glow or have blinking lights just below your skin were placed in enormous black bags to keep any light from emerging. And then you were ushered down into the still and quiet room. You were placed on a special rug and allowed to spread out. We moved through the room quietly to make sure that everyone was behaving. Then, we walked through with a collection of man-eating beasts held on a tight leash. We have no reports of any of the handler making mistakes, but we would also have no way of knowing if they did as it was dark and quiet down there. If one of you shareholders disappeared, we would have no way of knowing. Perhaps you just never arrived. We can’t be certain. People disappear so often these days. Probably gone off the grid, I wager.

We also recently had the Festival of Genes. I believe it is technically the Festival of Genes Mark III. I’m not sure why we began to number them, but there you are. This festival holds a special place in my heart because I have genes. A whole lot of them in fact. More Evil genes than any other known living creature. It’s what makes me so smart and so great at everything, and so Evil. It’s always interesting for me to see what augmentations humans choose to get. Longer limbs. Enhanced bosoms. Softer elbows. At this year’s festivities, we wanted to make things a little more interesting. We allowed people to line up based on the type of changes they might like, and then we drew a genetic modification out of a hat and gave them that one. It would be in the right conceptual family, but not always what they wanted. We had one young woman get in line for cheek bones, hoping to get larger cheek bones, but instead, we gave her three more. She was quite displeased, but I personally found it to be very hot. A man waited in line for something to do with fire, hoping he could perhaps create fire with his mind or with some sort of secretion, but instead he became fire. That was something to see, although it didn’t last very long. We also had someone get in line for a tail, and end up with six tails. Some people find this to be unpalatable, but I can firmly get behind tails, if you know what I mean. We wrote “medley” on one of the slips of paper and mixed it into a random hat. When that one was drawn, we gave that person a huge number of modifications, so many that it should take a physiology as strong as mine to handle them. But the woman in question, Dana Govern, is still alive. She doesn’t seem to have changed much as of yet, but we’re keeping a close eye on her. I will say that something about her aroma has changed, and I find this change to be… alluring. No one else seems to be able to smell the difference, but I can’t get it out of my nose. I can tell where she has been, and I can find her in a crowd, and soon, I may even speak to her.

Coming up, we have the Shareholders’ Ball! This is one of my favorite celebrations. It is possible that this is because I have an enormous share in Kakos Industries. It is also possible that it is just the wildest, most debauched event we throw. This year, we will have grilled abominations as the main course. These abominations are anything that comes out of one of our genetic modification labs that we cannot suffer to live. Some have been on ice for a long while in preparation for this feast. We would love to tell you what sort of flavors to expect, but we cannot. We can only tell you that these creatures lived short and painful lives, and now we will consume them so that we can pretend that they never existed. There will, of course, be veggie options as well. The entertainment will be a combination of ventriloquism and puppetry that is certain to unsettle everyone in the audience. The dolls that the Puppetto Miserables troupe use reach an astounding 297 MegaNopes on the standard freakiness scale. But we will not nope out of there. We will stay, and we will witness, and our skin will crawl, and our anuses will pucker, and we will feel a strange arousal of a possibly sexual nature. I personally cannot wait. Following the show from Puppetto Miserables, we will have the blood orgy. This year, I am proud to announce the creation of the Blood Monster, an unfeeling, unthinking creation that produces incredible amounts of blood. It would possibly be useful in transfusions, or other medical applications, but instead we will poke a hole in it and allow its hot, red circulatory fluid to rain over all of us as we get busy. And get busy we shall. Those of you who are interested in doing the horizontal tango with me had better make arrangements soon, as my dance card fills up quickly.

We also have the Chili Cookoff coming up. I assume that many of you will create chili-as-performance-art again this year. And I will eat it all the same because my hunger will not be conquered.

Corin: Junior? What are you doing?

Junior: I’m doing the announcements. I wasn’t sure…

Corin: You weren’t sure what?

Junior: I wasn’t sure if you would be ready.

Corin: I was at work all day, Junior. I’m fine. I promise. I was just running around ten minutes late.

Junior: You should really take it easy.

Corin: I really appreciate that, but I’ve been fine for weeks. Everyone just keeps telling me that I should rest, and take it easy, and allow myself time to recover, but I’m totally fine. I don’t even need the crutches anymore.

Junior: I can see that.

Corin: So, please let me take over. This is my job.

Junior: Yes. Of course.

Corin: So where were we… What’s that, Soundman? He already did the Shareholders’ Ball? For fuck’s sake, Junior, it’s the best part of the announcements all year! Come on.

Junior: I think we can all agree that I did a fantastically Evil job selling it to the shareholders.

Corin: You don’t have to sell it to the shareholders. They’re already going to be there. It’s more of a victory lap. A chance to brag. A chance to tell them what they mean to us. What’s that Soundman? Well, okay, I guess you did okay, Junior. Been doing a lot of things okay.

Junior: What’s that?

Corin: Well, I know you took over a chunk of my workload while I was out of commission. No complaints, I hear.

Junior: I did my best, of course, and, as you know, my best is astronomically great.

Corin: I know. I just… I don’t like feeling replaceable.

Junior: Continue the announcements. While everything I do is amazing and better than anyone else could do it, I do not wish to step on your toes.

Corin: I feel like I owe you an update, shareholders. I took a little bit of unexpected time off recently after… Soundman shot me. I survived. I assume. I could be a clone of some sort, but I don’t think that was necessary. Soundman, in the throes of some sort of power fantasy, was pointing his firearm at my genital region when he had a terrible sneeze, or maybe some sort of whole body climax, that led to the gun going off. His aim is not that great, so he actually grazed my thigh. I was sitting at the time, so it grazed my thigh longways. It nicked the femoral artery, I assume, or something that bleeds like crazy in that area. I don’t actually know. I contend that I passed out due to blood loss, but they tell me it was far more likely the sight of the blood that caused me to lose consciousness. Then I hit my head. I was unconscious for a few days, but the speedy response of my medical team had me patched up in no time. If you’re keeping score at home, this means that Soundman came far closer to killing me than I did him. And let me tell you, our very own Soundman de Sade has had an unyielding erection ever since. It nearly tore through his pants when I hit the floor, I’m told. I understand that this detail is a source of great shame for Soundman, but I’m just happy to have him back at 110%. I am told that his return to his original stature has increased productivity here at Kakos Industries so much that it completely offset the month plus that I took off, and with Junior taking over some of my responsibilities, me getting shot was a greater boon to Evil than if I had just come to work in that time. I can tell you that feels great to know. I can personally think of no better way to enter my fifth year as CEO than from a hospital bed with the smallest hole in my leg slowly healing itself up. They even left the carpet bloody in here, which is really cute.

Here’s the strange thing about my time in the hospital. There was this beautiful woman taking care of me. A nurse practitioner, but I think I may have been her only patient. Striking eyes. One of those colors of gray violet-ish green that makes you think one of their grandparents had to be a space alien. I was sedated to some extent, probably unnecessarily, for the first week as my support staff tried to get me to take a break by any means necessary, so I only barely remember interacting with her. But she was so kind. I don’t believe I’ve ever been so doted on in my life. When I was getting ready to go home to finish my recovery, she offered to come check on me. She handed me a card with all of her contact information on it. I smiled and told her that I would be happy to see her. She walked away and I kind of laughed to myself until I looked down to see that her name was Tabitha.

Kimzzzzzzzzzzz has made a new decree. Apparently, in order to be sexy now, you must dye exactly half of your hair red. If your hair is already red, you have to make half redder. I think I’m just going to sit this one out. I’ve seen enough red for a little while.

Our drones down in hell have found Meredith Gorgoro’s left arm. We are unsure as of yet if this is the only remaining piece of her after some dramatic battle, or if the rest of her is still out there fighting monsters. We are hopeful, of course, but it cannot be easy to survive down there with this new disability, even for her.

I stopped by the Division of Erotic Experiences earlier to check on Jasmine Aashna and Dr. Dunkelwissen. They are still trying to answer the question “What is most sex?” They were both asleep in their boardroom with their heads down on the table while a very bored and very naked pair were sitting inside of an observation room you could see through a large window in one wall. I looked at the white board beside the sleeping duo. It simply said “putting it all the way in?” with a bunch of question marks at the end. It seems that they have been working tirelessly on this one, and it doesn’t look good. I don’t know what “it” is, and I don’t know where “it” is going all the way into, though I can imagine, and something tells me that’s not the answer to their question. I will keep you updated.

The Division of Figuring Out What All These Keys Go To has unchained a monster. In fairness, the monster was quite communicative and persuasive. In unfairness, it has since eaten three people and mailed their teeth to their loved ones. The missile they launched is still MIA.

They say that Evil once toured the planet in a traveling carnival. Its attraction was sitting quietly in a room full of people and making all of them feel gut-wrenching, insurmountable terror. This is Things We’re Taking Credit for Now. Today, we are taking credit for plastic litter, the aroma of decomposition, and the fact that your body is basically decomposing at all times. As always, some of these things are kind of big, and it’s difficult to tell if we actually caused them, but we did. And if you disagree, you’ll start to decompose a little faster than the rest of us.

Jonathan Ulrich has won today’s Ruin-A-Life Drawing. As a result, the life of Zweelee TeeHee Me Three will be ruined. We assume that Zweelee is Jonathan’s nemesis, but really that’s not strictly a requirement, though we often make it sound like it. We spun the wheel of misery in the same direction as Earth’s rotation and it landed on the space for covetous. From this day forward, Zweelee will be 90% more covetous, leading to an ever greater amassing of objects and lovers. For Evil measure, Jonathan Ulrich will be 13% less covetous, which might just push Jonathan over the edge to not having much interest in stuff at all. That could be trouble. Congratulations on the win, and best of luck.

This brings us to the end of today’s broadcast. Your Evilixia 7 will now self-destruct momentarily. If you’re not a shareholder yet, and that phone is stuck to your ear, it would probably be a smart idea to do something Evil quick. Like headbutting someone who would really be a lot better off without being headbutted, or telling your pet that they have been very, very bad, when in fact they have been completely obedient. The numbers are next.

18

7

17

7

16

7

22

7

99

7

44

7

4

7

4

7

4

7

88

7

337

7

7

4

Corin: Hey, Junior.

Junior: Yes?

Corin: Thanks.

Junior: Glad to help. You know, you can always give me more to do.

Corin: You know they don’t like that.

Junior: Yes. I know.

Credits: Kakos Industries is written and produced by Conrad Miszuk, who is also the voice of Corin Deeth, and the composer of the music. The introduction is read by Kim Aiello, and the credits are read by Kelsey Kemmer, the second most interesting conversationalist in the room. Any room. Please visit KakosIndustries.com for news, extras, and more episodes. There are also transcriptions on the website if you’d like to read along with the Kakos Industries announcements. That’s K-A-K-O-S-I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-E-S dot com. Please visit store.KakosIndustries.com for merchandise and special offers and get wonderful benefits by becoming a subscription donor at kakosindustries.com/patreon. Questions, comments, or a strong desire to collaborate? Drop us a line at inquiries@kakosindustries.com. If you like Kakos Industries, be sure to rate and review us on your favorite podcasting service, and connect with us on YouTube (YouTube.com/KakosIndustries), Facebook (facebook.com/kakosindustries), Tumblr (kakosindustries.tumblr.com), and Twitter (@KakosIndustries). We encourage fan art and listener participation on all our social media platforms. Please visit our website for cast details and the credits for all of our social media contributors. We’ve recently expanded our social media team, so please visit the website to view their credits and current projects.

Special thanks to our esteemed shareholders Iain Croall, Dan Shumway, William Brandon, and Jack Attack. Also thanks to honored employee Dorkpool Dorkuss, who chewed enough gum to blow an enormous bubble, which saved the woman falling from the window of the Division of Defenestration, and Chris Leclerc, who scooted all of the glassware a little further away from the edge of the countertop moments before the earthquake. And thanks to our division heads Britney Garcia, head of The Division of Beanies, Booties, and Construction Projects That Are Probably Too Large for Yarn, Valerie Koop, Director of the Division of Inappropriate Games to Play in Public, Patrick Green, head of The Division of Oceanic Micro-Cryptozoology, Lynne Herman, director of the Division of Increasingly Improbable Slash Fiction, Carl H, Director of the Division of Unanswered Messages, Xavier Jarman, Director of The Division of We Know Magic Doesn’t Exist But We’re Going to Keep on Trying, Craig Czyz, director of the Division of Obscure Vintage Technology, And Lady Squidney, Director of the Division of Cephalopod Psychology. The Division of Beanies, Booties, and Construction Projects That Are Probably Too Large for Yarn has run out of Ultra Yarn in Dayglo Yellow. Everything in the building seems to have a dayglo koozie wrapped around it.  The Division of Inappropriate Games to Play in Public has introduced public park mud wrestling. We looked it up. Mud wrestling is pretty much always pornographic in nature. The Division of Oceanic Micro-Cryptozoology claims they have found the puddle-cabra, a rare cryptid that lurks in small puddles, and resembles a goat, kind of. They say that it is very shy and doesn’t like being looked at too much.. The Division of Increasingly Improbable Slash Fiction has started shipping keeping things nice with having a thriving arts culture. There’s gotta be a give and take there somewhere. The Division of Unanswered Messages has left a “You up?” text message unanswered so long that the person who sent it is now monogamously married. It seems unnecessary to say that they never RSVP’d to the wedding either. The Division of We Know Magic Doesn’t Exist But We’re Going to Keep on Trying has given up on the hunt for magic words for now, but instead they are looking for ancient scrolls with some kind of power. They’ve gone right through our dry storage trying to read the paper towels. The Division of Obscure Vintage Technology has found a box of old brass finger screws. They’re not as hard as steel ones, but they still hurt like hell when applied to fingers. The Division of Cephalopod Psychology has discovered that the exectopuses do feel quite a bit, but usually they feel jealousy and frustration and anger. They tend to clam up when asked why. Clams are not cephalopods, in case you were expecting a pun there. Our esteemed shareholders, honored employees, division heads, and other Patreon patrons are the best. If you want a thank you in the credits, your own division, or other great rewards that help to keep this show running, please head to Kakosindustries.com/patreon. That’s Patreon: p-a-t-r-e-o-n.

Kakos Industries can be heavy sometimes. Try volunteering with a secular charity to bolster your indie cred.

[hiriajuu-suffering]

Trading Card Games

Returning to in-person high level card tournaments was...less than stellar for me. I have been playing card games for over twenty years, and this is the first time I've been actively focused on it that I feel like I don't enjoy it. As much as I've been looking forward to eventually breaking through a goal, I haven't had a noteworthy milestone for the life of playing the game that's held my attention the past 7 years. Maybe I shouldn't expect to succeed not because I'm incapable but because these competitions aren't built to be totally indicative.

Tough enough to be good at anything, it's even worse when the toxic people in your local community have had the idea it would be fun to try to cancel you for at least the past few years. Was it because I almost single-handedly kept the store alive even though doing so preserved a place to play for them? Was it because they hated I bubbled in because a big influencer failed deck check all the way back in 2018? Was it because I punted in top 8, letting my team down in 2019? What did I do to actually earn the vitriol? If I could have that answer, I wouldn't be so pissed off.

But the logic of targeting me and putting a bounty on beating me when I have yet to achieve anything doesn't sit well with me, trying to get me disqualified from the pool for losing seems like that behavior should identified as a dick move, trying to be honest with people and then being told to get fucked should be the flag I'm not the shitty one here, being a non-participant in the event and yelling at the top your lungs for me to get beat seems bad enough to at least get a talking to like I perhaps had to get when entry was supposed to be more restricted than when I had to be talked to.

I don't think you have a place in a leisure activity if you're not capable of being a decent human being. People can change their minds about being friendly with you or trusting you when you've done nothing to change their opinion, that's fine, but being a shitty person about it is never called for. Just because I'm still friends with my boss doesn't mean I advocated for him to snap at you; most people realize I'm not the same person as him, why do these literal sociopaths have trouble conceptualizing that much?

Not sure whether to envy or pity the vapidness of these individuals because of how little they think and it must be impossible for them to foster genuine relationships in their life because at some point they stopped treating people with respect because whatever relationships they had were apparently enough, yet none of them ever are stable on any level: mentally, emotionally, on the surface, or internally. I shouldn't let these people affect me but geez, I was treated with respect for fifteen years in card gaming communities before these dickheads turned up so can you blame me for having the expectation?

I think worst experiences I've had in card games were: my second team quitting card games for League of Legends, my binder getting stolen by a scam team running around a YCS, and being conspired against by my own locals to be bullied into quitting card games. If they could explain their hate, I wouldn't even mind it. They're incoherent to the point they seem mildly racist. And Bushiroad scarcely has opportunities to vindicate my existence, swearing up and down they're not okay with people in their community wanting to see me eradicated. Feels like these people wish they could murder me without consequences. Damn crackheads.

Oh, and J.A., J.P., B.T., if you're reading this...fuck you too :)

[nummero123]

The Definitive Guide to Web Application Development

Websites were static in the early days of the internet, sometimes enhanced with graphics and even videos. 

However, until around 2005, when Ajax made it feasible to construct richer, quicker,

 and more interactive online apps, the contemporary concept of 

web application development remained a distant dream.

Web apps are now so common that they often go overlooked. 

Nonetheless, we use them all the time.

From Microsoft Office components such as MS Word and PowerPoint to famous software

 such as Mailchimp, Basecamp, and even Facebook, 

web-based applications allow you to have unique, customized, 

and immersive experiences similar to native programs straight from your browser.

Web applications combine the customized experience of native mobile apps with 

the convenience of accessing them from any device via a web browser.

That is why web application development is not just a highly sought-after 

talent among developers, but also the ideal option for a wide range of enterprises, 

including e-commerce, banking, entertainment, education, and everything in between.

What Is A Web Application?

A web application is utilized every time you ‘do' something online. 

It doesn't matter if you're doing your shopping online, banking online, or using webmail. 

Web applications are simply application software that is kept on a remote server supplied 

by a third party and may be accessed straight from your browser without 

the need for downloading anything.

What is Web Application Development?

Web application development is the process of creating an application that can be accessed 

via a web browser by combining client-side and server-side programming. 

Developers begin by conceptualizing a web application to solve a specific problem, 

then design the app, select the appropriate framework to create the web app, test it, 

and ultimately deploy it.

Web App vs Website – Is There a Difference?

Yes, you are correct in asking that question. 

It's the first thing that springs to mind, and for good reason. 

The distinction between a website and a web app is sometimes hazy.

Here's the actual distinction. 

A website can be a static page that just provides information and may or may not accept user interaction.

A web app, on the other hand, is a dynamic online application 

that responds to user input and enables users to execute certain activities through the internet.

In simply, a web app is any website that contains a client-side component that allows users to accomplish a job.

Web applications are intended to execute certain activities that assist the user in resolving an issue. 

Websites might exist just to disseminate information.

Web Apps vs Mobile Apps

Web applications may be accessed via a browser on any device, whether it be a desktop or a mobile device. 

So, the true decision here is whether to use mobile web applications or native mobile apps.

Native apps are platform-specific programs that are designed specifically for Android or iOS devices. 

They must be downloaded and installed from an app store on your smart-phone. 

While they provide a highly customized experience, 

they are costly to develop, take up space on a device, and are only available on that device.

Web applications, on the other hand, maybe used on any device because they are accessed through a browser. 

They do not consume device storage space, and most significantly, developing a web app is more cost-effective and feasible.

Conclusion

To summarise, web application development will be a significant competitive advantage in 2021. 

Web apps are a superior alternative to native app development and even hybrid app development 

since they are universally beneficial to any user, regardless of device, operating system, or network. 

You may contact Nummero since we are the best website development company in Bangalore.

[davids69811]

Digital Kanban Boards Can Assist the Manufacturing Refine

In a time when production processes and monitoring systems are indicated to reduce the cost of production, we are coming out with new as well as cutting-edge modern technologies to do simply that. A digital Kanban board can aid makers, retailers, and every other field of the business world that has jobs, procedures, and manufacturing cycles keep an eye on their production and minimize their prices while doing it. Kanban Coaching

Before exploring exactly how these electronic boards are helping manufacturing processes, we initially need to review specifically what a Kanban system is. Kanban is a system created in Japan in the 1940s that was meant to associate lean manufacturing, specifically through making a graph of the manufacturing procedure, as well as developing activating events at which particular points would happen. This took all of the guess-work out of the production process. Rather than considering stock and also making or getting even more when it looked low, a company would certainly mention outright that when stock struck 300 devices, manufacturing would continue as well as bring back the stock degrees. Furthermore, if supply went over a certain top bound, after that production would certainly stop until degrees were lowered to the lower limitation.

Firms still use this system of lean manufacturing and the Kanban approach today. Nonetheless, with manufacturing degrees a lot higher than they were in the middle part of the century, we are facing troubles of recognizing exactly where we are in the production procedure. It is tough to have a person go and count inventory degrees, and also existing ERP systems are not established up to produce aesthetic displays of when we require to obtain more stock or require to halt production. This is where the electronic aesthetic Kanban systems come into play Free Kanban Board.

These digital systems resolve on the internet platforms that allows just about any individual that needs the info to be able to discover it. Boards are set up to show precisely where manufacturing as well as the procedure is. Special screens, icons, as well as charts can be contributed to produce additional understanding by a variety of various customers, and firms can transform the boards to fit their manufacturing requirements and also diction. This ensures that the system works equally as it is intended to for every private business.

Visual Management Solution as well as Software

Using visual management systems is a reliable method for companies to deploy information without making use of created guidelines. It is a prominent strategy that makes best use of the quality as well as effectiveness of their communication via aesthetic signals. Visual signals enable the customer to comprehend irregularities, problems or deviation from common processes at a glimpse.

Utilizing aesthetic signals in contrast to condition reports creates a faster feeling of urgency.

It can be frustrating filtering with text simply to locate a specific item of important information. As an example, if a web site's user interface fails to deliver ease as well as performance on a consumer's mobile phone, numerous bucks in shed sales could result. Nonetheless, site issues like these can be rapidly recognized and attended to when a company utilizes aesthetic signals Free Kanban Board.

A popular joke phrase that summed up the miscommunication that occurred within a firm was, "Didn't you obtain the memorandum?" Management via visual signals produces a more efficient operating organization since it merges interaction between various divisions. Also one of the most well organized people quickly experience difficulty staying on top of a task's condition as changes are updated in their inbox, documents folders as well as spread sheets. When staff members utilize the aesthetic task monitoring device, it allows them to focus on and also focus on their small and also larger jobs as well as remain concentrated working with other staff member who might require to see their job. If a company's group is currently spiraling out of hand and also requires to reach their complete possibility, visual system control can assist in the following means:

- It promotes continuous team cooperations - It motivates the group to function better as an unit - Task supervisors invest much less time tracking information when they manage work visually - It produces a better atmosphere as staff member obtain jobs with much better clarity

The white boards is the most preferred standard tool for visual administration. The electronic variation of a whiteboard can be utilized as a job board, Kanban board or taskboard depending on whether the group wishes to utilize it to conduct everyday condition meetings or provide a quick distribution of work-in-progress to elderly managers or firm leaders Free Kanban Board.

Exactly How to Improve With Kanban?

Kanban is a certain agile method that is gotten in touch with Japanese organization approach. Its suggestion was to start with executed on the task of grocery stores. But now the Kanban is effectively carried out in software application screening field.

Kanban pictures the range of work and also streamlines its perception. A great deal of looks into have actually proved that people view and bear in mind the picture aspects quicker than the message. This methodology can be applied with the aid of several points Complimentary Kanban Board.

What Is Necessary for Kanban?

Marker Sticky notes Board A certain task is created on the note. All such cards are put on the board. In the procedure of task execution, the cards pass a number of phases before they will be closed. For instance, for functional screening there might be such columns as 'to do', 'doing', 'waiting' and also 'done'.

There are a number of principles of the Kanban method which were developed by David J. Anderson.

What Are the Kanban Fundamentals?

Continuation the existing procedures. It is worthless to reinvent the wheel. In spite of the version of software growth, Kanban has the ability to effectively communicate with the in-process job. Execution of adjustments. Normally, conceptually brand-new adjustments are ineffective for the long-lasting tasks. But Kanban makes the processes extra flexible and makes sure a smooth operations. Conserving of the existing duties as well as obligations. Psychologists have actually proved that individuals hesitate of adjustments. That is why it is not suggested to change the employees' functions from the very start. The Kanban principles will help to supply a reliable checking of the item under test. Its approach infers the maintaining of some actions Free Kanban Board.

What Are the Kanban Process Tips?

Visualization. It is much better to make a map for the primary processes and also project areas. In such an instance, the entire scope of job will certainly be conveniently comprehended. Limitations. A particular jobs need to be restricted to ensure its correct execution. Circulation monitoring. The state period of every card must be gauged. The professionals require to regulate the transitions of cards in between this or that state. Explicit definitions. There must be a complete understanding of functionality of the product under test. Versions and also approaches implementation. A lot of different operations designs are readily available. They will certainly help a tester to begin the fulfilment of assigned tasks. Kanban ought to not be used just theoretically. It has numerous ways of application. Trello is just one of them. It is a totally free monitoring tool for different jobs. Trello is extensively made use of in software application screening company. A tester may develop a number of boards for sure system elements or projects. The professionals include the cards with appointed tasks and also comment them to keep other team members aware of the task status Free Kanban Board.

The administration of mobile testing, web site screening or game screening ends up being simpler as well as more outlined with the assistance of implied Kanban principles.

Exactly How Can a Digital Kanban Board Adjustment Your Life?

Company is the key to success when engaged in any sort of project. In most cases, individuals and also organizations do take actions to prepare and arrange their progress as it takes place. However, people often undervalue their real requirements when it pertains to administration and also company, falling short when it involves communicating and also keeping goals plainly specified. A brand-new growth in management and organization techniques is in fact decreasing the number of challenges that prevent jobs while additionally boosting success throughout the board. Aesthetic administration devices clarify the development procedure for jobs of any kind of range and also define the success of group initiatives more clearly for all events involved. There are a wide range of visual management devices that are conveniently available with each one supplying some really real advantages Complimentary Kanban Board.

Aesthetic tools such as these minimize the amount of time you purchase a task by making the intricate simple. Simplification enables people to focus on tasks and absorb much bigger quantities of information in a single glimpse. When communication is boosted through much more efficient preparation and company devices, you also decrease the amount of waste that you generate trying to obtain suggestions, progress reports, and also various other data bent on employee. Collaboration has actually likewise confirmed to be an integral component of success for projects in virtually every sector. Visual tools are easily shareable, leading to better team effort due to the truth that everyone included can quickly grasp what other companions are adding towards the success of goals.

What Is Kanban?

Kanban is a core component of the Lean producing movement made very popular by a couple of intense supervisors at Toyota. The dad of this revolutionary management assuming at Toyota was Taiichi Ohno. His work around systems assuming was described Toyota Production System and later renamed Lean Production.

Kanban simply refers to a signboard or taskboard or signaling board that tracks WIP or "Operate In Progress." In making the WIP idea is part of the value system described within the six "Toyota Rules." One of those regulations explains keeping inventory or quantity amounts at "just sufficient" or "Just in Time." Although Kanban was originally slated for the production sector considering that 2007 Kanban has actually expanded significantly in the software program growth market many thanks to a number of idea leaders including Mary Poppendieck that popularized a few of the core parts of Lean Production in her talking and also writing. Software growth assumed leaders have asserted that software application developers can manage the quantity of work that they are servicing - typically denoted as organization need specs (BRS) or software need specifications (SRS) or user tales at any given time by implementing a Kanban taskboard. Software program developers can see as well as respond to how much work they have begun, how much job they have in progress, what work is currently impeded as well as how much work has actually been finished. The Kanban taskboard, whether electronic or physical, can be set up to not just manage this operate in development, but likewise supply automated cues to various team members. Teams can also add metrics to track the variety of BRS or SRS or customer tales they contend various cycles throughout a job Free Kanban Board.

Although Kanban assures much less than the a lot more extensive and disciplined technique of Scrum or Scrum & eXreme shows (XP) working together, Kanban has actually become rather prominent as a result of its simplicity of implementation and also absence of business interruption (which surprisingly lots of additionally see as its Achilles's heel). If it's so easy to execute and also not triggering an interruption opportunities are that it isn't doing sufficient to transform the globe of job.

Is Kanban part of the dexterous software program advancement movement? There are supporters on both sides of this disagreement. Those in favor see Lean being action in action with Agile and also see Kanban as an implementation of the Lean system just as Scrum is an execution of the Agile software application growth activity. And after that there are those that get on the opposite side of the formula and they see the ability for teams to take on the methods and procedures of Kanban without needing to execute the worth systems of dexterity as ruling it out of the Agile movement. According to Ken Schwaber (co-founder of Scrum) Scrum's duty is to appear group and business based dysfunction. Kanban doesn't have the ability to surface organizational and group based impediments so one can say that Kanban does not meet the core value systems that are described in the Agile Manifesto or in the Scrum Guide. This suggests Kanban is easy to apply yet Kanban's results can be really small or short-term.

For those people that are Scrum professionals would certainly tell teams to begin with Scrum or XP or both if you intended to obtain one of the most transformative advantage. Just using Kanban as a fallback setting - for instance in cases or atmospheres where surfacing disorder is frowned upon by top monitoring Free Kanban Board.

Although prominent and also easy to implement do not be fooled in assuming Kanban on its own can provide the exact same degree of makeover that a Scrum & XP application can provide. If utilized appropriately Kanban can be a fantastic access factor for an organization to contemplate different types of process without having to jump head first right into the deep end - if nonetheless your software development teams are ready for an overall improvement aim to carry out Scrum & XP instead.

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Poems from a young queer trans kid who eventually made it out

New offering for this project below (click “Keep reading”). Full text for the four poems above included below that. ______________________________

Four poems written by a young queer trans kid, raised Mormon, who didn’t know out queer people existed and had never heard of the concept of being trans. I lived in a small, conservative agricultural town with seemingly more churches than people. I was the fifth of eight kids. When I came across a bunch of my childhood poetry a while back after coming out as trans, they all made so much more sense…

Once I’d Seen Seattle

I think I’m glad I didn’t know sooner—

I’m not sure I’d have made it out.

I always knew I didn’t belong, but had no idea why.

I lived in a desert of ideas. Actually, it was worse than that.

I lived at ground zero where ideas that took hold were quickly censored or driven out; there was nothing in the air in my suffocatingly small, claustrophobic town to even let me conceptualize what I would later realize to be not only my truth, but my beautiful kaleidoscope of identities.

My town might as well have been an island because we never left the city limits. The only time anyone ever left was when my parents traveled to nearby towns for cancer treatments or other medical care.

I am the fifth of eight children raised in what I thought at the time was a staunch Mormon home. My dad was the eldest of six, all of whom lived within thirty minutes of us.

My siblings joked that I had to be adopted because it was clear I didn’t fit. Nothing fit.

But I kept trying.

I was a mama’s child and for some reason I was driven to be a golden child. I wanted to excel at everything and make my mom proud. But in my town, that meant Cub Scouts, then Boy Scouts along with church groups which became gender-segregated church groups and gender-segregated sports at school and at church. And outside school and church? Partying, partying, partying. And three-wheeling and fishing and shooting guns and hunting. But I never went hunting. (Even then, decades before waking to veganism, I couldn’t fathom how anyone could point a gun at a beautiful, innocent animal—a sentient being with a will to live—and pull the trigger.)

So I kept trying, sometimes channeling some fictional character to manifest some forced hyper-masculinity and jackass behavior. Somehow I survived all that and so did my closest friends. Even though at least a couple kids every year didn’t survive.

I learned about ‘homosexuals’ from the bible and felt a combination of curiosity and fear. Even as I sensed the repulsion and fear in others whenever it came up, I found myself fascinated. Was this me? Two close childhood friends later came out as queer.

Maybe, I told myself at the time, my discomfort in all-male spaces was because I was really attracted to guys and frightened it might show or that I would be tempted to act on those feelings.

But that didn’t explain how much discomfort, bordering on distress, I felt when I had to wear masculine church clothes—button-down shirts and jackets and slacks and ties and Oxford shoes. My mouth is getting that vomity sensation just writing this.

I remember the horror I felt one day when my sister pointed at my bare chest:

“You’re growing chest hair! You’re becoming a man!”

It’s the first time I remember feeling truly depressed. I found myself feeling more isolated as time passed and activities at school grew more polarized. Skipping events started to feel much better than staying and having to be one of the guys.

I loved nothing more than when I’d be invited to activities with the girls—but they were so heartbreakingly few! So I often stayed home, a devoted mama’s child, happy to help out with what she asked me to do.

In junior high school I had that rare teacher who loves what they do and has held onto the spark. He brought homemade borscht in when we were studying Russian literature.

I have no idea how, in a town like ours, he got approval to do this let alone budget, but he took us on an overnight trip to Seattle to see Shakespeare productions, art museums, art galleries and the science center. My world went from gray to a riot of color during that trip.

I don’t know if I saw something or someone in particular while there; if I did, it never registered consciously. But that trip lit something in me that gave me hope about who I was and who I could become. I knew there was someplace better for me.

In some ways, that made the next four years more difficult and more painful than the years before. Because compared to Seattle, my town was hell. Specifically, my town was a dull bathroom break in the red-state flyover part of hell. And I had four more years ahead with no clear path out even then.

I got contacts and became the class clown, but I lived under storm clouds I couldn’t dispel. My grades suffered. When I was at risk of not graduating, some friends of the family came up with a plan. I moved in with them and after graduation, at their encouragement, I left for a two-year Mormon mission to Japan.

Then I came back, moved to Seattle, met someone amazing, sang her Somebody by Depeche Mode without missing a word in the middle of the store at the mall where we worked. We got married in the temple because for some reason I was still doing that then. I struggled off and on with the feeling I might be gay. It was still all I knew; the only option that could explain the fact that I was different. That I didn’t belong.

I knew I’d made it out when I went back to visit my parents one year and the clerk at the drugstore asked my partner and I if we had ever visited the area before. I asked how they knew we were from out of town and they said, “I can just tell. Are you from Seattle or something?”

Almost thirteen years after saying “I do,” we divorced after giving an open relationship a try. I was a workaholic the entire time. A had a few relationships of varying duration, including some casual relationships with men. A couple months after swearing to stay single for a year I met the person I hope to spend the rest of my life with. We met through mutual friends, but both had online dating profiles and both had ours set to exclude vegans because WTF? How does that even work? Then we got together and went vegan.

Over the last several years before we met, the idea of being trans hit my radar. I’d talked with previous partners about it. I’d even gone through the not-atypical pattern of splurge-and-purge where I would embrace my sense of who I was and buy a bunch of skirts, cute tops, dresses and other things that never saw the world outside our house. My partners were supportive. But then I would panic and get rid of everything and go back to life in drag. I would do things like let my fingernails grow long, shave my armpits and some of my body hair, pluck my eyebrows—but never enough to “give me away,” as far as I knew.

Then at the age of 47 I learned my company was going through a restructuring and my department was being eliminated. Having grown up in poverty, I’d always let a stable job and reliable income take precedence over everything else. And my life history reflected that. But because of my partner, my circle of friends and who I’d allowed myself to become, I did something I never thought I would do. I left my job, volunteered at the local QIATBLG+ community center two days a week, did other social justice organizing and volunteer work, came out as trans, changed my name, updated all my legal documentation (including the non-binary X gender marker on my driver’s license) and enrolled in school full time. I had been on the fence on whether to start school or start a non-profit to serve the area trans and queer communities. When I learned about the brand new major at PSU—Sexuality, Gender and Queer Studies—I knew what I had to do. And I knew my life was right on track. - Iris @ Age 49

Signs of Humanity

Why can’t I be human? I’m called a child when I cry So I hold my feelings deep inside. Again I ask you, why?

Why can’t I be human? When I laugh, they think I’m weird. So I just smile to myself. Are feelings to be feared?

Why can’t I be human? When I’m quiet, they ask what’s wrong, So I think of something to talk about. Must I do this to belong?

Why can’t I be human? I’m scoffed at when I make a mistake. So I just turn and walk away, Though deep within, I ache.

Why can’t I be human? Why can’t I act like me?!?! Instead of just another model in… Series: Humanity. - by Iris @ Age 14

Close Your Eyes and Look at Me

Do not judge me by appearance. You have eyes but cannot see. Look at my spirit and my feelings. Close your eyes and look at me!

Hold your ears so you can listen. Hear my meaning, not my words. It is my heart that is speaking now. Is my language so absurd?

Quell your pride so you can feel. I know that you care deep inside. Why must these feelings that are so human Be held within, always denied? - by Iris @ Age 15

Balanced Confusion

Just sitting here, my mind is spinning With contemplative images. Caught in limbo between past and future, Unable to focus on the present. Trapped in a loop of unanswerable questions, I seek out nonexistent facts. Falling toward my termination— Groping for what is not there. Each time I sense a certain order And settle to a steady state, A new unknown begins to form And throws me into chaos. Emotions reign in my subconscious Running rampant, take their toll. I struggle to cling to reality, But slip across the line… Perceptions are nearly nullified. I no longer trust my senses. I crawl to the center of my mind And slumber in balanced confusion. - Iris @ Age 14

Sitting in the Oven

Sitting in the oven Wondering why the hell I’m here. I’m thinking and feeling something… Not sure what, but sure not fear.

It’s not too comfortable in here. I’m sitting on the wire rack; The bars aren’t big enough for my butt And there’s nothing to support my back.

Looking through the dirty glass I can see life passing by outside. Something is welling up inside me; I’m not sure what, but it’s sure not pride.

I guess I don’t like it here, But there isn’t much that I can do. Maybe if someone opens the door I’ll jump and try to make it through.

I’ve come to the conclusion That this is not the way to live. I’m thinking and feeling something… Not sure what, but sure not initiative. - Iris @ Age 16

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Scaling TensorFlow model evaluation with Vespa

In this blog post we'll explain how to use Vespa to evaluate TensorFlow models over arbitrarily many data points while keeping total latency constant. We provide benchmark data from our performance lab where we compare evaluation using TensorFlow serving with evaluating TensorFlow models in Vespa.

We recently introduced a new feature that enables direct import of TensorFlow models into Vespa for use at serving time. As mentioned in a previous blog post, our approach to support TensorFlow is to extract the computational graph and parameters of the TensorFlow model and convert it to Vespa's tensor primitives. We chose this approach over attempting to integrate our backend with the TensorFlow runtime. There were a few reasons for this. One was that we would like to support other frameworks than TensorFlow. For instance, our next target is to support ONNX. Another was that we would like to avoid the inevitable overhead of such an integration, both on performance and code maintenance. Of course, this means a lot of optimization work on our side to make this as efficient as possible, but we do believe it is a better long term solution.

Naturally, we thought it would be interesting to set up some sort of performance comparison between Vespa and TensorFlow for cases that use a machine learning ranking model.

Before we get to that however, it is worth noting that Vespa and TensorFlow serving has an important conceptual difference. With TensorFlow you are typically interested in evaluating a model for a single data point, be that an image for an image classifier, or a sentence for a semantic representation etc. The use case for Vespa is when you need to evaluate the model over many data points. Examples are finding the best document given a text, or images similar to a given image, or computing a stream of recommendations for a user.

So, let’s explore this by setting up a typical search application in Vespa. We’ve based the application in this post on the Vespa blog recommendation tutorial part 3. In this application we've trained a collaborative filtering model which computes an interest vector for each existing user (which we refer to as the user profile) and a content vector for each blog post. In collaborative filtering these vectors are commonly referred to as latent factors. The application takes a user id as the query, retrieves the corresponding user profile, and searches for the blog posts that best match the user profile. The match is computed by a simple dot-product between the latent factor vectors. This is used as the first phase ranking. We've chosen vectors of length 128.

In addition, we've trained a neural network in TensorFlow to serve as the second-phase ranking. The user vector and blog post vector are concatenated and represents the input (of size 256) to the neural network. The network is fully connected with 2 hidden layers of size 512 and 128 respectively, and the network has a single output value representing the probability that the user would like the blog post.

In the following we set up two cases we would like to compare. The first is where the imported neural network is evaluated on the content node using Vespa's native tensors. In the other we run TensorFlow directly on the stateless container node in the Vespa 2-tier architecture. In this case, the additional data required to evaluate the TensorFlow model must be passed back from the content node(s) to the container node. We use Vespa's fbench utility to stress the system under fairly heavy load.

In this first test, we set up the system on a single host. This means the container and content nodes are running on the same host. We set up fbench so it uses 64 clients in parallel to query this system as fast as possible. 1000 documents per query are evaluated in the first phase and the top 200 documents are evaluated in the second phase. In the following, latency is measured in ms at the 95th percentile and QPS is the actual query rate in queries per second:

Baseline: 19.68 ms / 3251.80 QPS

Baseline with additional data: 24.20 ms / 2644.74 QPS

Vespa ranking: 42.8 ms / 1495.02 QPS

TensorFlow batch ranking: 42.67 ms / 1499.80 QPS

TensorFlow single ranking: 103.23 ms / 619.97 QPS

Some explanation is in order. The baseline here is the first phase ranking only without returning the additional data required for full ranking. The baseline with additional data is the same but returns the data required for ranking. Vespa ranking evaluates the model on the content backend. Both TensorFlow tests evaluate the model after content has been sent to the container. The difference is that batch ranking evaluates the model in one pass by batching the 200 documents together in a larger matrix, while single evaluates the model once per document, i.e. 200 evaluations. The reason why we test this is that Vespa evaluates the model once per document to be able to evaluate during matching, so in terms of efficiency this is a fairer comparison.

We see in the numbers above for this application that Vespa ranking and TensorFlow batch ranking achieve similar performance. This means that the gains in ranking batch-wise is offset by the cost of transferring data to TensorFlow. This isn’t entirely a fair comparison however, as the model evaluation architecture of Vespa and TensorFlow differ significantly. For instance, we measure that TensorFlow has a much lower degree of cache misses. One reason is that batch-ranking necessitates a more contiguous data layout. In contrast, relevant document data can be spread out over the entire available memory on the Vespa content nodes.

Another significant reason is that Vespa currently uses double floating point precision in ranking and in tensors. In the above TensorFlow model we have used floats, resulting in half the required memory bandwidth. We are considering making the floating point precision in Vespa configurable to improve evaluation speed for cases where full precision is not necessary, such as in most machine learned models.

So we still have some work to do in optimizing our tensor evaluation pipeline, but we are pleased with our results so far. Now, the performance of the model evaluation itself is only a part of the system-wide performance. In order to rank with TensorFlow, we need to move data to the host running TensorFlow. This is not free, so let’s delve a bit deeper into this cost.

The locality of data in relation to where the ranking computation takes place is an important aspect and indeed a core design point of Vespa. If your data is too large to fit on a single machine, or you want to evaluate your model on more data points faster than is possible on a single machine, you need to split your data over multiple nodes. Let’s assume that documents are distributed randomly across all content nodes, which is a very reasonable thing to do. Now, when you need to find the globally top-N documents for a given query, you first need to find the set of candidate documents that match the query. In general, if ranking is done on some other node than where the content is, all the data required for the computation obviously needs to be transferred there. Usually, the candidate set can be large so this incurs a significant cost in network activity, particularly as the number of content nodes increase. This approach can become infeasible quite quickly.

This is why a core design aspect of Vespa is to evaluate models where the content is stored.

This is illustrated in the figure above. The problem of transferring data for ranking is compounded as the number of content nodes increase, because to find the global top-N documents, the top-K documents of each content node need to be passed to the external ranker. This means that, if we have C content nodes, we need to transfer C*K documents over the network. This runs into hard network limits as the number of documents and data size for each document increases.

Let’s see the effect of this when we change the setup of the same application to run on three content nodes and a single stateless container which runs TensorFlow. In the following graph we plot the 95th percentile latency as we increase the number of parallel requests (clients) from 1 to 30:

Here we see that with low traffic, TensorFlow and Vespa are comparable in terms of latency. When we increase the load however, the cost of transmitting the data is the driver for the increase in latency for TensorFlow, as seen in the red line in the graph. The differences between batch and single mode TensorFlow evaluation become smaller as the system as a whole becomes largely network-bound. In contrast, the Vespa application scales much better.

Now, as we increase traffic even further, will the Vespa solution likewise become network-bound? In the following graph we plot the sustained requests per second as we increase clients to 200:

Vespa ranking is unable to sustain the same amount of QPS as just transmitting the data (the blue line), which is a hint that the system has become CPU-bound on the evaluation of the model on Vespa. While Vespa can sustain around 3500 QPS, the TensorFlow solution maxes out at 350 QPS which is reached quite early as we increase traffic. As the system is unable to transmit data fast enough, the latency naturally has to increase which is the cause for the linearity in the latency graph above. At 200 clients the average latency of the TensorFlow solution is around 600 ms, while Vespa is around 60 ms.

So, the obvious key takeaway here is that from a scalability point of view it is beneficial to avoid sending data around for evaluation. That is both a key design point of Vespa, but also for why we implemented TensorFlow support in the first case. By running the models where the content is allows for better utilization of resources, but perhaps the more interesting aspect is the ability to run more complex or deeper models while still being able to scale the system.

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How Eisenhower Matrix can help you in task management

Also known as the Urgent-Important Matrix, Eisenhower Matrix has been conceptualized to help you decide and prioritize your tasks. By following this Eisenhower Matrix, you can improve on task management and time management.

Using this Matrix you can easily and effectively sort out your tasks on a daily basis. Sometimes we are confused and we do not know how to assess our. But Eisenhower Matrix teaches us that by being positive and utilizing your time smartly everything can become easy and simple. Eisenhower Matrix gives you an uncomplicated view of things that we otherwise tend to ignore.

One of the best things about this matrix is it helps you keep track of important and unimportant tasks, all the daily chores that you have for day to day – both personal and professional. It also helps you to sort important tasks from the not so urgent and unimportant ones. If you follow this matrix then you will be able to understand difference between the kinds of tasks to cater to immediately and what can be put on hold.

There are 4 quadrants where you tasks will see fit-

·         Important and Urgent tasks need to completed in time

·         Not important tasks need to be updated and scheduled in your calendar

·         Urgent projects and tasks need to be delegated to other people

·         Unimportant tasks must be deleted

Given below are few of the explanations on the quadrants:

Important and Urgent tasks need to completed in time - There is always too much to do in less time and these tasks are important and urgent. With the tool you will be able to burn out your stress, because you will be informed from time to time regarding your schedule and when you need to submit your work. Important task may include – covering for a sick colleague, urgent client solutions, last minute deadline assigned.

Not urgent but important – This one may not have any deadlines but they sure are important for you so you can eventually put them away for the urgent tasks and get to them later. This is like making your sweet time management and not rushes with them. You can focus on this when you are freed from the urgent tasks with deadlines. Examples are – Exercise in daily routines, household chores etc.

Unimportant tasks but Urgent – These tasks are based on expectations that other have from you and when you are free from your long term goals and urgent tasks. These tasks can be done by someone else instead of you. Examples are – Certain meetings, responding to few mails and to check your phone at times.

Not important and urgent tasks- These tasks are really the ones that are irrelevant and waste a lot of time as well. These activities have got nothing to do with your goals and they take large chunks of time. Few examples are – Watching TV, scrolling through social media. These activities are for your leisure time to balance when you have free time in your hands.

The Eisenhower matrix can certainly be a very efficient way to balance your tasks which is why it is set in a way that helps doing so. It is very useful for people who remain busy all the time and have a lot to do. If you are finding task management difficult in your home or office for everyday basis, then the Eisenhower matrix box is what you need. This is one of the best tools used to simplify task management globally.

In today’s dynamic digital world, we believe in ‘survival of the quickest’. This can only be achieved if you are focused and organized. One of the best ways to do that is to get a to-do list app. Take eisedo for example.

With eisedo, you can do that when your daily tasks are all sorted, be it personal or professional. this reminder app will help you add and save your daily, weekly and monthly tasks and send notifications when they are due.

Inspired from Eisenhower Matrix, eisedo daily planner app  is one of the coolest app that you will come across in any app store. It is a free app with attractive features where you can upload your daily tasks and plans, and the app will automatically prioritize your chores as per the timeline. You can put in order your important and mundane tasks everyday so that you can increase your productivity level and save time as well. The whole layout is extremely user-friendly and simple yet effective.

The whole purpose is to take a major load off your already burdened shoulders so that you don’t have to keep remembering the tasks that needs to be done. You know the value of time today and you don’t have to miss out on any of the work, important or mundane. eisedo will do the job for you. You can become more organized, punctual and productive.

The eisedo app also has a premium version where you can add your major projects, sub-projects under them and their timelines. You can also include checklists for your tasks in the premium version of this app.

Now you will have more clarity and will be able to easily finish off your daily work. Professionals have developed it in such a way that whether you are a student, homemaker, retired senior citizen or even a c-level executive, eisedo is suitable for everyone. It comes with both mobile and web version. You can access this platform anywhere and anytime on the go from your desktop, tablet, laptop or mobile.

From mundane tasks like cleaning the backyard to important tasks like attending a meeting or clearing bills, you can add each of the tasks in this app and set the timelines accordingly. The app will categorize each task and send you timely reminders. This daily planner app helps you stay updated and productive. Time management will no longer be an issue. Soon eisedo will become your best buddy for life.

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