Omega 2014

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  1. Kennethjep says:

    Challenging our perceptions of ‘perfection’ traderjoexyz With health influencers raising the bar for success the wellness space now often feels like a performative space where people strive to showcase peak physical and mental strength. While seeing others’ achievements can be motivating it can also be discouraging if your progress doesn’t match theirs. Each person is chasing the perfect version of themselves — whether it’s a body or a lifestyle — which is dangerous because this is typically an impossible or dangerous version to achieve Curran said. He added that this type of comparison creates a dangerous cycle in which people constantly feel dissatisfied with their own progress. “It’s a fantasy in many ways and once you start chasing after it you constantly find yourself embroiled in a sense of doubt and deficit” he said. Curran also noted that wellness challenges can be particularly damaging for women who struggle with perfectionism as they tend to be bombarded with impossible beauty standards and societal expectations. Renee McGregor a UK-based dietitian who specializes in eating disorders and athlete performance encourages people to approach wellness trends with curiosity and skepticism. That’s because some influencers and celebrities could be promoting products because there’s a financial benefit for them. “The thing to ask yourself about the person you’re taking advice from is what do they gain from it?” McGregor said. “If they are going to gain financially then you know that they could be willing to sell you a lie.” Whether you want to try a new challenge or product that promises amazing results McGregor suggests doing your research and seeking diverse perspectives including consulting with doctors when possible.

  2. Williamwep says:

    New design revealed for Airbus hydrogen plane renzo protocol In travel news this week: Bhutan’s spectacular new airport the world’s first 3D-printed train station has been built in Japan plus new designs for Airbus’ zero-emission aircraft and France’s next-generation high-speed trains. Grand designs European aerospace giant Airbus has revealed a new design for its upcoming fully electric hydrogen-powered ZEROe aircraft. powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The single-aisle plane now has four engines rather than six each powered by their own fuel cell stack. The reworked design comes after the news that the ZEROe will be in our skies later than Airbus hoped. The plan was to launch a zero-emission aircraft by 2035 but now the next-generation single-aisle aircraft is slated to enter service in the second half of the 2030s. Over in Asia the Himalayan country of Bhutan is building a gloriously Zen-like new airport befitting a nation with its very own happiness index. Gelephu International is designed to serve a brand new “mindfulness city” planned for southern Bhutan near its border with India. In rail travel Japan has just built the world’s first 3D-printed train station which took just two and a half hours to construct according to The Japan Times. That’s even shorter than the whizzy six hours it was projected to take. France’s high-speed TGV rail service has revealed its next generation of trains which will be capable of reaching speeds of up to 320 kilometers an hour nearly 200 mph. The stylish interiors have been causing a stir online as has the double-decker dining car. Finally work is underway in London on turning a mile-long series of secret World War II tunnels under a tube station into a major new tourist attraction. CNN took a look inside.

  3. JamesSep says:

    Wellness perfectionism doesn’t exist. Focus on these sustainable habits sushiswap exchange ou’re scrolling through your phone when you stumble upon the next viral trend: an influencer claiming that following their incredibly strict diet will help you achieve their jaw-dropping physique. Or you see a fresh-faced runner swearing you can run a marathon without any training — just like they did. Whether or not you’re actively searching for wellness advice it’s nearly impossible to avoid hearing about the latest health craze making bold guarantees of transformation. As you wonder if these claims hold any truth you might also question why people often feel motivated to dive into intense challenges — when seemingly simple habits such as getting enough sleep or eating more vegetables often feel much harder to tackle. Many of us are drawn to these extreme challenges because we’re craving radical change hoping it will help prove something to ourselves or to others experts say. “We always see these kinds of challenges as opportunities for growth particularly if we’re in a phase of our life where we’ve let ourselves go” said Dr. Thomas Curran associate professor of psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an expert on perfectionism. “Maybe we feel that we need to be healthier or we just had a breakup or major life event.” With social media amplifying these movements it’s easy to see why people are increasingly drawn to the idea of achieving the “perfect” version of themselves. But before jumping into a new wellness challenge it’s important to take a moment reflect on your goals and consider where you’re starting from.

  4. RogerTopsy says:

    Siham Haleem a private tour guide for 15 years says that Doha now has many world-class modern museums — the National Museum of Qatar being a firm personal favorite. And yet he says that visiting Sheikh Faisal’s museum should still be on everybody’s to-do list. simpleswap “For those eager to learn about Qatar’s — and the region’s — heritage and beyond the museum is an ideal destination” he says. “Personally I’m captivated by the car collection the fossils and especially the Syrian house painstakingly transported and reassembled piece by piece.” Stephanie Y. Martinez a Mexican-American student mobility manager at Texas A&M University in Qatar likes the museum so much she includes it on all of her itineraries for students visiting from the main campus in Texas. “The guided tours are very detailed and the collections found at the museum have great variety and so many stories to unfold” she says. “Truly the museum has something to pique everyone’s interest. My favorites are the cars and the furniture exhibits showcasing wood and mother-of-pearl details. Definitely one of my favorite museums in Qatar every time I visit I learn something new.” Raynor Abreu from India also had praise for the unusual and immense collection. “Each item has its own story making the visit even more interesting” he says. “It’s also impressive to know that Sheikh Faisal started collecting these unique pieces when he was very young. Knowing this makes the museum even more special as it reflects his lifelong passion for history and culture.” It takes time and dedication to truly examine the many collections within the museum — especially since most of them are simply on display without explanation. Eclectic it may be but it’s hard to fault the determination of Sheikh Faisal who has brought together items that tell the story of Qatar and the Middle East. Sarah Bayley from the UK says she visited the museum recently with her family including 16 and 19-year-old teenagers and was won over by its sheer eccentricity. “Amazing. Loved it. It is a crazy place.”

  5. RodgerFanna says:

    Remote and rugged eigenlayer A more organic way to see this coast is by the multi-day coastal ferry the long-running Sarfaq Ittuk of the Arctic Umiaq Line. It’s less corporate than the modern cruise ships and travelers get to meet Inuit commuters. Greenland is pricey. Lettuce in a local community store might cost 10 but this coastal voyage won’t break the bank. The hot ticket currently for exploring Greenland’s wilder side is to head to the east coast facing Europe. It’s raw and sees far fewer tourists with a harshly dramatic coastline of fjords where icebergs drift south. There are no roads and the scattered population of just over 3500 people inhabit a coastline roughly the distance from New York to Denver. A growing number of small expedition vessels probe this remote coast for its frosted scenery and wildlife. Increasingly popular is the world’s largest fjord system of Scoresby Sound with its sharp-fanged mountains and hanging valleys choked by glaciers. Sailing north is the prosaically named North East Greenland National Park fabulous for spotting wildlife on the tundra. Travelers come to see polar bears which during the northern hemisphere’s summer move closer to land as the sea-ice melts. There are also musk oxen great flocks of migrating geese Arctic foxes and walrus. Some of these animals are fair game for the local communities. Perhaps Greenland’s most interesting cultural visit is to a village that will take longer to learn how to pronounce than actually walk around — Ittoqqortoormiit. Five hundred miles north of its neighboring settlement the 345 locals are frozen in for nine months of the year. Ships sail in to meet them during the brief summer melt between June and August. Locked in by ice they’ve retained traditional habits. “My parents hunt nearly all their food” said Mette Barselajsen who owns Ittoqqortoormiit’s only guesthouse. “They prefer the old ways burying it in the ground to ferment and preserve it. Just one muskox can bring 440 pounds of meat.”

  6. Jessebup says:

    Josh Giddey hits halfcourt buzzer-beater over LeBron James to cap wild finale as the Bulls stun the Lakers quickswap Josh Giddey hit a game-winning halfcourt buzzer-beater over LeBron James as the Chicago Bulls stunned the Los Angeles Lakers in one of the wildest endings to an NBA game you are ever likely to see. Trailing 115-110 with 12.6 seconds remaining Giddey’s inbound pass found Nikola Vucevic who pushed the ball to a wide-open Patrick Williams for a corner three-pointer. James then fluffed the Lakers inbound pass from the baseline allowing Giddey to steal the ball and find Coby White for a second Bulls triple in quick succession to put Chicago up 116-115 with 6.1 seconds remaining. Austin Reaves then made a driving layup to put the Lakers ahead 117-116 with 3.3 seconds left but the game wasn’t done yet. With no timeouts remaining Giddey inbounded the ball to Williams from the baseline got the pass back took one dribble and launched a shot from beyond halfcourt. Supporters in the stands seemed frozen in anticipation as the ball sailed through the air and the United Center then erupted as it fell through the net. After the dramatic win Giddey found himself being swarmed by his teammates. “Special moment to do it with these guys this team” Giddey said per ESPN. “We’ve shown over the last month to six weeks that we can beat anybody. The way we play the game I think it wears people down. “We get up and down. We run. We put heat on them to get back. A lot of veteran teams don’t particularly want to get back and play in transition.” Giddey later told the Bulls broadcast that he’d “never made a game-winner before.” The ending capped an incredible couple of games for the Lakers who had themselves won their last game against the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday with a buzzer-beating tip-in from James.

  7. JasonLutle says:

    Water and life stargate finance Lightning is a dramatic display of electrical power but it is also sporadic and unpredictable. Even on a volatile Earth billions of years ago lightning may have been too infrequent to produce amino acids in quantities sufficient for life — a fact that has cast doubt on such theories in the past Zare said. Water spray however would have been more common than lightning. A more likely scenario is that mist-generated microlightning constantly zapped amino acids into existence from pools and puddles where the molecules could accumulate and form more complex molecules eventually leading to the evolution of life. “Microdischarges between obviously charged water microdroplets make all the organic molecules observed previously in the Miller-Urey experiment” Zare said. “We propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic synthesis of molecules that constitute the building blocks of life.” However even with the new findings about microlightning questions remain about life’s origins he added. While some scientists support the notion of electrically charged beginnings for life’s earliest building blocks an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first amino acids were cooked up around hydrothermal vents on the seafloor produced by a combination of seawater hydrogen-rich fluids and extreme pressure. Researchers identified salt minerals in the Bennu samples that were deposited as a result of brine evaporation from the asteroid’s parent body. In particular they found a number of sodium salts such as the needles of hydrated sodium carbonate highlighted in purple in this false-colored image – salts that could easily have been compromised if the samples had been exposed to water in Earth’s atmosphere. Related article Yet another hypothesis suggests that organic molecules didn’t originate on Earth at all. Rather they formed in space and were carried here by comets or fragments of asteroids a process known as panspermia. “We still don’t know the answer to this question” Zare said. “But I think we’re closer to understanding something more about what could have happened.” Though the details of life’s origins on Earth may never be fully explained “this study provides another avenue for the formation of molecules crucial to the origin of life” Williams said. “Water is a ubiquitous aspect of our world giving rise to the moniker ‘Blue Marble’ to describe the Earth from space. Perhaps the falling of water the most crucial element that sustains us also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.”

  8. KevinInody says:

    Why there’s a huge collection of vintage cars stored in the middle of the desert
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    Back at the turn of the 21st century, Qatar was a country with few cultural attractions to keep visitors and residents entertained. Yet the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum — known as the FBQ Museum — was a place that most people visited as an alternative to the then-still rather ramshackle National Museum of Qatar.

    You had to make an appointment, and drive out into the desert, getting lost a few times along the way, but then you were welcomed to the lush Al Samriya Farm with a cup of tea and some cake. The highlight was being allowed into a space crammed full with shelves and vitrines holding all sorts of eclectic artifacts from swords to coins — with the odd car and carriage standing in the grounds.

    It wasn’t necessarily the kind of museum you’d find elsewhere in the world, but it was definitely a sight that needed seeing.

    Today, it has grown and now claims to be one of the world’s largest private museums. It holds over 30,000 items, including a fleet of traditional dhow sailboats, and countless carpets. There’s also an entire house that once stood in Damascus, Syria.

    There are archaeological finds dating to the Jurassic age, ancient copies of the Quran, a section that details the importance of pearling within Qatar’s history, and jewelry dating to the 17th century.

    There are also items from 2022’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar including replica trophies, balls used in the games, entry passes, football jerseys and even shelves full of slightly creepy dolls and children’s plush animals.

    Some of the more disturbing exhibits include various items of Third Reich paraphernalia in the wartime room, and, strangely enough, several showcases of birds’ legs with marking rings on them. Basically, whatever you can think of, you have a very good chance of finding it here.

    Rumor even has it that behind a locked door is a room filled with the late Princess Diana’s dresses and other memorabilia, accessible only to a select few visitors. Another door hides a room, no longer open to the public, filled with collectibles of the late Saddam Hussein.

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